Today's thunder is very strange, the road is sharp, like a deadly sound, which makes people irritating, and this rain, for no reason, is so big, even if it is the rainy season of previous years, it is not so annoying.

Another flash of thunder flashed, a brief flash that gave the golden building the same brilliance.

"Wangcai, what time is it?" The emperor, dressed in plain clothes, turned over on the bed and asked lazily.

"Back to Your Majesty." Outside the door, Wangcai's father-in-law, who had not slept all night, bowed and replied softly: "It's three o'clock now, Your Majesty, but are you going to get up?" ”

"Hmm......" Emperor Hao squinted and looked out the window, it was still raining as always, and there was no sign of stopping: "It's time to get up, and we have to go to the early dynasty today." ”

This was followed by the sound of squirming out of bed, accompanied by a few invectives.

For his emperor master, Wangcai has long been accustomed to it, and every morning he will pop out a few swear words from time to time, but he doesn't understand it, and he doesn't dare to ask.

Covering his mouth and smiling, Wangcai gently pushed open the door of the palace, waved his hand behind him, and motioned to the palace maids to take the things for washing in, and he walked to Emperor Hao in small steps, stretched out two slender fingers, twisted up the dragon robe held in the hands of the palace maid, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't you talk about going to court today." ”

"When did I say that?" Emperor Hao didn't look over his head and looked at Wangcai suspiciously.

Wangcai draped the dragon robe on Emperor Hao's body, and while sorting out a few subtle folds, he replied with a smile: "Yesterday the sky was fine, didn't Your Majesty say that you want to go to the royal garden outside the city to have a look, so that today's morning court will be avoided, and you can let the adults rest and rest." ”

"Seems to be the case." Emperor Hao nodded, took the mouthwash handed by the palace maid, and washed it. Then he washed away the troubles of the night under the service of the soft palace maid.

"Is it still as planned today?" Wangcai waved his hand and motioned for the palace maids on both sides to step back, still smiling.

This sentence is full of ridicule, such a rainy day, how can it be possible to go to the garden outside the city as originally planned, Wangcai said this, it was just a joke, but now in Haoguo, I am afraid that there are no more than one hand to talk to Emperor Hao like Wangcai.

Naturally, Emperor Hao was not angry, looked out the window, with a slight regret on his face, and said: "In this weather, I'm afraid it's difficult to go out, how can I still go out of the palace to play." ”

"Then what is Your Majesty's plan for today?" Wangcai blew out the lantern on the side, shook off the candle oil that had flowed on the candle lamp overnight with an oil picker, and asked.

Emperor Hao didn't know the question asked by Wangcai, although His Majesty the Emperor was bothered with those complicated affairs all day long, and he wanted to rest all day long, but once he could rest, he didn't know what to do, and he was a little at a loss when he looked at the gorgeous court.

Emperor Hao came to the outside of the hall and looked at the heavy rain, very depressed.

Once upon a time, when he was still in Yizhou, every rainy day, he would be busy collecting the clothes in the courtyard with Wan Guifei, and then he would sit under the eaves with Wan Guifei and listen to the latter's storytelling.

used to always say that the emperor was good, but when he became the emperor, he knew that this high throne would also be disgusting.

No wonder there is an electoral system, this is also for the emperor to be not boring.

"It's not interesting, take advantage of today's nothing, go to Fengyang Hall to see Changle." Emperor Hao yawned and was about to walk, then suddenly thought of something, waved his hand to signal Wangcai to come over, and then said: "Yesterday, Li Xiao went to the palace of the king of Yu, you send someone to see what this kid is doing today, and whether there is anything going on in the Queen Mother's Wan'an Temple." ”

After finishing speaking, Emperor Hao walked towards Fengyang Palace, the palace maids on both sides were busy keeping up, and the eunuchs with palace umbrellas did not dare to stay longer, and followed quickly, regardless of whether they were in the rain or not, and pushed the palace umbrella to Emperor Hao.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wangcai looked at the departing Emperor Hao and lowered his head in response.

As a close confidant of Emperor Hao, he doesn't know why His Majesty the Emperor attaches so much importance to the prince of Suzhou, since this prince of Suzhou came to Beijing, he will ask about Li Xiao's recent situation almost every day, and today he specially asked him to send someone to take a look. Could it be because of the two poems that the man wrote?

It shouldn't be, although those two poems are amazing, but they don't make Emperor Hao pay so much attention to it, one day a day, this is a treatment that even the two ministers in the court can't enjoy, it's really strange.

Shaking his head, not thinking about this problem, this is not something he should worry about, waved his hand to the little eunuch on the side, handed a token to the latter, and then said: "Go to Wan'an Temple, ask what the Li Gongzi from Suzhou is doing, go and go back quickly." ”

"No." The little eunuch replied with his head bowed, and then hurried towards the outside of the palace.

If it is ordered at will, it is not very important, but if the token is given, then this matter is critical, after all, the token of Wangcai's father-in-law is not handed over to others at will. This is a close confidant of His Majesty.

The rain gradually lightened and fell to the ground, causing much lighter splashes, but no one knew when this terrible rainy season would end, just as no one knew what Li Xiao experienced at this time.

……

It was darkness, endless darkness, just as we did in our dreams, full of inaudible blurs, and gradually only darkness remained. And in this darkness, we can see clearly the people who exist, or perhaps one person, one shadow and one shadow.

In the middle of the darkness, a figure squatted, and when he got closer, he saw that the man was trembling incessantly, and there were words in his mouth, listening carefully, like a spell, and then listening to it, it was like a poem, neat and uniform.

"Prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony; freedom, equality, justice, the rule of law; Patriotism, dedication, integrity, friendliness, ......" The figure on the ground kept repeating these twenty-four words, as if the devil was stunned.

No one knows how many times he said it, and no one knows how much time he said it. Everything around was quiet, not a single sound, except for this faint sound.

"You'll have to say it a few more times." The dark shadow on the side seemed to be impatient, and said. If you look closely, the figure looks exactly like the person on the ground with his head squatting, except that one is black and the other is white.

The man on the ground did not answer, but continued to repeat these words.

The black shadow shook his head, frowned and stepped forward, grabbed the man on the ground, and said sharply: "Li Xiao! You're just killing someone, is it necessary! ”

Li Xiao raised his head slowly, his eyes were blank, and his lips were trembling.

Seeing Li Xiao's performance like this, the black shadow was angry after all, threw Li Xiao to the ground, kicked it angrily, and scolded: "Damn, waste." ”

Li Xiao snorted, curled up, and continued to chant, continuously, as if he was chanting scriptures, which really made the black shadow bored for a while, but the black shadow had no choice, he was Li Xiao, and Li Xiao was also him, and the two were just good and evil.

The darkness is very big, there is no boundary, the black shadow is very irritable, Li Xiao's situation really makes him uncomfortable, in his eyes, he just killed someone, and he was forced to kill someone, Li Xiao's appearance like this really made him embarrassed. Evil is evil, why should you become like this because of one person, it is really a coward, cowardly.

The black shadow paced back and forth in the dark, and the few words that Li Xiao repeated made him really uncomfortable, although he kicked Li Xiao a few times during the period, he was also in the same pain, and it was useless to scold.

I don't know how long it took, Li Xiao's voice gradually became quieter, and he who was originally curled up on the ground also returned to his original appearance at this time, but he didn't hold his head and squat, but looked at the ground blankly, his hands hanging down.

"Don't read it?" The black shadow stopped and looked at Li Xiao suspiciously.

Li Xiao didn't answer, still holding his posture.

Seeing that Li Xiao didn't speak, the black shadow was also relieved, and as Li Xiao squatted down, he said: "I really don't think it's necessary, let's just kill someone, besides, if you don't kill him, then he will kill you, either he dies or we die, which one do you choose." ”

"And, you see, we're defending ourselves. If you don't fight back, then we're dead. Although it's not the first time for us, we also have to think about Chu Xin'er, we don't have anything with her, right, do you say it's a loss. ”

Li Xiao slowly raised his head, glanced sideways at the black shadow, and then ...... It was a punch that slammed into the black shadow's face.

In an instant, the two of them stepped back together.

"Interesting." The black shadow wiped the corners of his mouth, twisted his neck, made a fighting posture, hooked his hand towards Li Xiao, licked his lips, and said, "Come on!" ”

Li Xiao too, wiped the corners of his mouth, stood up, and rushed towards the black shadow with a step. The dark shadow smiled evilly and greeted him.

I only heard a bang, and my fists struck, and both of them were in pain on their faces, and they hurriedly retreated. There was no end, the two rushed against each other again, fighting together mercilessly, with the same movements and the same intensity.

In the eyes of others, I don't know why these two people are entangled together, this should be a meaningless fight, there is no need, and it should not be necessary. But in their eyes, this fight is necessary, and it has nothing to do with winning or losing.

There was another bang, and the two separated again, but instead of continuing to rush against each other, they stood opposite each other, looking at each other.

"I didn't want to kill." This is the first sentence Li Xiao said.

The black shadow did not answer immediately, but gasped, walked to Li Xiao's side, patted the latter's shoulder, and said, "It's they who want to kill you." ”

Li Xiao raised his head and looked at the black shadow beside him, with a little brightness in his eyes.

"You know, if they don't die, we have to die." The black shadow walked back and forth beside Li Xiao, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and he said in an excited tone: "This world is like this, you think you can dodge, but you don't know that you have fallen into it, and you can't dodge." ”

"You can't dodge, and neither can they."

"I can get out of the way." Li Xiao said without confidence.

When the black shadow heard this, he just looked up to the sky and laughed, and then said, "You don't even believe what you said. ”

Indeed, Li Xiao himself doesn't believe it, he can't hide from it, he can't hide from it as early as fifteen years ago, saying that it's okay to leave Beijing, it's all words of comfort to himself, in fact, how can it be so easy.

"Okay, it's not interesting to say more, think about it yourself, I'll go first." With that, the shadow disappeared into the darkness.

"Where are you going?" Li Xiao hurriedly turned around, but he didn't see anything, and what he said was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no response.

It's still darkness, darkness without difference.

ps: The dark shadow here is the evil side of the protagonist, and it also shows Li Xiao's growth.

It's a bit of a secondary 2 feeling......