The great beauty was already dead, and of course it was impossible to die again.

However, there are rules in this world.

The ghost is a disaster to the world, and the world should have a way to send her to where she should go, which is called fairness.

The fire in the mourning hall and the near-murder of Huanlin completely angered Shen Yuli. In the past, he sent a request to the world on the grounds that the Chu clan temple needed to see the address, and asked all the monks and immortals to enter Beijing with the attitude of buying a horse's head.

At the same time, the Chu clan temple in Beijing is indeed under construction.

The first emperor's Zigong has been moved into the mausoleum, and the folk market has gradually become a little lively, although there have been doubtful voices, but on the whole it can still be controlled.

Shen Yuli, the emperor, deserves to be quite presentable.

Naturally, when the young man ascended the throne, he had not been able to study well and be reasonable, and stumbling was inevitable.

The most powerful accusation in the DPRK is nothing more than saying that he is wild and does not follow the rules, and when his temper comes up, even in the court, he can point at the nose of those old ministers and scold, and he does not leave any face.

"It's exactly like his father." Some of the old ministers discussed it in private.

Of course, it's not exactly the same.

The first emperor was moody, even the most favored concubine around him, it was difficult to guarantee that there would not be a day when he suddenly angered Long Yan and was beaten to death by a random stick;

The new emperor only favors the little girl named Huanlin, who takes it with the court, discusses it, plays with it, and naturally takes it when he sleeps. The little eunuchs in the palace all said that His Majesty's temper is big, but in front of Miss Huanlin, he has to restrain his temper even if he has a big temper, otherwise once he startles the girl, the dignified emperor may not be able to sleep at night.

After a long time, "The Girl Around the Forest" has become a legend in the palace.

The cold wind receded, the warmth gradually melted, and suddenly two or three months had passed, and the spring of the first year of the Heavenly Sage had arrived.

The temple of the Chu clan was built to take shape, and the master that the new emperor wanted finally came to the palace. Everything is ready, and only one ritual is owed.

The platform of the practice is three zhang high, and there is a high platform on top of the high platform, and the steps are piled up, as if they want to go straight to the sky.

At the top of the staircase, a copper tripod was lit with special spices, and although there was no open flame, the fragrance had already wafted all over the palace.

The Taoist began to do so, and a wooden sword danced in the wind, and yellow paper flew in mid-air, floating towards the copper tripod at the height. The blue sky and white sun suddenly covered the sky, and the courtiers and palace maids who heard the news knelt down in panic, and the monks under the high platform began to chant.

Only a moment later, a raging fire broke out in the copper dome.

In the dark clouds and in the air, suddenly a terrifying sound sounded. Sometimes it looks like a horse chirping, sometimes it looks like a human voice, sometimes it looks like a flood bursting the embankment and rolling through the thunder, several turns, but finally it all melts into a whining cry.

The sky is cloudy, and the ghost cries.

Everyone present knew that the "unclean" palace was not a rumor, and thinking about the days of ignorance, fearlessness or fear for months, everyone was cold.

The sword dance of the Taoists on the high platform became more and more urgent, and the ghost cries in everyone's ears became more and more poignant, and the noon sky was as dark as night, and the backs of everyone present were soaked with cold sweat.

This time, it is a matter of life and death.

The Taoist dancing sword on the high platform can no longer see clearly, but the chanting of mantras by the surrounding monks is getting louder and louder, as if he is about to fight with the monster, which is deafening.

Huan Lin suddenly shuddered.

Shen Yuli noticed it, and hurriedly squeezed her hand tighter, and said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, this time the Taoist is a real hidden immortal." He watched the stars by himself and learned that the previous dynasty was wronged and the people of the world were uneasy, so he went down to the mountain to save the world, and it was not all the way to the demons who were invited by his father last time to make alchemy and deceive people for immortality. ”

Huan Lin didn't hear what he was saying at all, so he just nodded indiscriminately according to his words, but his body felt more and more cold inexplicably, and even his whole heart was clenched.

And this chill came extremely suddenly, she wanted to get closer to Shen Yuli, or ask the little eunuch to get a dress for her, but she couldn't do it.

Huan Lin was anxious and scared, seeing that the sky was getting heavier and heavier, and listening to the ghost cry becoming more and more poignant, her head suddenly hurt violently, and those screaming ghost cries and tore at her ears, as if they were going to drain her soul away.

Wrong! Isn't that right......

Shen Yuli had been nervously watching the Taoist priest on the high platform before, and by the time he noticed that the state of the forest was not right, she was already unable to move.

"Around the forest!" In the dim skylight, Shen Yuli looked at Huan Lin's face in panic: "You don't have a good complexion, why ......?"

Sky!

He suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself.

- Circling the forest is a demon!

This Taoist priest said that it was to get rid of evil spirits, but monsters were originally a kind of "evil spirits", and like ghosts, they should not stay in the world for a long time, how could he forget this!

Shen Yuli was annoyed, hurriedly bent down and hugged Huan Lin, and raised his feet to leave: "Don't be afraid, I'll take you back!" ”

"Your Majesty!" The official of the Ministry of Rites next to him hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "You can't go!" The Taoist chief has instructed you to come forward and recite prayers and burn yellow watches after the Dharma is over. ”

Shen Yu was only slightly away from his feet, and then he had to continue walking out regardless of it.

At this moment, there was a loud rumbling sound on the high platform, and it was the highest step that broke for no reason, and the bronze tripod of six or seven hundred catties fell straight down from above with flames.

Something happened!

The palace attendants screamed and scurried around, crashing into a ball.

That person had already jumped into the air with a sword to pick up the bronze tripod, if Shen Yuli fled at this time, he would undoubtedly become a faint monarch who was greedy for life and afraid of death in the eyes of the world, and did not care about the life of the world.

Moreover, if the ritual is interrupted, the resentment of those ghosts will multiply. Even if he escapes now, he may not be able to survive in the future.

Shen Yuli hesitated again and again, so he could only hand over Huanlin to the eunuch beside him: "Carry her back to the dormitory, go quickly!" ”

At this time, the Taoist priest had already used a wooden sword to hold the copper tripod and landed firmly on the high platform. The officials and attendants in the audience couldn't help but shout in unison when they saw this hand.

The next moment, I saw the dark clouds in the sky falling, turning into wisps of thick black smoke, howling, struggling, and drifting towards the copper tripod with great reluctance.

The hissing was already deafening, and everyone had to open their mouths wide in case their eardrums were punctured. Except for the Taoist priest on the stage, everyone present involuntarily knelt down, including of course the eunuch who was holding the forest.

Can't go, can't go.

Shen Yuli was also forced to bend his knees. He refused to kneel, simply sat on the ground, insisted on straightening his back and refused to bow his head, gritted his teeth and stared at the copper tripod for a while, and then turned to look at the forest.

The situation of Huanlin was worse than that of everyone present.

There was bright red blood flowing from her eyes and ears, but her face was extremely white, like white peony petals wet with water, not so much pale as ...... Transparent.

No, not the sheer complexion, but her whole person—her whole being became transparent little by little, like a faded fabric, like smoke blown away by the wind.

"Around the forest!" Shen Yuli panicked, "You quickly change your original form, quickly change your original form!" ”

He didn't care about others hearing or being known that his forest was a monster.

But it didn't work.

Winding Lin didn't turn into a sparrow egg in front of him.

Only blood flowed incessantly, dripping down her cheeks and the eunuch's hand to the ground, dripping onto the thick black smoke that filled the heavens and the earth, making a hissing sound.

As if it would burn.

At the same time that the body of this little sparrow gradually faded, the thick black mist between heaven and earth was also fading little by little, and it was drilling into the copper tripod little by little, igniting the flames that filled the sky.

On the high platform, the Taoist priest danced the wooden sword again, as if he was crazy.

The pressure in the air seems to be lighter than before. Shen Yuli struggled to stand up, looked down at the forest, and then looked up at the burning copper tripod on the high platform, and a terrible conjecture was born in his heart.

Crazy conjecture.

"Stop, stop!" He suddenly jumped onto the high platform and rushed straight at the Taoist priest who was dancing wildly and roaring.

The guards and courtiers around him were all stupefied.

Your Majesty, aren't you crazy?

The next moment, countless people rushed to the high platform. Intercepted, discouraged, reprimanded, pleaded...... There was a lot of noise.

Shen Yuli didn't see or hear anything, and the whole person went crazy and slammed into the wooden sword in the Taoist priest's hand.

"Stop him!" The Taoist priest pulled out a sword flower and unceremoniously stopped him, while shouting at the guards next to him.

The guard hesitated and did not dare to move, and the Taoist priest had already jumped on the bronze tripod, standing on the edge of the flames, and continued to dance the sword.

The officials and attendants present were already at a loss, but the chanting and chanting of the Taoist priests and monks did not stop at all.

It is worthy of Shen Yuli, who spent several months finding a master from all over the world.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, no! Dozens of officials knelt in front of Shen Yuli one after another, blocking his way with their bodies as shields, and their cries shook the sky.

More and more people knelt in the back.

The guards with knives also chased after them, but they did not kneel, but joined hands to form a human wall, completely blocking the "crazy" Shen Yuli in the center of the high platform.

The high-spirited young emperor has suffered the biggest setback since he ascended the throne.

Several old ministers knelt closely, grabbed the hem of his clothes and cried: "Your Majesty, wake up, wake up!" There are many evils in the palace, and this ritual cannot be lost! Otherwise, there will be no peace in the palace, and the world will be devastated! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The eunuchs also cried, "No matter what, it will be good for the Taoist to free his hands for a while, Your Majesty, you must hold on!" ”

"Your Majesty, please think about the people of the world......"

"Your Majesty, the people of Wanli died in one fell swoop......

The crying and persuasion were deafening, as if they were going to compete with the chanting of those Taoist priests.

Everyone thought that their majesty was crazy and evil, but they didn't know that Shen Yuli, who was trapped in the crowd by them, was already like soup, and he didn't listen to a word of this bitter advice.

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Yuli had only moved a few feet through the crowd, and the thick black mist between the heavens and the earth was so faint that it was almost impossible to see.

The ghost's cry had completely disappeared at some point, as if it had never appeared.

The sound of the monk's chanting mantra also lowered, like the residual thunder after a rainstorm, sparse and lonely.

The Taoist on the bronze tripod danced with a wooden sword and flew down, unscathed, but in a state of malaise.

He ignored the dense crowd of kneeling and standing people on the stage, walked all the way to Shen Yuli unimpeded, and handed him the last piece of yellow table paper on the tip of the sword: "Please Your Majesty burn the watch and sacrifice to the sky and send evil spirits." ”

"Dao Chief," Shen Yuli looked at him, stunned: "I have something ...... something."

"Your Majesty," the Taoist priest interrupted him, "everything has a cause and effect, and everything has a place, please Your Majesty must not be obsessed, otherwise a thought will become a fool, and you will become a demon." ”

"You know what I'm asking?" Shen Yuli stared at him and asked.

The Taoist priest lowered his eyes and did not answer, and said: "Your Majesty, you come from where you come from, and you return to where you return, and the world will be quiet." The flames in Dingzhong are coming to an end, please do it as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Prime Minister Wu Cheng persuaded on the side, "The matter has come to this, if the success falls short, all the twists and turns before and the price paid so much will be meaningless!" ”

Shen Yuli's expression moved slightly, and he finally listened to a sentence.

He slowly grabbed the yellow sheet of paper, followed the path where the officials and guards got out of the way, walked to the copper tripod step by step, stretched out his hand, and let go.

The yellow table paper instantly fell into the tripod and turned into a cloud of flying ash. Shen Yuli looked at it and said, "You, come from where you come from, go to the place where you return, don't wander in the world." ”

"Also," he swallowed, and said in a dumb voice, "Circling the forest, you are not allowed to go." ”

Naturally, this last sentence has never been communicated with officials and Taoist priests, and no one else understands it.

Shen Yuli watched the fire dim in the ding, and then turned around silently, raised his feet and walked back.

The clever little eunuch next to him hurriedly came over to help him.

Shen Yuli didn't say anything all the way. Until he reached the edge of the high platform, he finally couldn't help but sit down with his legs weak, and said in a trembling voice: "Call...... Jiang An came to see me. ”

Jiang An is the eunuch who hugged the forest before.

Wood They were ordered to jump off the platform, through the jubilant crowd, and split up to find them.

Jiang An was quickly brought over. Empty-handed, he didn't hold the dying little girl.

Shen Yuli immediately froze.

Jiang An came to him, didn't speak, just stood in a sluggish expression for a while, and then was pressed by the wood and slowly knelt down.

Shen Yuli didn't open his mouth to ask, he only felt that his eyes were dark, and then he couldn't ask even more.

The stage and the stage suddenly became a mess again.

Prime Minister Wu asked the man anxiously: "Your Majesty, ...... he?"

"Alas, unjust!" The Taoist let out a long sigh, put away the wooden sword behind his back, and sighed: "From now on, the palace will be quiet. ”

Prime Minister Wu had been waiting for this sentence, but when he heard this, he hurriedly bowed down to thank him, and then became worried again: "But how could Your Majesty be like this?" Isn't it an invasion of evil? Chief, look at ......"

"It's just a heartache. Let's take it back to the dormitory and ask the doctor to see it. The Taoist priest said, "The poor road is still in the old place for a while, and if Your Majesty has a summons later, come and call the poor road." ”

The officials and eunuchs hurriedly responded, carrying Shen Yuli back to the dormitory with eight hands and feet, and the doctor came to see it, and it was really not crazy, and there was no trace of evil invasion, only that the blood was surging under the anger, so that he fainted.

Next, there must be a lot of enthusiasm for the decoction of needles, and after half an hour, Shen Yuli woke up.

Prime Minister Wu Cheng hurriedly greeted him, full of joy: "Your Majesty, it's over!" The Taoist chief said that the Dharma affairs are going well, and there will be no more evil ...... in the palace from now on."

"Around the forest." Shen Yuli said in a dumb voice, "What about the forest?" ”

Prime Minister Wu was stunned for a moment: "What's the matter, didn't Miss Huanlin accompany Your Majesty?" ”

Shen Yuli stared at his face for a while, shook his head slowly, and closed his eyes: "Call Jiang An to come over." ”

Mu Tou hurriedly brought people from outside, and by the way, he drove out all the people including Wu Cheng very majestically, and he also withdrew and closed the door, leaving Jiang An alone inside to accompany Shen Yuli.

The incense in the hall is curling, and the silence is terrifying.

Jiang An knelt down at the head of Shen Yuli's bed, his face still frighteningly pale.

Shen Yuli looked at him, but his expression seemed to be much calmer.

"She, how's it going?" He asked.

Jiang An slowly stretched out his hand, holding a round and smooth thing the size of a finger belly in his palm, which was brilliant and dazzling.

"Miss Huanlin, she, she ......" The poor eunuch was also frightened, and his voice trembled like a withered leaf in the wind: "...... Her body was getting lighter and lighter...... Then it was gone, leaving only this ......"

Shen Yuli stared at his palm, as if sluggish.

Jiang An took a deep breath and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty's mourning, Miss Huanlin must not be a ghost!" She is so beautiful and kind, she must be a god in the sky...... Today, the evil spirits in the palace are removed, and she may have died with those evil spirits, and this bead must be the thought he left for you......"

"Hah!" Shen Yuli suddenly laughed.

Naturally, there was no smile on his face.

Jiang An was frightened again, and suspected that His Majesty was really crazy. At the same time, he thought: "No matter whether Your Majesty is crazy or not, I will have no way to live today!" ”

Unexpectedly, Shen Yuli did not go crazy. He just slowly stretched out his hand and motioned for Jiang An to hand over the bead.

That bead.

It's beads, not sparrow eggs.

What sparrow eggs, hell sparrow eggs! Who has ever seen such a big, round, and shining sparrow egg?

Are those sparrows blind!

"Circling the forest," he said to the bead, "you must not scare me. I said I wouldn't let you go, and if you don't come back, I'll smash you and crush you, and feed the cats. ”

Jiang An has been frightened enough today, and at this moment, he will inevitably be scattered again.

Crazy, crazy! Your Majesty is really crazy! He actually called "Winding the Forest" at a bead! And crush it and feed it to the cat!

The emperor doesn't say "retreat", and those who are slaves are not allowed to leave without permission, but Jiang An can't care about it today. He crawled to the door as if he had seen a ghost, and staggered to his feet to run.

Shen Yuli looked up at him and said in a deep voice, "Go and shout to come over." ”

Jiang An was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly opened the door with all his strength, and threw himself out: "Help, help!" Go and shout to the Dao Elder to exorcise evil spirits and save your life! Your Majesty is crazy! ”