Chong Xuzhen was very satisfied with the emperor's reaction.

A dynasty, from the emperor to the concubine to the princess, all of them are held in his hands, which is of course unimaginable to ordinary people.

But the next moment, his pride was cut off.

The emperor pulled his beard fiercely and stood up with a loud noise: "You, are you threatening me?" ”

As an emperor, what he hates most is that his courtiers rely on their high merits and don't take him seriously.

The stability of the country and the tranquility of the palace are of course all because of the protection of his true dragon qi, is it because of the ability of an old Taoist priest? He can be the emperor, doesn't he rely on himself, but on the old Taoist?

After tasting this meaning from Chong Xu's words, the emperor could no longer sit still.

However, Chong Xuzhen Su Ri was arrogant, and he didn't realize that he had touched the emperor's scales, and instead of being stunned when he heard the question, he sneered contemptuously, drooped his eyelids and said: "'Threat' is not counted, just stating the facts." ”

"Hah, the facts!" The emperor was even more angry, and he roared out in his voice, and several concubines and palace maids next to him trembled in unison.

It was as if he was not the emperor in front of him, but a madman who was killing people on the battlefield.

At this time, the emperor did somewhat return to the state he had in the previous years of war, his face was red, his body was swaying, and his wide sleeves were crackling: "Facts, facts!" Lao Tzu pinned his head to the waistband of his trousers, and you sheltered it? Lao Tzu worshiped you as a god for the sake of looking good, so you really think you are an immortal? Phew! You have to see that Lao Tzu can't end it, and Lao Tzu also wants to see if you, the 'living immortal', really won't die! - Come on, tie up this thief to Lao Tzu! Set fire to death! ”

The guards naturally obeyed the emperor's edict, and immediately flashed their blades and rushed forward, without any awe of the living immortals.

Chong Xuan Zhenren also lost the arrogance of the living immortals, and dodged all the way with the dust, and finally showed a little panic on his face, and shouted urgently: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" You can't do this! Have you forgotten how I helped you in the past? In those years, when you fought abroad, I accompanied you from birth to death and predicted good fortune and evil for you; Later, when you became the emperor, I sat in the palace for you and suppressed the murderous souls of the remnants of the previous dynasty for you...... Now that your world is settled, you can't be ungrateful and cross the river and tear down the bridge! ”

Every time he said a word, the emperor's anger became even stronger, and finally he succeeded in being so angry that he drew his sword and swung it wildly: "Burn him, burn him!" Burn him to death! ”

The guards moved quickly, and Chong Xuzhen was tied up here, and someone outside had already set up a high platform and was ready to light a fire.

Chong Xu's popularity doesn't seem to be very good, and there has been no one to intercede for so long, only Ye Guifei maintained a timid and tearful appearance, and asked the emperor "Will it be inappropriate?"

The emperor himself decided to do something, and he never felt that there was anything wrong with it.

Chong Xuzhen was quickly brought to the top of the platform like a sack. The guards piled up firewood and grass around the high platform, ready to light a fire.

The emperor's concubines and princesses all followed out of the palace and circled around the high platform twice.

Chong Xuzhen saw this posture, and finally became a little timid, and looked at the emperor in horror: "Shen Heng, do you really want to burn me?" ”

The emperor sat down on the chair brought out by the eunuchs, leaned back comfortably, and ordered in a loud voice: "Light the fire!" ”

"Wait!" Chong Xuzhen screamed, "The surname is Shen, I already knew that you were a wolf-hearted thing!" Back then, you didn't have anything, and the toad wanted to eat swan meat and fell in love with the queen's mother, so you knelt down like a dog and begged me to help you create a momentum to subvert the country......"

"Ignition!" The emperor, who had only been sitting down for a long time, jumped up again and jumped on the spot: "Are you all dead?" Hurry up and ignite the fire! ”

Under the high platform, the forest tiptoed and looked straight up, his eyes were round and shy.

Shen Yuli, who had been ignored by her for a long time, seemed to be a little aggrieved, leaned over and leaned on her shoulder, and complained in a low voice: "I only care about watching the excitement by myself, and I don't support me a little!" ”

Knowing that he was not sick, Huan Lin held his arm very perfunctorily and made a gesture of support, and asked in a low voice, "What does the old Taoist priest mean?" Why is the queen mother the queen mother, and the emperor is nothing? ”

Shen Yuli sneered, his face was gloomy: "There has never been a queen in this dynasty. ”

Huanlin was confused for a while, and suddenly realized: "Oh, the old Taoist priest is talking about the queen mother of the previous dynasty!" I understand, it turns out that your father rebelled and became the emperor because he fell in love with the queen of the previous dynasty! Hey, he became the emperor, why didn't he snatch the queen of the previous dynasty? Isn't that the queen already old......"

"Shut up!" Shen Yuli scolded unceremoniously, not intending to satisfy her curiosity at all.

Huan Lin was aggrieved and closed his mouth, and then saw that the flames under the high platform were already burning. The real person on the stage roared in the heat wave: "Shen Heng, you won't end well!" If you don't have me, you won't be able to sit still for ten years! Up to five years...... No, three years! Three years at most, you will definitely end up like the emperor of the previous dynasty! And your children, none of them will survive! I tell you, even if I die, the spells of those paper men will still be there, and your son will die in less than three months......"

He confessed his sins.

The concubines and princes present suddenly became in a commotion, the eighth prince and the ninth prince knelt at the emperor's feet and begged him to forgive Chong Xuzhen, the fifth prince trembled and scolded with a fat body, the eldest prince was so sick that he couldn't get up and just cried, only Shen Yuli and the second prince had no expression on their faces, as if they had nothing to do with themselves.

At this time, the flames had already rushed to the high platform, and Chong Xuzhen finally panicked, and began to say soft words again: "Ah Heng, Your Majesty!" I was wrong, I didn't dare...... If you let me go, will I undo the spell for your child? You can't really burn me, I still have to protect you in the palace! You don't know, the souls of the emperors and concubines of the previous dynasty are still in this palace, if you don't have me, you will bump into them once, and the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

The emperor sneered, sat down again, and at the same time instructed the guards: "Pour some tung oil on it, let the fire be stronger!" ”

The guards immediately rushed to fetch several large barrels of tung oil, shouting trumpets and pouring them on the fire.

Seeing this, Chong Xuzhen was scared again, and shouted urgently: "You really can't burn me, I still have to catch ghosts for you!" The woman in red you asked me to catch last time—"

A beam of flame rushed up, and the end of Chong Xu's words turned into a scream.

The Emperor laughed.

Huan Lin was so anxious that he couldn't hold back any longer, and jumped to his feet and shouted: "You finished talking, what's wrong with the female ghost in red?" ”

There were several strange glances around. Shen Yuli was busy squeezing the little eunuch's wrist hard.

Huan Lin herself knew that she shouldn't speak at this time, but she couldn't help it, and her mind turned and she simply shouted louder: "What the hell are you still doing?" Could it be that the ghosts in this palace have not been eliminated at all? You deliberately kept a lot of ghosts in the palace just so that His Majesty couldn't leave you, didn't you? ”

"Yes, haha......" Chong Xuzhen's body was already burning several feet high, and he struggled frantically, screaming in his throat, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

Everyone can see that it is impossible to extinguish the fire when it burns like this.

Chong Xuan Zhenren also realized this, and hissed out loudly: "If I live, you will have a stable life; When I'm dead, all the 'gone' ghosts will come back! Shen Heng, you just wait for the day and night......"

At this time, the entire high platform was completely enveloped by the flames, and the figure of Chong Xu's real person was no longer real, and the sound was also muffled by the whirring sound of burning.

Huan Lin was still thinking about that big beauty in his heart, and he was so anxious that he couldn't stop jumping.

At this moment, she was extremely angry that Shen Yuli had pressed her just now, so that she didn't have time to find an excuse to pull down the gourd hanging from Chongxu's waist.

Legend has it that the ghosts caught by Chong Xuren are all contained in that gourd, and the great beauty may be there. Now that gourd is about to burn out along with Chongxu, how can she save that big beauty?

It's over, and the hanged man won't let her go! Huan Lin secretly complained in his heart.

At this moment, the fire on the stage flashed, accompanied by many involuntary screams, and the body of the virtual real person fell to the ground, apparently the rope that tied him was burned.

But he still couldn't get off the stage, just rolled around on the stage like a pig, and the screams were deafening.

Huan Lin keenly saw that the gourd hanging from his waist fell, raised a small cluster of flames, and fell off the high platform with a bang.

Several eunuchs who stood closer screamed and hurriedly retreated, and the concubines and princesses also exclaimed in unison.

Apparently everyone remembered the legend of that gourd.

Only Huan Lin couldn't help but take two steps forward, but then stopped.

For she and the others saw it together: the gourd had fallen to the ground and cracked, and the red fire flashed a few times, and then only a scattered mass of black ash remained.

There are no ghosts running out of it.

It looks like it's just an ordinary gourd, and it's easy to burn.

At this time, the movement of the real people on the stage also decreased, and only the blazing fire was still flashing, burning vigorously.

The emperor couldn't help but stand up, circled around the burning platform for half a circle, and laughed: "Chong Xuan Lao Dao, are you afraid of Lao Tzu now?" Tell you, I've put up with you for a long time! ”

Chong Xuzhen had choked his throat and couldn't answer his words.

Xiao Changzi boldly walked to the emperor's side and carefully persuaded: "Your Majesty, rush to be true...... Although the old thief is not a good thing, after all, he has means, so we should be cautious......"

"Beware of fart!" The emperor snapped his sleeves, turned around and came back with a dangerous brushing of the flames, and sat down: "You also think Lao Tzu is a waste?" When Lao Tzu is sheltered by that dog thief in this world? ”

Xiao Changzi was so frightened that he knelt down, kowtowed again and again, and said, "The slave doesn't dare." ”

The emperor snorted and sneered: "I am a waste, I am a waste!" How much ability does the old thief have, others don't know, can Lao Tzu know him for more than ten years? Phew! ”

This is a reminder of an old grudge. Everyone present was a little apprehensive, and they all closed their mouths and quietly retreated with bated breath, for fear that one would accidentally suffer from the pond fish.

However, Ye Guifei, who was the most cowardly in Su Ri, stepped forward boldly, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the old thief does know some tricks, and he has been in the palace for many years, so he may not have left some harmful things. Not to mention anything else, this time when several highnesses were plotted by him, I am afraid that it will be enough. Let's ......"

"Haha, what are you afraid of?" The emperor laughed loudly and stretched out his hand to drag her to his side: "There are a lot of people in the palace, and you are the most cowardly!" ”

Ye Guifei lowered her head and smiled, her eyes still staring at the burning high platform, looking worried.

Seeing her like this, the emperor became more and more proud, and laughed: "You are really ...... I haven't grown at all after so many years! Don't worry, in the old thief's den, I asked people to watch it in the morning, and there is nothing! I'll call someone to light his yard in a moment, and make sure it's all clean!" ”

At this time, the high platform was completely quiet, the fire was almost burning, and the real people had long since stopped moving. What kind of living immortals, dead immortals, light a fire is coke.

The emperor saw the anxious eyes around him, and his vanity as an emperor was the most satisfied, and he raised his arms and laughed angrily: "Finally cleaned up the old thief, comfortable!" Mother's bull's nose actually dared to blow to Lao Tzu, saying what to hunt ghosts and demons - Lao Tzu is the emperor, Lao Tzu is afraid of ghosts and demons? ”

Seeing this, the concubines knew that the emperor was in a good mood, and they hurriedly rushed forward to say compliments, and several little princesses were also instructed by their mothers, and the milk swallows surrounded them like homecoming.

It seems that the princes who are sick and crooked are particularly embarrassed.

The second prince, Shen Qingyue, took the lead in getting up, pulled up the eighth prince who was so sick that he couldn't open his eyes, and motioned to the eunuch to pick up the ninth prince, and the three poor children who had just lost their mothers went home together desolately.

actually threw Qian Zhaorong's body in the hall without asking a word.

Shen Yuli has always been excluded from all happy occasions. Seeing that the emperor didn't seem to have time to pay attention to him, he quietly grabbed Lin's wrist and whispered "Go home".

Huanlin refused.

Taking advantage of the inattention of others, she tiptoed to the foot of the high platform, and endured the residual heat of the ashes to pick up the gourd that had fallen from Chong Xuzhen's body earlier.

didn't think that the strength was used too much, and the gourd turned into ashes in her hand, and it was pasted on her hand.

Huan Lin hurriedly patted it, feeling very wronged in his stomach, and subconsciously wanted to rub his face.

Shen Yuli hurriedly came over and grabbed her two paws, and said helplessly: "You can't save something!" ”

"I'm not troublesome enough...... "Huan Lin is about to cry, "I can't do anything like this!" The gourd is gone, the old Taoist priest is dead, and I don't dare to ask where the ghosts he caught are when he dies...... How can I explain to the hanged man? ”

"You confess to!" Shen Yuli dragged her out of the gate of Qixiang Palace, and gave her a good face: "In front of so many people, are you going to chase Lao Dao and ask where his ghost is?" Do you think I'm not suspicious enough? ”

Huan Lin was speechless, and looked up at him aggrievedly.

Shen Yuli was immediately helpless, shook his head as if a caterpillar had entered his neck, and sighed: "How can you be stupid like this, you have to listen to the words of the ghost!" If there are really so many ghosts and demons in this palace, how can you take care of them......"

Before his words fell, Huan Lin immediately jumped up: "That's right! ”

Shen Yuli was taken aback by her, but Huan Lin had already let go of his hand: "Go back by yourself, I still have something important!" ”

After saying that, the man had already pedaled and ran away. Huan Lin looked down at his empty palm and was stunned.

This little sparrow, is it really capable? I dare to leave him in the middle of the road!

Huan Lin herself didn't realize that she had offended her master, and at this moment she was thinking about a big thing: the emperor was going to burn down the courtyard of the virtual people!

The yard is not just burned.

Late summer is almost the time when sparrow brooding is at its highest, and who knows how many hairless sparrows live under the eaves of the old yard!

Once the fire is lit, it may not be difficult for the sparrow to escape, and even the sparrow eggs can be rescued, but those little sparrows that have not yet learned to fly are not easy to do, and they can't move in their mouths, so they just watch them burn inside?

When Huan Lin thought of this, he felt so anxious that he couldn't do it, and he ran faster and faster, flying all the way to the courtyard where Chongxu Zhenren lived before.

Wonderful, the courtyard was empty at this time.

The palace maids and eunuchs who had been serving here had been arrested and questioned, and the guards who had been ordered to set the fire had not yet arrived, and Huanlin was extremely fortunate to catch up with the safest time.

Unfortunately, it was already completely dark by this time, and the sparrows refused to get up. So Huanlin had to find a stick and poke it all the way along the eaves, in exchange for a scolding.

"Get up, get up!" Squeaked all the way around the forest, "The emperor is coming to burn the house!" Get your kids out, it'll be too late for a fire! ”

The sparrows muttered, but few of them were willing to get up, and Huanlin could already faintly hear the sound of the guards' boots clattering towards them.

This urgency is not trivial. She simply climbed up to the wall three times and two times, and reached out and took out six slick little ones from a sparrow's nest in the far corner.

The little sparrow couple who had just begun to learn to be parents were so angry that they chased all the way around the forest and bitten, followed by a group of enthusiastic neighbors who helped and cursed people.

Huan Lin was angry and aggrieved, but he was reluctant to throw away the six little guys in his hand, and suddenly felt like a warrior.

Fortunately, this embarrassment did not last long, and finally a clever little sparrow probed around, brought back the news that "a large number of bad people are coming", and saved the wronged and aggrieved Huanlin.

So the courtyard immediately became lively. Hundreds of sparrows move at the same time, which is a sight to behold.

The flames in the courtyard soon flared up, and the sparrows escaped a catastrophe, all of them panting and sweating from exhaustion. A few thick-skinned ones simply leaned on the shoulders of the forest, refusing to go any further.

I was tired enough to go around the forest, but it was not a problem to walk for a while with these little things on my back.

When she arrived in a secluded corner, she casually grabbed a sparrow from her shoulder and asked, "Where are all the ghosts caught by the old Taoist priest hidden, do you know?" ”