"Take a look, take a look! Freshly baked hibiscus crisp, fragrant sesame cake! One hundred packs of jade cicada fruit, while supplies last! ”

As early as a few days before the beginning of July and a half, the streets and alleys of Yecheng were already very lively, the streets were crowded with all kinds of stalls on both sides, and even the people in front of the famous Xiangyi Zhai Gate were several times more than usual, and a long dragon was almost lined up from the door to the north gate.

On the stalls, there are those who sell beads, some sell tea soup, and some sell quiches, but in the end, because the day is about to reach the seventh and a half months, there are still the most stalls selling all kinds of spiritual utensils, incense and candle offerings and lanterns.

Xu because Zhongyuan was approaching, the emperor also had compassion, thinking that it was the season for the local officials to forgive their sins, and in the early morning of July 14, he ordered someone to draw up a will, exempting Xu He's grounding, and after Zhongyuan, he still entered the palace to be his prince's companion.

On the day of the Midyear Festival, before the sky was clear, Xu He woke up. Although the injuries left by the flogging were not yet healed, in the end he was able to limp and barely walk, so Xu He insisted on repeatedly saying that he wanted to go out, and Mrs. Xie agreed to let him and Xie Jin go out with a baggage.

Knowing that he was now almost a hated identity of men, women, and children up and down Yecheng, Xu He specially tied his hair well, and found some brownstone lead powder, and smeared his face, which was obviously much whiter than ordinary people because of the blood of half of the people in northern Xinjiang, and added the few strokes that Xie Jin added around the corners of his eyes, if he didn't look closely, his current appearance was no different from others, nothing more than that he was born more handsome than ordinary children.

As soon as Xie Jin and Xu He walked out of the back door of Taifu's mansion, they didn't go far, and they saw someone standing at the entrance of the alley with a lot of incense and candle offerings in their hands, wearing a smoke-colored robe that did not change.

"You're not in good health, just ask someone to send something, why do you have to accompany me to endure this cold?"

Xu He shook his head and wanted to take the incense candles from Liu Shi's hands, but Liu Shi avoided them and gave them to Xie Jin.

"Friends, those who can work hard." With both hands in cheek, Liu Shi smiled, but couldn't help coughing a few times.

And Xie Jin didn't care, he carried the original narrow burden on his shoulders with one hand, and carried those incense candles with the other, and walked directly towards the front in great strides, Xu He and Liu Shi also hurriedly followed.

About the time of the rooster's crow, the figures of the three reappeared, but they were in a small Buddha hall on the mountain behind the Lingfeng Temple.

"Amitabha, good and good, please mourn the benefactor." Master Jingsheng watched Xu He kneel in front of the iron can with a wolf's head, and he didn't know how to persuade him, and for a long time, there was only one sentence.

Many years ago, the god of war of the Xuan Kingdom also knelt in front of the same iron can. In the tin can is his wife. He took it with him before he left Yecheng, but he was brought back in the same way.

Master Jingsheng didn't say much, turned the Buddha beads in his hand and turned away, leaving only Xu He, Liu Shi and Xie Jin.

Taking over the long and narrow burden in Xie Jin's hand, Xu He didn't open it again to take a last look, so he resolutely put it lightly into a deep pit under the Buddhist shrine, covered it with soil, and covered it.

After lighting the sacrificial candles and offering incense and various offerings, Xu He carefully took out a piece of writing paper from his bosom.

Written a hundred times, a thousand times, although the handwriting is still not neat, but this one is the most attentive word he has ever written.

With the bean-sized flame on the sacrificial candle, Xu He burned the corner of the paper and let it melt in front of the Buddha shrine little by little, and in the end, only the ashes were left, and they were blown away.

"Daddy...... You always say that Hull only dances with knives and guns every day, and never sits down to study. Hull ...... Hmm......" choked, Xu He blinked desperately, his eyes were red, but he didn't let the drop slip down after all.

Yes, he had never written a good piece of schoolwork, and now, for the first time, he had written it seriously, but it was a tribute to his deceased father.

"Forget it, mortals live for a lifetime, but a hundred years, it is as short as a fire, my three brothers entered the world from Penglai, although they are people, but they must not forget their original intentions, the way of immortals, it is ruthless......"

A hand gently patted Xu He's shoulder, and Liu Shi's words finally made Xu He sober up a little from the chaos.

"The fairy road is ruthless, but big brother, why is my heart still so painful, it turns out ...... Being a human being, parting from life and death, is so painful. I finally understand why you would rather be born as a street outcast as a fairy than be reincarnated as a mortal like me and my second brother. I knew it was such a heartache that I would rather never have it. ”

Xu He said, Xie Jin couldn't help but think of something far away. At that time, they were just three sacred birds in the Penglai Realm, and they were willing to join the world to accompany them for the sake of a person's commitment.

"Big Ostrich! Big Owl! Bluebird and I have just chosen someone, one is the son of the Taifu, and the other is the son of the general, what about you?! Where are you going? ”

"I ...... Ha, I plan to directly use the fairy soul to turn into a baby, as for whose house to go to, I have my own fate......"

For a promise, they gave up their immortal bodies, and the immortal souls entered the world, and the original cultivation was only enough for them to barely turn into immortal cranes for a few hours.

"Let's go......" After kneeling for a long time, Xu He finally stood up, whispered such a sentence, and left Lingfeng Temple without looking back.

The next day, Xu He entered the palace again, and after many days, he saw Xuanyuan Jue again, the first time he had not seen him for a long time, not in the East Palace, but in the Martyrs' Hall of the Boundless Pavilion.

Stepping into the hall, Xu He saw Xuanyuan Xuanyuan who had his back to him and had been waiting for him for a long time. Rarely, Xuanyuan Jue actually changed into a plain prince military uniform embroidered with a white python.

"Xu He, why don't you see your little silver who doesn't leave you on weekdays?"

Xuanyuan turned his head slightly, and the wolf looked at it, and the shoulder of the figure in his left eye, who was also wearing a plain white robe, was missing the silver shining tip of the spear.

The corners of his eyes were lowered, as if he didn't see Xuanyuan taking down an ash gun from the shelf with various weapons on the side.

"As a son of man, he can't fulfill his filial piety, so the minister replaced him and went to accompany his deceased father."

"Brake!" As soon as the wind broke, Xu He subconsciously made a move, and hurriedly took the spear thrown by Xuanyuan in his hand.

At this time, Xuanyuan also turned around, impartial, and faced him directly. "The Father and the Son have atoned for their sins, and here I stand."

After hearing such a sentence, Xu He didn't know whether the sadness came from it or the old illness came again. The two hands that held the body of the gun tightly trembled incessantly, and in the end, they couldn't even hold the gun steadily and fell to the ground.

Bow down and bow down, and bow down again and again. Just like the appearance of Xuanyuan Xuan, who broke into Yanyuantai and persuaded him to almost commit a mortal mistake such as killing the king and killing his father.

"Minister...... Can't and won't shoot. ”

However, this time, Xuanyuan Jue did not listen to him again.

"Boom!" Xuanyuan stepped forward a few steps, hooked up the ash gun on the ground with only one kick, and held it in his hand. With a blow that he couldn't say anything, he directly swept towards Xu He with the body of the gun.

The body moved at will, Xu He saw the direction, got up and flipped back, borrowed the body of the gun, and dodged away from a distance.

"Fight back! Why don't you fight back!! I want you to fight back!! ”

Angry inexplicably, Xuanyuan Jue raised the gun and pointed it directly, and the head of the gun went straight to Xu He's door, but Xu He was adapted to local conditions, his body was one step faster, his head was dangerously deflected by three points, and he used his arm to clamp it, and with the force of Xuanyuan Jue's forward stabbing, the gun head was stuck in the crack of the stone wall of the rockery.

Seeing this, Xuanyuan immediately gave up the gun, took out the dagger he was carrying from his boots, and raised his hand to aim at Xu He, but he didn't use much strength in his hand, so Xu He could easily take the knife, right?

However, the next moment, the blood stained silk, and it was Xu He's sleeves that turned red. And the tip of the dagger was firmly held in the palm of his hand by Xu He with his right hand.

"Minister...... Always loyal to His Royal Highness and loyal to Xuanguo. ”

"Sonorous!" It was the crisp sound of the dagger hitting the ground, but the owner of the dagger turned his head and left.

He left while smiling, not a genuine smile, but a helpless sadness. The left side is happy, and the right side is sad, as if the so-called society and the so-called monarchs and ministers have been thoroughly explored, but they can only let people break their heads and shed blood to lay the foundation for this cold imperial power, and in the end, only a handful of loess remains.

It was a corner of the East Palace, which was as quiet as ever, but Wang Xiaoliang was brought over from the Imperial Doctor's Office with his head covered.

When the cover was taken off, he thought that the next thing he would see was the pot-bellied Dan Gonggong, but now sitting in front of him was Xuanyuan Xuanyuan, who was holding a scroll of paper and reading carefully.

Kneeling down according to the etiquette, Wang Xiaoliang hadn't figured out why he had just been promoted to be a medical officer would be brought over by the prince himself, but Xuanyuan Jue read the scroll in his hand first.

"The former imperial physician Yu, from southern Xinjiang, entered Ye with the army, was trusted by the first emperor, and served in the imperial medical department for generations. Because of the hidden illness of the emperor, he was jealous of the emperor, and he was full of secret killings. ”

Xuanyuan thought of this, stopped, his eyes wandered for a long time in the name of a dry person full of cinnabar marks, and finally stopped on the bright red in the lower left corner, this trace is not as dull as those old ones, it is clear that it has only been hooked recently.

Xuanyuan crossed the paper scroll, and glanced at Wang Xiaoliang who was still kneeling there with his left eye, calm and calm, and the little house doctor who was timid on the Weiyang Hall that day was really like two people.

"Wang, small, good. Xiaoliang is hateful, and the king is jade, or the Lord. I really want to know, do you hate yourself for being the Jade Family, or do you hate the master of your Jade Family? ”

For a long time, Wang Xiaoliang, who was kneeling at the bottom, was still silent, as if he didn't have a tongue at all.

Xuanyuan smiled, put the file in his hand on the case, and leaned over to Wang Xiaoliang's ear, "In Taifu Xie's mansion, that girl named 'Jade Ziluo' is your sister?" ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, let her go...... She's out of her mind, she doesn't know anything. ”

These words, Wang Xiaoliang gritted his teeth and said, it is okay to ask for his life, but Ziluo, absolutely not.

"Good, good......"

After a while, Wang Xiaoliang was sent out of the East Palace again with a mask and was safe and sound. Except for him and Xuanyuan Jue, I'm afraid no one will know what kind of deal they reached tonight.

There is a bamboo tube on the case, and its former owner was the patriarch of the Yu family, including Wang Xiaoliang, who had just handed it over. However, now its owner is Xuanyuan Jue.

The cinnabar jade seal sealed on the bamboo tube was taken down by Xuanyuan Jue, and soon, the thing that did not see the light of day wandered out by itself. It was as dark as night, covered with a layer of scales that looked like snakes but were much smaller, and I don't know whether to say that it was more like a bug or more like a snake.

"Same fate Gu, huh? Life and death, huh......" Xuanyuan muttered, and without hesitation, he picked up a dagger and held it tightly in the palm of his right hand, until a trace of dark red blood snaked down his palm print.

Drop by drop, drop by drop, the blood that flowed out was all dripped in front of the Gu worm by Xuanyuan Jue. And the Gu worm was not polite, the triangular head like a snake quickly poked up, and all the blood was sucked clean by it.

The Gu worm that had drunk enough blood quickly changed, it rolled back and forth on the case, as if it was dead and alive with some pain, Xuanyuan frowned, and his eyes refused to move for a moment.

Under his own witnesses, the body of the tumbling Gu worm broke open, becoming two sections, one long and one short. But soon, the two sections of this head and tail regenerated the rest of their own, becoming two Gu worms, one large and one small.

Dripping blood again, Xuanyuan led the two Gu worms, one large and one small, back into the bamboo tube again.

"Father, this half of my blood full of sinful karma will be returned to you today."