Chapter 19: Shadow of the Deep Palace

"The smoke comes far from the mountains, and the sunset is peeked into the bamboo." The moon is as deep as jade, hanging high for nine days, and letting the clear light flow to the earth. The bamboo is slanted, the moon dances slightly, the sparse shadow is mottled and swaying, and the ink is written on the white wall, and the vicissitudes of life are painted. On the bamboo floor, although Dou Niang had already put the guqin aside, she still did not feel the slightest sleep. He faced the moon by the window, like a jade carving, and under the moonlight, he could faintly see the crystal tears on his face.

"The birds fly to the eaves, and the clouds come out of the windows." When she said these two sentences, her voice was already choked, she raised her tearful eyes and looked at the bright bright moon and said: "I am a dusty woman, I know that I can't keep Sauvignon Blanc with you, and I will grow old." I just want to be by your side, to talk to you, to play the harp. But now I can't even do that. ”

"Li Shimin!" Dou Niang suddenly gritted her teeth and said, "Everything you have done, one day I will return it to you!" ”

"Who!" In a flash of lightning, Dou Niang turned around suddenly, raised her hand and knocked out an amber glass cup on the table against the shadow outside the window. With a snap, the sword light flashed in the bamboo bushes, and a black shadow shot out, jumping on the stone lamp in the courtyard, and in an instant, it had jumped onto the bamboo tower. When Dou Niang turned around, the man in black was already standing in front of her. Dou Niang looked at it and saw that it was a masked man, holding a sword in his hand, standing silently in front of him.

"Childe came to visit late at night." Dou Niang looked at the person in front of her and smiled: "I guess it's not because it's like water and moonlight, you want to come and have a few drinks with me, right?" With a wave of his words, he picked up the light yarn covered with the guqin on the table. Or did she sit down softly, her hands on the lyre.

"Do you want to come and get my head?"

In the palace, in the dormitory.

The golden-robed emperor pressed the notebook in his hand, opened his mouth and yawned. The young eunuch on the side saw it in his eyes, so he stepped forward and gently supported him and said, "It's late at night, Your Majesty should rest early." When you come back from the court, you have been correcting the folds, and you are still watching when you go back to the dormitory, and if you go on like this, the dragon will be unbearable. ”

"I can't sleep." Li Shimin's eyelids were half raised and he said sleepily: "Something has happened in the world recently, and if you don't figure it out, it will be difficult for me to sleep and eat." ”

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, what is the matter?"

"Little nobleman." Li Shimin suddenly looked up at the eunuch beside him and asked, "What kind of person do you think I am?" ”

"The emperor ruled martial arts, followed the emperor to lay down thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and the people of Kyushu can see it, and it is not too much to say that His Majesty is the three emperors of virtue and high morality, and his merits are better than the five emperors."

"Haha." The emperor shook his head with a smile and said, "You guys, one by one, you know how to shoot my horses. As he spoke, he got up and stretched his waist and said, "Actually, I all know that you are all saying behind your back that I am a sinister and ruthless villain who kills my brother and threatens my father. ”

"Emperor Mingjian!" When the little noble son heard Li Shimin say this, he was so frightened that he fell to his knees, kowtowed on the ground and said: "The slave has never thought about it like this, the emperor really wishes to be a slave." Crying and kowtowing as he spoke, Li Shimin, who was watching, couldn't help laughing, pulled him up and said, "What are you afraid of?" I didn't say I'm going to punish you. Seeing that his mood calmed down a little, he said: "Don't say that you haven't thought about it, even if you think about it, what can I do?" Kill you? There are so many mouths in the world, can you kill them? So, whether you think about it or not, it doesn't matter. ”

"Your Majesty said this, and the minion was really panicked in his heart." Although the little noble son was lifted up by Li Shimin, he was still uneasy, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he changed his words and said: "I don't know what the emperor has been sad about recently?" ”

"I got a message." When Li Shimin heard him ask, he replied: "Some people in other places are planning a rebellion, and it has already become a trend. I sent someone to investigate, but I found nothing. With such a big question hanging in my mind, how can I sleep? So saying, he flipped through the dossier again, until he finished reading it, and realized that it was getting dark. Then he said: "I'm also tired, and my body is a little unbearable, so you can go down." The little noble son was also tired, and when he heard Li Shimin like this, he retreated.

"Come in. No one is there. Seeing that there was no one around, Li Shimin took out a long sword from under the pillow and shouted softly out of the window. How long else do you plan to stay outside? ”

A man dressed in black and carrying a long black knife jumped lightly and jumped in from the window.

"Youjunke, this time is longer than set." Li Shimin made a relaxed expression on his face, but the hand holding the sword trembling slightly was looked at by Yu Jike.

"There was an incident on the way, so it was delayed." Youjuke masked his face and pretended not to notice Li Shimin's timidity: "Fortunately, the matter is still investigated." ”

"How's it going?" Hearing what Yu Jike said, Li Shimin suddenly became excited.

"Not optimistic." You shook his head and said, seeing Li Shimin's depressed face, he said: "But don't be pessimistic, I have already arranged for someone to do it." ”

"Who is it?" Li Shimin was surprised: "Why didn't you do it yourself?" ”

"I don't want to get involved in your family affairs." Yu Jike snorted, turned around and was about to leave.

"You're still hating me." Li Shimin smiled miserably and said, "Everyone in the world hates me as much as you." ”

The figure in front of the window was slightly stunned.

"But I didn't have a choice, you know?" Li Shimin suddenly became emotional. "Either I kill him, or he kills me."

"But you're alive." The voice was deep, like gritting teeth and slightly angry.

"Do you want me dead?" Li Shimin listened to Dao Youke's words, and his tone was slightly angry, as if he was questioning.

"I don't want to talk about the past." Stepping on the window, the figure of the secluded guest disappeared outside the window.

"You really can't let me go." Li Shimin smiled slightly and put down the sword in his hand.

The soldiers who were ambushed in the back room heard the noise and entered the main room one after another. Li Shimin looked at the armored soldiers kneeling on the ground, and didn't know what to say.

"Your Majesty." The leader of the general said: "Just let go and leave?" This person trespassed into the palace and entered the dormitory many times at night. It is really dangerous, and I hope that Your Majesty will allow the ministers to arrest this person. ”

"Wait a little longer." Li Shimin's face no longer had a sad or frightened look on his face at this time, but was replaced by a cold demeanor. "Now this person is still useful, after this period, I will leave it to you to dispose of."

"Understood."

The moon on the bamboo floor is as bright as water, Dou Niang is holding a soft sword wrapped around the waist and fighting with Li Fengying, more than a dozen rounds, the two are not up or down. The reason for this is that the soft sword used by Dou Niang is not powerful enough, and Li Fengying did not draw the sword, but only used the scabbard to meet the enemy.

"This woman is skilled, and she will never be the daughter of an ordinary businessman." Bong Young masked her face, thinking like this in her heart. He didn't have killing intent in his heart this time, he just wanted to find out the truth, but he was found where he was hiding, and he had no choice but to go upstairs to fight, just remembering that this woman had no grievances with him, but he really couldn't bear to hurt the killer, so since he went upstairs, the sword was inserted in the sheath and never pulled out by him.

But now the woman in front of her is attacking more and more fiercely, and she is rushing for her own life between moves. Feng Ying didn't want to draw the sword, he just wanted to get out quickly, but the soft sword was like a soft snake, hooking and sharpening the thorns, and he was forced by this soft sword, so he couldn't get out of the bamboo building.

"If I don't fight back, I'm afraid I'm going to die here." Thinking like this, Feng Ying didn't care about anything else, his left hand slammed off Dou Niang's soft sword, and his right hand pressed the hilt of the sword, and pulled out the sword with a brush.

"Shocking Sword?" That Dou Niang danced the sword first, but she couldn't use six successes, and she wanted to stretch her body, she was not afraid of assassins, and she fought with Fengying with the sword, just to relieve the anger in her heart at this time. Seeing that Li Fengying pulled out the Shocking Sword, Dou Niang couldn't help but be shocked, and in her mind, the situation of the year resurfaced again, and a nameless anger instantly arose. "Li Jiancheng is dead, and the Shocking Sword has long been extinct. With this sword in your hand, are you a human or a ghost? ”

"I'm not a ghost, but I'm not human." Li Fengying heard Dou Niang's question, remembered what happened to her, and said in a suppressed voice: "I had no intention of killing you, and I hope that the girl will stop in moderation and don't force me." ”

"Hahahaha." Dou Niang looked up to the sky and smiled, but suddenly glared at Li Fengying with a fierce look in her eyes and said, "Forcing you?" Got the world with dirty hands, and now pretends to be a poor person again? When you forced us, did you think about it? The surname Li really doesn't have a good thing! Don't think that if I'm helping them now, I think I'm your man, I want to kill one of them today, and I see if any of them can stop me. Before he finished speaking, the whole person had already rushed over with the soft sword, like a phantom, and went straight to Fengying.

"In that case, then I'm not welcome!" Li Fengying said, turned the sword, and danced the sword into a barrier, only to hear the sound, the soft sword was pierced in the concave of the spine of the sword, and Fengying seized the opportunity to send the sword body forward sharply and straight. The soft sword was originally a straight stab, but when it was forced by the sword body, the entire sword body was bent into an arch. That Dou Niang is now holding the soft sword and can't retreat, if she retreats, Fengying will inevitably come forward with her, and when she is affected by the power of the software rebound, she has not yet dissipated, so she has to face Li Fengying's sword move again, but if she doesn't retreat, the soft sword will inevitably break, and there will be no sword in her hand, let alone a counterattack. After a moment of thought, Dou Niang jumped backwards, who knew that before she jumped, Feng Ying took the initiative to withdraw the sword move, so that the elasticity of the soft sword suddenly disappeared, and the sword body instantly became straight, and Feng Ying had already stepped forward instantly, raised her hand with a sword, only to hear a snap, the soft sword, was cut into two pieces by Li Fengying's shocking sword.