Section 4: Living and Dying Together
Everyone feasted and drank until the night, and each went back to his room to sleep peacefully, and Shi Jing didn't bother to return to the national master's mansion, so he rested at Qiu Siyu's residence. Early in the morning of the second day, before dawn, he got up early and went to the palace to go to the morning court.
By the time Ye Lan and the others got up, Shi Jing had already retreated back. Ye Lan, Wang Baoxiu and the others ran out of breakfast, and when they saw Shi Jing going and returning, they all got up to greet each other. Shi Jing was not polite, sat on the stone bench next to the stone table in the courtyard, used some refreshments offered by Chunyun, and said to Wang Baoxiu and others: "Wang Hall Master, yesterday a few of you entered the city, and the guards at the gate passed on the holy message, saying that when a few people are free, you might as well go to the palace to sit, recently the pilgrimage did not attend, but today it is rare to come to the court in person, after the dispersal of the court, he left me behind, and ordered me to pass the word, so that a few of you have to enter the palace for a small gathering, I don't know when the two of you will be free?"
Wang Baoxiu said: "The saint has summoned each other, and we will enter the palace immediately, where can I say that I have to be idle?"
Shi Jing smiled, shook his head and said, "The hall master's words are wrong, we monks are different from ordinary people. Tianning rules, monks to the Jindan realm, you can face the saint without worshipping, you and the master of the Hong Hall are both in the Yuanying realm, the saint wants to see the two, and can only be invited with the gift of the same generation, whether to enter the palace to face the saint, it all depends on the two minds, but how can you say what kind of holy decree to call?"
Wang Baoxiu said: "That being said, but the saint is eloquent and strategic, and the talent of the heavens, after all, it is different from the mortal emperor, whether my Jade Alliance can gain a foothold in Tianning in the future depends on the saint's heart, national teacher, without further ado, how about the two of us enter the palace with you?"
Shi Jing nodded in agreement, turned his head and glanced at Ye Lan, Ye Lan understood, got up and said, "I'll go with you." ”
Shangguan Qin was coaxing Hong Mingshan, and when he saw that Mo Yao was just sitting and drinking tea, and had no intention of getting up, he asked her, "Sister Ayao, don't you enter the palace with Brother Ye to face the saint?"
Mo Yao was stunned, put down the teacup, frowned, and said, "Enter the palace to face ......the saint?" , I was almost presented to the palace as a gift, and since then I have always had a heart disease for the royal family, hum, the emperor is only a nose and two eyes, what is there to look at?"
Ye Lan has been with her for a long time, and knows that the past of the Governor's Mansion is a scar in her heart, since she doesn't want to mention the past again, Ye Lan is inconvenient to ask more, and then I heard her say that she was almost sacrificed to the palace back then, but Ye Lan heard about it for the first time. I think it was the Governor's Mansion that saw her beautiful appearance, so she lived as a strange commodity, and when she grew up, she dedicated herself to the palace to please the emperor and protect the wealth of the Governor's Palace, but the emperor of the Evian Dynasty was obviously a woman, but he didn't know what the use of asking a beauty to enter the palace, Ye Lan couldn't figure it out at this time.
Su Wan sat next to Mo Yao, and when she heard her talk about the events of the year, she also aroused her thoughts, and couldn't help but sigh lightly, with a sad look on her face.
Seeing the two of them like this, Ye Lan also sighed lightly, turned his head to Shi Jing and the others, and said, "Let's go!"
Everyone didn't fly to the sky, they flashed out of Ye Xiangju and went straight to the Forbidden Palace. Shangguan Qin saw that her husband, Wang Baoxiu and others disappeared in a flash, looked down at Hong Mingshan, and saw that he was snorting evenly and sleeping sweetly, she smiled slightly, looked up and asked Mo Yao: "Sister Yao, you are a master of the Yuanying Realm, your identity is extraordinary, I know the rules of this Ningdu City, the monks of the Yuanying Realm enter the city, it is necessary for the emperor to allow it, you took the token of the imperial court, but you refused to enter the palace to face the saint, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate, right?"
Mo Yao smiled: " Ning Zhan is suspicious by nature, because he himself is both a monk and an emperor, and he is the only one in the northern Xinjiang, so he is even more afraid that other monks will come to embarrass him, so he spent countless manpower and material resources to build this Ningdu into an iron bucket, that is, the mountain protection magic array of the twelve major factions of the righteous path is afraid that it is not as powerful as the big array above Ningdu, if another master of the Yuanying Realm comes to Ningdu but refuses to enter the palace to see him, it is a big taboo, but Brother Ye is different from others, not only has he been a cheap national teacher for two years for this emperor, but he also has a lot of incense, and a while ago he also passed on the Xuantian Wuji Gong to him, Ning Zhan is based on this skill, so he dares to impact the realm of chaos。 Brother Ye can be regarded as the emperor's kindness, not to mention that it is just a trivial matter such as I not entering the palace to face the saint, that is, Brother Ye demolished his palace, and the emperor is afraid that he will not take it to heart. ”
Su Wan heard Mo Yao say this, and suddenly remembered the past in the Governor's Palace, when Mo Yao sold herself to bury her father and entered the Governor's Mansion, the Governor's Mansion got this stunning beauty, and naturally wanted to dedicate her to the emperor, at that time, the Empress Evian had not yet ascended the throne, and the old emperor was about to die, but she still did not change her thief's heart, and collected the world's beauties into the palace, Mo Yao lived in the Governor's Mansion for four years, and was forced to learn palace etiquette all day long, as well as all kinds of secret techniques in the house, there were many elderly female officials who specially taught her the method of serving the old man, all kinds of obscene and evil places, that is, Su Wan felt disgusting when she listened to it, Mo Yao was in a difficult situation, and she was miserable, and she had a bad feeling for the secular royal family。 Su Wan thought of this, sighed lightly, and said softly: "Senior sister, it's okay if you don't enter the palace to face the saint, although this emperor of Tianning Kingdom is a monk, but the person who is the emperor is used to taking what he wants, seeing a beauty like his sister, he may not be able to take it for himself, although the senior sister and Ye Gongzi are highly cultivated, but this is in the Ningdu, even the monks of the Chaos Realm are not the opponents of this emperor, and the senior sister can not enter the palace to face the saint, it will be a lot less trouble, and it is the best." ”
Mo Yao smiled and said slowly: "In terms of Ning Zhan's reputation, he should not be a person who forgets his righteousness, he has countless beauties in his harem, what woman has not seen it? In the future, he will still be able to use Brother Ye and I too empty, how can he do such an unseemly thing as snatching love with a knife for the sake of me as a wild girl? However, having said that, the Forbidden Palace is an eventful place after all, and I am too happy not to enter the palace." ”
Shangguan Qin raised his head and glanced in the direction of the palace, and could vaguely see that the palace was towering, majestic like a mountain, and his face showed a look of fascination, and he said softly: "I have heard for a long time that the Tianning Palace is ingenious and brilliant, I have the heart to see the world, but unfortunately the monks are not allowed to fly across the forbidden palace, but I can't let me be blessed with this eye......
Mo Yao said: "My sister wants to enter the palace to have a look, so I just went with Brother Hong, what are my concerns? Isn't it also afraid that the emperor will be moved when he sees his sister and wants to force his sister to stay in the palace?"
Shangguan Qin's face flushed, and he said angrily: "Sister, you are talking nonsense again, the emperor is well-informed and has read all the spring in the world, only a peerless appearance like you, or a beautiful posture like a sister of Ruoshui, can you cause trouble when you enter the palace, I have a mediocre appearance, and I have given birth to a child, so where will the emperor take a fancy to me?"
Mo Yao shook her head and said: "Where did my sister say that, sister, you have a graceful bearing, you are as beautiful as a beautiful orchid, beautiful but not demonic, you really look good!"
Shangguan got her praise, and he said sweetly in his heart, but he said: "How can I have a sister who says it so well? After you praise me like this, I am a little embarrassed...... , sister, you are beautiful and incomparable, Ye Gongzi is a talent, like you two such characters, you are really envious of others, my husband and wife are compared with the two of you, but they are really compared to the phoenix, there is no comparison, there is no comparison!"
When Mo Yao heard her say this, she turned her head to look at Su Wan, and saw that she had listened to Shangguan Qin's words, her eyes darkened, and her expression was very lonely. Mo Yao sighed lightly and said to Shangguan Qin: "Brother Hong has a rough appearance, acts calmly, and doesn't look like a character who knows cold and hot, but when my sister had a difficult birth, he was so anxious that tears rolled in his eyes, and when he heard Sister Ming say that he couldn't save you, he couldn't wait to die for you, my sister has such an infatuated Langjun, and there are cute children like Mingshan, this is what can be called a fairy couple, don't make fun of me and Brother Ye." ”
Shangguan Qin remembered the danger when he was born in Hongmingshan, and his heart still palpitated, he patted his chest lightly twice, and said softly: "Fortunately, my sister and Ye Gongzi rescued me, which saved the lives of my family of three, and my sister will not be able to repay ...... in her life."
Mo Yao frowned and said suspiciously: "A family of three?"
Shangguan Qin nodded and said: "Naturally, there is a family of three! When I fell in love with Brother Hong, I agreed that my husband and wife would live and die together, life and death would not be separated, no matter who died first, the other person would never live alone, so sister, although you only saved my life at that time, you saved the lives of our family of three at the same time......
When Mo Yao heard her say this, her heart sank, and then her willow eyebrows rose, and she said in a deep voice: "Why, can't I save you that day, will Brother Hong commit suicide and go with you?"
Shangguan Qin didn't notice the anger that Mo Yao tried to suppress in her voice, but a trace of sweetness appeared on her face, and she muttered: "That's nature, Brother Hong said that he would live and die with me, if I didn't survive, I believe he would never be born in the world!"
Mo Yaoxiu's eyes swelled with rage, only to feel that this woman was unreasonable, and wanted to reprimand loudly, but glanced at Hong Mingshan sleeping soundly in her arms, and finally forced herself to hold back, just snorted heavily.
Shangguan Qin realized that her face was not good, and asked, "Sister Ayao, what's wrong with you?"
Mo Yao listened to her question, hesitated slightly, and finally couldn't bear it, and said disdainfully: "Ants are still stealing life, life is in the world, the most unforgivable person is to spare his own life, if the world is full of such self-righteous people who kill themselves in such troubles, where are there still living people in this world?"
Shangguan Qin heard her say that her life was so ugly, and she couldn't help but change color. Su Wan saw the two of them suddenly stiffened, and couldn't help but be stunned, Mo Yao's temperament, I am afraid that no one in this world can understand it more clearly than Su Wan, she knows that Mo Yao has no mother since she was a child, and her father is her only support, because of this, Mo Jie is trapped in love and died young, which makes Mo Yao even more sad and angry, so that Mo Jie has passed away for many years, she still can't let go, and even the men and women who have the idea of martyrdom in the world are bored. At this time, Shangguan Qin said that she lived and died with her husband, and neither husband nor wife lived alone, I thought that Mo Yao would be moved, but she didn't expect to commit her taboo.
Shangguan Qin's face was ugly, he slumped for a long time, suddenly lowered his eyelids, sighed lightly, and said faintly: "My sister is right, I am a woman with no prospects, with my qualifications, I never thought that one day I would cross the gap between heaven and man, cultivate to the realm of the desolation, and live forever and live with heaven and earth." I have lived for five or six hundred years, and since I am going to die sooner or later, it makes no difference to me whether I die a few years earlier or a few years later, and my wish in life is to die peacefully with my beloved like a mortal. But the path of cultivation is thorny step by step, whether it is to die without crossing the catastrophe, or to fight with others and be killed, how many monks can die peacefully? Since it is impossible to live and die with a loved one, it is a blessing to live and die with him, right? Sister, what do you say?"