Chapter 18 The Heart Moon Seeks the Mirror Flower
Helan Minzhi said, reaching out to untie Princess Taiping's clothes, and suddenly heard a slight footstep in his ears, and frowned: "Stand down, and the pastries will be delivered later." ”
The footsteps became clearer and clearer, and Helan Minzhi hated others for disturbing his good deeds, so he turned back angrily and said, "Didn't you hear my words?" You don't want to die......"
Helan Minzhi was only halfway through his words, and the remaining half was swallowed back into his stomach, because twenty steps away, a crossbow was aimed at him, and the tip of the crossbow reflected the luster of the candlelight, and it was cold.
Looking at the person holding the bow and crossbow again, Helan Minzhi's face changed again, but he never expected that it was Tang Ao.
Helan Minzhi immediately calmed down, in his eyes, Tang Ao was only a seven or eight-year-old child, even if he held a bow and crossbow in his hand, he was afraid that Tang Ao would shoot it, Tang Ao would not be able to aim accurately.
"Tang Ao, you came just in time, I didn't have a chance to look for you! Let you serve me with Taiping tonight! ”
Helan Minzhi said, and suddenly jumped out of the hot spring pool, although the posture was extremely unsightly, something was shaking, but the speed was very fast, and he rolled on the spot and came to Tang Ao.
Tang Ao was unprecedentedly calm at the moment, looking at Helan Minzhi who was standing up five steps away, his fingers lightly touched the trigger of the crossbow, and the crossbow arrows flew out with a thud.
The power of the crossbow arrow was so great that it not only pierced Helan Minzhi's chest, but also flew Helan Minzhi's belt and fell heavily to the ground.
Tang Ao skillfully took out another crossbow arrow, stepped on the crossbow arm to pull the bowstring, and after setting up the crossbow arrow, he slowly walked towards Helan Minzhi.
Helan Minzhi was brave and brave, but he didn't expect to capsize in the gutter, his hand covered his bloody chest, and he wanted to stand up but felt that the strength was passing quickly, making him cold and cold.
The crossbow arrow in Tang Ao's hand was aimed at Helan Minzhi's eyebrows, and Helan Minzhi glared angrily: "You dare to kill me?" ”
With a bang, the crossbow arrow shot out at close range, not only piercing Helan Minzhi's head, but also splashing blood on Tang Ao's body, and his face was hot.
Looking at the red and white mixed in front of him, as well as the unblinding eyes of He Lanmin's death, Tang Ao churned in his chest and abdomen, turned around and vomited, there was nothing left of the snacks he had just eaten, and he was about to vomit out.
Thinking and doing are always two different things, Tang Ao underestimated the sequelae of murder and overestimated his ability to bear it, at this moment, he wanted to save Princess Taiping and wanted to escape from here, but unfortunately his legs were weak and he couldn't exert any strength, and the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't stand up.
Just when Tang Ao was clubbing his hands on the ground and slowly crawling towards Princess Taiping, a pair of feet suddenly appeared in front of him, and the frightened Tang Ao almost lost his soul, thinking that Helan Minzhi was alive again, and then felt wrong.
Although the feet in front of him are bare, they are by no means men's feet, Tang Ao doesn't know how to describe it, now his brain is a little empty, he just thinks it's good-looking.
Tang Ao's gaze moved up along the feet, the calves were wrapped in tulle, and the Luo skirt was on the knees, covering the white skin like jade, the graceful posture, and the last thing he saw was a beautiful face.
Tang Ao can't see the age of a woman, at first glance it looks like she is in her forties, and then it looks like she is in her twenties, what impresses Tang Ao the most is that the woman's eyes are as cold as frost, as if she can see through people's hearts and read the secrets in other people's hearts.
"Save the peace." Tang Ao didn't know who the woman in front of him was, so he pleaded, and when he finished saying this, he saw a touch of softness flashing in the woman's eyes, which was completely different from the initial coldness, which made Tang Ao very warm.
The woman walked barefoot to the unconscious Princess Taiping, and saw that Princess Taiping's hands and feet were tied with red silk, and her mouth was still emitting a strange medicinal fragrance, and her face was so gloomy that she could almost wring out water.
The woman untied the red silk of Princess Taiping's hands and feet, picked up Princess Taiping horizontally, and paused when she turned to pass by Tang Ao's side.
"Can you still walk? Pick up your shoes. ”
Tang Ao saw the cirrus clouds tall man's shoes not far away, and guessed that this woman might have been going to take a hot spring just now, and her shoes had been taken off, but she didn't expect these things to happen, who is she?
Tang Ao struggled to get up, picked up the shoes, and followed the woman out of the hot spring pool, there was still no one walking outside, making the Huaqing Palace look very weird this night.
The woman hugged Princess Taiping, turned a few corners, and Tang Ao, who followed behind, found that it was the honor guard of the Son of Heaven in front of her, and a pair of calves couldn't help but soften again.
Tang Ao was too late to escape at this time, and a group of warriors of the Imperial Forest Army appeared around him, so he had to continue to walk forward, and he didn't know how many times he had silently recited the Diamond Sutra and the Tao Sutra in his heart.
The woman walked into the curtains embroidered with gold and silver, put Princess Taiping on the soft bed, and after sitting down, she glanced at Tang Ao, who hurriedly put the shoes in her hand at the woman's feet.
"Heart Moon."
"The slave is here."
Tang Ao stood aside, heard the woman speak, but he didn't expect that there was someone on the other side of the curtain, and it turned out to be the woman named Xinyue, wasn't she one of the maids of Princess Taiping who was remembered by Helan Minzhi!
The woman reached out and stroked the sleeping princess Taiping's little hand, and said in a cold tone: "Go to the hot spring pool to dispose of Helan Minzhi's corpse and make it look like it was bitten to death by a wild beast." ”
Tang Ao listened to the woman's instructions, and finally let go of his hanging heart, feeling that it was still a woman's way to deal with the aftermath, now it was the hunting season, Helan Minzhi was bitten to death by a wild beast, and no one could suspect him.
Now the only question is what will the woman in front of him do to him? Since it is said that Helan Minzhi was bitten to death by a wild beast, then he is not charged with murder, but the process of his killing was seen by the other party.
It made Tang Ao feel very strange that the woman had not spoken to him, nor had she looked at him, and of course she had not let him leave.
At first, Tang Ao was relieved, but the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, after the woman named Xinyue disposed of Helan Minzhi's body, shouldn't she continue to deal with him when she came back?
About a quarter of an hour later, Xinyue's voice sounded outside the curtain: "Qi Yu Niangniang, it has been dealt with, and there will be no flaws." ”
Tang Ao heard Xinyue's name for a beautiful woman, and there was a roar in his head, Niangniang? Isn't that the mother of the current queen, Li Xian and Taiping! She seems to be called Wu Zetian!
Wu Zetian snorted and glanced at Tang Ao, Tang Ao was stunned by this glance, and his mind was instantly empty.
"It's commendable to remember your heart to maintain peace, let's write down tonight's sin for the time being, go back!"
Tang Ao was like being amnestied, bowed down and withdrew from the curtain, his heart beat like a drum, and when he left Huaqing Palace, Tang Ao wiped the cold sweat on his face, only to find that his face was full of blood, and then he was stunned.
Could it be that Empress Wu Zetian just thinks he is a little eunuch? With so much blood on his face, he must not be recognizable.
Tang Ao's guess made him breathe a sigh of relief, ran back to Li Xian's team, changed the eunuch clothes, covered his head and face and freshened up, and finally threw the eunuch clothes into the fire.
What Tang Ao didn't know was that his every move was watched by others, and the person who was looking at Tang Ao from a distance at the moment was the Xinyue beside Wu Zetian.
The corners of Xinyue's mouth curled slightly: "This little guy is a little interesting, I knocked him out last time, but I didn't expect him to persevere, and he still shot Helan Minzhi to death, which almost ruined my big thing." ”
Xinyue saw Tang Ao return to the carriage and fall asleep, took out a set of night clothes from the burden behind his back, and after tying a masked black scarf, it was exactly the same as the last night visit to the Biochemical Temple.
The soles of his feet shone brightly, and Xinyue came to the top of Lishan Mountain with a few ups and downs, overlooking the entire emperor's hunting team, and said in a suspicious tone: "The sky is abnormal tonight, what happened?" Let's take a look. ”
Xinyue said, the tips of her fingers flickered with a faint light, and she drew a circle on the ground, and then slapped it with one palm, only to see that the ground in the circle instantly melted into liquid, smooth as a mirror, and the reflection was the bright Milky Way in the sky.
Xinyue said something in her mouth, pinched her fingers like an orchid, and shot a stream of spiritual light into the ground, and the reflected Milky Way gradually shifted, and finally a mirror appeared in the void.
This mirror is too big to measure, Xinyue saw that on the sunny side of the mirror, a person's face was disappearing, and couldn't help sighing: "I didn't see it again, it's really hateful, it's a little bit worse every time." ”
On the sunny side of this giant mirror, in addition to the face that disappeared, there is also a bright moon hanging high, surrounded by magnificent patterns, each pattern is slowly wriggling, as if there is a wind blowing.
If you look closely, it is not a pattern at all, but a miniature city and country, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a flower and a world.
After Xinyue missed the key to the yang side of the treasure mirror again, her fingers were urged, and her eyes fell on the yin side of the treasure mirror, and there were twelve vague figures on the yin side, which were changing all the time, making it impossible to see the appearance of the twelve people clearly.
"Is it because my realm is too low, so I can't perceive the changes in the mirror flower world?" Xinyue sighed abruptly, and slowly dispersed the vision on the ground.
Xinyue, who was a little distracted, didn't notice that at the last moment, among the twelve figures on the shadow side of the treasure mirror, there was a person's face that suddenly became clear, and it turned out to be Queen Wu Zetian.
After Xinyue finished her work, she sat cross-legged at the top of the peak, and only then did she show a girlish posture, holding her cheeks with one hand, and her eyes were full of worries.
"The old monk who died must know how to enter the Mirror Flower World, but he definitely can't enter it often, because he is not a person from the Mirror Flower World, through the residue of those bottles and jars, it can be determined that the old monk has been in contact with the people of the Mirror Flower World, and has also learned some methods, so the old monk has definitely obtained the treasure mirror."
"The treasure mirror is the key to enter the mirror flower world, only by controlling the treasure mirror can you travel back and forth between the mirror flower world and the Tang Dynasty, a year ago I sensed that the treasure mirror was suppressed by a Buddhist force, and visited the large and small temples in Chang'an, and finally it was a step late."
"Now that the mirror flower world is surrounded by a dragon qi, it means that the treasure mirror has fallen into the hands of the royal family, who is in the hands? Did you know that you can enter the world of mirror flowers through the treasure mirror? ”