Chapter 41: The Spectator Clears
The night is as cool as water, leaving the palace, there is no palm lamp in the Sanssouci Pavilion, and it is pitch black.
On the spacious big bed, Zongzheng didn't sleep peacefully, as if he was haunted by a dream, and his brows were furrowed.
"Father, what kind of wine is this? It smells so good! "A seven-year-old boy has a face that is more beautiful than a girl's, like a fairychild. The cold eyebrows of the man beside him rippled with a doting expression that belonged to a loving father, and he said with a smile: "This wine is called 'Ten Miles of Fragrance'. If the emperor likes it, tomorrow's dinner, the father asks them to send more. ”
"Okay, but ...... My mother didn't like me to drink, I could only drink a little bit. Father, you should also drink less, otherwise, your mother will ignore you. The boy said solemnly. But he never expected that it would smell so good that it would eventually send him and the people he loved the most to the abyss of hell.
The grim man's gaze gradually dimmed, and it took a long time before he sighed.
The night is like a dark and cold hell pool, as if to draw people into it. Zongzheng's brows, which were immersed in the dream, furrowed even tighter, as if he had tied a dead knot. The picture rotated, and the soul-shattering scene was staged again......
The room full of the strong smell of medicine, the scattered and scattered broken clothes, the man who has lost his mind frantically asks for it, every drop of sweat on his body is full of disgusting ** breath, the person under him has long been colorless, and his slender ten fingers have been cut into the bed board, and the bloody flesh and skin declare the pain and despair that cannot be relieved, and death is spreading silently......
His face was as white as death, and the cold sweat of the bean size rolled down from the corners of Zongzheng's forehead and face in the nightmare, splashing the snow-white sheets.
Suddenly he woke up, his dark eyes were rippling with sadness and pain, he closed his eyes, calmed his breath, and when he opened his eyes again, he was clear and indifferent. He lifted the covers, got up and walked to the window. Raising his hand, the window creaked open, and the cold wind penetrated, blowing his middle coat soaked in cold sweat, and there was a chill through his heart.
He took a breath and exclaimed, "Cold Flame." ”
Leng Yan, who was like a wooden man, immediately appeared behind him, and his perennial indifferent expression was moved when he looked at the long back in front of the window. The master has a nightmare again! This nightmare haunted him for thirteen years, and every time he woke up in the middle of the night, he would open the window and look desolate in the cold wind.
Zong Zheng didn't turn around, he looked at the dark place outside the window in a daze, and his voice was like cold ice hitting the stone bricks, and it was so cold that it made people tremble. "Why is there still 'ten miles of incense' in this world? Didn't you say it's all ruined? ”
"Yes, after the Qin family was beheaded back then, there was not a drop of wine left in the wine cellar." Leng Yan paused as he spoke, as if he was thinking about something, and thought: "The 'Ten Miles of Incense' on today's hall smells a little different from the aroma in the wine cellar that day, as if it is not aged for many years. ”
Zong Zheng was stunned for a moment, then turned around, squinted his eyes, the cold light in his eyes shone, and said, "What do you mean...... The two children of the Qin family who fell into the river didn't die? Check it out! ”
"Yes." Leng Yan responded and wanted to leave.
"Wait." Zong Zheng stopped him without worry, paused for a while, and said, "There is still no movement over there in the General's Mansion?" ”
Leng Yan nodded and said, "I've searched all over, but I don't see anyone." ”
Zongzheng's face had returned to normal, but his heart was still uncertain because of the dream, and his mind was chaotic, and he couldn't calm down and think. He paced back and forth in front of the window for a few steps, twisted his eyebrows, and said in a deep voice, "Continue to keep an eye on the General's Mansion." Tomorrow block the city gates, search from house to house, and be sure to find her. ”
For two whole days, the capital was full of officers and soldiers, from the east city to the west city, every inch of land was searched, and even the palace and the prince's mansion arranged for people to secretly investigate, but there was no trace of that person.
The rain outside was falling in small pieces, and there was silence in the room.
The guards who came in to report the situation knelt on the ground nervously, their hearts hung high, their foreheads against the ground, and they did not dare to breathe.
Zong Zheng Wu clenched his hands tightly, and his heart was irritable for a while, and there was no more idle state of mind when she left.
The Nine Emperor Princes strode in, sat down on the chair opposite him without saying hello, poured himself a cup of tea and drank it in one gulp, exhaled heavily, and said, "I'm tired to death!" Seventh brother, where did you say this Liyue was hidden? The streets and alleys of the capital, the houses and toilets...... I've searched for them all, why did this living person disappear out of thin air? ”
Zong Zheng Wuwu clenched his fist to his lips, frowned at the rain and fog outside the window, and did not squeak.
Seeing that he didn't react, the Nine Emperors pursed their lips, as if remembering something interesting, approached him, and said with a mysterious face: "Hey, Seventh Brother, you say...... This Liyue is so beautiful, could she be a fairy? I was heartbroken by you, turned into a wisp of green smoke and passed away, and returned to her place......"
Before he finished speaking, Zong Zheng swept in a sharp light, and successfully made him stop.
The so-called speaker has no intention of listening, the woman is a wisp of lonely soul in her body, and now she suddenly disappears, as if she is steaming from the world, and there is no trace of it. He suddenly remembered that on the day she left, he sneered proudly and said, "I know that Your Royal Highness is powerful, but the affairs of this world will not always be under your control. There will always be such a person, you can't ask for it; There will be one thing in the end, no matter how worry-free you are in the sect, you will not be able to turn things around. ”
This sentence is so decisive and certain, could it be her...... Thinking that the woman might have left his world from now on, a trace of panic suddenly rose in Zongzheng's heart, he didn't think about where this panic came from, he just lowered his eyes, and the fingertips that held the armrest of the chair were blue. After thinking about it, I felt that it was wrong, if she really left this world, her body would always be there, but now, even the body has not been found, which means that this is unlikely.
Where exactly did she go? This capital is such a big place, how can there be someone who he can't find without worrying about the government?!
He was bored in his heart, and his subordinates unconsciously exerted their strength, and finally, with a "click", the armrest of the chair could not bear the force and was broken, and the sawdust shattered to the ground.
The muffled sound without warning made the body of the guard kneeling on the ground tremble, and cold sweat was like a waterfall.
The Nine Emperors were stunned for a moment, their eyes widened, they were very surprised, the Seventh Brother he knew had always been indifferent and deep, and he had never really cared about others, when would he search the whole capital for a woman, and he was really angry, which was really terrible in his eyes.
Zongzheng was stunned, looking at the scattered sawdust, and there was a moment of emptiness.
The Nine Emperor Princes waved his hand to the guards below and motioned for them to retreat, and the guards looked happy, and hurriedly got up and went out of the door, only to be relieved.
As the rain on the eaves was still ticking, the Nine Emperor Princes leaned forward, probed, rolled their eyes, and suddenly said, "Seventh Brother, why are you in such a hurry to find Liyue?" I've never seen you care so much about anyone or anything! You...... Could it be Liyue...... Sincerely, right? ”
Zong Zheng's body was shocked, his eyes were raised intuitively, the corners of his mouth were mockingly hooked, but the light in his eyes was cold and terrifying, as if he had said some big cold joke. But when he looked at the man opposite, the usual cynical eyes of the Nine Emperor Princes were extremely sharp at the moment, as if they were piercing into his heart, and the sarcasm at the corner of Zongzheng's mouth stiffened inch by inch, and he stood up suddenly, turned his back, and tried his best to suppress the sudden panic in his heart.
What is sincerity? He doesn't even have a heart, so where does he get his sincerity?
"Are you idle and have nothing to do?! Then go and find someone, and don't go home if you can't find it. Zong Zheng said coldly in a calm voice.
The Nine Emperor Princes were stunned, he was talking casually, thinking that the Seventh Brother would mock him for talking nonsense, but he didn't expect him to react like this.
The Nine Emperor Princes got up, looked at his back for a moment, shook his head, and when he was about to go out, he said behind him with a serious look that he had never felt before, "Seventh brother, have you ever wondered why Liyue is so smart and cautious, why did she fall into your gentle trap so easily? If you really didn't put half of your heart in it, would she not feel it at all? This is definitely the most serious sentence he has ever said!