Chapter 116: Shadow-Following

The rooftop on the main peak of Wangwu Mountain is said to be the place where Emperor Xuanyuan sacrificed to the sky. According to the customs that have been followed for many years, all the places where ancestors worship heaven and earth are regarded by the local people as holy places connected with the gods of heaven and earth, and mortals cannot easily approach them. Therefore, although the rooftop is on the top of Wangwu Mountain, the terrain is flat and spacious, and there is a Xuanyuan Cave for people to shelter from the wind and rain and rest on the stomach, but over the years, it has always been a quiet place that is rarely visited.

Furong has been living alone in the Xuanyuan Cave on the rooftop for more than half a month. As the leading figure of Empress Zhang's death in Chang'an, she arranged for all the comrades lurking in Daming Palace to withdraw safely, and personally planned a series of actions to take revenge on Li Jinzhong, but she suffered setbacks one after another and failed repeatedly.

According to the good candidates she originally found, Lai Xing'er bore the brunt of the situation, and she should be the most suitable person to get rid of Li Jinzhong. Two years ago, Li Jinzhong received Empress Zhang's request for him to personally select an errand to sneak into the East Palace to be an errand next to the two newly elected princes and concubines, and he actually returned to the idle stable to select Lai Xing'er, which directly led to the suicide of Lai Xing'er's biological mother Cheng Meixin, as long as she made a little use of this matter, it is not difficult to make Lai Xing'er believe that her mother died at the hands of Li Jinzhong. And once there is a mother-killing feud between Lai Xing'er and Li Jinzhong, since Xing'er's special status in the palace and his resourcefulness, it is natural that it will become a sharp sword in her hands to deal with Li Jinzhong, and sooner or later Li Jinzhong will be killed.

However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes. The people she sent to the Jiucheng Palace of Tiantai Mountain were all a group of waste, and Lai Xing'er saw the flaws on the spot, not to mention, he also directly searched out the green jade plate marked as Furong's hand from his body. When Lai Xing'er rode a horse past the Xingqing Gate, he stepped forward and blocked Nayu's flying knife for Li Jinzhong, and Furong, who learned the details afterwards, really wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and never came out to see people again: the person she painstakingly selected turned out to be Li Jinzhong's life-saving benefactor, and she knew that this was the case, and she should have borrowed the hand of Mama Zhong to get rid of him in the Longshou Canal, so as not to be ruined by him when it was critical.

Since Lai Xing'er's chess piece is useless, it is difficult to succeed in just fooling Nayu to assassinate Li Jinzhong, so Furong has to pin her last hope on her biological sister Ying'er, who is the most hidden in Daming Palace.

However, to her great annoyance, and even felt like crying without tears, Sakura willingly became a tool used by Wanrong to fix her favor, and was suddenly favored by the emperor.

For many years, he has followed Empress Zhang's side, exhausted his efforts to fight to the death with the crown prince and the current emperor, and in the end, his own sister has become the enemy's woman. Fleur could not accept this cruel fact, and the night after the emperor was fortunate to Ying'er, he summoned Ying'er to the Golden Immortal Temple, where she was hiding, and asked her what was going on in person.

Sakura confronts her sister with a fierce question, and her answer is unbelievable.

"We've worked so hard these days, isn't it just to prevent the Yang family from returning to Daming Palace and the resurgence of the Yang family's forces? Although Yang Tang'er was killed by us, who can guarantee that there will not be a second or third Yang girl in the future to seek the throne of the harem? Rather than this, it is better for me to fight for a throne in the harem first, isn't it a strategy to have both offense and defense, and have both? ”

Sakura's series of rhetorical questions startled Fleur back a few steps in succession and sat down on the bed. Her eyes were full of tears, and she sighed in a trembling voice: "Little sister, are you crazy?" My sister promised you that as soon as Li Jinzhong's head landed, she would definitely take you out of the palace and find a satisfactory Langjun for you, so that you can grow old together and live happily. The harem is full of traps, not a place for you, a woman from a good family, to stay for a long time, if your father and mother know your thoughts under Jiuquan, they will also persuade you to dispel this ridiculous idea as soon as possible and obey your sister's arrangement. ”

When Sakura heard Fleur mention her biological parents, she also became excited, waved her hand to stop Fleur from continuing, and said, "Don't mention them to me." Since you sent me to the East Palace as soon as you beat me to the ground, why bother talking to me now about living an ordinary life. Sister, in the past eighteen years, my sister has long been accustomed to life in the palace, even if she is a slave and a servant, it is better than worrying about firewood and rice all day long. What's more, now a great opportunity is in front of me, there are thousands of women in the palace, a few can be favored by the emperor, and a few can be remembered by the emperor from time to time, once such an opportunity is missed, I will regret it for the rest of my life. ”

Hearing her words, Fleur didn't seem to be satisfied with being favored by the emperor, and asked in surprise, "Little sister, what else do you want?" Do you stay in the palace and be the emperor's concubine? ”

A smug smile flashed on Sakura's face: "Sister, you are only half right. Yes, I just want to be his concubine, and not an ordinary concubine, I want those people in the palace to see me in the future, and they will all call me a lady respectfully, and live to this extent, so that I can go through the world in vain. ”

"You, you're crazy! Have you ever thought that the concubines in the palace look at the scenery on the surface, but how many of them can end up with a good death, not to mention, the former crown princess Yang, Wang Cairen, Liu Cairen, and even our master Niangniang, which one did not die? Why do you have to follow in their footsteps and take the initiative to go down that dead road? ”

Fleur was still unwilling to let Sakura act recklessly, and persuaded bitterly.

"Sister doesn't have to persuade anymore. I've got my own plans. Sakura resolutely interrupted Fleur's words, "Don't hide it from my sister, I have been fully prepared in my heart, even if there is a day in the future, if I don't die well, I have to get out of this evil breath in my chest." ”

When Fleur heard her say this, she suddenly felt dizzy, and she had to admit that she had harmed Sakura.

I think that at the beginning, in order to make Sakura, who was sent to the East Palace at birth, never forget her important mission, every thirty or fifty days, Furong would find an opportunity to meet Sakura alone, instilling in her young mind how cruel the prince was and how he harmed her family, and asked her to always remember that she would grow up in the future and seek revenge on the prince. Now that a full eighteen years have passed, the seeds of hatred have long taken root in Sakura's heart, sprouted, and are about to blossom and bear fruit

No, I can't just watch Sakura go to a dead end! At the critical moment, the sisterhood does not allow Fleur to make other choices, and she can only do her best to stop Sakura.

"You don't have to go back to the palace tonight. I will send you out of Chang'an early tomorrow morning, and first go to Lantian Town to meet the brothers, and then where to go, and then make plans. Fleur took out Si Zheng's shelf and ordered Sakura. (To be continued.) )