Chapter XXXVI

Finale

At the same time, the Ye Mansion in Kyoto, which had been decadent for half a year, suddenly burst into flames, even though it was pouring rain from the sky, but the sudden fire did not show any signs of weakness, but became more and more intense.

The fire that was almost burning caused the city officials in charge of security, and after the city officials failed to bring people to fight the fire, they didn't care about their appearance and appearance and knelt outside the palace gate to report to the emperor, and then the eunuch who had followed the emperor for more than ten years found that the emperor was gone, and the eunuch was also a clever one, dragging the city officials and using all the secret guards to find the emperor.

The moment he learned that he had found the emperor, the eunuch was like an amnesty, holding an oil-paper umbrella and trotting all the way to pick up the emperor, and he was stunned at the moment he saw the emperor, not daring to step forward easily.

He has been serving by the emperor's side since he entered the palace, and he knows the emperor's temperament and habits well, even if he is angry, he can extinguish two or three points of fire when he comes forward, otherwise how could he sit so firmly with this chief eunuch.

However, now, he froze in place and did not dare to step forward, the emperor in front of him was too unfamiliar, and he was a little doubtful that he really understood the emperor.

In the swallowtail pavilion, the emperor sat paralyzed on the ground, a woman lay in the emperor's arms, as if afraid that the woman was cold, the emperor took off his coat, carefully covered the woman, the two snuggled together with affection, at first glance it was very affectionate.

The clever old eunuch instantly discovered that the situation was wrong, and the woman lay quietly in the emperor's arms, allowing the emperor to speak softly and say love words, but there was no response at all, like a dead man............

The emperor was pale, but his expression was like a spring breeze, and his eyebrows were rippling with pampering and tenderness, and the emperor helped the woman to straighten the hairpin on her sideburns, and carefully brushed the fine hair between her foreheads, and the admiration in her eyes when she looked at the woman was like all the young men in the world who were just beginning to open their love.

Even if the woman didn't say anything or do anything, he was willing to hold the best things in the world in front of her, just to make her look back and rejoice.

The old eunuch has been with the emperor for half his life, and he has never seen the emperor so infatuated with a woman, and the emperor's every move, word and deed to the woman is extremely strange in the eyes of the old eunuch.

In the rain, there stood a row of imperial doctors carrying medicine boxes, one after another to diagnose the woman's pulse, and the imperial doctor who was kneeling in front of the woman looked frightened, trembling like chaff, for fear of attracting the emperor's attention, trying his best to suppress the fear in his heart, trembling and applying needles to the woman.

A little eunuch quietly retreated to his side, and said in his ear, "When the little ones came, the emperor was like this, the corners of the emperor's mouth were black, as if he had been poisoned, and the little ones invited the imperial doctor, but the emperor did not let the imperial doctor get close to him, and asked them to go and apply needles to the woman's pulse, saying that the woman was fainted from the cold.........."

The little eunuch suppressed his voice again and again, and continued in an almost inaudible volume, "But the little one saw that the woman was clearly out of breath, and the poor group of imperial doctors suffered misfortune. ”

The little eunuch silently pointed to the depths of the pear orchard, and the old eunuch followed his gaze, only to see a sudden flash of cold light in the withered bushes, and a touch of blood splashed a crimson in the air, and the blood splashed on the black-brown dry branches, like a strange peach blossom blooming branches, he stepped forward a few steps, poked his head, and saw a moment of staggering, almost slippering in the rain.

In the depths of the pear orchard, there was a concave pit that had not yet been repaired, and now the pit was full of the corpses of the imperial doctors, all of them with round eyes, and their lifeless eyes were full of horror and hideousness, and the dense corpses made his scalp numb, and his heart could not bear it, and he staggered back a few steps.

Unexpectedly, this movement disturbed the emperor in the pavilion, and the emperor looked for a voice, and whispered in displeasure, "Why are you here?" Is the dress at the ceremony ready? ”

The frightened old eunuch suddenly remembered what the emperor had explained before, and stepped forward to stabilize his mind and said, "Back to the emperor, the Si Gong has sent Concubine Li's dress to Qiu Ling Xuan, and the pear blossom and phoenix crown of the Si Gong have also been completed, and the repair project in the Lixiang Palace will end in these two days. ”

"Good, good....... Spread my will, there is joy in the palace, amnesty, release the Ye family from lifelong supervision, give back all family property, Ye boys have meritorious work in the border, and give thousands of households good land. ”

The old eunuch raised his head suddenly, and looked at the crazy Son of Heaven in the pavilion in disbelief, the Ye family had been in a state of fire and cold half a year ago, and only an empty head was left under house arrest in the palace, and this head of the family was lying in the emperor's arms at this time, life and death were unknown, how could the amnesty only say in such a scene.

"Your Majesty, the city officials came to report and said that the Ye family was ..... Emperor! ”

Before he finished speaking, he saw the emperor with the blackened corners of his mouth closing his eyes, fainting straight upright, the imperial doctor made a mess, taking the pulse, and letting the poisonous blood go to the poisonous blood, after a rush of first aid, the imperial doctor breathed a sigh of relief, saying that there was no danger for the time being, and it was better to go back to the palace to completely detoxify the dragon body.

The eunuchs looked at him as if they were inquiring, he was the chief eunuch in the palace, the emperor's henchman, at this time there was no master beside him, he took the idea, he asked people to carry the dragon over, the eunuchs stepped forward to lift people, but the emperor fainted, but he still hugged the woman who had lost her breath, and finally could only carry the two into the dragon together.

In the palace where the emperor reviewed and folded, there were two stacks of hills on both sides of the desk in front of the window, and the cold wind blew open the window sash, and the bead-like rain wet the holy decree placed on the desk.

The holy decree reads, "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: The daughter of the Ye family, smart and agile, beautiful and light, has served the palace for a long time, and is deeply comforted." Immediately canonized as a concubine, give Li Xianggong, admire this! ”

In the blazing Ye Mansion, a camphor tree with tender shoots had not yet been swallowed up by the fire, and there was a person leaning on the tree that the three big men couldn't hold, that person was dressed in red, his eyebrows and eyes were demonic, and he was leaning on the branch with a young bud in his mouth.

There was a heavy rain overhead, and a raging fire burned in front of her, and the evil red-clothed enchantress leaned leisurely against the tree, neither drenched by the heavy rain nor splashed by the flames.

A dark shadow suddenly appeared in front of him, and saluted him respectfully, "Palace Master." ”

He looked at his subordinates who came alone, and his heart suddenly sank, and a trace of ominous premonition came to his heart, "Why did you come alone, what about the girl?" ”

I saw a trace of embarrassment on the face of the visitor, and after a moment of silence, he told the story: "Back to the palace master, my subordinates waited in the agreed place for a long time and no one came, so I quietly sneaked into the palace to investigate, it turned out that the head of the Ye family led the emperor to the pear orchard, and poisoned the emperor while the emperor was not paying attention." But for some reason, she herself took poison, and her subordinates tested her pulse, and it was already ........ The palace master mourns! ”

The red-clothed demon queen was stunned, suddenly reacted, and said angrily, "That girl actually deceived this palace............ You, why don't you bring her out, it's too cold in the palace, she doesn't like it there! ”

"The palace master was angry, and his subordinates also wanted to, but they just ..... It's just that the emperor is holding her wrist tightly, and her subordinates really have nowhere to start, and the palace master forgives ........."

Before he finished speaking, he was kicked off the tree by the angry palace master, and the figure above his head flashed, only to see the palace master raise his sleeves and fly into the heavy rain, like a blood-colored arrow to the golden palace gate.

The black-clothed man who rolled down the tree did not dare to delay, and hurriedly followed behind the palace master, and in the howling cold wind, he faintly heard the gnashing of his teeth and angry rebuke coming from ahead.

"Damn girl, just lie to me, but why do you still stay in that cage................"

The gritted teeth of indignation was vaguely choked in the end, and the moment he heard it, the man in black immediately denied it in his heart, the palace master had no hippie smile on the surface, but in fact he was a hard-hearted and unmoved person, how could such a person be sad.

After thinking about it for a while, he finally came to the conclusion that the rain was too heavy and water had water in his ears.

The flaming red skirted the main palace gate, and skilfully turned a few corners in a sheep's intestine path, and finally crossed a high city wall and landed in a desolate courtyard lined with dead trees.

And there was a blue-colored figure standing under the corridor in the small courtyard, seeing the red-clothed man coming over the wall, she didn't panic and call for help, nor did she run away in a hurry, just standing there quietly, as if she would stand here when this figure appeared.

She raised her eyes to look at the people who came over the wall, the grief and death silence in her eyes were shocking, and the red-clothed enchantress trembled, and the fire-like resentment in her heart was instantly poured cold by the ice water of Layue.

"This is what Miss asked me to hand over to you before leaving, and Miss said that what she owes in this life will be repaid in the next life."

A piece of letterhead was handed to him, and on the envelope were written a few small words that were still Juan Xiu, "Fox Kiss"

He laughed dumbly, and in the end, she still didn't want to call him by name.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and in the roaring thunder, the memories of yesterday's candle night conversation came to my heart again.

The subordinate came to report in the middle of the night, saying that the one in Qiu Lingxuan seemed to have found something, and stayed alone in the backyard, doing nothing, just saying to the empty wall, "I want to see your palace master." ”

When he heard this, he grabbed his coat and rushed to the palace, and when he fell down the wall, he saw her sitting alone in the backyard, and a fat rabbit with silver and white fur was obediently lying in her arms, enjoying her gentle stroke.

There was no fluctuation in her eyes at the appearance of him, a faint smile appeared on her pale face, and she said softly, "You are here." ”

She was calm, but he was a little embarrassed, as if he had been bumped into something embarrassing, just when he didn't know what to say, he saw the rabbit in her arms suddenly jumped up, sniffed in the air with his nose up, and made a cheerful sound of "cooing" in his throat.

She soothed the rabbit's long ears that were shaking with excitement, and smiled lightly, "Thank you for the game!" ”

The rabbit didn't know what it meant, and thought it was calling it by name, sticking out its pink tongue to add to her slender fingertips.

And his earlobes were red, and there was a hint of embarrassment in his eyes.

This rabbit was caught by him not long ago, because it was too thin, he deliberately carried out a strict fattening plan for it, until the rabbit was so round that he could no longer be round, he was full of joy and put the rabbit into Qiu Lingxuan's yard.

“............. Cough! You're welcome, I heard you were looking for me? ”

She nodded and said, "It's windy outside, let's go inside and talk!" ”

"Good!"

The room was dark, and it was empty as far as the past could be, except for a broken candle flickering faintly on the table, emitting less than a foot of light.

She plucked the plain hosta on her sideburns and picked out the wick that was lying in the lamp oil, and the charcoal fire in the stove made a "crackling" sound, he stood aside and looked at her, his heart was mixed, there was no old laughter and play, teasing each other, and now the rest was relatively speechless.

The deep palace is a prisoner, some are cold and cruel, in the prison she lost the brilliance in her eyes, and the dull silence of death made her beautiful face become vicissitudes and wither.

He looked left and right, and asked, "Where is the girl you have with you?" ”

"I told her she was hungry, and she went to the imperial dining room to get some snacks."

He sighed, and when there was no follow-up, she looked down at the yawning rabbit in her arms and said, "Thank you for taking care of her for the past six months!" ”

He was stunned, and then reacted, he wanted to joke and say that I should be your husband to take care of you, but as soon as the words came out, it became another sentence, "No.... You're welcome! ”

In the past six months, he has stolen a lot of wild animals into Qiu Lingxuan, although they are all treated as reckless and ran in, or were injured and came in to hide, he didn't want to be understood by her.

"I came to the palace master today because I asked for two things, and I hope that the palace master will help me in the relationship between master and apprentice."

She rarely called him the palace master, and the few times she did it was with a ridiculous tone, but this time her expression was very serious, her attitude was extremely sincere, and she was as sincere as a stranger.

His heart suddenly tightened, as if he was being rubbed in his hands, and he heard himself say, "Don't call me the palace master, it's uncomfortable to hear." ”

She was silent, and suddenly raised her eyes again, and a faint glimmer of old light flashed in her eyes, "Fox, help me!" ”

The glimmer of light ignited the friendship of reunion after a long absence, and he only felt as if his heart was blown by a warm breeze, which was very comfortable, he chuckled, and the familiar demon rule swayed between his eyebrows.

"Good!"

The candlelight flickered, pulling the shadows of the two closer and longer, and his firm voice splashed a ripple in their hearts.

"First of all, I want to ask you to help me find out when the Ye clan suffered misfortune, and who is behind this misfortune?"

He said, "I don't need to look into this, I know." ”

From the day the Ye family was raided, he placed a lot of eyeliner in the Ye family, everything that Ye had suffered in the past six months, someone returned to him, she didn't ask anyone to find him, that is, all the trust was pressed on him, he was very happy that she could trust herself so much, which proved that she still remembered him in her heart, and the old friendship was not abandoned by her.

She wanted to know, and he told her all that she wanted revenge, and he tried to help her.

Although he was embarrassed and didn't want to have any more contact with that person, as long as she wanted him to help, nothing else mattered.

If he knew that his words had completely made her lose the idea of living, even if she hated and poisoned him for the rest of her life in the future, he would not confide in a single word about the Ye family.