Cicadas should have survived the summer. But I don't know if it's because the cloud forest is isolated from the world and has a unique climate, and in this cool autumn night, cicadas actually sounded.

Listening to this strange cicada song, Zhao Guang, who was waiting not far away, was a little irritable, and reached out to grope on the trunk of the tree next to him to pull the strange cicada down.

"What are you doing?" At this time, Ying Baoyue walked over, looked at him curiously and asked.

"I'll catch cicadas," Zhao said.

"What are you doing to catch it," Ying Baoyue looked at him and said, "The cicada has been lurking underground for ten years, just for three months on the ground, and it won't live long." ”

Zhao Guang was stunned when he heard this, and withdrew his hand a little embarrassed. This is common knowledge that children know, but this girl said it inexplicably suffocated his heart.

How far the high cicada rhymes, and the lush trees have an aftersound. In Eastern Wu, high-ranking officials love to wear jade cicadas, which means that the cicada is just an ordinary ornament, but this girl mentions the cicada, but Zhao Guang can't help but think of something.

His gaze stayed on Ying Baoyue's wrist wrapped around the strip of cloth, and Li Ji's assertion to her before rang in his ears.

"You ......" In order to hide the emotions in his heart, he looked up at Song Qian, who was leaving not far away, "Are you done talking to Zhongtang stepson?" ”

"Well," Ying Baoyue nodded, "That's it." ”

"What about me?" Zhao Guang leaned in front of her with great interest, "What do you have to tell me?" ”

Seeing that she just told Song Qian a lot, he has known her for so long, how can there be one, two, three, four, right?

"Entrusted?" Ying Baoyue was stunned, "I don't have anything to ask you." Tomorrow, you can follow Chunhuajun and them, don't run around. ”

Zhao Guang felt that his self-esteem had been hurt.

"Then what are you calling me out for this night?" His eyes widened, he was really blind, and he was excited.

He is not Li Ji, someone looks for him every night in the Beihan Pavilion, but that person can only practice every night and not go out.

After all, it's really rare for him to have a girl ask him out at night......

"There's just something I've been wanting to ask you," Ying Baoyue smiled embarrassedly, "but there are too many things to delay after the end of the Beginner Ceremony." ”

If you don't ask, I'm afraid you won't have a chance.

Looking at the quiet gaze of the girl in front of him, it seemed that a cool breath pressed the restlessness in Zhao Guang's heart.

"What do you want to ask?" Zhao Guang asked, hearing the Beginner Grand Ceremony, his original cranky thoughts were suddenly thrown into his mind.

After all, a lot really happened in that ceremony.

"You've always been well-informed, but you don't know what happened more than ten years ago." Ying Baoyue's expression was complicated, she only cared about fighting when she was a teenager in her last life, and the matter of collecting information was handed over to the adjutant, otherwise there were some things that she should have noticed a long time ago.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Guang's eyes sank, "Is it something related to the royal families of other countries?" ”

Ying Baoyue was surprised by this young man's acumen, this county king of Eastern Wu was really professional in intelligence.

She nodded, "About the Houliao royal family." ”

"Sure enough," Zhao Guang let out a breath, "I knew you were going to ask about the Murong Clan." ”

The last opponent she met at the Beginner Ceremony was surnamed Murong.

But having a royal family name and whether it is a royal family are two different things, otherwise there will be royal families all over the Shanhai Continent.

Hou Liao, the surname of the country is Murong.

On the Shanhai Continent, the Houliao royal family can be said to be the least famous royal family in the first place. Until the princess appeared.

"The first beauty in the north back then," Ying Baoyue looked into Zhao Guang's eyes that knew the world, "Murong Yin, the eldest princess of Houliao, does she have a younger brother?" ”

Zhao Guang's eyes froze, and then he said lightly, "There is indeed one." ”

"Sort of?" Ying Baoyue was stunned when she heard this, "How can it still be counted?" ”

Murong Yin is the orthodox princess of Hou Liao, and the current King of Hou Liao is her own brother. It stands to reason that her younger brother must also be the prince of Houliao, how can there be such a statement.

"Just because the eldest princess's younger brother is only her younger brother, she can't be regarded as a descendant of the Murong clan in the strict sense." Zhao Guang explained.

Ying hugged the moon for a moment, looked at Zhao Guang and asked softly, "Is it a half-father?" ”

Zhao Guang glanced at the girl in front of him in surprise, but he didn't expect her to think of this layer at once.

"That's right," Zhao Guang nodded, "It is said that the eldest princess's younger brother was born to her mother and the guards. ”

"She and that brother should be at least ten years apart, and her mother gave birth at an advanced age, and died of difficult childbirth."

Zhao Guang said slowly, "Although the people of Houliao are more open, they can't tolerate such a thing, and the king of Houliao threw the baby to the stable to fend for himself, but for some reason the princess secretly picked up the child at night." ”

This was a miracle at the time.

After all, there are some such younger brothers, and any princess will only regard it as a shame and hate that person to die, but Murong Yin saved the child with his life in front of the King of Houliao and raised him in his palace.

Over time, everyone knows that Princess Houliao loves that wild brother very much.

However, this story can only be tragic in the end.

As long as anyone who knows Murong Yin's later fate can guess.

Ying Baoyue closed her eyes when she heard this, "What happened to that child?" ”

"Presumably you can also guess," Zhao Guang said lightly, "Murong Yin escaped from the marriage, and then the Houliao ministers took the initiative and captured the child, carried it to the bottom of the snow mountain, hung it on the tip of the knife, and forced Murong Yin to go down the mountain." ”

Although the King of Hou Liao was not in the country at that time, it was also his order.

After all, no one would take that kid seriously.

"And then?" Ying Baoyue took a deep breath, "I'm afraid there is no threat." ”

Otherwise, the princess of Houliao would not have disappeared into the Xiling Snow Mountain without her bones.

"That's right, I wonder what kind of place that Xiling Snow Mountain is," Zhao Guang sighed, "That kid was not yet five years old back then, whether he was born a cultivator or not, he didn't awaken, and he was frightened, and he was invaded by the cold and died as soon as he was taken down the mountain. ”

He's dead.

Yingyue's hand clenched in his sleeve, "Are you sure it's death?" ”

"Of course," Zhao Guang once had doubts, but there was really no chance that the child would survive.

"Back then, the envoy of Xirong who begged for peace went directly to Houliao to force marriage, and went to Xiling Snow Mountain with Houliao officers and soldiers," Zhao Guang looked at Ying Baoyue and said, "Even if the Houliao people want to show favoritism, it is impossible to give up this only handle to threaten Murong Yin under the surveillance of the Xirong people." ”

The child's body was probably examined countless times.

"I know what you're suspicious," Zhao Guang said as he looked at Ying Baoyue, "but that young man named Murong Heng is unlikely to be the same kid back then." ”

It is impossible to resurrect the dead.

"Besides, no matter what you say now, Murong Heng is also dead," Zhao Guang looked at Ying Baoyue and said, "Before, the people of Southern Chu Imperial Prayer Province went to the bottom of the mountain to find the corpse and picked up a lot of corpse fragments, saying that they were crushed by the mountain rocks, and they were no longer human. ”

But even so, no one came to collect the body of this young man who had committed a great crime.

"Beihan Pavilion said that it was originally an adopted orphan, and I don't know who instigated it, so I picked it up clean." Zhao Guangdao.

No one cares, no one collects the body, no one relies on.

Zhao Guang sighed in his heart.

After all, that boy was just a ghost wandering in the world.

"Okay, I know," Ying Baoyue closed her eyes and looked at Zhao Guangdao, "Thank you for telling me this, I'm sorry to disturb your rest, I have to pass tomorrow, go to bed early." ”

Have you passed......

The thoughts in Zhao Guang's heart were suddenly interrupted by this word and became nervous.

He looked up at the horizon, and the stone gate in the darkness was tall and majestic, like a monster, with a long mouth waiting for them to enter.