Chapter 257: The Loquat Tree Watered by the River Styx (Part II)

When the first rays of sunlight from the east appeared below the horizon and shone on the man who was speeding through the air, he immediately felt a tremor from the depths of his soul.

Fortunately, there was already a town not far away, and he gritted his teeth and galloped there, but stopped as he approached.

"Zhou Qi?" Luo Yan blinked her eyes and looked up with some curiosity, only to find that the other party was also a lot of herself.

"People?"

It was still that voice, but it was a little low, which made Luo Yan immediately think of what Zhou Qi had told herself, "Who are you?" ”

"Ji Kang." The person who spoke had already landed on the ground, and he put the woman in his arms on the ground, shaking his arms slightly to relieve the soreness, "No wonder I have been receiving complaints lately, this guy has actually run to the world." ”

"Are you also a god?"

"No, we're ghosts." Ji Kang looked at her, "One of the most powerful ghosts in the underground Yellow Spring. Zhou Qi has been neglecting his duties recently, is it because of you? ”

Seeing that the woman's face was full of puzzlement, Ji Kang explained, "He is in charge of the night." ”

Luo Yan instantly understood, "I'm sorry. But he said he was going to take me to Biansai. It seems like it's close to that side, can you send me there? ”

"I'm afraid not." Ji Kang already had a rough guess of where he was, "I don't know where he got to the world, but I need to rush back now." The affairs of the night have been piled up by his playfulness, and there is no room for delay in the affairs of the day. ”

Immediately, Ji Kang took off in the northwest direction, and now in this position, only from the crack in Zhongshan can he return to Huangquan as soon as possible, and second, it will take a lot of time to return to the central ghost capital. TV debut

Ji Kang's face was not very good-looking.

Luo Yan watched the other party turn into a black lightning bolt in mid-air and disappear into the sky, and touched her wrist with some emotion, on which was a red rope that Zhou Qi tied to her hand.

After entering the town, Luo Yan realized that she was penniless. So she directly found a store based on the words she had read, and put away all her red clothes, and exchanged them for some silver taels and a plain cloth dress.

The shopkeeper was very happy, because it was really a red dress with top-quality fabrics and exquisite embroidery; Luo Yan was also very happy, she carried the silver, not only booked a room in the inn, but also went to the shop in the market to buy a pipa.

The pear-shaped piano is tightly taut with five silk threads. With a flick of his fingers, the sound was crisp and loud, and it fell into Luo Yan's ears like the cry of an eagle soaring in the air.

A sound can show the magnificent rivers and mountains, a sound can see the dust flying poplars at the border pass outside the plug, and a sound can be heard blood splashed loess soldiers and disturbances. The strings fluctuated and the sound was revolving, and the red light on the woman's face became brighter and brighter as her fingertips danced.

Immediately, the voice changed from rigid to soft, and the crisp sound was like a stream flowing in the mountains, entrusting the tenderness of the young girl's daughter's home.

Until the door was slammed open.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and she was used to scolding and bothering her own people, but she closed her mouth when she saw the other party clearly.

She forgot that her father was a general guarding the border fortress, and Ji Kang put down his own place and was already under the scope of his father's guard.

It's just that I didn't expect that in less than a day, the news had already reached Biansai. Luo Yan secretly laughed in her heart: It seems that it was really Ji Zhe's face last night.

Obviously, he was looking forward to such an opportunity to remove himself from the position of queen.

"How did my father find me?"

"How could the queen's dress suddenly appear in such a border town?" General Luo looked at her and sighed, "If only I could have found out that it wasn't a phoenix bird back then." ”

If you found out back then, can you grow up in front of your parents and see the prosperity of the world? Luo Yan pursed her lips: It's a pity that there is no if together.

"So my father is taking me back?" The smile on her face was a little bleak.

"Even if Your Majesty and you don't agree, before the official post, you are still the queen of Dongqing. As a queen, she should naturally not leave the palace and appear here at will. General Luo looked at his daughter, "And you actually planned to leave a long time ago, otherwise how could you have arrived here in one night?" ”

"So you've already informed Ji Zhe?" When Luo Yan got up, she saw that the outside of the inn had been surrounded by soldiers, and her father was the only one who came up, so she said bluntly, "You all think that I haven't conceived a prince for three years because of my health, but in fact, he didn't touch me at all?" ”

In General Luo's surprised gaze, the smile on Luo Yan's face became more and more miserable, "From the day he ascended the throne and the day he got married, he was looking forward day and night to find something to get me out of the back seat. If it weren't for the love of the Queen Mother, I would have been abolished for three years, right? ”

"Father, you did not attend the palace banquet, but you should also know that on that occasion, without his acquiescence, who could have said such a thing?" She raised her hand and pointed to the east, "So he can't wait, he doesn't like his eldest son to be a concubine, so he wants to put his true love in the back seat." ”

"As for whether I'm a phoenix or a luanniao, how can he care? He just needs to be a real dragon now. ”

"But no matter what, you shouldn't leave the palace without permission."

Luo Yan could see the pity in her father's eyes, but if he could put himself in front of the royal family, he wouldn't have sent her to the palace before she was a year old.

"By the time you found your dress, the letter had already been sent to the palace, and it was the passage of urgent military affairs."

The most urgent military affairs needed the help of those immortals who stayed in the mortal world, so it only took half a day to send the pieces back from the western frontier. And if Ji Zhe wants to come, it will be tomorrow at the latest.

"Father." Luo Yan knelt directly in front of the other party, and Hua Tian, who had not yet been washed, touched the ground, "The daughter begs the father to let the daughter go." ”

"My daughter is fed up with being a bird in captivity among the red walls and golden tiles."

"Yan'er." This title General Luo has not been used for more than ten years, and he also hugged her into his arms on his knees, "Before Your Majesty replies to the letter, forgive my father for not letting you go." If he comes for you, you will have to go back. If he only came to order you to send you back, Father created a chance for you to escape. ”

These words made the woman's eyes that were still full of tears immediately light up: how could Ji Zhe come to Biansai for her personally?

She leaned against the window, expectantly waiting for Zhou to come and tell him the good news, but when the night disappeared and the moon set at the end of the desert, he did not appear.

The person who finally pushed open her door was dressed in a yellow robe, dusty.

Luo Yan's eyes overflowed with surprise: how could he possibly come here?

Ji Zhe saw the moment the woman turned around, and the expectation turned into loss and finally turned into surprise, which made him narrow his eyes, "It seems that the queen of Lone is very disappointed when she sees Lone." ”

"Your Majesty." The emotions on Luo Yan's face have been put away, and although she is wearing plain clothes, she has performed the greeting ceremony extremely accurately, "The concubine is far away." ”

"Lonely, I don't know how you connected with other people who allowed you to travel thousands of miles in a day. But lonely thought, it was time for the queen to return to the palace. ”

"Concubine or queen?"

"The lonely edict will not be issued for a day, and you will be the lonely queen for a day."

This sounds like Ji Zhe is still taking care of the friendship between the two of them, but Luo Yan knows that for him who is arrogant, he just doesn't allow himself to leave the palace without permission.

If she followed him back, she would be waiting for more than just giving way.

Although the two are not husband and wife, Luo Yan still understands Ji Zhe.

"Why did Your Majesty come in person?" There is no trace of distress or understanding in these words, and some are just incomprehensible. Luo Yan looked at him, "I'm no longer a phoenix, Your Majesty can completely let me go." ”

"At the Mid-Autumn Palace banquet, you took off the phoenix crown in front of the ministers and their families and left, leaving a commotion in the hall, but you told Gu that you just want to be free?" The smile on Ji Zhe's face was a little cold, he ignored her step by step and gradually approached, and then reached out and picked her chin, "You have enjoyed the treatment of the queen in the palace for more than ten years, so you want to leave without paying anything because the monk is wrong?" ”

"Your Majesty, you just complain that I occupy your back seat, so why don't you take this opportunity to put your beloved woman in the back seat?" Facing Ji Zhe's oppressive gaze, Luo Yan's gaze did not dodge, "Your Majesty can say that the queen left the palace without permission and unfortunately fell off the cliff in the mountains; Or that he contracted the disease and died. ”

"So you'd rather die than follow Lone back to the palace?"

"To you, I'm just an ornament in the palace. I come to see if the thing is still there every month, and because I don't like it, I don't touch it. Luo Yan had already removed the honorific when she said this, "Now someone has told you that this thing is not valuable, so what are you still keeping it for?" ”

"Throw it away."

"Since you also said that you are just an ornament in my palace, then why do you think that what I don't want, I will throw it out, instead of locking it in a cabinet forever, or destroying it?" Ji Zhe didn't bother to call himself "lonely", he sneered, "After all, it's not a glamorous thing to keep a shoddy thing as a treasure." ”

Luo Yan instantly felt like she had fallen into an ice cave, she opened her mouth and said nothing.

"Rest for another night and leave tomorrow morning." Ji Zhe shook off his hand and slammed the door directly.

Only the woman slipped to the ground little by little against the wall, with tears in her eyes.

I didn't move all night, I didn't sleep all night.

Until Ji Zhe appeared in the room again, the person behind him was holding a familiar touch of red, the red dress that Luo Yan had taken away.

As usual, she let others clean and change her clothes for herself, and then followed Ji Zhe slowly downstairs and boarded the carriage. It's just that she brought the lute she bought.

It was not a direct rush back to the palace, and the marching procession stopped and went. It seems that Ji Zhe wants her to be able to see the great rivers and mountains of Dongqing, but Luo Yan is not interested.

She believed that after returning to the palace, Ji Zhe would lock her up and put her away like an outdated object. So what is it at the moment? But what do you want?

It's better not to look at it, it's better not to come out.

Those who have never been free will never know how good it is.

She doesn't complain about Ji Zhe at the moment, she hates the dishonest person.

After that night, it was as if he had disappeared. She tried to remove the red thread from her wrist several times, but in the end she still couldn't make up her mind.

The carriage went all the way to the east, and at first Luo Yan was willing to get off, but then she just stayed in the car, except for sleeping, she was playing the lute. Ji Zhe saw that she was not interested, and then accelerated the speed of the convoy.

Knowing that he had arrived in the imperial city, he forcefully pulled her out and rode on the soft couch with him.

Only then did Ke Luoyan know that Ji Zhe was under the guise of the emperor inspecting the people's feelings, and his eyes were not only full of ridicule.

When the palace door she was really familiar with opened, what she saw was the courtiers, and standing at the front was Concubine Li with a big belly.

The person beside him immediately appeared beside the delicate woman, and he looked at her as if he were looking at a treasure in the world, and whispered.

Luo Yan didn't want to know or care at all about what they were talking about. Directly ignoring the occasional provocative gaze, she slowly walked through the crowd, walked directly past Ji Zhe, and walked towards the top of the steps.

But he didn't notice that the hem of his clothes was trampled on by a satin-embroidered shoe.

The whole person leaned back and rolled down the steps.

There were exclamations around, but the bright yellow figure was holding the woman who was crying and screaming that her stomach hurt and left quickly, leaving only the sentence "escort the queen to the cold palace".

Luo Yan was dizzy and was lifted from the ground, feeling the liquid run down her cheeks and eventually drip into plum blossoms on the stone slab, and she laughed.

The laughter went from light to heavy, and finally seemed to turn into the only sound between heaven and earth.

Laughing until she had no strength, Luo Yan lowered her head, her lips opened and closed slightly, "I hate you......"

During the day, the capital was still singing the praises of the emperor and the queen of the world, and before the night came, the news came that the queen was going to be executed.

"Luo's jealousy and hatred of Concubine Li, plotting to kill the princess, fortunately, the princess has a fate. Thinking of General Luo's merits, he only gave the Luo family one person to death, and the crime was not as good as that of his family. ”

A cup of poisoned wine was sent to this remote and desolate courtyard, together with the words of the emperor: Thinking of Gu and Qing's husband and wife, the whole body of Qing after his death.

The person who delivered the wine thought that he would see the former queen crying, but he didn't want the woman to just smile slightly, and drink the wine directly with a cup. This made all the lines that he had rehearsed many times in his mind useless.

"Can you please help me get the pipa I brought back today?" Hearing the other party say that Qin had been smashed by Ji Zhe when Concubine Li was waiting to give birth, she shook her head gently, "Can you bring me a glass of wine?" ”

The poisonous wine given by Ji Zhe was very mysterious, not directly breaking Luo Yan's liver and intestines, but the body temperature was decreasing little by little, until she trembled and picked up the wine glass again, a thin layer of frost hung on the wall of the glass.

So when people came down from the sky by the moonlight, they saw people huddled in a ball under the eaves.

"Why did you come to the palace?" Zhou Qi was very puzzled, but when he saw the small white particles hanging between her eyebrows and hair, his face immediately changed, "What are you drinking?" ”

Zhou Qi immediately held her hand and probed with spiritual power, but found that the blood in her body had almost turned blue, revealing a thick chill.

"I've always thought you're cold, but now it seems like you're still warm." Luo Yan stretched out her arms to stop his neck, "I'm so cold, can you hold me?" ”

"Where did you go that day, my father was going to let me go, but you didn't come, I was arrested by Ji Zhe."

"I fell down the stairs, but he thought I did it on purpose, so he gave me poisoned wine in order to knock down Concubine Li."

"I don't know why it's so cold, it's just over the Mid-Autumn Festival."

"I hate you so much, why did you lose your word? I obviously bought a pipa. ”

"I'm sorry." Zhou Qi took her into his arms, and his spiritual power continued to be injected, but he still felt that he was holding a piece of cold ice, "I'm not as good as my brother, he was very angry that I ran to the world, so he forbade me to leave the temple for half a step before he fell asleep for the past few days." I thought I had a rope tied to you to know where you were, so I wasn't in too much of a hurry. ”

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect to force you to drink poisoned wine yourself."

"I'm sorry."

Zhou Qi just hugged the person who had no sound in his arms and kept apologizing until the moon disappeared outside the palace walls.