Chapter 57: The Human Heart Is Sinister
When Qi Lu came out of the dark room, those monks had already disappeared. Qi Lu was not in a hurry, he found a corner where no one was there and jumped out.
He was about to learn the white jade toad to whistle and beckon Lao Wu to join him, when he saw a figure flashing in front of him, and Lao Wu had come to him quickly.
"Oh no!" Lao Wu looked panicked, "A group of bald donkeys in the temple hired a carriage, and I don't know where to take the white jade toad." ”
"I already know this."
"Well, if I hadn't worried about your safety, I would have followed them a long time ago. It's good now, the new place in Baiyu Toad Pass, we can't find it. ”
"Haha, don't worry." Qi Lu grinned and said, "They went to Hangzhou." If I'm not mistaken, Bai Yuchan must have been imprisoned in Jinshan Temple by then. ”
"How do you know?"
Qi Lu did not directly answer Lao Wu's question, but said with doubts: "Huiyuan, this evil thief, is not only insidious, but also good at befriending powerful people, and at the same time has an amazing spell, if this kind of person is not eliminated early, he will become a great harm!" ”
"Hehe, it's rare to see you take the initiative to kill." Lao Wu smiled slightly, "This bald donkey didn't go with the carriage, but went to the city." ”
"Where is he going?" Qi Lu touched his chin and asked.
"It seems to be the direction of the Prime Minister's House."
"I see." Qi Lu's eyes lit up, and he muttered in Lao Wu's ear for a long time, Lao Wu sneered after hearing it, and the two immediately dispersed.
Late at night, the lights in the Xiangfu were dim, glowing with a faint blue, Ding Wei was sitting on a chair drinking tea, and the master gently pushed open the door and walked in.
"Xiangye, Sister-in-law Cen has something to ask to see you."
"Hehe, she's finally coming to me, call her in."
The master took Xiaoqing into the house, closed the door and retreated.
"What's the matter with coming to the old man so late?" Ding Wei played an official tone.
"Master, Lin Er is gone." Xiaoqing knelt on the ground with tears in her eyes.
"The old man has heard what the master said about this, how did he lose it?"
Xiaoqing listened to his question, and hurriedly told the story of asking Bai Yuchan to take Xu Shilin back to West Lake today.
"What, you're so daring!" Ding Wei suddenly became angry, "I told you a long time ago that you can't be public in the low-key behavior in the mansion!" This is the old man's prime minister's mansion, not your monster nest in West Lake! ”
"The slave family doesn't want to do this, but this is the idea of the national teacher." Xiaoqing was stunned for a moment, and then begged in a low voice: "Please be merciful, and quickly send someone to find Lin Er's whereabouts, the slave family is willing to repay the master by being a cow and a horse." ”
"Be a cow and a horse? That's not necessary. Ding Wei's tone softened a little, and he said slowly: "The old man is in a bad mood today, so you can dance to relieve the old man's boredom." ”
"This" Xiaoqing was stunned again, and couldn't guess Ding Wei's intentions.
"What, I don't want to save your Lin'er?"
"Obey the order, the slave family will give the master a Bodhisattva barbarian." Xiaoqing replied softly and slowly stood up.
The room suddenly fell silent, Xiaoqing stretched out his right hand and pointed forward, and suddenly there was a guqin on the table.
No one was playing at all, but there was a faint sound of whimpering, ethereal, like a ghost singing.
With the sound of the piano, Xiaoqing waved his long sleeves, the corners of the sleeves slowly fell, and the sound of the piano slowly became thinner and lower, almost disappearing, and the room became quieter. Ding Wei squinted at Xiaoqing, completely ignoring the ghost-possessed sound of the piano.
The sound of the piano suddenly brightened and slid like silk. Xiaoqing's body flew lightly into the air, fluttering his sleeves and dancing, his long sleeves undulating like waves. Then she twisted her thin waist lightly, and her long sleeves danced with the twisting of her waist in a variety of complex and staggered postures, such as willow branches hanging low, like snow rolling lightly, twisting and turning, layered, and the dance posture was beautiful.
Ding Wei was fascinated by it, and from time to time he applauded with a beat.
Xiaoqing danced faster and faster, whirling left and right in the air, and a pair of slender hands threw out a dizzying fluttering sleeve shadow. It's just that in the gap of the long sleeves, the tears in her eyes can be vaguely seen.
"If you think of the Qianyan woman in the heavens, the dancing skills are nothing more than that!" Ding Wei suddenly sighed, and the expression on his face was a little gloomy.
"Boom!" As the last note of the guqin sounded, it melted in the air like a slave who had completed its mission, and Xiaoqing suddenly closed up and fell to the ground.
"What a wonderful dance!"
Ding Wei stood up and stared at Xiaoqing for a long time, with complex emotions intertwined in his eyes......
"Ask the master to save Lin'er!" Xiaoqing fell to the ground again.
"The young girl has worked hard, come, drink this cup first." Ding Wei personally poured a glass of wine and brought it to Xiaoqing's lips.
"After all, I am the prime minister of the dynasty, and it is not difficult to find someone." Seeing that Xiaoqing finished drinking the wine in the cup, Ding Wei suddenly changed his words and said, "But as far as I know, this Lin Er is not your biological son, right?" ”
Xiaoqing's heart suddenly became like ice, she looked at Ding Wei blankly, and found that the corners of his mouth were full of banter.
Ding Wei raised his voice suddenly, "His name is Xu Shilin, and he is the evil seed of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, right?" ”
Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, Xiaoqing's entire body collapsed to the ground.
"How do you know?"
"I told Xiangye." A person suddenly came out from behind the screen, he looked at Xiaoqing with a smile and said: "His whole body is covered with snake scales, even if I don't say it, with the wisdom of Xiangye, sooner or later he will know the details of this child." ”
"I beg the two of you to save this child as soon as he was born without parents and has a poor background, so you can save him!"
"Amitabha!" Huiyuan recited the Buddha's name and said: "If it is someone else's child, the poor monk is willing to help with this, but unfortunately I can't save Xu Shilin." ”
"Why, because her mother is your master's enemy?" To this day, Xiaoqing still does not give up the last hope. "But you promised me not to care about the grievances of the previous generation."
"Yes, what the poor monk said will never go back." Huiyuan said coldly: "What I'm worried about is that when this child grows up, he will fall into the demon path, and then Xiangye won't raise a tiger for trouble?" ”
"National teacher, please rest assured, if he really can't control the demonic energy in his body, I will lock him under the West Lake, so that he will never harm sentient beings."
"Hehe, young girl, please rest assured, Xu Shilin has now arrived in Hangzhou."
"Is that true?" Suddenly, Xiaoqing sensed a dangerous aura flowing in the air, and she stood up sharply.
"Monks don't speak." Huiyuan clasped his palms together and said, "Because it was the poor monk who sent someone to escort Xu Shilin and your demon remnant Bai Yuchan to Hangzhou." ”
At this time, Ding Wei slapped his hands with a smile, and dozens of government soldiers suddenly crowded outside the door, and they held torches to surround the little youth group trapped in the cage.
"Bastard!" Xiaoqing finally understood what was going on, and in the sound of Jiaojiao, her jade hand had become a sharp claw, and it grabbed straight towards Huiyuan's chest!
"Bang!" With a muffled sound, the huge iron cage fell straight down from the roof, trapping Xiaoqing in a square inch, and then Huiyuan raised his hand, and countless spirit runes covered it like a spread net, Xiaoqing suddenly fell to the ground, losing the ability to resist.
"Why are you doing this?" In the face of the sudden upheaval, Xiaoqing couldn't believe her eyes, and she felt the true qi in her body running around like a wild horse.
Ding Wei saw that Huiyuan restrained the green snake as soon as he made a move, so he waved his hand, and those government soldiers immediately retreated and closed the door, and then stood guard outside.
"Do you really think that the old man is kind enough to help you? A demon is a demon, and he will never be able to change his humble identity! ”
Xiaoqing asked rhetorically: "Then why do you know my identity and take me in?" ”
"That's because of Xu Shilin?" Huiyuan said.
"Lin'er?" Xiaoqing looked confused.
"The Prime Minister is getting old, and his health is getting worse and worse." Huiyuan said proudly: "Everyone in the world wants to live forever, but that is extremely difficult. However, the poor monk does not have this big wish for the time being, and just wants to live for a hundred more years. ”
"You, you" Xiaoqing was stunned, and she began to understand the meaning of Huiyuan's words.
"There are clouds in ancient books, taking the hearts of hybrids born of humans and demons, you can prolong your life for a hundred years"
"No, you must not do that!" Before Huiyuan's words were finished, Xiaoqing screamed. "Let Lin Er go, you can eat my heart!"
"You, you could have been, but you ruined yourself."
"Yes, you can let Lin Er go." Xiaoqing's expression was flustered, and she was at a loss.
"You have committed the killing vow, and the heart that has been cultivating for thousands of years is full of anger, and eating it will only make people go crazy." There was coldness in Huiyuan's tone, "But that white jade toad is a qualified candidate." ”
"It turns out that everything is a game laid out by you." Xiaoqing completely understood Huiyuan's sinister intentions.
"Nonsense, otherwise what would the old man do if you took you in, you really think that I am the compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva." Ding Wei laughed.
Huiyuan also laughed and said, "As early as when I was in Zhenjiang, the poor monk knew that among the demons in the West Lake, you had the best relationship with the white jade toad, so as soon as I learned the news that you had raised the child of the white snake, I began to carefully arrange this bureau. ”
"I should have thought that how could a dignified minister of a country provide selfless help for the sake of a monster, I was too stupid to let down my sister." Xiaoqing's voice bordered on despair.
"It's not too late for you to know." Huiyuan continued: "Originally, I wanted to wait until this child was eighteen years old to do it, because the medicine was best at that time. It's a pity that God doesn't want him to live longer. A few days ago, those two warlocks from Fanbang saw through your whereabouts, and I didn't want to make a fuss, so I had to strike first. ”
Ding Wei said a little anxiously: "Not early, not early, the old man is afraid that he will not live to be eighteen years old when the little beast is eighteen." ”
"Prime Minister, please rest assured, the poor monk let you choose one of these two demonic hearts."
"This is very good, when the time comes, the national teacher and I can prolong our lives for a hundred years, and the world of the Zhao family will also be ours."
"Hahahaha!" Huiyuan and Ding Wei both laughed wildly unscrupulously.