After their master and servant came out of Qingyanzhai, Xiao Er came out again, opened the doors and windows and fiddled with the objects in the house, as if nothing had happened just now.

Qingyan Zhai Inner Hall

"Sister, Yuan'er doesn't understand, why did you want to help that person. He shouldn't have lived long... If you interfere, if the old man above finds out, you will definitely be recorded again..."The little girl sat on the bed and looked at the person in front of her.

Qingyan smiled and sat down in front of the dresser, took off the white veil in front of him, revealing a pair of sky blue pupils that were almost so light that he couldn't see the color, these eyes were not invisible, but he didn't want to be too eye-catching.

"That's your grandfather, when have you ever been afraid of him? Besides, if you count it like this every time, I'm afraid this ledger will go from this pile to the sky, little fool. ”

Yuan'er jumped off the bed, ran to the dresser and sat down, supported her head with one hand, fiddled with the rouge on the table and said, "You are a big demon that existed at the beginning of heaven and earth... I'm nothing... The old man is generous and tolerant of you, but he is fierce to me... Hmph..."

Qingyan touched Yuan'er's hair, "I didn't make a move, not because I pity anyone, everything in this world has cause and effect." Looking up at the window, Qingyan was slightly stunned, and a flock of birds frolicked by...

"Besides, I'm not here to save him..."Qingyan got up and blindfolded the white veil, "Let's go, follow me to Lingqiu." ”

evening

The palace was heavily guarded, and a group of civil and military officials in private clothes were waiting outside the Hall of Mercy, so it can be seen that these people must have been summoned into the palace in a hurry.

A layer of gold tulle separates the inner and outer halls, and it is faintly visible through the tulle, and there are two young palace maids in the inner hall who are pulling the hair of a delicate-looking woman and removing ornaments.

The woman looked sideways at herself in the bronze mirror, and said with a cold face: "Xiuxin, Your Majesty is back?" There was coldness in his voice, and there was a hint of irresistible majesty.

A well-dressed female official on the right stepped forward and replied respectfully: "Back to the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty went out of the palace last night and has not yet returned."

"Bang!" As soon as the table sounded, all the palace maids, civil and military officials knelt on the ground and kowtowed, only Xiuxin stood aside with his head bowed.

"As the head of a country, foreign enemies are disturbing! The demons wantonly kill, disrupting the court, he is not good at handling the affairs of the court and the central government in the palace, and he sneaks out all day long! What a system! ”

Xiuxin didn't answer, turned around and picked up the tea on the table and handed it to the Queen Mother. "Mother, Your Majesty is still young, and this eighteenth birthday is approaching... Your Majesty must be in a hurry. ”

The Queen Mother's chest that was originally angry and undulating paused, her body trembled invisibly, and she raised her hand to take the teacup.

"That's it... That's it...", this sentence reveals a feeling of distress and powerlessness.

Dongyang Shuo is the only child of her Nanning Rong and the first emperor, although there are most heirs in the harem, but among those children, only he is the smartest and the most loved by the first emperor.

was born in the emperor's family, but God gave him a life of eight-character extreme yin. Since birth, he has been frail and sickly, and is often haunted by yin spirits.

When they learned that Dongyang Shuo was eighteen years old and had a death catastrophe, she cried behind closed doors for four or five days, so she also had an eye disease, and she really wished that she could bear this catastrophe for him.

They sent people to search for the Immortal Mountain Dao Gate in Dongyang Kingdom and other countries, and even beyond the two worlds of humans and demons, they could not find a way to resolve it.

The first emperor was very old, and later he became seriously ill. Knowing that his life would not last long, he abolished the eldest son Dongyang Lingfeng, who was mediocre and drunk every day, as the crown prince, and established his favorite Dongyang Shuo as the prince, just thinking that he could protect him for many years...

Shortly after that, the Emperor died. Left behind the imperial city, which had already been divided into some civil strife and disintegration, and had to be supported by her alone.

Fortunately, Dongyang Shuo had grown into a teenager at that time, and knew that although he studied and practiced hard, his body was not unusually strong, but he was no different from ordinary people, and she was also pleased with it over the years.

Xiuxin has been serving by Tainiang's side since she was a child, and she knows her mother best. "Niangniang don't worry too much, with Mr. Nanqiu by His Majesty's side, it will be safe."

Empress Dowager Rong sighed and nodded, and raised her left hand slightly: "Get up." Recently, some demons have bewitched the Great Prince, wreaking havoc and endangering the people of my Dongyang Kingdom! You must seize the time to strengthen your training and deploy elite troops as soon as possible! Although he is the eldest prince, he has entered the devil's path and is a disaster, and he is no longer worthy of being a royal family! ... If you meet... Just get rid of it..."The Queen Mother closed her eyes slightly, her nails clutched her cuffs, and she endured the distress and finished saying this. They are all the children of the former emperor, and they are the children she watched grow up... I can't bear it.

"Yes! The Queen Mother, the ministers will do their best! ”

"Okay, let's all step aside, we're tired."

The people bowed their heads and stood up, and withdrew from the temple of mercy.

"Xiuxin, Your Majesty came back and asked him to come to see me." Empress Dowager Rong waved her hand to let all the palace maids retreat, and Xiuxin promised to help her get up and walk to the bed to rest.

The junction of the South China Sea in Xizhou

In a thatched tea shed on the side of the road, there are passers-by sitting in twos and threes, and Xiao Er, who is dressed in coarse cloth clothes, is busy pouring tea for the guests to relieve the heat.

"Little Er, come two bowls of tea."

Dongyang Shuo had fine beads of sweat on his forehead, and after speaking, he sat down at the tea table under the shed. The old man named Nan Qiu also sat next to him, and at this time he did not have the respect and vigilance that he had in Qingyanzhai before.

Looking amiable, the two sat together, but they were more like grandchildren.

"Here comes the guest officer~"

Xiao Er shook the rag on his shoulder, wiped the table, and poured the tea bowl on the side. "Two slow use, you call me if you have something~"

Dongyang Shuo nodded, picked up the tea bowl and took a big sip.

"Childe, do you really want to find the place on the map?"

This road has been asked no less than five times on the way from the west of Dongyang Kingdom to the south. But Dongyang Shuo was very determined, "After so many years of hard work, I finally got this map, whether what the woman said is true or not, I have to find out." ”

Nanqiu opened his mouth but stopped speaking, picked up the tea bowl in front of him and drank it.

Dongyang Shuo took out the map from his arms. On the far left of the map, there is a black forest sign with the word 'Lingqiu' written on it.

He took a closer look, remembered the direction leading to Lingqiu, and put away the map. After drinking the water in the tea bowl, he put down one or two pieces of silver on the table, "Uncle Nan, let's go." ”

South China Sea – Lingqiu periphery

A black miasma permeated the woods, and everywhere there was a strange one, and from time to time there were a few screams of crows, like the cry of a baby, and like the shrill sound of a woman being choked by the throat.

A silver bell rang softly, and two female figures with golden shimmers around them stepped out of thin air. In this miasma-filled forest, the two of them were clean and fog-free, like fairies like dreams.

Yuan Er waved the bell in his sleeve, and the miasma in front of him opened a passage, and the end of it shone with the opposite light in the woods. Qingyan was still able to see under the white veil, and Yuan'er followed behind her and stepped into the other side of the interface with her.

As soon as the white light flashed, the woods returned to their previous pitch black and weird, and Qingyan and Yuan'er were already beside a pool of clear and turquoise water.