Chapter 003: The ill-fated Smoke House
The imperial capital Fengcheng, Yanfu.
At this moment, it was already the hour, and it had been more than two hours since the earth-shattering incident of the ugly midnight spirit cat falling from the sky.
In these two hours, the people of the whole city, whether it is the common people, the dignitaries, and even the royal people, since they witnessed the appearance of the civet cat, they are all excited all night sleepless, in addition to the firecrackers sounded all night to celebrate, and even some houses simply put up a banquet, call friends, and talk about wine, which is lively until dawn.
Of course, everyone also understands in their hearts that although the spirit cat is alive, it has not stayed in Fengcheng, nor has it recognized the master, and it may not be able to save the Demon Phoenix Empire from the extinction crisis in the future.
But since the civet cat is alive, there is still half hope, which is still a hundred times stronger than the original despair, so everyone was quickly relieved, and then the carnival lasted all night.
And after the major families used flying pigeons to spread the book overnight, the news of the appearance of the civet cat was also like having wings, and it quickly spread throughout the entire Demon Phoenix Empire.
As for the content of the Flying Pigeon's biography, the major families all emphasized one sentence invariably, that is, no matter what, let the most shrewd and capable people among the clansmen closest to the Demon Phoenix Abyss as soon as possible rush to the entrance and exit of the Demon Phoenix Abyss as soon as possible, and quickly find out the whereabouts of the civet cat.
If necessary, get a civet at all costs.
Although the appearance of the spirit cat means that the Demon Phoenix Empire may get rid of the crisis of extinction in a hundred years, it should be worth everyone to be happy, but there are exceptions to everything, and the entire Yanfu that is not located in the west of Fengcheng is not excited at all.
Not only did they not hold any celebration ceremony, but everyone looked helpless and stayed alone in the house sighing.
Because three years ago today, it was the day when Yanyu, the proud daughter of the sky, whom the entire Yanfu had always been proud of, was ordered to be exiled by the emperor.
Early that morning, the royal army, the most elite of the royal guards, flooded the entire Yanfu Mansion.
It also attracted thousands of onlookers in just a quarter of an hour.
and read the holy decree in public, not only removed Yan Siming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, from his official position, but also forcibly took away Yanyu, who was already stupid at that time, despite Ouyang Lanxi's bitter pleading.
Since then, the original smoke house has become crowded in an instant.
In order to prevent the people of Yanfu from not giving up, the emperor intended to secretly rush to the place of exile to rescue Yanyu in private, and specially ordered the Imperial Forest Army to send special personnel to guard Yanfu, and strictly forbade anyone to enter and leave.
The food and clothing are all purchased by the Imperial Forest Army, which is equivalent to the people of the entire tobacco house under house arrest.
It wasn't until a year later, after confirming that the exiled land was completely swallowed by the Demon Phoenix Abyss, that the emperor withdrew the Imperial Forest Army and restored the freedom of Yanfu.
It stands to reason that Yanyu is dead, and for the emperor, the marriage contract between the queen mother and Yanyu should also be dissolved.
However, the emperor dispelled that idea after learning that the exiled land was swallowed by the demon phoenix abyss on the night when he dreamed of the queen mother.
Because when he told the Queen Mother in his dream that the ominous person who killed her, Yanyu, had died in the Demon Phoenix Abyss, which could be regarded as avenging her old man, he didn't expect the Queen Mother in the dream to say meaningfully: "Son, how can the real Demon Phoenix die so easily?" If you want to truly resolve the crisis of the Demon Phoenix Empire's extinction, I'm afraid that the bell must be tied to the bell. In dealing with the issue of smoke and rain, it is necessary to be cautious. Don't do things too much, lest they be irreparable in the future. The marriage contract made by the mourning family at the beginning, don't simply abolish it, and use it to make use of it, which is the best policy! Remember! ”
Perhaps it was the words of the Queen Mother in the dream that made the emperor realize the seriousness of the problem, and he also opened his heart knot, and he no longer hated Yanyu so much.
He felt that if it was indeed the dead Demon Phoenix that created the Demon Phoenix Abyss ten thousand years ago, it meant that perhaps only the resurrected Demon Phoenix could stop or even destroy the Demon Phoenix Abyss.
After having this bold idea, in order to protect the royal foundation of the Demon Phoenix Empire, which his ancestors had painstakingly managed for nearly 10,000 years, the emperor did not regret making a decision in his dream that he himself was surprised by.
After waking up the next day, he once again ordered the restoration of Yan Siming's official position as the secretary of the criminal department.
and claimed that the Empress Dowager's decree to give marriage to the Tobacco House during her lifetime was still valid.
He also said that if Yanyu could return to Fengcheng alive from the Demon Phoenix Abyss before her sixteenth birthday, she would fulfill the Queen Mother's wish before her death, and marry Yanyu and Wang Yejun on her sixteenth birthday.
But if Yanyu fails to return to Fengcheng on her sixteenth birthday, then Yanfu's other daughters, that is, Yanyu's younger sister, will marry into the palace as a side concubine instead of her.
As for the identity of the princess, it will always be reserved for Yanyu.
The emperor felt that doing this could be regarded as giving Yanfu enough face, and it was equivalent to showing goodwill to the Demon Phoenix Yanyu in this way.
In that way, even if the royal family does not have the ability to get rid of the Demon Phoenix in the future, it can still win over the Demon Phoenix, and it may not be impossible to use the Demon Phoenix to save the Demon Phoenix Empire in the future.
When the disheartened Yan Siming received this holy decree, he thought he was dreaming!
He never expected that the emperor would reinstate him as an official.
Not only that, but the emperor also promised to continue to fulfill the marriage contract made by the Queen Mother during her lifetime.
And from this holy decree, Yan Siming could feel that the emperor felt that Yan Yu might not have died in the Demon Phoenix Abyss.
It is also possible to return to Fengcheng again, otherwise the emperor would not have issued such a holy decree for no reason.
This undoubtedly made Yan Siming, who was like ashes, see hope again.
It also made the Yanfu, which no one cared about, regain its high popularity again in just a few days, and even surpassed the glory of the past.
After all, the emperor is showing favor to the Yan Mansion, and there is no reason for others to snub the Yan Mansion.
It also led to the rain of several younger brothers and sisters, and they instantly became hot sweets, and there was an endless stream of matchmakers and lobbyists who came to propose marriage.
All of a sudden, everyone in the major families in Fengcheng wanted to climb the family affairs of Yanfu, which was a wise move to take precautions.
It didn't take long for even the youngest young master of Yanfu, who was only three years old, to set a baby parent.
It is said that some people are happy and some people are worried, and it is also reasonable.
Ouyang Lanxi, the eldest lady of this non-smoking mansion, was not happy at all.
For the rest of the Yanfu, the Yanfu is brilliant again, and it is satisfying to be able to eat and be respected.
But for Ouyang Lanxi, her only daughter Yanyu is what she cares about the most.
Now her daughter's life and death are uncertain, and her whereabouts are unknown, no matter how brilliant the Yanfu is, no matter how beautiful everything she sees around her, it is just a poignant beauty in her eyes.
As long as her daughter does not return home safely for a day, it will be difficult for her to live like no one else.
And the other people in the house, although they have no worries about food and clothing again, but after a long time, they still feel faintly uneasy in their hearts.
No one knows if such a good life will last forever.
After all, a year ago, Yanyu, the Fengcheng figure of the year that everyone envied, inexplicably became demented, and a blood-colored phoenix pattern appeared in the center of his eyebrows, and the experience of being forcibly exiled by the emperor is vivid.
In the past year, the house arrest of the entire Yanfu has also made everyone miserable and worried.
No one dares to guarantee that the emperor will turn his face and deny people one day, and once again because Yanyu may be the identity of the demon phoenix and destroy the nine clans of the Yan clan.
For everyone, it is also extremely conflicted in their hearts.
Everyone is very eager for Yanyu to really escape from the Demon Phoenix Abyss and return home, and then successfully become the princess and get the royal recognition again, then the Yan family can really sit back and relax.
But in the dark, everyone was worried that Yanyu had returned, and once again angered the emperor because of the identity of the demon phoenix, so everyone still couldn't escape death.
If this is the case, it is better that Yanyu really died in the Demon Phoenix Abyss, but it would be pure.
Therefore, the people of the entire Yanfu are also divided into two factions, one faction sincerely hopes that Yanyu will come back safely, so that everyone can live a good life completely.
The other faction prayed that Yanyu had already died in the Demon Phoenix Abyss, and that he would not be resurrected and come back, lest the whole house suffer from it.
It is precisely because everyone feels that the monarch is unpredictable, and they are concerned about the life and death of Yanyu, and today is the day when Yanyu was exiled three years ago, so everyone in the whole house is in danger and has fallen into the most painful memories of the past, and naturally they have no intention of celebrating the appearance of the civet.
What's more, the appearance of the civet cat has nothing to do with the entire Yan Mansion, and it will not ensure that the Yan Mansion will no longer be suppressed by the royal family, or even get rid of it.
This is also the reason why when every household in Fengcheng celebrates, Yanfu is still calm, and even everyone hides in the house and is sad.
Of course, not all the people in Yanfu are sad in the house, but there is a mother and daughter who are extremely gloating.
If it weren't for the fear of being heard, they really wanted to laugh wildly.
One of these two people is Yan Siming's second-room concubine An Biru, and the other is Yan Siming's second daughter Yan Yi.
Yanyi is one year younger than Yanyu and is the second lady of Yanfu.
She gave birth to a melon seed face and phoenix eyes, which can be regarded as naturally beautiful, but compared with the shy flowers of the closed moon and the shy flowers of the smoke and rain, the bold temperament of falling and generous, there is still a deep sense of fox charm.
Don't look at her used to be very kind in front of Yanyu, but secretly she was quite jealous of Yanyu's noble status as the eldest lady, and she hated her identity as the second lady of the concubine, and she couldn't wait to get rid of Yanyu's mother and daughter and let her mother and daughter replace her.
So over the years, Yanyi's mother and daughter have done a lot of immoral things to frame Yanyu's mother and daughter.
It's just that Yanyu's mother and daughter always have noble people to help, and in the end, they all came to an end.
Although Yanyi rides a horse and shoots arrows, and the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are far beyond ordinary people, they are still much worse than Yanyu, which is also a piece of her heart disease from being careful and arrogant.
Especially when Yanyu was married by the Queen Mother when she was eight years old and had the honor to become the future princess, she hated her so much that she bit her lips.
also completely killed his own sister.
Because when she was five years old when she first met Wang Yejun, who was three years older than her, she became obsessed with riding a horse and archery, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and handsome and evil Wang Ye.
and secretly swore that he would marry the prince when he grew up.
This is also the reason why she worked hard to learn horseback riding, archery, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
It's a pity that after three years of hard training, she still failed to be favored by the Queen Mother, and missed the good fate, which also made her angry and decided to break the boat.
And Yanyi's personality follows her mother An Biru, who has always been decisive and ruthless, and will never give up until she has reached her goal since she was a child.
In order to realize her dream of being a princess in the future, she begged her mother to secretly spend a lot of money to buy people's hearts, and in the past two years, she has bought off many royal guards, eunuchs and palace maids, as well as some military generals, in order to wait for the opportunity to get rid of the smoke and rain in one fell swoop.
And this opportunity finally came when Yanyu was twelve years old, several generals, eunuchs and royal guards teamed up to carefully lay out the royal paddock, using elk to attract Yanyu to go deep into the paddock alone.
In the end, the smoke and rain unfortunately fell into the thousand-year-old pool, resulting in amnesia.
There was also a blood-colored phoenix pattern on his eyebrows for some reason, and he was completely devoured by the emperor after being exiled to the Demon Phoenix Abyss for a year.
This ending is exactly what Yanyi's mother and daughter want.
That's why they gloated on this special day.
After all, Yanyu was exiled to the Demon Phoenix Abyss three years ago, which was a masterpiece planned by their mother and daughter.
It's just that what they didn't expect was that Yanyu would be resurrected in the Demon Phoenix Abyss at this moment!
And he is trying to get out of the abyss of the demon phoenix, intending to return to the Fengcheng Yanfu on the way......