Cheng Qi and Duan Guifei stood face to face like this, looking through each other's eyes, the former's red-faced peach blossom eyes shone with fearless resistance, and the latter was hidden and invisibly took people's lives.

"Miss Qi, I haven't seen you for a long time, why is your face so haggard?"

It was Duan Guifei who opened her mouth first, and in the face of the person who had almost died in her hands, she didn't feel the slightest guilt, just like Han Yi who killed Lin Zhimo, they had completely lost a lot of humanity.

Cheng Qi was also not surprised, when he came to the palace, he was bound to see Duan Guifei, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

"There is a memory of Concubine Lao's mother." She said lightly, "If you have something to do, how can you take care of your body." ”

Duan Guifei heard the deep meaning of her words, slowly lifted her skirt and sat down beside the emperor, and skillfully helped the person sharpen the ink, but as everyone knows, those white hands are the most dexterous when they kill people.

"Miss Qi's words are interesting." Duan Guifei lowered her eyes, her thick eyelashes were like a sunflower fan, "There are Hengyang County Lord and Cheng Yunduo in the Guogong Mansion, and Cheng Yan and Cheng Lan below, what is there to do for Miss Qi to be sad." ”

"The concubine asked knowingly."

This sentence fell, and Duan Guifei's movement of grinding ink also stopped, the corners of her red lips slowly fell, and then she raised her head, the darkness under her eyes had penetrated her expression, it was so cold.

And Cheng Qi stood on the side of the center of the hall, although she was petite, she was as indestructible as Mount Tai, her delicate face was full of perseverance, and her eyes were shining with a clear conscience.

Duan Guifei didn't expect this person to pick things out so obviously, and glanced at the emperor sitting next to him, and that person, as one of the insiders, didn't say anything.

In the final analysis, these two women represent two forces.

Cheng family, Duan family.

These two families were the heroes who helped him win the throne back then, and he couldn't express his position at all, not to mention, he didn't know about it at all on the surface, so he said: "Give Miss Qi a seat." ”

Manager Zhao responded, waved his hand and asked a palace maid not far away to move a round stool.

Cheng Qi sat down calmly after thanking her, during which the emperor didn't say anything, as if he was observing her actions, but Duan Guifei kept talking and laughing, looking like she was not a monarch but a husband and wife with the emperor.

It's just that in Cheng Qi's eyes, she doesn't care, but to tell the truth, a big beauty like Duan Guifei revolves around the middle-aged greasy old emperor, smiling like a flower, which is really uncomfortable to watch.

It's called a flower, and it's stuck in cow dung.

It was too boring to sit, but there was no emperor's mouth, and she couldn't leave on her own, Cheng Qi's eyes fell on the tall white porcelain vase that was full of people, and tried to read the poems written on it.

But the handwriting is too small.

It seems to be Li He's close wine.

"Miss Qi, did you say?"

Just as Cheng Qi was diverting his attention from far away, Duan Guifei on the right side of the bookcase suddenly raised her head and said, she looked up at the past, looking innocent and nervous, because she didn't know what the two had just said.

The mind wandered too much.

"Yes..."

Cheng Qi had no choice but to follow her words and say, "What the concubine said is true." ”

When the emperor heard this, he squinted over, and his expression was unsettling.

And Duan Guifei suddenly smiled and leaned back and forth, the full and conspicuous chest trembled, and the rare agate hanging from the collarbone condensed like blood beads, and then, a trace of success flashed in Duan Guifei's eyes.

"Just say it to the concubine." She said, "With a background and appearance like Miss Qi, it is really inappropriate to enter the palace to be the position of Baolin, according to the concubines, it is better to enter the nine concubines directly." ”

Cheng Qi's pupils shrank, and he said in his heart that this old lady is really bad, this is deliberately digging a pit to make herself jump, so he quickly got up and knelt on the ground, and said coldly: "The concubine is laughing, Cheng Qi doesn't dare to climb high." ”

Duan Guifei was condescending, and her arrogant figure was more noble than the white porcelain vase: "Why should Miss Qi be arrogant, the girl's talent is comparable to Zijian, and it is really aggrieved to only seal Baolin." ”

Cheng Qi stared at Duan Guifei's skirt, was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly said coldly: "If the concubine really feels so sorry for me." Looking up, "Holding your hands in your arms is the greatest reward." ”

Cheng Qi said to play, Manager Yang next to him was so frightened that the dust in his hand was suspended, and he quickly peeked at the emperor behind the bookcase, the man chewed his mouth slightly, and his expression was very indifferent and complicated.

On the other hand, Duan Guifei was a little stunned.

Hold your hands in your arms.

Cheng Qi's words were obvious, and he almost said the words 'don't hurt me', but Duan Guifei obviously didn't expect Cheng Qi to have such bear guts, and she couldn't control her expression for a while.

She turned her back to the emperor, but the man didn't see it.

But Cheng Qi, who was facing it squarely, was shocked from the bottom of his heart.

"Why bother, since you are going to enter the palace in the future, the palace will naturally take good care of it." Duan Guifei said.

Duan Guifei at this moment was very terrifying, although her voice was full of ease and pleasure, but there was no expression on her face, she only looked at the red lips lightly, and the smile that came out was very disobedient.

There are also the eyes of this woman, which are stacked with layers of murderous intent, which can see through the heart and make people cold and crack.

"You're polite."

Cheng Qi said coldly.

Duan Guifei personally reached out to help her up, through her sleeves, her sharp nails scraped the gold thread on the fabric and made a rustling sound, stared at her for a few seconds, and suddenly got a few inches closer.

Cheng Qi was shocked, but heard the man say, "How did Miss Qi get this face?" Reaching out and gently stroking Cheng Qi's right face, he looked very worried and concerned.

Duan Guifei's hands were cold like a dead man, Cheng Qi's back spine was sweating, he took a step back, and said, "I accidentally scratched it, which made Guifei smile." ”

Duan Guifei didn't speak, but looked in the direction of the emperor.

The man's eyes were dazzled, and he had been squinting, and he hadn't noticed the wound on Cheng Qi's face before, but when he heard Duan Guifei like this, he leaned forward curiously and said, "Why are you so careless." ”

Cheng Qi frowned slightly.

This middle-aged greasy old emperor, he had just secretly fought with Duan Guifei, and he didn't ask questions or give some reactions, but as soon as he heard that he had broken his appearance, he immediately sobered up.

Sure enough, most of the ancient women, especially the women in the palace, were Israelite.

In the past, this face of oneself was the ladder to the pinnacle of life, but now that the ladder is broken, the road from Tinglan Water Pavilion to Zhuohua Palace is afraid that it will be difficult again.

"It was my negligence, please forgive the emperor."

Cheng Qi lowered his head.

The emperor didn't speak, but when she heard Chief Zhao's extremely low sigh, she knew that the emperor still minded the matter, but she was not sad, but very happy.

She didn't want to enter the palace in the first place, and knowing that the emperor minded this matter, it was like finding a shortcut.

And just as she was snickering, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out, pinched her chin and told her to raise her head, and what caught her eye was Duan Guifei's face getting closer and closer, and the snickering joy in the person's eyes could no longer be hidden.

Beautiful women are always full of hostility towards other beautiful women, Duan Guifei is like this, she has always been taboo about Cheng Qi's beauty in the past, and now she is finally relieved.

This person has always been moody, and you can see how much this matter has made her angry.

"It seems that Miss Qi's wound is not deep."

Duan Guifei said lightly: "Since ancient times, women have stood in the world with chastity and appearance, and the scars on Miss Qi's face will not be removed. Turning to look at the emperor, "It's going to be difficult." ”

Women stand in the world with chastity and countenance.

If this sentence is heard by Cheng Qi in modern times, the pair of white front teeth of the concubine will fly out more than three meters away.

In Cheng Qi's view, in this world, both men and women are based on their character.

For good, there will be good rewards, and for evil, there will be harvests.

This is what the old uncle once told her.

But then again, here is the ancient times of his grandmother... If you talk a little bit about the equality of men and women, the speech of liberating equal rights will be regarded as an outlier who does not abide by her duty, which is really very tearless.

Even if Cheng Qi couldn't refute anything, he didn't want to see Duan Guifei triumphant in front of him, so he calmly poured a basin of cold water on her: "Concubine Niangniang, please rest assured, there is an old man in my family's Jixin Pharmacy, and he has a good medicine for rejuvenating the face and removing the scar in his hand, since my wound has healed and the scar is cleared, it is also a matter of time." ”

Sure enough, Duan Guifei, who heard this, really stiffened her smile.

"That's right."

Duan Guifei's voice had already sunk, and her eyes widened slightly, as if she had died violently.

"That's pretty good."

She whispered.

…

…

At the same time, Cheng Yan, who was returning along the road, was walking on a snow-covered pebble path, but this imperial garden was bigger than he imagined, and even if he went out, there were bushes and wooden pavilions everywhere for rest.

He bypassed one by one, and saw that he was about to step on the way out of the city gate after walking a little further than a hundred meters, but faintly, Cheng Yan heard some subtle voices not far away, which made him vigilant all of a sudden.

Although it was too late to go back now, Cheng Yan was cautious, knowing that this was not another place, this was the imperial city, and it was the place with the most secrets in the whole day, so he stood expressionlessly.

The voice approached in front of him, and he looked over and frowned sharply.

Chen Family Chen Wang?!

How could this man be here?

Cheng Yan didn't have time to think, so he hurriedly used light movements on the soles of his feet to make the sound of stepping on snow not so obvious, and then went around to the emerald green pine forest with thin snow.

After Cheng Yan hid, he looked through the gap in the pine forest, and saw three people standing in the wooden pavilion outside, one of them was wearing royal clothes, looking at the golden and noble posture, and then estimating the age and the python on his waist, it should be Yang Jie, the sixth prince of Duan Guifei.

And the two people next to him, Cheng Yan took a closer look, and with the thin memory in his mind, he knew that the previous one was Tang Yao, the president leader of the Thousand Machine Army, and the other man should be the leader of the guards at a certain city gate.

In addition, it is Chen Wang, who passed slowly.

How could these four people who couldn't beat the eight poles get together.

Cheng Qi narrowed his eyes slightly, and the whole person was alert like a cat, so he listened attentively.

The sixth prince always had his back to him, and his voice was very small, but he was only a half-grown teenager.

Tang Yao, who was on the other side, was the leader of the Thousand Machines Army, and he had practiced martial arts all year round, and he had a strong confidence and a louder voice.

"Sixth Highness, didn't you say that Zi Shi did it?"

The leader of the guards also said: "Yes, Sixth Highness, if you besiege Ziwei Palace now, the noble concubine Niangniang is still there, and the last general and others can't guarantee Niangniang's comfort." ”

Mutiny!

Cheng Yan's pupils shrank violently, and he subconsciously looked in the direction of the bath hall.

Cheng Qi entered the palace to face the saint, he should be in the bathhouse hall, if the six princes really colluded with the generals to mutiny, with their own martial arts and memory of this imperial city, they should be able to take Cheng Qi out safely.

Thinking about it, Cheng Yan relaxed a little, and said in his heart that Cheng Qi would definitely be fine, so he continued to listen to the conversation between the three of them, and the next statement of the six princes made people feel like they were in a cold winter, trembling.

"It doesn't matter."

The blood of the six princes seemed to be cold, and when they heard that the mutiny might hurt their biological mother, there was no trace of worry in their tone, and they even had a posture of not being willing to let the child trap the wolf.

It is worthy of mother and son.

The same ruthlessness.

But Tang Yao hesitated for a moment and dissuaded: "Sixth Highness, that's your mother's concubine." ”

The sixth prince said coldly: "What the mother concubine hopes most is that this prince will successfully ascend to the throne and ensure that the glory of their Duan family will continue for a hundred years, even so, my mother will understand the good intentions of this prince, and the momentum in advance, even if the father is aware of it, it can be caught off guard, and there is a better chance of winning." ”

There is no lack of truth in what he said, but the main thing is that this sixteen-year-old boy is too ruthless, saying that Tang Yao and the leader of the guards can't refute it, but in fact, he is still shocked.

Only Chen Wang's face was unfazed.

"That's right."

After not speaking for a long time, he suddenly remembered something and said: "That Ziwei Palace not only has a noble concubine, but also a girl from Changfangqi from the Qi State Mansion in Xiping today. ”

'Wow...'

The snow on the pine leaves suddenly fell to the ground.

The six princes were facing back, and Tang Yao, who was facing the opposite, saw a pair of cold eyes behind the pine tree, and immediately shouted vigilantly: "What person! ”

With that, he spun away, drew his sword, and cut half of the pine trees in that row.

But after the pine trees fell, no human figure was revealed, Tang Yao was stunned with his sword, his heartbeat accelerated rapidly for fear of the mutiny being exposed, and he looked left and right, except for a row of footprints when he came, there were no other footprints when the voyeur left.

"Tang Yao, it's you who are too sensitive."

The sixth prince turned around, revealing that half-immature and half-mature face, he had the same eyes as his biological mother Duan Guifei, with a pair of chilling eyes, and a high nose bridge like a murderous knife.

Tang Yao clearly saw it, did not look back, and said cautiously: "Someone." ”

The sixth prince didn't care, as if everything his eyes saw at the moment was already the ruins after the fire burned the city, he slowly turned his head and glanced at Chen Wang, who was calm.

The two looked at each other as if in a mirror.

"It doesn't matter."

The sixth prince still said the same thing: "Even if there are people, after tonight, they will become dead." Glancing at Chen Wang, "There's nothing for you to do here, you can go out of the palace first." ”

Chen Wang's head bowed, and he said again: "What about Cheng Qi, the Cheng family's power in Xiping is difficult to overturn." ”

The sixth prince suddenly sneered: "Don't worry, after tonight, Xiping will be the only one of the Cheng family." ”

Chen Wang smiled in his eyes and left first.

Tang Yao really didn't find the owner of Fang Cai's eye, so he turned around and asked the six princes.

The man said: "Half an hour later, when he saw that the fire was on fire, he raised his army. ”

With that, move forward.

Tang Yao and the leader of the guards glanced at each other, and then said, "Jiang Ge, let's go too." ”

Jiang Ge nodded.

…

…

After the four of them left, Cheng Yan was worried about Tang Yao's intuition as a martial artist, so he came back to check again, so he waited for a quarter of an hour before jumping off the roof of the wooden pavilion.

He was light, like a soft cat in the sky, and then swept away the dirt on his body, looking at the sky that was gradually gloomy, and his expression became more and more serious.

It turned out that Cheng Qi was in Ziwei Palace.

Then the plan to take advantage of the chaos to take Cheng Qi away is considered a failure, Cheng Yan frowned, suddenly remembered the handwriting on the scroll that day, and took out the four new words.

- Soldiers are coming to the city.

Now the meaning of these four words can be regarded as the truth has been solved.

Cheng Yan put the scroll away, thinking that it was really impossible to go to the Inner Palace to ask for someone now, according to his previous memory, this place should be less than a mile away from the Beidong Palace, he took a deep breath and turned around to pull his legs.

…

…

It's already moving outside, but there's always a caged bird still enjoying a moment of comfort.

In Ziwei Palace, Duan Guifei asked Cheng Qi to taste her new tea.

"This is a tribute from the Wa Kingdom." Duan Guifei smiled lightly: "How is Miss Qi drinking?" ”

Cheng Qi took a sip, extremely bitter, frowning slightly and not speaking.

Seeing this, Duan Guifei smiled and said, "But it's extremely bitter, and ordinary people can't get used to it." ”

Cheng Qi didn't know what Duan Guifei was making trouble about, so he simply drank half a cup, and then said: "It's getting late, and it's inconvenient for me to disturb the emperor and Niangniang to rest." ”

After that, he bowed respectfully, and Cheng Qi said, "Cheng Qi retires." ”

The emperor did not stop him, and said with his chin bowed: "Then retreat." ”

"Thank you, Emperor Longen."

After Cheng Qi finished speaking, he slowly walked out.

"Miss Qi."

Duan Guifei suddenly smiled behind her back: "After entering the palace next year, I will accompany the palace to the imperial garden to see duckweed." ”

Cheng Qi, who heard this, was stunned.

Her body, which was about to reach the door, began to tremble slightly.

The palace maids on both sides looked at each other, a little uneasy.

Cheng Qi's expression was full of horror and shock, and the depths of his pupils seemed to have been ransacked, and it was like the surface of the ground had collapsed, and the huge waves that were gushing out were about to submerge the place, and everyone else would die.

And the hand hidden in the sleeve seemed to be crawling with worms, sucking the heat of the body, Cheng Qi only felt that the flow of fluid in the blood vessels slowed down, everything around him was slowing down, and he could even hear that the cells were broken and renewed.

At that moment, she remembered a conversation at the beginning of the year.

Not long since.

It's also in this Ziwei Palace.

is also a condescending Duan Guifei.

…

…

"Cheng Qi, don't think that you can do whatever you want to do if you are selected, as everyone knows, it is not so easy to enter the Zhuohua Palace, this palace fights all the way, and naturally no one can infringe on it."

"Mother... Empress... I ......"

"After the daughter of the Cheng family entered the palace, hehe... This palace will immediately leave you dead without a place to be buried. ”

"... Mother's life..."

Just as the skin on the tips of her fingers was about to bleed from the cold tiles.

"That being the case, this palace can exchange conditions with you, Cheng Qi, do you want your life, or do you want your brother Cheng Taiheng's life, before the hourglass disappears, you make a choice..."

"My brother! I want my brother's life! Please also ask the mother to spare Taiheng! Don't kill him! ”

"Well, you know what to do."

“… Be. ”

"Come on, give her what you have prepared."

"Thank you... The mother gave white silk. ”

…

…

This conversation was awakened in the deepest part of the original owner's memory in my mind, because of that duckweed.

Duan Guifei said.

Cheng Qi, the Cheng family is like duckweed, the Feng family is the lotus, you have to fight with this palace, do you have immovable roots?

Naturally, she didn't.

And when the truth of all this was revealed, she still didn't.

Cheng Qi felt a little suffocated, she didn't dare to look back, only listened to Duan Guifei's thin smile, and continued to walk forward.

Originally...

It was because of this that the original owner hanged himself.

What a vicious woman.

Cheng Qi went to the door, and the palace maid in charge immediately opened the door, and the sunlight outside broke in suddenly, so that she was knocked down, and she stepped over the threshold with her skirt, and the door behind her slammed shut.

She stood on the stone steps in front of the door.

But there was no one in sight.

Cheng Qi blinked lightly, his movements were slow after being extremely shocked, and he knew that all this was Duan Guifei, and it was really this poisonous woman, the original owner was too naïve, she would not let anyone go.

It's strange that there's no wind in winter.

Suddenly, his sideburns were lifted up, and a north wind was entangled in his ears, and Cheng Qi slowly turned his head.

A flash of sword light dimmed in her dark brown pupils!

"Cheng Qi!"

'Ding-knock! ’

Just as the long sword was about to pierce Cheng Qi's left eye, a short dagger with red beads suddenly flew from his right hand, and the user didn't know how much force he used, so that the short dagger broke the long sword, and then pierced into the wooden door behind him two inches deep!

It's a pity that the long sword is too close to Cheng Qi, and when the broken part flies out, it rubs her face fiercely, and with the blood stain flying out, she is also dragged out with one hand!

All this happened between the lightning and flint, Cheng Qi was forced, flew out and fell to the side, covered in pain like a corpse of five horses, just her conditioned reflex support, looking over, it was Cheng Yan!

This man trespassed into the inner palace!

Still... Hurt.

Cheng Qi stood up against the wall, looking at the arrow that came out of Cheng Yan's shoulder blade in disbelief, the red blood soaked his clothes, and even flowed to the ground.

Cheng Qi took two steps forward and said, "What's the matter?" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a violent noise suddenly erupted in the north of the imperial city, and then a large black smoke spread out from the line of sight, with the sky-high firelight, and countless screams also rose like a tsunami!

Cheng Qi was shocked!

"This is!?"

"Mutiny."

Cheng Yan said coldly, looking back at the wound on Cheng Qi's face, the red blood snaked on her snow-white skin was so bewitching and beautiful, as if it was a mandala bloom in the snow.

Not deep, though.

Cheng Yan's eyes were gloomy and couldn't see the light for a moment.

He turned his head and looked at Tang Yao, who had injured Cheng Qi, and that person didn't expect him to appear, but he knew Cheng Yan's eyes... I didn't expect that the people behind the pine forest would appear again, and it would be a big deal.

"Dare to move Cheng Qi."

Cheng Yan said this, and just as the wooden door next to him was opened by an unknown palace maid, he pushed Cheng Qi in, then closed the door neatly, and pulled out the red bead dagger.

"Look for death."

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