Coming out of the palace, Ku Rong stood at the door for a long time, looking up at the sky, it was still dim.

The temperature was still very cold, and the north wind was howling, as if it wanted to tear people's bodies apart.

"If it's too cold in winter, the bamboo won't survive, right?" Her voice sounded in a trance.

Kurong's originally drowsy head immediately woke up, and at this moment, as if the previous years were all dreams, only this moment was awake.

But after all, the owner of the voice, who no longer stood behind him with an umbrella, smiled at him, and called him sweetly:

"Senior brother!"

He remembered that day he went down from the bamboo forest with his master to buy goods in the market, and when he passed by the stream, he saw her, who was put in a bamboo basket and went down the river.

Although it was summer, but in the early morning, the mountains were still a little deserted, she was only wearing a belly pocket, quietly in the bamboo basket, sucking her fingers, staring at a pair of big eyes, looking at him and the master curiously.

It was the first time they had met, he was five years old and she was eight months old.

There was only a note in the bamboo basket, with the eight characters of birth written on it, and told that he was not able to raise it, and hoped that the well-wishers he found could kindly take him in.

The master and the master lived in the bamboo forest and had no heirs.

Five years ago, he was given to his master and his wife because of the famine at home, and his parents, who were unable to have children and flee the famine, never saw them again.

Later, when he grew up, he followed the advice of his master and went to look for him, but the reply he received was that his parents, after leaving him with the master, continued on the road, but encountered a plague in the mountains, and in the end, they all died on the road. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the government burned these corpses clean.

His parents, in the end, did not even have a single skeleton left.

Late Xiao Xiao is the second child adopted by the master and the master, he follows the master's surname, she follows the master's surname, they grow up together, practice martial arts together, reverie together to break through the rivers and lakes, eliminate evil and promote good.

As he grew older, gradually, the feelings between the two people changed, he loved her in his heart, and she also had a soft spot for him.

Originally, I thought that the two of them would be like brothers and sisters, and they would start their own families in the future, who would have thought that the family would fall in love with the family.

Late Xiao Xiao likes rivers and lakes, and has always wanted to go to the rivers and lakes to see and see, what is the difference between the real rivers and lakes and the rivers and lakes in the mouth of Mr. Storyteller?

The master and the master persuaded him to marry her earlier, but he always thought that she was still young, and she still wanted to explore the rivers and lakes. He wanted to accompany her and travel to the rivers and lakes together, and when she felt at ease, he would work with her to find a beautiful Zhuangzi, and the two of them would settle down here, get married, have children, and take the master and the master over to spend their old age together.

Everything is so beautiful, if it weren't for the event, if it wasn't for the person.

In his eyes, there is only the late Xiao Xiao, he can't look down on others, let alone look at it, if he can pay more attention to it at that time, will Xiao Xiao not be poisoned? Isn't this going to happen?

Ku Rong woke up in his sleep countless times, wanted to knock out the bowl of wine countless times, and wanted to break the body of the person who handed the wine to thousands of pieces, and never gave up.

But every time it came to a critical moment, he returned to reality.

woke up in the dream and realized that all this had passed, and he couldn't stop all this, nor did he be able to keep Xiao Xiao.

In this life, no matter how bad the situation is, he is mainly based on her thoughts, and many times, he thinks, what if he was selfish for himself at that time?

Listen to the master's advice, marry her first, and then take her to the rivers and lakes, maybe in two years, they will retire to the rivers and lakes and live an ordinary life.

There are so many things in life that you regret afterwards, but at the time of the incident, you can't see what you want at all, which is really ridiculous and pitiful.

By the time you really understand it all, it's too late!

He is like this, Yin Si is the same as Zhezhe, I don't know if he will follow in his footsteps.

There was a long distance from the mansion where Yin Si lived to the Taoist temple, and Ku Rong was too tired, so he waited at the gate of the city for an ox cart to pull goods, paid two copper plates, and asked him to take him for a ride.

Sitting on the ox cart covered with straw and carrying dried vegetable goods, Ku Rong leaned on the rice bag behind him, shrunk up, hugged his knees, and fell asleep in a daze.

In the dream, it was the restaurant again, Xiao Xiao pulled her and excitedly told her that in the evening market, there would be sky lanterns and lotus lanterns, and they could go together.

She was so happy, she pulled him, and walked all the way, he held the river lantern and the sky lantern in his arms, followed her, and watched her join in the crowd everywhere.

"Little girl, the poor monk sees that you are destined, would you like me to give you a hexagram?" There was a monk in the corner, holding a broken bowl, came over, looked at Xiao Xiao, folded his hands, and looked serious.

"Okay, how much?" Xiao Xiao has always been so kind.

"Two pennies," the monk held up two fingers.

Xiao Xiao looked back at Qingming, a pair of big eyes flashed and blinked, and there was some coquettishness in anticipation, Qingming had no other way but to take out the money and hand it to the monk.

"Girl, you are the life of the imperial concubine, you will definitely go to the palace in the future, you will have a son, he is the life of the Ninety-Five Supreme," the monk took Xiao Xiao's palm, and looked at the light very hard, "It's just that you will suffer a lot for this!" ”

"You can't calculate it at all," Xiao Xiao withdrew his hand, pouted, turned around and pulled Qingming away, explaining to him as he walked, "This monk is a liar, let's ignore him, I will marry my senior brother in the future, what kind of princess, I am not rare!" ”

I'm not unusual! A smile appeared on Kurong's face, her junior sister, even the position of the imperial concubine is not uncommon!

"Girl, if you don't want this fate, the poor monk can crack it for you, tonight, you must not touch the wine!" The monk shouted behind them.

"What!" Xiao Xiao shook his head and pulled Qingming to continue walking, but Qingming didn't move, and turned to look at the monk in the depths of the crowd in a daze.

Why, this sentence, déjà vu?

In an instant, the things in front of Qingming's eyes changed drastically, and when he reacted again, he was already standing in the crowd, wearing tattered clothes, holding a broken bowl, holding the two copper coins in his hand, and waving to two people not far away.

Those two people are Qingming himself and Wan Xiaoxiao.

"Senior brother, ignore him, let's go to the front to drink some rice bar, I know there is a rice wine stall, rice wine is very sweet," Wan Xiao Xiao pulled the stunned Qingming, and the two of them went to the stall around the corner together.

Can't drink, can't go to his house, Qingming only has this thought in his mind, he tried hard to peel off the people around him, trying to catch up with those two people, but I don't know why, his legs are like being filled with lead, he can't move, he wants to shout, but his throat is like being choked, and he can't shout.

"Dao Chief? Wake up! Someone pushed him and shouted in his ear.

Ku Rong sat up all of a sudden, it turned out that it was a dream!

"Is the Taoist alright? Is it a nightmare? The ox cart had already left the city and was walking on the road, and in this cart there were not only him, but also three women, one of whom held a bowl of water and handed it to him, "Dao Chief, drink saliva!" ”

"Thank you," Ku Rong took the water and drank it all, although the water was very cold, and when he drank it in his stomach, it was piercing, but Ku Rong didn't care, he wanted to be sure, it was just a dream, but all this was a reality.

"Daoist, is it a Taoist priest in the Refuge Temple?" One of the women asked, curious.

Ku Rong didn't answer, just smiled, and the woman spoke to herself, "I heard that the Ku Rong Taoist in this refuge view has accepted that fox spirit as an apprentice!" ”

"Fox spirit, are you talking about the second lady of the Gongbo Mansion, the Gongbo Zhezhe?"

"Isn't it her, first Zhao Rui, the prince of Qi State, the third son of Xiangguo, and Li Chenru, the third son of Wei State, were all confused by him. You don't know, do you? That Zhao Rui, I heard that it was for her, and he was demoted to the position of crown prince by the emperor of Qi! ”

"Really? That Zhao Rui, isn't he a prodigal? How could it be for her—" One of them was skeptical.

"It's all said to be a vixen, what's impossible?"

"You don't know, they all said that two years ago, her cousin was also killed by her! It is Wang Weizhen, the eldest young master of the Imperial History Mansion! ”

"Really? No way? ”

"Really, now the body of the eldest young master is still in Dali Temple, Dali Temple, do you know? Lord Huangpi, Lord Huang, he must have seen that this son was killed by the fox spirit, so he opened the coffin for an autopsy and returned the prince's innocence! ”

"Innocence? A son-in-law, what's innocent, Aunt Li, what kind of joke are you talking about! ”

"I'm not joking, you don't know, this Gongbo Zhezhe is the reincarnation of the fox spirit, two years ago she revealed the prototype and sucked her cousin's Yuanshen, and then the Gongbo Mansion began to find someone to exorcise demons!"

"Actually, wherever there are ghosts and demons, it's just her own prototype! The Taoist who took refuge in the view of refuge was bewitched by her, so he would excuse her! ”

"You can't talk nonsense," the other two women who listened sneered, expressing their suspicions, how could it be that they were talking about the eccentric!

"It's true, you don't know, do you? There are rumors in this city that the emperor wants to arrest her and burn her in public! ”

Kurong frowned, burned to death? Where did this rumor come from?

"How can there be such rumors in the city, you heard it, now the city is not allowed to talk about these things, how can there be rumors?"

"It's true, I heard it with my own ears, just outside the gate of Dali Temple, I have a nephew, who is on an errand at the door, and he heard Lord Huang mention this Gongbo Zhezhe to Lord Liang, saying that the evidence is conclusive, she is a fox spirit, just waiting for her to appear as a prototype, so as to catch her and burn her at the stake!"

"Really? Lord Huang and Lord Liang have always been unbelievable to ghosts and gods, how could they-"

"It's because I don't believe that I don't dare to act rashly, so I don't let the people talk about it, for fear of startling the snake! You don't know! This vixen is now eyeing the princess, the child in the belly of the princess, she has confused the princess and wants to get into her belly! ”

"No, if it goes into her stomach, then she doesn't want her body now?"

"Gongbo Zhezhe has been discovered, she just wants to get out now, how can she care? In the belly of the princess, she is pregnant with royal blood, and it is because of this fox spirit that she is bold and reckless, so the emperor is determined to burn her! ”

"If that's the case, you have to burn it earlier, otherwise this vixen will get on the child's body, and it won't be easy to say!" You can't burn the child to death!

The three women muttered all the way, Ku Rong, who was sitting on the side, heard it very clearly, and silently wrote it down in his heart, and after returning to the Taoist temple, he first found a pen and paper, wrote down all the rumors he heard, transcribed them into two copies, found two trusted subordinates, and quickly sent them to Yin Si and Huang Pi.

It's really unbelievable, just caring about the rumors in the imperial city, out of the city gate, this rumor is getting more and more outrageous and ridiculous. Who made up such fantastical and grotesque rumors? Why didn't anyone pay attention?

Also vixen? Or did Huang Pi and Liang Zhesi both nod their heads in conviction? In the shadows of the capital, or outside the city, who is spreading these false rumors?

Ku Rong was anxious in the house for a long time, and stayed up until lunch, then he couldn't resist the sleepiness and went back to the room to rest.