Chapter 28: The Former Crown Prince
Xiaohu walked to the shelf and explained the same to Su Qingmo, "This is a longevity wine brewed with human eyes, these are pickled and dried thigh meat, if you use it to cook, tsk, it is called a fragrant." ”
He had an evocative look on his face.
Su Qingmo opened his eyes.
Xiaohu still said casually: "The second thing I want to give you below should have been used on you, but I suddenly changed my mind, I want you to see its effect with your own eyes before using it on you." ”
He called, "Uncle Chang." ”
Chang Bo took out a stick of incense from his sleeve, walked to the candlestick, lit it, and handed it to Xiaohu's hand.
Xiaohu took the coffin and introduced it to Su Qingmo, "This is the soul leaving incense that you have been looking for for so hard." ”
He walked up to Qingzhu and Yong'an and lifted the scum, and it didn't take long for the soul to take effect, their heads hanging limply, saliva flowing from their open mouths.
He looked back at Su Qingmo, "Don't worry, I'll feed you the antidote in advance, leaving the soul has no effect on you." ”
Chang Bo grabbed Qingzhu and Yong'an's hair and forced them to raise their heads, and fixed them with ropes, so that Su Qingmo could clearly see their faces.
Xiaohu didn't know where to get a dagger, he asked Chang Bo to rip off Qingzhu's clothes, and then he stood beside Qingzhu and discussed with Su Qingmo with a smile, "Start with her first?" ”
At this time, in Changshou Village, Mu Yuanjing had cold eyes, with a gloomy and fierce face that he had never seen before, "Haven't found Chang Bo and Xiaohu yet?" ”
Wei Xu didn't dare to come out.
From the moment the princess disappeared, the master mobilized all the hidden guards who had just arrived to search the villagers' homes one by one, as if he had changed a different person.
However, the villagers of the entire Changshou Village disappeared together after Su Qingmo's disappearance, as if they had said yes.
In Chang Bo's house, Mu Yuanjing was so anxious that his internal organs were burned, but there was no news from the hidden guard.
Pei Lin was also anxious, but seeing that Mu Yuanjing's face was pale, he couldn't say anything, so he could only persuade: "Qingmo is followed by Qingzhu and Yong'an, I don't know how Yong'an's skills are, but Qingzhu is enough to protect Qingmo's safety." ”
Mu Yuanjing couldn't listen to anyone's words, and his hands in his sleeves were clenched to death.
The people on the ground were anxiously looking for Su Qingmo.
However, Su Qingmo in the secret room didn't have the heart to think about the outside world, she stared at Xiaohu deadly.
A quarter of an hour ago, Xiaohu cut off Qingzhu's arms in its entirety, and then began to cut flesh down from Qingzhu's legs, repeating it many times, and one of Qingzhu's legs had already exposed white bones.
Severed arms and shredded flesh fell to their feet, warm blood pouring from the wounds and staining the dirt on the ground.
Qingzhu's face turned pale, her eyes began to drift, her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and the moment the whole world darkened, she was faintly relieved.
Although Qingzhu couldn't feel the pain because of the soul incense, but seeing the limbs and flesh leaving from the body, everyone would be driven crazy, Su Qingmo gritted his teeth and forced himself not to look away.
"Qingzhu... Don't sleep in Qingzhu..."
Su Qingmo shouted in a trembling voice, and when he saw that Qingzhu's eyes were completely closed and never opened again, he suddenly felt that his whole body was cold, and his internal organs, and even the eight veins of the Qi Sutra were twisting and aching.
She didn't dare to breathe, and her eyes were fixed on Qingzhu's chest without blinking.
No! There are no ups and downs!
Her mind was blank, Su Qingmo gasped, tears slid down her face, and she kept struggling to get off the pillar.
Cries of despair emanated from the cramped underground chamber.
Xiaohu walked over with an excited face, stretched out his hand and put some of Su Qingmo's tears in his mouth, "It's uncomfortable, right?" I'll give you a chance to be free. ”
He approached Su Qingmo with a dagger stained with the blood of Qingzhu, "You kill the man named Yong'an, and I will let you go." ”
Su Qingmo looked at Xiaohu's mouth opening and closing, but there was no reaction.
Xiaohu smiled, satisfied with the expression on Su Qingmo's face, the dagger gently swiped on the left side of her face, and after a few clicks, blood overflowed from the wound.
The pain on her face recalled Su Qingmo's consciousness, and her originally wooden eyes slowly turned, and she followed Xiaohu back to Yong'an.
Xiaohu gestured at Yong'an with a dagger, thinking about where to start, but the exit on the wooden ladder was suddenly opened, and a man in his thirties poked his head out from above, "Master, someone is coming." ”
Chang Bo's face changed slightly, Xiaohu sighed unfinished, and then took Chang Bo out of the underground secret room.
Not long after the two left, a loud noise came from the exit of the chamber, and a man jumped down from it.
Su Qingmo was still looking at Qingzhu's corpse in a daze.
Mu Yuanjing walked up to her, looked at her embarrassed appearance, and her heart shrank into a ball of pain.
Messy hair, scratched cheeks, and a bitten lower lip that was bleeding.
He cut the rope, caught Su Qingmo who was slipping, and picked the person up by the waist, carefully avoiding the wound on her face.
Su Qingmo quietly leaned on Mu Yuanjing's arms, but his eyes were always towards Qingzhu.
Fang Mubei took off his coat and draped it over Qingzhu's naked body, then put his finger on the artery, and shook his head at Mu Yuanjing.
The light in Su Qingmo's eyes dimmed, and he closed his eyes tiredly.
Mu Yuanjing walked out of the underground secret room located deeper in the canyon with the person in his arms, and found a nearby family to put Su Qingmo down.
"Let someone treat your wound first, and then take a break, okay?"
Su Qingmo gently tugged at his fingers, "... I want to avenge Qingzhu with my own hands. ”
"I promise you that I will bring people to you."
Su Qingmo let go of the fingers he was holding, his body curled up, tears coming out of his eyes.
Mu Yuanjing was worried about her, but he had to deal with the affairs of Changshou Village, and met Pei Lin head-on after going out.
Pei Lin asked, "How is Qingmo?" ”
"Qingzhu was killed, and she felt uncomfortable."
Pei Lin nodded, "I'll go see her." ”
The moment the two staggered by, Pei Lin heard Mu Yuanjing say softly, "Thank you." ”
Pei Lin looked at his back as he left.
Dressed in white brocade robes, black hair like ink, standing between the beautiful and picturesque landscapes, like a fairy riding the wind.
Xiaohu and Chang Bo were caught in the secret passage in the secret room in the hot spring cave, and Xiaohu still had a smile on his face when he was brought up by the hidden guard.
Mu Yuanjing's face was cold, and his eyes seemed to be quenched with ice.
"Say! Who are you? ”
Kneeling on the ground, Tiger tries to break free from the guard's grip on his shoulder.
Seeing that the person was not honest, Wei Xu stepped forward and kicked him, "The prince asked you something, say it quickly." ”
Xiaohu stopped his movements when he heard this, with excitement on his face, "He really didn't lie to me, you are really the king of Linchuan." ”
"Who is he?"
"Want me to tell you? Then let me stand up first. ”
Mu Yuanjing let the hidden guard let go, Xiaohu stood up from the ground, slapped the hem of his dusty clothes a few times, and his expression was solemn, "Except for the father and the queen mother, I don't kneel the third person." ”
Xiaohu's words made Mu Yuanjing's eyebrows frown, "Who are you?" ”
"Lone, whose real name is Chang Yunting, the prince won't know who Lone is."
Mu Yuanjing said four words in a deep voice, "The former crown prince." ”
Chang Yunting, who had been incarnated as a little tiger in Changshou Village, chuckled, "King Linchuan has a good memory. ”
"This king naturally remembers that forty-one years ago, the previous dynasty collapsed, and everyone in the royal family was disposed of, only the prince and the people of the East Palace disappeared and were never found, so what this king did not expect was that the prince of the previous dynasty would shrink here."
Chang Yunting's face was gloomy, "If it weren't for the old thief leading the troops to rebel, how could Lone fall into such a situation." ”
The shepherd thief in Chang Yunting's mouth is Emperor Chengde, the Emperor Taishang.
Mu Yuanjing did not see the slightest anger on his face, "The previous dynasty was serious in levying taxes and miscellaneous taxes, officials in various places levied and extorted excessively, and the ministers of the DPRK and China were even more full of private pockets, turning the public into private, and forcibly taking the people's fat and ointment, which had already caused the people to complain. ”
Chang Yunting was unconvinced: "If it is handed over to Lone, Lone will be well governed." ”
"The previous dynasty is like a house, the foundation has long been eaten clean by moths, how do you manage it?"
Chang Yunting was speechless when asked, but he was unwilling in his heart, he was the prince above 10,000 people under one person.
"Forty years have passed, why have you become like this?"
Chang Yunting was twenty-six when he disappeared, but now he looks like a child.
Chang Yunting kept silent about Mu Yuanjing's question, but Mu Yuanjing didn't force it, and asked the hidden guard to take the people to a large open space in Changshou Village, and then asked the hidden guard to escort the villagers of Changshou Village over.
After the people arrived, Wei Xu counted the twenty-two households, and there were many of them.
Chang Bo knelt at the front, and his eyes lit up when he saw that Chang Yunting was safe and sound.
Mu Yuanjing glanced at the dozens of people in the clearing, "If this king is not mistaken, the villagers here are all people from the East Palace who ran away with you." ”
Chang Yunting had forbearance on his face.
Mu Yuanjing's eyes were cold, "This king doesn't like to be hidden, if the prince insists on not speaking, don't blame this king for being ruthless." ”
The word prince came out of Mu Yuanjing's mouth with a naked irony.
Seeing that Chang Yunting still didn't mean to speak, Mu Yuanjing commanded lightly: "Do it." ”
The hidden guard who was guarding the villagers was ordered, and he casually pulled out a person from the crowd, wiped his neck with a sword in front of Chang Yunting, and killed the person.
Mu Yuanjing watched indifferently as the hidden guards killed one person after another, and all that appeared in his mind was Su Qingmo's scarred appearance.
The green tendons on Chang Yunting's forehead were exposed, and when half of the people on the open ground disappeared, he suddenly shouted, "Stop!" ”
Mu Yuanjing raised his hand, the hidden guard stopped moving, and he looked at the person beside him, "You only have one chance, if you don't tell the truth, there is no need to save their lives." ”
The threat in the words is obvious.
Chang Yunting spoke slowly, and he no longer claimed to be lonely.
"After the Mujia army attacked the palace, I took the people in the East Palace to hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and accidentally discovered this canyon, so I settled here, planning to recuperate first, and then recapture the country when the strength is strong in the future."
"But if you want to grow stronger, the most important thing you need is time, ten years, twenty years, or even thirty years, no, this time is far from enough, so I began to study the method of immortality with great pain, three years ago, someone found me and gave me a book, and the things recorded in that book were exactly what I was looking for."
He looked at Mu Yuanjing, didn't see the curiosity on the other party's face, and was faintly disappointed, "I started refining people's souls and eating them according to what was written in the book, and distributed them to the people around me, but I didn't expect it to be really effective, and we began to slowly become younger." ”
Mu Yuanjing finally asked out loud: "How to take out a person's soul." ”
"There is a soul lock bell in the secret room, and the soul will be sucked in by the soul lock bell immediately after death."
Mu Yuanjing was about to continue to ask, when the remaining villagers who were under control suddenly burst out and attacked the hidden guards around him.
The guards were all first-class, and it didn't take much effort to kill them all.
Chang Yunting stared at the bright red everywhere with tears in his eyes, until Chang Bo on the ground also breathed and suddenly went crazy, he pounced on the knife in the hand of the hidden guard, trying to kill himself, but was lightly stopped by Wei Xu.
Wei Xu threw the person at Mu Yuanjing's feet.
Chang Yunting lay on his back on the ground, his eyes staring into the air without blinking.
Mu Yuanjing knew that without the people around him who had been following, Chang Yunting had no motivation to live.
Presumably he himself understands that he will no longer have a chance to regain the country that belonged to him in the past, and he always clings to his obsession, just to give himself and the people around him a reason to live.
Mu Yuanjing planned to bring people to her according to the previous agreement with Su Qingmo, but from a distance, she saw Pei Lin walking over with her.
Su Qingmo's body was still a little weak, and the long-term bondage and mental torture made her face look very bad.
Mu Yuanjing keenly felt that the look in Su Qingmo's eyes had become different from before.
Dark, bottomless darkness.
He looked at her apologetically and pityingly, and said that he would protect her, but he broke his promise.
Su Qingmo let go of Wei Xu's hand holding her and moved to Chang Yunting's side step by step.
Chang Yunting looked at her, smiled, and asked softly, "Is she dead?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, an arm flew out.
Blood splattered on Su Qingmo's face, making her right hand holding the knife tremble slightly.
Chang Yunting exhaled in pain.
Without giving him time to breathe, Su Qingmo raised his knife again and slashed at his other arm, but his hand was held in mid-air.
She looked back, dazed and questioning on her face.
Mu Yuanjing carefully broke her fingers, took out the knife and handed it to the person next to her, then half hugged her and got up, took the person tightly into his arms, and gently patted her back with his palm.
"Qingmo, that's enough..."
Su Qingmo's body stiffened for a moment, her hand slowly wrapped around Mu Yuanjing's waist, and there was a whimpering sound like a trapped beast.
Mu Yuanjing quietly hugged her for a long time.
Chang Yunting was lifted up by the hidden guard, and when he was about to take it down, he suddenly broke free, and said with a smile to Mu Yuanjing: "The prince must be curious about who the person who took the soul leaving incense from me is." ”
Without waiting for Mu Yuanjing to speak, he laughed wildly, and after laughing, his breath was a little panting, but the sarcasm on his face couldn't hide it, "I'll never tell you the identity of that person, I'm really looking forward to it, looking forward to your expression when you finally learn the truth, but I don't want to wait..."
The hidden guard sensed Chang Yunting's intentions and was about to try to stop it, but after all, he was a step too late, and Chang Yunting bit his tongue and committed suicide.