Chapter Fifty-Six: The Thousand-Fingered Witch
The year has passed, and this time is the third year of Qi Yongming of the Southern Dynasty
The ninth year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty
The first year of Rouran Peace
After the day of the Shangyuan Festival, because I learned that Tuoba Hong was my savior, after returning home, I couldn't believe this fact.
Ji Yu didn't say anything to me that night, and acquiesced in Tuoba Hong's words. And I won't expose the fact that he deliberately concealed the emperor and that he was not the one who saved me.
Maybe he thought he told me.
In the first month of this year, Bai Rui did not return.
I have been to Youyuzhuang several times, and Yu Bo, who guards the village, is a sentence, and the son has not returned.
After the day of the Shangyuan Festival, I didn't see Tuoba Hong again, and my eldest brother Gao Shouwen sometimes came to sit in my courtyard and talk about court affairs at will.
Gao Shouwen said that the Empress Dowager Feng wrote eighteen articles of the "Imperial Message", and invited hundreds of civil and military officials to a large-scale banquet in the Taihua Palace, and officially promulgated the "Imperial Message".
The whole court was very busy during the first month, and Tuoba Hong may not have time to take care of me, so he didn't see him again after the Shangyuan Festival.
Gao Shouwen also told me that on the 23rd day of the first month, Emperor Wu of Southern Qi went to the southern suburbs to worship the gods and implement the Great Edict.
Speaking of Southern Qi, I think of Bai Rui, in a dream, the painter that Jingqi brought to Youlin Valley was a native of Liu Song at that time. If Jingqi is Bai Rui, then I guess if he is Liu Songguo at that time, and now he is from Southern Qi.
If he is really from Southern Qi, then he has returned to his hometown, has he returned to Southern Qi?
Just after the first month of the first month, February came, and the empress dowager issued a stipend to the princes and grandchildren who had knighthoods according to different standard levels.
In mid-February, there was another major event, Feng Yueyan was crowned queen, and February 22 was set as the day of the state wedding.
When the holy decree was transmitted to Master Feng's mansion, the whole Feng mansion knelt down to receive the decree.
Feng Yueyan held the holy decree and laughed for an afternoon.
Feng Fu prepared all the preparations for the wedding day.
Those courtiers who were close to Master Feng all prepared heavy gifts and asked the people in the palace to congratulate them.
The Warm Fragrance Pavilion made a big business, and Feng Fu asked Ju Yang to make rouge gouache with a very beautiful face, and invested a lot of money.
On the same day, when Mama Feng Fu came to Nuan Xiang Pavilion with a deposit to place an order, I happened to meet Ju Yang in the inner room.
When I sat down, I heard someone looking for the shopkeeper.
Ju Yang poured tea and asked me to sit down for a while, and he went out to greet the guests before coming back.
I listened quietly to the conversation between Ju Yang and the servant woman outside, and it turned out that Tuoba Hong was going to get married.
After Ju Yang returned to the inner room, I was melancholy and silent. Suddenly hearing about Tuoba's grand wedding, my heart was a little unnatural, but there was not too much discomfort, he was the emperor, and marrying the queen was right.
None of this is something I can control, but it has nothing to do with me, I don't think much about it.
Ju Yang had deep doubts about my coming.
He stood before me, without any intention of sitting, as if to treat me with the respect of his master.
I asked him to sit and told him, even if I am really Yihun's daughter, I am not your master at this time, so there is no need to be so respectful.
Ju Yang sat down at this time, but he was still respectful.
The purpose of my visit this time was to ask him about the whereabouts of Otoku.
When I opened my mouth to ask him, he was sad and silent for a long time before telling me that Otoki was dead, dead many years ago.
Did you die when Bfu was executed that year?
Ju Yang replied to me, no.
He said that when Yifu was executed, Yifu escaped that day, and he also escaped. But after that day, he didn't know where Otofu had gone, and after those days, he quietly stayed in Heijo to secretly bury the dead people in Ofu. After taking care of everything, he thought of looking for Ototsu.
He said that during that year, he often overheard that officials were often attacked by Assassins on their way home or in the suburbs, and the purpose of the Assassins was obvious, and they were all court officials and ministers. Those ministers were all people who had been opposed to Yihun. These clues add up, and Ju Yang thinks that the assassin may be Otofu, and she is avenging the Efu.
Ju Yang searched for clues to Oto-Ka everywhere the Assassin appeared, but each time he was a step too late and did not have a chance to meet Oto-Ka.
In those years, Ju Yang said that there was a female demon on the rivers and lakes, known as the "Thousand Fingered Female Demon", and every time she appeared to kill someone, there would be the sound of the piano, and people only saw a black shadow and a thousand hands playing the piano. Her fast fingers when she played the piano were like a thousand pairs of hands, which made people dazzled.
And she killed people after those people listened to her music, and she was stabbed to death by her sword in the fascination.
The Thousand-Fingered Witch has become a demon who makes people hear, fear, and fear. People boasted of her as a deified person, saying that the witch was sent by Hades to clean up the wicked, and that the evil wolf beside the witch was the devil's mount, and that she took the witch to kill the hated and poor people.
But although the female demon killed a lot of people who should be killed, she killed people at will regardless of the king's law, and the court gave an order.
The imperial court sent officers and soldiers to hunt down and kill this harmful female demon.
Ju Yang was on the way to find the Thousand Fingered Female Demon, and he said that he knew a little in his heart that this so-called female demon was actually Yihua.
But the Thousand-Fingered Female Demon God is haunted, and the court has pursued it for several years without any clues.
Ju Yang said that when he saw Miss Huan'er again, he just glanced at it in a hurry, and that glance saw a random arrow piercing Zhu'er's body.
I hurriedly asked him what was going on, if he could explain clearly.
Ju Yang's face was very bad when he talked about Huan'er's death, and it could be seen that he felt pity for Huan'er.
He recalled the incident with a hollow look in his eyes.
He said that when he was eating noodles in the noodle shop, he heard people at the table talking about the Queen Mother's visit to the Li Family Cemetery in the suburbs, which was the grave of Li Yi, the Queen Mother's favorite minister. On the day of Li Yi's death for a year, the queen mother personally went to the cemetery to pay respects.
Ju Yang said that at that time, he felt that Hu'er would definitely appear, and he had a strong feeling.
He disguised himself as a villager and secretly went to the Li cemetery, but when he got there, he saw that the hillside was full of Janissaries, and he couldn't get close to it at all.
He thought of a way in the woods, waiting for Otokusha to really appear.
When he heard the sound of chaos, he sneaked to look behind the stone where he could hide, only to see that the cemetery where the queen mother was located collided with swords and became a mess.
In the distance, he saw a dark shadow hovering among the Praetorian Guards, and a white wolf tearing at the officers and soldiers fiercely.
Although the face of the figure could not be seen clearly, he was very sure that it was Miss Huan'er.
Ju Yang covered his face and leaped over to help.
He didn't want the prime minister's only surviving bloodline to pass away like this.
He said that he had assassinated many officers and soldiers, but another batch came, and he couldn't take care of Hu'er.
Just as he looked back at the woman in black, the woman was hit by multiple arrows, and he was besieged and could not get out to save him. Just as the woman fell, a white-haired old man in a blue-gray robe suddenly leaped over.
The white-haired old man rescued him, and he struggled to get out of the chaos as quickly as possible.
Ju Yang said that he had been hit by an arrow and had multiple wounds on his body from being cut by a knife in the struggle, and he escaped from the Li cemetery with difficulty, with many imperial guards chasing him.
Although he escaped in the end, he still lost the opportunity to meet with Huan'er again.
He said that on that day, he passed out, and when he woke up, it had been more than half a month, and he said that he had been rescued.
After he woke up, he went to inquire about the situation in the Li family's cemetery that day, and there were people talking about it in every corner of Pingcheng. Some people say that the female assassin is the "Thousand-Fingered Demon", saying that the court officials and soldiers will not give up and continue to search for the whereabouts of the Thousand-Fingered Demon.
Some people say that the Thousand-Fingered Witch may have been killed by the imperial court, and the Queen Mother ordered and dispatched all the officers and soldiers in the city, but the Witch couldn't escape.
Although the imperial court has been pursuing, no one has seen the corpse of the Thousand-Fingered Demon.
Some people believe that the witch is dead, but some people think that it is impossible, how can the witch die.
All sorts of rumors boiled back then.
However, since that day, the Thousand-Fingered Demon has not been seen again, so people believe that she must have died, but it is not known where she died.
That's the answer Ju Yang told me, Otoki is dead.
Later, he said, he hid in a village on the outskirts of the city, and only returned to Pingcheng when the matter calmed down, and a year later he opened this warm incense restaurant in Pingcheng, hoping that one day, Miss Huan'er would appear again.
He stayed in Pingcheng all the time, and he stayed here so that he would always believe in his heart that Miss Zhu'er had just gone into retreat somewhere, and that she would definitely come out again in the future.
Ju Yang said that the reason why he opened the Warm Incense Pavilion, which specializes in rouge gouache for women, is because Miss Huan'er loves flowers very much, and she planted a lot of flowers in the garden in Yifu at that time, and she likes to collect flowers and make rouge.
He thought that maybe one day, Ju'er took the initiative to come to his shop.
He said that he would spend the rest of his life in this Warm Fragrance Pavilion, waiting for Miss Huan'er to come back.
Ju Yang's loyalty shook me, he was a slave who was loyal to his master, and he was a man who would never betray Ju'er and Yihun.
Ju Yang said that when he saw me come to the Warm Fragrance Pavilion that day, he thought he was dazzled and thought that Miss Huan'er had really come back.
At that time, he was very excited, but when he heard my slave call me Second Miss, he was confused and knew that I was Gao Zhaorong, the Second Miss of the Gao Protector's Mansion.
After I left his warm incense pavilion, he said that he smiled because he knew that I was the sister of Huan'er and that I was a relative of the prime minister.
On that day, he said that he couldn't imagine that I looked more and more like Hu'er, and that when I was a child, he had secretly looked at me, but at that time I didn't look very much like Hu'er.
Ju Yang said that after seeing me that day, he meditated for a long time, and felt that he should tell me my life experience, if he didn't say it, he would be uneasy for the rest of his life, and he would feel sorry for the prime minister and Miss Huan'er.
Speaking of which, Ju Yang knelt down and kowtowed in front of me, and he wanted to ask me to confess my ancestors and return to my ancestors.
I was stunned for a moment, and I didn't know how to reply to him.
After a long silence, I slowly said to him, let me think about it.
When I left, he called me deeply, "Miss Rong'er, you are really the prime minister's biological daughter, your surname is B, and you are the B family." ”
My eyes were full of tears, my mood was so melancholy, I didn't know what to do.
Zilan was waiting for me in the outer hall of the Nuanxiang Pavilion, and when she saw me come out with red eyes, she asked me what was wrong, but I didn't answer her.
I went home in silence, but I felt that the people around me kept pointing at me, saying that I was the daughter of a criminal minister, and they were laughing at me.
There was nothing else in front of me but hallucinations.
When I got home, I fell ill and fell ill with depression.