It's as if looking in a mirror, which only exists in dreams.

He saw himself, his teenage self, fifteen years old, sixteen at most.

Beneath the pale complexion, you can see the cyan pores, like the stems and veins of a dead leaf, growing and flowing on the face. There was no crown, only a lush black hair, tied in a bun on the top of the head, and a sharp golden hairpin passed through. The boy's eyebrows, eyelashes, the bridge of his nose, and his lips were all so intact that there was not the slightest sign of decay. Especially the lips, which are a little bright, as if they have just fallen asleep...... This is the first time Qin Beiyang has seen the true face of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty.

This face used to be only in the description of the tomb robber Xiaomu. This time, it was face-to-face, and the photon shuttled back and forth between time and space, penetrating his pupils and brain.

Four years ago, Qin Beiyang returned to Beijing from Shanghai to find the person lying in the coffin.

In fact, across thousands of rivers and mountains and even the whole world, what he is looking for is not someone else, but himself!

How are you?

Qin Beiyang said to himself, and he said to him.

I am fine!

Some kind of illusion, as if the little prince lightly opened his red lips and spit out these three words in the rhyme of the Tang Dynasty, from the eardrum from the palm of his hand to the knee to Qin Beiyang's five internal organs and six lungs...... He didn't dare to breathe, afraid that the heat and moisture exhaled from his mouth would change the cold and dry environment inside the coffin, and make the body of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty deteriorate in an instant—the originally full and tight young man's skin would be full of folds, and his lips would shrink and even peel off like an old man. In the past, tomb robbers opened well-preserved coffins, not for nothing, and the owner of the tomb went from lifelike to decayed in an instant.

Being in a coffin 1,200 years ago, like diving in the depths of the Arctic ice sea, Qin Beiyang's lung lobes are about to explode!

Leave!

Your Royal Highness the Little Prince, you must want to return to Bailuyuan, return to the underground palace of the Tang Dynasty, and be together forever with the Nine Colors of the Tomb Beast, sharing the peace of ten thousand years. But this day will never be in today's troubled times! In the twentieth century, no mausoleum, even the tombs of Qin Shi Huang and Wu Zetian, could not escape the clutches of Nobel's invention of explosives, heavily armed engineers, Western and Eastern powers, and even excavators and bulldozers...... His Royal Highness the Little Prince cannot be allowed to suffer a second ordeal or even humiliation.

Only on the top of this Taibai Mountain, the inaccessible heavenly tombs, the replica of the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang, and the yellow intestine like a bank safe are safe. Please ask His Royal Highness the Little Prince to take refuge in the mountains, just like Emperor Jianwen took refuge on the island, and temporarily use this as a palace and wait patiently for several years.

"The emperor and queen of heaven are on the top, and Qin Beiyang has set up this record - obstacles to the east, returning to the turbulence, sacrificing life and forgetting death, expelling foreign insults, and reviving China. When the world is peaceful, the four seas are clear, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there are no thieves who steal the country and the people, and the underground ancients can sit back and relax, I will definitely send you back to your hometown! ”

When the last breath in the lobe of the lungs was exhausted, Qin Beiyang withdrew from the coffin and sat down among the yellow cypress trees to gasp, as if he had just surfaced from the bottom of the deep sea, waiting to enter the hyperbaric oxygen chamber to decompress.

Jiu Se leaned his head over, and his glass-colored eyes were a little cloudy. Qin Beiyang hugged his red mane and said, "Go ahead!" Your master is waiting for you! ”

The small town tomb beast put away its antlers and scale armor, turned into a soft hound body, and burrowed into the coffin - this is the secret that belongs to the two of them, the two-person world of Nine Colors and the Little Prince.

The back of Qin Beiyang's head leaned against the wooden board of the coffin of the Tang Dynasty, and he actually felt like home! Since he left Tianjin at the age of nine and entered the underground palace, he no longer knows what his home is? But in front of the coffin of the little prince, surrounded by yellow intestines, he felt very comfortable, and even refused to leave.

He lay down irresistibly and fell asleep in a daze......

The nine colors came out, and it used its head to wake up Qin Beiyang. The tomb beast in the town radiated glass-colored eyes, a little sad, but also a little grateful, grateful to Qin Beiyang for giving him the opportunity to reunite with his master after a long absence.

Qin Beiyang couldn't help it, man and beast hugged their heads and cried, the sorrow of 1,200 years ......, "Nine colors, nine colors, sooner or later, one day, I will send you home!" ”

Drilling out of the yellow intestine and making up the coffin, Ah You was still waiting for the two of them, and gave a bright smile: "Hey! Brother, I thought you were sleeping in a coffin! ”

Qin Beiyang frowned awkwardly: "Sister Ayou, you will be joking." ”

"Because my brother is by my side. The things that were unhappy in the past will slowly fade away, and the rest is the time with my brother. ”

"Time together?"

Ah You took his hand and said, "The little prince did not have a rotten corpse, and there was a secret to opening the Qianling Tomb. But who doesn't know how to open this secret? Perhaps, brother, you are the key to this key, and there are nine colors! ”

She also hugged her nine-colored mane, but the town tomb beast walked away in disgust.

Qin Beiyang commented: "It doesn't want to be used as a key." ”

"Brother, in the troubled times, I can't help myself, you and I can't escape!"

Two people and one beast, through the big gladiatorial arena of the town tomb beast, after a long road, finally returned to the west peak of Taibai Mountain.

In the second half of the night, the moonlight was clear, and Ah Yu said to the wild mountain wind: "Brother! Can I say what I want? ”

"Well, a gentleman promises a thousand dollars, just say it!"

"I want to marry you!"

Ah You stared at a pair of big dark eyes, like a ragdoll, as if in the Guangxu Underground Palace twelve years ago.

"Sister...... What did you say? ”

"Brother, Ah You's wish is to marry you."

Qin Beiyang stood unsteadily, and almost fell off the cliff: "What kind of play are you singing......

"Ah You didn't sing, and Ah You didn't have any conspiracy, this is Ah You's heart-wrenching words - I want to be your woman."

"This ...... Ah...... When did you start thinking about it? ”

"Six." Ah You made Qin Beiyang have nowhere to retreat, and behind him was an abyss, "When you saved me from the old eunuch." Otherwise, I will be martyred for Emperor Guangxu and become a boy and girl who will not rot for thousands of years. That night, I had secretly made up my mind that I would marry you when I grew up. ”

"Enemies." Qin Beiyang sighed, lowered his head and met the nine-colored glass-colored gaze, like Ouyang Anna's eyes, "You are also an enemy." ”

Ah You dragged him away from the dangerous cliff and returned to the mountaintop plateau with fragrant green grass, his hands wrapped around Qin Beiyang from behind, and his chin slammed on his shoulder: "Brother! You promised me, and whatever I requested, you would fulfill it unconditionally. ”

"A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase, Qin Beiyang will never deny it!"

"That's good! You've seen the coffin too, and you've gone in and touched his real body, and you're satisfied, right? Why can't you fulfill Ah You's wish? Don't be a man of your word. ”

"But ......" Qin Beiyang's lips were trembling, "Ah You, you have to think clearly!" Since the day I Qin Beiyang was born in the underground palace, I killed my own mother, and at the age of nine, I killed my adoptive parents, and I was destined to be lonely, and I was a lonely star. ”

"No, brother, it's just your excuse. Are you still thinking about Sister Anna? ”

Qin Beiyang closed his eyes: "I don't think about Anna anymore, it's all in the past." ”

"Anna is already Qi Yuanshan's daughter-in-law, and she also gave birth to a beautiful daughter, brother, you should have known about it a long time ago, right?"

"Not bad!" Qin Beiyang's nose was sour, and he had to change the topic, "Two years ago, I was terminally ill, Hua Tuo was reincarnated, Bian Que was reborn, and there was no cure for the stubborn disease. If I hadn't gone deeper into the ancient tomb one after another, breathing in and exhaling the aura of the netherworld, I'm afraid I would have died a long time ago. But this can only cure the symptoms, not the root cause, the cancer cells have never really disappeared, as long as I get out of the ancient tomb, sooner or later I will definitely die. ”

Ah You reached out and grabbed his bulging pectoralis muscles: "I don't care." ”

"What a healthy lad has, you don't care about marrying a living dead?"

"If you die tonight, I will keep a feast for you from tomorrow onwards!"

She replied categorically, Qin Beiyang opened his mouth and didn't know what to do? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom didn't pay attention to widows' festivals, but he believed that Ah Youzhen did such a thing!

At this point, there is no choice, which is both a man's "faith" and his "life".

"Zi said: Faith is close to righteousness, and words can be repeated!" Looking up at the moon on Taibai Mountain, Qin Beiyang grabbed his nine-colored mane and stared at her dark eyes, "Sister Ayou, I promise you, we will be husband and wife." ”