That night, many palace people were awakened by the terrible screams. In the days that followed, some had nightmares, and some had trouble sleeping.

It was obviously a sunny summer day, and everyone in the palace felt cold and fluttering on the road, which was an indescribable cold and damp feeling.

Some people say that it is because Yu is angry, and the Yuan Shen is wandering around, wanting to punish the bad and unhealthy tendencies in the harem. As a result, many palace people began to worship the Yu secretly, for fear of being captured and eaten by it.

In this way, the palace was filled with a tense atmosphere in which everyone was at risk.

The lord of the harem, Empress Zhao, who had been silent for a long time, finally executed several fast-talking palace people under the unbearable endurance, and was accused of spreading rumors. But Empress Zhao's actions did not make the rumors disappear, and the rumors about Yu intensified.

"Xuan'er, you still don't want to go." Mrs. Cai's tone was tinged with pleading and pity, and her eyes were fixed on the woman who was about to walk out of the room.

"Mother, I know that I am wronged, I can't watch her die." He Xuan said such a sentence in a firm tone, and left without looking back.

Mrs. Cai was left standing in place, looking at the back of Hexuan who was far away, and sighed softly.

"Princess, are we really going to that place?" Qing'er quickly followed Hexuan's pace, gasping and asked.

"Well, my father is there, so I have to ask my father for mercy." He Xuan's bright and deep eyes stared straight into the distance, walking briskly.

"But... Princess... The slave is afraid of that... Venomous snake. Qing'er said anxiously, the last word so light that she couldn't hear it.

Only then did He Xuan remember that what was followed behind him was just a teenage girl, and the appearance of the girl had already been rumored by the palace people to be extremely terrifying, and even he muttered in his heart, let alone Qing'er.

She stopped, gently grabbed Qing'er's hand with her hand, and said in a gentle tone, "Don't worry, no one will hurt you." ”

Qing'er's eyes, which were originally frightened, were slightly moist, and she nodded heavily at He Xuan.

After a brief comfort, for fear of missing the hour, the two of them quickened their pace again and walked in the direction of the palace water storage pool.

There are dozens of cisterns in the Great Zhou Imperial Palace, with slightly different sizes and shades.

Bi Yue asked the mage to calculate the feng shui before putting the qi into one of the best feng shui reservoirs. Of course, this Yu, as its name says, is the divine beast of Bi Guojin to present the Great Zhou.

He Xuan walked and walked, and finally saw Qionghuatai, the father and Bi Yue were sitting high, there was a dense group of people kneeling on the ground, and a small platform was set up on the side of the reservoir not far away, and there were palace people on both sides.

"Father, I want to see my father!" He Xuan shouted loudly while avoiding the guards on both sides, rushed to Emperor Zhou Ming and knelt down.

The guards who didn't know the situation didn't deliberately stop and congratulate, because they didn't receive an order to stop the intruder, not to mention that this person was still the powerless princess of Da Zhou.

"Yes ... Xuan'er? What's wrong? If you have something to say, get up and speak slowly. Emperor Zhou Ming didn't see it very clearly, but when he saw He Xuan, his mood was obviously much more relaxed.

"Yo, who suddenly broke in, it turned out to be Princess Hexuan, don't give me a seat soon!" Bi Yue, who was sitting next to Emperor Zhou Ming, was dressed up with a flowery appearance, and her tone was very enthusiastic towards He Xuan, "Princess, you haven't seen Yu yet, such a spiritual thing can be met but not sought." ”

Immediately, a palace person went to move the seat to the position of Emperor Zhou Ming's head, and respectfully invited He Xuan to come to the seat.

He Xuan looked around, and the poor woman, who had been tied up with flowers, her face was pale and her eyes were empty, not far behind her. Behind the woman were dozens of palace maids and eunuchs kneeling on the ground and crying.

"Father, the son is here to ask for his father's mercy and to investigate the case of Oriental contouring." He Xuan, who was kneeling on the ground, bowed solemnly again, his head on the ground, and waited for Emperor Zhou Ming's response for a long time.

"Princess Hexuan, the abolished concubine Dongfang, first did not govern the palace strictly, and was bumped into by His Majesty and I on the spot, and the evidence is conclusive. However, His Majesty was gracious, and he was only demoted to the fourth rank and fined for one year. But who would have thought that when this poisonous woman heard that I mentioned this to His Majesty, she was resentful and used witchcraft, causing me to have nightmares again and again. Fortunately, the mage found out in time, otherwise, I would have been the one who returned to the west at this moment. ”

As she spoke, Bi Yue's eyes drooped, her eyelashes trembled slightly, tears gushed out, and her snow-white skin turned pink. She didn't wipe it with a veil, and let the tears run down her cheeks and drip onto the thin coupling-colored gown.

Emperor Zhou Ming looked at Bi Yue's pear blossom with rain, he was distressed, and hurriedly coaxed: "Concubine Ai, don't cry, Concubine Ai is frightened." The widows have come with you today to see them being punished. Aifei, wipe away your tears. ”

Shibei should be impressed by each other for three days, this sentence is Bi Yue, right? He Xuan looked coldly at the beauty on the stage who sang and wrote well, and laughed in his heart. A few days ago, Empress Zhao still looked sincerely scared, and the current Concubine Yue was like two people.

"Father," He Xuan cleared his throat and said with a straight face: "Erchen heard that witch tools were found in the Oriental Contouring Palace, which were not necessarily made by Dongfang Contouring, and there was no name written on it. Dongfang Xiurong has been in the harem for many years, and this matter is full of doubts, please think twice! ”

Bi Yue raised her eyebrows, a cold light shot out of her eyes, and said, "What does Princess Hexuan mean, the abolished concubine Dongfang clan is wronged?" ”

"That's it!" Emperor Zhou Ming's face was a little angry, and his tone was slightly displeased: "Although there is no name of the moon concubine on that filthy thing, it is exactly the same as the moon concubine, and the little wooden man still has the set of treasure hairpins that the widow gave to the moon concubine." If it's not the Moon Concubine who curses, who else can it be? ”

He Xuan gritted his teeth and said boldly: "Father, even if that little wooden man is indeed a concubine of the moon, it can't be proved that it was made by Dongfang Xiuxiang!" Dongfang conformal has been in the palace for so many years, and his temperament is the most docile and humble, and his father knows it! ”

"Who else could there be if it wasn't her?" Without waiting for Emperor Zhou Ming to speak, Bi Yue glanced at He Xuan contemptuously with the corner of her eyes, and then looked at Emperor Zhou Ming with a face full of grievances, and said: "She is not holding a grudge because of the incident last time, but the concubine just said what she saw with her own eyes, and she almost died in Huangquan, and she will never be able to see Your Majesty again!" ”

As she spoke, a line of tears flowed down Bi Yue's face, and she looked at Emperor Zhou Ming pitifully.

Emperor Zhou Ming's heart was softened by Bi Yue's crying, and he looked at He Xuan, who was kneeling below, and said: "Xuan'er, the widow knows that you are kind-hearted, and such a smoky thing as the harem should not have let you know." ”

Although the tone was full of love, the meaning of Emperor Zhou Ming's words was to let He Xuan leave this matter alone.

Seeing that Dongfang Xiurong was dead, He Xuan bit his lower lip, held back the anger towards Bi Yue in his heart, and knelt down and begged: "Father, since this is the case, Dongfang Xiurong will die alone, why let everyone who has waited for her go to the funeral?" ”

"Princess Hexuan, this is not true. They are sacrifices, they can be sacrificed to the beasts, they are worthy of death. Bi Yue once again mercilessly refuted He Xuan's proposal, the expression on his face was solemn and sacred, as if he was doing something great.

He Xuan raised her head and looked at Bi Yue's eyes with a bottomless coldness, she was full of anger at this woman who killed innocents indiscriminately.

"Xuan'er," Emperor Zhou Ming's tone carried a hint of hidden joy, and said, "You haven't seen this divine beast yet, have you?" Today, you came by coincidence, sit next to your father and watch it! ”

Because of his curiosity about what the so-called divine beast looked like, coupled with the last resort at the moment, He Xuan had no choice but to get up and slowly sit down on the seat of Emperor Zhou Ming's head, waiting to see this sacred living sacrifice.

So, the palace man pulled up the Dongfang contouring who was tied up with five flowers on the ground, and when the latter left, He Xuan seemed to feel her grateful gaze, and then looked closely, but only saw the empty eyes.

Dongfang Contouring was carefully placed by the palace people on the edge of the high platform next to the water storage tank, and then a mage-like person took out a dagger with a golden handle, cut Dongfang Contour's arm, took a brass container covered with gluttonous patterns, and squeezed the blood flowing into the container.

He Xuan was like sitting on pins and needles, and she turned her head slightly, although she couldn't see Dongfang's facelift, she could imagine the pain.

After about a cup of tea, the mage had collected enough blood from the Oriental Contour, muttered something in his mouth, gestured with his fingers, slowly tilted the container, and poured the blood into the storage tank drop by drop. One turned around and galloped off the platform.

He Xuan looked carefully at the calm water storage tank, and his hands unconsciously tightened his sleeves.

Suddenly, the water splashed, and a pitch-black behemoth burst out of the water at a very fast speed, opened its bloody mouth, and when it fell from the sky, it took away the Oriental Contouring on the edge of the storage tank, leaving only a terrible scream that pierced the afterglow of the setting sun and reached everyone's ears.

He Xuan froze, and his mind kept repeating the appearance of four rows of sharp teeth when he opened his big mouth, and the teeth were glued with a disgusting green liquid.

Seeing that Dongfang Xiu had been dragged into the water by the divine beast and disappeared, the mage standing below waved his hand and continued to mutter, while the palace people dragged the remaining dozens of eunuchs and palace maids over and threw them into the storage pool one after another.

Bi Yue chuckled lightly twice, and instructed the palace man in charge: "Don't forget to change the water for the divine beast tomorrow morning, it loves to be clean." ”

He Xuan only felt her brain buzzing, as if all that was happening in front of her was not true, as if it was one of her nightmares.

She pinched her palm fiercely, and when she opened her eyes again, it was still the Qionghua platform full of Qionghua flowers and green leaves, and her father and the graceful woman were still sitting on it.

I don't know when, Hexuan, who couldn't calm down for a long time, had already walked on the way back to Zhaohua Palace.

This magnificent Qionghua Terrace shines brightly under the light of the setting sun, which is in stark contrast to the bloody sacrifice scene just now.

Could it be that all this is true?