The sound of smoke and incense revealed a hint of surprise, and when he heard the sound, Dongfang Hong raised his eyes.

Following the cigarette fingers, he saw four subordinates of the Prime Minister's Mansion, jointly carrying a stretcher, covered with a white cloth, like a dead body. I don't know which unlucky maid or servant died.

Dongfang Hong replied in a low voice: "It's nothing. It's normal for a big family to die on weekdays. They must have carried the body to bury it. ”

Yanxiang didn't agree with Dongfanghong's statement, she was full of curiosity about everything: "Let's go over and have a look." ”

"What is there to see? We are here to investigate Xia He's life experience, not to gossip. Dongfang Hong's words were like a basin of cold water, poured on the incense.

It's just that this basin of cold water did not extinguish the curiosity of the smoke at all.

"But I really want to see it!" Cigarette insists on his own views and refuses to compromise. She suddenly had an idea: "Brother Dongfang, you can go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to investigate by yourself." I'm going to follow those people and have a look. ”

"Are you sure you really want to go?" Dongfanghong deliberately sold a pass to whet her appetite.

Yanxiang felt that there was something in Dongfanghong's words, and couldn't help but ask a little blankly: "What?" I'm going to check it out. ”

Dongfanghong wanted to scare her and make her give up this idea. He pretended to be nonchalant and said in a flat tone, "Nothing." They must have carried the bodies to mass graves and threw them. ”

The words were very ordinary, but he deliberately bit the three words of the mass grave.

If you want to say that she is bold in cigarettes, she is indeed quite bold; If you want to say that she is timid, she is indeed quite timid at times. When she heard about the mass grave, she couldn't help but get goosebumps. Although she had never been there herself, she could imagine what a horror it was.

A trace of fear suddenly swelled up in her heart, and she had to give up this idea, if Dongfang Hong didn't accompany her, she wouldn't have the courage to go alone.

"Let's go." Dongfang Hong took the lead and led the incense around the walls of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The two of them lived under a tree, and the winter sun shone on the tree, casting it on the ground through the bare branches.

Even when the sun shines on my body, I don't feel the slightest warmth.

Dongfanghong and Yanxiang waited outside the wall, and did not climb over the wall to enter.

After waiting for a while, Yanxiang was a little anxious: "Brother Dongfang, why don't we go in yet?" ”

Dongfanghong patiently comforted her: "It's still early, let's wait until it's dark before going in, so it's not easy to be discovered." "Soft-spoken, sneaky feeling, like being a thief.

it! The temper of cigarettes is one point. She pursed her lips and complained dissatisfiedly: "Why didn't you say it earlier? If you have time to wait here, you might as well go to the mass grave with those four people. ”

Dongfang Hong was speechless, but there was nothing she could do. He smiled bitterly: "Why are you still thinking about this? The mass graves were deserted, overgrown with weeds, and even the air was filled with the smell of rotting corpses. That place, what is there to go? ”

Despite his best efforts to describe the horrors of the mass graves, the smoke was not intimidated. She was stubborn, and pleaded in a coquettish tone: "Brother Dongfang, you can accompany me to take a look." I just wanted to check it out, and I was really curious. ”

Somehow, Dongfang Hong thought of the opening of the coffin and the autopsy that happened in the back mountain of the Changshan faction at this time. That time, the three of them went to dig the grave of Xue Zhangmen, and when the coffin was opened, the smoke was so frightened that he fainted to the ground. For this reason, she also knocked a large bag on her forehead and bled out.

How did she heal the scar and forget the pain? The horror of the open coffin autopsy compared to the mass grave is simply a small river compared to the sea. I saw a dead body in a coffin, and the smoke was scared like this, and I still want to go to a mass grave? Let's save some effort!

Dongfang Hong was afraid that she would continue to hold on to the matter, and she didn't want to expose her scars. After pondering for a moment, he said, "That mass grave is full of corpses, birds and beasts, and it is a place full of stench and terror. Let's not go. ”

"Are you afraid?" Smoke blinked his eyes and marched him away.

Dongfanghong's chest straightened, and he said in a deep voice: "How could I be afraid? What is so scary about us being a head hunter and dealing with corpses all day long? He changed his tone and explained softly, "I'm doing it for your own good." ”

The subtext is, I'm worried about you.

Yanxiang was a little frightened, but he had to go. She was so excited by Dongfanghong, which strengthened her determination to go. She stubbornly said: "I'm not afraid, it's just to see the bones of dead people, I've experienced the experience of dying, how can anything scare me." ”

It's really funny to see the serious competition of Yanxiang. Dongfang Hong smiled: "Okay, I know you're bold, okay." ”

Yanxiang's eyes lit up, the corners of his mouth grinned, and he blurted out excitedly: "Then you agree to accompany me?" ”

If she wants to be serious, she doesn't have the courage to go alone.

"I didn't say that." Dongfanghong is also as strong as a cow.

Cigarette incense's face stiffened, and a puff of turbid air poured up. He pursed his lips and snorted coldly: "If my senior brother is here, he will definitely accompany me." ”

This time, it was Dongfang's turn to freeze and secretly roll his eyes. He was obviously injured internally, and he really couldn't stand the cigarette in front of him, and he couldn't mention Chu Tiankuo at every turn. He knew that she cared about Chu Tiankuo in her heart, and she didn't have to talk about it all day long, it was really shocking.

Injured to injured, seeing that Yanxiang wanted to go so much, he had to reluctantly agree.

"Let's go together, then." Dongfang Hong finally relented, he seemed very reluctant, and added: "Don't regret it. ”

Who's sorry to say otherwise.

Yanxiang smiled obediently: "Thank you, Brother Dongfang." She was still quite proud in her heart, thinking that she had mastered Dongfanghong's weaknesses. As long as she is in front of his senior brother, he will immediately obey. Knowing this, why did she bother so much to move the senior brother out directly, wouldn't it be done?

At that moment, the two walked side by side in the direction of the mass grave.

On the road, the problem of cigarettes can be described as varied.

"Brother Dongfang, how do you recognize the way to the mass grave?"

Dongfang Hong boasted about the sea: "The whole Fengcheng is so big, there are almost no places I don't know." ”

What a braggadocio! Yanxiang couldn't help but look up at the sky, trying to see if there was a cow flying in the sky.

"Brother Dongfanghong, how do you know that they carried people to the mass grave?" Because they followed all the way, they didn't see any trace of the four ministers, so Yanxiang had this question.

A trace of melancholy flashed in Dongfang Hong's eyes, and his expression was a little complicated: "Under normal circumstances, maids or maids will be discarded in mass graves after death. ”

The smoke was stunned and questioned: "Why?" The maid or the maid is so miserable? ”

Dongfang Hong was a little helpless: "Generally, if you anger the master, if you make the master unhappy, you are likely to be killed." In order to vent their hatred, they will throw away the corpses in mass graves and become birds and beasts. ”

It's horrible! Smoke Xiang listened bluntly: "Isn't it illegal to kill the maid?" It's cruel that people die and are thrown into the wild! ”

At this moment, in order to match her words, from the direction of the mass grave, a long and long scream was heard. This roar, with a long tail note, sounded like the howl of a pack of prime-aged wolves.

The smell of smoke was creepy.

Damn, the wolf is coming!

Yanxiang recognized that this was a wolf howl, and was frightened, and subconsciously stepped back and hit Dongfanghong's chest.

Dongfang Hong's heart was full of deer, he was a little excited, and he wanted to hug him, but he didn't do it. Taking advantage of people's danger is not the work of a righteous man and a gentleman.

The smoke quickly eased, and suddenly his face turned slightly red, not because he was shy because he bumped into Dongfang Hong, but because he was embarrassed by his timidity.

The two were very close, so close that they could hear each other's mentality, which made Dongfang Hong inexplicably restrained.

And the wolf howl did not stop, but the smoke did not care, and at this time her embarrassment overcame the fright in her heart.

Lian Hui's face flushed slightly, and in order to alleviate the embarrassment of the two, he teased: "How is it?" Still going? ”

Yanxiang thought to herself, she is also a person with fists and feet, and no matter how bad she is, she can use light skills to evacuate quickly. What's more, she still has Dongfang Hong, a master of martial arts, as a bodyguard, she is afraid of a ball?

So, she calmed down and continued to walk in the direction of the mass grave, and it was not her style to retreat.

Although Yanxiang did not answer, she had proved her attitude with her actions. Dongfanghong stepped forward quickly and walked in front of her.

He went to the front to explore the way first, and for this move, the smoke was a little moved, but his mouth was not impressed.

The wolf's howl did not disappear as the two of them gradually got closer, but became louder and louder. When I first heard the wolf howl, I was a little panicked, but after listening to it, I was not so afraid of the smoke incense.

Until she saw the tragic picture......

At the mass grave, a pack of wolves, about a dozen, was devouring human bodies. The wolves had blood on their beards, and they gnawed every piece of flesh on their bodies, and some of their bones were gnawed clean.

One or two crows landed on the wreckage, also wanting a piece of the pie.

Seeing this, Yanxiang only felt a flutter in his stomach, and he couldn't help but retch when he stood up. The picture is too bloody.

Dongfang Hong looked at it, and next to those corpses, there were clothes torn by wolves, which were the service of the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion. So it seems, the wolves bite the men to death and devour them. It's so cruel!

The sympathy and pity in his heart arose, and Dongfanghong regretted a little that he didn't listen to Yanxiang's words at first. If they had come along earlier, such a tragedy would not have happened.

It's winter, everything is dormant, and it's not easy for wolves to catch their prey. Hungry, they extended their claws to humans. It's just that they eat corpses, even living people, it's too ......

In the first year of Xingde, Hong Gaode proclaimed himself emperor, established the Great Western Kingdom, and set the capital of Fengcheng. In the early days of the establishment of the regime, the surrounding countries were eyeing the Great Western Kingdom and provoked wars for no reason. Before the expedition, Xu Guifei, the mother of Xigong, was 8 months pregnant. The emperor proposed an edict, if the prince was born, he would be named Hong Chengye, and the prince would be established, and if he was born a princess, he would be crowned Princess Changyu.

After Emperor Hong left the palace, Queen Xia made a plan to let Xu Guifei slip the fetus, who knows, the sky did not fulfill her wish, and the fetus in Xu Guifei's womb was born, and it actually survived.

"Your Majesty has already doted on Concubine Xu, and now, she has given birth to a prince again, and I see that our master and queen throne will not be able to be kept."

"Isn't it? Listening to the palace maid in the West Palace, the prince was born white and fat, very cute, his face resembled His Majesty, there was a righteousness between his eyebrows, and he must be a good emperor when he grows up. ”

This is the little palace maid in the queen's palace whispering in private.

Even if they don't talk about it, the Empress Xia knows that if she doesn't try to get rid of the prince, I'm afraid that life won't be better in the future.

She immediately summoned her elder brother Xiangye and Chu Xiang, the head of the imperial guard, to discuss countermeasures. They plotted to burn down the West Palace, which was carried out by General Chu.

At the critical moment, General Chu gave up the idea of harming the prince and exchanged his own son for the prince's exit from the palace.

Xu Guifei cried and cried, turned her heart sideways, picked up the hairpin, and used the tip of the hairpin to tattoo the word "heaven" on the prince's left shoulder. The stab is in the child's body, the pain is in the mother's heart, and after the stabbing is finished, Xu Guifei's painful liver and intestines are broken. She trembled and hung a jade pendant on the crown prince, which was given by the emperor himself, and there is only one in the world today.

Concubine Xu Guifei kowtowed to Chu Xiang, and said with tears in her eyes, "General Chu, please accept my three bows, your great kindness and great virtue, this palace will repay it in the next life." ”

"Niangniang, you can't help it, please get up ...... quickly" As he spoke, he heard footsteps outside, General Chu picked up the prince and hurriedly fled through the side door.

Xu Guifei fainted.

The person who came was the imperial doctor Feng Nanyang. Legend has it that this person was originally a man in the rivers and lakes, and his nickname was the fortune teller. He can pinch and calculate, not only has excellent medical skills, but also has extraordinary martial arts. He took away General Chu's son, performed light skills, shuttled freely in the palace, easily got rid of the pursuit of the palace guards, and left the city safely.

After Xia, he ordered people to burn down the West Palace, and Xu Guifei and a cadre were buried in the fire. During the inventory of the body, it was found that the body of a baby was missing. Plus General Chu Xiang's whereabouts are unknown. Empress Xia and Xiangye concluded that the prince was most likely taken away by Chu Xiang. So, Empress Xia secretly sent people to hunt down and kill General Chu Xiang.

In the fourth year of Xingde, the emperor returned triumphantly.

Xia Hou was shrewd and capable, and kept this matter a secret. Emperor Hong didn't believe that Xu Guifei really died in an accident. He often dreamed of the crown prince, and he has been sending people to investigate the matter secretly, but he has not been able to find out the truth, Chu Xiang disappeared, and Feng Nanyang also disappeared.

In the fifth year of Xingde, the queen gave birth to a son, and Emperor Hong named him Hong Cheng'an. The queen thought to herself, the emperor obviously did not have high hopes for this son. Empress Xia thought to herself, even if the emperor delayed issuing an edict and appointing a new crown prince, Emperor Rihong would die, and the throne would be her son's sooner or later. However, she still had some concerns, twenty-four years ago, she sent someone to hunt down and kill Chu Xiang, Chu Xiang was seriously injured and died, but the prince did not know who rescued him.

For more than 20 years, there has been no news of the prince. If the crown prince is still alive, then he will be the biggest threat to Hong Chengan's succession to the throne. Besides, once this matter is revealed, she and Xiangye will definitely be in trouble.

Emperor Hong Gaode reigned for 24 years, he worked hard, knew people well, the country was strong, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Emperor Hong grew old and missed his lost prince more and more, and finally fell ill.

Knowing that Emperor Hong was ill, Feng Nanyang sneaked into the palace to see the emperor.

"Bold Feng Nanyang, you are guilty, you have been hiding for more than 20 years, and I have been sending people to look for you and General Chu for more than 20 years. Do you know about Concubine Xu? Emperor Hong cried with joy when he saw him.