"Your Majesty, the queen asks to see you."

In front of the Purple Cloud Palace, where the door was closed, Gonggong Tao bowed his waist and whispered, and after a while, there were a few noises in the hall, and the low voice of Emperor Yao: "I am not feeling well, I am not seen." ”

"Queen, look at this...... Otherwise, you'll come back another day. Father-in-law Tao turned to the queen in embarrassment.

finally made up his mind to come to Ziyun Palace with his face, but Emperor Yao still ignored it as before, and the queen didn't want to be bored, so she waved her hand casually: "No need, he is willing to be imprisoned in the house with him, this palace is just here to see if he is still alive." Since he can still talk and lose his temper, Hongu is also relieved. ”

Gonggong Tao has followed Emperor Yao for many years, and is no stranger to the queen's pungent personality and mean words.

There are many fewer guards and eunuchs in the Ziyun Palace than before, and it looks cold and lonely as the Huanqing Palace, but the queen doesn't say it, but she feels puzzled in her heart, and when she smells a faint fragrance between her nose, she frowns, and can't help asking: "Tao Shihai, who is burning incense." I don't know if the emperor hates the smell of incense the most. ”

"Back to the queen's mother, this incense was ordered by the emperor, didn't you say a few days ago that there are little ghosts who always have nightmares. So the emperor let people burn some soothing incense, and hung a few bells to ward off evil spirits in the hall and outside the hall, and the wind tinkled together at night, and it sounded quite penetrating......"

The matter of Emperor Yao's request for the master to do the law has long been spread throughout the palace, and the queen naturally knows it, but this still can't calm her confusion about burning the incense hanging bell, so she stopped and turned around, and her eyes returned to the door of the inner hall: "No, no, even if the emperor wants to exorcise demons and ward off evil spirits, he will not choose this incense." Huzhu, you smell it, this is the smell of sandalwood. ”

The female officer sniffed carefully, and her face showed a puzzled expression: "It's true that the sandalwood fragrance is not wrong, but ...... Isn't the emperor allergic to sandalwood? The inner government didn't dare to choose sandalwood spices for the tables and cabinets, just because the emperor would be angry and have a headache when he smelled the scent of sandalwood."

"This、This is the scent of sandalwood." Tao Shihai also sniffled, but he was not sensitive to the taste, any fragrance that entered his nose was the same, and he couldn't tell it at all. Seeing that the queen and the female official looked determined, Tao Shihai was also a little flustered: "The emperor is allergic to sandalwood, and the queen doesn't say that the slave doesn't know that it's actually sandalwood that is burning, which is a big mistake." But it's really strange, this incense has been burning for more than a month, and I haven't heard the emperor say that it is uncomfortable, it is possible that it is an allergy and silent. ”

The queen didn't answer immediately, but looked around, only to see copper bells hanging on the eaves of Ziyun Palace, and when the wind blew, it was very noisy.

Emperor Yao is happy to be quiet, these copper bells should not exist.

"Tao Shihai, how long has it been since the emperor went out."

"It's been more than a month...... Almost two months. Anyway, Princess Qi'an didn't go out much when she was still in the south. Tao Shihai didn't understand what the queen meant, and while answering and peeking at the queen's face, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and the expression on that face that did not show age was rarely nervous and serious.

Taking a deep breath, the queen stretched out her hand to the female officer: "Hu Zhu, go find me a dagger or a short sword." ”

"Mother is going to ......." The female officer asked worriedly.

"Don't ask so much, just let you go to you." The queen lowered her face and scolded in a low voice, not only the female official, but also Gonggong Tao trembled, and a sense of foreboding suddenly appeared.

In addition to the guards and princes in the palace, no one else is allowed to bring soldiers, the only exception is the queen who was born in the general, and the queen gradually put down the practice of martial arts and swords after being grounded, and naturally no longer wears knives, how is this today. What's more, what is there to be so nervous about the queen, staring at the palace of the Emperor Yao, as if she is about to break through with a sword.

Gonggong Tao didn't dare me to ask, and the female official didn't dare, so he could only find a dagger and hand it to the queen, trembling as she watched her stride to the door of the palace, kicked the door open and broke in.

The dormitory has been closed for a long time, as soon as the door is opened, the white smoke immediately spirals out, and the sandalwood fragrance is strong and choking, not to mention the remote emperor, even the queen, who burns incense and worships the Buddha all the year round and is used to smelling the smell of incense. The inner hall is close at hand, and the sound of kicking the door when breaking in should have alarmed the people inside, but the inner hall has been silent, so far, the queen has been nine points sure that something happened to the emperor.

"Huaiyu." The queen clinged to the door of the inner hall and shouted in a low voice, nervous and unable to remember any honorific words, and directly called out the name of Emperor Yao, "Huaiyu, you are not inside." In response, Huaiyu. ”

A brass bell came from the inner sanctum, and if you listened closely, you could hear that the sound was different from the bells hanging from the eaves, and the rhythm was even more strange, one by one, as if it was about to crush people's hearts and lungs. The queen took a deep breath and breathed into the dantian, and finally got rid of the strange voice of the copper bell in her mind, and she raised her eyebrows and just wanted to rush in, but the voice of the emperor came from inside in time.

"It's okay, I'm just a little tired, the queen will go back."

After a pause in the hand on the door, the queen stopped: "That's it...... The concubine went back first, and the emperor took care of the dragon's body. ”

"Queen Lao is worried."

The queen slowly retreated, with an unpredictable strange smile on her face, a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes, and just as the inner hall was quiet again, her body suddenly moved, and after a loud bang, the door of the inner hall was also violently kicked open.

Something happened to him, she was sure.

Queen, care. Ever since he grounded her in the Huanqing Palace, since the day she laughed loudly and said that she would fight with him for the rest of his life, when had he spoken to her so gently.

"What demons and monsters are doing here. Get out of the palace," the sound was loud and loud, and when the wide sleeves of his coat were fanned away from the layers of smoke, the scene that appeared in front of the queen's eyes made her unbelievable, and the emperor sat on the couch intact, tilting his head slightly, just looking at her face to face.

He was alive, but his eyes were not disgusted and wary, but expectant and anxious, and his half-open mouth seemed to want to say something, but he couldn't make a sound, and he couldn't move.

Hurriedly glanced at the room, as if there was no one else, the queen hurriedly rushed to the side of the emperor, a heart hanging high, not paying the slightest attention to the silent closing of the door behind her.

"Huaiyu, Huaiyu. Huaiyu, you say something, don't scare me......" Holding Emperor Yao's stiff arm, the queen called out repeatedly, and her usual composure and calmness were gone. After calling for a long time, Emperor Yao's straight eyes finally moved slightly, and his stiff fingers were bent for a moment, and the queen subconsciously looked at his eyes, but saw from the reflection reflected by the black pupils, and behind her, a figure quietly approached.

The tense nerves regained their old feelings, and the queen of Yaoguo, who had also practiced martial arts and used swords and horses, quickly straightened up and slammed her elbow backwards. I only heard a dull ** with the crisp sound of something falling to the ground behind me, as if the remote emperor who was tightly bound by the invisible silk thread was suddenly released, and the dry big palm grabbed the queen's wrist, and with a fierce force, he pulled the queen aside.

"Tu'er, run away,"

The words that Emperor Haruka shouted with all his strength made the queen stunned, completely unable to believe that such a hoarse and weak voice came from his mouth.

He is the king of the land.

He is the monarch who stands on the mountains and rivers.

He is the peak that stands tall in the eyes of countless people.

He is the man in her heart that no one can ever defeat.

Now, he is so weak, it seems that his life has come to an end, and he only survives on the residual obsessions...... How could such a withered old man be him?

That reminder seemed to exhaust the strength of the Emperor, and when the arm hung down softly, the person who was attacked by the queen had already taken the opportunity to pick up the copper bell and hold it in his hand, and the bell rang, and the strange bell that grabbed people's hearts and souls echoed in the hall again, and the eyes of the Emperor Yao, who had finally recovered their brightness, also returned to dimness, and was dead, sluggish and numb.

"Ringtones." The queen muttered to herself and asked in a low voice, not expecting the other party to answer, and the dagger hidden in her sleeve went around in front of her, protecting the emperor without leaking. The sharp pair of phoenix eyes of the year stared at the mysterious person opposite, thinking back to the sandalwood and copper bells that should not appear in the Ziyun Palace and the remote emperor who had been closed for many days, the queen was finally able to string together a series of strange things: "Use the bell to manipulate other people's actions...... You are a member of the Wicans. ”

The mysterious man did not answer, his slightly erected chest silently acknowledged the queen's speculation, and a glimmer of light burst out from the eyes exposed under the black mask, and hatred and excitement were intertwined.

"More than ten years ago, the witch cult used this kind of magic to do evil, and the emperor ordered the entire witch clan to be killed in order to calm the people's hearts. It is true that the Wu clan uses the bell to control people's actions, and the queen has seen it with her own eyes more than ten years ago, but she does not dare to be careless, and moves in front of the emperor without a trace while talking around, using her body as a defensive shield. Raising his eyebrows, he sneered, and pointed the dagger at the mysterious man: "You are here to avenge the witch clan." Who helped you enter the palace, and who instructed you behind your back? ”

When the queen attacked in a hurry just now, she found that the mysterious man did not know kung fu, and there was no one else in the room, so it was very easy to subdue the mysterious man as long as she was not bewitched by the bell. But the strange thing was that the man was not afraid at all, but took a few steps forward with the dagger, and stopped less than five steps away from the Empress and the Emperor Yao, with a strange smile on the face that was exposed.

A peculiar aroma penetrated into the nose and penetrated into the internal organs, and by the time the queen realized that the smell had a dizzying effect, it was too late, her wrist was weak, and the dagger fell to the ground.

Gonggong Tao and the female official waited outside the hall for a long time and did not see the queen come out, and they vaguely heard a sound in the hall in the middle, but the door of the palace was closed, and no one dared to break in as much as the queen without the emperor's order, and the two of them were half dead. The ants on the hot pot were spinning around, and there was a sudden sound of steady footsteps outside the courtyard, and Gonggong Tao was stunned for a moment, and before he saw anyone appear, he panicked and pulled the female officer to kneel.

He is a slave who follows Emperor Yao all day long, and the most common thing to do is to bow his head or kneel, and the most seen and heard are the feet and footsteps of those high-ranking and powerful people, and he doesn't need anyone to appear, and Gonggong Tao can hear who the person is just from the footsteps.

And that person shouldn't have appeared in the palace at this moment.

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