During the night, the snow finally stopped, after several days of snow.

But Fang Ziyu knew that the snow was only temporarily stopped, in order to brew a bigger and colder blizzard.

It will go on and on until the end of this winter, if there is really an end to this winter.

The night was already very deep, but Fang Ziyu didn't feel sleepy, she didn't want to sleep, and she didn't seem to be able to sleep. There were red candles lit in the room, but this good red candle couldn't illuminate the deep darkness in the gorgeous palace, Fang Ziyu looked out the window, she thought that in a few days it would be the day when Ye Hongjian and them left, she couldn't go, which made her very helpless and guilty.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh, and then immediately set her eyes on the book in front of her again.

Chen Xuanji gave her twenty days to memorize the things in this book one by one, although she didn't understand what this meant to Chen Xuanji, but she thought that if she could write down these useless things one day faster, then Chen Xuanji would give her freedom one day earlier, and if she was fast enough, she might be able to catch up with the decisive battle of Dayuan Mountain.

Life or death, she wants to be with that group of people. It seems that as long as they are together, nothing is so scary for Fang Ziyu anymore.

As soon as Fang Ziyu thought of this, she suddenly became motivated, she clenched her fists to cheer herself up, and muttered to herself: "Fang Ziyu, you can do it." ”

"You can. ”

It's just that Fang Ziyu, who was immersed in those boring books, didn't notice it, and a red figure stood silently outside the window and watched her for a while, before turning around and leaving silently.

......

And the red figure walked through the Changle Palace, her speed was not fast, but no one was aware of her presence whether it was the eunuchs patrolling the palace at night or the armor soldiers pacing back and forth outside the palace. She was like a ghost, wandering in the Changle Palace, and no one but herself could perceive her existence.

Soon she passed through the palace, and finally stopped in front of a courtyard gate.

"The jade bones are sad and misty, and the ice muscles have their own fairy wind. ”

"When the sea fairy is sent to explore the Fang Cong, the green-haired phoenix hangs upside down. ”

"Plain face is often powdery, and washing makeup does not fade lip redness. ”

"Gao Qing has been chasing the clouds, not dreaming with pear blossoms. ”

And in the courtyard gate, there was a man's low chant at that time, the red figure was slightly stunned, looked up in the direction of the courtyard gate, and saw a plaque hanging on the courtyard gate, with the words loquat garden written on it.

The red figure thought secretly, if she remembered correctly, this place should be the residence of the late Empress Chen Guo, Yan Yanyan. It's just that I heard that this place has long been sealed because of the rebellion of the Yan family, this order was given by Chen Xuanji himself, it stands to reason that it should be uninhabited inside, why is there a burst of singing inside at this moment?

This was a strange thing, of course, but before the doubt could be fully opened in the man's mind, a voice came from inside the courtyard gate.

"Since Uncle Hongzhu is here, why don't you come in and sit down. ”

Ye Hongjian, who was dressed in red, was stunned at that time, and then understood again, she stretched out her hand and slowly pushed open the courtyard door that had been dusty for outsiders for a long time, and the dust accumulated on the courtyard gate fell with her pushing, but before touching Ye Hongjian's clothes, it was scorched by the scorching sun that suddenly rose from Ye Hongjian's body, and turned into wisps of green smoke and dispersed.

Ye Hongjian was still unaware of this, and she looked at the courtyard with a calm brow.

Although after hearing the voice, she had already guessed who was in this courtyard, but when she saw the situation inside, she still couldn't help but feel a slight shock in her heart.

There was a large tree in the courtyard, the leaves of which had long since fallen in winter, and the branches were covered with a thick layer of snow, as if the whole tree was about to be bent completely.

And the thick white snow piled up under the tree, and a handsome man with white clothes and white hair next to the old tree on the snow, holding a pot of wine in one hand and gently placing it on the snow with one hand, was sitting next to the old tree at the moment, looking at Ye Hongjian with drunken eyes and smiling.

After the fall of Linglong Pavilion, there are not many people in this world who can still call Ye Hongjian a senior uncle, one Fang Ziyu, and the remaining one is the man in front of him - Chen Xuanji, the emperor of Chen State!

Chen Xuanji seemed to be very happy with Ye Hongjian's arrival, his cheeks were a little flushed, but the hand holding the wine bottle was raised high towards Ye Hongjian, he shook the wine bottle and said, "Uncle Shi came just in time, let's have a pot, okay?"

Ye Hongjian was silent and did not respond to Chen Xuanji's invitation, but his body still slowly walked towards Chen Xuanji at that time, stopped about half a foot away from him, and then sat there cross-legged like this.

Seeing this, Chen Xuanji's face smiled even more, he sat up straight and handed the wine jug to Ye Hongjian.

But Ye Hongjian stretched out his hand and pushed away the wine jug at that time, shook his head, but did not speak.

Chen Xuanji couldn't help but be stunned, but soon he reacted, and said in his mouth: "Uncle Shi's shouting, I almost forgot that Uncle Shi is also a woman, or Brother Xu's woman." ”

After saying this, Chen Xuanji's other hand suddenly stretched out and shook it towards the void, and there was a soft sound in the house in the courtyard at that time, and a thing flew out and fell into his hand at that time, but it was an unopened wine bottle, looking at the posture, Chen Xuanji seemed to be preparing a lot of such drinks here.

This time, in the face of the wine jug he handed over, Ye Hongjian did not refuse again.

She took the thing, lifted the seal on it, and then raised her head and took a sip, with a heroic gesture, without the pretentiousness of an ordinary woman.

"Uncle Shi is really a heroine among women, and women don't let them have eyebrows!" Chen Xuanji immediately laughed when he saw this.

"I drank the wine. But Ye Hongjian didn't have the slightest intention of laughing with Chen Xuanji, she put down the wine jug in her hand, looked at Chen Xuanji and said, "Let's talk about business." ”

But Chen Xuanji turned a deaf ear to this, and he still said with a hazy smile: "Speaking of which, although I and my uncle are both disciples, it seems that we have never had the opportunity to drink with my uncle, today you and I..."

Halfway through this, Chen Xuanji stopped, not because he didn't know how to speak, but because Ye Hongjian's eyebrows suddenly surged with a burst of anger at that time, Chen Xuanji knew that if he was so concerned, I was afraid that this gathering would have to break up unhappily.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Chen Xuanji really needed someone to say something to relieve the depression in his heart after coming to Chen Guo.

"Ziyu said that you made her memorize a lot of inexplicable things, most of which are some customs and customs, or anecdotes of officials of the Chen State, I went to take a look today, and the historical materials of thousands of years ago in this world have also been piled up in front of her desk, let's talk about it, what do you want to do? Why did Xiao Han agree to this marriage, and even help you mediate in it?" Ye Hongjian saw that Chen Xuanji was silent, so he asked at that time.

When Chen Xuanji heard this, he slowly stood up at that time.

The snow fell again, and the white snow fell on his white hair and white clothes, almost merging with him, and he paced back and forth around the ancient tree, and the picture was as beautiful as if it were a scene in a story—the white-clothed immortals circled the ancient vines, and the city was full of pear blossoms.

"This is the dormitory of a queen on me. ”

And that's when he began to murmur to himself.

"Her name is Yan Yanyan, their Yan family is a big family of the Chen State, with wealth that rivals the wealth of the country, and their business houses are almost everywhere in the Chen Kingdom, and the fields involved almost cover all walks of life that can be involved. ”

"At that time, I had just ascended the throne, but Meng Ke, that is, my uncle, was in charge of the government, and although I was called Emperor Chen, I did not have much power in my hands. Even after ascending the throne, when they toured Jinling City, the people only knew the Qin King Meng Ke, and they didn't know what I was. ”

"I didn't care about this imperial family matter, I stayed very well in Linglong Pavilion, there was a teacher who treated me as his own, a fellow disciple who treated me like a brother, and more... There are even more subfish..."

"They have to pull me back, what are you doing as Emperor Chen, but what about after you do it? It didn't take long for me to meet Daxia to send troops to Changwuguan, but Meng Ke said that he couldn't get sick, forcing me to transfer my uncle Chen Ping to Changwuguan, so Changwuguan fought a battle, and the uncle of the clan and the more than 100,000 troops in his hands were all killed. Only then did Munch strike to repel Cui Ting. And I, Chen Guo, are here, except for the tiger and wolf rider in his Munch's hands, there is no usable soldier, at this time, Chen Guo seems to be surnamed Chen, but in fact he has the surname Meng. ”

"Chen Tingzhu, that is, my father. I didn't really have a good impression of him, he killed my mother with his own hands, but when I saw lying on the sickbed and holding his last breath just to finish the last paragraph with me, I still couldn't help but tremble, and no amount of hatred dissipated a lot at that time. What's more, the longer I sat in this position, the more I understood what he was doing in the first place. ”

"There is no luck in the emperor's family. ”

I don't know if it's because he drank too much, Chen Xuanji muttered a lot, and finally sighed again, but Ye Hongjian couldn't hear it, let alone understand what he wanted to express in his words.

For this reason, Ye Hongjian couldn't help frowning, but Chen Xuanji seemed to be completely silent in his own memories, and he still kept talking to himself.

"Since I am sitting in this position, for the sake of self-preservation and the throne of the emperor, I can't let Munch go on like this after all. I didn't want to do it, so he forced me to do it. So I found the Yan family, married Yan Yanyan into the palace, and gave her the position of the queen of Chen State, and in return, the Yan family completely stood on my side, whether it was financial or human resources, they all helped each other. That head of the Yan family even conjured up a full 200,000 elite army for me in just one month. ”

"Everything seems to be developing well at this time, I have military power in my hands, and Chen Guo is no longer the monopoly of the Meng family. ”

"But Munch's city is too deep, and everything I did didn't escape his eyes, and he forced me, step by step. When Cui Ting committed it again, I wanted to isolate him in front of Changwu Pass like he did when he killed his uncle, and when others were sleepy and tired, I would annihilate him in one fell swoop, but I didn't want him to have already cultivated into an immortal, not only guarded Changwu Pass, but the first thing he did when the class teacher returned to the dynasty was to ask me about the teacher. I have no choice but to retreat everything to the Yan family, Yan Yan... It was also at that time that he died... I killed it with my own hands. ”

Ye Hongjian had only heard about the rebellion of the first empress of Chen State, although he knew that there must be some imperial power struggles mixed with this, but he never thought that this would be done by Chen Xuanji himself.

It seemed that he also felt the horror and incomprehension in Ye Hongjian's gaze, and the smile on Chen Xuanji's face also became a little bitter at that time.

He stretched out his finger and pointed to the door in the courtyard, which was still a good conversation, and said again: "This is Yanyan's dormitory, in fact, I thought about it carefully, I really don't like her." Marrying her is nothing more than borrowing the power of the Yan family. But she seems to really like me. ”

"I thought about it alone for a long time that day, thinking about how to settle Munch's accusations, and how to calm the turmoil with the least loss. Yanyan's words reminded me, and she often comforted me, saying that as long as I lived, I would have a chance. I'm young, but Munch is old, well, Munch hasn't revealed his true face at that time, and we don't know that he has become an immortal. Yanyan asked me to wait with peace of mind, one day I will wait for that opportunity, as long as I am alive, and she also said that she is willing to help me, willing to help me desperately. ”

So I thought about it all night, and I came up with this idea. When I made up my mind to come here, Yanyan greeted me with a smile as usual, and asked me if I had thought of a way. I told her seriously that I had thought of it, and she asked me what I could do..."

Chen Xuanji, who said this, paused for a while, I don't know if it was an illusion, Ye Hongjian felt that Chen Xuanji's body seemed to be trembling at this moment, a trembling that was difficult to contain with slight worry.

Chen Xuanji stretched out his hands and shook them in the void, there was nothing in his hands, but his knuckles were a little white, and the exposed snow-white arms also surfaced with green tendons that had erupted due to excessive force.

Chen Xuanji's eyes were red, and the look in his eyes was crazy and distorted.

At that time, a voice like a demon's whisper came out of his mouth: "I just choked her and killed her in her fearful and incomprehensible gaze." ”

Ye Hongjian's heart was stunned for a while, she had also been in some dilemma, she had not made a decision that satisfied her at that time, she could somewhat understand some of the pain in Chen Xuanji's heart at this moment, of course, this understanding did not mean that she agreed with Chen Xuanji's almost ruthless approach.

She looked at Chen Xuanji silently, wanting to say something, but she felt that saying anything seemed so inappropriate at this time.

It wasn't until a long time later that Chen Xuanji sat down on the ground again.

He lifted the flask again, and drank it up, and he drank it so quickly and in such a hurry that the stains of wine continued to pour down his lips and soak through his clothes, as if only in this way could he extinguish the confusion and uneasiness that was churning in his heart at the moment.

When he had drunk all the wine in the jug, he spoke again.

But both his tone and the look on his face became a little darker at this moment.

"This is not a very difficult thing, after all, Yan Yan doesn't have much cultivation, so she naturally doesn't have much room for resistance in front of me. But the hard part..."

"Since the Yan family has been crowned with the great crime of framing Meng Ke for rebellion, one Yan Yanyan is naturally not enough to calm down the incident. So the entire Yan family has to accompany her to the funeral, I sent someone to copy the Yan family, first, to let those things that should not appear in Munch's eyes appear in his eyes, and secondly, I can also take over some of the Yan family's forces as much as possible, so that I can somewhat recover the loss of this car guard. As a result, a large number of secret letters about the correspondence between the Yan family and other places were sent to the palace, and I looked through them one by one, only to find that the Yan family was far from being as simple as I imagined. ”

"In fact, if you think about it, it is true, when I was forced to flee to the Great Zhou more than ten years ago, the Yan family at that time was just one of the many inconspicuous clans in Jinling City, without the support of the court, how could a small clan grow to such a point in more than ten years. There is a secret behind it, and there is also a behemoth that is more terrifying than the Chen Kingdom, the Great Zhou, and even the Great Xia. ”

When Ye Hongjian heard this, she stared at Chen Xuanji, who looked crazy, and her heart was shocked, and she seemed to have thought of something at that time, and subconsciously blurted out: "You mean Senluo Palace?"

Chen Xuanji smiled when he heard this, and he praised loudly: "Uncle Bingxue is smart, and he really can't hide anything from Uncle Shi." ”

This kind of praise is somewhat hypocritical, after all, the power of the three kingdoms of Xia, Zhou and Chen in the world today is only one of them, Chen Xuanji said At this point, anyone can probably guess one or two of them.

"The Yan family is the force that has eroded into the Chen Kingdom from the Senluo Palace, and they have developed secretly, and they have reached this point in just over ten years, but Uncle Shi should also know that whether it is rooted in the Great Zhou or the Great Xia, the Senluo Hall is intertwined, not to mention that the elimination of them is that most people only learned about its power after it surfaced on its own. Why is the power in the Chen Kingdom so weak and vulnerable?"

"Aside from the huge number of Shura, even if it is a giant of one party's forces, most of them will also send one of the ten halls of Yama to supervise, this Yama's ability uncle should also know that he has to be a master of the half-step immortal realm, at that time, I was worthy of the Great Yan Realm, how could I easily pull out the Sen Luo Hall from the Chen country..."

Chen Xuanji's question, which made Ye Hongjian couldn't help but be stunned again, this is indeed a question, in terms of Sen Luodian's usual style of acting, it is indeed incredible that Chen Xuanji's cultivation at that time and the power in his hands would want to do this.

"Senluo Hall has been operating in Chen Country for more than ten years, and the accumulated financial and material resources are not listed for the time being, this Shura alone has 200,000 yuan, but unfortunately they gave me these 200,000 yuan, and they really gave it to me, and the 200,000 Shura only obeyed me, and since then, Senluo Hall has only left various caravans and intertwined intelligence networks in Chen State. Therefore, this Sen Luo Hall is powerful in other countries, but it seems to be intertwined in Chen State, but in fact, it has no combat power at all. ”

"However, how could Sen Luo Dian be so relieved to hand over this 200,000 army to you?" Ye Hongjian couldn't help but be a little puzzled when he heard this, how could he do such a thing with Sen Luo Dian's style of acting.

Chen Xuanji seemed to have expected Ye Hongjian to ask this question, he smiled faintly, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the dead tree beside him, his eyes were gentle, and he muttered in his mouth: "Because of the Yama Luo who is in charge of Chen Guo's half-step immortal realm..."

"It's called Yan Yanyan. ”