The next day, Twelve got up early in the morning, the little milk bag was still nesting on the bed and spitting blisters, sleeping soundly, Lan Xin faced the wall sideways, snoring slightly, a night of cultivation, so that her muscles and bones all over her body had a sour feeling, moved her lower limbs, Twelve left the room softly, took a basin of warm water from the water room, after washing, entered the house with a basin, changed into a luxurious lilac robe, the patch on the chest was embroidered with dark stripes, wide sleeves and narrow waist, hair was raised high with a feather crown, and the feet were on black riding boots, the whole person looked extremely energetic and heroic。

The lobby of the post station was full of people, many people sat around the table drinking soju, happily discussing the finals that were about to start today, Twelve just came out of the room, and suddenly, the noise in the lobby seemed to be pressed by someone to freeze the button, and in an instant, it resumed its liveliness.

Twelve noticed that there were many people looking at her secretly, she looked at her strangely and there was nothing wrong with her dress, why did these people stare at her secretly?

There was an endless stream of people coming and going on the streets, and many street vendors had opened their shops early, standing at the door shouting, trying to open a shop.

Yun Ruoshui jumped and ran to the lobby, and when she saw Twelve, she immediately smiled, and Yun Ruohan behind her shook her head with a wry smile, with a helpless face: "Sister Ruyi, good morning." ”

"Early. Twelve nodded indifferently, her attitude was not intimate, but compared to her indifference the first time, it seemed a little closer, Yun Ruohan sat on the chair opposite her in her robe, and poured herself a cup of hot tea with a pot, "Are you nervous about seeing the emperor today?"

Twelve frowned slightly, and asked rhetorically, "Guess?"

"Probably not. Yun Ruohan also felt that her question was meaningless, yes, she had always been a master of art and bold, as if no one had ever been put in her eyes, even Mu Shaoqiu, who had experienced the legend and cultivated to a high level, she could disdain it, let alone just face the saint?

"It's a pity, if I can also reach the finals, I can accompany Sister Ruyi. Yun Ruoshui pouted, if it wasn't for the fact that before going down the mountain, her father and mother repeatedly ordered her not to participate in the tryouts, she would definitely be able to face the saint with Sister Ruyi now, maybe they could still take this opportunity to become friends?

The more Yun Ruoshui thought about it, her brain jumped extremely fast, she sat on the chair from time to time and covered her mouth and snickered a few times, and from time to time she frowned and looked resentful, like a silent pantomime.

The corners of Twelve's mouth twitched violently, taking his eyes off her, drinking tea, waiting for Lan Xin and Tomorrow to get up.

When Lan Xin got up, it was already a cup of tea, she hurriedly ran downstairs down the red lacquered wooden ladder, and said, "Miss, I'm sorry, I overslept." ”

"It's okay, eat breakfast first. Twelve hooked his fingers at the little milk bag that closed his eyes and came down from the wooden ladder crookedly, and the latter came to his senses, threw himself into her arms, turned over and sat on her lap, "The Lun family wants to eat buns, eat buns." He tugged at Twelve's cuffs and was coquettish.

Twelve did not refuse, put the bun in his hand, squinted, watched the little guy eat in small bites like a chicken pecking rice, and after the group finished eating breakfast, they walked to the palace unhurriedly, and many people could be seen along the way, walking towards the location of the palace, in front of the solemn palace gate, a group of soldiers wearing armor and armor blocked the way of the people with knives, and stood in place with murderous spirit, like a killing god!

Many people kept pushing and shoving, wanting to squeeze forward, they were eager to see who could represent Xuanwu in the Four Kingdoms this year!

Yun Ruoshui squeezed in front of her to open the way for Twelve, but unfortunately her petite body was almost squeezed into persimmons in the crowd, and the twelve's eyes were cold, if it went on like this, before the gathering time of the face saint, I am afraid it would be difficult for her to break through, handed the little milk bag to Yun Ruohan beside her, and she said, "Help me take care of it." ”

"No problem. Yun Ruohan responded.

Twelve took a slight breath, the fighting qi in the dantian was like a small whirlpool, rolling back and forth, a circle of Lang, fierce collision, a strong wind, rising from the feet of Twelve, Yun Ruohan fixed his eyes, his eyebrows twitched, and he quickly retreated to the side, and at the same time wrapped the fighting qi around his body, so as not to hurt his own people by mistake.

A majestic coercion rose from under her feet, and then scattered in all directions! Everywhere she went, everyone felt that a pressure from Mount Tai fell straight from the sky, plopping and plopping, many people could not resist this coercion, and fell to the ground one after another, but fortunately Twelve controlled the momentum, only exuding the strength of the third and fourth orders, and the crowd fell a large piece in an instant, and Twelve reached out to ask for the small milk bag back, and jumped over the ground and was wailing. The corpse of the people, step by step towards the palace gate, she walked extremely steadily with every step, even if the crowd under her feet was constantly begging for mercy and rolling, it did not attract her attention.

The soldiers at the gate of the palace looked at each other, they had been standing here since dawn, and they had seen many contestants standing out of the crowd in disarray, but none of them dared to rely on their strength in front of the palace gate like Twelve, and put pressure on the ordinary people.

"I'm sure they're thinking of playing you right now. Yun Ruohan smiled with a spring breeze on his face, shook the bone fan in his hand, and teased, Twelve snorted softly, the hum came from the nasal cavity, and there were several contestants standing outside the palace gate, and most of the twelve recognized that if someone greeted her, Twelve would definitely hang up a professional smile and return the salute.

"You can laugh too?" Yun Ruohan asked excitedly as if he had discovered the continent of surprise.

This is the most basic etiquette. Twelve said coldly, and in front of the soldiers on the road, he took out his number plate for the other party to review.

The soldier checked the number plate back and forth, and when he was sure that there was no problem, he turned sideways and gave way: "Please come in." ”

Twelve raised his head slightly, "Can you bring someone into the palace with you?"

"I'm sorry, the palace rules are strict, except for the contestants, no other unrelated people are allowed to enter the deep palace. The soldier said with a serious face.

Twelve silently, stuffed the unrelenting little milk bag to Lan Xin, she nodded at Yun Ruohan's brother and sister, and her lips squirmed twice: "Wait for me." ”

"Go early and come back early. Yun Ruohan said softly.

Yun Ruoshui looked excited, put her hands on her lips to make a trumpet shape, and shouted at the back of the twelve leaving: "Sister Ruyi, you are the best!" Her loud voice startled the palace gate that gradually opened, and the birds perched on the trunk flapped their wings frantically, flying above the blue sky, only a few feathers fell.

Twelve didn't look back, just raised his hand high and shook it in the air, as if in response, in an oath, in a provocation!

The palace, twelve is not the first time to come, but such a leisurely wandering, but the first time, along the palace gate of the Ai Qingshi road all the way forward, on both sides of the red paint high wall, gray tiles are lined up, high or low exquisite buildings are scattered, octagonal pavilion, water pavilion blue lake, in the purple and red flower garden, flowers are in full bloom, arbors into a forest, butterflies fly like wings, like a paradise scene, twelve took a deep breath of this sweet air, at the corner of the nine turn corridor, met a eunuch who looked in a hurry.

"Father-in-law," Twelve called loudly, "I don't know where to go from the imperial study?"

Today, she needs to go directly to the imperial study to be passed on by the eunuchs before she can see Emperor Xuanwu, and I don't know whether the people in the palace are intentional or unintentional, but they forgot to give the twelve eunuchs to lead the way, so that she was dizzy in this huge palace and couldn't find a way out.

The little eunuch made a palace salute respectfully, pointed to the tallest building in the east and said: "That is the imperial study, you go straight over, turn right, go straight, and you will arrive." ”

“xiexie。 Twelve took out a few gold coins from the money bag and handed them to the eunuch, and after parting, she followed the eunuch's guidance and walked to the east, along the way, she saw a lot of concubines who were hugged by the front and back, they were all dignified and beautiful, with different temperaments, some were charming, some were pure, some were noble, and some were low-key, but without exception, the smiles on their faces were a little false.

Twelve did not have the interest in talking to these concubines who ate people and did not spit out bones, she was in a hurry, dressed in men's clothes from the harem to the front of the imperial study, and carved the patterns of birds and beasts under the clouds, two red lacquered columns, standing under the eaves, hanging gilded plaques, the plaques read couplets, twelve stone stairs, each step on both sides of the stone pine potted plants, a row of murderous soldiers strictly guarded outside the imperial study.

"zhanzhu!" Twelve was just about to step up and raise her feet, a cold light broke through the air, and she subconsciously took half a step back, which was able to avoid the sword under the soldier's command!

Twelve raised his eyebrows coldly and stroked his wide sleeves: "I am Sima Ruyi, the martial artist who came to face the saint today." ”

The soldier scrutinized her from head to toe and let out a haughty snort through his nose, "Wait." ”

Twelve did not get angry because of his dog's attitude of looking down on people, just stood indifferently in place, looking ahead without squinting, the soldier knocked lightly on the door outside the imperial study, a eunuch with floating dust in his hand, walked out from inside, the two bowed their heads and talked a few words, the soldier ran down the stone steps, looked at Twelve: "The emperor is reviewing the folds, you wait here, and when the time comes, the emperor will call you in." ”

Twelve looked up at the red sun in the sky, it was simply morning, the sun was not hot, she closed her eyes, maintained the most standard military posture, stood under the imperial study, the wind blew past her ears, the footsteps sometimes approached, sometimes far away, many later people have seen the face of the sky, only Twelve, in front of everyone's eyes, against the sun punishment! An hour passed, she did not even frown, her figure did not move, as if it was a fossil! Rao was a few soldiers in charge of guarding her, and a sense of admiration rose unconsciously rose.

In fact, how did they know that Twelve seemed to be standing still, but in fact, the fighting qi in her body was rapidly absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and a huge air flow in the dantian was spinning and churning, and Twelve's attention was almost all on cultivation, where did she know how long she had been standing?

Anyway, the emperor asked her to wait, and she could only wait, and while waiting, she could still meditate and cultivate, so why not?