Ten years of Hongyuan.

The capital was gloomy and bleak, the doors of every house were closed, and a silent and oppressive atmosphere hung over the old capital.

There was no support, no supplies, and all that awaited the more than 100,000 people in the city was the unresolved death date.

Li Yuan, the great master, looked out of the city, and the Turkic camp was less than twenty kilometers outside the city gate, and he saw countless military tents, as huge and oppressive as this black cloud. He knew that it would only be a matter of time before he broke through the capital and destroyed the last breath of Da Sheng's breath.

The Turks are warlike and bloodthirsty, and every time they conquer a city, they will kill people and slaughter cities in the city. Now the reason for not taking the capital is to watch them trap the beasts and fight, so as to have fun, and the capital will be self-defeating in less than a month.

Li Yuan slowly walked down the stargazing platform, this is his thirtieth year as a national teacher, from the prime of life to the current dying old man, looking back on the past, thirty years, the rise and fall of a dynasty is here with a flick of a finger? He asked himself, but he couldn't get an answer.

He stood on the steps of the stargazing platform, looked back at the devastated mountains and rivers one last time, as if he thought of something, and resolutely walked back to the deduction room.

It's night.

The candle flame in the deduction room was not extinguished, and Li Yuan's wife, Hua, pushed the door in.

Seeing the complex magic circle on the ground and the blue flame of gas in the alchemy furnace, she exclaimed, and quickly calmed down and lowered her voice and said, "Morning and twilight techniques? Xianggong, do you know what you are doing? ”

Li Yuan didn't raise his head, and continued to trace the magic circle. Hua Shi knew that he had made up his mind, so she had to stand quietly and wait, she only knew that the Twilight Technique was one of the ten forbidden techniques, but she did not know the huge cost of launching the Twilight Technique.

There was silence in the room, except for the sound of brushes rubbing against the floor.

Half a day.

Li Yuan said, "The old man naturally knows that instead of sitting and waiting to be killed, it is better to use the forbidden technique now, even if there is hope to seek a glimmer of life, and the current situation, the old man is also a member of the fuel!" He said with a pained look.

"Xianggong!" Fahrenheit stepped forward and wanted to relieve Li Yuan, but he waved his hand so that Fahrenheit didn't have to say much.

Thirteen years ago, when the dispute over the crown prince spread throughout the imperial court, Li Yuan, on behalf of Qin Tianjian, joined the henchmen of the current emperor, the former fifth prince, and served him.

Who would have thought that since the succession to the throne, the five princes were plotted by traitors, lingering on the sickbed, and then the internal turmoil in the court, the eunuch party set up the second factory in the east and west, and wantonly framed loyal ministers.

The dawn and twilight technique that Li Yuan is launching now is the technique of time reversal, the caster cannot go back to the past time by himself, he can only choose the person who matches the eight characters of his birth date to act on his behalf, using the eight characters of the teleported person as a guide, and the items of a certain era in the past are used as the medium, no matter where the teleported person is at the moment, or whether they are still in the world, they can be cast with this technique.

And once the teleportation is complete, the caster will sink into the Infernal Hell forever, and will not enter the cycle of reincarnation, at the cost.

Therefore, the Morning and Dusk Technique is the first of the ten forbidden techniques, and the Flesh and Bone Technique of the Living Dead is the second.

"Xianggong, there is already a favorite candidate? The average person would be embarrassed to do this," Fahrenheit asked.

"Nanyu from Yongzhou, she has to be."

"Nanyu, she's a good boy, it's a pity that something like that happened."

"She is a good student, the old man has taught so many students in the Qin Heavenly Prison, she is the most aura and the most square," Li Yuan said, "It's a pity that ....."

With this sound, the room fell silent again.

The night was dark, Fahrenheit frowned, her eyes traced Li Yuan inch by inch, with the completion of the magic circle, Li Yuan had sent someone to fetch the jade that Nan Yu had left in Qin Tianjian before his death, only the token of positioning time.

She untied the blood jade pomegranate jade pendant on her waist and handed it to Li Yuan, "This jade pendant was received when the concubine returned to her mother's house fifteen years ago, and it was carved by a local craftsman in Yaoshan for half a year, so you can take it as a token." ”

Li Yuan took the jade pendant, held it in his hand carefully and looked at it for a moment, and then put it in the magic circle. The color of the blood jade is rich, and the pomegranate seeds are as fresh as if they have just been plucked from the tree.

"Pomegranate jade pendant, many sons and many blessings, heh....." Li Yuan looked at the jade pendant and smiled bitterly, he stood up and gently hugged Hua's family, "Qin Niang, can you blame me?" ”

Li Yuan and Fahrenheit have been married for decades, but they have no children, and Li Yuan knows that she likes children. But he is a national teacher, and he understands the heavenly machine at the cost of having no queen.

Fahrenheit shook her head gently, "Xianggong, I can always be by your side, and the concubine is content," she knew that it was a gift from God to be able to know each other, and she didn't dare to ask for more.

The formation had been activated, and Li Yuan felt that the life on his body was speeding up, and he asked Hua to sit in the pavilion in the courtyard with him.

Li Yuan faced the east, stubbornly holding his breath, wanting to wait until the sun rose. As his body became weaker and weaker, he knew that the formation was about to be completed.

Finally, he saw the morning light.

Hua felt his breathing getting weaker and weaker, and tears fell like rain in an instant, "Xianggong, if there is an afterlife, the concubine is willing to ....."

Li Yuan knew that he would not have an afterlife, and that only Infernal Hell awaited him. He was so weak that he couldn't speak, so he had to look back at Fahrenheit in pain and shake his head gently.

He used his last strength to hold her hand back, "If there is an afterlife, you don't want to meet me again," this is the only wish of one of the greatest national teachers after the founding of Dasheng before he died.

The formation was complete, the sky was bright, and he finally saw the sun of a new day.

Ying Xi twenty-five years, autumn.

For the first time, Nanyu returned to Beijing with his father Yongzhou Jiedu to report to Beijing and lived in a house in the south of the city.

The capital is not as cold and dry as Yongzhou.

This is the third time she has been caught in a cold and fell asleep indoors, "It seems that it is not with the climate here in the capital, I really hope that I can go back to Yongzhou as soon as possible", Nanyu shrank in the quilt before going to sleep, thinking in a daze.

It's been two days since I woke up.

Straight up and pushed open the window, the howling cold wind immediately made her eyes narrow, "It's good, it's back again," she looked straight out the window, "what year is it?" It's really sad to live in the days below, it's always black, it's black everywhere," Nanyu thought.

She looked down and saw that there was really a pomegranate jade pendant on her body, and she was relieved, "It was the teacher who changed me back to the world." ”

I don't know how long she has been wandering alone in the Infernal Hell, she saw her former teacher Li Yuan in the dark, the master and apprentice were speechless when they met again, why did the teacher get so old, Nan Yu just wanted to speak, but was reminded by the burning pain in her throat that her throat was broken, and it was destroyed by smoke in the fire that took her life.

Li Yuan also found her, stuffed the jade pendant that emitted a glimmer of light in the darkness into her hand, patted Nanyu's shoulder gently, and waited until she woke up again and returned to the world.

Nanyu was speechless for a long time, standing straight at the window, and it was not until the treetops on the moon that she simply freshened up.

Looking at himself in front of the mirror, he is ten years old, his face lines are soft, his lips are slightly pursed, he is a little dry and peeling because he has not drunk water for two consecutive days, but his eyes are very discordant, and he is not an ancient well without waves that does not belong to this age.

Seeing the lights in Nanyu's house, the maid Xiangru hurriedly ran in and said, "Miss, you have finally woken up, the slave maid will go and call Madame, and then the small kitchen will cook you some food." ”

"Xiangru?" Nanyu looked at her, Xiangru was slightly older than Nanyu, they grew up together since childhood, they were the only daughter of the cook Aunt Yang, and the family worked in the Nan family.

Nanyu looked at her cardamom appearance at the moment, but her mind kept recalling all kinds of things in her previous life.

Since the whole family was exiled to Qingzhou in the north, he was favored by a local tyrant and a bad gentry, and wanted to be forcibly accepted as a concubine.

It is even more futile to report to the official, the local government is turning a blind eye, after all, the Nan family was exiled for offending the people of Dongchang, why bother to touch the head for them?

In the end, it was Xiangru who decided to marry instead of Nanyu, who knew that the local tyrant and inferior gentry actually beat Xiangru to death after marriage, and transported a roll of straw mats to the mass grave.

At that time, it was a few days after Nanyu heard about this, and she went to rummage through Xiangru's corpses one by one in the mass grave, and when she found it, she saw that Xiangru's corpse was full of scars, and some places were even more boneless.

She sat with the body until dawn, and finally dropped the last piece of jewelry on her body for Xiangru to be buried.

Probably because of the inhalation of corpse qi, or maybe it was too much worry, since Xiangru's death, his body was not as good as before, and he had a splitting headache at every turn.

The memory came to an abrupt end here, and she didn't want to think about it anymore, when her mother Xue Wan came over.

Xue Wan's face is like a silver plate, a pair of phoenix eyes are not angry and self-assured, she is Nan Yuanshan's wife, since the two became husband and wife, Nan Yuanshan has never taken a concubine, and only has one daughter, which is Nan Yu.

"Pingzhen, are you feeling better?" Xue Wan asked.

Nanyu, the word is true.

"Mother, I'm much better, I can get out of bed and move," Nan Yu replied with a smile and pounced on Xue Wan.

Xue Wan touched her hair, and held her hand again to ask a lot, "I still love to nagging as before, why didn't I think my mother cared about me so much before?" Nanyu couldn't help but reddened her eyes when she thought about it.

"You kid, why are you crying so well?" Xue Wan picked up a handkerchief to wipe away the tears on Nanyu's cheeks.

"It's nothing, mother, I've just been sick for too long, and I'm happy to be sick now." Nanyu wanted to say with a smile, but showed a smile that was sadder than crying.

The mother and daughter chatted again, Xiangru came in with chicken soup, Xue Wan saw that it was late at night before she was reluctant to leave Nanyu's house, and told Xiangru to watch Nanyu finish drinking and then rest.

Nanyu took the bowl and put it on the table, but got up and pulled Xiangru to her jewelry box, picked up one of the pairs of pearl gourd filigree earrings and handed them to her, and said, "Sister Xiangru, I forgot to give you a gift on your birthday this year, you keep these earrings, I see the pearls lining you." ”

"Miss, these earrings are too valuable, the slave can't afford to keep them," Xiangru said.

Nanyu knew that Xiangru liked pearls, so she said, "If I ask you to take it, you will take it, and if you don't accept it, I won't drink chicken soup," she pretended to be angry and walked back to the table, don't look at her.

"Good young lady, how long have you been sick, the chicken soup was drunk while it was hot, and the slave maid accepted it, thank you," Xiangru saw this, so she had no choice but to put the earrings into her personal purse and walked over.

Nanyu saw that Xiangru was still standing next to her, knowing that she would not be relieved until she had finished drinking, and after drinking three or two sips, Xiangru was relieved to leave.

In the dark, Nan Yu half leaned on the bed and fell into deep thought, "It should be Ying Xi's twenty-fifth year now, what does the teacher want me to do at such a big price to exchange me back to the world?" ”