By the time Ye Pei came out again, she had almost fainted. Ye Pei quickly used the method of pranayama to protect his true qi and lifeline, and then meditated to adjust his breathing, slowly exhaling the poisonous gas.

In the dead of night, the cold wind was blowing, and it didn't take half an hour to blow Ye Pei to wake up completely.

While meditating, she pondered how her whereabouts had been revealed, and why did the Khitan warriors use such a method to kill themselves?

Ye Pei sat under the pillar and did not move, and he did not hear anyone else in the Chongde Hall come out.

At this time, two palace people came from far and near carrying white lanterns.

"You go over there and see if you're dead."

"I don't dare, or let's go together."

"Oh, you coward, you're all dead, what are you afraid of?"

"What if there was one alive?"

"How so? When will their Rong Jia's 'Demon Slash' of the dead soldier leave a living mouth? ”

"Let's go together."

"If you have it, you can go one by one."

Ye Pei heard the two palace people talking as they walked. After the two of them walked around the hall and saw that there was no one alive, they were relieved to prepare to leave.

Just as they walked down the steps and passed in front of Ye Pei, Ye Pei jumped up and beat one of them to the ground.

The other was so frightened that he said, "Ah, ghost! ”

Ye Pei waved the fish dragon whip and pulled the person who was about to escape back.

That person was already timid, and when he saw Ye Pei kneeling on the ground and kowtowing like pounding garlic: "Lord Yama spares his life, the villain never does anything that hurts the heavens and reason, this is all in accordance with orders, please spare the villain." Ye Pei sneered.

"You look up!"

"The villain doesn't dare to see the true face of Lord Yama." The man still kept his eyes closed.

"Open your eyes!" Ye Pei shouted.

The frightened man was excited, and he looked up and looked at Ye Pei.

"Do you think I'm a human or a ghost?" Ye Pei asked.

"Naturally, it's a ghost!" As if realizing something, "No, no, no, you're human, oh no, it's God, it's God!" ”

"Yes, I am a life-seeking impermanence under Lord Yama, and I am here to take your life. You answer my question first, if you say it well, I can let you go, if you tell a lie, I will take you back and press you into the eighteen layers of hell! ”

The man kowtowed again and said, "Yes, yes, Lord Suo, the villain must answer truthfully." ”

Ye Pei asked, "What is the 'Demon Slash' you just said?" ”

"It is a kind of poisonous powder often used by the dead soldiers of Rongjia, and if they encounter an enemy that they cannot subdue, they will use this poisonous powder to die with the enemy. It is said that the gods and ghosts will inevitably die when they see it, so it is named the Demon Slash. ”

"Aren't they afraid of death?"

"They are Rong Jia's dead soldiers, how can they be afraid of death?"

"What is the Rong Jia Dead?"

"It's the dead soldiers who were only loyal to the emperor cultivated in the palace, and I heard that they were all raised by orphans who were picked up and raised since childhood, and they were instilled with the concept of seeing death as home, and they were all not afraid of death. Even if one or two greedy people do not complete their mission and escape, they will be chased back and executed by the Lord. ”

Ye Pei thought of what Rong Jia had just said, so he asked, "Is Rong Li Shali also Rong Jia?" ”

"Yes, he is not only a Rongjia dead soldier, but also the number one warrior of our Khitan."

"How did he die?"

"I heard that he violated the decree of the Empress Dowager Fatian and was given the punishment of cannon branding and died."

Ye Pei listened to the hairs on his back and stood up roots, "Cannon branding to death!" What a vicious woman! Ye Pei knew that this cannon burning punishment was an idea that Daji, the concubine of King Yin, came up with, tying the living people to the copper pillar, and burning the fire in the hollow copper pillar, so that the people on the pillar were burned to death, and they were extremely painful before they died.

This kind of criminal law is extremely cruel and bloody, and no one has used it again in all dynasties. And now this Fatian Empress Dowager is actually using such capital punishment, which is really cruel.

"When Narong Lisha was executed, the Queen Mother ordered all the palace people and Khitan warriors to watch, it was really miserable." When the people of the palace said this, their legs trembled with fright.

Ye Peixin said, this is killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys.

Ye Pei raised his eyes and looked around, but still didn't see a palace attendant coming again, so he asked, "Why doesn't this Chongde Palace even have a palace attendant?" ”

"There were not many palace people in the old palace of Shangjing, because of the secret decree of the Empress Dowager Fatian, someone will come to rescue the Empress Dowager Qi Tian today and tomorrow, so Rong Jia's dead man has already prepared for an ambush, and we palace people don't want to die, and no one wants to come."

"Then you and that person," Ye Pei pointed to the palace man who was killed by himself, and asked, "What are you doing with him?" ”

"The villain and the back came to collect the body of the Empress Dowager Qi Tian, which was also ordered a long time ago."

Ye Pei thought for a while and asked, "Did you see the King of Nanping enter the Shangjing Palace some time ago?" ”

"The villain has never seen it."

Ye Pei asked: "Have you really never seen it?" Or you don't know. ”

"The villain doesn't know. But if Rong Jia's dead soldier is dispatched, he will definitely let the villain and his back collect the body, and the villain has never received such an order. ”

Ye Pei wondered in his heart, is Xiao Shinan dead or alive?

Ye Pei finally asked, "Do you know how to rescue the poison of this demon slash?" ”

"No solution!"

Ye Pei shuddered in his heart when he heard this, waved his hand and said, "Got it, you can go!" ”

When the palace people saw that Ye Pei was going to let himself go, they quickly kowtowed and ran. But before he could take two steps, Ye Pei shot a poisonous needle from the whip of the fish dragon, which hit the big vertebral point on the back of the man's neck, and the man fell to the ground and died without even making a sound.

Ye Pei clenched the fish and dragon whip, and his heart was mixed. She killed an innocent person and lost the guilt of killing the thief in the wolf's den, what made her heart harden?

In the face of a lost life, is it too far-fetched to explain it only with "had to"? But she won't be soft anymore, and she won't be timid.

At this moment, Ye Pei heard Brother Xiao Bodhisattva beside him suddenly cough, his body trembled violently, and he vomited some white foam.

"Empress Dowager Qi Tian!" Ye Pei hurriedly stepped forward to help Brother Xiao Bodhisattva up.

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva came to her senses, her eyes were a little dilated, and it took a long time to focus on Ye Pei. "Who are you? Why did you come to save me? ”

"I'm Xiao Shinan's wife."

"Oh, you are the princess who married the Great Song Kingdom? Alas, if you don't come, he won't die either! ”

Ye Pei felt a sense of loss in his heart, and he didn't expect that Brother Xiao Bodhisattva was not grateful to him, but instead had a reproachful tone.

"Is Xiao Shinan really dead?" Ye Pei asked with tears in his eyes.

Brother Xiao nodded weakly.

Ye Pei's thoughts were discouraged, and her original little hope was shattered.

"Don't talk yet, I'll detox for you." Ye Pei helped Brother Xiao Bodhisattva up and turned his back towards him.

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva stopped her, "Don't waste your efforts!" I knew I was going to die. ”

Ye Pei looked at Brother Xiao Bodhisattva suspiciously, "But you actually came to your senses." They said it was a poisonous ...... that could not be solved by the demons."

"I know, the princess must have been hit by some slow poison recently, right?"

Ye Pei looked at Brother Xiao Bodhisattva in puzzlement, how could she know that she had been poisoned by slow poison before?

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva sighed with relief and said, "I will be the one who will die sooner or later, and Xiao Shinan will only waste his life when he comes to save me." Since Xiao Yunjin took power, how can she tolerate me, the former queen?

…… Isn't it strange that you don't even have a handmaid by my side? I've been poisoned by Qi Huang, and I'm like a waste, so they don't have to be so strictly guarded. This poison will attack once every five days, and when it occurs, the whole body will be in severe pain, and the pain will penetrate the bone marrow, and life is worse than death. ”

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva took two breaths and said, "But because of this poison, it is offset by the poison of the demon slash, so that I can still say the last words to the princess." ”

Ye Pei suddenly realized why he was poisoned by the "Demon Slash" but did not die. It turned out that she was hit by Jiang Yunji's hemp boiling a few days ago, drank a lot of detoxification decoctions, and these days she was taking Ganoderma lucidum tea to dispel evil and strengthen righteousness, these drugs alleviated the toxicity of the demon slash, and let Ye Pei escape from death.

This Jiang Yunji poisoned herself and wanted to kill herself, but she saved her life. In this world, it's really hard to say where the cause and fate will be.

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva continued: "The reason why that servant girl Xiao Yunjin still wants to keep me to this day is because she wants to get this from me. As she spoke, she unbuttoned her collar and ripped a piece of cloth from her shirt.

"The princess will take this and give it to the Lord, and ask him to make the decision for me!" Brother Xiao Bodhisattva said, leaving "bubbling" tears in the corners of his eyes.

Ye Pei looked down and saw that it was written in Khitan script and covered with the jade seal of Da Liao, which turned out to be a testament.

The light was weak, and Ye Pei could only look at it roughly, to the effect that he wanted to seal Brother Xiao Bodhisattva as the Empress Dowager of Qi and Xiao Yunjin as the Imperial Concubine.

"Empress Dowager Qi Tian, what is this?" Ye Pei asked.

"Yes, this is the edict, the edict of Emperor Shengzong."

"You're going to hand me over to the Lord?"

Brother Xiao blinked weakly, "Now only the Lord can still make decisions for me." ”

Ye Pei thought of what he had heard from Lu Lu before, and felt that Liao Xingzong might not be of the same mind as Brother Xiao Bodhisattva, and he was also embarrassed in his heart. But in the face of the last wish of a dying person, Ye Pei couldn't refute anything.

"Okay." Ye Pei nodded and took the edict into his arms.

Ye Pei asked again: "Empress Dowager Qi Tian, I still have one more thing to ask for, do you know how Xiao Shinan died?" ”

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva suddenly spit out some white foam, Ye Pei helped her body up higher, and Brother Xiao Bodhisattva slowed down before saying:

"If the princess hadn't married Liao, he might not have died, but he didn't even want his life in order to marry the princess. Xiao Yunjin, how could they allow him to make peace with Da Song? My silly brother ......"

When Ye Pei heard this, he didn't feel good in his heart. Why is even Brother Xiao Bodhisattva wrong to blame himself? Her tone was like those courtiers in the Great Song Dynasty, accusing her of being Daji, afraid that she was the Empress Dowager Zhang Xian, and she would use her to force her to do something.

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva's eyes became more and more sloppy, her words were already intermittent, Ye Pei shook her gently, and asked eagerly: "Empress Dowager Qi Tian, did Xiao Shinan die in Shangjing?" Will you see him one last time before he dies? Empress Dowager Qi Tian ......"

"He didn't come to Shangjing, he was in Zhongjing, and he was ...... by King Langya, King Langya" Brother Xiao pointed to the sky with his finger, wanting to say something, but suddenly spit out a mouthful of white foam, and trembled all over.

Ye Pei held down Brother Xiao Bodhisattva's people and shouted vigorously, "Empress Dowager Qitian, Empress Dowager Qitian!" ”

But Brother Xiao Bodhisattva just pointed to the sky like that, and never said a word again.

"Empress Dowager Qi Tian!" Ye Pei was so anxious that she shed tears, but she knew that no matter how she shouted, the other party would not respond again.

Brother Xiao Bodhisattva is dead......