Chapter Seventy-Six: Hima Confesses
The old man asked Jima while crying, looked at Jima with his eyes, and cried: "Girl, tell me, the queen mother is pitiful." "Jima's heart is already in chaos at the moment, it's her grandmother, at this moment, this usually clever and intelligent girl, her heart is also in a mess, but she still has to pretend to be indifferent on the surface, and it's really difficult for this teenage child.
"Old man, has the queen mother's illness been cured, if you want to come to the palace so many imperial doctors, there should be no problem. Hima asked with a pretended concern to hide the anxiety in her heart, but the trace of panic and unnatural expression did not escape the old man's eyes.
"Girl, you are a good boy, thank you for your concern, but the Queen Mother's illness fell more than ten years ago, when the Emperor was killed, Prince Anping and the princess disappeared, the Queen Mother was in a coma for a few days, and after waking up, her spirit was not as good as a day, relying on those slight hopes in her heart to persist until now, after hearing the rumors, she may not be able to hold on anymore, the imperial doctor saw it, and said that the Queen Mother's vitality was gone, and it was exhausted, and two heaven and earth spiritual objects were needed, one was the snow lotus on the top of Raya Mountain, and the other was a 10,000-year-old stone milk. That's why Xiao Lao'er came here to save the life of our queen mother, and only a strong man like Pan Gongzi has the ability to find those two heaven and earth spiritual things, and we dare not ask for other strong people, because they will covet our royal divine power, and we can't afford to pay that price. We know that only Gongzi is a strong man who opens a chamber of commerce, and does not play politics, as long as Gongzi gets two spiritual objects and saves the Queen Mother, we will give the treasure house of the entire imperial city to the hand, Xiao Lao'er knows that you suspect Xiao Lao'er's identity, it doesn't matter, I will personally take Pan Gongzi in tonight to meet the Queen Mother, so that everyone will no longer doubt Xiao Lao'er. ”
"Okay, old man, we believe you for the time being, I will meet the Queen Mother with you in the evening, and then we will talk about it in detail, okay?"
"I'm going too!" said Jima suddenly.
"Okay, the girl is going, the little old man can't ask for it!" the old man glanced at Ji Ma deeply in his words, "That little old man will come back tonight, don't go over it now." With that, the old man went downstairs and left.
"What do you think?" asked Xiao Hei when he saw the old man gone.
"Xiao Hei, I believe that this old man, if the old man is Ji Feng's person, then there is no need to test us, after all, it is impossible for him to know about Ji Ma and Grandpa. Pan Biao said.
"Xiao Hei, the eldest brother is right, if he can take us to see my grandmother, I think we must believe him, besides, listening to his voice, he seems to see something, anyway, I must go tonight, I really want to meet grandma, worried about her. Hima said with some excitement.
"Okay, let's break through tonight, I think I and Xiaoqing, no one can do anything to us, it's better to make a bigger fuss with the surname Suo!" Xiao Hei's eyes flashed, he shook Ji Ma's hand tightly, and said firmly.
"What's the trouble?" asked Hima, tilting her head.
"Depends on the situation at night, hehe. "Xiao Hei sold the guanzi.
Heaven was cooperating with them, and in the evening, the sky suddenly became overcast, dark clouds filled the sky, and just after dinner, it was already very dark, and the bright starry sky was no longer gone, and it was about to rain.
The old man didn't let Xiao Hei and them wait longer, that is, when Xiao Hei and they had dinner, the old man came, and after a few words, he left with Xiao Hei and Himma.
Xiao Hei and Ji Ma followed the old man around and over for a long time, came to a manor, the people in the manor saw the old man bow one by one, and did not say much, after the salute was completed, he walked away silently, and let the old man take Ji Ma and Xiao Hei straight to a study, into the study, after the old man closed the door of the study, he said in a deep voice: "There is a secret passage in our imperial city, now the imperial city is closed, we can't go outside into the imperial city, we can only go through the secret passage to enter, so the two of us have been wronged." ”
Xiao Hei nodded, indicating that he didn't mind.
The old man walked to the wall, curled his fingers on the wall rhythmically knocked a dozen times, a click sounded, only to see the whole wall slowly sink downward, revealing the entrance of a black hole, after the front completely fell into the ground, the old man took the lead and walked towards the hole, after walking through the entrance, the light on the old man's hand flashed, a bead appeared on the old man's hand, glowing softly, illuminating a space in the cave, Xiao Hei and Jima knew that it was a precious night pearl.
"Come on in, I'm going to fix this wall." The old man said to the two.
Xiao Hei's luck shrouded Himma, and then he took Hima into the cave, as the old man pressed it in a place in the cave, the sunken wall slowly rose again, and the old man took the lead in front and said: "Let's go, this secret passage is still a little far from the imperial city, we have to walk for about half an hour." Girl, little old man is playing a game with you, okay?"
"What's the game?" said Hima, a little absent-minded.
The old man's face twisted to the side, his hand wiped his face, then turned his face and said, "See who I am?"
I saw that the old man's face had changed, the original appearance of an old man now became to look only forty or fifty years old, and his body was also erect, although the clothes had not changed, but the feeling at this moment was absolutely different from the feeling given by the old man before.
"Ah, it turns out that you wore a mask, and we called you an old man, and took advantage of us, no, you have to compensate us, just give us the night pearl, and don't ask you more. Jima said
"Uh, girl, you can't do this, little old man, I took the initiative to change, I had to do that outside, I didn't mean to stand on your cheap, besides, I'm almost fifty, and you don't seem to lose money by calling the old man. Haha, my name is Ji Cheng, the general of the Royal Guard. ”
"No, we can call you Uncle Cheng at most, but you deceived us into calling you an old man, you have to make up for this mental loss, you can cut half of the Night Pearl to us, I don't want one. Ji Ma grinned and said, but Ji Ma couldn't help but feel a sense of closeness to Ji Cheng in her heart, because she knew that this person named Ji Cheng might be from her royal family.
"Hey, forget it, who let my old man lie to you, come and take it, the beads are yours. Ji Cheng handed the beads to Ji Ma and said in his heart: "Hehe, if my guess is true, I am really your Uncle Cheng." ”
Ji Ma took the night pearl, tossing and turning in his hand and playing with it, half an hour later, the three of them walked to the exit, the exit is also in a study, but this study is much more elegant and elegant than the entrance, Xiao Hei sensed the monster-like palace communities in the surrounding darkness, and knew that they had come to the imperial city.
After walking out of the study, Ji Cheng led them towards a palace, and met several patrolling soldiers along the way. The sky was even darker, Ji Cheng took Ji Ma and Xiao Hei to the front of the palace, and suddenly a cold shout came from the darkness: "What person, stop!" Then a tall figure walked out of the darkness, Xiao Hei sensed that the strong strength on this person's body had reached the level of the high level of the Great Sword Sect, and he was obviously also a master.
"Nighthawk, I, the fox, have already reported to the Queen Mother in the afternoon, and now I will bring two guests to meet the Queen Mother. Ji Cheng replied in a deep voice.
"Oh, the Queen Mother has said, come in, the Queen Mother is waiting for you in the palace. After the tall figure finished speaking, he slowly walked into the darkness and disappeared.
Walking into the hall, passing through several corridors, in a place that was obviously a sleeping palace, Ji Cheng signaled that he had arrived. Ji Ma and Xiao Hei looked, only to see that the layout of this dormitory was very elegant, a color of milky white curtains, embroidered with light blue edges, two palace maids with high hair combed at the door, saw Ji Cheng coming, blessed a blessing, one of them lifted the curtain and went in for a moment and then came out, signaling Ji Cheng, you can go in, and then the two palace maids lifted the curtain, and the three mermaids entered, after entering, there was another curtain in front of them, the same color of milky white, embroidered with light blue edges. Between these two curtains, there is a space of about fifty square meters, with chairs, low couches, coffee tables and some embroidered piers, and some potted flowers in full bloom around them, a refreshing fragrance comes into the nose, so that people can't help but be shocked, stepping on the milky white thick carpet, the three of them walked to the second curtain, Ji Cheng coughed lightly, and said in a deep voice: "The queen mother's phoenix body is better, Ji Cheng has brought a plate to meet you." ”
After a while, a gentle and hoarse old voice sounded behind the curtains: "Oh, Ji Cheng, Mama Wang, hurry up and help the mourning family, let's go outside to talk." Immediately, the sound of Xi Xisuo sounded behind the curtain, and without much effort, the curtain was lifted, and the Empress Dowager Xiaoxian of the Hanliu Empire walked out tremblingly with the support of an old woman.
Ji Cheng hurriedly knelt down and saluted, Xiao Hei and Ji Ma also hurriedly lowered their heads and knelt down, the Queen Mother waved her hand and said, "Get up and sit, don't use those false courtesies, Mama Li, bring some tea." ”
"Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother. Ji Cheng kowtowed, then got up, bowed and stood aside, Xiao Hei and Ji Ma also stood up, looked at the Queen Mother, only to see the Queen Mother on the opposite side wearing dark purple civilian clothes, full of gray hair, sallow face, aging and sickness, a pair of cloudy eyes on the wrinkled face, looking at Ji Ma, Xiao Hei obviously saw that after seeing Ji Ma, the pair of eyes actually lit up a glimmer of light, and at the same time the old man's body trembled, trembling and stretched out his thin hand, stroked to Ji Ma, and muttered in his mouth: " Like, it's really too similar, Ji Cheng told the mourning family in the afternoon that the mourning family still doesn't believe it, pity my Jima granddaughter. Suddenly, the old man lowered his head and coughed violently, Mama Wang hurriedly covered the old man's mouth with a white silk cloth, and at the same time gently stroked the old man's back with her other hand.
Looking at Jima again, at this moment, it was as if someone had immobilized him, motionless, but the trembling lips and tears sliding down his cheeks showed that Jima's heart was fluctuating at the moment, seeing the blood stains on the white silk cloth, Jima could no longer control his emotions, suddenly, Jima knelt on the carpet, kneeled to the feet of the old queen, hugged the old queen's legs suddenly, and shouted: "Grandma, I am Jima, I am your granddaughter Jima!"
"Dangchang" sounded, Mama Li just came over with the tea set, heard Ji Ma's shout, and petrified there on the spot, the tea set in her hand fell to the ground with a bang, Mama Wang was also stupid, looking at Ji Ma in a daze, Ji Cheng was not too surprised, an expression that should have been like this, and our old queen mother was miserable, hearing Ji Ma's shout, the old man muttered in a trembling voice: "What did you say? Who are you? Child, who do you say you are? Are you my granddaughter Ji Ma?"
"Yes Grandma, I'm your Jima. Jima said to Xiao Hei, "Xiao Hei, quickly take out the package that Grandpa gave you before and show it to Grandma." ”
The light flashed, and a package had already appeared in Xiao Hei's hand, which was handed over to Xiao Hei by Ji Ping when he was killed in Panzu Village, and then Xiao Hei returned it to Ji Ping, and Ji Ping gave this package to Ji Ma, telling Ji Ma that it was the jade seal and edict of the Han Empire, and Ji Ma didn't even look at it, so he handed the package to Xiao Hei again. At this moment, Ji Ma took the package handed over by Xiao Hei, opened the package with trembling hands, showed the contents in front of the old queen mother, and cried: "Grandma, look, this is the jade seal and edict of our Hanliu handed over to me by Grandpa Anping, grandma, I am really your granddaughter Ji Ma." ”
The old queen mother squatted down, trembling hands touching the jade seal and the edict, she didn't open the edict, because she recognized these things, it was definitely the original, and even this package was prepared for Ji Ping by herself, sewn with the skin of a rare animal that can not rot for ten thousand years. Suddenly, the old queen mother hugged Ji Ma in her arms, and the hoarse old cry sounded: "Father, God is endless, my Hanliu royal family, I, my granddaughter are back! cough, cough, uh......" just cried twice, the old man coughed violently twice, his neck stretched, his eyes tried to widen, and he fainted with Ji Ma in his arms.