Chapter 6: Soul Search
"Liuyao, do you want to see how you smashed the Third Emperor Brother?" The woman's voice in his ear was low and gentle, and he almost nodded.
Concubine Mei continued to ask: "Did the Third Emperor Brother shed a lot of blood at that time? ”
"Huh? Shed a lot of blood? "Xuan Liuyao is awkward and uncomfortable, so he can only pretend to be confused.
Mei Guifei's smile disappeared suddenly, and a needle-like hatred shot out of her eyes again: "You smashed it, don't you know?" ”
Xuan Liuyao looked at her blankly, and thought to himself: What should I do? What to do?
Mei Guifei was a little bottomless, and she couldn't figure out for a while whether it was Xuan Sanjin who was smashed by Xuan Liuyao, or whether the three sons framed him?
She squinted, and her face was serious: "Liuyao, you should admit it if you smash someone." If you are willing to admit it, we will not blame you, you and they are still good brothers. You honestly said, did you smash the Three Emperor Brothers? ”
"Nope."
Xuan Liuyao was ruthless, replied crisply, turned around and rushed towards the inner room with a strong smell of medicine. He wanted to see how Xuan Sanjin was hurt.
Xuan San was sitting on the bed with his legs spread today, with several layers of white cloth wrapped around his head, and when he saw him come in, he laughed: "Hey, little imperial brother!" ”
He wasn't even angry.
Xuan Liuyao was a little surprised, he originally thought that Xuan San would be so angry that his wound would burst when he saw him today, and he would get up and beat him. Xuan Sanjin clapped his hands and smiled backwards: "Little Emperor Brother, Little Emperor Brother!" Assist me in the future! ”
Yes? What's going on?
Xuan Liuyao is far away, why does Xuan Sanjin look like a fool? Smashed him stupid yourself?
He was still stunned, and someone pulled him out. He didn't have time to step on his legs, he almost fell, looking at the dark green robe, and the rich fragrance of fat powder, it was naturally Mei Guifei who pulled him. He didn't resist, and before he left the door, he glanced at Xuan Sanjin again, and Xuan Sanjin was still smiling, smiling innocently.
Mei Guifei dragged him to the courtyard and let go. He stumbled a few times and sat down on the ground, but he had nothing to say, nothing to say.
There was a commotion at the gate: "The queen mother stays." ”
"Get out of the way! Who of you dares to stop me! ”
Fu Feiyan walked in with a group of palace people in a menacing manner, presumably it was Ah Jiu who went to report. She was wearing regular clothes, and she didn't even have time to dress up before she rushed over, even so, her face was full of murderous energy, and she was not inferior to the dressed Mei Guifei.
She stretched out her hand and pointed angrily at Mei Guifei: "Mei Ziqing, what are you doing?!" ”
Mei Ziqing lowered her eyes, turned sideways and replied coldly, "What did I do?" ”
A noble concubine, seeing that the queen not only did not salute, but also spoke coldly. But Mei Ziqing has this confidence.
Fu Feiyan couldn't do anything to her, so she could only take Xuan Liuyao back to the Wanqing Palace angrily.
About no one is happy.
Xuan Liuyao is the same, he can't accept the fact that he smashed Xuan Sanjin stupidly. What's more, he smashed Xuan Sanjin by mistake, but he didn't even admit it, but let them bear the charge of planting.
He sighed bitterly, and in the future, he had to be kind to them.
A withered yellow autumn leaf falls, and the wind rises.
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The autumn wind didn't blow for a few days, but a piece of news came that shocked him even more: Xuan San died of tetanus.
Xuan Liuyao was even more distressed.
It's not that he didn't kill people in his previous life, he has killed countless people with his own hands, but it was a battlefield, or a bad guy.
He has never killed innocent people, let alone family members. But in this life, he sent his brother away with his own hands, although in the final analysis, Xuan Sanjin was to blame, but after all, the inkstone slipped from his hand.
In the dead of night, he was still blaming himself, his thoughts were chaotic, his thoughts were headaches, and his forehead was even more swollen.
Behind the forehead bone is the Mud Pill Palace, and in the fairy world, the Heavenly Eye in the Mud Pill Palace can be opened. The Eye of Heaven can see the past, the present, and the future, but after entering the earthly world, the Eye of Heaven is sealed.
He rubbed his forehead vigorously and closed his eyes.
It's dark.
In the darkness, there was a faint figure, gradually appearing in the bright colors.
The figure became clearer and clearer, the back of a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, walking alone on a scorched yellow earth. Beside him, there was a wide river, yellow and calm.
There is a small stone tablet by the river, and there are two words on it: Lethe River.
The young man turned around slowly, and it was Xuan Sanjin. He looked at Xuan Liuyao and smiled miserably, there was no hostility in his eyes.
Xuan Liuyao didn't know why he saw him, and eagerly apologized to him: "Third Emperor Brother, it's all the fault of the sixth brother. ”
Xuan Sanjin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's not your fault. It's them. The death of the eldest brother and the second emperor brother is also their fault. ”
"They? Who? Why do they want to harm you, the eldest brother and the second emperor? Xuan Liuyao asked in surprise.
Xuan Sanjin didn't answer, turned around and walked slowly a few steps, suddenly turned around and jumped into the muddy yellow Lechuan River.
The calm water silently whirlpooled, sending him to the deepest bottom in the blink of an eye.
"Brother Three Emperors!" Xuan Liuyao screamed and opened his eyes.
It was dark in front of me.
They? Who is it? Is this just a dream, or is it a real illusion? Xuan Liuyao turned over and sat up, quietly walked outside the house, and then quietly slipped to the door of the Wanqing Palace.
He wanted to take a look, see Xuan Sanjin, and see if he could find any clues?
Unfortunately, he was so short at this time that he couldn't even reach a deadbolt. He turned around in frustration, but was startled.
There was a figure standing next to the shadow wall, and I don't know when it was there.
Xuan Liuyao asked in a low voice in surprise: "Who?" ”
"Your Highness, where are you going?" The man asked softly.
Xuan Liuyao took advantage of the dark moonlight to take a closer look, and it turned out to be Ah Jiu. His heart moved: "Ah Jiu, do you want to go out?" ”
Ah Jiu walked over, bent down and asked in a low voice, "Where are you going?" ”
"To go or not?"
"I'll go wherever Your Highness goes."
Xuan Liuyao was no longer polite: "Open the door." ”
"Yes, Your Highness."
The bolt of the door was gently opened, the door opened quietly, and two figures, one large and one small, stepped out of the threshold, and walked quietly to the back of the palace along the palace wall, carefully avoiding the patrolling guards.
Xuansanjin's Helan Hall is at the back of the palace.
The door of the temple was wide open, and the lights were bright, and his coffin should still be in the hall at this time.
The little yellow door guarding the door was sitting under the shadow wall and napping, so slack, presumably Concubine Mei was not there.
Xuan Liuyao silently thought in his heart: continue to sleep, continue to sleep. Then he took Ah Jiu into the Helan Palace.
There were more than a dozen white lanterns hanging in the courtyard, the candles in the main house were as bright as day, and a white coffin was parked at the door. Several palace people knelt in front of the coffin, dozing off with their heads down.
Keep sleeping, keep sleeping. Xuan Liuyao was still silently reciting, as if if he had read it, those people would not wake up.
But they didn't wake up, their heads drooped, and they all slept soundly.
He walked quietly down the hallway to the main room, but his shoulder was pinned.
Looking back, Ah Jiuzheng was pale and looked at the coffin in the room with fearful eyes, he bent down and said in an almost inaudible voice in Xuan Liuyao's ear: "Your Highness, let's go back." ”
Xuan Liuyao comforted in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, I'm here." ”
Ah Jiu obviously didn't believe it, and he didn't know where he got the strength, so he picked up Xuan Liuyao, turned around and fled to Helan Palace.
Carrying people, walking is not so light.
Ah Jiu's feet slapped on the stone pavement, snapping, and suddenly the palace people who were dozing in the main room were awakened, they looked at each other with horror, and they squeezed together in tacit understanding, hugging each other and trembling. The little yellow door guarding the door also bypassed the shadow wall, and rushed into the house with a lot of urine, just missing it on both sides of the shadow wall with Ah Jiu and Xuan Liuyao.
The two left Helan Hall smoothly, although one was fleeing and the other was forced.
Xuan Liuyao didn't dare to shout, so he had to silently run away with the thin Ah Jiu carrying him, but Ah Jiu panicked and walked a long way before he arrived at the Wanqing Palace.
Each section of the road looks almost exactly the same, if it is daytime, you can also rely on the plaques along the road and the high hall in the distance to divide the south, south, west, and northwest, at this time the clouds are stacked, the moonlight is unknown, the palace wall in front of it, even a lantern is not hung, and it seems that there are a lot of invisible things hidden in the black.
Ah Jiu panicked, only to feel that nothing was right, and Xuan Liuyao, who was carrying it on his shoulder, did not shout, did not fight, and was so quiet that he did not look like a person. He stopped, shaking like chaff, only to hear a small crumbling sound, and a lot of water leaking from his trousers, which seemed to be steaming.
Xuan Liuyao smelled a sigh of anger and knew that Ah Jiu was scared to pee, so he kicked his leg helplessly: "Let me down." ”
"Yes, yes."
Ah Jiu had been waiting for this sentence, leaning over, Xuan Liuyao rolled off his shoulder with a grunt, almost rolling in this puddle of urine, and finally jumped half a step.
Xuan Liuyao looked left and right, and he didn't recognize where this was. looked at Ah Jiu with a colorless face, presumably he didn't recognize him.
"Your Highness, where should we go?"
"I don't know."
The two looked at each other, their eyes complicated.
Xuan Liuyao didn't expect that Ah Jiu, who was still eager to try when he went out, turned out to be an embroidered pillow, Ah Jiu didn't expect that the little prince would not only let off the wind, but actually visit the mourning hall at night, fortunately he was not caught red-handed, and there was no trouble.
The most important thing at the moment is to hurry back to the Wanqing Palace, so as not to find out that the absence of the little prince is another turmoil.
I don't know if Xuan Liuyao thinks so, anyway, Ah Jiu followed him around seven times and eight times, and then turned to the gate of Helan Palace.
The difference is that there was not even a gatekeeper at this time, so Xuan Liuyao walked in again and looked inside the shadow wall. Ah Jiu's throat was tight, and he didn't dare to leave the little prince, his legs were as soft as noodles, and he rode on the threshold tremblingly, ready to rush in or flee at any time.
There was still no one in the courtyard.
In the main room, a group of palace people scattered slightly, huddled and kneeling in the middle of the room, and someone saw a small white face poking out from the shadow wall at the gate, and exclaimed in fright. Immediately, everyone huddled together like a litter of chickens.
It seems that it is impossible to see Xuan Sanjin's body quietly.
Xuan Liuyao sighed secretly, turned around and walked out of Helan Palace, Ah Jiu climbed out of the threshold, and climbed a few steps on all fours before standing up and following behind.
The two quietly returned to the Wanqing Palace.
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This trip, there is nothing to gain.
Since you can't watch it at night, you can simply look at it openly during the day.
Anyway, it's only right to go and worship my brother. He scolded Fu Feiyan, Fu Feiyan thought that this might make Xuan Shi have a good impression of him, so he agreed.
She led Xuan Liuyao to Helan Palace, and couldn't help but glance down at him. His little face is white and tender, but there is a natural stupidity in his cleverness. She secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, he was fine.
In the mourning hall, Concubine Mei was also there. She was a little surprised by the arrival of Fu Feiyan and Xuan Liuyao.
Xuan San is not yet an adult, and the funeral is not grand, so it stands to reason that they do not need to come to worship. But they came, and Xuan Liuyao was dressed in linen when he entered the door, and he knelt down seriously. At the end, he also let people hug him by the coffin to "see the last face of the three emperor brothers".
He didn't seem to take the accusations they made against him at the beginning.
Mei Guifei also seemed to be touched, and the expression on her face was a little soothing, but she was still a little uncomfortable.