Qing Yao was imprisoned in the palace prison. This prison is guarded by the Heavenly Dragon Guard, and the people locked up inside are naturally not ordinary people. I heard that the formation is also used here to match the dragon qi to suppress a real dragon. It's just that I don't know if the legend is true or not.

She was stripped of all beads, put on a prison uniform, and kept in solitary confinement in a cell. It's dark here, and when you open and close your eyes, it's endless darkness.

Qing Yao clasped her knees blankly and squatted in the corner.

Suddenly, there was a sound of the door opening from outside the hallway, and the light of a torch pierced through the crack in the door.

Qing Yao narrowed her eyes, she hadn't seen the light for a long time, even the faint light of the torch made her eyes tingle.

She hesitated for a moment, then rushed to the door of the cell with excitement, grasped the wooden bar with both hands, and looked out.

I saw Concubine Ning wearing plain clothes, followed by Qi Yue, coming to her.

"What about Your Majesty?! What about Your Majesty?! Your Majesty has come to see this palace, right? Father-in-law Qi, when I see you, this palace knows that His Majesty is coming! Qing Yao said to Qi Yue.

Concubine Ning sighed and said, "Your Majesty is saddened by Concubine Cao's death, which caused an old disease, and now that she is bedridden, she will not come to see you." ”

"No, it won't. Your Majesty will not be so disappreciative of the old feelings. Father-in-law Qi, I bother you to tell Your Majesty that this palace is Concubine Cao! It is Cao Guifei who accompanies him to admire the moon, dances for him, and plays the piano for him! One day husband and wife hundred days, this palace has been married to him, he can't ignore this palace. ”

Qi Yue looked disgusted, and said to Qing Yao: "Do you still have the face to mention Cao Guifei?" Your Majesty hates you now because of the tragic death of the concubine. Do you know that even if we tried our best to speak softly about the Gu technique of the Reincarnation Gu, His Majesty was still so anxious that he vomited out a mouthful of blood, and for several days the water and rice did not enter, and he couldn't sleep night after night. Your Majesty will never come to see you. The reason why I didn't kill you was because I thought it would be too cheap to kill you like this! Since sooner or later you will be devoured by Gu art, we will wait to see how you can't survive and die, and we have to look at your ugly state when you have a Gu poison attack for Cao Guifei Niangniang, so that we can be considered relieved! ”

Qi Yue rarely said so many words, and he revealed his true feelings so much, which showed that he was also angry. And he is the emperor's tongue, so the emperor has no husband and wife relationship with this princess of the Dian Kingdom who uses Cao Guifei's face to marry him.

Concubine Ning said: "Qingyao, I came to see you today, just because the two of us grew up together since childhood, I really can't bear to leave you here alone." Today is your birthday, and I have come to visit you. ”

"You're just looking to see how depressed and miserable I am, so why do you have to say it so high-soundingly? What grew up together? I've never liked you since I was a kid! ”

Concubine Ning sighed and asked, "You haven't liked me since you were a child, just because of this face?" ”

"Yes!"

"Have you wanted me to die since you were a child?"

"Yes!"

"Then why did you go to the Gu Altar together when we were adults, and you wanted to save me when I had a burning Gu in my body?"

Qing Yao was stunned for a moment, then submerged her body into the darkness that the torch couldn't illuminate, and said, "That's because you fell for me, and I don't want to owe you favors." ”

"You have a pair of jade hostas that can cure all kinds of poisons, why did you give me one?"

"I'm going to give you alms! I am the princess, and the hosta is my charity to you. In this way, I can appear to be superior to you. ”

"Qing Yao, you tell me the truth, why do you want to use the Gu of Reincarnation to kill the concubine Niangniang regardless of the backlash?" Concubine Ning said, "I know the reason for this, it must be more than resentment against me. ”

Qing Yao was silent for a long time before she said, "You let Qi Yue out!" ”

Qi Yue frowned.

Concubine Ning turned back to Qi Yue and said, "Father-in-law Qi, I'm bothering you to wait outside for the palace." ”

"Niangniang, Your Majesty has made me have to protect you closely......"

"Qing Yao and I are both Gu masters, although you are strong in martial arts, but if the two of us really fight Gu, I'm afraid you will still be a burden. You get out! ”

Qi Yue sighed, fixed the torch in his hand to the wall, and turned to go out.

Qing Yao said slowly: "Since I was a child, you robbed my father of my love for me, snatched the love of everyone in the palace, and robbed me of my attention, I can not care about you." But why are you snatching my man? ”

Concubine Ning said, "You...... Really like Your Majesty? ”

Qing Yao said: "I like him, so I want him to like me too." So, I'm going to be his favorite woman. ”

"You ......"

Qing Yao sighed: "Qiu Ning, you don't remember whose words survived our entire Dian Kingdom, right?" ”

Concubine Ning frowned.

Qing Yao said: "On that day, we were surrounded by King Jing's personal soldiers under the valley, and King Jing wanted to order the slaughter of the valley. The flag was about to be thrown, but was caught by one person. It was a young general, and I still remember what he looked like at that time, he was not as high-spirited as King Jing, but he was more gentle and kind, if he wasn't wearing armor, he was more like a scholar...... He said to King Jing, His Royal Highness the Prince, leading the troops to fight, attacking the city and the pool, and there are comings and goings. But slaughtering the tribe is a great sin, and it must not be allowed. A nation and a country, left in the history books, must be accumulated and washed away by thousands of years, if it is slaughtered in one day, it is something that cannot be tolerated in heaven and earth. ”

"That young general, is that Your Majesty?"

Qing Yao smiled bitterly: "Not bad." Your Majesty. In fact, both of us have already met His Majesty. It is me who misses him, but it is you who marries him, who has no impression of him. Do you think God is fair? ”

Concubine Ning could only bow her head and remain silent, and only said after a while: "Don't worry." ”

"I'm relieved? What am I relieved of? ”

Concubine Ning said: "Since Your Majesty is the benefactor of our whole clan and my husband, I will definitely protect him and will not let him be harmed in any way." ”

Qing Yao said: "This is what you said. We Dian people never lie. ”

"Yes. We, the Dian people, never lie. ”

Qing Yao sighed and said, "What I said to you today, you must not tell Your Majesty to know." ”

Ning Feiqi said: "Why? If Your Majesty knows your affection for him, he may open the net and let you go. No matter how bad it is, he won't hate you like that in his heart. ”

Qing Yao said: "Although I am now being pointed out by thousands of people and reduced to this, I am also a woman, and I always have the pride and reserve of a woman. This kind of unrequited affection still buries me deep in my heart. ”

Concubine Ning said, "Okay." ”

The two were silent for a moment.

Qing Yao said to Concubine Ning: "You came here to see me, Your Majesty must not like it, there are many people in the palace, and it is not good to spread it." I don't want to see you again, so let's go! But before I go, I'll ask you for something. ”

Concubine Ning asked, "What?" ”

"Do you have a bronze mirror? If not, give me a bowl of water. I don't know how much time has passed in this prison, and I have never washed my face. I want to see what I look like now. Although I am not as good-looking as you, I also want to see my original face. ”

After speaking, Qing Yao came out of the dark corner again.

Concubine Ning looked at her, didn't speak for a long time, and finally said, "You are still as good-looking as before." ”

Qing Yao smiled slightly.

In fact, in the dim firelight, Qing Yao's Gu technique had already been devoured on her face.

Her facial features seemed to have been wiped with a dirty rag, and her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose were displaced, leaving only a few distorted and distorted holes for her to see, smell and speak, making her whole person look hideous and ugly like a hellish ghost.

In fact, why doesn't Qingyao know?

It's just that she doesn't want to admit it, and she doesn't want to accept it.

only from Concubine Ning's mouth, she got the last comfort in her life.

Concubine Ning came out of the prison and did not speak.

Qi Yue sent her to the gate of Jixian Palace, comforted her a few words, and then left.

Concubine Ning has not been happy since she married into the palace, but she knows that she has the fate of her clan, and since the day she was chosen, she has not lived for herself. She hid her identity as a Gu master, and honestly did her duty as a concubine, so she wanted to spend the rest of her life like this.

Who knew that his husband was the benefactor of the whole clan.

She sat in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, dismissed the palace maids and eunuchs, and tried to recall the scene when she was surrounded by King Jing in the valley and was about to slaughter the people.

The young general only left her a back, and now that she thinks about it carefully, that back can really overlap with the current emperor.

Concubine Ning was thinking about it, but she was suddenly wrapped in a burst of warmth.

It turned out that the emperor came and put a cloak of his own on her.

Concubine Ning hurriedly wanted to salute, but was stopped by the emperor's hand.

Emperor Dao; "The deeper and heavier ones, don't get cold."

Concubine Ning said: "Your Majesty is, Your Majesty has been in poor health these days, and he can't blow the wind." ”

Emperor Dao; "Hey, it's almost the Dragon Boat Festival, where are you afraid of the wind. I couldn't sleep at night, so I came to see you. In the past few days, I have been uncomfortable in my heart, thinking about Cao Guifei's affairs, I feel unhappy for a while. ”

Concubine Ning said: "This is the negligence of the concubine, if the concubine could have discovered Qing Yao's abnormality earlier, the concubine would not have been poisoned by this." ”

The Emperor said, "Don't think so. That's the bad people's fault, and it's not your fault. Although I hate Qing Yao, I will not be angry with you and your people because of this. You can rest assured. ”

Concubine Ning saluted the emperor and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

The emperor looked at Concubine Ning and said with a smile: "Actually, you don't know, I recognized you a long time before you knew me." ”

Concubine Ning looked at the emperor suspiciously.

The emperor took Concubine Ning's hand and said, "When I was still King Qian, I once followed the then crown prince and now King Jing to quell the rebellion of the Dian Kingdom. I remember that King Jing drove all the Gu masters of the Dian Kingdom to a deep valley, and he wanted to slaughter the tribe. ”

Concubine Ning looked at the emperor.

The emperor said: "It's okay to fight, but I am against slaughtering a race, and it is really a great sin to exterminate a country and slaughter a race." The Dian Kingdom has existed for thousands of years, and it should not be a miracle to erase a thousand-year-old civilization with the great hand of civilization. I remember that I received the command flag with my bare hands and was almost killed by King Jing on the spot. ”

Concubine Ning said: "Your Majesty is the benefactor of our whole clan, and the people of Dian will definitely not forget your kindness." ”

The emperor smiled: "It's not my credit, but the Emperor's decree will arrive immediately." The first emperor knew that King Jing's methods were cruel, and if he won the battle, in order to avenge the soldiers under his command, he would definitely slaughter the people, so he had already prepared. I remember that day, you were a woman, with injuries on your body, but you were still protecting two or three children of seven or eight years old. Those children are not rich and noble families when they look at their clothes. When you are dying and dying, you can still protect the weak children with your life, which really makes me admire. Later, the Dian Kingdom and I made peace, and when I saw your portrait, I recognized you! That's our fate. ”

The emperor held Concubine Ning's hand and said, "Yes, and I am very relieved of you, you must be a kind woman." You must also rest assured of me, and I will take care of you for the rest of your life. ”