The three princes, who were once like fish in water among the various factions in the imperial court, died quietly.

At first, no one knew about the death of the third prince.

With the morning of the day, the ministers who had fallen to the faction of the three princes openly and secretly were either sent down, or moved to the left, or convicted, and the ministers who were still at ease in the court only realized it later, and vaguely realized how many waves had been set off under this calm like an ancient well, and they couldn't help but sweat coldly, and secretly feared, glad that they did not stand in the wrong queue and go in the wrong direction.

Everything is settled like dust, and the world returns to the heart.

According to the ancestral practice of the Wei royal family, the new emperor's enthronement was set on the first day of the ancestor worship ceremony on March 3.

February 2.

Early morning.

The spring is cold.

Misty volley.

The sky is full of glow, gorgeous like brocade, and like red fire.

The eldest princess Wei Ruyi personally sent a wooden young man to the carriage heading south.

"Sister, I ......"

He looked at the palace where he had lived for twelve years with reluctance, and looked back at the crowd of people in the market with trepidation, and the strange hustle and bustle of the red dust and fireworks made him feel strong unease and fear.

He never set foot in this palace until today.

From the beginning of his memory, he only knew that he was the emperor and the most powerful child in the world. But in the child's heart, what is "the world", what is "power", and what is "potential", he is ignorant and unable to understand.

From the moment he stepped out of the palace, his future was unknown.

Wei Ruyi looked at the young man with a wooden expression, and his mood was complicated.

For this "younger brother", she actually doesn't have much "sister-brother friendship", Wei Ruyi still doesn't even have much sense of belonging to the "Wei royal family", "past and present life" makes her feel that the world in front of her is extremely strange, her home, her belonging, is not in this deep palace, let alone blood love.

It's just that people are not plants and trees, and they can be ruthless. After all, Wei Ruyi has raised the young emperor as a younger brother for more than ten years, and let him be a puppet emperor for more than ten years.

"Go ahead."

Wei Ruyi took a deep breath, her cold face was a little more gentle, and she rubbed the young man's head: "It's my sister who is incompetent and can't let you enjoy yourself in the deep palace." Next...... It's too dangerous. ”

"Sister, are you in danger?"

The young man looked at Wei Ruyi's eyes, and Mu Ne's face was a little more concerned.

"No, it won't." Wei Ruyi remembered Zheng Xiu hidden behind the scenes, and remembered that he and "Uncle Zheng" fished, picked flowers, and planted vegetables in the mountain village as a child, leisurely; His expression is always so calm, his eyes are always like a bottomless pool of water, undisturbed, his eyes seem to see through everything in the world, and the general trend of the world is under control...... Wei Ruyi nodded vigorously: "No." ”

"This palace is magnificent, but for you...... Wei Ruyi wanted to appease the young man at first, but as soon as the words came out, as if she was saying that to herself, an inexplicable sourness flooded her heart, her eyelids drooped, and her slender eyelashes trembled slightly: "You are like a canary, this huge palace, cold and ruthless, for you, is just a magnificent cage." ”

"The outside world is more exciting, and that is your life."

"My sister has trapped you here for thirteen years for the sake of imperial power, and it is time to let you out."

The young man shook his head vigorously: "Sister, no, I'm very happy." ”

Wei Ruyi had already arranged, a rich town in the south, a villa, where she left behind the henchmen she believed in, and enough wealth for a teenager to squander his life.

The horses raised their hooves and went away.

As the carriage drifted farther and farther away, out of the south gate, Zheng Xiu, who was sitting alone in the courtyard, also looked south, his gaze seemed to penetrate the layers of the house, saw the young man in the distance, and fell into contemplation.

"Are you pitying him?"

Lord Anne rarely found a point to laugh at Zheng Xiu, jumped up with a pout, touched Zheng Xiu's forehead, touched herself, and sneered with a look of "Are you sick in the brain?"

"Please," Zheng Xiu came back from his contemplation, rubbing the place where the meat ball had been pressed, and I don't know if Lord Anne did it on purpose, but pressed it on the position of his trick, which was extremely sensitive, which made Zheng Xiu tremble. He rolled his eyes and complained: "You are also an existence whose life level is far beyond that of mere human beings, you use a little high-end technology, mind reading or something, okay?" You make me think you're ...... like that Never mind. ”

Of course, Zheng Xiu doesn't like to be spied on by things like "mind reading", but it seems very low that Lady Anne always asks some strange questions with that stupid and cute cat face. But when Zheng Xiu thought that the orange cat was being "backtracked", worse than death, and was already in a bad state, he ...... Never mind.

Never mind......

Never mind...

Never mind.

When Lady Anne heard this, she froze in place, recalling the fear of being dominated by "forget it".

Zheng Xiu raised his forehead, looked away from the back of the departing young man "First Emperor", and sighed lightly: "I just thought of my own situation." ”

"Speaking of which, I don't seem to be any different from him."

"His cage is the deep palace, the position of the 'emperor'."

"He is like a canary in a cage, like a frog at the bottom of a well, sitting in a well and watching the sky."

"He is lucky that one day, he will be able to break out of the cage and go to a wider world."

Lady Anne held her shaggy chin in her paws, thoughtfully, "But the heaven and earth you are talking about are just a larger cage. Oh, by the way, it's the cage you created with your own hands, and the culprit is you meow! ”

Zheng Xiu rolled his eyes: "This is not what I want. The world is a prisoner, who can be alone? ”

Lord Anne's eyes blinked, looking at Zheng Xiu.

Zheng Xiu shook his head and smiled: "Everyone is gaming, they are also gaming, everyone is waiting, they are also waiting." Gamblers think they are chess players, but they don't know that they are just an insignificant piece on the board. Speaking of which, I'm also your pawn. ”

Mistress Anne did not deny it, revealing a lovely expression, the cat's whiskers trembled, and asked as a matter of course: "Isn't it good to be my pawn?" ”

Zheng Xiu was stunned, you said such a shameless thing, it's really hard for me to deny it in front of you.

Anne didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her words, in fact, with her status, even if she trampled Zheng Xiu under her feet and ravaged it back and forth, it was the greatest gift to Zheng Xiu. It has nothing to do with good or bad, nothing to do with right and wrong, nothing to do with good or evil, this is just a natural "cognition" brought about by the gap in the level of life, nothing more. Zheng Xiu had already discovered that Annie's thinking could not be measured by "human" thinking, otherwise he would be angry with himself.

Zheng Xiu didn't speak.

Anne remembered something and asked, "Speaking of meow, have you finished untying those broken knots?" ”

Zheng Xiu thought for a while and nodded: "Almost." ”

The three words of light clouds and light wind describe the vicissitudes and bitterness of thousands of years of reincarnation. Zheng Xiu stood up and stretched out, and behind him, four shadows with different styles followed suit, overlapping behind Zheng Xiu layer by layer.

A shadow is tall and mighty.

A shadow is young and handsome.

A shadow fairy wind bone.

A shadow was bloodthirsty and twisted.

The four blurred figures flickered and disappeared with Zheng Xiu's movements, fading out of the body surface little by little, and finally neatly subsuming into Zheng Xiu's body.

Lord Anne squinted at the "shadow" that flashed behind Zheng Xiu, and the ghostly light in the cat's pupils flickered: "Oh? That 'literati', you fused yourself? ”

Zheng Xiu, who was stretching his waist, heard this, and nodded calmly: "Zheng Xi's fit is relatively high, perhaps because he was born from a 'scholarly family' in the setting. ”

"Really?"

The orange cat heard Zheng Xiu's casual reply, and lowered her head to think about something.

Soon it was March 3rd.

A warm wind swept across the land, dispelling the chill of late winter and rejuvenating everything.

In the morning, there was a drizzle, the soil was wet, the treetops were hung with crystal raindrops, and the sun was shining and colorful.

Surrounded by thousands of people, the canopy chariot drove out of the imperial city, Wei Ruyi wore a splendid imperial robe, wore a crown, stood on the chariot, admired by 10,000 people, and was majestic in the world.

Hundreds of monks of the Pure Sect in white robes walked with the car, moving slowly, and the low and obscure chanting voice came out of the monks' mouths neatly, adding a bit of solemnity and mystery to the empress's travel.

He was accompanied by hundreds of civil and military officials and veterans.

The Zheng family is a family of loyal martyrs, and Zheng Haoran is a veteran who made great contributions in the Battle of the Northern Barbarians thirty years ago, so he is naturally in the accompanying traffic.

The empress's accession to the throne is a major event in the world, and the wolf king, who has lived in the Zheng family for several months, practices boxing with Zheng Haoran every day, and does not get drunk at every turn, finally waited for this day.

The thirty-six small continents of Daxi Prefecture were nominally included in the territory of the Daqian Dynasty, but Wei Ruyi gave Daxi Prefecture enough autonomy.

Today, the Northern Barbarians, the Western Regions, and the Great Cadres have become one family, and the world is the same.

Overseas island countries, 26 of which have established diplomatic relations with Daqian, have sent envoys to arrive in the capital of Daqian a few months ago, waiting for this day.

This situation, if placed 30 years ago, has the meaning of "all nations come to court".

The reason for all this is because of Wei Ruyi, who is about to become the first empress in the history of the Great Qian, the "Emperor Wei Cao" who will be famous in the history books.

A blind man "looked" at the pedestrian from afar, shook his head and smiled, turned and disappeared into the crowd.

Among the heirs left by the first emperor "Wei Yangzun", the second prince and the third prince have died, and the young emperor of the previous generation went south, and now only the eldest prince is left, witnessing today's scene.

No, to be precise, it is "praying for the prince", and he is the only one left to witness this scene.

In the carriage, Zheng Xiu held a peaceful orange cat in his arms, stroked the cat's head, and smiled.

Lady Anne tilted her head from time to time, feeling new to everything that was happening around her, and when she walked out of the city, the orange cat couldn't help but ask, "This time, has it been?" ”

Zheng Xiu smiled and shook his head.

Orange Cat: "? ”

The expression seemed to say, I hate Riddler.

Zheng Xiu smiled: "I don't know." ”

"Don't know?"

After a moment, Anne was stunned, but at a loss: "Understood, this is the 'first time', but what about them?" ”

"Because they are standing too high, too far away, a little twisted, and they don't get their attention. For a thousand years, I have been tempting them, confronting them, like a cat catching a mouse, and playing a game called 'hide and seek' with them. ”

"Every time, you've managed to send me back 'there' and make me restart everything and start a new peek-a-boo."

Mistress Anne was a little impressed by this, and she remembered being pierced by tentacles. That feeling is inexplicably a little pleasant, anyway, she won't die, it's just tentacles, nothing.

So Anne nodded: "And then?" ”

"Even if they don't set their eyes on this place seriously, they will learn from the experience of 'hide and seek' again and again, and perceive the difficulty of mice."

It turned out that the "hide and seek" that Zheng Xiu said was a mouse hiding from the hunt of countless cats.

"They will subconsciously adjust, to change, to choose a more suitable ...... Container. ”

"The last time it was Erniang, the previous time it was Ye, the last time it was my mother, and the other time it was Yue Linglong."

"They are unguardable, infecting everyone around me, making me unguarded and suspicious."

"There have been hundreds of reincarnations, and I was in prison, almost crazy, because I found that I didn't have anyone around me who I could trust enough, and anyone around me, could be Them."

And so...... I'm crazy. ”

Anne listened carefully, and when she heard this, she looked calm, but she was seriously thinking about Zheng Xiu's "crazy" appearance, and suddenly felt a little funny.

The carriage jolted, and drove out of the city and headed straight for the imperial tomb.

The imperial mausoleum is not far from the city, and the ancestors of the Wei royal family are buried inside, including Wei Yangzun.

Zheng Xiu was still in the carriage talking calmly about his "crazy" experience.

"All the people I saw had smiling faces, they had a row of white teeth, their eyes were densely covered with worms, their bodies were rotten, and many black roots were drilled out of them."

"The sky is not credible, and black thunder will fall."

"The land is not credible, and the vast jungle will drown me."

"The moon becomes a giant eye, the falling snow will turn red and bury me, and the distant hills will turn against the sky and crush everything in front of me with a fist."

"I have no road, no way to go, I have been restarted again and again, and I have been tortured and killed by them again and again."

"My divinity is blackened, I sacrifice the 'Abyss Walker', thinking about dying together."

"I killed everyone." Zheng Xiu calmly said something terrible. After a moment of silence, Zheng Xiu suddenly smiled, and a trace of warmth appeared in his indifferent eyes: "It's ridiculous, that time, it was the monk who blocked me." ”

"He said something strange, and I woke up."

"He said, big brother, wake up."

"I woke up."

"I forgot how many years ago he called me big brother."

Zheng Xiu smiled and raised an index finger: "Suddenly one day, I woke up. ”

"Why should I let them do multiple-choice questions?"

In the distance, the monk smirked and touched his head.

"I ...... The choice was made for them. ”

"I chose a pair for them...... The most perfect container. ”

"Enough for seven of His vessels."

(End of chapter)