【617】Sitting alone in a cave room
The wind and snow outside the building were strong, and the black snow was falling to the ground under the howling north wind, and the cold spread all around.
In the middle of the building, in the stove in front of the bed, the coals were red. The temperature in the building is diametrically opposed to the outside of the building, and it is full of warmth.
After listening to the explanation of the national teacher Yingying, Xiao Shizhu probably understood what was going on, and his frowning brows slowly relaxed. After thinking about it for a while, he asked the national teacher Ying Ying thoughtfully: "That means that because my Xuan Power and my body have been completely integrated, and my Xuan Power no longer eats me, I can sense the emotions of other ghosts, so the illusion I see is actually real?"
"Well, of course it's true. Husband, your physique is a little special, and your father-in-law and mother-in-law have transformed your physique. So that although you are still the body of a human soul, you have the soul of the blood of the ancient gods, as well as dragon liver, phoenix gall and unicorn heart, and tendons. It should be that you are not a human soul, but a human god. Once the Xuan Li and your body merge with each other, you will be able to respond to the emotions of all the ghosts in the Netherworld, so from now on, you will be a ghost clan. With that, the ghost mother looked towards Yingying. All this she talked about was what Yingying had told her in private.
At the moment, Ying Ying slightly chucked her head in agreement.
"Then why don't I know your emotions now?" Xiao Shizhu glanced at the national teacher Yingying, and then turned his head to look at his wife and asked.
The two ghosts were close at hand, and in addition to the fact that he could see from the faint smile of the two ghosts that they were in a happy mood, he couldn't sense the emotions of the two ghosts.
This made Xiao Shizhu wonder for a while, is there a problem with Yingying's perception that is different from ordinary people?
"Practice makes perfect, and now it's just beginning to fuse successfully, and you're not very familiar with how to sense. Ying Ying pursed her lips and smiled, and said indifferently: "If you feel it a few more times in the future, you will naturally be able to sense his ghost's emotions anytime and anywhere." ”。
"Including the Emperor Xudu?" Xiao Shizhu pursed his lips and smiled.
In any case, you will be able to know some of the decisions of Emperor Xudu and obtain information for future wars. Guan is thinking that he can learn about the private affairs and little secrets of the Emperor Xudu for this, Xiao Shizhu secretly had fun for a while.
At this moment, Chen Ruo walked in slowly with a bowl of requiem soup. The ghost mother got up, took the bowl of requiem soup, and waved her hand to signal Chen Ruo to retreat.
"Emperor Xudu, don't think about it, that old thing has lived for 10,000 years, and his mind is much stronger than his ghost. If you want to touch his mind, you can't do it without thousands of years of practice. The national teacher Yingying spread her hands and expressed regret to Xiao Shizhu.
"I'll go, other people's children are cheating fathers, and my parents just like to pit children. Give me a bunch of abilities that I can't use, and I have attracted so many killings, since I have transformed my soul, why don't you add some anti-heaven attributes to me?" Xiao Shizhu, who took the requiem soup and drank it all with his head raised, stomped his foot suddenly after hearing this, patted his thigh fiercely with his hand, and shouted.
Now that he confirmed that he was not sick, Xiao Shizhu had nothing to worry about, but complained about his parents on a whim.
It's just that he complains and complains, but he doesn't mean to be disrespectful to his parents.
"It's supposed to make you a human soul who always wants to eat and drink, a little bit of a sense of responsibility. Ying Ying didn't dare to answer, but the ghost mother didn't care, picked up the embroidered handkerchief and gently wiped the requiem soup hanging on the corner of Xiao Shizhu's mouth, and said without hesitation: "My mother-in-law wants to let you know how miserable the soul is in the underworld." Empathize, you don't just think about eating, drinking, and having fun, regardless of their lives or deaths. ”。
After speaking, he smiled.
Xiao Shizhu also put away the faint resentment on his face, laughed a few times, and said, "How does it sound like I accidentally took on a task with a long way to go." ”。
"By the way, since the illusions I saw in my dream are all real things, then the national teacher, you should go and arrange for the Xuanjiao and Sutianju disciples to spread the matter of Emperor Xudu's alchemy with human souls in private. Xiao Shizhu paused, put away the smile on his face, and said to Yingying: "Since this is the truth, there is no wall in the world that does not leak, so we will poke this wall to a big point, so that the ghosts are afraid of the Northern Yin Dynasty." If you are afraid, you will be angry, and if you are angry, you will rebel. ”。
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Shizhu's eyes flashed with excitement.
If these things are poked out, even if no evidence is presented, it can make the Beiyin Dynasty lose the hearts of a large number of people. The Northern Yin Dynasty, which was already in danger, immediately made matters worse.
"No, the minister will do it, and strive to let our disciples lurking in the ten continents know about this matter at dawn. Ying Ying thought about it for a while, and after some deliberation, she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this matter, so she slowly bowed to Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother and withdrew.
"I can sleep in peace. Xiao Shizhu stretched his waist, then took off his robe, threw it to Mu Shi at the end of the bed impartially, lay back on the bed again and posed a "big" word, slowly closed his eyes and was about to sleep.
Without worry, sleepiness has hit, and when Xiao Shizhu closed his eyes, he opened his mouth and yawned.
"Hey?" The ghost mother who was about to undress seemed to remember something, raised her hand and patted her head, and then reached out and shook Xiao Shizhu: "Why are you here with me tonight?"
It was Xiao Shizhu who was struck by drowsiness that was suddenly shaken by her, and finally a little drowsiness shook with her body, and it all disappeared. He slowly opened his eyes, stared at his wife in a daze, opened his mouth and asked blankly, "Where else would I be?"
His wife's words were very abrupt and inexplicable, which made Xiao Shizhu feel like a second monk at a loss. He clearly remembered that he had only been to Lai Yueqi's side yesterday, and he was very puzzled by the ghost mother's words for a while.
"Isn't this the day when the fox Ji Tu Yaoqing enters the palace?" the ghost mother looked at her husband with wide eyes and muttered.
"Really?" Xiao Shizhu tried to think about it when he heard this, but he couldn't remember that there was such a thing, so he asked rhetorically: "Are you sure she entered the palace today? Are you sure she arrived in Yuque City?"
"Of course, in the morning, the Chunguan Zongbo Changqin, who was in charge of the state ceremony, came to report the matter. I thought you knew about it, so I didn't tell you. The ghost mother frowned and looked anxious.
"Forget it, forget it, what a big deal, come up and sleep. Xiao Shizhu didn't care, smiled disapprovingly and was about to turn over to sleep, the ghost mother hurriedly leaned over and stretched out her hand, grabbed her husband who was about to turn over, and comforted softly: "Husband, you can't be like this." After all, Kitsune is a female ghost sacrificed by the Allies, and it is related to the friendship between our two countries. And it's not a gentleman at all to snub a woman like this. ”。
"I can't forget that. Xiao Shizhu smiled disappreciatively, closed his eyes again, pulled the futon up, and covered his face.
The ghost mother pulled away the quilt that covered his face, and then said softly to him: "You better go and see, for it is not good for a child to leave her home and come to a strange place where she has no relatives or ghosts she knows." ”。
"But I forgot, why don't I go again, tell her that I forgot that she entered the palace today?" Xiao Shizhu asked with his eyes closed tightly, a little impatiently.
It's not that he can't think of a valid reason, it's just that he doesn't care about Tu Yaoqing in the first place, so he doesn't bother to think about these things.
"You just said that you were late to talk to the ministers. The ghost mother didn't believe that her goblin husband couldn't think of a valid reason, but she patiently comforted her husband softly: "At least don't let that girl feel that she is dispensable; ”。
In this huge underworld, only the ghost mother can change Xiao Shizhu's occasional death.
Seeing that the ghost mother took the trouble to persuade for a while, Xiao Shizhu also put away his impatience, and after thinking about it for a while, he slowly turned over and got up, frowned and sighed softly, and sat down next to the ghost mother: "Okay, okay, everything is up to you." Then I'll come back tomorrow morning and go with you to the court to discuss with the ministers. ”。
The ghost mother smiled lightly when she heard this, and Xiao Shizhu also leaned forward, kissed her on the forehead, and then got out of bed and got dressed......
To the south of the Yuque Palace, there is a palace garden with two courtyards. The main gate opens to the south, the gate takes the hexagonal red mountain jade as the pillar, the glass is the tile, and the plaque hanging on the door head is engraved with the three big characters of "Thousand Rides Palace".
Since Xiao Shizhu agreed to the alliance with Qingqiu Kingdom and was ready to marry the fox Ji Tu Yaoqing, this palace that was originally inhabited by no ghosts was cleaned, furniture was purchased, and then renamed Qiancheng Palace to be used as the residence of the fox Ji.
According to the order of the ghost mother, the palace people are on the top of the hard hill of the yellow glazed tile in the courtyard, the eaves are decorated with spindle color paintings, the doors and windows are in front of the front hall of the double-crossed four-liner flower maul fan type, and three transplanted Qingqiu mulberry and six Zhusu laurels are planted, which are the common specialty plants of the Qingqiu Fox Country.
Also between the front hall and the apse, a pool was dug. The shapes and other things are built in the shape of the Yueyuan Lake in the Qingqiu Fox Country. The lotus algae in the pond is uneven under the blue waves, and there are countless swimming fish, all of which are the yellow dragon fish with dragon heads that are special products of the Qingqiu fox country.
Fox Ji Tu Yaoqing entered the Yuque City and entered the Yuque Palace, and was placed in this Qiancheng Palace.
And she is a concubine after all, so a concubine is not as good as a wife, and her wedding did not have a grand welcome ceremony except for a few ghost officials of the Spring Palace who were in charge of the ritual system under the leadership of Zong Bo Changqin, who welcomed her close to the palace.
Even at the wedding banquet after entering the palace, there were only a handful of ghost officials who came to participate, and Xiao Shizhu did not appear, so he couldn't help but look a little lonely and unappreciated.
It was late at night, Tu Qiongyao, who was dressed in a wedding dress, sat alone on the bed in the apse, staring at the mulberry laurel tree swaying in the north wind in a daze, and the shadow cast on the window was sufficient, and she was not sleepy at all.
Today is the day of her life, once in a lifetime. But in the huge apse, except for her sitting alone on the edge of the bed, only the cold furniture around her remained.
Tu Yaoqing knew early that there would always be such an ending. After all, the combination of her and Xiao Shizhu is just an exchange of interests between the two countries.
She thought that she had expected this result and had been mentally prepared, but she still didn't expect that when she sat alone in the cave room, it was still difficult to adapt, and a burst of grievance in her heart gushed out, and her eyes were red.
It's just that the tears haven't come out for a long time.
After a long time, a maid who was still a sign of birth, with loose sideburns and a faded shirt, walked in slowly, stood in front of Tu Yaoqing, and slowly made a thousand blessings: "Fox Ji Niangniang, it's cold in the middle of the night, you better rest early." ”。
This little female ghost with a soul is Tu Yaoqing's maid of marriage, named Yanchen, and she also grew up with Tu Qiongyao since she was a child.
"Is there any news from the king?" Tu Yaoqing recovered from his stunned thoughts, raised his slightly red eyes, and looked at Yanchen.