When the emperor heard this, his face was extremely gloomy, and his eyes were full of displeasure.

"You've heard it, why don't you say it?" He said angrily, "You know, because of this curse, I killed three sons! ”

"Because the concubine wants to live." Yun Ya raised her head and looked at him calmly, with no fear on her face, "To unlock this curse, you have to exchange the life of the concubine, the life of the emperor's son is life, and the life of the concubine is also life." ”

"Poisonous woman...... Poisonous woman! The emperor was so angry that he "snapped" and slapped it on the table, "Come on, take her down, take her under strict supervision, and on top of tomorrow's ceremony, bleed her to the sky!" ”

"Does the emperor think that by only bleeding the concubine's body, he can sacrifice to the sky and lift the curse?" Yun Ya hooked her lips.

The emperor looked downcast: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"The concubine knows a formation, which can not only unlock the curse of the emperor, but also bring people back to life. If the emperor agrees to the concubine body, the concubine body is willing to use her life as this formation to help the Chu family, the descendants will be endless, and there will be successors in the country, how about it? Yun Ya said seductively.

The Emperor examined her, as if considering whether what she had said was true or false.

However, after thinking about it, now that his nephew and his only son are dying, and there is no successor, there is no worse situation than now, so it is better to give it a try according to what she said.

"If you have any requests, say them and let me hear them."

Yun Ya: "At the beginning, the concubine was married to Da Zhou for the sake of harmony. The concubine has nothing else to ask for, only that the emperor can make an oath that in her lifetime, she will never let the war affect Yunjiang again, nor will she harm the king of Yunjiang, so that the concubine can go on the road safely. ”

The Emperor frowned, "Are you worried that I will be angry with Yun Delirium because you concealed the method of relieving the curse and did not report it?" ”

Yun Ya lowered her eyes and pursed her lips silently.

"I promise you." The emperor raised his eyebrows, "Yunjiang is now the territory of the Great Zhou, the people of Yunjiang are also my people, Yunjiang is the king of Yunjiang personally selected by me, you are you, he is him, I will not be angry with him, you can rest assured." ”

After he said this, seeing that Yun Ya didn't say anything, he sat up straight, and made an oath according to what she had just said, "I promise that I will never harm the king of Yunjiang in this life, and I will not let Yunjiang be affected by the fire of war again. So, can you rest assured? ”

Yun Ya's expression was slightly relaxed.

She was silent for a few breaths, raised her eyes, looked at the emperor, and asked, "I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Ten Princes are all terminally ill, but this time the concubine can only save one person with the technique of defying the sky, which one does the emperor plan to save?" ”

*

Half an hour later, Yun Ya came out of the main hall of the Shouling Palace, and was personally escorted by Xiao Zhu's father-in-law, and returned to the small courtyard where she lived.

Xiao Zhu's father-in-law complimented him a few words, glanced at the little maid beside Yunya, and turned to leave.

When she returned to the room, the little maid stepped forward and said with a smile: "Liangdi just said something meaningless in front of the emperor to confuse the emperor's attention, but she probably said everything my master told me to say." The host knows and will be very satisfied. ”

"Tomorrow is busy, Liangdi will rest early. My master said that as long as Liangdi continues to act according to the master's will tomorrow, Yun Yu will naturally be safe in Yunjiang, and even a hundred years later, Yun Yu can continue to be his king of Yunjiang. ”

She paused and asked meaningfully: "Yun Yu is Liangdi's only relative in this world, Liangdi must not bear to have any accidents at his young age, right?" ”

"You don't have to always threaten this palace with Yun Yu's life."

Yun Ya straightened her back and looked at her with a heavy gaze, "You have been with the master and servant of this palace for so many years, you should know that this palace has always made promises. It's just that...... Before the palace died, there was still something unclear, for the sake of me dying tomorrow, can you tell me, your master...... Who is it? ”

"Since you want to know so much, it doesn't hurt to tell you."

The little maid said, leaned into Yun Ya's ear, whispered a few times, and Yun Ya's face gradually showed a look of surprise......

Meanwhile.

The emperor walked out of the main hall of the Shouling Palace and was about to leave, when he suddenly thought of something, and looked sideways in the direction of the east of the Shouling Palace.

There was a small courtyard there, and candles were lit, which made his eyes glow with sadness.

"Concubine Qi, she ...... Still don't want to see me this time? The Emperor asked with a sigh.

Zhu Lianxi lowered his head and replied hesitantly: "I heard from the slave and nephew, Niangniang heard that the emperor was coming to bow and sacrifice in the past two days, so she began to retreat and copy Buddhist scriptures, saying that she was going to burn them to the two highnesses and Concubine Wen when she was going to rush the ceremony......

"She still doesn't want to see me." The Emperor sighed, "Let's go." ”

With that, the Emperor took a stride and strode away.

Zhu Lianxi glanced in the direction of the small courtyard, his eyes flashed slightly, followed closely behind the emperor, and left the Shouling Palace.

*

Early the next morning, the weather suddenly turned cold.

It was obviously an auspicious day for the mausoleum that Qin Tian had calculated, and the sky was still clear the day before, but for some reason it was cloudy, and there was a faint sound of thunder, and there was a muffled roar behind the clouds, and it was a heavy rain coming.

This kind of weather is obviously not suitable for the mausoleum ceremony.

If it was in the past, the emperor would definitely order Qin Tianjian to find another auspicious time.

But now, Emperor Xu is consideration that the bodies of the crown prince and the tenth prince could not wait any longer, so the mausoleum ceremony was still being prepared in an orderly manner, and there was no intention of canceling it at all.

Zhu Lianxi took the people of the inner chamberlain, carried two soft sedan chairs, and came to the palace where the queen mother rested.

Since arriving at the imperial tomb last night, whether it is the crown prince and the crown princess, or the ten princes, they have all rested in the queen mother's palace and are served by the palace maids of Shoukang Palace.

"Queen Mother, the emperor asked the slave maid to take His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Ten Princes to the mausoleum, and after a while, the emperor ordered Yun Liangdi to do a ritual on the mausoleum, only in this way can the lives of the two highnesses be saved." Zhu Lianxi reported.

The Queen Mother looked at him majestically, "In today's weather, what is the difference between bringing Liulang and Shilang to the mausoleum and sending them to death?" The mourning family is not allowed, you let the emperor come and talk to the mourning family in person. ”

Zhu Lianxi showed embarrassment on his face, "Back to the Queen Mother, the emperor has bathed and cleaned himself early in the morning, and now he has gone to the mausoleum to chant for the two highnesses, the emperor knows that the queen mother is worried about the two highnesses, so he specially asked the slave maid to tell the mother, please rest assured, the emperor will protect the two highnesses." ”

The Queen Mother tightened her eyebrows, reluctant to let go.

Zhu Lianxi looked at Shen Lingxi on the side for help.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi pretended to hesitate for a few breaths before saying to the Queen Mother: "Grandmother Huang, since the emperor specially invited Yun Liangdi to do things at this time, there must be a way to save the two highnesses...... No matter what the method, at this point, we have no other way, we have to try it anyway. ”

With her on her side, the Queen Mother was silent for a few breaths before she made a decision, "People, you can take it away, but the mourning family has one condition." ”

Zhu Lianxi saw that she was relieved, exhaled lightly, and said busily: "What does the queen mother command, although she sends a slave maid, the slave and maid will go all out to relieve her worries." ”

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand and pointed at Shen Lingxi: "The internal guards around the emperor are becoming more and more hairy now, and the mourning family can't trust them." The crown princess went to replace the mourning family, and whatever you want to do, the crown princess instructed the secret guards of the mourning family to act. ”

The queen mother's secret guards were left by the first emperor, and they were only dispatched by the queen mother, even if it was the emperor, they couldn't command them.

But right now, in order to take people away without any conflict with the Queen Mother, Zhu Lianxi's requirements for the Queen Mother are naturally unreasonable.

Anyway, as long as people go to the altar, even if the king of heaven is next to him, it will not help.

Seeing this, the Queen Mother lowered her eyebrows, glanced at Shen Lingxi tacitly, waved at them, and let people leave.

*

Since the Queen Mother spoke, the soft sedan brought by Zhu Lianxi was naturally taken over by the secret guards of Shoukang Palace.

The soft sedan chair is blue and blue, the top of the sedan chair is covered with oilcloth of the same color, and there is a couch inside, which is narrow and comfortable, that is, Chu Yan's tall figure, lying flat in it, is enough for his size.

Shen Lingxi beckoned to the secret guards, and carefully put Chu Yan and the Ten Princes into the soft sedan chair respectively.

After Chu Yan lay in, she lifted the curtain and glanced in, with a strange look on her face.

Xu is coffin was spread out a lot, Shen Lingxi looked at the layout in the sedan chair, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that Chu Yan seemed to be lying in a coffin with the door open at the end at the moment.

"Niangniang, let's go, the auspicious time is coming, and the ritual is about to begin."

Zhu Lianxi walked to Shen Lingxi's side and urged softly.

As soon as the words fell, I heard "boom, boom......" and a thunderstorm suddenly sounded in the sky.

Shen Lingxi looked up at the sky, and the cold wind that suddenly rose, wrapped in dark and heavy dark clouds, slowly pressed towards the direction of the imperial tomb from a distance.

"You call this an 'auspicious time'?" Shen Lingxi looked at him with a smile and asked.

Zhu Lianxi laughed a little, "This is not what the slave maid said, it was said by the eldest princess of Yunguo, the auspicious time of the people of Yunguo must be different from our Great Zhou." ”

Shen Lingxi glanced at him, said no more, put down the sedan curtain, and gestured to the secret guard who carried the sedan chair.

The group followed the eunuch who led the way and walked out.

This time the sacrifice was very different from the previous one.

Not far from the east side of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, there is a stone step leading to the top of the Mausoleum.

On the top of Lingshan, there is a specially built mausoleum.

Every year on the day of Chongyang, the emperor will ascend the mausoleum to worship heaven and earth and the ancestors.

Like this time, it is neither a festival nor the death day of the first emperor, but a sacrifice is held at the mausoleum, which is unprecedented since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Both sides of the stone steps along the road from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain are already densely packed with people.

Today, for the sake of convenience, Shen Lingxi did not wear the palace clothes of the crown princess, only wore a Taoist robe, held a whisk in his hand, followed Chu Yan's soft sedan chair, and walked up the stairs.

As they got closer and closer to the mausoleum, the dark clouds that were still in the sky had been wrapped in the cold wind, and they gathered on the top of the mausoleum.

It was morning, but the sky was getting darker and darker, as if night was coming.

The muffled thunder of "boom" gradually began to become sharper, and lightning began to shuttle in the depths of the dark clouds.

Liu Meiren floated not far from Shen Lingxi, looked up at this celestial phenomenon, and said with a sigh: "So, if people don't understand some celestial phenomena, they really can't do big things, I can be a little admired, if you talk about clever calculations and thoughtfulness, the national teacher Sheng Kun is 'Wolong', and you Da Zhou can be called 'Phoenix Chick'." ”

Wolong, phoenix chicks.

It sounds like a compliment, but Shen Lingxi doesn't know why, and he tastes a little scolding.

Seeing that she was silent, Liu Meiren covered her lips and smiled, and asked gossipingly, "I didn't tell you, aren't you curious - whose life was the last choice of the emperor last night?" ”

As the saying goes, "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles".

What happened in the Shouling Palace last night, Shen Lingxi had already learned from Liu Mei's mouth.

She also took advantage of the fact that there was no one around, and quietly told Chu Yan to know.

The little aunt gave the emperor a proposition to choose between his nephew and his only son.

Although Shen Lingxi was curious about the emperor's final answer, the answer to this kind of thing was just "curiosity" for her and Chu Yan.

The real strong will never put the choice in the hands of others.

No matter how the emperor chooses, the real answer will only be in their hands.

"I'll tell you......" Liu Meiren floated into the air, looked at the mausoleum that was about to arrive, and sighed, "Actually, the emperor didn't make a choice last night, but your little aunt told him that if he wants anyone to live, put whoever is due east of the gossip map, in the position of the birth gate." Later, the emperor asked whoever put the sedan chair in the east is the one who the emperor wants to save his life today. ”

Her voice fell, and Shen Lingxi had already arrived at the top of the mountain with Chu Yan's sedan chair.

On the ground of the square altar, a huge picture of Fuxi Bagua was drawn with red cinnabar.

In the westernmost and easternmost directions, there is a vermilion circle each, which should be the position of Chu Yan and the Ten Princes, where the soft sedan chair is placed.

At this moment, the emperor was wearing a bright yellow embroidered gold dragon robe, and his hands were folded in his sleeves, folded in front of him.

He faced the direction of the mountains, his lips moved slightly, and he chanted the incantation that Yun Ya had taught him last night.

And in front of him, between the two carved dragon stone pillars, there was a woman hanging in the air, wearing a snow-white plain dress and a Kunlun Nu mask.

The woman hung her head and did not move, unable to tell whether she was alive or dead at the moment.

From Shen Lingxi's gaze, the woman was hoisted high, and the dark clouds in the sky were shrouded in the top of her head, and the lightning that shuttled between the clouds seemed to be split on top of her head if she was not careful.

Even though Shen Lingxi was prepared in her heart, when she really saw this shocking scene, it was still difficult to contain the anger in her heart.

Shen Lingxi silently clenched his palm.

"You're here." When the emperor heard their footsteps, he didn't look back, stretched out his hand and pointed to the position due east, and said in a deep voice: "Zhu Lianxi, take Liulang ...... Put it there. ”

When Liu Meiren heard this, she covered her lips in surprise.

"It seems that the emperor chose Xiao Langjun's life...... This is quite unusual. ”

Zhu Lianxi naturally instructed the secret guards of the Fudong Shoukang Palace, walked to Shen Lingxi's side in small steps, and reminded him loudly, "Niangniang......"

Shen Lingxi came back to his senses and raised his hand towards the secret guard carrying the sedan chair.

According to the emperor's words, the dark guard placed the two sedan chairs in the corresponding positions.

At the same time, raindrops the size of beans fell from the black and oppressive sky, smashing people's skin painfully.

The thunder also exploded more and more, accompanied by lightning, and screamed hysterically in the air, as if to tear a hole in the dark and dreary sky.

"The hour is almost up." The emperor looked up at the sky and said with a majestic expression, "Let's start the ceremony." ”

When Zhu Lianxi heard this, he took a longbow from the side and handed it to him.

"The sky is above, today I sacrifice the blood of the Yun family's daughter, praying that the sky will lift the curse of the emperor and return the peace and ......tranquility of my Chu emperor's heir."

With that, the emperor drew his longbow and aimed it at the woman hanging in the air, and shot a cold arrow...... (End of chapter)