Pei Xiaoyuan bowed: "Yes." As the bones of the left finger fell off, one was buried at the bottom. ”

Ye Zhongli fell silent. Finally, he gently put down the patina-covered knife and walked out slowly with heavy steps.

Tonight, the jade plate-like spring moon is shrouded in a light veil of light night mist, and the sky is covered with hazy and dim moonlight. Ye Zhongli stopped in the courtyard of the back meditation room, his hands behind his back, his back to them, and his back slightly, if he was in the moon, his figure was motionless.

Su Yu and Pei Xiaoyuan glanced at each other, and the two quietly followed, but they didn't dare to say a word.

"Zhengang has its own quality, and jade is not strong. In the past, Mr. Wuliu said that I was loyal and upright, and although jade was strong, it was far inferior. ”

"Bai Ya, you have always remembered what Master said to you. You have done nothing wrong. Master is not sad. Master is glad for you—"

With Ye Zhongli's slightly choked words like talking to himself, he slowly turned around.

"You've guessed it right, it's so much eroded that it's long gone, but I recognize it. In my early years, I also practiced gold and stone seal carving, and Bai Ya's talent is even better than mine, and he is proficient in this way. This is the seal knife I left him before I left Chang'an, and before parting, I gave him that sentence......"

He paused.

"He's left-handed."

"Girl, Xiao Yuan, take me to see him for the last time."

Tears still glistened in his eyes, but his tone had calmed down.

Su Yu held back his tears, stepped forward to hold his arm, Pei Xiaoyuan followed, and the three of them silently left the temple, stepping on the moon and heading towards the palace in the north of the city.

When he arrived, all the people during the day had dispersed, and Yang Zaien was still with some people to personally guard the pile of white bones. Seeing Su Yu and Pei Xiaoyuan escorting an old man who was dressed simply and his appearance was coming, although he didn't know his identity, he also knew that he was an unusual person, so he hurriedly led people to avoid it for the time being, and waited far away.

Ye Zhongli stopped in front of the pile of white bones, and for a while, the old tears were silent again. He took off his coat, went up, spread it out on the ground, and picked up the bones one by one, as if they were some of the most precious treasures in the world, and carefully placed them on his clothes. After collecting the bones, he wrapped his clothes, crossed his knees in place, sat with his eyes closed for a moment, and said slowly: "Bai Ya came here last that day, it should be to wait for me." At that time, the world was in turmoil, and Chang'an was in danger, and he knew that I couldn't rest assured that he was still in Chang'an, and he would definitely come back to look for him. It's just that he didn't wait for me, and went first-"

Ye Zhongli suddenly opened his eyes and turned his head to look at Pei Xiaoyuan.

"As far as I know him, he won't just die. Xiao Yuan, didn't you say that before he died, he was still holding a seal knife in his hand? ”

Pei Xiaoyuan was suddenly awakened by his words, and his inspiration flashed, and he immediately walked to the corner where Ding Baiya was sitting dead, and stopped in front of the broken wall near his left arm.

The walls of the broken walls were already covered with a thick layer of mud, soot and moss. Su Yu raised his fire staff to illuminate him, and he drew his dagger and carefully pried back the wall shell.

As the clay shells fell off, slowly, as Ye Zhongli said, a large area of dense chiseled words was revealed on the corner of the wall.

Chapter 150

Ding Baiya will not forget the scene when he first met Princess Ding.

That year was the sixth year he came to Chang'an.

Like countless people in the world who are like carp crossing the river, he was born in a declining county family, and he also carried his bags, alone, carrying the bright moon on his shoulders, and with the dream of "feeling the will of the king on the golden platform and carrying the jade dragon to die for the king", he came to this unique and greatest capital city in the world.

It was his luck and misfortune to be born in the heyday of the old years. He was brilliantly talented, but in the prosperous world, there were many people in the world who were like him, or more deeply endowed with background, and they all had the same thoughts, and they flocked to the heart of the empire from all directions.

Everyone wants to be the proud person who has to leave a name on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

Year after year, the one who jumped into the dragon gate was not him.

From sixteen to twenty-two years old.

The young man who was proud of his talents in the past has completely sharpened his edge on the stone of Chang'an.

By chance, he learned from a Chang'an scholar who admired him that it turned out that as early as four years ago, in the second year of his application, he had been on the list. However, because of his previous article on the disadvantages of the country and the hidden dangers of the country was widely circulated, alarming the Son of Heaven, after reading it, he left an eight-character comment of "Vertical arrogance, never retained", he was removed, and in the following years, as long as he saw his name, the examiner would draw out the application paper and not consider it on the spot.

He fell silent and began to turn more of his mind to the brush. He has lived in Qinglong Temple for many years, studied hard and has no long things, the abbot appreciates his talent, and he does not leave him behind in a meal, but he knows that he must change. In this way, the former brush of leisure became a tool for making a living, and he became a painter.

He met Princess Ding at a birthday banquet hosted by a clan king for his mother. At that time, she had just been married, she was young and jade, with bright eyes and black hair, and she was one of the many painters who were hired to paint to entertain the ladies who attended the banquet.

Qionglou Painting Hall, Chinese feast, noble ladies indulge in the curtain garden. Outside the banquet, he lay on his stomach on top of the work case, with the scorching July sun on his head, and he was sweating. The paintings of the painters were passed into the feast one by one by the slaves and maids for the ladies to enjoy. When he was leaving, he saw that his painting had been discarded on the messy floor, stained with wine and covered with trampled mud footprints.

He didn't stop, silently passing by. Leaving the banquet, he was hungry and thirsty, and he felt tired, and was about to speed up his pace to go back, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and someone stopped him.

A servant girl came with a plate of cherries and smiled that it was given by Princess Ding.

"You are Ding Baiya? The princess said that she had read your article before, but she didn't expect you to draw well. It's a pity that she is also a guest today, so it is inconvenient to leave a painting. This is the princess's reward for you, and it is clean. ”

The handmaid brought the plate of cherries.

The fruit is red and clear, round, and contained in the toothpan, like beautiful colored gemstones, and when it rolls, it shines brightly.

Princess Yin's father was the son of the country and the master of the history of the Zhaowen Pavilion, and he died of illness three years ago. He should have been raised for many years, but he did not know his name.

The scholar also mentioned to him that day, and the Zhishi of Yin Sacrificial Wine also had something to do with the article he wrote back then. The sacrificial wine once advised the emperor, although the student's view was biased, but he did not hide his talent, but also saw the heart of serving the country, hoping that the emperor would not just judge the student's career with shortcomings, which made the emperor dislike, and soon after, he resigned from the official position and died of illness the following year.

At that time, there were some noble ladies who gathered under a bush of flowers and trees to chat, and did not leave, and Princess Ding was also among them.

He woke up from a dream, turned his head to look, and in the distance, saw her turn to him, smiled at him, and nodded.

He froze, it was the maidservant who woke him up, and he hastily rolled up his sleeves and took the plate of cherries.

The fruit is chilled. When he returned to his place of residence, the ice was exhausted, but on that summer night, when he picked up an entrance, it was still so cool, and his lips and teeth remained sweet for a long time.

This is the most luscious food Ding Baiya has ever eaten in his life, and there is no one.

Later, he no longer had the heart of fame, devoted himself to painting, and fell into Ye Zhongli's eyes and was accepted as a disciple. Later, his paintings and his demeanor were both superb, and he began to be favored by noblewomen. At first he didn't say anything, but perhaps his eyes on the woman alone were too hot, and even he couldn't restrain himself, and after he painted a picture of a cat for her and her beloved daughter, some rumors about him and her gradually spread in Beijing, and even the past of her father speaking out for him in front of the emperor became evidence of his fornication with the woman. He was so frightened that he blamed himself, and henceforth he would not appear in the presence of her, and at the same time he began to mingle with the ladies, and even to travel and sleep with them. His fame grew even greater, and the Queen Mother appointed him to make a portrait of her, and one of the most powerful middle-aged female officials beside her was also very kind to him.

That night, in silence, he was suddenly summoned to the palace. He didn't know what was going on, until he saw the female official, he knew that the queen mother had left the palace early, and tonight, the emperor also quietly fled from the west of the forbidden garden. Tomorrow, the officials and the people will know that the palace was empty last night.

The female officer also absconded and wanted to take him with her. He immediately thought of Princess Yin, and wondered if King Ding had sent someone back to pick her up, and if she knew that Chang'an had been abandoned. When he hesitated, the female officer sneered and asked if he wanted to report to Princess Ding.

"I'm telling you, tonight is her death. Tomorrow at the latest, the rebels will arrive. If you don't go with me, do you want to die under the sword of the rebels like those Chang'an pariahs? ”

The female officer has long had the heart to monopolize him. In the past, he had always avoided and hid when he could. Tonight, he heard the clue, pretended to be frightened, and couldn't bear to ride with her and leave the palace from the Forbidden Garden.

In the car, he inquired about the inside story. The female official knew that her lust was declining, and in order to please the young man, and even more so to threaten and intimidate him, she told the truth.

Koyanagi is the cousin granddaughter of the Queen Mother, and often goes to the palace to accompany and please the Queen Mother. It turned out that she conspired with her henchmen and wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to deceive Princess Yin in the name of the Queen Mother. However, this matter is not trivial, and she is even more afraid that if the queen mother knows about the crime in the future, she will hesitate.

Koyanagi's scheming, how could it be hidden from the eyes of the queen mother, the reason why this female official also stayed under the pretext of this matter was precisely for this matter, so when the koyanagi clan came to find out the tone, she pretended to be unintentional and revealed the queen mother's thoughts.

is also the grandson of the emperor, the queen mother loves Prince Jingsheng alone, but she has a lot of disgust for King Ding, the cause is also a coincidence, on the night of King Ding's birth, she fell down, was sick in bed, and almost died. Later, she became suspicious, and took the eight characters of Dingwang to ask someone to see it, and said that she was against her, and this son would also be unfavorable to the Wang family. The Queen Mother was convinced. And before the emperor was completely addicted to the sound of dogs and horses, he still admired King Ding, saying that he had his own style of the year, among many princes, he was the most virtuous, and personally designated a marriage for him, with the Liu Nu of the Guannai family as the concubine. This caused the Queen Mother to dislike it even more.

After the Oyanagi family died of illness a few years ago, the Queen Mother knew that the Liu family had always wanted to remarry the Xiaoyanagi family to the king in order to stabilize the marriage.

Naturally, this move was not to her liking. She wanted to clear the obstacles for her beloved eldest grandson, how could she allow the Liu family to remarry her daughter as a concubine. She wanted to arrange for her own people to enter the palace as a step-concubine, and monitor the actions of the king, but the king was very cunning, and after a few years in the palace quietly, one day, without warning, he directly found the emperor's face, saying that not long ago, he went out to visit the apricot orchard, and met the daughter of the Yin family, who was very in love and wanted to be his wife.

The eldest son of Yin Sacrificial Wine died as a young man, and he only had one daughter left under his knees, and the family was also a complete family, a few years ago, after the death of the sacrificial wine, the door court was even more silent.

This move of the king seems to be in line with the emperor's wishes. At that time, Yin Nu had also been filial piety, and agreed on the spot, pointing to this marriage.

The emperor spoke, and the queen mother had no choice but to give up. However, since then, she has become more and more disgusted with King Ding, and she also hates Yin Nu, thinking that she seduced King Ding and ruined her own plans.

The female official revealed the Queen Mother's hatred for Concubine Yin to the Xiaoliu family, and reminded her sideways that if you cut the grass and eradicate the roots, you must kill even the little county lord to prevent future troubles.

As if he was fed a reassuring pill, Koyanagi no longer hesitated and made up his mind.

"Do you think it's so simple for the Queen Mother to kill the mother and daughter just to borrow a knife?" The female officer said proudly.

"That idiot of the Xiaoliu clan, she killed King Ding's beloved this time, and even the little county lord didn't let go, even if the Queen Mother didn't say a word, she could hide it for a while, and she could deceive King Ding? In the future, when the king knows about it, he will be in pain, how can he let go of the Liu family? When the dog eats the dog, the prince can sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai. ”

The female officer and Ding Baiya said this, originally to show off their future status and coax him to enter the account with all his heart. But he didn't know that Ding Baiya was really a ruthless person, and he had already moved to kill, and on the occasion of greeting, he strangled the female officer in the traveling carriage, took the pass, and stopped the carriage, and then, he went down with people as if nothing happened, saying that the two of them had something to go into the nearby forest to discuss.

The entourage thought that the female officer couldn't wait, and she wanted to be happy with him on the way, so how dare she ask more. He got on his horse and left, and after entering the forest, he hid the people, then turned his horse's head and galloped back to Chang'an, and went to Dingwangfu to report the news.

He is still late, Concubine Yin has been deceived out, and he is almost to the palace. He showed up desperately, stopped him, and revealed what he knew. Guo Zong and the others were shocked and were about to escort Concubine Yin back, but unexpectedly, in order to prevent accidents, the Xiaoliu clan sent someone out to inspect the situation, and found that something was wrong and chased after them.

At that time, the two sides were not far apart, and there were many people on the other side, Concubine Yin knew that the primary target of the Xiaoliu clan was herself, and ordered Guo Zong to go back to the house and escape with her daughter, while she herself went to another road.

She should have a hunch and know that she will die tonight, so she asked Ding Baiya to flee as far away as possible, so as not to suffer from the fish in the pond. How could Ding Baiya abandon her and go with the remaining guards to escort her, panicking, they were blocked by the river. The chasing soldiers came up, after all, they were outnumbered, Ding Baiya was stabbed in the chest and was cut into the water, and some other palace guards also died, and Princess Yin was captured and brought into the palace.

It turned out that the Xiaoyanagi clan hated Concubine Yin very much, and felt that it was too cheap to simply kill her, and she had to see her humiliated and die with her own eyes to relieve her hatred. Concubine Yin didn't know the intentions of the Xiaoliu family, and at first there was no resistance on the road, but it was just to buy time for her daughter to escape, and after being brought to the Xiaoliu family, she pulled out the golden hairpin on her head, stabbed herself in the heart, and fell to the ground and died. Koyanagi was furious, ordered his henchmen to whip the corpse, and then threw her to the mass grave in the east of the city, so that she would be punished by wild dogs to gnaw the corpse.

At that time, the news was secretly sent again, and the rebels were getting closer and closer to Chang'an.

The direction from which the rebellion came was to the east of the city. The mass grave was far out of the city, one or twenty miles away.

Although Concubine Yin killed herself, her face was still like life, the leader couldn't bear to blaspheme, and was afraid that he would delay the time in order to throw the corpse, in case the rebels encountered early, he couldn't escape, and when he saw that the Xiaoliu clan had left, he handed over the matter to his subordinates and fled by himself.

Two of his subordinates had the same idea as him, how could they dare to go to the east of the city, and after discussion, they transferred Concubine Yin's body to the corner of Taiye Pond next to a deserted flower forest, fell a stone, sank into the water, and then fled in a hurry.

Ding Baiya is familiar with water, and after falling into the water, he did not die. He crawled out and, despite his own injuries, chased after him again.

After he became famous, he made a generous move and interacted with many palace guards. The atmosphere in the palace tonight was really weird, and many palace guards had already been suspicious, and they had no intention of being on duty, so he was able to enter the palace again. He searched all the way to the vicinity, watched Princess Yin fall in front of him, and watched her sink into the water. When the others escaped, he went down to the liquid pool, found Concubine Yin, dragged her out, and desperately rescued her.

The princess finally returned to her body with a wisp of incense, but even if she woke up, she was dying, and she only had her last breath left.

The spring moon rose into the flower forest, she fell into Ding Baiya's arms, dazed, and mistook him under the hazy moonlight for King Ding, and muttered to him Qinglang, saying that she would go first and would not be able to accompany him in the future. He doesn't have to avenge her, she knows that he has heroic ambitions, the world is turbulent, and the court situation is difficult, so he will do what he should do, and she won't blame him.

She also said that she knew that he had married her in order to deal with her as the queen mother, and to eliminate his father's jealousy of him. He was someone she liked at first sight. But if there is an afterlife, she should not marry him again.

She exhaled her last breath in the voice of urging him to hurry up and save his daughter, who suddenly became messy again.

Qinglang, you have to make her a carefree and happiest person.

Sakura spat out the last trembling words, and she died in Ding Baiya's arms.

This time, it was really dead, and there was no possibility of returning to the soul.

Ding Baiya hugged her tightly, the blood and tears from the wound in front of her flowed silently, until her body was cold, completely lifeless, and slowly let go.

He stumbled, hugged her, found the most blooming ancient apricot tree by the liquid pool, and dug underneath it all night, from night to dawn.

After dawn, everyone in the palace knew that the emperor had fled last night. Everyone is running for a way out, and no one knows that by the edge of the flower forest in the depths of the palace's liquid pool, he has dug a deep place for her.

He knew she loved apricot blossoms.

Spring is jealous, and this flower is the most delicate. is the only flower, light red as brocade, thin powder snow, worthy of the praise of beauty makeup. Cherish the shortness of spring, even if the branches are infinitely delicate, it is fleeting, and the gods are difficult to stay.

Ding Baiya put her in it and carefully arranged her clothes.

She is so beautiful, even at this moment, she still looks like she has just fallen asleep. How could he bear to cover it with dirt? He covered her whole body with Luoying, letting the petals block the merciless mud for her, and slowly, covering her inch by inch.

After burying her temporarily, he left a mark on the trunk of the tree, held his breath, dragged his crumbling body, and came to the Yong'an Temple.

The hall was already empty.

He reached the depths of the dimly lit hall, sat in the corner of the wall of the fresco, and began to carve words in the corner for his master.

He knew that his master would come here to look for him. But he probably can't wait for that moment anymore. Before he died, he had to tell him the temporary place of Concubine Yin's refuge and ask him to turn it on to the king.

And how she died at the hands of those evil spirits who were intrigue, and the last words she wanted to leave to her husband.

Not a lot of words, the original, all left on it.

After carving the last word he wanted to keep, he was exhausted, leaned his head against the corner of the mural, and stopped breathing.

And his left hand, which fell weakly on his knee, still held the knife tightly. It was a memorial that his master left to him when he left Chang'an many years ago.

The torch fell from Su Yu's hand and fell to the ground, sparks splashing everywhere.