Chapter Eighty-Four: The Palace Bloody Case Is Unbearable
"Eat, what are you kidding, eating him is eating me, we kid Jin is so smart and cute, well-behaved, who is willing to eat? He, he is a baby who sees flowers and flowers blooms, and everyone loves him, even the goblin who eats people will be reluctant to eat him when he sees it, not to mention that he calls me sister." Xue Ning took Zijin's hand and said.
Xue Ning's words made Ziyan tremble with laughter, she pointed to her sister and said, "Little girl, when did you pick up a younger brother, if you were in the fox hole, if you picked up such a pink carved person, maybe everyone should be happy, hey, you won't be guilty of nymphomania, I want my brother to go crazy, I think back then, the demon fox mother and the fox demon father are this mind, it's a pity, I gave birth to our girls in a row, and I didn't fulfill my wish until I died."
Let's go, Sister Xue Ning, since you recognize this little bit as your younger brother, then take good care of him and don't let him have any accidents.
In the second half of the night, after the palace calmed down, and I was almost fine, we sent this little guy back, and let the one-year-old doll follow us in the mountains and forests, after all, it is not a way, just his body with a milky smell of water spirit, can lure out all the old goblins dormant in the deep mountains and old forests, he is the royal bloodline, the descendant of the dragon, and when he grows up, he wants to inherit the unification and save the common people, although we are demon foxes, but we can't help but understand these big truths. ”
"Sister Ziyan, you are right, I have this intention, right now, you have been poisoned, so let's meditate and regulate your body, and wait until the second half of the night, we will not be too late to act. Xue Ning said to her sister convincingly.
In order to help Ziyan recover his spiritual power as soon as possible, Zimo helped Ziyan to exercise and regulate his breathing, leaving Xue Ning alone, and he took good care of Zijin when he had nothing to do.
It's just that Zijin this little guy is pampered, usually stays in the palace, at this point, he is full of food and drink, it's time to sleep, tonight, because he was taken away from the banquet by Xue Ning, he didn't fill in his stomach, his heart was very unhappy, he pestered Xue Ning to ask for food, Xue Ning had to take his little hand, looking for wild fruits in the woods on the river beach, but unfortunately after looking for a long time, only found a few shriveled and bitter wild fruits, which did not suit Zijin's taste.
Fortunately, Zijin is still quite sensible, and he is very happy to see that he has a young lady accompanying him and playing in the vast woods that he has never been to.
Xue Ning took Zijin's chubby little hand, walking slowly in the jungle, under his feet was a carpet formed by thick fallen leaves, Zijin was short, occasionally stumbling on branches, falling to the ground, whenever the little guy fell to the ground, he simply lay down and rolled.
Because Zijin felt that this place was soft and comfortable, he simply leaned on the blanket made of leaves and refused to get up.
Xue Ning had no choice but to sit on the ground with him, Zijin opened his shining eyes, and looked at the sky in the forest, suddenly, he pointed in the direction of the sky, and exclaimed to Xue Ning, "Sister, look!"
Xue Ning heard Zijin's shout, and hurriedly looked in the direction of Zijin's finger, and sure enough, she found a meteor passing through the sky, the meteor was beautiful and dazzling, just dragging a strange long tail, which looked very weird, so that Xue Ning had an ominous feeling in her heart after seeing it.
In the past, she often heard the demon fox mother say that after a person or a goblin and other spiritual things die, they will turn into a meteor and fall from the sky, but tonight, it is very weird, she seems to have seen a bunch of stars falling from the sky, could it be that tonight, something terrible happened?
Xue Ning didn't dare to think about it, and she didn't want to think about it, in order to coax Zijin to fall asleep early, Xue Ning hugged Zijin in her arms, patted his back, and hummed her own nursery rhyme to him.
But after all, she is also a child, after all, she can't give Zijin a sense of security and belonging, the little guy looks up to the sky, looks at the stars in the sky for a while, and feels boring, crying, he waved his hands, shed tears, and asked for his mother.
"Mother, mother, mother, ......" The childish crying voice made Xue Ning fall into the turbulent river of memory, and the crying voice was full of helplessness, horror, and longing for relatives.
This helpless and pitiful look is very similar to the look of Xue Ning who lost the fox demon mother on that day, at that time, although her eldest son Jin was many years old, but in the face of the huge disaster, she would only open her mouth and cry, and there was nothing else she could do.
But right now, Zijin still has her, in order not to make the little guy too sad, Xue Ning held the crying Zijin firmly in her arms, she comforted him softly, "Zijin, don't cry, you still have your sister, even if the whole world leaves you, I won't leave you, you can sleep at ease, when you fall asleep, I will quietly send you back to the palace and let you return to your imperial mother."
Tonight, you just think you're having a dream, wake up from the dream, and everything will return to its original state, okay?" Speaking of this, Xue Ning's nose was sour, and she couldn't help but shed two tears.
If Zijin can take everything that happened tonight as a beautiful dream, after waking up from the dream, everything is the same, but she can't, the bloody past is shocking, so that she will never forget everything that happened in the past, everything in the past can never be a dream for her, they are like imprints, and this life and this life are deeply engraved in the depths of her memory.
As soon as she closes her eyes, she will think of her warm and fragrant fox hole full of home, she will think of the fox demon mother who is arrogant and pampered by herself, she will think of the fox demon father who holds her in her hand and is afraid of breaking it in her mouth, and she will think of her sisters who are always dressed up and drunk to her, but they are inseparable in their bones.
Silent tears flowed on her cheeks, Xue Ning closed her eyes and cried in the dark night, "Fox Demon Mother, Fox Demon Father, and sisters, I miss you so much." ”
I don't know how long it took, Xue Ning hugged Zijin in pain and fell asleep in a daze, and when she woke up when she heard footsteps again, it was already the middle of the night.
A familiar voice whispered in her ear, "Sister Xue Ning, wake up, it's time for us to send little brother back." ”
It was the voice of my sister and Zi Mo, hearing the call, Xue Ning opened her eyes and saw that she was curled up and lying on the dead leaves, while Zi Jin, who was asleep next to her, was still sleeping with her eyes closed, and she was sleeping deeply, and it was Sister Ziyan and Zimo standing in front of her.
"I'm sorry, I'm too sleepy, I put Zijin to sleep, and I ended up falling asleep. She sat up and looked at Zijin beside her and said apologetically.
Suddenly, Xue Ning noticed that Zijin's breathing sound was a little rapid and heavy, so she hurriedly touched Zijin's forehead, which was not tight, which startled Xue Ning.
It turned out that the wind was cold in the wild, and the little brother was weak, and he had never spent the night in the open air.
Touching Zijin's hot forehead, Xue Ning blamed herself and said, "I'm sorry, Zijin, I complain that my sister didn't take care of you, I only know how to coax you to sleep, but I forgot that you will get cold at night."
Hey, what should I do?what should I do?" Xue Ning hurriedly picked up Zijin from the dead leaves and carefully picked it up, touching Zijin's hot body, Xue Ning was anxious and looked at Ziyan and Zimo for help.
"Right now, time is in a hurry, we don't have time to find herbs to treat him, thinking that he is just suffering from ordinary cold, we still have to do business, send Zijin back to the palace first, and when he returns to the palace, there will naturally be a royal doctor to treat him." After Ziyan finished speaking, he reached out and took Zijin into his arms.
"Sister, you are young, Zijin will give it to me to hug, for the sake of safety, you are alone in this woodland waiting for me and Zimo to come back, and the two of us will send the little guy back to the palace, and I will come back to you immediately. Ziyan didn't plan to take Xue Ning with her, she was worried that there would be many people and a large target, and her coming and going would be restricted.
But Xue Ning didn't agree with her sister's plan, she had been frightened so many times, she would rather go into danger with her sister than wait here alone.
"Sister, I'm going with you, many people have more strength, leaving me here alone, I will be more worried and scared. Xue Ning insisted.
Ziyan saw that Xue Ning didn't agree, so she had to give up, and together with Zimo, the three of them hurried back to the palace.
It's just that as soon as they approached the realm of the palace, the three of them relied on the spirit fox's keen sense of smell to smell the heavy smell of burning items and the pungent smell of blood.
At this moment, a flock of birds fluttered their wings and flew through the sky, and the miserable chirping of these birds as they flew seemed to warn their fellow citizens to flee for their lives.
"Oh no, something terrible has happened in the palace. It seems that a lot of people died. Ziyan could understand the bird's language because she had taken the spiritual blood of the third elder brother, and at this moment, when the group of birds chirped and flew away, she said to everyone in shock.
"There are so many people who have died?No wonder there is such a strong smell of blood, but I can't figure it out, why do so many people die?Could it be that because of the loss of the little brother, the emperor was angry and beheaded many of his servants?" Xue Ning asked puzzled.
"No, definitely not, although I haven't met the emperor, but after dealing with the third elder brother for so long, I will also know that this father and son are not such murderous people. There must be something else strange about this matter, and when a few of us enter the palace, we must be cautious so as not to fall into the tiger's mouth. "Zimo is a man in the end, and he is a little far-sighted.
"Got it, Brother Zimo, otherwise I'll take Zijin with me in the back, how about you and Sister Ziyan explore the way in front first?"
Ziyan, who was hurrying away, stopped, turned around, handed the Zijin in his arms to Xue Ning, and whispered, "Xue Ning, you remember, we can't meddle in the affairs of the palace until we have to, tonight it is important for us to escape, wait, no matter what happens, we will take the time to return the little elder brother and leave, don't do much." ”
"Okay, sister, I'll make a note of it. Xue Ning replied timidly, agreeing to Sister Ziyan's plan, because she is well versed in the palace of the human race, although it is gorgeous** , extravagant and comfortable, but the intrigues here, the intrigues and tricks here are endless, and there are more man-eating monsters and bloodless knives that kill people, those monsters with teeth and claws will come out at any time, and ask for the life of a person who is ignorant of the world, although Xue Ning is a demon fox with a body of spiritual power, but even so, staying there, she has already sensed the horror, perceived the breath of death, tonight, if it were not for Zijin's fate and future, she categorically did not want to return to this cannibalistic cave.
After Ziyan gave Zijin to Xue Ning, she took the lead and Zimo to explore the way first, leaving Xue Ning to hold Zijin and follow from afar, seeing that there was nothing unusual in front of her, she cautiously followed, she was so cautious, not for herself, but for Zijin, tonight, what happened in the palace was too weird, thinking of a series of disasters encountered by Zijin in the past, she had to guard against it, she was not afraid that those people were coming for her sister and her, she was only afraid that those man-eating devils were coming for Zijin who was young and immature and powerless.
In the blink of an eye, Sister Ziyan and Zimo had already approached the dormitory where the queen mother lived, but not long after the two of them entered the courtyard, they shouted in horror.
"Oh no, something happened to the queen's mother! Even the servants who served the queen in the palace spat blood from their mouths and fell to the ground and died. ”
"Ziyan, come and take a look, Niangniang seems to have a breath. When Zimo was inspecting the scene of the murder, he suddenly found that the queen mother had wide eyes and was looking at herself upright.
Hearing Zi Mo's call, Ziyan hurriedly rushed over, helped the queen mother who was lying on the floor, and called her softly, "Niangniang, what happened? Who seriously injured you and killed so many people?" Ziyan asked anxiously.
"Yes...... Is it a concubine...... That one...... Before the goblins could finish speaking, the queen mother coughed violently, only to see a mouthful .....of blood gushing out from the corner of her mouth, and then, as soon as her body sank, she fell into Ziyan's arms, and could no longer speak.
Zimo approached the queen mother, probed her nose with her hand, shook her head and sighed, "She's gone, she's no longer saved, how can this be good?"
Ziyan slowly lowered the queen mother's body to the floor, and suddenly she said to Zi Mo in surprise, "It's so strange, Zi Mo, look, there are fish scales below the queen mother's neck." ”
At this time, Xue Ning, who was waiting outside, holding Zijin, heard that something had happened to the queen's mother, and her heart was very anxious, and when she didn't hear the sound of the two stopping her, she flew in desperately with Zijin in her arms.
When her dexterous figure just jumped into the house, she was stunned all of a sudden, and the queen mother, who was still graceful and luxurious before the dinner, was lying on the floor silently at this moment.
Sister Ziyan was pulling open the placket of the queen's clothes and showing it to Zimo, "It seems that there are fish scales from the bottom of the neck, is the queen a fish spirit when she was alive?" she asked in confusion.
"Impossible, I stay by the side of the queen mother and Zijin all day long, I have never seen such a strange appearance of the queen mother, could it be that she is also the same as her sister, what kind of witchcraft has she fallen into?"
At this time, when the three of them were inspecting the body of the queen mother, they suddenly heard a loud voice from outside the palace, "Hurry up, hurry up, don't let go of that goblin." Immediately afterward, the sound of the marching footsteps of the soldiers in pairs came to my ears.
"Oh no, no, Xue Ning, put down Zijin, let's go! There will be guards here soon, we don't care about burying the queen's mother." "Purple Smoke ordered everyone to wait.
"No, you can't leave Zijin alone, I feel that the person who came is not good. Xue Ning said stubbornly, she walked quickly to the queen's side as she spoke, pulled off the phoenix hairpin on the queen's head, put it in her sleeve, and hurriedly rushed out with Ziyan.
At this moment, the soldiers outside the door had already gathered around, and a voice was shouting, "By the emperor's order, kill the demons, little ones, there is a fish spirit hidden in this house, trying to make trouble, you don't rush in for me, tie her up, and behead her tomorrow." ”
At the sound of an order, the soldiers rushed in like tigers and wolves.
In order to protect Xue Ning and Zijin, Ziyan and Zimo fought with these soldiers who rushed in.
Although Ziyan and Zimo are young, they have spiritual power after all, and those ordinary people are not the opponents of Ziyan and Zimo at all.
Ziyan retreated outwards while fighting, and she told Xue Ning in fox language, "Sister, you take Zijin and leave quickly, Zimo and I cover you, now the two of us will lure the soldiers away, you take Zijin back to our old place first, and wait for me and Zimo." ”
Xue Ning snorted, which was an answer, she hugged Zijin desperately, climbed out of the palace wall, and rushed towards a seemingly safe passage without a palm lamp. She is not very familiar with the road of this harem, but this path, she seems to have a slight impression, and feels that as long as she runs down this passage, she will come to the back garden, and there are many rockeries in the back garden, lakes and lakes, flowers and trees everywhere, but it is a place where you can temporarily hide your body.
Just now, Xue Ning had already witnessed the many soldiers who came to arrest the queen mother, those people were glazed-eyed, as if they were being used as marionettes, commanding them to move forward, they had already made no distinction between black and white, did not distinguish between good and evil, and would only obey orders and be used as tools for killing.
Xue Ning and the queen mother are in the same palace, although she can't grasp all the queen mother's behavior, but she is convinced that the queen mother is not a treacherous person.
She worked hard for the emperor to give birth to two princes, won the emperor's favor, was benevolent and generous in the palace, and did not make many enemies, she really couldn't associate the queen mother with the heinous bad guys.
What terrible things happened tonight? Why were the corpses all over the queen's palace covered with blood? Who was secretly doing evil? Killing the queen mother and her servants? And who instructed the soldiers to treat the queen mother as a demon in an attempt to humiliate the body?
Xue Ning wanted to know, but no matter how much she wanted to know the reason, for Zijin's safety, she didn't have the time or energy to go to other places in the palace to check and find out the truth.