Before the empty dust was demoted to the mortal world, the heavenly court was no different, and everything was calm.

Zu Yun said to Ember that he didn't like Xingjun because he felt that Xingjun was an extremely cold and dark person.

That night, Xingjun took the initiative to enter her room for the first time, she opened her eyes in a daze, looked at him standing by the bed, and was very surprised, "Xingjun, why are you here?"

He touched her head, sat on the edge of the bed, took her into his arms, and kissed her forehead, but she had no joy, only the bitterness he had transmitted to herself, and a faint fire flickered on her forehead.

"Ash, can you enjoy all these years in Heavenly Court?" he looked at tenderly with his beautiful eyes.

"It's natural to have you by my side. What the hell is going on?" Ember could read the sourness in his heart, and she thought she understood him well.

"Nothing, I want to sleep with you tonight. ”

Ember was a little incredulous, "Xingjun, you ......"

"Isn't it good?"

"Good. She moved into the bed and gave way.

He hugged her tightly in his arms and said softly, "If one day, I forget you, will you still remember me?"

"From the moment I decided to come to Heaven with you, I gave you all my life. You know I don't have anything but you......"

"I ......"

He stroked her hair and kissed her on the lips, the first time he had kissed her like that.

It felt like he had placed a sea of flowers after the rain in her chest, and Ember was greedy for the moment, clumsily responding.

He smiled lightly, like the warm breeze she had when she first met him, "Sleep." ”

The next day, Ember woke up and didn't see Xingjun, thinking that he had gone to Zimi Palace to discuss matters, but found that he was sleeping in the study, and he had set up a fairy barrier.

She had to walk around the room boredly and look at the peach blossom outside the window.

I saw Zu Yun, stepping on a leisurely and leisurely pace, she turned her face away and looked up at the glow.

"Your master, why did he set up an immortal barrier for you again, he still doesn't worry about you following him. Zu Yun shook the folding fan, leaned against the window, and looked at the glow like her.

"Maybe I'm not doing enough in some places. She muttered.

"Which do you think is more beautiful than the glow of this heavenly court or the galaxy?"

"Of course it's the galaxy, Xingjun said that the most beautiful place in Heaven is the galaxy next to the Moon Palace. ”

He closed the fan, revealing a hanging, gentlemanly and crepe-like look, "Feiye, non-yes, where can the galaxy compare to the glow." ”

"Why can't it be compared, don't you also like to see the galaxy?" I was grateful to think that he had taken me to the galaxy.

"Then do you feel happy when you look at the galaxy, or are you more moved when you look at the glow?"

When he asked, Ember's first reaction was that it was Xiaguang. But Xingjun said that the galaxy is the most beautiful, she doesn't want to refute, she wants to love what he loves.

"All in all, I love Galaxy. ”

He smiled meaningfully, "I think you like the glow, and you are very indifferent when you look at the galaxy." ”

Ember was in a trance for a while, although she didn't like Zu Yun, she had to admit that he understood her.

"In the valley where I used to live, there was a kind of bug, and some little demons in the mountains called it Night Walk, it was a kind of insect that would glow at night, and sometimes there was such a faint light all over the mountains. At that time, I leaned under the qionghua tree and drank wine and looked at them quietly, and then my eyes were very uncomfortable, as if something was about to come out, but it didn't come out. ”

"That is the galaxy that belongs to the world. ”

"Embers, we immortals are not all happy, I remember when I was young in the Tianshu Pavilion to learn art, I heard the ancestor tell a story, he said that a long time ago, there was a phoenix fairy martyrdom in Yanggu, her body turned into this five-colored glow, since then there is such a magnificent scenery in the sky. ”

"What does martyrdom mean?" she wondered.

"It's two people who love each other, but can't be together, so they die for love. ”

She sighed, "But I'd rather the people I love live, even if I can't stay together......"

Until Zu Yun went back, Xingjun was nowhere to be seen, and she was worried.

Ember wanted to use mana to unlock the immortal barrier, but it was in vain, so she could only shout loudly through the immortal barrier, but she forgot that in this palace, there were no permanent immortals and immortal guards.

Did Xingjun hide something from me? He must have been saying goodbye to me last night.

She didn't dare to think about it, pulled out the white hosta on her bun, pierced her fingertips, and a drop of blood immediately turned into a blood bead floating in the air, she blew lightly, and the blood bead flew to the immortal barrier, turned into a fire, burning fiercely, and the immortal barrier disappeared suddenly.

When Ember was still living in the Nameless Valley, she found that her blood could turn into demonic flames, she didn't know if every fire demon was like this, she didn't tell Xingjun about it, and she didn't know why she was afraid of this demonic power.

Blood is fire, stored in one's own body, will one day itself be burned into smoke and dust, and then disappear.

She rushed eagerly to the Zimi Palace, but was stopped by the immortal guard at the door.

She left in a huff and ran to Zu Yun's Baiqing Palace, she had been there once, it was Xingjun who asked her to urge Zu Yun to return a booklet called "The Legend of the River", that book was taken by Zu Yun when she came to play with her, and she took it while she was not paying attention, because Xingjun would not lend the collection of books to anyone.

Zu Yun seemed to have heard about Xingjun's debasement, and when he saw it, he was not surprised, but depressed.

After that, he deliberately distanced himself from her, she knew that he was avoiding suspicion, and he didn't want Ember to beg him, but he still couldn't bear to let her kneel in his main hall.

"Do you really want to kneel here to death for him?" said to him, with an angry look on his face that she had never seen before.

"He made a mistake and was demoted to the world, and no one could save him. ”

She was still on her knees, tugging at his sleeve, "I know I can't save him, but I'm going to find him, I'm going to be by his side." ”

Seeing her so hoarse and grief-stricken, he gently helped her to her feet, made her sit down, and smoothed her somewhat messy hair.

"His business, Tenshoji is secretly judged. ”

"I don't care what crime he committed, I just want to go to him. The embers flickered with fire on their foreheads.

He was helpless, and agreed to her to go to the Divine Pagoda to spy on the heavens.

She knew that once Zu Yun was found to have peeked at the Heavenly Machine, he would be arrested and punished, even if he was the crown prince, and it was a felony to leak the Heavenly Secret.

Ember secretly promised, Zuyun, what I owe you, I pray that it can be repaid in this life.

The officials of Shengcheng arrested people in Huazi Lane in the western suburbs, and some people were watching the excitement. In the dirty corners of the alley lay a lot of flowers, some of them grabbed with black hands from the kind liquor shop, some of them were fished out of the swill buckets that were brought out at regular intervals every day, and some of them were gnawing on the clean and hot pieces of meat and bait, and some of them seemed to have begged for food and enough to eat in the street, scratching their sticky hair from time to time, and snoring and falling asleep on the spot.

These Hanako are a little delirious, and they do not reject the officials, and let them shout here.

The leading official had a wide eye, and he was carefully selecting the right flower in it based on his previous experience. He motioned to the other officials to go and tie someone with a rope.

Only then did these flowers have some consciousness, and they pitifully showed their bitter faces.

But the officials turned a blind eye. Some Hanako began to get up and run out, causing the onlookers to dodge again and again, for fear of being injured by mistake, and for fear of being contaminated with the disgusting aura of Hanako's body.

The official tied up the five selected flowers back to the county office, and the county commander Chen was busy fanning Lord Hu and complimenting, "Lord Hu, look, how are these flowers?"

Tall, looking very sturdy, Master Hu, dressed in a costly official robe, holding a seemingly old but ingenious leather whip, slightly pulling his nose, slowly pacing around the five tied together flowers.

The Hanako just laughed stupidly.

Master Hu was born in a family of horse tamers and was used to playing with a leather whip.

"It's not what I want, Lao Chen, what do you think, why are you convicting this case of Qiu Fu, talking about this prisoner, who is lazy and can't pay the field tax, and his family is forced to death by this tax, so this criminal has the intention of killing. ”

He pointed at the nearest Hanako with his whip in disgust, "Look at this thin one, it looks like he is lazy and has the strength to kill." ”

Lord Chen suddenly realized, and made a fist gesture towards Lord Hu, "Lord Hu really has insight into all opportunities, and I admire it." ”

After speaking, he immediately ordered the leading official Ge Qiuba to catch the slightly burly Hanako.

This Ge Qiuba's brain was very bright, and he immediately nodded in response, and went out again with the officials.

"Leader, what do you say is strong in this flower, I have been patrolling the streets for so many years, and I haven't seen any flower with fat head and big ears, hey, this Lord Qincha is really embarrassing for us. ”

The other three officials also complained.

"Okay, brothers, why have you been working under Lord Chen for many years, and you have also seen this Lord Chen's flattery to the hunting patrol, I think if this thing goes well, why don't brothers go to Duxian Lou to have fun in addition to eating and drinking spicy food in the future." ”

After Ge Qiuba finished speaking, the officials all coaxed.

"Leader, this Duxian Building is expensive, if the case is really closed, I can go there to play, little brother, I really, I will die without regrets." ”

"Hey, leader, don't pinch my ears!"

Hahaha, except for Ge Qiuba, the other officials all laughed.

"You pervert reincarnated!"

A servant weakly asked, "Leader, actually, don't you think it's strange?"

Ge Qiuba said, "What's strange?"

The other three officials also suddenly showed curiosity, looking at this young student who was not tall and looked quite white.

"When I used to stay in the dead room, I couldn't sleep, and I remembered the legend of my hometown, saying that there is a kind of ghost who specializes in sucking men's essence to recuperate. ”

"You kid is really timid, you can still think about this while sitting outside the afterlife. The official who spoke could not help but shudder.

It was getting late, and the street shops were gradually lit up, and the candles swayed in the red lampshades, as if a strong wind was blowing, but there was no wind.

The officials standing on the side of the street all felt as if sweat was pouring out of their backs.

"I think there may be ghosts in this world. ”

"Your mother, don't say a word, don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, why don't you follow the leader and don't do anything ugly. ”

"Yes...... In the past, Lord Chen called us...... The starving Hanako in the prison, and ......"

Ge Qiuba didn't feel good in his heart, although he was not a good person, he would never admit that he was a bad person, and these servants who followed him were not bad people.

Whenever he did something bad, he bought some paper ingots and burned them, which was counted as a farewell to those who had lost their souls in this life, and prayed that they would be reincarnated well and be noble in the next life.

"Don't say it anymore, you are worthy of your conscience, what are you afraid of. ”

In the evening, Ge Qiuba took the servants to the restaurant on the corner to eat something, discussing where to catch some sturdy flowers tomorrow.