Chapter 7 Discouragement and Blood
After the Battle of Weishui, the New Year arrived as scheduled.
Although more than half a month has passed since the Weishui War, the enthusiasm of the people in the city for this matter has not decreased due to the length of time, but has added a lot of talking points to the relatives who go to the door in the New Year. Many people are speculating about who the two peerless heroes who fought in Weishui that day are not the rumored Seven Great Grandmasters.
The outside of the palace was very lively, but because of the Zhishui Palace case, this year's Chinese New Year's Eve was particularly bleak, and Emperor Dongfang Bo did not have the heart to interact with the concubines and children. Looking at the vacant position in the Qiying Palace, Song Qiming's hands held in his abdomen were clasped tightly, his eyes were lonely, as the emperor's close attendant, he saw the report about Dongfang Yi stepping into the dry mound. He didn't know what the dry mound was, but he knew that it wasn't as simple as stepping into a certain place to get the news that the Shadow Secret Guard could deliver.
Originally, the feast was supposed to end around the time of the child, but for some reason, the emperor disbanded the family feast just after the time of the unitary. On the way back to Qiande Palace, Dongfang Bo turned his back to Song Qiming and said lightly, "The gods are not quiet, the heart is uneasy, and the heart will be chaotic." A smile is a sign of friendliness, and I will stop today, I hope you are doing well. ”
After speaking, Dongfang Bo took the Imperial Forest Army around him and walked away, leaving Song Qiming, who had white bones, standing alone on the palace road, trembling all over. After saying goodbye to each other, the princes and princesses who left from the Qiying Hall walked to the gate of the palace, got into the carriage back to the house, and left the palace with all kinds of thoughts.
However, the fifth prince Dongfang Tao, who is now in full swing, did not leave the palace, but after saying goodbye to his brothers and sisters, he came to the forbidden place in the palace near the Zhishui Palace, with his hands on his sleeves, and stood at the corner of the palace road in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Your Highness, there is a ban in the palace, and subjects are forbidden to stay in the palace in the future. If His Majesty knows that His Highness has come to Zhishui Palace, I can't say that he will..."
Without waiting for the guard to finish speaking, Dongfang Tao turned his head, stared at the guard who had grown up with him since he was a child, and said softly, "Cao Zhi, what do you say he is doing at this time?"
Seeing that His Royal Highness had no intention of leaving, he mentioned the person who had become taboo. Cao Zhi could only follow his master's words, and continued, "I should be thinking about how to take revenge on you..."
"Revenge?" Dongfang Tao nodded when he heard this, turned to look at the door of Zhishui Palace, and said to himself, "The first time I met Xiao Jiu was here, and it was five years ago. Ah, no, it must have been six years ago! My father had just ascended the throne, and he brought me and my mother back from the southwest. Because I have never met this group of so-called siblings since I was a child, I am very afraid of not being accepted by them. So I tried to be as humble and polite as I could, and I think you should remember, right?"
Recalling six years ago, when the five of them accompanied Dongfang Tao into Beijing, Cao Zhi nodded bitterly, that time can be said to be the most difficult days for all of them in the Imperial Palace, they had to wear masks every day to live, for fear that a person who would accidentally offend someone who should not be offended. Later, if Dongfang Tao hadn't shined in the battle of Qiwang Mountain and saved Zhao Zhen, the little god of war of the southeast Zhao family, I am afraid that King Yi would not be known to the world.
"It's a pity that right here, I was pierced by a guy who was four years younger than me and pierced that disguise! That day, as usual, I came to the palace early to greet my father and mother and concubine, and when I walked here, I met the seventh, eighth, and little nine and Aunt Chu walked out of the Zhishui Palace. ”
When he said this, Dongfang Tao's expression was hideous, his eyes were red, his hands hidden in his sleeves were trembling, and he said in an extremely depressed tone, "When my aunt saw me, she was very happy, that smile was more real and kind than my mother, there was no hypocrisy in it, and she also gave me the warm jade she wore every day! The seventh and eighth also saluted me respectfully, and called the fifth brother, only... Only Xiao Jiu, he seemed to see my nervousness at a glance, raised his eyebrows and asked me if I was tired!"
Feeling that Dongfang Tao was very excited, completely lacking the gentle and calm calm he usually had, Cao Zhi hurriedly stepped forward to support Dongfang Tao's body. It wasn't until this moment that Cao Zhi discovered that Dongfang Tao's lips were bitten by himself, and blood was slowly flowing down the corners of his mouth.
"Your Highness must not be angry and hurt yourself, with subordinates here, you will definitely not give Your Highness the Ninth a chance to resurrect. ”
Who knew that Dongfang Tao's assurance to Cao Zhi was as if he had heard some ridiculous joke, and after pushing Cao Zhi away, he pointed to the gate of Zhishui Palace as if he was crazy and sneered, "Don't give him a chance?" Hahahaha, Cao Zhi, you.... Hahaha.... You're too coke! If you don't let him make a comeback, can't anyone else!!?
Everything in today's banquet is reflected in Dongfang Tao's eyes, four empty tables, an old eunuch with lonely eyes, and an indifferent emperor, from beginning to end, this so-called family banquet has no taste of family affection in it, as if a completely irrelevant group of people got together to eat a wedding banquet that is difficult to swallow.
After laughing, Dongfang Yi put his arm on Cao Zhi's shoulder. wiped the tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, and finally returned to the appearance of a humble son. Then he took out a paper fan from his cuff out of season, stretched his waist, and said with a smile, "Let's go!"
He hadn't approached the palace before, and now he wasn't qualified to be near it, and just like the disguise he had never removed, he and the people who lived here were always two worlds.
Cao Zhi didn't know why King Yi came to this Zhishui Palace tonight and told an inexplicable past. However, when the two of them boarded the carriage back to the house, Cao Zhi accidentally caught a glimpse of the paper fan that the king was carrying with him, but he was wearing a piece of flawless white jade tonight, and he understood everything.
And Dongfang Tao, who was sitting in the carriage, looked at the brightly lit people's homes on both sides of the road and the fireworks burning in the sky, he stroked the snow-white warm jade, bit his lip lightly and muttered, "Auntie, I'm sorry!"
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Compared with the prosperous Chinese New Year's Eve night in the imperial capital, the disciples of the sect on the Jade Void Mountain, although there are no gorgeous fireworks shows and lively crowds on the occasion of the New Year, they will also learn to stick the Spring Festival at the door of the main hall like ordinary people, let the canteen cook a pot of hot dumplings, and distribute them to the disciples of each peak to eat.
As a personal disciple of the head of the Yuxu faction, Dongfang Yue's lakeside building of course also has Spring Festival couplets pasted, but if Dongfang Yue is allowed to choose, he will never choose the old man at the door to paste Spring Festival couplets for himself.
"I said Yue girl, look at this Jade Void Sect, and your little uncle is thinking of you, so I specially asked you from the fourth senior brother for this Spring Festival couplet! ”
Hearing this, Dongfang Yue held his forehead with his right hand, wrapped his left hand around his chest, leaned on the door frame, and shook his head helplessly. After Liu Mang pasted the Spring Festival couplets, Dongfang Yue said weakly, "Uncle Xiao, this white arowana in Yingxin Lake, the master can explain, and no one will be allowed to pay attention to them." I advise you not to run to me if it's okay, if my master knows, you will not be thrown into the ancestral hall by her old man to copy the door rules. ”
"What?, girl Yue, what do you think of me?, am I the kind of person who covets the desire of the tongue?" Liu Mang pointed to the tip of his nose and looked at Dongfang Yue with a look of grievance, as if he had been wronged through the ages.
"The first Yue'er Spring Festival couplets here were sent by the fourth junior brother, the second Xu Lu wanted to send the dumplings to Yue'er, but they were intercepted and swallowed by you, the bastard uncle, and the third is that if you are not greedy for the desire of your tongue, how can you always run to this lakeside building? Why didn't I see you here before?" With an angry voice, Liu Ran, the master of the Yuxu Sect, held a plate of hot dumplings in his left hand, rolled his eyes and stepped from the void, as if entering the door from the same place with Liu Mang would lower her identity.
In the face of Liu Ran's demolition, Liu Mang first smiled awkwardly at Dongfang Yue, and then swished, and ran into the night, the speed was not weaker than that of the great grandmaster, and even more than that, and the Dongfang Yue master and apprentice who saw it were surprised!
After gathering his mind, Liu Ran smiled helplessly at Dongfang Yue, and then Dongfang Yue sent an understanding smile, and the master and apprentice walked into the house together to taste the dumplings on that plate.
After leaving the small building by the lake, Liu Mang put his hands behind the back of his head and hummed the yellow tone he learned from the Mobei camp: "You are not black, I am not black, it is black when you are covered with a quilt; you don't cry, I don't make trouble, and you will croak after October! The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wild grass is scattered, the mother-in-law appears, the heads of millions of barbarians are shining, and the number of them is counted one by two, and the whole prairie is over!"
After humming for a long time, Liu Mang unconsciously walked to the path behind the Jade Void Palace. Thinking of the little bastard who had been in the dry mound for more than half a month, Liu Mang sighed lightly and patted the roast chicken and dumplings wrapped in paper in his arms, which were originally the appetizers he was going to keep for drinking in the second half of the night, and now I'm afraid he will give them to that little bastard!
Walking along the path to the door of the dry mound, looking at the huge mound that looked like a dungeon, Liu Mang took out the elder token and threw it into the hands of the mound slave guarding here, and then stepped into the mound with his head held high.
As soon as he entered the dry mound, the vitality around him changed suddenly, and the gloomy, blood-killing, furious, and unwilling dark side of all human beings were all filled with the nearby vitality. But Liu Mang seemed to be invulnerable, letting these vitality wash over his body, and his eyes kept searching for that unlucky little bastard.
After looking for a long time and not seeing Dongfang Yi, Liu Mang frowned and said, "My mother, this kid won't be done playing, right?"
"I'm done playing with your uncle, come here!!"
Following the full voice, Liu Mang finally saw Dongfang Yi, who had been absent for a long time. However, at this moment, Dongfang Yi no longer has a trace of elegance and agility, and his unkempt appearance is more like a beggar than a beggar at the foot of Yuxu Mountain.
"What are you doing kid running away, aren't you afraid that the anger there will kill you?"
You must know that anger is born the nemesis of death qi, once the anger pours into Dongfang Yi's body, then it will inevitably urge the resistance of death qi, and even if Da Luo Jin Immortal comes to the world, he will not be able to save Dongfang Yi.
"I don't want to fucking any, but is there a place to eat and sleep here? You just let me in, why doesn't anyone think to bring me food? I don't know if Lao Tzu almost starved to death here?"
When Liu Mang heard this, he was stunned on the spot, and then said something that was enough to make Dongfang Yi's blood soar.
"Uh.... I'm sorry, we forgot about it!!"