There has been no court in Hengyang City for many days, and the ministers gathered in the inner palace to discuss matters from the time they received the letter from Yundu asking for help. In order to prevent the leakage of military information, the ministers were detained in the Chaoyang Hall of the harem. It's just that after today's hour, there are still no courtiers to see him, and the monarch Qin Tiancang did not come as usual a few days ago, but Queen Zhen ordered a few slaves and maids to clean everything in the study in the palace.

There was nothing else important today, so she sat on the water side of the hall and watched the flowers, and a gust of wind swept through the hall, bringing in some yellowed fallen leaves. It was the height of summer, it was the season of greenery, who knew that the sudden fallen leaves brought a little sluggish meaning, Queen Zhen couldn't help but write a sentence on the fallen leaves: Drink flowers alone and make shadows.

"The Queen Mother. ”

The person who pushed the curtain into the account in the water pavilion was Qin Miaoshi, the beloved daughter of Queen Zhen. It's just that for many days, Chaoyang Hall is not as deserted as it is today, and seeing the quiet time of the queen mother, I can't help but feel the love of my mother, and I made a special trip to visit. I just happened to see Queen Zhen's eyebrows frowning, as if she had something on her mind, and when she entered the door, she saw the poems on the fallen leaves revealing a single talk of desolation, so she asked the maid to take pen and ink and add a sentence at the end: A branch of Lu Dai.

Queen Zhen saw that the poems filled in by her beloved daughter turned around, and she first suppressed and then raised her heart, and praised it greatly, like the moon shining into the lonely lake, and the originally empty mood suddenly brightened.

"It's Miaoshi, come here, sit next to your mother. ”

Qin Miaoshi agreed, and sat on Queen Zhen's side, and there was a white jade wine bottle on the sunken wood table in the middle, but the wine bottle was empty.

"Queen Mother, you are drinking alone, do you know that wine is a poison that pierces the intestines, especially this depressing wine, won't drinking it hurt your body even more?"

King Zhen smiled like a peach blossom in early spring and said, "If Miao Shi often comes to see me, I won't drink alone." ”

"Look at what the queen mother said, I don't care about my mother's condition, I specially collected the moonlight to visit, and I have been here five or six times, but the access control in Chaoyang Palace is strict, and I have not been allowed to see him. Today, the people reported that his father had left the Chaoyang Palace, so he immediately set out to greet his mother. ”

"My illness is no longer serious, but your father is not at ease, so he did not allow me to go in and out with him. It's a shame that you still remember my illness, but you haven't seen Miao Yin in the past few days, why didn't you, as a sister, call her to come with you?"

"Sister, I'm afraid only the queen mother thinks so, Miaoyin has never treated me as a sister!"

"You have been strong since you were a child, I know you still hate me for remarrying Tiancang back then, but if it weren't for this, how would I live with you, an orphan and widow? Who can we rely on in Rizhao Kingdom? You don't recognize your father, but Miaoyin is your half-sister, and she has the same blood, how can you deliberately alienate her? In the palace, Tiancang is not due to your temperament, why do you still have a misunderstanding of Tiancang and your sister?"

"Queen Mother, these days in the inner hall, the father and the queen mother are the main affairs, and Miaoyin was also invited to the Chaoyang Palace to discuss matters, why is I the only one missing? Just because I am not the king's biological daughter, so I am not even qualified to participate in the deliberations? ”

Queen Zhen comforted Miao Shi a little, after all, Miao Shi has always been this kind of stubborn personality, so she will no longer talk about this topic.

"What poetry collection has Miao Shi been studying recently, and have you practiced the exorcism spell I taught you on weekdays?"

"I'm afraid that the queen mother will laugh, so I haven't dared to show off in front of you. Thanks to the queen mother's gift of the ring, I am now proficient in handling some silk objects. ”

"Did the moon lice ever listen to you?"

"Yue'er grew up with me since she was a child, and even if there is no Yingluo circle, I have long been close to it. ”

"Yes, you are much stronger than your sister in terms of psychic exorcism, but it is too bad for you to come back from tying up a boy in Yeyue City, how can you, as the county lord of Rizhao Country, abuse lynching. If it reaches the ears of your father, I am afraid that he will be furious again. ”

"Who told the queen mother about such a trivial matter? besides, my father, he never paid attention to what I did. ”

"People are also raised by their fathers and mothers, don't hurt his life!"

"Who said that I was going to kill him, I just thought that this child was pitiful, and kindly took him in, he lived in our Hengyang City, which was not a hundred times stronger than Yeyue City. ”

Queen Zhen sighed and said: "You girl, I usually heard your guards tell me about your use of living people as 'earth vine soldiers', I thought you were poetic, you must not be such a ruthless person, today I heard you say this, only to know that what you said is true." Since he was just a child in the mountains, why torture him. ”

"Queen Mother, on weekdays, you and your father Miaoyin accompany you day and night, where do you have time to pay attention to my affairs, I just came to ask for peace today, but I will teach me a lesson, in your eyes, I can't compare to Miaoyin anyway, in this case, you put your mind on her, why do you interfere in my affairs?"

"Shi'er, that's not what I mean for my mother, cough cough, come here..."

Where can Qin Miaoshi listen to dissuasion, her tears are like Xiao Xiao's fallen leaves, and she turned around to leave, Queen Zhen didn't even look back after shouting a few times, so she could only let her run out of Chaoyang Palace.

Qin Miaoshi was depressed, many peonies in the garden she passed by were in full bloom, and she didn't provoke her, but she felt uncomfortable no matter how she looked at it, so she sacrificed the satin sky and broke all the branches of these pots of bright peonies.

The maids and guards in the palace watched from a distance, they knew that the county lord was in a bad mood, and began to be angry with the surrounding flowers and plants.

Qin Miaoshi looked at the mess all over the place, her mood improved slightly, and thought about it, it turned out that it was so easy and pleasant to vent her anger, how did others want me to do the opposite, and what could I do to see my father and mother? By the way, the kid with the scar on his face is still imprisoned here, why does everyone say I'll kill him? Then I just want him to live well, and I want him to be my most obedient minion, I want to see how Qin Miaoyin fights with me!

Qin Miaoshi returned to the county lord's mansion where she lived, and at this time, the two guards saw her return to the mansion and hurriedly bent over her.

"Excuse me, tell me if that kid has recruited his identity, is it a spy from Yundu?"

"Back to the county lord, this boy has fainted many times, but he has kept silent about his background. ”

"Did you faint? I said what a willed person, but I didn't expect that in addition to the stiff mouth, the body was very weak, so let me go and see him. ”

Two guards surrounded Qin Miaoshi and led her to the back garden. Although it is called a garden, there is not a single grass or tree, Qin Miaoshi has already destroyed the scenery in the courtyard, at this time only a human head is exposed on the black-brown land, and a dripping lotus blooms on the side of the human head to become the only remaining green in the courtyard.

"Hey, Amu, wake up... Hey..."

Qin Miaoshi bent down and shouted a few words at the head, but there was no reaction, but she was shocked in her heart, and then a guard stepped forward and said: "The person is not dead, but the dripping lotus next to him has sucked his qi, if His Highness wants to save him, I am afraid he will have to pick this dripping lotus." ”

"What's the fuss, let's pick it up quickly!" Qin Miaoshi ordered someone to remove the dripping water lotus, and asked someone to dig out the person in the soil and put it on the ground. It's just that the child's breath is weak, his lips are dry, and his cheeks are already covered with a layer of dead ash.

One of the guards scooped a ladle of water and poured it on the child's face, only to see him slowly wake up.

"You've woken up, and you've almost scared Hongu to death. Qin Miaoshi suddenly changed her face, with a look of great concern.

It's just that the first thing Lu Youling saw after waking up was this unruly county lord who made himself a 'Tu Teng Soldier', he was terrified, his body retreated, and at the same time he shouted weakly: "Don't come here, let me go home quickly!"

"Amu, why do you remember it like this, don't you say that you will be a member of this palace in the future, this is your home, you only say that the clouds are where you grew up, but you refuse to say anything else, presumably you have no relatives for a long time, and this palace is now taking you in, just to leave you a way to live. ”

"I don't want to be with you, for these days you have made me into a rattan soldier and buried me in the dirt. It's a miracle that I've only been able to live until now by watering the rain every day, and if I stay with you for a few more moments, I'm afraid my life will not be saved. ”

"I didn't expect you to hold a grudge, don't worry, this palace promises you that it will never hurt you again, and," Qin Miaoshi suddenly picked up the dripping water lotus on the ground, only to see her clotted pink hand holding the leaf stem, as if a light was slowly injected from her fingers, this drop of water lotus turned to Lu Youling like a human nature, and nodded to him frequently.

Looking at Lu Youling's stunned expression, Qin Miaoshi smiled slightly and said, "Hugh Dao ruthlessly produces rotten wood, only infatuated people." Do you want to learn the art of exorcism? I can make an exception for you. ”

"I haven't heard of the art of exorcism, and it must be those moves that don't enter the stream, how can I be as powerful as someone who cultivates the fate of Yundu. ”

"I haven't seen how powerful the people of Yundu cultivation are, but I heard that children of your age have good cultivation, but I can't see it today. ”

"I haven't learned the art of cultivating fate in the first place, but the people around me are all very strong, especially my master..."

Lu Youling suddenly remembered that there was no shortage of extreme ways, and his heart was in a trance, if he hadn't run with him to Yeyue City, he wouldn't have been caught here by this unruly county lord.

"What kind of supernatural powers does that master have? Why don't you say it?"

"My master's cultivation technique is unparalleled in the world, but my qualifications are dull, and I haven't gotten his approval yet. ”

"Unparalleled in the world? I'm afraid it's just that you are boasting. ”

Lu Youling hurriedly retorted: "How can it be boasting? I have witnessed him resist a towering black python, how can ordinary cultivators be able to defeat it?"

"Towering Black Python, are you talking about a branch of the ancient desolate beast inheritance—the Black Python?"

Lu Youling recalled what Ji Dao had said, and said, "So what?"

"Seeing that you are weak, I will order someone to bring you food and drink, and after you have eaten, you will take a little conditioning, and this palace will take you to see something again, which is guaranteed to open your eyes. ”

After lunch, Lu Youling's body improved slightly, and Qin Miaoshi asked people to bathe and change clothes for him. When Lu Youling changed into a blue brocade robe, tied a black kudzu scarf on her head, and tied her messy hair obediently behind her head, it was a little more heroic. Qin Miaoshi waved her hand and praised: "I don't look like a little beggar anymore when I change my outfit, but the scar on my face is still a little eye-catching." She also instructed the guards on the left and right: "Open the fence leading to the hunting ground, and the palace will feed it yourself today." ”

Lu Youling followed Qin Miaoshi around the promenade behind the garden and came to a mountain where two stone-carved toads squatted on each side of the green mountains and green waters, but there was no road to walk within. Lu Youling thought that she was going to climb over this hill, but who knew that Qin Miaoshi took off the Yingluo ring and placed it in the clear water, and the hill in front of her slowly disappeared like a scattered ink danqing, and what appeared in front of Lu Youling was the entrance to a canyon.

Lu Youling was stunned, it turned out that this dream-like landscape was just a trick, and the door to the valley could be opened with the Yingluo ring as a key. It's just that from time to time there are living creatures flying over the canyon, or standing on both sides of the bank and crying, and when you look at it, it is all toads with several feet of coils, with jagged and raised back bumps, and two bulging eyes are placed on both sides of the top of the head, most of them are half-opened, and there are cloudy eyes inside. There are tabby lines on both sides of the head that spread to the back, and what is even more amazing is that there is a pair of wings on the back, which is covered with a faint pattern of green beads, but although the wings are thick and wide, they are as smooth and translucent as agate, as if there is dew stained on them.

Lu Youling suddenly recalled the giant beast summoned by Qin Miaoshi, although he could only observe its chin from the bottom up, and now when he saw these toads, he understood that the monsters he met that day must be these toads, and the saliva flowing on his cheeks was undoubtedly from these wide and damp jaws.

Thinking of this, Lu Youling felt a little sick to his stomach, and the food he had just eaten overflowed into his throat like a spring and was swallowed back by him.

"It turns out that the moon lice are these toads with their harass, and I don't know how you came up with such a vivid name. By the way, is the Yue'er you raised among them?"

"This is the hunting ground fence, a place dedicated to raising moon lice hatchlings, and Yue'er is already an adult, so naturally she will not keep it here. ”

Qin Miaoshi was quiet and elegant when she spoke, she was already used to the giant beasts in the valley, she clapped her hands, and an old guard came out and knelt down in front of her on one knee.

It is not true to say that he is old, but his neck and hands are covered with scabies, and his eyes are covered with silver hair. Lu Youling only glanced at it and couldn't bear to look at it directly, but the old guard's dress looked a little familiar, Lu Youling took a look at the black thick corset on his body, and suddenly realized that the clothes worn by this soldier were the same style as himself.

Qin Miaoshi looked up at the sky and said, "It's almost time to eat, you wait to see a good show." He glanced at the guard.

The old guard replied and retreated into the canyon, Lu Youling quietly waited for the moment to feed, he was particularly curious about such a behemoth to eat.

I saw that there was a cage on the side of the canyon, and a person in the wooden fence reached out with his hand, this person held a bell in his hand, and only shook it slightly, and many moon lice beasts suddenly stopped their chaotic movements, but stared at the bell with wide eyes.

Lu Youling looked at the scabies on his hand, and immediately knew that the person who was feeding was the veteran just now, so he was worried about him, and sure enough, the swarms of moon lice only hesitated slightly, and then spread their wings and flew towards the bell, and a strong wind suddenly rolled up in the canyon.

The large moon lice flew slowly, but once they stretched out their wings, they were unstoppable, and the gravel in the canyon was shaken down one after another, and the ground movement was deafening, Lu Youling was so frightened that she unconsciously took a few steps back, but Qin Miaoshi on the side disagreed, and looked calm.

The moon lice that flew to the edge of the cage first had not yet retracted their wings, and were squeezed aside by other races that came behind them, and there were about 100 of them, and they were dripping mucus all over their bodies, making the cage door stained with thick liquid, and many of them splashed on the bodies of the soldiers in the cage, and the wrinkled skin was covered with mucus where the scabies was already grown, which made people look even more disgusting.

Lu Youling immediately understood that the reason why the soldier in charge of feeding was festering was probably related to the slime contaminated with these monsters. At this time, he was afraid, but he was still curious about feeding.

I saw that the hand stretched out outside the cage door was withdrawn, and after waiting for a while, there was no reaction, but the moon lice outside the cage door hit the cage door one by one, until the moment the cage door opened, a scene appeared in front of him completely stunned!