Chapter 16 Chapter fifteen

The highest point of the Princess Mansion is the Boxin Pavilion. There are ancient trees planted outside the pavilion, all of which are towering and ancient. The sunlight shines through the forest leaves into the pavilion, adding a layer of ancient flavor to the small mountain pavilion. At this time, four people were accommodated in the mountain pavilion, Emperor Donghua and the chief priest Shen Ye faced each other two by two, the sleeping Feng Jiu was held in the arms of the emperor, and Su Moye stood beside him with his hands down.The right time, the right place and the right people, in all fairness, are actually a good picture.

However, the second prince Su Mo Yesu looked at the battle in front of him, but he was really a little confused, because the two people facing each other in front of him were all calm people. Although he was good at observing words and expressions, but recently he was tossed by the emperor to make magical weapons, and his mind was tired It was a little inconvenient, and what happened in the past three days seemed to be continuous lightning, which made him still unable to calm down. Three days ago was an auspicious day, God was merciful once, which made the twelfth urgent letter he sent to Dijun effective and recalled Dijun to Qinan Shrine.He urged the emperor so much that he vomited blood. Fortunately, when the emperor came back, he swallowed the blood, hoping that he could go down the mountain to rest after the magic weapon was finished.

In fact, the emperor never told him what magic weapon he wanted to make, and he never asked about it out of his duty as a courtier. He just followed what the emperor said.It was not until the emperor returned to the shrine to finish the magic artifact and when it was formed, that he realized that it was actually a mirror, and it was an unusual mirror—Miaohua mirror. He has heard about the Miaohua mirror hanging on the seventh day of the Nine Heavens, saying that this mirror can reproduce the ups and downs of billions of mortal worlds in the Three Thousand Great Thousand World, but the Sanskrit Valley where the lovebirds live is also a fairyland and not a mortal world. Miaohua mirror should not be able to reflect its past right and wrong.He was a little puzzled, since it wasn't for this function, why did the emperor bother to open the mirror so much.He thought, it wouldn't be the vanity mirror that called Feng Jiu... Then he thought, mother, this is actually very possible.

Fortunately, the emperor did not go too far this time. When the mirror was completed, the emperor casually looked at it for a moment, picked up a pen, drew something on the paper and threw it into the mirror. Not long after, a small clear scene appeared in the mirror . The scene in the mirror made him feel dazed. It was the snake formation beside the Jieyou Spring more than two hundred years ago.In the bleak wind and rain, the blood-red python with four tails looked up to the sky and hissed, full of the pain of losing a child.The little girl in his arms stretched out her arms and struggled to get back into the snake formation. Tears welled up in her bright eyes, and she uttered a hissing snake language from her mouth.He stands on the top of the cloud, and the jasper flute floats in the air. No one is playing it, but it makes the sound of driving snakes.The little girl resisted in his arms. He could have been imprisoned by magic, but he didn't know what he was thinking at that moment. He only used the strength of his hands to lock this little girl who loved to hide behind a stone and listen to his flute in his arms.She was helpless, tears were about to fall, he stroked her forehead and said softly: "You are very smart, although you can't speak, you should understand what I am saying, you are not a snake, you are the second princess of the lovebird clan .Do you want to continue to be a snake, born in an inch of land, and be regarded as a foreign object by your fellow race, or do you want to spread your wings and soar into the sky?" Tears were in the girl's eyes, and she bit her lip for a long time, as if enduring Feeling some great pain, there was a fluttering sound, and a pair of snow-white wings spread out instantly on the back of her shoulders. She imitated his voice: "... Biyi..." He laughed: "My good boy, this is your first time Zhan Yi? From now on, I will be your master."

Lovebirds may have one wing or two wings, and Alan Ruo is a lovebird with two wings. Revisiting the situation many years ago, he was stunned, but the emperor had already brewed a pot of tea, divided it into three or two porcelain cups, and said to him casually: "I have changed this mirror. I can see it too." Looking at Miaohua mirror.Said, "It is probably Shen Ye who created this situation. Let's see what he is going to do first, and then see what relationship Xiaobai has with Alan Ruo. You stay and watch together. If there is anything to do in the future, I will take care of it for me." .”

For a moment, he ignored that the emperor allowed him to stay here because he was expecting him to continue to do white work for him. His mind was muddled for a moment, and he said with a trembling voice: "The emperor said that this mirror can see Alan Ruo. cause of death?" The emperor asked inexplicably: "Is this very strange?" He calmed down and said: "I never knew that there is a magic weapon that can tell the past and present of the gods in the world. It is indeed rare." Is the revealed past just the side that Chen Ye saw?" The emperor nodded lightly, and reminded him while carrying the pot and pouring tea: "Don't touch the mirror frame with your hands, and be careful not to be disturbed by the thoughts of the people in the mirror." His hand had already touched the frame curiously, and in an instant, an emotion as heavy as a rock, along with the hand connected to the frame, hit him directly in the bottom of his heart.It's like experiencing a life in an instant, the life of others.Shen Ye's life.

Mo Shao remembered that a few years ago, Alan Ruo told him that the first time she met Chen Ye was a few days before Chen Ye's tenth birthday.At that time she had just left the Snake Formation, even though he was taking care of her as a master, she still felt lonely in the big palace, and she wanted to get close to everyone. That day when she wandered into the garden, she saw from behind an old apricot tree in the flowers ahead, Shen Ye and Ju Nuo Changdi were playing a game of guessing herbs.This cousin of hers was already handsome, but that day probably because of the sunlight and flowers, he looked even more handsome, which made her wish to be close to him.

It's his birthday in a few days, she thinks it's a good opportunity to get close to him, and she should go to congratulate him.She thought of his demeanor standing among the elegant flowers that day, she wanted to go to the garden to pick a bouquet as a gift, but she didn't expect that the flowering period was short and had already failed.Relying on the appearance of the flowers in her memory, she immaturely drew a picture on the paper, and held it cherishedly to her uncle's house to congratulate him on his birthday.On his birthday, instead of wearing casual clothes in the garden, he was dressed in a priest's uniform, showing a calm and handsome beyond his age.He was still staying with Ju Nuo Changdi, only glanced at her from a distance, then moved his indifferent gaze elsewhere.

In the afternoon, she found the painting she gave him in a small ditch in the backyard. The ink stains were so soaked that no trace of the original painting could be seen. Her little sister Changdi stood by the ditch and taunted her: "Brother Chen Ye said you Raised by snakes, gnawed on rotten turf, so dirty, he doesn't want your paintings..." At that time, she told him about the past, and said with a smile, she and Chen Ye had only seen each other twice when they were young, and since then she never felt close to Chen Ye, and never visited her mother's uncle again.In fact, she and Chen Ye had no fate from the very beginning, and she still insisted on fate with Chen Ye later on, and she didn't know whether it was right or wrong to insist.

Mo Shao thought that Alan Ruo was forcing, and he was convinced that it was because of forcing this marriage that she planted the seeds of disgrace.As for Chen Ye to Alan Ruo, he never believed that he would have any affection for her. If he had affection, how could he just watch her go to death?Taking a ten thousand step back, he has been tired of her for decades, and it has only been two years since he got along with her better.As for what Alan Ruo did after his death, it was just a cliché that is cherished only when it is lost.Shen Ye doesn't love Alan Ruo, if he loves Alan Ruo, it's a joke.

But God likes to make jokes.The emotions in Miaohua's mirror surged like a flood, and Mo Shao's face gradually turned pale.Dijun sipped tea and asked him: "Can you still stand it?" He smiled with an ugly face: "Looking at Dizuo's advice, what should I do if I can bear it, and what if I can't bear it?" Dizuo's advice was concise and to the point: " bear it all." It is said in the world that the head priest is cold and reticent, his thoughts are unpredictable, the Lord's holy will can still be figured out, even if the head priest's is to be figured out, it is useless.At this time, the thoughts of this elusive priest were laid out in front of Mo Shao's eyes. He could see it so clearly, it was like he was him. Shen Ye's birth was not peaceful.When his mother was pregnant with him, he was taken to the shrine to wait for delivery, but on the day he was born, there was no strange phenomenon in the sky, and he was born as a very weak child, who couldn't even cry.The head priest at that time, Xize, was not in the palace, and several unkind priests muttered about expelling his mother and son from the shrine. He stayed with his mother. Seeing that his breathing was getting weaker, Xiangli Yin cut his wrist and let out blood, saving his life with half a bowl of wrist blood.It was noon when he fell to the ground with his first cry. Originally, there was only a bright and shining eastern sky, but suddenly a full moon climbed up, and the sun and moon were shining together in the sky. Xiangli laughed loudly: "This is not right He is the little head priest of our clan, since the vision from heaven is to illuminate the city, why not give him the word Ye." Following his mother's surname, he was given the title of Yin Feng by Xiangli, so he had a name, Shen Ye. Shangjun Xiangliyin decided his mother's marriage and promised her to his brother-in-law, so her mother moved out of the shrine to her husband's house, and when he was one year old, he was appointed as the successor head priest and enshrined in the Qinan shrine. Gong, and followed the then head priest Xize to learn the skills that a head priest should have. Time flies, he was only five years old when the palace change at the foot of the mountain happened.Xize Shenjun warned him while eating mung bean cakes, although the Qinan Shrine was performing a supervisory role, if it weren't for the loss of life due to the emperor's lack of morality, other things would not be under the supervision of the shrine.They fight over things like palace changes, so if we're interested, we'll go and watch the excitement, if we're not interested, we'll close the palace gates, and we'll have a cup of tea and a cake. They closed the palace gate and ate mung bean cakes for several days. There was news from outside that the new king had ascended the throne and had married the former king Xiang Liyin's queen Qing Hua as his wife.Xize excused that he was full of mung bean cakes and it was inconvenient to travel, so he assigned a few attendants to carry the five-year-old him to the palace.He presided over the prayer service for the first time, only five years old, and nothing went wrong.Xize was very satisfied, and became more and more lazy from then on. If there was anything in the palace that could use the chief priest, he should be sent to top the tank.Every time he tops the tank, he does it so well that Xize can't put it down. His mother married Qing Hua's elder brother, and Qing Hua was his aunt.Not long after, Qinghua gave birth to Ju Nuo, and because he often went to the palace, he often took Ju Nuo to him to look after.When she was ten years old, she did not set foot in the palace for two full years because of going to the mountains to cultivate. When she entered the palace again, Ju Nuonuo told her that her mother had a new younger sister more than a year ago. The younger sister was very soft and cute. But her mother threw her into the snake's nest. Fortunately, the four pythons didn't eat her sister, but also caught a mouse, bit off the mouse's neck, and fed her blood to her sister. There is only one snake nest in the palace, which is next to Jieyou Spring.Why he wanted to see the child in Orange Talk, he couldn't say.That night, the moon was as silver as frost, he was stepping on the moonlight and was about to step into the garden, when he heard a few palace servants whispering behind a clump of bamboo shadows, saying that the child in the snake formation always liked to crawl around at this hour, but tonight he didn’t know why. Sound, is it sick or something, do you need to report it to the queen.Several people argued who would report to the queen, but they were afraid that the queen would be angry, so no one wanted to go, so they made excuses and said that the queen threw the child into the snake formation and didn't want her to survive. It should be exactly what the queen wants if she is really ill. If they go to report it without any hassle, it would be bad luck for them.The chatter dissipated after a while. He approached the snake formation, squatting on the four giant python's Chinese watches and standing still, and at the edge of the snake formation framed by the Chinese watches, he saw a baby who was over 10 years old lying on the ground, trembling shiveringly.It was the fifteenth day of the night, the moon was full in the sky, it was the most cloudy time, the giant python in the Huabiao thought that Ji Yuehua's spiritual energy had gone, and he had no time to take care of the child.He tried not to disturb the giant python, carefully stood on the edge of the formation, and tried his best to reach out and turn over the child.Under the moonlight, I saw the child's dirty little face, the chapped lips were uncomfortably closed, and a few deciduous teeth collided with each other. He was holding a dead mouse in his arms, and his hands were covered with blood. This is his cousin.The same cousin, Ju Nuo, was pampered and spoiled since she was a child, but this child was disheveled and dirty in this snake formation, living only on rat blood.The little child lay on the ground, trembling for a while, and finally wept uncontrollably, as if someone was pinching his throat, the sound was soft and thin.It was just such an incoherent cry, but it hit his heart violently. He doesn't know what disease the child has, and he doesn't know what good medicine is needed, but there is no good medicine in Sanskrit Valley that is more miraculous than the blood of the priest, he knows this.Because of the barrier of the snake formation, he couldn't get into the formation to bring the child out, so he could only bite his finger, and barely reached into the barrier to reach the child's lips. After a few drops of blood, the child finally had the strength to hold it by himself. His fingers sucked.This child eats a lot, and he doesn't know that his blood is only a good medicine for her illness at this time, but it is used as a nutrient for her life, like sucking rat blood, she must drink until she is full before letting go. His blood saved her life, and now it was flowing in her body. He had never saved anyone's life with his own blood, which made him feel that this child was different from him. He wiped her face with his sleeve, saw the child's clear eyebrows, remembered that Ju Nuo said her sister was soft and cute, he thought she was really soft and cute, Mrs. Qing Hua could bear it.The satisfied child opened her big black and white eyes and looked at him quietly. He stroked her forehead and smiled, and the smart child followed his example and smiled with the corners of her immature mouth.He patted her lightly with his hand to lull her to sleep. She opened her eyes and looked at him carefully for a while before finally closing her eyes and falling asleep.And when the most cloudy time is about to pass, the giant python's vigilance should return. After that, every time he went in and out of the palace, he often found an opportunity to visit the child quietly.But it is often only from the fifteenth to the overcast night that you can get close to the snake array.Later, he learned from Xize that Shangjun's blood could make the giant python sleep in the Huabiao, so he stored a lot of Shangjun's finger blood in the name of sacrifice.Using this method, he was finally able to step into the snake formation. Once he tried to hold the child out of the formation, but the child's soft arm just touched the barrier along the formation. For some reason, the sleeping giant python in the Huabiao unexpectedly Suddenly woke up, thanks to his quick action, he was not buried in the belly of the snake. At that time, he realized how weak he was as a child in his teens, even though he had the name of succeeding the priest. He took pity on this cousin and took care of her secretly for five years.When she was hungry, she would bring food for her to eat; when she was cold, she would use the snakeskin shed from the giant python to make clothes to keep her warm, and this care was invisible.No one has discovered it for five years, so she is saved from bad luck.She was thrown into the snake formation when she was just born, so naturally she has no name, she is not a snake, she is the princess of the lovebird clan, she needs a name, her parents don't want to give it to her, he thinks he can give it to her.He named her Alanruo, which means silence.He wrote the three words Alan Ruo on her palm, and read them out slowly, Alan Ruo, this is your name, and when I say these three words in the future, I am calling you by your name.The clever child imitated the practice of drawing on the ground with his fingers, which made him feel amused. He branded these three characters on her arm with a spell, and said softly, drawing according to this.The ignorant child clutched his sleeve tightly, blinked his eyes, and said with difficulty: "Ye... Ye... Lan..." He said softly: "Yes, I am Shen Ye, your cousin, and you are Alan Ruo, look at Alan Ruo." Successive priests in the past had to retreat for a long time at the age of 15. The long-term practice lasted for 20 years, and they were promoted to deputy priests after they completed the cultivation.When he was a child, he had nothing to worry about, and he was looking forward to this long period of cultivation. Now that he is taking care of Alan Ruo, he feels that he can push it day by day.But in the end, this is an unavoidable responsibility. He was worried that after he left, she would have no one to take care of her, and she would repeat the mistake of eating rat meat and drinking rat blood. On the night of parting, he planted fruit trees with four seasons fruit in the snake formation for her, and brought the spring water from the shrine to water her. Down.The fruit tree flourished and produced fruit in a short while. He picked a fruit and handed it to her, teaching her to eat it when she was hungry and drink the spring water of Jieyou Spring when she was thirsty, and never live on rats again. That year she was already five years old, and she was born cute as Yuxue, but because of the miasma poison in the snake formation, she didn't remember much and was not good at talking, but she probably knew that this was a farewell, so she stretched out her hand to hold his clothes tightly. Jiao refused to fall asleep, he looked at her for a long time and said, "You are so young, you must have forgotten me when I came back." But the child thought he was talking about some instructions, and nodded with a vague understanding.He reached out and rubbed her forehead hair. Under the white moonlight, the four seasons flowers fell with the wind, and one fell on the child's shoulder. He picked it up and pinned it to her ear. The child promised: "I will come back, and when I become the priest, I can rescue you." After a pause, he held the child in his arms, "I am your only relative, Alan Ruo, they don't want you, you And I." When he left that night, the child woke up from the dream and cried hard.But he didn't look back.The crying of the child gradually disappeared behind him. Twenty years seemed like an eternity, and it was the fifteenth night when he returned to the palace again. The emperor gave him a banquet, and he was eager to see that child.But the first piece of news about her that he heard was that the second prince, a distinguished guest from Xihai, broke into the snake formation.Shangjun led all the ministers at the banquet to rush to Jieyouquan, and he followed closely.Stepping here again, amidst the devastation, the first thing that catches his eyes is the childish girl in the arms of a man in white on the clouds in the sky. The thick skirt made of snakeskin is wrapped in a man's white robe. The robe fluttered with the east wind, and her long black hair fluttered in the wind, showing a childish face, which was extraordinarily delicate.Not seen for twenty years, the child has grown up. The clear water in the Jieyou Spring was churning, the giant python was hissing, and the jasper flute was playing lightly. The child spread his wings in the arms of the man in white for the first time in his life. No one in the royal family had such white wings, and the young white feathers floated down. He reached out to catch it, and above the clouds, the man in white looked at the child's arm, and suddenly said: "Alan Ruo, that's a good idea. You don't have a name, why don't you call me Alan Ruo." He saw She looked at the man in white ignorantly, and said intermittently: "A... Lan... Ruo?" The man in white smiled and said, "You read very well, Alan Ruo, I am Su Moye, Su Moye from Xihai. " I am Shen Ye.It's your cousin.You are Alan Ruo.Xiangli Alan Ruo. The second prince embraced her and stood high in the sky, nodding towards Shangjun, with a polite smile on his face: "We in Xihai want to raise good men, and we also like to throw them out to experience and polish them. The heart of a princess is what makes her cultivate in this formation, but this child suits Su Mou, and since he has made her his apprentice today, he wants to take her by his side and teach him, I wonder if the Lord will do Su Mou this kind of favor? " These words were decent and tricky, and Shang Jun had a complicated expression, but finally agreed. He saw the second prince caressing the child's forehead, and said softly: "From now on, you don't have to stay here anymore, follow me, are you happy?" The way of laughing is still the same as he taught her when she was a child.He thought she really forgot about him, but there was always something left on her.Because of twenty years of penance, he can now rescue her from the snake formation with his own power, but he is not in power at this time, and he can only hide and hide to rescue her.The protection of the second prince Xihai is better than the protection he can give her. The moment the sound of driving snakes stopped, a giant python raised its sharp teeth and shoveled towards the cloud, and a thin needle specially made to deal with these giant pythons flew out of his fingertips. He fell to the ground.He put his hands into his sleeves calmly, taking advantage of the amazement of the ministers, and quietly left Jieyouquan.He thought it was a good thing that she had been born with bad luck, and now she had a good one. During the 20 years of hard and long cultivation, and the tasteless years in the mountains, he often thought of her.He is the appointed head priest. His mother regards conceiving him as an honor, never regards him as her own son, and respects him more than love. He has never tasted the taste of family affection.He once said to her, I am your only relative, but she is not his only relative.He rescued her from the brink of death, gave her a name, and poured all his affection on her.He has an obsession, and the obsession is her.But now she has something better to rely on.He thought, if you want to make the obsession fail, you have to let it go completely, so that this thought can be calmed down. Ten years later, he still thought of her often, but he never mentioned her, never got close to her. During his long-term cultivation, Mrs. Qinghua gave birth to Changdi, probably by then the hatred for Xiangli Que had subsided a lot, compared to Alan Ruo, Changdi was a very smooth princess.When he returned to the palace, Ju Nuo and Changdi loved him, and the two sisters often mentioned Alan Ruo in front of him.Ju Nuo has always been quiet and doesn't like to talk about such topics. Even so, she has forgotten the kindness she had for Alan Ruo when she was young.And Changdi always spoke the most vigorously, which annoyed him very much. One day Changdi mentioned her again: "Today I heard from an old palace maid that Alan Ruo drank rat blood and ate rat meat for a living in the snake formation. Can you imagine that after drinking so much rat blood, she Most of the blood flowing from her body has turned into rat blood, tsk... so dirty and lowly, I can't figure out why my father allowed her to return to the clan and sit on the princess position, how is she worthy! Cousin Shen Ye , you think I'm right?" He thought that if she drank rat blood and her body was rat blood, then she had also drank his blood. Could it be that his blood is also flowing in her body now?This made him a little lost. Changdi wanted to urge him: "Cousin, do you think what I just said is right?" He was extremely impatient, and said coldly: "If you want to talk about bloodlines, you know what the only bloodline that Qinan Shrine looks down upon is." Changdi's face turned pale.What the Qinan Shrine underestimated was the unfaithful blood. From this level, there is no difference between the blood of Changdi and Alan Ruo.But if Alan was raised by him and drank his blood, even if he inherited his mother's unfaithful blood, so what. In recent years, Xize has not been a director. He built a bamboo garden jingshe in the back mountain of Qinan, and word spread that he was seriously ill and needed to be moved there to raise Yunyun.He believed it at the beginning, and went to see him in the monastery, only to see Xize with his trouser legs rolled up and barefoot fishing in the river vigorously, looking more vigorous and energetic than him. Xize coughed a few times in a fake manner, and said sincerely: "I am indeed sick, but because I am a strong person and disdain that kind of sickness, you look at me like a sick person." The illness is not painful, but in fact, this gentleman is about to die of illness." He said to Shenjun Xize, who was about to die of illness: "Many colleagues have invited you to visit you in the near future, and they must be moved by your strength." The smile on Xize's face froze. I heard that some priests will visit Xize in the monastery later, and all they see are the decadent appearance of Xize lying in bed. Since Xize is seriously ill, all the affairs of the shrine will naturally fall on his shoulders.That year, the Taishang Laojun of Jiuchongtian held a Daoist meeting in Yueguang Garden of the Thirty-two Tianbao, discussing the principles of Zen with Taoism, and he attended the meeting on behalf of Xize.The Daoist Fair lasted for ninety-nine and eighty-one days, and it was long and boring, but because of the large number of people invited to the Daoist Club, it was particularly lively. Therefore, after the Daoist Fair was over, the Baiguo Fairy held a Baiguo Banquet while taking advantage of the excitement. It took another nine days to entertain the immortals. When he returned to Fanyin Valley, he never thought that what he heard was the sound of suona. Alan Ruo is married.She married Xize. It was a windy day, and the Qinan Shrine floated in midair, turning into a cloud ladder reaching the ground.In the ethereal world of Xianle, the god Xize, dressed in fine attire, climbed down the stairs, took out his red-clothed bride from the soft sedan chair that he sent off to his relatives, held her hand, and walked towards the majestic palace gate step by step.Standing behind a rootless bodhi tree beside the palace gate, he saw that her wedding dress was covered with a cloak of the same color, and the windproof hood covered most of her eyebrows and eyes, revealing only her vermilion lips and small white chin.He frowned, took out a black feather from his sleeve, and blew lightly on the palm of his hand, a strong wind suddenly blew up on the ladder, lifted her hood, covered her flying hair with her hands, and raised her head , Xiumei raised slightly.He hadn't seen her for a long time.She looks beautiful that way. He was in a daze for a moment. That night, the four seasons of flowers fell like snow. Under the flower tree, he hugged her as a child, and promised her softly: "I am your only relative, Alan Ruo. They don't want you. You still have me." .” And since that turn around under the moonlit night ten years ago, the promised oath has never become an oath.She will have more and more relatives, her master, her husband, and later her children.With the last look, it was the gust of wind that died down, Xize put her hood back together, and her vermilion lips evoked a playful smile.It wasn't the smile he'd taught her, but he knew someone who laughed that way.Su Moye, the second prince of Xihai. Time is like water, and there is no trace on her body that he has left for her, just like he has never appeared in her life.Xize led her into the shrine, and the palace door closed heavily.The black feathers fluttered back into his hands.He had lost her ten years ago, he had already lost her, so there was no need to talk about losing her again, but this time, being in the wrong body with her, for some reason, made him feel far more painful than the last time. After more than 20 years, Xize abdicated, and he succeeded the head priest, becoming the youngest shrine head in the history of Fanyin Valley.Xize pretended to be so sick that he would not live for a few days to avoid Qinan Houshan, and he personally sent him to the bamboo garden. Xize even teased him: "You are so handsome, you are so smart, but you are so stern all day long." With a straight face, naturally you are more handsome with a straight face than when you smile, but it is better for you to smile when you come to see me off, I feel at ease." He looked around the bamboo garden, but he didn't see any women's accessories. Finally, he couldn't help but asked, "Where's your wife?" Xize shook off the somewhat damp quilt and dried it in the sun: "A little girl, at a young age. What's the point of living in seclusion with me here, naturally you should stay in her mansion outside the mountain." Looking at the wild scenery in the mountains, he said calmly, "You treated her very well." Xize smiled, and proudly agreed: "She is indeed lucky to meet such a good person as me." Shichuan, the head priest, has a peerless appearance, but also has a cold and arrogant personality, making it hard to get close to.What he did was also quite consistent with the rumors. Since he took over Qinan Shrine, the shrine has become more and more low-key. In the second year of his accession to the throne, Mrs. Qing Hua begged the Lord for a marriage and chose him to be Ju Nuo's son-in-law. At that time, his foundation was unstable and it was difficult to refuse him, but the excuse was that he was underage and needed to be clean and long-term. And prolong the marriage indefinitely.After the engagement, he even shut himself up in the shrine, practicing calligraphy and swordsmanship, planting trees and playing chess, only with the Qingdeng Sujing as companions.In the garden where he lived, in the year Alan Ruo got married, he planted a garden of four-season flowers, but it was not watered by the spring water, so the growth was slow. Twenty years passed, and when Ju Nuo had an accident, the first tree flowers had just shed. , finished the first fruit. Even though Ju Nuo's actions have greatly disgraced him, Ju Nuo is Xiangli Yin's only blood, so he has to save him.He also knows that saving Ju Nuo is a dead end, and the Lord will take this opportunity to drive him out of the shrine.But there are some things that seem to be a dead end, but if the timing is right, it is an unexpected way out. Xiangliyu is a domineering king. Since the day he came to the throne, he has been eyeing the Jingu closely, with the intention of taking the Jingu into his pocket.Xize sees things clearly, but is a troublesome master, so as soon as Xiang Liyu came to power, his successor was only a childish child, Xize happily left everything to him, and avoided Qinan with ease. After the mountain.There are many forces in the shrine, and there are many people who have not noticed that Xiangli is stubborn and stubborn. Although he has been sitting in the high position of priest in recent years, he has been constrained in his actions from time to time, which is embarrassing.However, Yijingu lost its chief priest, and with Xiang Liyu's headstrong personality, he will no longer try to suppress Jingu's ambitions.If unfortunately Xiangli Que has acted more cautiously in recent years, he also has a way to stop him from suppressing him. No matter how much there was fighting inside the Qinan Shrine, it could not be tolerated by external force to desecrate it.The sooner Xiang Liyu attacked the Shrine, the sooner the factions in the Shrine could let go of their grievances and join forces with the enemy and foreign aggression.He is the appointed head priest, even if Xiangli Que deposes him, once the palace and the shrine face each other, he can only be in command of the Qinan Shrine, even those old priests who have never changed. He had no choice.This is to retreat. Sitting on such a high position, the young and mysterious great priest enjoys the respect of the world, but his life is like a wasteland. A few seeds of four seasons.It's just a seed that can't bloom. And what kind of fate made him see her again on Ju Nuo's execution platform.She was dressed in red, with snow-white wings spread out, floating in the air and looking down at him slightly, with a smile on her lips: "Do you still remember, although I didn't grow up with you and Ju Nuo, I am also your sister." Alan Ruo, this is your name. From now on, when I say these three words, I am calling you by your name. "It is said in the world that the blood of a priest has the ability to cleanse and purify filth. Today, with the grace of the priest, I wonder if my blood will be much cleaner?" You are so young, you must have forgotten me when I came back. "I rescued him, so he is mine." I will come back, and when I become the head priest, I can rescue you. "Look, where is the current situation?" I am your only relative, they don't want you, you still have me. How can forget.Alan Ruo. But he really left her for too long, and at some point, she also learned to imprison and plunder. In those deepest, deepest dreams, he actually dreamed of her, dreaming that he rescued her from the snake formation that year, and she spread her wings in his arms.It's not that he didn't think that one day he would fall down, but in this world, if he said that he didn't want anyone to see him down, that person could only be Alan Ruo.But at this moment, he was trapped by her in her house, a small world, like a prisoner. Nobody likes being held captive. Then came the letter she wrote to him, a tease in someone else's name. He has always been the best at hiding his emotions. If that person wasn't Alan Ruo, he would never be so angry. The candles flickered in the study, and she lazily leaned on the low couch: "You never thought that I don't hate you as much as you hate me, maybe I like you quite a bit, and I actually do this to make you happy." If you want to make him happy, why use someone else's name, why not write her own name at the end of the letter?He was really angry.For the first time in my life, I couldn't choose what to say.And she laughed: "Maybe what I said is true, maybe it's not true, maybe I really like you, maybe I'm really teasing you." When she said she really liked her, she tilted her head slightly, and there was a kind of innocence in her appearance that he hadn't seen for a long time. Before she said these two words, he never thought that he might like those four seasons flowers buried deep in his heart that could not germinate.And when she said such words, it was like opening a box imprisoned by a spell, and all the hidden things poured out. Why do you need to cultivate, why do you want to save her, why is she the only figure that appears in those deepest and most secret dreams. In the stone circle of Quan Yin Beast, it was almost an instinct for him to enter the battle to save her, he rolled out of the barrier with her arms around her, she whispered in his ear: "You really like me, Chen Ye." He Holding her in his arms, he saw the sparkle in her eyes, just like the moonlit night when he taught her to pronounce her name when she was a child, "Ye... Lan..." She couldn't get into tune.Those two words that are out of tune may be just a kind of foreshadowing. He was destined to fall in love with her.He never really stopped wanting her. The next two years were a good time.He moved several four-season fruit trees to Mengchunyuan, and half of them bloomed in summer, and half of them bore fruit.Alan Ruo stood under the fruit tree and thought: "There are also four-season fruit trees in the snake formation. I ate this when I was young. I heard that there was no such tree in the snake formation before, but it took root overnight. God have mercy on me." She was trapped by the miasma in the snake formation, and she really couldn't remember those past events.It didn't matter, he thought, it was fine now. She sometimes moves a rattan bed under the four-season fruit tree to enjoy the shade on moonlit nights.When he came out of the mirror-making room that night, he could only see the moon shining like frost in the distance, while she was lying on the rattan bed, already asleep, the huge canopy of the Four Seasons tree supported her head, casting many shadows, slipping from her hands A volume of poems. He loves seeing her sleeping soundly the most, no matter how many troubles linger in his mind, seeing her peaceful sleeping face can make him forget it instantly.She is still with him. The white flowers fell on the rattan bed. He leaned close to her, looked at her for a long time, picked up one and pinned it to her temples, stroked her temples with his fingers and then stopped, sliding across her eyebrows, bridge of nose, and lips.The first time he left flowers for her was also under the Four Seasons Tree, such an intimate act was like fulfilling a vow, you and me, Alan Ruo, me is enough.After a long time, he leaned over and pressed a kiss on her forehead.She didn't wake up. But fate, it started to go wrong here. Mrs. Qinghua went to Alan Ruo's residence to talk to him on the pretext of checking his mirror-making progress.In the mirror making room, the mask-like makeup of the tilted picture appeared in the fragments of the double-sided mirror in his hand, and he said softly: "As long as Xiangli Que is in power, you will not be able to return to Nanshen Palace for a day. I don't know if you have He Liangji, but I know that you don't want to be trapped here. You have always respected your late husband, and my desire to avenge my late husband has not disappeared for a day. Why don't you and I work together to get what we need? If Ju Nuo takes the throne, we will Make this oath on her behalf, and the palace will never offend the shrine." According to his previous strategy, if he was free at this time, he would have already forced Xiangli Que to go to war with Jingu, but now Xiangli Que is no longer as reckless as before, and he is suppressing and encroaching on Jingu On the surface, the shrine seems to be fine, but the priests inside must have been secretly replaced by Xiangli Que.He lived in seclusion for the past two years, and he was not ignorant of foreign affairs.He has been waiting for Qinghua to come to him. When he was young, Xize often said a word of admonition in front of him, we Qinan Shrine, unless it is absolutely necessary, we will never get involved in the mortal disputes, this kind of thing is out of our style.Probably Xize had already expected that one day they would be involved in such downgrading, and he was unwilling to do so, so he unloaded the burden on him.Since there is Qinghua helping each other, Xiangli Que must die.Even though Qinghua's intention is to help Ju Nuo take the throne, but when Ju Nuo ascends the throne, the crown prince Xiangli He will take the throne, so what does it matter to him?Qinan Shrine only needs Xiangli Que's death. Qinghua went to the mansion three times, showing full sincerity, and he put the plan in a kit and handed it to her.Using poison has never been a wonderful strategy, but it is the most suitable one. Xiangli Que is suspicious by nature, so there are still many detours before the last step.How to go on every journey, what needs to be avoided, who in the government and the opposition can win over, and who can start to win over, what to do if something happens, and what to do if it doesn't work out. A thick stack of paper is loaded like a calculation Just as accurate.Although Xiangli Que dotes on Qinghua, he confines her like a bird in a cage. Before that, she didn't know much about the affairs of the court and the public, but he was the one who led her on the road of power and strategy. Two nights before Xiangli Que passed away, Qinghua went to the mansion again.In the mirror room, he was drawing a brush on the frame of the glazed mirror so that someone could make a model of it.Although she is his aunt, Qinghua respectfully calls him a lord, discusses Xiang Lique's current situation with him, and promises to welcome him back to the shrine after the matter is completed.He held the pen, focused on the drawing paper, and said: "If this is done, I want Alan Ruo." Qinghua raised her head suddenly.He made a cold look: "What she has done to me will naturally have a lot, and I will give it back to her." He raised his eyes to look at Qinghua with Ning Mei, "Or is it that she is the queen's flesh and blood after all, the king Did you feel distressed?" Qing Hua was silent for a moment, then said: "When the matter is accomplished, Alan Ruo will belong to the lord." He will not marry Ju Nuo again, and the power of the Jingu can neither be attributed to Ju Nuo, nor will Qinghua let it be attributed to Alan Ruo.This is the best excuse to bring her back to the shrine safely. But the biggest mistake in his life was underestimating Qing Hua. On the sixteenth night of the seventh month, Xiangli died.On July 19th, he was hastily ushered back to the shrine to preside over Xiangli Que's funeral.But within three days, news spread to the Jingu that Alan Ruo had killed the king and had been taken into custody.At that time, above the main hall of the shrine, the black sacrificial bottle slipped from his hand suddenly, with a crisp sound.Qing Hua did not keep her promise.She is now more thoughtful than he expected. How could Qinghua know if he was lying to Alan or if he was genuine.She did this move just to prevent that one day, if he fell in love with Alan Ruo, he would help Alan Ruo threaten Ju Nuo's throne.She wanted to put Alan Ruo to death, she never thought of herself as her mother.How could he not think of it. After Alan Ruo was locked up, he was also closely monitored. Qinghua went to the shrine once, and the words she said in front of him seemed to come from a mother's thoughts: "You hate Alan Ruo so much, I feel sad when I see you, she made a big mistake by imprisoning you , but after all, she is the flesh and blood of this palace. If she suffers for a long time, this palace will not bear it. From the perspective of this palace, even if she has made a big mistake, can she die without your hatred? If you do it to this palace This favor, if there is any need for me in the future, I just open my mouth." Even so, the eyes that judged his expression could not hide their sharpness. He frowned, as if he was really dissatisfied, and after a while, he said slowly: "There is a female gentleman named Wen Tian in Zongxue. I don't know if the Queen can know it. If you feel sorry for me, Mr. Is it possible to deny that Wen Tian is a foster daughter? When I was down and down, she treated me well, and I fell in love with her and wanted to hire her as my wife." Qinghua smiled slowly: "Why not." In that smile, there was finally some Very relaxed. Qinghua Yunwentian went to the shrine to accompany him. When they met this time, the usually quiet woman hardly smiled. When there was no one, she said contemptuously to him: "I know you married me to repay your kindness. Do you know that you are right?" Your greatest favor is His Highness the Second Princess? Even I can see how well the princess treats you. This time she was wronged and wronged, but you just ignored her. I did like you once, but today I found out that you should be Not my favorite." He didn't make any excuses. At such an extraordinary time, he didn't believe anyone except himself.If Wen Tian said those words out of his heart, he admired them very much.If Shou Qinghua intends to say these words to tempt him, he needs to be even more cautious. Qing Hua finally believed him, and the surveillance on him gradually loosened, especially when Wen Tian was around.That day, he took Wen Tian to the back mountain to get water from the heavenly spring, and avoided her to go to Tsing Yi Cave.Tsing Yi Cave is named Tsing Yi, and it is the place where Qi Nan Mountain gathers the most aura.Xize has been retreating in this cave for two years. Wuyujian broke through the barrier outside the cave with the folded letter, which said that Alan Ruo was trapped. When Xize retreated back then, he led two priests into the cave to protect the Dharma. Although he had a lot of information, he couldn't trust the two priests who protected the Dharma, so he corrected other people's handwriting in the letter.This time, I only hope that Xize can see the letter with his own eyes and come out of the cave to save Alan Ruo. In times of urgency, it is even more necessary to calm down and consider carefully.If Xize rescued Alan Ruo, he would quietly leave the palace in three to five months and meet her again.If Xize has not seen this letter, the only way is to transfer her power of execution to the shrine.At that time, the possibility that he escaped with her protection is only half, maybe even less, but there are always some. Qing Hua plotted against him so much, if he could escape this calamity, he would not let Qing Hua go as he wished.She wanted Alan Ruo to die, but one day, he would let her sit on the throne. This world is vast and vast, he has never had relatives, and Alan Ruo no longer has relatives, even if everyone is plotting against them, so what, they only have each other, and having each other is enough. On the first day of August, Alan Ruo was robbed.This day is also Xianglihe's expedition day. When the news came, he was presiding over the congratulation ceremony of the army's expedition at Lingshutai.There are too many derailed things in recent days, but fortunately this one finally got on the right track, and he didn't bet on Xize wrongly.But after Alan Ruo was robbed, he was watched more closely, and Qing Hua still had some doubts about him.Fortunately, she is safe.She is fine. Reports of the battle with the Night Owl Clan came from time to time, even though he was in the shrine, he knew a thing or two.But these two do not include that at this time the person sitting in the main tent of Sixing River is Alan Ruo, not Xiang Lihe. On the sixth day of August, the army was forced to retreat to the south of the Sixing River by the Ye Xiao clan, losing 30,000 soldiers. Walking in the shrine, he saw that in the garden full of seasonal flowers, the fallen fruit was pecked by birds, and a brown seed was exposed. He collected the seed. On the eighth day of the eighth month, Alan Ruo blocked the enemy with a half-moon formation, blocking the night owls outside the river and making it difficult to move an inch. He cleared an open space in the garden and sprinkled the seeds on the open space. The sky spring water was mixed with some ordinary spring water to irrigate, and the seeds grew into beautiful saplings the next day. On August 14th, the Yexiao tribe defeated the Banyue tribe, and Alan Ruo used the soul-calling technique, and the fire of karma ignited on the Sixing River. He cultivated the soil for the saplings, and they have grown green crowns in the past few days, and one of them even bloomed a delicate flower, he saved it by magic, thinking that this one is very suitable for her. On August 17th, Alan Ruo died in battle, his soul turned into ashes and annihilated in the Sixing River. He wandered in the garden, and the Four Seasons tree was full of flowers. He took the scissors and picked out some plump flowering branches and cut them off, thinking that these could also be stored for her to put in vases to enjoy in the future. Rumor has it that Xiangli He died in battle, Alan Ruo was guilty of death, and Changdi, Xiangli Que's favorite during his lifetime, also became so sad that he went crazy after hearing the news of Xiangli Que's death. In such a big royal family, only Ju Nuo remained on the throne.On August 19th, Ju Nuo, who was in exile, was welcomed back to the capital to take the throne.On August 20, Ju Nuo went to the shrine to ask for his blessing, and asked him to stand by the lotus pond when the ceremony was over. The girl who used to be pure and self-reliant, now her face is full of vicissitudes, looking at the water in the lotus pond from a distance, she said for a long time: "I have been exiled for two years, although I have gone through some hardships, but these two years I feel like I am really alive. I have figured out some people and some things. The three of us sisters, in fact, Alan Ruo was the one who was really well-bred. Envy. When she was first born, I remember that I liked her very much." He didn't know what she meant, so he didn't answer. After a while, Ju Nuo said again: "My mother won't tell me about many things, but I actually have a spectrum in my heart, saying that if Alan kills the king, I don't think it's true." She looked back at him, "Cousin, Mother, she makes me feel a little scary." She devoted her whole life to this eldest daughter, even if Hudu didn't have children, she didn't care about using the flesh and blood of her younger daughters to cast Ju Nuo's throne.In the end, Ju Nuo was not even half grateful, but only felt that she was terrible, and this was retribution. He replied lightly: "It's not her you are afraid of, but the power in her hands. Now that you are the emperor, your mother shouldn't be in politics for too long." On August 22nd, it was a fine day, the sun was not strong, and there was an occasional light wind.This kind of weather is most suitable for visiting relatives and friends.As if he had been specially selected, Lord Xize came to visit him in the shrine. At that time, he had a book in his sleeves and was casually flipping through it in the Four Seasons Tree Garden. Xize walked through the moon gate and walked up to him with a slumped and indifferent expression, so he sat down opposite him without saying hello, and said, "The sky outside the mountain is already gone." It has changed round after round, and you are secluded in it, but you are at ease." He glanced up at Xize, turned a page with his fingers, and returned his eyes to the book: "I remember you used to say that the shrine is a place outside the world. What's the matter with the land?" Turning a page in the book in his hand, he said, "Alan if she..." Xize frowned and interrupted: "I have never touched the word love, so I naturally don't know what you and Alan Ruo think. But since you asked this question, it can be seen that you still miss her in your heart. Why bother to push her into that situation. Of course, I can't say much about the matter between the two of you. The path you choose and the path she chooses are just your own destiny." Sighing. , "I came here today just because of her wish. I heard that she has twenty letters with you. Before she left, she asked me to get them back for her." Xize's speech seemed to say something, but it seemed he didn't say anything, except for the word "Linxing" which was nailed into his ears like two long needles. His fingers froze on the page, and he said slowly: "Linxing" Okay? You saved her and let her go?" Xize was taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't understand why he asked this question. A trace of ominousness suddenly filled his heart, he got up suddenly, and walked towards the gate of the garden: "Since you are here, there should be a way to help me leave this place as soon as possible, no matter where she went, we will go down the mountain immediately, and we can catch her back in time. You don't know that she often has whimsical thoughts, if she is alone, I don't feel at ease..." He is not a talkative person, but at this moment, he seems to be afraid of being interrupted, what he is afraid of, he knows for himself.He and Alan Ruo, they only have each other, no matter how wrong fate is, they must not make mistakes at this moment, if even this step is wrong, if... However, Xize seemed to understand something suddenly, and said behind him: "Did no one tell you, Chen Ye, if Alan Ruo went to the battlefield, change..." But he interrupted sharply: "Don't say it." Do not say. It seems that if Xize doesn't say it, everything that he wishes will still be as he wishes. The garden is as silent as death, only the cool wind turns the pages of the book and makes a few soft pricking sounds. He supported the garden gate with his hands, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead, but he still maintained a calm face, as if pretending to be like this, the deepest fear in his heart at this moment, the fear that was enough to destroy him completely, would never and never happen. But Xize finally stopped his pace with a slow voice, and said: "Alan Ruo she..." After a pause, "Your table letter, I showed it to her. Before going to Sixing River, she Said that she might not have a marriage in this life, you were won by her, even if it was false to have two years of love with you, she also admitted it, but she didn't expect you to hate her so much, no matter how lenient she was, she couldn't bear it after all Stay." He said again, "She said she would come back. I don't know that she went to Sixing River because she wanted to die." A calm and quiet speech, every word is like a knife, piercing his heart like the sharpest dagger, he knows that Xize didn't mean it, but he wants them to pierce deeper and hurt more, so that he can feel that he is still alive, Only then can I have the strength to refute Xize: "Alan, if she won't die, I don't believe a single word you say." Xize looked at him for a moment, then said in a low voice: "You don't matter if you believe it or not." He sighed, "Qing Hua and Ju Nuo only found out about it after she died, because it was related to the royal power, they kept it from my subordinates, but I don't I know why they want to hide it from you." He didn't know how to make a sound: "Tell me, where is she?" Xize was silent for a long time. In the boundless silence, he seemed to finally understand that the young priest in front of him didn't want to believe it, but he had to believe it. But instead of believing in him, he would rather believe in his own eyes.After a long time, Xize said: "She put all her eggs in one basket and opened the soul summoning formation. The ancient fierce formation devoured her soul and turned into dust and annihilated in the Sixing River." His figure trembled violently, his feet staggered, but his pace was even faster. On that day, the palace spies thought that the priest, who was guarded tightly and had no power to resist, actually walked out of the shrine through the main entrance under their noses.This action made them infinitely annoyed, and they all showed up halfway to stop them.But the chief priest had a Shura-like face, holding a sword in one hand, the sword light flashed, and all the spies who stopped him were decapitated.Among the hundred or so spies, only one was left alive, a little spies who usually reacted very slowly and didn't have time to show up at this time.When the priest was far away, the little spy tremblingly called out the messenger pigeon, tied the letter of the priest's leaving the palace to the pigeon's leg, and passed it on to the Qinghua mother and daughter who were far away in the Sixing River.The two of Qinghua are at the Sixing River, praying for the dead soldiers according to the customs of the lovebirds. On August 26th, on the banks of the Nansixing River, a 100-foot-high platform was erected next to the dead bones of the soldiers. The platform was adorned with auspicious clouds, and the ceremonial guards of female monarchs praying for blessings were arranged in a large way.He traveled in a hurry for a few days, and he arrived here just on this day. The river is like a jade belt, meandering beside Pingyun Mountain, shining in the morning light, and the music sounds softly.In the past few days of rushing on the road without eating or drinking, Alan Ruo constantly lingered in his blank mind. When he closed his eyes, his mind was full of her shadow, so vivid that he couldn't allow him to believe that she had left him.But how can you not believe it, he is not a self-deceiving person.In the past few days, he seems to be in the clouds, his thoughts and pains have left him, he wants to come to Sixing River, he comes to her, so it is her answer to him, which will be his end. He never thought of avoiding the honor guard of the queen, he just walked along the river, imagining that it was a long road she walked when she was dying, the last road of her life.What was she thinking while walking this distance?Does she still hate him? Walking to the end of the river, there is a towering platform with flags like lotus flowers, and the face painted under the purple canopy is reflected in his eyes, which is a rare panic and panic. He doesn't know whether his appearance is frightening, but only knows that Qinghua is frozen After he gave some orders, iron arrows swarmed towards him like a rain. He instinctively swung his sword, the long sword stood by the river, casting a formidable sword aura to block it, but the rain of arrows was endless, eventually blocking him in a dilemma. Suddenly there was a gust of wind blowing by the riverside, and someone in Leyin forest seemed to play an elegy. The white Leyin flower detached from the branches, passed through the icy rain of arrows, and fell into his sword array.The little music flower perched on the hilt of the sword, like a pure white butterfly.Under the fluttering of butterfly wings, Alan Ruo appeared in front of him like that, with jet-black hair, crimson clothes, and with a little smile, he took the white flower from his sword hilt, played with it between his fingers, and slowly put it in. Hair on the temples, fingers stroked the temples and then stopped.There was a severe pain in his heart, and he stretched out his hand to hold her, but what he held was nothing but emptiness.That's just a shadow left by the music tree.While his mind was shaking, an iron arrow pierced through the sword energy of the bodyguard and pierced his shoulder and arm. The rigid force forced him to take a few steps back, and the blood in his mouth stained the hilt of the sword red. "I heard that there is a new guest coming to Mengchun Courtyard, and I will pay homage to him with a post." "Maybe what I said is true, maybe it's not true, maybe I really like you, maybe I'm really teasing you." "You really like me, Chen Ye."