Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty

When I was a child, the new Zheng was just broken, and the three or five silver toads were full. I prepared a set of tools and asked Xiaoyu to make up like me. I went to bed early. In big things, don't care. As soon as I arrived under the big locust tree, a dark shadow jumped down, it was Lan Sheng in night clothes. He said briefly, "Come with me." I looked at the direction he was going, and it turned out that he was heading for Xilin, so I lowered my voice and wondered, "Aren't we going to go in from Mrs. Xie's portrait? That's from..." Lan Sheng walked forward without looking back: "Since Yuan Qingwu came in, that passage should have been sealed. Even if it is not sealed, I will definitely send someone to guard it, or change the mechanism. Just follow me."

He led me to perform Qinggong to the depths of Xilin, a pear tree with a curved neck that few people can hug. I remember that every summer I used to try to climb this big pear tree to pick the pears on it, because an accidental Newton's law seems to be The chance to let me know that this big pear tree does not look very good-looking, but the pears it bears are the sweetest in the whole village. Unfortunately, I have no chance to pass this secret on to ten or ten, because Jinxiu and Song Minglei even seriously warned me not to go to Xilin if I had nothing to do, and not to talk about things in Xilin. Of course, I didn't have much opportunity and time at that time, so I went all the way to pick pears.

But Lan Sheng began to dig a small hole in the middle of the tree with a bent neck, and after a while a big hole as tall as a man and a half was exposed, "This is a certain generation of the original family's heir. He is a beautiful woman, so he secretly asked Dongying dark people to dig an entrance, so that they could meet secretly." As I helped him dig, I thought to myself, all the women in the dark palace wear masks, how did he see their faces?But with the personality of the man from the Yuan family, he might be playing hooligans and stealing others' masks. I asked softly, "Then what happened next?"

The corners of Lan Sheng's mouth curved slightly, "This generation of masters of the original family almost released all of the Sima family because of this beauty, but in the end they were suppressed by the head of the family and the conservative faction of the Sima family, and lost the position of prince. Although the place is blocked, it has been too long, before the Gengxu Palace was changed eight years ago, I still remember that there was a big flood, and the place was washed out." "How do you know so much about the original family's allusions?" I asked tentatively. "Could it be that you said that the flood secretly sneaked into the dark palace?"

He smiled mysteriously at me, and answered the wrong question: "Actually, your husband knows better." I turned my head instinctively, as if I didn't hear it, and pretended to study the tree hole, and he snorted coldly. We entered the dark tree hole, crawled all the way, and gradually slanted down, only to find that the tree hole was extremely deep. After about fifteen minutes, we didn’t know how far we had climbed. The road gradually widened, and Lan Sheng and I straightened up I leaned over, lit the fire, and suddenly felt enlightened, but saw that the cave wall in front of me was open, and he lightly embraced my waist and said: "Hold on tight."

He carried me forward with light work, after a while, he put me down, touched the mechanism again, Lan Sheng blew out the torch, the darkness dissipated slowly in the rising sun like morning fog, replaced by glowing purple light gradually. Just one step away from me is the bronze statue of Shura who looks like Duan Yuerong being punished. So we entered Ziling Palace again. How close is it from Xilin to Xinggong?No wonder Feibai was able to sneak into the palace so quickly. "The Sima family can't move freely on it, even the dark gods, so many supplies for life have to be self-sufficient, such as medicinal materials. There is a medicinal garden here called Baicao Garden, which is worthy of the name. This place is on the edge of cold and hot, very It is suitable for planting those rare and famous medicines that are difficult to survive on the ground, and sometimes the original family will have the cheek to ask for some from the dark palace people when they need it."

Lan Sheng calmly asked me for the double-faced golden ruyi bestowed by Xuanyuan Dezong, and inserted it into the place where I inserted it last time, just on the chest of the copper Shura, and then twisted it three times to the left and two times to the right. reaction. Lan Sheng also seemed a little surprised. He touched his chin and thought for a while, then asked me for a reward, and looked at me: "Give me your hand." "Uh!?" Before I could react, he had already quickly grabbed my hand and stabbed my finger tenderly, a few drops of blood flowed into the keyhole of the bronze statue of Shura.

"You..." I covered my fingers and barked at him. He ignored me at all and just looked at the bronze statue. Suddenly, heavy gears rattled, and the bronze statue slowly raised its head. The pupilless eyes stopped streaming purple tears, just infinitely sad. Looking straight at me, as if Duan Yuerong was frowning and silently questioning me why I didn't come back and why I lied to him, I couldn't help but stare back at the bronze statue, forgetting that my hands were still bleeding. Lan Sheng calmly and quickly wrapped my fingers, and said simply: "It needs a woman's blood to open it..."

Sure enough, five seconds later, the face of the bronze statue turned to the right, and a door slowly slid open on the smooth stone wall, only to feel a purple light shining into the eyes. Lan Sheng counted his steps carefully, bypassed the mechanism, and nervously took out the stone corner from the gear next to the door, and the stone door closed again. We walked in slowly, and there was an incredible openness in front of us. Out of sight, there were bushes that were much higher than us, and various herbs were planted in them, but they were actually larger than common herbs. It is much taller, and the roof of the cave is densely covered with jagged amethyst, which is translucent. The purple light and shadow are refracted on the green leaves. When you look up, you can vaguely see the water waves flowing over the roof, and there are even people walking around. .

"This is the Herb Garden of Sima's family," Lan Sheng said lightly, "I'm afraid even the most powerful people can't own the famous plants in it, because these famous plants need to be half-dry and half-wet, with moderate light, so Sima's family and Yuan's family will be able to use them." The entire floor tiles were replaced with translucent glazed gold bricks, and the Liuyu Temple was built on top of them. Those water magic organs just concealed the living springs on the ground to water the Herb Garden here. And the walking people above were They are the iron guards guarding the Liuyu Palace."

What's even more subtle is that the person who opened the hole actually painted a huge ceiling painting "Dragon and Phoenix Leading Soul Ascension to Heaven" on the flat part of the central roof. On the front is a woman with a beautiful face and purple pupils. Yan, with high temples and high bun, wears a deep belted dress with bearded sleeves hanging on the edge, revealing the long swallow skirt with passionflower pattern on the ground, raised like a flower, narrowed waist, like a mermaid tail, graceful and magical, like Walking against the wind, peerless elegance. Well! ?I squinted my eyes and took a closer look. The woman looked cold and arrogant, looking at us indifferently and noblely like a queen, surrounded by two huge golden dragons with teeth and claws, yes, two, one The two horns are black, and the other one is white. Both dragons are looking at the world with anger and ferocity. I understand, this is the last que of the thirty-two-character mantra, the birth of the twins, the nine days of the dragon master. In the past, I just felt that these words were a bit intrusive, even a bit superstitious. Why do you have to have twins if you are an emperor?Looking at the five thousand years I know, how many twins have been emperors in the five thousand years of the world?But at this moment, I suddenly thought, if two real dragons came into the world at the same time, and the Yuan family got the world, but only one of them is the emperor, what about the other real dragon? Lan Sheng, who was in front of me, had been turning over the plants in the garden as many treasures as before, and was turning around to look at me, who was so stupid, with displeasure, so I put away my wild thoughts and started the work at hand. But after a stick of incense, Lan Sheng's calm voice came from the front: "I found it." I cheered up and walked up to him. We seemed to have come to the central area of ​​the Herb Garden. A tributary of Zichuan was slowly passing through in front of me. It was about three to five meters wide. Inside, several big golden dragons were sticking their heads out to me fiercely. bared teeth. Lan Sheng pointed to the opposite side, but saw that the opposite side of the tributary was indeed a large area of ​​oversized Jinchan flowers. "Do you believe in this so-called thirty-two-character mantra?" Lan Sheng's peach blossom eyes suddenly asked in the rippling purple light: "Do you believe that the Yuan family became emperor because of this destiny?" My heart skipped a beat, this is not the first person to ask me the same question, I have discussed the 32-character mantra with Feibai before, he is not surprised at all that I know the biggest secret mantra of the four major families, when he was just a Raising eyebrows: "If you can trust this thirty-two-character mantra, my family will be able to aspire to the top of the world." "I don't believe it," I shook my head, and replied with a smile, "the emperor and the general are kind." At that time, there was a sly flash of phoenix eyes, he touched my head with a smile, and then went out. Now Lan Sheng also smiled strangely at me. "If I take you to the opposite side to pick Jinchan flowers, how will you thank me?" He asked without looking back. I was taken aback, Lan Sheng never asked me anything, although this kid saved me many times, he didn't have any malice towards me, but after all he was a little psychopathic, what kind of request would he make? He turned around and looked at me deeply, I couldn't help taking a step back, thinking about it in my heart, getting ready to go again, and said with a pleasant smile: "Where did the sixth brother come from? Man said that he helped the fourth sister and everyone in Dali. , but no, as long as the sixth brother speaks, the fourth sister will go up the mountain of swords and down the sea of ​​fire for you, and you will never die..." He couldn't bear it anymore, and growled at me in a low voice: "Shut up! Shut up! You first find out your seniority, who is your sixth brother, you have to call me brother, call me brother, call me brother! " I half-opened my mouth and looked at him in astonishment. In terms of age, qualifications, and the order of understanding of Xiaoliuyi, why should I let you take advantage of him and call you brother? !And your outrageous service attitude! ! ! but! ! !Having said that, this is still an easy condition to satisfy!I smirked at him and said, "Brother! Thank you, sister?!" Just like that, Lan Sheng's only and most precious request in his life was lost. He seemed to realize it, rolled his eyes in infinite annoyance, pushed me away hard, and walked forward angrily with his fists clenched. Xiao Zhong was happy The ground followed, as if he understood the meaning of it. Qingcheng got out of my arms, barked at Lan Sheng's back, jumped on my shoulder, and decided to guard me. I breathed a sigh of relief, and walked quickly behind him, but seeing his lonely back, my heart softened again, forget it, in fact, it is not a gentleman to cheat like this, after all, he has saved me many times, so I should ask What is his request? "Brother Lansheng..." I called out slowly, thinking that my ambition was not high: "Just now I was teasing you, just tell me, what do you want me to do, I will definitely live up to you gone." He turned his head. Under the dim light, his lines were so soft that it gave me an illusion, as if he was an old friend of mine who came from a long way away. When I opened the door, he was standing in the dust. As if looking at me happily by the door, he nodded my head hard, and I jumped back in fright, but he looked at me happily for a while: "Remember? You promised me before, after I sent you After you return to your original home, kill me." I felt stunned, and looked around, Grandpa, you don't want me to beg me to kill you here, do you?Xiaozhong sat beside him quietly, looking at me happily. "I also expected that you would not be able to do it," he looked at me quietly under the firelight, and said slowly: "But there will always be someone who will attack you. When the time comes, you only need to promise me one thing." thing." "You must take out my corpse," he said to me earnestly, "don't bury it, and don't use a coffin. I don't want to be bound to death. I must use that big fire to burn it dry." If it is clean, don’t set up any tombs. All the tombs were destroyed in ancient times, so they sprinkled me into the sea. I heard that I was born by the sea, but unfortunately I have never seen the sea in my life. I think the sea is always better than the sea. This world is cleaner." To be honest, I have heard a lot of last words in this chaotic life, as long as I can, I will earnestly help them complete them with my blood dripping from my heart, but I have never heard of them, at least such a person who looks good, He discussed his affairs with me so earnestly and with a little joy, as if death was the best final destination for him. My eye sockets became inexplicably hot at that moment, I turned my head away and said harshly: "Stop talking, it's really bad luck." Suddenly there was a sinister laugh, and the two of us became alert at the same time. Xiao Zhong and Qing Cheng both bristled their hairs, but the man smiled strangely again: "Keep talking, it's good." A white mask appeared in the green leaves like a ghost, "So it's you, the puppet. It's not easy, but it can bring her here." As soon as he waved his sleeve, Lan Sheng was blown to the ground by a strong infuriating energy.Then he was trampled on the ground by White Mask's foot. He raised his chin at me: "Ma'am, oh, now it's time to call you Princess. Your Highness, you're wearing night clothes and bringing this puppet here. It really makes the humble house shine. I don't know what is the order of the princess? The little one can prepare for you." Just as I was about to speak, he waved his hand again: "Don't say it, let the villain guess, ah! It must be to find that golden flower!" I wanted to speak again, but he waved his hand again. "Can you hide the matter from the Yuan family from me?" He sneered a few times, then ignored me, and walked towards the sullen Lan Sheng: "Go ahead and talk about your behind-the-scenes, I will guarantee that If the concubine can't bear it, this palace can help you to shatter your bones and ashes at this moment, and your soul will be scattered. You can flow out of Ziqi Mountain Villa along this Zichuan, and finally go into the sea along the wave. You can thank me in the next life, you Ming The remnants of the family." After talking about it, Sima Yun's tone became ruthless and full of contempt. It was obvious that he was a person who could do whatever he thought of, and quickly attacked him. Lan Sheng sneered, turned over with a kite, and kicked back. With one kick, Sima Yun was knocked back a step. Lan Sheng flipped his sleeve lightly, and said simply and coldly, "I'm from the original family." Sima Yun stayed there for two minutes, snorted coldly, and then attacked again, with a more ruthless attack. The strong fragrance of the wild lotus flower came out. Lan Sheng suddenly changed his move and copied Sima Yun's move, but his strength and speed were not enough. A beat slower than Sima Jun, obviously he was being beaten non-stop, but he didn't show any signs of defeat. I knew he wasn't afraid of pain at all, but I couldn't bear it in my heart. he……" I didn't say any more, because I was surprised to find that the situation gradually changed. Lan Sheng became familiar with Sima Yun's martial arts moves, and began to counterattack with a strange move. With a solid kick, blood gushed out from under the mask's chin. Lan Sheng swung Sima Yun's mask away with his palm. Sima Yun shook his head, and his long black hair covered his face. Lan Sheng said coldly: " Last time you beat me half to death, I already saw through your tricks, the Sima family's martial arts are nothing more than that." Sima Yun didn't refute, but just flashed into the darkness suddenly, at the same time, there was a light and crisp sound accompanied by footsteps from afar, and Lan Sheng and I also flashed aside, facing Sima Yun's hiding place far away, Sima Yunfu put on the mask again, and sat down cross-legged to exercise. A piece of bright red suddenly appeared in the dark passage, lighting up this gloomy world. The man was wearing a silver-red curvy train, and the pearl palace sash was covered with very small golden bells. Because he was running too fast, he made a light, crisp and pleasant sound. . I recognize the woman's mask, she seems to be the lady Yao Ji who almost killed Lan Sheng last time, but why is Sima Yun, the son, also hiding? A person wearing a silver mask followed Mrs. Yaoji, she suddenly turned her head and shouted angrily, "Don't follow me." The silver mask was definitely the same as the previous Yin Zhongkui, and he said in a hurried voice: "Ayao, don't do this, you are not in good health, and I feel uncomfortable seeing you like this." "Don't be hypocritical, I won't forgive you until I die, are you still a man, you can't even keep your own child," the woman cried loudly: "Pearl has been outside for so long, it's not easy I'm back, but you don't let me go up to see her, she is also your daughter, are you so afraid of him?" Pearl?Who is Zhu'er, Yin Zhongkui's martial arts is so high, who will he be afraid of, could it be the original Qingjiang? Shouldn't Yao Ji's daughter live in the dark palace like Yao Ji?Why is it on it?Inexplicably, I watched the dark palace bitter romance drama, and looked at Lan Sheng, whose nose was just bleeding from a blow, and he was pressing it hard, thinking about something while Xiao Zhong stared at Yin Zhongkui coldly. That Yin Zhongkui stood beside Yao Ji, guarding her silently, without saying a word, and Yao Ji cried for a while, seeming to be choking a bit, that Yin Zhongkui hurried forward to bring her a cup of tea , I saw clearly at that time, his fingers were very slender and slender, like the fingers of an ordinary scholar, that silver cup with lotus pattern, last time in Donggui Building, I saw Shen Changzong used this cup to test poison, and then Carefully passed it on to the Holy Majesty, I heard Jinxiu mentioned that this is a special thing for the Holy Majesty, and even Jinxiu can't get it, so I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, could it be that Yin Zhongkui from the Sima family can surpass it at all? Yao Ji took off the mask, put it on the table bitterly, picked up the silver cup and drank it, but saw a peerless and beautiful face, oval face, willow eyebrows, very bright, but unfortunately there was a long scar From the forehead to the left eyebrow, I remember that I also saw Sima Yun had a long scar on his face, although it was not as long and deep as his, but for a beautiful woman, you can imagine how painful it was, I sighed in my heart, a good person, is it to forcibly distort the aesthetics in order to stay here? No wonder Sima Yun wanted me to help the Sima tribe unravel their fate. I looked in Sima Yun's direction, but saw his mask was facing me. "Okay," Yin Zhongkui sighed, "Ayao, take a break first, and I'll come see you later." Yin Zhongkui turned around and just left, that Yao Ji suddenly ran over, hugged him tightly from behind, and said with tears: "Don't go, you can't go, I... won't let you go." Sure enough, women are generally duplicity things, eh? !Which poet said this? Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that Lan Sheng was looking at me with a playful look, and I was taken aback. Could it be that I often do this too? ! While I was thinking wildly, Yin Zhongkui softened first, turned around slowly, hugged Yao Ji back, and said in distress: "I won't leave, A Yao, I'm most afraid of seeing you feel uncomfortable." Yao Ji gently took off the mask of the silver-faced man. The man had a slightly old and handsome face without scars, but I instinctively lowered my head, covered my mouth in fright, and trembled with my hands. Lan Sheng's peach-blossom eyes flashed with a gleam, and the corner of his mouth curled up to look at me mockingly, as if he was waiting for this kind of reaction from me. I recognize this face, but why is he here? This person doesn't have a beard, nor does he wear the dragon robe and brocade crown of the Ninety-five Supreme Beings. In other words, I have never seen him with such a kind and serious expression. Shuangfengmu has never looked at a woman so affectionately and single-mindedly. I slowly raised my head, intending to take another look, but I stretched my head slightly, and with a flash of silver light, I saw a picture of Yin Zhongkui eye to eye with me.