Bai Su stretched out his hand and wiped the handle of the knife on his hand. The movement was slow and elegant, as if he had completed some kind of ritual. Then he tilted his head, looked at Shen Zhongbai with a smile on his face, and said word by word: " You have no choice. The entire palace is not a constraint to me at all. For the sake of the throne and the country, you still take me to see that old woman. I just want to ask for confirmation on some things."
The fact that he can appear here quickly with so many people shows that he has been fully prepared for a long time. Although the queen does not want to admit it, the situation at this time is obviously that she came to verify something. By the way, He saved himself, and in the Queen's heart, Bai Su was not a safe figure.
Shen Zhongbai clenched his hands fiercely, his eyes were scarlet, just like Bai Su said, he had no choice.
The lights lit up at the entrance of Yongning Palace. Shen Zhongbai led the way. Everyone walked slowly. At the door, the Queen Mother sat there.
It was already early winter, and the temperature was very low. The queen rubbed her hands, and suddenly she was covered with a piece of clothing. The smell of blood rushed into her nose. She shivered all over. This smell was really disturbing. Despair, that is the smell of life slowly draining away.
Bai Su came up, put his arm on the Queen's shoulders, and said softly with a slight smile: "As early as six years ago, I told you to learn martial arts for self-defense. Look at the desolate look you have now. Is this the Gu Qiang that Gong knows?"
six years ago? The queen immediately realized that it was Gu Qiang's era, and she didn't expect that this man had some interaction with her, but she still couldn't tell whether this man was an enemy or a friend.
"The Gu Qiang you know and I are indeed not the same person." The queen knocked Bai Su's hand off and kept a distance from him.
There was a stove beside the Queen Mother, and there was a warm light all around, as if she had been waiting here for a long time.
Shen Zhongbai stepped forward and knelt on the ground, respectfully saying goodbye, but the people behind him did not move.
The Queen looked at the Queen Mother carefully and found that she had not seen her for six years. In the Queen's memory, she had died of the plague long ago. Now she is sitting here with a calm expression on her face and a smile on her lips. He smiled slightly, as if he didn't know what terrible thing was about to happen.
Even the queen felt that this time seemed different from every time before.
This man named Bai Su is obviously the leader of a mysterious organization outside the palace, but he is inextricably linked to the Queen Mother. This can only show that everyone has some unclear debts when they are young.
The Queen Mother looked at the Queen carefully first, and then said: "I have long heard that Luoping you are pregnant, but now it turns out that it is true. You must protect your child and let her grow up safely."
The queen remembered that Gu Qiang had indeed fought hard for the position of princess. However, many people had called her Qian'er over the years, but no one had ever called her Luoping. Upon hearing it carefully, it was also a good name, elegant and generous. , a safe life, that’s probably what it means, or it just sounds smooth.
She has done well in being generous, but will her life be safe? When she thought of this word, her nose felt sour and she was about to cry.
This old lady is not that vicious. It is true that she is not a fool. She naturally knows who the child in the queen's belly is, but she doesn't mind.
Then the Queen Mother turned her head, looked Bai Su up and down, narrowed her eyes, and said: "I heard that you are looking for me, tell me what you are looking for for me?"
Bai Su took two steps forward, still with a slight smile, and even asked respectfully: "I came here to ask about a person from you, have you ever heard of a person named Bai Su?" A woman with seven looks?"
The Queen Mother paused for a moment, as if she had expected it, and then seemed to remember it again.
That obviously brought back her long-standing memories. She thought about it for a long time, and finally nodded and said with a helpless smile: "There is indeed such a woman, who is the most sorry woman in my life."
When she said this, she was extremely sincere. The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were deep, and she looked calm, as if she had been relieved.
Her age is there, even if she did some wrong things when she was young, it has been ups and downs for so many years, time has diluted everything, and those bad things will gradually disappear with the passage of time.
"You also know that you are sorry for her? Then you know that she will never be able to wait for you to say sorry simply?" Bai Su smiled, the curvature of the corners of his mouth changed, and the expression on his face began to become scary. .
The Queen Mother sat there, calm and frightening. She carefully observed Bai Su's face, "tsk", and said: "Are you that Qirong's child? I didn't expect that he still left a seed in her body. !”
"You are not qualified to call Bai Qirong's name in this life. I came today just to take your life and avenge Bai Qirong. It was never you who deserved to live." Bai Su's expression finally changed. Feeling colder than ever before, he took out the knife he had just used from his sleeve, observed it carefully under the moonlight, and then rushed forward.
It was just a moment. Bai Su moved very quickly, but Shen Zhongbai didn't want to move even faster. He flew up and rushed in front of the Queen Mother, preparing to block the attack with his body.
When the dagger was about to touch Shen Zhongbai's chest, Bai Su stopped abruptly, and then looked at the Queen Mother proudly like a child.
"Are you not afraid of death?" Bai Su asked.
The Queen Mother smiled slightly and said lightly: "I have lived for so many years, and I will die sooner or later. In fact, I have expected such a day, but you should be happy for Bai Qirong, at least she still has A nice kid.”
"Do you think I can let you go by saying this? What did Bai Qirong do wrong? Is it because she fell in love with a man she shouldn't love? But love..." After Bai Su said this, he stopped After falling down, the whole person fell into a painful memory.
The Queen Mother nodded: "Love is beyond my control. Because it is uncontrollable, everything I do is normal. I am just trying to defend my love."
"That's right, why do you hurt someone just because you're defending?" Bai Su stopped and looked at his dagger quietly, as if he was talking to the dagger.
The Queen Mother stopped talking. She knew that her fate was like this today. Once people know their future, they will be free and calm.
"Take my life. Please let my son go. Those grudges in the past life should have been settled long ago. There is no need to continue." After the Queen Mother finished speaking, she picked up the bag from the table next to her. A knife was put to her neck. No one reacted, and no one even stopped her. The Queen Mother committed suicide in front of everyone.
There was silence.
Then there were mournful cries. Shen Zhongbai rushed to the Queen Mother's body and hugged the body that was bleeding along the neck. The body was already stiff, as if the blood had dried up, and her clothes were dyed with blood. It turned red, her eyes were closed, and there was a smile on her lips, but she still looked so miserable.
This woman who had dominated the harem for so many years ended her life like this.
Shen Zhongbai knelt on the ground and cried loudly. The Queen Mother was his biological mother. In this palace, the two of them were connected by blood.
This was destined to be a tragic day for him. He lost his child and mother on this day. When he turned to look around, his eyes were already wet with blood, and everything he looked around was red.
He stood up step by step, holding the Queen Mother's body. The bloody footprints were so obvious in the darkness.
Undercurrents surged around him, and he yelled like crazy: "Kill them! Leave no one behind!"
Finally, some guards rushed out from many alleys. These were the guards in the palace. Almost all the hidden guards were dead. The remaining guards were basically the last cards of the palace.
After Bai Su stared at the Queen Mother's body for a few seconds, he turned around and said to the man in red clothes behind him: "Get out."
After saying that, he turned around, picked up the queen by the waist, and flew out with her.
The guards behind him surged up like a tide, catching up and tangled up with Bai Su's men in red clothes.
Bai Su has obviously fulfilled his wish and has no nostalgia for his men. It seems that he really wants to sacrifice those men to buy time for his escape.
When it was daybreak, Bai Su had already taken the queen up the mountain.
The mountain was filled with heavy fog and visibility was very low. They sat on the edge of a pool under a waterfall. Bai Su washed his clothes with water, then wiped his bloody dagger, and finally fell to the ground and turned around. He looked at the queen.
The weather was too cold, and Bai Su didn't seem to feel the cold when he was doing all this.
"How can you bear such cold water in such a cold day?" the queen said, holding a handful in her hands and taking two sips.
Bai Su rested his arms on his head and looked at the sky quietly, but he couldn't see anything.
"Before I was ten years old, I had never eaten hot food or used hot water. But I am a person who likes to be clean. I have to wash myself clean in winter." Bai Su said slowly, His voice was pleasant, like the gurgling water around him, soothing all the anxieties in people's hearts.
He closed his eyes, and when he said this, he seemed to be calm, but the queen read a hint of loneliness in it.
He was only ten years old, a time when he didn't know anything and was full of confidence in the world, but he couldn't get anything.