Shan Chao pushed the door open and entered the room. Xie Yun was leaning on the pillow with his eyelids slightly closed. The side lines extend from the smooth forehead to the straight bridge of the nose, and even to the bloodless but very graceful lips, and the arc formed by the eyelashes casts a light shadow on the nose.
Shan Chao was short of breath, and stopped by the couch, only to see Xie Yun opened his eyes and smiled, "You're here?"
"..."
Xie Yun's face was very tired, but his eyes were filled with calm joy, and he held Shan Chao's warm and rough fingers in his palm: "Why this face? It's normal for people to be born, old, sick and die, don't do this."
Shan Chao's Adam's apple slid violently, Xie Yun jokingly said: "Could it be that if you don't die now, you will live forever? A hundred years of life is just the difference between a moment earlier and a moment later."
Shan Chao struggled to make a sound: "...where did your Nilin go?"
"Broken."
Before Shan Chao's roar came out, Xie Yun said: "It's completely broken, and it's useless to take it back."
"There must be a way, tell me! It's just a piece of scale! Otherwise, I'll kill and go to Guanshan, Liangzhou, or grab another piece..."
Xie Yun interrupted him easily: "Is it too late?"
Shan Chao gasped unacceptably, his fists clenched tightly by his side, and even his arms showed terrible veins.
"Why don't we use the remaining time to talk about something happy." Xie Yun struggled to sit up, coughed a few times with this movement, and said with a hoarse smile: "The little emperor will do it himself, according to the prophecy of the great dancer, I'm afraid you are very competitive for that position. Recently, you have gotten quite close to those old foxes from Zhongshu Province?"
"..."
"In the future, there will be a mutiny against the superior and change the Yuan, have you thought about the year name?"
"..."
The two looked at each other quietly, Xie Yun made a difficult swallowing movement, swallowing back the blood welling up in his throat, and his vision was a little distracted. "Back then in Mobei..." Shan Chao said in a daze, "You said that one day I would fight on the battlefield, become famous, and be on the Ninth Five-Year Plan... everything you said will come true, but what about yourself?"
"You said that if I backed down, I would end up not only waiting to die, but also dragging the people who supported me behind me to hell... But you are the only one who stands behind me from the beginning to the end. If you are gone, even if there is a storm What is the meaning of being rich and honorable to me?"
With a muffled plop, Shan Chao knelt on the side of the couch, tightly covering his eyes, but the water still overflowed from between his fingers.
This completely broken posture had never appeared on him before. Even on the arduous Qinghai battlefield, and in the northwest wilderness surrounded by mountains of corpses and seas of blood, this man stood tall and firm like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, never wavering at all.
Xie Yun raised his neck as hard as he could, took a deep breath, felt tears flowing down his nose and back to his throat, and said for a while, "I was wrong."
"you… "
"When I went to Mobei back then, I not only betrayed the secret door, but also couldn't rely on the queen. I was almost desperate. It was you who showed me another possibility. I wanted to use your bloodline. Yes, be a powerful minister who holds the power of the dragon... "
Shan Chao asked with a tearful smile, "I'm afraid I still thought of coercing the emperor to command the princes, right?"
Xie Yun smiled wearily: "That's too far away."
There was a moment of silence in the room, Xie Yun said in a low voice: "Later, the queen sent a letter asking me to kill you, and my mind changed. I didn't lie to you. Most of the masters in this world protect their apprentices' shortcomings, and I don't. I don't know how it became what it is today... "
No matter how hard he was to support his body, he closed his eyes and curled up, and pressed his wet cheek against Shan Chao's palm, muttering: "I'm such a selfish and calculating person, I just want to enjoy the honor, and I don't want to suffer... How did it become like this..."
His voice became softer and fainter, and the ending was like a distant sigh, disappearing in the void filled with countless times.
Shan Chao rubbed his face with trembling hands over and over again, picked up his sleepy body, and pressed him tightly in his arms.
At this moment, the door was knocked and then pushed open. Shan Chao didn't raise his head, only heard Ming Chongyan's voice sounded from the door, it was unexpectedly serious: "General Shan, His Majesty sent someone to give a banquet to make amends, and the dishes have been delivered to the door of the house!"
After a long while, Shan Chao raised his head slightly, and said in a daze, "...a banquet?"
"Your Majesty's dragon body is not healthy today, so he is so angry that he can't choose what to say. After the general left the palace, the more you think about it, the more uneasy your majesty feels, so he specially asked someone to make a banquet for the general..."
Shan Chao interrupted impatiently: "Your Majesty has changed his mind?"
"Yes." The eunuch in the palace leaned forward and stood in the front hall, and said in a soft voice: "Your Majesty also said that the general is the pillar of the country. He once saved the late emperor from danger and was loyal to us. I think he will not blame me. Your Majesty made a slip of the tongue. Your Majesty also regrets it very much... "
Could it be that after realizing it, he was afraid that the words "I want Zen to be located in Wei Xuanzhen" would spread, so he rushed to make up for it
Shan Chao had only one impulse, and that was to walk away with a livid face and go back to the inner room to accompany Xie Yun.
He took a deep breath, looked the palace people up and down, and recognized that this was a confidant eunuch who specialized in serving the emperor's pen and ink in the imperial study, and was considered quite a powerful figure in the palace on weekdays. The eunuch seemed to dodge the line of surveillance, staring at the ground, his hands tightly tucked into his sleeves, Shan Chao suddenly became suspicious, only felt that this person's face was pale and unusual, and there seemed to be cold sweat oozing from his temples.
"What's wrong?" Ming Chongyan asked in a low voice.
Shan Chao shook his head without saying a word, and walked to a six-foot-square black wooden carved dragon table under the hall.
The eunuch's voice trembled slightly: "General...won't you thank Your Majesty and have a feast while it's hot?"
Snowfrog Chicken, Xiaotian Crisp, Bailongyao, Chophead Spring; Braised Shrimp, Lambskin Filigree, Tonghua Beef Intestine, Clove Grilled; Honeysuckle Cut, Double Mixed Square Cake, Single Cage Golden Crust, Royal Queen Mother Rice …
Shan Chao's eyes lingered from one dish to another, and then glanced at the eunuch, only to see a gleam of water flashing across the man's chin.
——It was the sweat slowly dripping from his temples.
"...Your Majesty is too polite." Shan Chao said indifferently: "The person who came brought down the whole table and offered it to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors."
The servants responded, and the eunuch immediately stepped forward in panic: "General, don't do this! Your Majesty personally gave the banquet, how can you not touch it?!"
Shan Chao asked: "Isn't worshiping the ancestral hall more reflective of my respect for His Majesty?"
"General... The general can use a few words at least so that the villain can go back to the palace and answer His Majesty, okay?"
Shan Chaoding stared at the eunuch, and after a while, he saw the palace servant's dark blue sleeves trembling slightly, his whole body was trembling and he couldn't hide it.
Everyone didn't understand what happened, but no one dared to speak out, and there was a suffocating silence around them. I don't know how long after the long torment, only to see a chilling sneer in Shan Chao's eyes.
Immediately afterwards, he changed hands and tore off the money bag from the butler's waist, and took out a piece of silver from the bag - it was originally used for rewarding favors, the small silver key was twisted into two by him lightly, It exposed the brand new silver inside, and then threw it into the soup.
After a while, Baiyin turned into pitch black.
The eunuch's expression changed drastically, and he turned around and ran away!
"Hold him!" Shan Chao blatantly overturned the table and said sharply: "No one from the palace is allowed to run away! Hold him down!"
Only then did the servants of the Shan Mansion come to their senses, and rushed into the front hall in a hurry, grabbing the eunuch who was too late to rush out and the palace servants serving the imperial banquet. All of a sudden, the tables and chairs were overturned, the vegetable juice was all over the floor, and screams and screams were heard endlessly. The eunuch shouted hoarsely: "You, you are bold! The Holy Majesty ordered you to die, and you dare not obey the order! Do you want to plot rebellion!"
Shan Chao turned around like lightning, drew his sword, and beheaded the eunuch with one blow!
Shan Chao retracted his sword and scabbard in the sky full of blood, and said coldly: "Yes."
"Seal the door of the mansion, no entry or exit is allowed, and all the people sent by the palace are gagged and put down." Shan Chao ordered the housekeeper: "All servants go back to their rooms and close the door. Don't say a word about what happened today."
The butler's legs had already weakened, and it took him a while to say "Yes!", and staggered out.
"Mr. Ming," the corner of Shan Chao's mouth raised an indifferent arc: "Shouldn't you say something?"
Ming Chongyan's expression was calm, as if the scene of blood and screams in front of him was completely out of sight, he just bowed his body and bowed: "King Ping's going will be a success, I will congratulate you first."
"The day of success is the time when Xie Yun dies, right?"
Ming Chongyan didn't answer.
Shan Chao paced out of the front hall, followed closely by Ming Chongyan. He squinted his eyes and looked at the blue sky outside the courtyard, and said indifferently: "When I lead my troops to take down the Daming Palace, I will kill myself in front of the dragon chair with a sword. I went with Xie Yun in front of everyone in the world, I want to see how Mr. Ming's prophecy will come true..."
Ming Chongyan lost his voice: "No! What do you want to do?!"
"Of course, you have to kill the little emperor before you kill yourself. King Ji also killed him, and then I killed my cheap mother according to the last emperor's will. The whole Li and Tang royal family will accompany me to hell, and Mr. Ming can face nothing. the throne of…”
Shan Chao looked at Ming Chongyan in a blink of an eye, with a bloodthirsty smile in his eyes: "If you think about it again, replace it, and you can repay the life-saving grace of Luoyang Palace that day."
What Ming Chongyan saw at that moment was a beast struggling and roaring in desperation with red eyes.
"..." Ming Chongyan barely suppressed the trembling with almost exhaustion of his whole body, forced himself to look directly into Shan Chao's eyes, and said, "You won't do that."
"Oh why?"
"Because you killed the queen, you won't be able to save Commander Xie."
Ming Chongyan raised his breath with difficulty, and said in a low voice: "When I returned to Beijing from Mount Tai, in order to dispel the Queen's suspicion of me, I offered two secret medicines of the Qinglong tribe, and one of the red pills was to kill me. Miss Yang Miaorong's Dragon Binding Grass is caused by the sudden increase of the power of the Azure Dragon Seal to the extreme, so that the meridians are broken."
"The effect of the other black pill is exactly the opposite. It can make the Azure Dragon Seal weaken and approach nothing, and even completely strip away the power of Yin Tianqing. In other words, it makes Commander Xie almost an ordinary person..."
"Without the Azure Dragon Seal, naturally I won't suffer from Ni Lin's encumbrance." Ming Chongyan smiled wryly, and said, "Perhaps this is the only way to save Commander Xie at present."
He closed his eyes tightly, only listening to the clothes in front of him being loosened, it seemed that Shan Chao made a long bow, and then rushed towards the inner courtyard like a whirlwind.
The door of the dormitory burst open, Shan Chao hugged Xie Yun in his arms, rushed back to the front hall and got on his horse, and the soldiers who heard the movement rushed from all directions of the huge mansion.
"Seal the entire mansion, order five hundred forest troops to guard the Xuanwu Gate." Shan Chao reined in the reins, and shouted amidst the shocking long hiss of the horse raising his head to the sky: "The rest of the people will send a message to the Beiya—follow me to the Qingning Palace!"