Rufu Palace is far away from the dungeon. As a prisoner, You Xu cannot sit in a sedan chair or chariot. By the time she comes out of Rufu Palace, it will be a starry night.
She was slightly absent-minded and followed the guard, and was stunned when she passed a large flower field. The flower field did not attract her attention during the day, but it was terrifying at night.
In the daytime, it is just a red flower, but at night it is even more brilliantly red. There is no candle light, and the petals in the dark place are as red as clusters of fire.
More importantly, she felt the grievances under this land resonated with the grievances in her heart.
Under this flower field, many dead people are buried.
"What are you stunned for? Why don't you hurry up!" The guard saw that she didn't follow, turned his head angrily, and pushed her with his scabbard.
You Xu had no choice but to look away and continue walking with them.
When she returned to the dungeon, it was already midnight. With a little moonlight, she saw a hazy silhouette, Yu Si leaned against the wall and did not lie down.
She knew that he was very tired to recover from his injuries, and most of them would choose to close their eyes to rest, and she was not asleep at this time, presumably she was worried about her.
Sure enough, hearing the movement of the prison door, Yu Si approached her, and the chain on his body made a sound because of the movement, "Is something wrong?"
You Xu waved his hand and sat down beside him, "It's okay, don't worry."
I didn't see any new injuries on her, nor did I feel the smell of blood on her body, and hearing her say that again, Yu Si was slightly relieved.
"Are you tired?" You Xu said, "It's getting late, why don't you rest first."
The merman lay down obediently, and You Xu spread out his hands and spread his legs, trying to expand the area to reduce the dryness in his heart.
"You look like a starfish," he said.
It's so cold for you to talk like that, You Xu thought.
I don't know how long ago, You Xu felt very tired, but her mind was so chaotic and her thoughts were so mixed that her consciousness was clear and she couldn't sleep, so she turned over and over like pancakes on a pan.
"Anything on your mind?" Yu Si asked.
Yu Xu hummed sullenly.
"Do you want to talk," Yu Si said, "I will listen carefully."
A moment of silence.
"What you don't want to say," he added, "I'll sing you a song."
You Xu exhaled a long breath: "Then you can sing a song."
After a while, a tune echoed in the empty dungeon, like the warm waves slowly rushing towards the beach, Lingling gentle.
The moonlight fell on his fish tail through the bars, and the light blue fish scales were slightly shimmering.
You Xu closed her eyes and automatically thought of the picture. She was no longer in a dark dungeon, but was lying in the sun. The beach under her was slightly warmed by the sun. The sea breeze blows.
This scene calmed the restless resentment lingering in her heart.
After a long time, the lingering voice dissipated, and he said softly, "Are you in a better mood?"
You Xu couldn't help but feel his heart throbbing for a moment, because this merman was as gentle as moonlight and as clear as sea water.
"I heard that the tears of mermen turn into pearls," You Xu asked him, "Is it true?"
Yu Si: "It should be."
You Xu asked back, "Should?"
"I haven't shed tears, and I haven't seen other sharks shed, but I heard that they will turn into pearls," he said.
You Xu was amused by his serious and serious look, so that the last bit of depression disappeared, and he let out a long sullen breath.
"I heard that there are three kinds of extreme sorrows in the world, cuckoos cry blood, monkeys whine, and mermaids cry," You Xu said slowly, word by word, "May nothing in the world make you sad."
"May you be happy and worry-free too." Yu Si looked down at her, and he didn't notice the tenderness in his eyes.
Feeling a little more relaxed, after a while, You Xu closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Yu Si glanced at the moonlight outside the window and slowly closed his eyes.
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You Xu was nervous for several days, worried that Qin Niezhu and Miao Lingxuan would come to find trouble again, but fortunately, they seemed to be very busy recently and had no time to take care of Yu Si in the dungeon.
They do have a lot of things to do. When Emperor Xiaoyou completely closed his eyes, he would wash the court with blood, leaving behind his own power and confidants, and getting rid of other princes, especially the second prince who had signs of true dragon energy. .
To support the son of Miao Lingxuan, the only six-year-old child naturally relies on his mother, and Miao Lingxuan, who becomes the queen mother, falls behind the curtain, and the manipulator who concentrates the power behind the scenes is Qin Niezhu.
You Xu was sighed that the two demons were playing with power and tricks in such a decent manner. Of course, the news from the outside could not get in. She spent her points to inquire about it from Qiba.
If you have points, you are a boss, but if you don’t, it’s a piece of mud. She has a deep understanding, but she will never become a boss. Every time she leaves the world and goes back, she is a pauper. When starting a new world, it is accumulated by the increase of the trust value of the task object. integral.
Seeing that the two demons couldn't care about them for a long time, You Xu felt relieved a little, and the top priority was to let Yu Si Yang take care of his injuries and find a chance to rush out of the cage.
In order to limit the power of the priest to the greatest extent, Qin Niezhu set up a magic circle in the dungeon. You Xu did not know what this magic circle was. It could make the air in the dungeon extremely dry, so cold that it should have been cold. The dungeon is extremely hot in summer.
Compared with the cold, You Xu is more intolerable to heat, and feels that he is in a steamer with no water vapor all the time.
And the cold-blooded species Yusi became the natural ice pack in the dungeon, so—
"Big fish, let me touch you, okay?" You Xu smiled kindly.
What she never expected was that Yu Si blushed.
He coughed lightly, and the redness at the base of his ears spread to his cheeks, "No way."
What You Xu didn't expect was that Yu Si, who was always good at talking, rejected her, she wondered, "Why?"
"Can't you touch your tail?" He looked so cool, more attractive than a mat.
Yu Si shook his head and said, "The merman only recognizes one partner in his life." If he is determined, he will live with death. If his partner chooses to betray or leave, the merman can choose to die or be alone, but he cannot have another partner.
You Xu understood, so he kept a distance from other opposite sex for his partner who had not yet appeared, and he didn't know if he would appear or when.
She envied the devotion of the merpeople, and she believed that it was forever.
never changed.
You Xu asked tentatively, "Where's the hair?"
That beautiful silver hair, she had been thinking about it for a long time, and wanted to braid him with a twist.
Yu Si decisively refused: "It doesn't work either."
You Xu was paralyzed on the ground, motionless.
She raised her eyes, swept her eyes at will, and then fixed it on the iron window. A dandelion grew in the gap in the corner of the window. Its vitality was extremely tenacious, and she just squeezed a head through the iron fence.
You Xu kept staring at it, counting how many seeds it had. After a few counts, he saw an ice needle fly away, and a spherical dandelion fell.
Yu Si reached out and took it, condensed it into a small ice ball, handed it to You Xu, and said gently, "This way it can stay for a long time."
It's like making a gadget to coax a tantrum child.
You Xu took it and looked at it. In the slightly bright ice ball, the umbrella-shaped filaments of the dandelion seeds could be clearly seen, and the magic ball in the storybook looked good.
Seeing her brows and eyes stretched out, Yu Si felt that she liked it very much, so he could not help bending his lips. Who knew that in the next second, she would see her holding a small ice ball rolling around her face, and then stuffing it into her clothes, her stomach bulging, Then she saw that she was about to tuck into her pants.
"..."
Yu Si pulled the wooden barrel and froze the water inside to crushed ice and gave it to her.
"It's okay for you to use spells now?" You Xu put down the ice puck and took the bucket.
"Small spells don't affect it."
You Xu nodded, picked up the ice cube and chewed it, Yu Si watched silently beside him, the corners of his lips raised.
After cooling down for a while, You Xu clapped his hands and said, "If you have nothing to do, why not play chess?"
"What chess?"
"Gobang."
You Xu asked Yu Si Ning to make popsicles the size of her little finger, one for each person, she drew a crooked chessboard on the ground, and gestured: "I use a fork, you use a circle, whether it is a straight line or an oblique line, connect it into five pieces. just win."
The popsicle melted slightly, and water marks were drawn on the ground, which automatically solidified into white frost because of Yu Si's spell, with a clarity comparable to chalk.
After a few games, the two were evenly split.
As a chess player Yu Xu, who won the old girl and lost to his father in Gobang, he tried to distract Si's attention and told him a little story casually.
"Once upon a time there was a princess as white as you called Princess Snow White. She had a stepmother like Miao Lingxuan..."
"...Little Red Riding Hood's mother went out, her mother told her not to open the door, but a dog thief like Qin Niezhu came knocking on the door..."
Adding realistic ingredients into fairy tales is easy to understand, and Yu Si listened to it with interest, but he still focused on playing chess, and there was no wrong place.
You Xu's mouth was dry, she closed her mouth and rested for a while, she looked up to see the anticipation in his clear blue eyes, and seemed to want to continue listening.
You Xu's heart moved, something flashed in her mind, and she remembered the story of the mermaid.
She squeezed the popsicle tightly, lowered her eyelashes, and said in an ordinary tone of the story of the perfect mermaid, "Mermaids are equivalent to mermaids. I don't know if you have heard of this story."
Yu Si: "I haven't heard of it."
"The merman...will it also turn into foam?" You Xu's other hand silently grabbed the jacket.
"Yes." Yu Si said.
You Xu knew that the merman never lied, and his heart tightened: "Really?"
"It is true," Yu Si lowered his eyes and drew a circle in the grid, "but no merman would choose to do that."
Because it's not worth it.
You Xu was stunned for a moment, and when he drew the next cross, he didn't pay attention to the four circles with slashes in the upper right corner.
Yu Si drew another circle, and the five sons were connected. He held the popsicle and tapped it twice, smiling slightly, "I won."
The dandelion ice ball next to it is white and shiny, especially in this dark dungeon.
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During the two months of being together, You Xu checked the trust value from time to time, and found that the trust value increased steadily every day, and the increase was consistent. It felt like a gentle stream, slowly merging into the lake, accumulating little by little.
Just like him, the gentle merman, the spring breeze turns into rain, and the drizzle is silent.
In this way, the trust value steadily increased to 70.
Yu Si's injuries have long since healed, but it will take time to lift the forbidden technique on his body. He can break the dungeon array, but how to let You Xu leave unscathed is still a problem.
He can't do it on land, and the demon power is greatly weakened, which is a bit tricky.
If it is to divert water, it must be...
And Miao Lingxuan, who was busy here, naturally did not forget them, and sent someone to arrest You Xu.
You Xu reassured Yu Si that it was all right, she just went to have a look, but she knew in her heart that this time, she was afraid that she would not be able to hide it.
"What about the tears of the merman?" Miao Lingxuan said to You Xu, who was kneeling not far away, while smearing a blushing grease on her hands.
Yu Xu didn't say a word.
Miao Lingxuan smiled lightly: "It seems that you have been too comfortable these days?"
She hooked her lips, and the four maids next to her who fanned her immediately shivered, some looking blank, some looking pale.
"Since you can't get mermaid tears," Miao Lingxuan's eyes turned cold, "presumably your eyes are useless."
A palace maid put down her fan, picked up a knife and walked towards You Xu, who was being held by two eunuchs.
Her hair was picked up, and You Xu was forced to raise her head. Seeing that the knife was infinitely enlarged, she closed her eyes tightly.
"what-"
You Xu was stunned, opened his eyes, saw the knife falling on the intricately patterned carpet, looked up again, and saw the palace maid's face was pale, her right hand was broken and bent into a strange angle.
"National teacher," Miao Lingxuan was not annoyed, and looked at her with charming eyes, "What do you mean?"
Qin Nie Zhu walked in slowly, retracted the whisk, and looked down at You Xu, his eyes flashed: "Let her go back first."
—
You Xu returned to the dungeon. It was already evening. She hurriedly approached Yu Si and said earnestly, "The dungeon can no longer trap you, so you will leave tonight."
If you don't go, I'm afraid it will be too late.
Yu Si only said, "How about you?"
You Xu knew that he wanted to take her away, but how could everything get what she wanted? With her, maybe it will implicate him.
"You escape from the dungeon and go to the southeast of the palace. There is a Mingze Lake. The bottom of this lake is connected to the East China Sea. As long as you try your best to enter the water, no one will be able to catch you again."
Yu Si fixedly looked at her without saying a word.
"I was born in the palace, and I am a ghost of the palace in death," You Xu said firmly, "Even if I was locked in a dungeon, I would never leave this place in my life."
Yu Si was startled: "But you said, you want to go see the sea with me."
Didn't they agree
"You're so stupid, you believe everything," You Xu squeezed his hands silently and looked away, "Of course I lied to you, how could I leave you."
Not allowing him to refuse, You Xu turned his back to him, took two mouthfuls of porridge with difficulty, and then stopped eating.
Yu Si lowered his head slightly, his eyes fell on his dry fish tail, half of his face was hidden in the darkness, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
The atmosphere was a little condensed, and the relationship between the two fell to freezing point for the first time.
Who knows, just as night fell, You Xu felt cramps in his abdomen, a burning pain that stretched to his lungs, and the smell of blood in his throat.
Covering her stomach, she shrank into a ball, her eyes fixed on the half bowl of porridge—
Poisonous.
The author has something to say: I am late qaq, I have resumed work and school, the update time is not so regular, it may be later, I will post it after coding~
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