The maid picked up the carved lantern and led Lin Shu across the screen to the gate of the palace.
At the entrance of the hall, the ducks were still quacking, blaming the maids and guards, to the effect that we cannot allow the men outside to ruin the reputation of His Highness, we must go to understand the situation and teach the man who knows nothing.
The ignorant man came out.
Lin Shu stood at the door of the hall and looked at them.
The ducks were silent for a moment.
Lin Shu checked his clothes before going out.
It was all packed up by Lingsu, and it was very appropriate. There was no problem. The attire of the Pavilion Master when he went out was more luxurious than when he was on the mountain.
Snow-white clothes, crisp outlines, flowing clouds and wide sleeves, delicate dark lines, very inhumane, very pavilion master.
He evaluated the current situation objectively, and felt that he was better than these quacking ducks in terms of appearance.
A duck flapped its wings, raised its chin, and asked him, "Who are you?"
The maid next to Lin Shu looked at him inquiringly.
Lin Shu nodded.
The maid stepped forward: "You sons, you are making noise here, disturbing His Highness to rest, please move back to the palace."
The duck who was the first to speak stalked his neck, looked at Lin Shu, and said, "Why, if we can't get in, he can get in?"
The ducks became agitated when they heard the words, and they all asked, "Who is he?"
Lin Shu stood at the door of the hall and asked lightly, "Who are you?"
The ducks said: "We are His Highness's husband to be elected! What are you?"
Judging from his arrogant appearance, he has almost regarded himself as His Royal Highness's true husband.
The maid stepped forward to relieve Lin Shu and said, "You sons, this is the Immortal Chief who came to treat His Highness, not what you thought..."
The ducks didn't believe it: "Cure? Why don't we let us in?"
Lin Shu watched coldly, and saw that these ducks didn't seem to care about His Highness's condition at all. The focus was all on His Highness being with other men and not letting them in. It can be seen that what they are concerned about is whether their status as the "husband to be elected" is threatened, and whether it is possible to become the official husband of His Royal Highness in the future.
Who is Ling Fengxiao
She is the eldest princess who dominates the world.
Now the old emperor is seriously ill, and the affairs of the DPRK and China are all under the command of the prince.
And the crown prince was dominated by Ling Fengxiao - so Ling Fengxiao was fully regent, so it could be said that he covered the sky with one hand.
If you become Ling Fengxiao's husband, the benefits can be imagined. Not only will you benefit endlessly, but you will also take the entire family to the sky.
No wonder these ducks were so excited when they learned that His Highness might know other men.
Lin Shu thought silently, he thought that in the Academy, everyone's yearning for a rich woman was big enough, but he didn't expect that in the capital, these noble sons became even more aggressive.
The girls in Phoenix Villa are also worried that their eldest young lady will be a widow and will not be able to marry in the future. Now it seems that even if you have been widowed hundreds of thousands of times and have the status of "the eldest princess who dominates the world", there will be a steady stream of ducks who want to marry.
Of course, Ling Fengxiao was not a widow.
At most, it was a widowhood.
Lin Shu thought, Ling Fengxiao must not like these ducks, so it shouldn't be a violation of the rules to drive them away.
Under the attack of the ducks, the maid opened her mouth and wanted to continue to excuse Lin Shu.
Lin Shu put his right hand on the shoulder of the maid and motioned her to keep silent.
The maid was very obedient and stopped talking.
Lin Shu: "To be elected?"
Duck is righteous: "To be selected."
Looking at that expression, it seems that "waiting for election" is a great honor.
But think about it, the people who can be chosen as Ling Fengxiao's husband must be noble sons from prominent backgrounds.
Lin Shu: "Oh."
The leading duck was very displeased: "What do you mean?"
Lin Shu looked away and looked at the guards on both sides.
The guard also looked at him.
Lin Shu said, "Get out."
The guard obeys.
The ducks couldn't believe it.
The process of expulsion was another commotion.
Just when Lin Shu's head was hurting and he had put his hand on the hilt of the sword, a duck called out, "Little Highness is down!"
Your Highness
Lin Shu raised his eyes to look at the garden gate, wanting to see where this is sacred.
Lin Shu: "…"
Guo Zi walked towards this side with a few beautiful girls swaggeringly.
I haven't seen him for three years. He has grown a lot, but he still doesn't say goodbye to women's clothes. He wears a white dress and long black hair.
It is very similar to Ling Fengxiao, with a very beautiful face, with "Fei Yang" written on the left face and "Domineering" written on the right face.
Ducks surrounded him and said, "Little Highness, there is a bold man who actually hit on His Highness's idea!"
Guo Zi was very dissatisfied: "Bold!"
The group of ducks echoed, and they all complained and cried.
Guozi said: "Take me there!"
Then came in a hurry.
Then it stopped.
The wind in the spring night is very loud.
Lin Shu looked at the fruit.
Fruit looked at him.
Lin Shu was expressionless.
But he saw that Guo Zi's eyes suddenly turned red.
The ducks didn't know what to do, and continued to complain to the fruit.
There was also a bit of crying in Guo Zi's voice, and he said to them, "Shut up!"
The ducks continued to be confused and asked, "Who is he?"
Guo Zi wiped his eyes, stomped his feet, and ran to the temple.
Before leaving, he said to the ducks, "My father!"
Then, when he passed by Lin Shu, he went in without looking at him.
Lin Shu vaguely felt that Guo Zi was angry.
Are you angry with yourself
Annoyed at him back then, he suddenly left Ling Fengxiao, Mao, and He Wuque and went to Jiange
The ducks were shocked by the phrase "my father" and began to whisper: "Huh?"
"what???"
"father???"
"I disagree."
"The big thing is bad."
"Isn't Your Highness a spiritual body? Doesn't he have no father?"
"Do you think they look a bit alike?"
"I think the little princess is more like him."
"hiss."
"I am afraid… "
The eyes of the ducks gradually became cautious.
Lin Shu glanced at the guards with cold eyes again.
The guards continued to drive the ducks, this time with a much firmer action.
The ducks did not resist this time, scattered and disappeared into the palace group.
Lin Shu entered the hall.
Ling Fengxiao hadn't woken up yet, and Xiao Wuque buried himself in the quilt beside him.
He stepped forward and uncovered Xiao Wuque's quilt.
Xiao Wuque burst into tears: "You still have the face to come back!"
Lin Shu couldn't resist for a while.
Yingying didn't know, she hugged Lin Shu's arm and tilted her head in confusion.
Xiao Wuque took Yingying into his arms: "Heartless man! Don't touch him!"
Yingying blinked helplessly.
Lin Shu tried to explain: "I..."
Guozi doesn't listen: "I don't listen!"
For a while, chickens and dogs jumped in the hall and jumped directly to the channel of the family ethics drama. Lin Shu noticed that even the eyes of the maid looked at him were wrong.
While the chickens were jumping, the guards outside the hall came in and announced, "The Empress is here."
As soon as it fell, the chicken didn't fly, the dog didn't jump, only Xiao Wuque hugged Yingying and cried, and said to the door: "Grandma..."
Lin Shu also turned to the door.
The purpose of entry is to wear a phoenix robe like haze and fire.
Looking further up, I saw a face of the mother-in-the-world.
Not old, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, there are many similarities with Ling Fengxiao in outline, but very different in detail. In the flawless facial features, there is a little less sharp-edged glamour, and a little more tenderness and beauty, plus that Duanfang demeanor, it is simply a realistic interpretation of the word "Queen".
She was also a woman who could fall in love at first sight under a glimpse of disappearance, and then made a vow that "you will never enter Jinguan City in your life" and "you can't pick flowers if you steal them, you will lose when you pick them".
The queen is watching him.
Lin Shu didn't know how to describe her eyes, because she seemed stunned. After a while, she adjusted and asked him, "Are you... Lin Shu?"
Lin Shu said: "Yes."
The queen stepped forward, looked at his face, looked left and right for a long time, and said warmly, "You...are you actually a boy?"
Lin Shu: "…"
So, how did Taoyuan Jun and the Queen agree on their engagement
The queen also thought that Lin Shu was a girl!
No wonder Ling Fengxiao firmly believed that Lin Shu was a girl.
Lin Shu could only say: "Yes."
The queen sighed softly: "...So it is."
Lin Shu: "?"
How come it was so.
Queen, what do you understand
I saw the queen gently walk to Ling Fengxiao's bed, and caressed his cheek with her fingers: "I haven't rested for many days, let him sleep a little longer."
Lin Shu: "Yeah."
The queen said, "Do you come to Jinguan City because you know something?"
Lin Shu: "Yes."
The queen continued: "Is there anything else you want to know?"
Lin Shu: "Yes."
The queen sighed softly: "Come with me."
She got up and walked outside the hall.
Xiao Wuque continued to cry.
Lin Shu touched his head and followed the queen.
He had a hunch that he would know something very important.
The queen, who is both the queen of Nanxia and the core figure of Phoenix Villa, must know the secrets of many villas and royal families.
At the same time, she recognized Taoyuanjun, met Taoyuanjun, and made a marriage contract with Taoyuanjun for two juniors.
- She must know a lot of things, and Lin Shu really has too many questions.
The queen took him to the highest point of the entire Nanxia Palace, the top of a tower as high as 100 feet.
This tower is called "Qifeng Pavilion".
Looking down from Xifeng Pavilion, you can see the lights of thousands of houses in the imperial city.
And all of this was shrouded in a vague night fog, separated by a layer of veil, very unreal, like a floating cloud obscuring the eyes.
The queen looked down and said, "Xiao'er is not a woman, you must have known it."
Lin Shu: "Yeah."
The queen said: "I never thought that you are not a daughter."
Lin Shu: "Taoyuan-jun said I was a girl?"
The queen gave him a deep look.
"Yes," she said, "In those days, Taoyuan Jun said that he had a female apprentice who could be assigned to Xiaoer. Because Xiaoer would dress up as a woman in the future, he would also make his apprentice dress up as a man in order to hide from the public."
All right.
It was Taoyuan Jun who had harassed Ling Fengxiao and the queen.
Lin Shu: "Why does he want women's clothes?"
He had wondered about this question for a long time, but Ling Fengxiao had a mantra on his body and couldn't say it.
The queen said: "This matter is a long story."
Lin Shu: "Please speak."
Queen: "Do you know the Phoenix bloodline?"
Lin Shu: "I know."
Queen: "How much do you know?"
Lin Shu said: "A thousand years ago, there was a great disaster. The world's beasts, gods and other things connected with the heavenly way all fell, and the phoenix bloodline has a special feature that can hide in the world and wait for nirvana."
The queen nodded and said, "You already know a lot."
Lin Shu: "That's all I know."
The queen said: "It's okay, I'll tell you."
Then, Lin Shu listened to the queen tell a story that was similar to what the great witch told.
However, it is far more detailed than that version of Dawu.
What he said was the matter of the dragon's veins.
"Everyone who wants to be canonized as a human emperor must first walk through the Great Dragon Court and close the road, and only after obtaining the permission of heaven can he gain luck and luck, so as to enjoy a long life and the authority to rule the four seas. With luck, you can walk through the path and become the next generation of emperors." The queen said slowly, "However, there is never a shortage of greedy and insatiable people in the world. Among the greedy and insatiable people, there are inevitably those with foresight. Even if you sit on the four seas, you can't be granted the head of the real dragon, and you can't become the emperor... In this case, you will cut the dragon's veins and abolish the Dao lineage, so that people from the four seas can be called kings by ceding the land, and they can be called emperors when they rule the world. The heroes fought together, and the blood flowed into rivers, and they were finally unified in the Great Xia Dynasty. After that, there was another rebellion of the Jie clan, and the dynasty moved south."
Lin Shu nodded.
This is what he knows.
"However," the Queen changed the conversation, "At first, after obtaining the approval of the real dragon, the emperor could obtain extraordinary luck, and then he cut off the dragon's veins and called himself the king and emperor. Naturally, there is no luck, except for power, there is no benefit. "
Lin Shu: "Yeah."
The queen smiled: "But luck has not disappeared, but it is hidden in the eight wastes and four seas, and the heroes are divided. The more territories they occupy, the stronger their luck will be. Therefore, the world is constantly fighting, and now Beixia is also coveting the land of my dynasty. "
She paused, then said, "Do you know why Immortal Dao and Dynasty are inseparable?"
Lin Shu: "I don't know."
In his perception, since cultivating immortals, one should stay away from the mundane and ignore human affairs.
"If you don't have a peerless cultivation technique and you don't have an extraordinary talent, if you want to cultivate to the Mahayana, you need extraordinary luck, and if you want to get luck... you can only rely on the dynasty."
Lin Shu was stunned.
What is luck
is a stepping stone.
It is the way of heaven that rules all things in the world.
And luck is the key to communication between man and heaven.
Those with strong luck are equivalent to being escorted by the way of heaven. There are folk divination techniques, which can be used to calculate a person's fortune, and it is also speculated by peeking into a person's fortune.
If you are a cultivator, if you have luck and luck, your cultivation will go a thousand miles in a day, and there will be countless opportunities for adventures. Even if you fall off a cliff, you can find some peerless secrets from the bottom of the cliff, and it will be smooth sailing from now on.
How much luck a person has is determined by Heaven. When the time of birth is good, Heaven sees you pleasing to the eye, and luck will be a little more than others.
And the emperor's seal is because the way of heaven looks at you very pleasing to the eye, and puts all the luck in the world on you.
But after taking the dragon veins, it is not like this.
The connection between the human world and the Dao of Heaven is broken.
The amount of luck is not determined by the way of heaven, but can be freely competed.
A dynasty, the number of regions it sits on, the more powerful its luck. If a person cultivating immortals does not possess the peerless secrets of extraordinary luck, they can only rely on the dynasty to share the luck and ease the difficulty of cultivation.
As a result, there were disputes in the world, various dynasties fought with each other and scrambled for the city, and the people of immortality were also involved in the strife, attached to the dynasty, and became the weapon of the dynasty.
And this truth, they do not know. For hundreds of years, the perception that immortals belonged to a dynasty has become something that everyone is accustomed to.
The more common things are, the less no one will explore why.
However, there is another problem here.
Lin Shu asked the queen: "Since the connection between the world and heaven has been cut off, why is there still luck?"
The queen said: "It's not cutting off, it's just blinding."
Lin Shu understood.
Originally, the Tao of Heaven and the human world were closely related.
True dragons, phoenixes, immortal mountains, immortal islands... all have energy veins connected to the way of heaven, and they can all talk to the way of heaven, and they are also nourished by the way of heaven and possess power beyond the ordinary.
Later, this qi was cut off.
Then, a certain existence replaced them and became the spokesperson for communicating with Tiandao.
Heaven is obscured.
Therefore, the luck of the world is still there, but the way of heaven is not distributed.
Lin Shu: "…"
He was suffocating about this, and suddenly thought of something.
The Dragon Vessel, who benefits the most
— is a dynasty.
It was the Great Xia Dynasty that ruled the world.
It thus has most of the luck in the world.
If the dragon vein is not abolished, the master of the Great Xia Dynasty may not be able to become the emperor.
However, after taking the dragon veins, he can do it.
Since the northern and southern summers were split from the Great Xia Dynasty, there is no guarantee that they will not know this secret!
Then, they will definitely not be willing to see the return of Heavenly Dao.
After all, once the Great Dragon Court is restored, they may not be able to become emperors.
Then... why did the queen mention this to herself
He looked at the queen.
The queen smiled slightly and said, "You understand."
Lin Shu nodded and asked, "Does the emperor know?"
"He... naturally knows," the Queen's tone became cold, and then said: "And the reason why I know it is that the Phoenix family has gradually guessed it through hundreds of years of contact with the emperor."
"The dynasty has bullied me on the Phoenix family for a long time," the queen's smile had a tragic connotation, "Da Xia regards the Phoenix family as forbidden, one is coveting the power of the peerless furnace, and the other is always controlling the bloodline of the Phoenix family, and the bloodline of the Phoenix is not allowed to wake up. "
The spring night was silent, only the voice of the empress resounded in Lin Shu's ears: "Among the five elements, the phoenix belongs to Lihuo, and Lihuo is the energy of blazing yang, and women and even the body of yin do not blend together. If the phoenix is born, it must be The boy with the blood of the phoenix..."
Lin Shu opened his eyes.
so…
"So, Xiao'er can only be a girl." The queen looked at the boundless night sky, her voice slightly hoarse: "Back then, when I was pregnant with Xiao'er, my stomach was burning every night, and I was already feeling it. Make all arrangements. At that time, due to the grace of Sima Youcheng, the great disaster in Yunnan, he persuaded His Majesty to travel south, so when I gave birth to Xiao Er, His Majesty was not by my side. I killed many people in the palace and replaced them with villas. Inheritance, and then gave birth to Xiao’er, in the world, those who know Xiao’er’s true identity are the only one, the owner of Phoenix Village, Taoyuanjun and Xiao’er himself, and now, there is one more of you.”
Lin Shu asked, "He...does he know the reason?"
The queen shook her head.
he does not know.
Do not know the real intentions of the dynasty.
Lin Shu suddenly didn't dare to think about it.
He could only ask: "After the Phoenix bloodline wakes up, will he die?"
The Queen said: "The blood of the Phoenix relies on the nourishment of heaven. If it is not, it will gradually dry up and die. According to the current situation, Xiao'er will die after the blood is completely awakened."
Lin Shu said: "The Great Witch of Beixia told me that after gathering eight secret books and re-calling Heavenly Dao in Huantang Mountain, Ling Fengxiao can live."
The queen said: "The great witch, if it is not beneficial, will never do good deeds."
That's what Lin Shu was worried about.
The great witch is not a good person, and is not related to them, or even a mortal enemy. The great witch asked him to go to Huandang Mountain to re-call the way of heaven. There must be some big plan in it, and he couldn't act rashly.
He asked, "How about that?"
The queen looked at the full moon in the sky and said slowly: "If he has the four seas..."
Lin Shu was stunned.
So, did the queen think so
"The emperor has only one heir, Xiao Lingyang, and Xiao Lingyang is kept under my knees. When I was a child, I scolded him, making him weak and useless, unbearable." The gentleness of the queen gradually faded, and it was replaced by some kind of contempt. Leng Rui said, "The emperor has been seriously ill for a long time, and he can't breathe for a long time, so Xiao'er's identity cannot be revealed. When he collapses, the crown prince will let me take care of it. In the future, Beixia will be recovered, and Xiao'er will become the emperor of the world. , why are you afraid of not being nourished by heaven?"
The queen changed her words: "I will do this matter. And Xianjun, you..."
She paused and looked at Lin Shu: "After Xiao'er took charge of the government, the main battle faction is very strong. I only hope that the day when I face the Beixia army, Xianjun - you can help him!"
She looked earnest.
And Lin Shu was never good at refusing.
What's more... Ling Fengxiao, to him, is different after all.
He opened his mouth and found that his throat was a little tight for some reason.
"Jiange escapes from the world and does not enter the world. I cannot let them participate." He said: "But... if there is a day, I will come."
The queen turned to him and gave a very formal salute: "Thank you Xianjun."
On the high platform, the queen said a lot to him.
About Ling Fengxiao.
Ling Fengxiao's childhood.
There is also the situation of the two summers in the north and south.
When he returned to Ling Fengxiao's room, he hadn't woken up yet.
Lin Shu knew that he was really tired.
If it was in the past, where did Ling Fengxiao fall asleep like this
Guo Zi's crying is not over yet: "You... man... black crow! Pig's hoof! When he wakes up, you... hug him."
The night wind entered the window, and Lin Shu suddenly felt that the wind was bone-chilling.
Fruit is right.
He should have hugged Ling Fengxiao so that he could feel some comfort in his heart.
But he cultivated the ruthless way.
He can't give it.
He can hold Ling Fengxiao, and he can hold it all the time.
But his eyes are not as gentle as the queen's.
Not even as docile and well-behaved as the boy who was presented to Ling Fengxiao tonight.
He was in a trance for a while, thinking of Ling Fengxiao's seemingly calm eyes when he was facing the ruthless self many years ago, but in fact his eyes were on the verge of collapse, and Ling Fengxiao's arms trembled slightly when he hugged him. He didn't want that kind of eyes, that kind of action... to appear in Ling Fengxiao's eyes again.
Ling Fengxiao already has enough heavy things on her body.
And at this moment, he was soberly aware that his existence would only make Ling Fengxiao more sad.
He looked at Ling Fengxiao's sleeping face, and finally turned around and walked out the door.
no good no see.
As if he... never came.
In the garden, the peonies fell.
The good old days and the past, suddenly came to my mind.
He crossed the palace gate.