Green smoke floated, the night wind howled, and the dampness of the sky and the ground rushed to the face.
Qing Qiao gritted her teeth and leaned on the horse's back, not daring to relax at all.
She thought of Father Gu's forced smile before she left, and couldn't help but feel palpitations, and a mouth full of fishy sweetness came out of her throat.
Duan Yu, do you want to kill them all? !
She took out a cloth from the skirt to wipe the blood, but upon closer inspection it turned out to be the white silk that Kong Kong used to abduct her.
"... So you use such a woman's weapon?"
"In a moment of urgency, forced by the situation, hehe, hehe."
"... Do you know where I was before I arrived here?"
"... The old man was in a bodyguard agency giving supersessions to the bodyguards..."
Could it be... She looked at Fang Bai Ling, and couldn't help but see three black lines on her face.
—It turned out that Bai Ling was actually used for decoration of the hall! Damn, empty this old bald donkey!
"Bah bah bah!"
She felt that it was really bad luck, she quickly threw Bai Ling aside, and spat a few more times.
The so-called blessings and misfortunes never come singly, the horse under him suddenly snorted, looked up to the sky and screamed, and stopped moving.
"Why are you not moving? Run!" Qing Qiao was so frightened that she quickly coaxed her, "Brother Ma, move!"
! eon! Damn it! "
But no matter how much she encouraged her, no matter how hard she whipped the whip, the steed just stood still and refused to move half a meter forward.
"Don't do this, please!" She was about to burst into tears, "Although I have offended your brother Jing Tao in the past, I have always respected him as the leader! Don't worry, as long as you can take me out In this forest, my sister, I promise that I will not eat horse meat, wear riding boots, or listen to the horse head fiddle in the future, and I will confess to the roaring god Tianzun—you can move your legs quickly, there are a large group of underworld chasing me... "
The horse shook his head, ignored her, and became even more irritable.
After several attempts to no avail, she finally gave up struggling.
"... I just want to go home, what did I do wrong?"
Seeing that there is no hope of escape, the more she thinks about it, the more sad she becomes, and she can't help but regret—if she had known this, she wouldn't have gone looking for the Four Spirits back then, wouldn't it be nice to stay in ancient times with peace of mind for the rest of her life? At least there is no need to worry about life in rich clothes and jade food, maybe this is in accordance with God's will! Now that I am in such a mess, with a poison in my body, I don't know if I can still see the sun tomorrow
She wiped away the undried tears with her sleeves, and her heart became more and more desolate. ()
"Why, you can't stand it so soon?"
Suddenly, a person slowly walked out of the forest, dressed in brocade clothes, with bright eyes and a cool smile on his face.
"Want to give up? Want to let go of your dream?"
Those beautiful eyes were so transparent that she felt that there was no room for her.
"Zizheng... Zizheng!"
She murmured his name, bent her lips, blinked and blinked again: "Is it really you?"
Lu Zizheng wanted to ridicule her a few more words at first, but seeing her distraught appearance, he couldn't help lowering his posture: "...It's really me, do you want to touch her?"
After saying that, she walked forward, took Qing Qiao's hand, and pressed it to her face.
"Are you awake?" His tone was rarely so gentle.
Qing Qiao was both surprised and happy, the tears couldn't flow out by herself: "It's true...really..." She suddenly softened, and she was about to fall off the horse
.
Lu Zizheng caught her with his backhand and firmly caught her in his arms.
"—Zizheng! Duan Yu is going to kill me, he is going to kill me!" She grabbed his lapel in shock and fear, her eyes widened, "He said I was an orphan of the Bianmu royal family, wearing a nine-turn voiceless bell , the great treason is trying to defy the sky and restore the country, and he wants to execute me!"
"I know, I know." Lu Zizheng patted her on the back, comforting her, "Didn't I come here?"
"...Zizheng, I didn't, I didn't want to harm anyone..." She pursed her mouth and began to sob, "My dad... don't know what's going on now?"
"Your father is a justifiable minister of the Ministry of Rites. Prince Duan has no proof, so you can't touch him." Lu Zizheng was confident, "At most, he will be arrested and tortured."
"Torture?" Thinking of Sima Qian, Qing Qiao immediately gasped, let go of her throat and wailed loudly, "No, no castration! My father only accepts beauty tricks!"
"Why don't you worry about yourself first?" Lu Zizheng glanced at the dark red spots on her chest, and couldn't help sighing, "Have you taken the medicine in the hairpin?"
"Eat." He stopped howling, tears in his eyes and head like pounding garlic.
"Does it hurt?"
"It hurts." She behaved like a cat.
"Did you vomit blood?"
"Hmm." The voice became lower and lower, reaching into the dust.
Lu Zizheng immediately took out a red pill and gave it to her.
"Know what this is?" the voice was harsh.
"Hmm... sweet... m&m jelly beans?" replied naively.
"What kind of jelly bean!" There was a crackling voice beating on the head, "This is the antidote!"
"Hey..." Qing Qiao rubbed the back of her head and giggled.
"...'Tiling' is a unique poison of the Mandala sect, you really have the courage to take it
! "Lu Zizheng looked at her helplessly, with a hint of admiration in his eyes, "Should the bat tell you the consequences?" "
"Yeah." Qing Qiao nodded, "He said he would vomit blood for ten consecutive days after taking this medicine, if there is no antidote... there is no antidote..."
"What will happen if there is no antidote?" Lu Zizheng asked knowingly, chasing after him.
"If there is no antidote, the blood will be exhausted in ten days, and the person will be exhausted and die!" Qing Qiao shivered slightly, and her complexion became even paler.
"...don't blame me for giving you this medicine, I... am not cruel."
Lu Zizheng looked at her shivering and delicate appearance, and couldn't help but feel pity: "...but that Duan Yu is not an ordinary person, he has a lot of martial arts skills, ordinary fake death medicine can't hide him, only the truth..."
"I don't blame you." Qing Qiao interrupted him with a faint smile, her face fluttering, "If you hadn't given me the medicine just in case, maybe I would be decapitated now."
"...Actually, I'm very happy." Her face was full of satisfaction, and it seemed like a dream. Can live well."
She suddenly turned her head to look at him with a playful look: "I finally got the last laugh in this game of chess, didn't I?"
Lu Zizheng's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't answer, he just hugged her tighter.
"... What are your plans next?" He pressed his chin against her floppy hair.
"I..." Qing Qiao's voice hesitated.
"If you want to live a simple life, I'll arrange a place for you to live in peace and security. How about you?"
His voice was so hot that her ears gradually turned red, all the way to her neck.
"No, you don't have to be so nice to me!" Qing Qiao came back to her senses, and pushed him away in a panic, a little innocent, "I, I saved you, but you don't need to repay him in this way..."
Lu Zizheng's arms were empty, his eyes fixed on the beauty, and he narrowed his eyes slightly.
"... Then what exactly do you want?"
He opened his mouth quietly, his face was as pale as the remaining mist, as if a layer of ice had frozen his expression
.
Qing Qiao Si hesitated for a moment, then raised her head and smiled at him:
"I'm going to Xiling."
Her eyes were exceptionally clear, and her smile was as bright as the sun breaking through the clouds.
"—Zizheng, I haven't forgotten my dream! I'm going to Xiling!"
In the early morning of the next day, Qi's mansion.
Qi's mansion is beautiful, the green fields are vast, the mist is exhausted, and the flowers are in full bloom. In his spare time, Dongxi always likes to lie on the railing and look at the scenery.
Now she was leaning against the railing in a daze again, when she suddenly heard footsteps, and when she looked back, there was a young man in yellow robes scurrying towards her, with Yu Linglong on the belt trembling along with the steps, whimpering and weeping.
"Don't worry, your master will come out tonight." The boy smiled at her, "I can assure you."
Dongxi hurriedly kowtowed and knelt down to thank him.
"... It's just, I don't know if I let her be my maid, will she feel wronged?"
The young man didn't look at her, he was playing with an emerald finger wrench in his hand, his eyes were focused on it, as soft as if he were stroking dewdrops on the petals.
Dong Xi didn't dare to answer, she subconsciously didn't like this wayward young man very much - after all, she remembered all the hardships he caused the young lady to suffer.
"Young Master! Young Master!" Suddenly a servant came to report, stumbling and crawling, looking funny.
"Why panic?" The boy frowned, as if he hated such an unmannered person.
The visitor didn't care too much, rushed up to his ear and muttered for a while.
Dong Xi saw with his own eyes that the smile on Shao Yi's face disappeared little by little, and his face became tense, slowly turning into deep anger.
"... That's how it is! Uncle Nine Emperors is too treacherous!" He pinched the railing fiercely, his face flushed and his teeth clenched.
"Don't worry, my lord!" the visitor said to comfort him, and then began to whisper into his ear again.
.
so so... so so...
The anger on the boy's face gradually disappeared, leaving only pain and resentment, as well as a faint unwillingness.
"… gone?"
He raised his face in a daze, looked at the green hills in the distance, his eyes were like bleak autumn water, "Just left like this?".
After a moment of silence, he suddenly turned his head and smashed the jade in his hand to the ground.
"Snapped!"
The emerald suddenly fell apart, and the ground debris turned into scale powder, flickering and flying around.
Dongxia hurriedly jumped away, and the spies quickly stepped aside, not daring to say another word.
However, the young man looked at the remains of the wrench finger on the ground, and suddenly remembered something, and his expression gradually softened.
"...It's okay, it's okay." He murmured, as if comforting himself, "I still have it!"
He pulled out a red thread from his neck, and the end of the thread was decorated with a crystal clear round bead, which was magnificent and colorful under the bright sun.
"Uncle said that as long as she has this, she will definitely come back to me."
The boy held the bead tightly and smiled, like a drowning man clutching at the last straw.
"She'll be back, she'll be back..."
He whispered, as if chanting a mantra, his thin red lips drew an upward arc.
The morning light cast on the young man's face, illuminating his handsome face and the gorgeous golden pattern on his neckline—dragon claws poked out from the mist, clutching the orb tightly, and the auspicious cloud that was in full swing was as red as a long flame. With a smile on his face, the young man became more and more isolated from the world, his whole body seemed to be empty and transparent, with a strange and terrifying beauty.
Dongxi had never seen such a strange sight.
She stared at him blankly, only feeling a fear she had never felt before, and her whole body gradually trembled like chaff.
(End of Emperor Ling Chapter)