Yu Jiangjiang's sudden scream almost scared Yu Zhengzheng to death.
She glanced at the wall not far away, calmed herself down a little, and took big strides towards the top of the wall.
Xiao Yuqing's cultivation is extraordinary, but he is a sickly person. When it comes to escaping, he is naturally no match for Yu Zhengzheng, who is familiar with the terrain and can control the grass and trees for defense.
She easily climbed over the wall and leapt into another yard.
In order to prevent them from catching up immediately, she raised her hand to urge the apricot tree beside the wall. The roots of the tree crisscrossed and climbed all over the wall. In the blink of an eye, they were entangled into a spider web, just blocking Xiao Yuqing at that end.
As long as he was stopped at the top of the wall, he would not be able to get through and would have to take a detour and enter through the main gate. By the time he delayed for a moment, she would have already escaped, and it would not be easy for Xiao Yuqing to catch up with her.
This was what Yu Zhengzheng was thinking the moment before she turned her head, but when she turned around and saw the Emperor of Heaven in red, the expression on her face froze.
It turns out that the person living next door to the scumbag dad is the Emperor of Heaven, who is even more of a scumbag than the scumbag dad.
The Emperor looked at her with a gentle smile on his lips: "It turns out to be Miss Yu, come in and sit down."
These words were not spoken in a negotiating tone. Yu Zhengzheng had no doubt that if she dared to say she didn't want to go in, he would have her tied up and 'invited' in.
She compared them and finally nodded: "Then I will bother the Emperor of Heaven."
Don't hit a smiling person. Seeing that she was so sensible, the Emperor of Heaven naturally would not be violent towards her.
He heard voices coming from outside the door, and he just gave a few instructions to the subordinates beside him, and the voices outside the yard soon stopped.
Yu Zhengzheng gave a bitter smile. She had just escaped from a wolf's den, and now she had fallen into a tiger's den again. She really should check the almanac before going out.
The Emperor was very polite to her. He asked her to sit opposite him and put tea sets on the low table. A fairy came to make tea for her, but was dismissed by the Emperor with a wave of his hand.
His movements were graceful and skillful. He lit the small stove, took out a small piece of tea cake and placed it on the stove to toast it.
The hall was very quiet, with the occasional crackling sound of charcoal fire. The Emperor was in no hurry to speak, as if he was waiting for her to speak.
Yu Zhengzheng's mood had calmed down at this moment. As early as when she rushed to Penglai Mountain alone, she had already prepared herself mentally for death.
The poison made by Xiao Yuqing was extremely complicated and difficult to cure. When the Seventh Prince gave her an antidote to relieve the toxicity, she had hidden a small piece of the antidote and did not take it.
A few days ago, she gave the remaining antidote sample to Lu Renjia. After careful observation, Lu Renjia said that he could only try his best.
The word "give it your best effort" was a stretch, and she knew that the chances of success were slim, but she still held on to a glimmer of hope.
There is absolutely no way Xiao Yuqing would give her the antidote.
However, she herself only had a superficial knowledge of medical skills, not even one-tenth of Lu Renjia's knowledge. Things that were difficult for Lu Renjia, let alone her, a novice who had just started learning medicine.
It's ridiculous to say that whether it's her, Lu Renjia or Xue Xi, they all have the spiritual power to heal others.
They can save the lives of ordinary people, but in the end they cannot save their own lives and can only watch their lives slip away bit by bit.
It is really sad that a doctor cannot heal himself and a person cannot save himself.
Yu Zhengzheng smelled the faint fragrance of tea coming from the stove, and her thoughts were pulled back. After all, she spoke before the Emperor of Heaven: "Few people like to brew tea."
Nowadays, most people like to order tea or boil tea. The method of brewing tea by frying tea was eliminated thousands of years ago.
The Emperor of Heaven saw that she was quite knowledgeable about tea art, so he explained: "Xuan Nu likes to drink the tea I brew."
When Yu Zhengzheng heard him mention the Queen Mother of the West, he was stunned.
Lady of the Nine Heavens is the biological mother of Immortal Lord Hengwu.
It was heard that not long after Xuannv married the Emperor of Heaven, the Demon Realm released ferocious beasts to commit crimes in the human world, killing common people everywhere, causing the Emperor of Heaven a headache.
Xuannv sneaked into the demon world, ready to wait for an opportunity to kill the Demon Lord, thereby saving the people of the world and helping the Emperor of Heaven to share his worries.
But no one knows who exposed Xuannu's identity. After the Demon Lord discovered Xuannu's identity, he ordered his men to imprison Xuannu in a dark room for a whole month.
Later, Xuannv was rescued by the Emperor of Heaven, and soon became pregnant with the Immortal Lord Hengwu.
When Immortal Lord Hengwu grew up and became the patron saint of heaven, Demon Lord was in critical condition due to illness. When he was dying, he ordered people to go to heaven to snatch Immortal Lord Hengwu and announced to the public that Immortal Lord Hengwu was not the son of Emperor of Heaven.
In order to cover up the family scandal, the Emperor of Heaven ordered the death of Lady Jiu Tian Xuan Nu and almost sent Immortal Heng Wu to reincarnation as an animal.
Yu Zhengzheng didn't understand. The Emperor of Heaven could be so cruel as to sentence Xuannu to death, so why was he acting so affectionate with her at this moment
The Emperor saw that she was silent, but there was a slight contempt in her eyes. Instead of being angry, he laughed and said, "Sometimes, what you hear and see is not necessarily the truth."
Yu Zhengzheng raised her eyes slightly and glanced at him: "Then how do we distinguish the facts?"
The Emperor was grinding tea cakes with a tea mill. When he heard her words, he slowly closed his eyes, picked up the broken tea with his fingertips and sniffed it twice: "Pay attention to it."
"Your eyes may deceive you, your ears may deceive you, but your heart will never deceive you."
Yu Zhengzheng seemed to understand, but she no longer looked down on him like before. She got straight to the point and asked, "You want to use me to threaten Rong Shang?"
The Emperor just smiled and said nothing. After a while, he slowly said, "I want to invite you to watch a play."
Although he said it with ease, Yu Zhengzheng knew that the show was not that good to watch. She was afraid that the price of the ticket price would be her life.
She was too lazy to ask any more questions, so he didn't say anything more. He just continued with what he was doing, carefully making tea for her as a courtesy to a guest.
When the Emperor of Heaven had finished boiling the tea, he placed the tea bowl in front of her and asked casually, "Do you think Xiao Yuqing will win this bet?"
Yu Zhengzheng took the tea bowl and sniffed the rich tea fragrance in the bowl. She lowered her eyes, looked at the tea dregs that had sunk into the bowl, and replied softly, "The winner should be the Emperor of Heaven."
The Emperor raised his eyebrows slightly, with a smile on his lips: "Oh? What do you mean?"
She took a sip of tea and whispered two words between her teeth: "Intuition."
"Good! What a good intuition!"
The Emperor of Heaven laughed crazily, and that laughter was shocking, like a devil's sound piercing one's ears, making one's heart tremble uncontrollably: "Since Miss Yu has placed great hopes on you, how dare I let you down?"
Yu Zhengzheng stopped talking. She looked at the darkening sky outside the window, but Rongshang's face vaguely appeared in front of her.
I haven't seen him for several days, and now I inexplicably miss him.
It really is a prophecy that has come true. After this farewell, I’m afraid we may meet again in the next life.
She did not regret leaving him silently that day, but she regretted not saying goodbye properly before parting.
Yu Zhengzheng sighed softly, but heard the Emperor of Heaven ask, "Do you miss him?"
She neither refuted nor admitted it, but the Emperor of Heaven already knew the answer.
He took out a porcelain bottle and poured the pills into the tea: "This is an antidote to relieve the poison. Drink this cup of tea and have a good sleep."
"In your dream, I will let you see the person you miss."
The Emperor's voice softened, and he looked at the orange-pink color rising in the sky outside the palace, as if he had inadvertently recalled something.
Yu Zhengzheng looked at his back and seemed to understand something. It turned out that the one who tampered with the dream was not Xiao Yuqing, but the Emperor of Heaven.
She did not hesitate, raised her hand and drank the bowl of tea, then leaned on the low table, and felt sleepy in a moment.
Even if there were other medicines mixed in the water, she would be willing if the Emperor of Heaven could alter her dream and let her see him again.
The Emperor of Heaven naturally disdained to lie to her, and after drinking the tea mixed with the antidote, she did not feel any pain all night and slept soundly and sweetly the whole night.
She had a dream. She dreamed that she slowly woke up in the middle of the night, and there was a figure in white clothes beside her.
Yu Zhengzheng was not afraid. She tried to call out, "Rong Shang?"
The man in white turned around and saw that she had woken up. He seemed to be stunned: "Steaming..."
In the moonlight, she saw the face she had been longing for.
Perhaps because she knew this was a dream, or perhaps because she understood that this might be the last time she saw him, she no longer cared about his previous deception and deception.
She just rushed towards him, hung her whole body on him, and hugged his neck tightly: "I missed you so much."
He was silent for a moment, holding her hips with his arms, and exhaled softly from his lips: "How much do you miss it?"
Yu Zhengzheng didn't think about it. She counted on her fingers and said, "A little more than you miss me."
Rong Shang gently stroked her soft black hair and laughed lightly: "Nonsense."
No one would miss her more than he did.
Even she is the same.
Yu Zhengzheng bit his ear and said, "I want to go to the roof to see the moon."
Rong Shang held her in his arms and slowly walked towards the window: "What's so good about the moon on the roof? Isn't it the same size as the moon here?"
She curled her lips: "You don't understand romance."
He chuckled and kissed her forehead: "If you like looking at the moon, I'll take you to Guanghan Palace to see it."
She asked curiously, "What kind of medicine is the Jade Rabbit in Guanghan Palace making?"
Rong Shang replied in a gentle voice: "□□ Pills are the medicine for immortality."
Yu Zhengzheng blinked: "So the Jade Rabbit is making □□?"
Rong Shang was stunned for a moment, his chest trembled slightly, as if he was trying to hold back a laugh: "It could also be that he is pounding garlic."
Yu Zhengzheng: “…”
She leaned her head on his chest and actually heard his heartbeat. This dream was so real.
With a satisfied smile on her face, she looked up at the crescent moon in the night sky. A gust of wind blew over and made her sneeze.
He gathered her clothes closer and hugged her tighter.
She nuzzled his chest and whispered, "Do you think Hou Yi would look at the moon in the sky when he missed Chang'e?"
Rong Shang raised his eyes, he seemed to look at the sky, his voice was slightly low: "I don't know."
"Why don't you know?"
"I am not Hou Yi."
"What if you are Hou Yi and I am Chang'e?"
"I'll come see you."
She was silent for a moment, and finally uttered two words from her lips: "Liar."
If he would come, she wouldn't have to dream to see him.
But she hoped that he would not come, even if they would never see each other again in this life, as long as he was safe and sound.
She blamed him for not coming, but also hoped he would not come. It was so contradictory, but she was happy for him.
Rong Shang gently stroked her back and murmured softly, "When this is over, will you be willing to reconcile with me?"
Yu Zhengzheng bit his neck and said, "What about the meals I cooked for you and the clothes I washed for you for seven years?"
His tone was serious, as if he was solemnly swearing: "I will repay you with the rest of my life."
"If it's not enough, I'll compensate you in my next life."
Her face turned slightly red, but she said stubbornly: "Who wants you in the next life."
With a smile on his face, he stroked her head gently and said, "It's getting late, go to bed."
Yu Zhengzheng's eyelids were sticky, and she kept mumbling, "I fell asleep a long time ago, otherwise where do you think you came from..."
He was slightly startled, wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, and the smile on his lips became more and more intense: "I came from your heart."
She looked at him dazedly: "How come your eyes are healed?"
Rong Shang carried her to the bedside, a glimmer flickering in his dark eyes: "Maybe you cured my eyes in my dream."
The corners of Yu Zhengzheng's mouth slightly raised, but her voice became smaller and smaller: "Then I am really amazing..."
Before she could finish her words, her eyelids slowly closed.
The moonlight, as gentle as silver silk, leaked all over the ground. The cold white soft light gently hit her head, casting a faint halo on her black hair.
Yu Zhengzheng stayed in this palace for two days. During the day, the Emperor would come to play chess and make tea with her, but he never mentioned anything about Rong Shang.
At dusk, the Emperor of Heaven threw her an antidote to relieve the poison so that she could have a good sleep at night.
Although she never dreamed of Rong Shang again, she was already content.
In the blink of an eye, it was the wedding day of Immortal Hengwu and Shanshui. The palace was bustling before dawn. Yu Zhengzheng listened to the noise outside and a thin layer of sticky sweat appeared on the palms of his hands.
The wedding ceremony is held at dusk, hence the name "hunli".
In other words, the wedding ceremony would be in the evening, and before that, she would be in a state of trepidation.
The Emperor gave her enough time to rest, and only opened the palace door at noon. He still spoke in red, which made Yu Zhengzheng couldn't help asking, "Is the red robe a family heirloom of the Celestial Clan?"
Immortal Lord Hengwu also loves red clothes, and so does the Emperor of Heaven.
The Emperor of Heaven smiled and said, "Xuan Nu likes this color."
Yu Zhengzheng bit her lips, her eyes full of confusion.
This was the second time that the Emperor of Heaven mentioned Xuannv in front of her.
She totally couldn't understand. Since the Emperor of Heaven cared so much about Xuannu, why did he sentence her to death just for the sake of face
For the Emperor of Heaven, is the reputation of the Celestial Clan more important than anything else
She didn't ask. After all, the person was gone and the scumbag would always find an excuse to exonerate himself.
The Emperor of Heaven summoned two fairies to help her dress up. She sat obediently in front of the bronze mirror and let the fairies draw her eyebrows and apply powder.
The Emperor of Heaven waited patiently by the side without urging him.
When Xuannv was dressing herself up, she hated his talkativeness. Perhaps all women in the world are like this and don't like men to urge or interrupt them while they are dressing themselves up.
After the fairy dressed Yu Zhengzheng up, the Emperor looked at the woman in white with bright eyes and white teeth in front of him and sighed softly: "The Ghost King is so lucky."
This sentence made her face blush.
What does her appearance have to do with her beauty
Although she thought so, she couldn't help but look up at the figure in the bronze mirror.
Her smooth and delicate skin was like a peeled tender egg, her eyes were soft and watery, and her cherry-red lips were faintly shiny. Just one look at her would make people blush and their heart beat faster.
Yu Zhengzheng's lips curled up slightly. She looked pretty and was no less beautiful than him.
The Emperor stopped teasing her and took her out.
As soon as she went out, Yu Zhengzheng saw several familiar faces.
Xiao Yuqing, Yu Jiangjiang, Mrs. Lu, and a middle-aged woman dressed elegantly.
As soon as Yu Zhengzheng saw Xiao Yuqing, she felt physically disgusted, but when she saw the hypocritical smile on Mrs. Lu's face, she realized that compared to Xiao Yuqing, this stepmother seemed even more disgusting.
She would never have thought that Madam Lu was actually the concubine of the Third Prince of Donghuang.
When Rong Shang massacred the East China Sea clan, the Third Prince died tragically in the Dragon Palace, but his most beloved concubine and youngest son disappeared.
Unexpectedly, this concubine finally ran to Penglai Mountain, not only picked up the job of a mistress skillfully, but also seduced her scumbag father to abandon his wife and daughter.
She was also pregnant with her scumbag father's child. After her scumbag father killed his wife to prove his truth, she legitimately took his place and became the new lady of the head of Penglai Mountain.
Yu Zhengzheng even wondered whether Mrs. Lu had instructed her mother to do this when her mother was dragged out of the delivery room and brutally murdered by her scumbag father after she gave birth.
After all, in ancient times, unless the wife was divorced or died, there was no way for the mistress to take the position.
I guess this time my scumbag dad fell off the cliff because of Madam Lu. This woman is not a good person.
The scumbag father deserves what he gets, and Mrs. Lu can never escape the cycle of cause and effect.
The Emperor of Heaven walked forward, intentionally or unintentionally blocking her view, and pointed at the middle-aged woman she didn't know and introduced her, "This is the Queen of Heaven."
He just said these four simple words and didn't seem to want to say anything more.
Yu Zhengzheng didn't say anything. The Queen Mother was the younger sister of the Third Prince of Donghuang. Even if we ignore her appearance, just looking at the relationship between the Queen Mother and Xiao Yuqing, she would find it difficult to even say a few polite words.
The Emperor of Heaven did not care whether she was polite or not. He smiled warmly and said, "This is Miss Yu, the distinguished guest at Hengsu's wedding."
Not sure if it was Yu Zhengzheng's illusion, but she felt that the Emperor of Heaven seemed to have deliberately emphasized the word "distinguished guest", as if to warn them not to attack her.
The Queen's face was not very good, but Xiao Yuqing responded: "Uncle is right, Miss Yu and Madam Demon are good friends, so they should be treated as honored guests."
The Emperor nodded: "It's getting late, it's time to set off for the cliff."
When Yu Zhengzheng heard that the wedding ceremony would take place on the cliff, she was not surprised at all. She had already known that Immortal Lord Hengwu would not get married indoors.
After all, there are barriers set up everywhere on Mount Penglai. If they hold the ceremony indoors, how can they survive the tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers and demonic troops lying in ambush nearby
The Emperor of Heaven ordered people to bring a sedan chair, and she was invited to get on it. Six people in front and behind lifted the sedan chair and walked steadily towards the cliff.
When they arrived at the cliff, most of the guests had already arrived. All of them were disciples of prestigious masters in the world of immortal cultivation, and among them were a few elders from the demon world.
Yu Zhengzheng was arranged to sit next to the Emperor of Heaven, which made her inexplicably feel that she was being protected by the Emperor of Heaven.
There were more than a dozen banquet tables on the cliff. Everyone was chatting and laughing, waiting for the groom to bring the bride to the hall for the wedding.
As the sky turned orange and the sounds of gongs and drums were getting closer, Yu Zhengzheng straightened his back and kept scanning the surroundings.
As long as Rong can't get up, all the traps set on Mount Penglai will be broken without a fight.
She prayed silently in her heart, her mind filled with five big words: Don't come.
The Emperor lowered his head and saw the sweat on her forehead. He couldn't help but laugh: "It's not your wedding, why are you so nervous?"
Yu Zhengzheng really wanted to say "nonsense" to him coldly. Why was she so nervous? Didn't he know what was going on
But after all, he was the Emperor of Heaven, so how could she dare to talk to him in such an attitude? She glanced forward and said casually, "I'm nervous for them."
The Emperor nodded slightly, his eyes falling on the pacing of Heng Wu Xianjun: "It's always like this when you get married for the first time."
When he said this, his voice was filled with a barely perceptible hint of nostalgia. Thinking back to when he and Xuannv got married, he was so nervous that he was at a loss for words. Later, Xuannv always loved to make fun of him for this.
I guess Heng Su really likes that girl, otherwise he wouldn't be so nervous.
But Hengsu always put interests and ambitions first.
He knew that Heng Su would soon regret it, just like he did in the beginning.
Yu Zhengzheng finally breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't see Rong Shang appear for a long time. She looked at Shanshui who was wearing a red veil, and she didn't know whether she should be happy or sad for Shanshui.
But no matter what she thought, the two of them had already held hands and walked to the square table.
There are two spirit tablets on the table of heaven and earth, one is the spirit tablet of the Queen Mother of the West, and the other is an unnamed spirit tablet.
The nameless spirit tablet was placed there at Shanshui's request. Immortal Lord Hengwu didn't know who it was, but since she mentioned it, he placed it there according to her wishes.
Apart from these two spirit tablets, there was nothing else on the table of heaven and earth. Immortal Lord Hengwu did not place the spirit tablet of the previous Demon Lord, nor did he let the Emperor of Heaven sit down.
Perhaps in the heart of Immortal Lord Hengwu, neither of these two people is worthy of being his father.
The witness was the great elder of the demon world. When the two walked to the heaven and earth table, he shouted: "The auspicious time has arrived."
"Bow to Heaven and Earth—"
Shanshui's movements were a little slow, but Immortal Hengwu had enough patience to wait for her to react before accompanying her to bow.
"Bow to your parents twice—"
The two of them bowed down towards the Table of Heaven and Earth together. Shanshui cooperated with him very well and did not deliberately embarrass him in front of everyone because he was reluctant.
"The couple bows to each other—"
This time, Shanshui hesitated for a moment, but did not bow again.
She heard a familiar suona sound. It turned out that on Guixu Mountain, every time the Ghost King traveled in his sedan chair, there would be suona leading the way.
Not only Shanshui heard the sound, but everyone present heard it.
Yu Zhengzheng's face was pale. She straightened her back and slowly turned around to look towards the source of the suona sound.
I saw a black sedan chair appearing not far away, and eight puppet boys with pale faces like zombies were carrying the sedan chair.
There were four puppets playing suona in front. The sound of the suona was like a devilish sound piercing the ears, making people's hair stand on end and goose bumps all over their bodies.
A young man in white was leaning against the sedan chair. His face was like jade, and his skin was cold and pale against his red lips. There was a nonchalant smile on the corners of his lips: "I heard that the Immortal Lord is getting married today, so I came here specially to give him a great gift."