The little princess was torn, and the demon emperor patched her up

Chapter 123 She volunteered
Shang was drunk and said nothing, just looked at her and smiled.

Dark and colorful shadows extended outward from his wide sleeves and the hem of his robe, silently covering the armored guards in the Golden Palace amid Gu Zhenliang's distorted and shrill screams.

The black shadow seemed unsatisfied and continued to spread around along the feet of the guards.

The palace maids and eunuchs covered their mouths in fear.

Concubine Yun and the other beauties turned pale with fright, clung to the pillow, and cried out in disbelief.

The black shadow swallowed up the dining table, palace lanterns, pearl curtains and green screens, and then rushed towards the gold-inlaid, jade-inlaid, colored glaze and colorfully painted caisson and palace in the shocked gazes of the crowd.

Concubine Yun opened her mouth wide and pointed at the palace wall in disbelief: "Your Majesty! Look!"

The black shadow completely enveloped the palace, slowly surging as if it had life, like a ferocious beast chewing food.

After stagnating for a few moments, they suddenly receded happily like the tide.

The palace that originally stood here in all its splendor and golden glory disappeared inexplicably!

Those ferocious guards seemed to have had all their life sucked out of them, with sunken cheeks and sallow faces as they lay dead on the ground.

Xiao Baojing held his breath and concentrated.

It was the first time she saw the peddler eating so clearly!
She couldn't help but touch her small body.

Even if she is an orange tree demon, I am afraid she is not enough to fill the teeth of this dog peddler, right? !

How come he can eat so much!

The young man in the Taoist robe and flowery hairpin was still kneeling on the cushion with his hands in his pockets.

His narrow and slightly raised eyebrows were drooping, his messy long hair and dark green Taoist robe hung to the ground, his lips were extremely red, and his sickly pale, pointed fox face showed a hint of satisfaction after a big meal.

Xiao Baojing rubbed his head, remembering that he would feel sleepy every time after eating, so he quickly took his hand and said to Xiao Qian while Gu Zhenliang was still shocked: "Brother Xiao, let's go!"

Xiao Qian nodded, carried the unconscious Yue Niang on his back, and followed her away.

The four of them quickly retreated back to the bedroom where Yue Niang lived.

Xiao Baojing grabbed the corner of Shang Bingjiu's sleeve and said anxiously, "Peddler, please take a look at Yue Niang!"

Shang Bingjiu glanced at the woman on the bed.

Xiao Qian didn't care about the difference between men and women, and rolled up Yue Niang's sleeves: "When I carried her on my back, I felt a pain on my shoulders, but I didn't expect..."

The woman's bony arms were covered with heavy gold bracelets, which looked like shaky pieces of flesh strung together on overly thin bamboo sticks.

This scene was so strange no matter how you looked at it, as if it were some mysterious pagan ritual.

Shang Bingjiu said nonchalantly: "She volunteered."

Xiao Baojing couldn't understand: "Voluntary?"

"Husband and wife are one, as the saying goes, the wife pays the husband's debt. After she put on the phoenix robe that symbolizes Gu Zhenliang's wife, she is qualified to pay for the life span that Gu Zhenliang owed." Shang Bingjiu yawned and put his hands lazily in his pockets. "Gu Zhenliang used the palace and the gold bracelet to fulfill the big house and silver bracelet that he promised her, and they became the bridge for Yue Niang to pay for the life span on his behalf."

Xiao Baojing looked at the haggard and aging Yue Niang: "Then...if I change her phoenix robe and take off her gold bracelet, and then take her away from Gu Song, will she not have to pay for Gu Zhenliang's life span?"

Shang Bingjiu raised the corner of his lips and repeated, "She volunteered."

Xiao Baojing doesn't believe in evil.

She went forward to pull off the gold bracelets, but the bracelets were stuck to Yue Niang's arms so tightly that she couldn't pull them off at all.

She tried to untie the luxurious and graceful phoenix robe again, but found that someone had sewed the robe to Yue Niang's skin with needle and thread. Only because a large amount of hemostatic drugs were used did the blood stop flowing.

From the moment we are born, the people closest to us should be our parents, with whom we are related by blood.

However, because of marriage, one forms the most intimate relationship with a person of the opposite sex with whom he or she has no blood relationship.

In this relationship, people have to take responsibility for each other, take on responsibilities greater than those of the other party's parents, pay the debts owed by the other party, and sign documents that are closely related to the other party's life.

Xiao Baojing stood in front of the bed.

Yue Niang seemed to have merged with the phoenix robe and the gold bracelet. It turned out that the golden bird cage in the prophecy was the phoenix robe that symbolized Gu Zhenliang's wife.

She murmured, "But it's not worth it."

It's not worth it to pay for a man like Gu Zhenliang's life span.

He's clearly fallen in love with someone else.

He imposed the debt on his original wife and used her lifespan in exchange for happy times with his beautiful concubines.

This kind of man...

It’s not worth it!

"Whether it's worth it or not is up to you to decide." Xiao Qian whispered, "Even the most incorruptible official in the world cannot judge people's love, hate, right and wrong with absolute fairness. People's lives are full of complicated and tedious paths. Even if bystanders can see the true face of Mount Lu, they don't know whether the people in the mountains are suffering or happy. After all, there are always some people in the mountains who are happy even if they have taken a wrong path."

His eyes were solemn, as if he was talking about Yue Niang, or perhaps about himself.

Midnight.

Xiao Qian filled a basin of water in the main hall and pushed open the Ruyi flower window to let the moon be reflected on the water: "We should go back."

He turned and looked at Xiao Baojing.

Xiao Baojing was trying to carry Yue Niang on his back and take her away with him.

Xiao Qian said: "She is willing to do this, why are you so persistent?"

"What's the point of love or not," Xiao Baojing gritted his teeth, "How can life be more important? Yue Niang is only in her twenties, the best years of her youth, why should she waste it on a scumbag?! You all say that she volunteered, but I think she was just confused for a moment. I want to give her a hand, I want to take her away! In the past, in the Jile Temple, she knew that I was a puppet, but she still poured me hot water to drink. Just because of this love, even if she doesn't cherish her life, I will cherish her life for her!"

The two arms, covered with gold bracelets, hung heavily on the girl's shoulders and neck.

As if it weighed a thousand pounds.

But she still carried Yue Niang steadily on her back, her steps firm and brave.

Xiao Qian wanted to say something, but in the end he never said it, and only let out a sigh.

Shang Bingjiu had just woken up from a nap, and sat in a corner with his fox eyes squinting, praising: "The little princess is so kind to help her sisters!"

Xiao Baojing always felt that this guy was being sarcastic.

She ignored him and jumped into the basin with Yue Niang on her back.

It is still noon in Nan Tang.

The weather has not been very good these days. The lead-gray clouds are hanging very low, and the wind and rain are about to come. The weather is very cold, and the grass and trees in the Wendao Academy are covered with a layer of frost.

Xiao Yulou and Lu Xueying prepared a sumptuous lunch at the academy.

After Xiao Baojing settled Yue Niang down, he had a lively meal with everyone. Then, as he was very sleepy after not sleeping for two days, he went to bed first.

Lu Xueying went to see Xiao Qian alone.

A bronze bell with pomegranate pattern hangs under the eaves.

Xiao Qian stood in the corridor with his hands behind his back, looking at the pale and gloomy sky in the north.

Lu Xueying stared at his back: "Still failed to borrow troops?"

The north wind of winter wantonly blew up the young man's wide scarlet sleeves and robe, outlining his tall and straight figure as clear as jade.

He was silent, like a solemn yet sad stone.

Lu Xueying stepped forward and slowly hugged his waist from behind.

"My dear, our fourth sister is at the gates of the city. We don't have time."

　Thank you for the reward from Shanye Zangyishen!!
　　(End of this chapter)