True Phoenix and Virtual Phoenix

"Please take me to the Essence Palace..."

The baby cautiously walked behind Zhao Mu, lowered his head and murmured something in a low voice, but the flute continued to play, still lingering faintly. Zhao Mu closed his eyes, not even the slightest tremor in his eyelashes.

"Please take me to Jinghua Palace, I know you are very skilled in martial arts, you can definitely help me!" Gu Baobao raised his voice and reached out to grab Zhao Mu's cuff and said loudly.

The sound of the flute stopped abruptly, Zhao Mu was originally standing facing the wind, but now he turned around to face Gu Baobao, his delicate and beautiful facial features were the same as before, but his eyes were shining brightly, and there was something in them that the baby couldn't understand.

"Why should I help you?"

Zhao Mu's thin lips were lightly pursed, he bent down and put his face in front of the baby, and in an instant he pounced on the baby's face.

"If Xuan is a vulgar court lady, with no talent, no virtue, no power, no power, I don't know what the Crown Prince of Dongcheng can get from me, but what can I exchange with you?"

"it's actually really easy……"

Zhao Mu raised his eyelids and looked at the baby's shiny black eyes, with an evil smile on the corner of his mouth. The moment the two eyes met, the baby showed a questioning expression, struggling in his heart.

"Just do it, I promise you won't really hurt him. Actually, why are you so melancholy? The feeling that that person treats you like your own mother for five years is not as good as a few days' friendship?"

"You're sure you won't hurt him, but why do you want me to do this?"

"Trying, it's just a testing, it's not really hurting, Zhao promises not to let the baby fall into injustice..."

The agreement was reached, and that night, Liu Jin sat in the house for a whole night, until he lay on the table and fell asleep in a panic, but the baby did not come back.

According to the agreement, Zhao Mu took the baby to the Essence Palace in the dark of night. The Essence Palace is always lonely at night, and now there are no people and ghosts, and the darkness is hidden in the endless night. The light is brighter than the faint will-o'-the-wisp on the grave.

The baby found Madam Yan's bedroom familiarly, and pushed it open lightly, but the door ran in the opposite direction and made a sharp "squeak". Fortunately, someone died here, and no one thought it was too courageous. If you get closer, you will naturally not find that there are two more people who shouldn't appear in the Jinghua Palace.

Madam Yan's room was pitch black, with faint moonlight slanting in through the closed window, casting a layer of resentful phosphorescence on the windy and gloomy room, as if something Moving silently on the beam.

The baby looked up, but saw a white belt tied up in a ring, hanging there quietly without any wind, and he could see that the loose ring was tightened even more in a daze, as if the dead Nurse Yan was still alive. Hanging above his head, he lowered his hands and feet leisurely, unwilling to die, with his bulging eyes open, swinging around.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect in a room where people have died, but it always makes people feel that there is a smell of corpses floating in it, but the mother’s body has been moved out of the room long ago, and the baby stood silently in the boundless darkness for a long time, He silently turned around and closed the door with his backhand.

The door creaked again. When it came, it seemed like a welcome, when it went, it seemed like a farewell, and when it was greeted, it seemed like a thousand years had passed in the blink of an eye.

There has always been such a superstition in Nanzhao. It is said that if it is not a person who died of illness at the age of age, especially the deceased who committed suicide unjustly, the ghost will not leave with death, but will be broken into strands and float in her final death. If that piece of land is not recovered, then that piece of land will be haunted day by day in the future.

It is also said that humans and ghosts have different paths, and living people staying in this place where ghosts and ghosts are not clean for a long time will affect their health and shorten their life span.

So some wizards proposed that for such dead people, their corpses should be placed in the house for a day and a night, so that the resentment that flowed out can be absorbed gradually, so that the house can be as usual.

Nanny Yan died by hanging, the body must not have been carried away early, since it was not placed in the house, the body must be nearby.

The baby backed out of the door, and walked to the front hall with a pale face. There was a little fire in the place, and there was a faint figure kneeling on the ground.

Guessing that this is the place where the corpse is buried, the baby deliberately slowed down, poked his head forward, and saw an ordinary coffin standing in the center, and the person kneeling in front of the coffin to burn paper was a thin little man. Pants.

When the baby saw the little trousers, he rushed out without any time to think, and immediately embraced the bony back of the little trousers into his arms.

But as soon as he muttered 'little pants' in his mouth, a pair of eagle-claw-like palms grabbed his throat in the blink of an eye. The man turned around and smiled strangely, but the strength in his hands was even tighter.

Where is this person's pants? It's just an imagination of his figure, but because he was agitated for a while, he fell into the hands of others so easily.

"Li Si read with great interest! It's so late, why did you come to such a remote Jinghua Palace, did you get lost?"

"Who are you? Where are the pants?"

The baby was almost taken off the ground by his neck, frowning tightly and panting heavily, trying to break away the ugly and ugly hand, his eyes swept back frequently, for some reason Zhao Mu followed all the way but fell down now Come out and save yourself.

"Small trousers? Since they are called trousers, it is natural that the empress peeled off the skin and made a pair of trousers worthy of the name. It is a pity that your name is not Wan'er, otherwise your head will be hollowed out and your head will be made into a beautiful bowl of human head." It's also very good."

"You bastard, you, you killed the little pants!"

The top of the baby's head was smoking with rage, his eyes became red from the urgency, and he raised his foot to kick it, but the man strangled his neck and pulled him away, but he couldn't kick him because of his short feet.

Suddenly a crescent-shaped concealed weapon came straight to the face of the fake trousers, even before his instinct flashed, the iron concealed weapon broke through his brow bone.

The fake eunuch fell down in response, and let go of the baby's hand in an instant, only then did Zhao Mu come out from the shadow.

"He's the only one here."

"Then you were just waiting to see if he had any accomplices?"

The baby crawled back a few steps, clutching his neck, and looked at Zhao Mu resentfully. Zhao Mu didn't think it was wrong, and just smiled lightly: "I will definitely kill him before he kills you. Besides, this person doesn't have to To kill you, to catch the evidence that you deceived the emperor and resisted the order, will naturally make you die in public so that people have nothing to say, why bother to do it yourself."

The baby gasped twice, noncommittal, quickly got up and ran to the half-opened coffin, only took a look inside and almost vomited out.

The hanged person has protruding eyes, sticking out tongue, red complexion, and a strangle mark across the neck.

And Yanmao, it's just that face, and there's more than that!

The baby stared fiercely at the two mutilated pieces of flesh on Mammy's cheek, as well as the face that had been cut off, the white teeth were exposed, and the sewing thread on the eyelids was still scarier than a ghost. It was Shengsheng who smashed his upper and lower rows of teeth together.

"Mommy!"

Gu Baobao's eyes were red, but there were no tears dripping down. He just knelt down on the edge of the coffin, knocked his head ten times, and said in his heart, "I will avenge you", his body trembling like a tornado in the wind. Ye, fell to the side and passed out.

Zhao Mu walked forward unhurriedly, only looked up at the woman in the coffin, bowed and hugged the baby horizontally.

The 'dead' fake eunuch also got up from the ground at this time, Zhao Mu waved his hand, and he backed up, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

It was still night when the baby woke up, but the place was no longer Jinghua Palace, but back to Huayang Palace, the dormitory of Prince Dongcheng.

Gu Baobao made a swallowing movement with a grunt, but unfortunately his throat was dry, and there was a hint of fishy sweetness, so he could only frown bitterly.

"Hey, send me back! Liujin won't see me for so long, she will be worried."

The baby jumped up from the bed, and looked alive again. It was impossible to tell that this was a person who had just fainted because of his anger, and he could even see a slight smile on his face.

Zhao Mu looked at the baby up and down with probing eyes, hooked the corner of his mouth inexplicably, and poured the whole bowl of tea into his mouth. He was already sitting on the side of the bed in a flash, and the baby was forced by him before he recovered. I took a sip of tea.

Although the way of feeding water is not the baby's favorite, but the baby's mouth is so dry that it is still welcome, so he swallowed the tea in one gulp without any entanglement with him.

"You are really peculiar."

Zhao Mu licked his wet lips, then stared at Gu Baobao silently for a while, and finally came to a conclusion.

"You didn't send me back, you brought me here, do you want to do it now?"

The baby asked carelessly, Zhao Mu smiled narrowly, and Gu Baobao faintly sensed something was wrong when he laughed. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that his words just now had puns, and they were extremely impure. Embarrassed, his pale face instantly The little half is red.

"Ahem, what I mean is, what I promised you, do you want me to fulfill it tonight?"

"Yes, if you feel sorry for him and want to regret it now, that's fine. I'll make another condition, but no matter what, you have to agree to the second condition."

"Then, tell me about it, how can he say that he treats me wholeheartedly as a friend, I..."

"If you don't do the first thing, then when I leave Nanzhao, you can go back to Dongcheng with me!"

"Ah? Who wants to go with you, don't even think about it!"

The baby jumped out of the bed and flatly refused without even thinking about it.This is the palace, follow him, the destination is just another country's palace, the same is a cage wrapped in plain clothes, the difference is that there are no friends that I cherish, and there is no object of revenge.

"That means you decided to keep your promise!"

A trace of disappointment flashed in Zhao Mu's eyes, but he quickly suppressed the emotions that were revealed, and ignored the battle between the human and the gods in the baby's heart at the moment, he just gently hugged the baby and flew out of the window.

Li Zhao didn't help the baby today, and slept restlessly at night, tossing and turning for most of the night, knowing that he heard the melodious flute sound that can always be heard from a distance recently, and his eyelids became heavier. After a while, I fell asleep.

Zhao Mu stood on the rockery a hundred feet away from the little prince's bedroom, playing the song that the baby met him at noon, the tone seemed to be lowered a few times, the song originally sounded clear and ethereal At this moment, it is more like a kind of hypnosis, low and hoarse, long and soft.

For half an hour, the baby didn't know what Zhao Mu's playing the flute had to do with what he was told to do, so he sat on a stone beside him, leaning his head on a tree trunk and looking at him with his head tilted.

The night is deep and quiet, and there are a few smart sounds from time to time in the grass. The baby listens to the flute and looks around, always feeling that there are two eyes, floating back and forth among the dense forests full of dark shadows, staring at him.

"What are you afraid of?" The sound of the flute stopped, and Zhao Mu approached with a flute in his hand. Seeing the unconcealable panic on the baby's face, he said in a warm voice, "If you act honestly, gods and ghosts will not invade...If you act honestly, ghosts will not invade you." invade..."

The baby took a deep breath and said this sentence twice silently, and suddenly remembered the dream he had when he was sick before, everything in the dream seemed so real, those soft clouds, fiddled with them twice more You can even feel your hands are slippery.

And that person seemed to apply, but his expression was different when he woke up from the dream, and he couldn't tell whether that thing was a god or a ghost.This dream came from a strange place!

"Don't think about it anymore, let's go! It should be almost there."

Zhao Mu picked up the baby horizontally, stomped his feet on the ground, and flew again. On the way, he only landed on the treetop rockery three times, and then landed steadily on the side of Li Zhao's room.

Two guards with knives stood guard at the corner about ten steps away from the door. An eunuch curled up outside Li Zhao's room with Fuchen in his arms, and murmured in a daze. Lazy and fell asleep.

Zhao Mu let the baby stay behind the bushes, and he flew to a relatively hidden tree branch with light work, and shot the stones that he had prepared long ago in a direction far away from him. Immediately, someone was hiding in the bushes. The slightest sound.

It seems that the two guards are not just for nothing, and they also know that there is a trick in this world to turn the tiger away from the mountain. The two looked at each other, and asked one of them to follow the sound to look over, while the other looked at the door of the prince's room. More vigilant.

Zhao Mu smiled coldly, picked up another small stone in one hand, squinted slightly at the upturned buttocks of the guard who was sent to investigate, and threw it hard, hitting the man's plump buttocks squarely. The guard who was looking for someone suddenly covered his buttocks and screamed.