According to Xiao Xuan's confession, things have become clear.

First of all, Xiao Xuan sent spies to Fenghuang Villa.

The two countries have been hostile for a long time. It is very common and normal for the North Xia to send spies to the South Xia, or the South Xia to send spies to the North Xia.

It is really easy to place spies in Phoenix Mountain Villa. Phoenix Mountain Villa takes in orphans from all over the world, regardless of where they come from. Those who are talented in cultivating immortals will learn martial arts, and those without talents will be arranged in the banks and shops below.Bei Xia only needs to arrange for an "orphan girl" who is talented in cultivating immortals, and the main village of Phoenix Villa will have their eyeliner.

However, Phoenix Villa has been standing for many years. Since we dare not ask where to take in orphan girls, we must have means to ensure the innocence of these orphan girls. I don’t know when, the eyeliner inserted by Xiao Xuan has become Phoenix Villa either actively or passively. A microphone for Bei Xia.

The news that Xiao Xuan got through his eyeliner was the news that Fenghuang Villa wanted him to know.

The queen knew that the royal family had a treasure that could kill the blood of the phoenix, and wanted to get it—perhaps out of safety considerations, after all, how could a person be at ease in someone else's hands if an artifact that could control her life was in the hands of others.

However, the emperor would not tell others the location of Yiri's arrow, unless he was about to die, he would tell his heirs.

And the heir got the position of the god's arrow, and he needed the blood of the Xiao family to open it.

It stands to reason that Xiao Lingyang should be responsible for opening the mechanism and taking out the magic arrow, and then the mantis in Phoenix Villa will catch the cicada and get the magic arrow.

But the question is, will Xiao Lingyang go to get the magic arrow?

Lin Shu thought, probably not.

Xiao Lingyang is a good boy in essence.

He was raised by the queen, and he still has affection for the queen—not to mention his affection for his sister.

Therefore, it is not feasible for Xiao Lingyang to get the magic arrow.

——Then what should we do?

Naturally, it was Beixia, who was also the blood of the Xiao family, and for Phoenix Villa, he wanted to get rid of it quickly.

——This is where the eyeliner told Xiao Xuan about the Yiri magic arrow, and there was also the thing about Xiao Xuan defrauding Yiri's magic arrow.Then the queen made a move and intercepted the divine arrow under Xiao Xuan's hands, so that the divine arrow was in the hands of Phoenix Villa.

This matter itself is not a problem.

But it gave a signal.

The royal family and Phoenix Villa have always been at odds with each other.

The royal family is on guard against the Phoenix Villa, and the Phoenix Villa is also on guard against the royal family.

Even, the death of the old emperor was ultimately fueled by the empress.

Combined with Lin Shu's previous understanding of Phoenix Villa...

The phoenix is ​​an innate divine beast that carries the way of heaven and threatens the status of the emperor, so the emperor does not want to see the awakening of the phoenix's blood.

However, the peerless cauldron of the Fenghuang family was something that the emperor could not give up.

——So there is the current situation.

Lin Shu thought for a while, and said to Ling Fengxiao: "The empress is for you to ascend the throne in the future and eliminate hidden dangers?"

Ling Fengxiao: "But why didn't she mention a word to me?"

Lin Shu didn't know.

Ling Fengxiao hugged his waist and flew him to a tall flower tree.

The two sat on a branch.

The flowers and trees are sparse, and there is a faint faint fragrance.

Ling Fengxiao didn't know what she was thinking, and changed back to Xiao Shao's state.

In recent days, the time it took for him to become Xiao Shao has increased linearly. Lin Shu thinks that Xiao Shao may be taller than Ling Fengxiao, so it is easier to hug Lin Shu.

——As for whether it's a man or a woman, this person doesn't care much at all. Just a few days ago, the eldest lady and Guo Guoshen stayed in the same room for a long time in secret. The lip gloss, it is said that the vermilion lip gloss is mixed with fine gold powder, which has the luster of sunset.

Lin Shu looked and looked at it with his aesthetic sense, but he didn't see any "sunset glow", only felt that it was a little more shiny.

After slandering "The Gloss of the Evening Glow", Lin Shu was hugged by Xiao Shao from behind, thinking about what happened recently.

Maybe the queen really loves Ling Fengxiao.

She wanted Ling Fengxiao to live in peace and stability.

Lin Shu herself actually hoped that Xiao Shao could live forever.

However, he thought, some things... It is better for Xiao Shao to decide by himself.

However, I can't provoke the relationship between the queen and him.

After thinking about it again, he said, "Three years ago, the great witch told me something."

Xiao Shao: "Huh?"

"The eight secret books gathered together can affect the way of heaven and have supreme luck."

"I guess it's the same." Xiao Shao said, "People in the fairy world want to destroy the eight cheat books so that they can't be gathered together, so that someone in the world will not have too much power."

"Yeah." Lin Shu said, "But there is another way. If a person becomes the emperor and the whole world belongs to him, he will... also have very strong luck."

Xiao Shao stared at him, as if he had smelled some unusual smell, and asked him warmly: "And then?"

"Then, you have the Phoenix blood in your body, when the Phoenix blood is fully awakened..."

Xiao Shao: "Am I similar to an ancient phoenix?"

Lin Shu nodded.

Xiao Shao seemed to smile, but I don't know what it meant, but it was not a happy smile.

"However, the growth of a phoenix needs the nourishment of luck, but you are human, without that kind of luck, the phoenix blood has been awakened, but if you don't get the luck, it will dry up and dissipate."

"Hmm..." Xiao Shao said: "Then I will collect all eight cheat books, or become the emperor."

Lin Shu: "Yes."

Xiao Shao didn't speak, but hugged Lin Shu tighter and tighter.

Then whispered in his ear: "Baby..."

The voice seems to be soaked in peach blossom wine, it is obviously very light, but it has a long aftertaste because it is deliberately lowered.

Every time Xiao Shao spoke to him in this voice, Lin Shu would tremble slightly, having the illusion of being immersed in wine and about to drown.

Only Xiao Shao continued: "...you have been cheated."

Lin Shu: "???"

He turned his head and looked at Xiao Shao.

Xiao Shao hugged him into his arms, and Lin Shu could feel the slight vibration of his chest when he spoke.

"I guess, collecting all eight secret books is the excuse of the great witch, and it was the queen mother who told you that I should be the emperor."

Fine.

I don't know where there is a flaw.

This phoenix is ​​too thoughtful to be fooled.

"The queen mother doesn't know my cultivation level. In her heart, I am still in the early stage of the tribulation, and I can still control it. And the master of the Jiange Pavilion is the pinnacle of the tribulation. As long as he wants, he can roam the world and do whatever he wants." Xiao Xiao Shao said lightly: "If I don't want to be the emperor, the pavilion master will take me far away from the world and fly far away. No one can stop me... Therefore, when the queen mother knows that you exist in the world, she will hold you steady. It just so happens that I have Phoenix blood... I will tell you that if I don't become the emperor, I will die."

Lin Shu: "?"

He was also cheated?

Doesn't he have the same IQ as Xiao Xuan and Xiao Lingyang?

This is impossible.

He does not believe.

He then said, "What if you are really going to die?"

Xiao Shaosha was preoccupied: "Well...it's also possible."

Lin Shu: "Then don't you still want to be the emperor?"

"If you don't become a human emperor, you will die. Even if you become a human emperor, you have to be a human emperor every day of your life... I don't really want to do it."

Lin Shu thought, what do you mean, you still want to die.

Xiao Shao continued: "If it is said that the blood of the Phoenix will gradually awaken, but after you and I practiced together, the blood of the Phoenix has already subsided. I have been with the blood of the Phoenix for more than [-] years, and I know that it is just too blazing Lihuo Qi, Burning the meridians, usually in martial arts and with knives will show it, and it is blazing from the fire, showing extraordinary talent."

Speaking of this, Xiao Shao smiled, and said: "They all said that I was born with extraordinary talents, so I had a strong cultivation base since I was a child... In fact, I think, in this matter, blood is just icing on the cake, it is about heart and nature, even if it is given to me Even with a mortal body, I will not lose sight of everyone."

This little phoenix is ​​inflated.

The feathers all over the body are fluffy.

Lin Shu patted the back of his hand, stroked along the fluffy hair, and agreed: "That's right."

Xiao Shao continued: "Perhaps there is something wrong with the Phoenix blood in my body, but now I take the resentment of heaven and earth as the source, how can I die. Even if there is something that can kill me, it is only the way of heaven."

Lin Shu: "But..."

What if?

In the past, when he was in the academy, the eldest lady often wanted to be with him.

The rhetoric is, in case you fall, in case you are bullied, in case you encounter a monster, and so on.

He was puzzled at that time, how could there be so many contingencies in the world.

But now I feel that the word "in case" is really scary.

"Although it is possible, there is something strange." Xiao Shao said, "I'm afraid that what the Queen Mother and the Great Witch told you are half-truths and half-false."

Lin Shu: "Then what is true and what is false?"

Xiao Shao: "What is false, I don't know, but two things are true."

Lin Shu: "Huh?"

Xiao Shao: "The great witch wants to collect all eight cheat books, and the queen mother wants me to become a human emperor. These two things are true, and if these two things come true, something extraordinary must happen."

Lin Shu: "What are you going to do?"

"See the trick." Xiao Shao wrapped his hands around his waist: "But..."

Lin Shu can't hear the word "but" now.

But Xiao Shao continued.

"The queen mother has always been a very gentle person." He said in a slow voice, "but there is nothing she...wants to do that cannot be realized."

"When I was young, my mother would punish me if I didn't cultivate well, but my mother would not."

"The queen mother took me into her arms and cried." Xiao Shao's voice was a little rough: "but her tears... are something that scares me more than punishment."

Lin Shu didn't know what he wanted to express in his words.

All I know is that the queen's image is so gentle and beautiful. When she is in full bloom, she can fascinate a strange man for half a lifetime with just a smile.

Then one drop of her tear may break the heart.

"I never had a mother," he said.

Xiao Shao asked him to face himself, and put his forehead against his forehead: "In this world, there are only two people who can hurt me."

Lin Shu understood what he wanted to say.

He stretched out his hand to caress Xiao Shao's cheek, Xiao Shao bent down and lightly tasted his lips.

Falling flowers rustled, staining his body, Xiao Shao hugged his waist, kissed him a little deeper, after a while, he let go, hugged him down, and fell back to the ground.

As soon as he landed, he changed back to Ling Fengxiao's appearance.

Ling Fengxiao said: "I'm going to see the queen mother."

Lin Shu nodded and asked, "Can you do it yourself?"

Ling Fengxiao said: "I have a measure."

Lin Shu: "OK."

Ling Fengxiao hugged him and kissed the side of his neck.

Lin Shu thought that His Royal Highness Fengyang's body was painted with the legendary "sunset glow" lip balm today, and there must have been a "sunset glow" lip print on his neck.

His Highness let him go and walked into the Queen's Palace. The back of the red robe was covered by many flowers and trees in the palace.

Lin Shu looked at his back and touched the lip marks on his neck with his fingers. There seemed to be some changes in his heart, but he couldn't figure it out.

When Ling Fengxiao's back disappeared, he also turned around and headed towards Wutong Garden.

On the way, I heard a voice in the distance: "Pavilion master stay here."

Lin Shu stopped and saw Xie Zishe turn out from the palace wall on one side and walk towards him.

It was hard for her to recognize him from such a distance.

Xie Zishe came closer and said with a smile: "I saw your figure from afar, I thought that only the master of the pavilion in this palace has such a fairy instrument like snow and jade, I really didn't admit my mistake."

Lin Shu thought that she was still dressed in the usual way, so she took Xie Zishe's courtesy and said, "Senior sister is ridiculous."

Xie Zishe said: "I called you today, but I have business to do."

Lin Shu: "Please tell me."

Xie Zishe: "His Royal Highness Fengyang's orders, I have to give His Royal Highness a time class every night to teach him how to govern the country and keep the people safe. For the past three years, it has been like this every day. Today, when the teacher returns to the court, thinking that His Highness must be I missed a lot of homework, so I left early, but His Highness was nowhere to be seen in Luofeng Palace, and I asked the palace servants, all of them flashing their words, whether this matter has something to do with the Eldest Miss?"

Lin Shu thought about his words: "His Royal Highness...is thinking about past mistakes."

Xie Zishe raised his eyebrows: "Could it be that he is already under house arrest?"

After finishing speaking, he sighed: "Forget it, I guessed it a long time ago. Now the government and the opposition are talking about it, saying that Fenghuang Villa wants to change the world - I feel that the eldest lady has no such intentions, but I also feel that this matter is wrong." It's a bad thing."

She continued: "No matter what, I'm always on the side of the eldest lady. But His Royal Highness... is considered smart, but I feel a little sorry."

Lin Shu heard the unusual meaning in her words, and asked, "How do you say it?"

"His Royal Highness is not bad in talent, but he didn't have a good foundation when he was young. When he was first enlightened, he learned such difficult and obscure classics as "Six Strategies". In the past ten years, I have not learned the real skills, and because of this, I am extremely disgusted with reading. Even if His Majesty later invited the Great Master to teach him "Emperor Policy", it will be difficult to make up for it." She smiled: "However, it is said that His Royal Highness It has been raised by the queen's hand, so I can't comment on it."

Lin Shu: "Senior Sister, speak carefully."

"It's natural to be cautious in front of others, but in front of the pavilion master, you can talk about it." Xie Zishe looked at his neck meaningfully and smiled.

Lin Shu naturally knew that there was something in Xie Zishe's words, and he sent the news through him. Perhaps, even Xie Zishe could see the clue of the empress's heart, so he came to inform him.

After all, in the school back then, there were rumors that Xie Zishe, the elder sister of Confucianism and Taoism, didn't like men, but admired Yun Yun for the eldest lady...

It is said that the eldest sister admires the eldest lady, but Xie Zishe has nothing special to Ling Fengxiao, but likes to verbally tease Lin Shu, so Lin Shu feels that her attitude has always been a mystery.

After talking about the business, Xie Zishe didn't leave, but looked at him: "Speaking of which, I'm confused."

Lin Shu: "Please tell me."

"I heard that Jiange's kung fu is a ruthless kung fu that doesn't enter the world, but I don't know why the pavilion master has entered the world again." Xie Zishe said.

Lin Shudao: "The way of being sentient or ruthless...I still can't understand it. Go out of the world and enter the world, just follow your heart."

Xie Zishe pursed his lips and smiled: "Then Zishe wished the Pavilion Master and Missy a happy old age together."

Lin Shu: "Thank you."

After seeing Xie Zishe off, Lin Shu stood there for a while.

Xie Zishe was right.

His answer is also true.

To him, the world of mortals has always been like a maze, which cannot be crossed.

After the recovery of cultivation base, all shapes and colors in the world are as plain as water, and the faces of the world have become the same, but the little phoenix has always been very good-looking.

He didn't quite understand.

I don't quite understand why the first seven moves of "Long Lovesickness" are all such lonely and cold moves, but the eighth move "Life's Heart" has become a sword move that hurts oneself to protect the people behind.

I don't quite understand why when Xiao Shao bent down to touch his lips just now, the world was silent, but he could only hear his own heartbeat.

The night wind was blowing, and he looked at the shadows of lights in Wutong Garden, feeling a little lost.

I said I didn't quite understand it, but I actually understood it a little bit.

It is said in ancient books that the one who forgets love at the top, and the one who forgets love at the bottom.But his ruthless way, now happens to be in the empty silence, showing what is sentient being.

The author has something to say:

Taishang Wangqing is quoted from "Shishuoxinyu · Grief for the Dead", with some changes, the original sentence "The sage forgets his love, the bottom is not as good as his love, the love of love is in my generation."

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