[Lu Hua] Beauty Fragrance

The sound of swords and soldiers in the imperial city shook for two full days. Every household in the capital shut their doors and did not leave. In the bleak cold wind, someone whose yellow leather lantern fell to the ground, was blown and rolled by the wind, and was dyed. It was bright red, and was taken away by wild dogs in a short while.

On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the world finally became peaceful, and snow began to fall in the capital.

The goose feather-like spring snow is rustling on the ground, and a naughty child is looking out from the small window in the attic.

"Daddy, many uncles are sleeping outside in the snow, aren't they cold?"

The adults had no choice but to cover the children's eyes and sighed.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Shangyuan Festival, the ban on the city was finally lifted, and the people opened the door. Here is still a poetic and picturesque capital with carved railings and jade.

Wei Ziyun stood in the center of the Circular Mound Altar, and the snow fell on his shoulders and head. He was already in his twilight years, and his temples were already full of hair, dyed with white snow, which made him look more heroic.

Under the altar, the Imperial Forest Army moved in an orderly manner.The snow in the square has been cleared away, and every half an hour there will be people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to sweep away the newly accumulated snow.

Tu Fang walked up to Wei Ziyun and asked in a low voice, "How are their injuries?"

Wei Ziyun still stared at the Imperial Forest Army in the arena and said indifferently: "I still can't die, the four masters in Ouchi have all been beheaded, this Xuegu Youren is indeed not a thing in the pool"

Tu Fang: "Where's the one from Six Doors?"

Wei Ziyun: "Jiang Tongwu was stabbed by Xuegu in order to save the sage, and the imperial doctor is guarding him in confusion."

Tu Fang touched his lips, and murmured: "King Taiping made such a big commotion, no wonder the emperor wants to sacrifice to heaven"

Hearing this, Wei Ziyun looked at the sky where the snow was still flying, sighed, and murmured: "I hope God can bless you tonight to be safe and sound."

Maybe it was because the spring snow was falling too fast, and the city was dripping with ice. This year's Lantern Festival was extremely cold. There were no lanterns on the street, and only a few people set off some fireworks, which were reflected in the snow curtain, and sparks were like rain.

In the center of the Circular Mound Altar, a dancer in a white dress is dancing an ancient dance, sometimes piously crawling towards the earth, and sometimes leaping eagerly to the sky.On the side of the altar, a luthier also dressed in white was playing the piano, and the ethereal sound of the piano was like gurgling water, stirring the hearts of everyone in the field.

The sky and the earth were extremely cold, and the lips of the dancer and the luthier were a little purple, but they still carried out the sacrifice without any hesitation.

The young emperor wore a bright yellow dragon robe and stood under the altar. He removed the canopy and stood upright in the snow.Beside him was a young imperial concubine, her pretty face was pale from the cold, but she still stubbornly stood against the wind.

After dancing to a song, the emperor slowly climbed up the stairs, the air was lingering with a cool fragrance, and the piano sounded again.

In front of the Imperial Vault of Heaven Palace, three silent whips sounded, and the deep and distant voice echoed.

"Sacrifice to Heaven"

It's just that the sound stopped abruptly, and there was a sound of falling to the ground. The dancer who had already retreated from the altar suddenly flew up, with a dagger in her hand, and went straight to the emperor.

All the imperial guards in the field fell to the ground, and the young emperor was also slumped on the ground at this time. There was only a delicate imperial concubine beside him at this time. When the shining blade flew towards his eyes, he almost instinctively I closed my eyes.

However, the emperor didn't wait for the cold blade to break his face. When he opened his eyes again, his usually delicate concubine grabbed the hand of the dancer holding the dagger, and smiled with big white teeth.

"Your Majesty, please don't punish me for pretending to be your favorite concubine."

It turned out to be Sikong Zhaixing!

Sikong Zhaixing pressed down, and grabbed it forward with his left hand, the dancer hurriedly backed away, but Sikong Zhaixing still ripped off the human|leather mask on her face.

Su Jianjian said with a ferocious face: "You are not poisoned!"

At this time, Sikong Zhaixing was still facing the beautiful face of the imperial concubine, twisting his orchid fingers and pinching the human|leather mask he had just torn off with some distaste, and then he threw it away and shot She clapped her hands and replied, "Wangwenwenche has eaten too many cakes, and now it seems to be invulnerable to all poisons."

Su Jianjian naturally couldn't understand what Sikong Zhaixing was saying, so she didn't struggle, she clenched her short knife and stabbed fiercely, Sikong Zhaixing pulled out the golden hairpin on her head and stepped forward to block them.

Sikong Zhaixing: "Miss Lu, today I am not Sikong Zhaixing, but the emperor's concubine. I can beat women too. Do you have to fight me?"

How could Su Jianjian listen to it? After some fighting, the two actually fought from above the altar to below the altar.

Almost as soon as the two of them fell under the altar, all the lights in the arena were extinguished, and it was pitch black. There was only one light in the arena, emitting a faint blue light.

The emperor looked at the faint light on his robe and was shocked, but he was still sitting on the ground and could not move. In fact, he was using his last bit of strength to hold himself up.

In the darkness, he felt someone flying in front of him, and then he heard the sound of the piano, the strings were twisted lightly, and a strong wind suddenly stopped at the back of his head, and then there was another sound of the piano, and there was a wind on the left side. stop.

So back and forth more than a dozen rounds.

After the last sound of the zither, the flames on the altar shot up into the sky, and the raging fire was as high as three feet. Only the center of the altar, which was about a foot square, had no fire, and the emperor was sitting in the middle.

In the middle of the flames, the emperor finally saw everything in front of him clearly.The luthier in white was holding the qin half-kneeling in front of him, and standing in front of the luthier was Tu Fang, the deputy commander of the imperial army, who was holding a pitch-black steel knife with two fingers. The warrior sword, and the person holding the steel sword is none other than Jiang Tongwu, the chief arrester of the six sects who shielded him from the sword the day before yesterday!

Jiang Tongwu: "Lu Xiaofeng, it's you!"

"Tu Fang" laughed lightly, still holding the steel knife tightly with one hand, and tore off the human | leather mask on his face with the other hand, and the luthier in white behind him also took off the mask at this time.

Jiang Tongwu: "The building is full of flowers? You're not dead!"

Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said: "Of course Hua Manlou is not dead, without his ability to hear and argue, how could I stop you?"

Jiang Tongwu laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Lu Xiaofeng, you have doubted me for a long time, otherwise why would you want to do such a big game and hide it from the world, just to make me believe that you and Hua Manlou will not come to disrupt the situation?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "No matter how big my situation is, it's not as big as yours. Assassinate the emperor, plot rebellion, you are really a good son of your Jiang family!"

Jiang Tongwu's hand holding the knife had already withdrawn his strength, Lu Xiaofeng also let go, Jiang Tongwu put the knife into its sheath, retreated to the fire, and looked at the three people opposite him with a cold face.

Jiang Tongwu: "Lu Xiaofeng, I advise you and Hua Manlou to go out now, I know that with your two abilities, empty-handed, no matter how high the sulfur fire burns these nine days, it will not be able to stop you."

Lu Xiaofeng: "Of course we will go out, and we will take the emperor with us."

Jiang Tongwu: "You may not do this"

Lu Xiaofeng: "Oh?"

Jiang Tongwu: "You should have heard that Jiang Tongwu's escort was meritorious, but he was seriously injured. Now he should be surrounded by a group of imperial doctors. Since I am here, the one who was hacked is naturally not me."

Lu Xiaofeng: "So you want to say that the Jiang Tongwu who encircled and suppressed the rebels is not you, but a puppet replaced you so that you can do some unknown things."

Jiang Tongwu: "Lu Xiaofeng, you have always been so smart. The idiot in Liuzhujian couldn't stand Su Jianjian's persuasion, so he volunteered to pretend to be me. He acted well, and all the people Wei Ziyun sent to watch over me I didn't find out, I have traveled almost all over the capital in the past three days, guess what I have been busy with?"

Lu Xiaofeng folded his hands on his chest with a cold face and said nothing, Huamanlou had already put down the piano, and supported the emperor to sit cross-legged, only to hear Jiang Tongwu continue: "I planted a total of ten thousand thunderbolts in this capital city. Thunderbolt!"

The faces of the three of them changed drastically upon hearing the words.

Lu Xiaofeng: "You're going to blow up the entire capital!"

Jiang Tongwu sneered and said, "It's not impossible to choose whether to blow up the entire capital or kill the emperor alone."

Lu Xiaofeng: "What do you mean?"

Jiang Tongwu pointed into the fire with a smile and said, "East City, South City, West City, North City, Forbidden City, five fire beads"

Lu Xiaofeng looked in the direction Jiang Tongwu pointed, and sure enough, he saw a fist-sized bead emitting red light lying quietly in the fire field beside the stone fence. Lu Xiaofeng looked around slowly along the stone fence, and unexpectedly There are four identical beads.

Jiang Tongwu: "The fire bead protects the fuse|fuse and absorbs the fire energy. Once the surrounding flames are extinguished and the fire energy sinks in, the fire bead will ignite the fuse|fuse. A fire bead will blow up a whole city. Therefore, someone needs to take the fire bead within a moment after the flame is extinguished, and disconnect the fuse|fuse"

Lu Xiaofeng had already walked a few steps towards the fire site, Jiang Tongwu continued: "The Nine Heavens Sulphur Fire is not an ordinary flame, water can't stop pouring it, unless you scrape away the Nine Heavens Sulfur on the ground or wait for it to burn itself, if you want to take it out by force The fire bead, I am afraid that before I get the fire bead, I will be burned to ashes."

Lu Xiaofeng was furious, and turned around to hit Jiang Tongwu, but was stopped by Hua Manlou.

Hua Manlou: "It won't help if you beat him up now"

Jiang Tongwu said with a smile: "Hua Manlou is right, the fire will go out one by one, the emperor has enough time to pick up the fire beads one by one, but when the last fire bead is picked up, the entire Circular Mound The fire on the altar has been completely extinguished, there is still a fire bead buried under the altar, you have no time to dig it out, the gunpowder buried under the altar will blow up the entire Circular Mound Altar to the sky, even if it is you Lu Xiaofeng , and cannot escape.”

Lu Xiaofeng sneered: "I can kill you, and then take the emperor out with Hua Manlou, the two of us can still do it."

Jiang Tongwu also smiled: "You can kill me, take the emperor away, and let others come in to die for him. This is indeed a good way, but even if you two join hands and want to kill me before the fire beads spontaneously ignite , should also be impossible. I know that the Ouchi guards in the palace were either killed or injured in the previous siege, and those who were active had already been poisoned by Mixiang just now. Blocked outside the city by the emperor's personal order, no one can come in to help you, and no one has the ability to jump in and die for the emperor!"

Lu Xiaofeng clenched his fists tightly when he heard this, Jiang Tongwu said with a smile: "So, the best way is for you two to go out empty-handed, as far away from this altar as possible, and I will accompany your emperor here last minute"

The emperor who had been silent all this time finally opened his mouth, his expression was still calm, if he hadn't been sitting cross-legged on the ground at this moment, surrounded by flames, he really thought he was still in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

The emperor asked coldly, "Why did you do this?"

Jiang Tongwu said in a deep voice: "Because you are not worthy to be an emperor"

Emperor: "I ascended the throne at the age of ten, received orders from heaven, and obeyed the edicts of the first emperor. I have been in power for twenty years. I have worked hard to govern. I dare not compare myself to the emperor, the great sage, the god, benevolence, righteousness, and martial arts, but I also ask myself that I am worthy of heaven and earth. People, why am I not worthy!"

Jiang Tongwu: "Be worthy of the common people? How can you sons of the heavenly family be ashamed of the common people? The common people are nothing but ants, let you trample on them."

Emperor: "What do you mean?"

Jiang Tongwu: "The royal family knew that King Taiping colluded with Japanese pirates for their own selfish desires, invaded the East China Sea, and devastated the people. But at that time, the late emperor was dying and lingering on the sick bed. King Taiping helped you secretly. After you ascended the throne, you will no longer pursue it, huh, It's ridiculous, the one that countless soldiers threw their heads to defend, turned out to be the biggest culprit!"

Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou were all frowning when they heard the words, and the emperor said with a deep expression: "I was young at the time and couldn't make my own choice. King Taiping was scheming and snobbish, and I was already pulling out his minions one by one, otherwise he would I will not put all my eggs in one basket and go to Beijing in person, so today I am here to worship the heavens and comfort the innocent souls of 20 years ago!"

Jiang Tongwu sneered and said: "Oh, it's too late, your royal family is intriguing, what have you got to do with me! What have you got to do with the people of the world! What have you got to do with those undead who died innocently on the battlefield!"

Hua Manlou sighed: "But if the emperor dies today, the world will inevitably be in chaos again! At that time, it will not only be the life and death of the East China Sea."

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