General Zhiyi

Child hour was approaching, Tang Jingxu brought Yin Liansheng and Ying Li to follow Ying Xuan to the Showa Palace of the Empress Dowager Xuan. Unexpectedly, at this time, the palace was still brightly lit, under the eaves, beside the grass, Even the walls of the pond are covered with countless lanterns, and the faint light of fire illuminates every corner of the palace.

What is even more unbelievable is that in the Showa Palace, there is a guard with a knife every few steps, and there are yellow symbols on the handle of the knife. On the left side of the palace, there are ten monks sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed. , but on the right side stood ten Taoist priests who were acting in formation, each of them had a look of calm panic on their faces, and they were startled when they heard the slightest disturbance, and they had no intention of the matter in front of them at all.

This scene looked too weird, but it also confirmed what Tang Jingxu thought in his heart. The Empress Dowager Xuan must have been stained with something unclean, and she couldn't get rid of it after such a big battle. It can be seen that the thing is definitely not simple.

After the palace lady came in to report, a tired female official in red came out quickly. Seeing Ying Li, she was taken aback for a moment, but quickly concealed her surprise, and saluted Ying Xuan: "Your Majesty, Ye It's getting late, the empress tells you to go back quickly, rest early, and you have to go to court tomorrow."

From the moment he stepped into the gate of Zhaohe Palace, Ying Xuan's face was not in a good mood. He frowned and waved his hand: "Hongxiu, go and tell her that Ah Li is back."

Hearing this, Hong Xiu quickly glanced at Ying Li, leaned over and said, "Yes."

Not long after, Hongxiu came back and said to Yingxuan: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty said that you can just go in from His Highness, please go back and rest."

"Go away!" Ying Xuan roared, and everyone in the palace immediately knelt on the ground. He snorted coldly, pushed away the red sleeves in front of him, and strode forward.

At the same time, the midnight bell rang, and a faint fragrance of bluegrass drifted into Tang Jingxu's nose with the thick bell. In the palace, all the palace people looked frightened and wandering, looking at each of them wishing to rush out of the door, but because the guards were holding long knives, they could only shrink back and tremble in the corner.

"Liansheng, have you smelled it?" Suddenly the wind picked up, and the fragrance seemed to be blown away, Tang Jingxu could smell the damp smell instead.

Yin Liansheng nodded slightly, turned his eyes towards the pond, lowered his voice, and said, "Well, it seems like moss is mixed with...the smell of rotting corpses."

Tang Jingxu glanced at the pond calmly, raised his heels to follow Ying Xuan's steps, and said softly: "The empress dowager lives in the Zhaohe Palace. The whole palace is full of yin and yang, and the pond is in the south, and the sun is behind it. Ji, but in order not to clash with the dragon energy on the east side, it was built in the southwest, where the cloudy energy is stronger, and this ghost will hide.”

Before the words were finished, Ying Li, who had come to the front at some time, suddenly trembled, stopped and looked back at the pond, Tang Jingxu suddenly smelled the fragrance of orchid grass from before, and when he was wondering, Yin Liansheng said: "The pond It's running water, it's gone."

"I'm afraid I won't show up tonight." Tang Jingxu frowned and looked at Yingli who was still standing there, his voice was still very low, only Yin Liansheng, who was beside him with his head slightly lowered, could hear, "This huge The imperial palace, it just happened to be eyeing the Empress Dowager Xuan, and it could accurately touch the pond of the Zhaohe Palace in the water extending in all directions, which is enough to show that it was a palace man, and it couldn't drive away so many people, the hatred and resentment must be extremely deep , will definitely come again. Right now, we..."

Because of the close distance between the two, Tang Jingxu's warm breath hit Yin Liansheng's side face when he spoke, half of his body stiffened for a moment, and he struggled to move back half a finger distance, but he refused to move away. Tang Jingxu's words seemed to be ethereal echoes, hitting his heart one after another.Yin Liansheng could clearly hear and hear clearly, but Yin Liansheng's mind was blank, but he turned his face slightly unconsciously, only the light-colored thin lips were left in his eyes, and he couldn't help approaching...

"General Tang."

Ying Xuan suddenly made a sound, the sound was like a heavy punch, hitting Yin Liansheng hard on the head, his eyes darkened, his eyes became clearer, and before he had time to step back, Tang Jingxu had already come from Ying Li withdrew his gaze from the body, and then noticed that Yin Liansheng had gotten so close at some point, caught his eyes unexpectedly, and both of them were startled at the same time.

Thinking that he would listen closer because he became quieter as he spoke, Tang Jingxu immediately felt relieved, pushed Yin Liansheng's face away with a smile, turned from the other side and walked in front of Ying Xuan, saying: "I and Lian Sheng is an outsider after all, would it be inappropriate to enter the Empress Dowager's bedroom rashly?"

Ying Xuan shook her head: "It's come this far, and she is dying again, how much face does she want to put on? The general doesn't need to worry."

Ying Xuan's words did not mean to save the Empress Dowager Xuan at all. Presumably, he had already lost the warmth of affection for this so-called mother in his heart, and what he did for her now was just the remaining warmth of the grace of childbearing and the emperor's foreign exchange. I had to do it reluctantly.

Now that he said that, Tang Jingxu didn't say much, and followed into the door.

The bedroom was filled with a strong smell of medicine, several pots of charcoal fires were placed on the ground, the whole room was as hot as a steamer, as soon as a few people stepped in, they broke out in a thin sweat.Apart from the female officer, there were no other servants in the palace, and under the cover of the bed curtain, one could be vaguely seen lying on the bed, gasping heavily, presumably the Empress Dowager Xuan did not have two days to live.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty and Highness Li are here." Hong Xiu approached, knelt on the side of the bed, lowered her head and said softly to the person on the bed.

The panting stopped suddenly, and a dry branch-like hand stretched out from the bed curtain, grabbing the collar of Hongxiu suddenly, the long nails cut her side face, and the bright red blood gushed out immediately, flowing down the Her cheeks slid down, but she seemed to be used to it, she didn't let out a cry of surprise, and didn't struggle at all, she just slowly raised her hand to hold that hand, and said in a voice that didn't seem flustered: "Mother, I'll help you sit up."

After a moment of silence, the hand was slowly released, retracted into the bed curtain, Hongxiu stood up, raised his hand to pull up the bed curtain, bent down and carefully lifted the Queen Mother, let her sit on the head of the bed, and then retreated. He bowed his head aside and remained silent.

After removing the cover of the bed curtain, Tang Jingxu saw the appearance of the Empress Dowager Xuan clearly, and couldn't help but secretly sucked in a breath of cold air.

Although he had already guessed that the Queen Mother Xuan was tortured by evil spirits, most of her life was gone, and she was skinny and skinny, it is not a pity, but seeing her appearance with his own eyes, Tang Jingxu suddenly felt that the hatred of the evil spirits was so deep There is no possibility of probation.

The Empress Dowager Xuan in front of her has long lost her beautiful face of "brilliant as spring flowers, bright as autumn moon", her cheeks are deeply sunken, her cheekbones are prominent, her face is extremely slack and half-hanging on her face, without any trace of life, she is just Even the lips looked like cracked ground, as if they were about to shatter at any moment. What was even more frightening was that the eye sockets of the Empress Dowager Xuan's eyes were empty. The dark brown scar that hadn't fully healed, looked like a disgusting half-decomposed living corpse amidst the panting sound again.

"Xuan'er," the Empress Dowager Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, her voice was hoarse as if she was grinding in a layer of sand, she lifted half of her hand that had been gnawed and crippled, and when she lifted it halfway, her whole body trembled and shivered. He hid his hands under the quilt, "Don't...don't look, don't look, don't look..."

Seeing this, Hongxiu hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her softly.

Seeing her half-crazed state, Tang Jingxu frowned: "How long has this happened?"

Not to mention that even if it is a hundred-year-old ghost, it is very unlikely that the empress dowager can turn into such a human, ghost-like appearance in just a few days. It is enough to judge that the days haunted by evil spirits will never be shorter than two months.

Ying Xuan didn't answer right away, the hand held in front of him was tightened a little bit, he looked at Tang Jingxu fixedly, his teeth clenched, complex emotions were brewing in his eyes, he was vaguely ashamed, but he didn't With a sign of remorse, after a moment of silence, he said bluntly, "Four months."

Tang Jingxu narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart, lowered his face, and said sharply: "You just let that ghost act recklessly in this palace and under your nose for four months?"

Hearing this, Ying Xuan froze, his complexion turned ugly, he pursed his lips tightly, lowered his eyes, he didn't respond for a long time, and looked a bit embarrassed.

"Who is it?" Seeing the majestic Emperor Ying Guo being speechless because of this question, Tang Jingxu held back the anger rising in his chest, and suddenly took a step forward, forcing Ying Xuan to raise his eyes and look at him, " Why would you tolerate it to such an extent?"

Seeing that Yingxuan closed his eyes and remained silent with a pale face, Tang Jingxu became even more angry in his heart, and took another step towards him angrily, almost getting close to him, and was about to raise his hand to pinch his face so that he would open his eyes and watch. However, his left hand was pulled violently by a strong force, and Tang Jingxu scrambled backwards, and the next moment he crashed into the arms of the person behind him, and the very familiar sandalwood came over him.

It's...Shen Qing...

Tang Jingxu couldn't help but feel in a trance, his mind was empty for a moment, before he came back to his senses, Yin Liansheng's voice that seemed to be smiling but not smiling came from behind his ears: "Master, don't be rude to the emperor."

"Ah?" Tang Jingxu turned his head subconsciously, facing a pair of dark black eyes, and saw his own stupefaction from those bottomless eyes, and a panic surged in his heart, which had been covered in dust for a long time. The panic is not unfamiliar, the beating of the heart is completely out of proportion, and the possessive eyes of the man 800 years ago flashed before his eyes. Anxious to back away.

Confused, he accidentally kicked over the brazier, and there was a crisp "clang", which was especially harsh in the silent room. He held his chest and took two deep breaths, looked up to see everyone looking at him in surprise, Suddenly realizing that he had just lost his composure, he coughed lightly to cover up, and said with a sneer, "I didn't do anything, and you guys didn't see anything."

Yin Liansheng's eyes looked at him for a moment, not knowing what he wanted to see on his face. Seeing him looking away uncomfortably, Yin Liansheng frowned slightly, raised his hand and waved his sleeves, and extinguished the fire that was lit by the charcoal fire. Feng Fei's brocade-patterned blanket moved his mouth, turned to Ying Li and said, "Ying Li, do you recognize it? Who is that in the pond?"

The author has something to say: Explain that "枎(fū)栘(yí)" is also from the "Book of Songs". It is a small deciduous tree in the family Rosaceae, also known as Fusu and Tangdi.

"Tang Di's glory is the opposite." Tang Jingxu's words come from here.