Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

Just after finishing speaking, Yu Chiyong walked back and forth for a few steps, then suddenly changed his voice: "Could it be those girls you asked Mingshuang to choose?!"

"No." Sheng Jia's expression was not good. "Besides, those women are either fleeing famine or fleeing crimes. If Mingshuang didn't take them in, they would have died long ago. It's their turn to serve His Majesty?"

Since Yu Chiyong asked, it means that although Sheng Jia was able to draw out his reasons for defending his own family in this matter, he still had a hurdle in his heart and couldn't get over it.Besides, apart from other things, Mingshuang suffered after all; a newly married girl was rumored to be a witch in the capital, even if time passed, the wound could not be completely healed.

After a long time, Yuchiyong still couldn't help but said: "It's also a pain for Mingshuang. When I saw her today, I always felt that she was out of her mind." He took the pillow that Yuchiling picked up, patted the ashes, and put it on the bed, listening to his wife Said: "This is her doom. Girls who follow our Ling'er will always have to go through disasters to enjoy happiness, otherwise they will not be blessed and will be more likely to suffer."

Yuchiyong and Yuchiling must have listened to Sheng Jia's praise of their son. Here, the two of them did not speak, and lowered their heads with their own concerns.

Sheng Jia looked around, and shivered inexplicably in the room with the heater.Not knowing whether she saw it or felt it, she turned her head to Xu Zhen's direction, and the blood on her lips became lighter and weaker.Yu Chiyong knew that her "heart disease" had happened again, so he pressed her shoulders to let her sit down, and changed the subject: "Do you want to ask Aunt Seven to bring over a bowl of soup?"

Fortunately, Sheng Jia could still hear the words clearly, and shook his head, unlike the previous few times when all three souls and seven souls were absent.

Sheng Jia continued what she said just now: "It's all the fault of that surnamed Su. If it wasn't for him, the national teacher would have helped the emperor achieve his wish eight years ago, and we still need Ling'er and Shuang'er to take risks?"

Yu Chiyong straightened his clothes, and retorted gently: "Hey, your thorn is wrong. Su Juegui dares to speak out, he is loyal..." Then he sighed subtly: " It's just that he's too young, and the distinction between black and white is too clear. Maybe there will be a rift between His Majesty and him in the future. After all, 'Fuguo' is not a permanent job. If His Majesty is scrupulous, his position may be vacated .”

Yu Chiling said: "Mother, if the 'progress' of the national teacher is not interrupted, and the teacher does not go to retreat, won't it be the son's turn to take over the matter. This is an opportunity for the son."

"You are still talking to outsiders!" Sheng Jia pursed her lower lip, "You don't understand, you don't understand. Linger."

"Ok?"

Sheng Jia said: "It's a good thing you didn't invite your brother Jue Gui over here today. Let me put my words here, I think Su Tong has something to do with Mingshuang's place; now you are in the imperial court, not in that broken-down village in Shuzhou." In the academy, you will not call him brothers and sisters in the future. You should handle the things that His Majesty entrusted to you, and wait for the surnamed Su to be rampant for a few more days, don't worry about Su Tong changing his name to your brother..." Yu Chiyong interrupted her and said : "The more you talk, the more outrageous it is!" At the end, he slapped his thigh and said something serious to his wife: "It's just a woman's words!"

Sheng Jia clutched her skirt and said in disbelief: "Women's words? Heh, women's words can make us think for a long time. What can your gentleman's words be used for? Ah? You just talk about it." Yu Chiyong turned his head to one side, and Sheng Jia said again: "I asked Ling'er to worship as the master of the country, Ming Shuang was selected by me blindly, and also, when Ling'er came out of that dilapidated academy to go to the capital to face the holy At that time, I..." She paused at this point, and changed her route: "Ling'er, I arranged the venue for the emperor's parade in Chongzhou today. I arranged for Su Tong to be with the scholars of the civil and military department. , so that you don’t need to talk next to each other, I’m upset when I see it.”

Considering Sheng Jia's recent situation, Yu Chiyong didn't argue with her, but just looked aside, tapping his fingers on his knees one after another.

After the room became quiet, Yu Chiling opened his mouth and said, "Mother, Jue...Su Tong..."

Hearing that he mentioned Su Tong, Yun Li subconsciously took a few steps, and accidentally took the vase away, making a sound that was neither heavy nor light.Sheng Jia trembled all over, and grasped the hand extended by her husband.Yuchi asked his father and mother, Fang wanted to say something, Yuchi coughed and said: "We are all a family, why are you whispering?"

Sheng Jia was stunned for a while at the position of the vase, and said, "Just keep your voice down, so as not to be heard by some dirty thing with ears." Yuchiyong almost forgot that Sheng Jia was still "sick", so he had no choice but to turn his ear to Yuchi. Order handed a few points.

Yuchiling spoke very softly and quickly, and when Sheng Jia and Yuchiyong's expressions changed greatly, Yunli didn't hear a word.At this moment, Yun Li saw Xu Zhen smiled, as if he already knew about it, and planned to tell him something.But Yun Li had to admit that deep down in his heart he had a sense of fear for Xu Zhen, so at this moment Xu Zhen raised his chin to call him out, but his legs were covered with lead and he couldn't move.He rubbed the slightly painful old wound a few times, settled down, and looked at the faces of Sheng Jia and Yu Chiyong.

Sheng Jia and Yu Chiyong couldn't sit still anymore, one stood sideways, and the other paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back.

For a moment, Yu Chiyong murmured as if to comfort himself: "It's nothing, nothing. Without our Linger's recommendation, Su Juegui would never be successful in his life... In this way, he has repaid our Linger's favor." ..." His eyeballs seemed unable to turn suddenly, and his gaze fell heavily outside the toe of the shoe, as if it could pierce the ground.

Sheng Jia said hoarsely, "So, it's done?"

Yuchiling nodded.

Sheng Jia wanted to laugh or not, wanted to cry or not, and along her son's arm, pinched Yuchiling from shoulder to fingertips, as if reunited after a long absence, and seemed to see hope, excitedly said: "Show me quickly." Yuchiling Obediently groping around in the sleeves, he clenched his fist into Sheng Jia's palm, and dark green light leaked from between his fingers.From Yunli's side, a strong smell belonging to the giant tree rushed over.

Over there, Xu Zhen's cloudy eyes were also lit up.

Sheng Jia suddenly put the thing on her body, and tremblingly said: "Okay, this is it... If you don't understand, then I will talk about it myself, and I will talk to the emperor myself." Yu Chiyong stepped back in two or three steps , Surprised: "Go talk to the emperor? Go tell the emperor what?" Sheng Jia pushed the two of them, and backed away vigilantly like a beast guarding food, his eyes fluttered and said: "Rehabilitate! Rehabilitate that thing! Let it not Stop pestering me, let it go, let it go..." She immediately swallowed the word "death", her voice stopped abruptly, and she began to sob.

The door was opened by the "person" from the inside.

Xu Zhen dragged his empty sleeve, and pushed through the three servants guarding the gate.

The servant was stunned, only to hear Mrs. Yuchi let out a shrill scream.Then the screaming turned into laughter, Sheng Jia shouted at the door: "Did you hear that?! Did you hear that?! Did you hear that?!" Yu Chiyong waved to the servants impatiently, calling They came over and put the lady on the bed to lie down.

Yu Chiyong felt that his hair was about to stand on end, but Sheng Jia smiled and calmed down, and gradually formed a stark contrast with her husband who was in fear, closed his eyes, and fell asleep not long after.Yuchiling thought it was Yunli who pushed the door, without panic, he comforted Yuchiyong a few words, saying that there is nothing to fear from the little ghost's scary tricks, and a spell from him can keep the place safe.

Yuchi Yongfu held up the majesty of the patriarch and the prefect of Chongzhou again, and ordered the three servants to add lamp oil and check the stove, then sat upright on the edge of the bed, waiting for Yuchi to finish setting up the formation.

……

Yun Li chased Xu Zhen out, followed by the people and disappeared; he unknowingly came to an open space, although it was late at night, although the surroundings were barren, there were a few pedestrians in the open space.Those few pedestrians didn't seem to be wandering at night. They each checked a certain area for a while, and then gathered on the high platform to the east, leaning on the railing to talk about something.

Yun Li sensed that there was a strange aura in the place that those people had seen, so he picked one at random and walked over to have a look.He was located under the high platform, as close as possible to those people above, but in the blind spot of their vision.He knelt down and brushed away a layer of soil, saw fireworks buried under the loose layer, and heard the voice from above repeating the titles of "Your Majesty, Mrs. Yuchi, Lord Prefect" and so on, he realized that this area is full of dust. The wasteland to the north of Yuchi Mansion in the state was a place arranged by Sheng Jia to welcome the emperor who was parading here.

However, the point is of course not the fireworks. The point is that there is something under the fireworks.

Yun Li avoided the fireworks, dug a little deeper, and found a bunch of hair.

Deeper, more and denser hair, until a head appears.

Then the head lifted up and looked up, as if rolling its eyes because the eyes were so strained.Yun Li poked it a few more times, and pulled out the neck with fair hair, and it was obvious that it was a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl buried in the ground.Now that the girl's neck can move, her eyes are no longer so hideous, and the fluttering eyelashes make her look very pitiful.

Instead of asking why she was buried, Yun Li thought it better to rescue her first, maybe she was not the only one buried under the fireworks.His hand touched the girl's face, and it was as cold as being pricked by ice.

Yun Li subconsciously stopped, and said, "How many days have you been here?"

The girl said it's been ten days.

After being buried under the ground for ten days, she is still "alive" and able to speak, neither anxious nor irritable nor anxious nor crying. Is this still an ordinary little girl?The girl skipped over Yunli and kept looking behind him, as if she was being watched by something, so she didn't dare to make any more noise.Yun Li stood up slowly, brushing the dirt off his hands with complicated emotions.

How can a person live for ten days without eating, drinking or even breathing?

There was a person standing behind him, Yun Li turned around and met Xu Zhen's smiling eyes.

Xu Zhen said "Mr. Yunli" weakly, then squatted down with his right sleeve in his arms, and scraped the soil back bit by bit.The "girl" closed her eyes obediently and let him bury herself again.Xu Zhen said unhurriedly: "Mr. Yunli, why did you find Mr. Su here?" Yunli pulled him up, and at the same time the green light started to work: "Do you know where he is?!"

Xu Zhen wriggled a little bit, squinted and said, "I warned you earlier, and told you not to meddle in my affairs."

Yun Li flicked a green light from Xu Zhen, and was about to raise his hand, Xu Zhen sped up his speech and said, "Mr. Yunli, now I know where Mr. Su is better than Yuchi Ling."

"..."

Xu Zhen: "You promise me one thing first."

"Say."

"Say you really forgive me, and ask Mr. Zi Hua not to send people to chase me down."

"..."

"If you don't tell me, I won't be able to protect myself. If I'm convinced that I'm a ghost that's about to die, why should I tell you the whereabouts of Mr. Su?" Xu Zhen raised half of his eyebrows, "No, Mr. Yunli , you don’t need to speak too loudly, the people nearby Zihuajun and Minyoujun can hear you clearly. You should know that those two can help you kill me, but they can’t help you find Mr. Su.”

Yun Li threw Xu Zhen away: "I promise you."

"Promise me what?"

"forgive you."

As if smelling something good, Xu Zhen opened his arms and took a deep breath of the snow-filled air, with the corners of his mouth unstoppably raised.After enjoying the smell of freedom, he raised his foot and stepped on the soil at the place just now, making the soil tighter: "I kept the iron hooks for them, Mr. Yunli, you don't have to pull them out, lest they come back I will be scolded by Granny Meng." As he spoke, he straightened his crooked neckline, and was about to walk away.

Immediately, Xu Zhen was bound into a silkworm chrysalis by the green light, unable to move a step.

Xu Zhen is not in a hurry: "Mr. Yunli, your Mr. Su, you have to lend me a period of time, in case it is needed... Hey, don't worry, I guarantee what he looks like now, and I will return it to you when the time comes." He still looked like you when you were there. Mr. Yunli, look, someone is coming over there! Oh, I am tied up by you, how can I escape? Someone really is coming over there. "

Yun Li naturally saw someone approaching, and also saw that...it was Yuchi Mingshuang.Why did Yuchi Mingshuang come here alone?

He glanced at Xu Zhen's thick face and untied him.

Now, it seems that the only way to go is to trust the despicable person.

Yun Li ignited Zhang's invisibility charm, and immediately pushed Xu Zhen out.Not long after, the two discovered that Yuchi Mingshuang had come for Xu Zhen.She may have seen more than one person here from afar, and when she approached, she looked around, and finally had to convince herself that her eyes were blurred just now.When looking into Captain Chi Mingshuang's eyes, Xu Zhen rarely showed a look of panic: "You...can you see me?"

Ming Shuang said: "I came here specifically to find Mr."

The two had never met each other before, and at best, Mingshuang had seen Xu Zhen's tragic scene when Jiahui hung him on a high place for public display.

But now, Yuchi Mingshuang opened his mouth and called Xu Zhen "Mr."Xu Zhen rolled up his sleeves: "I don't know why the girl came to look for me?" Ming Shuang said: "Please ask sir, how can I be a wandering soul in the underworld?"

Both Xu Zhen and Yun Li were stunned.

Yuchi Mingshuang said: "The wandering souls I met in the past were all timid and afraid of getting into trouble, and they were all passers-by. When I saw Mr. today, I felt that Mr. has outstanding temperament, so I came here to inquire." She spoke to Xu Zhen The tone of her voice is completely different from the tone of people like Yuchi Ling, Sheng Jia, Yuchi Yong, Yuchi Suling, and Jiang Dong; now she seems to meet a long-awaited admirer, completely like a little girl getting candy .

Xu Zhen was stunned by the word "excellent temperament" at first, and then said: "The girl wants to be a wandering soul?"

"Ah."

"Is it bad to live?"

"I used to think it was okay, but now I think...it's not good." Yuchi Mingshuang was very serious, and there was even a trace of innocence in his increasingly brisk voice.

Xu Zhen said: "Then girl, you asked me how to make a wandering soul. You really asked the wrong person." While speaking, the skin on his face peeled off, and it soon became mottled and ugly.As his back slowly hunched, Yunli realized that he was shedding his skin and showing Yuchi Mingshuang his appearance before death.He was hanged to death by Jiahui on a pole outside the north palace gate. Unlike Wang Jinhui, what hung him was not a rope, but a hook; and the hook pierced through the flesh and blood of his back.

Xu Zhen originally wanted to scare Yuchi Mingshuang away with his real body, but unexpectedly, Yuchi Mingshuang's eyes reflecting his original appearance became brighter, and instead of retreating, he advanced, and he was about to reach out to touch Xu Zhen's body. .

Mingshuang said: "Mr. is so beautiful."

Yuchi Mingshuang has always been curious about "another world" because the world he saw from a young age is different from others.Now, she is disappointed with the "real" world she is in, and her curiosity about that world has been distorted into anticipation; the seeds buried in her heart have grown into weird mature trees.

Judging from Xu Zhen's reaction, even ghosts are afraid when they see her tree.

Xu Zhen put away his original appearance, rolled up his right sleeve, and hastily bid farewell to Yuchi Mingshuang.But Yuchi Mingshuang smiled and said: "Sir, don't go, you haven't told me yet." She reached out to pull Xu Zhen, but only reached the afterimage, and Xu Zhen had already moved several feet away.Yuchi Mingshuang ran after his back for a few steps, but couldn't catch up; but it seemed that because she couldn't catch up, she became more and more excited, and she couldn't help shouting: "Sir?!"

Her shout alarmed the people on the high platform, and several men hurriedly went down to check, trying to find out who broke into the Yuchi Mansion and shouted like that.

One person held Yuchi Mingshuang's arm, turned her face away, was startled, and stepped back, "Miss Mingshuang?"

Afterwards, all the servants on duty in Chongzhou Yuchi's Mansion followed, and they all recognized Yuchi Mingshuang, and hurriedly asked: "Why is Miss Mingshuang here?" For others, the servants who are in the way will chase after them.

The servants didn't know why, until one winked and reminded in a low voice: "Ms. Mingshuang just came back from the capital." He pointed to his head.Everyone "suddenly realized", and a few people were separated to carry the "conscious" Mingshuang girl back to the house, and the remaining few continued to be on duty.

When someone put her on her shoulders for the first time, Yuchi Mingshuang struggled constantly; when Xu Zhen completely disappeared from her sight, she finally calmed down and whispered in people's ears: "Put me down, I'll go by myself."

The few people who heard her words were all frozen into statues, and they put her down according to the words, and watched in a daze as Miss Mingshuang smoothed her skirt, and returned back the same way as if nothing had happened.

In the distance, came an eager female voice, probably realizing that Yuchi Mingshuang had disappeared and came out to look for her servant.

……

The next morning, the servant felt that he had a dream the night before, dreaming that Miss Mingshuang got up and went out in the middle of the night, and he found her to find the wasteland outside the mansion.