Qing Yan

The long and quiet steps lead to a place where you can't see the edge at a glance.Dragon-patterned glass lamps are embedded on the walls on both sides, illuminating the supposedly gloomy passageway as bright as day.

Jing Yan held Yun Rui's hand, and walked down the steps calmly and familiarly.At the side, maids and inner eunuchs followed.

Level one, level two, level three...

The cloud pattern boots on Yun Rui's feet stepped on the thick bluestone, but his heart was not at ease——

The blue stone steps are paved all the way down from the ground, the more you go down, the more you feel the cold air coming over you.

"A Rui, don't be afraid." Jing Yan felt the tension conveyed by the little hand in his palm, turned his face, and said with concern.

Yun Rui's lips clenched like a knife's edge.She is a martial artist, so of course she is not afraid, but when she thinks of her sister-in-law's words "A Rui, today we are going to meet your imperial brother" fifteen minutes ago, she feels shivering.

Is her imperial brother lying at the deepest part of the steps?

After walking about a dozen feet deeper, the chill became heavier.

Jing Yan stopped.

"Serve Mo, hold the pen, and change your Highness's clothes." Jing Yan said coldly.

It seemed that the closer she was to the underground, the calmer her face became.Quiet as still water, as still as ice.

Shimo and Bingbi quickly responded "yes".

Both of them are used to serving Jingyan, they are good at observing words and expressions, they are quick-witted, and they have quick hands and feet, so they put a small purple fur robe on Yun Rui's body in a blink of an eye.He also served Jing Yan to put on his winter clothes, and each of them put on their own thick clothes, and the group continued on their way.

After roughly another stone's throw away, the foreground suddenly changed.The front is no longer endless bluestone steps, but two closed bronze doors.The faint bronze color, against the backdrop of the glazed lamp, is like two pieces of fine jasper.The intricate carvings on the door, dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, clouds steaming and rosy clouds, are not ordinary folk products.

Yun Rui couldn't help looking at the two bronze doors and the white marble walls around them curiously, feeling more and more that this place is so magnificent, how can it be like a place where the spirit stops?

Suddenly there was a different kind of tactile sensation on the back of his hand, Yun Rui raised his hand suspiciously, and immediately noticed something strange about Jing Yan.

Is it the lamp against the white marble wall?Why is the emperor's sister-in-law's face pale without a trace of blood?

There was another tightening on the back of the hand.

Yun Rui's little heart suddenly ached——

It was Jing Yan, holding her palm, shaking, uncontrollably.

Yun Rui felt that he should do something to make Mrs. Huang feel less uncomfortable.But after much deliberation, there was no result——

In this world, the only one who can make the emperor's wife happy is the emperor's brother, right?But Brother Huang has already...

Why!Yun Rui was deeply worried.She thought it would be fine if she was the emperor's brother, no, it would be fine if she could make the emperor's wife happy like the emperor's brother.

However, she is just Yu Wenrui, not... Yu Wenzhe.

"Master, let me do it..." Shi Mo couldn't bear it, stepped forward, and reached out to take the key that Jing Yan was shaking tightly.

Jing Yan shook his head stubbornly, suppressing the tears that were about to burst out, and finally inserted the key into the lock hole on the bronze door.

All the people present were silent.

Yun Rui felt more pain in his heart.

With a soft "squeak", the two doors were pushed open.

Yun Rui didn't care about looking at the situation inside the door, but grabbed Jing Yan's free hand, secretly channeling his internal energy.

She is small and weak, with limited internal strength, however, there are still traces of warmth along her thin arms, to the two touching palms, and then to Jing Yan along Jing Yan's soft catkins and white wrists. in the body.

Jing Yan was slightly surprised, and looked at her in confusion, and when she saw the corner of her mouth raised towards him, she immediately understood.In addition to being warm in my heart, I was even more relieved.

Compared with the bright as day outside the door, the light inside the door is much dimmer, as if a door separates two worlds.

However, cold, but the same.

The walls are snow-white, and the roof is snow-white, as clear and cold as entering a snow cave.

The only thing is the bright yellow soft couch behind the Bai Yuxiang case.There is a person lying on it...

Yun Rui blinked vigorously to make sure that he saw it well.It was certainly a person.

Her heart suddenly tightened.

Jing Yan had already loosened her little hand slightly, took three sticks of red sandalwood incense from Shen Cheng's hand, bit her lip, lit it, and slowly inserted one by one into the incense burner on the incense table.

The curling smoke rises slowly in the incense burner, fluttering up, and for a while, the whole snow cave-like inner room is filled with the breath of red sandalwood, like a fairy cave.

Jing Yan's jade-colored palm clenched tightly, let go, and clenched again...

Taking a deep breath, she pulled Yun Rui over: "A Rui, this is your imperial brother... When you were very young, he hugged you..."

As he spoke, tears still rolled down his cheeks.

Yun Rui was solemn, his eyes couldn't help sliding to the slender figure on the soft couch.

She wanted to see clearly, so she couldn't help but took two steps forward.

Jing Yan didn't stop her.

Sword eyebrows are drawn into the temples, eyelash feathers are like fans, I don't know how those tightly closed eyes will be like stars.

Her lips were as thin as a sword's edge, her face was as pale as paper, and she didn't know how rosy she was when she was alive.

The bright yellow color of his clothes and the bright yellow brocade quilt covering his body showed his identity as the emperor.

It's just that he couldn't move, cry, or laugh anymore, so he just fell asleep forever, leaving those who cared about him heartbroken.

Yun Rui's brain throbbed, and he recalled in a flash, it seemed that such a person really existed in the depths of his mind:

That big brother hugged me, and said something to me...

But what did you say?But she couldn't remember.

That must have happened when I was very young.Yun Rui thought.

It turned out that many years ago, she had been designated as the heir apparent by her imperial brother.But why?Why is it her?Could it be that Brother Huang had expected him to die early?Doesn't Brother Huang not want to pass on the throne to his children?

These were things that the young Yun Rui couldn't figure out anyway.

Her gaze shifted to the person on the soft couch again, and she always felt... always felt that this person's eyebrows and facial features were so familiar.

"A Rui." Jing Yan suddenly spoke, interrupting her thoughts.

When Yun Rui raised her head, she realized that there were only the two of them left in the inner room... Of course, there was also her imperial brother lying there.

Yun Rui's heart tightened.

She wasn't afraid, whether it was the one standing in front of her or the one lying there silently, neither would frighten her, but only made her feel... kind.

"A Rui, you have to remember," Jing Yan said in a deep voice, "Your brother, his name is Yu Wenzhe, and he is the emperor of my Great Zhou Dynasty. He is only 20 years old now."

Yun Rui suddenly looked at the man on the couch——

How did she forget!He is only 20 years old!

why?

so young...

She instantly thought of winning a cricket fight with Wu Ao a few days ago, being caught by a sister, and then hearing the "clank" bell, and then there were groups of tolerances in the market, all with green gauze tied on their arms...

It turned out that at that time, he had already...

Yun Rui shook his head in disbelief: How could it be...

Thinking of Sister, she really misses her a little bit, and her father... Well, it should be Master Yun.

She even misses Wu Ao's playmates very much.

"Remember, your elder brother didn't die of illness, he was killed by someone!" Jing Yan said again with an icy face.

"Killed..." Yun Rui opened his eyes wide.

who is it?Who is it? !

"A Rui." Jing Yan knelt down and brushed her flushed cheeks from the cold, sadly.

Yun Rui was heartbroken: Who killed her imperial brother?Who made her sister-in-law so heartbroken?

She wished she could see that man immediately and kill him.Even if the emperor's brother cannot be brought back to life, but she can make the emperor's wife happy even for a moment, no matter what the price is, she will be happy.