there is a king in the palace

The action of the imperial guards was astonishing. Soon, they found the king's jade pendant in the county magistrate's room. The guards presented it to Zhao Xianao, and said, "Go back to the emperor, and I haven't seen Mr. Yuan."

Zhao Xianao took the jade pendant, his eyes were stern, "Where is he?"

The county magistrate knew that he would die now, but thinking of the five-year-old child, he decided to give it a go.

He took off the black gauze cap on his head and put it gently on the ground, "Your Majesty, the untouchables have committed a serious crime. They know that their crimes are unforgivable, but their wives and children are innocent. If the emperor can show mercy and let them go, the untouchables are willing to help you." The emperor leads the way."

"Heh." Zhao Xianao sneered, he didn't know where he got the courage to still negotiate terms with him at this moment.

However, Zhao Xianao only wants to find the king now, and he is not willing to delay for a moment, "Yes."

The county magistrate's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said to the servant next to him, "Tell the second wife and young master to leave quickly."

At this moment, a young girl with dark eyes rushed out of the small courtyard next to her. She grabbed the county magistrate's clothes, "Are you human! Only the child born to that bitch is your child! You guys It's our own fault, why should we die with us!"

The county magistrate slapped the girl severely, "Shut up! You want your brother's life just like that!"

The county magistrate was originally just a scholar. After more than ten years of suffering in the cold window, he was admitted as a Jinshi. He got a post as a county magistrate. At first, he and his wife were in harmony with each other. The two daughters were injured when they gave birth to a daughter, and they were unable to have children. The county magistrate couldn't accept that he had no children and grandchildren, so he married Duan Qing, the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Lianhua County, as his wife.

Therefore, under Duan Qing's pillow wind day after day, the county magistrate colluded with Duan Ming, embarked on the road of corrupt and bribery dog ​​officials, and ignored the original wife and two daughters.

That's what happened today.

Zhao Xianao didn't want to take care of these parents, so he ordered the guards, "Go and bring that young master here."

"Yes."

After a while, the guard carried the boy with one hand and the second wife with the other and strode into the yard.

Zhao Xianao looked at the county magistrate coldly, "My patience is limited, tell me now where he is, otherwise, I will kill your son immediately."

The boy kept struggling and crying in the guard's hands, "Dad! Help me!"

The county magistrate trembled, met Zhao Xian'ao's eyes, and felt ashamed, "He...he was taken by the wretch's wife and brother to Chunfenglou."

Spring Breeze Tower...

The guard was clever, and grabbed a servant casually, "Lead the way."

Zhao Xianao took a bodyguard to Chunfeng Tower, leaving four or five bodyguards to surround the county magistrate's family.

When Zhao Xianao arrived at Chunfeng Tower, the fighting inside had ceased, several big men and servants stood in a row with bloody heads, the pock-marked group had disappeared, Zhao Xianao knew that the king was no longer here when he saw this situation.

Zhao Xianao lowered his eyes slightly, concealing his loss, and led the guards into the Chunfeng Tower to search around regardless of others.

"Your Majesty...haven't seen Mr. Yuan." Even the guards don't know what to do. Unless the emperor is a great immortal who can pinch and count, how can he find someone who runs away on two legs.

"Lianhua County..." Zhao Xianao muttered softly, then turned to ask the servant next to him, "Is there Hutou Mountain nearby?"

The servant knelt on the ground, his face was pale, and he couldn't speak clearly, "Caomin...there is indeed Hutou Mountain, but...caomin seldom leave Lianhua County...I don't know, I don't know where Hutou Mountain is."

When Zhao Xianao learned that there was Hutou Mountain, he smiled, "Sun Chang, go find the brother-in-law of the dog official and bring him back to the government."

"master……"

"I'll be back by noon tomorrow."

Sun Chang nodded and handed the sword to Zhao Xianao.

Zhao Xianao randomly found a house near Firework Alley, knocked on the door, a middle-aged man in a coat looked at him suspiciously, "Who are you looking for?"

Zhao Xianao took out an ingot of silver and shook it twice in his hand, "Do you know where Hutou Mountain is?"

When the man saw the silver in his hand, his eyes widened, "I know, I know!"

Zhao Xianao threw the silver to him, "Lead the way."

"This..." The man hesitated for a while, "There are so many beasts near Hutou Mountain... I'm afraid we need to call a few more hunters."

"No need." Zhao Xianao flashed the saber in Liang's hand and reiterated, "Lead the way."

Playing both soft and hard ways, the man didn't dare to dawdle, dressed casually, and led Zhao Xianao towards Hutou Mountain.

When the king ran to Hutou Mountain, his whole body was already hot, as if he had been burned. While running up the mountain, he took off his clothes indiscriminately, trying to change back to his original shape, but no matter what he couldn't.

He suddenly remembered what Lao Kongjing had said to him.

Don't let yourself get too hot.

His Majesty deeply felt that he might have run into an evil, dark clouds covered the top, and Yintang was black, otherwise how could he be so unlucky.

"Big, big, big... king!"

Hearing the familiar voice, the king raised his head, and tears filled his eyes instantly, as if seeing his relatives.

That tree is the guard squirrel.

"Are you... the king?"

Although the king has changed into a human appearance, the smell belonging to the king of beasts has not changed at all, and the squirrel who has the commanding sense of smell can smell it from a long distance.

His Majesty has no time to reminisce with him now, so he buried his head and continued to run forward. On the other side of the mountain, there was a river, and a pool of lake water was accumulated halfway up the mountain. His Majesty used to like to take a bath there, but now, he urgently needed the water of Tan Lake to relieve him. Heat waves in the body.

The squirrel guarding the forest saw that the king was stupefied, and it took a while to shuttle back and forth in the woods, spreading the news of the king's return.

The king looked at the lake water and jumped down suddenly. The cold water made his teeth chatter. The king closed his eyes tightly and endured the abnormal hot and cold of his body.

When he calmed down a little, Hutou Mountain was already standing around the lake.

Forest squirrel, grandpa turtle, long-tailed monkey, brother eagle, woodpecker, green python...

Seeing them, the king really felt like coming home. This was the place where he grew up.

"Grandpa Turtle..." Seeing the elder, the king burst into tears, "I miss you so much."

Grandpa Turtle was still slow, "Just come back..."

The king changed back to his original shape, jumped out of the water, and shook his hair, quite refreshingly releasing his instinct.

The green boa constrictor asked, "My lord, how did you become a human?"

"Adventure, it's a long story."

It has only been a few months since he left Hutou Mountain, and the king is no longer the carefree fat tiger who likes to listen to flattery and praise. He has no concept of time, and for the first time he feels the length and brevity of time.

Hutou Mountain has not been this lively for a long time after the king left.

As the ten thousand year old second child of Hutou Mountain, Qing Mang has always looked forward to the king's every step of the way. The return of the king made her very happy, and she even went to catch a rabbit for the king.

"I will not eat."

The king looked at the trembling rabbit on her lips, "Let's let it go."

The jaws of everyone in Hutou Mountain were about to drop from shock.

Has the king changed his taste?Stop eating rabbits?So what is he going to eat?

All worried about their race.

The king looked at them and laughed, "I won't stay in Hutou Mountain for too long, after two days... I have to go."

"Why?" The long-tailed monkey seemed about to cry, "Your Majesty, you can't go... Without you, those hunters will come here every now and then."

The king comforted them, "Don't worry, wait for me... In short, they won't come again in the future."

Everyone in Hutou Mountain felt puzzled, but they secretly thought about how to keep the king.

After tossing all night, the king was tired and sleepy, so he found a random stone and lay down on it.

With his eyes closed, he couldn't fall asleep.

The road ahead was covered with a layer of fog, which caused the king to get lost in it.

"My lord, my lord, my lord!" Shoulin Squirrel's impatient cry reached the king's ears. He lazily opened his eyes and asked him, "What's wrong?"

"There are hunters coming up the mountain! Two! And one with a sword in his hand!"

The king was stunned for a moment, his face full of disbelief, could it be that those people came here so quickly?

"What's it like?"

Asking is meaningless. In their eyes, there are only four types of people, men, women, old people and children, so the squirrel replied, "Two men."

two?That shouldn't be the pockmarked group... Not necessarily... Stones can't walk on the mountain at night...

After studying for a long time, the king suddenly remembered that he is now a tiger!This is his territory!What is he talking about!

Are you fearless?

Thinking of this, the king arrogantly followed the squirrel to the direction the two came from, thinking in his heart how he would take revenge if he met those enemies.

However, when he saw the man with the saber in his hand from afar, Dou Da tears could not stop falling down, soaking the brown and black tiger hair on his face.

emperor!

"Ow~"

Hearing the roar of the tiger, the middle-aged man behind Zhao Xianao ran down the mountain, but Zhao Xianao, who was holding the clothes left by the king along the way, raised the corners of his mouth.

Standing on a high branch, the squirrel watched the king rush towards the "hunter" like lightning, and threw him to the ground. His heart was full of emotion, their king finally came back!Hutou Mountain can regain its former glory.

……

and many more……

What is the king doing now?

Is... is it licking that... that "hunter"?

The forest guard squirrel rubbed his eyes and stared at it carefully.

Yes, it is indeed licking.

"I miss you so much, I miss you so much!" The king licked Zhao Xianao's saliva all over his face, and then began to repeat these words endlessly.

Zhao Xianao laughed loudly, and the gloom and worries accumulated in his chest for the past two days were swept away. His family, Yuan Huan, is really great and really smart.

It's just... It's been a long time since I saw him like this, it seems to be a little dull again...

"I miss you very much too...how about you get up first...don't crush me to death the moment you see me, okay..."

The king was out of breath when he heard his words, and looked like he was about to suffocate, so he stood up quickly, "Are you not hurt?!"

Zhao Xianao touched every bone in his body, "It's okay."

The king leaned closer to his lap again, feeling tired, "Your Majesty~ I miss you so much~"

The turbulent emotion in Zhao Xianao's heart cannot be described in words. He squatted down and hugged the king's head tightly, "From now on, don't leave my side again, okay?"

"Okay!" the king said, with tears in his eyes, "I'm so miserable."

"I know, I know everything." Zhao Xianao rubbed his head, his eyes sparkled sharply, "I will never let anyone who hurt you go."

The king counted for him one by one, "Pockmarked, Xiaowu, Shitou, county magistrate, second wife, and that short-lived ghost!"

"Okay, okay, I will help you avenge."

The king took a step back and suddenly remembered, "There is also Director Li!"

Zhao Xianao looked at him, and before he could speak, he heard the king say viciously, "Pull out his hair one by one! Braid it into a braid and tie it into a knot!"

Zhao Xianao laughed, "Okay, I'll pull it out when I get back!"

Zhao Xian'ao, who had been running around for two days, was already exhausted. After seeing the king, his body relaxed and he couldn't lift his spirits anymore. "Let's find a place to rest and go down the mountain tomorrow morning to take revenge."

He is not himself, so he can't just find a rock and sleep on it. The king thought about it and said, "Come with me!"

The king took him to a place that he and everyone in Hutou Mountain dared not go.

It was a cliff on the side of Hutou Mountain. Under the cliff was a bottomless valley. What was strange was that under such a steep cliff, there was a flat high platform with bluestone steps on both sides.

"Here, it looks like a place where people live."

The king shook his head, "I don't know, Grandpa Turtle said, this place has existed since he can remember."

Zhao Xianao nodded and walked on.

After walking a few steps, he stopped and turned to look at the motionless king, "What's wrong?"

"nothing……"

The king plucked up his courage and followed him down.

Inside the high platform is a vast cave with stone beds, tables and chairs, and nothing else.

"It's kind of like a paradise." Zhao Xianao, who was looking around comfortably, didn't notice the shock in the king's eyes.

He had been to this cave before, but just after he entered it, he was forced out by a strong coercion, almost fell into a deep valley. No one in Hutou Mountain dared to enter here, but the king remembered In the past, there was a heavy rain on Hutou Mountain, and the hunter came back late. He once went here to hide from the rain, and stayed safely until dawn.

"It's so strange..." The king turned into a human and ran to Zhao Xianao naked, "You know, I couldn't come to this place before."

Zhao Xianao pursed his lips, and handed him the clothes he had been holding in his hand, "Put it on, there is moisture in the hole."

"Good~"

It feels so good to be cared about by someone when you are hot, cold or hungry.

The Great Dynasty smiled sweetly, and quickly put on his clothes.

While he was getting dressed, Zhao Xian'ao wandered around the cave like a stroll in a courtyard. He felt that this cave was very unusual... Ordinary people simply couldn't build such a well-organized cave in such a place.

It's nothing more than simple edges and corners...

Zhao Xianao looked closely at the lines on the wall, and found that there were words written on it, the handwriting was scrawled, but it was arrogant.

Under the countless years, some places have become blurred. Zhao Xianao vaguely recognized the words on it, and guessed by connecting the front and back, "Gather the stars and chase the moon, think about the night and forget the worries, guard the king for thousands of years, and the end is approaching." , posterity and this, picking up bones and burying corpses... left behind, the years of rivers and rivers, hope, the people in the dream will return."

After Zhao Xianao finished reading, the king asked beside him, "What do you mean?"

"Literally, you don't understand?"

The king nodded, "I don't really understand."

Zhao Xianao shook his head and chuckled, "So, I still have to let Ouyang Yi continue to teach you."

Don't say anything, the king is not very interested in this, he hugged Zhao Xianao's waist, and said tirelessly, "I really miss you!"

His hair was wet, and water dripped down continuously. The water droplets slid across his forehead, eyelashes, nose tip, lips, and finally stuck to the pink lips precariously.

Zhao Xianao swallowed his saliva and suddenly felt thirsty. Thinking about it carefully, he hadn't drank water all day.

"Well……"

Zhao Xianao pressed the king's shoulder, sucking his lips vigorously, taking in the moisture that he longed for.

The king was a little hurt by his kiss, but he was also comfortable. He bent his lips in satisfaction, and a trace of satisfaction flashed in his bright black tiger eyes.

Just when the two of them were on the verge of breaking out like dry wood and fire, the stone wall behind them trembled violently.

Zhao Xianao sensed that something was wrong, immediately hugged the king tightly in his arms, and took a step back.

I saw that the seamless stone wall cracked suddenly, and the ground in the cave was still stable.

"Wow——" The king was shocked, but after thinking about it, there was nothing to be shocked about. After all, he can turn a tiger into a human, and it doesn't matter if a stone turns into an actuary.

After a few breaths, the stone wall stopped, and there was a hole in the stone wall.

Just like ordinary people, everything is available, bowls, chopsticks, tea cups, bedding and washbasin. The only unusual thing is that in the center of the room, there is a skeleton sitting on a stone chair.

The king excitedly tugged at Zhao Xianao's cuff, "Hey, do you remember the storybook we read, that is, the leader of the martial arts alliance fell from the cliff and found a secret room under the cliff. There is something invincible in the secret room Martial arts secret book."

"Do you think there will be martial arts secrets in it?"

The king's expression gradually became serious, "Perhaps, you are much better than martial arts cheats, maybe you can live forever..."

Your Majesty just made a joke, Zhao Xianao didn't take it seriously, if anyone in this world could live forever, the one here now would not be a skeleton.

"There's a book there."

Zhao Xianao walked over and took a look, "It's already rotten."

"I understand. This person must have come from a god. I said why no one can come in except human beings. He must be afraid that we will destroy his bones. By the way, I just wanted to tell you that there is a strong smell in it." It’s no wonder that there are so many enlightened creatures in Hutou Mountain... Maybe it’s because of this.” After the king finished speaking, he thought about the cause and effect relationship for a while, “Then he is my benefactor, otherwise how could I live so long, I have to kowtow to him."

Zhao Xianao laughed, "If you think you can get some martial arts secrets out of kowtow, just kowtow."

The king glanced at him, strode to the cabinet in the secret room, scanned it around, and finally landed on a mahogany box, "Your Majesty, do you think I should open it?"

"It's better not to move around. He wants future generations to bury his bones, not to be robbed."

The king chuckled, and said, "Maybe it's priceless~"

"Then take it." Zhao Xianao said decisively.

What a money junkie.

The king's chubby hands hesitated around the mahogany box for a long time, but finally he felt that Zhao Xianao's words were reasonable, and he had to bury this person first, before robbing him.

"How to bury it?" The king looked at the skeleton and always felt that it would fall apart if he touched it.

Zhao Xianao circled around the skeleton, took off his outer robe, and threw himself flat on the ground, "You, put him on top, wrap him up, carry him out, then dig a hole and bury him."

The king's eyes widened, and he stretched out a finger to point at the tip of his nose, "Why me?"

Zhao Xianao looked at the skeleton with disgust, "It's all dust."

"you--"

"No, no, I haven't closed my eyes for two days looking for you. I really don't have the strength."

"Don't you think I just eat enough and sleep soundly!"

Zhao Xian smiled arrogantly, "Don't lie to me, you ate at least six buns and went to the brothel."

The king was speechless.

He accepted his fate.

Carrying the skeleton out of the hole, the king dug a relatively spacious pit with great effort, and put the skull's head and legs into it, "How is it?"

Zhao Xian'ao squatted by the pit, stretched out two fingers, pinched the cranial side of the skull, and straightened it, "Okay, let's bury it."

The king obeyed his orders and buried the skeleton with soft soil.

"It's done!" The king clapped his hands and asked Zhao Xianao, "Is there something missing?"

"Tombstone." When the king was digging the hole, Zhao Xianao didn't stay idle, and chopped a piece of wood with his saber.

The king asked, "What should be written on the tombstone?"

"Isn't it said on the wall, Gathering the stars and chasing the moon, thinking about Wangyou at night, then this Wangyou must be someone very important to him, why not just write, Wangyou's husband's tomb."

If you don't understand, ask, "What if he has unrequited love?"

Zhao Xianao gave him a squinting look, "Stop talking nonsense, I've already carved words."

Oh, this person has changed so fast, I don't know that it was the onion that I hugged and kissed and bit him just now.

Zhao Xianao carved characters on the wooden board and nailed the board into the soil, "It's done."

The king glanced at the unstable tombstone and began to take off his pants.

"what are you doing?"

"I pee around here so I don't..."

Zhao Xianao hastily stopped him, "You want to pee... pee in front of someone's grave? Are you afraid that he will crawl out of it in anger?"

"Isn't that a good thing?"

Zhao Xianao patted his chest and took a deep breath.

It's okay, Yuan Huan of their family is the smartest.

The king chuckled, he was deliberately teasing Zhao Xianao, "Come on, let's go in and rob... No, go in and see if there is anything... er..."

Zhao Xianao helped him say the following words, "Something that can repay our kindness for collecting his bones."

"Yes, yes, yes."

Thinking that there might be a priceless treasure inside, Zhao Xianao was no longer sleepy or hungry, and walked briskly into the cave.

Under the gaze of the king, he carefully opened the mahogany box.

It seemed to be a milky white bead inside. To their shock, the bead was extremely soft and made breathing sounds, like an egg.

Zhao Xianao almost didn't throw the box out, "This... is this alive?"

"It seems to be... what? The spiritual energy in this cave comes from here." The king wanted to touch it, but he was afraid that he would inhale the spiritual energy into his body again, and it would be bad if he accidentally became a god. , "Your Majesty, why don't you eat it, what kind of supplement is Baobuqi?"

"Supplement? This is alive!"

"Maybe you can live ten thousand years if you eat it."

"It's not guaranteed, maybe, my life is so precious, how can I take such a risk."

The king thought about it too, "Then I'll eat."

Zhao Xianao pushed his mouth away, "Are you crazy hungry, you want to eat anything."

"This won't work, that won't work, what do you say?"

Zhao Xianao didn't know what to do, he didn't dare to eat it, it was a pity to discard it.

"Why don't you touch it?"

"Touch?"

"That's right, I'm sure it won't work if I touch it, the white tiger's bloodline will suck up the aura inside." Didn't it mean that a divine object like the Misang God Grass wilted after he touched it.

It's okay to touch...

If he really had an adventure, he could live longer and spend more time with Yuan Huan, and the adventure would be worth it...

Zhao Xianao patted his face to cheer himself up, then stretched out a finger, and gently touched the soft bead.

The moment his fingertips landed on the bead, the bead suddenly slipped into Zhao Xian'ao's body along his fingers like light clusters.

The king looked at him, his eyes widened.

Zhao Xianao's stomach swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This this this this..."

The king smiled, Huya was playful and cute, "You can drink anti-fetal medicine with the queen~"

Zhao Xianao rolled his eyes when he heard this, and passed out.