In charge

In the secret room at the bottom of the lake, Shu Yunci stood in front of a secret room door that she had never entered before. She had been studying the pattern on the secret room door for an hour. people.But this time, she was very cautious, or rather, she was not in a hurry.

From time to time, the five old men poked their heads out from their respective secret rooms, and neither of them spoke, for fear of disturbing Shu Yunci's thinking.

After a while, Shu Yunci suddenly stretched out his hand, stroked the pattern on the door of the secret room with his fingers a few times, and then pushed the heavy stone door open with force from his palm.

The five old men all ran into a room, covered their mouths and stared wide-eyed, and the white hair on their heads was almost standing on end.

Shu Yunci completely ignored the small movements of the old men behind him, and stepped into the secret room.

The light in the secret room was very dark, and a man with hair, eyebrows, beard and beard covering his face was sitting on a stone bed.Shu Yunci couldn't tell whether his eyes were open or not.On the stone table next to it was a huge luminous pearl, emitting a soft light.

"Junior Shu Yunci has met senior." Shu Yunci stood seven feet in front of the old man, saluting upright.

"You are so young." The old man's voice was surprisingly young, and he sounded like he was only about 50 years old. "To be able to meet me through the test of the five ghosts at such a young age shows that they did not choose the wrong person."

"The five old men are just your attendants, and it wasn't them who chose me, but you. Seniors, juniors come in based on their ability, can we say something useful?" She really didn't want to talk nonsense, no matter who it was.

The old man lowered his head, shrugged his shoulders, and seemed to be smiling. "You kid is really rude. Those old ghosts were eaten to death by you, who knows if they have let you down."

Shu Yunci frowned, "I don't have much time, if senior is going to go around in circles today, this junior will leave first." After she finished speaking, she actually turned around and left.

The old man didn't make a sound, and Shu Yunci didn't stop, just left the secret room at the bottom of the lake.

Seeing Shu Yunci leave, the five old men rushed into the old man's room together. "Boss, what's wrong with you?" the bearded old man asked.

"She doesn't know how to be funny at all. My old man has been lonely for hundreds of years. It would be nice to have a girl to accompany me to talk, but she actually said that what I said is nonsense! My old man has a temper!" The old man became more and more angry. , the long eyebrows flew up.

"Boss, calm down. Little Ci'er is like this. In fact, she is very funny, as long as you have something that can attract her." The fat old man said.

Several others nodded.

The old man looked at them and said aggrievedly for a long time, "Okay, I will teach her martial arts tomorrow."

Shu Yunci returned to the Imaginary Jade Palace ahead of time, Si Ping was surprised, "Princess, why did you come back so soon? Didn't you see anyone?"

"I see, he is also a dishonest person, talking nonsense." Shu Yunci was dissatisfied.How can I have time to coax the old man to play?

"The rarer the gods are, the more powerful they are. Princess, don't be impatient." Si Ping persuaded, "The empress is ill. All the empresses in the palaces have gone to attend to the illness, and the empress Zhaoyuan has also gone just now." This is just now message received,

"The Eldest Prince has broken the way of being an emperor, so she will naturally be ill. I have seen Brother San Huang's thoughts grow stronger in the past two months, and it can be seen that people's ambitions are unpredictable." In front of her was the rice paper that had been laid out. , she wants to draw a picture, and the master will check it tomorrow.

"Does the princess want to make a move?" Silk Vase asked while grinding the ink.

Shu Yunci shook his head. "Let him make trouble, father will not stand by and watch." Of the three princes of Emperor Yuanming, only the eldest prince is the real threat to her.It is logical that the crown prince should be the eldest son, and the eldest prince is the eldest son.As for the other two princes, without her, Shu Yunci, they might still be able to compete.

On the pen and paper, the ink smudges, and it is a continuous landscape.

In the early spring of Yuanming 18, the harem was already full of peach blossoms.A small figure walked through the peach blossom forest, bringing out the fragrance of peach blossoms, and a few petals fell from its shoulders.

Shu Yunci, who is already 11 years old, has a problem recently, that is, she seems to be shorter than ordinary children.Every time she asked Zhong Zhaoyuan, Zhong Zhaoyuan would say that there are first and last, and she must be the last.But some people talked behind her back, saying that she had too many thoughts, which suppressed her height, and she would not grow taller in the future.

Thinking of how small she would be in the future, Shu Yunci frowned beautifully, no matter how she wiped it off, she couldn't smooth it out.The big old man recently taught her a set of internal skills, which is very difficult to practice.She practiced it a few times, and every time she was on the verge of going crazy, she would fall into it if she was not careful, which made her wonder if the old man was playing with herself.

After a year, the empress finally recovered from her illness. Recently, she rewarded many people in the harem, saying that she was sympathetic to the hard work and dedication of the concubines and concubines.Not much, but all good.Her mother, Zhong Zhaoyuan, also received a few gadgets, all of which were for children, and her mother gave them to her.

Another spring came, but Jiang Fengmin never showed up.Shu Yunci was a little worried, after all, his painstaking efforts for so many years could not be wasted.

Si Ping saw that Shu Yunci was thinking about Jiang Fengmin, and suggested, "Why don't you send someone to Lingguo to have a look?"

"What do you look at? It's like I'm very rare for her. It's just a knife. Don't let her be arrogant. If the knife is arrogant, it will be useless." She tilted the pen in her hand, A single character is crooked, so I can't read it. "Look, if the brush is too arrogant, it's useless." After speaking, the fine brush was broken and fell on the snow-white rice paper, staining the color.

Silk bottle shrank its neck.My heart said that you are venting your anger with a dead object.

At this moment, Jiang Fengmin was practicing in the mountains.She also had an adventure when she returned home this time.Because she has been in the hidden country all year round, the Ling country has always said that she can't get sick.Unless there was an accident, she would only return to China every year during the Chinese New Year. During the Chinese New Year, she must attend the banquet in the palace, otherwise it would be really suspicious.

This year her martial arts has made great progress compared to last year, and her hearing and vision are different from ordinary people.During the banquet in the palace on New Year's Eve, she felt the searching eyes of Emperor Ling.As a princess, she is not close to the emperor, so she just doesn't know.It's just that although the conversation between the two behind the throne god was quiet, she could hear it clearly.

The emperor and empress were discussing her strange disease.The Jiang clan of Ling Kingdom's royal family seemed to be under some kind of curse. Every generation, one woman would suffer from this strange disease.Those who are sick will freeze to death at the age of [-]. The death is miserable and there is no cure.All the royal women who were sick in the past dynasties died of miserably wailing, and some even committed suicide early in order not to suffer from this kind of torture.

This generation is Jiang Fengmin, a princess who is not very favored, and the empress feels better.But who will the next generation of patients be?It is hard to guarantee that it is not a close relative.In addition, although this strange disease is only inherited among women, for the royal family, it is also a knife hanging over the head at all times.

For so many years, Ling Guo recruited famous doctors, but no one was able to cure this strange disease.Even the royal family at the top of Ling Kingdom's power cannot escape the torment of fate.

Jiang Fengmin sat there, and many people looked at her with strange eyes, some with pity, some with sympathy, and what's more, they looked at her with the eyes of a dead person.Only her expression remained normal, and she neither resisted nor felt sorry for these gazes, as if it had nothing to do with herself.

"Jingwu, you are much quieter than before." Sitting next to Jiang Fengmin were all his peers.It was her cousin Princess Shuhui who spoke.

"I'm a little older, of course I'm more sensible than before. I can't mess around like I did when I was a child."

Her words caused Princess Shuhui to cover her mouth and snigger. "Do you still know that you were fooling around when you were young? If you say you are real, you don't look like a girl at all. You are full of golden branches and jade leaves. You go up trees to catch birds all day long, and go down rivers to catch fish. I heard that your lightness kung fu and water skills are so vivid. from."

Don't look at Jiang Fengmin like a saw-mouth gourd in front of Shu Yunci, she is a chatty person in Ling country.Especially among sisters of the same generation, she is so annoying that everyone avoids her.However, she has a strange skeleton, and she has been taught martial arts by experts since she was a child. Although she is young, ordinary people are no match for her. Being chased by her is really annoying.

In the past few years in Yin Country, Jiang Fengmin only got together with his sisters during the Chinese New Year, and the conversation was less and less every year, which made these little sisters miss her in the past.

"I was just naughty when I was young, don't I look good now?" Jiang Fengmin smiled. Although her smile is relaxed at the moment, it has no emotion.These people... combined, are not as interesting as Shu Yunci.She had just returned to China, and she had already started to miss that doll with a vicious mouth and a heart.

A few days before the new year, Jiang Fengmin accompanied his mother to various houses to pay New Year's greetings, and received a generous red envelope, but she didn't want it either, and gave it to her mother to keep.

The concubine knew that she had been hiding in the country, and thinking that she was out alone, she took out a stack of bank notes and handed it to her, "Min'er, your parents are not with you, you have to take care of yourself. Mother believes that you will be able to Get rid of the Jiang family's curse and grow up safely."

Jiang Fengmin nodded.Regarding her own strange disease, since she was able to use it to practice the Frost Art faster, she didn't take it seriously at all. "Mother, you don't have to worry about me. Everything is fine when I'm outside. It's just that you have to help me hide it. It's really hard."

The concubine smiled and helped her tidy up the wrinkles on her clothes, "Silly boy, my mother doesn't have to do anything hard for you, as long as you are safe and sound."

In the past few days, Jiang Fengmin was with his mother every day, and his relationship has improved a lot.She has an older brother, an older sister, and two younger brothers.Her sister Qingling Princess is a very gentle woman, and Jiang Fengmin is completely two extremes.When she was a child, whenever she was naughty, her mother said that she must have been born with the wrong gender, and her temper was that of a boy.Her daughters should all be Qingling.

The master of Qingling County has already reached the age of Ji this year, and I heard that her mother is already planning a marriage.Jiang Fengmin seldom meddles in family affairs, and at this moment he can't help but fantasize about his future brother-in-law. After all, a gentle and beautiful woman like his sister must be worthy of a man who is excellent in all aspects.