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"You ask me to get that box back." As if to confirm with Zhang Ziyao, Zhu Jiuyin repeated again.

"Yes." Zhang Ziyao glanced at her a little strangely, as if wondering why he had repeatedly confirmed.

Zhu Jiuyin showed a complicated expression - that expression looked like Erlang Shen's expression that would only appear after being bitten by a roaring dog - as if he was really bitten back by a little milk dog he loved and raised After taking a sip, the man's tone became a little strange: "You want me to get the box that imprisoned Fei, even if I touch that box, there may be a piece of wood inserted into the back of my head and then removed from the box." stabbed in the mouth?"

Zhang Ziyao finally understood what kind of wind Zhu Jiuyin was having.

The boy sighed, really helpless: "Jiujiu, you are just a picture."

Zhu Jiuyin maintained that strange expression—like a sour jar fermented and stinking: "Paintings also have hearts, and now my heart is broken by you."

"What kind of colorful glazed glass heart is yours? If you say it's broken, it's broken...I mean, a piece of wood can't be inserted into the back of your head and come out of your mouth," Zhang Ziyao thought for a while, showing seriousness. The emoji said, "It's true, I'll stand in front of you."

However, this sincerity did not impress Zhu Jiuyin.

Because in the torrent of history, only Zhu Jiuyin deceived others, and no one deceived and deceived Zhu Jiuyin. Tell me to bear the people of the world, don't ask the world to bear me.

"Liar." Zhu Jiuyin insisted, "I'm really willing to sacrifice myself to die for me, why don't I just go now, I have to add an extra process of risking my life—"

"Because a piece of wood can't be inserted into the back of the head and come out of the mouth for a picture!" Zhang Ziyao couldn't bear it and raised his voice, "I just want you to follow and bring back the jewelry box you made by yourself. Refer to Tailian In the clear situation, if you are present, perhaps the monsters will be afraid of your majesty..."

Zhang Ziyao closed his mouth again in the middle of speaking, because he saw that the expression on Zhu Jiuyin's face changed again: cloudy and sunny, and the sun was shining brightly.

"What are you afraid of me?"

"..." Zhang Ziyao rolled his eyes, "Just now I saw that Huang Shuzhen came to this summer resort with her jewelry box in his arms. This mountain resort is not big, so I think you can find her with a little searching... So I will come back to discuss this matter with you after I feel relieved—and it will definitely not be convenient for me to get it myself. At that time, the inner and outer three floors will be surrounded by guards. I am not a fairy. Only the person I talk to can hear my voice, so even if there is a too clear umbrella that allows me to successfully enter Huang Shuzhen's room and talk to her, the people outside can still hear it—”

"Hmph," Zhu Jiuyin snorted and shook her legs, "You little idiot, are you really thinking about going out yourself? Tsk tsk, you really aren't afraid of death, how can there be such a fool like you in the world."

"There is nothing to fear in life, and nothing to fear in death."

"You are not afraid of death?"

"Not afraid."

"You are not afraid of death, I am afraid of your death."

"?"

Zhang Ziyao was taken aback, then turned to look at Zhu Jiuyin.

The latter continued to shake his legs, shaking and shaking: "You are dead and I will have to wait hundreds of years before I can find a Zhang family who can be persuaded by me to draw the other parts except the boots for me... A hundred years, even though this Lord has harmed me for thousands of years, but I can only think about it for a few hundred years, isn't it quite lonely?"

Zhang Ziyao wiped his face, thinking that he who thought the dog could spit out some kind of ivory was really funny, so he paused and asked, "Then it's settled?"

"Why did you ask me to go?"

"..."

"I will answer for you, because the monster will be afraid of my dragon majesty and domineering aura, and will not dare to cause trouble easily, so this matter must be done by me, right?"

"……Correct."

"Not sincere enough."

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"Hmph. It's not too late, or we'll—"

"...Jiujiu, let me sleep first." Zhang Ziyao showed a begging expression, "I haven't slept well for a few days, not to mention that there are people everywhere in broad daylight. Accompanied by people like doctors—”

Zhu Jiuyin thought for a while, and felt that what Zhang Ziyao said seemed reasonable, so she nodded and said, "Then it will be evening."

Zhang Ziyao nodded contentedly, yawned and got on the bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

The sound of Zhang Ziyao's sound sleep sounded slightly, and the man sitting on the tree withdrew his sloppy face, sat upright on the top of the tree and thought for a moment, for a long time, it seemed that he had encountered some doubts, and there was hesitation in those red pupils His emotions were fleeting, he frowned slightly...

At this time, there was a slight movement of the boy turning over while falling asleep from the other side of the bed—the man's contemplation was interrupted, he raised his head and glanced at the child who was sleeping very peacefully on the bed, paused, his frowning brows loosened. He opened it, clicked his tongue and muttered: "You are really a fool, showing such a happy and cute appearance casually..."

The voice was low and deep.

As if afraid of waking up the dreamer.

The room fell into silence afterwards.

The man sat motionless on the top of a tree and looked into the distance...

Until the western sun leans against the mountain, and the evening comes.

It is completely different from the fear caused by the earthquake. At this time, the burning red sunset glow in the sky presents beautiful different colors, and the clouds floating in the sky show soft cotton wool, quiet and peaceful.

The palace people began to prepare dinner for the masters, because they were temporarily hiding in the summer resort, and everyone couldn't pay attention to the ostentation, except that the Lord Long Live still passed the dishes as usual, and the rest of the palace concubines sent off their personal maids Or the little eunuchs went to the kitchen to pick up two small dishes to fill their stomachs... So when the time came, the maids and eunuchs went out of the arranged courtyard and walked in the same direction. They are all sincerely for the master, for fear that they will not get good food if they go late.

When these people gathered together, they couldn't help talking about what happened in the morning.

"Hey, did you know? I heard that Lianxiang from the Anning Palace died."

"Really? How did you die? Oh, she and I were a group of servants in the palace. Later, I heard that she was assigned to Concubine Deshu. The few sisters in the room were so envious of me—how beautiful is she?" die?"

"I don't know, it seems that the death is quite strange, the brains and blood flowed all over the place - the eunuchs are not allowed to discuss this matter, saying that anyone who dares to speak up will be punished!"

The voice of gossip was even smaller——

"Tsk, that's bad luck... Everyone knows how Princess Deshu became a concubine. I asked my master to say that even the imperial edict for her was drafted, and if something like this happened, she would be released to someone else's palace." Maybe even if a palace maid died, let it go to the Anning Palace... Ha."

"Isn't that right—there's no calamity lady, even her personal maid died without knowing why, so why bragging?"

"That's it."

"—Ah, I've heard about this a long time ago," a court lady carrying a food box said in a low voice with a mysterious face, "I heard that in the early years, Princess Deshu got a wooden box, which she held every day. The one in my hand, that wooden box is not ordinary, it can control all disasters in the world... I just said, how can such a god be controlled by us mortals, it must be the fairy master of the box right now I got it—"

The maid stopped in the middle of her speech, not because she couldn't continue, but because a group of them finally passed a small courtyard at this moment—the courtyard was quiet, and several guards guarded the door. A stern-faced guard, the door of the small courtyard is tightly closed, no maids or eunuchs come out with food boxes, and people walking outside can only judge through the elongated figures on the low fence wall that there is probably a lot of people in the courtyard. Sitting alone.

Soon they knew who was inside.

Because the murmur of a woman kept coming from the yard——

"My lord, please protect me from food and clothing."

"My lord, please keep me in the second place."

"My lord, please protect me from disasters in the world."

"My lord..."

Outside the courtyard, the eunuchs and maids exchanged glances and saw fear in the eyes of their companions—now they knew who lived in this small courtyard—as if they were afraid that if they stayed for a while longer, they would suffer from the bad luck inside. They closed their mouths at the same time, lowered their heads, and quickened their pace...

At the same time, the woman who was sitting in the small yard by the well with a wooden box in her hand also stopped murmuring. She listened expressionlessly for a while. The corner of her lips curled up, revealing a sneer with a strong sense of irony... The slender fingertips lightly swept over the damaged wooden box on her knees, she stood up, and was about to go back to the room——

Suddenly, she heard a small meow behind her.

At the same time, in her hand, the wooden box seemed to sense something, and it began to stir slightly.

Huang Shuzhen paused for a moment, turned around, and the scene in front of her eyes made her pupils shrink slightly——

Reflected in the pupils of the woman, there are countless golden particles floating from all directions in the courtyard and then converging. As those golden particles become denser and denser, they gradually form the outline of a closed umbrella. After a while, the umbrella It was pushed open with a "poof", and a short and fat man appeared out of nowhere in the air!

Pale skin, squinting eyes, golden pupils, he was wearing an official uniform of an unknown dynasty, and a pair of small triangular golden boots on his feet, with the tip of the triangle lightly touching the ground, and this short and fat man The man tutted and floated in mid-air.

"Huang Shuzhen."

He calls her name.

Huang Shuzhen seemed to be really awakened, she subconsciously grabbed the box in her hand, and took three steps back: "Who? Who are you? How dare you trespass in other courtyards, come here, there are assassins—"

The yellow umbrella in the short and fat man's hand turned, and the scattered yellow light enveloped the entire small courtyard——Amid Huang Shuzhen's screams, the guards outside the courtyard seemed not to hear any sound, and remained motionless. Let Huang Shu really swallow the unfinished words back into his stomach, and start to look at the person in front of him hesitantly again.

so similar.

The same as when that person appeared...

Thinking of that person, there was a flash of fear in Huang Shuzhen's eyes, and his lips trembled slightly.

But at this time, seeing the hesitant look on the face of the woman standing not far away, the short and fat man narrowed his golden cat pupils slightly, and said expressionlessly: "This deity is... God."

"god?"

"Huang Shuzhen, you imprisoned the god of disaster in the world without authorization, maliciously manipulated the changes of the world for your own selfish desires, and disrupted the order of the world, what should you do?!"

Before the woman could continue to ask questions, the short and fat man had already raised his voice——his voice was sharp and rapid, and he refused to hear it for a long time, with the majesty of a god!

"You said, you are a god?"

"Little mortal, dare to question this deity! Huang Shuzhen, stop talking nonsense, and quickly offer the box in your hand with both hands. When the deity takes the box and returns it to the heaven, I can help you excuse a few words in front of the emperor. Avoid a heavier punishment!"

"I will give it to you if you say so?" Huang Shuzhen asked back, "My lord immortal, what is wrong with this palace? I imprisoned beasts for the benefit of the common people. The world is free from disasters, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment! But this palace, It's just that after doing these good deeds, I got the blessings and ascended to the post, and I was able to become a married couple with the man I love... I am different from those women. How can you care about such things? This palace is just for—"

"Shut up! You are so stubborn! No one cares what you are really doing for Huang Shu, and no one cares whether you are really in love with the emperor on earth! Don't touch yourself again! You return the wooden box quickly, and the rest Ask yourself to be blessed!"

Between the words, the short and fat man's golden pupils were full of anger and looked at the simple wooden box in the arms of the woman - at this moment, it seemed that he felt his gaze, and Huang Shu was really afraid that he would suddenly Rushing over and grabbing, panic flashed in her eyes, she subconsciously wanted to reach out to protect her, and even made a look like she wanted to turn around and run away——

"Stop! Huang Shuzhen! You still don't know your mistake!"

The fairy holding an umbrella raised his voice and scolded in a low voice——

"This deity knows who the person who gave you the jewelry box is, and what his purpose is! Now that the emperor knows about this, the beasts are missing, and the heavens are furious, and they are about to punish the world—the earthquake yesterday, and your maidservant violent today!" Dying in your palace is just the prelude to the beginning of everything. The order of heaven and earth has its own laws and cannot be changed. You still ask yourself what is wrong?! The Huang family bears the brunt!"

"It has nothing to do with my family!"

As if she had been poked into some weak spot, Huang Shuzhen really stopped running away, her eyes widened suddenly and she raised her voice: "Since you are a god, how can you be indiscriminate?! My family doesn't know anything, I'm the only one in this palace Accepting this box - Lianxiang, Lianxiang's death was only because of her own curiosity! Who can blame?! She didn't have to die!"

"Of course you know a thing or two about the truth of Yama." The man sneered, "Let's see if he will take the risk of angering the Emperor of Heaven for you, feel pity for you, and let the net go - no It would be out of selfish desires, and it's really shameless to say it so sanctimoniously...Describe, descript, the more you describe, the darker it is!"

Under the shadow of the umbrella, a drop of cold sweat dripped down the man's forehead.

Huang Shu couldn't really see it, it was only because she was in a mess now - the man in front of him knew that the box was a jewelry box, and even knew what was inside the box!These two points alone have made her almost completely believe that the identity of the visitor is not fake...

The most terrible thing is that he even mentioned that someone gave this box to her!

He really knows everything!

... Then, what did he say that the world is angry, that he wants to bring disaster to the world, and take her Huang's family under the knife, is it also true?

The more Huang Shuzhen thought about it, the more frightened she became. When it came to her family, her previous calmness and hesitation had long been thrown out of the sky. She kept staring at the man who claimed to be "God" with wide eyes, but she couldn't see it The slightest flaw—the eyes flashed, and after a whole day, a crack finally appeared in the numb and cold heart again, and the horrifying scene of Lianxiang's tragic death in her arms in the morning reappeared in her mind again and again——

But this time, the people who died tragically became her father, her mother, and her young brothers...

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

As soon as her hands were loosened, the wooden box she was holding tightly fell to the ground. The woman who was still arrogant and domineering before covered her ears with her hands, and when her legs softened, she knelt on the ground and screamed—at this time her eyes were terrified, Numbness and remorse were enough, and the emotions that had been suppressed so hard before surged out, causing her to become not so clear-headed...

When the man floating in mid-air came to her little by little with his toes on the ground—but he didn't bend down to touch the wooden box to pick it up with his own hands, he just waved the small umbrella in his hand, and the box fell on the ground. The wooden box on the ground disappeared.

But at this moment, Huang Shuzhen hadn't stopped screaming, her thin shoulders were trembling wildly, and big drops of tears fell on the ground along her not-so-good face, picking up dust... There seemed to be a sound in the air. With a soft sigh, and then another soft "poof", the man holding the umbrella disappeared into the air. At the same time, the guard standing outside the door was finally disturbed by the scream that suddenly entered his ears...

The calm that had just been maintained in the evening was quickly broken.

Rumors spread quickly about the small summer resort——

Princess Deshu is crazy.

After the first real disaster befell the world, Empress Wu Calamity completely collapsed.

The emperor tore up the draft imperial edict without hesitation.

……

In the entire summer resort, the only place not troubled by gossip and gossip is a certain remote courtyard.

It was extremely quiet in the other courtyard.

But the room is quite lively——

Without him, one person, one cat, one painting and one wooden box.

The wooden box missing a corner was placed neatly in the center of the table, and no one touched it.

"—Scared to death, meow! Scared to death, meow! That woman is really scary, meow! How can there be someone who is so calm when seeing the gods, meow!"

A big fat cat ran around the table frantically in circles, and kept chanting in its mouth: "The little god almost thought that he was going to reveal himself meow! Master Zhu Jiuyin didn't let the little god say Meow is really suffocating meow meow!"

The big fat cat turned and turned, and then jumped up on the table, sat on the tea tray with its waist twisted and its buttocks far away from the wooden box, the big cat's tail flicked back and forth, and it stared eagerly at the wall with its cat eyes wide open. On the hanging painting, staring eyes of "come and praise me" said to the man in the painting: "Master, is the little god's acting skills good? Meow? Withstood the pressure at the critical moment, scolded Huang Shuzhen, seized the weakness and forced her to submit In the end, I lived up to expectations and brought the box back meow—the box was carefully held in the umbrella during the whole process, and the little god didn’t even dare to bump it..."

"Hold it carefully? Are you afraid of being stuck in your head by a wooden stake?" Zhu Jiuyin didn't buy it at all and said coldly, "It has nothing to do with respecting me, so don't come here to scold me."

Zhang Ziyao, who had just woken up and was in a good mood, glared at Zhu Jiuyin's words, and quickly stretched out his hand to stroke the big fat cat: "Well done, well done, as expected of a land father, but it's different... "

The big fat cat made a contented "purr purr".

Zhu Jiuyin showed a disgusted expression.

Zhang Ziyao rubbed the cat for a while under Zhu Jiuyin's disgusting gaze, until Zhu Jiuyin's eyes almost burned two holes alive on the back of his hand, and then he took his hand away... During the period, he glanced quickly The box on the table, with a missing corner, you can see a little bit of the inside of the box, everywhere is pitch black, Zhang Ziyao didn't dare to go over to take a closer look, so he really took a quick glance and then looked away.

...and when it was over, he rolled his eyes uneasily and looked at the beams of the house.

As if he was afraid that a crossbar would come flying from the sky and stick in his head.

——This look of being cautious, greedy for life and afraid of death, and quite unable to hold back the unique curiosity of youth was fully seen by Zhu Jiuyin, who had been staring at him all the time.

Zhu Jiuyin raised the corners of her lips, and was about to laugh out loud, when Zhang Ziyao let out a long breath and said, "Okay, Jiujiu, it's time for you to play!"

Zhu Jiuyin's smile froze on her lips.

After a few seconds, the lip corners are flattened.The man in the scroll resisted the urge to close the scroll, hesitated and said, "... so urgent?"

"Solve it early, go to bed early, feel at ease, release the beast, let it calm down, and then everyone should do what they want, wouldn't it be great?" Zhang Ziyao felt that he was about to be tempted by himself, "You made this box Yes, so logically it is also the way you are most familiar with opening boxes—"

Zhu Jiuyin: "..."

What a way to open the box.

There is no lock, just a cover.

Just open it up.

Zhu Jiuyin had a stinky face, and the boss was reluctant. After a long while, he finally poked out a big tail slowly from the scroll—the big emerald tail fumbled and covered the wooden box on the table. At the same time, one person and one cat around the table in the room also stared wide-eyed. When the emerald tail hooked up, the big fat cat suddenly burst into fur and let out a scream of "meow" and rushed into the arms of the black-haired boy. In the middle, the boy staggered two steps and hugged the fat cat——

"What a fart! It's not on!"

Zhu Jiuyin was in a bad mood, feeling like the person who lights up firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. Before the fire was delivered, he saw the people around him covering their ears and screaming and running away.

The big fat cat tightly hugged the boy's neck with its paws.

Zhu Jiuyin took a deep breath, raised her tail, and then heard a soft "click"——

"Meow oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhly

Everyone in the room cried and howled.

The person sitting in the picture scroll quickly retracted his tail, his eyebrows trembled twice.

……However.

After a moment.

But nothing happened.

One person and one cat screaming with their heads in their arms hesitated for a while, stopped howling, and turned their heads towards the table hesitantly——on the table, the small wooden box with the lid pushed off was still placed quietly. On the table, there was no movement, no sound, and nothing jumped out of it.

"?"

Zhu Jiuyin frowned, stretched out his tail again hesitantly, rolled up the wooden box, and fell it face down...

Still nothing was poured out.

"Meow?"

"what happened?"

When one person and one cat stretched their necks to look over curiously, at a speed neither of them could react to, the box was thrown away by the emerald tail, Zhang Ziyao screamed, and subconsciously opened his hands to take it. Before landing, it fell heavily in his hands. This time, it was absolutely inevitable not to look at the contents of the box. Zhang Ziyao took a closer look, but saw a scene that he might not have imagined before——

There is something in the box.

In the box was a little beast with a white head and horns that were nothing more than a little point. It was like an ox, with a snake tail and only one golden eye.At this moment, it stretched its limbs, firmly supporting the edge of the box, trembling all over because of the force...

It looked like he was afraid of being poured out of the box.

It doesn't want to come out.