A kitten dressed as an empress

"Don't play tricks." The white-haired old man said vigilantly.

Wen Ruyan looked into the bottomless cave and pretended to be sprained and shouted, "My foot hurts so I guess I can't walk."

The white-haired old man mercilessly raised his hand to tie a chain on Wen Ruyan's wrist, and then held up a fire bag to explore the way.

Due to the disparity in strength between the two, Wen Ruyan could only be led by the nose.

The underground passage is very complicated, and he walked around for a long time. When the ground under his feet was no longer as soft as the mud, Wen Ruyan touched the surroundings and found out that it was a brick wall and stone road. Curiously asked: "Why don't I?" Know that there is a labyrinth of tunnels under the palace."

"The old man also found this tunnel by accident, presumably the former emperor left a way for future generations to survive." The white-haired old man looked around holding a torch, frowning slightly, feeling that something was wrong.

Seeing people stop suddenly, Wen Ruyan was a little puzzled and asked, "Why didn't you leave?"

The white-haired old man raised his hand and said, "Don't make a sound, the old man seems to have heard something."

There are probably several places in this passage that are ventilated with the outside world, so in the cold winter, the cold wind will blow into the passage, so you will hear the whirring sound.

"No." Wen Ruyan approached, and saw that the white-haired old man held not only a torch but also a disc in his hand, which seemed to be used to find the direction, "Hey, you won't get lost, right?"

"If it wasn't plotted by you little girl, how could this old man be arrested in this broken palace prison?"

Wen Ruyan didn't panic and was dragged forward, looked at the stubborn old man with disgust and muttered: "Why do you have to arrest me?"

The white-haired old man snorted and said: "Back then, the old man had no intention of triggering a turning point to let you, a person from another world, come to the Southern Dynasty. Now if you are not arrested and returned to the sect, I am afraid that the Yunshan sect will make fun of the old man."

"It was your fault in the first place. You somehow brought me, a prospective college entrance examination candidate, into this different world. Now you want to push me back. It's really unreasonable."

"Little girl loves to quarrel. If you hadn't changed the fate of the South Country, how would this old man find out it was you."

"But I didn't do anything." Wen Ruyan looked at the white-haired old man with a look of injustice, and pulled the chain in his hand.

The white-haired old man turned around and was about to give a lecture, but there was a growling in his stomach, which was very obvious in the quiet passage.

Wen Ruyan couldn't help laughing, took out a small bag of pastries from his sleeve pocket and said, "Would you like some?"

"You little girl has a bit of a conscience. It's not in vain for me to take care of you all the way, and I also gave you a lot of buns." The white-haired old man picked up the pastry and stuffed it into his mouth.

As soon as I heard the steamed buns Wen Ruyan, I felt my teeth started to hurt. I rushed to the Northwest to chew on the steamed buns that looked like ice cubes in the winter, and my teeth were almost broken.

The two leaned against a staircase to rest, and Wen Ruyan looked at the dark passage and said, "What do you think I changed the fate of the southern country?"

The white-haired old man was so hungry that he almost choked on the pastry. He coughed a few times before he got out of breath and responded: "I can't speak clearly in a few words. It's better not to waste your tongue."

Wen Ruyan held on to the chain tightly and said, "Empty words are useless. If you can't tell, you're lying. Why don't you spit out the pastry you ate just now."

If you can't delay the time at this time, it will be even more difficult for Zhao Yao to find herself when she leaves the palace.

"Then the good old man will show you a little trick." The white-haired old man raised his hand and cast a spell, then tapped Wen Ruyan's forehead.

Wen Ruyan, who was still in the dark passageway, unexpectedly lit up before his eyes.

At this time, the Chaotian Palace was in a mess, the palace guards fled everywhere, but the white-haired old man was no longer by his side, Wen Ruyan wandered around in the palace but did not see Zhao Yao.

I had no choice but to go to Yuqing Palace to search for people. I didn't expect to encounter several incidents of guards robbing palace people's property with knives in the palace road.

There was thick smoke everywhere in the palace. It was almost dusk and it was extremely hot outside. Wen Ruyan raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his cheeks, looking at the turmoil in the palace with some anxiety, but his heart was already in chaos .

When Wen Ruyan was taking the path to enter Yuqing Palace, he happened to meet someone, and he was completely dumbfounded.

Isn't this the dead Omiya Ren Chunlan?

What the hell!

"Chunlan, what happened here?" Wen Ruyan grabbed Chunlan and asked.

"Who are you?" Chunlan held the package in her hand and was very defensive. She was dressed in ordinary civilian clothes and had a lot of dust on her face.

Wen Ruyan heard the shouts of fighting outside, and said eagerly, "Tell me what happened first, and where did Zhao Yao go?"

Chunlan couldn't break free and had to say: "Can't you see the situation?"

"The rebel army led by the Song family has already invaded, and the Southern Kingdom is gone. As for His Majesty, he must have escaped."

Wen Ruyan was completely confused, seeing Chunlan running out in a panic, she had no choice but to look for her in Yuqing Palace.

With Zhao Yao's personality, she would rather die than run away.

Running from the front yard of Yuqing Palace to the main hall, and then through the garden pavilion to Qiongshu in the backyard, I saw Zhao Yao in bright yellow dragon robe.

It will be midsummer, and the flowering period of Qiongshu is very short. It is clearly in full bloom, but it is already withering.

Zhao Yao sat alone on the swing, wearing a gold veil on her face, her expression was very calm.

At sunset and dusk, the fire-like sunset glow dyed the imperial palace into a gorgeous fiery red. Zhao Yao was as dazzling as a phoenix reborn from the ashes, but outside the Yuqing Palace was already a bloody battlefield.

Wen Ruyan ran up to Zhao Yao with unsteady breathing, held her hand and said, "Quick, follow me out of here!"

"Let's go?" Zhao Yao looked at the reddish woman, shook her head slightly and said, "I am the Empress of the Southern Kingdom, and I can't go anywhere except the palace."

"Are you crazy?" Wen Ruyan completely forgot that this was just an illusion, seeing Zhao Yao leisurely swinging, her mood collapsed.

Zhao Yao sneered and raised her hand to pass the Chuanguo Yuxi to Wen Ruyan and asked, "Are you also here to ask for the Yuxi?"

"What do I want this broken stone for?" Wen Ruyan raised his hand and threw Yuxi into the grass beside him, and held Zhao Yao's Weiliang hand, "Yuqing Palace will be surrounded by officers and soldiers soon, if you don't leave, you will die."

"They come if they want." Zhao Yao looked at Wen Ruyan unmoved, and her eyes fell on Qiongshu not far away, "Anyway, the Southern Kingdom will be defeated sooner or later, it would be better to be defeated by my hands .”

At first, Wen Ruyan couldn't figure out that Zhao Yao's thoughts on power struggle should not be rebelled by the Song family, but only now did he see that Zhao Yao had the intention to lose the family.

What a willful person.

"Then why do you still stick to the Southern Palace?" Wen Ruyan sat on one side helplessly.

Zhao Yao looked at this unruly man with a strange head and said, "I don't like the palace, but I don't want to go outside the palace either."

An ancient version of social terror?

Wen Ruyan looked at Zhao Yao, who was very calm, and listened to the shouts outside, feeling very anxious.

"Why don't you leave?" Zhao Yao tapped the ground with her toes and shook the swing slightly, "If it's not too early, I will be killed by the rebels."

"I was wondering why you wanted to destroy the Southern Kingdom?" Wen Ruyan calmed down for a while, and could only comfort herself that this was an illusion to keep calm.

Zhao Yao raised her hand to catch the falling Qiong Huaying: "I just threw away what they all wanted, isn't it strange?"

Isn't it weird?

Wen Ruyan felt that Zhao Yao's thinking was not a little bit different from his own.

When the palace gate of Yuqing Palace was knocked and rumbled, Wen Ruyan became inexplicably nervous when he heard the sound, and said again: "Who are they?"

"You are too ignorant of etiquette, why did I tell you?" Zhao Yao looked at Wen Ruyan defensively, her eyes were full of coldness.

Fortunately, Wen Ruyan occasionally saw Wen Ruyan quarreling a few times in the past, and she was not as afraid as she was at first, and approached her to respond: "The southern kingdom is gone, and you are not the empress, why can't I ask?"

Zhao Yao didn't expect to respond so boldly, Wei Wei raised her eyebrows and said, "You are so bold."

Wen Ruyan saw that Zhao Yao got up from the swing and then picked up the lamp and jug beside him. This behavior was a little weird.

Wen Ruyan didn't know Zhao Yao's thoughts until Qiongshu was set ablaze, and she wanted to end all this with her own hands.

The surrounding area gradually darkened, and the fire ignited by Qiongshu ignited the surrounding trees together. Wen Ruyan looked at Zhao Yao who had merged with the flame, and his heart ached instantly.

This feeling of helplessness in watching her die but not being able to save her is really cruel!

The illusion in front of him suddenly disappeared, Wen Ruyan came back to his senses with red eyes and asked, "Is she really dead like this?"

The white-haired old man sighed: "Within five years, the last female emperor of the Southern Kingdom executed tens of thousands of people during the period of promulgating various tyrannical policies, and even connived at the slaughter of the aristocratic family. It was burnt clean, but now you see what it has become?"

"It's obviously very good." Wen Ruyan retorted unconvinced.

"It's good, but Zhao Yao's life is evil, and sooner or later she will commit murder. The more prosperous the southern country is now, the more people will die under her strict orders in the future. At that time, you and I can't afford such a crime."

Wen Ruyan tugged at the chain and said, "Then why don't you let me take Zhao Yao away?"

The white-haired old man shook his head and responded: "You little girl thinks really simply, Zhao Yao is in a dead end, no matter how powerful this old man is, I can't change my fate, I can only remove your living chess piece."

Before the words finished, a stone wall suddenly blocked the long passage, Wen Ruyan hid behind the white-haired old man and said, "Hey, you are triggering some mechanism, right?"

After all, I have seen all kinds of hidden arrows and poisons in ancient novels.

"It shouldn't be." The white-haired old man raised his hand to block the stone wall.

I saw the passage suddenly lit up, the guards on both sides surrounded this side with arrows, and the extremely agile secret guards cast their nets at the old man.

The white-haired old man dodged sideways, unexpectedly Wen Ruyan became the prey.

Wen Ruyan, who was completely hung up, had ten thousand words in his heart to say to these hidden guards.

After the force pulled Wen Ruyan to the side away from the white-haired old man, a corner of the bright yellow robe was revealed in front of her eyes, Zhao Yao raised her hand to embrace Wen Ruyan and asked worriedly: "Did something happen?"

Wen Ruyan felt awkward meeting Zhao Yao's affectionate gaze, after all Zhao Yao treated her like a stranger in the illusion.

Seeing that no one spoke, Zhao Yao became more and more anxious. She hurriedly raised her hand to untie the fine net, and stretched out her hand to feel Wen Ruyan's pulse.

"Could it be acupuncture or a drug?" Zhao Yao looked suspiciously at Wen Ruyan's expression, and her eyes were full of worry.

Wen Ruyan stretched his arms around Zhao Yao and called out in a low voice, "I'm fine."

Zhao Yao didn't expect that Wen Ruyan would be so proactive and was a little surprised, she lowered her head and rubbed her side face slightly in a daze, and put her arms around her tightly and comforted her softly: "Don't be afraid, I won't let you have trouble."

"I'm not afraid." Wen Ruyan raised her head and replied unwillingly to be underestimated.

"then you……"

Wen Ruyan also knew that she was abnormal, so she was very embarrassed for a while.

Alas, I can't say that I saw her previous life just now.

If such words are spoken, Zhao Yao will definitely think that there is something wrong with her head.

The author has something to say: Today is also an ordinary chapter~~O(∩_∩)O~~