Millennium drunk

Xia Ruoqing just held up the little jade lamp, as if turning into an elm, motionless, the expression in her eyes turned from condensation to anger, and anger turned to frenzy, and with a heavy throw in her hand, the jade lamp fell hard to the ground, instantly Broken bones.

"Mother... Your Majesty..." Nuo Nuo whispered from the stairs, it was just to comfort her.

Before Xia Ruoqing could speak, she bent her knees and knelt on the stairs, saying in a trembling voice: "Madam, slaves are useless... Lan Jieyu hadn't sent someone to inform her that she was coming, and slaves didn't expect... It happened so suddenly. Slaves can't stop Lan Jieyu...Slaves...Slaves...Slaves are useless, please forgive me!"

Wan Rong seemed to be terrified in his heart, he talked in a nonsensical manner, and finally couldn't hold back his sobs, he just knocked his forehead heavily on the ground, not daring to speak any more.

After waiting for a long while in silence, just when she was about to jump out of her chest, she heard Xia Ruoqing's cold voice: "Get up, I didn't expect He Lan to come here today after waiting for several days. No wonder you."

As if being pardoned, she got up with a sigh of relief, thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, just now before leaving, Lan Jieyu ordered the servants to pack up the common clothes and utensils for your Majesty, saying that your Majesty is going to move to Chengming Hall to be with Lan Jieyu. Jieyu live together?"

"kindness."

"Lan Jieyu ordered the servant girl to wait for the empress to move there tonight. Then... the servant girl will clean up immediately!"

"What's the hurry, we'll move tomorrow."

Hearing that Xia Ruoqing was really going to move to Chengming Hall, Wan Rong immediately beamed with joy.It's just that the happy face appeared, and then it froze on the face again, calling out: "Niang Niang..."

"He Lan is going to have dinner with His Majesty today, and will probably stay in Zihuan Palace tonight." Xia Ruoqing still stared at the fragments of the jade lamp buried in the ashes of the incense burner, and said indifferently: "Master Zhang Shu is coming tonight, you Go prepare some tea cakes, don't neglect her."

"Your Majesty! Lan Jieyu will always protect you. When His Majesty sees Your Majesty, he will definitely think of your past good times. Your Majesty, you...you...why do you..."

"Needless to say, tidy up, and change my clothes and put on makeup first." Xia Ruoqing waved her hand to stop Wanrong's words, fingered the wound, feeling the twitching pain, with a trace of madness and ambition in her eyes.

She is not reconciled, she is not reconciled!

She is not reconciled to being subservient to others in this life, she is not reconciled to live under the protection of others for the rest of her life, she is trembling, not knowing where to go.

The beauty is easy to grow old, the king is ruthless, she has been in the palace for more than five years, and she has seen too many beauties who are lifted up to the clouds and then thrown to the ground and crushed into mud. Even she is one of them.

He Lanfu can rely on his favor to protect her today, maybe tomorrow, but what about the day after tomorrow?What about in the future?According to He Lanfu's status, it is absolutely impossible for the Emperor of Nanzhao to allow her to keep an heir. According to the law, the harem will select a girl to enter the palace next year. There are so many beauties. Who can guarantee that He Lanfu will be favored forever?

Once they lost their favor, He Lanfu's identity, He Lanfu's temperament, and the Xia clan's criminal evidence, any of them would be enough to make the two of them perish in the harem.

The only reliable thing in this world is not the illusory king's favor, but the power to stand on top of all living beings and control the life and death of others!

That night.

During the day, Wan Rong cleaned up the building, and removed all the black paper pasted on the windows.Xia Ruoqing sat by the window, opened half of the window, and had a drink facing the moon.She changed into a deciduous skirt with lozenge weaving edges. The color is sober, her face is shone by the moonlight, her skin looks like snow, her peach eyes are rippling, and her lips are smiling, just like Chang'e descending to the earth. cold.

Hearing the sound of stepping on the wooden ladder, Xia Ruoqing turned her head to look, and saw a woman in soot-ash uniforms leading into the hall by her arms.

"Zhang Xichun from Changshou nunnery has seen Concubine Jing."

When the visitor went upstairs, he saw Chang Li first, and when he looked up, he saw the moonlight in the building, clear and bright, and his face suddenly darkened by two points.

"Zhang Shushi, sit down."

Xia Ruoqing waved her hand again, and immediately went downstairs to watch in the garden.

Zhang Xichun didn't show any extra politeness, and walked to the window and sat down as he said.As soon as she sat down, Xia Ruoqing poured her a glass of wine with a pot.

"Your Majesty, this..." Seeing that Xia Ruoqing didn't say anything, Zhang Xichun couldn't hold back anymore.

"It didn't work." Xia Ruoqing didn't say much, raised her head and drank the wine in her glass in one gulp.

"Could it be time to shed the shell..." Zhang Xichun's face was very ugly, and he was a little bit puzzled. He knew it was wrong just after he said a sentence, so he stopped himself.

The first difficulty in raising Gu is the Gu species, and the second is when the shell is shed.If the Gu worms do not want to come out of the host when shelling, the host will suffer backlash, the host will die and the Gu worms will die, and both will perish.

But once the owner can let the Gu worms shed their shells smoothly, the rest will come naturally.Now Xia Ruoqing is still sitting at the opposite table and drinking, but she said 'no success', Zhang Xichun couldn't figure it out.

"Don't ask, if you don't succeed, you don't succeed." Xia Ruoqing also seemed to be extremely irritable, her brows frowned, and her tone became more serious.

Zhang Xichun sneered when he heard the words, his words were no longer respectful, and he said sharply: "Jing Gui, do you know how much I have spent on this Gu seed?! Now I will hand over the Gu seed to you. me?"

After a moment of silence, Zhang Xichun laughed again, and said darkly, "You want to cross the river and tear down the bridge?"

Zhang Xichun was only forty years old, but his head was full of white hair, scars overlapped on his face, his skin was shriveled, and the sides of his eye sockets and the edges of his lips were pulled outward by the shrinking skin.When he smiled at this time, the bones on his face were distorted, and his eyes protruded, making him really look like an evil ghost.

Xia Ruoqing didn't seem to see it, she poured herself another glass of wine and drank it all, then said slowly: "I really want to cross the river and tear down the bridge, so I won't wait for you to come tonight."

"What the hell is going on then?"

"The shelling is done, but there was an accident when the food was distributed." Xia Ruoqing softened her tone, "The Xia family's life and death are all on the front line, and I don't want to waste more than a year of hard work overnight. It's just that the world is unpredictable. I can't do anything, I hope Zhang Shushi won't take offense."

Zhang Xichun didn't talk to her, but just looked at Xia Ruoqing coldly.

"Zhang Shushi also knows the difficulty of raising Gu. Nine times out of ten, things don't go as planned. Xia Ruoqing can only be here tonight to accompany Zhang Shushi. I hope Zhang Shushi can give me another Gu seed again, so I can start again. Pass."

"Another Gu, hehe, another Gu!" At this point, Zhang Xichun couldn't bear it any longer, gnashed his teeth and said, "Your Majesty said it lightly. That Gu has cost me 13 years. Transform yourself into this inhuman and ghostly appearance to refine it! Once the empress opens the golden mouth, do you want me to hand over another Gu seed to you?"

Xia Ruoqing obviously hadn't expected it, and asked in surprise, "13 years?"

"That's right, 13 years! There are tens of thousands of poisonous insects in the world, but they grow and restrain each other. When a group of species rises, natural enemies will come immediately, so there are few rulers. It's just that once this group of species can kill the natural enemies, they will multiply. Fangyuan Ten miles are full of this kind, humans and animals are all exterminated, and there is nothing else. If there are too many of them, they will devour each other, and the one who devours the most of the same kind will become the king. Gu species need to find [-] different kinds of poisonous insect kings, and then place them in one place. Fight each other, and only those who survive in the end can become Gu species. Do you know how many places I have traveled and how many risks I have taken in order to find the king of these twelve kinds of poisonous insects? This look? If it wasn't for the poisoning being too complex and deep, how could I entrust you to raise the Gu worms that I have refined through so much painstaking efforts?!"

The more Zhang Xichun talked, the more excited he became, his teeth were chattering.Xia Ruoqing was stunned, and after a while she murmured: "I don't know how difficult it is to refine Gu seeds... It's my fault, it's my negligence."

These two sentences of apology were extremely sincere, Zhang Xichun gritted his teeth for a moment, then sighed suddenly, and said: "Forget it, this is God's will. God's will is so, is the empress still unwilling to accept her fate?"

Xia Ruoqing snorted softly, and said, "My fate is never up to me."

"Okay, what I like the most is the ambition of the empress not to let a man. I have only cultivated one Gu seed in my whole life, not to mention that it will take at least a year to start over. Even though I live in seclusion, I know that the Xia family may not be able Hold on for another year. Your Majesty, don’t worry, although I have no Gu seeds, there is one that will become a Gu, it just depends on whether your Majesty is willing or not.”

The conversation turned around, Xia Ruoqing really couldn't figure out what kind of medicine Zhang Xichun sold in the gourd, said in a deep voice: "I can raise Gu with my own body, so why not?"

"This Gu was cultivated by the empress herself, and it will be controlled by the empress herself in the future. Although it is dangerous, it is convenient. After all, the fewer people who know about the Gu art, the better. Therefore, although I have become a Gu, I did not tell the empress. It's just a matter of fact. Up to now, I have no choice but to take it out. This Gu has been raised by others. It is different from the mole Gu I gave to the empress. It is divided into a mother and a child, and the mother will point at the child. Wisdom, but can kill people invisible. The dead have no wounds or traces, and no one can find out the reason. When a person dies, the child Gu will crawl back to the side of the mother Gu, until the next time it will follow the order of the mother Gu."

Xia Ruoqing froze, the fights in this palace may not be much less than those on the battlefield, but there are so many eyes and ears in the palace, and there will be more or less leaks after the attack. .Although the mole Gu can control people's mind and make them crazy, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it would be better to kill them once and for all.It's just that since he is a Gu, with such a good thing, how could Zhang Xichun not use it and give it to him for nothing?

Seeing Xia Ruoqing's expression, Zhang Xichun guessed what she was thinking, and said: "If I can resist this Gu myself, I don't need to live in Nantang and suffer a lot of cowardice. This Gu empress can't use it either, within this court, There is only one person to guard against."

"Who?"

"He Lanfu."

Xia Ruoqing was taken aback for a moment, then became furious and shouted, "No way!"

"Your Majesty, listen to me. This Gu is different from other Gu. Only the blood of Beiyan's royal family can be suppressed. Once others are infected, they will burst into blood and die. However, if the right master is recognized, the mother Gu can not only support the emissary Gu, but also Knowing how to protect the Lord in every possible way is the most special and most coveted of all kinds of Gu insects. I only hate that I have a wrong background, but I can’t use this pair of mother-child Gu. The empress and Nalan Jieyu have a very good personal relationship. It’s okay for her to help you.”

Xia Ruoqing just frowned and didn't answer.

"That's it, the empress thinks carefully, and I will go back to the nunnery tonight. Come back in three days to hear the empress's reply."

Zhang Xichun didn't say much anymore, stood up and made a bow, turned around and was about to leave.

It was almost at the entrance of the stairs, Xia Ruoqing woke up as if awakened from a dream, and said, "Master Zhang Shu can't come here again in three days, I'm going to move to Chengming Palace."

"There are people coming and going in the Chengming Hall, which is not good for you. How could your empress think of moving there?" Zhang Xichun narrowed his eyes, turned around and asked.

"That lowly maidservant Li Siqi ran to the Nanzhao Emperor and started talking nonsense, causing a commotion in the city. He Lanfu thought she was suspicious and asked me to move in with her."

"Oh, that's how it is." Zhang Xichun nodded: "Your Majesty, don't blame me for talking too much. There are many people in this palace, and they are especially provocative. I hope Your Majesty can make a decision soon."

Xia Ruoqing seemed very impatient, she waved her hand and said, "Let me think about it. If there is something to do, I will ask Wan Rong to contact the magician, and I will not see you off."

Annoyance appeared in Zhang Xichun's eyes at the order of chasing away guests, and then he retracted it in an instant, bowed again, and left without hesitation.