Yan ghost

The puppet returns to the bedroom alone.As soon as he arrived at the gate of the palace, he saw the inner officer coming up to inquire: "Is your empress at King Huai's place?"

The puppet saw that the question was so strange, and was afraid that a random answer would reveal his secrets, so he pretended to be cryptic and said: "What nonsense, I'm just reminiscing about the old days with King Huai." After speaking, he walked into the bedroom.

The internal officer followed in and hurriedly nodded yes.At this time, the lights in the room were brightly lit, and the internal officer could see clearly, and suddenly glanced at the puppet strangely.

The puppet asked: "What's the matter?" The internal official said: "Since the empress can't be found tonight, can I choose another concubine?"

The puppet nodded, so the inner officer retreated to the corner and beckoned Xuanfei Mujia to come in.When the puppet sees the concubines behind the lottery, they are all natural beauties, and they are very satisfied.He looked at one after another, and finally picked two concubines that he had never ordered before.One is young and elegant, the other is charming and lovely, both born extremely beautiful.

Although the internal officials didn't know who the chosen concubine was, they could tell from a distance that there were two of them.He had never seen the Son of Heaven like this before, and he was surprised but dared not say much.

At this time, the puppet found that one of the sticks in the wooden armor was missing. After thinking about it, it must be the concubine who has not arrived tonight.He took a look out of curiosity, and found that the one on the portrait was actually the maid played by Xiang Yan at the banquet.No wonder the man disappeared tonight.

Mujia left the palace to summon the concubine.The internal officials planned to retire with him.Suddenly the puppet stopped the eunuch and asked, "Now in Chilan, which Yanshi is the most capable?"

The internal official bowed his head and replied: "The Yujia Festival selected the top [-] wooden armors. The puppet ranked first is extremely exquisite and can be remade. No one can surpass the Yanshi Jiumu who made this puppet. Right, it should be number one in the red column."

"Find out where he lives."

"Yes."

As soon as the inner officer exited the palace, he ran away in a hurry, tripping over the stone steps in his haste.At this time, a person jumped from behind, stood in front of him, and supported him.

"Your Majesty, what other orders do you have?"

"Why are you so flustered?"

"I……"

"You don't need to inquire." The corner of the puppet's mouth twitched, and it twisted the neck of the inner officer and strangled him to death.

The puppet dragged the corpse back to the room and hid it under the bed.He took off King Huai's coat, threw it into a copper basin, lit a candle, and muttered silently: "You were born too shrewd."

He rummaged through the room, found an imperial robe and put it on behind the screen.When he came out, he saw that the two concubines were already waiting in front of the bed, looking at each other at a loss.

"Master Jiumu, help my wife make a doll, the price is negotiable."

"We have been waiting here for three days, you have to do it for us first."

As soon as Jiu Mu walked out of the house, he heard a loud call from outside, sighed, walked back into the house, and closed the door tightly.

Someone behind him said: "Yanshi was a blockbuster at the Yujia Festival, why didn't he want to accept the commission?"

A strange man suddenly appeared in the room, Jiu Mu was very displeased.He pointed at the door and said, "Go, I won't make you a puppet."

"I don't want dolls." The visitor threw a money bag on the table, and two ingots fell out of the money bag, both of which were gold.

"I want to sign."

"Signature?" Jiu Mu was a little surprised, he didn't recognize the person in front of him as a doll just now.He went up to check it carefully, and asked puzzledly, "Why didn't the Yanshi who made it sign for such a good doll, so he wasn't afraid of being abused?"

"It's not that I didn't sign it, but the original signature was deleted." The puppet said, "I want you to give me a signature that no one can decipher."

Jiumu smiled, sat down and stretched out his hands to grab the purse and said, "I can't do it."

The puppet stepped forward, and a short knife was suddenly stuck between Jiu Mu's fingers.Jiu Mu was so frightened that he was out of his wits, and slowly retracted his five fingers, which had been resting, and heard the puppet say: "If you can't do it, you don't want to be a wooden armor anymore. If you can do it, not only this bag of silver, I will guarantee your long life, The glory is endless."

Jiumu nodded in a daze, got up and asked the puppet to sit on his seat, then turned to bring the tools.

"What do you want to sign?"

"Naturally, it is an exclusive signature."

"Then what is your name?"

"Fu Yue."

Jiu Mu raised his head in surprise, and asked: "The last king of Yanfang seems to be named by this name." The puppet said indifferently: "My parents are both from Chilan, and they didn't have Yanfang when I was born, it's just a coincidence." Jiu Mu said that was the case, and didn't dare to say more, so he carved his signature on the back of the doll.

After finishing the work, Jiumu sent the doll out, and then walked into the back room.There is a large vat in the house, and the vat makes a loud noise.He opened the water tank, and there was a person in it.The man raised his head and found that he looked exactly like Jiu Mu.

The man struggled continuously, his mouth was blocked by rags, and his hands and feet were bound to death.With a wave of his hand, the rope on the man's hands and feet was untied, he stood up staggeringly, pulled out the cloth in his mouth, turned out the big tank, and fled out the door.

"stop."

The man couldn't move immediately, only trembling when he saw the other party coming to him.

A burst of immortal energy lingered in front of my eyes, and disappeared in an instant.Just now, Jiu Mu changed his appearance, wearing a gold-woven white robe, holding a stag tail in his hand.

Jiumu saw that the person in front of him was both knowledgeable about spells and possessed immortal energy, and said timidly: "Immortal... the immortal Lord, please let me go, the little one has always been law-abiding and law-abiding—"

"Then why don't you dare to accept a lot of commissions outside the door?"

"Hey, a while ago I picked up the wooden armor arm of the patriarch by mistake, and that's why I cheated the first place in the Yujia Ceremony. It's just a false name, how dare I accept any commission."

"Grandpa?"

"Oh, Xiang Yan, the founder of Yanshu."

When the other party heard Xiang Yan's name, his expression changed.Jiu Mu panicked, confessed all at once, and evaded it cleanly: "There is also the matter of the Yujia Festival. I am also afraid of being discovered and getting into trouble, so I stay behind closed doors. It was all forced by the patriarch, and it has nothing to do with me." ..."

"What did he make you do?"

"He asked me to secretly sign exclusive autographs for the wooden armors."

In front of the rockery, the puppet stopped a maid and asked, "Are you sure you saw someone go in that day?"

"Return to your majesty, it is absolutely true." The maid said, "On the day of the birthday banquet, a prince brought a few extra family members temporarily. We were all busy buying seats and drinks, and there were really not enough manpower. At that time, I saw a maid here in the rockery. He wandered forward and wanted to catch her back to help, but she turned around and went in with someone else."

The puppet asked: "Did you see who she went in with?" The maid shook her head and said, "It's too dark, that person is in the rockery, so I can't see clearly."

The puppet waved the maid to go down, stepped into the rockery, and checked for any clues along the way.Walking to a place, I saw a small piece of women's clothing hanging on a stone less than a foot from the ground.The materials are expensive, unlike those worn by maids.

At this time, a sword was on the puppet's waist.He turned his head and asked, "What kind of treason is the prince going to do?"

"Killing one's father and usurping power is treasonous, but you are not my father and king." After saying that, he stabbed with a sword.

The puppet frowned and dodged away.He wondered when exactly he had been discovered.

He first thought of the dead internal official, he had handled the body carefully, and even handed over the soul to the underworld, so there should be no mistakes.

Then he thought of Fengzhu again.That day he left in a hurry, indeed he forgot what Mie Fengzhu said, and when he looked back, he had already fled.This Fengzhu must have known about Shi Ting pretending to be the emperor, now that the doll is destroyed and the soul is gone, the emperor who appeared for no reason must be a fake.But if he wanted revenge, why did he tell the prince about it?

Finally, he remembered that day when he asked about Jiu Mu's residence.Could it be that he was followed after that and his identity was exposed?But he has clearly changed his appearance. If this is the case, it can only mean that the prince has been secretly observing the emperor before.

There is no weapon on the puppet, so the best policy is to escape.But the rockery in the courtyard was like a maze, he fled left and right, but found a dead end.Seeing the prince blocking the escape route, the puppet looked up to the sky and jumped out.

As soon as the puppet came out of the rockery, guards came to rescue it.At this moment, the prince also chased him out. Seeing that there were many guards, he knew that something was wrong, so he held his sword and shouted: "Don't be confused by him, he is a puppet pretending to be my father!"

The puppet smiled and said: "The prince's words are really innovative." The prince said: "If you don't believe me, look at his back, there is Yanshi's signature." After listening to the puppet, he was sure that the identity was leaked from Jiumu.

Some of the guards began to waver. After all, there were some rumors in the past few days that an internal official had disappeared, just after the emperor returned to the palace.That internal official and the Son of Heaven have always been close, but the Son of Heaven did not pursue this matter at all, which is really wrong.But even if they were suspicious, suddenly no one dared to step forward to check.

The prince said again: "You think nothing will happen if you don't act. You have heard his secret. If you help him get rid of me, he will kill all of you afterwards."

The puppet smiled and said: "If you force the palace, you don't plan well. If you break into the palace single-handedly, no one will listen to you even if you are the crown prince."

"Your Highness!" A familiar voice came from behind.

The prince turned his head and saw that it was the princess, he was so moved that he was almost in tears.He asked anxiously, "What are you doing here?"

The princess sighed helplessly: "You rushed out just after talking to you, can I not follow?"

The crown prince said: "You go, leave me alone!" But the crown princess said: "When you become the king of a country in the future, your highness should change his reckless temper."

As she spoke, she took a step forward, and a group of guards immediately surrounded her.She said: "What's the matter with being single-handed?" With a wave of her hand, all the guards' swords were lifted into the sky, and they all flew towards the doll.

The puppet cast a spell and pulled the prince to block in front of him, the sword stopped immediately, and paused in mid-air.The puppet dragged the prince into the rockery, and the sword hit the rockery again.

Unexpectedly, the crown princess went to the rockery, pushed with both hands, and threw the rockery aside.Without the cover of the rockery, the puppet pushed the prince hard against the palace wall.The princess flew up to catch the prince, and the puppet took the opportunity to run away.

Suddenly, the puppet's eyes widened, as if its whole body was frozen.

"What a lingering soul, let go quickly. If I die, your little soul will also be gone." The puppet scolded itself angrily, but the soul in the body refused to give in at all.

Seeing the situation, the princess recalled the sword on the ground and flew towards the puppet.The puppet let out a loud cry, and was pinned alive under the sword.The princess stepped forward and tore off the puppet's hand, revealing all the strings.The guards were shocked: "It's really a doll." They hurried forward to protect the prince.

The prince stared blankly at the princess tearing apart the doll's limbs.Then a ghost floated out, and was tightly strangled by the crown prince's throat.

"Fu Yue, you led the Soul Armored Army to bloodbath dozens of cities in Kaifang. After you proclaimed yourself emperor, you value wooden armor and despise human life. Now you intend to let Chilan go the old way of Yanfang. It is a heinous crime. It is not enough to go down. Come back to heaven with me. on trial."

The princess summoned the ghost into her sleeve and turned into a man.The prince pushed away the guard beside him, and rushed forward to grab the man's sleeve.

The man turned his head, nodded slightly to the prince and said, "I'm Xia Qiongwen, a small official in the fairy world, I'm going down to earth to do an errand."

The prince breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I just said, she is delicate and frail, so she has the power to move mountains and seas. It turned out to be the fairy who changed it." He thought for a while and asked: "Then dare to ask the fairy, where is my princess?" ?”

Qiong Wen sighed in surprise, and said something that happened several months ago.

The princess was leaning on the couch, and pushed the prince who was reading at the side.

"Your Highness, go back."

"What's wrong with me staying here with you, you have to drive me away."

"But I want to rest. You have been sitting like this, and you can't sleep well."

The prince shook his head and quit, he lifted the princess's face and leaned forward to kiss him, but he lowered his head and avoided it.He sighed: "I don't dislike you, hypocritical."

"Your Highness..."

The prince lost the book, got up and said: "Okay, I'll go." After finishing speaking, he helped the princess to lie down, and even covered the curtain with his own hands.

The princess turned to face the bed, and heard the prince walk to the door and tell a few maids: "Take care of me, and report immediately if you have something to do. As long as one of you dares to lie to me again, I will not let you go."

Hearing the sound of footsteps going away, the princess finally didn't have to bear it, she covered her mouth and coughed, and after coughing for a while, the fragrance was gone.

"You are in the palace, but you still have a deep affection. You clearly have a hunch that you intend to send him away, but you dare not say goodbye to him?"

Hearing a man talking softly by the bed, the princess was startled.She opened her eyes and saw a fairy in snow clothes standing by the bed.And lying on the bed was his curled up body, holding a pool of blood in his palm.

"Why don't you want to say goodbye. I'm afraid that His Highness will be entangled if he knows I'm leaving."

"What's the trouble?"

"Be a puppet for me to continue my life."

The fairy official shook the tail fan in his hand and said: "A person only lives for one life, and less than a hundred years. How many people don't want to be a puppet? Besides, being a puppet is called life extension. As a puppet, you are destined to be a queen. "

The Crown Princess shook her head and said: "The Immortal Lord doesn't know something, His Highness has always had a knot in his heart.

His mother died of illness ten years ago, he originally wanted to make a puppet for her, but unexpectedly, just in time for his father to give Xiang Yan his death.In addition to the national crisis, he had to wait for the situation to calm down and look for Yanshi again for his mother.Unexpectedly, the father found out about this matter, and he spoke harshly, saying that the whole country is against the wooden armor, how can a prince take the lead in using dolls.He asked his father, if he is not a prince, he can make a puppet for his mother like ordinary people.But the royal father replied, even if you are abolished, you will still be a useless prince in the eyes of the common people.

His Highness felt resentful in his heart, but he had to give up.After several years like this, I thought the matter was over, but I didn't want my father to start to regret the original choice because he saw the prosperity of Yanfang Mujia, and encouraged Mujia again.His Highness was overjoyed, and immediately asked someone to make a puppet, but this time, the soul could not be brought back. "

The fairy official suddenly said: "No wonder the prince Chilan is against the wooden armor, and he does not hesitate to risk being abolished, contradicting the emperor many times."

The princess smiled slightly: "Your Highness, that's not an angry word. If the queen mother can return to the world, why would he hate Mujia? It's just that the soul was reincarnated and couldn't come back. He is unwilling, as a prince, he has to Why can the world get what they can’t get…

It is said that Xianjun came to look for me, but something happened? "

"I want to borrow your body." But seeing the curtain open by itself, Qiong Wen revealed her true face.

"Borrowing the body, are you trying to deceive His Highness?" Although the Crown Princess has passed away, she still wholeheartedly defends the Crown Prince.

Qiongwen smiled lightly: "Don't worry, although it's a deception, there is absolutely no malice. I will help your highness ascend the throne as soon as possible, and make Chilan what he wants."

The princess knelt in front of the bed and kowtowed slowly: "Then please take good care of Your Highness for me." After she finished speaking, she didn't raise her head, only a wisp of fragrance drifted away.