Born of Worry

Li Ye continued to pretend to be the emperor, rode Feichen, and led the convoy into Weiyang City Gate.

Speaking of Feichen, I have to say one thing. When fighting Tahan before, it brought back a group of wild horses from the depths of the grassland. Lin Ruxuan and the others wanted to catch a few horses to try to control them, but ended up beating the group of wild horses. They all ran away, and there was no one left, only Feichen was left, and he was also elusive. He never ate and lived with the army's horses, and they only ran out when they set off.

Li Ye deeply doubted whether this horse had become a spirit, too clever, right?Usually he is not allowed to ride, only when he wants to pretend to be Li Xian, he is not allowed to ride, even if he is cheated.

The city of Weiyang was full of joy, and the common people went out to greet the emperor's chariot one after another. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the alley was empty for thousands of people.

Li Ye kept smiling until his face became stiff. He said that being an emperor is also a technical job. Just keeping a smile on his face is enough to challenge him. He must be crazy.

The convoy finally drove into the palace, and just as he was about to catch his breath, he saw that a group of ministers had already separated from the two sides of the steps of the hall and bowed to the ground:

"Welcome Your Majesty back to the palace—"

Hold……

Li Ye had no choice but to get off his horse, bravely walked up the steps slowly, stood in front of the main hall door, and said: "Everyone loves you."

The one closest to him is Lin Xingzhi, no matter how I feel that his eyes are not right...

Li Ye hurriedly said some polite words, trying to drive these ministers away, but they hadn't seen the emperor for a long time, and one or two always wanted to get together to say a few words, but Li Ye was afraid of being exposed, so he had to say something about being tired all the way. Yunyun, he wanted to go back to rest, so the ministers let him go.

Lin Xingzhi, the highest official, didn't come up. He stood aside and stroked his beard, not knowing what it meant.

Li Ye ran away in a hurry and entered the Dragon Palace. Mo Wen had also quietly transferred Li Xian back to the bedroom, and settled everything. The black snake came out of his clothes and landed aside.

Li Ye sat next to the table. The eunuch in the palace knew that the emperor was coming back, so he had already brewed fresh tea. He drank a couple of sips and was about to talk to Mo Wen when he suddenly turned around and looked somewhere , frowning: "Who are you?!"

The black snake's reaction was even more violent than his. It coiled its body, raised its head, hissed and vomited, as if it was about to attack someone.

Li Ye was confused, and looked in the direction they were looking, but found nothing.Mo Wen stood in front of Li Xian, his expression was already very bad, and he shouted: "I don't care who you are, get out immediately!"

"Wait, wait!" Li Ye stopped him, "What did you see?"

Mo Wen finally answered him: "Ghost."

"Ghost?" Li Ye's mind turned and he suddenly realized, "Oh! It's him!"

"Why, do you know that there are ghosts in this palace?"

Li Ye chuckled, "That's the thing, last year... oh no, the year before last, on the night of July [-]th, a ghost really got into it, and he wanted to attach Xiaoxian and me, but Xiaoxian had dragon scales, and I With the mahogany amulet given by Lin Ruxuan, he couldn’t succeed. I don’t know what happened later, but Xiao Xian actually got close to him. I wanted to ask someone to drive him away, but he still wouldn’t let me drive him away.”

Mo Wen felt very unbelievable, "You mean Xiao Xian is friends with him?"

"more or less."

"But Xiao Xian can't see him, so how can we be friends with him?"

Li Ye scratched his head, "This... I don't know."

"Brother Molong." The black snake suddenly took human form, and stared at the "ghost" that Li Ye couldn't see, but calmed down a little, "I recognize this person, leave me to me."

"Oh?"

"He is, 800 years ago, the person who caused me to be imprisoned in Jiuyuan Cold Pool."

Mo Chou looked at the "ghost" and finally believed that there really was such a coincidence in this world. Time has passed, and he really never thought that he would meet him again in this situation.

Perhaps in the dark, the number of days has long been doomed.

He walked slowly to the door without turning around, and said to the person behind him: "Come with me, don't disturb others anymore."

Li Ye watched his back disappear, and moved closer to Mo Wen: "Has he left?"

"gone."

The crease between Mo Wen's brows still didn't flatten, and he said after a long time, "He has been wandering here for 800 years, and he is also an infatuated person."

Li Ye's curiosity flared up, and he asked the bottom line: "What 800 years?"

"The snake was imprisoned in Jiuyuan Cold Pool 800 years ago. Since he said that this person was the one who harmed him, his soul must have wandered in this world for 800 years. It seems that the bond between them Tripping is not as simple as imagined."

Li Ye seemed to understand, rubbed his chin for a long time, seemed to have figured it out, and asked: "But there is still one thing I don't understand. This palace is the place with the most yang energy, and Weiyang City is located in the south of the mountain and in the north of the river. , all mountains and rivers are sunny. It’s not good for him to wander anywhere, why does he have to come to the Weiyang Palace where the sun is on top of the sun?”

Mo Wen smiled, but there was an inexplicable bitterness in his smile, "Why? Because he was once an emperor."

Li Ye said "ah", "You... how do you know?"

"Wandering Soul will keep his appearance before he was alive. He is still wearing a dragon robe. Only the soul of the real dragon emperor can withstand the yang energy here."

The soul of an emperor.

But he was reduced to wandering in the world for 800 years.

What happened between this person and Mo Chou, even if Mo Chou didn't say anything, he could guess a thing or two.

One side is the person he loves the most, while the other side is the world. No one can tell which way this balance will tip, except the emperor himself.

Mo Wen didn't dare to speculate on the balance in Li Xian's heart.

Fortunately, he had made a choice for him early on, otherwise, he might have been wounded to pieces like that snake.

What Li Xian's own answer was, he never wanted to know.

Mo Chou disappeared for three days.

When he came back, he was not quite right, his expression was in a trance, his eyes were red and swollen, it was obvious that he had cried.

Mo Wen looked at him for a long time, but decided to ask him, "What about him?"

"He..." He looked down at the ground without blinking, and smiled wryly, "I saved him."

Mo Wen didn't know how to comfort him, so he said for a while, "My condolences."

But Mo Chou shook his head, and whispered to himself: "Winter is coming soon... Winter is here, so you can rest."

Winter was coming, but Li Xian still didn't wake up.

The leaves are all over the ground.

Mo Wen stood in front of the hall, looking at the thin puddles of water on the steps, and was hit by the little ripples like silky autumn rain.

He stretched out his palm, a few strands of drizzle fell into his palm, it was cold.

When did this imperial palace become so desolate?

The mocking wind in the corner of the hall is still squatting perfectly, and the glazed tiles on the roof of the hall are dripping with rain, which is still bright, but probably, there is no one else, wearing a black and red dragon robe, standing in the slanting sun, with a smile on his face Alright.

He didn't know whether to sigh or to sigh.

Hearing the conversation between Li Ye and Lin Xingzhi with extraordinary ears, he had no intention of paying attention to it. He could hide it from the first day of the junior high school, but he couldn't keep it from the fifteenth day. The Supreme Emperor knew who the current emperor was on the first day they returned to the palace. Li Ye is a fake, now Lin Xingzhi should know.

So what if he knows, Mo Wen will never take care of this state affairs.

Li Ye managed to get rid of Lin Xingzhi, came out from the imperial study, saw Mo Wen standing in front of the hall when he passed the hall, walked up to him, and said, "What are you doing standing here?"

"Have you settled with him?"

Li Ye waved his hand, "Don't mention it, that old man, I think he has already seen who I am, and he has been attracting me all the time, just waiting for me to take the initiative to find him."

He watched the rain with Mo Wen for a while, but he didn't know what to see, and asked again: "Xiao Xian or..."

Mo Wen shook his head.

"Oh." Li Ye didn't know what to say, and didn't want to make him sad again, so he kept silent.Standing for a while, he wanted to go back, but saw Shen Xin walking out of the hall in a red dress, holding a red umbrella, and couldn't help calling her, "Shen Xin, where are you going?"

When Shen Xin passed by him, she paused by his side, and said in a low voice:

"Settling accounts after autumn."

Heaven Prison.

A red dress appeared in front of Xie Yan's prison.

Sitting in the corner, Xie Yan saw her coming, and turned his gaze to her: "Why, is it time for my death?"

"Death date?" Shen Xin looked at him condescendingly, and said with a sneer, "You think too well, even if he is willing to give you a good time, I, Shen Xin, will definitely not let you go so easily."

"Is it."

"You don't seem to believe it?" She took a few steps on the spot, "But it doesn't matter, I will let you believe it, and you will understand immediately, the one you thought ruined your bright future and made you hate it to the bone His Majesty the Emperor, what exactly did he do to you?"

Xie Yan heard something in her words and frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Nothing interesting. Now, I want you to meet someone."

After she finished speaking, she turned and left, Xie Yan stood up, but saw an old woman with silver hair walking in. He saw the face of the person coming in through the weak firelight, and knelt down with a plop, holding the iron bars with both hands, " Mother! Is it you, mother!"

"Yan'er!" The old woman also knelt down in front of him, held his hand, and burst into tears, "Yan'er..."

Seeing his wrinkled face and messy silver threads, Xie Yan couldn't help but feel pain in his heart, "Mom, how did you become like this?!"

"Yan'er..." Mother Xie trembled her hands and looked at him with tearful eyes, "My son, are you okay..."

He shook his head, with tears in his eyes, biting his lower lip, his voice sobbing: "Mom, I... I'm fine."

"Yan'er, you made my mother wait so hard... Five years, my mother has been waiting for you for five years! Why don't you come back, why don't you come back to see your mother..."

Xie Yan lost control of his emotions and yelled loudly: "Don't talk about your mother anymore! I am a murderer, I can't come back! I can't come back! I have been away from home for five years, and I have been thinking about you all the time. It is because I am not filial, I cannot Come back and die!"

"Why do you want to kill people?! My good boy, you don't even dare to kill chickens, why do you want to kill people? Why do you have to ruin your bright future for no reason?!"

"He forced me!" Xie Yan's eyes were red, "He forced me, he forced me to come to this day! Do you think I am willing? Do you think I am willing to kill a stranger who has no grievances or enmities with me? ? It was him, it was him who forced me! It was Li Xian who forced me!"

Mother Xie wiped the tears from her face, "Yan'er, what are you talking about? Who are you talking about? Your Majesty treats you well, why do you..."

"Does he treat me well?" Xie Yan interrupted her, laughing three times, "He treats me well?! You don't know anything, you don't even know what he did behind his back! I'm Tanhua , I am the one who should be an official in the court, he just found someone to replace me, and you still say he treats me well?!"

"What are you talking about!" Mother Xie finally got a little anxious, "Yan'er, His Majesty appointed you as a fourth-rank official, what are you not satisfied with? You are at the same level as the top three officials. What's not enough?!"

Xie Yan was stunned for a moment, "You, what are you talking about? What fourth-rank officials? What hand-picked?"

She took out something from a small bag she carried with her, and handed it to him through the gap in the iron bars. She accepted it with a thank you, and found that it was a roll of imperial decree that was a little worn out. There are a few words of "servant minister of the household department", and the time mentioned in the imperial decree is actually...

Jian'an four years, April [-]th.

If he remembers correctly...it should be two days before the announcement of the palace examination.

In other words, before the announcement of the list, Li Xian had already decided...to appoint him as the servant of the household department?

But... why?Why changed his rank and made him an official again?

He suddenly thought of the eunuch who revealed the news to him. During the conversation, he seemed to mention...Shang Shuling?

Could it be that the adjustment of his ranking was actually the intention of Shang Shuling, and Li Xian himself was unwilling, so he came up with such a way to compensate him?

Suddenly, it felt like a boulder was pressing on my heart.

"Yan'er," Xie Mu grabbed the iron railing and put her head on the iron railing, "Do you still remember the golden tortoise that mother gave you back then? That golden tortoise was also left by him. Mother asked you to buy epiphyllum petals for incense I just wanted to give it to him. Also... During the New Year's Eve, two young people came to our house to buy fireworks, and one of them was also him. At first... Mother didn't know that he was the emperor, but then something happened to you , I was arrested by the officers and soldiers, he came to see me in prison, and let me go home, only then did I know that he is the current Holy One.” She looked at her son with tears in her eyes, “He is our benefactor Ah, why...do you treat your benefactor like this?"

She shook her head and sighed: "It's all my mother's fault. If my mother doesn't let you go out, you will be able to receive the imperial edict..."

Xie Yan fell to the ground, staring blankly at the imperial decree, and was at a loss for a moment.

That golden tortoise...was left by Li Xian...

The travel expenses for his escape...was paid by Li Xian...

It turned out that he used the golden tortoise given by his benefactor to escape to Tahan, and made suggestions for foreign races to attack his benefactor's country.

What did he do?

What exactly did he do? !

Suddenly recalling the conversation he had with him in Tahan, he remembered saying to himself: "The grievance has its head, the debt has its owner, karma, everything you have suffered today is the result of your wrongdoings. You can't blame others."

And what did Li Xian answer him?He said: "Thank you, I will also give you these words. I hope you will never regret it and blame others."

It turns out... that's not what he said casually...

It turned out that he already knew who he was...

It turned out that he had always wanted to help himself...

But he thanked him, and actually used the benefactor's favor to feed himself, this wolf-hearted.

Repay kindness with revenge... Repay kindness with revenge!

God... what on earth have you done!Misses again and again, mistakes again and again, misunderstandings and suspicions again and again, finally... sowed the evil results like today.

Injustice has a leader, debt has an owner, karma...

It turns out that these words were really spoken by him to himself...

God...!

Xie Yan raised his head and closed his eyes in pain. Tears were already streaming down his face.

Retribution really...really, retribution...

"Xie Yan, everything you have suffered today is caused by your mistakes. You...can't blame others. "

He murmured in a low voice, and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, "Thank you! You bastard! You bastard! You deserve to die! You deserve to go to hell! You deserve to be hacked into pieces, but you can't make up for what you have suffered. evil!"

Seeing him like this, Xie Mu immediately panicked, "Yan'er! What are you talking about?! Your Majesty... Didn't he come back safely? Didn't he repel the foreign enemies? You... What are you doing? what?"

"Come back safely? Hahaha..." He was already insane, and desperately squeezed his face into the gap between the iron bars, and leaned closer to his mother, "Mother, you are wrong. It is Yu Wang who came back safely, it is Yu Wang! The real Luo It was Li Xian who fell into our hands! It was me...I personally set up this plan, and I handed him over to Hu Lugu! I saw him being whipped and humiliated with my own eyes! Mother, he is about to die It's... I killed him, it's me! It's me! It's me, thank you!"

He shouted loudly, hoarse, Xie Mu looked at him in disbelief, and couldn't say a word for a while, "You..."

"Yes, it was me," he cried and laughed, "I killed my benefactor with my own hands, and I still don't know it...I'm such a sinner, a sinner!"

"Shen Xin, Shen Xin! You really are so cruel! Why did you let me know all this, why didn't you just give me a pleasure?!" He shook the iron bars desperately, with tears running down his face, "Shen Xin Heart! You give me a death, I beg you to give me a death!!"

In the darkness, the last trace of red clothes finally disappeared.

"I beg you to grant me my death..."

"Yan'er..." Xie's mother touched his cheek, her eyes were full of love, "Yan'er, don't cry... I don't blame you, I don't blame you, it's all my mother's fault... If the son doesn't teach, it's the mother's fault. Weird girl..."

Xie Yan raised his face, "Mom!"

"It's all your mother's fault," she kept repeating, "If that's the case... Mother will die for you, it's okay... I will apologize to the emperor..."

When Xie Yan heard this, he was startled, "Mom, what are you going to do? What are you going to do, mother?!"

Mother Xie stood up slowly, and took two steps back, "Mother is sorry for the Holy Majesty, I am sorry for Dayin, Mother wants to make amends to the emperor for my sinful son."

He stretched out his arms vigorously, trying to grab the corner of her clothes, but was finally blocked by the ruthless prison, and he could not end.

"My god! I'm here, thank you for the evil son, and make amends!"

After she finished speaking, without any hesitation, she slammed her head against the wall.

Blood collapsed.

Xie Yan was stunned, his eyes wide open, and he could hardly believe his eyes.

After a long time, he exhausted all his strength and burst into a loud cry:

"mother--!!!"

The news that the traitor Xie Yan's mother was killed in the prison quickly spread like wildfire.

Two days later, there were rumors that Xie Yan committed suicide by hanging himself.

But for some reason, the bodies of these two people were not exposed by hanging on the street, and there was no follow-up information about this matter.

Except for Shen Xin, I'm afraid no one else will know what happened in the prison that day.