chronicle of court survival

The Qianji Building is just outside the forbidden area.

Looking out of the window, one can see the Zhaixing Building and the Buddha Tower standing at the end of the bamboo forest and facing each other at a glance.

The moon crookedly hooks the bronze bell on the eaves corner of the Star Picking Building.

The icy night wind blows into the dark room through the small window, swirling the lights.

Xia Qing glanced at Lou Guanxue, and was taken aback, he was never good at comforting others, after hearing what Lou Guanxue said, he thought for a long time before saying: "But I was talking here and there just to comfort you. It's not really a question that needs to be answered."

Lou Guanxue Zhiyi, smiled and asked: "Yeah. It's like living without a reason, right?"

Xia Qing breathed out and said, "Yes." He said slowly, "This is actually what I read in a book. People live for the sake of life itself, not for anything other than life." alive."

Lou Guanxue laughed.

Xia Qing said with discretion: "So, you can be happier. You don't need to think about things you can't figure out."

The smile on the corners of Lou Guanxue's lips still persisted, but she shook her head and said softly, "No way, Xia Qing."

Xia Qing was stunned, her eyes slightly confused: "Huh?"

While talking to him, Lou Guanxue had already turned the pages with her fingers and read the book in her hand at a glance.

"There is one thing that I must find the answer to."

Lou Guanxue's tone was very calm, but that undisguised hostility seemed to emerge from the depths of her soul.

The sharpness is exposed, and the chill is in the bone.

Tear apart the appearance that he has been hiding outside his laziness.

Xia Qingren froze and sat on the chair blankly.

When I came back to my senses, I was just about to speak.

Lou Guanxue had already accepted the danger and killing intent, slowly raised the corners of her lips, closed the book, and said, "Hey, don't ask. You know, there are ten thousand ways to perfuse you with the questions I don't want to answer."

"..." Xia Qing was so angry at his words, she gritted her teeth: "You know that too."

Every time he pretends to be very good-tempered, he answers all questions!What did you actually answer? !

Lou Guanxue stared at him for a while, thoughtfully: "You seem to be easily angered by me."

Xia Qing scratched her hair depressingly: "Yes."

Lou Guanxue held up the lamp, looked at the purple light on the top of the nine-fold pagoda outside, then retracted it, and said casually: "Then why don't you go."

Xia Qing had already guessed that Lou Guanxue would ask this question. Fengyuelou had thought of the answer before, and said sullenly, "Because I don't know where to go."

Lou Guanxue raised her eyebrows: "Huh?"

Xia Qing was very honest: "I'm used to staying by your side. Anyway, I'm not familiar with every part of this world, so it's better to stay in one place."

Lou Guanxue stared at him quietly for a long time, then raised the corners of her lips playfully.As if wanting to say something, he pointed his finger at the table.

After getting along with him for a long time, Xia Qing knew that there would be nothing to say by looking at his appearance, so she warned fiercely in advance: "If you don't know if you should say something, don't say it."

Lou Guanxue nodded: "Okay."

Xia Qing changed the subject: "You said that there are no books related to the blood array in Qianjilou, so what are you holding in your hand?"

Lou Guanxue: "It's about the pagoda."

Xia Qing frowned and muttered a little strangely.

Lou Guanxue propped her chin, looked past the window of Qianji Tower, and said calmly: "Everyone says that there is a big monster in the Buddha Pagoda, but I was imprisoned in it when I was a child, and I didn't see anything inside."

Xia Qing was startled, and asked in a shy voice, "When you were a child?"

Lou Guanxue glanced at him and nodded: "Well, when I was about six years old. I was trapped inside for three days, in total darkness, without any sound."

six years old.Xia Qing only realized now.

Lou Guanxue, who was a child in the barrier, ran back, took a knife to end everything, and stopped time forever at the night of the Waking of Insects when she was five years old.

But in reality, there is no such fire.The five-year-old Lou Guanxue didn't meet him either.

He was alone in the cold palace. He had just experienced Yan Lanyu's taunts and sarcasm. He fought against the snow wolf with his life, suppressed the dignity and shame into his bones, gritted his teeth and wanted to live, but when he turned around, he was told by his biological mother that he was born as a container. Down, the meaning of living is to die.

"Lou Guanxue..."

Xia Qing's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help shouting.

Lou Guanxue continued: "The pagoda is very quiet. I heard a sound when I was dying of hunger. It may be a hallucination... I heard the sound of the sea. I also heard the collapse of the palace and what The sound of something falling."

Lou Guanxue fell silent when she said this, her eyelashes drooped to cover her cold eyes.

At the age of six, in the Pagoda of the Buddha.

In the darkness that was so quiet that it could drive people crazy, at the last moment when he was dying, what he heard was the distant sound of the sea.

Waves and waves beat and whirl, and the wind roars from the bottom of the abyss.

Palaces are crumbling, stone pillars crumbling, worlds are falling apart, with screams, runs and cries.

Destroyed, vigorous and vigorous.

But when the world was turned upside down and everything was about to be reduced to ruins, that crisp landing sound became the last trace of tranquility in his grotesque world, calming his burning soul.

Immediately afterwards, he smelled the cold fragrance of Lingwei flowers.

The body fell down, and saw the desolate and gentle sea of ​​blue flowers blooming on the barren mound...

Xia Qing was silent for a while, then asked in a hoarse voice, "What happened later?"

Lou Guanxue came back to her senses, and said calmly: "Later, Yao Ke found me, took me out, and had a fever for three days and three nights."

Xia Qing didn't know what to say.

At this time, an old woman's vigilant and sharp voice came from under the stairs: "Who's up there?! Who! Get down!"

Immediately afterwards, the sound of her footsteps running up hurriedly with her skirt up could be heard.

Qianji Building and Jingshi Palace are inextricably linked, and the security is tight, and outsiders are not allowed to enter without authorization.

Xia Qing's somewhat confused brain was awakened by this cold shout, but suddenly felt a strange sense of guilt, and raised his eyes to look at Lou Guanxue.

Lou Guanxue looked cold at first, but caught his gaze, but suddenly blinked at him.

He put the book back on the shelf, stood up and bent over to blow out the candle, then grabbed Xia Qing's hand in the dark.

"What are you doing?" Xia Qing was stunned.

Lou Guanxue touched his lips with her fingers, and said with a smile, "Shhh, we can't startle the snake yet."

Xia Qing looked puzzled: "Are you still afraid of being discovered?"

Lou Guanxue: "Aren't you afraid that you are guilty?"

Xia Qing: "..." I have a guilty conscience. You sneaked out and were caught fooling around with me here, and then my reputation will deteriorate again! ! !

He didn't speak, and was led by Lou Guanxue to a corner where the bookshelf was next to the wall in Qianji Building.

"Qianji Tower is a royal forbidden area! No matter who you are! Get out of here!"

The old woman who walked in with a lantern was dressed in a black robe, with gray hair and a solemn expression.

Her eyes were cold and sharp, and she sternly reprimanded, looking at the character who had accumulated power in the palace for a long time.

Xia Qing and Lou Guanxue were very close, his wrists were still held by him, and his body was leaning against the wall. For a while, his brain was a little confused, and he didn't know how he got to this point.

"Come out!" The old woman approached with a lamp.

The atmosphere was so weird that Xia Qing didn't dare to get angry.

Lou Guanxue held his fingers, lowered her eyes, and casually played with the relics on his wrist, the beads turned back and forth, and the cold rolled over her skin.

Xia Qing glared at him in the dark, wanting to withdraw his hand.

But Lou Guanxue just lowered her head, smiled, pressed his lips with the index finger of the other hand, and whispered in his ear: "Don't be found out, it's not time for Yan Lanyu to find out that I have ulterior motives. "

They were very close, the hair hanging from Lou Guan Xue's ears seemed to fall on his shoulders, as cold as a handful of snow.

Xia Qing leaned back uncomfortably.

This place is very hidden. The old woman walked back and forth between the bookshelves, searched for a long time with a lamp, but she didn't see anyone before she sank her face and said to herself: "Rats? There are rats in Qianji Building?"

But she was still worried, and looked at it carefully, suspicious for a long time, and turned to leave after confirming that there was no one there.

The sound of footsteps coming down the stairs gradually faded away.

Xia Qing regained his breath, and the first thing he did was to withdraw his hand.

"People are gone."

Lou Guanxue let go of her hand calmly.

Xia Qing complained: "You still care about Yan Lanyu? Then aren't you afraid to pursue the matter of you running away from the spring banquet?"

Lou Guanxue said: "The spring banquet is not just for this night, she won't be in a hurry for this moment."

Xia Qing: "???"

After co-authoring, he also wants to come out like this to serve as a shield for Lou Guanxue? !

Lou Guanxue said: "Yan Lanyu will not let go of choosing a concubine for me."

Xia Qing asked the question that had been lingering for a long time: "Why? Why is she so insisting on you leaving an heir."

Lou Guanxue paused for a moment, and said without any concealment: "If there is no royal family of Chu, the three families of Wei, Yan and Wu will be the ones who will suffer from Jingzhe next year."

Xia Qing was stunned.

Taking advantage of the moonlight over the stairs, Xia Qing followed Lou Guanxue, went down and asked, "So, in fact, the torture you suffered in Jingzhe was suffered by Dai Sanjia?"

Lou Guanxue said: "It doesn't count. The Lou family is the most cursed blood."

Xia Qing: "What is the curse?"

Lou Guanxue thought for a while, then laughed out loud, "You have so many questions."

Xia Qing's thoughts turned: "Is it the curse of the god of the sea?"

Lou Guanxue hummed lightly.

After leaving the Qianji Building, there is a quiet and narrow path between two walls covered with vines.

They need to avoid palace guards and patrolling guards, so they can only go here.

Xia Qing realized later, and figured out the cause and effect: "So the ancestors of the Chu State were responsible for it themselves. Obviously, they violated the taboos and provoked the wrath of the gods, and they were cursed, but they blamed it for the misfortune brought by the sharks."

"According to this, it shouldn't be a big monster if it is closed in the pagoda? I don't think there are any monsters at all. The biggest evil spirit in the palace of Chu Kingdom is human greed."

"But if it's not a demon, what would be locked inside? Oh, it might be a demon." He asked himself and answered, lost in thought: "The demon was created by God, and it was a punishment for Chu."

Lou Guanxue laughed and did not comment: "Since you are so smart, why have you never thought of asking me a question?"

Xia Qing was still a little upset when his thoughts were interrupted, but soon fell into deeper doubts because of Lou Guanxue's words, and raised his head in confusion: "What's the problem?"

Lou Guanxue was holding a bone flute in her hand, her black robe fluttered, and Yin Heling on it was dyed by the icy moonlight.

He lowered his gaze, with a half-smile: "Haven't you noticed yet? Actually, I'm not afraid of Yan Lanyu."

Xia Qing was stunned. Didn't you find out... I found out a long time ago.

It was discovered from the arrow he shot in Fengyue Tower without giving the regent any face in the morning.

Lou Guanxue said, "I don't need any shield."

"Before the High Priest fails, Yan Lanyu will never die, tear me apart, force me to do anything. I can even refuse to choose a concubine."

Xia Qing froze, with only one thought in mind.

? ? ?So he was played.

Lou Guanxue said, "I asked you why you didn't leave, but you should have asked me too."

"Ask me." The bone flute in his hand gently lifted Xia Qing's chin, his eyes were deep and cold, and he said lightly, "Why did you stay?"