Dragon Fate of Shan Hai Ji

After returning to Fengci Palace, the queen mother finished her bath, changed clothes and went to bed, and when the rest of the people left, the queen mother asked Zhuying: "What do you think of Princess Chu Ling?"

Zhu Ying said: "My servant thinks Princess Chu Ling is weak and cowardly, which doesn't quite match the rumors."

The Empress Dowager said: "This woman has deep scheming and is not an ordinary character. Today's performance in front of Aijia can be said to be excellent in singing and writing. She is on the same path as Concubine Zhang, Concubine Liu, and Meiren Liu, who were by the late Emperor's side in the past. Dan That girl from the Tai family is no match for her. It's a pity that she is still young, and her cultivation is far from high enough. She is too pretentious, and she may be able to coax the prince, but the Ai family can see through it at a glance."

Zhuying smiled and said: "The Empress Dowager is really sharp-eyed. Since she is such a person, how should we deal with it?" The Empress Dowager pondered for a moment, then said: "Stay in the palace for now and see what she wants to do."

In Sirong Palace, Concubine Chen was smiling and said to Princess Chu Ling: "The princess has chosen to be the Empress Dowager this time, maybe in the future she will be able to accompany the girl from the Tantai family and stay with the Crown Prince for a long time."

Princess Chuling shook her head and smiled wryly: "Ms. Taifei, the queen mother is just joking with Ruoshan today. Besides, I think the queen mother doesn't like me."

Concubine Chen was stunned: "You girl is really careless. The Empress Dowager always loves the younger generation the most, and she plans to promise you to the Crown Prince. How can she tire of you?"

Princess Chu Ling was shy on the face, but sneered in her heart.

Her judgment was absolutely correct, this queen mother is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and there was something in every sentence just now, not only alluding to the prince's affairs, but also the sentence "you should rest earlier" before leaving is even more ambiguous .It is worthy of being the figure who sits in command of the harem.

Would such a shrewd woman be willing to watch her son become a puppet and the throne fall into the hands of outsiders?Princess Chu Ling couldn't help thinking playfully, the fight for the throne is getting more and more interesting, if a spoonful of oil is poured on the darkly burning charcoal fire, what will happen?In the afternoon of the next day, the Queen Mother was chatting with Tantai Rongyue when suddenly a court lady reported that Princess Chu Ling came to pay her respects to the Queen Mother.

Tantai Rongyue was very surprised, she was in the palace, her movements were restricted a lot, she wanted to see Princess Chu Ling, but she never got the chance.

She didn't know that the Queen Mother had been to Concubine Chen's place yesterday, so she couldn't believe that Princess Chu Ling, who was living in the palace, came to pay her respects to the Queen Mother without being summoned.

The court lady presented a brocade box to the queen mother, saying that it was presented by Princess Chu Ling. The queen mother opened it and looked, and inside was a very delicate golden wishful knot.The Queen Mother closed the lid of the brocade box: "Where is Princess Chuling now?"

The maid replied: "I am waiting outside the palace gate."

The Empress Dowager nodded: "Call her in." Xiang Tantai Rongyue smiled slightly, "Aijia heard that you and Princess Chu Ling are good sisters, and I should have let you meet, but Aijia wanted to ask about Xijun. , you go back to rest for now, and let Ai's family catch up with you in the future."

Tantai Rongyue immediately got up and left.

The queen mother looked around and said: "Zhuying, you take Princess Chu Ling to the Jade Pavilion. The Ai family wants to chat with the princess about matters related to the West County. If there is no summon from the Ai family, you don't have to wait."

Half a quarter of an hour later, Princess Chu Ling bowed down to the Queen Mother in the Emerald Pavilion.

The Emerald Pavilion was built by the water, surrounded by open spaces, and there were no idle people around. The Empress Dowager said slowly: "You actually know the method of knotting messages created by Emperor Gaozu in the past. The Ai family is very surprised. Yes, this is Zeng The princess of Xijun, who leads the soldiers and horses to kill the enemy, should have the wisdom, you hinted in the knot that there are important matters related to the country and the country to be reported to Aijia, but there is no one around at the moment, so you can speak up."

Princess Chuling leaned on the ground and said: "Queen Mother, the matter reported by the minister is of great importance. The reason why the minister stays in the palace is to inform the Queen Mother of this matter."

The queen mother said kindly: "Get up and talk."

Princess Chuling Xie En got up, and the moment she stood up, she stuffed a piece of paper into the Queen Mother's sleeve very quickly, and said quickly, "Queen Mother, there are many eyes and ears in the palace, and there are many strange people with supernatural powers." Gentleman, I can only do my best to keep this matter secret."

The Empress Dowager was stunned, she unfolded the note in her sleeve and glanced at it, her expression changed drastically, she couldn't help taking a few steps back, and fell down on the stone chair in the pavilion.

Princess Chuling took away the note in her hand like lightning, put it in her mouth, bit it up and swallowed it, then knelt down on the ground again with tears in her eyes, threw herself on the empress dowager's lap, and hissed in grief: "Empress Dowager, the leader of the rebellious party used this vicious secret method to kill my whole family. Please learn from the Empress Dowager!"

The queen mother took a deep breath, stretched out a trembling hand and patted the back of Princess Chu Ling's hand: "Don't worry, the Ai family will definitely make the decision for you."

In the middle of the night, a bird flew into the small courtyard where Fengtong lived in Anshun Prince's Mansion, passed through the wall, turned into a figure, landed directly in front of Fengtong who was reading a book under the lamp, and smiled at him.

This figure is the Empress Dowager's close court lady Zhu Ying.

Feng Tong put down the scroll: "Huang Zhu, why are you here? Is there something wrong in the harem?"

Huang Zhu said: "It's not a big accident, but the Princess Chu Ling who has been coaxing the prince around recently has seen the queen mother, and the queen mother doesn't like her, maybe she saw it, and today she took the initiative to pay her respects to the queen mother, In fact, they are here to inform and seek trust.”

Feng Tong raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh? What secrets can she tell?"

Huang Zhu smiled: "It's just to blame Le Yue for killing his parents. But the opera singing is getting better and better." She sat down at the table and poured herself a cup of tea, "I know it's not It's not a big deal, but I'm really bored in the palace, so I took this opportunity to come out." Feng Tong smiled slightly and said, "Has the Empress Dowager not given up on some little tricks?"

Huang Zhu curled her lips helplessly and said: "Yes. Alas, she is also a poor woman, knowing that she and her son are already the sun that is about to set, but she is still not reconciled, she just wants to struggle again." Feng Tong said lightly : "No matter how hard they struggle, their fate has already been decided."

In the middle of the night, when the night was dark and the dew was heavy, "Pearl Oriole" returned to Fengci Palace, and her figure turned into an illusory phoenix, perched on the head of the Queen Mother's bed.

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes tightly, but did not fall asleep. The words on Princess Chu Ling's note floated in the empty space after she closed her eyes, showing a dazzling crimson—the prince is Dingnan King and a Jianghu woman Lu Luo's illegitimate son, not born to a princess.

A few days later, one evening, Le Yue and his party came to a small town named Tong County, looking for an inn to rest.

They hurried back to the Qingshan faction by the nearest path, which was mostly different from the place they took when they went to West County.This city is less than two days away from the Qingshan faction, the names of the rebel Le Yue and others have spread all over the world in the past few days, and they are also wanted by the government.A wanted notice was pasted at the gate of Tongxian County. There were six head portraits painted on the notice, and there were small characters on the side: Le Yue, the leader of the rebel party, Du Ruyuan, the traitor, Luo Lingzhi, the bloodthirsty demon, Lin Qing, the hot-handed witch, Sun Ben is full of bandits, and the last one is Fei Xianfeng, a monster monkey who is full of bandits and bandits.

Everyone stopped to watch under the notice, Lin Qing smiled and said: "Le Yue, you seem to be more handsome in this notice than in the previous ones."

Du Ruyuan said: "Well, there is an extra flower on my hairpin."

Sun Ben stroked his chin and said, "I actually added a few beards to Sun, making him look a bit old."

Fei Xianfeng twitched excitedly, and Zhao Yuan asked in a daze, "Why isn't there me?"

Lin Qing said: "Yes." She pointed to the notice, "The one that looks like a sausage hanging around Le Yue's neck should be you."

Ying Ze said gloomyly: "Why is there no me?"

It seems that he was very dissatisfied with the fact that the mortal government did not dare to confess his old man's fairy appearance.

Yue Yue said: "Hey, Your Highness, your appearance is so radiant, it can't be easily drawn by an artist in the world."

Ying Ze was quite satisfied with this answer.

At this moment, the sky was still bright, and the reason why they dared to watch so blatantly in front of the notice was because they had disguised themselves a little considering the identity of the wanted criminal.

Lin Qing and Du Ruyuan pretended to be a couple. Lin Qing was holding her mane and standing beside Du Ruyuan, who was wearing a woman's clothes and had a beard and a beard.Le Yue, Luo Lingzhi and Sun Ben followed behind them as attendants, while Zhao Yuan and Ying Ze were the two ready-made young masters, obediently accompanying their parents.There is also the youngest one, wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes and hugged in Lin Qing's arms, is Fei Pioneer...

When watching the notice, Fei Xianfeng was so excited that he almost broke his swaddling clothes, revealing a monkey face, but fortunately, Lin Qing quickly covered it with his sharp eyes.

Du Ruyuan coughed and said, "Lady, it's getting late, let's go to Xunjia Inn earlier."

Lin Qing replied resentfully.She has always been very dissatisfied with the identity arrangement of disguise and modification, and she doesn't understand why the person who plays her role is not Le Yue.

Everyone could only explain to her sincerely again and again, there was no other reason, but because among several males, Du Ruyuan played the role of master with the most temperament.

Lin Qing was still dissatisfied, she felt that Du Ruyuan only had a sour look on the books, while Le Yue was the most temperamental.

Along the way, His Highness Ying Ze was the most devoted to the role. After walking on the street for a while, he tugged on Du Ruyuan's sleeve again, and said in a playful way: "Osmanthus cake! I want osmanthus cake!"

Du Ruyuan said sincerely: "Osmanthus cake is too sweet and greasy, eating too much will damage your teeth."

Ying Zegai pulled Zhaoyuan's sleeve, and walked to the side of the street firmly: "Well, then tear the face off with your hands."

Du Ruyuan tried to persuade him, but failed.

Luo Lingzhi tried to persuade him, but to no avail.

A group of people chatted in front of the noodle stall, Le Yue said helplessly: "I think it's better to leave it to the young master."

Ying Ze glanced at Le Yue appreciatively, and dragged Zhao Yuan to sit down at the table of the noodle stall. Du Ruyuan and Lin Qing were about to sit down helplessly, when a scream came from next to his ear: "Li Lang!"

A peach-colored figure rushed across the street, knocked away Luo Lingzhi who was beside him, and hugged Le Yue tightly.

Le Yue was dumbfounded, his whole body was tightly bound, and a pungent smell of powder rushed into his brain.The pink figure buried her face in his chest, trembling and crying: "Li Lang... you are finally back... I knew you would definitely come back... You made my family wait so hard... so hard..."

This, what is the situation!Le Yue's eyes stared blankly, stupefied.

Lin Qing, Du Ruyuan, Zhao Yuan, Luo Lingzhi, Sun Ben, and everyone within a radius of ten feet opened their mouths half-opened to see that Tao Hong hugged him and cried, "Li Lang—my Li Lang—" Looks vary.

After a long, long, long silence, Lin Qing murmured: "So... you are here... have a friend..."

Le Yue opened his mouth like a dead fish, the pink in his arms raised his head, and touched his face with trembling hands: "Li Lang—" Le Yue was stunned again.

Although the woman hugging him was dressed as a girl, the thick makeup couldn't cover her withered face. There were deep wrinkles around her eyes and mouth, and her temples, which were full of pearls, were messy and mixed with silver threads.Only the eyes looking at Le Yue are full of girlish breath, very bright.

She is a middle-aged woman who is not young.

Le Yue stammered: "Husband... Madam... Did you recognize the wrong person..."

The woman's withered hand rubbed his face: "Li Lang, I know, you will definitely come back to me! Li Lang—" Her fingers were cold, her long nails were painted vermilion, and she was full of joy. The illusion of being hugged by a thousand-year-old zombie in an ancient tomb.

A few people came striding over from the opposite side of the street, among them two or three big men grabbed the woman's arms, peeled her off Le Yue, and dragged her backwards.

The woman screamed and struggled desperately with incredible strength: "Let go! Let me go! Li Lang! Li Lang!"

An old woman who came running together with those big men waved her hand to Le Yuefu: "My little brother, I'm sorry for frightening you. I'll match you up. Please go to our building for a drink cup..." His eyes swept around, and he half-covered his mouth with a veil and smiled, "Ah, it seems that the younger brother and the master and wife behind are together, so it is inconvenient to invite you to our building. It should be What should I do?"

Le Yue was a little taken aback, but seeing the old woman's dress and conversation, she had already guessed eighty-nine points, and said with a dry smile: "You don't have to be polite, this mother, it's nothing serious, haha, you'd better hurry this... er, This... madam, take it back."

The captured woman kept staring at Le Yue, struggling hard, and shouting louder and louder: "Li Lang! Li Lang——! Why don't you recognize Yuqiao? Let me go! Li Lang rescued me!" I!"

The expression of the old woman who was smiling with Le Yue changed, and she walked up to the woman with a few steps, and slapped her across the face: "How many times have I told you that the man surnamed Li has a wife! For more than ten years I threw you away before! Three days and two days ago, I went to the streets to mourn! Zaihao tore your mouth!"

Turning around again, his expression changed again, and he showed a courteous smile again: "My little brother, I took this crazy woman home first. I'm really sorry, your lord has a lot, don't be with a lunatic Care about it." He waved his hand and directed the three big men to drag the screaming woman away.

Le Yue stared blankly at the group of people dragging the crazy woman into a building opposite. There were gauze curtains and ribbons hanging in that building, and three large characters written on the door plaque——Eye Mei.

The owner of the noodle stall said, "Oh, little brother, that crazy woman came back to make troubles in the street every three days, today is just a coincidence for you."

Le Yue said clearly: "That woman is..."

The proprietress who was below answered, "It's the prostitute in that building who has been crazy for more than ten years."

Le Yue and the others sat down at the small table, and while waiting for the noodles, they listened to the noodle shop proprietress talk about ancient times.

The crazy woman's name is Yuqiao. When she was young, she was a well-known courtesan. It is said that even the elders of the provincial capital came to see her.

More than ten years ago, for some reason, she fell in love with a merchant who came to sell cloth from out of town.As a result, the man left and never came back, and she went crazy after waiting and waiting.

Le Yue sighed deeply.

Lin Qing said angrily: "That man is really not a good guy, since you don't plan to marry her, don't lie to her in the first place!"

None of the males present expressed their opinions, and the proprietress said: "But Yuqiao is good at fortune-telling, the mother in the building is her own mother, otherwise she will become crazy like this, and she may be killed early in the morning..."

Lin Qing snorted, "I don't know where that heartbroken man is now, and whether he has been punished."

Du Ruyuan coughed, and said quietly, "Miss, restrain yourself."

The noodle stall owner smiled and said to Le Yue: "Brother, you are lucky, this time you ran into her like this, she still has a crazy way, it's really troublesome to bump into her."

Le Yue was taken aback, wasn't that scary enough just now?Half an hour later, Ying Ze finally put down the empty bowl and wiped his mouth with his sleeve. Du Ruyuan took out his money bag with a sad face, and the noodle stall owner watched them leave with a smile on his face.

Just two steps away, there was a sudden noise behind her, and it came from Niang'er Mei's direction again. Le Yue subconsciously turned her head and was shocked.

With a touch of familiar peach red, he rushed towards him with a kitchen knife, and when he looked at him with hatred, it was clearly him.

"Li Ting, you heartless man, I'm going to kill you—!"

There was a sudden pause in Le Yue's dodging footsteps, and Yuqiao's kitchen knife rushed in front of him with lightning speed.

He raised his hand, dropped the knife, and fell to the ground with a bang.

Luo Lingzhi said indifferently: "Ma'am, I'm sorry," pushing her fingers a little further towards Yuqiao's stamina, Yuqiao closed her eyes and fell backwards, just in time to be caught by the panting big man who rushed over.

The big man bowed down and apologized to them for a long time before dragging the unconscious Yuqiao away.

Zhao Yuan tugged on Le Yue's sleeve, and Lin Qing said in a small voice, "Maybe...the same name and surname may not necessarily be the same. The name Li Ting is very common in the mortal world."

Le Yue nodded thoughtfully: "Anyway, go to the inn first."

After a long, long, long silence, Lin Qing murmured: "So... you are here... have a friend..."

Le Yue opened his mouth like a dead fish, the pink in his arms raised his head, and touched his face with trembling hands: "Li Lang—" Le Yue was stunned again.

Although the woman hugging him was dressed as a girl, the thick makeup couldn't cover her withered face. There were deep wrinkles around her eyes and mouth, and her temples, which were full of pearls, were messy and mixed with silver threads.Only the eyes looking at Le Yue are full of girlish breath, very bright.

She is a middle-aged woman who is not young.

Le Yue stammered: "Husband... Madam... Did you recognize the wrong person..."

The woman's withered hand rubbed his face: "Li Lang, I know, you will definitely come back to me! Li Lang—" Her fingers were cold, her long nails were painted vermilion, and she was full of joy. The illusion of being hugged by a thousand-year-old zombie in an ancient tomb.

A few people came striding over from the opposite side of the street, among them two or three big men grabbed the woman's arms, peeled her off Le Yue, and dragged her backwards.

The woman screamed and struggled desperately with incredible strength: "Let go! Let me go! Li Lang! Li Lang!"

An old woman who came running together with those big men waved her hand to Le Yuefu: "My little brother, I'm sorry for frightening you. I'll match you up. Please go to our building for a drink cup..." His eyes swept around, and he half-covered his mouth with a veil and smiled, "Ah, it seems that the younger brother and the master and wife behind are together, so it is inconvenient to invite you to our building. It should be What should I do?"

Le Yue was a little taken aback, but seeing the old woman's dress and conversation, she had already guessed eighty-nine points, and said with a dry smile: "You don't have to be polite, this mother, it's nothing serious, haha, you'd better hurry this... er, This... madam, take it back."

The captured woman kept staring at Le Yue, struggling hard, and shouting louder and louder: "Li Lang! Li Lang——! Why don't you recognize Yuqiao? Let me go! Li Lang rescued me!" I!"

The expression of the old woman who was smiling with Le Yue changed, and she walked up to the woman with a few steps, and slapped her across the face: "How many times have I told you that the man surnamed Li has a wife! For more than ten years I threw you away before! Three days and two days ago, I went to the streets to mourn! Zaihao tore your mouth!"

Turning around again, his expression changed again, and he showed a courteous smile again: "My little brother, I took this crazy woman home first. I'm really sorry, your lord has a lot, don't be with a lunatic Care about it." He waved his hand and directed the three big men to drag the screaming woman away.

Le Yue stared blankly at the group of people dragging the crazy woman into a building opposite. There were gauze curtains and ribbons hanging in that building, and three large characters written on the door plaque——Eye Mei.

The owner of the noodle stall said, "Oh, little brother, that crazy woman came back to make troubles in the street every three days, today is just a coincidence for you."

Le Yue said clearly: "That woman is..."

The proprietress who was below answered, "It's the prostitute in that building who has been crazy for more than ten years."

Le Yue and the others sat down at the small table, and while waiting for the noodles, they listened to the noodle shop proprietress talk about ancient times.

The crazy woman's name is Yuqiao. When she was young, she was a well-known courtesan. It is said that even the elders of the provincial capital came to see her.