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In the evening, a group of evening crows passed through the waist-high weeds, uttered a lonely cry, and fell into the grass in front of Haoling.

"Grandpa, granddaughter is here to see you." Ye Lingxi raised the curtain of the car and said calmly, "Stop the car."

The carriage stopped, and Jin Nu stepped out of the carriage first, and helped Ye Lingxi get off the carriage.

"Your Highness, the Empress, and the others have already arrived at the Haoling Hall. If you delay for a while, I'm afraid you will miss tonight's first sacrifice."

Ye Lingxi shook her head, glanced at the six generals of the Shen family who were escorting them all the way, and said indifferently: "You guys escort them to Young General Shen to deal with them first, and leave ten imperial guards to accompany me. let's go."

"promise!"

Twenty imperial guards escorted six pale-faced Shen family generals into the Haoling Divine Way.

Ye Lingxi looked at the solemn unicorns on both sides of the Shinto, and smiled slightly. Although she had never seen the demeanor of Emperor Yunjing, she could always find the demeanor of Emperor Yunjing in various history books. She always thought that if the emperor's grandfather It should be a blessing for Dayun to be alive.

However, after all, these thoughts are just thoughts, the current Dayun imperial power is in jeopardy, Emperor Yunhui is in poor health, and the country has begun to show signs of withering.

"You come with me." Ye Lingxi didn't dare to think about it any longer, she had to meet someone first - if this trip to Haoling is to be successful, it is absolutely impossible to do without the help of this person.

"His Royal Highness?" Jin Nu didn't understand what Ye Lingxi wanted to do. "At night, there are a lot of snakes and insects. It's really dangerous, or..."

Ye Lingxi didn't wait for Jin Nu to finish, she smiled and approached Jin Nu, and said in a low voice: "An eight-year-old girl could have survived here. Now, I can't compare to that girl. ?”

Jin Nu suddenly realized, and instantly thought of someone, "The princess wants to see..."

"The demon boy in troubled times, Yan Ge." Ye Lingxi said the name of this person directly in a low voice, turned her head and glanced at the ten guards who were ten steps away from herself and Jin Nu, and raised her voice, "This year There are more spring rains than in previous years, I would like to go to see if there is any rain erosion in Haoling's Fengshui nine wells?"

Who is Yan Ge?

Speaking of this girl, I have to say that the vision of mountains and rivers that made Dayun restless six years ago——for seven consecutive days, the sun and the moon shine together, the sky is full of red clouds, and the vast sky looks like a huge picture every day. The blood curtain, the color of blood in the eyes, made people inexplicably terrified.

"A demon boy in troubled times, split the sky and shoot the sun. Blood flowed into rivers, and the world died. Today the sky is bloody, and tomorrow the river will be corpses. The country will be in danger from now on, and the fire of hell will fill the sky."

This appalling nursery rhyme spread throughout the entire Dayun Wuzhou overnight.Taoist cultivators who know a little bit about secrets calculate day and night, and there are different opinions. At that time, everyone was in danger and always wanted to find out this demon boy in troubled times and kill him.

Some people said that this demon boy in troubled times came from a family of officials and officials, some said that this demon boy in troubled times came from a brothel, and some said that this demon boy in troubled times came from the royal family of Dayun.

Therefore, a court minister asked for an order, saying that the baby girls born within seven days would be slaughtered overnight, and it would be better to kill them by mistake than tolerate them.

At that time, Emperor Yunhui was assisted by the eldest princess, how could he do such a cruel thing?

This matter is inward and outward, making a fuss.

In the end, Yan Qian, the general of Hanxiguan Township in Xizhou, tied his only daughter Yan Ge to the palace with tears in his eyes, and stated that the girl was born with an ominous birth.

The eldest princess Ye Chengmeng immediately invited ten well-known Taoist priests from Yunguo to make calculations, and all of them pointed to the fact that this eight-year-old girl was born with evil spirits.

All of a sudden, the rumors stopped, and all the ministers petitioned Emperor Yunhui to kill the girl.However, the eldest princess resisted all opinions and imprisoned Yan Ge in Haoling, intending to use Emperor Yunjing's emperor's spirit to suppress Yan Ge's evil spirit.

Maybe some ministers didn't intend to let Yan Ge go at first, but as time went by, the court's center of gravity gradually shifted. After six years, and now mentioning the girl Yan Ge, many people don't know whether she is alive or not. , still dead.

Ye Lingxi knew Yan Ge's true whereabouts because of her aunt, eldest princess Ye Chengmeng.She was 13 years old that year, and the eldest princess's body was not as good as before. The eldest princess took her to Haoling to worship the late emperor, told her the secret, and told her that only Emperor Yunhui and her knew this secret. The last life-saving talisman left by the eldest princess to Dayun.

The weeds swayed in the cool wind, and the crow flew through the weeds from time to time, screaming shrilly.

Ye Lingxi took Jinnu and ten imperial guards along the outer side of the Shinto for three incense sticks, and finally stopped at the end of the Shinto.

"Jin Nu, you wait here. Without the order of the palace, no one can approach! Violators, beheaded!" After Ye Lingxi finished speaking, she walked along the mausoleum wall on the left side by herself until she reached the figure. It disappeared from the sight of Jin Nu and the ten guards.

"promise!"

This is the end of the mausoleum wall, and there are only nine mausoleum wells used to gather wind and water. If there are patrolling soldiers here, they can't see anything unusual here.

Ye Lingxi walked to one of the mausoleum wells, leaned over and patted the carved dragon head on the right side of this mausoleum three times, walked to the other mausoleum well, and patted the carved dragon head on the right side as well.

"Crack-"

There was a sound of cracking rocks, but no mechanism was touched at that time.

With a smile on the corner of Ye Lingxi's mouth, she lifted the corner of her skirt, raised her left foot and stepped into the middle of the mausoleum well, as if she stepped on something and did not fall down.

I saw her both legs stepped into the mausoleum, as if she was stepping on steps, walking down step by step.

At the bottom of the mausoleum, it was not as dark as imagined. Instead, every few steps, there was an ever-burning lamp, illuminating a secret passage at the bottom of the mausoleum.

There are no imaginary tomb carvings on the stone walls on both sides of the dark passage, and the whole dark passage does not have that kind of eerie atmosphere. Walking along the road, if you look down carefully, you can find that there are always some wood chips and stones on the stone slabs at the foot of the dark passage. Iron filings.

As you walked deeper into the dark passage, a pungent sulfur smell gradually filled the air. Ye Lingxi couldn't help covering her nose, quickened her pace, and trotted forward inside.

"Ding! Bang! Ding! Bang! Ding! Bang!..."

A bright red flame appeared at the end of the dark passage, rhythmic blows sounded, and a wave of scorching hot air surged from the end of the dark passage, making people feel a little uncomfortable.

Started the furnace, lit the fire, forged, polished, and quenched. A hundred women wearing only one piece of clothing were busy here in style. Many women felt that the place was very hot, so they simply took off their half-length clothes, revealing With a slightly ruddy right arm, he was busy with his head down.

As soon as Ye Lingxi stepped in, a sharp-eyed woman saw her, immediately put down her work, knelt down and said, "Your Highness, you are here! Quick, sisters, Princess Chushan is here, come see me soon." Pass Her Majesty the Princess!"

After the woman's exclamation, many busy women stopped their work and bowed to Ye Lingxi, "The princess is a thousand years old!"

"Who told you to stop? If the red-hot iron is not forged in time, I'm afraid the work ahead will be in vain!" There was only one person, knocking on the forging table, as if he didn't put Princess Chushan on it. In his eyes, "Come back soon and do your work, otherwise there won't be enough weapons for today."

Ye Lingxi raised a slight smile at the corner of her mouth, signaling to everyone to keep busy, and went straight to the 14-year-old girl with disheveled black hair and sweating profusely, "I haven't seen you for a few months, and you still have such a bad temper."

The little girl just sneered, her eyes never took an inch away from the forged long sword in her hand, and she struck the hammer in her hand, "The demon boy in the troubled times is a different kind, so naturally his temper is not much better. Besides..." The little girl The girl finally raised her head, with a icy smile on her face all the time, her brows and eyes were picturesque, her childishness was still there, but she inherited Yan Qian's heroic spirit, this icy smile always made people feel unapproachable "The princess came ten months earlier this year."

Ye Lingxi smiled and said, "Well, it's true that I came ten months earlier."

Yan Ge frowned, and stopped beating in his hands, "But Han Xiguan is in danger?"

Ye Lingxi shook her head and chuckled, "With General Yan guarding Hanxi Pass, there will be no danger."

"It's fine if nothing happens..." Yan Ge stretched his brows, and struck the long sword in his hand again, but didn't intend to say anything to Ye Lingxi.

Ye Lingxi fixedly looked at Yan Ge, clearly four years younger than herself, but a little more tenacious than her——Yan Ge came here at the age of eight. Girls are too strong.

Ye Lingxi still clearly remembers that when she saw Yan Ge for the first time, she asked Yan Ge, "Do you regret it?"

Yan Ge's childish voice was still ringing in her ears, she said - the military order is like a mountain, the children of the Yan family are never afraid of death, how can they regret it?

Since then, Ye Lingxi has come here every year to see Yan Ge, because every time she sees Yan Ge, Ye Lingxi always has a lot of blood in her heart.Even just taking a look at Yan Ge's earnest forging iron is enough to make Ye Lingxi continue to imitate the emperor's aunt Ye Chengmeng with enthusiasm, assisting her father and reorganizing the country.

However, Ye Lingxi felt ashamed towards Yan Ge at those times when the blood was surging in her heart. She thought that this shame would probably accompany her forever, and it would also accompany Emperor Yunhui.

Back then, rumors arose that Emperor Yunhui had been forced by his ministers to the point where he almost ordered the slaughter of a baby girl. Against all odds, the eldest princess Ye Chengmeng had nothing to do.Unexpectedly, Yan Qian, the general of Hanxiguan Township, stepped forward at this time, bribed ten Taoist priests, and pushed his only daughter to the forefront, just to let Emperor Yunhui leave a benevolent name, and let Dayunna Girls born on the seventh day get a chance to survive.

The eldest princess Ye Chengmeng knew that this was the only chance to break the predicament, so she tried her best to save Yan Ge's life. In name, she was confinement in Haoling, but in fact, Yan Ge was raised privately with hundreds of eldest princesses. The female soldiers here secretly make weapons for Han Xiguan.

Hanxiguan is the last barrier between Dayun and Dajin, and the [-] garrison at Hanxiguan is also the only personal soldier that Emperor Yunhui can mobilize now.Therefore, since the death of the eldest princess, Emperor Yunhui did not decree that the manufacture of weapons here should be stopped. On the contrary, he secretly allocated more expenses than before to make more weapons here.One is because the Great Jin Dynasty has invaded Han Xiguan every year, and the other is because the military power in the hands of the general Zhen Guo is getting more and more important, and Emperor Yunhui feels flustered.

Therefore, from the first day Yan Ge stepped here, she was doomed to never leave this place.

A woman's youth will be completely buried on the word "home country". Every time Ye Lingxi thinks of this, she can't help but sigh secretly.

This is what their Ye family owes to General Yan, and also to this girl, Yan Ge.