I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

Aunt Ye Xiao's eyes tonight are not so gloomy and frightening, not as straight as when she was staring at herself, Luo Bai is not so scared, plus her brother is still in the room, so she restrained her shrinking back Impulsive, keep staring.

Chu Yuzhao said coldly: "Concubine Cao, I haven't forgotten what happened back then. It's the culprit. Since Chu Yuchi is dead, I don't want to go deep into it and relive the pain. I miss you too. My son, was relegated to the cold palace by my father, and I have never stepped out of the Condensation Palace in these years, so I have never dealt with you. But now that you insist on committing suicide, then I will settle with you."

When Concubine Cao heard the name Chu Yuchi, her face turned pale and her body trembled uncontrollably.

After Chu Yuzhao finished the call, she closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths. When she opened her eyes again, her expression finally calmed down, but those eyes, which Luo Bai saw as terrifying, shone with a strange light. .

She still faced Chu Yuchi and knelt on the futon, straightened her back, put her gray hair behind her ears, and said, "Your Majesty, after so many years, you don't want to see me, and I don't want to see you either. Believe me Our reasons are the same."

"My son Chu Yuchi drowned in the garden. You and I know what happened. He caused your brother to die innocently, and he got the punishment he deserved. It was the sin he committed himself, and he paid for the cause and effect. One A life is worth a life, so I have never blamed you, nor anyone else. I only blamed me for not teaching him well, and finally killed my life. I have been practicing hard these years, and I have never stepped out of the Condensation Palace. Waiting for the day when ashes return to ashes and ashes return to ashes."

Chu Yuzhao lowered his eyes and looked down at the top of the gray hair, with neither sad nor happy expression: "Chu Yuchi has always been stupid. Back then, when I and Yuce were leaving the palace, he sent someone to pretend to be an assassin and stuff me into a wooden box." box, and wanted to smuggle it to a distant Yidi. This kind of stupid and ridiculous idea can only be thought of by Chu Yuchi himself."

"I didn't care about these things. He usually used many unsightly methods against me, and I tolerated them all. But he absolutely shouldn't, and suffocated Yu Ce to death in a wooden box." Chu Yuzhao His expression gradually turned ferocious, and every word was squeezed out from between his teeth, carrying deep hatred.

"Your Majesty, Chu Yuchi didn't intend to suffocate Yu Ce, it was just an accident..." Concubine Cao raised her head abruptly, her face covered with tears, embedded in every wrinkle, "Besides, he has paid for his life, he was drowned by His Majesty In the lotus pond, I have used my own life to atone for my sin."

Concubine Cao said before that she didn't blame Chu Yuzhao or anyone else, but now her voice was shrill, and she stared at Chu Yuzhao's red eyes that seemed to bleed, drawing out the resentment buried deep in her heart.

Luo Bai was lying on the roof, so intimidated by her appearance that his paws clenched on the tiles, he only thought that if she suddenly opened her mouth wide and pounced on her brother, he would jump off no matter what.

"After seeing Yu Ce's body, I was stimulated, and I don't remember what happened afterwards..." Chu Yuzhao's expression flashed in a trance for a moment, "I only know that if I am not rescued, then I will be with Yu Ce." Ordinarily, he died in the hands of Chu Yuchi."

"No, no, no." Concubine Cao shook her head frantically, and hissed, "Yuchi went back to the palace in a panic that day. After I asked him repeatedly, he finally opened his mouth to me. He said he wanted to marry you." When you were tied out of the city and sent far away, so far away that you would never be able to return to the capital, but did not want to tie you up, Yu Ce rushed out suddenly, and had to ask someone to find another wooden box to put it together. Unexpectedly, the wooden box did not The air vent smothered Yu Ce to death. He was startled and frightened, and when he saw you passed out holding Yu Ce's corpse, he led people and fled back to the palace, determined not to continue to kill you."

"Can I fake the two wounds on my chest? Half a year after I woke up, I left two fatal sword wounds on my chest. Who else could it be?" Chu Yuzhao sneered, "Concubine Cao, you keep saying It is said that Chu Yuchi deserved what he deserved, but he is still defending him and trying to cover it up."

"Chi'er is already dead. What's the point of me covering it up for him? He smothered Chu Yuce to death. Even if he was suffering from the fire of karma, Lord Yan will make his own judgment. But I believe he didn't lie to me. Your sword wound was not stabbed by him."

Luo Bai listened to the conversation between the two, the sword wound, the sword wound...

The little leopard sat upright, holding the tile in his arms with one paw, and scratching his furry chin with the other, trying to recall the first time he saw his beautiful brother.

Those memories were fragmented in his mind, and he couldn't put together the complete fragments, but he could clearly remember a scene: the shallow water near the shore was sprinkled with a layer of broken light by the setting sun. A boy was seen lying quietly in shallow water.

The setting sun coated the boy's handsome and immature face with light gold, against the burning sunset glow in the sky and the rippling water surface beside him, the whole scene was as beautiful as a painting, which was deeply imprinted in Luo Bai's mind.

It's just that there is a terrible scar on his chest, which runs across the entire right chest, and the flesh on both sides is rolled...

At that time, there was only one wound, as for the other... Luo Bai felt deep guilt and uneasiness in his heart, and he didn't want to recall the other wound, so he clenched his paws unconsciously.

"If I hadn't been rescued by someone, if I hadn't suddenly woke up half a year later and remembered what happened before, you would have concealed it forever. No one would know that Chu Yuchi was responsible for the disappearance and murder of Yu Ce and I, and You are the accomplice who concealed it for him." Chu Yuzhao said every word but very clearly.

"Yes, I admit it, I admit that after listening to Yuchi's story, I immediately sent people to the Temple of Earth where the incident happened, trying to silence you." Concubine Cao panted, with desperate madness in her eyes, and said hoarsely Shouted: "Chu Yuzhao, don't say I'm cruel. If you were allowed to return to the palace alive, then Yuchi would be finished. If it were you, I believe you would have no other choice. It's just that the person I sent When we arrived at the Earth Temple, we only found Yu Ce's body, and you were gone. My people searched everywhere, but only found a pool of blood on the nearby river."

Chu Yuzhao looked down at Concubine Cao condescendingly, seeing her red eyes that widened as if they were about to protrude, with undisguised disgust on her face: "Concubine Cao, do you know why I haven't killed you until now?"

Concubine Cao sat on the futon with her legs curled up, her hands propped behind her back, her bun had been undone, and her gray hair was hanging down her shoulders in a disheveled way.Her face was covered with tears, but when she heard this, she seemed to have heard something funny, and she suddenly started laughing, her whole body trembling from laughing, and tears overflowed from the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.

"Why don't you kill me, why don't you kill me..." She repeated with a smile, then suppressed her smile, and said in a spiteful tone: "You don't want to kill me, you want to show it to the world, you want to cleanse yourself With a reputation of brutality and bloodthirsty, you want everyone to praise you for what a merciful king you are."

"No, no, except for the first emperor, no one knows the cause of death of Chu Yuce and Chu Yuchi. I don't care what people in the world think of me, and I don't care about my reputation." Chu Yuzhao leaned down slightly, and whispered in her ear: "It's much harder to live than to die. I want you to live so that you will suffer all the time."

He glanced at the tiger-toed shoes in the mahogany cabinet, and continued to speak softly: "I have not destroyed any of Chu Yuchi's belongings during his lifetime, and kept them all for you, so that you can think about others when you look at them, and always miss your son..."

Luo Bai couldn't hear these words clearly on the roof, so he had to lower his head desperately, almost getting into the hole, his ears were quivering lightly, but he still couldn't hear clearly.

Especially when he saw Aunt Ye Xiao's expression suddenly became ferocious and frightening, and there was a ho-ho sound from his throat, he was surprised and curious, what did brother say?What did you say?

"Chu Yuzhao, you devil, it's true that Yuchi killed Chu Yuce, but he didn't do it on purpose. The previous emperor said he would punish him, and he has already abolished his status as prince and imprisoned him in the palace. You have a vicious mind, and you are willing to risk disgrace, not to hesitate to be hated by the late emperor, to kill the soon-to-be crown prince, and you have no brotherhood, Chu Yuzhao, you will end up dying in this life! "

Concubine Cao's call was made at the top of her lungs, let alone Luo Bai on the roof heard it clearly, and the guards standing at the door and outside the yard also heard it clearly, and they were all shocked.Even the few cats squatting on the roof were taken aback, and all looked at Luo Bai uneasily.

Luo Bai's whole head got into the hole, hanging in the air, and when Ye Xiao opened his bloody mouth to his brother, he would bravely rush down.Because the movement was too big, the surrounding tiles were squeezed by him and made a light cracking sound.

It's just that Chu Yuzhao and Cao Bin didn't notice this movement at all. If they looked up at this moment, they would see a leopard's head hanging from the roof. The whole scene looked extremely strange.

The door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and Hong Si stood at the door with his sword drawn: "Your Majesty, let your servants seal the mouth of this vicious woman, and stop her from talking nonsense."

"It's okay." Chu Yuzhao stood up straight and looked down at Concubine Cao, with a flat voice, "Just let her call, I still have something to ask."

"Yes." Hong Si gritted his teeth and had no choice but to back out.

After the door was closed, Chu Yuzhao said again: "Concubine Cao, what happened to Yu Ce's soul? What personal items did you use to cast spells? Hand it over now."

Concubine Cao was still clutching the handkerchief, sitting on her knees with disheveled hair, staring straight ahead, as if she didn't hear his question.

Chu Yuzhao pulled out the handkerchief from her hand, held it up in front of her eyes and shook it: "Concubine Cao, you don't need to be stupid, the flat gold thread used on this handkerchief was a tribute sent to the palace from western Yunnan five years ago. Although you have already moved into the Condensation Palace as a layman, your father has never treated you harshly. You wanted the flat gold thread, so you gave you a whole box. You used Yuce's personal items to capture his soul, Where is the item at this moment?"

Concubine Cao seemed to understand his words just now, her bloodshot eyeballs rolled a little bit and landed on his cold face, and after a while, she suddenly laughed nervously twice.

"Chu Yuzhao, let me tell you why you came here suddenly late at night. It turned out that Chu Yuce's soul was arrested." Concubine Cao's expression became strange, and her tone was gloating.

Chu Yuzhao grabbed her hair violently and pulled it back, his voice seemed to be icy: "I ask you, where is the object you used to attach Chu Yuce's soul?"

Concubine Cao was forced to look up at him, but kept her mouth shut, her eyes full of mockery.

"Don't tell me, right? I have many ways to get you to talk." Chu Yuzhao moved his gaze to the mahogany cabinet, inside which were the tiger-toed shoes and the small cloth shirt that Chu Yuchi wore when he was a child, and his handsome face floated. A cruel smile: "I would like to try, take away Chu Yuchi's things, and attach his soul to let me control it, what's it like..."

"How innocent is Yu Ce? Your son killed him when he was only five years old, and after he died, you broke all his bones, tied him with a soul lock, and pierced three long nails into his skull. Mrs. Cao, how do you treat Yu Ce? I will double the pain on your son's bones."

Chu Yuzhao's eyes were red, as if he had crawled out of a deep underworld, and his whole body was filled with a chill.

Concubine Cao trembled all over, her expression became terrified, and finally said in a hissed voice, "I didn't detain Chu Yuce's soul, nor did I do that to Yuce's bones, I didn't do those things."

Chu Yuzhao grabbed her hair with one hand, shook the handkerchief with the other, and asked sharply, "Why did the monk who cast the spell have your handkerchief? It was left in Yuce's coffin?"

"This is not my handkerchief at all. I have never seen it before. Let it go." Concubine Cao hurriedly said, "If you don't believe me, I'll go and show you the flat gold thread."

Chu Yuzhao stared at her for a moment, then slowly let go of his hand.Concubine Cao quickly got up, walked to the mahogany cabinet, opened the drawer below, and took out a folded blue gown.She opened the gown, revealing a piece of bright yellow fabric inside.

This bright yellow cloth represents dignity and can only be worn by emperors.Although Chu Yuzhao is all wearing black robes, only with dark golden dragon patterns embroidered on the hem of the robes, but this color of cloth is still taboo in the palace, no one dares to hide it privately, Cao Concubine took it out at this time, it is obviously already I was forced to hide it.

She returned to Chu Yuzhao with the bright yellow cloth in her hand, said with trembling lips, "This is the mandarin jacket I sewed for Chi earlier, and I used all the roll of flat gold thread on it. I planned to burn it... ...burn it to him. You can have the thread removed, no more, no less, just one roll."

Chu Yuzhao looked at the bright yellow mandarin jacket, which was embroidered with dark golden dragon patterns. Under the candlelight, the light seemed to flow.

"Why didn't you burn it to him?" He suddenly asked such a strange question.

Concubine Cao seemed to be taken aback, and after a moment of silence, she said dryly, "I only hope that he will not be reborn in the emperor's family in his next life, but just be an ordinary person, with children around his knees, and a smooth life."

A cloudy tear dripped from the corner of her eye, pattered onto the mandarin jacket, soaking a small ball of deep stains.

"I hate you, but I don't hate Chu Yuce. I feel ashamed of him." Concubine Cao walked slowly towards the altar, and opened the half curtain beside the altar, revealing two tablets behind, on which were written Chu Yuce respectively. The names of Yuchi and Chu Yuce.

Her voice was faint, full of deep fatigue and sadness, as if she had aged a few years: "I haven't been out of the palace in the past few years, and I haven't seen outsiders, so where would I know any monks? This Ningcui Palace It's really lonely. Only when I fall asleep at night can I hear Yuchi's voice, calling for my concubine mother. But once I wake up, there are still only green lights and candles left. Only during this time, there is always A young boy passed by in front of the palace. He often sat on the steps. He saw Fu making things out of wood, and he kept chattering and asking questions. It reminded me of Yuchi when he was a child. But that boy was very afraid of me, so I dared to Take a sneak peek through the crack of the door..."

Luo Bai, who was still hanging on the roof, heard this, and he didn't know who that little boy was, but he should be afraid of you. I was also afraid when I saw you like that...

Chu Yuzhao didn't continue to ask, put the handkerchief into his sleeve, turned around and walked towards the door, Cao Concubine behind him was still muttering, raised her hand to cover her face, her thin shoulders shrugged silently.

Seeing Chu Yuzhao going out, Luo Bai quickly pulled his head out of the hole. He never thought it would be easy to get it out, but it was a bit difficult to get it back, and his oversized round head got stuck in the hole.

As soon as he exerted force, the surrounding tiles made a crackling sound, and the debris fell down.Chu Yuzhao immediately stopped and turned around, and saw the leopard head hanging under the roof at a glance.

Luo Bai met Chu Yuzhao's shocked gaze, the whole leopard froze for a moment, and then pulled its head out vigorously.This time, the head was pulled out, but two tiles also fell from the roof, crashing to the ground.