Death Princess

The snow fell heavily outside the window, covering the sky and covering the sky, making this small room seem to be the only non-white existence between the sky and the earth.The room was very quiet, and Leng Tong stood up at some point, leaving the indescribable back view to Zhao Lu who was sitting in front of the chessboard.

Zhao Lu knew that every word she said was tormenting Leng Tong, but she had to force herself to continue and finish speaking now, because if she didn't say it today, she might not be able to bear it anymore, or even be unable to say it in the future.

"So," she cruelly broke the short silence that belonged to Lengtong, "the task of finding the royal princess fell on me and Ahui. Or, it was Ahui and I who took the initiative I took this task because at that time, we already had selfishness and goals.”

"We are looking for the princess, on the one hand, we are entrusted by others, and on the other hand, it is because..." pinching his palm, Zhao Lu forced himself to raise his head, looking at Leng Tong who was trembling "She is the emperor's only heir, and even the queen's darling. She is an excellent bargaining chip whether it is helping Yier avenge her or finding a place for the Lingzu."

Pinching himself again, "Let's put it bluntly, at that time, what A Hui and I cared about was not the life or death of the princess, but the identity of the princess, a birthmark, a jade pendant, and two fingers."

A birthmark, a jade pendant, and two fingers.

Those twelve short words, in Leng Tong's ears, felt like heart-wrenching pain.Her back trembled even more, but she didn't react, but waited for the continuation of one cruel truth after another.

However, this time, the morning dew did not continue.She was like a burnt out candle, after finishing the twelve words just now, she couldn't speak a word anymore.

"Sister, would you like to become real sisters with Yi'er?" He Yi's voice sounded in Leng Tong's mind.

No wonder, no wonder He Yi was so obsessed with calling herself "sister" and married Jinlan with her, no wonder she deliberately separated the situation in the capital from the disputes over the royal forces to tell herself.It's all about...

After a long time, Leng Tong turned around slowly.Her face facing Chaolu was almost expressionless, but her eyes were flushed.

"Then what?" She asked in that cold voice, "Then you found out about the dark pavilion, what happened three years ago, and that... Grade A mission?"

"...That's not the case." Zhao Lu clenched her fists against her forehead that seemed to be unable to support it, and covered her face with her arms, "A person who can't even find out the empress who is the Ninth Five-Year King, How could our Jianzong Xueminggu and the Lingzu find it? Two years, two full years, we have not been able to find any trace of Princess Liuzhi. Both the Leng family and the Jiao family seem to have disappeared out of thin air. "

"But we found a Fengyuwei sent by His Majesty to hunt down the Jiao family." Zhao Lu squeezed her eyebrows, "Actually, if the Fengyuwei hadn't done some outrageous things himself, we would not have been able to find out. He was ordered to hunt down Jiao Shi, but for some reason, he fell in love with a woman from a poor background. He betrayed Fengyuwei, and with that woman, he gave birth to a son and a daughter."

"But things didn't go so smoothly for him. Twelve years ago, in the second year of Jianlong, the second year of His Majesty's ascension to the throne, for some reason, the Fengyuwei abandoned the promise he had made to hold his son and his son. The old married wife left with a son and a daughter." After a pause, "I didn't know the reason until not long ago."

"He left with his children because...he discovered the identity of his wife."

"...Spirit Race?" Leng Tong didn't know why she thought so.

"Spirit Race, Cold Spirit Race."

Hearing the three words "Cold Spirit Race", Leng Tong instantly understood who the Fengyuwei Zhao Lu was talking about, and even more understood why that person treated her like that all those years ago.

"Just as you guessed," Zhao Lu propped her hands up to her chin again, but her eyes were still fixed on the chessboard, not daring to look at Leng Tong, "That Fengyuwei is Pavilion Master Ou. He brought After leaving with a pair of sons and daughters, in order to avoid being hunted down by Feng Yuwei, who was once a fellow robe, he lived in seclusion in the city, and then entered the secret cabinet, and became the master of the cabinet with all his kung fu."

"I thought the matter would end here, but he never thought that some things, the more you hide, the more they will come." This time, Zhao Lu raised her head to meet Leng Tong's gaze, "He was on a mission when he was out on a mission. , met a person, a person he has been looking for for most of his life. I don't know how he determined the identity of that person..."

"He saw my birthmark." Leng Tong said suddenly.

Zhao Lu was taken aback.

"That day..." Leng Tong bit her lip, "I didn't even pay, and those people wanted me... to use... my body... to..."

"That's why he brought you back to the dark pavilion." Zhao Lu stood up suddenly, grabbed Leng Tong's hand, and interrupted Leng Tong without the slightest politeness. She couldn't be more unwilling to listen to Leng Tong's words, because, It hurts when she hears it.

It seemed that Zhao Lu's hand was too strong, and Leng Tong trembled from being grabbed.

Zhao Lu let go of her hand as if she had been electrocuted, staggered back two steps, turned sideways, and continued as if facing the wall: "By the time we find out that Ou Pavilion Master is Feng Yuwei, it will be too late. King Ping and the prince suddenly asked The dark pavilion is in trouble, we only have time to send Yi'er to the palace in a hurry, the matter of the dark pavilion and the princess... When we look back, it's a done deal."

"So you went to the banquet where Jiang Tang was promoted to the head of the sect?"

Zhao Lu nodded.

"That teacher...how did Pavilion Master Ou die, do you know?"

Zhao Lu nodded again, but did not answer.Leng Tong thought that she would ask immediately, but she couldn't.

The former master was the only important person in that place of incomparable hatred. Now the truth is revealed, but it is discovered that the master is not... Everything is predestined in the dark.His protection of himself is even more out of...

"Suicide." I don't know if it's because she guessed what Leng Tong was thinking or something else, but Zhao Lu finally said this answer, an answer that Leng Tong was not surprised by. "But I don't know the reason for suicide. If it was to protect a pair of children, or to..." Looking at Leng Tong, he lowered his eyes for a moment, "Isn't it a better way to live?"

"Because Mrs. Jiao went looking for him."

Zhao Lu was taken aback again.

Leng Tong took out another bone whistle from his bosom and put it together with the one in Chao Lu's hand, "If I'm not mistaken, Xuemu's mother should have a close relationship with the Jiao family, that's why Master...that's why Pavilion Master Ou betrayed her." Feng Yuwei. He didn't leave Xue Shi, but Xue Shi died of dystocia when giving birth to Ou Xueli."

On the one hand, there is the kindness and resentment between the biological parents and the adoptive mother, and on the other hand, the truth and falsehood of the best friend and respected teacher. Zhaolu doesn't know how Lengtong can analyze these things so calmly at this moment of physical and mental trauma.But in short, she did so, with a clearer thinking than ordinary people, and she did it.

"At that time, I vaguely heard the conversation between the two of them. It didn't sound clear at the time, but now that I think about it, it just happened to connect everything. Jiao Shi...Jiao's bodyguard died under the knife of Pavilion Master Ou , so the two of them originally had a deep blood feud...but because of the existence of Xue Shi, they turned their backs on each other."

"At that time, under the pressure from the royal family, coupled with the internal actions of Jiang Tang, Wu Mian and others, the Dark Pavilion and even the Shadow Gate were full of internal and external troubles. What must Ou Pavilion Master do to survive under those mountains? What a coincidence , Jiao Shi appeared. Jiao Shi came to seek revenge, and Pavilion Master Ou wanted to save Xue Li Xuemu and me. So, they made a deal."

"Exchange his life for three children." Zhao Lu understood, "But after Master Ou's death, the Ou family did not go with Jiao, because Ou Xuemu mistook her for killing her father and enemy. As for ..."

"They didn't intend to take me out of the secret pavilion. After all, there is nowhere in this world that is more suitable for hiding... me than the secret pavilion that has been infiltrated by the royal family. What came out turned out to be a...killer..."

"That's why he cut off your finger." Zhao Lu interrupted Leng Tong's self-mocking self-harming words again.

Leng Tong lowered her gaze, "She also took away the blood-colored jade pendant. Now that I think about it, the birthmark on her back... She seemed to want to do something at the time, but before she could do it in time, the dark pavilion completely changed, making She had to flee immediately. But whether she did or didn't do it, I owe it to her..."

"Then you know..."

"I don't know where she went," Leng Tong said, "but I do know that before she left, she left a letter for Xuemu and this pair of bone whistles for me."

On the table, between the black and white chess pieces, stood a pair of human bone whistles with yellowish white.Standing on one side of the table, the two people who were very close but far away stared at them without blinking, and did not speak for a long time.

He has a close relationship with the Cold Spirit Race, and escaped from the imperial city with a weak woman and baby who had no power to restrain him. He wanted to protect Leng Tong, but he just took the jade pendant and left him behind. Get off the bone whistle.Zhaolu's brain was spinning rapidly.

Jiao Shi, the heroine Jiao from decades ago.

It has only been 40 years since the founding of Anguo. In the previous chaotic period, there were many talented people in the world. It was a troubled time, and the people were in dire straits. Ironically, that was also the era when the spirit race was freest.Therefore, among the martial arts masters that have emerged in large numbers, many of them are of the Spirit Race.But after the founding of the country, the Yi religion was rampant, and the spirit clan was suppressed everywhere...

Is it possible, Jiao Shi...

If so, then...

"Borrow it." Zhao Lu grabbed the two bone whistles and poured a bit of spiritual power into them as if by chance, but never thought that the bone whistles would actually move.Two rays of light intertwined with silver and blue flowed out from the bone whistle and flowed onto the chessboard, turning into a line of characters.

"Yanzhou Canyon." Leng Tong read out, and subconsciously wanted to touch the line of words, but unexpectedly saw a piece of ice cold, and then the handwriting melted with the temperature of the fingers.

"Cold spiritual power and phantom spiritual power." Zhao Lu took a deep breath, "It seems that Mrs. Jiao had dreamed of this scene as early as three or four years ago. Foretelling dreams and predicting dreams are sometimes really... ..."

The fate of Shuang Xue and Bo Fan, as well as his own survival.Did she dream it too?Then why did she do this and guide her like this?

"I dreamed about everything in the future three or four years ago, is it possible?"

"It's possible, everything is possible," Zhao Lu smiled strangely, "as long as you can afford the price."

"cost?"

"Phantom spiritual power spans time and connects the past and the future, so if you want to obtain abilities beyond common sense, the price you need to pay is...time."