General Zhiyi

Ye Ting Palace, as the detention place for criminal slaves, is located in the most remote corner of the palace. Few other palace people set foot here, let alone a big man like the emperor. Since he came here this time to find Yu Anlin's bones, it was inevitable to bring extra These people, a group of people walked through the deep alley of the palace courtyard, and stood in front of a dilapidated wooden door.

Ying Li slowly raised his hand to grab the rusty door latch, pursed his lips tightly, and looked gloomy. Tang Jingxu knew that he must be very uncomfortable at this moment. After all, Yu Anlin was the only salvation for him in the long years. It is far better than the existence of any one person, and now, behind this wooden door that he frequently entered and exited in his childhood, what awaits him will never be Yu Anlin's warm embrace, but only... cold dry bones.

With a soft "click", Ying Li pulled the latch. He didn't look up, his eyes still fell on the latch. After a long silence, he pushed open the wooden door that was crumbling due to years of disrepair.

Hearing the sound, the busy sin slaves in the inner courtyard of Yeting Palace stopped their work and looked over. They saw Ying Xuan wearing a dragon robe at a glance, all of them widened their eyes in surprise, their faces full of shock and excitement panic.

The nanny in charge of the Yeting Palace was the first to react, and immediately knelt down and shouted "Long Live", and then the others hurriedly followed Qiqi and knelt down, almost touching their faces to the ground, trembling all over, as if they were deeply afraid that the emperor would come Want their heads to come.

Ying Xuan stepped forward with her hands behind her back, motioned for the guards to bring them into the house, then turned to look at Hong Xiu, and asked, "Where is she?"

Hong Xiu didn't say anything, but looked at the well under the dead tree in the corner of Yeting Palace, which was suppressed and sealed by bluestone slabs.

Tang Jingxu looked along and realized in his heart, it's in the well, no wonder...

After burning an incense stick, the guards pried open the bluestone slab that was sealed at the mouth of the well, and several people looked down the well. A stench that had been covered in dust for a long time rushed towards his face with a damp and gloomy coolness. Tang Jingxu frowned and held his breath. Breathing squinted his eyes trying to see the situation down the well.

This well is neither big nor deep, so it is not considered a dry well. It can be seen that some water has accumulated in the well. The water is very shallow. It should be that the bottom of the well is not completely sealed. A corpse, the skull was facing the mouth of the well, and there seemed to be a line of sight shot out of the black eye sockets, looking at the blue sky beyond the crowd.

"She must have been waiting for a long time." Tang Jingxu couldn't help sighing.

Ying Xuan's face was heavy, he turned his eyes away, and ordered the guards to go down the well.

After ten years, Yu Anlin's bones were finally brought out of this claustrophobic well. The bones were neatly placed on the straw mat, and Ying Li knelt beside the straw mat, wiping the water stains and scratches on the bones with his sleeves. The moss on the ground, silently pieced them together bit by bit, when he picked up the hand bone missing half of the metacarpal bone, his body trembled violently, and his teeth clucked.

Yu Anlin's skeleton was incomplete, apart from the missing metacarpal bone, her patella was also missing, presumably it was brutally dug up, looking at the mutilated skeleton, Ying Li couldn't hold back after all, knelt beside the corpse and wept bitterly, The cry was suppressed by him, overflowing from the depths of his throat, the hoarse mourning tearing away the bloody past in the silent palace courtyard.

Tang Jingxu and Yin Liansheng stood quietly aside, Hua Qingchen clenched her fists with red eyes.

Ying Xuan closed her eyes in pain, and cleared the mist from her eyes. After a while, she opened her eyes, stared at Ying Li's curled up figure, and said in a voice that was imperceptibly choked: "Hongxiu, I never I never thought that she would have the heart to do such a cruel thing to Lin Niang. It is extremely ridiculous. It turns out that I am so ignorant. I knew that she had never felt compassion for A Li. How could I have believed that lie? But I really don't understand , why, tell me, why exactly?"

Hong Xiu looked up at Ying Xuan's side face calmly, and said softly, "Your Majesty, it's because of jealousy, because of hatred."

"Jealous? Hate?" Ying Xuan couldn't help feeling sad and ridiculous, and turned her head to look deeply into her eyes, "Linniang is just a subjugated slave, why is she jealous of Linniang? Why does she hate Linniang?"

Hong Xiu's face remained unchanged: "Don't you think it looks like it, Your Majesty?"

Ying Xuan was stunned, as if he didn't understand Hong Xiu's words.

Hongxiu's eyes fell on Yu Anlin's bones, she gave a wry smile, the corners of her eyes were slightly red, and she said slowly: "Back then, on the night when the first emperor married his empress, he kissed her hand, his eyes were full of pious love, that one look made me feel so much better. The empress loved him to the core. The first emperor liked to hug the empress from behind, and often boasted that the back of the empress fascinated him. But later, seeing the eyes of the first emperor looking at that person, the empress was disheartened. It turned out that the pious The love is not hers, the empress is just a substitute that he can't love, what he is greedy for is just the hands and back that are very similar to Yu Anlin. This is jealousy. "

Pausing for a moment, Hongxiu's eyes turned to Ying Li, and then said: "After knowing the truth, the empress is upset, and she always treats the late emperor with cold eyes, and she was left out in the cold after a while. His Highness Li's birth, Pushing her into the ice cave completely, what she did was a last resort. If you don't push His Highness Li away, the situation for His Majesty and Empress will be even more difficult. But I didn't expect that her push would push His Highness Li and you away. When you reach that person, you hold her hand, with a pure smile on your face that you have never seen in front of her. What will the empress feel in her heart? She is a former sinful slave, but she has her deep love. The love of the one who loves. This, is hate."

"Hongxiu, until now, you are still speaking for her. Do you think these explanations can erase her sins?" Ying Xuan shook his head and smiled bleakly.

Hong Xiu's back was still straight, she closed her eyes, and said softly: "Even if it can't be erased, I will stand in front of my empress. Your Majesty, no matter how empress treats Her Highness Li, there is one thing that you must never deny, She really loves you, how much infamy she has suffered for what she did, she is willing to suffer, it is all for you, how can you deny it?"

Hongxiu's words were like an invisible sharp sword, piercing Yingxuan's heart full of holes. His face turned pale instantly, he staggered back, raised his hand to support himself on the edge of the well, but the next moment, he still fell slumped on his seat. On the ground, he waved away the servant who was about to step forward to help, and closed his eyes in despair.

Hongxiu was right, he couldn't deny it...

After a long silence, Tang Jingxu pulled Yingli up from the ground, wiped away the tears on his face, and said softly: "The one who wants to see you is not the Queen Mother Xuan, but Yu Anlin. She must have known you were back last night. Tonight She will definitely show up again."

Ying Li nodded, his expression calmed down a lot.

"Let's go." Tang Jingxu looked at Ying Xuan who was full of sadness, and the figure of the calm but spiritual young man on the street appeared in front of his eyes, and he sighed in his heart. He has been burdened too much all this time.

Just as he was about to leave Yeting Palace, he saw Yin Liansheng looking thoughtfully at the well that had been covered with bluestone slabs again, Tang Jingxu sighed softly, walked up to him, and asked in a low voice: "Liansheng, what are you doing?" how to think?"

Yin Liansheng: "I think Yu Anlin is more likely to come for revenge."

“How come you see?”

"The Empress Dowager Xuan cut off half of her palm, and she did the same. The Empress Dowager Xuan's eyes were gouged out, and her patella seems to have been removed. It seems that she wants to return everything that the Empress Dowager has imposed on her." Yin Liansheng turned around and looked Looking at Yu Anlin's lifted corpse, he turned his face to look at Tang Jingxu with a deep expression, "It's just that I can't figure out why she didn't move for ten years and suddenly appeared four months ago."

Tang Jingxu lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said, "Maybe, it was four months ago that she had this opportunity."

Yin Liansheng: "Master thinks who is it?"

Tang Jingxu shook his head, looked at the figure in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "It's hard to say."

At nightfall, everyone came to Zhaohe Palace, all the idlers in the palace courtyard had been sent away, and the yellow talisman on the window facing the pond was also taken off. The Empress Dowager Xuan took the tranquilizing medicine and fell into a deep sleep. Several people stood still in the Empress Dowager Xuan's Palace, quietly waiting for Yu Anlin's arrival.

child time.

The cold wind blew into the half-opened window from the direction of the pond, and the faint orchid fragrance mixed with the damp breath spread in the room.

Everyone stared at the carved wooden window, and the orchid fragrance became thicker and thicker, and even made people feel as if they were suffocating.

Yu Anlin came, but there was still no movement outside the window. Tang Jingxu frowned, and exchanged a glance with Yin Liansheng, worried that Yu Anlin would have some scruples, so he hesitated to enter.

Suddenly, a crippled hand poked into the window, and the wrist rested weakly on the edge of the window. Water droplets dripped down the pale palm, "Da da" "Da da", Ying Li struggled to take a step closer, lightly Called out: "Lin Niang."

The voice fell, and after a long silence, the hand slowly retracted out of the window, Lan Xiang suddenly faded a lot, and a soft voice came from outside the window: "A Li, turn your back and cover your ears, no matter what you hear Don't turn around and give Linniang a moment to burn incense, okay?"

"Okay." Ying Li turned around and covered her ears according to her words.

The next moment, the window was pushed open with a "bang", and the mutilated palm rested on the window sill again, and a wet head poked out from under the window little by little. The once beautiful face was now hideous and terrifying, with deeply sunken cheeks , the lost eyes and empty eyes looked directly at the direction of the Queen Mother. She slowly climbed in from the window, completely ignoring the sight of Tang Jingxu and others, with a peaceful smile on her pale face, humming softly. Singing an unknown tune, dragging his immobile legs, he crawled towards the Queen Mother, leaving black water stains wherever he passed.

"Linniang, what... are you going to do?" Ying Xuan asked in a daze with trembling shoulders.

Yu Anlin paused for a moment, but did not answer. The smile froze at the corner of her mouth. She no longer hummed the tune, but still persistently approached the Queen Mother.

Ying Xuan fell to her knees with a "bang", knocked her head heavily on the ground, and begged in a low voice: "Lin Niang, she won't live long, let go, once you get killed, we won't be able to protect you."

"I know, Ah Xuan, you asked them to come so that I could be reincarnated. I won't kill her, but she still owes me something." Yu Anlin said softly.

Ying Xuan clenched her fists: "What else does she owe you?"

"Tongue."