White Hedge Dream

Chapter 169 Banquet Leaving

There were more and more people outside the palace, and it seemed that everyone came out, not to admire the lanterns, but to cross the bright lantern mountain and the sea of ​​lanterns to surround the neighboring building.

There were several more layers of guards downstairs, blocking everyone from getting closer.

The imperial doctors carrying medicine boxes hurried in, and the servants opened the curtains to block the sight, but the night guard curtains could not block the discussion.

"...Who? Madam Dongyang Hou?"

"Mrs. Marquis Dongyang."

"The new wife?"

"Really or not, you jumped off the building?"

"I didn't jump from the building, I fell from the building!"

The singing and dancing could no longer be heard, and there was a buzz of discussion from all directions.

Being held in the emperor's arms, Bai Ying was still trembling.

"I, I invited the Crown Prince, the Young Madam, to come upstairs to enjoy the lanterns." She said with a trembling voice, "The Crown Prince also came with me... I don't know what's going on. Even though everything was fine, the Young Madam suddenly..."

At this point, she couldn't talk anymore, she burst into tears, her breathing became rapid, and her body fell softly.

The emperor hurriedly called the imperial doctor.

The doctors gathered around.

The queen was watching. Now it was time for her to step forward to greet Bai Ying with concern, and personally held Bai Ying's hand to comfort him. But for some reason, she resisted with her hands and feet, and in the end she only walked to the emperor and pulled his sleeve.

"Your Majesty, the young lady of Dongyang Hou Shizi..."

Although the emperor was worried about Bai Ying, he thought of the tragedy on the other side and hurriedly looked over.

There were also imperial doctors there, but they no longer gathered around for diagnosis and treatment. Instead, they spoke to Marquis Dongyang who was standing aside, shaking his head from time to time with a helpless expression.

Although there was some distance, the emperor seemed to hear what the doctors said.

The neighboring building was very high, and when he fell from it, his bones and flesh were broken, his head was bleeding, and his internal organs were shattered.

There is no chance of treatment at all.

He died on the spot.

Dongyang Hou's face turned pale and he was in despair.

Mrs. Dongyang Hou collapsed on the ground and was pinched by Mrs. Xue while crying. The imperial doctors hurriedly surrounded her for treatment.

In contrast, Dongyang Hou Shizi was very calm.

He knelt on the ground, neither crying nor fussing. The cloak on his body had been taken off to cover his wife on the ground to prevent her **** appearance from being exposed to the public.

From the emperor's side, only the loose hair peeking out from under the cloak was visible.

Zhou Jingyun reached out and stroked his hair, as if stroking him to sleep.

The emperor's gaze moved along with the cloak, and he saw a foot wearing embroidered shoes exposed from the cloak. The foot was obviously broken and twisted at an abnormal angle.

There are also deep light shadows spreading under the cloak...

That's not the shadow of a lamp, it's blood...

The emperor felt frightened and quickly looked away.

At the same time, General Jinwuwei, who was in charge of the imperial guards, also hurried over.

"Your Majesty, we have checked and found that the railing is broken." He whispered.

Sure enough, there was no unprovoked fall. The emperor asked in a deep voice: "Man-made?"

General Jinwuwei hesitated: "Not really, it just looks rotten."

Perhaps it's because of age and disrepair?

After His Majesty ascended the throne, he has been busy stabilizing the palace. He is also frugal, and the palace has not been repaired for five or six years.

"Also." General Jinwuwei thought of something and added, holding out the imperial bell with both hands, "When we went up, it was on the ground."

The emperor's face condensed. He personally watched the imperial bell hanging on the adjacent building, otherwise he would not have left Bai Ying here alone.

These town objects must not be touched.

"Who took it off?" he asked in a low voice.

Eunuch Wang Degui was kicked out by Gao Twelve, and he knelt on the ground, lost in thought.

"No, no one picked it." He stammered, his eyes dazed, "I don't know, I don't know what happened, the queen suddenly wanted to go outside to look at the lights, Mrs. Dongyang Marquis supported the queen, and then, then, I In the blink of an eye, my wife and I were standing on the same spot, and the imperial bell fell to the ground. Mrs. Dongyang Hou held on to the railing and fell down - my wife was frightened, and she fainted -"

He was speaking incoherently, and when he saw the Dongyang Hou Shizi and the corpse covered by the cloak over there, he trembled all over and was so frightened that he almost fainted.

Gao Twelve raised his foot to kick him again: "You loser -"

The emperor waved his hand to stop: "Okay, I know what's going on."

People around him couldn't help but look at him.

What's going on?

What else could happen? It must be Empress Chiang who is causing trouble!

The emperor looked at the imperial bell and said solemnly: "Go and invite Xuanyangzi."

After saying that, he looked at the Dongyang Hou family over there again and sighed.

It seems that it was the ghost of Empress Chiang who was trying to harm Bai Ying. Because of the protection of the Imperial Bell, Bai Ying was spared, but Mrs. Dongyang Marquis...

General Jinwuwei took the order and walked away quickly.

"Your Majesty." Zhou Jingyun turned around and kowtowed heavily to the emperor, "Please leave. I want to take my wife home."

The emperor took a step forward and whispered softly: "Let the imperial doctors..."

Zhou Jingyun shook his head, his face was pale and his eyes were red.

"Your Majesty," he only said, "I want to take my wife home."

After saying that, he kowtowed heavily, and the bluestone bricks sounded like drums.

Seeing the blood flowing from Zhou Jingyun's forehead, the emperor hurriedly supported him and said: "Okay, okay, okay, I allow you to resign and take your wife home."

Zhou Jingyun bowed his head to the ground and his voice choked with sobs: "I thank your Majesty for your kindness."

After saying that, he knelt down in front of the cloak and looked at the human form under the cloak.

"Ali, let's go home." He said softly, reaching out and picking up the man wrapped in a cloak.

Dongyang Hou moved his lips and followed without saying anything.

Mrs. Dongyang Hou had fainted and was held in Mrs. Xue's arms.

The queen arranged for the chamberlain to carry the sedan and asked Zhou Jingyun to put Zhuang Li on the sedan, but Zhou Jingyun didn't seem to hear it and just carried the person out.

"Let him hold her." The emperor said to the queen, looking at Zhou Jingyun's back, he sighed again.

Bai Ying's cry sounded behind him.

The man stood up, pushed away the palace maid's support, stumbled, and seemed to be chasing Zhou Jingyun.

The emperor hurriedly stretched out his hands, and Bai Ying fell into his arms.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" the emperor asked urgently.

Bai Ying looked at Zhou Jingyun's back, his hair swaying under his cloak, and his body was shaking violently.

"Your Majesty." She buried her head in the emperor's arms, tears streaming down her face, and cried loudly, "I, my concubine, are afraid."

The emperor hurriedly patted and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm here, I'm here."

The queen pouted and ordered the maids to disperse the onlookers.

There was no need to disperse. Seeing Zhou Jingyun approaching with his wife in his arms, the onlookers got out of the way. The timid ones covered their eyes with their hands, while the brave ones stood on tiptoes to look over. However, Zhou Jingyun’s cloak was wide and only his legs and feet could be seen faintly exposed. , scattered hair, and blood dripping from walking around.

There seems to be some flesh falling off.

It's terrible.

The brave people also avoided looking and did not dare to look again.

Many people looked in a daze, looking at the Dongyang Hou family walking among the crowd, as if they were back to the beginning of the banquet, when Mrs. Dongyang Hou held her new daughter-in-law and introduced it to everyone with a smile on her face.

In the blink of an eye, Mrs. Dongyang Hou was carried in a sedan chair in a coma, and her well-behaved daughter-in-law died.

It's like a dream.

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…

Is the dream over?

Shangguan Yue stood on the top of the pavilion. After a period of darkness, he regained his sight and saw that there were no two moons in the sky.

There was a commotion all around, and many people poured out of the Linde Hall. The emperor, queen, princess Jinyu, and consort also came out and rushed to the adjacent building.

In addition, the imperial doctors and chamberlains were running around.

Shangguan Yue stood on the top of the pavilion and heard countless buzzing sounds echoing a sentence.

Mrs. Hou Shaofeng of Dongyang fell down and died.

Shangguan Yue reached out and pressed her chest, feeling her heart beating rapidly.

Madam Marquis Dongyang is dead?

Why did he die?

"If you hear that someone has died, don't panic." He said after handing him lotus roots at Baili, Dongyang Marquis Mansion in the early morning, "The death you see is not necessarily death. There is life and death, and there is death." Life. "There is life and death, there is death and life," Shangguan Yue said silently, and there was a buzzing sound all around. The sound was loud and distant, like a barrier.

He saw the soft moonlight, the swaying lanterns, and the dull expressions of the people talking.

He lowered his head and saw a lotus root lying on the ground.

Yes, he just threw the lotus root down.

The lamp shadow flickered, and the lotus root seemed to stretch its body on the ground, giving birth to legs, arms, and heads.

Shangguan Yue's eyes widened instantly.

What did he see?

Lotus root turned into a human!

He must be dreaming!

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…

Are you dreaming? Zhou Jingyun was in a daze. He couldn't remember how long he had been walking. Everyone around him was gone.

Until I saw a maid coming from ahead.

Spring moon.

Seeing him coming, Chunyue was happy, but her expression became nervous, and then she saw the person covered by the cloak held in Zhou Jingyun's arms.

Chunyue's face instantly turned pale.

"Young madam, young madam, what's wrong, young madam!"

Zhou Jingyun heard the maid's frightened shouts, and the shouts gradually turned into tears. The face of the maid in front of him was deformed as she cried.

"This can't be possible, this can't be possible, I must be dreaming-"

The maid raised her hand and slapped herself in the face, as if to wake herself up.

Zhou Jingyun looked at her with a confused expression.

"Is your wife dead?" A voice suddenly asked in my ear.

Zhou Jingyun looked past the maid Chun Yue who was kneeling on the ground and saw an old Taoist standing in front of the carriage and horse not far away.

The old Taoist was wearing a Taoist robe and his hair was a little messy. When he looked over, he yawned and picked at the corners of his eyes.

"Is your wife dead?" he asked again, looking at Zhou Jingyun.

Zhou Jingyun's blank eyes were focused.

"Dead," he said.

This is not a dream.

His wife Zhuang Li died.

He threw him downstairs with his own hands.

He watched her fall with his own eyes, watched her hit the ground, watched her messy and broken, with blood all over the ground.

He did what he promised her.

Zhou Jingyun smiled.

But there were tears streaming down his face, and his vision became blurry.

I heard an old Taoist voice: "Since you think your wife is dead, then she is dead."

The next moment there were cries and chaos.

Zhou Jingyun's blurred vision saw people everywhere in the messy, dim and dark place. There was no old man in front of the car, only his own servants, servants of other people's houses, and chambermaids.

At the same time, Hou Dongyang, Madam Dongyang Hou, and Madam Xue also came over.

Everyone is crying.

Zhou Jingyun raised his head to let the tears flow back, then lowered his head to look at the person in his arms.

"Ali, let's go home." He said softly and stepped onto the carriage.

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The carriages and horses of Dongyang Marquis Mansion have gone away, and the servants who sent them out looked at the empty sedan and sighed again.

A good person will be gone if you say no.

It's really unpredictable.

Your Majesty will be troubled again at this palace banquet.

Thinking of this, several chamberlains hurriedly walked inside.

"Be careful, don't get close."

"Be smart. I see people from the Board of Supervisors have already entered. I don't know how many people are going to be in trouble."

They walked into the palace gate talking in low voices, and suddenly saw someone walking in front of them.

In the dim darkness, the splendid clothes are particularly dazzling. It is the concubine of Shangguan's consort who was just recognized in front of the emperor tonight.

However, Shangguan Xiaolangjun, who was so arrogant that he dared to climb up to the pavilion in the imperial city, seemed a little stiff. When the servants looked over, he suddenly stopped.

The two sides fell into an eerie silence.

"Shangguan Xiaolang, are you leaving?" a chamberlain asked proactively.

Shangguan Yue looked at them, hummed slowly, and curled her lips: "It's too scary. I'm timid, so I'd better go back early."

The incident of Mrs. Dongyang Marquis falling from the building was indeed terrible, but he was timid... Although it was the first time for the servants to meet Shangguan Xiaolang, they had already heard about many things about this man, such as running a gambling boat, eating, drinking, and whoring. , and all the grandsons of General Li died on his boat...

I really don't see how timid he is.

However, they really couldn't stop Shangguan Yue from leaving, so they hurriedly got out of the way and watched Shangguan Yue slowly walk over.

"Princess Jinyu is still in the palace."

"Does he just not care?"

"What the hell, he really is his biological son."

"Hey, Shangguan Xiaolang looks like..."

The chamberlains were talking in low voices, and when they said this, one of the chamberlains turned his head and looked back and said something.

Others looked back: "What does it look like?"

Several people looked at Shangguan Yue's back.

The young man's back was straight. Although he looked like a dandy, he was still the son of Shangguan's consort, and his manners and behavior had been well disciplined.

"He seems to be holding something?" the chamberlain murmured.

I always felt that Shangguan Xiaolang's arms were stiff.

Another chamberlain yelled: "She's holding something. Didn't you notice just now?"

What are you holding? They really didn't pay attention just now, and their vision was particularly dim tonight.

"Holding a lotus root." The waiter said, "It should be a lantern that has been picked."

There are various types of lanterns, including flowers, birds, insects, fish, and lotus roots. Although they are a bit strange, they may be used to decorate the lotus lanterns.

There are lotus leaves and lotus roots that are realistic and complete.

The other chamberlains suddenly realized and seemed to have remembered.

"Yes, yes, I saw it, it's a lotus root."

"Hey, this Shangguan Xiaolang is really tearing up the family."

Several people muttered and went inside.

The sight behind him disappeared, and Shangguan Yue's tense shoulders slowly relaxed. Sure enough, the chamberlain saw it, but he couldn't see it either.

What he was holding in his arms was a lotus root, not a lotus root, but a lotus root man.

Shangguan Yue didn't know whether he should call her that, because he didn't know how to call her either.

Just then, taking advantage of the chaos, he picked up the lotus root that was supposed to be a lotus root on the ground but turned into a human being.

When he gave him lotus roots in the early morning, Bai Li told him to pick them up and take them away after throwing them away.

He stretched out his hand to pick up the "Lotus Root" and could feel its exquisite body and how much heavier it was than the Lotus Root...

It was not his hallucination, Lotus Root really became a human being.

He walked out step by step stiffly, and what was even weirder was that everyone who saw him thought he was holding lotus roots in his arms.

Shangguan Yue lowered her head and looked at the "Lotus Root Man" in her arms.

It was dark and he couldn't see the man's face clearly.

Or, the person seems to have no facial features.

He must be dreaming.

Only in dreams can you see such a strange scene!

He turned around and saw that the palace was still as bright as ever, but it was shrouded in a veil, making it seem real and illusory.