In front of the Ziyun Palace with the door closed, Eunuch Tao bowed his waist and announced in a low voice. After a while, there were a few noises in the palace, followed by the deep voice of Emperor Yao: "I am not feeling well. I am gone."
"Queen, look at this... how about you come back another day?" Eunuch Tao turned to the Queen in embarrassment.
She finally made up her mind to risk her face and come to Ziyun Palace, but Emperor Yao still ignored her as before. The queen did not want to bring trouble on herself, and waved her hand casually: "No need, he is willing to be imprisoned in the house and follow him.
I just came to see if he is still alive. Since he can still talk and lose his temper, I am relieved."
Eunuch Tao had followed Yaohuang for many years and was no stranger to the Queen's shrewd personality and harsh words. He felt warm after hearing her angry and harsh words. He smiled and said no more, and followed the Queen and the female official to see her off.
There were far fewer guards and eunuchs in Ziyun Palace than before. It looked as deserted and lonely as Huanqing Palace. The queen didn't say anything, but she felt confused in her heart. When she smelled a faint fragrance in her nose, she frowned and couldn't help it.
He opened his mouth and asked: "Tao Shihai, who is burning incense? Don't you know that the emperor hates the smell of incense the most?"
"Returning to the Queen, this incense was ordered by the Emperor. A few days ago, wasn't it said that there were little ghosts causing nightmares? So the Emperor ordered some people to burn some soothing incense, and hung a few evil-warming bells inside and outside the palace.
, the wind was tinkling all the way through the night, and it sounded quite permeating..."
The fact that Emperor Yao asked the master to practice the technique had already spread throughout the palace, and the queen naturally knew about it. However, this still could not calm her confusion about burning incense and hanging bells. She stopped and turned around, her eyes returning to the door of the inner palace: "No.
, No, even if the emperor wanted to exorcise evil spirits, he would not choose this incense. Dendrobium, smell it, is this the smell of sandalwood?"
The female official sniffed and sniffed carefully, with a puzzled look on her face: "It is true that the scent of sandalwood is right, but... isn't the emperor allergic to sandalwood? Even the government does not dare to use sandalwood when buying tables and cabinets.
Because the emperor will feel suffocated and have a headache if he smells the scent of sandalwood!"
"This, is this the smell of sandalwood?" Tao Shihai also sniffed, but he was not sensitive to smells. Any scent that entered his nose was the same and he couldn't tell the difference at all. Looking at the determined faces of the queen and the female officer,
Tao Shihai was also a little panicked: "The emperor is allergic to sandalwood. The Queen didn't tell the slaves that they didn't know that the burning sandalwood was actually sandalwood. This is a big mistake. But it's really strange. The incense has been burning for more than a month."
I haven’t heard anything from the emperor about what’s wrong with me. Could it be that the allergies just go away quietly?”
The queen did not answer immediately, but looked up and looked around. She saw copper bells hanging on the eaves of Ziyun Palace. When the wind blew, the tinkling was very noisy.
Yaohuang Xijing, these copper bells should not exist.
"Tao Shihai, how long has it been since the emperor went out?"
"It's been about more than a month... almost two months? Anyway, Princess Qi'an didn't go out much when she was still in the south." Tao Shihai didn't understand what the queen meant by asking, and while answering, he peeked at the queen's face, and the more he looked at her, the more he looked at her.
The more I was shocked, the expression on that face that did not look old was actually a rare tense and serious expression.
Taking a deep breath, the queen stretched out her hand to the female officer: "Hu Zhu, go find me a dagger or dagger."
"Your Majesty, what are you planning to do...?" the female officer asked worriedly.
"Don't ask so many questions, just let me go find you." The queen lowered her face and scolded in a low voice. Not only the female officer, but also Eunuch Tao also trembled, feeling an ominous premonition.
In the palace, except for the guards and princes, no one else is allowed to lead troops. The only exception is the queen who was born as a general. After being banned, the queen gradually stopped practicing martial arts and sword practice, and naturally no longer wore knives. What's going on today?
?More importantly, what could make the queen so nervous, staring at Emperor Yao's palace as if she wanted to break in with a sword?
Eunuch Tao didn't dare to ask me, and the female official didn't even dare to ask. He could only find a dagger and give it to the queen. He watched with trepidation as she strode to the palace door, kicked open the door and broke in.
The dormitory had been closed for a long time. As soon as the door was opened, white smoke immediately swirled out, and the smell of sandalwood was so strong and choking that even the Queen, not to mention the Emperor, could not bear the smell of incense, as she was used to burning incense and worshiping Buddha all year round.
The inner hall was right in front of her, so the sound of kicking the door when she broke in should have alerted the people inside, but the inner hall had been silent all the time. At this point, the queen was 90% certain that something had happened to Emperor Yao.
"Huaiyu?" The queen shouted in a low voice close to the door of the inner hall. She was so nervous that she couldn't remember any honorifics, so she called out Emperor Yao's name directly, "Huaiyu, are you in there? Say yes if you are!"
Huaiyu?"
A burst of copper bells came from the inner hall. If you listen carefully, you can tell that the sound is different from the bells hanging from the eaves. The rhythm is even weirder. Each sound is like crushing a person's heart and lungs. The queen took a deep breath.
Anger sinking in his dantian, he finally got rid of the weird sound of the copper bell that was haunting his mind. He raised his eyebrows and was about to rush in, but Yaohuang's voice came from inside just in time.
"I'm fine, I'm just a little tired. Queen, please come back."
The hand holding the door froze, and the queen stopped her movements: "That's it... I'll go back first, your Majesty, take care of your dragon body."
"Queen Lao is worried."
The queen slowly backed away, with an unpredictable and weird smile on her face. A coldness flashed in her eyes. Just when the inner hall returned to silence, she suddenly moved quickly. After a loud bang, the door of the inner hall was also blocked.
Kicked away roughly.
Something happened to him, she was sure.
Queen, are you worried? Ever since he banned her from Huanqing Palace and since the day she laughed loudly and said she would fight with him for the rest of her life, when had he spoken to her so tenderly?
"What kind of monsters are causing trouble here? Get out of here!" The scolding voice was sharp and loud. When the wide sleeves fanned away the layers of smoke, the scene that appeared in front of the queen made her unbelievable. Emperor Yao was sitting on the couch intact.
, turning his head slightly, he happened to be looking face to face with her.
He was alive, but his eyes were not bored and wary, but filled with expectation and anxiety. His half-open mouth seemed to want to say something, but no sound came out, and he could not move.
After a quick glance inside the room, it seemed that there was no one else. The queen hurriedly rushed to Yaohuang's side, her heart high, and she did not notice the silent closing of the door behind her.
"Huaiyu, Huaiyu? Huaiyu, say something, don't scare me..." Holding Yaohuang's stiff arms tightly, the queen called out repeatedly, her usual calmness gone. After calling for a long time, Yaohuang
The straight eyes finally moved slightly, and the stiff fingers flexed. The queen subconsciously looked into his eyes, but saw from the reflection of the black pupils that behind her, a figure quietly approached.
The tense nerves regained the feeling of the past. Queen Yaoguo, who had also practiced martial arts and wielded a sword and rode a horse, quickly straightened her body and hit her back heavily with her elbow. Only a dull groan was heard behind her, accompanied by the crisp sound of something falling to the ground, as if made by
Yaohuang, who was tightly bound by invisible silk threads, was suddenly released. His big dry palms tightly grasped the queen's wrist, and with a fierce force, he forcibly pulled the queen aside.
"Tu'er! Run away!"
The words Yaohuang shouted with all his strength left the queen stunned. She couldn't believe that such a hoarse and weak voice came from his mouth.
He is the king of this land.
He is the king who stands at the top of mountains and rivers.
He is an unshakable peak in the eyes of countless people.
He is the man in her heart that no one can ever defeat.
Now, he is so weak, it seems that his life has come to an end, and he is only surviving on his remaining obsession... How could he be such a haggard old man?
That reminder seemed to have exhausted Yaohuang's strength. When his arms were hanging down softly, the person who was attacked by the queen had already taken the opportunity to pick up the copper bell and held it in his hand. With a tinkling sound, the strange ringing sound that grabbed people's souls echoed in the palace again. Was Yaohuang okay?
The eyes, which had regained their brightness easily, also returned to being dim, dead-like, dull and numb.
"Is there a ringing sound?" the queen asked in a low voice to herself, not expecting the other party to answer. The dagger hidden in her sleeve was wrapped around her body, protecting Emperor Yao without any leakage. A pair of phoenix eyes that were still as sharp as before were staring at the opposite side.
With regard to the mysterious man, recalling the sandalwood and copper bells that should not have appeared in Ziyun Palace and the Yaohuang who had been shut up for many days, the queen was finally able to connect a series of weird things together: "Use bells to control other people's actions... You
Are they from the Wu Clan?"
The mysterious man did not answer. He slightly puffed up his chest and silently admitted the queen's guess. A gleam of light burst out from his eyes under the black mask, a mixture of hatred and excitement.
"More than ten years ago, the Wu Clan cult used these magical powers to do evil. In order to stabilize the people, the emperor ordered the entire Wu Clan to be killed. Unexpectedly, some fish slipped through the net and escaped." It is true that the Wu Clan uses ringtones to control people's actions.
, the queen had seen it with her own eyes more than ten years ago, but she did not dare to be careless in the slightest. While talking about it, she moved in front of Emperor Yao without leaving a trace, using her body as a defensive shield. She raised her eyebrows and sneered, dagger
Directly pointing at the mysterious man: "Are you here to avenge the Wu clan? Who helped you enter the palace, and who was instigating you behind the scenes?"
When the queen hurriedly attacked just now, she discovered that the mysterious man did not know Kung Fu, and there was no one else in the room. As long as she was not deceived by the ringtone, it was very easy to subdue the mysterious man. But the strange thing was that the man was not afraid at all.
Instead, he took a few steps forward facing the dagger, and stopped less than five steps away from the Queen and Emperor Yao, with a strange smile on the exposed half of his face.
A peculiar aroma penetrated her nose and penetrated into her internal organs. By the time the queen realized that the smell had a dizzying effect, it was already too late. Her wrist went limp and the dagger clattered to the ground.
Eunuch Tao and the female official waited outside the palace for a long time but did not see the queen come out. They heard faint noises in the palace, but the palace door was closed tightly. No one dared to barge in like the queen without the emperor's order, which made the two of them anxious to death.
.While they were scurrying around like ants on a hot pot, the sound of steady footsteps suddenly came from outside the courtyard. Eunuch Tao was stunned, and before he saw anyone showing up, he hurriedly pulled the female official and plopped down on her knees.
He is the slave who follows Emperor Yao all day long. What he does most often is to lower his head or kneel. What he sees the most and hears most familiarly is the footsteps and footsteps of those in high positions, without the need for anyone to appear.
, Eunuch Tao knew who was coming just from the sound of footsteps.
And that person shouldn't be in the palace at this moment.