Sandalwood was lingering in the Agarwood Pavilion, and the portrait of Concubine Xi was dignified and beautiful. Liu Hongjing looked at her, and her eyes seemed to be looking at him quietly.
"Xi'er, if you have a spirit, you can entrust me with your dream to see if you will come back to me or not." Liu Hongjing said, his eyes red as if covered with bloodshot eyes.
He didn't know how long he sat there, staring at the portrait of Concubine Xi. In a daze, the person in the portrait seemed to float out and fly to his side, nestling in his arms like before.
"Xi'er!" Liu Hongjing opened his arms and wanted to hold her tightly, but he suddenly woke up and found that his arms were empty. When he looked up, Xi'er's portrait was still hanging high on the wall, and his smile remained the same.
"Xi'er! Are you telling me that you have come to me?!" Liu Hongjing stood up, stumbled to the coffin, looked up at the portrait of Concubine Xi, and asked with choked sobs.
There was silence in the pavilion, Concubine Xi's smile was quiet, and Liu Hongjing was already in tears.
He turned back and strode out of Chenxiang Pavilion and walked outside Sanqing Taoist Temple.
"Father!" Liu Fan, who was waiting outside, caught up with him.
"Follow me back to the palace, I want to find the bones of Princess Dongling!" Liu Hongjing said without looking back.
"Father, the death anniversary of my mother and concubine is coming soon. Let me pass her death anniversary before returning to the palace." Liu Fan was thinking about Luo Lianyi and had not determined her whereabouts. How could he have the intention to return to the palace.
"Your Majesty, if you want to find the princess's body, you must first find the man who drove the carriage. I remember that man's appearance, so I asked you to find him first and bring him back to the Emperor." Xiaozhu came out and knelt down and said.
Liu Hongjing looked back at her. He had heard the Taifu say that Xiaozhu, the maid next to the Prince, was a disciple of Sanqing Temple. She was not an ordinary palace maid. She was highly skilled in martial arts and protected the Prince wholeheartedly. She was probably kneeling in front of him.
This girl is wearing it.
"Are you Xiaozhu?" he asked.
"Back to the emperor, this servant is Xiaozhu." Xiaozhu lowered his head and answered.
"Okay, get up. I order you to go down the mountain quickly and look for the carriage driver." Liu Hongjing said.
"My servant obeys the order." Xiaozhu got up from the ground. She looked deeply at Lu Fan, as if she had a thousand instructions and instructions. Liu Fan nodded lightly.
Yun Shang brought a horse from the backyard. After Xiaozhu said goodbye to the emperor again, he led the horse out of a stone's throw, then jumped on the horse and galloped away.
"Father." Liu Fan supported his father, feeling his deep longing, sadness, hope and despair from the bottom of his heart.
"I'm leaving. I hope that my dearest son will not let me down." Liu Hongjing opened Liu Fan's hand and walked step by step outside the Taoist temple. Liu Fan looked at his back, which was not as upright as before, with gray hair.
The silk was flying in the wind, and his heart suddenly ached. He followed him silently until he was sent to the mountainside. He watched him tiredly get into the sedan chair, close the door curtain, and meander away from Biya Peak under the protection of the imperial guards.
Watching his father leave, Liu Fan returned to the Taoist temple with heavy steps. Wuyou Yunshang and the other girls followed him silently. No one dared to say anything. Little Gudong kept looking anxiously on the big stone at the entrance of the Taoist temple.
It seems that he is waiting for someone to return.
"Strange, why hasn't Diaoer come back today?" he said to himself.
The little sable was sitting quietly by the lake at the moment, watching Luo Lianyi squatting on the lake shore and using a stone to cut through the thin ice on the lake. Suddenly, it jumped out like lightning, passed by the place where the lake water was gushing out, and took out a lively tail.
fresh fish thrown on the shore.
"Haha, You're so awesome, Mink! We have fish to eat!" Luo Lianyi happily ran up to the fish, grabbed the fresh fish, and took Mink back to the cabin.
She started to make a fire to cook, and the little sable watched silently. After watching for a while, she seemed a little impatient, and wanted to go out after "squeaking" twice.
"Sable! You can't go back. He and I can't meet again. I will bring disaster to him and embarrass him. Do you know?" Luo Lianyi hugged Sable and talked to it. Sable shook his head.
He stretched out his paw and patted her face, not knowing what he meant.
"Look, the fish soup is ready, let's go eat the fish." Luo Lianyi sat at the table with the mink in her arms, picked up a piece of fish meat with wooden chopsticks and fed it to the sable. The sable tilted its head to one side, as if it was not interested in the fish.
"If you don't like this, then what do you like to eat? Little thing, you are still a picky eater." Luo Lianyi had no choice but to put down the fish, but she forgot that Mink likes to eat raw fish, so naturally he doesn't like cooked fish.
The little sable jumped out of her arms, jumped to the corner of the wooden house, grabbed a mouse, ran outside and ate it with relish.
"So you have to wash your mouth after eating that." Luo Lianyi looked at it with a pouted mouth. The sable was indeed obedient. After eating the mouse meat, it buried the fur, and then buried its mouth in the snow.
Wipe down before entering the house.
"Pfft, you're really obedient." Luo Lianyi hugged it and touched its little head.
After she had eaten her fill, she said to the little sable: "Let's go look in the mountains to see if there are any herbs to collect." She thought that such an inaccessible canyon might have precious medicinal herbs, and with luck, she might be able to find Netherworld.
Not necessarily grass.
The little sable jumped on her shoulders, and each of them climbed along the trees into the snow-covered jungle.
As Luo Lianyi walked, she dug up the snow with her hands under some big trees, carefully identifying some vegetation buried underneath. When she saw useful herbs, she pulled out the dagger from her boots, dug it out and put it in her pocket.
After half a day, she actually gained a lot. However, the Netherworld Grass was nowhere to be seen, and she was inevitably a little disappointed.
Suddenly, the little sable looked a little strange. Its back arched, its teeth bared, and it said "hmm" in its mouth, as if it was facing a strong enemy.
"What's wrong? Diao'er?" Luo Lianyi was startled. She quickly raised her head and looked ahead, but saw nothing. But she faintly smelled a fishy smell. "Is it a tiger? Or a wild boar? Or a wolf?" She was nervous.
He stood up straight and grasped the dagger.
"Hmm -" With a muffled roar, a wild boar appeared in front of them.
"Ah -" Luo Lianyi screamed and took a few steps back. The little sable had now nimbly climbed up a big tree next to her. Luo Lianyi couldn't climb trees, so she could only retreat in fear. In extreme fear, she unexpectedly
Forgot, she has internal strength and can completely drive away the wild boar.
"Hmm--" The wild boar came towards her, and Luo Lianyi was so scared that she hugged her head. "Squeak, squeak--" The little sable jumped down from the tree, jumped on the back of the wild boar, and bit it on the neck.
The claws also scratched its face hard. The wild boar roared in pain and turned around, trying to shake the mink off its back.
Luo Lianyi suddenly came back to her senses at this moment, hurriedly summoned her internal strength, and pushed the wild boar with both hands. She heard a "bang" sound, and the wild boar flew up from the ground, hit a tree, spurted blood from its mouth and nose, and then fell to the ground silently.