Just when Princess Anting was looking at Cheng Yu from afar, the old emperor behind the screen suddenly let out a sigh of satisfaction.
The little princess couldn't help but turn her head slightly and take a peek. It turned out that Jiarui Emperor had finished the bowl of Xianggai Mianbing, and the excessive rosiness on his face also faded away.
"Snapped!"
He placed the eaten wooden bowl beside the couch, then leaned on the jade mat with his eyes slightly closed.
"Girl, please kneel down and rest in peace."
Emperor Jiarui said quietly.
Upon hearing this, Princess Anting hurriedly knelt down and paused:
"Replying to Grandpa Huang, I will tell you the truth. It is a crime for my granddaughter to leave the mansion and come to Grandpa Huang's immortal retreat this time. But if she goes back like this, even if she is not killed, she may never see Grandpa Huang again in the future.
"
Emperor Jiarui, who was leaning on the couch with a satisfied expression, heard this and immediately opened his eyes and raised his eyebrows:
"Oh? Why do you say this at such a young age?"
When Princess Anting asked, she told the whole story about her design and arrangements for the real and fake princess. Unexpectedly, the old emperor became more and more interested as he listened. In the end, he pointed at the little princess behind the screen and said with a smile:
"What a good Anting, we have been in Daliang for more than 300 years, and I have never heard of any drama about real and fake princesses..."
Emperor Jiarui stopped speaking suddenly, as if he thought of something, his face suddenly turned cold. He stared at Princess Anting for more than ten breaths. Even Cheng Yu next to him felt that time seemed to have stopped.
The old emperor lay down on the couch, closed his eyes and said quietly:
"I'm tired, please kneel down."
"Grandpa Huang!"
Upon hearing this, Princess Anting shouted loudly, but Emperor Jiarui lost his patience at this time and shouted outside the thatched cottage while waving his hands:
"Little Zhouzi!"
Eunuch Zhou was about to run this way when he heard this, but Princess Anting seemed to be risking her life. She climbed two steps forward and reached the screen. She paused and said anxiously:
"Grandpa Huang, I have one last thing to report to Anting. Anting accidentally lost an exquisite dice some time ago."
Jiarui Diwen, who was leaning on the couch, heard the last four words "Linglong Dice", his eyes widened suddenly, he wanted to sit up but in the end he didn't move, only holding the jade mat tightly with his hands behind his back, frowning
Wrinkle stared at the wooden beams above his head, his mind spinning rapidly.
"bass!"
"Crack!"
Emperor Jiarui held the jade mat woven with gold thread too tightly, and two pieces could not withstand the force of the grip, causing the gold thread to break and fly out.
"Your Majesty, this servant is here."
Eunuch Zhou's voice sounded at the door of the thatched cottage.
"Get out."
Emperor Jiarui spoke slowly and calmly. Eunuch Zhou was about to retreat into the courtyard when he heard the old emperor in the thatched cottage say:
"Close the door."
From just four words, Cheng Yu could already tell that the old emperor must not be at peace at this moment, because his voice became dry when he opened his mouth, and there was a slight tremor in his words.
"Squeaky!"
After the gate of the thatched cottage was closed by the eunuch, Emperor Jiarui slowly sat up from the jade mat on his couch, coughed lightly, stared at Princess Anting and asked:
"What exquisite dice?"
Princess Anting heard this and her masseter muscles on her cheeks were faintly highlighted. She lowered her head and thought for a while before speaking bluntly:
"Returning to Grandpa Huang, just because Anting suddenly had a whim before, he asked Patriarch Jin to help him customize an exquisite dice. It is made of the tail bones of exotic beasts from the deep sea. It can emit a faint blue light in the dark night.
Embedded with a strange bead that glows red.
Later, Anting learned that the red beads came in pairs, so Anting shamelessly asked Patriarch Jin to make another one to make a pair. However, Patriarch Jin said that the other one had not arrived due to chance and could not be made.
."
When Emperor Jiarui heard this, his eyes were filled with surprise and confusion. His brows furrowed deeper and deeper until they were locked together, but he still said calmly:
"I'm still wondering what it is. It turns out to be a small dice. You girl, you can always come up with some unexpected gadgets. Hmm... Linglong Dice, the name is pretty good..."
After Emperor Jiarui pondered for a moment or two, he spoke again:
"In addition to being able to shine, is there anything else special about that little dice?"
"There's really no other difference. It's just that when you hold it in your hand, it will feel refreshed and moisturized in the summer."
Emperor Jiarui nodded slightly when he heard the words, but leaned forward slightly and changed to a sitting position and said:
"As you said, it's a pity to lose it... I guess it was because you were playful at a young age. But didn't Lao Jin help you make this thing? Just ask him to find it for you."
"Reporting to Grandpa Huang, my granddaughter has lost something given by Grandmaster Jinwu. She was afraid that he would be displeased, so she did not dare to go to him directly. Instead, she asked a few old Jinwu captains who were familiar with her in private. But until now, she is still
No trace at all.”
After hearing Princess Anting's reply, a trace of confusion suddenly flashed in Emperor Jiarui's eyes, and then he pondered for a moment before smiling slightly:
"No trace at all? Hmm... Just throw away these interesting gadgets. I just want to take a chance to apologize to Lao Jin. Is it possible that he, a great ancestor, can bring bad luck to your little girl?"
"The Patriarch Jin would not seek bad luck from a weak woman in Anting, but Anting remembered that before the dice was lost, his granddaughter played with it alone late at night, and a red light suddenly emitted from the dice, which reflected on the curtain.
Reveal four mantras."
Emperor Jiarui's eyes flashed when he heard this, but he still asked calmly:
"What mantra is it?"
"The exquisite dice disappeared without a trace, and guests from Qianxia Mountain entered the capital..."
After Princess Anting finished speaking the first two sentences, she paused. Emperor Jiarui sat up, stared straight at the imperial granddaughter behind the screen, and said quietly:
"continue!"
"I've been searching for immortality for a long time, but I can't find it anywhere. Deep in the cicada garden, auspicious clouds grow."
Princess Anting continued after hearing this.
"Immortal fate? Deep in the Cicada Garden..."
After Emperor Jiarui muttered something casually, the thatched cottage became quiet again.
Cheng Yu was thinking about the four mantras that the two of them just talked about:
The exquisite dice disappeared without a trace, and guests from Qianxia Mountain entered the capital.
I have been searching for immortality for a long time but can't find it anywhere. Deep in the cicada garden, auspicious clouds grow.
The first two sentences seem to be two preconditions. One is that the dice is lost, and the other is that people from Qianxia Mountain come to the capital. When these two things happen, the long-lost fairy fate will appear in the Cicada Garden.
"Ah!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Emperor Jiarui suddenly sneered, stared at the green square tiles in front of him and said:
"I see... when did you ask Lao Jin to make the dice for you?"
"Huihuang Grandfather said that not long after the canonization ceremony of Anting and Ji, one day when he met Patriarch Jin, he joked that he had missed the ceremony due to seclusion and practice, and wanted to give Anting a complimentary gift. Anting casually said
An Hongdou wanted an exquisite dice... At that time, he thought it was just a temporary joke, and Patriarch Jin would not take it to heart. However, only more than a month later, the old man actually took out a strange glowing dice and handed it to An.
pavilion."
"You just said... that the red beads in the dice are a pair? Is that what Lao Jin told you?"
"If you tell Grandpa Huang, that's right."
"Do you know where the other bead is?"
Upon hearing this, Princess Anting shook her head repeatedly. Seeing this, Emperor Jiarui stared coldly at the bricks under his feet. After a few breaths, he asked again:
"When those four mantras appeared, were there any other visions?"
Princess Anting thought about it and replied:
"There were no other visions. Only red light filled the bedside curtains, and no one else noticed. At that time, these four mantras appeared on the curtains for about ten breaths, and then disappeared. My granddaughter saw that it was strange.
, so I took it with me, but I didn’t expect to find it again the next day.”
"Where did you go that day?"
"I just walked around the house and didn't leave the house."
"Hmph! That must still be in your Prince Yu's palace. Why don't you ask the Jinwu guards to look for it? They all have sharp ears and eyes, so they will definitely find it."
"Returning to Grandpa Huang, my granddaughter told several old school captains about this matter privately at that time. They also promised Anting to help me search, but there was no news until the Qianxiashan man was sent away this morning.
Queen of the Sword Immortal, Anting suddenly recalled, and was shocked to realize that the recent events were consistent with those four mantras, so he hurriedly came to see the saint."
"Um……"
Emperor Jiarui was silent when he heard this.
Cheng Yu glanced at Emperor Jiarui from the side. Seeing his appearance, he seemed to know that there was such a thing as exquisite dice from the beginning, but maybe he didn't know what it was.
Princess Anting hurriedly left the palace and went straight to the Cicada Garden in the name of saving Prince Yu's family, but in fact she came here just for the four-character mantra.
I still remember that when the princess lost the dice, Zhang Bogu picked it up and then left the palace. He fled to the countryside of Gyeonggi Province in order to sell the stolen goods, but he did not want to offend the evil shopkeeper Song, and later attracted Jin Wuwei.
It stands to reason that the old emperor should have been aware of such a big movement since he had so many eyes and ears.
But if you think about it more carefully, Emperor Jiarui didn't even know that Princess Anting had such a dice in her hands...
From this point of view, there is only one possibility, that is, the Jinwu guards suppressed the matter tightly and did not let the news reach the ears of Emperor Jiarui.
At this time, Emperor Jiarui was also very suspicious and asked Princess Anting coldly:
"An Ting, tell me the truth, has Lao Jin accepted you as his disciple, given you the exquisite dice, and then ordered you to come to the Cicada Garden to find me, so that you can take the opportunity to seize my immortality?"
Hearing this, Cheng Yu frowned and looked at Emperor Jiarui, while Princess Anting behind the screen shivered and hurriedly paused again:
"The emperor's grandpa clearly knows that since the day when his granddaughter and hairpin were canonized, he has kept in mind the prophecy taught by the emperor's grandpa: dragons soar and clouds fly, phoenixes fly to the sky, water fills the knife, and wood breaks. Even if Patriarch Jin insists on accepting his granddaughter as his disciple, Anting
I absolutely dare not ignore Grandpa Huang and our country.
Besides, as the great grandpa of the emperor, he deserves to enjoy immortal blessings forever and live as long as the heavens. How can your immortal fate be taken away by a little granddaughter from Anting?"
After Princess Anting finished speaking from the bottom of her heart, Cheng Yu looked at the old emperor next to him, his face softened slightly, and his sitting posture also relaxed a little.
"Well...you girl, how can I take it seriously when I am joking with you? However, those four mantras can appear in front of you, so you must have some chance. Well, Linglong Dice..."
After Emperor Jiarui pondered for a while, he actually stood up from his couch, pointed at Princess Anting and said:
"You go out, close the door, and wait outside the thatched cottage."
Princess Anting said she obeyed the order, exited the thatched cottage, closed the door and stood guard outside.
