Yan ghost

The flying arrow pierced the sky.There was a mournful cry from the clouds, and cheers from the ground.

A group of people rode horses through the forest, looking for the prey that had just fallen.At the other end of the forest, the wounded Luan Niao moved forward slowly with its heavy body.

"Strange, it obviously landed near here."

"It's all because you are too noisy. Get off your horse and stay where you are."

The grass and trees rustled, and a handsome young man walked out of the forest.At that time, Yun Yu was 15 years old and had just succeeded to the throne.

"You still know how to hide in the bushes." Yun Yu approached on tiptoe, swallowed at Yan, her hands and feet were cold.

Yun Yu turned over the fallen leaves covering the phoenix, and was stunned for a while, the spirit beast in front of him was actually made of wood.He pulled out the arrow and checked carefully, and it was indeed his name engraved on the arrow.

The phoenix fluttered its wings, intending to attack.Yun Yu drew out the hunting knife and aimed it at his flank, and the luan immediately calmed down.He caressed the bird's neck and slowly approached it. Through the gap in the wood, he noticed a pair of timid eyes facing him.

Yun Yu raised his wooden wings and immediately hid in Xiang Yan.

"Who are you?" Yun Yu asked, "Those who can enter the hunting ground are either from the palace or the sons of noble gentry."

When Xiang Yan didn't answer, Yun Yu stuck his hand into the gap.He pulled hard, resisted Yan Yan, and a piece of clothing was torn off.

Yun Yu stroked the cloth, and said with a smile, "Which lord's son is it?" Luan Niao froze, and Yun Yu knew that he had guessed right.

He reached in again, touched the small head, arms, and legs of the person inside, and said, "Look at your size, you are only five or six years old. You said that I will ask the ministers who came today to ask, will you check?" come out?"

"don't want……"

"What's your name?"

"Xiang Yan..." After giving his name, Xiang Yan finally looked up at Yun Yu again.

"This spirit beast was a gift from Rou Yi, and it was delivered by your father himself. Now it has become a pile of wooden things. It is not good for you to appear here again."

"Your Majesty..." Xiang Yan lowered his head to the ground.

"It's useless to call me, explain."

Xiang Yan said in trepidation: "The spirit beast didn't want to come, bit my father on the way and escaped. Losing the spirit beast is a death penalty, and my father was desperate, so he agreed to me to drive a wooden armor to pretend to be a spirit beast to hide from the world."

"You thought spirit beasts were haunted and wouldn't bump into people, but you didn't expect to be shot down by me. Your father is also cruel, and he actually let his own son go to heaven, so he wouldn't be afraid of falling to your death." Yun Yu took Xiang Yan from the luan bird come out.

Xiang Yan grabbed Yun Yu's shoulders and said, "Don't blame father, I made the wooden armor, and no one else can drive it." Yun Yu repeated, "You made it?" Xiang Yan nodded.

Yun Yu put Xiang Yan on the ground and said to Luanniao: "The hunting meeting will be held in ten days. Do you have the ability to keep it from being hunted?"

Xiang Yan carefully asked: "Your Majesty also participates?"

"Of course." After Yun Yu finished speaking, she bowed her head to Yan and sighed.Yun Yu thought it was funny, and encouraged him, "If you can do it, you can forget about it."

Xiang Yan asked: "Your Majesty, are you serious?" Yun Yu caressed the phoenix and said seriously: "Compared to the soft barbarian spirit beast, I want the red bar wood armor more."

That year when Xiang Yan was seven years old, Yun Yu became the god in his heart.

After the hunting meeting, Xiang Yan and his wooden armor appeared in front of the world.At the age of nine, he was entrusted by Qiu Guan to design the Four Seasons Platform.After the completion, Yun Yu came to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for acceptance.At that time, Xiang Yan stood beside Qiu Guan and waited respectfully. Seeing that there was a young general beside Yun Yu, he was very energetic.

The little general asked: "Is this a torture platform?" Qiu Guan said with a smile: "Young Master Xiang is elegant and practical. I entrusted him with one and made four for him. Four seasons of punishment platform were built according to the situation. Beheading in spring, peach blossoms covered with blood, summer If you drink poison every day, the corpse will not stink; in autumn, you will cut off your wrists, and you will be chased by strong wine; in winter, you will be cut in half, covered with snow."

"Snow and moon, wind and flowers, amazing skills and ingenious skills." The little general hummed softly.

"It's called death is romantic." Yun Yu's answer surprised Xiang Yan, and he thought Yun Yu understood his thoughts.

"Your Majesty spends so much money, why don't you give it to my soldiers on the frontier." The young general's words made Xiangyan blushed.

Qiu Guan hurriedly stepped forward and explained: "The general is often out, so he doesn't know. Now that the red bar is severely punished, the number of death row prisoners has increased sharply. Only after autumn executions are far from enough, the punishment is increased in spring, summer and winter. But it is like this all year round. The horror scene really panicked people, and I had to appease people." Yun Yu stood aside, never saying a word.

After the inspection, Yun Yu asked everyone to go back first, leaving Xiang Yan alone.Xiang Yan stood with his head bowed, tugging at his sleeves, and glanced at Yun Yu's back on the execution platform from time to time.

Yun Yu said: "Aren't you reluctant to do these things that take people's lives?"

When Xiang Yan heard this, he became even more angry, and said: "I have no objection." He thought to himself, forget it if you don't understand, and blame me for doing this because I don't like it.

Yun Yu turned around, sat down in front of the case table in the autumn execution platform, took the jug and wine glass, and asked: "Then if you are allowed to make wooden armor, what do you want to do most?"

Xiang Yan said bluntly: "Rebuild Shenjing, so that people all over the world, far and near, will know that I am unparalleled in Chilanmujia."

Yun Yu poured a cup, respectfully said to Yan: "I promise you." He drank it down.

Xiang Yan asked in surprise, "Your Majesty?"

Seeing Xiang Yan's reaction, Yun Yu was a little flustered, raised his glass and asked, "Is this wine not poisonous?" Xiang Yan shook his head quickly.

Yunyu looked up at the red maple above his head, and murmured: "All the kings of Chilan have been coerced by Kai Fang, and they married their relatives to pay tribute, which has been humiliated for hundreds of years. When I succeeded, I decided to suppress Kai Fang for the rest of my life, so that barbarians would never dare to offend Chilan again. .So I prefer generals." Xiang Yan silently nodded.

"But Yan Qing's wooden armor, I look forward to it as well." Yun Yu stared at Xiang Yan and smiled brightly: "When Chilan has no more worries, this capital will be handed over to you."

From that day on, Xiang Yan devoted himself to mecha day and night.There was only one thought in his mind, to make Yun Yu's long-cherished wish come true.

At the age of 12, the Jijia made a small success.It is about the height of two men, and it can be manipulated by a person riding in it. It is indestructible and can walk freely.

One day, Xiang Yan smugly entered the palace in a mecha.His mecha had been in and out of the palace several times before, and the palace people were not surprised by it.

He wandered around and saw Yun Yu outside the hall next door from a distance, so he raised his mech's hand to say hello.Suddenly, he noticed that there was another person beside Yun Yu, walking side by side, an intimacy he had never seen before.He stood there, stunned for a long time, and the palace people passing by thought it was a newly added wood carving.

"Your Majesty loves the new luthier very much." The two princes passed by under their feet, covering their mouths and laughing.

"Your Majesty can have fun, but I won't be able to enjoy it for a few days."

"You know? They are good at everything. Hey, why don't we take a gamble?"

At this time, the voice of the little general came from behind, saying: "Young man, you are here in the palace again today, you have to do two tricks with me."

Turning back to Yan, he said aggressively, "Hit it!"

As soon as he thought that the mecha would be seen by Yun Yu, Xiang Yan was very concerned about winning or losing.But the little general is no one to wait.He acted too hastily, and within three or five moves, he was tripped to the ground by the little general, grabbed the ground and beat him half to death.

"Don't fight, don't fight anymore, it's boring. Look at your broken mecha, don't go into the palace to embarrass yourself again." The little general rode on the back of the mecha, and patted Xiang Yan on the head.

"..."

"Hey, why are you crying? People will think I'm bullying you when they see it. Our martial arts competition is not about height. Your mecha looks fierce, but it can't really replace the battle-tested soldiers—" Xiang Yan He waved his hand at the little general.

The little general covered his head with both hands, and shouted: "It hurts, it hurts. I'm not weak. Okay, okay, it's not entirely your fault that you lose in the competition. This mecha is so inconvenient to operate. If I change it, I will lose too. Hey ! Don't pinch me."

"Yan Qing?" Yun Yu stood aside at some point.

Hearing Yun Yu's voice, Xiang Yan pushed the person on him away, without looking at Yun Yu, got up in the mecha, and fled in despair.

As soon as Xiang Yan got home and changed his mecha, Xiang Yu rushed in.

"Brother! Let's go to the temple fair."

"Tired, don't go."

"I heard that troupes from various countries are here, as well as your favorite puppet show, let's go."

"Go and go yourself."

Hearing this, Xiang Yu pouted, raised his eyebrows, pushed Xiang Yan, and ran out angrily.

That night, Xiang Yan went to bed early.But tossing and turning, still thinking about the puppet show.He folded the quilt, pretended to be himself, and slipped out the door without calling Xiang Yu.

The puppet show at the temple fair was really wonderful, and Xiang Yan watched it one after another, but still felt unsatisfied, so he simply sneaked into the backstage while people were unprepared.

I saw a room full of puppets in various human shapes, lifelike, there are little ones as big as a palm, and big puppets as tall as a person.The skills of those puppets were all superior to his own, and he was very excited to see them, wishing to sneak home and study them carefully.

At this moment, he found one of the puppets, whose facial features were very similar to Yun Yu's.He shyly walked up to the puppet, touched the puppet's face, and seeing that the puppet was not moving, he boldly stepped forward and hugged it.The puppet fell, and he threw himself on the puppet, giggling.But laughing and sobbing again, crying and falling asleep again.

The next day, Xiang Yan woke up and found that he was packed in a large box with puppets on his body and under him.He felt the box jolt, probably in a moving carriage.He climbed to the top, tried to push the lid of the box, and found that it was locked.So he kept clapping boxes and yelling to let me out, but the convoy was bustling with people singing before and after, and no one paid attention to him at all.

He pushed the lid back a crack and peered.The carriage passed through the streets and alleys of the capital, and was about to pass by Xiang's house.When he was about to pass by, he shouted loudly, but he happened to meet the emperor's carriage parked in front of his house.

Yun Yu got out of the carriage, and his father went out to greet him and said, "I don't know that you are coming." Yun Yu said, "I heard that Yan Qing's mecha has made great progress, so I can't wait to come." Yu entered the mansion.

Xiang Yan lay back among the puppets and gave up calling for help.He thought of the disdain of yesterday's battle, and made up his mind.Unless he becomes the irreplaceable person in Yunyu's heart, he will never go home.

Xiang Yan sat by the bed, holding a carving knife, staring at the doll on the bed in a daze.Shi Ting suddenly appeared behind him and asked, "What is Master thinking?"

"I'm wondering whether that day was an accident or man-made." Looking at the person in front of him, the scene of the lightning strike that day resurfaced again, and Xiang Yan always felt a little unreal.

"Rouyi has spells to make clouds and clouds, so why can't someone be able to make thunder and rain. The thunder that day was most likely caused by those who disturbed Yujiaji."

"But Jun Shang asked me if I would still guard the red fence for him before he left. Do you think he had foreseen it?"

Shi Ting sneered: "Yun Yu has always said these things to you, but he never thought that he would not let them go even before he died. You'd better not think too much about it." Xiang Yan said the same.

Facing Yun Yu's face on the bed, Shi Ting said displeasedly: "This doll originally belonged to me, but I didn't expect it to be cheap for him."

"Your Highness is still fighting with the dead." Xiang Yan giggled.

"Say it as if I'm still alive."

"The rumors of divine punishment have spread to the border these days. The whole country is boycotting the wooden armor, and people and puppets are in panic. The rumors of divine punishment must be dispelled now, otherwise Chilan will go back to a few years ago." Xiang Yan Seeing that he had finished speaking, Shi Ting's complexion became even worse, and he hurriedly persuaded him: "Your Highness doesn't want to see all these years of painstaking efforts ruined in one fell swoop."

Shi Ting sighed, agreed, and changed his words: "This face is really made."

Xiang Yan was startled, and hurriedly said: "I have a photographic memory. Try it, Your Highness."

Shi Ting was startled and said, "Why do you want me to play it?"

Xiang Yan snorted, "This puppet has Qingyuan's signature for His Highness, and I can't go in. Besides, Your Highness doesn't want to manage Chilan and revive the wooden armor?"

Shi Ting said: "If you want to be called emperor, you also use your own name, so it's nothing to pretend to be Yun Yu."

But even though he said he was not happy, he still possessed a soul after all.Xiang Yan helped him up and smiled happily.Shi Ting frowned, and stretched out his hand to grab his ear.

"What's the matter, are you going out? Why are you pretending?" Xiang Yan caressed the face that had just changed, and went inside without knowing it.

"Don't go out. Just because you are upset."

Kneeling in front of the mourning hall were the twelve princes guarding the spirit, weeping mournfully.Among them, the crown prince cried the most.

The first prince bowed his head, pinched his fingers and counted silently.The prince next to him asked: "What are you counting?" The prince said: "Three days have passed. Father's body is charred and rotten. It won't last seven days. I guess it's time to bury tomorrow."

The prince next to him chuckled and cried, "Father!" The other princes heard the sound and cried out together.

This disturbance made the youngest prince's drowsiness disappear.The little prince covered his mouth and yawned, in a daze he saw two eunuchs entering the mourning hall to change the candles.

Suddenly, the little prince stared and burst into tears.He was in a daze and wanted to run outside.Seeing this, the prince beside him stopped him and said, "What are you doing, kneel down." The little prince said, "Brother, there are ghosts, I'm afraid." The prince said, "What are you afraid of? .”

Just as he was talking, the prince found a ghost standing in front of the coffin.He slowly let go and let the little prince run out.

"Xiang...Xiang Yan?"

The princes raised their heads and fled in all directions.The prince got up angrily and said: "You still have the face to come back? How did my father treat you? He held a ceremony for you to change the festival, and even apologized in front of the world. You actually caused the thunder to kill him!"

The princes hid in the corner and booed.After glaring at Yan, they lowered their heads again to avoid their eyes.

Xiang Yan flew up to the prince, and the prince retreated step by step, and said in a trembling voice, "What do you want? Do you want to kill me too?"

With a loud bang, the coffin lid fell to the ground.

The princes were scared out of their wits and ran out screaming.They recruited a group of guards and surrounded the mourning hall.But I saw a hand stretched out from the coffin.

"Are you all in such a hurry to put me in the coffin?" The man in the coffin was wearing a shroud, sat up slowly, and brushed off the paper money on his body.

The eunuch at the side helped the person out of the coffin, and said to the guards: "Hurry up and get some clothes for your majesty to change, tear down this mourning hall, and burn the inner and outer coffins. Bad luck! Really bad luck!"

In the chaos, no one cared where Xiang Yan went.