[Lotus Lantern] Promise with one's body

As the flower demon said, she flew in front of the leading dancer.The dance has come to the end, the dancer Niao Ting Ting gave a blessing, when she raised her head, she looked straight ahead, neither humble nor overbearing.And the poppies stood in front of her, their faces were similar, facing each other like a mirror, while the dancer stared ahead calmly, clearly unable to feel her presence.

"They are mortals, so naturally they can't see you." Ao Cunxin walked to her side and said.

Sure enough, following Zhao Xu's words, "Take a step forward." The dancer took a step forward and passed through Yu Meiren's body.

Her eyes are really beautiful, almond eyes are slightly bulging, as clear as white mountains and black waters, and in the eyes, it seems that a piece of starlight has been shattered.

The way Ying Wang looked at her was particularly intriguing.

"Come closer." The woman took another step forward.

Ying Wang possessed him and pinched her jaw, bringing her face closer to him.

When everyone saw His Highness Ying's gesture, they all showed ambiguous smiles.It seems that this dancer has caught the eyes of His Royal Highness King Ying.

"I don't know what to call the girl?"

"The little girl's name is Shuiyu."

"Miss Shui's stunning dance just now, reward!" Zhao Xu put down his hand pinching her jaw, and said loudly to the followers beside him.

"Your Highness, it's better to drink this glass of thin wine from Shui Yujing, and it won't be too late to reward you." As she said that, the woman turned her wrist and took the jade pot on the table to pour a glass of wine for Zhao Xu.

"Please, Your Highness." She held the wine glass in front of him.

Zhao Xu's eyes looked at her for a moment. He took the glass of wine and was about to drink it, but for some reason, his hand slipped, and the wine glass and the wine inside fell to the ground, smelling like wine.

"Ah!" Yu Meiren exclaimed in a low voice, except for Ao Cunxin and Yang Jian and Xiaoshan, no one else could see her.

Yu Meiren looked at Yang Jian in surprise.

"The wine is poisonous, I'm saving her." Yang Jian said calmly.

Zhao Xu didn't care, just continued to look at the woman and said, "I don't know if the girl wants to toast the king for a second glass of wine. Huh?"

"Brother, we still have to enjoy the flowers!" At this time, the only one who dares to spoil the scenery is Princess Shoukang, the youngest sister of King Ying.She is a woman, so naturally she can't see her eldest brother and this dancer flirting with each other in public, which insults the royal demeanor.

Zhao Xu seemed to realize that it was indecent to hang out with a group of guests and a dancer in public.Then he distanced himself from the dancer, his eyes swept over the faces of all the guests, and said: "This king is a little drunk."

Someone from the bottom answered: "Everyone gets drunk when wine is not intoxicating, and when flowers are not charming, people are intoxicated. It is human nature for Your Highness to get drunk."

Zhao Xu saw that it was the eldest son of the Hanlinge scholar family who said this.

In fact, this kind of private banquet, admiring the flowers and the moon is just a pretext, but it is for the royal family to connect with the gentry. The eldest son like King Ying should lay a good foundation with the future ministers early, and understand each other's temperament. In the future, the monarch and his subjects can get along more harmoniously.

"Miss Shui's dance skills are moving, why don't you live in my house first, and ask me for advice when I have time." Zhao Xu said this, and he accepted the meaning of Miss Shuiyu.

"Thank you for your love, Your Highness." The dancer blessed her body and stepped back gracefully.It's not just intentional or unintentional, before she exited the stage, she glanced in the direction of the flower demon.

Seeing this, Yang Jian and Ao Cunxin were thoughtful.

"She's not Aliu." The flower demon murmured.

"Who is Aliu?" Ao Cunxin asked back.

"Aliu, it is Aliu." Yu Meiren replied.

"The family member of the palace who took care of you back then was Aliu?" Yang Jian asked slowly, tapping his palm with an ink fan.

"She said her name was Aliu."

"Aliu, Shuiyu..." Ao Cunxin looked at the direction in which the dancing girl left, and then at the ignorant little flower demon in front of her, suddenly remembered that there were people who looked exactly like her in this world, and sighed softly in her heart.

"I think your body is very fragile, and it looks like it won't last five years." Yang Jian said.

"Five years? I don't really remember. I just remember that Aliu talked to me a lot. She would look at me and cry. I wanted to comfort her, but she couldn't see me."

"Before you transformed, what opportunity did you get?" Yang Jian asked again.

"Me? I don't know. Our poppy family originally only lived for three to five years, but one day, I suddenly had my own spiritual consciousness. By the way, I remembered, that day, that day Aliu was talking to me Then, I suddenly spit out a big mouthful of blood on my body, and later, somehow, I was able to take form."

That's right, this little flower demon can transform into form in such a short period of time, in addition to the good feng shui of the palace, there is also the fact that A Liu's essence and blood nourished her life and flower soul.So she jumped out of the six realms of reincarnation and became a Jingmei with spiritual consciousness and form.To say that she is a demon is flattering her.Such fragility can only be regarded as a charm.

Ao Cunxin thought about this, and couldn't help asking: "What did she tell you?"

"She said that being passionate is always annoyed by being ruthless, and she said that only when I look back on you, I miss you forever and ever. She said that she is sorry for many people..." Poppy covered her head while thinking.

Yang Jian and Ao Cunxin looked at each other, and they both saw something strange in each other's eyes.

After Ao Cunxin's primordial spirit possessed her body, she turned her head slightly and said to Chengbi who was behind her: "You lied to me."

From Cheng Bi's standing angle, I could only see the dragon girl opening and closing her red lips as she said those three words.

"The one who married into the palace is not the younger sister, but the elder sister." Ao Cunxin's voice appeared in his ears again, but this time he couldn't see her lips moving.

"I never said that the younger sister is the one who married into the palace." Cheng Bi said frankly.

Ao Cunxin thought about it carefully, the original words of Chengbi were "Later, that little son grew up to be a suave son, and met a girl with that jade pendant on the street, and remembered the past when he was a child, so he He accepted that woman as his side wife."

He never said that it was the younger sister who married into the palace, but because he said before that the younger sister exchanged jade pendants with the young man she met at the temple fair, she naturally thought that it was the younger sister who wore the jade pendant and met Zhao Xu when she grew up. , but never thought of another possibility.

"You're right, I wanted to cross myself." Ao Cunxin took a sip of tea, glanced at Zhao Xu who was sitting firmly in the high position, and sighed softly.

Ao Cunxin saw that although Zhao Xu was talking and laughing with Yan Yan, he was somewhat absent-minded, as if the beautiful dancer had taken away all the spring when she left the stage.

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The dancer was left in the west garden of the palace by the steward of the palace.

She looked around, the glazed lamps decorated this place brightly, as bright as day.

Zhao Xu pushed the door open, and saw her looking at a painting on the wall.It was the peach blossoms in Xuanwai, which spread all over the place.There is a young boy with long hair, holding his chin and looking at the scenery outside the window.

"The sound of wind and rain at night, how many flowers will fall." He read the inscription on the painting, and the dancer suddenly turned around when she heard the words.

At that moment, he clearly saw tears in her eyes, but it was only for a moment, and he blinked away all the past in her eyes.

"I have seen His Highness." She blessed her body.

"Pingshen." Zhao Xu said, walked to the main seat, and sat down.

"Miss Shuiyu, what do you think of this West Garden?"

"The land of the palace is naturally good."

"Then how about I let you live here from now on?" Zhao Xu asked softly.

"I heard that one of His Royal Highness's late concubine lived here before. Now I live here again, I'm afraid there is something wrong."

"Aren't you happy that you will take care of me instead of her?"

Wu Ji looked up at Zhao Xu, and suddenly said, "Why don't you die."

As he spoke, he pulled out the gold hairpin from his head and stabbed Zhao Xu in the heart.

But Zhao Xu grabbed his wrist, and the sharp part of the gold hairpin had pierced the fabric and pressed against his chest.

"A Li, do you come to me this time because you want to kill me?"

"Zhao Xu, you killed my sister with your hypocrisy, and I will take your life to pay for it, it's only right and proper!"

"Ali, I'm afraid you don't know that the reason why Aliu died is all because of you."

"You are talking nonsense! My sister was killed by you! You not only killed my sister, but also our family!"

"I just want to ask you, how did I give you the jade pendant back then, but how did it end up in Aliu's hands. That's why I mistook Aliu for you..."

"What's the point of saying this now? My sister is already dead, but you still want to blame me for her death, and the culprit is pretending to be affectionate. Zhao Xu, if you still have feelings for her If there is any trace of husband and wife friendship, you should go to her grave and kowtow to apologize."

"Do you think I haven't been there? Aliu is dead, do you know how she died? She died by cutting her own throat with the same gold hairpin as in your hand."

That Shuiyu girl seemed to have thought of the tragic death of her sister, and suddenly she couldn't hold the golden hairpin in her hand, she felt her whole body was cold, and the sky and the earth were pitch black.Those glazed lamps seem to be the way to the next life.

"I don't believe it! Although my sister is gentle, she has a tenacious temperament and will never commit suicide!" She yelled these words from the depths of her throat, like a trapped animal whimpering in a trap.

"She was consumed by the backyard of your palace. Since you married her, why didn't you take good care of her!"

"Don't you know why I married her? You were the one who met me at the beginning, so why did the jade pendant wear her? Why didn't you make it clear when I asked the matchmaker to take the jade pendant you gave me? Even I Why didn't you tell the truth when you married her?"

"You can obviously stop all of this, but you didn't." Zhao Xu looked at her and said firmly, "You killed Ah Liu."

"The emperor sent someone to propose a marriage. Who would dare to resist us ordinary people? The matchmaker only said that a nobleman glanced at the young lady of your mansion in the street. He was shocked and wanted to hire Mrs. Ru. But I don't think so The token for proposing marriage is obviously the jade pendant that my father ordered the jade craftsman to make when I was young, and my name "Li" is on it, but the matchmaker clearly said that I met a shocking genius on the street and came to hire me. How can I Do you know why you came here to hire me? Elder sister also said that she really likes you, and she is willing to marry you, even if the sedan chair enters through the side door. In this case, both parents can only agree to let elder sister marry into your mansion."

She stretched out her slender fingers and pointed at the furniture and utensils in the entire West Garden: "Your palace is indeed exquisitely furnished, like a golden birdcage, but it is a place that eats people without spit out bones."

"Now that I think about it, it was me who killed my sister. Peach replaced Li Zong, and peach tree died instead of Li tree. My sister died instead of me. Otherwise, I would be the one who died." Miss Shuiyu murmured.

Her body seemed unable to accept such a result, and she couldn't help but fell to the ground, her eyes terrified.

Zhao Xu heard her say, "Peach replaces Li Zong, peach tree dies instead of plum tree, and my sister died instead of me. Otherwise, I will die." He just felt that such accusations froze his whole heart.If it was A Li who married back then, would it have ended like this?

"No, if at the beginning..."

"Zhao Xu, do you know that I was dancing in the hall today, and Aliu was watching from the side. Her smile was still there, her eyes were clear, she watched me dance for you, she..."

"Did you see her? I hoped that she would come to my dream every night for the past two years, but she never came once." King Ying immediately stood up and asked in surprise.

Ao Cunxin said to Yang Jian: "As expected, she can see that little flower charm." Before the dancer left the stage, Ao Cunxin took a look at that beauty Yu intentionally or unintentionally.Seeing her say this now, she is sure that she was able to see her at that time.

Yang Jian flicked his sleeves when he heard the words, a light flashed, and the flower demon stood there Tingting.

"She is standing behind you now." Shuiyu said to King Ying.

"Aliu! Come out, Aliu! I know you are here!" Yu Meiren stood quietly in front of him, her eyes were ignorant and she knew nothing.

"Sister, I'm Ali, let me have a word with me!" Shuiyu walked on her knees, wanting to hold her hand.But the slender fingers passed through the body, only grabbing a handful of air.

"Are you A Li?" the poppy tilted her head and asked.

"You don't recognize me?"

"I heard Aliu talk about you..." Poppy said happily.

"You...then who are you?"

"Me?" she asked back, pointing her nose, and then seemed a little shy, and looked at Yang Jian and Ao Cunxin beside her.Said: "I am the poppies flower demon of the palace, you can call me Xiao Yu."

"How do you look so much like me and my sister?"

Zhao Xu stared blankly at Shuiyu talking to himself in the air alone, and was stunned.

"Shangxian said that Aliu's energy and blood entered my flower soul, so I transformed into Aliu's appearance."

"So that's how it is..." Looking at the face in front of her that was exactly the same as her own, she seemed to see her sister who hadn't left the cabinet in a daze.

"What did my sister tell you?"

"She said she was sorry for Ah Li, and robbed her of the marriage that should have belonged to her. That's why she ended up like this. She said that Ah Liu owed Ah Li, so she decided to repay it with her life. She said goodbye in the next life, when the time comes Let's be sisters with Ah Li again. I just don't know if Ah Li is willing."

Yu Meiren dutifully repeated the words of her old friend, and Shuiyu felt a pang of pain in her heart.

The twin flowers are connected by blood.Now that she has passed away, leaving only the flower demon nourished by her mouthful of blood, she seems to be able to feel the things and words in the memory of the flower demon, and only feels that the past is nothing more than that.It was she who owed her sister, who died in her stead.When she thought of this, her throat felt fishy, ​​and a mouthful of blood spewed out.

Her blood sprayed on the flower demon, and for some reason, the blood penetrated into her body like this.In Zhao Xu's eyes, he could only see the blood stains in the air gradually disappearing.

"What else did she say?" Shuiyu asked, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth.

"She said that she would return this marriage to you so that you would not take revenge. If possible, it would be fine to continue the relationship with the young master."

"She...she is so cruel! She still wants me to marry Zhao Xu? Does she think that I will step on her blood and enter this mansion?" Shuiyu sneered.

When Zhao Xu heard this, he felt a pain in his heart.

The flashes of the past flashed by in front of his eyes, and the similar faces made it hard for him to tell who was who when he first met.He was full of joy during the wedding ceremony, and the moment he entered, he called her name "A Li, A Li."

After going to the palace to meet his father and queen the next day, he also said the same thing to them: "This is Ah Li."

He has been calling the name "A Li" for more than a year. Whenever he calls this name, she always smiles quietly, but does not explain.

Later, when I learned that she was a fake Ali, all I could think of was the anger of being deceived. When I was young, I always felt that others had wronged me a lot, so I didn't go to her place for half a year.Later, I heard that the queen mother summoned her to the palace several times, but she always said something like a tame woman, and she did not find out that she was a fake A Li.

Aliu was married on behalf of her, and the name of Yushi Xinli was written on the imperial jade certificate. Once her father and queen mother found out that she was not the real Ali, it would be a crime of deceiving the emperor, and the consequences would be disastrous.He made mistakes, and gradually went to her again, calling her Ali.

But she gradually stopped speaking and seldom smiled. Later, she fell ill and finally died in the spring of the year before last.Since her death, the poppies in Fuzhong bloomed particularly strangely.

Now that he thinks about this, he just feels that it was a long, long time ago, so long that he thought it was a matter of his previous life.