Nine-Tailed Fox

He opened his mouth and gasped for breath, only to feel a sharp pain in his heart, and he couldn't calm down no matter what.

Why didn't he ask Yun Xiaohuo for a reason back then?Does he have any unspeakable difficulties?Is he the same as himself, thinking about each other all the time during the years of separation?

If we could talk peacefully back then, maybe Yun Xiaohuo is still alive now?Even if they still can't be together, at least he is alive.

He thought of the scene of Xuanyuan Che and Leng Qing worshiping at the wedding hall today, the spoiled and lawless snake demon didn't even cover the red hijab, just stood carelessly in the wedding hall.But at the last moment when the husband and wife bowed to each other, he saw that Leng Qing's eyes were shining, full of tenderness and affection.When he and Yun Xiaohuo paid homage, his Xiaohuo also looked at him like this, right?

Suffocated for breath, Xuanyuan Jin felt his nose sore and astringent, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.

The wind on a spring night is always a bit chilly, but Xuanyuan Jin just put on a coat and left the house. Even the little sparrow didn't let him follow, and he walked quietly into the garden alone.

I thought that only he who was full of thoughts would have trouble sleeping peacefully at night like this, but when he walked to the small pavilion on the waterside pavilion, he saw a small figure sitting on the railing beside the pavilion swinging his legs.

Xuanyuan Jin took a closer look, isn't this the child who followed Xuanyuan Che into the palace earlier?

"Are you Jinger?"

"Who?" Yun Jing raised his palm-sized face, and after seeing that it was Xuanyuan Jin, he blinked and asked, "Why did you run out in the middle of the night?"

Xuanyuan Jin smiled when he heard the words, and replied: "I should be the one asking you this, right? Why do you come to the garden all by yourself because you don't go to bed in the middle of the night?"

"I can't sleep." Yun Jing shook her crossed legs and said with her fingers: "The master is going to accompany the little scholar, the second master is in the bridal chamber, the third master has gone somewhere, no one is sleeping with me ,I can not sleep!"

"You still need someone to sleep with you when you're so old?" Xuanyuan Jin leaned over and sat beside him, seeing that he was sitting in the night wind wearing only his underwear, he immediately frowned, and took off his outer robe without saying a word Wrap him up.

Yun Jing's shoulders warmed up, she turned her head to look at Xuanyuan Jin, and suddenly wanted to rush into his arms and call out "Daddy" coquettishly, but in the end she suppressed the urge, and only replied lightly: "I used to be very afraid of Daddy." Don't want me, so pestering and sleeping with daddy every day, it became a habit later on."

"Are you used to it?" Xuanyuan Jin was stunned, remembering that he and Yun Xiaohuo used to embrace and sleep every day in the wooden house at the foot of the mountain, but later it became a habit. After returning to the palace, facing the big bed of Qianqing Palace alone, he just felt I can't sleep well.

"Why are you in a daze?" Yun Jing waved his small hand in front of Xuanyuan Jin's eyes before pulling him back to his senses.

Xuanyuan Jin rubbed his temples and asked, "Why would your father not want you?"

"Before I was five years old, I lived with my nanny, and my father only came to see me once or twice a year. Then something happened, my father took me back to raise me, and let the master, the second master, and the third master Take care of me together. I know Daddy loves me and won't let me go, but I'm just a little scared."

"I thought you were not afraid of anything!" Xuanyuan Jin stretched out a hand to touch Yun Jing's head. This time Yun Jing didn't dodge, but was patted obediently a few times.

"I just noticed that you look a bit like when I was a child, no wonder you always feel familiar when you look at me."

Xuanyuan Jin took a closer look and realized that Yun Jing's facial features were seven or eight points similar to his own. Who would have thought that as soon as he spoke, Yun Jing jumped up suddenly, and casually stuffed the clothes on his shoulders into his arms After a few strokes, he hurriedly said, "Who looks like you? I'm going to bed!"

After all, Yun Jing is only an eight-year-old child, he lost his feet when he panicked, and didn't notice the steps ahead.Hearing a bang, he actually hit the ground straight, and stared at him.

"Did you fall? Let me see." Xuanyuan Jin hurried up to help Yun Jing up, lifted up his sleeves to check, and sure enough, the skin on his elbow was scratched, "Bleeding, does it hurt?"

"It's okay, I fell much harder when I was a child than this!" Yun Jing struggled to walk away, but was held by Xuanyuan Jin and stood up.

"Stop making trouble, I will give you some medicine when I go back, and I will sleep with you today."

"You sleep with me?" Yun Jing opened her mouth wide in surprise.

"What? How dare you disobey the order when I sleep with you as a child?" Xuanyuan Jin stretched out his fingers and scratched Yun Jing's nose, "Or are you afraid of me?"

"Who's afraid of you? I'm just afraid that you'll snore in your sleep, which will make me unable to sleep!" Yun Jing pushes back unwillingly.

"Don't worry, I will never snore."

Back in the room, Xuanyuan Jin personally applied the medicine on Yun Jing, then carried him to bed, patted his back and coaxed him to sleep.

"I'm not a child anymore, I don't need to be coaxed to sleep." Yun Jing muttered dissatisfied.

"Huh? I've been coaxing Fei'er like this all the time." Xuanyuan Jin looked at Yun Jing suspiciously, "Is there really no need to coax?"

"Do you think I'm your spoiled prince?" Yun Jing gave him a blank look, then simply closed his eyes and said nothing.

"He has a small temper." Xuanyuan Jin shook his head, pinched the quilt for him, then let go of his hands and sat up, and after blowing out the candles on the table, Fang lay down next to Yun Jing and fell asleep again.

Waking up early the next morning, when Xuanyuan Che and Leng Qing saw Xuanyuan Jin carrying Yun Jing into the main hall of the front hall, they not only stared at each other for a moment, but also couldn't help worrying in surprise, but they saw nothing unusual about Xuanyuan Jin. People tacitly decide to divide labor and cooperate.

Xuanyuan Che sent Xuanyuan Jin away, Leng Qing took the opportunity to pull Yun Jing over and asked him in a low voice: "Don't tell me you already recognize him?"

"No." Yun Jing half-closed her eyes and yawned.

"Then why did you come out with him?" Leng Qing stretched out her fingers dissatisfied and poked Yun Jing's face.

"I slept in his room yesterday, and he patted me on the back like coaxing a child! Third master, do you think he is stupid?" Yun Jing lifted Leng Qing's fingers and said coquettishly, "I hungry!"

"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat!" Knowing that Yun Jing didn't recognize Xuanyuan Jin, Leng Qing's heart was relieved, and she was just about to turn around and ask Xuanyuan Che to come back when she rolled up her sleeves, but Yun Jing jumped up and sat down on the chair , propped his face with his two little hands, and didn't know what he was thinking, "Jing'er, tell the master, do you really want to recognize him?"

"I don't want to." Yun Jing shook her head sharply, "He bullied the beauty's father, so I don't recognize him."

"real?"

"In Jing'er's heart, a beautiful father is the most important thing!" Yun Jing raised her face, her sleepy eyes finally opened wide.

"Little devil! Your mouth is so sweet!"

"Are you envious? I envy you to give birth to one too!"

"Give birth to someone who is as troublesome as you? I won't do it!" Leng Qing smiled and said: "Later, Che and I will go to the Taimiao to worship our ancestors. You just stay in the palace and wait for us to come back."

"I also need to go!"

"We are going to worship the ancestors of their Xuanyuan family, do you think we are going to play?"

Yun Jing giggled, and said cheerfully, "Third Master, have you forgotten? That is also my ancestor! Whether you recognize your father is one thing, but going to see your ancestor is another. Anyway, you have to take me there! If you don't Ken, I'll talk to Xuanyuan Jin myself!"

The memorial tablets of Xuanyuan's past emperors are all enshrined in the Taimiao not far from the east of the palace gate, and it takes only a while to get there by sedan chair from Xuanyuanche's palace.

The Taimiao is a four-deep courtyard. The main hall is located in the center. Outside the hall is a white marble carved stone railing. Inside the hall is the roof of the hall with yellow glazed tiles, beams covered with incense, golden nanmu components and gold bricks. They are all pasted with red gold flowers, which look solemn and grand.

Yun Jing, who was still chattering at first, stopped talking after entering the main hall, and stood aside obediently, watching Xuanyuan Che and Leng Qing pay respects to their ancestors according to the complicated procedures one after another.

After worshiping in Taimiao, several people rushed to the palace again, Xuanyuan Jin led the crowd all the way to Kunning Palace, and just got out of the sedan chair.

"Brother Emperor, what are you doing here?" Xuanyuan Che got off the sedan chair, looked at the three golden characters "Kunning Palace" on the plaque above his head, and turned to Xuanyuan Jin in doubt.

Xuanyuan Jin raised his hand, only to hear Little Quezi bowed and said: "The two princes, concubines, and young masters, please enter the palace." Then he turned around again, straightened his spine and shouted in a shrill voice: " The servants are all waiting outside the hall, and are not allowed to enter without a summons."

Xuanyuan Bei naturally understood Xuanyuan Jin's intentions, he pulled Xuanyuan Che across the threshold of Kunning Palace, and said in a low voice: "Of course you will understand after entering."

Leng Qing led Yun Jing to follow behind, stopped after only a few steps, poked his head from behind Xuanyuan Che, saw Xuanyuan Jin digging soil in the flower garden, immediately pushed Xuanyuan Che in astonishment , "Hey, what is he doing?"

"I don't know." Xuanyuan Che was also confused, turned his head and saw Xuanyuan Bei's determined expression, so he leaned into his ear and asked, "What are you digging, brother?"

"Fruit wine." Xuanyuan Bei crossed his arms and cast a meaningful glance at Yun Jing who was silent.

"Why is he digging for fruit wine at this time?" Leng Qing was even more puzzled.

"It's the fruit wine brewed by the emperor himself. Every year on Yun Xiaozhuo's death day, he would dig out the wine, pour half of it and drink half of it. Three years and three death days, he also got drunk three times. Every time he got drunk, he hugged him in the mourning hall." Seeing Yun Xiaohuo's tablet, he won't let go, just like a lunatic." Xuanyuan Bei compared the number three with his fingers, shrugged again, and shook his head helplessly.

"Tablet?" Leng Qing's expression suddenly fell.

"It's the tablet that the emperor set up for Yun Xiaohuo when he was sober, and it was placed in the main hall of Kunning Palace. He brought you to Kunning to offer sacrifices because he wanted you to pay homage to Yun Xiaohuo, the titular late 'Queen'.