Tai sui

Except for some burnt flowers and plants, Guangyun Palace was intact as before, but Emperor Jiahe Zhou Huan always felt the bed beneath him was shaking endlessly.After Pang Jian left, he woke up twice, and he was haunted by chaotic dreams. For a while, it was the cold gaze of his father who died under the catastrophe, and for a while, it was the pale face of the fourth emperor Zhou Xi.

Dimly, Zhou Xi's face changed into his own image again, he felt like a corpse, lying helpless in a coffin, the dragon robe was embroidered with black dragons, and the dragon robe that almost swallowed Jinping The Dragon Shadow is exactly the same.

The big fireworks from Xuanyin Mountain suddenly went up to the sky, and Zhou Huan, who woke up, yelled "Father Emperor" and sat up, his underwear soaked in cold sweat.After watching a "lively scene", he found that he had shrunk to the foot of the bed like a frightened bird.

The sound of hurried footsteps came, Zhou Huan came back to his senses, his heart was filled with anger, and he threw the jade pillow at the servant who came trotting in: "You are not allowed to walk fast in Zihuan Palace, have you never learned the rules?!"

A corner of the jade pillow was smashed to the ground, and the servant knelt at the door with a "plop": "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, go and have a look!"

The morning meeting was cancelled, and with the rising sun, Zhou Huan's wide robe sleeves picked up the wind.

He seems to want to run wildly, but the fastest moving part of his body is his head and neck, and his whole body is full of powerlessness and staleness that have been left behind by the years.

Emperor Jiahe has been on the throne for 14 years, and he is indeed not young among mortals. If he is a medicine farmer in Western Chu, he should be careful enough to have two rounds of pregnancy.But for princes and aristocrats who have never stopped low-level elixir, the age of forty is a good time to fade away and be able to call the wind and rain, and he is a bit impatient in his old age.

Zhou Huan's stomach is not small, but his cheeks are sunken out of shape.He originally had a pair of calm eyes unique to the Zhou family—neither drooping nor drooping, the head and tail of the eyes are almost even, and the size is moderate, but now they seem to be unstable. Getting bigger and bigger, the end of the eyes began to droop to the sides, the gentle face of youth became drooping, and the thin eyelids couldn't cover a pair of panicked eyes.

Almost disheveled, he rushed into the Palace of Eternal Brightness, the residence of the Empress Dowager.

There was a dead silence in the Changming Palace at this moment, the servants were kneeling all over the floor, the imperial physicians who came in and out were sweating from their temples, Empress Yao who arrived first did not dare to lift her head.

The crested head that automatically sprayed water on the flowers and plants in the courtyard just started, and the gear was unscrewed under the horrified gaze of the little maid, and the whole body of His Majesty who barged in was bared.

The cold water drops fell on Zhou Huan's face, he ignored it, and ran into the bedroom through the tiny rainbow with straight brows, and saw a skinny hand hanging down from the heavy curtains, with ominous purple-black nails.

Zhou Huan swayed for a while, and for a while, he almost didn't know anything. People rushed to support him and shouted nonsense like "take care of the dragon's body", and Empress Yao could only cry.

Zhou Huan shook off the servants vigorously, mustered up the only remaining courage in his life, and staggered in. He saw Empress Dowager Zhang with her eyes wide open and her chest heaving violently, like a cylinder about to explode.

His legs softened and he knelt on the edge of the bed.

Fourteen years ago, Zhou Huan ascended the throne with fear and fear, and justifiably welcomed his mother who had lived in the cold palace for most of his life.

They all said that he was benevolent and magnanimous.Only Zhou Huan knew in his heart that Shen's disease was actually swept away by his famous tyrant father, and the New Deal was a ready-made thing left to him that his predecessors failed to achieve.Since he succeeded to the throne, he has almost obeyed his mother's order, and has never personally taken an idea, from disaster relief to road repairs to inner court expenses.

"Mother's mother, mother's queen..." The "orphan" who is over [-] years old clutched her sleeve in a daze, "Mother's mother...what are you doing? I don't understand, what's wrong..."

Empress Dowager Zhang had a "sudden emergency" in the morning - no one dared to say that she was poisoned, she took a poisonous miasma made by a master, it was very precious, no one would be touched below the ascension to the spirit, and a mortal inhaled a drop of medicine to cure the disease However, the imperial physicians are all busy around.

It is not the former famous family, and there will be no such background.

"Go out...all out..."

Empress Yao heard what she was muttering, and quickly got up to push back the idlers, and came back on tiptoe and knelt at Zhou Huan's feet, sobbing and whispering: "My mother... my mother ordered me to give it to Nankuang. Ziming sent the letter, I... I obeyed, and when I turned around, she..."

Yao Qi, the concubine's younger brother, had tortured each other with Luo Qingshi for a whole year in Qianxiu Temple, and each left countless wounds to each other—one almost blew his heart out of anger, and the other had met a boy with similar stature so far. They were all wobbling all over——Yao Qi opened his spiritual orifice in the last few days when Qianxiu Temple was about to close the mountain gate. After going down the mountain, he went to the South Mine to do odd jobs.

In recent years, the relationship between Zhou Huan and Empress Yao has been very estranged. The more he looks at the doughty woman with no backbone, the more he hates it.The queen is not favored and doesn't make troubles. She eats fast with Queen Mother Zhang in the Changming Palace every day and rarely contacts outsiders.Hearing that she had sent a letter to Nankuang, Zhou Huan had an ominous premonition in his heart for no reason: "What did you send, let me see it!"

Empress Yao tremblingly held up the Immortal Artifact of Contact, Zhou Huan snatched it away, and after reading it at a glance, he was numb all over.

Lingshan rebelled and cicadas sloughed off... The end of Xuanyin Mountain is approaching...but only a hundred years... count the inventory of the South Mine immediately...

The big clock of the Changming Hall just hit the hour, and there was a long sound of "Dang", and it hit people's ears like a death knell. Zhou Huan suddenly came back to his senses, and forced a smile with a pale face: "This... this... empress, This is impossible... how can such a thing spread randomly..."

Then he jumped up again and slapped Empress Yao to the ground: "Stupid bastard! Whether it's true or not, how can you send a message on such a life-threatening matter! What's the difference in declaring the world in the draft newspaper, are you trying to kill us!"

Empress Yao's sharp cry made the people outside think that the queen mother had done something wrong, so they knelt down on the ground.

Zhou Huan's gaze swept over her sneering eyes and purple-black lips, and he suddenly realized something: No, Mrs. Yao doesn't understand, but the queen mother is from an aristocratic family, how could she not know the taboo of degrading an immortal weapon?Why did she take poison?

Over the years, my mother has been in contact with the silent Li family. They occasionally ordered him to do things, but never told him the reason.

"You... did it on purpose?"

Empress Dowager Zhang was speechless. Zhou Huan crawled to her bedside, weeping, and shook her hand vigorously: "Mother, are you crazy? What do you want to do? What do you want me to do? What should I do?" ..."

Empress Dowager Zhang stared at Zhou Huan's blurred figure with her convulsed eyelids: it was impossible to tell who was who from the sound of the two couple crying "Mother Queen", they were really a match made in heaven.

"Strange," she thought, "this is Zhou Kun and I's son. What's wrong?"

The Zhang family did not have as deep a root as the four major families, but fortunately, the sons and grandchildren were uplifting, and there were many talented ministers in the clan. They had been intermarried with the Xuanyin Li family for hundreds of years, and they were inseparable.In the past, almost every generation of direct descendants received invitations for recruitment. There were thirteen members of the Zhang clan in the inner sect. Even if the family has "immortal roots" in the future.

In the Tianji Pavilion and the South Mine, there are countless clansmen.Every New Year's Day, a small hall will be specially set up at home, and "fairies" in blue clothes will descend from the sky.

Empress Dowager Zhang had a strong and irritable temperament when she was young, and she refused to fall behind in everything.She studies literature and martial arts, and spends all her free time with Lingshi, working hard to hone her inspiration, never mixing with the boring poems and flowers of Jinping's noble ladies, leaving her mediocre brother eight blocks away, It is my dream to be able to wear blue clothes one day.

But that year, although the Zhang family tried their best, they only got one quota for the recruitment post. It was a waste to give a daughter who didn't have any special talent. It's better to use her to marry another family to broaden the road for the younger generation.

When people are trampled by an irreversible force, there are often two reactions: either raise their arms and rebel in anger, even if they die under the rolling wheels; , Defend to the death - give yourself an explanation for all the unwillingness and pain.

The stronger Empress Dowager Zhang is the latter.

After the election year, she cried a lot, bid farewell to her high-spirited youth, and betrothed Zhou Kun who had just sent away her last relative.

At that time, Emperor Taiming hadn't become a scheming old lunatic, his family buried his brother who depended on him for life, Xianshan had just taken away his sisters who accompanied him since childhood, his mother was under the loess, his father was on the altar, he was lonely and at a loss, Like longing for a life-saving straw, he mistakenly thought that his wife would be his life's sustenance.

The two of them also had a good time with incomparable sincerity. When the love was strong, they thought they could be a couple for a lifetime.

It's a pity that it didn't catch up with the good time.

At that time, with Jinxia Peak having an unexpected owner, the 36 peaks of Xuanyin Inner Sect seemed to be full, and the strings of all clans in the Immortal Sect were tense to the extreme. Every general election was a silent fight, which also affected the situation of the court.The Li and Zhang families are aggressive, the Zhao and Lin clans are not willing to give in to each other, and Zhou Kun is born with a strong head and bones. The internal struggle between the inner sect and the mortal world is becoming more and more fierce. The Queen Mother Zhang is caught in it. The clans swayed from side to side, and the rift between the emperor and empress was getting bigger and bigger.

By the time Zhou Kun deliberately brought disaster to the east and brought the conflict between the Li and Zhao clans to the surface in the mortal world, the husband and wife almost stopped talking.The harem was full of flowers, and the "good news" that the concubine was pregnant came out one after another. She couldn't bear it, and tried every means to fail. She almost let go of her pride and wanted to find him for reconciliation.

But God's will tricks people, at this moment, the "sky" of the Li family's inner gate collapsed.

The prosperity of the Li family has fallen like a mountain. The descendants, in-laws and family friends, countless "superior people" in the past will never be immortal.

Empress Dowager Zhang's mother's family was implicated, and at the last moment, she chose to be the daughter of the Zhang family instead of Empress Dawan.She leaked the news to her clansmen privately, but Zhou Kun had been prepared. The people she sent were shot and killed in front of the Guangyun Palace by himself. The clansmen either had their heads on the ground or were exiled for three thousand miles, and there was no room for turning back.

The influence of Li Zhang's lineage in the court was almost uprooted, and the queen has been with the cold palace for half her life since then.

She is like a phoenix who is eager to inquire about the world. She and Zhou Kun are united and doomed because of their family and country.Zhou Kun always thought that apart from Mrs. Lin, she hadn't even seen what the concubines looked like, and she didn't have those petty thoughts.

No one knew that the first time she saw Mrs. Xi, she was taken aback by Xi Ziyi's beauty. When she learned that Mrs. Xi was related to Cui Ji, she turned around and rewarded her with some of her favorite pearl hairpins when she was a girl. The next person.

Because of jealousy, Empress Dowager Zhang even did the only "stupid thing" in her life that she didn't know the so-called "stupid thing"-on a maid named "Xiao Song" brought into the palace by the country woman of the Xi family, Empress Dowager Zhang raped her in her early years. A pill of "Ecstasy" that came by chance.

"Ecstasy" is usually useless, and Empress Dowager Zhang doesn't bother to use this kind of trick to harm others, even if Da Neng comes, she can't see that there is anything wrong with the maid.It can only be activated at midnight when the moon is full. Every night when the moon is full, hold the corresponding "Dream Bead", and you can see some daily chores in Yuying Palace through the girl's dream.

She just... wanted to see if he was really fascinated by beauty.

After downloading, she regretted it and felt that she had lost her status.At that time, just as the family was overthrown, she didn't care about her children's personal relationship, and in a blink of an eye, she left the little things of jealousy behind her.

When I think about it again, everything is like the past.

When she lived alone in the cold palace, what kind of thoughts did she have to sneak into the dream of the palace maid Xiaosong?It's not good to say, maybe I just want to add some pain to myself.When you have nothing, pain is also pleasure... Who would have thought that she accidentally discovered something extraordinary on Xi Shi's insignificant vase.

It turns out that each generation of the Zhou family has an unknown natural spiritual bone, and somehow the natural spiritual bone of this generation is so picky, and it was reincarnated in Xi's womb.

The maid Xiaosong is the most useful person around Mrs. Xi. She took care of the third prince for a few years after he was born. Through her, a pair of horrified eyes saw Zhou Ying, and from this sinful boy, he saw A corner of the Zhou family's 800-year secret.

As the prince Zhou Huan grew up, she finally used this incompetent son to contact the family members of the Li and Zhang clans. There were still some fringe people in Nankuang who were former relatives of the Zhang family. She carefully observed Zhou Ying while spreading the news. Together with the clansmen, they investigated the matter behind the Zhou family's sacrifice of descendants' spiritual bones, and they spelled out a shocking truth... Then in that year, all those with the same origin and Taoism who could be traced back to Li Fengshan, the ancestor of Si Dian, took over. Arrived at "Heavenly Mandate".

Tears welled up in everyone's eyes, thinking that God had finally opened his eyes and was about to make things right.

At that moment, Empress Dowager Zhang believed that she was destined to bear the priesthood.

Zhou Ying was 15 years old at the time, and proposed to leave the palace early to build a mansion. Empress Dowager Zhang didn't know what his idea was. This evil creature seemed to be reincarnated with memories.Once he is allowed to leave Guangyun Palace, it will be difficult to peek at him in the future.

So they decided to do it that year, and after observing for a long time, they chose Liang Chen—a pitiful person whose Taoist heart was ahead of his spiritual bones and who wholeheartedly thought that he was serving the country and the people.

Tianyu said that Nansheng sealed the map in the ground veins back then, and even Zhao Yin didn't know about it.Only those who inherit the companion wood of the ancient demon god can penetrate into the map and become a living rubbing of the map, helping them gain the right to control the map and take back Xuanyin Mountain.

Those people have cut off their fairy road, and unless they draw their salaries from the bottom of the pot, it will be difficult to turn around.

Unexpectedly, the earthquake of the soul-returning vortex aroused the vigilance of the Zhou family. Princess Zhou Qing of Anyang personally took over the town, and the only remaining dark lines in the South Mine were also wiped out.I don't know what's wrong with that trash of Liang Chen. He failed to digest the inheritance of the ancient demon god for eight years, and was almost dragged to death by the hidden bone. He was exposed in advance under impatience, and things slipped in an unknown direction: the failure of Wuduhai, Zhou Kun died, and then the Zhao family tree fell and the monkeys scattered...

Immortals and mortals seemed to be sucked into the vortex of acceleration.

It turns out that the stars can be deceived, but fate cannot be controlled at all.

By now, everything is too late.

At this time, in the Empress Dowager's bedroom, two men in black appeared out of thin air like steam, and supported the limp Zhou Huan: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager ordered me to escort you out of the palace."

"No, I... the queen mother..."

Empress Dowager Zhang's vision became more and more blurred, and she tried her best to smile at the clansmen: "Stupid thing, this time the heavenly decree was forced to speak, and then suddenly disappeared, Zhi Xiu must have received the news, and the general situation is over."The dragon shadow of Yutu reappeared under that person's eyes, and what happened back then must not be hidden. If you let them be safe, will you still survive?

"Mother! Mother..."

First it was vision, then hearing, and she couldn't hear Zhou Huan's noisy voice.Suddenly, Empress Dowager Zhang seemed to be back when she was a young girl. She was just engaged, and Zhou Kun, who was still the prince at that time, sneaked out of the palace to see her. When I lowered my head to write a letter, my ears turned red.

At the beginning, the letter was written with the same rigidity as the memorial, but later he called her "Yunying", and later, the fallen flowers of Jinping's four seasons were included in the letter... Where did they go?

Oh yes.

Her hand slipped down.

40 years ago, it became the ashes of the cold palace.