Peach wood

The maid of honor took a few steps, the emerald light in her eyes flickered more and more frequently, but suddenly disappeared, leaving behind a deep blackness.She was still the eyes of a mortal, and inadvertently looked back at the imperial tomb, only to feel that it looked really gloomy under the pale gray sky.The boundary between the living and the dead is more than just the door.

The chariots and horses rush to the world, while the dust annihilates the place of the deceased behind them.Nobody looks back because it's all useless.For the living, nothing is more important than being alive, at least for most of the living.Only by living can we witness the future; only by living can we have more.Although the living have the joy of the living, and the dead have the joy of the dead, but since there is hope in the world, why choose to die?As a court lady next to the Empress Dowager, she is just an ordinary person, she has never read poetry and books, and has never thought about the way of heaven. In her heart, there is nothing more precious than life.She has the ability to live, so she will definitely not let herself die quietly in a corner of the world like a victim sealed in a coffin.

But she forgot that the ones she was supposed to put in the coffin were by no means those ordinary-looking court ladies.She followed the Queen Mother's order to let the little emperor "die of illness" in the palace.She forgot not only this one detail, she actually forgot a lot, even she forgot who she was and her original purpose.Now she is still her from the outside, she is her from everywhere, but her thoughts are no longer under her control, someone is spying on everything around her through her eyes.

Si Lin sat by the water, eyes tightly closed, Yan Lingxi was not far from him, sleeping peacefully in his outer robe.This pampered child encountered this kind of crisis for the first time in his life, but he didn't find it difficult to adapt, which also saved a lot of trouble, for example, Silin didn't need to bother to appease his emotions.Yan Lingxi is sensible, and it can't be said that he is not well-behaved. He needs very little and is easy to take care of, because he never causes trouble for others.Silin opened her eyes, turned her face to look at him, and felt that his sleeping appearance was also interesting, like some kind of gentle animal, without any hurtful minions.

The Empress Dowager is more like an emperor than Yan Lingxi. Although people say that an emperor must be kind, the facts have proved that in today's world, benevolence is tantamount to self-destruction.There are very few monarchs in history whose hands are not stained with blood, unless they are born as puppets who don't understand anything.Silin thinks that the former emperors may have been kind in the eyes of the common people, but they lived in the palace, from children to adults, they have stepped on a lot of blood and bones along the way, and on the way to achieve supremacy, it is impossible to say that there is no sacrifice of.Yan Lingxi is not suitable to be a monarch, because he can't see anyone making sacrifices, maybe he can't even eradicate dissidents with ruthless hands.If you want to sit back and relax, you shouldn't do this. The Queen Mother sees it clearly, so when many ministers in the court want to keep the so-called royal orthodoxy, she can kill her own son without hesitation, tearing up the illusion of tenderness , because she understands that her child is no longer her child, but a stumbling block on her way forward.

On the day when he saw Yan Lingxi for the first time, Silin thought about helping him gain a firm foothold in the court, but for quite a long period of time afterwards, this thought remained unchanged.However, just like what Yan Lingxi said, people can never get pleasure from things they don’t like. He himself doesn’t want to be a king, and helping him up will be tantamount to increasing his pain, so Silin Abandoned the original plan and prepared to take him away from the center of the power struggle.

Staring at the child for a while, Silin suddenly found that the other party was smiling, and then his eyes slowly opened, Yan Lingxi turned over, wrapped her outer robe tighter, and asked: " What are you looking at?"

"I'm looking to see if you're asleep." Silin got up and moved to sit next to him, "Why, it's the first time you leave the palace, can't you sleep at night?"

"It made you so angry that you couldn't sleep." Yan Lingxi pulled up her robe, half of her face was covered, leaving only a pair of eyes still blinking.Silin made a gesture to drag him out of his cozy nest, he immediately screamed and said angrily: "You are becoming more and more annoying."

He said so, but he didn't look angry at all, Silin didn't believe that he was angry at all, just smiled and continued to look at the water in front of him in a trance.Silin ignored Yan Lingxi, but the child got excited and didn't go to sleep right away, he got up and pestered Yan Lingxi to ask questions.If it was really the first time he had left the deep palace, he felt a little excited, Silin secretly laughed, but did not expose him, and answered his various inexplicable questions in a serious manner.In the end, all the doubts in Yan Lingxi's stomach were emptied, and Silin pressed him back to tell him to go to bed quickly, but he suddenly remembered something: "I remember you said before that you want to help me become the emperor Yes, why did you suddenly abandon your original idea?"

"Where is there any original idea?" Silin smiled, "It's just to ensure your safety. If you don't want to be the emperor, then don't do it. It's just that according to the previous situation, it is more difficult to stand firm in the court. advantageous."

"You were an emperor before? Why do I feel that every time you talk about this kind of thing, you become interested, as if you have experienced it yourself." Yan Lingxi suddenly became sleepy again, and began to feel confused, and her eyelids also twitched. But he still insisted and refused to go to sleep, he had to hear a satisfactory explanation from Silin.

Talking about it casually, it can actually be close to the truth. Silin was taken aback by his question, and immediately replied: "It's been done, it's just a fool."

However, Shuhuai went to look for Lord Ming the day before yesterday, and was stopped by a ghost on the way. Just when he was hesitating, Mo Yun suddenly appeared and dragged him back without any explanation. As soon as he entered the door, a piece of wet thing was mushy. Looking at his face, Shuhuai was taken aback, and then remembered that Mo Yun had wiped some fruit juice on his face.Every time he went out in a hurry, he always forgot something, last time he forgot to eat, this time he forgot to wipe his face.But it's also Mo Yun's fault, why are you rubbing people's faces so casually?Shu Huai was quite dissatisfied, and before Mo Yun could speak, he pulled up the sleeve of the other party and wiped the water stains on his face.

"He told you not to worry, so don't run out in a hurry." Mo Yun's sleeve was used as a face towel by him, but he was not angry at all. .Shuhuai rubbed against Mo Yun's sleeve again, still complaining: "It's not him who does the work, of course he is not in a hurry, maybe it will be delayed for a while, and something happened on the other side of the human world."

Just after saying this, Chang Qing ran in from the entrance of Hades, yelling all the way, not knowing what he bumped into.Just as Shuhuai was about to open the door to see, Changqing rushed into the house in a panic. Before Shuhuai could ask him what happened, he turned into a little dragon, weeping bitterly and wrapping himself around the person, shouting loudly. The women in the palace are really scary.

"What's so scary about women in the palace?" Shu Huai was puzzled, "Could it be that you met a female ghost in the palace? Then you should go to Wen Yanzhi, why come here and hold me and cry?"

"It's not a female ghost!" Chang Qing choked up, "It's a woman!"

"You were scaled off again?" Shuhuai started to guess wildly because he didn't speak clearly.

Changqing shook his dragon beard, organized his words, and described to Shuhuai what the group of maids did.After Shuhuai heard what he said, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly asked him where Silin took the little emperor, for fear that the cup would run farther and farther, to a place where no one could find it.

Mo Yun subconsciously looked at the jade plate that was casually thrown aside. The golden thread on it was still tightly wound, but the position of the traction was slightly shifted.Following his gaze, Shuhuai heaved a sigh of relief, it seemed that Silin would not be far away, he was probably still around the imperial city, and he could just go out and look for him tomorrow.Not long after they left, something happened in the human world, and Hades might have anticipated it, which made him not to rush into action.But how did Ming Jun know all this?The more Shuhuai thought about it, the more strange he felt. He found that there are always some guys who can get a lot of news through channels that others can't imagine, and they are really supernatural.

Thinking about it carefully, Bai Zhi was still in the underworld, she sat with Wen Yanzhi in the hall all day long, maybe she saw something, so she told the underworld king in detail.If this is the case, this little girl is much more promising than Chang Qing, at least she won't pester people to cry.It took a lot of effort for Shuhuai to tear the black dragon off his body. Changqing was still deeply in shock. He didn't recover from it for a long time, and curled up on the bed decadently, his eyes wide open in a daze.

In fact, what he didn't tell Shuhuai was that the reason why he cried was not because he was frightened, but because he suddenly realized that he was about to lose thirty jars of good wine.After sending Silin away, the more he thought about it, the more flustered he became. After thinking about it for a while, he realized that the bet was too high, and the other party seemed to be [-]% sure. After digging a hole, wait for him to jump down by himself.

Not thinking about it beforehand, regretting what happened, Heilong felt uncomfortable, lying there unwilling to move.Shuhuai didn't bother to take care of this idiot, he sat in the room for a while, and he always felt that it was not good to be idle like this, so he ran out to talk to Wanzhu near the Styx River.Silin was able to take shape with the help of Wanzhu's aura. Judging from many details, he respects Wanzhu more. If Wanzhu persuades him, maybe he can listen to it.

At the end of the bridge, Wan Zhu had just put down his brush and was worrying about his clothes. Seeing that Xue Yi was not there, Shuhuai could just say something that she should not know, so he found a clean place to sit down, and straight to the point Asked: "I asked you earlier whether you want to go to the human world to find that cup spirit, have you considered it?"

"No." Wanzhu didn't even lift her eyelids, her face was full of worry, "I didn't even think about how to tell him or what to go."

Shuhuai looked at her twice more, and felt that her sorrow was not due to worry about Silin, but because of pity for the new clothes.It can be said that a person has no conscience if he has reached this level, and the same goes for being a ghost or a demon.It was in vain that Fei Silin respected her so much, but now it's good. Silin had a big incident in the human world, she didn't even ask, and directly expressed that she didn't want to care about it. It seems that in her eyes, the younger brother is not even as important as a piece of clothing .

They sat opposite each other in silence, and after about fifteen minutes, Wanzhu had had enough of her heartache, and then remembered to ask about Silin's recent situation.Shuhuai waited for her to ask this question, and hurriedly told her all the recent events, her eyes widened in surprise, as if she couldn't guess that the weak little brother had also committed murder and arson.The first impression of Silin haunted her heart. She didn't really believe that these things were done by Silin, but it was useless for Shuhuai to lie to her. As long as Mingjun knew the truth, he would not kill him by mistake, nor would he let her go , the ghost envoy represents Mingjun's opinion, since the ghost envoys all said that Silin had hurt mortals, then the evidence is solid and there is no possibility of overturning the case.

"How are you going to punish him?" Wan Zhu looked dazed, and then thought of something else, "If you want to punish him, wouldn't I have to be punished as well?"

"Leave yours in advance. After the Emperor returns to the throne, the two sides will discuss and decide." Shuhuai couldn't stay idle. He reached for the lamp of the evening candle. When he reached it, he played with it, using it as a stove. Come to warm your hands, "I don't know what he is thinking, but no matter what, only you can convince him. He is not in the palace now, and it is much more convenient to see him than before. When we go to find him tomorrow, you If you want to go with me, get up earlier and wait for me outside my door."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the other party to answer, he got up and ran towards the hall with the lamp in his arms.Wanzhu was stunned for a while, and suddenly found that his lamp was gone, and immediately became furious: "What are you running! Come back! Give me back the lamp!"

Shuhuai snatched her lamp not to tease her, but as the winter approached recently, the cold air seeped into Hades to some extent, his hands and feet were cold all day long, and the stove suddenly couldn't be found, so he finally found something warm, of course he couldn't hold it Ken let go.Thinking that Wanzhu is so hot all day long, she must not be afraid of the severe cold, so why not borrow her lamp?Regardless of her objection, Shuhuai ran into the main hall with the lamp in his arms, closed the door at last, blocked the lamp spirit outside, and turned his head to smile at the ghost emissary, quite cunning after a successful trick.

"He's a big man, bullying little girls all day long?" Wen Yanzhi expressed contempt for his behavior, Shuhuai retorted hard, saying that Wanzhu was no longer a little girl, just after finishing speaking, he suddenly remembered that the old monster in front of him had lived for thousands of years Years or tens of thousands of years, in his eyes, everyone is indeed a child.

Even Mingjun, maybe...

... For such a vicious child, forget it.

"It's already night, why don't you go to sleep and make noise outside?" Mingjun put down the pen in his hand, got up to drive the book outside, his habit also reminded him, at this moment You should close your eyes and rest.Too many things have happened recently, he really doesn't have the energy to listen to others all day long, even if it is a ghost, he still needs to rest for a while.

Of course Shuhuai didn't intend to disturb Ming Jun, he wanted to find Bai Zhi here, but turned around and saw that Bai Zhi was not in the hall, he probably went back to the room early to rest, so he went out again holding the lamp.Recently, he remembered this thing, but forgot that one. For some reason, he ignored the lamp in his hand, and also ignored the evening candle that was squatting outside, waiting to catch him.Just one step out of the main hall, Wanzhu pounced on him, snatched the lamp back, Shuhuai trembled, his legs went limp, and he almost sat on the ground.He suddenly felt something was wrong, when did his memory become so bad?Perhaps it was due to lack of sleep, overthinking, and dizziness from being so busy. It seemed that I had to rest for a few more days and try to calm down, otherwise the string in my heart would suddenly break after being stretched to the extreme.

The wind was blowing coldly, blowing the trees into bare poles, but the inside of the cave that Silin found was like spring all the year round.Yan Lingxi woke up early, looked around curiously, and felt that it would be a good place to live here from now on, although it is not rich in clothes and fine food, but at least there is enough food and use, and the most important thing is to be quiet.The space here is not too big, he circled around a few times, and when the freshness was over, he sat beside Silin and stared at her face.Silin didn't know what he was doing, and kept his eyes closed, looking like he was wandering away. Yan Lingxi looked strange, and stretched out his hand to poke him, but he didn't see any movement.If the sound of breathing hadn't disappeared, he would have thought that Silin had ascended to heaven on the ground, thinking that there were many strange behaviors of their monster race, maybe Silin would also sleep in winter.

In fact, Silin is not sleeping, he also knows that Yan Lingxi just reached out to poke him, it's just that he can't focus on talking to the other party for the time being.Now what he saw before his eyes was not his own cave, nor Yanling River, but a resplendent palace, he looked down and saw a pair of embroidered shoes.

The Empress Dowager was still sitting in the room, it was already late at night, but she did not fall asleep, but was waiting here for the return of her most trusted eldest maid.The palace maid was silent, saluted the queen mother, and reported the situation inside the imperial mausoleum truthfully in a low voice. After listening, the queen mother was speechless for a while, and waved her to go down.Accompanied by her leaving footsteps, Silin's heart was pounding, the heavy palace door closed in front of the grand maid, and Silin let out a breath and opened her eyes.

"Are you awake? I thought you were going to sleep like this for the whole winter." Yan Lingxi sat on the rock opposite him, looking at him curiously, "Will the monsters sleep in winter? Will I do the same one day? ?”

"No." Silin stretched out his hand to him and called him down, "You are still human, don't worry, besides, not all monster races choose to rest in winter, don't make random guesses."

"Already half of you are the same, how can you still be considered a human being?" Yan Lingxi grabbed his hand, jumped off the rock, and suddenly sniffed him, like a puppy looking for something unusual breath.

Although he couldn't smell it, he could feel the changes in Silin, especially the changes in himself.His recent physical condition has improved a lot compared to usual, and the aura on Silin's body is getting closer to him. The strange feeling when he first met has disappeared now, and it is replaced by something else.Half of the warmth flowing in Silin's body was transferred into his own body. Yan Lingxi felt that this might be some kind of exchange. Yes, it's actually pretty good.

"After a while, the evil spirit will fade away. At that time, you will still be a human being, and I will also be a human being." Silin pressed down his hand, hugged him in his arms and patted him on the back comfortingly. , and joked, "Do you think that if I were your father, would I be considered competent?"

"My father is not careful, I don't want my father, you can be my mother." Yan Lingxi felt pain in her heart when she thought of her mother, but she was still joking with Silin, "Didn't there be such a person in the past? Being a father and a mother at the same time, one person supports the whole family.”

There are only the two of them here, and from now on, there will only be the two of them left. Where did they come from?Silin sighed, feeling that all her energy had been used to take care of this child: "It's enough for me to support you alone, and I won't support others."

In fact, Yan Lingxi still wanted to make another objection. He still felt that this matter was inappropriate, and he was afraid that Silin would cause disaster because of it. However, seeing Silin's tough attitude, if he wanted to come to what he said, the other party would not listen to him.What's the use of him not being afraid of death?Silin is afraid of his death, so she will definitely try to keep him in this world.One wrong step, one wrong step, probably no one can turn back now, they will live and die together anyway, and even accept punishment together at worst.

After about a quarter of an hour, Yan Lingxi suddenly raised her head: "Don't you think it's strange that you have a son before you get married? You should just be my elder brother, anyway, you won't suffer."

This kid is really interesting, he wanted someone else to be his father for a while, and said he wanted to change his mother for a while, but now he changed his mind and insisted on having a brother.Silin was forced to take on several jobs, she couldn't laugh or cry, she slapped Yan Lingxi, and lied to him that she didn't have enough rest, and drove him aside to play.

Seeing Yan Lingxi ran to a corner of the cave, and flipped through a book on the shelf, Silin closed her eyes with peace of mind, and once again peeked out of the cave through the eyes of others.This time the scene switched to another place, Silin was attached to the Prime Minister, passing through the heavy curtains, he vaguely saw a white figure, and when he took a closer look, it turned out to be a strange fairy.It is unprecedented for an immortal to come down to the mortal world and come into contact with courtiers and courtiers, and those who can collude with treacherous villains are probably not good things, but it is not clear which kind of immortal this is, and the purpose of coming to the world is different. what is it.

Silin listened to their conversation, and it was always inseparable from the talk of usurping the throne and seizing power. He was tired of hearing such things. Now that Yan Lingxi has escaped from the palace and no longer participates in power struggles, let these people go Take the queen mother's power, that woman must be happy to fight them.It turns out that true immortals from the upper realm are also interested in mundane things. Silin felt that it was boring, and was about to draw back that trace of aura, but suddenly saw an old acquaintance of his appeared beside this mysterious immortal.

It seems that there is more than one person who wants the throne. This prime minister is short-sighted and spends all his efforts to pave the way, just to make wedding dresses for others.Silin opened his eyes suddenly, and forcibly suppressed the surging killing intent in his heart. A red light flashed in his eyes, appeared for a moment, and then disappeared quickly.

Yan Lingxi thought that he hadn't rested well yet, so she raised her eyes and looked over. Seeing him, Silin calmed down a little, and then slowly closed her eyes, ready to continue staring at that person.He really wanted to see what other tricks this guy could come up with. Since he could escape from the underworld, it proved that there were two brushes. I wonder if the body that has been taken away for 800 years can carry an ambition that has not aged?

The author has something to say: My younger brother celebrates his birthday today and starts school tomorrow. He said he would take him out to play on the last day of summer vacation, but it rained lightly.A bit miserable, but also kind of funny.