The Prequel of Baolian Lantern Konghouyin

Yang Jian only sent Cun Xin to the gate of Jueming Division and stopped. "Aren't you going with me?" Cun Xin asked in surprise.

"This is the work of you alone, and you should receive it alone." Yang Jian smiled, "I'll wait for you at King Biancheng's place, and when you release Clan Du, we'll go pay a visit to King Taishan and Huang Tianhua together."

"You don't like Luqi." Cun Xin pursed her lips and smiled, "I felt it from the King of Five Senses, you don't want to see her."

Yang Jian lowered his eyes: "Although I have never met Sima Xiangru, I have seen his wife Zhuo Shi. I passed through Chengdu while hunting and had a few drinks at her wine shop. When I first saw Zhuo Shi, I almost felt that the third sister was behind the scenes. I came down from Mount Hua and secretly opened this restaurant."

"It's inevitable that people have similarities." Cun Xin glanced at him and said, "Ding Xiang and I are very similar in birth, and I heard that Xiao Ba looks a bit like the Great Golden Crow that you killed back then."

"Indeed, when I first met Ding Xiang at the foot of Mount Hua, the moment I lifted her mask, I almost thought you were escaping from the West Sea to find me." Yang Jian recalled the first scene when he met Ding Xiang, and he caught the girl restlessly. He threw her to the boss mercilessly, and all the panic and anger of being peeped into the heart fell on the little girl who didn't know anything about the world.Cun Xin couldn't help laughing: "Xiao Ba still complains that you don't want to take pity on you."

"She's not you, her eyes don't look like that at all." Yang Jian also smiled, if Cun Xin would have plunged into his arms long ago, why would he have thought about the heavenly eyes on his forehead?

"What about Zhuo Wenjun? Does she really look like Third Sister? No wonder everyone says she is a rare beauty in the world."

Yang Jian shook his head: "Looking closely, it doesn't look like much. Mrs. Zhuo was over [-] years old at that time, but she was more understanding and tough than the third sister. After talking, she said that her husband had lived in Chang'an for a long time and hadn't returned. Please let me find a way to help her deliver the letter to Maoling. Later, I heard that her husband changed his mind, so I didn't go there because I was busy, but I didn't expect that this was Sima Xiangru's helpless move because of her failure to marry Mrs. Du."

Cun Xin smiled helplessly: "Everyone has an aspiration to make progress. There is nothing wrong with that. But people with lofty ideals do not drink from stolen springs, and those who are honest do not receive food from cheap ones. I always believe that some people can achieve fame without relying on plunder."

Yang Jian adjusted the fox fur for her, and said with a smile, "Go, I'll wait for you at King Biancheng." Cun Xin looked into his smiling eyes, and sighed inwardly. The case called him away.She didn't say anything more, just nodded, and went down the steps with a light on.

Luqi was not as sad as when Cun Xin left, she sat quietly on the stone bed with her knees hugged, her eyes were looking at the prison door, her limbs and waist were still bound with black gold chains, but her expression was calm as if she had just woken up from a nap .Seeing someone push the door open, her eyes lit up, and when she saw that it was Cun Xin, she still had a smile on her face, but she was no longer as happy as before: "The third princess is back."

Cun Xin smiled and said: "It seems that those pearls are really useful, they didn't bully you, did they?" Lu Qi smiled embarrassedly: "The jailer treats me very politely, Grandma Su even came to see it a few times in person. And... ..." She paused, "Si Nian comes to visit me every day and tells me about him and Shaoyin."

"Oh?" Cun Xin raised her eyebrows, "He talked to you about Shaoyin?"

"Yes," Luqi nodded, "Shaoyin is so lucky, there is a man like Si Nian who loves her deeply. When I think about myself, I actually died of anger for such a man, thinking that all men in the world are as ruthless as him Shameless, now it seems that it is not entirely true." Cun Xin wanted to say, "Instead of placing hope on other people's special liking, it is better..." The words stopped when they came to the mouth-Yang Jian often said "to persuade others It's easy to persuade yourself, but it's hard to persuade yourself." Even if she can talk to Lu Qi at this moment, how much can she talk to herself?

"Now let's get you out of this prison first." Cun Xin lowered her head and took out the jadeite water bowl from her sleeve, and carefully poured the tears stored in it onto the white copper carved lock on Luqi's waist.There were not many tears at all, dripping on the small lock, like boiling water splashing on a hot tea stove, with a hissing sound, it turned into steam and disappeared in an instant.The two women looked at the lock intently, only to see that it trembled, and when they pulled it with their hands, it still remained motionless.

"Don't worry, it's not yet time." Granny Su's hoarse voice sounded from behind, shocking both Cun Xin and Lu Qi. When Cun Xin turned around to look, she saw the granny appearing in the corner at some time, dressed in black. Hidden in the shadows, only a face was exposed, which was horribly pale.

Cun Xin couldn't help being a little annoyed: "Grandma, didn't you say that you can unlock it with tears of love, and now you say 'the time has not come', when will you have to wait?" Grinding people like a steel file: "What is the princess in a hurry? The people you want to save are not in a hurry."

Cun Xin was surprised, looking back at Lu Qi, she really didn't show any anxiety at all, she just took Cun Xin's hand and said softly: "Third Princess, it's okay, it's only fifty years anyway. I live in Qinzhong It’s been more than seven hundred years, and it’s not too late.” Cun Xin was still arguing, but the prison door was pushed open with a squeak, and Yu Sinian stepped in with the Guqin in his arms, and saw Cun Xin inside. , overjoyed and said: "I said why the prison door is not locked, third princess, you are back!"

"What's the use of me coming back?" Cun Xin said angrily, and threw the jade water bowl to the ground, "I almost got into a fight with someone because of the tears, but I didn't think it would be useless." But the water bowl It was so hard that it fell to the ground and bounced. Yu Sinian hurriedly went to pick it up, and said in his mouth: "Princess, why bother smashing this dumb object, if it breaks..." He walked away in a hurry, He accidentally tripped over the Ujin chain on the ground, staggered, and almost fell.

Yu Sinian put one foot on the chain and pulled it far away. Luqi felt her body loosen, and the copper lock hanging from her waist fell to the ground with a "boom", almost hitting her snow-white body. on the instep.She jumped up in shock, only to hear the "jingling" of the chains around her limbs and waist, and all fell off in an instant, and melted into the bluestone slab under her feet as soon as she touched the ground, as if it had never existed.The three of them were inexplicably surprised, and it took a while to think of seeing Granny Su standing in the corner, but she was the same as when she came, including the emerald water bowl, and disappeared into the darkness without a sound.

With a smile and tears in her eyes, Luqi stepped forward and took Yu Sinian's hand and said, "Thanks to you, I can see the sun again." Yu Sinian was a little embarrassed, and broke away from her and said, "It's still the third princess who has been running around and working hard for me. You brought the tears of true love, otherwise, with my strength, how can I remove this lock." Cun Xin didn't care, and laughed from the side: "I think Luqi's temper has weakened a bit these days, Thanks to you for enlightening her every day, it is no exaggeration to thank you."

Only then did Luqi salute with sympathy again, and said with a smile: "I belong to the princess, how can the princess leave me alone?" She was as happy as a little girl, "These days, I listen to Si Nian every day. Playing the qin, the music is clear and harmonious like the sound of heaven, and I feel enlightened, as if I was born again—thanks to those ghosts, otherwise, where would I find this good music?"

Cun Xin looked at Yu Sinian, saw that he was at a loss in embarrassment, so she could only smile and said, "Let's go, haven't you lived here enough? It's pitch black, you can't see your fingers, you're almost suffocated."

After descending the mountain, Cun Xin stopped and looked back at the city of vain death standing on the top of the mountain. Behind the blue-black basalt city wall was the sky full of red clouds, the golden glow was everywhere, and the bright red sunlight covered the majestic city with a blood-colored veil. The highest spire was swallowed by the dazzling sunlight and submerged in golden-red flames.Cun Xin doesn't know what kind of mood to use to greet such an early morning, is it excitement, emotion, or both?It seemed that she would never be able to get rid of such unbearable pain mixed with joy, and it was so heart-wrenching that it was difficult to tell the reason.