After adopting paranoid gods

Yin Lang found a small river nearby, washed his face hastily, the cool and refreshing river water barely extinguished the small fire in his heart.

When he returned to their hunting place, Ji Tang had already set up a simple small stove with stones, and the rabbit was cut into neat pieces by the blade he carried with him, wrapped in thick leaves, and put on Bake on fire.

Seeing the man coming back, Ji Tang smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you are back."

"Ah."

Ji Tang sat on the ground, staring at the warm yellow firelight: "The rabbit legs are almost ready, wait..."

The rabbit meat is not brushed with any seasoning, it is only wrapped in leaves and then burnt on the stove, exuding the original flavor of rabbit meat, accompanied by the fragrance of grass and trees belonging to the leaves.

After a while, the leaves were burnt to burnt yellow, which means that the rabbit meat inside is almost cooked.Ji Tang pulled out the rabbit's leg, put it on a new leaf, and handed it to Yin Lang: "Taste it."

Yin Lang took the rabbit's leg.

The rabbit legs are well-cooked, the outer skin is burnt to a crispy golden color, and the white and tender rabbit meat inside can be vaguely seen.Yin Lang took a bite, and the aroma of meat filled his mouth instantly.

Speaking of...

This was the first time someone cooked something for him.

Yin Lang smiled, chuckled lightly, and couldn't help raising his eyes to glance at Ji Tang.

The boy was still obediently grilling meat for him, his fair face was covered with a layer of warm yellow fire, and his forehead was also covered with fine sweat.The man glanced down again, and saw the red suction mark on the boy's neck.

... That trace was left by him just now.

This red mark... When will it disappear, or will it never disappear again.For some reason, Yin Lang didn't want it to disappear, and wanted it to remain on the boy's neck forever as a mark.

-

It took the two of them an afternoon to finally get rid of a rabbit.

Before leaving, Yin Lang caught a baby bird for Ji Tang with his bare hands, and gave it to Ji Tang as a pet.

The baby bird is white all over, round and fluffy, and its beak and claws are also bright yellow.It sleeps in Ji Tang's pocket little by little, with its little head bit by bit.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ji Tang liked this little bird very much, and he didn't dare to walk too fast for fear of waking it up.

Yin Lang rubbed Ji Tang's head.

His guess was right, children like this kind of furry little things.

After they returned to the dormitory, Ji Tang found a small jar, put some cotton rags in it, and used it as a nest for the little bird.After he put the bird inside, the bird seemed to sleep more soundly, curled up into a ball, and its white body made it look like a small glutinous rice ball.

After Ji Tang changed into casual clothes, she had to go to the imperial dining room to continue working.

Now the enthronement ceremony is getting closer and closer, although people in the palace are very alienated from Yin Lang, they still have to start preparing for the enthronement ceremony according to the rules.The dilapidated palaces in the palace were all repaired, the dead branches and leaves were cleaned up, and the people in the imperial dining room also began to prepare for the banquet after the enthronement ceremony.

At that time, all nations will come to court, and the barbarians will obey.

Ji Tang was only in charge of handyman in the imperial dining room, and he was assigned to peel chestnuts this time.Ji Tang found a corner and sat down. There was a large basket of unpeeled chestnuts in front of him. Facing the sun, he started his afternoon work.

Just when he peeled half of the chestnuts, a person suddenly stood in front of him.

——is a little court lady.Wearing the uniform blue dress in the palace, she looked at Ji Tang nervously, as if she wanted to ask a question.

Ji Tang: "What's wrong?"

"You..." The palace maid plucked up her courage and muttered, "Can you do me a favor?"

"Help me send something to the Fifth Prince's bedroom." She was afraid that Ji Tang would not agree, so she quickly explained the reason: "My foot is injured...it's not convenient, but if you report to the higher authorities to apply for leave, this month's subsidy Not anymore. And... Fifth Prince, he likes to make things difficult for court ladies, so it would be better if a boy went."

She said so much in one go, and looked at Ji Tang nervously.

In fact, she could ask other people for help, but most of the people working in the imperial dining room were thick men or middle-aged women, and they couldn't take care of her at all.Only the gentle and clean-looking young man in front of him would be able to pay attention to her.

After hearing her request, Ji Tang paused slightly.

Go to the bedroom of the Fifth Prince...to give something?

Speaking of which, among Yin Lang's four younger brothers, he has only met two of them - the second prince Yin Ge.

As for the others, Ji Tang hadn't seen them before, nor had they seen Ji Tang.

But they have information that is very important to Ji Tang - how they want to kill Yin Lang during the enthronement ceremony.

If Ji Tang knows this information, he can prescribe the right medicine to stop it.

But Ji Tang now lacks an opportunity to get close to them, even if it is one of Yin Lang's four younger brothers.

... Now someone asks him if he can send something to the fifth prince's bedroom.Isn't this a good opportunity for Ji Tang, he might be able to learn about their plan to kill Yin Lang.

Ji Tang pursed her lips and nodded: "Okay, I promise you."

"Really?" The little maid was a little unbelievable.

Ji Tang: "Well. Tell me what you want me to give you."

"Actually, it's nothing... The fifth prince is not used to eating with everyone, so the imperial dining room will prepare food for him alone, and then send me to deliver it." The maid glanced into the imperial dining room: "I'll get you the food box Bring it."

After a while, she brought out a bamboo box as high as her calf.If all the food cooked in the bamboo box is laid out, it can become a feast.

Ji Tang remembered that Yin Lang was not used to having meals with everyone,...but, there was no one delivering food for him in the imperial dining room, at least he had never seen anyone in the imperial dining room after working in the imperial dining room for so long.

How did Yin Lang eat?do it yourself?Yin Lang made it so unpalatable again, can he really eat it? ...

Ji Tang sighed softly, and took the bamboo box from the palace lady.

Maid: "The place where the Fifth Prince lives is called Yan Palace, and his name... is Yin Bai. You can just call him Your Majesty."

Yin Bai, Ji Tang silently remembers this name, these are his enemies.

Ji Tang left the imperial dining room and came all the way to Yan Palace.

The Yan Palace where Fifth Prince Yin Bai lives is naturally much better than Yin Lang's bedroom, resplendent and magnificent.But Ji Tang prefers Yin Lang's bedroom surrounded by bamboo forests, which is quiet and quiet.

Ji Tang stood at the door carrying a bamboo box.However, he didn't knock on the door immediately, but observed the surrounding environment.Next to the door, there happened to be a window, and the window was not closed.

Ji Tang quietly walked to the window, wanting to see what was going on inside.

He heard a strange male voice.

Yin Bai seemed to be talking to someone.

Ji Tang paused, and quickly pricked up his ears to listen carefully.

"Second Brother, I met with the leader of the Southern Kingdom a few days ago. He said that he can help us overthrow the current regime, kill Yin Lang, and win the throne."

The other male voice, Ji Tang, was a little familiar. It was the second prince Yin Ge who poisoned the peach blossom tree and blamed Yin Lang.

"Really?"

"It's true."

"The specific plan...you and the leader of the southern country should have settled it?"

"Well. At that time, the Southern Kingdom's army will ambush around the palace. The enthronement ceremony begins, and the moment Yin Lang takes the throne, they will attack and rush into the palace, killing Yin Lang alive with tens of thousands of troops, using swords, arrows, The guns are good... No matter how powerful he is, he can't defeat tens of thousands of troops by himself.

And... no one is willing to help him, everyone wants him to die, he is the embodiment of bad luck, we'd better cut off his head and hang it on the city wall for public display.Let Yin Lang's enthronement ceremony become his most embarrassing funeral. "

The more Yin Bai talked, the more excited he became, as if he didn't simply want to win the throne, but hated Yin Lang.

He is the fifth prince, and Yin Lang is the eldest prince.Since he was a child, he has lived in the discrimination of seniority, and he has to respectfully call Yin Lang his eldest brother.Why should he call an ominous blue-eyed monster big brother?

Yin Ge nodded: "OK."

Yin Bai: "However, the leader of the Southern Kingdom made a request to us. He helped us send troops to kill Yin Lang and win the throne for us. But after this is done, we must give them the South Island. Second brother, what do you think? Sample?"

Yin Ge thought for a while: "Yes."

The South Island is not worth mentioning for the land they own.But... Yin Ge had a vague premonition that the leader of the Southern Kingdom would not want such a simple reward.And... Yin Lang really won't have any defenses?

But this thought was also fleeting, he was brought back to his senses by his second brother's words.

Yin Bai: "If Yin Lang really dies, there will be no more plagues, droughts, or wilderness..."

Speaking of the plague, Yin Ge frowned slightly, as if recalling some bad memories.

Yin Ge was born a year later than Yin Lang, and he had never seen the day when Yin Lang was born, but he had heard about it from others. ——On that day, all the cattle and sheep died, and the corpses lay across the field, and it snowed heavily.His mother... also suffered from the wind and cold that year, and a year later, on the day he was born, his mother also died suddenly due to the wind and cold.

Yin Ge blamed Yin Lang for his mother's death.

If there is no Yin Lang, there will be no heavy snowfall, and his mother will not suffer from serious illness.

He hated him very much and wanted to avenge his mother.

"Second brother, I have already written down the plan to kill Yin Lang on this piece of paper. You can take this piece of paper and discuss it with the third and fourth brothers."

"Row."

-

Ji Tang held her breath and stood by the window to listen to their conversation.

Using the troops provided by the Southern Kingdom, during the enthronement ceremony, surrounded and killed Yin Lang?

Is this... the way Yin Lang died in his lifetime?

At his most proud and glorious moment, he was surrounded by a black army, pierced by sharp arrows and swords, and died alone and helpless in front of everyone with expectations and fantasies about the future.

Ji Tang took a deep breath and leaned against the wall.

Now that he knows how Yin Lang died, what should he do to prevent Yin Lang from dying——

It is impossible for him to defeat an army of more than 1 people with his bare hands, and he is not a superman.It's even more impossible for him to protect Yin Lang tightly when Yin Lang is under attack... In that case, both of them can only die.

The task this time seemed much more difficult than he had imagined.

...Moreover, does Yin Lang really not know his situation?

Ji Tang thinks he knows, otherwise he wouldn't be Yin Lang, the ghost king.But why didn't he take action to protect himself?Could it be that he has other plans?

Ji Tang frowned.

And... what happened to Yin Lang's last wish "to be loved"?

When Ji Tang was in a daze, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the door, Yin Ge was about to come out!His heart tightened, and he hid behind the door reactively.But the bamboo box in his hand was not steady, and with a bang, the whole bamboo box fell to the ground!

All the food and bowls and chopsticks contained in it poured out!The soup soaked the ground in an instant, and flowed down with a splash, and the porcelain bowl made a crisp sound when it fell on the ground!It's hard not to draw attention.

Before Ji Tang could react, Yin Ge stood in front of him.

"Yo, little friend?" Yin Ge knelt down, stared at Ji Tang, and showed an unnatural smile: "You...you have been eavesdropping just now? Are you trying to protect your lover Yin Lang?"

"..."

Yin Bai heard the noise and came out, but when he saw Ji Tang at the door, he frowned: "Why is there someone here? We can't let other people know about our plan!"

Yin Ge explained to Yin Bai: "I heard that this young man belongs to Yin Lang. He wants to protect Yin Lang and prevent Yin Lang from dying."

Yin Bai didn't say much, and said softly, "Bring him in."

Yin Ge wanted to grab Ji Tang's arm, but before he touched his skin, Ji Tang pushed him away like an electric shock, gritted his teeth and said, "Get out!"

Now standing in front of Ji Tang is Yin Lang's murderer.

Yin Lang shouldn't have died. He should have become the emperor, governing the country wisely, making the people believe in him, and making all the rumors disappear.

Yin Ge frowned: "Fifth brother, bring the medicine."

After a while, Yin Bai came out with a white handkerchief, which was smeared with a medicinal solution that Ji Tang didn't recognize.Yin Ge covered Ji Tang's nose with a handkerchief, Ji Tang's head went blank and he lost consciousness.

-

Ji Tang woke up in a daze in the dark.As soon as he opened his eyes, he found that his limbs were all bound, locked to the wall with handcuffs and iron chains, and he couldn't move.

Subconsciously, he thought of summoning the ghosts, but instead remembered his family photo under the pillow.In this world, his connection with the ghosts seems to be very weak, and sometimes ghosts can't feel where he is.

"you're awake?"

Yin Ge's voice reached Ji Tang's ears, and Ji Tang raised his head reactively.

The candlelight gradually lit up in the darkness, and a young man somewhat similar to Yin Lang stood in front of Ji Tang.

Ji Tang sneered: "What do you want to do with me?"

"You like Yin Lang, don't you?"

Yin Ge squatted down slightly, staring at Ji Tang with deep and cold black eyes, and smiled maliciously.

Ji Tang paused for a moment, then he nodded, affirming without any hesitation: "Yes."

To him, Yin Lang is the whole ghost shelter and his whole family.

Yin Ge: "I originally planned to kill you, but now I heard that you like Yin Lang, so I won't kill you. But... I will lock you here until after the enthronement ceremony is over, and Yin Lang will definitely die by then Now, I can give you his fragmented body, and let you look at the body of the person you like..."

Ji Tang gritted her teeth: "You—"

Yin Ge continued: "Don't you want to protect Yin Lang? You can't escape at all now. You are being imprisoned in the dungeon, your limbs are tied with iron chains, and there are people guarding you all around. You can only wait obediently until Yin Lang Lang died at the enthronement ceremony before he could be released by us."

Rather than killing Ji Tang directly, Yin Ge would rather watch Ji Tang stay alone in the dungeon, feel the passage of time, and then watch the person he loves die.That feeling of powerlessness can make life worse than death.

Yin Ge hates everyone related to Yin Lang.

If it wasn't for Yin Lang, his mother... probably wouldn't have died.

Yin Ge sighed lightly.

Facing Yin Ge's words, Ji Tang did not show weakness, and still stared at Yin Ge closely, like a little wild cat with fur.

"You advise you to accept the reality as soon as possible, Yin Lang will not come to save you."

Yin Ge said coldly: "He won't come to rescue you at all, he doesn't even know where you are..."

Ji Tang raised the corner of her mouth: "What if he knows?"

"Impossible..." Before Yin Ge could finish his sentence, screams belonging to the guards suddenly came from outside the dungeon, accompanied by the sound of fierce fighting, but after a few seconds, everything returned to dead silence.

Yin Ge frowned, pulled out his sword, and wanted to go out to see the situation.But it was too late, the footsteps of leather boots sounded in the tunnel leading to the dungeon.

Ji Tang's heartbeat suddenly jumped up, staring at the entrance.

The next moment, Ji Tang saw the person coming and said pleasantly, "Yin Lang!"

Yin Ge's sword fell to the ground suddenly, making a crisp sound.He opened his eyes wide, his face full of disbelief: "You... how do you know Ji Tang is here?"

"Two hours after Ji Tang, I noticed something was wrong."

The sword in the man's hand was stained with hot blood, he wiped the blood with his fingertips in disgust, and murmured coldly.

"I not only know your private dungeon, but also your plan."

as predicted.

Ji Tang gave a hearty meal.

He had guessed earlier that Yin Lang, as the prince who was about to inherit the throne, could not have been vigilant.But the only thing he didn't understand was that since Yin Lang knew that someone wanted to kill him, why didn't he take precautions.

"How did you know?!" Yin Ge's face turned pale, and he took a few steps back, as if he wanted to say something.But before he could say it out in time, Yin Lang's long sword pierced his waist and abdomen, and hot red blood flowed out.

Yin Ge felt pain in his waist and abdomen. He squatted down suddenly and covered his abdomen: "You..."

At the last moment when Yin Ge lost consciousness, he saw Yin Lang help the boy cut off the iron chain with a long sword.

-

After Yin Lang rescued Ji Tang from the chains, he carefully checked Ji Tang's body to make sure that he was not harmed.

Ji Tang's clothes were stained with Yin Ge's blood, and he glanced at Yin Ge who was lying in a pool of blood beside him: "He..."

"If you don't stab the fatal part, you won't die, but you may get sick for the rest of your life." Yin Lang raised his foot and kicked Yin Ge aside, preventing Yin Ge's blood from touching Ji Tang.

Yin Lang took off his fluffy coat, wrapped Ji Tang in its entirety, then picked him up abruptly, and took him straight out of the dungeon.

Ji Tang saw that there were many unconscious guards in the dungeon tunnel leading to the outside, and some of them were even soaked in blood.It is self-evident who the culprit is.

Yin Lang is not as gentle as he appears on the surface, he is far more cruel than Ji Tang imagined.

Ji Tang huddled in Yin Lang's embrace, with his head resting on his warm and strong arm, and fell into a drowsy sleep.

This is the first time he has felt such a strong sense of security since wearing it in ancient times.

-

When Ji Tang woke up again, he was no longer in a dark and damp dungeon.He was lying on Yin Lang's big bed, covered with a soft duvet, and the air was filled with the warmth of a stove.

He wanted to sit up, but was held down by the man: "You have a fever, please lie down first, the medicine is not ready yet."

Ji Tang was slightly stunned, he raised his hand and touched his head, it was indeed a little hot.

Possibly from the cold in the dungeon.

Ji Tang curled back into the bed again, poked out only one head, stared at the man's handsome face, and murmured: "Your Majesty, can I ask you a question?"

Yin Lang: "Tell me."

Ji Tang: "Since you know that Yin Ge and the others are going to kill you, you don't seem to have made a plan to prevent it."

He has observed Yin Lang for so long, Yin Lang spends time with him every day besides writing poems and drinking tea.

Yin Lang chuckled, his blue eyes were dyed golden by the fire from the stove.He raised his hand and rubbed Ji Tang's fluffy hair: "Do you really want to listen?"

Ji Tang nodded.

Yin Lang sighed softly, and said in a low voice, "Actually, I have no intention of living in this world."

But a long time ago, he planned to grow up and live well in this world.But that was also a matter of five or six years old. At that time, like all children, he would cherish small animals, flowers and plants, be obedient, and like warmth and the sun...

He remembered that he also picked up a little milk cat at that time. The kitten had the same blue eyes as his, and it was white all over, lying in his palm in a white and soft ball.

But until he returned to the dormitory one day, he found that his little milk cat had been trampled to death, and it was trampled into a ball of meat paste, its beautiful blue eyes were covered with blood, and it rolled to his feet.

His kitten was still looking at him tenderly as before, only with a bloody eyeball.

He was only five years old at the time, and he was a little afraid of seeing people kill chickens.

He later learned that it was his younger brother Yin Ge who trampled to death just because his kitten had blue eyes that symbolized ominousness.

Since then, he has gradually understood why the palace ladies would not give him food, why the master would always find fault with him and punish him, why he could not appear at the banquet held in the palace, and why everyone was unwilling to be with him. Play.

Like the kitten, he is an ominous incarnation, no one will love him, he is a child abandoned by this world.

-

"You didn't intend to live?!" Ji Tang never expected that the one who caused Yin Lang to die in his previous life would be Yin Lang himself.He sat up abruptly, clutching the man's arm tightly: "Your Majesty, your behavior like this is very cowardly—"

Faced with Ji Tang's excitement, the man raised the corner of his mouth coldly: "Do you really think I'm the only one who will die?"

Ji Tang was stunned.

"I want everyone to be buried with me."

He knew that his younger brothers had already contacted the leader of the Southern Kingdom. When the enthronement ceremony began, the army sent by the Southern Kingdom would surround the entire palace and kill him, and then the younger brothers would seize the throne.

But... will those southern barbarians in the southern country really just let it go?

Absolutely will not give up.

Their army could take this opportunity to approach the palace, and it was also the enthronement ceremony at that time, so there were many people in chaos.Who of them wants to do something will not be easily noticed.

Yin Lang sent someone to inquire about the Southern Kingdom——

The Nanman in the southern kingdom not only planned to kill Yin Lang, but also to immerse the entire imperial palace in a sea of ​​blood, exterminate all members of the royal family, and then let them seize power and let the whole country be occupied by a brand new nation.

This is something Yin Ge has never understood. Both he and Yin Bai thought that it would be enough to give the southerners a small island as a reward.It was precisely because of this negligence that they would die together with Yin Lang at the hands of the Southerners, including his other blood brothers.

Yin Lang is different from them, he knows the truth of the matter, and he knows it very clearly.As long as he announces the conspiracy of the southerners to the public and makes the whole city's army defend, the tragedy will not happen and he will not die.Of course, those people he hates will not die either.

—— But Yin Lang has long since lost his love for this world.

He wanted those whom he hated to die, and let the whole world rot in the rotten mud.

Even if it cost him his life.

Yin Lang came back to his senses from the memory, and he also finished his thoughts.He raised his eyes, but met the boy's gaze.The look in the boy's eyes was something he had never seen before.

Yin Lang's heart trembled suddenly.