The Return of the Demon

Emperor Andi couldn't help laughing.

Regardless of whether her guess was right or not, there was hope and expectation at least.

What people fear most is losing hope.

No matter what happens, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, it will be unlimited motivation.

"Nie Liang."

"I am here."

"Send a large number of troops to guard the plum garden and do not allow anyone to approach."

"Your Majesty, obey your order!"

Emperor An looked at He Ye and ordered, "Have someone clean up the Plum Pavilion. From tonight on, I will live in the Plum Pavilion."

The Plum Pavilion is right next to the Plum Garden. There is a plum viewing platform on the second floor from which you can overlook the entire Plum Garden.

He Ye leaned forward to receive the order and immediately ordered someone to do it.

Xiao Yanxi hesitated for a moment, then leaned forward and said, "Your Majesty, can I go see Ning Lang?"

Andi nodded slightly, "Okay!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace."

Xiao Yanxi came to the ice room and stayed there for a long time before coming out.

When we came out, we were all frozen.

Emperor An had someone prepare ginger soup and asked Xiao Yanxi to have dinner with her.

"I obey your order!"

.......

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, there are only two days left until the Chinese New Year.

During this period, Emperor An was under a lot of pressure.

Every day there were a lot of memorials asking him to bury the Regent in peace.

Emperor An gave his ministers holiday in advance.

It’s not the New Year anyway.

In the past, we would have a holiday starting from the first day of the Chinese New Year.

This time it was two days earlier.

Otherwise, Emperor An was worried that he would not be able to resist killing a few censors during the New Year.

In a blink of an eye, it’s New Year’s Eve.

Emperor An summoned Zi Su, Yu Die, Xiao Yanxi and others into the palace to celebrate the New Year together.

After Emperor An gave food to all the civil and military officials, he went to offer sacrifices to his ancestors before coming to Qianqiu Palace.

The low table in front of each person was filled with delicious food.

But everyone's eyes fell on the first table from time to time.

There were food and wine on the table, but unfortunately no one was sitting there.

That table belongs to Ning Chen.

Emperor And retracted his gaze, picked up the wine glass, and said, “Come on, today is New Year’s Eve, let’s have some fun.

Drink this cup with me, and I wish the great country of Xuan peace and prosperity. "

Everyone raised their glasses and said in unison: "Your Majesty, I wish our emperor good health and happiness."

After finishing their drinks, everyone fell silent again.

I can’t blame anyone, even Emperor An is like this, I really can’t be happy.

Xiao Yanxi looked at Emperor An, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.

She received news that Kangluo of South Vietnam had actually formed an alliance with Gaoliguo.

She wanted to tell Emperor Andy the news, but she finally held back.

First, today is New Year’s Eve, and Emperor An was already in a bad mood because of Ning Chen.

Second, this news has yet to be confirmed. After all, under her manipulation not long ago, the peace talks between Gao Liguo and Kangluo failed and a conflict broke out, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides.

This alliance came out of nowhere and she hadn't received any prior information about it, so she was worried that there was something fishy going on.

At this moment, Nie Liang's voice was heard outside the palace: "Your Majesty, I request to see you."

Emperor An put down his wine glass and glanced at He Ye, "Let Commander Nie come in."

He Ye called Nie Liang in.

Nie Liang walked into the hall with snow still falling on his hair and shoulders.

Andi asked, "Is it snowing outside?"

Nie Liang said hurriedly: "Yes!"

Emperor An hummed and asked, "What do you want to see me for?"

Nie Liang said: "Your Majesty, the plum blossoms in the Plum Garden are blooming."

Emperor An had ordered him to keep a close eye on the plum garden and report immediately once the plum blossoms were in bloom.

Andi stood up suddenly, "What did you say?"

"Your Majesty, someone just reported that all the plum blossoms in the plum garden are in bloom."

Emperor An's face was full of excitement as he looked at Xiao Yanxi and the others.

Zi Su and the others were also excited.

The two lines of poetry in the letter left by the old Taoist priest literally mean that Ning Chen will come back when the plum blossoms are in full bloom.

Emperor An didn't care about anything else and strode outside.

Xiao Yanxi and others followed.

There was heavy snow falling from the sky.

On the way to the ice room, Xiao Yanxi unconsciously looked up at the sky, her eyes suddenly shrank, and she said in a lost voice: "Nine stars in a row."

Emperor An and his companions all looked up and were amazed!

There was a conjunction of seven stars some time ago, but I didn’t expect that on such a snowy night, there would be a conjunction of nine stars.

Xiao Yanxi said excitedly: "Your Majesty, on the night when Ning Lang died suddenly, a strange phenomenon of seven stars in a row appeared in the sky.

Now, the red plum blossoms are in full bloom, fulfilling the old master's message. The strange phenomenon of nine stars in a row has appeared in the sky again. Does this mean...he is back?"

Emperor An's eyes suddenly lit up. He no longer cared about anything else, let alone his imperial dignity, and almost jogged all the way to the ice room.

......

The ice room is cold and damp.

Ning Chen, who had been dead for three months, was lying on an ice bed, but suddenly, his fingers moved slightly.

After a while, his eyelashes trembled a few times, and then he slowly opened his eyes, and everything in front of him was pitch black.

It’s cold. It’s so damn cold.

Ning Chen felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar.

The key point is that it was pitch black in front of him, he couldn't see his hand in front of him, and he didn't know where he was?

In order to ensure that Ning Chen's body would not rot, there was not allowed to be any flame in the ice room at any other time except when Emperor An came in to see Ning Chen.

Ning Chen tried to move his body, and his bones creaked and felt as if they were rusted.

He reached out and touched the ground below him. What was that? It looked like ice.

"Hello, is anyone there?"

He tried shouting, but no one responded.

Ning Chen began to get scared. Could such a cold place be a morgue?

His last memory was being absorbed by the Tianyang Pendant.

Could it be that I didn't return to Daxuan, but returned to the vegetative self on Earth, and was then sent to the morgue.

But my hands and feet can obviously move now, I am not a vegetable.

Could it be that I have woken up and am no longer a vegetable?

But soon, he realized something was wrong... The vegetative patient had been lying in bed for more than ten years, and his muscles must have degenerated.

Now, his hands and feet are free, and he is not in the state of a vegetative state at all.

That means he has returned to Daxuan.

Ning Chen didn't have time to think about it anymore, he sat up suddenly, with a crackling sound... He touched his back, damn... To make matters worse, his clothes were frozen, he sat up too fast and the clothes on his back were torn.

But I couldn't care less about all that for the moment and just groped my way down.

He stretched out his hand and groped forward.

After walking for a while, I finally hit a wall.

He touched it for a long time, then suddenly retracted his hand. Damn...it felt like a fucking wall of ice.

Ning Chen was shivering from the cold.

“Hello, is anyone there?

If you are breathing, just make a sound. If you don’t make a sound, you can just fart.

Who locked me up here? Come out if you can. Don’t hide like a coward.”

Ning Chen's teeth were chattering from the cold, and he roared in the darkness.

Outside the heavy stone door of the ice room, a royal guard suddenly listened attentively, then looked at his colleague opposite him, "Did you hear any noise?"

"What's that sound?"

"I heard someone talking in the ice room."

"Fuck you, stop scaring me here..."