After the hero goes crazy

In the depths of this narrow, cold underground labyrinth, there was no one else except the two of them.

At this time Yao Shouning obviously 'heard' the sound, which was not good news for Lu Zhi.

The shadow left by Chen Taiwei was too deep, almost the moment he heard Yao Shouning's shout, his body tensed up, and he subconsciously stretched out his hand to his waist.

But when Lu Zhi's hand touched it, it was in vain.

The saber he was carrying had been lost when he was possessed by Chen Taiwei's divine descent technique. The two of them left in a hurry when they left, so they forgot to look for it. get it?

Lu Zhi stretched out his arms to protect Yao Shouning behind him.

At this moment, Yao Shouning heard another voice coughing: "Ahem... It's useless to drink..."

This time she concentrated and heard a lot more clearly.

The voice of the speaker seemed to be that of an elderly woman, a little old and hoarse, with a bit of indifference.

"How can it be useless?" The voice of the speaker gradually became clearer. Compared with the woman's indifference, she seemed to be much more anxious, and persuaded earnestly:
"If you have been sick for a long time, how can you recover if you don't drink medicine?"

"...I have nothing to love... What's the use of living?" The woman with a hoarse voice seemed to be a little stubborn, and she panted and said a few words. It's a bit loveless.

"Why is it useless?" The persuading person became anxious when he heard the words, and hurriedly said:

"There are still many people who care about you!"

"Who would care about me?" The woman smiled wryly twice and asked back.

"I'm just a person who was...should be alone in the nunnery. The late emperor took pity on me...that's why I was spared...I should have died long ago..."

"Cough cough cough..."

Amidst the woman's cough, Lu Zhi saw that Yao Shouning hadn't moved for a while. He thought of Chen Taiwei's 'God's Surprise', and was startled. He shook the limp little hand in his palm:
"Shou Ning-"

"Shh-"

Yao Shouning made a soft voice, signaling Shizi not to move for now.

Lu Zhi went in without knowing it, but seeing her like this, he still suppressed his uneasiness, protected her, and vigilantly sensed his surroundings.

"The first emperor knew your difficulties back then, and it was not easy to pity you, so he specially ordered people to build a nunnery for you to live in, away from the filth of the palace..."

The prince stopped making any sound, and Yao Shouning focused all his consciousness on finding the source of the 'voice'.

In the darkness, her consciousness was slowly amplified, and she could clearly capture every subtle sound.

There is where Lu Zhi stands, and the monster hiding in his body.

There are also snakes, insects, rats and ants hiding in the mud underground, and the source of the sound... She sensed them all.

She followed the direction of the voice, and what appeared in front of her was a spacious and quiet nunnery.

The inside is very simple, with a statue of Avalokitesvara enshrined in the middle, and incense that has not been extinguished is lit in front of the case.

On the left side of the wing room, there was a fire light, and she 'entered' along the light and shadow, and took the scene in the room into her 'eyes'.

The furnishings in the room are quite simple, with only one box and one cabinet, a bed and a blue mosquito net.

A woman was taking off her shoes at this moment, half curled up on the bed, her head resting on the porcelain pillow, and she was panting slightly.

She looked to be seven or eighty years old, wearing a black forehead, her long hair was already snow-white, and her face was sickly.

But even so, she still packed herself very neatly. Although the things in the house were simple, they were all in different places, without any mess or sloppiness.

The window was half open, and a blue and white porcelain vase was placed on the table in front of the window, with several plum blossoms inserted in it, which diluted the bitter smell of the medicine in the room, added a bit of fragrance to the room, and also brought a bit of fresh color.

At the end of the bed, a woman in her [-]s was holding a bowl filled with medicine, and was trying to persuade her to drink it.

This scene is so real, far from being comparable to the vague 'phantasy' before.

Yao Shouning could even clearly see the trembling eyelashes and tight hair of the old woman on the bed, and he could also see the slight rippling of the soup in the hands of the old woman who was serving medicine by the bedside, steaming up and floating in the air .

Whether it is what she sees in front of her eyes or what she smells through her nose, they are all so real that she has a sense of being there, not an illusory 'phantom'.

If it wasn't for the fact that the two people in the room didn't seem to notice Yao Shouning's arrival at all, she might have thought that she had really broken through the underground labyrinth and appeared in this mysterious nunnery.

"Princess..." The woman carrying the medicine called out, and the old woman who was half lying on the bed raised her hand to stop her unfinished words.

"Don't call me that." The woman said with a calm smile:
"I have already left the palace, and now I am not a princess, but an old nun with Dai Fa practicing in an unnamed nunnery."

She looked indifferent, not only did she not take life and death into her heart, but she seemed to have no joy, anger, sorrow or joy in this world:
"Back then, the first emperor gave me the dao name Jingqing, so I am Jingqing, not a princess anymore."

The woman grieved, then fell silent.

Yao Shouning felt strange in his heart. He didn't know why he was walking in the underground maze, but he would suddenly come here, and he met some kind of "Princess" who became a nun.

She wanted to continue listening, but at this moment, her spiritual consciousness was powerless, as if it was about to be exhausted.

Everything in front of her eyes turned into a phantom of foam, and her consciousness was like a bug attached to a string. Someone plucked the string, and she flew out at once.

Yao Shouning was dizzy, and his body limply fell down. Lu Zhi, who had been paying attention to her, noticed her, reached out and hugged her in his arms.

"Shou Ning, Shou Ning—"

When she fell down, Shizi was terrified.

Lu Zhi called her twice, she stretched out her cold hand to wrap around Lu Zhi's arm, and hurriedly said:

"My son, my son, go this way..."

Yao Shouning's breath was weak, but what she saw and heard before was not spent in vain to spy out.

In the process of her ecstasy, she has roughly figured out the location of the nunnery and the 'Jingqing Daoist'.

Shizi couldn't hear the conversation of 'Jingqing Zhenren', but from Yao Shouning's performance, he guessed that she must have found a way out.

Although Lu Zhi was a little puzzled, he still didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he nodded and asked worriedly:
"Can you still go? Forget it, I'll carry you on my back."

After speaking, he squatted down in front of Yao Shouning.

She originally wanted to shake her head, but Lu Zhi turned his hand back, waved it twice, and silently urged her to hurry up.

Yao Shouning exhausted his strength tonight, and now his headache was about to split. If he tried to be brave again, it might just drag him down.

Thinking of this, she didn't hesitate anymore, she fell on his back and was caught by him.

The two of them have become very familiar these days. After being in danger for many times, Yao Shouning had long been unguarded against him. Now leaning against his back, he felt his body being gently supported by him. He touched the shoulder.

Under the palm, Lu Zhi's muscles tensed, and Yao Shouning belatedly realized that he might have touched his wound.

It was injured by the blue butterfly transformed by Taoism in the cemetery of King Qi.

She wanted to speak, but in the end she didn't speak. She just turned her head and blew a few breaths, holding Lu Zhi's shoulder.

Lu Zhi naturally sensed Yao Shouning's movements. The wound was painful and mixed with the itching of being blown by the breeze. There was an emotion in his heart that was fermenting, but he forcibly suppressed it.

The girl on the back snuggled up to him obediently, without speaking for a long time, he couldn't bear it, and asked:
"what happened?"

Yao Shouning blinked his watery eyes, shook his head, pretending to be relaxed and said:

"Am I heavy?"

"It's not heavy." Shizi replied, emphasizing:

"I'm not injured, can't I carry you?" After finishing speaking, he said:

"Furthermore, I have the strength to carry you back naturally. If I am really seriously injured, won't you carry me?"

He said this with confidence, but as soon as he said it——

Yao Shouning: "..."

She couldn't move her back at all.

"..." Lu Zhi didn't expect Yao Shouning to be silent as soon as he finished speaking.

"Hi Yao Er!"

He intentionally supported Yao Shouning's leg, as if he was going to throw it:

"Will you carry me! Will you carry me!"

"what!"

Yao Shouning let out a small scream, quickly grabbed him, and promised one after another:
"What you have to recite, what you have to recite, son, don't lose me—"

With a smile in the corner of his eyes, he caught her firmly, and just let out a triumphant 'hum' when he suddenly realized something was wrong:
"Why do you call me Shizi..."

When Lu Zhi heard her calling Luo Ziwen and the others, she kept saying "Brother Luo", even the boy from the Wen family called him "Brother Wen".

And when she called herself "Senior Son" alone, Lu Zhi didn't think it was wrong before, but now when she called her every sound, he felt a little fussy in his heart.

Just as he was about to talk to her more clearly, Yao Shouning heard the woman's persuasive voice:

"Really, you can drink this bowl of medicine."

The sound is close at hand, and the quiet nunnery is not far from the two of them.

Her eyes lit up, she didn't care to fight with Lu Zhi anymore, and quickly patted his arm:

"My son, my son, above!"

The place where the two walked was an extremely narrow passage, surrounded by piled up soil, it was extremely difficult to walk.

Lu Zhi was tall, and the top of his head was the collapsed earth wall, so he had to keep his head down to move forward.

In the dark, the two had lost their things long ago, and there was no light to guide the way. They couldn't tell if this was the underground labyrinth dug out by the Zhao family, or the way Lu Zhi cut with his sword energy when the two escaped for their lives.

Hearing Yao Shouning's words, Shi Zi subconsciously looked up:

"above?"

"Well, it's over here."

Yao Shouning intuitively felt that the nunnery was above the two of them, and when she heard the son's question, she nodded repeatedly.

Lu Zhi greeted:
"You held me tight."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt Yao Shouning hugging his neck obediently, and then he freed up a hand to touch up.

Wherever the palm touched, it was cold soil.

But he trusted Yao Shouning so much that he used his hands as claws to dig around.

In the mud splashing, he grabbed large chunks of sand and sand, and after about a dozen strokes, Lu Zhi's fingertips touched the cold stone slab.

This stone slab is different from the rocks sandwiched in the soil. It is much smoother and flatter, as if it was specially polished into one piece by someone.

Lu Zhi was overjoyed, and tried his luck to push the slab away, and the night wind poured in from top to bottom.

The chill blew away the dullness in the cave, making the two look surprised.

The light shone into the entrance of the cave, and it was quiet and peaceful outside. Lu Zhi was stunned for a long time before he said excitedly:
"We really found a third way!"

"Ok!"

Yao Shouning's tense heartstrings loosened, and the haze that shrouded her heart dissipated as the stone slab was pushed away.

"Go up quickly."

She couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart:
"I heard that there are two ladies above, one of them is Jingqing Zhenren. I always feel that we can get some clues from them during our trip tonight."

At this moment, the hopeless situation is turned around, Chen Taiwei's prophecy is broken, and he meets two other wives, Yao Shouning always feels that the night will be very happy, and there may be unexpected gains.

Together with this idea, she was very excited, and even her headache was relieved a lot.

Lu Zhi was supposed to take her up the tunnel, but he was stunned when he heard her words:
"Real person Jingqing?"

"Correct!"

Yao Shouning nodded affirmatively.

Tonight, the power of her Bianji clan has broken through again, and the scene she "saw and heard" before is far better than the previous prediction.

She once clearly heard one of the old women serving the medicine call the white-haired old lady lying on the bed "Jingqing Zhenren", and the old lady also called herself so, there is no mistake.

"The 'Jingqing Daoist' said that her title was bestowed by the previous emperor..."

Before Yao Shouning finished speaking, he remembered another thing the old woman said, and when he was about to add something, Lu Zhi suddenly said:
"'Jingqing Zhenren' is indeed a name bestowed by the late emperor."

His tone was a bit weird, Yao Shouning could only hear it at this time, and he was taken aback when he heard the words:
"do you know her?"

"I don't know." Lu Zhi shook his head, but then said:
"Although I don't know her, I have heard her name."

After finishing speaking, he added another sentence:
"Her other identity is much more resounding than the title of 'Jingqing Zhenren'."

He didn't play tricks, and after he finished speaking, without waiting for Yao Shouning to ask questions, he took the initiative to tell the origin of this 'Jingqing Daoist':

"She was the concubine of King Jian back then. She was born in the Sun family in Hezhong. She was called Sun Yiwen back then. After marriage, she had a bad relationship with King Jian and almost lost her life. In the end, the first emperor stepped forward and made her leave home to practice hard and gave her the name 'Jingqing' .”

When Lu Zhi said this, Yao Shouning suddenly realized:
"It was her!"

She remembered that when she went to the general's mansion before, she was curious about the news about King Jian from the eldest princess, and heard about Princess Jian's "feat" back then, but she did not expect such a "legendary figure" to do it in such a way tonight hit.

"I heard that she took King Jian's lifeblood..."

Yao Shouning didn't finish his sentence, but immediately realized that something was wrong, and stretched out his hand to cover his mouth.

"..."

At the beginning, Lu Zhi was still a little worried about how he should tell her what Princess Jian did back then. After all, it was a scandal that King Jian was castrated by Princess Jian because of his lust.

Unexpectedly, he still had a headache, but Yao Shouning already knew about this old incident.

He began to guess that it was Yao's family who told her, but then realized something was wrong.

He had investigated the origins of the Yao family as early as that day after the Xicheng case, and it was only in the 17th year of Shenqi that Yao Hui received the transfer order to Beijing.

The matter of King Jian is a royal scandal, and there are people from Zhenmasi, and the dignitaries who know about this matter should not say much.

For private discussions, the Yao family may not be able to get in touch.

The Liu family may not be clear about this matter, how did Yao Shouning know?
A target of suspicion quickly emerged in Lu Zhi's mind, and that was his mother—the eldest princess Zhu Hengrui!