Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 683 Retribution
The night seeped in from the window, like flowing ink. The palace maids and eunuchs soon became silent after they went out. Just as Empress Wu was about to say something, she heard another cat meowing from outside the door. Compared with the cat meowing just now, this time The tone was a little higher and longer, as if he was showing off proudly.

"Come here, come here, drive that cat away!" Empress Wu shouted loudly. Although she and Li Zhi had abdicated, and the number of palace maids around them was much smaller than when they were in power, there were dozens of people inside and outside Qinghui Pavilion. , but her shouts were like silence, and there was no response, as if there was an invisible monster that swallowed everyone up.

"What's going on?" Li Zhi also realized something was wrong. He stood up and wanted to go out to see what was going on, but was grabbed by Empress Wu.At this time, another cat meow came from outside, this time the meow was much louder, as if it was fighting something.

"You, take this, go out and kill the cat!" Empress Wu picked up the sharp sword hanging on the wall and handed it to the palace maid behind her. The palace maid had already turned pale with fear and was trembling all over. She did not dare to take the sword. Empress Wu snorted coldly and shook the edge of her sword: "If you don't go, you will die!"

Under Empress Wu's intimidation, the palace maid finally took the sword and walked out. Only Li Zhi, his wife and the last palace maid were left in the room. The three of them looked nervously at the door, waiting for the next cat meow.

A few minutes later, the expected cat meow never appeared. Empress Wu subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. She smiled at Li Zhi and was about to say something. Suddenly, a woman's song came from outside, "A man is taken by others, and a negative man is taken away from you." It's not a matter of fact. We are not in control, and we have no intention of getting back together." The woman's singing was repeated several times, lingering on the beam. Wu's voice was originally soft and charming, but this late-night singing sounded a bit more ghostly. It makes people drunk after hearing it.

"This, this Wu Yin sounds so familiar. Could it be, could it be Xiao——" Li Zhi murmured to himself, but his face was as pale as paper, no different from a dead person.It turns out that what the woman sang was the famous "Midnight Song" from the Southern Dynasties, which described a woman's psychological consciousness after being abandoned.

In the first sentence of the poem, the lover "lang" carries her away. "Take it from others" contains two meanings. One is that it is taken by another woman, and the other is that the "man" likes the new and dislikes the old.In short, the former lover has left this woman.The second sentence traces the cause, "It is not a matter of being negative to Nong."It says that the man has many things that he can't help himself with.It can be seen that "taking advantage of others" is probably the second reason, implying that the lover has not been loyal to her for a long time.These two sentences are spoken plainly and directly, and they angrily rebuke the cunning behavior of the betrayed lover. The two sentences "曛门" use puns and metaphors.The door opens immediately. "Horizontal" refers to the railing.These two sentences mean that the heroine opened the door without a railing, and never closed the door again.

The implication is that since the man is not loyal to her, why should she show her feelings to another person?This seems to be detached, but in fact it is infuriating, and there is a lot of condemnation in the detachment.

After Concubine Xiao Shu fell out of favor, she was imprisoned in another courtyard. This "Midnight Song" was what she often sang. Li Zhi heard it twice and had a very deep memory. When he heard it again, he immediately remembered it.

"Impossible!" Empress Wu said sternly: "What can you do to me when you are alive? What will you do after death?" At this point, she stood up, took two steps forward, and shouted sternly: "Bitch Xiao, come out if you can. , What’s the point of hiding outside and singing ghost songs to scare people?”

As Empress Wu stopped drinking, the singing outside stopped. Empress Wu took a deep breath, turned around and smiled at Li Zhi: "Pheasant slave, people are not afraid of ghosts, ghosts are afraid of people. Please invite more Taoist priests to the palace tomorrow." If you drive out ghosts, you won’t be afraid anymore!”

Faced with his wife's comfort, Li Zhi did not answer. He just stared at the door with his eyes wide open, speechless.Only then did Empress Wu realize that something was wrong. When she looked back, she saw a person standing at the door. She was wearing a high hat and a Wu shirt. She was slender, holding a round fan, and holding a cat in her arms. Her face could not be seen clearly. She was vaguely a beauty in gorgeous clothes. She Subconsciously, he took half a step back and shouted: "Bitch, you dare to cause trouble!"

The woman chuckled lightly and waved her fan. Then Empress Wu heard a muffled sound. When she looked back, she saw the last remaining palace maid paralyzed on the ground. She didn't know what tricks the ghost girl had used.

"Concubine Xiao, it was true that I couldn't help you at the beginning!" Before Empress Wu could scold him, Li Zhi had already surrendered: "Every time I think of you, I feel extremely regretful, but your two daughters are fine now. Just living in this Daming Palace, under the Nine Springs, you should rest in peace, right?"

The woman at the door did not answer. With the help of the candlelight in the room, she could vaguely be seen wearing a curtain hat, and the hanging veil blocked her sight. Seeing this, Li Zhi gritted his teeth: "The death of Sujie's child is indeed a bit strange, but at that time Chang'an During the chaos, I only found out about this incident after the fact, and severely punished the officials at that time. From now on, I will list him in the ancestral hall, order Hong'er to posthumously seal him, restore his official title, and all his children will be rewarded with titles, like others Just like grandchildren, how about it?"

The woman at the door remained silent, and Li Zhi couldn't hold himself any longer, and sighed: "Concubine Xiao, I also know that you have grievances, but in the world, Yin and Yang are separated and cannot communicate. It's not good for you to be like this. Why don't you solve the problem?" If you say it, as long as I can do it, I will definitely not refuse!"

After hearing what Li Zhi said, the woman at the door finally let out a sigh. The moonlight happened to shine on her gauze. Empress Wu's sharp eyes saw that the gauze was lifted by the breath in her mouth, revealing a little of her chin.She was alert and suddenly remembered that the ghost was not a human being, so how could it still be breathing? She immediately shouted sharply: "Who are you? You are so bold. You dare to pretend to be a ghost in front of the Supreme Being. Aren't you afraid of destroying your family?"

The room in Qinghui Pavilion was quite empty, but Empress Wu's final shout, which echoed with the shout, was quite powerful.The woman at the door lifted the veil and hung it on a hat hook, revealing a bright and pretty face.

"Is it you? Xiayu?" Li Zhi said in surprise.

"Sure enough, it's you, little bitch, who is pretending!" Empress Wu said through gritted teeth.

"Yes, it's me!" Li Xiayu smiled: "Father, you are still like that. You always only know what you want to know, and you will never know what you don't want to know. If mother is really alive in heaven, , now in front of you, what else do you want to do? Don’t you know yet?”

Even because of Li Zhi's shamelessness, his face turned a little red when Li Xiayu questioned him like this.Empress Wu on the side said angrily: "You are pretending to be a ghost, and I have seen through it. How dare you talk nonsense here and deceive your Majesty? If someone comes, why don't you capture this guy!"

"Wu Meiniang!" Li Xiayu smiled: "There has been a commotion in Qinghui Pavilion for so long, and not even a single person came up. Aren't you surprised? Since I dare to come tonight, I will naturally have my preparations. You can Shout! No one will come in here before dawn!"

"You are so brave. You dare to call me that. I am the Supreme Empress of the Tang Dynasty!" Empress Wu was furious, but although her voice was loud, there was a hint of sternness in her voice.

"In my eyes, there is no Queen, only the enemy who killed my mother!" Li Xiayu said: "You can shout loudly, but you know how far apart this Qinghui Pavilion is from other pavilions. Besides, even if those palace maids and eunuchs listen, When they arrive, they will only think that they are beating and scolding the servants, and they will definitely not interfere in their own business!"

Empress Wu suddenly became speechless. As Li Xiayu said, unlike modern cities, there are large open spaces between the buildings in the Daming Palace. Even if people in nearby buildings could hear Empress Wu's shouts, they would not be able to distinguish them. Whether it is a cry for help or a scream of punishment, everything that happens here will not be interfered with before dawn.

"Xiayu, what do you want to do?" Li Zhi asked.

"Justice, I want this!" Li Xiayu replied. "Justice?" Li Zhi smiled bitterly: "This thing is very rare in the palace!"

"It doesn't matter, since you can't give me justice, then I will do it myself!" Li Xiayu clapped his palms twice, and a man walked in from behind her. He was dressed in plain clothes, with his head wrapped in white cloth, and he had a handsome face. , neck full of tattoos.

"How dare you bring outsiders into the palace!" Empress Wu shouted.

Li Xiayu ignored Empress Wu and asked Li Zhi: "Father, look at this person, do you think he looks familiar?"

"Does he look familiar?" Li Zhi stared at Wu Xiaoyi's face for a long time, and finally shook his head: "I have no impression. He is so handsome. If I have seen him, I will definitely have an impression!"

"Yes, you have never met him, but you are very familiar with his grandfather!" Li Xiayu smiled and said to Wu Xiaoyi, "Xiaoyi, why don't you pay tribute to the Supreme Emperor?"

Wu Xiaoyi bowed to Li Zhi and said: "I am Wu Xiaoyi, my grandfather is Chu Suiliang! Because of the big change, I changed my name and called it this name!"

"Are you the grandson of Duke Chu?" Li Zhi's face changed drastically. He took two steps forward to identify Wu Xiaoyi's face carefully. After a while, he sighed: "Yes, yes, it does look very similar, but when I knew Grandpa Ling, he had already "Old" means that compared to when you were young, you have changed so much that I can't remember you for a moment after seeing you!" Then his expression changed slightly: "Are you here tonight to seek revenge on me?"

"No!" Wu Xiaoyi shook his head: "If you ask your ministers to die, they have to die; if your father wants your son to die, your son has to die. The ancestor was demoted to Aizhou because he offended the Demon Queen and was raped by Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong and others. The result of a frame-up is that every wrongdoer has his own debtor, and I am here for this woman tonight!"

Empress Wu snorted coldly: "You two killed me if you wanted to. Why do you need to find so many reasons? It was clearly Wang Wenzuo who borrowed the knife to kill. If it weren't for him, how could you two be standing here?"

"You are wrong!" Li Xiayu shook his head: "After the general learned that I wanted to take revenge, he tried to dissuade me in every possible way, but I insisted and he couldn't stop me before he stopped!"

"Discourage him in every possible way?" Empress Wu sneered: "He has been resentful of me for a long time. If he hadn't been worried about Hong'er, he would have taken action long ago. With a fool like you this time, he could disguise his murder of me as an intraclan fight, okay? It’s really a good plan to clear yourself out!”

"Wu Meiniang, you have used poisonous tricks to harm people all your life, and you think that the world is just like you and likes to use poisonous tricks to harm people!" Li Xiayu sneered: "Yes, the general does not want your death to destroy the relationship between him and His Majesty. trust between us. But this matter was my own decision from beginning to end. This is not a plan, but your retribution. In order to ascend to the position of queen, you have harmed many people and used There are so many conspiracies and tricks. Countless people have been killed by you, and their curses on you reach directly to heaven, so God lends my hand to kill you!"

"God?" Empress Wu sneered: "The emperor is the emperor, and I am the mother of the emperor. How can God kill me?"

"Heaven has no relatives, only virtue is its assistant! Yes, you are indeed the mother of the Son of Heaven, with a noble status. If you do less evil and accumulate more good deeds, naturally no one can harm you. It's a pity that you are doing the opposite, even if your son is Even the emperor can’t save you!”

"What nonsense are you talking about with this kind of woman!" Wu Xiaoyi's eyes were already red, and he showed his wrist-breaking knife: "The sooner you start, the sooner you finish the trouble, and you will save unnecessary trouble!"

"You are so brave!" Empress Wu shouted, but Wu Xiaoyi paid no attention and shouted: "Stop talking nonsense, if it weren't for the sake of the eldest princess tonight, I would kill your husband too!"

When Empress Wu saw Wu Xiaoyi showing off the knife, she felt frightened. She glanced sideways at her husband Li Zhi, only to see him slumped on the ground, looking pale and silent, knowing that she could no longer count on her husband.Although she has gone through many hardships in her life, she had Li Zhi as her backer most of the time. This was the first time that she had to face a sharp knife alone when her husband was powerless.

"Help!" Empress Wu shouted and ran towards the back room. Wu Xiaoyi rushed forward and stepped on Empress Wu's skirt, causing her to fall to the ground.Xiao Yi stabbed the knife into the pillar next to him, grabbed the woman's hair with his left hand, lifted it across her chest with his right hand, kicked the table away and carried it back, then threw it to the ground in front of Li Xiayu, and immediately threw Empress Wu, who was dizzy and covered with blood all over her body. His bones were all falling apart, and he couldn't speak. He could only moan a few times.

"Princess, how should we deal with this evil woman? Should we cut open her chest and see how cruel and evil she is?"

"That's right!" Li Xiayu said coldly: "Wu Meiniang, do you remember what my mother said before she died? I turned into a cat, Wu became a mouse, and I will strangle you by the throat for life. I brought a mysterious cat here today. , I will cut open your heart and liver and feed it to this cat later, so that my mother’s curse before she can be fulfilled can be fulfilled!”

"Absolutely not!" Li Zhi exclaimed.

"Okay, this is a good idea!" Wu Xiaoyi was overjoyed. He ignored Li Zhi's shouts, grabbed Empress Wu's hair and pulled her over. He stepped on both arms with his feet and pulled off his clothes. It was too late to say that, but it was soon. He just cut out the chest with a sharp knife, then cut open the mouth. Then he held the bloody sharp knife in his mouth, dug out the chest with both hands, and dug out the heart!

Wu Xiaoyi spat and said, "That woman's heart is actually red too!"

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