Emperor Phoenix

Chapter 7

Her tone was light, as if she was talking about other people's affairs, as if the strange killing and death had nothing to do with her, but Wen Chang had already collapsed softly.

She tried her best to support her body, grasped the window sill tightly, her fingers were exposed, and she listened in horror to the secrets of the palace that could shake the world since then, and the truth about the death of Empress Ruiyi, who had always been extremely mysterious.

I have thought about the ending of many kinds of queens, and I always feel that such a person, who and what method can put her to death?I always felt that the man had passed away, and it was destined to be an unsolvable mystery, but I never thought that today, under such incredible circumstances, I would listen to the victim himself describe the eerie scene.

"...She has always been alert. How can someone who has been in the sea of ​​blood and waves for so many years be easily taken advantage of by others? But any loving mother will inevitably soften her heart when facing Jiaoer, so she relaxes her vigilance. The golden dial shoots at the child first. The head, followed by her throat, she had no choice but to abandon the child first, and then, when her throat got cold, it was too late."

"...She was hit and immediately retreated. She was not dead at the time, and she was still trying to fight back to save herself. Who knew that a sharp knife suddenly popped out from the dressing table behind her, piercing her back and coming out from her belly."

Wenchang's tears had already rolled down, Qin Changge remained unmoved, and continued to say indifferently: "She knew at the time that she would die, and she also knew that she had been ambushed by someone who deliberately planned it. In desperation, she did not retreat but advanced, desperately He rushed to the bed, grinned and smiled at his unknown mother who was dying, and slapped the son who opened his hands and feet and waited for her to hug him!"

"Ah!" Wen Chang exclaimed, "Xiao Rong...Xiao Rong..."

Qin Changge finally had a gap in his mask-like expression, and the wave-like expression disappeared in an instant, and continued: "She threw aside her son who was no longer moving, exhausted her last strength, and fell on the ground. At the bedside, in her last consciousness, she saw someone approaching gently, using a gold pick to goug out her eyes."

She slowly reached out and touched her eyelids, as if she wanted to relive the thrilling and tragic scene in her memory with the touch of a lifetime. The bright red world seemed to be more colorful than blood, but she could no longer distinguish the color. The corner of the robe, the fingers stretched out gently, the sharp objects poked into the eye sockets, the eyes were bloodied, and the darkness fell forever.

Wenchang clasped her fingers tightly and opened her eyes wide, but the tears no longer flowed. She looked at Qin Changge for a long while and said softly: "Changge, I don't know how you came back, but I know you are her... For several years, people in the palace said that you had a dispute with His Majesty and left by yourself. Only I know that you must have gone, but I don't know, I really don't know, you went... so miserable...

Qin Changge smiled, watching the flickering candlelight, which cast a faint black shadow on the ground, with a strange and ferocious posture, like a ghost.

She straightened up, paced slowly, step by step, lightly stepping on the hideous black shadow.

"Death is death, miserable or not, it makes no difference."

"But Wenchang, tell me, isn't it strange how I died?"

Qin Changge turned around with a smile, but there was no smile in his eyes, and said softly: "No one can enter my bedroom at will, because there are organs everywhere. That day when Xiao Rong fell asleep, I was afraid of disturbing him, so I stayed behind." He sleeps alone, and two maids are guarding at the door of the bedroom. I have been away for only half an hour. During this half hour, who can sneak into the bedroom, avoid my countless traps, and then deploy such a delicate mechanism, it will be a pain to me. Hit and kill?"

"I backed up immediately after being hit. I remembered that there was a designed flying knife in the drawer plywood on the side of the dressing table. Who knew that the flying knife flew out of the middle of the dressing table, and it turned into me hitting it. Who is it? , in that short period of time, after setting everything up, can you still calmly change my mechanism?"

"Calculate my most unprepared state, calculate the angle of the mechanism, and even calculate my martial arts reaction, how far I can use it under what circumstances, what posture and direction I will hit the dressing table--speaking of it Simple, but difficult to do."

"What kind of person can do this?"

"The eyes at the end are even more strange—I'm bound to die, why bother, is he trying to cover up something, or is he afraid that I'll find out?"

"Wenchang," Qin Changge paid close attention to Wenchang who had long lost the ability to speak, and said word by word, "Ruiyi's death in the previous life was by no means a simple vendetta. Killing me is definitely not something that anyone can do alone. Although I only felt that I saw one person that day, I dare to swear that I can do this and kill me in a short moment. Such a ruthless and neat, step-by-step, powerful killing game must be the result of the cooperation of many people."

Wen Chang smiled sadly and said: "Yes, everyone in the palace doesn't know what you are capable of. Everyone thinks that who can kill you? That's why no one believes that you are dead. Rumors are spreading in private, and your majesty... ... Changge, since you are back, what are you going to do?"

Leaning lazily on the brocade couch, Qin Changge smiled half-smile.

"What else can I do? Take revenge. Now that I'm back, let them continue to live a peaceful life. How can that be?"

Wen Chang said solemnly: "Then, Changge, what do you need me to do?"

Qin Changge glanced at her, and suddenly said: "You have been a widow for many years, and it is unreasonable to live in the palace."

With a wry smile, Wen Chang said, "Of course I know this truth, but it's a pity that His Majesty refuses to move me out of the palace."

"You don't need to go out of the palace," Qin Changge stood up, "Your Jin'ou Palace is located in the center of the palace city, which is very inconvenient. I remember that there is an imperial nunnery in Shanglin Bieyuan. Stay, after the old concubine passed away, it became vacant, would you like to go?"

Wen Chang nodded: "That would be the best, but what if His Majesty refuses to agree?"

"Why ask him?" Qin Changge smiled, "Isn't the queen mother worried about all the affairs of the harem? The eldest princess became a monk to pray for the country, and devoted herself to the Buddha to pray for the prosperity of our country. This is a glorious and famous thing, the queen mother I have long wished that you would be gracious if you left her eyes, this kind of thing is grand and bright, no matter how unwilling Xiao Jue is, he can't stop it."

Gently patted Wenchang's hand, Qin Changge sighed: "I have wronged you, you know, women from Yunzhou will never have a bright future in the palace, I am in Cuiwei Palace, I can't do things, I need a reasonable reason It is convenient to enter and exit the palace. Shanglin Nunnery is close to the palace, but it is located outside the palace and has no control. It has the right to enter and exit the palace. In a few days, I will find a way to follow you and go to Shanglin as your maid Lin An... I remember that you also had this idea back then, I stopped it, and I planned to find another good match for you, who knows... In short, fate is impermanent. It was planned for you."

"I don't think about those matters of love, marriage, and marriage. I just want to live in peace." Wenchang showed a wry smile, thought for a while, and asked tentatively, "You want to leave the palace to reconnect with the establishment that you established without telling His Majesty. Is it the martial arts power?"

Slowly turning around, Qin Changge had a smile in his eyes, and looked at Wenchang through the candlelight: "Wenchang, I remember back then, although you and I knew each other, I didn't tell you about my power outside the palace. "

Wenchang lowered her head. She has always respected Qin Changge and never dared to meet her eyes. Even if Qin Changge's eyes were not sharp and gentle and loose at all times, she was unreasonably timid, especially when Qin Changge exposed This kind of seemingly friendly, but actually distant smile.

Looking at her smile is like looking at the ancient gods, in the clouds, looking down gently and completely coldly.

There is a great shock of realization.

With her head lowered, she said in a difficult way: "...It's Your Majesty, who told me once when he was drunk, saying that you concealed many things from him, that you have your own influence outside the palace, and he suspected that you were the most powerful person in the world." To help the Blazing Flame Gang, I specially summoned Suxuan, the leader of the Blazing Flame Gang... but I couldn't ask anything..."

Her voice became lower and lower. As a bystander of the events back then, she vaguely knew the empress' discord back then, and even felt that behind Ruiyi's death, there was a faint shadow of the emperor. If it wasn't for him, who would have such power? , Killed the famous founding queen in the palace without anyone noticing?However, this thought was so frightening that she broke out in cold sweat every time she thought about it, and she dared to bury this terrifying thought deep in her heart. Now, when Xiao Jue was mentioned in front of Qin Changge, she felt infinitely guilty.

Qin Changge had already seen the black hole in her heart, and said with a smile: "Wenchang, the matter is not yet settled, so you don't have to be nervous... Back then, for some reason, I did arrange a retreat for myself, but I didn't have time to use it. The method of self-protection has nothing to do with concealment... But there is no need to explain it... I want to leave the palace, and there is only one temporary purpose."

She looked at the towering and continuous palace roofs from a distance, and looked into the night so thick that her fingers could not be discerned. It seemed that just staring like that could penetrate the maze of barriers, stacked palace walls, and see what she wanted. Find out the truth and see the person you want to see.

"I want to find, my son Xiao Rong."

Clang.

With too much force, Wen Chang, who was leaning on the window, almost knocked off the window sash.

"Isn't Rong'er already...not already..."

Wenchang really couldn't bear to say the word "death", but she deeply remembered how she ran against the choking soot when the wind blew the extinct sparks and ashes into the Jin'ou Palace. When she arrived at the fire scene, the fire had died down. Regardless of the eunuch's dissuasion, she rushed to the dilapidated hall, and the dead bodies were found one by one, and they were lined up in long rows in the open space. In the dead silence, she Desperately, she wandered in front of the scorched corpse, her legs were so weak that she couldn't move, and finally, the two corpses covered by the white cloth at the front made her stop in pain.

(End of this chapter)