Evil Phoenix: The Queen's Good Conspiracy

Chapter 39
Mu Qing caressed the somewhat yellowed booklet with her fingertips, her face revealing a seriousness.She knew that there might be some clues hidden in it that allowed her to find the secret volume, but at the same time, she also knew that maybe when she opened the cursed dusty history, she would recall something from Su Muqing's own memory.But if she doesn't look at it now, maybe she won't be able to remember where the secret scroll is.

Only try it.

A sharp light flashed in her eyes, and Mu Qing cautiously opened the booklet as if she had made a certain determination.The smell of stale ink slowly wafted out, and the crisp sound of books reverberated around.

She slid on it with her fingertips, unwilling to reveal any details, but when she saw the words "Beitangfeng", her heart shrank suddenly, "How could it be like this..." She murmured, Some cannot believe what they see.The fingertips hang down, filled with a kind of decadence.

In the 56th year of Beitang, the prince Feng Shao was intelligent, and he was born with Qingmang, which was regarded as ominous.His king and queen, Li Zhen, were depressed and tried to kill her son on the third day of the twelfth lunar month in the 56th year of Beitang.Since then, Prince Feng's temperament has changed drastically, and it's hard to believe anyone.

I don't know who tore out the next few pages. I searched the first volume, and there is only this sentence about Beitang Feng.No wonder the old eunuch was willing to let her read it.But maybe the old eunuch didn't know it. Although she didn't see the secret volume, she understood another thing that made her suddenly enlightened.

Mu Qing laughed, her shoulders trembled slightly, and then she turned into a big laugh.She wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes from laughing, and then closed the first roll.There was a touch of complex and bitter emotions in Qingli's eyes.

Shangguan Yu, who had been waiting outside, stood quietly not far away. The old eunuch would not go far away, but bent over and fiddled with some withered grass leaves around him. Seeing Shangguan Yu's serious expression, he asked aloud: "The old slave vaguely remembers seeing the queen once in a while a year ago, but he didn't have such a temperament. Doesn't Mr. Shangguan feel that the queen seems to be a different person?"

Shangguan Yu frowned slightly, and did not speak, but he also slightly agreed with the old eunuch's words in his heart.But the empress went through a catastrophe, and it is understandable that her mood changes. Besides, how can there be such a nihilistic thing as changing a person in the world.

The old eunuch smiled softly, continued to pinch the rotten grass, and muttered to himself: "When you get old, you see more things. People will change, but their hearts will not change. The queen a year ago seemed gentle, But her breath is cold, she should be a ruthless woman. But this one, who looks cold, is a person who values ​​affection."

Shangguan Yu looked at the old eunuch suspiciously, but the old eunuch hummed a ditty instead, and never mentioned what happened just now.Shangguan Yu lowered his eyes and thought deeply, he was really influenced by some old eunuchs, suddenly saw Mu Qing coming out of the room, but found her face was a little pale.

The wound hurt, and Mu Qing suddenly felt a little weakness in her feet, Shangguan Yu hurried forward to support her.Mu Qing waved her hands, and forced a smile on the corner of her mouth, "I'm fine, don't make a fuss." She looked at the old eunuch, and found that he had already looked this way, "I've finished the first volume, thank you, old man." The voice was very soft, but sincere, which made the old eunuch reconfirm what he thought in his heart—this woman is by no means the cold person she was a year ago, but who it is, only the heavens can know.

After bidding farewell to the old eunuch, Shangguan Yu helped Mu Qing walk to Fengyang Palace, the breeze was blowing, and there was a little silence.Seeing that she was too quiet, Shangguan Yu couldn't help but wanted to find something to say, but was cut off by Mu Qing first, "Shangguan, based on your understanding of the emperor, if I express my loyalty to the emperor now, will he believe it?" The voice is light and fluttering like a feather.

Shangguan Yu was slightly stunned, and replied: "The emperor's experience is different from that of others, and it is extremely difficult to trust others. Besides, the empress betrayed a year ago, the emperor will not rekindle the old relationship so easily.... But this is just a slave fool. Solution, I hope the empress will not take it to heart."

With her eyes lowered, Mu Qing slightly raised her smile, and looked into the distance along the wind, she was a little inexplicably mocking.

Shangguan Yu was right.My mother had betrayed me, and the only woman I ever loved had betrayed me. Facing such a woman, I would never believe a few words of love.If it were her, she would never believe it.

It was only now that she realized that maybe her sincerity to him was just to allow him to use her to get back the secret scroll.

She snorted a few times, gave away the hand that supported Shangguan Yu, and walked forward alone.The lingering green leaves are flying in the air, brushing her long hair, like a lonely phoenix, beautiful, but a little lonely.

It seems that she needs to be alone and calm down.

Inside Feishuang Hall, there was an unusual silence.Throwing away the notes sent by the minister of the Ministry of War just now, Beitangfeng let out a deep breath.

In the empty hall, there were only a few silent guards.He twirled the wrench with his fingertips, his eyes slightly deep.At this time Li Dexi approached and asked Bei Tangfeng if he would have dinner with Su Muqing.Just mentioning his name made Beitangfeng's heart tighten uncontrollably.After being silent for a while, he just shook his head slightly. Li Dexi looked at Beitangfeng's slightly lonely eyes, and really couldn't understand why the emperor, who seemed to have reunited with the empress, still had such a feeling of never letting go of his heart.He hesitated, but finally retreated helplessly.

Bei Tangfeng, who was alone, lowered his eyes, and wiped the lips kissed by Su Muqing not long ago with his thumb, his mood seemed a little complicated.The fragrance of her body seemed to still linger on him, and the heat from the touch had never faded away. Although it was beautiful, it disturbed his heart like a kind of deep-rooted poison.He took a deep breath, quietly looked at the dark sunset slanting in from outside the hall, and muttered to himself: "I can't fall into it anymore... It's already, it can't be done."

Same night, outside the palace.In Nancheng not far away, it seemed that something was about to emerge from the ground.The entire Nancheng was shrouded in dead silence, and the corpse stench constantly wafted from inside and outside the city, wrapping the gray sky like a hell-like breath.Moans, cries, hisses, and cries kept coming from the city, and even the hoarse crows of crows were torn into this dark and damp place.

The blockade over the past few days has caused tens of millions of people in Nancheng to suffer from hunger and cold, and their bodies that have not eaten for many days may not be able to survive tomorrow.

This is already the limit of the city.Nancheng is about to become a dead city.

When the last ray of morning sun slowly rose, illuminating this desperate city with light, the back door of Nancheng was suddenly pushed open as far as possible, and then many people who were incompatible with this place came in. A businessman who smells like copper.They seem to be transporting something high.Seeing the dying people, the instinct to survive suddenly sprouted, and they rushed towards this group of people like crazy, stretching out their hands, eager for the last help.

The well-dressed businessmen snorted in disgust when they saw these dirty refugees, and kicked them away like a dog in the water, turning their heads and cursing from time to time.

After a long period of time, the merchants finally transported these large packages to the high platform in the south city. They got up to wipe their sweat, and their eyes reflected the man in black who had been standing there at some time.The man stared quietly ahead, as if he was enjoying such a rancid breath.

One of them frustrates his hands and flatters the man in black.But the man in black didn't pay attention to him, but looked at the common people who looked like ghosts in the quagmire, watching for a long time.

"Hey, it's almost dawn." After a while, the man in black suddenly said, his tone was indifferent, as if he was deliberately suppressing the faint sadness in his heart, and he turned to look at the packed bag with a slightly deep meaning. He murmured, "People pursue fame, wealth and power all their lives, but in the end, it's not for survival..." After finishing speaking, the man suddenly grabbed the rope on a big bag and tore it away, and the golden-colored food suddenly came out. Water seeped out of the bag like running water, he sneered, and shouted in a low voice: "Give me the food!!"

When the voice settled down, everyone including the person carrying it was suddenly in a state of excitement.They struggled to stack large bags of grain on the side of the high platform, with the mouth of the bags facing all the people, ready to go.

The people were so excited, as if they saw the hope of survival, they screamed like crazy, and even stepped on people and climbed towards the high platform.

"It's food!!"

"There is something to eat!"

"I won't starve to death!!!"

Instinctive madness is everywhere, and the appearance of trampling others under their feet for the sake of food makes the man in black have a complicated mood.He turned his back slowly, not wanting to see such a hell on earth again.Slowly raised his hand, and then dropped it very simply.

At this moment, the people on the high platform who had received the order suddenly became excited, they also shouted a few times, and then pulled away all the ropes tied around the mouth of the grain bag like giving alms to animals.

With the rising of the morning sun, the golden food like a waterfall slowly sprinkled on the faces and bodies of the common people under the platform, even the number was so large that the lowest level people could be buried in it.The people frantically stretched out their hands to eat, opened their mouths to eat, and wished they could really put all these grains in their stomachs without falling.

These people seem to lose their minds when they are extremely hungry.

The man in black stood with his back behind his back and his hands behind him, calmly listening to the crazy roaring and screaming behind him.

Seeing that half of the grain had been distributed, several grain merchants suddenly remembered what the man in black had said a few nights ago.So when they looked at each other, they suddenly shouted a word to the people below in unison.

These words startled all the people who were grabbing food, and immediately caused chaos. Everyone was manic, some were angry, some were grateful, and some couldn't believe it.

It was at the same time when the entire Nancheng was caught in an unprecedented riot, the man in black quietly turned around, and murmured: "It is true, if you have a grudge, you must take revenge, if you have a favor, you must repay your kindness, right?"

The people were stunned, looking at the food that was still spreading everywhere, they suddenly responded loudly as if their consciousness was being held: "Yes!! If you have hatred, you must revenge, if you have grace, you must pay favor!!"

"You guys, do you want to get out of this filthy dead city?" The man said again, as if he had lifted the atmosphere of the southern city to the extreme.

"Get out, get out!!!" The people began to cheer, and moved upwards with one hand.

The man smiled slowly, then walked down from the stage step by step, and gradually came among the group of crazy people.The people gave way to this man one after another, as if no one dared to approach him.

At this moment, this person came to the long-lost open gate, and suddenly shouted: "Come on, knock this gate down for me!"

As soon as the words fell, those people who were still carrying food came here one after another, knocking on the door again and again, the sound was bursting, and cracks gradually appeared.When the people saw it, they suddenly became more excited, and then frantically stepped forward to follow those people and smashed desperately.

The man in black stood aside, watching them quietly, with a gleam of unfeeling in his lowered eyes.

After a while, the entire door was pushed heavily and fell to the ground, raising a thick cloud of dust.

Everyone was excited and hissing, because the collapse of the gate would indicate that Nancheng would no longer be a dead city!
They survived, they don't have to die!At the same time, in the hearts of these almost crazy people, there is only one name left.

Looking at the chaos in front of him, the man suddenly laughed, swung his robe suddenly and turned to face the direction of the imperial city, pointed with his fingertips, and said loudly: "Where there is revenge, there is kindness!"

After hearing that, the people immediately shouted crazily following the man's words. They looked at the direction of his finger, and then ran crazily, drowning the man in black in the sea of ​​people in an instant.Just when they all poured into the not-too-distant side like a flood, the man in black smiled, put on the brim of his hat again, turned quietly and walked in the opposite direction.

At the same time, Prime Minister.

Before dawn, Liu Liangchu got up and listened to the little song leisurely in the yard, shaking his head and humming.

Suddenly a snow-white pigeon flew in along the tile and landed lightly on the stone table in the courtyard.Liu Xiangguo frowned, and swayed his fat body to the table, grabbed the carrier pigeon, turned it over, and took out a small piece of paper from the small tube on its foot.He spread it out, read the words on it from top to bottom, and suddenly pinched the paper, and gradually showed an unconcealable smile on that scheming face.

After a burst of laughter, Liu Xiangguo suddenly straightened his eyes.He held back all his smiles, and said coldly: "The good show has begun. Su Muqing, no one can help you this time, Beitang Mo Rushi, Your Majesty, Rushi! I didn't think so at first, and I only blame you for being with me." The truth made Zuo Xun fall into the wrong camp!" After finishing speaking, Liu Xiangguo took a deep breath and continued to hum the ditty, still shaking his head, but it seemed that he was less leisurely and more leisurely than before... he couldn't hide it Yes, killing intent.

On the other side, Prince Qi's Mansion is not peaceful either.

Beitang Mo, who was dressed in white, was originally quietly plucking the strings in the room, sliding his fingertips, but he couldn't hide the anxiety in his heart.

Suddenly the middle string broke and broke in two, and his slender fingertips drew a little blood red.Beitang Mo slowly raised his glass-colored eyes, his pupils slid down, looked at the broken strings, frowned lightly, and then turned to look at his injured fingertips.He was meditating on something, casually poked out the tip of his tongue, and slowly licked off the fresh color from his fingertips, as if he was tasting a delicious taste.

A broken string is an ominous sign.

Beitang Mo stood up slowly from the chair, and walked to the door with his hands behind his back.He looked at the somewhat depressed sky, a ray of light flashed in his handsome eyes.

It seems that something is about to happen.Moreover, it is still a big deal.

At this moment Li Ruobai hurried in, seeing his anxious expression, Beitang Mo's eyes deepened.After closing his eyes and listening to Li Ruobai's report, Beitang Mo suddenly raised his eyes, and opened them even with his thin lips.He looked at the imperial city not far away, and gradually fell into silence.

In this round, someone deliberately excluded everyone, and no one could help out.

In this round, if you make a wrong move, the queen will be in danger.

In the morning, it was a little cool.For some reason, Mu Qing always felt a little uneasy early in the morning. Standing alone outside the courtyard of Fengyang Palace, she seemed to be feeling the slight death energy brought by the wind.

Ever since he came back from the imperial library that day, he hadn't seen Beitangfeng in the past few days, but Li Dexi came over to say hello, saying that the emperor was busy with state affairs and would not be entering the harem for the time being.Although this reasoning is correct, but Mu Qing knew in her heart that Bei Tangfeng was also avoiding her intentionally or unintentionally, and she must also want to be calm and calm just like her.

This is also good, so that you won't get carried away by emotional matters.

"Your Majesty, let's go back and rest." At this time, Shangguan Yu came out from the side room, took a cloak in his hand, and quietly covered Su Muqing.He wanted to turn around and leave like this, but was grabbed by Mu Qing.

Shangguan Yu was slightly taken aback, not knowing what she meant.

Mu Qing frowned tightly, with complicated emotions in her clear eyes.The morning wind gradually picked up, slightly blowing the hair on her temples, stirring up a kind of invisible loneliness.She turned around to look at Shangguan Yu, and asked in a low voice: "Shangguan, do you feel that the wind seems to be extraordinarily cold today?"

Shangguan Yu was puzzled, and raised his hand to feel it, "I think it's the same as usual."

"That's right. That's Ben Gong's suspicion." There was a long smile on the corner of Mu Qing's lips.She raised her eyes to the huge sky, and stood facing the wind, "Shangguan, I suddenly want to go to the high platform of the palace for the last time. Can we go together?"

Looking at Mu Qing, Shangguan Yu also had some feelings, always feeling that the queen these days seems to be always uneasy because of something.So she didn't say much, just nodded, and slowly went to one of the highest places in the palace - Nanyue Gaotai with Mu Qing, who had not fully recovered from her injuries.

Nanyue High Terrace is a place where you can have a panoramic view of the entire capital city. Mu Qing would occasionally come here to experience the splendor of the world.I always feel that as long as I stay for a while, I will feel a lot more open-minded, and even the troubles accumulated on weekdays will be swept away.

She stood in front of the wind, closed her eyes and breathed, her hair fluttered in the air, as if she was about to turn into a beautiful fairy.Shangguan Yu stood quietly by the side, and was a little bewildered.Dazed, he hastily put his mind away and looked elsewhere.

A sudden cold wind hit Mu Qing, making Mu Qing feel a chill.Suddenly covering his heart, he felt a strange suffocation.This extremely bad premonition is stronger than every time in the past.

"Did you make a move?" Mu Qing thoughtfully, looking at the rising sun that was gradually covered by clouds, "The weather is not good today, and I feel irritable. If something happens..."

Shangguan Yu suddenly interrupted Mu Qing's thoughts, his eyes narrowed, and he pointed forward, "Queen, what do you think is that?"

Mu Qing's heart sank, she raised her eyes to look in the direction Shangguan Yu was pointing at, and there seemed to be some premonition flashed quietly in her mind.

Nancheng... Nancheng!
Why do you suddenly think of Nancheng?

"I'll go investigate now, servant." After saying that, Shangguan Yu turned around to leave, but just as he moved, he was suddenly stopped by Mu Qing.She stood in the distance, squinting her eyes as if she was listening carefully.Seeing this, Shangguan Yu also closed his eyes and listened. He always felt that there seemed to be some voice, as if someone was shouting something...

"Is it shouting for killing? Could it be a mob?" Shangguan Yu said, so he listened harder, "If it is a mob, you must immediately notify the emperor to suppress it."

"No, it's not the mob...it's not..." Mu Qing still listened quietly, her face gradually turning pale.

At this time, the breeze picked up and blew on her fair face, quietly and coolly, stirring up an invisible haze.

Shangguan Yu nodded, and then listened carefully, but after the voice became more and more obvious, he suddenly raised his eyes, a handsome face showed an unprecedented paleness and stiffness, and then immediately looked to the body Mu Qing next to her.

At this moment, Mu Qing also had an almost complicated smile on her face, she lost her strength and fell to the ground.She smiled, her smile was pale, and her slender fingertips tightly grasped the material of the cuffs.She seemed to be in a trance again, murmuring and repeating the real cry that she heard just now—Queen, long live, long live, long live.

(End of this chapter)