phoenix jiuxiao

Chapter 118

"Chi—" A finger blew across the wind, bringing down a few leaves.

Mu Qingchen frowned and looked at his hands with dissatisfaction.If he had swiped so casually back then, even a big tree hugged by several people would have fallen down, but now only a few leaves were shot down.

"My lord, your martial arts have recovered?" Mu Xin, who was carrying the anti-fetal medicine, happened to see this scene, and couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.

"It's still early." Mu Qingchen said lightly.

"Master, you can release your true energy, but ordinary people can't do it even after decades of practice!" Mu Xin looked confident.

Mu Qingchen took the medicine bowl casually and drank it dry in one gulp.

Mu Xin put down the tray and handed the plums with a smile.

The bitter taste of the medicine was gradually covered by the sweet and sour plums, Mu Qingchen exhaled, and picked up a long sword placed on the stone table.

"My lord!" Mu Xin was taken aback immediately, "This...sword should not be practiced, right? It will hurt myself."

"Whispering!" Mu Qingchen glared at him and said.

"Miss Su became even more verbose when she saw it." Mu Xin pouted, but snatched his sword.

Mu Qingchen is helpless, Mu Xin has been with him for more than ten years, but now he is more like Su Hailing's confidant, always watching his every move, this is not allowed, that is not allowed!

Mu Xin didn't care what he thought, and hurriedly pressed the sword to the bottom of the box.

Mu Qingchen continued to sigh, it has been almost half a month since he moved to this Bixiao Palace, the middle palace of Empress Feng is naturally magnificent, luxurious and elegant everywhere, but in his opinion it is not as small and exquisite as Chaoyun Palace.

According to Dayong's etiquette system, the emperor and queen have their own sleeping palaces - Zichen and Bixiao. Although Su Hailing will go back to Bixiao Palace most of the night, and will come to accompany him during the day as long as there are no political affairs, but he will still feel lost.

"What are you thinking about?" As soon as Su Hailing stepped into the garden, he saw his lover standing under a newly bloomed peach tree thinking.The pink peach blossoms reflect Ruyu's face, and the peach blossoms on the human face are red.

"It's nothing." Mu Qingchen came back to his senses, turned around and smiled, and said casually, "Send away the envoy from Xiqin?"

"Well, I'm finally leaving." Su Hailing's admonition that the harem should not be involved in politics will not work, so he said naturally, "The discussion is over, and the rest will be handled by Qin. As for the unlucky one His prince... will probably be sent here soon."

"So fast?" Mu Qingchen asked in surprise.Can the prince of a country get married so casually?
"I can't help them being unhappy." Su Hailing shrugged, and said helplessly, "After the hundred-day national mourning is over, there will be a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heavens and a ceremony for conferring the queen, and then there will be a selection of concubines. Since Xiqin wants to send the prince, naturally he won't Missed."

"Draft?" Mu Qingchen raised his eyebrows, and said with a half-smile, "Besides Jun Han and Situ, how many beauties do you want to choose to enter the palace?"

"It's enough for me to have you!" Su Hailing rolled his eyes at him, paused for a while, and continued, "But those old guys won't let it go, they can't wait to fill my harem with their own people."

"Then what are you going to do?" Mu Qingchen said.

"Anyway, the draft is in charge of the Queen Feng, you just choose a few who are pleasing to the eye and gag them." Su Hailing said indifferently, "Then you go and say to those men who are selected into the palace: Anyway, I'm not interested. For them, if they are willing to go out of the palace by themselves, or if they already have a sweetheart but are forcibly sent by the family, I will let them go out to marry and prepare a dowry!"

"What if someone doesn't want to leave the palace?" Mu Qingchen said.

"I don't want to?" Su Hailing sneered, "If you like prosperity and wealth so much, and you're not afraid of being a widow for the rest of your life, then just let them stay. We'll talk about it when we want to go out!"

"You are really..." Mu Qingchen was speechless.

"Some things can be solved in various ways, so there's no need to confront them head-on." Su Hailing smiled.

"Are you going to continue like this forever?" Mu Qingchen said.

"No." Su Hailing understood what he meant, and took his hand, "I want to take down Southern Chu and Western Qin, and hand over a complete world to our daughter. Then, I will take you to travel around the mainland and have a good time." Inspect the world that belongs to us."

"Take down Southern Chu and Western Qin?" Mu Qingchen was amused by her and laughed, "How many years do you plan to use?"

"20 years." Su Hailing said without hesitation, "So, you have to give me a smart and good daughter."

"You are becoming more and more dishonest!" Mu Qingchen scolded with a smile.

"Your Majesty..." Haoyue walked in from outside the palace, seeing her and Mu Qingchen being intimate, she just called out and stopped far away.

"Trouble is coming again." Mu Qingchen said.

Su Hailing smiled wryly, kissed him again, and then turned to Haoyue: "What's the matter?"

"I just received a letter from Haiyue Villa." Haoyue replied softly, "It seems that there is a trace of the Phantom Gate on the outskirts of the capital, which is very suspicious."

"Outskirts of the capital?" Su Hailing couldn't help frowning, these guys, it seems that they still don't give up?
"I want to go over tonight and have a look quietly." Haoyue said.

"It's too dangerous for you to go alone." Su Hailing objected intuitively, but it's a pity that Mei Junhan has already left, and he couldn't find a master for a while.

"However, if we send a large army over there, firstly, we will startle them, lest they will be buried more secretly, secondly..." Haoyue hesitated for a while before saying, "That place is very weird, it's better to check it secretly after all."

"Weird?" Su Hailing was taken aback, "What kind of weird method?"

"I heard from the nearby villagers and passers-by on the night road that there will be crying in the middle of the night, as well as singing and drumming with strange syllables." Haoyue said.

"Crying? Singing and drumming?" Su Hailing was dumbfounded. The Phantom Gate is a killer group hidden in the dark. It's too late to restrain their voices. How could they expose their targets?After hesitating for a while, she asked, "No mistake? Are you sure it's the Phantom Gate?"

"Senior Sister Yang won't be so confused." Haoyue shook her head and said, "And Lu Tong is here today."

"Lu Tong has arrived?" Su Hailing just felt baffled, if the time is counted, Lu Tong should have arrived long ago with Shui Li, how could it be delayed until now, not to mention... Isn't this talking about the Phantom Gate?Why did it suddenly involve Lu Tong?

"When Lu Tong came to Beijing, he slept there in the middle of the night. He heard the sound with his own ears, and went to check it, only to be sure that it was someone from the Phantom Gate." Haoyue said.

"Then is she okay?" Su Hailing asked hurriedly.

"Lu Tong just suffered skin trauma, it's not a serious problem, but..." Haoyue smiled wryly, "Shui Li was taken away by them."

"What? Shui Li was arrested?" Su Hailing's shock was no small matter.

Although Shui Li's life may not be within the scope of Shuiran's concern, but he is a link between Dayong and Yehuan Clan, and she doesn't want to throw it away unless necessary.

"Yes." Haoyue nodded, "As soon as I learned about it from Lu Tong, I came to report it."

"It's a bit troublesome this time, damn Phantom Gate!" Su Hailing cursed.

"Your Majesty, let me tonight..." Haoyue said.

"No!" Su Hailing interrupted him, paced a few steps, thought over and over again, and quickly made a decision, "I'll go with you."

"How is this possible?" Haoyue paled, "It's too dangerous, if something happens to His Majesty..."

"Do you dare to go alone knowing the danger?" Su Hailing glared at him and said decisively, "That's it, let's go there tonight to explore—don't forget, if you want to compete in martial arts, you are not my opponent yet gone."

"Subordinate...Understood." Haoyue lowered her head, concealing her bitterness.

That's right, now that Su Hailing's martial arts skills are already invincible, she no longer needs her own guards, does that mean...the last reason for staying by her side has been ruthlessly taken away?

"What are you thinking again?" Su Hailing sighed and raised his face forcefully.It's really... You can tell at a glance that this person is playing tricks again, and he really doesn't behave well!

"No." Haoyue's eyes flickered to avoid it.

"You..." Su Hailing sighed and hugged him into his arms, "Why don't you want to be my servant?"

Haoyue bit her lip and didn't speak for a long time. Just when Su Hailing thought she would not get an answer, she heard him speak slowly: "Being your servant, you have to stay in the harem. I don't want to be locked up alone. In the deserted palace, waiting for the king's favor day after day, I would rather be your bodyguard, I can follow you, like a shadow, never leave life or death."

"Yue..." Su Hailing couldn't help but hugged him tighter, "You fool."

"If Your Majesty must go, please allow me to prepare first." Haoyue struggled slightly.

"Okay." Su Hailing let go of him with a smile.

Let him escape for a while, but after all, he can't escape, he is the emperor who appointed her as her servant!

That night.

Su Hailing changed into night clothes, put on the Xie Zhu sword, and sneaked out of the palace to join Haoyue.

In Bixiao Palace, Mu Qingchen will do all the covering up, even if there is any accident tonight and he can't come back in the morning, nothing will go wrong.

The two used lightness kung fu to cross the city wall and ran all the way, and quickly ran for more than twenty miles.

That official road used to lead to Yucui Peak in the suburbs of Beijing, but since the landslide occurred in Yucui Peak ten years ago, the official road has been abandoned. Passers-by rarely go here, and the roadside is overgrown with weeds. As tall as half a person, the mountain pass is covered with dark woods, towering trees cover the sky, and there is no light.

"This is it?" Su Hailing frowned, "Lu Tong brought Shuili to Beijing, how could she go the wrong way? It's not like she hasn't been to the capital before."

"There was a heavy rain a few days ago, Lu Tong hurried on the road in a hurry, and it was getting late, and the glass was making a lot of noise, so he accidentally went astray." Haoyue replied.

"No matter what, let's go in and have a look first." Su Hailing pondered.

"Yeah." Haoyue responded, holding the hilt of her sword with her right hand, and walked ahead.

Su Hailing reluctantly followed, but his heart was warmly moved.

Although I am used to being strong and guarded, the feeling of being carefully protected by others is really warm and comfortable.

Haoyue listened carefully to the surrounding environment, Phantom Gate was haunted, but he would never let Su Hailing suffer any harm, even if he had to pay for his own life!

"There is a voice." Su Hailing suddenly pulled him back.

Haoyue was stunned for a moment, then she listened carefully, and she really heard faint cries coming from the wind, sometimes mixed with a strange music.

"Look!" Su Hailing ran towards the source of the voice without waiting for his answer.

"Your Majesty, wait a minute!" Haoyue hurriedly caught up.

The two quietly concealed their whereabouts, and slowly approached. After a while, they saw the faint light of fire in front of them.

Glancing at each other, they lowered their bodies in a tacit understanding and moved forward in the half-human tall grass.

Finding a hidden place to squat down, Su Hailing carefully pushed aside the weeds and looked out, only to see more than 20 women in strange clothes gathered in a clearing in the forest. The green and green are covered with oil paint, and the original colors cannot be seen at all.A few people nearby were beating drums, and the low sound of the drums was so loud that it seemed like people's hearts would jump out.There were also a few people fiddled with a strange musical instrument that could not be named, making harsh sounds like ghost cries.

Two teenagers with empty eyes were tied back to back to the wooden stake in the middle, one of them was Shui Li, and all of them were dancing a weird dance around the wooden stake.

"What the hell are they doing?" Su Hailing whispered.

"It seems to be a ritual of praying to the gods." Haoyue replied hesitantly.

"Pray to God?" Su Hailing pouted, really speechless about this kind of superstitious activities.

"In the Great Qin Dynasty at the beginning, the national teachers and the temple held a mysterious power. Since His Majesty the Holy Emperor established Dayong, the temple system followed the remnants of the Great Qin and retreated to the Western Qin Dynasty. For some reason, it has gradually faded out in the past 300 years. People's sights can almost be regarded as disappearing now." Haoyue explained.

"Is it the national teacher of the Western Qin Dynasty?" Su Hailing couldn't help frowning.If Phantom Sect colludes with Xiqin again... Phantom Sect, Xiqin, King An, and the blood of the Holy Emperor, these forces combined together will definitely bring a huge blow to the newborn Dayong!

"Your Majesty, what should we do?" Haoyue turned her head and asked, "Do you want to save someone?"

Su Hailing spent three years in Xiaohan Mountain, and read countless rare books. He is not completely unfamiliar with the battle map. He has long seen that those people have set up a strange formation, which cannot be broken by martial arts alone, but as for how to break it But there is no confidence at all, unless Mu Qingchen came here in person.

"Woo--" At this moment, only a low horn sounded, and the voice of ghost music gradually became softer.A man wearing a black robe and his whole body wrapped in a black cloak walked out of the line with a short sharp knife and stood in front of the stake, muttering something, not knowing what he was talking about.

"Oops!" Su Hailing exhaled softly, those people... didn't they want to cut out hearts, blood sacrifices and the like!
"Your Majesty?" Haoyue tightly held the hilt of the sword with her hand.

"I'll hold them back, you save them!" Su Hailing had already made a decision in a split second, and before he could answer, the man had already jumped up, unsheathed the evil sword in mid-air, and rushed towards the black-clothed man holding the knife. people.

When those women saw this, they all shouted and shouted, showed a pair of short knives, and surrounded him.

"Looking for death!" Su Hailing sneered, and the Xie Zhu sword drew an arc, swinging away all the weapons close to him.

There was only a sound of "ding dong", and several short knives were cut off by the evil sword.

Haoyue couldn't stop her, she just watched her rush into the enemy group, but at this moment, she didn't allow him to think too much, she rushed to the stake and broke the rope with her sword.

"Take them away!" Su Hailing said calmly while fighting with the enemy.

Haoyue knew that she couldn't hesitate at this moment, otherwise the two of them would be stuck here today, so they had to grit their teeth, grab one with each hand and retreat first.

Suddenly, a sharp bamboo whistle sounded from nowhere.An accident happened!Shui Li, who was motionless at first, suddenly hit Haoyue's acupuncture points like lightning.

Haoyue was too haggard to guard against it, and was restrained before even the thought of dodging came up.

Suddenly, two fires lit up in the dark forest. Under the firelight stood two figures, one in gold and one in silver. Their faces were covered with black veils, but the silhouettes should be women.

"Bring him here." The man in gold said.Her voice seemed to have a kind of magical power, Shui Li and another boy immediately brought Haoyue to her, their actions were crisp and neat, but their eyes were empty, without any expression, just like two puppets.

"If you still want his life, put down the sword and catch him without a fight." The man in the golden coat said, his right hand had already grasped Haoyue's throat.

Haoyue's acupoints were restrained, she couldn't move her body, she couldn't speak, she could only stare at her fiercely.If eyes could really kill, that person would have died seventeen or eight times already!

How could it be...his existence actually threatened Su Hailing's safety!
Can't promise her... He could only cry anxiously in his heart, but he couldn't do anything.

Su Hailing hesitated for a moment, and finally dropped the Xie Zhu sword, and immediately put two short knives on her neck.

"No!" Haoyue opened her mouth, but couldn't make any sound, Qingling's eyes were filled with a layer of dead gray.

"Let him go." Su Hailing said coldly, "Don't touch my people with your dirty hands, or I will chop off your claws!"

The man in gold smiled crisply, but let go of his hand as she wished, and Haoyue, who lost his support, immediately fell to the ground.

"Put them in the Huan Cave first, and the rest of them go back. Today's ceremony was interrupted, and the hour has already passed, so we can only wait for three days to start again." The man in gold ordered lightly.

What a ceremony indeed!Su Hailing's heart trembled, but before he thought about it, he was pushed towards Yucui Peak.

(End of this chapter)