Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid

Chapter 222 Ghost Night Allure (1)
The Qingcheng on my chest seemed to sense peace, she poked her head out gently, glanced at Lansheng, slipped down quietly, and quickly ran to the Buddhist altar in front of Concubine Li, where she disappeared.

There are two long scrolls hanging on the west wall, each depicting two women looking side by side with a smile on their face: one has a fluttering fairy train, with a very dignified and beautiful appearance, dressed in jewels and jewels, and is extremely luxuriously decorated; Ugly, with ragged clothes, dirty and greasy skin, chapped skin, and terribly white, it seems to depict the meritorious heaven and dark women who symbolize blessings and disasters in Buddhist scriptures.

At this time, the portrait of the dark woman trembled suddenly, and then panned to the right, a figure flashed in, but it was a handsome man covered in plain silk, it was the prince.

The prince also wore a silver dragon and swallow wing crown according to etiquette, and a snow-white satin robe embroidered with nine silver dragons with teeth and claws. With a solemn face, he walked up to Concubine Li and stood there.Concubine Li's wooden fish sound stopped for a while, she opened her eyes, looked at the prince, then turned back with a cold face, closed her eyes again, and continued to knock on the wooden fish in her hand.

The prince snorted coldly, walked to the altar, held the lantern lightly with his hand, looked at the Buddha and said: "It is futile for a person with a vicious heart to chant Buddhist scriptures, Empress Dowager Li, do you think so?"

Concubine Li stopped again, and looked at him slightly sideways, "You are really fine."

The two stared at each other for a while, but it was Concubine Li who looked away first.

"You should call me Your Majesty," the prince still looked at her firmly, and said bitterly, "Isn't Madam Li very disappointed to see that I'm still alive?"

Concubine Li pinched the beads unhurriedly, and said lightly, "I'm a little disappointed."

I don't think the prince or I thought that Concubine Li would answer him like this, and his handsome face twisted up in anger and pain.

"Why? Originally, you can live for the rest of your life, and you also know that I will treat you well," the prince snorted through his nose, "I really don't understand why you are so stupid to do harm to me under the eyes of my father." ?”

"I didn't want to do this, it was Xiaoer who asked me to do it." Concubine Li smiled lightly, but sharp hatred shot out from her eyes.

"Xiao'er?" The Crown Prince snorted coldly, "Xiao'er has been dead for eight years, and I don't understand what the Empress Dowager Li said."

"Do you know what day it is today?" Concubine Li stood up, standing in the faint light of Buddha, with deep sadness in her eyes.

The prince just snorted coldly and turned his head away. With a hint of mockery on Jun's face, he played with the red jade wrench in his hand and did not answer her question.

Concubine Li said softly: "Today is the eighth anniversary of my poor filial son's death."

"What are you talking about?" The prince suddenly suppressed his smile and became impatient.Mingming night is as cold as water, but he seems to be a little hot. He tugged on the neckline of Yinlong Panhuan, "Shuxiao will ascend to the Paradise early. After I ascend the throne, I will definitely invite Zen Master Huguo to save Shuxiao. Empress Dowager Li puts 120 heart."

"No, Shuxiao didn't leave," said Concubine Li sadly, "I dream of Shuxiao every night, she doesn't even have a piece of clothing to hide her shame, she's naked and covered in blood, standing on the tip of a knife and crying to me, She kept crying, and she cried to me... saying that she was cold, and she said that she could not return home, because those murderers who killed her are still at large."

The prince's face was a little stiff, his tone softened, and he sighed: "Ms. Li is too worried."

"Did I worry too much?" Concubine Li sneered, "Or have you forgotten how you and your two good sisters pushed Shuxiao to hell in order to save their lives?"

"Shut up," the prince yelled, "you crazy woman, I don't even know what you're talking about."

There were beads of sweat on his forehead, and he even forgot to call himself Zhen.

"I'm not crazy," Concubine Li also said loudly, looking at the prince with wide-eyed eyes, pulling the string of Buddhist beads vigorously with a pair of jade hands.The string of emerald Buddha beads was smashed to pieces and splashed on the gold bricks, making a fierce and shocking sound.

"If you don't want to say it, then let me remind you what happened back then.

"The Gengxu Kingdom changed, and on the way to escape, the ox cart was so small that it couldn't hold Shuyi, Shuhuan, Xiao'er, Fu'er, and you, but you and Fu'er are both sons of the Xuanyuan family, so they should come out logically." Riding on a horse to protect the female relatives, but why did they stay in the bullock cart? Why was Xiaoer, a weak princess, forced to ride a horse and Luqiao to divert Dou's pursuers? As a result, Xiaoer was captured by Pan Zhengyue before he arrived in Luoyang The black-hearted Pan Zhengyue raped Xiao'er and the palace servants around him in turn, and Xiao'er suffered so much before he died."

Concubine Li closed her eyes in pain, burst into tears, and cried bitterly, "My filial son is a princess of golden branches and jade leaves, why did he end up like this? Due to the royal dignity, the emperor kept secret, so he had to declare that filial son The whereabouts are unknown." Empress Dowager Li burst into tears, her right hand clutched her chest convulsively, as if she couldn't breathe in pain, "Private sacrifices are not allowed in the palace, my poor filial son is still a lonely ghost."

"So what?" the prince said impatiently, "Who can take care of whom during the escape? I can only blame Shu Xiaofu for her poor life."

"Shameless coward," Grand Concubine Li roared, "Why? Just because Shuxiao is the daughter of a concubine? Do you think I don't know? Luqiao told me everything. Your two younger sisters let Chu Yu Grabbing Xiao'er's hair and forcing her to get off the bullock cart, you and the prince didn't pay any attention to her. Only Luqiao who was next to the queen came to meet you and found Xiao'er was gone, so she went to save Xiao'er. But both she and Xiao'er were caught by Pan Zhengyue, and she set fire to Pan Zhengyue's tent before escaping death, but her face and body were also ruined, and she never smiled again." Mrs. Li The concubine fell to the ground crying.

The prince had a cold face, he couldn't see what he was thinking, he could only vaguely see his chest rising and falling.

After a while, Concubine Li finally spoke again: "Lvqiao went to Luoyang to recuperate for a whole year before she could speak. That day she cried and told me that she saw Xiaoer's condition with her own eyes. How come Pan Zhengyue ruined her to death, all the bones in Xiao'er's body were broken. Pan Zhengyue said that Shuxiao's skin was as smooth as milk, so he peeled off Xiao'er's skin alive as a skin lamp, Throw Xiao'er's body out and feed it to the dogs."

Concubine Li's tearful eyes flashed with a strange mist, she walked towards the sheepskin lamp in front of the Buddhist altar, her hands trembling, caressing the leather lamp very lightly, her eyes were full of deep pain, " My poor filial son... If it wasn't for General Yu who drove Pan Zhengyue out of Jinyang, he ran away in a hurry, and the soldiers under him would have sacrificed this leather lamp to the general in order to survive. General Yu is benevolent... no I have brought you back all the way to avoid suspicion, and now I have the opportunity to let you return to my mother's side through all kinds of hardships, otherwise you will only be wandering in the sea of ​​suffering for the rest of your life, and be a lonely soul without a master."

The prince's face turned pale all of a sudden, no matter how deep the city was, no matter how well-bred he was, he also took two steps back, beads of sweat dripped from his smooth forehead, stared fixedly at the leather lamp, and said in amazement : "This must be a trap set by the Yuan family. I think you are a demon. This is just an ordinary sheepskin lamp."

Concubine Li smiled horribly and said: "Xiao'er has been weak since childhood, and the Taoist priest said to have a Falun tattooed on his chest so as to keep him safe forever. Don't you think this is Xiao'er's Falun?"

I followed the sound and saw that the Falun on the leather lamp was clearly visible, glowing with a pale green light.

"I think the empress dowager is crazy." The prince smiled nervously, staring at the leather lamp, his right hand pressed tightly on the hilt of the sword, but visibly trembling.

"Your lives were saved by Xiao'er and Luqiao, but you all acted as if nothing happened. Your two younger sisters are going to make trouble, mocking Luqiao's chastity being taken away, and her face being destroyed. Your Majesty said that she will do it for her." Xiao'er summoned the soul and set up a tomb, but you still objected, hypocritically saying something that would hinder the royal dignity. Do you think I don't know? You are afraid that Xiao'er's soul will come back and take your life!" Concubine Li said contemptuously. Said.

The prince took a big step back, panting heavily, and finally calmed down, "Does your empress only care about Shuxiao being humiliated?"

The prince said sadly: "What about my mother, and sister Rui? They were burned naked by the Dou thief, and then their ashes were sunk into the Yu River. How have they ever felt better?"

"That's right, it was Shuyi and Shuhuan who forced Shuxiao out of the car at the beginning, because there was no room in the car, and the deposed prince refused to get out of the car. To blame you should be to blame the abolished prince, why only blame me? Are the descendants of the Xuanyuan family a selfish, ruthless and useless man like you?" Concubine Li stepped forward and said bitterly, "Then the former third master was trying to save Zhenjing and the common people in Xi'an City privately stole fish amulets, and General Yu captured Xi'an City, and now General Yu drove Na Maozi out of Jinyang, but you sacrificed Shuxiao in order to survive. Why do you push Shu Go down? Why Shuxiao? There are Chu Yu and other palace people in the car, why sacrifice your sister Shuxiao?!"

Concubine Li spat at the crown prince, "You, like Concubine Kong, are a despicable, shameless, heartless villain. After thinking about it, I just can't figure it out. Could it be that a cowardly and shameless person like you can be the emperor? Will it be able to kill the sinus thieves and rectify the country?"

"In a woman's opinion, those who achieve great things don't care about small things. The Xuanyuan Zong family has been in decline until now. I am the Son of Heaven. I am the emperor, and I will rejuvenate my Xuanyuan royal family." The prince shouted loudly, stood under the light, and looked at the gods and Buddhas He said harshly but cruelly, "Don't talk about a mere princess and royal sister, even if there are thousands of troops, my biological mother and wife, my beloved, my biological children, will sacrifice their lives for this country."

Concubine Li looked at the prince in a daze, and yelled loudly: "I am the only one who treats you the best among these children. The queen punished you to kneel in the courtyard, and I secretly sent servants to bring you food. You have loved him since you were a child." Drill into my palace, you, you and I... are old friends, so I will let Shuxiao go with you at ease, why do you treat Shuxiao like this?" After talking about it, she was already sobbing, "Poor Xiaoer, it was because of your mother that you were harmed, it was because of your mother that you were sent to a dead end."

Her cry was so sad and sad that everyone who heard it wept.When I heard it, I felt extremely miserable in my heart, and I couldn't help but get red eyes.

"It's not me, I can't stop it at all. Those younger sisters of mine, they, they forcibly pulled Shuxiao away from me," the prince yelled back, with tears in his eyes, "What are you doing dirty?" The water was splashed on me, but you clearly knew that before the national change, I didn't want the throne and glory at all, but just wanted to go boating in the rivers and lakes with the person I like. You know it better than anyone else. Why do you always blame me for my mother and concubine? punish me for my fault? Do you think it will be easy for me to go all this way?" The prince looked at Concubine Li and said sadly, "It seems that we are about to fight back to the capital, but each of them just wants to hold on to the other party's fault. .Actually, I have been afraid of the queen since I was a child, because I know she doesn't like my mother and concubine, and she doesn't like me. She is afraid that I will compete with her stupid son for the throne. She looks at me like a nasty bedbug. , so I always try my best to please her. And Yuan Li, I knew she liked Yuan Li, so I tried my best to marry Yuan Li, so that at least she would not come to deal with me, but she still wanted to kill me. "

"The princess is so pitiful." Concubine Li sneered contemptuously. "I'm afraid you will never know that your romantic encounter with her was just a well-prepared scene."

The prince was noncommittal to Concubine Li's taunt, but just looked at her deeply.

"But I have liked you since I was a child, because I know that you are a rare good person in this palace. Do you still remember this beautiful round fan?" He took out a fan from his pocket.

The light in the room was a bit dim, only the bleak and gloomy light emitted by the lamp that the poor Princess Shuxiao's body was transformed into.I had no choice but to rub my eyes and take a closer look. It was the one he slapped while boiling the medicine last night, "You like Mo Yin's paintings, so I am very close to Feibai. In fact, my selfish desire is to learn painting from him, and finally One day I will be able to secretly draw your little portrait on this fan..."

Concubine Li stared blankly at him for a few moments, her pale face slowly blushed, she turned her face away, but tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, "Now what are you talking to me about?"

The prince's tone changed, and gradually became gentle, "When I was young, I always secretly asked you to hug me, and you also liked to hug me. I always privately give you and Shuxiao the good things that my father bestowed on me. Sister, my own sisters still blame me for being biased. But since Shuxiao left, you don’t laugh anymore.” The prince slowly walked up to Concubine Li, and said in pain, “My two younger sisters were killed by the concubine mother. Spoiled lawlessly, every day thinking about how to keep the father and emperor for the mother and concubine. I hate their self-righteousness from the bottom of my heart. I like being with Shuxiao and you the most. I think being with you is the real one. Family. Do you think I have lived comfortably these years? After Shuxiao left, I dreamed of the way Shuxiao looked at me every night, and I lived in self-blame every day. If I were braver then, It would be nice to be stronger."

"It's really nice to say," Concubine Li sneered, "but what's the use of saying this? Even if you were just an accomplice in killing Shuxiao, why did you want to kill your father?"

"Nonsense," the crown prince yelled, "that was clearly planned by the Yuan family behind Hua Hibiscus, what does it have to do with me? Do you think I will be as stupid as you? I am about to ascend the throne of God, and I will have more lives What happened? Obviously you put some poisonous scorpions to sting me."

"I really want to kill you, but I don't understand what you said about poisonous scorpions," Concubine Li said coldly, "I was most afraid of poisonous insects and beasts since I was a child. You didn’t do anything. But I know that you deliberately let the brothers and sisters of the crown prince and concubine tell the first emperor the news of the assassination, so as to stimulate his mood and aggravate his condition.”

The prince froze, his eyes flickered, and he turned his head and shouted: "It turns out that you are already crazy and talking nonsense."

"Now you think I'm crazy again? Let me tell you, I'm not a murderer, and Princess Zhenjing is definitely not a murderer," said Concubine Li indifferently. "She was forced to be Princess Lingbo just like poor Shuxiao. A substitute. Her eyes are the only ones I have seen that are clean since I met so many people, so I kept her here because I was afraid that you would be bad for the late emperor, so that I could be a witness. If it is really not you, I am afraid that another There is someone else."

Suddenly, Concubine Li's face turned pale, and fresh blood spurted out from her mouth, splashing onto the fair face of the prince opposite, a sharp blade was exposed on her chest and shoulders, someone passed through behind her with a sword, and Concubine Li limply fall down.The prince caught her body in amazement, and fell to the ground with her.The blood from Concubine Li's body splashed onto the prince's filial piety clothes. After a while, the prince sat on the ground in a daze. The blood from Concubine Li's body spread to his plain clothes, and he almost became a blood man.He slowly raised his head and looked at the murderer behind him——it turned out to be the ice-cold Crown Princess.She also had blood splattered all over her body. On her head was a glazed crown bead with a few drops of blood splattered on it, and her filial piety was also stained blood red.

"You killed her?" The prince asked blankly, without any emotion in his tone, not even fear, just a kind of despair as if the sky was falling.

"This old man dared to seduce you," the princess said sternly, "She deserves to die."

Tears gradually appeared in the prince's eyes, and his lips trembled uncontrollably, bursting out with strong hatred and contempt, "She is my only relative."

But the concubine was still furious, and said contemptuously: "You also know that this old bitch is your concubine, how dare you mess up Gangchang? Shameless. Dirty things, how can you hook up with this old bitch behind my back... "

Before she finished speaking, the prince suddenly stepped forward and slapped her hard.The prince does not practice martial arts, he is considered a frail scholar, but after all he is a strong and strong man, and he tried his best in a fit of rage, this palm was very heavy.The princess was hit on the ground at once, and blood slowly flowed from Sakura's lips.

(End of this chapter)