The empress seemed to have known for a long time that he was back, and she stayed up very late, probably waiting for him.
For the first time, a charcoal fire was lit in the study in front of Zhangtai Palace, and the room was as warm as spring.
The reason why it is said to be unprecedented is because the empress herself never uses charcoal fire in winter. In her words, she is like a stove. What else is wasting? It would be better to save firewood.
Jiang Fan's constitution was abnormal and he had long been immune to the cold and heat, but this was the empress's good intention after all. It just so happened that he also had something good with him. He took out two sweet potatoes from his arms and simmered them over charcoal fire.
The empress frowned slightly when she saw that thing, as if she was unhappy.
"Stolen?"
Jiang Fan immediately distanced himself from the relationship: "The old guy did it, he stole it all, there is no reason to waste it."
The empress snorted lightly, but didn't say anything. After all, after two years of cultivation, the reserves were sufficient. Now Lishan has been planted on a large scale. By next autumn, it can be spread throughout the Qin Dynasty.
"This thing tastes delicious when grilled. I didn't expect you to prepare a charcoal fire. You are becoming more and more considerate, haha."
Seeing that he was a little distracted, the empress just sneered: "Light a charcoal fire? Because there is a ghost from the underworld behind you, just to give you some warmth."
Jiang Fan's face fell, and he thought this was what the empress meant.
The Empress got a little angrier as she spoke, and her sword eyebrows raised: "Before, provoking women was still a living thing, but now I don't even spare the dead. Are you really good at it? You are not picky about food to this extent?"
Jiang Fan's face was full of black lines: "Daughter-in-law... I didn't cause this, I was wronged and very angry... You don't know, there is a ghost behind you, how are you living like this..."
Seeing his sad face, the Empress felt a little better for no reason: "Haha..."
Mr. Jiang was stunned. What do you mean? Watching the fun, watching the jokes, or making sarcasm...
I hated these two words the most in my previous life!
It seems that my girlfriend made fun of her for three days because of a black stocking incident on the street, and even her own sister started making fun of her.
Too bad!
At least the empress didn't have the time to talk nonsense with him: "What are your plans?"
Jiang Fan turned over the sweet potatoes and said, "What can we do? The soldiers will come to cover up the water and the soil, and the ghosts will come... please invite Xian'er."
The empress frowned: "Please ask an immortal?"
"Yeah," Jiang Fan sighed helplessly and told the details about the Red Lotus King Puppet.
"So, you are going to Kunlun?"
Jiang Fan nodded: "What can be done? I estimate that in all likelihood, the innate energy has a suppressive effect on this evil thing. Otherwise, it would not be impossible to take down a corpse with the combined strength of so many powerful people."
The empress thought for a moment: "You are the most special person in Kunlun's history to walk in the world. Maybe they will make an exception for you."
Jiang Fan couldn't guarantee it: "Give it a try, you can't just sit there and wait for death. When you think about it, your neck is still cold."
"We have no shortage of strong men in the world, but if it is as you said, only one innate energy can suppress the Millennium King. It seems that it can only be done once." She pondered for a moment: "Perhaps, this trip is not that complicated. If this female corpse It’s the words from a thousand years ago.”
"Well, I think so too, then it's just a grudge."
The empress had a profound look on her face: "...What I care about is that once Kunlun makes an exception for you, there will be a second time..."
Jiang Fan was stunned and suddenly realized that this seemed to be a really big problem.
After a while, he suddenly murmured something like a dream: "...Taihua and Taiyue are changing..."
The empress was stunned for a moment, then thoughtful.
"Their entry into the world will break all balance." The empress stared at him.
Jiang Fan thought for a long time before shaking his head and saying uncertainly: "I don't think it's that fast...Kunlun seems to have a reason why he can't take action casually."
The empress said: "So, you need to take a long vacation and take care of yourself."
Jiang Fan nodded: "To be honest..." His eyes were a little unfocused: "I feel more and more weird..."
He pursed his lips and seemed to be trying hard to express his words: "...Well, how should I put it, I can't seem to understand myself."
The empress looked at him: "To understand yourself, there are only three questions: who am I, where do I come from, and where do I want to go."
Jiang Fan looked dazed for a long time, and finally sighed: "The problem is, the questions I thought were very clear, now... none of them are clear..."
The empress put down her pen, stood up and came to his side, lifted up her cloak and sat down next to him.
"What exactly did you find..."
Jiang Fan just shook his head and smiled bitterly: "If I were clear, I wouldn't be confused."
"I always thought that you came from outside the sky..." the empress said thoughtfully.
Jiang Fan didn't know what to say: "Even if I come from outside the sky...what am I looking for here?"
"The human world?" The empress suddenly said two words softly.
Jiang Fan was stunned: "The human world? Or... or something else..."
The two of them fell into silence for a while, with only the firelight dancing, giving the study a layer of orange warmth.
The empress looked at the flames in trance: "I lit this fire just to tell you that this is the human world, the warm human world..."
Jiang Fan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he lay on the empress' lap with his hands on his pillow.
"Let me feel the feelings..."
The empress' eyes were gentler than ever before, but it only lasted for a moment, and suddenly her sword eyebrows stood up: "Sex embryo! Die!"
Then Mr. Jiang covered the claws that had just reached the empress's thigh and screamed, heartbreaking and shocking.
Zhao Gao shivered outside and angrily scolded the silly little palace maid: "Why are you so stunned? Go to work! Stay away!"
The time for roasting sweet potatoes was still a bit short, the matter was done in a bit of a hurry, and both of them were not thinking online, so it ended hastily.
Mr. Jiang was blowing the roasted sweet potatoes and peeling them while he was mumbling: "I'm going to take a big vacation this time and take a good rest."
The empress snatched the freshly peeled sweet potatoes from him unceremoniously: "It's up to you...this thing is really delicious."
The empress stuttered, quite satisfied.
"Sea Dragon King has done a great thing for us. For this sake, you can show some kindness to him in the future."
Jiang Fan said: "It's just a thief. I killed the bandit who robbed my house. How can I still sympathize with him?"
The empress was even more satisfied this time: "Yes, your temper has become stronger. Speaking of which, since Hu Chishan came back, you have been confused from time to time. Is there anything that happened during this process that I don't know about?"
Jiang Fan had to admire her insight. Indeed, strictly speaking, it was not from Hu Chishan, but from meeting the Sea Dragon King.
That myth kept haunting him, and the strange fragments in his mind at that moment made him even more confused.
"...Have you ever had this kind of experience..." Jiang Fan gnawed a sweet potato and said slowly: "It's...you suddenly feel very, very familiar with a certain scene, as if you have experienced it before. But...you are very clear, you don't I may have been to that place, but I couldn’t have done those things..."
