Chapter 225: No more thinking about foreign affairs
"You're here too."
"Waiting for you."
He saw her standing at the door, but he didn't expect that he was a step too late. But it was very early, the sky was bright, and there were still a few stubborn stars hanging in the sky, trying to shine brightly on the dark blue sky. But soon they will be eclipsed by daylight. The guards beside the woman did not stop them. They just pretended that they could not see them and allowed them to enter the palace gate without showing any proof.
"Why are you still wearing this curtain hat?" The woman lifted up the black curtain in front of his eyes and looked at his face. "At least it should be replaced. The brim of the hat was scratched when. There is a small hole. It is not beautiful enough."
"It's not necessary. Just cover your eyes. I scared a child to tears two months ago. It's very troublesome."
The woman burst into laughter. They entered the palace and went straight to the courtyard, where someone was waiting for them. There are all orchids planted in the courtyard, most of them are old, with strong roots and strong grip on the soil. There are all kinds of orchids in a variety of colors. If you pick out any one, it will be worth the money that many people have never seen in their lives.
The Lord of Xinyue Palace likes these. Now she seems to be getting older, and her steps are hobbling. The rose-red gauze on her head covers her gray hair, but her two corners are still raised stubbornly. Since more than ten years ago, there has been internal strife in the Twenty-Eight Palaces. Some people have been sitting for a long time, and their appetite for power is getting bigger and bigger, and they are prone to have twisted thoughts. Of course the emperor couldn't stand it, he wasn't stupid, it was better to say he was smart. He only tampered a little with this distributed power and caused chaos below. Or how to say he is the king of a country, the effect is naturally very significant. Xinyue Palace is located in the capital, and is walking on thin ice under the emperor's nose. But the emperor likes it because Xinyue Palace is obedient, smart and useful enough. It would be better to say that other places that were investigated and banned still had a knife belonging to Master Yue.
She stood in front of a bouquet of light purple orchids. The maid reported that someone was coming, and she waved her hand for everyone to leave.
"You're fine." A slightly older voice came from under the rose-red gauze.
"I've met the Grand Master."
"It is a great honor for Yue to have two Masters of Impermanence come to the Han Palace."
"We don't have much time, let's get straight to the point." The man wearing a curtain hat said, "You know why we are here."
"Well... I should have known it. I found out that since a certain day, I couldn't think of your name, so I expected the current scene. The emperor has been in poor health recently, and he has reached the end of his life. I'm afraid it will be difficult to wait for the new year. When the emperor ascends the throne, my Heart and Moon Palace will also be uprooted. If you had come a little later, maybe this place would have been connected to the expanded treasury. Fortunately, the emperor is a native of the Aegean, and he also borrowed your light to pay tribute to the five emperors. Xian Xianqin, I won’t be charged with being thrown into jail, or kicked out. Unfortunately, they didn’t say they would bring me some souvenir or something..."
"The dagger was originally given to you," the woman said, "but you handed it in on your own. It seems that in order to avoid investigation and show your attitude, you also wasted a lot of effort."
"I like that red bead..."
The man said calmly: "The magical weapons have been distributed long ago and are controlled by the other six impermanences. The red pearl is in the hands of Lord Maoyue. You can ask her if you have the chance."
"Alas, after decades, you are still so boring."
"Don't talk like you know me well."
Several people walked around in a big circle, but still didn't get down to business. It's daybreak. They walked onto a bridge and saw two small pavilions from a distance. The water was empty except for a small boat. There used to be large lotus leaves here, but they seem to have been cleared away. Yue Baizhi stood by the bridge, silently staring at the water and sky.
"We have been doing business with the Southern Kingdom for many years, but it has not been very peaceful recently. The whole court is focused on the seriously ill emperor, and there is not much time to take care of it. Water thieves are rampant, but we can't take care of it. Two days ago, the fourth Important members of the imperial court were also killed. I'm afraid it won't work if we don't take this matter seriously. If you are impermanent..."
"Liangyue-kun has been ordered to negotiate." The man said, "The prince should get better before he ascends the throne."
"Jun Liangyue..." Yue Baizhi thought for a while, "I always feel like an acquaintance."
The woman said: "You have indeed seen it."
Yue Baizhi nodded. She is naturally very well-informed and knows where and who is missing. Nowadays, there is such a Xishu Wenxiang Liangyue Jun in the Six Paths of Impermanence. Of course she knows the basics.
"If Miss Jun hadn't insisted on staying there... I'm afraid Mr. Liangyue wouldn't have appeared now. Alas, it's a pity that that year I received a letter from Mr. Xueyue and immediately wrote a letter asking the court to send a ship. But at that time, They started quarreling again... Some people refused to let go. Some really believed in impermanence and couldn't trust you. Others refused because they were involved in financial interests. Some people also tried their best to write letters, and most of them were ordinary people—— There were people with no news from their families in the South. They submitted letters to the county government, but they were thrown aside at first. Later, the letters were piled on top of each other, getting higher and higher. Some of them were burned, and some were pushed to higher levels, layer by layer. Kick it up, and finally pile it up in front of the emperor's case..."
So the imperial court finally sent troops. Many ships sailed safely to the Biluo Islands, where the barrier no longer existed, and to the Nine Heavens Kingdom. They divided into several groups and picked up a civilian, three Liudao Impermanences, and a general at different times and places with different people. The general thought his daughter had gone back, but she hadn't. His daughter stubbornly stayed here. She was seriously injured and bedridden all day long. When the court ship came to pick her up, she left a letter and disappeared out of bed. The letter said that she was a lunatic and would only remain a lunatic for the rest of her life. She never believed that she would live like a normal person. She closed her eyes, and all she could think of was the fleshy flesh after being hacked repeatedly, making it impossible to recognize what it looked like before. She didn't like it, but she couldn't help it. She said she didn't want to hurt anyone - but couldn't. The only thing she deserves most in this life is her adoptive father who gave her her name.
Her companions searched frantically the next day but could not find it. The court's boat had a limited time to stop. A few days later, he was dragged and dragged onto the boat home by the two Wu Changs. As for the general, he didn't get his daughter's letter until he came back, and he fainted immediately. After waking up, he insisted on going there again, but was thrown into jail, saying that he... dared to cultivate his own army privately. The situation is chaotic, some people believe it, some people don't believe it; some people support it, some people oppose it. The general's friend was going to take the exam, so he deliberately delayed it and ran around for him, praying to God and Buddha. But his friend did not go to see him because he had no face. To put it bluntly, at first, he supported the general's daughter in finding him and coming back. Now the general is back and his daughter is gone.
To this day, the general has passed away, but no one has heard anything about his daughter.
Far away... What was Liangyue-kun's previous name? This will only remain an eternal mystery.
Just like this man.
The man was indeed impatient: "Do people like to look back on the past when they get old? We are in a hurry."
"Oh, after all, young people are still impatient." Grand Master Yue looked like he was shaking his head, but he pursed his lips and smiled, "The demon Yama is really ruthless, and he won't tell you the place."
The woman said: "The Lord is willing to tell us the last days and acquiesce in allowing us to do such 'unnecessary things'. It is already a mercy. Besides, Kanna-kun's weapons are still in his hands, and he should get them back."
"I have found the place you asked me to check. It's right here..."
The breeze blew by, and the willow trees by the river swayed their branches in the water. The chaotic ripples pushed each other and crushed the reflection of the sky into pieces. There was a rustling sound in the grass, and the insects hiding in it made sporadic chirps.
"We're leaving now." The woman bowed her head slightly in greeting, "You should find a good place to go as soon as possible. The emperor's time is short, and the eldest son of the emperor has never dealt with him in private. According to his son's temperament... I'm afraid... When we liquidate his father’s power, I’m afraid Xinyue Palace will bear the brunt. Please be more careful.”
"Then I hope he can find me."
She spoke briskly, her voice clearly that of a teenage girl. The wind blew the tulle off her head, revealing a pair of fox ears.
She waved to them and watched them disappear into the depths of the garden of Xinyue Palace.
After passing through many spiritual veins, the two of them were speechless all the way. They knew each other well and had nothing necessary to say. Jiuzhou is so big that it is a rare thing for more than two Six Paths of Impermanence to act at the same time. Either the events are related to each other, or the situation is very serious. But what they were going to do this time was nothing special. Rather, they are "private matters", which are insignificant compared to their work.
"It will be October of the following year when you return to this world. There is a big time difference. He also wants to go to the South Country again, but at that time, the court will not allow people who have been there to go again. Otherwise, the general's affairs... will also be left to him Implicated." Lord Ruyue suddenly spoke.
"I can't find her even if I go there, so I'll just feel sad for nothing. No one could survive her injuries at that time. It's a miracle that she can endure it for so long." Kanna-kun answered.
There wasn't much sadness in his words, but they weren't frivolous either. He just looked away, more open than anyone else.
"How many years have we not seen each other?"
"More than fifty years," Kanna-kun said, "pretty fast."
"Well... it's quite fast. The last time I heard about him was more than thirty years ago. Mr. Shuangyue passed by that place on business and saw him. He married a wife. Mr. Shuangyue said, it's not like a flower. The girl, I guess, must be as beautiful as a flower."
"Um."
They were speechless again.
The day passed like this. Standing on this plain surrounded by mountains and rivers, they saw a lonely house, which was dyed golden at dusk. This house is not completely isolated, but it is too far away from the nameless village. It is the farthest home in the village. The cabin sat at the highest point of the river's high tide, and a little higher. If there are no flash floods, it is usually safe. In fact, there has not been a flood in this place for hundreds of years. The most powerful water is the small waterfall a hundred miles away from the wooden house.
There was a little girl with pigtails catching fish in the water. A submissive boy stood on the shore, and the girl asked her to come down with her. It can be seen that the girl is the elder sister and the boy is the younger brother.
"This house looks like yours."
"Does it look like it?" Lord Ruyue tilted his head, "I can't remember clearly."
"I still remember."
The glow is very warm, falling on the water like a burning fire.
"Kid." Kanna-kun called the boy over, "Do you live here?"
The boy took two steps back in fear. The girl immediately ran up from the shallow water, splashing, tapping, tapping, and stood in front of the boy with her bare feet on the grass. When she stopped, the braid on her head was still swaying.
"Who are you? You are not from the village."
Lord Ruyue scolded: "You are too cruel."
"Is there any?" He pulled back the curtain.
"I'll do it." Lord Ruyue knelt down and looked into the girl's round eyes, "Girl, where are your parents?"
"My parents went out to make money and came back." The girl said, "My aunt and uncle are going to work in the world."
"Let's break into the world!" Although the little boy behind him was a little timid, he agreed at this time.
Kanna-kun muttered, he was so heartless.
Lord Kisaragi asked again: "Is this where your grandparents live?"
"Yes. But grandma left last winter, and now it's just us and grandpa."
"We are your grandfather's friends and want to find him. Is he at home?"
"Grandpa is watching the stars under the waterfall..." the boy said timidly, "He is there every night. But when you call him, you have to shout at the top of your lungs, otherwise he will be deaf and can't hear anything."
"Okay, thanks."
After saying that, Kanna-kun turned around and left, and Kisaragi-kun straightened up and followed behind. The girl still had a curious look on her face and poked her head behind her, shouting at the top of her lungs: "You haven't said what you want to do yet!"
Along the river, the two of them went upstream. The setting sun lay on the top of the mountain, watching them, stretching their shadows very long. In the distance, they saw a white-haired old man, hunched over, sitting on a tree stump. His shadow is also very long.
The gurgling water is a warm orange-red color. Kanna-kun stopped some distance away from him, and Kisaragi-kun also stopped. The two of them looked at the body that was as dry as dead leaves in the wind, delicate and waiting for the dark night, and suddenly they were not so sure.
"Qi Huan?"
The old man suddenly looked back.
