First Concubine

Chapter 268 The Fall of the Ren Emperor (4)

Feng Yanying was about to burst into tears, "Stop talking, hold on, I'll call someone right now!"

"No...wait!" Dong Jialin said as if she was trying her best, "How is Yao Xin? What did she say?"

Feng Yanying is so worried. Why are you still in the mood to care about Yao Xin at this juncture? "I didn't catch her, and I met the Crown Princess and the Concubine on the way. I...I felt guilty and hid, and when I hid...it wasted a lot of time..."

Dong Jialin frowned and gasped in pain, "Cousin, don't call the doctor yet, you... find someone... to stop Yao Xin... from returning home..."

"How can I stop it? The Yao Mansion is her home, and she wants to go back to nature!" Feng Yanying vaguely guessed something, but did not dare to guess further.

Dong Jialin held Feng Yanying's skirt tightly, almost making a hole, and her eyes were colder and sharper than ever before, "Cousin, you understand... what I mean, as long as she leaks the news... my cousin-in-law will not survive. Between her and her cousin-in-law... you choose one yourself!"

Feng Yanying was so surprised that she covered her mouth, "No...no way...my husband didn't do anything. The old man would not kill my husband..."

Dong Jialin sneered, "No? Even if not... But in order to prevent you from using the Yao family's money to help Xun Feng, the old man will definitely take away the financial power of his cousin-in-law... maybe... he will also drive you... out of the capital... to prevent You...conspired with me..."

Feng Yanying's eyes were cloudy for a moment, as if she was bewitched, but she soon regained her clarity. She pulled out her skirt, took a step back, and looked at Dong Jialin as if she were a stranger, "You have changed! You have changed." It's really changed! Where have your gentleness, conscience, and morality gone? I can't do this! Even if I drink the northwest wind, I can't frame my sister-in-law! I pretended not to hear what Yao Xin said today. Don’t give you away, but from now on, I...I won’t have any relatives like you!”

After saying that, she wiped away her tears and turned around. Suddenly, an attendant knocked on the door, "Concubine Dong Jia, the prince is almost busy, please let me pick you up."

Feng Yanying subconsciously leaned towards Dong Jialin. Dong Jialin's eyes flashed, and she grabbed her sweaty hand and said word by word: "Either you do as I say, or I tell Xun Feng that I had good intentions to persuade you to surrender, but you deliberately harmed my fetus! The crown prince's most important thing is He hates others for hurting his flesh and blood. If he can’t save this baby, you can’t even escape..."

By the time Shui Linglong endured her exhaustion and rushed to Huibing Pavilion, the fight was already over. Yunli stood quietly on the round platform, lonely and cold. The effect of Cartilage Powder has expired and he can attack freely, but who should he attack?

"Your Majesty." Shui Linglong glanced at the ruins and blood on the ground and called him softly.

Yun Li's eyes finally focused. He looked at Shui Linglong and smiled slightly, "You're here."

Shui Linglong has never seen such emotions in Yunli's eyes, gray and cold, scorching cold, indifferent...and despair. Shui Linglong suddenly felt pain in her throat and difficulty breathing. Even though she never loved him, she owed him a debt in her previous life and could not save him in this life...

"I am no longer the emperor." Seeing Shui Linglong remained silent, Yun Li smiled nonchalantly, "I remember when we first met, I was the prince who was feared by everyone, and you were a concubine like duckweed. Times have changed, You have become a high-ranking Crown Princess, but I have become a prisoner. I want to protect you... but I can't. No, you don't need my protection anymore. If you don't mind, please call me "Your Highness." 'Bar."

 He spoke calmly, but a kind of sadness burst out from the depths of his soul.

Shui Linglong climbed up the stairs, a layer of mist rising in her eyes, "Your Highness."

Yun Li still smiled, but sighed in shame, "I must be terrible in your heart, trusting villains, indecisive, and courageous..."

"No!" Shui Linglong shook her head and interrupted Yunli, "You are a good emperor." You are just too soft-hearted and kind...

Yun Li slowly turned around, approached Shui Linglong, and stopped when he was just a few feet away from her, "I am a subjugated emperor, and the Yun family's imperial power in the Great Zhou Dynasty... was destroyed in my hands. Do you know what I am thinking now? ?" As he spoke, he raised his hand and touched the hair on her temples.

Shui Linglong didn't move away. His cold fingertips fell on her temples, causing a faint scent of ambergris to drift into her heart. Shui Linglong lowered her eyes and heard him say softly: "I'm thinking about you. It was the right thing to avoid getting married to me at that time.”

"Your Highness..." Shui Linglong's nose was slightly sore.

"Thank you." Yun Li said with a smile, "I know it was you who sent away the seventh brother and the others, and it was you who transported the Queen Mother's body to Mobei."

Shui Linglong said seriously: "Your Highness, I will arrange for someone to send you, Bingbing, the little princess, and the little prince to Mobei tonight."

Yun Li hugged her with such force that he almost broke her waist, and his deliberately lowered voice slowly rang in her ears, "I've left a team of troops for you in the east of the city. Run away quickly." Kashiqing! Never come back!”

Shui Linglong was startled, but before she could recover, she was sent out of the hall by a gentle strong wind. Shui Linglong stepped forward quickly, but the door suddenly closed. Shui Linglong patted the door panel and shouted: "Your Highness! Your Highness! Your Highness, please open the door! Your Highness, please don't do anything stupid! Don't worry about running out of firewood to keep the green hills! Your Highness, listen!" I say! Your Highness, please open the door... Your Highness!

Yun Li stood with his hands behind his hands, with scattered smiles in his eyes, but turned a deaf ear to Shui Linglong's cries. Around him, the fire spread little by little, and his tall and straight figure was shrouded in light smoke, making it seem unreal.

Yan Zhen walked out from behind the screen and walked behind him, "Your Majesty."

Yun Li was shaken and turned around, "Didn't you... tell you to leave? Why are you bothering?"

To save the women and children in the palace, Yunli asked the Yan family to surrender to Xun Feng, but Yan Zhen understood that Yunli did not want all the loyal Yan family to die for the country. Yan Zhen hugged Yun Li from behind, laughing and crying, "I can't repay the emperor's kindness. I will let you accompany the emperor on the way to hell."

"Your Highness! Your Highness... Ahem... Your Highness... Come out quickly... Your Highness... Ahem... Your Highness, if you die, what will happen to Bingbing? What will happen to the little prince and princess? Your Highness! Your Highness, please come out..." The fire became more and more fierce. Like a dragon's vicious tongue greedily devouring the creatures of the dark night. Shui Linglong lay on the increasingly hot door panel, choking on the thick smoke and almost out of breath. Shui Lingyue and Si Xi rushed to the scene, scared to death, and worked together to drag Shui Linglong to the meeting hall.

In the meeting hall, Xun Feng stood on the steps with his hands behind his hands. He was tall and elegant, and his movements exuded a dragon power that was feared by both gods and demons. He was obviously wearing silver and white brocade clothes, but Shui Linglong seemed to see him wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, looking domineering and arrogant.

“Those who obey me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish. Those who sign will be asked to leave with their families; those who do not sign will be killed without mercy!”

 Kill without mercy, kill without mercy, kill without mercy... These three words kept floating in Shui Linglong's ears, and her whole body felt like she was in an illusion, as light as stepping on cotton. Whatever happened to Yun Li, Yao Qingfeng, and Shui Hangge, she couldn't see them all. Xun Feng like this forcibly occupied all her sight, and he couldn't even squeeze into the corner of the wall.

Xun Feng looked at her with a half-smile, and extended his right hand towards her, "Linglong, come to me."

Shui Linglong woke up suddenly, as if she had reached the limit of holding the water and suddenly rushed out of the water to get a breath. She took a sharp breath of cold air, then looked at Xun Feng intently, and found that Xun Feng was discussing something with Eunuch Deng, and did not notice her at all. . She actually had a hallucination... After calming down, Shui Linglong quickly searched for Guo Yan in the crowd and found that Guo Yan was three meters in front of her. She strode to Guo Yan's side and held Guo Yan's hand.

 Guo Yan's face was very pale, and he had just fainted again during the fight. Fortunately, the assassin did not kill him. Perhaps Xun Feng was trying to avoid it and knew that Linglong cared about him.

Xun Feng still noticed Shui Linglong. The moment Shui Linglong came into close contact with Guo Yan, his eyes tightened and two sharp gleams of cold light burst out, "Why, is the Crown Princess trying to persuade General Guo to surrender, or is she trying to persuade General Guo to surrender?" Are you fighting to the death? Or...are you waiting for Zhuge Yu to come back from Kashiqing to save you? But I don't think he will come back for a while."

 When he said this, he was laughing, with perverse confidence and evil, mocking all those who resisted in vain. Shui Linglong narrowed her eyes slightly, "Did you manipulate the holy fire of Kashgar?"

Xun Feng smiled speciously, and looked around the hall one by one, "Thank you for thinking so highly of me, but to be honest, my martial arts skills are not as good as Zhuge Yu's, and I can't sneak into places like forbidden areas. It's just..."

"It's just that you knew that the Holy Fire would be extinguished, so you chose the time when Zhuge Yu was not in the capital to deliberately make a high-profile appearance in order to arouse the emperor and Lord Yao to murder you. Then, you used the trick again and destroyed the capital... in one pot." Linglong analyzed it unhurriedly, and it seemed that the extinguishing of the holy fire was caused by man!

Xun Feng did not deny that he had indeed calculated the timing correctly. He could not say that he had predicted the timing accurately. He knew a few years ago that the flame would be extinguished last winter or this spring. For Kashgar Qing, the holy fire is as sacred as the jade seal passed down from the country. Without the holy fire, Kashgar Qing will definitely fall into chaos, and Zhuge Yu will definitely go to help.

Shui Linglong's eyes moved. Xun Feng probably didn't know that the third princess was not taken away by Shui Lingxi. As long as he controls the third princess, he is equivalent to controlling the Guo family. No wonder Xun Feng is so confident. So, can I take advantage of this loophole and escape?

“I want to leave, Your Majesty, will you let me go?”

Xun Feng smiled faintly, "What if you don't let me go?"

Shui Linglong’s eyes were like torches and she said: “I would rather die than surrender!”

Xun Feng's eyebrows twitched and he was stunned for a moment, then he looked up to the sky and smiled. His smiling eyes locked on Shui Linglong's delicate and beautiful face, and raised his bright red lips, "What a 'die rather than surrender'! In terms of scheming and means, you are no less than me." , I am able to get to where I am today just because I don’t have as many worries as you do. Now, I will have a contest with you that does not compete with strength, but only with luck!”

Shui Linglong raised her eyebrows suspiciously, and Xun Feng added: "I know what you have in mind. In this way, I will open the door of Dazhou to you, and the people in the palace and Guo Yan can leave with you. I swear on my life that I will never embarrass any of you, and I will never threaten Kashgar Qing with the South-to-West Water Diversion Project! But Shui Linglong, if you want something from me, remember, you have to do it yourself!”

Shui Linglong's expression changed. Something vaguely flashed through her mind, but she couldn't catch it in time. She raised her eyebrows and said with a deep gaze, "Thank you very much! I hope you will stick to your word and don't go back on your word!"

Xun Feng's palms were sweating. This time, he was indeed gambling with Shui Linglong. He was only half sure that Shui Linglong would come to beg him, but if God bought Shui Linglong's account, he would... Bamboo Basket All in vain! He is the destiny of Tianlong, and Shui Linglong is the noble of the feudal city. Without Shui Linglong, his fortune would be unparalleled. However, Shui Linglong has deeply affected his fortune in this life. At this moment, he really has no idea. Not sure whose side God will be on. Watching Shui Linglong and Guo Yan walking further and further away, his breathing gradually became inexplicably heavy. It seemed that he hadn't felt this way for a long time. Ever since he was heartbroken by that woman, he vowed never to do anything for her again. Who is moved, but look, he feels a little uncomfortable!

 “The water is exquisite!”

When Shui Linglong heard Xun Feng calling her, she thought Xun Feng was going to regret it. But at this moment, a mother from Shui Lingxi's side came. She crawled to Xun Feng's feet and cried a few words. Murderous intent flashed in Feng's eyes, and Shui Linglong's hair stood on end. If her guess was correct, the servant girl was suing the third princess for being rescued by an unknown person. Now that Xun Feng had lost the chess piece that could threaten the Guo Mansion and the Queen Mother, could he still... be willing to gamble with her?

Shui Linglong turned around slowly, stuffing the horror into her heart, and said indifferently: "Is it possible that the prince regretted it?"

Xun Feng clenched his fist, and the veins on his forehead trembled one by one, as if they were about to burst at any time, "No, I just want to remind you one last thing, if you beg me, you have to use yourself!"

Shui Linglong said in a cold voice without thinking: "Prince, don't worry! I, Shui Linglong, don't want glory and wealth, and I don't covet power and status. I won't ask you for anything!"

Xun Feng smashed the pillar next to him with one punch.

After leaving the gate, the palace's carriage stopped at the roadside. Shui Linglong and Guo Yan got on the carriage. Liu Lu and Zhi Fan were washing the face of the third princess with a handkerchief. Shui Lingxi was sitting on a soft couch with her hands and feet tied. Cen'er He stared at her with burning eyes.

Guo Yan was startled at first, then sat next to the third princess and asked eagerly: "How is she?"

Cen'er said: "I was knocked a little bit, it's not a problem."

No one needs to explain, Guo Yan also understood who the perpetrator was, and he kicked Shuilingxi without saying a word. He doesn't hit women, but he really doesn't need to treat her as a human being because he was a beast who framed the three of them, mother and son, in his past life, and harmed his wife in this life.

Shui Lingxi spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot. If Cen'er hadn't tapped her acupoint, she would have screamed like a slaughtered pig.

Shui Linglong glanced at her coldly, "I can beat her no matter what, just leave her alive."

Shui Lingxi looked at Shui Linglong with great fear. She wanted to cry and scream, but she couldn't pronounce a single syllable. Shui Linglong ignored her pity, and she would not die unless she wanted to die. She had let Shui Lingxi off many times, but Shui Lingxi didn't cherish her, so she couldn't blame her. Shui Linglong felt that she was disgusting, so she took the silk cloth and put it on her head, and then said to Guo Yan: "You go back and pack your things. We will set off tomorrow. We will go to Kashiqing to meet with Zhuge Yu first, and then discuss the follow-up plan. ”

Guo Yan nodded. Suddenly, he felt dizzy and almost fainted.

Shui Linglong touched his sweat-stained cheek and asked distressedly: "What's wrong with you? There is nothing wrong with your pulse, but you are clearly getting weaker and weaker."

Guo Yan's eyes flashed, he hugged her, buried his head in the crook of her neck, and said nonchalantly: "I'm tired. I've been up early in the morning and been too tired lately."

"Is it really... like this?" Shui Linglong's heart felt a dull pain, inexplicable pain.

Guo Yan hugged her and smiled, "Of course it's true! You take good care of the baby and don't think about anything else. I'll pick you up tomorrow."

Shui Linglong nodded with a complicated expression, "Well, okay, let's fly far away and never come back." Whatever reincarnation and fate, go to hell! She didn't believe that she was no longer in Dazhou, so Lao Shizi had the ability to reincarnate them again!

When the carriage arrived at the palace, Guo Yan watched Shui Linglong get out of the car. Looking at her figure gradually disappearing into the dark night, a layer of mist quickly appeared in his eyes. He pressed his chest, barely feeling his heartbeat, and stretched out his hand again. , as if in a momentary trance, only white bones could be seen. He dropped his sleeves and touched the clothes Shui Linglong had sewn for him, and shed a tear, "Linglong, what else can I do for you?"

 (End of this chapter)