Si Tian Guan

Chapter 194 Ablation

That night, neither of them slept soundly, fearing that if they closed their eyes, the great luck of the day would come to naught and be broken.

In any case, Zhiwei is now in the capital, and is still in the Huanyi Building.

Although King Huai was still confined at home and didn't even know the existence of Zhiwei, but in order to prevent the night from having many dreams, someone must return to Beijing immediately.

After leaving Dingling Hill, he fled all the way in a state of embarrassment, but fortunately his keepsakes are still well preserved. Next, he just needs to go to Shimao County Magistrate to escort him to Dingling Hill and inform the state government.

Hurry up and return to Beijing in a few days.

"You don't have to worry about Zhiwei, I will send someone to send a letter back quickly, and transfer Zhiwei to another hospital for care."

"I'll go to Jinnan Mansion. Jiu'an mentioned that King Huai is recruiting slave soldiers. I'll go and find a way."

Liu Chongming tidied up the clothes carefully, and took a white gauze bamboo hat from the side.

"After you go back, keeping the emperor stable is the most important thing. A mere grounding can't stop Mu Jingyan, he must be doing something secretly."

"Before leaving Beijing, my father and aunt said they would take good care of my sister. Lan'er is on the cusp of the limelight. I don't think he would dare to think about the Lijing Palace, because he was afraid that something else would happen."

"If you need help, you can ask anyone of them. I don't know if Jing Chen has returned, so let him be quiet for a while."

Qu Chenzhou raised his head slightly, and felt the hand on the hat rope scratching his chin from time to time, as if on purpose.

"Chongming, Jiang Xingzhi is really dead, isn't he?"

Liu Chongming's hand paused for a moment: "You should have known it long ago when you paved the way for him."

Maybe it was because the belt was tied a little tighter, Qu Chenzhou pulled it, and then let out a breath slowly.

"This is what Jiang Xingzhi himself expected."

"Jiang Xingzhi has a good eye, and he knew he was looking for you," Liu Chongming sighed softly, "Because you are the same kind of people, right?"

He lifted Qu Shenzhou up on his legs, put him on the table, and lifted the white gauze.

"Shen Zhou, do you still remember, I fell off the rope bridge that night..."

Qu Chenzhou covered his mouth in a huff, understood what he wanted to say, and then said softly after a long silence: "I will never leave you alone again."

Liu Chongming breathed a sigh of relief: "Little liar, if your words don't count, I'll go to the Underworld Hell to exchange you back, so that you can also taste this."

"Not anymore……"

"Then can you..." He pushes forward: "Can you tell me everything? Can you not... You can hold on to everything by yourself, okay?"

Qu Shenzhou nodded slightly.

This time, Liu Chongming didn't respond to him in time, but just stared at him without blinking, as if expecting him to say something.

He pursed his lips: "Chongming, that piece of wood essence...hasn't been given to me yet."

Liu Chongming finally laughed, and put his hand in his arms: "I thought you really planned to go back to Beijing like this."

Before leaving from the last town, he asked Wooden Spirit to come over, and the little fox gave it to him without asking anything.

Based on the relationship between the two of them in the eyes of outsiders, they must not return to Beijing together. Whoever takes this piece of wood essence will get the credit.

In fact, they all understood that it was the best way to let Qu Shenzhou go further.But if he didn't take the initiative to ask, Qu Shenzhou would refuse to say anything, acquiescing that he took the "credit".

The little fox still hasn't learned what "frankness" is.

The wooden essence spread out in his palm was no longer an irregular shape, but turned into a small jade pendant, and a jade bell was dropped on the protuberance beside it, shaking it, it jingled.

Qu Shenzhou's fingertips touched the jade pendant, his eyes turned red, and he withdrew his hand again.

"I asked An Ning about it, and he guided me to carve it. Don't worry about damaging the wood essence. Look, the jade color that seems to flow inside is the essence."

The jade pendant was stuffed in his palm, and his fingers were pulled down one by one, warming the wood essence in his palm.

"Shen Zhou, take it to the emperor first. One day, I will get it back for you."

"Chongming, actually, I haven't thought it through yet..."

The words that blurted out were interrupted by Qu Shenzhou himself, he stuffed Mu Jing into his arms, put down the white gauze, waved his hands hastily, pushed open the door and left.

Liu Chongming knew what those words were

——Actually, I haven't figured out who you are.

He had been puzzled by this for a long time.

The memory of his previous life was incomplete, leaving only the most painful part, but he couldn't cruelly separate that person from himself, so as to escape the guilt towards the little fox.

It was entrusted to him by his predecessor, entrusting the scarred Qu Chenzhou to him, and he wanted to give the little fox the friendship and compensation for two lifetimes.

He was also confused, who was the person that made the little fox fall in love with him.

But when he and Qu Shenzhou fled on the rope bridge, all these confusions were blown away by the mountain wind.

At that time, he only thought about how wonderful it would be if he could be with the little fox forever, and he was willing to give everything.

No matter what happened in the past, he just wants to be together forever in the future.

They live in the present, as they should live in the present.

When the rope bridge fell under his feet in an instant, the only thought in his mind was one--so many promises to the little fox have not been fulfilled.

Which one he is is not so important anymore.

He had already thought about everything, and was just waiting for when Qu Shenzhou would be able to get his head straight.

The half-closed door was knocked against the door frame by the wind, and the sound made the room feel more and more empty, so empty that it made his heart pound in panic.

They were finally together...but separated again.

Liu Chongming rushed out of the door suddenly—only after leaving for a while, the fear climbed up from the bottom of his feet again, as if he was about to say goodbye in the next moment, as if he would never see each other again.

He ran along the corridor all the way to the stairs, just as he saw someone running back panting and stepping up a step from below, the white gauze hat was left behind.

They were only a few steps apart, but it seemed as if they had come to meet each other from beyond the mountains and seas. Their lovesickness was like a tide, and the corners of their eyes were instantly red.

I have crossed the boundary between life and death in the past and present, and there are still many thorns and obstacles in the road ahead.

Only this moment of stability belongs to them, what else should they hesitate?

"Chongming."

Qu Chenzhou took a step up, his eyes finally stopped passing him, and fell to nothingness.

They should belong to each other, in any time and space.

"Chongming!"

The fingertips touched together, and then the warm and fresh body fell into his arms.

Liu Chongming was thrown to sit on the steps, stretched out his hands and feet, and surrounded the person completely. Just as he kissed his forehead pitifully, he was pinned down by a pair of slender hands on the back of his head and pressed down forcefully.

"Little fox..." His cheeks were wet, tears were shed by someone, and they were rubbed between the two: "Shen Zhou."

His little fox is back.

The last piece of ice and snow between them finally melted away.

"Chongming, I'll wait for you to come back." Qu Chenzhou bit his lip and cried wantonly: "This time you come back earlier, don't make me wait too long."

"emperor!"

Someone screamed, stumbled up the steps of Qingxinju, stepped on the palace skirt in a trance, prostrated on the ground, raised his head and cried again.

"Your Majesty! Did Qu Sitian come back? He's back! Please see my concubine!"

The maid at the side hurriedly supported her, and said softly: "Mother, Qu Sitian hasn't come back yet, the emperor is still resting inside, you have to take care of yourself."

"Why haven't you come back yet?"

The empress no longer had the intention to modify her makeup, her face was pale, she was no longer as dignified and calm as before, and she was talking to herself as if she was crazy.

"Didn't he say that he has delivered the letter and said he would be back soon? Why hasn't he come back! If he doesn't come back, the emperor won't see me? He wants to kill me! He wants to kill Zhao'er!"

The door of Qingxinju rang, and Yu Dexi came out from inside, bowing to her: "Your Majesty, the Emperor has already rested from worrying and worrying today, Your Majesty, please come back another day."

"Eunuch Yu!" The Queen's face was full of tears, and she grabbed Yu Dexi: "Why doesn't the Emperor want to see me! What did Qu Chenzhou say! He is a monster! He must have bewitched Zhao'er!"

She shook her head hastily again: "No! Zhao'er won't be bewitched by him! That's right! He bewitched the Queen Mother! It must be!"

"Your Majesty!" She shouted again, pushing Yu Dexi away, and wanted to rush in the door: "You have to trust Zhao'er! He will never do such a thing! Someone is going to kill him! He has a pure heart, and he must He didn't do it! Qu Chenzhou bewitched the Queen Mother!"

Yu Dexi rushed up to help her: "Your Majesty! The Emperor is still resting, and we will make all plans after the Emperor wakes up. Come here! Are you still asking Your Majesty to return to the palace?"

The queen shook off the palace people on both sides, and before she could cry again, she heard a message from outside the palace gate: "Qu Sitian begs to see you!"

Yu Dexi could no longer care about the queen, so he hurriedly responded loudly: "The emperor has ordered that Qu Sitian return to the palace, and see him immediately!"

In everyone's eyes, a tall figure slowly approached, with an elegant and upright demeanor, he stepped forward to salute without any haste.

"Chen Qu Shen Zhou has met the empress and empress, Yu Gonggong, long time no see."

The queen couldn't care less about her manners, and grabbed him: "Qu Sitian! You're finally back! Tell the emperor that Zhao'er is innocent! Let me see the emperor!"

Yu Dexi was not polite this time, he signaled others to help the queen down, and then bowed to Qu Chenzhou: "Qu Sitian, please come with our house, the emperor has been waiting for you for a long time."

The queen's heart-piercing cries gradually faded away, Qu Chenzhou pretended not to hear it, entered the door with a decent faint smile, and knelt down outside the bead curtain.

"My minister kowtowed to the emperor, wishing the emperor a long life, and wishing the world peace."

The strong smell of ambergris floated in the room, and the old man panted for a moment with a phlegm-like breathing sound before he passed through the bead curtain.

"Why are you the only one? Where are Chongming and Ding Lekang?"

"Going back to the emperor, I went to Dingling Qiu, and lived up to the emperor's entrustment, and found this thing."

He put the jade pendant wood essence on both hands, watched Yu Dexi turn and enter inside, and then continued softly.

"It's just that something unbelievable happened...General Ding unfortunately died in the line of duty. His son fell off a cliff, and his life and death are unknown. The minister did not dare to delay his stay, so he had to return to Beijing alone."

The person inside coughed a few times and called him slowly: "Shen Zhou, come in."

Yu Dexi had already moved a chair and stool for him inside, and placed it beside Emperor Yu's couch.

He sat down with his knees folded, and when he held the hand that was outstretched in time, he realized that it had only been more than a month, and the old man's hand had dried up a lot.

"Your Majesty..." His voice trembled slightly: "It's my fault, I should have come back earlier."

Emperor Yu narrowed his eyes and didn't look at him: "Tell me, what happened, why is it so dangerous?"

Qu Chenzhou calmed down, and picked up the important part of it.

After arriving at Dingling Hill, I heard the local saying about the demon tree, and decided to go to Chengsongling to try my luck.

Then I met two strange people on the mountain, and when they came down the mountain without finding anything, several people including Ding Lekang were swallowed by the strange tree, and only he and Shizi managed to escape by taking advantage of the chaos.

In the middle of the night, he was chased by a strange tree, and Shizi accidentally fell off the cliff. He lit the strange tree with kerosene, and at the critical moment, he was helped by two strange people, not only escaped from danger, but also got the wood essence of the strange tree.

Emperor Yu just listened quietly for most of the time, and asked a few more questions when he heard that the strange tree would still move around and chase people, and when he heard about the miracle of wood spirit's vitality, he finally opened his eyes, and there was light in his cloudy eyes Come.

"Who are those two people?"

"I don't know, it's just that they were very friendly to me, saying that they were destined for me in my previous life, and even gave me a gift."

A butterfly flew out from Qu Shenzhou's sleeve, the color was plain, the grain of the wood on the wings was clearly visible, but because of the extremely thinness, it fluttered lightly like a piece of tulle.

Emperor Yu couldn't help touching it, but saw the wooden butterfly resting on Qu Shenzhou's fingertips, crushed by Qu Chenzhou's two fingers, and broke into seven or eight pieces.

Before he could be surprised, the scattered limbs were assembled, and the butterfly came alive again, fluttering around twice, and got into Qu Shenzhou's sleeve.

He finally believed it.

"Then this..." He tremblingly touched the seemingly ordinary jade pendant in his hand: "This is really..."

"It's the spirit of the tree demon, the place of vitality. The two said that if you wear it close to your body, evil spirits will not come close, and all diseases can be cured."

Emperor Yu sat up and asked Yu Dexi to prepare clean water and dead branches one after another, and finally let out a long breath of stale air from his chest.

"Shen Zhou, it's good to be back, it's good to be back," he was overjoyed, and swept away his old look just now: "Quickly tell me a divination! How will my luck be in the near future?"

The people in the room retreated tactfully, only then did Qu Chenzhou raise his eyes.

"Your Majesty, what happened in the palace? The empress just now..."

"I want you to divination!" Emperor Yu interrupted him roughly: "Why are you asking so many questions!"

"I know I'm wrong."

Qu Shenzhou knelt down on his knees, raised his head slightly, and spoke softly.

"Congratulations to the emperor, the serious troubles in the emperor's heart for many years can be eliminated immediately."