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Chapter 375 Chapter 473~474 Night Talk
At first, the few people didn't notice the letter placed beside Mistress Xiuyan, but after the emperor spoke, they found out that two guards were suppressing Xiao Beishu, and the other was ordered to step forward, who would have thought that he had just taken out the letter, However, Xiao Beishu tried his best to break free from the shackles, his movement was as fast as lightning, he arrived in front of the guard in the blink of an eye, snatched the letter away with his hands, and flew out of the cave.

"Follow me!"

The emperor was frightened and shouted in the direction of the cave entrance, and the three guards immediately flew forward.

Jun Lanzhou also pulled Ruan Yunting out of the inner room quickly, and just passed through the outer room and went up the steps, but saw one of the three guards who were flying in front of him collapsed to the ground. When the person in the letter, Ruan Yunting and Jun Lanzhou ran to his side, he was screaming in pain, and his left hand swelled and turned purple at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"The handwriting is poisonous!" Ruan Yunting exclaimed.

Before he finished speaking, Jun Lanzhou had already drawn out the guard's saber, raised the saber with his hand, and cut off his left arm decisively.

"Ah!!!" The guard screamed in pain and passed out.The golden sore medicine that Junlan Zhoufang carried in his arms sprinkled on his wound to stop his bleeding. In a short while, the emperor had already run past them.

At this moment, there was a creaking sound of the machine starting at the entrance of the cave.

Jun Lanzhou's face turned pale, "Not good! He wants to close the hole!" Ignoring the man on the ground, she carried Ruan Yunting in her arms and flew away.The other two guards also turned back, picked up the emperor and fled outside.

Ruan Yunting only felt that things were changing in front of her eyes, and before she had time to react, Jun Lanzhou carried her up the steps, surpassing the emperor, only to see that the heavy stone gate at the entrance of the cave had fallen halfway, and she could faintly see Xiao Beishu sitting on the grass outside the cave, His hands were purple and swollen like that of the guard just now, with transparent blisters, his face was completely drained of blood, and his eyes were rolling.But even in this situation, he still showed a triumphant smile, and the corners of his mouth curled into a strange arc.

"Lan Zhou, leave me alone, you go out first!" Ruan Yunting struggled anxiously to jump off Jun Lanzhou's embrace.The passage is long and the stone gate falls extremely fast. Jun Lanzhou is extremely light-hearted. If he is alone, he will definitely be able to escape.But bringing her increased the burden, and it was more difficult after all.

Jun Lanzhou hugged her tightly and exerted all her strength. She only hated why her ribs didn't grow wings so that she could take Ruan Yunting away quickly.However, his speed was still not up to the speed of Shimen's fall, let alone the emperor and his party who were rushing behind.

At the critical moment, Jun Lanzhou kissed Ruan Yunting's forehead heavily, and before she could react to what happened, Jun Lanzhou threw her body forcefully.

"Lanzhou!!" Ruan Yunting's body was out of her control, like a crossbow bolt shot out of the cave, she was thrown out of the cave, and rolled on the grass outside the cave for a few weeks.

Regardless of the severe pain in her body, Ruan Yunting scrambled and ran towards the entrance of the cave as soon as she fell to the ground. However, the stone gate was only less than one foot away from the ground.

"Lanzhou is fast!"

"Ting'er!"

With a bang, the stone door fell to the ground!She didn't even have time to see Jun Lanzhou, a heavy boulder, had put them at both ends, and in desperation, he gave her the chance to escape.

"Lanzhou! Lanzhou!!" Ruan Yunting patted the stone door with both hands, choked up and cried, looked to the right at the mechanism, and saw that the bat-patterned jade pendant in the groove had disappeared, and the seven passwords were also returned to the top 26. among letters.

"Xiao Beishu! Why did you do this!" Ruan Yunting rushed to Xiao Beishu: "Give me the jade pendant!"

At this moment, Xiao Beishu's hands had swollen into two transparent purple bear's paws, and his face gradually turned purple. He didn't seem to hear Ruan Yunting's words, and looked at the records in the handbook in a daze, and finally laughed out loud.

He raised his head and let the warm wind in the mountains caress his cheeks. His laughter gradually lost strength and turned into sobs: "It's a joke, it's a joke, there are no treasures, no magical weapons, all these years, what I have been doing, what I have been doing... ..."

When the letter fell to the ground, Xiao Beishu also lay on his back, twitching all over.

Ruan Yunting was so frightened that she hurriedly bypassed the letter and came to Xiao Beishu: "Brother Xiao, are you okay? Where's the jade pendant!?"

Xiao Beishu raised his swollen and deformed right hand, and tremblingly wanted to grab Ruan Yunting's neck. Whether it was the poison in his hand or the strength with which he grabbed her, Ruan Yunting would surely die.

Ruan Yunting was startled, and while avoiding it sideways, she saw the bat-patterned jade pendant slipped out of Xiao Beishu's arms when he half-sat up while he was moving.

"You must die, you must die!" Xiao Beishu seemed to be holding his last breath, his face was already purple-black, he got up and staggered after Ruan Yunting: "If it wasn't for you, how could I have survived till now?" Heaven and earth! I have been dormant for so many years, but I was defeated by you!"

Xiao Beishu knew that he was going to die, he regretted why he saved Ruan Yunting, if he didn't save her, he wouldn't be injured, wouldn't be controlled by the emperor, wouldn't be poisoned, wouldn't die here, how could he think , I have carefully planned the plan for many years, but I will regret it on Ruan Yunting!
He hated himself for his instinctive reaction when the wolves attacked Ruan Yunting. He was going to die now, so he killed her and earned someone to accompany him.

Ruan Yunting ran away screaming, knowing that Xiao Beishu must kill her, she lifted her skirt and ran out of the valley with all her strength.Xiao Beishu followed closely, and when he was about to catch up with her, he couldn't bear the poisonous torture and fell to the ground, his hands and feet twitching.

Ruan Yunting stroked his chest and panted heavily, frowning as he looked at Xiao Beishu's body was bruised and swollen, struggling before dying, his muscles were twitching all over his body, the veins on his neck and forehead were bulging, as if he was enduring the extreme In great pain, a pair of bright eyes lost their light and stared straight at her.

Familiar and warm pictures appeared in front of Ruan Yunting's eyes. In the spacious and bright piano room of the academy, he patiently taught her piano skills; in the elegant pavilion in the bamboo garden, she drank tea and played chess with him; on the green lawn , he taught her to fly a kite, the sky at that time was blue; in the plum garden covered with snow and red plums in full bloom, he held her hand and taught her to smoke ice monkeys...

Ruan Yunting covered her mouth, tears falling down like broken beads.Xiao Beishu had plotted against her, and really wanted to kill her, but she couldn't forget his kindness in the past.

Seeing her tears, Xiao Beishu slowly gave up struggling and reached into his arms. He couldn't kill her, but he could destroy the jade pendant, so she wouldn't be able to open the stone door either.

But why did she look at him with such compassionate eyes?Is it because he is about to die?

Xiao Beishu's eyes widened in astonishment when he touched the empty space with his hand in his bosom, and then spit out black blood from his mouth, died of breathlessness, even to death, he was looking at Ruan Yunting with unwilling eyes.

Ruan Yunting wiped away her tears sadly, took out the handkerchief in her arms and covered his face.Then he lifted the hem of the skirt and stepped on the lawn and wild flowers, found the place where he left the jade pendant just now, tore off a piece of the skirt and put it on his hands, picked up the jade pendant, and walked quickly to the stone gate.

"Lan Zhou, wait, I will definitely rescue you." Ruan Yunting raised her voice and shouted.

There was silence in the valley, and there was no answer.

Ruan Yunting was very anxious and flustered, because she was not sure whether the stone gate could be opened again.

Putting the jade pendant into the groove, the sound of ticking Morse code didn't sound like it did just now. Ruan Yunting's heart beat faster, she bit her lip and shed tears, her left hand clenched her skirt tightly, she wrapped her right hand in a trembling handkerchief, and moved the top Move the seven symbols according to the password when entering the door for the first time.

She prayed over and over again in her heart, encouraging herself over and over again.If the stone door cannot be opened, she will find a way to rescue them.

When the last letter moved into the groove, there was a creaking sound of the machine behind the door, and the stone door slowly rose upwards.

Ruan Yunting looked nervously at the cave, and saw the figures of several people slowly showing up from bottom to top. The tall and thin man in white clothes was none other than Jun Lanzhou.

"Lan Zhou!" Before the stone door was completely opened, Ruan Yunting had already thrown herself into his arms, "How could you do this? I don't care how you left me! Even if we die, we will die together!"

Jun Lanzhou had a doting smile on her face: kissed her forehead, and ran down her long hair: "Fool, you know how to open the stone gate, of course I will let you go out first, but only after I send you out." Remembering that Brother Bei is still outside, it’s really a secret, but fortunately he was poisoned, and the poison reappeared quickly, otherwise I would have made a real mistake and sent you into danger.”

Ruan Yunting sniffed and looked up at him, "Stop coaxing me, I don't believe a word you said."

Looking at her bright eyes washed by tears, Jun Lanzhou sighed complicatedly, hugged her shoulders and walked out of the cave.In desperation, he just wanted her to escape, and it was indeed after sending her out that he realized that Xiao Beishu was still there. He was in the cave just now. He also used these words to appease the mad emperor, let him and his Let's wait together.

Now that I can see the blue sky and green grass and breathe the fragrant air, it doesn't matter anymore.

Two guards helped the guard with the severed hand out.The emperor wrapped his hands in a handkerchief, took off the bat-patterned jade pendant and put it in his arms, then looked at the password on the door, memorized it for a while, then pushed the letters back on top, then walked to the letter, and put his hands on the handkerchief After flipping through two pages, the content on it completely disappointed the emperor.

Ruan Yunting went to the side to read carefully, and found that the handwriting was in simplified characters from left to right, and it was written bluntly: "The telescopes I developed, the red cannons and muskets, etc. should not appear in this world. , weapons are used in the right way and can protect the people, but if they fall into the hands of ambitious people, it will bring disaster, and all developed weapons will be destroyed..."

Ruan Yunting gave a silent praise, it turns out that someone really understands these firearms!At the same time, she finally understood that what was recorded in the miscellaneous books and unofficial histories were not myths, and all those described were modern firearms.

The highly poisonous letter was buried in front of the cave gate by the emperor himself.Xiao Beishu's body was also left in the valley.A few people went back to the waterfall through the long passage, when they heard the sound of roaring water, there seemed to be many people calling: "Your Majesty, where are you, Your Majesty..."

The emperor was shocked, "It's my people who have come."

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Returning to Liangcheng again, Ruan Yunting felt as if she had passed away. She leaned against Jun Lanzhou's arms, raised a gap in the curtains of the carriage, and looked at the quiet street in the evening. Feel?"

Jun Lanzhou put down the "Liangcheng Monthly" bought along the way and sighed: "The war in the south, the prime minister and the number one scholar Xiao Beishu died of illness one after another, and the queen mother is also seriously ill now. The common people say that this year is not good, and the atmosphere in the city is naturally not as good as it used to be. .”

Speaking of Xiao Beishu, Ruan Yunting still couldn't forget his appearance before death, so she sighed unconsciously.

How could Jun Lanzhou not know what she was thinking?This time, she didn't find the treasure that could overthrow Emperor Qian, but it left a lot of shadows in her heart, and he couldn't help but regret: "It would be nice if I didn't make a fuss and take you to Zongshan Mountain in the first place."

Ruan Yunting turned over, put her arms around his neck and lay in his arms: "No, if I don't go, I might miss the secret power behind the jade pendant for the rest of my life. Now I find that the so-called dragon vein is just a cemetery. There is nothing, whether it is us or the emperor, we have all given up." And she also learned that the legendary Xiuyan empress is also a modern person, thinking of the modern furnishings in the tomb and the sketch portraits on the wall, Ruan Yun Ting felt extremely embarrassed.Zhuge Hongxiu has gone, Ruan Lingyue has gone, and these people who traveled from modern times will die sooner or later. I don’t know if they will travel to other places to continue their lives after death, or just die out completely?I don't know what will happen to her fate?
The carriage stopped slowly, and the little eunuch who was following the carriage saluted and said, "Go back to Princess Duanyang, Mr. Jun, the emperor said that you two have worked hard this trip, and you just need to rest, so you don't need to go to the palace to see the ceremony."

"Understood, thank you, father-in-law." Ruan Yunting tidied up her cloak, stepped on the red lacquered wooden stool and got out of the carriage with the hand of the little eunuch. When she looked up, she saw the door of Yangxin Xiaozhu open. Zhao Linmu's family was leading a group of servants and maidservants to line up in front of the door. When they saw Ruan Yunting, they saluted together:

"Congratulations to the Princess, Lord Jun."

Ruan Yunting smiled and stepped forward to pull Chanjuan and Hongdou up, "Get up, it's hard to come home, don't give up these empty gifts, it's okay if I'm not in the house?"

Hongdou and Chanjuan took the lead and stood up, "It's all good if you go back to the princess. The fourth grandma came here a few days ago and said she missed you. She sat for a while and went back. The empress Wanfei sent someone beside her yesterday. Father Lu came here and sent you some materials for this year's tribute, saying that they will be used for tailoring new year's shirts when you come back."

Chanjuan finished speaking with a single brain, and looked Ruan Yunting up and down: "The Princess must not be able to eat well or sleep well outside, and see that you have lost weight again." Looking at Jun Lanzhou, she added: "Your Excellency is too."

Jun Lanzhou joked with a smile: "Don't talk about these things, it's serious to serve delicious food and drink to serve your princess."

In the eyes of Hongdou and Chanjuan, Jun Lanzhou is his master, and he said hastily:

"Just after receiving the letter, the maidservant has already prepared the dinner. The princess should go and change quickly."

Ruan Yunting laughed and talked with Chanjuan and Hongdou and went back to the back house, while Jun Lanzhou took An Guo to the guest room in the outer courtyard.

After changing and washing, she had dinner and lay down on the familiar soft bed, Ruan Yunting fell asleep in a daze.In his dream, he saw a tall figure slowly walking towards him. The man was wearing a royal blue book long gown, and his black hair was tied high with a jade hairpin. Ruan Yunting knew in her heart that he was Xiao Beishu, but how could she look closely at him? Can't even see his face.

"Ting'er, you have to pay more attention to the emperor."

"Brother Xiao." Ruan Yunting struggled to get up and chased after him, but Xiao Beishu floated sideways for several feet as if he could fly, and hid behind the palace lantern in the corner of the bedroom.

"Unexpectedly, after working hard for half my life, I ended up like this."

"Do you blame me?" Ruan Yunting said melancholy: "If you hadn't blocked the wild wolf for me, maybe you wouldn't be like this."

"No, I don't regret saving you, and I don't regret letting you go. I'm leaving, so you can live well." Xiao Beishu's voice began to become hazy, and the figure gradually blurred.

Ruan Yunting ran over, but missed, she just felt a shock all over her body, she opened her eyes suddenly, and what she saw was the light pink embroidered peach blossom curtain, and the palace lantern in the corner was dutifully emitting bright yet soft light.

It turned out to be a dream.Ruan Yunting stared straight at the peach blossoms on the tent, still couldn't help thinking about the scene she had just dreamed about, thinking about it every day and dreaming about it at night, Xiao Beishu, whether he was right or wrong, had already gone It's over, he let go, she should also let go of herself, let go of that memory.

Thinking of this, Ruan Yunting sighed softly.

In the silent bedroom, her voice was extraordinarily clear.The red bean was sleeping in the outer room. Hearing the sound, she walked into the inner room wearing a girdle and carrying a candlestick. The room was very brightly illuminated. Seeing Ruan Yunting lying on the bed with her big eyes wide open, she was in a daze without sleepiness. She put down the candlestick Arrived:

"Princess, what's wrong with you? But thirsty?"

Ruan Yunting shook her head and turned over and sat up: "I can't sleep, Hongdou, please talk to me."

"Okay." Hongdou pulled up a small stool and sat down beside the bed, tightening the beanie on her shoulders.

"During my absence, Mr. Xiao and Prime Minister Gongsun died of illness in the city, but what else happened?"

Hongdou shook her head and said with a smile: "Nothing else, it's just rumors that the Empress Dowager is seriously ill, the emperor went to the palace again, and the imperial doctors are busy, but the Empress Dowager is still not well. A few days ago, when Eunuch Lu came, the servant asked a lot of questions. , Mr. Lu said, the imperial doctor said that the queen mother was originally healthy and there was no serious problem, but now she is so serious because she is overwhelmed. It seems that there are many things in the palace recently. First, Prince Yu died suddenly, and then the sixth prince died. The ninth princess is so cute and beautiful, but she was whipped to death by her birth mother with a whip poisoned with poison. Lu Gonggong said that not only the world is not peaceful recently, but the palace is also not peaceful."

"The Ninth Princess died??" Ruan Yunting was astonished. When she left, the Ninth Princess was still alive.

"That's right. A tiger's venom doesn't kill its offspring. I didn't expect the imperial concubine to be so vicious. The emperor shut her up and put her in the cold palace. It really made her cheaper." After Hongdou said angrily, she remembered that Xu Ningmeng was Ruan Yunting's cousin, and she panicked. Standing up, "The servant made a slip of the tongue, the Princess forgives the sin."

Ruan Yunting shook her head, pulled Hongdou to sit beside her, and said: "It's just chatting, and what you said is the truth, what's the crime? The ninth princess died, and the Xu family has been in chaos recently, right?"

Hongdou heaved a sigh of relief, and said: "The old lady's health has gradually become stronger these days, but the eldest wife cannot afford to be sick. The third wife was taken back to Jun's house by Mrs. Jun the day before yesterday, saying that she would stay at Jun's house for the New Year. I heard from the little girl next to Fourth Grandma that the Third Master seemed to have taken a fancy to a maid serving tea in Fourth Master's room named Yan Cui, and somehow he fell in love with that girl. I know, there was a commotion, and the faces of the fourth master and the fourth grandmother were also dull. The third wife was so angry that she wanted to ask to go to court, but the third master didn't agree. Later, the Jun family sent someone to pick up the third wife. madam."

"Really." Ruan Yunting blinked: "How is that girl named Yan Cui doing?"

"I haven't seen this maidservant either. I heard from Dai Yun who is next to Fourth Mistress that Yan Cuisheng's charming appearance was at first because Fourth Mistress wanted to serve Fourth Master, but who knew that Third Master took a liking to her."

Ruan Yunting nodded and scolded in her heart that the third master was absurd, and that the Xu family had lost a lot. Although all the people who went there were juniors, it is also a troubled time. Could it be that he has learned a lot of poetry and books in vain? Stretching into the son's room, it's no wonder the third wife couldn't stand it.

Now the third wife deserves the consequences of this incident, but this matter was done by the third master in a dishonest way. If the third wife is really divorced, the old lady will not allow it.

"Prepare a table of wine for me tomorrow afternoon, and I'll invite Fourth Master Jun to come home for dinner."

"Yes, does the princess invite others? The servants can also tell the chef how much to prepare."

Ruan Yunting was taken aback by Hongdou's question, remembering that when she first published "Liangcheng Monthly", the young masters who were published in the first edition had now scattered. In "The Four Young Masters of Liangcheng", Dai Ming Sentenced to exile, Han Su was far away at the border. Jun Zhao said that he was guilty of all crimes, but Xu Chengfeng also died on the battlefield. The fourth young master, Jun Zhaoying, can be invited.

"There is no one else." Ruan Yunting sighed and said, "Also, give me a generous gift tomorrow morning, and I will go to Xu's house."

"Yes, the servant knows."

The master and servant chatted for a while, and Ruan Yunting fell asleep without knowing it. After getting up early the next morning and taking care of everything, she returned to Xu's house with a gift for the old lady.

The servant saw that it was Ruan Yunting who came, and after saluting respectfully, he hurried in to answer. Not long after, he saw the second grandma Wang Yuanshuang and Han Bin's family came out to welcome her.

"Second sister-in-law, Mother Han." Ruan Yunting greeted with a smile.

Wang Yuanshuang didn't change his attitude because of Ruan Yunting's status, and was still as warm to her as before: "When did you come back? Take a walk outside, how did you have fun?"

"It's nice outside, but it's just that when I go out, I start to miss home..." Ruan Yunting smiled and joked with her, but found that Wang Yuanshuang didn't lead her into the main room of Pine Age Hall, but took her into the Nuan Pavilion .

"Where's the old ancestor?" Ruan Yunting asked suspiciously.

Wang Yuanshuang and Han Bin's family looked at each other, and the latter said: "The third master has something to ask the old lady for instructions, and the princess will wait for a while."

Ruan Yunting narrowed her eyes when she heard the words, the third master was probably discussing with the old lady about divorcing his wife?
(End of this chapter)