Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 63 The Concubine Yue's Conspiracy
"How could it be? I'm just afraid..." Fu Ling's forehead was dripping with sweat, and she just felt that talking to Concubine Yue was really tormenting.

Of course she was afraid, afraid that Xia Shengqing and Concubine Lian would find out about her reporting to Concubine Yue. You must know that Xia Zijin is now an ally of Concubine Lian, and she is openly working for Concubine Yue without telling her master, Concubine Lian. How will she explain it?
"Afraid that your sweetheart will know that you betrayed his fiancée?" Concubine Yue laughed loudly, mocking Fu Ling's thoughts with contempt and wickedness. A court lady fell in love with an eunuch, and she really laughed out loud.

Of course, this is also one of the reasons. Fuling pinched the corner of her clothes and bowed her head in silence. She understood the Ninth Prince's thoughts on Xia Zijin, and also understood that she didn't want him to take pity on her. Even the last chance is gone.

Concubine Yue made a bewitching voice like a ghost above her head and said: "If you don't do it, I can let others do it, but you have to think about it, send Xia Zijin to the dead end business, and do it yourself It's a pleasure, isn't it? Don't you want to see that girl being trampled under your feet, huh?"

Fu Ling clutched the corner of her clothes tightly, a place in her heart was nourished and strengthened, the words of Concubine Yue made her heart agitated, and she personally removed Xia Zijin from the Ninth Prince's side... She thought, and couldn't wait!

"Thank you, Concubine Gui, for your trust. This servant will live up to your trust." Fu Ling lowered her body and kowtowed, the hesitation in her eyes was replaced by firmness and fierceness.

Concubine Yue let out a long sigh of relief and smiled happily, even if Xia Zijin found out about her plan, so what?She will still let Xia Zijin understand who is the overlord who can overturn the clouds and rain in this palace!

"This is Yinxu Mountain." Xiaokui raised her head and pointed to the majestic and majestic mountain in front of her, and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her cuff. A little tired, fortunately, I was full in the restaurant before, so I won't be exhausted.

The three of them looked in the direction Xiaokui pointed, and saw a waterfall like silver flying shoes embedded in the towering mountains. The water flow in winter is smaller than in summer, but because of the steepness of the mountain, the water is still huge. Standing like this from a distance, you can clearly hear the rushing sound of the water waves hitting the waterfall rocks.

"It's so beautiful..." Xiao Huanzi rolled up his sleeves, wiped his eyes, and wanted to see more clearly. He had entered the palace as a eunuch since he was a child, and he had never seen mountains, rivers and waterfalls before.

"Idiot!" Xiaokui patted the round head of Xiao Huanzi who was fascinated by watching, and said, "We are here to do business, what are you going to see!"

Xiao Huanzi rubbed his head and muttered, "I've never seen this..."

"Okay, the ancient tree is right in front, let's not stop here." Xia Zijin tightened her cloak and walked side by side with Xia Shengqing. She had an ominous premonition that Concubine Yue and Xia Ziqi's plan this time was not right. What a small hand.

The four of them walked over the muddy slope of the mountain road soaked by the mountain stream flowing down from the mountain, and walked under this ancient tree.

Xia Zijin looked up at this ten-thousand-year-old tree as tall as a palace, and couldn't help but sigh at the uncanny workmanship of nature. The thick and wide trunk was two feet wide and tens of hundreds of feet high. In the deep winter, it is still green and lush, full of vitality.The intertwined and densely packed roots protrude a series of meridians under the ground, and the geometry of the stretching underground is unknown.

"This ancient tree is tens of thousands of years old. It absorbs the essence of heaven and earth's aura and breaths out the brilliance of the sun and the moon. I think it is extremely revered by the villagers of Minhui Village." Xia Shengqing stroked the bark lines densely covered with ravines. road.

Xiaokui nodded and said: "That's true. As long as I can remember, my mother has told me the legend of the ancient tree. It is said that it was a loyal minister of the ancient emperor's dynasty ten thousand years ago. It stood on the bank of this shady mountain and looked at the earth as charcoal, and finally became exhausted and turned into a tree, closely connected with this piece of land it loves."

"The legend of the tree..." Xia Zijin muttered silently, but she couldn't think of any clues. She looked around the ancient tree again and again, stretched out her hand to pat it, but there was still no response.

The four of them were all observing around the old tree, but apart from some dead branches and fallen leaves, there was nothing special about it.

"Is there an article on the canopy?" Xiaokui bit her index finger and whispered.

Xia Shengqing frowned, picked up three stones from the ground, and threw them upwards with all her strength. The three stones penetrated deep into the canopy of the tree, startling the birds that were living in the bushes, and flew into the sky in a dense cloud. Bursts of chirping.

Except for the flying birds, the canopy is empty.

The four of them were very disappointed, and they held their nerves to think about the relationship between this ancient tree and the astrology that Yue Guifei said.

The three pebbles that had just flown into the canopy of the tree fell to the ground with a thud, making three muffled sounds.

Xia Zijin inadvertently looked towards the three stones, but suddenly her eyes stopped, she lifted her skirt and walked towards one of them.

She picked up a branch and fiddled with the land, frowning slightly.

"But you made a discovery?" Xia Shengqing followed Xia Zijin forward, and Xiao Kui and Xiao Huanzi also surrounded her.

"Look, the color of the soil in this place is different from that of the surrounding areas. Although the surface is covered with a layer of soil of the same color, the stone thrown by Shengqing just now bounced off a little when it fell down, revealing the surface. Different color blocks underneath."

Xia Zijin inserted the branch into the soil and turned it a few times. The soil was very soft, not like the natural flat soil around the old tree.

"This piece of soil dug out is yellowish brown and slightly moist." Xia Zijin pinched a little bit of Saxingzi and rubbed it with his fingertips a few times, feeling moist. "Theoretically, the soil under the surface of the soil should be It’s dry and compact, and it’s tens of meters away from the waterfall, so the water won’t splash here.”

Xia Shengqing nodded, inserted the branch into the soil on the other side to the same depth, and pulled out some Saturn seeds.

"The soil dug out from the land next to it is light brown, dry and delicate." Xia Shengqing said while rubbing Saxingzi on her fingertips.

The two looked at each other, and almost blurted out: "There is something underground!"

The four of them surrounded the strange land, and Xia Zijin picked up a thicker branch from the side and said while shaking the land: "These yellowish-brown moist soil should be from the deep bottom. Yes, this land was turned over before it was covered."

"Xiao Huanzi and I will dig, Madam and Xiaokui will have a rest." Xia Shengqing smiled, took the branch from Xia Zijin's hand, and dug up the soil with Xiao Huanzi.

The two women, Xia Zijin and Xiaokui, are naturally not as strong as them, so they also obediently stood aside and waited.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Xia Shengqing and Xiao Huanzi dug out a small round pit half a foot in size and six to seven inches in width. Xia Zijin saw a small corner protruding from the soil with sharp eyes, and said quickly: "It's here, dig it out." Bar!"

The two nodded, and the movements of their hands quickened, and they dug out the unidentified object with a protruding corner from the pit.

"It's quite heavy..." Xiao Huanzi stiffened his neck, and lifted Xia Shengqing vigorously with his hands, and lifted the thing buried in the soil to the ground.

I saw that thing was the size of a human's back, its surface was smooth and patterned, because it was stained with mud, it was hard to see what the pattern looked like, there was a raised one in the middle that resembled the pattern of the back, only a thin surface layer, with It's very hard to touch it with your fingers.

"What the hell is this?" Xiao Kui asked curiously as she knelt down and poked it with her index finger.

Xia Shengqing and Xia Zijin didn't quite understand why this dusty thing was buried in the soil. It couldn't possibly be that Concubine Yue was just burying it for fun.

"Hey...look..." Xiao Huanzi squeezed his chin, looked closely at the thing, and said suddenly, "Do you see that this thing looks like the turtle shell in the turtle soup bowl in our palace!"

When Xiao Huanzi said this, the three of them looked at it seriously, and sure enough, except for the size, this thing was very similar to the shell of a soft-shelled turtle.

"But where does such a big turtle come from in this world?" Xia Zijin couldn't help frowning, if there really was one, it might become a monster.

"I think there are still some patterns on it, but they are buried in the soil and can't be seen clearly. Why don't we clean it up and do research." Xia Shengqing said.

The three of them nodded, took out the water bag in the bag one after another, went to the waterfall pool, filled the whole bag, and then poured it on the thing to rinse it off.

Xia Shengqing rubbed the faintly patterned parts on the back of the "big soft-shelled turtle" little by little, and washed the water up, bringing down the soil. He washed slowly and carefully, as the soil attached to it became smaller and smaller. , the original appearance of this thing also appeared, and I saw that those patterns were actually the words carved into the shell!
Xia Zijin took out a clean handkerchief and wiped off the yellow-brown soil stains on the surface little by little, and opened his eyes to see clearly the words engraved on the "big soft-shelled turtle shell".

"During the Tianxu period, the demon star debuted, moved the world, and harmed the emperor..." Xia Zijin read the above words word by word, but her brows became more and more wrinkled.

"The demon star is eliminated, the emperor is at peace, the demon star is prosperous, the emperor dies, and the eternity will never end."

After reading the words above, Xia Zijin's heart suddenly opened up, and then he raised his head to look at Xia Shengqing, with the same profound expression.

"That person probably made a so-called motto here, trying to frame you, madam, as a so-called demon star above."

Xia Zijin nodded, and also understood the sinister intentions of Concubine Yue and Xia Ziqi.Ming Shengdi has always been afraid of believing in the theory of ghosts and gods, especially when he is old.If Concubine Yue and Xia Ziqi's conspiracy succeeds, Ming Shengdi will definitely take action against her in order to prevent her, a "demon star", from harming himself.

(End of this chapter)