Concubine Chongxi: Binding the Medicine Jar to the Master

Chapter 153 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey

The winter of this year came very early, it was still November weather, and the countries were already snowing one after another.

The cold wind is blowing, the fallen leaves are turned into ashes, and the world has entered a vast and chilling time. At a glance, there are only dead branches and dead trees, and thousands of mountains and birds are flying away.

On November 23, Luoyi, the imperial city of Heluo Kingdom, ushered in the first snow at the end of the Gengzi Year.The snow blew across Luoyi City, blowing all the snow onto the square by the Luoshui outside the city, covering everyone's brows.

At this moment, tens of thousands of people surrounded the square, and almost all the people in the city gathered here, regardless of the wind and snow, all waiting eagerly, just to see the scene of the five emperors recognizing their ancestors and returning to their ancestors.

The crowd was lined up in layers, blocked by numerous guards, leaving a wide road leading directly to a platform at the highest point of the square.There, Luo Xia, the empress of Heluo, dressed dazzlingly, led a group of royal children, looking at the gradually approaching convoy in the distance.

Her youngest daughter, who has been away for 18 years, is going home, 18 years!Luo Xia was so excited beyond words that she even wanted to rush to greet her alone regardless of Wan Min.

But at this moment, someone was buzzing in his ears: "I heard that the fifth emperor is sitting in a wheelchair, and her voice is hoarse. It's a pity..."

These words caught Luo Xia's heart, her excited face seemed to be instantly buried by Xue Zi, and she calmed down, realizing that the return of the youngest daughter would probably lead to infighting among the royal family.

Thinking like this, Luo Xia turned her eyes to the four women standing side by side, dressed luxuriously and taking thousands of scenery... These are her four daughters, each looking into the distance expectantly, but Luo Xia knew , Some of them definitely have evil intentions.

Snowflakes were flying, and the carriage team in the distance gradually approached. Under the guidance of a military commander, two of the canopy carriages drove to the high platform along the road reserved in the middle.

Seeing this, Luo Xia on the high platform led all the men and women around her down the steps to greet her.

The two carriages stopped slowly, being dragged down the long ruts on the snow.

Jin Zhi got off the first carriage, met Luo Xia's appreciative eyes, only saluted respectfully, then turned around and went to the carriage behind, ordered the maids to set up a slope-shaped pier, and then lifted the curtain of the carriage by herself , said: "His Royal Highness Fifth Emperor, we have arrived. Your Majesty the Empress, your four imperial sisters, and the relatives of the emperor will welcome you in front of you. Let me take you all the way there."

"No need." The hoarse and broken voice was like the wind blowing and a hundred flowers lingering. An afterimage spun the wheelchair and slowly got down from the carriage, gradually becoming clear and frozen.

She was still dressed in the weak gray clothes, wrapped in a gray leather jacket, and her long eyelashes covered her pair of demonic eyes, which was so gloomy and desolate that it made one's heart chill.

Yin Liehuo looked at the vast white sky and the seething people, turned his eyes indifferently, and looked at the women in front of him who looked like they had returned from a banquet in a luxurious heavenly palace, and smiled coldly at the corners of his lips.

This is her relative?Are those people who once wanted to put her to death so magnificent and beautiful?

She spun the wheelchair and walked past with a sneer. Along the white road, the wind blew on her face, and snow piled up on her body.

Then, through the blurred wind and snow, she saw her so-called biological mother, Heluo Empress Luoxia.

Luo Xia stepped off the platform and was about to rush over excitedly, but was stopped by two young women from left and right.

The two of them whispered: "Mother, as the king of a country, the country's health is the most important thing. Don't do such things that damage the majesty of the empress."

"That's right, Empress Dowager, the procedures that should be followed must be followed. You can just stand here and wait for Xiangsi to come to see you."

Luoxia's sword-shaped eyebrows gathered slightly, and she stopped her movements. Her red and phoenix eyes were filled with eagerness, but she looked at Yin Liehuo with a majestic posture instead.

Yin Liehuo glanced at the two women indifferently. Presumably, they were two of her four imperial sisters.They discouraged Luo Xia, wasn't it just to see how Yin Liehuo couldn't walk, how hard she was to recognize her ancestors and return to her clan?

I have just come back, and I have already become a thorn in the side of others...

In the ear, among the comments of the onlookers, there were countless sighs, which seemed to be sympathy for Yin Liehuo's crippled situation, and some people were saying that she should have been as majestic and heroic as Her Majesty the Empress, but she has become so decadent and depressed. I really can't bear to look at her appearance.

Yin Liehuo just smiled, the wind, snow and people's hearts are not as cold as the smile lines on her lips at this moment.

Crippled?I can't do my legs, can I?It's really like when I was in Dashang in the past, everyone looked at her with sympathy, disgust, and alienation.

The world is so full of gloom, she has long been used to it.However, since Yin Liehuo chose to come back, she will never be a weak person again!What she wants is the awe-inspiring gaze of all people, even if it's only fear!

"Emperor Mother." Youyou spoke, with a cool breath between red lips and white teeth.

After this sentence fell, the audience became quiet.

I saw Yin Liehuo gathered the fur coat covering his body, and a happy smile suddenly appeared on his indifferent face.

Then, I saw her slowly standing up!
She walked towards Luo Xia step by step!

Everyone gasped, speechless in surprise.this!Why is this different from the rumored one?Aren't the legs of the fifth emperor already...

And the faces of those royal women changed one by one.

Facing everyone's shocking gazes, Yin Liehuo just smiled, expressing the joy of recognizing and returning to his ancestors vividly.She came to Luo Xia and knelt down gracefully.

"Empress, Acacia is back."

Luo Xia was still immersed in the shock just now, seeing her daughter in front of her at this moment, she supported Yin Liehuo, and said: "The ground is cold, don't kneel." Even though she was excited, she still said majesticly: "Xiangsi, this You have suffered for 18 years, and from now on, I will stay by your mother's side and help your mother to carry forward the name of Heluo." Then he gestured to the four women, "Xiangsi, they are your imperial sisters, you let me They look at you."

Immediately, those women came one after another and greeted Yin Liehuo with a smile. Some were calm, some were solemn, and some were snarky. Although they were all different, Yin Liehuo knew that most of them were smiling.

"Lovesickness." Luo Xia said again: "Since you have returned to my Heluo, you also have to consider yourself as a princess, and you will not have to dress like this in the future. I will assign enough servants to you and let them serve you You dress up well."

Yin Liehuo blessed Fushen, "My son thanked the Queen Mother."

"Be flat, you are my daughter, you don't need to be polite." After saying that, she said to Jin Zhi who came back to her life: "Jin Aiqing has worked hard and made great achievements. This time, I am as grateful to He Luo as a mountain. Aiqing will come to me later. I haven't seen you for a long time, and I still have a lot to say to you."

Jin Zhi responded neither humble nor overbearing.

This matter of cleaning up the dust for the five emperors will end around the end of the day.The guards dismissed the onlookers, and immediately began to tidy up the square in preparation for a larger celebration at the end of the year.

The royal relatives, civil and military officials left one after another, and Yin Liehuo was also escorted by special personnel to Luoyi City, and moved into the mansion where she was supposed to live.

The name of that mansion was actually called "Xiangyuan". When Yin Liehuo stood in front of the gate and looked at the plaque, he showed a slightly surprised expression.

Inside the door, those servants who had already stood in line and waited for Yin Liehuo, when they saw her come back, they all knelt in two rows in unison, and said in their mouths: "Welcome Your Highness the Fifth Emperor."

Then came another man dressed more noblely than the servants, stepped out of the threshold, bowed and stretched out his hand, asking Yin Liehuo to put his hand on his forearm.

"Why is this mansion called Xiangyuan?" Yin Liehuo asked.

The man frowned, and replied respectfully: "Returning to Your Highness, your real name is Luo Xiang, Your Highness, and Prime Minister Jin should have told you that."

"She mentioned it, and then?"

The man thought for a while, his eyebrows were like a sharp machete.He approached Yin Liehuo's ear, and said in a mosquito voice: "There are some things that I don't know whether to say or not, but since I am already a member of His Highness, I should know everything and say everything. Your Highness, I heard that your biological father, Mrs. Liu Huang, loves you very much." Your Majesty the Empress, but after all, your Majesty has three thousand beautiful men, Mrs. Liu can't help but sigh at her own wishful thinking and depression, that's why she named you Luoxiang."

"Understood..." Yin Liehuo responded without emotion, and then put his hand on the man's forearm.

"Your Highness...why did you react like this?" The man looked at Yin Liehuo in surprise, not forgetting to welcome her into the mansion.

Yin Liehuo snorted softly, and whispered softly and coldly: "Do you think I should be surprised..."

The man was silent.

Yin Liehuo glanced at him indifferently, and found that this man was actually a handsome and stalwart man. The scimitar-like eyebrows most likely concealed some lofty ambitions, and he was not a person to be underestimated at first glance.

She couldn't help wondering, was this person really assigned by Luo Xia?
Gaze and murmur: "Introduce yourself."

Yin Liehuo's thinking jumped a little fast, but the man followed him very well, and he continued logically: "I am the bastard son of the city guard of Yanshi City. This year, I was sent to Luoyi by my mother to participate in the draft and was selected into the palace. Minister. Originally, I was supposed to be assigned to serve Your Majesty the Empress, but when I heard that the fifth emperor's daughter had returned, there was a shortage of manpower here, so I signed up."

After sinking, he said again: "The minister's surname is Guan, as for the first name, it is not worth mentioning. The fifth emperor's daughter can just call me Guan Shilang."

During the conversation, Yin Liehuo had already passed between the two rows of kneeling people beside him, and scanned the two rows of people with his indifferent gaze.

Afterwards, Yin Liehuo stopped, turned around slowly, and said: "Get up. I think you all know that my leg is a little sick, and I have to recuperate alone at the hour of every night. During that time, I My legs can't move, I can only rest, so no one is allowed to disturb me without my permission, do you understand?"

"Obey." Everyone agreed.

"Your Highness." Guan Shilang spoke again at this moment, "I still have something to tell you. Tomorrow, another group of servants will come to the palace to serve you. In the future, I will take turns serving you with them," he said. You don't change your face.

"Understood..." Yin Liehuo's tone was still depressed and indifferent, and after finishing speaking, he ignored Guan Shilang and this group of people, and went back to his room.

That night, the snow finally stopped, but the howling wind was still a bit violent.

Yin Liehuo knew in his heart that those assigned palace maids and the servant of the Guan family couldn't tell who was transferred here, and there was no guarantee that there were no unpredictable people hiding among them.

Therefore, she never ate or drank, fearing that she would be poisoned and die if she was not careful.

At the time of Xu, in Yin Liehuo's bedroom, there was a lonely shadow of a lamp.Looking in from the outside, you can't see the situation in the back room at all.

Outside the house, a black figure flashed by, with very vigorous skills, almost silently opened the window, jumped in, and searched for the inner room.

Not long after, another black shadow appeared in the yard, followed the same path as the previous black shadow, and went in as well.

Then, another three or four people entered...

In a dark corner of the yard, a woman was hiding, staring intently at the bedroom, watching those men in black go through the window one by one, but the bedroom was always quiet, I don't know what happened, but those men in black didn't come out.

Strange... why can't I just get in and out?The woman thought it was very strange, and after thinking about it, she approached on tiptoe, opened the window and entered the house, and walked on tiptoe towards the inner room in this dark outhouse...

At this moment, the door of the inner room was half-closed, and the faint light from inside could be vaguely seen, casting a strange background in front of the woman's eyes.

She was a little scared, but she still felt that there were so many killers who went in just now, no matter what, they could kill a useless princess who couldn't move because her leg was being treated!So she opened the door.

But at this moment, what caught her eyes was a scene that the woman had never expected.Those men in black actually all fell to the ground!
The woman took a deep breath and almost cried out. She managed to hold it back, but saw that these people seemed to be asleep, with no wounds or blood.

The woman only felt that it was very strange, so she squatted down carefully and pushed a person, "Hey, wake up, what's going on, why didn't you move?"

"If you're dead, of course you won't move." Someone answered her quietly.

At this moment, the woman screamed in fright, and sat on the ground. When she raised her eyes, she saw Yin Liehuo standing coldly in front of the window. Under the demonic eyelashes were a pair of cold, murderous eyes that were like waves. His curly hair reached his knees, and was blown indifferently and fiercely by the wind.

She murmured coldly: "As expected... I have been waiting for a long time."

"Your Highness, Your Highness..." The woman's face was pale, and she kowtowed in fright, "Your Highness, please forgive me! Your Highness, please forgive me! Slave, servant—"

"Guan Shilang." Yin Liehuo called softly.

Then Guan Shilang came out from the dark and said: "Your Highness, I have been outside the hall just now, waiting for orders at any time."

"Go and call everyone here." Yin Liehuo coldly ordered.

Guan Shilang cupped his hands and hurried to go.

Seeing this gap, the woman secretly took out a dagger from behind, and was about to pounce on Yin Liehuo, but suddenly, she didn't know what happened, her whole body was suddenly numb and couldn't move anymore , The dagger in his hand fell to the ground with a bang!

"What, what's wrong? The servant's dagger..." The woman looked at Yin Liehuo in horror, her indifferent expression was like that of Shura.

"Your Highness, spare your life! Your Highness, spare your life!" The woman could only keep shouting.

At this moment, Guan Shilang has returned and called all the servants in the mansion in. For a while, the bedroom was full of people, but everyone only felt that they were breathing the extremely cold breath, and there was a kind of chilling oppression Feelings make them restless.They looked at the man in black on the ground, and then at the immobile maid, full of doubts.

Yin Liehuo sat leisurely in front of the dressing table, his eyes slanted towards the men in black on the ground, and he whispered, "They thought that I was convalescing my legs and couldn't move, so they came to kill me at this time...Look Come on, the few lies I told you during the day really worked."

Everyone couldn't help but turn pale a little, and everyone was silent.It turned out that the fifth emperor's daughter said that Xu Shi's legs could not move, and she deliberately wanted to attract people to assassinate her!

"As for you..." Yin Liehuo's eyes fell on the immobile woman, "It seems that you were planted here by one of my imperial sisters, and tonight, you will be tipped off to attract killers... Seeing the increasingly terrified and desperate expression of the woman, she sneered: "You know why they died, and you feel numb and unable to move?"

With a soft snort, she flicked her slender fingertips lightly, and saw three golden needles immediately nailed to the window paper!It is neither deep nor shallow, half of it is inside the window, and half is outside the window. At this moment, it is illuminated by the candlelight, casting a distinct black shadow, which is also clearly seen by everyone.

There was a sound of gasping, and Yin Liehuo's soft voice was in contrast: "Maybe some of you are also undercover agents. Today is a lucky one, and you haven't revealed your identity... However, if you want to challenge my flying needle technique, You will have to pay ten times the price."

She stood up suddenly, condescending, her cold gaze fixed on the woman like a nail, and asked quietly: "Answer me, which of my royal sisters is so eager to take my life?"

The woman was terrified and speechless, like a leaf trembling in the cold wind.

Yin Liehuo murmured coldly: "There's no rush, I have a lot of time, but...the longer you delay, the greater the price you have to pay..."

The woman's eyes were wide open, and she finally couldn't stand the torment of fear anymore, and she screamed sadly: "Said the slave! The slave said! Yes, it was the Fourth Royal Highness who ordered the slave, and the slave has no way of disobedience!" Spare me, Fifth Imperial Daughter, spare me!"

Four princesses?Yin Liehuo's eyes were filled with strange light.The fourth imperial daughter, I don't know which one of the four women I saw today, but Jin Zhi told her the name of the fourth imperial daughter.

"Luo Bingshuang..." Can't help saying this name, Yin Liehuo's eyes are full of dark tides.

In an instant, she turned her eyes quietly, and her cold eyes were like a basin of ice water splashed on the top of the woman's head, and she asked in a low voice, "Say, do you want me to do it, or do you do it yourself?"

(End of this chapter)