Millennium drunk

The water was freezing.

A large amount of water is still gushing down the only outlet above the corner, pouring into this small space.Lan Zui relied on the constant kicking of his legs and the weak buoyancy of his backpack to keep his neck above the water surface, and quickly took the environment into his eyes with the flickering and dimming of the miner's lamp above his head.The surrounding area was very smooth, there was no place to borrow strength, and the constant kicking of both legs consumed most of Lan Zui's accumulated strength.The injured ankle no longer had the piercing pain when it was just injured, but the loss of the pain made Lan Zui even more anxious.Hypothermia, coldness, and numbness, the combination of these three things is enough to drag Lan Zui into the depths of this narrow pool.

Lan Zui struggled to undo the shoulder straps and waist belt of the backpack.The price of this backpack is surprisingly expensive, but when it matters, it shows its importance.The shape of the backpack is flat, slightly long, and as wide as the human body. The outer layer is all made of waterproof fabric. More importantly, once the upper half of the bag touches water, the two sides of the bag will automatically inflate to form a small Buoyancy ring.Although this buoyancy ring can't fully support a person's weight, it is enough to support the backpack itself, allowing it to float on the water surface to protect the supplies in the bag to the maximum extent. Sink into the water and become a ghost in the water.

Lan Zui hugged the bag, hesitated for a while, and pressed the switch button of the backpack.She knew that in this situation, once the zipper of the backpack was opened, water would quickly pour into the backpack and turn some of the contents into waste.But Lan Zui has no choice, her situation does not allow her to stay in the water, even if there is no way for her to escape, at least she has to climb to the part above the water surface.

Lan Zui's brows were tightly frowned as she kept fumbling around in the bag with her hands.Jun Yihuang poked her head into the mouth of the bag, but didn't know what she was looking for, until Lan Zui took out a heavy device that was similar to a pistol but much bigger than a pistol, pointed it at the empty and slippery wall, and buckled it. Pulled the trigger.

With the pull of the trigger, a thin steel wire shot towards the tight wall at a speed invisible to the naked eye. With a soft 'ding' sound, the head of the steel wire was embedded in the stone wall.Lan Zui pulled the steel wire and pressed the black button under the trigger. At the same time as the sound of the pulley was heard inside the instrument in his hand, Lan Zui's body also quickly approached the wet and slippery wall as the steel wire shortened.

"what is this?"

"Grabbing gun." The feeling of leaning on a thin steel wire is very unreliable, but it is better than being soaked in water and turned into a corpse.Lan Zui strangled the steel wire around his body and trapped himself between the steel wire and the wall. He tried to ignore the pain of being strangled to the point of suffocation, and looked melancholy at the only entrance and exit where the water kept pouring out: "The water flow is too big now. I can only wait until it stops to see if I can climb up. I don’t know what happened to the others.”

Jun Yihuang floated silently in mid-air, looked at the woman in front of her who was also suspended in mid-air and looked like some kind of arthropod, and said after a while: "I shouldn't ask you to help me find my soul."

"Why, you don't want to be reincarnated?"

"..." Jun Yihuang didn't speak, but the scene of Lan Zui floating on the water just now is still vivid in his memory.

She didn't know what would happen to her if Lan Zui really sank.

She has always been very clear that the person she loves is Su Lingyu from thousands of years ago. Even though she later found out that Su Lingyu didn't love her as much as she thought, when she was betrayed, she still couldn't forget the person who accompanied her in the palace and swore to her... former lover.

As for Lan Zui, she couldn't sort out her true feelings for Lan Zui at all.When they first met in the tomb, she vented her resentment and pain for Su Lingyu's betrayal on Lan Zui.Later, although she kept saying that she could tell the difference between Lan Zui and Su Lingyu, in fact she still regarded Lan Zui as Su Lingyu's substitute most of the time, trying to relive the happiness of the past.But now, seeing Lan Zui, who had gone through so many crises and almost buried her life in this old man's tomb, Jun Yihuang began to feel suspicious.

She could feel Lan Zui's affection for her, but for Su Lingyu's sake, she kept pretending to be stupid.But can it continue like this?If this continues, is it fair to Lan Zui?

Compared with Lan Zui's life and death, Jun Yihuang suddenly felt that she was trapped in her tomb, and the soul that had been separated for thousands of years seemed to be no longer so important.

Jun Yihuang has never been a woman with a hard heart, and it is not the first time she has this kind of thought, but when she saw Lan Zui going through the deadly mechanism in the tomb passage and the moment of ups and downs in the water, this kind of thought was completely, It broke out so clearly that she even wished so much that time could go back in time so that she never made this request to Lan Zui.

Lan Zui didn't know what Jun Yihuang's silence meant, and she wasn't in the mood to figure it out.

This room full of water flow, even above the water surface, is covered with wet vapor.Leaving the water doesn't mean that Lan Zui has gained warmth, it's just that the situation is relatively better, not enough for Lan Zui to relax and recover.

The drenched clothes wrapped around the body, instilling the chill of the water into the cracks of the bones all the time. Lan Zui could hear his teeth bumping up and down due to the cold, making a rattling sound, and his whole body was also shivering from the cold. Stiff, can only maintain the basic movement of kicking on the wall, the most important thing is the sleepiness caused by cold, blood loss and physical loss, which makes the eyelids become extremely heavy, and every blink requires a lot of effort Lan Zui knew very well that if she fell asleep under such circumstances, she might never wake up again.

"Junjun, I'm sleepy." When people are sleepy to a certain extent, they must divert their attention to other areas if they want to stay asleep.That's obviously what Lan Zui intended, so Jun Yihuang naturally became her target to distract her from sleepiness.

Jun Yihuang floated in front of Lan Zui, with her face almost close to her face, she answered seriously and resolutely: "Don't sleep, if you fall asleep, I will continue to use the wind knife to cut a few holes on your body .”

"..." Even though he understood Jun Yihuang's kindness, Lan Zui still wanted to repeat the previous question: Junjun, what kind of enmity do I have with you?

"Come talk with me." Lan Zui sighed, thought for a while, and asked a question that he hadn't figured out: "Junjun, how much do you remember about the past?"

"what do you wish to ask?"

"At the copper gate, when I was unconscious, I dreamed again."

"I know."

"I dreamed that Su Lingyu was wronged, saying that she had harmed Concubine Jing's pregnancy. But I still couldn't figure out why Liu Shilan was so sure that Su Lingyu would give Concubine Jing the medicine-soaked Bu Yao? Your concubine didn't wear the step shaker, so her tires won't slip, right?"

Jun Yihuang looked at Lan Zui silently for a while, and then there was a look of helplessness and reminiscence on her face: "You... even asked exactly the same questions."

"what?"

"After I rescued Yu'er, she also asked me the same question. It's impossible to question this kind of thing, and I can only guess. That incident...was purely a coincidence."

"coincide?"

"That's right, a coincidence. The drug-soaked Bu Yao was not intended for Xia Ruoqing, but for Yu'er. After Yu'er accepted the emperor's favor for the first time, Liu Shilan sent it in advance to prevent Yu'er from becoming pregnant. No matter whether Yu'er wears it or puts it in the dowry, long-term contact with rosemary will not make it so easy to conceive. But Liu Shilan did not expect that Yu'er's Bu Yao would be forced to go by Xia Ruoqing, but this was wrong. , exactly as they wanted, killing three birds with one stone, and being able to stay out of it and leave it clean."

"I don't quite understand. After all, Emperor Nanzhao calls people to sleep every night. Could it be that Liu Shilan still gives everyone a step?" Although Lan Zui is smart and quick-witted, after all, she has never personally experienced the jealousy in the harem. Intrigue and intrigue, what she can do is actually just watching.

"It's because you don't remember." Jun Yihuang took a deep look at Lan Zui's face, and said in a deep voice, "Yu'er——is different from other people."

"what?"

"The outline of Yu'er's face is five points similar to that of the queen, and Yu'er's outward temperament is graceful and gentle, which is also the type that Emperor Nanzhao likes. At that time, the queen had been ill for a long time because of the loss of her son. The emperor has gone to bed. Even though Emperor Nanzhao still often stays overnight in the Queen's Palace, it is just a simple overnight stay. The emperor...in fact, he has sincerity, and his lover is beyond reach. Then Emperor Nanzhao finds a similar substitute , and there is nothing wrong with it. Since they are similar, empathy and love are naturally more common."

"..."

"That's why Liu Shilan and the others were afraid that Yu'er would be favored at that time, and they were even more afraid that Yu'er would become pregnant. With the Queen's physical condition, the funeral will only be sooner or later. If Yu'er is pregnant, then Xingui and Liu Shilan are hopeless? At that time, Bu Yao had nothing to do with designing Xia Ruoqing. Even if Xia Ruoqing didn't want Yu'er's Bu Yao, it would not be difficult for Xia Ruoqing to smell the fragrance of rosemary every day before destroying the corpse. It's not uncommon to buy or threaten other concubines' maids with their relatives' lives. It's just that they never expected that Bu Yao would come to Xia Ruoqing's place. Xia Ruoqing's fetus was not safe, and Yu'er was pushed to the cusp of the storm. I dragged down the muddy water, how could such a good strategy not be used."

"..." Lan Zui couldn't help but take a deep breath of the cold water vapor. Although there are intrigues in modern shopping malls, they can't compare to the intrigues and tricks of ancient harem women.Compared with the group of women in the dream, she lived a very happy life.

"What happened later?" Lan Zui couldn't help asking curiously after feeling a lot of emotion, "What happened after you rescued Su Lingyu?"

"How..." Jun Yihuang's eyes dimmed, and the whole person seemed to be dragged back to the time and space thousands of years ago by this question.

A concubine is actually the emperor's woman.

If this woman is no longer favored by the emperor, then correspondingly, the so-called status, status, treatment and everything will become empty numbers and worthless.

Su Lingyu didn't believe it at first, even though she had tasted this hardship at the beginning of entering the palace, she didn't include the concubine Shu, the object of envy and jealousy in all palaces, into this scope.

But - Su Lingyu found out that she was wrong.

Because of Jun Yihuang's intercession on behalf of Su Lingyu, Su Lingyu's foot restraint order has been granted amnesty by Emperor Nanzhao, and her illness has gradually healed under the day and night care of Qingxiao and the non-stop decoction.

The Dongnuan Pavilion in Qingtao Garden has long been deserted, even more so than before.All of this was within Su Lingyu's expectation, so she just endured it silently, seeing the court more thoroughly, and only vented all her attention and enthusiasm on the only woman.

"Sister Jun." Su Lingyu opened the jingling crystal bead curtain, and strolled into the cold and silent room.This year's weather is extremely cold, and it is still the season of bright golden leaves in early autumn, and the chill at night is enough to freeze hands and feet.

Su Lingyu looked at the woman with disheveled hair and didn't pay attention to her in the room. She arbitrarily avoided all the etiquette of high status in the past, went straight to the person, took out the scroll she was holding in her hand, and put it on the table at will.

Jun Yihuang frowned with long sculpted eyebrows, and looked at Su Lingyu, who was also calm, with displeasure: "Yu'er, you are getting more and more unruly."

"You still read in such dim candlelight, don't your eyes hurt anymore?" Su Lingyu didn't have the consciousness of being blamed, but just stroked the palm of Jun Yihuang's empty hand: "The palm of my hand is colder than mine just came from outside. , Where is Xianyue? There is no charcoal fire, where have you gone to hide?!"

"It's not winter yet, and there is no charcoal fire in the palace, so she went to get it." Jun Yihuang slowly pulled out her hands, and a smile appeared on her usually indifferent face: "You are very tempered now, don't worry about it." People have come to my palace."

Su Lingyu stopped talking, took the food box that Qingxiao was holding in his hand, and took out the pastries that were placed in the box one by one: "I made it myself, it must not be as exquisite as the chef of the imperial dining room. Just eat some."

"You...why bother, I'm not so sad yet." Despite Jun Yihuang's words, she picked up a piece of cake and fed a corner into her mouth.

The flour and rice for kneading cakes are not good, and there will be a few rough particles after sipping in the mouth. Jun Yihuang chewed silently, and did not show any abnormal expressions, but Su Lingyu still watched from her casual eyes. In the process, I saw that the pastry was not satisfactory: "The rice molecules are a bit thicker, I will go find some better ones next time."

"Yu'er, you don't have to do this." Jun Yihuang aimed her eyes at her, and looked at her with a serious and steady attitude: "Are you repaying a favor?"

"You are my life-saving grace."

"Since I have accepted your gift, my person should naturally be preserved." Jun Yihuang gave this answer that has been mentioned thousands of times, but every time it is the same.

"I know that every little bit of kindness will be repaid, and this is also the truth I have learned from the sage books I read since I was a child." Su Lingyu picked up a pancake, looked at it for a long time, but did not say anything: "Sister Jun, you Don't you regret saving me at all?"

"There is nothing to regret in this world. Besides, I don't have to deal with the affairs of the Sixth Palace anymore. I also hated the competition for favor in this palace, but now I have nothing to do."

"It's a good thing for you to be happy, but at least you have to have no worries about food and clothing, and the palace servants are taking care of you. Now...if the weather is a little colder than usual, the Huangmen of the internal affairs has already sent charcoal fires. Go get it from your personal maid!"

Jun Yihuang smiled lightly and didn't answer any more.

Her temperament was not liked by the Nanzhao emperor, but she took the initiative to stir up the muddy water of Su Lingyu and Xia Ruoqing. However, Guoyue County was defeated and returned home. Many soldiers were killed and injured, so they had to cede land for peace, and the national strength was greatly injured.The two incidents followed one after another, and Jun Yihuang's status in the Nanzhao harem took a sharp turn, from the high concubine Shu to the concubine in the cold palace with few cars and horses in front of the door.

At this time, the title Concubine Shu that Emperor Nanzhao left for her was just a title.

Climbing the high and stepping down is a must for every palace official. Besides, when Jun Yihuang was in charge in the past, he was decisive and strict, and he offended many palace ladies and concubines.

"Empress Empress... I'm afraid it will be a few days?" Su Lingyu didn't want to mention that heavy topic that had passed, so she turned the question to another topic that was equally heavy and everyone in the harem was paying attention to.

"Well, Your Majesty has been by the Queen's side for the past few days, and even the morning court has not been attended for two days." Jun Yihuang slightly admires the man who should belong to her husband but actually has no feelings for him.She was originally born in the royal family, so she understood the reason why the emperor was ruthless, but the Nanzhao Emperor obviously did not belong to this category. Although he had to pamper all the beauties in the harem in order to extend his heirs, his mind was still on the empress with knotted hair.This is already rare among the contemporary emperors.

And this seemingly calm, but occasional turbulent Nanzhao harem, I am afraid that in the near future, a new round of turbulent waves will be set off.

Su Lingyu sighed slightly. Su Lingyu felt sorry for this gentle and generous queen who had only met once.If it wasn't for the queen's knowledge and reason, Su Lingyu might have been executed by the furious queen mother before Jun Yihuang asked for help.

It's just that fate cannot be controlled, and the queen who is the lord of the harem behind her is still unable to escape the reincarnation of heaven.

But... To get rid of the current predicament, maybe this is a perfect opportunity.

It was only when Su Lingyu was on the side of Ning'an Palace and the empress that she realized that her face was somewhat similar to that empress empress.

Since the emperor and empress are deeply in love, why not give it a try?

Not for himself, but at least for this concubine Shu who brought her back from the brink of madness, Jun Yihuang.

Now it's just a lack of food and food, what about in the future?There are too many things in the palace that cannibalize people without telling their bones. Now that Jun Yihuang has lost power, she can't protect herself and protect her, so let's change it.

From now on, she will protect Jun Yihuang.

Xianyue has already delivered the burning charcoal fire, although the gray smoke is a bit choking, but with the flickering of the charcoal fire, the temperature in the room rises rapidly, and it is no longer as cold as before.

Su Lingyu was sitting by the chair, all her thoughts were just circulating in her head, without expressing anything in words.Her face still had a smile as warm as water, and the corners of her lips were slightly hooked. Watching Jun Yihuang bow her head and slowly taste the cakes she made by herself, she was full of warmth, and her eyes were full of tenderness and happiness that she didn't even know about.

"Qingxiao, try to get Aunt Qin Caifeng out, I have something to talk to her about."

Walking slowly in the imperial garden, Su Lingyu did not turn her head, and whispered instructions in a voice that could only be heard by Qingxiao.

Qingxiao frowned, lowered her head and said: "Changing clothes, everyone in the palace is watching every move around the queen and the queen mother. I'm afraid to meet Aunt Qin at this time..."

"I have to give it a try." Su Lingyu stretched out her fingers to catch the dead leaves falling from the top of her head, and sighed softly: "I can't let Miss Jun go on like this. I caused her to lose the power of the sixth house, at least I want to give her back peace Wealthy. Once the empress travels westward with a crane, the new ones will be no more than a few old people in the palace. They are no more than the empress, and one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. After ascending to the throne, the first thing to do is to eradicate the former opponents. Concubine Shu, who is the head of the four concubines, how can they tolerate her in their eyes?"

"But……"

"My life was saved by Sister Jun. I can't just watch her step into desperation. Repay kindness with kindness, repay grievance with hatred, Qingxiao, you know my nature." Su Lingyu spread Qingxiao's palm , and then put the completely withered leaf into her palm, and then closed her fingers together. The withered and brittle leaf could not bear this kind of torture, and it made a crackling sound of leaf veins snapping: "People don't attack me, I don't Prisoner. If someone offends me, ten times—return it.”

Su Lingyu's voice was light and agile, but there was an indescribable chill in it.Qingxiao couldn't help shivering slightly, and looked up at her in a daze.Su Lingyu was still smiling, but what flowed out of her almond eyes was dark, bottomless coldness.

"Tomorrow, old people, old people, old times, old places." On the fragrant piece of paper, there are only short characters.After Su Lingyu finished reading, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he put the end of the note on the candle, staring intently at the warm light that suddenly lit up.

She still couldn't get out of this quagmire, and even if she got rid of it, she still forced herself to step on it again for one reason or another, sinking deeper and deeper.

She was too naive before.

Who among the people living in this palace can really get rid of this filth and keep themselves clean?Out of the mud but not stained - it turned out to be just a joke.

The sun is shining brightly.

The autumn sun is warm, and it also dyes the dilapidated Langya Palace in a layer of golden yellow.Su Lingyu came early this time, stepping on the fretboards that had been torn apart by weeds, and circled the entire Langya Hall.On the fretted ceiling near the gate of the palace on the west side, you can vaguely see large black stains that soaked deep into the stone slab and could not be removed. Su Lingyu seemed to have seen that tragic night, screaming, begging for mercy, blood, and flesh crumbs. One by one, the living people were forcibly dragged to this corner, and the beaten corpses were dragged out of the spacious and gorgeous palace gate one by one.

At that time, the stunning woman who lived in Langya Palace heard the miserable screams outside the palace, what was she thinking?

For a man, for a position, for that illusory love, is it worth it?