Lei Yue Longmen

Chapter 262 Pink Skull

Even though the imperial physician persuaded him again and again, Li Jingchen decided to go up the mountain.

By the time we reached the foot of the mountain, the wind had stopped, but the sky was still abnormally cloudy, with no rain for a long time.A soldier reported that a tree in the back mountain was struck by lightning and a mountain fire had already ignited.The soldiers had gone to put out the fire in batches, and the remaining troops surrounded Qixia Mountain heavily.

Two soldiers came down the mountain road carrying a stretcher. On the stretcher was a corpse with a cloak covering its upper body.

Li Jingchen recognized that the cloak was from Yunzhong, and asked, "Who is this?"

"Return to Your Highness, it is General Yue."

Li Jing's expression froze, he stopped the sedan chair, and walked towards the stretcher with the support of the guards.Opened it and took a look, the familiar face was no longer alive, the skin below the neck was almost intact, and there were soaked bloodstains everywhere.

After the examination, the imperial doctor said: "There is a fatal wound in the abdomen, and he died from a large amount of blood loss."

Li Jingchen: "Where did you find him?"

"On the mountainside. It's about two miles away from General Yue's death. A traitor's body was also found. The wound on the neck of the corpse matches the sword of General Yue."

The imperial physician sighed: "Then it can be explained?"

"This is General Yue's? Sword. I found it at the foot of the hill where General Yue fell." Another soldier held up the sword with both hands. There was a dazzling dark red on the slightly bulky wide and thick sword, which had obviously dried up. Condensed, but slowly flowed in the eyes of the empress dowager, falling drop by drop into the mud, pouring out a ball of blazing? Fireworks.

Put the sword flat on Yuezhong's chest, "Bring it back to the East Palace, so that it can be settled."

"promise!"

"Continue to go up the mountain!"

Due to the passing of the strong wind, many dense peach petals fell on the stone steps, and the petals of peach blossoms were crushed by the tracks, like pink skulls, connected into one piece.

The man was nowhere to be found.Out of intuition, Li Jingchen thought of the peach blossom forest.

When she got there, the peach blossom forest, which was full of mist, had withered beyond recognition.The peach blossoms were scattered everywhere, not even a single bone was left.The branches reveal their true colors lonely, and at first glance, they are gray and gray, like peeling white bones, which seems familiar.

She intuitively felt that the person was inside, but for some reason, her heart felt empty instead.The further you go, the stronger this feeling becomes.

She had to abandon the sedan chair, and walked forward with difficulty supported by the guards.

Finally saw a person in the forest, it was Zhou Xiaochuan.Zhou Xiaochuan is a person who is not good at making expressions. Like her father, she can't express emotions. She is looking at the white smoke rising from the back mountain.Seeing Li Jingchen, she was very surprised. This kind of surprise was directly reflected in the fact that she turned her head to look at the people behind her very quickly, and then turned back very quickly, as if she wanted to make a concluding speech, but because of the situation? Complicated and difficult and nowhere to focus, so I hesitated and chose to remain silent.Throw the problem to the person who needs to solve it.

But this question is obviously unsolvable.

It's like no one can restore this peach blossom forest to full of flowers and branches.Even in its most vigorous season?

Following her gaze, Li Jingchen easily found the person she was looking for.

She knelt under a peach tree not far from the cave.With his back to her, his head drooped very low, and his thin back collapsed into a terrible arch bridge, as if he had suffered a catastrophe.His hands were upside down on his lap, twisted from wrist to elbow.

Perhaps, she wanted to use this twisted movement to ease the pain in her heart.Maybe it was because of the pain in my heart that caused the distortion of my body.Even when she was thrown on the mountain, she was never like this.So utter? Desperate.It seems that the soul has been taken away? The body is still lost in the world of mortals, and all thoughts are lost, leaving only an empty shell.

Li Jing's scalp was numb, before she came? She thought, no matter what happens, she is sure? She won't let her face it alone.I also believe that their emotional foundation can help her overcome any difficulties.

After coming, she seemed to be quickly deprived of this right.All kinds of presuppositions in advance are so fragile in the face of real death, like foam.

After all, she is nothing more than a mortal, not strong enough to smooth out all pain.In fact, the end of her tireless pursuit of power is not to smooth out the pain, but to create pain.She knows this better than anyone else. From the very beginning, she didn't have this kind of right, so how can she be able to save people from suffering?

"How long has she been like this?"

"From going up the mountain to now." Zhou Xiaochuan forgot the exact time, and only judged that a long time had passed. "We came a step late, because we couldn't save him? Companion, Mr. Cen blames himself."

Li Jingchen felt pity in his heart, "Is that girl here?...Did she die?"

Zhou Xiaochuan nodded.

"What about her?"

"He was taken away by a very...excited girl from the Western Regions?" Zhou Xiaochuan seemed to have reserved his words.

Li Jingchen knew that she was referring to Shi Ai, the guard beside Yingrou, and she was probably heartbroken when her master died.

"That girl...how did she die in the end?"

"Poisoned."

Li Jingchen was taken aback.Zhou Xiaochuan said succinctly, "I checked, and there is no major wound on her body, only a few small scratches on the shoulder and the back of the hand. The blood is black, which means she has been poisoned. Before she died, her face was blue. It is caused by the poisonous intrusion into the heart."

"Black blood?" A thought flashed in Li Jingchen's mind, and he instantly thought of the Western Region scorpion poison.

Like being splashed from head to toe? A basin of cold water.

A ball of blood sprang up from his heart, he clenched his gums tightly, and tried his best to suppress the turbulent flow.

When she noticed that the person under the peach tree had remained in that position for a long time, the blood in her mouth turned cold.Suddenly he left the branch he was leaning on, and ran crookedly towards the mountain.Every step is like stepping on the end of the hanging silk. If you make a wrong step, you seem to be about to fall into the abyss.

Fortunately, the imaginary scene did not happen.Li Jingxuan knelt down in front of Cen Zhuo as if collapsed, held up her face, and looked directly at her.The helpless face, the red eyes, and the plastered forehead were more heartbreaking than expected.

Li Jingchen knew what kind of distress it was to watch someone die silently and tragically in front of him.

She was afraid that Cen Zhu would go to extremes, even if she just thought about it, it would be unbearable.

Fingertips touched the corners of her bruised and swollen mouth, and the muscles on Li Jing's lips trembled uncontrollably.But she didn't say anything, just wiped the mud off her face with restraint.While wiping slowly and carefully, bean-sized teardrops kept trembling from the eye sockets.

She knew that the person in front of her was probably heartbroken.

People who deliberately avoided it like her can be belatedly aware of Yingrou's abnormality in the last section of the cave.

Probably at that time she already knew that she had been poisoned.

Those crossbow|arrows coming from under the stone wall are poisonous? Many of them fell on the bottom of the stone. When Yingrou was pushed over, the bottom of the stone was already covered with poisonous arrows.Even if there is only half of the chance, with so many crossbow|arrows piled up together, the chance of escape is close to no.

It was because of them that she was involved for no reason and died in vain.

But when Cen Zhu was in danger, the girl still chose to abandon herself to serve others without hesitation.

At the last moment of her life, she fled back to the Peach Blossom Forest, lying in that long-forgotten "old dream".

Perhaps, in that peach blossom grove, her Ah Zheng never left.

They chased and played together under the peach blossom tree, watched the sunset and moonrise together in the peach blossom rain, weaved together their beautiful dreams for the future, and fell asleep in that unfinished dream together.

It's hard to tell if her decision was worth it.

But for a waking person, this result is absolutely unbearable.

She took away part of the living Cen Zhu without reproach.The Crown Princess was helpless about this.

Zhou Xiaochuan saw the thicker white smoke from the back mountain, and was about to remind them to avoid it when there were footsteps running towards them.When she turned around, she saw that it was a flustered guard of the Eastern Palace. It was expected that something was wrong.Sure enough, the guards reported that the mountain fire was getting bigger and bigger. General Mu heard that His Highness was on the mountain, worried that the fire could not be controlled, and asked His Highness to go down the mountain immediately and take shelter in a safe place.He was preparing to evacuate the crowd from Qixia Temple and Zhenxia Palace.

Zhou Xiaochuan thought to himself that the capital city has not rained for a long time, and the weather is dry. It is indeed easy to cause mountain fires. If there is another gust of mountain wind like just now, the entire Qixia Mountains may be set ablaze.

Upon hearing the words, Li Jingchen immediately ordered to suspend the pursuit of the rebels, and all soldiers went up the mountain to evacuate the monks of Qixia Temple.

"General, we managed to surround the mountain with great difficulty. If we withdraw, those rebels might take the opportunity to escape?!"

When Mu Yunzhong received Li Jingchen's order, he was also a little unwilling, and sighed: "The sky wants to open the net? What can people do for it? Give me an order that everyone go up the mountain with light clothes, and evacuate the nearby? Mountain people and? Yes? Monks, it is important to save people.”

When we arrived at Qixia Temple, the monks were arranged to go down the mountain one after another.Yunzhong heard that some monks refused to leave the monastery, so they gathered around the courtyard and recited Buddhist scriptures facing an ancient tree.After questioning, I learned that they gathered spontaneously to pray for rain.At first there were only two or three people, but later, more and more people got together.Many monks who had already walked out of the monastery heard the Sanskrit sound, turned back again, gathered together, and chanted the Buddhist sound.The old monks take life and death very lightly, close to meditation, but the young monks are more distracted, and look up at the smoke on their heads from time to time.However, under the guidance of the great monk, there is also a tendency to coexist with the Buddhist temple.

Seeing that the mountain fire could burn up at any time, Yunzhong went to Master Qingyun to clarify the pros and cons.Qingyun sighed, and said: "Aren't you disciples? You don't want to leave, but you can't bear to see the thousand-year-old temple and the [-] Buddha's teachings destroyed like this. We are powerless to save the temple, so we have to abandon this body and live and die with the Buddhist temple."

Yun Zhong asked in amazement, "Is it true that there are [-] Buddhist scriptures in Qixia Temple?"

The monks looked at each other in dismay, "Since Qixia Temple was established for thousands of years, eminent monks of all dynasties have written writings. They are all stored in the Buddhist scripture pavilion, and there are also various calligraphy and painting works left in the world. In total, there are about one million copies. Ten The Word of Ten Thousand Buddhas refers to the most excellent writing among them."

Yun Zhong nodded: "I understand? If you can move all these scriptures down the mountain, will all the eminent monks be willing to go down the mountain?"

"Moving down the mountain?" All the monks shook their heads and said, "There are only about 1 monks in my monastery. There are not [-] monks. It is absolutely impossible to move the books down the mountain in a short time?"

"1 people?" Yun Zhong smiled and said to his subordinates: "Coincidentally, we happened to have 1 people here. Do you think this is God's will?"

Everyone was dumbfounded.Yun Zhong smiled and said: "Master Qingyun, please hand over the list of properties in the temple to me. Let's make a plan to move all that can be moved down the mountain as much as possible, and strive to minimize the loss of the temple. It is also the meaning of His Highness."

Qingyun chanted the Buddha's name and quickly thanked him.

After Yun Zhong got the list, he said, "Listen to my order, start with the Sutra Pavilion first, and move all the things that can be burned down the mountain for me. All the property of the mountain temple should be registered in the register. If there is a piece of wooden tablet missing .This general personally shaves and becomes a monk for him!"