Chapter 389 Flood Peak

It seems I have to spend the night in the sarcophagus.

Bu Yan quickly spread the scraps of cloth from the package, the armor and outer clothes on his body, and everything he could find into the sarcophagus.

"Your Majesty, I'll have to inconvenience you by having you sleep here tonight. I'll keep watch for you and try to dig a way out."

Nan Lijun nodded obediently, but the sarcophagus was high and deep, and she didn't dare to climb in. Buyan had to pick her up horizontally and then jumped into the sarcophagus.

Just when Bu Yan wanted to put Nan Lijun down, she looked at the young and handsome man in front of her, suddenly raised her arms to wrap around his neck, put her face close to his chest, and said in a muffled voice:

"Buyan, just stay here with me. I'm scared to be alone..."

After hesitating for a moment, Bu Yan still felt that it was too impolite. He just opened his mouth to call out "Your Majesty", but Nan Lijun hugged him even tighter, with a pleading tone:

"Can you please call me 'Ari', just like my mother used to call me when I was little, okay?"

Bu Yan's heart softened, and he called out softly:

"Ari."

These two words immediately touched Nan Lijun's heartstrings. She burst into tears, her tears soaking her chest, and her cries echoed mournfully in the tomb.

Only after she had cried enough did Nan Lijun raise her tear-stained face and look at the man standing so close to her.

"Thank you, without saying anything."

Looking at the peerless beauty crying in front of him, all the emotions that he had deliberately suppressed burst out again.

He wanted to say, "Ari, I'm honored to hear your stories that you never tell anyone. From now on, you can tell me anything," but before he could finish his words, Nan Lijun suddenly hooked her arms around the back of his neck, leaned over and kissed him on the lips.

His mind went blank, his eyes wide open, staring blankly at her long eyelashes, on which tiny tears hung.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her porcelain-white skin was dotted with pink tear marks.

"Buyan, do you love me?" She left his soft lips and asked pleadingly.

All his rationality had collapsed. He nodded without saying a word, his eyes falling on her delicate red lips, and his breathing began to become disordered.

She climbed onto his shoulders again and kissed him.

This time it was not a light touch, but a lingering suck. Feeling Bu Yan's gradually tense body and increasingly rapid breathing, Nan Lijun's hand slowly moved down and untied his bloodstained belt.

Soon, a spring breeze surged in the sarcophagus, and the snow-white tightly wrapped around the blood-red, and together they climbed to the crest of the spring flood.

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Everything happened so suddenly that Bu Yan never dreamed that this day would come.

Even though Nan Lijun hugged him from behind with her snow-white and soft body, her hot body pressed against his back, he still felt unreal.

But the feeling in his crotch told him that this was really happening.

His face felt a little hot.

He was not used to being naked, especially in front of Nan Lijun, so he first put his coat on Nan Lijun, then picked up his own clothes and jumped out of the sarcophagus.

He walked to the side chamber next to the main tomb chamber to put on his clothes. As soon as he entered, he was shocked by the huge skeleton inside.

He looked carefully and it looked like tiger bones.

The tiger's head was larger than his entire body, and its ribs were as thick as beams. From skull to tailbone, it filled the entire ear chamber.

It is hard to imagine what a majestic beast it would be if this huge skeleton were filled with flesh and blood, and covered with golden and tough fur.

This is probably the legendary divine tiger that the Queen Mother raised during her lifetime.

Indeed, only this kind of divine object is worthy of a legendary hero like the Queen.

Bu Yan couldn't help but start imagining the Queen's grace in the past:

Riding a divine tiger and holding a Chengying broadsword, she is just like Yun Chen, a woman dressed as a man, heroic and valiant, but she has strategies that are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

"In that era when humans and gods met, she was branded with the final divinity." Nan Lijun walked over and said, adding a perfect period to the unspoken imagination.

Without saying a word, he sighed, "If there is no god, who can control such a divine tiger?"

This caused Nan Lijun to sneer, "What I just said was written in the storybook. It's a trick used by storytellers to attract customers. There's no point in believing it."

Buyan shook his head and said, "I believe it." He only regretted that he was not born in the previous dynasty. If he could live in the same era as the Queen, and see her riding the divine tiger with his own eyes, he would die with his eyes closed.

He gently stroked the tiger bone and examined it carefully, noting that the tiger's head had no canine teeth and a molar next to it was also missing. A total of three teeth were missing.

"It looks like it was dug out while the tiger was still alive. Who is so cruel?" Bu Yan felt it was a pity, and was even more surprised that someone could pull out the tiger's teeth while it was still alive. What kind of courage and ability does it take to do that?

Nan Lijun leaned on Bu Yan's shoulder, smiling mischievously and mysteriously:

"you guess?"

Bu Yan thought about it and asked tentatively:

"Is it... you?"

Nan Lijun made a speechless expression, and then said a name that was completely unexpected to Bu Yan -

"Huo Gannian."

Nan Lijun said, "I've known Huo Gannian longer than any of you. Back then, the Huo family fought against Dongyan on behalf of the late emperor and killed a Dongyan prince. Their henchmen, seeking revenge, kidnapped Huo Gannian's mother, Du Wanyi, and then released her after humiliating and torturing her. Since then, his mother, Du Wanyi, has been depressed and ill. The Huo family, father and son, searched for renowned doctors and learned that divine tiger tusks and bones could soothe the soul and heal the heart. That's when Huo Gannian came to me to ask for the divine tiger's tusk."

The Divine Tiger was left behind by my mother, so naturally I refused. He then took advantage of a hunting trip with his two sworn brothers, set a trap to trap the Divine Tiger, and ripped out its fang. Unfortunately, before he could return home with the fang, his mother, Du Wanyi, passed away. As a result of this incident, the Divine Tiger was severely injured and near death. He left Kyoto alone and traveled all the way to the Fragrant Cliff Tomb before his death. I also hated Huo Gannian so much that I begged my father to execute him.

Considering the Huo family's meritorious service, Huo Gannian's mother was innocently implicated in the campaign against Dongyan. Furthermore, my father, moved by Huo Gannian's filial piety, only gave him a beating and executed his two sworn brothers. Two months later, when Huo Gannian recovered from his injuries and walked out of bed, the first thing he did was to come to the palace to look for me, using the excuse that he had accidentally broken my favorite box of jeweled dragonflies.

Nan Lijun took out the jewel dragonfly from the package and placed it in Bu Yan's hand:

"There are only these few left. Bu Yan, tell me if he is cruel or not."

As if she was reluctant to give in to Buyan's tenderness, Nan Lijun leaned against him softly, completely unaware of Buyan's strangely shocked and desperate expression.

"Two fangs and a molar, what can you do..."

"I don't know. I'll have to ask the artisans in the palace. They can probably make two tiger-tooth daggers and a tiger-bone pendant."