Acquaintances in the Underworld
Wen Yici drew his sword to protect Yuanli. She was not frightened by the baby spirit, but was frightened by the cold light emitted by his sword. Fortunately, it was not her who was hit this time.
"Child, please come out. Mother is here." Sanniang shouted to the dark shadow in the corridor.
Seeing that she didn't come out, Sanniang sang the tune she had sung that day. After only a few lines, the door stopped moving and made a creaking sound.
The child soon appeared before their eyes. Wen Yici and Lin Jian rushed forward to fight, but the child was too fast and they couldn't touch it at all. Time passed little by little, and it was imminent.
"Xiaoyou, come here to mother, let me hold you." Sanniang stretched out her arms and walked towards the child. The child hesitated for a moment, but still got into Sanniang's arms.
Sanniang held the child and coaxed her like an ordinary mother would coax her child to sleep. Listening to her voice, the baby gradually calmed down and closed its eyes.
Sanniang had a faint smile on her face, her eyes moist, and she looked at the child reluctantly, then took out a jade hairpin from her body.
"Xiaoyou, mother loves you..." As she said that, Sanniang raised the hairpin, closed her eyes in despair, and stabbed the jade hairpin into the child's chest.
The jade hairpin glowed red, and golden runes appeared. The infant spirit suddenly opened its eyes and stared at her, then crawled painfully into the darkness. Sanniang fell to the ground, holding the hairpin, and passed out.
Sanniang's face was pale, with sweat on her forehead, as if she had had a nightmare.
"Husband, will Sanniang be okay?" Yuanli asked worriedly as she looked at Sanniang lying on the bed. She was pale, frowning, and sweating, as if she had had a nightmare.
"No problem, I just lost someone important and I'm stuck in a nightmare."
"My husband's tone seems to understand him very well. He must have lost someone important and experienced that too?" Yuanli said it directly. Wen Yici did not reply and lowered her eyes. Only then did she realize that she had said the wrong thing.
I hope that there is no memory in heaven, otherwise she will definitely be thrown down to the mortal world by the Emperor. Yuanli shrank to the side unconsciously.
When Wen Yici noticed it, he hugged her.
He slowly moved closer to her until his breath sprayed on her face. He stared at her and said, "My lady, you have been avoiding me since yesterday. Why?"
"You...don't hide from me."
Wen Yici put his forehead close to hers and looked down.
For some reason, Yuanli heard a hint of sadness and fear in his voice.
When Sanniang woke up, her eyes became a little dull. She returned the jade hairpin to Wen Yici without even looking at it again.
The next opportunity for action was not far away, and Yuanli wanted to take her out for a walk, so she suggested taking her to buy red bean cakes. Wujiu liked it, so she should like it too.
The old Zhang family's red bean cake shop was still open. Perhaps because it was a time-honored establishment, a long line of people formed in front of the narrow shop. Smelling the sweet red bean cakes, she took out the silver Wen Yici had given her and bought a piece for each of the people accompanying her, even the secret guards.
"Husband, the biggest one is for you."
Yuanli smiled foolishly, looking a little silly. After all, one has to please the person who pays the money.
Wen Yici curled up the corners of his mouth, chuckled, and took the red bean cake as big as a bowl from her hand.
Seeing this, Lin Jian whispered beside Yuanli, "Princess... Prince Wen... doesn't like sweets."
Yuanli stared at the red bean cake anxiously, unsure how to get it back. She couldn't possibly do such a thing as snatching food from a tiger's mouth. But Wen Yici didn't throw it away; instead, he devoured the entire piece.
Lin Jian handed a piece of red bean cake to Wujiu. He looked at it for a long time before reluctantly taking a small bite.
"Sister, you will be happier if you eat sweets, so eat more."
Sanniang took a bite and it was indeed sweet, but her heart was not affected by the sweetness. "Wujiu, when did you start liking red bean cakes?"
Wu Jiu glanced at Lin Jian who was distributing red bean cakes in the distance and said, "I really don't like it. Sweets are greasy, but I think I've fallen in love with this red bean cake..."
Although Sanniang had been separated from him for ten years, they were blood relatives after all. She followed his gaze and understood.
"Red bean cake, very good." Sanniang turned around and touched Wujiu's head and said, "Wujiu, if my sister is gone, you should bury her and Xiaoyou together."
"Okay, let's bury the three of us together." Wujiu smiled lightly, like an innocent child.
Yuanli looked at this scene of family affection and felt a little envious, which was something she had never felt before.
"What are you looking at, ma'am?"
"It's okay, I just think it's a good feeling to have family." Yuanli lowered her head with a bitter smile.
Wen Yici held her hand, his rough fingers caressing her white palm and said, "Your husband is your family, there is no need to envy others."
Yuanli smiled and kissed Wen Yici on the cheek, leaving him stunned. The surrounding secret guards had never seen such a scene before and quickly coughed and looked away as if nothing had happened.
"Did my lady ever treat Chen Xuhuai like this before?"
"Ah? No, I don't want to kiss that unlucky thing."
Looking at Yuanli's gloomy expression, Wen Yici raised the corners of his mouth slightly with pride.
Little did they know that a row of immortals sitting on the guardrail exclaimed, "Ali Xingjun is so brave that he even dares to kiss Emperor Hengjin."
Tianshu looked at her shining figure in the crowd, his lips curled up, and he said with a slightly lost tone: "Yes, after all, that person in the past was like this..."
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The night before the opportunity, Wen Yici had just hugged Yuanli, intending to achieve the great harmony of life, when Sanniang's voice came from outside the door. Yuanli shyly wanted to push him away, but Wen Yici had no intention of moving.
"Husband... Sanniang may have something urgent to do."
Wen Yici's resentful eyes drifted towards the door, and he turned back to look at her with an expression that said, "Isn't my business urgent?" After watching for a few seconds, Wen Yici finally got out of bed and put on his outer robe. When Sanniang entered the room, she saw the icy face sitting by the bed, which made her scalp tingle.
Sanniang walked over and knelt on the ground, saying, "I beg you, Prince Wen, tomorrow, please insert the jade hairpin into my heart first, and then kill Xiaoyou."
Wen Yici looked at her in confusion, "Why?"
"The owner of the jade hairpin once said that if one day the jade hairpin is taken away by someone with the right fate, it will be the time when the Shen family's incense will be cut off, and the women of the Shen family will return to their place. I think this is the reason why I failed to kill Xiaoyou last time. Sanniang will end her own life, but, Wujiu..."
"I agree."
Hearing this, Sanniang's face lit up with gratitude. She kowtowed to Yuanli and Wen Yici before leaving. After Sanniang left, Wen Yici picked up Yuanli and placed her on the bed. That night, Yuanli didn't get a chance to sleep until morning.
When he set out, Wen Yici looked back at the person on the couch, closed the door gently and left. When he arrived at the village, Wen Yici skillfully set up the formation.
However, this time it was much weaker.
When it saw Sanniang, it crawled forward a few steps, but then retreated vigilantly.
"Xiaoyou... resents me... Prince Wen, it's up to you from now on." Sanniang looked back at Wujiu outside the formation, forced a smile, then raised the hairpin and fiercely inserted it into her heart.
"Sister!" Wujiu wanted to rush to her in disbelief, but Lin Jian held him in his arms.
"Erlang, don't go."
"Ah Jian, let me go, that's my sister!"
Sanniang looked at her child, tears streaming down her face. She pulled out her hairpin and fell to the ground in agony. The baby crawled towards her, constantly pushing against her arms with its head.
Wen Yici took advantage of her moment of relaxation and thrust his spear into its head with lightning speed. Suddenly, red runes appeared, and the corpse and Xiaoyou on the table were reduced to ash.
Seeing this, Lin Jian let go of Wujiu.
Wujiu ran over and hugged the dead Sanniang in great pain, crying out "Sister" heartbreakingly. He tried hard to cover his mouth with her blood, but he couldn't stop it. The blood dyed his robe red.
It was not until the sky was slightly bright at dawn that Wujiu stood up shakily and buried the ashes of Sanniang and Xiaoyou together.
After inserting the tombstone, Wujiu held the tombstone and fell to the ground. His knees hit the ground vertically with a dull sound. It was Lin Jian who carried him back to the inn.
Yuanli stood anxiously at the door, looking at Wujiu covered in blood, and ran to Wen Yici worriedly.
Wen Yici shook his head tiredly, took out a candied fruit and stuffed it into her mouth. After entering the house, Wen Yici wearily hugged Yuanli and lay down on the couch.
"My husband deliberately didn't take me with him?"
"Um."
"Why?"
"It's dangerous, my lady, please don't move, or I might do something to you."
Thinking about what happened yesterday, Yuanli lay obediently in his arms, not knowing that the person above her had fallen asleep with a faint smile on his face.
For several days in a row, Wujiu was always in a daze, like a walking corpse, until Lin Jian gave him the letter left by Sanniang, and he recovered a little.
Perhaps it was to find a jade hairpin for the Emperor, so he chose to take a carriage back to the capital. He had originally wanted her to go back by water, but she was afraid he would die on the way, so she followed him anyway.
As Yuanli expected, her unlucky luck took effect. Just one day after setting out, when they reached the foot of Zijin Mountain, Hengjin was kidnapped.
The group searched for a long time, but still could not find any trace until nightfall, so they had to stay overnight at a farmer's house at the foot of Zijin Mountain.
"Tomorrow morning, you should leave this Purple Gold Mountain as soon as possible."
"One of our companions is missing and we're looking for him. We can't leave yet. I'm afraid we'll have to bother you for a few more days."
"Oh no... I'm afraid she was kidnapped by that weird bride." The old man said with a strange and frightened look on his face.
"The strange bride?"
"Yes, there is a strange bride on the top of Ziyun Mountain who specializes in kidnapping handsome young men to marry."
Seeing her frantically snapping her fingers, the old man jokingly said, "If I'm not mistaken, this woman should be the lover of the missing person. Did she marry him?"
"Old man, it's already this hour, and you're still teasing me. My husband has been captured and forced to marry someone in a shady marriage."
"Don't worry, that strange bride only accepts boys. If it's not you, she will just eat you."
"Eat it! That won't work either." Yuanli was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. At the same time, she was also worried about the woman. If she really ate it, she would probably die miserably.
“Little girl, if you are not afraid of death, you can try your luck at the mountainside at midnight when the yin energy is the heaviest. Maybe you can see your husband for the last time.” After saying that, the old man put down the candle and went out.
"Lin Jian, protect Wu Jiu well. I'll go to the mountains and try my luck in saving people later."
"No, if something happens to the princess, how can I explain to Prince Wen? If we go together, our chances of success will be greater."
Yuanli thought about it and she was really afraid of being swallowed by monsters if she went alone, so she wanted to have someone to lean on, so she agreed.
The stars twinkled, the night wind was cold, and there was silence on Purple Gold Mountain. Even the sound of sparrows flapping their wings could be heard. Three people squatted in a row in the grass, looking at the dirt road.
"Do we really have to squat here? It's a bit creepy."
"Hush, no blame, a little impatience can ruin a big plan."
The two of them were indeed wretched, but Lin Jian squatted in the messy grass with a serious expression, and the weeds on his head could not hide his majesty.
Suddenly, a cloud of smoke filled the air, and the sound of a suona wafted into my ears. Eight bearers carried a wedding sedan in the shape of a skull, adorned with red gauze. Inside the sedan sat a woman as delicate as a boneless woman.
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