my demon

Chapter 5

"I really hated him all the time."

"He just learns everything very quickly. The teachers all like him. He always speaks very heart-warmingly. He is very eccentric, and he is especially annoying in front of me."

"Every time I see him, I feel that he looks down on me. He knows that I am just a little puppet emperor who will abdicate at any time."

There was no expression on Xiao Yan's face, and at this moment he suddenly laughed again: "Actually, I was so angry because I already felt it at that time, and what he said was true."

Xiao Yan looked at Jiu Yao with dark eyes, the pale lich in the light and shadow was like a god, but he was listening to the mortals.He whispered: "As I grew up, I clearly knew the fact that I was a puppet chosen by the Queen Mother and the ministers, and this couldn't change the fact that I hated him, and I hated him day by day. Although I never said it on the surface, I know that he also knows that I hate him, and I talk to all my companions, but I never take the initiative to talk to him."

"Until his grandfather and father were questioned one after another, he was listening to the lectures of the Grand Scholars with me in the Wenhua Hall as usual that day. I guess he should have a premonition, so he hardly listened to the lectures during that time, every day Dozed off by the window."

"The guards rushed in in front of me and took him away like a duck. The leader of the guards simply gave me a hand, saying that the empress dowager ordered him to capture and arrest the remnants of the criminals. I can't do anything. His expression was always indifferent and fearless, he didn't even look at me, and he didn't even ask me for help."

"Obviously he knew there was no use - and there was no use - in asking me for help. There was nothing I could do."

Xiao Yan said coldly: "You don't know what I call myself. I, only the emperor can use the name. It is unique. In name, I am supreme and no one can overstep, but in fact, they can rush into me at any time. In the place where I live and study, if I tie up my companions, I don’t even need my permission, and I don’t need to give an explanation, and I don’t have any apologies.”

The Lich just listened quietly, but Xiao Yan could feel that cold eyes staring at him all the time, which made his manic mood seem to be soothed. The charcoal fire has calmed down.

Xiao Yan lowered his eyelashes: "Since entering the palace, the palace people around me have always been able to be replaced and punished at will. I don't know where they went or where they came from. I can't trust anyone. .”

Jiu Yao said: "So, you're sick? The Queen Mother who came to visit you today." Jiu Yao cautiously avoided the word "mother". Obviously, this pair of mother and son in name did not regard each other as their own. A close person, and it shouldn't have been long since this happened, so the boy's heart disease is because of this, right?

Xiao Yan pursed his lips into a line: "He saved his life, but he will be purged. After he enters the palace, I will find a way to transfer him to my side to take care of him. At least...don't let him do it. Those menial labor..."

He spoke quickly, as if to comfort himself: "In fact, there are many eunuchs in history who have made great achievements, such as Li Zhuguo in the time of Xizong, who raised the young master and held military power. He was loyal, such as Zheng Wufu in the previous dynasty, Trained sailors... and a literati was tortured, and later he compiled a history book that is well-known all over the world..."

The Lich interrupted him: "Do you want to save him?" Knowing etiquette, he knew that he shouldn't interrupt someone's conversation, but the boy was obviously about to cry, his eyes were very red, and his voice In the shivering, cold and windy winter evening, twilight has begun to fall.

Xiao Yan was forcibly interrupted from the self-loathing mood, and opened his mouth slightly: "Ah? Save him... I will, I will let him continue to study with me and listen to the lectures of the great scholars, he is so smart ,must be able to……"

It was rare for the Lich to ask him patiently: "I mean, do you want to save him now? Save him from castration." He carefully adopted what the other party had just said in writing, so as not to stimulate his tense nerves.

Xiao Yan was obviously stunned for a moment, his eyes lit up first, then quickly dimmed: "No way... his entire family has been accused, dead, exiled, even if I rescue him now, I have nowhere to put him Him, guarantee his safety. As a sinner, he has no family, no money, nowhere to go, even the gate of the capital...I can't even get out of the palace gate. "

A strong sense of powerlessness surged up again, he was actually a prisoner, even if he was unwilling to accept Qi Yuan's contempt for him all the time, he still couldn't deny that what Qi Yuan said was always the truth, that's why he was so angry and hurt.

The Lich said: "It's just a small illusion... to make the torturer mistakenly think that he has been tortured, and then he will still stay in the palace. You can take care of him as you originally thought, until you find a suitable opportunity to let him go." After leaving the palace, we should be able to figure out a solution after a few more years." In fact, with Xiao Yan's cooperation, he felt that he would soon have enough strength to send this person away.

It's better than Xiao Yan who is about to cry now.

After sleeping for many years, the Lich had a lot more patience with the child who brought him out of the cellar. If he followed his previous temper, he would definitely be too lazy to deal with all mundane matters.

He had just absorbed some energy, and it was actually not easy to perform the illusion, but seeing the eyes of the young man in front of him regained some of his spirit, and when he looked at him expectantly, he couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction from being needed, and wanted to come to himself. It was true that he had been away from the crowd for too long—and this little emperor, who was not afraid of ghosts and gods, knew that he was a dead spirit that absorbed fear and other negative resentments, but he couldn't feel any disgust and rejection from him.

Normal people would stay away from the undead, loathe the undead, and reject the undead. Even if they want to use the power of the undead, they are full of fear and remain vigilant.

However, mortals don't know that the undead are extremely sensitive to capture this kind of emotion, even if there is only a trace, they can quickly perceive it. Maybe they know it, but they can't control the fear, disgust, and fear that come from the soul.

But facing him, the little emperor only had trust, joy, expectation, and the anxiety of praying for strength and the weakness of longing for companionship that he probably couldn't realize.

This made him feel a little fresh, no one had ever prayed for the company of the dead.

Lich stretched out his hand, Xiao Yan lowered his head for a moment, and saw a slender phalanx touching the plum blossom petal in his hand amidst the illusory light, the white phalanx had a jade-like luster.

A few sporadic white plums had been crumpled long ago, and a burst of fine snowflakes floated above them, and then they were absorbed into the flowers. The white plums on the branches seemed to have received the essence of ice and snow, and the petals bloomed. The wrinkles that were rubbed out have disappeared.

Xiao Yan looked down at that white plum and that strange white bone hand, a little stunned.

Lich's dead soul body, both hands are full of bone claws, Lich only thought that he was frightened, and retracted the bone hand, thinking that when the soul body is almost repaired, at worst, it will turn into a finger that children can accept, He glanced at the young man's hand again. The young man's slender fingertips were red with cold, and he was still holding the plum blossom branch. His white fingers matched the jade petals, full of vitality.

The Lich said: "Put on my soul box, walk in through the door, no one can see you, then find the place where the child is, let him hold this plum blossom, and the torturer will have hallucinations, thinking I have finished the work, let him hold the plum blossom, this is a short-term illusion, it will expire after three days, it should be enough for him to escape the punishment, the rest depends on his acting skills."

Qi Yuan was tightly bound on the narrow and simple wooden bed, and his lower clothes had long been removed. The knife maker beside him was disinfecting the sharp machete in boiling water. The apprentice next to him was obviously used to it, and came over to give him Putting a wooden stick in his mouth, he told him with a blank expression: "Hold on and don't scream. You will lose your temper when you scream. The work is not beautiful. You will leak urine all your life. The palace will not keep you as a servant. You can only do hard labor."

Qi Yuan clenched the piece of wood tightly, thinking of his mother holding him with tears in his eyes: "Five senses, live, live, your sister still wants you to take care of it, you must find a way to live."

The knifesmith snorted: "Okay, press your legs and hold the lamp."

A little apprentice came over to fix his legs for him, and the other one took care of the lamp. There was no wind in the silkworm room, and the eaves were almost as low as falling down. Qi Yuan could hardly breathe. He closed his eyes, and then opened them wide again. He closed his eyes and stared firmly at the machete, he wanted to watch, he thought to himself.

Then his eyes widened, he saw that the thick cotton curtain was lifted, Xiao Yan walked in from the outside, and his eyes immediately met his.

The little puppet emperor still looked pale and weak. He hugged the silver fox fur and walked lightly from behind the apprentice, but the apprentice didn't seem to notice it.

Xiao Yan went straight to the head of his bed, and then put a plum blossom in his sleeve into the palm of his tied hand, motioning for him to hold it tightly.

He subconsciously grasped the thing that was still slightly warm, and smelled the fragrance of plum blossoms at the tip of his nose, and there was also the bitterness of snow on Xiao Yan's body in the air, mixed with the scent of ambergris.

He opened his eyes slightly, the wooden stick was still stuffed in his mouth, and he was speechless. He had no time to embarrass himself for being slaughtered with bare legs, but he was shocked by the next scene. The two apprentices didn't seem to see the golden and precious little emperor coming in, and they were still doing their things step by step-if they didn't worship the emperor, they would be killed immediately, even if it was a well-known puppet.

The knife maker was dressed in black, with drooping bags under his eyes. He gave him a gloomy look, with a tired look on his face. Holding the knife, he lowered his head and stared at the heels of Qi Yuan's legs for a while. Qi Yuan saw clearly. Suddenly his eyes were in a trance for a while, and after a while he put away the knife and threw the knife into the bucket beside him: "Okay, let's bandage it!"

The apprentices on both sides immediately came up, sprinkled medicinal powder on him and bound him up.After the bandage was finished, he told Qi Yuan that after three days he could not move and untie the bandage, and that water and rice would not enter to avoid infection. Then he lifted the curtain and went out. It seemed that there was no outsider in the house during the whole process, and it seemed that he did not notice that the other party was not damaged at all. ,perfect.

Qi Yuan was startled by this weird scene, turned his head to look at Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan's expression was still calm, but there was a trace of relief in his eyes, he stretched out his hand and pressed the plum branch in Qi Yuan's tied hand, and said softly: "Take it, don't throw it away—don't tell anyone, keep it a secret. I will find a way to transfer you to Ziwei Palace when you are on errand."

He didn't dare to stay too long, and left quickly. The Lich reminded him that the time was only a quarter of an hour. The illusion that confuses people's cognition and memory is actually an advanced spell. It was not difficult for him in the past, but for him For him at the moment, he was actually not very sure.

Xiao Yan came and went like a dream, only the fragrance of white plums filled the small room, Qi Yuan lay there blankly for a long time, and came to the conclusion that the little emperor must have bought the knife maker.

Sure enough, after changing the dressing three days later, the apprentices still didn't seem to see his abnormality. They untied him and helped him walk around a few times, fed him porridge and water, and left.

Afterwards, in the dark and windless silkworm room for a full [-] days, Qi Yuan kept holding the plum blossom, and the unique fragrance of the white plum accompanied him all the time.