The resplendent red blaze of flames above the Eastern Residence gradually weakened, and the slanting column of smoke became thinner and thinner.
A servant came over. He bowed at Ming Lan's feet and lowered his head.
"Master, the blaze is under control."
After listening, Ming Lan raised his eyebrows slightly and showed a short smile. In an instant, he raised his eyes, which were full of sinister and sharp light.
Looking down at Qinger, who was still unconscious, he curled his thin lips to make a weird smile.
He slightly raised his head in proud and said with his hands clasped behind the back.
"Thanks for your hard work tonight. This woman on the ground now is your reward!"
Upon hearing his words, those guards immediately understood. They piled forward and surrounded Qinger at once.
Gu Yunxi felt a ringing in her ears and her thoughts all went in a muddle as if she had suffered a st
In a flash, she went from hope to despair. At first, hope was like fireworks all over the sky, blooming brightly. In an instant, the fireworks burned out, and the colors faded, leaving only the silent night sky. Prosperity returned to desolation.In her field of vision, there was nothing but the dust raised by the horse's hooves.With tears burst, Gu Yunxi, at this moment, only felt that her heart was so wretched that all her hopes went up in smoke...Master.Why.Her filled heart was weak and dried up, and it gradually became fragmented with time.She lost all her strength to support her numb body and collapsed in the corner of the carriage."Hahaha..."Next to the carriage, Ming Lan narrowed his sharp eyes with a baleful look inside.His smile became more sinister."Do you give up now? Do you think he is rushing to Ming's Mansion to save you? You are wrong.
The fierce fighting between the two gangs of the martial arts circles lasted all night.After the battle, the whole Mount Ruyi was dyed red with blood, bloody and burning.In the dense forest, corpses piled up like mountains, and the night breeze flowed quietly, blowing away the strong metal smell which burst out from the mutual attack of weapons.Leng Qingtang hung his sword and moved forward slowly, his embroidered boots with curled-up dragon patterns stepping on the remaining bloodstains. His pale and thin face was hard to dispel the look of killing.Over the head, the crescent moon seemed to have eaten blood. The color was intensely red, and the light ink cloud floating on the moon hook was also soaked by the blood moon and was plated with a hazy red outline.Leng Qingtang raised his head and looked into the sky, frowning silently.He suddenly thought of the snowy night eleven years ago. Blood and fire
Supported by the guards, Ming Lan went out of the Eastern Depot with difficulty.A sharp, burning pain came from his injured tailbone as he stamped on the pedal, causing a violent convulsion in his whole body."Ouch! It's fucking painful. Be careful, son of a bitch!"Ming Lan blamed the pain on the guard who helped him. He couldn't help but lift his leg to kick him. Immediately, there was another pain from the fractured place, which made him distressed."Damn it! What bad luck these days!"Ming Lan cursed and took off the disguised wound bond from his neck angrily and threw it to the ground.Several guards piled on and lifted their Master into the wagon.Ming Lan was really ashamed of himself at this moment.The fracture was so unusual that he couldn't stand or sit for long, and he couldn't lie with his back up in the carriage.He was helpless but to grit his teeth ti
The moonlight was cold, and the inside and outside of the Western Depot were exceptionally quiet, as if the entire mansion and every inch of corners were sinking into a pool of stagnant water, without waves.In a wing-room of the courtyard, two young guards of the Western Depot were sitting around a little eunuch, drinking and chatting at the table.After a burst of laughter, a guard rubbed the tears from his eyes as he laughed and asked in amazement."Lord Deng, is what you said true? Is it true that the ugly maid framed Nian Zizhen?"Of course, how could I make up stories to confuse you?"The little eunuch looked fifteen or sixteen years old. He picked up two slender eyebrows and answered firmly.Then he raised his glass and sent a mouthful of wine to his mouth. He swallowed it into his stomach and opened his mouth to spit out the breath of wine. Then he showed a contented face.On one side
Gu Yunxi slowly opened her heavy eyes, and the veil of dark gold embroidered with cherry patterns filled her entire field of vision.Her fragile consciousness recovered a little sober, and she made out that she was lying flat on a broad shelf bed.The feeling of abnormality spread all over the face as if there was something tightly covering it, fatty burning and painful.Although being dizzy, Gu Yunxi rolled sore eyes and desperately wanted to see the surroundings.As soon as she turned her head slightly, the abnormal pain in her face was magnified.The pain through the bones was indescribable, like the countless sharp blades cutting indiscriminately into every inch of the delicate skin of her face.As Gu Yunxi moved her body slightly, the unspeakable pain spread from head to toes and instantly eroded and occupied all her body nerves.There was a low whimper in her throat. She couldn't help ho
The night was deep, and the moon threw a dappled, flickering light between the branches and leaves of the trees.In the Western Depot.The melodious cry gradually reduced.Bedside, the two men were both sweating and gasping. One lay while the other sat.Lu Qiange rested for a while, his cold eyes casting on Ming Lan.A small whip came down, and the skin of his thin exposed chest had already turned a piece of bluish red. Tiny beads of blood oozed from all the overlapping whip marks.However, while feeling the lacerating pain of the wound, the abnormal eunuch showed an expression of both pain and satisfaction on his pale and sweating face.That extremely contradictory expression was noticed by Lu Qiange. At once, he felt his scalp tingling. Several layers of gooseflesh crept all over his body.Ming Lan's red face was like being covered with the rouge. His beautiful, watery eyes look
The moonlight enveloped the entire Western Depot prison in silence, with a few thin clouds floating in the night sky.After relishing a jug of liquor, Warden Qiu was napping on the narrow bed in the guards' quarter.Xiaochun walked in and sat on the bench with a sullen face."Oh! It always gets busy when it's my shift. Damn it!"Chattering complaints, Xiaochun picked up the jug on the table and shook it.Realizing that nothing was left, he threw the empty jug away with a dissatisfied mouth curl and then picked some peanuts for a chew.Warden Qiu opened his sleepy eyes and looked at him on the other end of the table. Reeking of alcohol, he asked lazily."What's wrong?""Why! We've got four Western Depot guards coming to pick up the arsonists in a carriage before.Just now, four other people showed up outside the prison and insisted that they were sent by the Western De
The pain of the slap lingered on his cheek before it died away with elapsing time.Gu Yunyao's weep dawdled by his ears."You might hide what you had done from Yunxi, but it would not escape my eyes. You know Yunxi loves you, yet you abandoned her to wed the maid of the Kunning Palace for the Eastern Depot's sake. You were ambushed and to keep your own life, you schemed to sacrifice Yunxi for the antidote. Yunxi is so silly to not have seen earlier that she's not your love. Otherwise, how could use your dearest for yourself and the Eastern Depot?"Taking all her anger in his vision, Leng Qingtang turned his head at Gu Yunyao silently with a calm expression.Then, he muttered hoarsely."Has Your Grace released all your fury? If so, please take your servant back to the palace and worry me no more. Sneaking disguised out of the court in broad daylight does not suit one of high status like you!"Gu Yunyao's ey
Terra Nova's ninth year of the Daedalic Years, early spring.Kamakawa Yusui is shocked and annoyed when he receives news of a coup at the Imperial Palace and the imminent ascension of Prince Fuchi Yasutaka to the throne as the next Emperor.Since the Kunhuang Island and Huananhe lost a battle, Kamachi sailors suffered a heavy blow, Kamakawa was forced to take the remaining troops retreated to the south of Kunhuang Island, Tsuneoshima stationed.Unexpectedly, just when he was trying to avoid the previous shame and had been intensifying the study of the new combat program, the country had a great turnaround.Can't think too much, Kamakawa by water immediately point all 10,000 Ying army, lead five Anzai ship and a number of ships, with enough artillery Furlong machine fire speed back to Ying, swore to fight with and Shigeru cuts a high and low winners and losers.One night, as Kamakawa's fleet secretly approached Mizumura Harbor in Kyoto, a thick fog sudde
In the banquet hall of the palace, the fire and candles were bright, four dancing girls lined up, green silk buns, colorful makeup, silk sleeves fluttering and swaying, dancing in a slow and rhythmic dance.Two or three male musicians are not far from them, playing strings, flute, drums, each person's face is calm and solemn, but in the eyes of God duh, seems to have the essence of the aura of a hidden flash.The dinner was organized to celebrate the fifteenth birthday of Emperor Fuchi Masaharu, but due to the defeat of the Terra Nova army in Weihai, many of the entertainments were temporarily canceled, and only the traditional Yehime songs and dances were retained.Profound Ya Qing was the main character of tonight's banquet, at this time he was wearing brand new scarlet damask silk clothes kneeling above the chief belonging to him, looking quiet and enjoying the songs and dances.On the seats to his left were the former Emperor's side consort, Daiji, with h
Terra Nova, Kyoto.As night falls, in a short house in the civilian area, the blind man is anxiously waiting for his mother-in-law to return home from work.She hadn't been back for a day and a night, and that definitely hadn't happened in the past.Could it be that the Ninth Princess has encountered something on her end?Rustling footsteps stopped unexpectedly at the door.The blind man's sense of hearing is much more sensitive than normal people, his eyebrows slightly gathered, and without moving, he got up and lightly rubbed his steps to the wooden cabinet, and touched a sharp dagger from the top of the cabinet and quietly hid it in the sleeve of his coat.The door of the room opened, and by the sound of the footsteps coming in there should be two of them."You're Suigo Show's man, aren't you?"The one who asked the question in Terra Nova was a young man.The blind man turned his head sideways, carefully recognizing the source
A cold wind cut through the long, narrow corridor, and the lights flickered dimly.The man's ragged gasps continued to spill out of the closed wooden lattice barricade door, accompanied by the occasional few hushed cries of pain from the woman."Haru, come on, I'll accompany you to your room."Looking at Yuan Ya Qing's stagnant and godless clear face, Yun Shi's heart seized more than just pain as she tugged on one of his arms.The commotion in the room was in no way suitable for a teenager to be listening in.The teenager's eyes were lax as he took two steps with her, speaking quietly in Chinese: ."...Master, you have to trust me as well...it wasn't Mother and I's idea to march into Da Yi."Yun Shi suddenly became miserable inside, opened and closed his nose and said."I believed you, never had a doubt, and it was for that reason that I traveled across the river and across the sea to meet you in person in Terra Nova."The two co
"Yue Xilou, you traitor shall not die!"Qi and blood surged, and a strong hatred that had never been felt before invaded Yun Shi's consciousness.She jumped up with her eyes heavy with red and lunged at her enemy with all her might, reaching for his neck.Yue Xilou laughed scornfully and kicked her backwards with a flying leg.Yun Shi fell out onto the hard floor a few feet away, choking on blood and letting out a pained _groan_.Wamochi stretched his neck to look at it, grinning imploringly.Tsukishiro looks at the samurai on either side :)"Don't just stand there, take her down and keep her under good guard, she'll be of great use in the future.""Slow down ......"Yun Shi forced to endure the pain of bones about to break trembling climbed up, far away from looking at the abyss Ya Qing, the expression of desolate:"Your Majesty, I have something to say to you, please send the counselor."Empress Yuanya immediately s
The fact that the mute applicant, Yun, who was originally scrubbed out of the test, has been recognized by the Emperor as the Imperial Chef, shocks the entire Grand Cookhouse early the next morning.The cooks and handymen who had looked down on her earlier were now gathered in front of the stove in the cooking room, watching intently as she operated it herself.Even in the past days always rigid board a big white face of apricot leaf female master, this time all people before and after chasing after Yun Shi everywhere running, flattery, mouth like a river, all do their best to please. At sunrise, Yunshi was wearing a green coat and pants, put on a large apron to the stove to do the work.With white flour rolled out and crabmeat and shrimp mince and red fish roe in the filling, the meat buns are pinched out with absolutely thirty-three folds.Chicken breast, corn and green beans are sauteed in oil, thickened with soy sauce and pan-fried wine, and wrapped in so
He is, after all, the Emperor!Following the direction of Master Apricot Leaf's kneeling, Yun Shi looked at the teenager, his eyes filled with astonishment.The standing tasseled crown and the yellow coat are indeed the symbols of the imperial nobility of Terra Nova.But, this young man, he is actually the Emperor."Mute, why don't you kneel down!"The apricot leaf matron raised her eyes to the unresponsive Gu Yunshi and chided."Eh, forget it, forget it ...... Master Chief, you get up too."Meeting Yun Shi's eyes, the teenager's face flushed red and blushed as he explained: ."Granny, I don't mean to deceive you ...... I, I didn't eat well in the evening meal, and I was really hungry just now."Yun Shi's complexion returned to normal, pursed her lips and waved her hand, indicating that she didn't mind.Heh, how could she mind?She was begging for it!The hostess rises obsequiously and comes up to nod at the tee
The night fell slowly, blotting out the last rays of red light in the sky.The entire Western Garden was silent.Cloudseeker stood in the tiny compound under the endless sky, raising his head to look up at the dark inky colors of the night sky.In the field of vision, that heavy darkness seems to carry some kind of adsorption magic, only teaching people to look at a glance, want to look through.She failed the test to become a chef and lost her chance to enter the palace and meet the Emperor.Such a result directly disrupted all her latter plans.After losing her temper for a while, she thought of Hua Nanhe, who is still fighting in the battlefield, Yingyu, who is trapped in the palace of Dayi, and brother Mu Xiu, who is waiting for them to return home.Yun Shi's eyes burned as she quickly regained her fighting spirit.Now is not the time to be discouraged, since one way does not work, then find another way.The hour was already
Terra Nova, outside the Abyssinian Palace, West Court.The large cooking room was busy with players in white shirts and blue pants around wooden cases and stoves.In five days, Emperor Fuchiya's fifteenth birthday will be celebrated, and not only will there be a large-scale celebration dinner at the palace, but an all-day parade and festival will be organized throughout Kyoto."Faster, faster, the hour for the king to pass the meal is almost here, and later on your handmade delicacies will be the basis for whether or not you can stay as a loose cook."The woman in charge, Apricot Leaf, is in her thirties, with a purple shirt and pants, wandering around every corner of the cooking room with a stern look, urging the contestants with her mouth, and repeatedly scrutinizing their cooking techniques with her cold and warm gaze.The twenty casual chef applicants came from Terra Nova folk, both men and women, and most of their referrals were cooks and assistant