coobybook Chapter 236 There is an Emperor at the Entrance
Chapter 236 There is an Emperor at the Entrance
The Qingming Festival is a time of drizzling rain, and the same is true for Luoxia Mountain during the Qingming Festival.
When the Imperial Guards, carrying a long line of corrupt officials and prisoners, arrived at Luoxia City with the "Hundred Battles of Luoxia Mountain" scroll, it was the hour of Yin (3-5 AM).
The group stopped below the city wall. Touching their cloaks, they found they were damp with spring rain, making them feel icy cold in the pre-dawn chill.
The commander of the Imperial Guards took off his hood: "It's raining."
At first, it was just a light drizzle, like needles falling from the sky, chilling and desolate to the bone. But then it started to get heavier and heavier. Under the tents not far away, the early-rising soldiers had already started cooking. The pale blue smoke and the flickering flames were not very clear under the cover of the rain.
A woman dressed in green slowly emerged from the rain.
The blue dress Yin Shishi wore today was not the bamboo green color she usually liked, but a somber and solemn dark blue color, which made the usually gentle girl's cold eyes look even more like a fairy who was not accustomed to worldly affairs.
She walked slowly through the rain, the raindrops falling from the sky unable to dampen her at all, and thus she reached the commander of the Imperial Guards.
“Yin Shishi, a disciple of the Xuanhuang Sect, greets this general.”
The young girl approached the commander of the Imperial Guards and bowed gracefully to him, like a lotus leaf swaying gently in the rain.
Although the girl was talking to him, her gaze was always fixed on what was behind him.
No wonder he's a celestial being.
Yin Shishi's gaze pierced through the rain and past the numerous black-robed imperial guards blocking her way, landing on a black-clad man at the very back of the group. Although he wore the same black robes as everyone else, the faint purple aura emanating from him was impossible to ignore.
The commander of the Imperial Guards sighed, looked at the man in black, and only after seeing him nod did he raise his hand in invitation: "Miss, please."
Yin Shishi nodded slightly and walked towards the person.
"His Majesty."
The young man, who had been hiding his face under a large hood, gave a wry smile and took off the hood to reveal his face. The woman in front of him called him by that name directly.
"Greetings, Miss Yin!"
The young man had a pale and handsome face, and an extremely thin build.
It was none other than Xie Xiao, the current emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty.
Yin Shishi looked at Xie Xiao in front of her, from his pale face to the inescapable sickness emanating from him. While lamenting that heaven was jealous of talent, she also felt a trace of resentment towards the man in front of her.
Not for anyone else, but for the reason that he had rashly involved Ji Jinjin in the fate of the Great Shun Dynasty.
Xie Xiao seemed to sense the hostility in Yin Shishi's eyes. He had heard from the front lines that among the immortals currently in Luoxia Mountain, this Miss Yin had the best temper, like a spring breeze, always smiling at everyone.
But Xie Xiao just took it as a joke at the time.
No one in this world can be without complaints, not even an immortal.
Now it's clear that's the case. The blatant malice in Yin Shishi's eyes is like a silver needle in a doctor's hand. Even if you know it's a life-saving treasure, you can't help but be afraid, can you?
After being stared at by Yin Shishi's seemingly gentle but actually venomous gaze for a while, Xie Xiao finally couldn't take it anymore.
The young man coughed lightly twice, as if to soften his stance and give himself a way out.
We're all about to die, so let's stop being so sentimental.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier. Xie Xiao felt that if his body, which was already on the verge of falling apart, stayed in the rain for a while longer, he might not make it back to Beijing.
At that point, my elder sister will probably kill everyone who follows her.
After much deliberation, the young emperor slowly spoke: "Where is General Ji? I wish to see her."
Yin Shishi originally wanted to say no, but in the end she took Xie Xiao to Ji Jinjin's residence.
After all, Ji Jinjin was the daughter of a military general of the Great Shun Dynasty, and there might be some cause and effect that she couldn't see through that was connected to this person.
It's not good to get involved rashly.
The Qingming Festival was the time to set off for the expedition, and Ji Jinjin, Yue Zhong, and Zhu He hadn't slept the night before. They spent the entire night discussing the map around the table, and when they looked up again, they found that it was already dawn outside.
Zhu He, who had been silently watching Ji Jinjin and Yue Zhong talk, suddenly got up, stepped forward, rolled up the map on the table, and stuffed it into his storage bag.
The boy met the astonished gazes of his commander and deputy commander: "What are you looking at me for? It's time to eat!"
As he spoke, he walked towards the door. But when he opened the door, he was greeted not by the damp air of the Qingming Festival, but by Xie Xiao, who was radiant with purple crape myrtle but also plagued by illness.
Ji Jinjin had no idea what was happening at the door. She only heard Zhu He let out a strange cry and then walk back backward.
The boy had a pained look on his face, as if he had just been plucked from the ground.
"There is His Majesty at the entrance."
Ji Jinjin didn't understand his meaning at first, but she understood when Yin Shishi brought people in.
He really is an emperor.
He wants to see you.
Ji Jinjin's smile froze instantly.
Is this something a human being would do? A monarch shouldn't be staying in the capital; instead, he's traveled across five cities to this border region to say he wants to see her?
The girl stood by the door, sighed, glanced at Yin Shishi and then at Yue Chong, her eyes filled with confusion:
Ji Jinjin: What is he trying to do?
Both of the people she asked shook their heads.
Without wasting General Ji's mental energy, Xie Xiao tucked his hands into his sleeves and smiled like a fox.
"General Ji, you may not know this, but I met Miss Xue during the Lantern Festival."
Ji Jinjin's eyes sharpened as she stepped aside to let the door open, saying, "Your Majesty, please come in."
Xie Xiao had been freezing outside for a while, and it seemed his lifespan was about to shorten. As soon as he entered the house, he shivered with a chill, like a withered plum tree.
Yin Shishi couldn't help but ask, "Why isn't His Majesty wearing armor?"
Xie Xiao mentally complained that General Ji seemed to be a simpleton, completely different from her senior sister who was obviously no good. He didn't even bother to call her in earlier. At the same time, she listened intently to Yin Shishi's words, and when she heard her, she looked up and smiled brightly.
"I've been in the palace for too long, and the armor is so uncomfortable."
Those around them were truly speechless.
You might say he doesn't value his life, but he's uncomfortable even wearing armor.
You might say he cherishes his life, but this frail man traveled day and night for three days and three nights!
Ji Jinjin couldn't figure out his reason for doing this. The group exchanged glances and summed it up in one word:
ill.
Emperor Xie Xiao, who was mentally ill and physically unwell, sat in a chair, allowing the disrespectful Miss Yin to use her magic to expel all the dampness from his body.
"Your Majesty mentioned earlier that you saw my senior sister in the capital?" Ji Jinjin, who had been thinking about Xue Lan, couldn't help but ask as Xie Xiao sat down.
"What did Senior Sister do in the capital?"
Xie Xiao smiled slightly, and the young man narrowed his eyes: "She opened a jewelry shop in the capital and became close to an embroiderer. She wove a gold crown for me depicting the beheading of someone, and told my sister that she could take advantage of my illness to usurp my throne... and finally..."
"Threatening me on the Lantern Festival could kill me!"
After saying these words, the young man quietly observed the expressions of the people in front of him.
These people were only surprised for a moment before they adjusted their expressions.
Ji Jinjin: "This is my senior sister..."
As Yue Chong wiped his sword, he said what Ji Jinjin dared not say: "It's not surprising that she acts so madly."
Ever since the fourteen-year-old Xue Lan tried to bribe the Holy Maiden of the Hehuan Sect with the red flower at the top of a thousand-year-old spiritual ginseng on the back mountain of the Hehuan Sect by taking Yue Zhong's portrait, he had no hope for this person.
Xie Xiao chuckled twice.
You guys are really quite accepting.