Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

The wind whizzed past on the clock tower, and there was a whimpering sound from the cracks in the bricks. The clear voice was quite eerie: "I heard that the princess likes to recruit orphans, and suddenly I have an association... The princess bought it." The orphan girl was poisoned in advance, and then she was given to Mr. Li, who took her as a concubine, but after a while, the girl would die of poison. Mr. Li buried the pearl with the corpse, So these concubines were actually killed by the princess, and they are here to test the beads!"

Jiashan's chin was raised high, but his hands were involuntarily raised to encircle his arms, and he clearly sat on the edge of the wall shaking his legs: "So Mrs. Li took those two concubines to see the princess, Not to seek asylum, but to return these two concubines to the princess. Mrs. Wen said that the only clue left by the demon Li Zilong who sneaked into the palace to assassinate the Holy Majesty was Mrs. Li. How did the people in the village get involved? The only big person she can get in touch with from Beijing is you, the princess... and what Mrs. Li is good at, of course Bai Mianhou is good at disguise, so she helps assassins like Li Zilong The person who sneaked into the palace was Mrs. Li, or Mrs. Li who was instructed by the princess!"

"Shut up! You are so brave!" Jiashan couldn't help but scolded.

Zhao Ran didn't seem to hear it, and then continued: "So the princess wants to create the illusion of being assassinated. As for why Zhuyue is not used, it is probably because Zhuyue is familiar with Lujia and Sheping. Change someone who doesn't know anything to be that fool."

Jiashan said: "It's a joke, I am a princess, today is my elder brother, why should I assassinate him!

"That's right, you have no reason to assassinate the emperor..." He had a sudden understanding expression on his face, "Then there is only one person in the entire palace who is worthy of assassination, and that is the current emperor's favorite concubine—Wan Guifei."

Jiashan trembled all over and bit his lips, "Madam Li told you?"

"I guessed it." Zhao Ran shook his head: "She never said a word about you until she died. It's a pity that you can't trust her."

Jiashan straightened his back again and sneered, "It's nonsense."

"This year the princess didn't send Mrs. Li as a concubine, but she still came in winter. Why... because the last corpse to be tested was actually Mrs. Li. Mrs. Li wasted half his life in official career. It must be earth-shattering to attract him to be so unscrupulous. Concubine Wan Gui is not in harmony with the Crown Prince, and everyone in the government and the public know that it has long been incompatible, if you can help the Crown Prince get rid of Concubine Wan Gui, it will be a meritorious service from the dragon, and you will be able to protect Lord Li's glory for half a lifetime."

Zhao Ran leisurely said: "A young man's love, a husband and wife who have been in trouble for half a lifetime, can't be worth a word of power... The princess is too aware of the temptation of this word, but it's a pity that she underestimated Mrs. Li's ability. Mrs. Li couldn't kill Mrs. Li, but instead was killed by Mrs. Li." Killed. The princess had to cooperate with Mrs. Li in a hurry, but Mrs. Li is not dead, so there should be a night pearl that can make corpses not rot, where is it?"

The cold wind condensed on the bell tower, Jiashan tried to breathe hard, but he still seemed to have difficulty breathing.

Zhao Ran jumped down from the wall, put his hand into the clock and said: "When I first came here, I thought this clock was made strangely. There was no external bell and pestle, and what struck the bell was a built-in shaped bell. Gallbladder-like bell cones."

He reached into the bell, took off the two-foot-long bell spine, and poured the mouth of the spine downwards towards the palm of his hand, only to hear a rolling sound, the brilliance gradually flourished, and a night pearl of a half-sized chicken egg appeared. Appeared in Zhao Ran's palm.

Zhao Ran squeezed Ye Mingzhu and said with a smile: "Here."

The bell tower is full of brilliance, and under the illumination of a luminous pearl, the hair on Jiasheng's head is completely visible. It is so wonderful, no wonder the world is going crazy for it.

"The agreement between the princess and the lord is signaled by the glow of the night pearl." Zhao Ran looked at the pearl in his hand and sighed, "In the daylight, it looks like a stubborn stone, but in the dark night, it is brilliant. It is so rare that it can be compared to Mrs. Li. It's a pity. Mr. Li owns the pearl without knowing it..."

Zhaoran aimed Ye Mingzhu at Jiashan, and under the pearl's light, Jiashan's tough facial features became soft, coupled with the royal demeanor, he had a unique demeanor, but Zhaoran mocked: "Master Li doesn't know, but the one in his hand is not a bright pearl. Because it attracts only snakes, insects, rats, and ants."

Jiashan's nails were almost dug into his palm, and he said hoarsely: "Apart from this luminous pearl, what evidence do you have? Do you think you can overthrow me with this little luminous pearl? Even if Bengong tells you now , It was I who killed people to test the bead, I ordered Mrs. Li to disguise Li Zilong, I ordered Mrs. Li to kill Mrs. Li, what can you do to me? You can only keep your words firmly in your stomach, because if there is a word If half a word is leaked out, I can kill your nine clans! I am the princess of the royal family, and I am not the one who can put my palace to death with just a few words like you!"

"I don't have any other certificates." Zhao Ran leisurely said, "But I still have a personal certificate, which is Mrs. Li..."

As he spoke, Jiashan heard footsteps coming from behind her, she almost panicked and backed away, and when she lost her footing, she was about to fall backwards.

"Be careful, princess!" Zhao Ran helped her with a smile, and then whispered in her ear, "If you ruin a couple, I will ruin yours too. To repay the wicked, an eye for an eye!"

His voice was about to fall, and Wang Zeng's face appeared on the top of the bell tower.

Jiashan's feet almost went limp, and she lost her voice: "A Yi, I'm all for you!"

Zhao Ran said from the side: "My son-in-law was born in Wuhou's mansion, and his honor has already been determined. Princess, you are going against the law and almost ruining the entire Wuhou mansion. What are you talking about for the sake of my son-in-law?"

Jiashan wanted to explain, but he was clearly on the sidelines, and his words were provoking and discordant, his heart was filled with hatred and he couldn't do anything about it, so his face was distorted, and there was no trace of his usual dignified and quiet appearance.

"Okay..." Wang Zeng said in a low voice, he took the Ye Mingzhu in Zhao Ran's hand, looked at the Ming Pearl in his hand with a gloomy expression but didn't know what he was thinking.

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"Dang, Dang, Dang" The continuous ringing of the bell seemed to wake up the three silent people on the top of the tower.

Wang Zeng was stunned for a moment, then said, "It's the Town Demon Clock."

Not only is it the magic town clock, but the sound of the bell goes from far to near, and the distance to the last stroke is not far away.

Holding the Ye Mingzhu in his hand, Wang Zeng was a little at a loss, and offered the bell vertebra in his hand clearly and considerately. The Ye Ming Pearl returned to the spinal canal, and the top of the tower returned to darkness again.

"Let's go!" Wang Zeng said after hanging the bell back into the bell.

Wang Zeng helped Jiashan, whose body was a little limp, to go down, and Zhaoran's hands and feet were a little weak when he climbed below. He looked up at the top of the tower like the mouth of a well, and suddenly smiled.

"What are you happy about?" Wang Zeng asked.

Zhao Ran grinned and said, "I'm glad I don't have to climb this tower anymore."

Wang Zeng didn't know what to say for a while, and finally said: "Let's go quickly."

Several people went out of the corridor, returned to the house, restored the bookshelf, and just walked to the door, Zhao Ran suddenly stretched out his hand and said: "Wait a minute."

"What are you waiting for?" Jiashan gritted his teeth, "Do you want to wait for the people from the National Master Tower to come over? What is your intention?"

Zhao Ran ignored her and said, "There are many footsteps outside."

"The people from the National Master Tower, or the Jinyiwei?" Wang Zeng's expression changed.

Zhao Ran murmured: "It can't be Buddha's children, they walk very lightly, and they are not Jin Yiwei, they wear official boots, and they walk very heavy."

"He Zuo!" Wang Zeng called softly, but there was no response from outside the door.

"Sheping! Sheping!" Jiashan also called out twice, but there was also no response.

Wang Zeng couldn't help hesitating a little, for a moment they were blocked in the door and felt a bit at a loss. He and Zhaoran looked at the wall, both determined to climb up the wall to see what happened before talking, but Jiashan suddenly raised his neck and said: "I am a dignified Ming Dynasty Princess of the court, I am not afraid of whoever comes!"

She said without waiting for others to respond, and suddenly opened the door.

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The scene outside the door is a bit stunned even if you look at it clearly. The alley is full of people standing in darkness. It is not unusual for them to stand in the alley, but what is strange is that they have different postures.

There are burdens and picks, some are old and young, and some are pretending to be young girls showing a coy attitude, raising their orchid fingers, and laughing silently at every turn.

The silent street is like a dumb stage, unspeakably weird.

The male guards had disappeared, and Sheping was tied up not far away. She was tied up and knelt on the ground. There was a pig cage next to her. An old man muttered and didn't know what he was talking about. It looks like she is convicting Sheping of infidelity.

Sheping, with disheveled hair, raised her eyes to see them, and suddenly struggled and twisted violently, her bound mouth yelling at them "hmmm".

The person who was playing the dumb scene of punishing the prostitute stopped, turned to look at Zhaoran and the others, and then a person playing the porter rushed towards them, and Zhaoran pushed Jiashan away and closed the door.

Almost the next moment their door was swayed from side to side, and Zhaoran was knocked out all of a sudden. The porter rushed in suddenly, waving his shoulder pole. Wang Zeng did not hesitate at all, he drew his sword and stabbed him. the man's chest.

The man fell to the ground, but before Wang Zeng could heave a sigh of relief, he heard the porter's throat make a sound of "ho ho", he got up from the ground again, grabbed Wang Zeng's sword, and twisted it into a twist a few times .

Zhaoran almost gasped, the porter not only came back from the dead, but also became more powerful, Wang Zeng practiced martial arts since he was a child, and even kicked him more than a dozen times before kicking him away.

"Enter the bell tower!" Wang Zeng shouted.

Zhao Ran couldn't help being dumbfounded when he thought of Cai Cai's words just now, there was the sound of orderly footsteps outside the door, and then he heard Wen Zhigeng's voice from a distance: "Jin Yiwei is on business, get down on the ground!"

"Who listens to you bastard!" Zhao Ran just laughed in his heart, but then he remembered something and jumped up and shouted loudly: "Don't kill anyone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw arrows raining down all over the sky. While avoiding the rain of arrows, Zhao Ran couldn't help cursing: "Fuck you little scumbag!"

As soon as his words fell, a person floated down from the sky, his clothes fluttered lightly, as if waiting for a lotus to grow in the dust, walking in the chaotic world, there was a kind of calmness to the extreme.

Jiu Ru... is speechless.

In a hurry, he quickly picked up his clothes and covered his head, twisted and said: "I am the princess's nanny, protected by the emperor's grace, even one of my little fingers is more noble than lowlifes like you, bah!"

After the performance, he didn't even bother to thank the audience, he turned his head and ran away following Wang Zeng's back.

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After entering the bell tower, it was obvious that Wang Zeng was sitting with his back leaning against the bell tower. Only then did he realize that his calf was dripping with blood, which was obviously caught when he kicked the porter.

The porter's attack power was beyond Zhaoran's expectation, thinking of how many people Wen Zhigeng had killed outside, Zhaoran couldn't help feeling a toothache.

"I can't go up for the time being." Wang Zeng said with a slightly pale face, "Even if you go up, if you are blocked by these monsters, then there is really only a dead end."

Clearly said: "Then enter Li's residence."

Jiashan gritted his teeth and said, "Are you crazy? Most of those walking corpses outside were made by Mrs. Li's monster. You still let us enter Li's residence. What kind of heart do you have?"

"That monster once regarded you as a friend." Zhao Ran said with a smile, "Ah, yes, but you are a princess, you want power, you want power, you don't need friends, and you don't need any kind of feelings. It's just a temporary perfunctory in front of the interests."

Jiashan saw that Zhao Ran didn't explain what he said, but provoked Wang Zeng with puns, but she still couldn't refute it, because any rebuttal would be to clarify what Zhao Ran said, so she couldn't help being angry and angry.

Zhaoran picked up the lamp and said, "Whether you go or not is up to you, anyway, I will go this way."

Wang Zeng said: "If you listen like a mother, go to Li's house."

Jiashan had no choice but to support Wang Zeng from the bell tower to the Buddhist hall of Li's mansion.

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The Buddhist hall had been burnt to the point where there were only ruins and rubble left. Jiashan unconsciously tightened Wang Zeng beside him, and said with a smile, "Princess You don't need to be afraid, we are not familiar with Mrs. Li, but you are Mrs. Li's close friend."

Now Wang Zeng couldn't help saying: "Okay, don't mess around anymore."

Jiashan's biological mother is Concubine Li, who is kind and caring, and has always been favored by the Yingzong. After the Tumubao change, she not only knew how to hide herself, but also helped the prince who was in distress from time to time.

Therefore, when today's son succeeded to the throne, he also reciprocated, marrying Jiashan into the Duke's mansion, and after being a meritorious official, it is a well-known practice that the princesses of the Ming Dynasty have never been married well, and they cannot marry into a meritorious family.

Jiashan knew in her heart that if she didn't have the merits of being a dragon back then, Jiashan would have fallen into the chicken coop even if she had the title of a princess. The libertine lived the rest of her life.

But she is different now after all, Jiashan can be said to have never suffered any grievances since she was a child, and honored her life, but now she is ridiculed by Zhaoran over and over again, only trembling with anger.

But no matter how angry she was, no one cared at the moment.

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"The Buddhist hall here can be retreated or advanced, so let's take a rest here." Wang Zeng sat down against the wall, not entirely because of his leg pain, but mainly because the porter's description just now was really scary, and he was a little worried Don't get any demon poison in this porter's nails.

Zhaoran squatted down and tore off the cloth strips, and bandaged Wang Zeng's wound. Wang Zeng was relieved to see his wound was bloody red, and turned around to see Zhaoran picked up a lantern from a corner, patted it with an oil lamp The candles inside were lit, and as they walked out, they couldn't help asking, "Where are you going?"

"I'll go ahead and have a look!"

"The front is too dangerous, don't go."

Zhao Ran said disapprovingly: "There is no one in Li's residence, I will be more careful and there will be no danger, maybe I can find the reason why these people outside have mutated."

Wang Zeng looked at him, paused and said, "You're so curious."

Zhao Ran scratched his eyebrows and said with a giggle: "That's how I am. It's fine if others can't see it, and don't know what it can't touch. But if it's right in front of my eyes, I won't be able to sleep at night if I don't look at it."

After speaking, he picked up the lantern and left.

Zhao Ran doesn't think that the Buddhist hall in Li's mansion must be the safest place now, where is the safest place in the whole Lane without lights, I am afraid that only Jiuru, a little Buddha, can be a little safer.

There was a lot of commotion outside, and the sound of running on the road made the ground seem to tremble. It was clear that along the quiet and empty Li Mansion Chaoshou corridor, through the back garden, the middle gate, the inner hall, turned a corner and walked to the main hall. At the door, he stopped suddenly.

Zhao Ran turned his head slowly, the hall of Li Mansion where there should be no one is brightly lit.

He couldn't help but quietly moved a few steps in the direction of the hall, and saw that the tables and chairs inside had been moved against the wall, and two rows of people were sitting on the ground in the open space.

They sat facing each other on the floor, silently repeating the movements of raising and lowering their hands, clearly terrified in their hearts, what they performed might be the scene of Zhou Wangyan's banquet.

No.1 under the Throne of Zhou...it should be the Taiyin General, what does he look like?

Just as he was thinking, the door was knocked open, and Wen Zhigeng rushed in with a group of bloodstained Jin Yiwei.

"It's you!" Wen Zhigeng rushed in and was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't care to talk to Zhaoran and turned his head to order: "Quick, seal the door!"

Jin Yiwei hurriedly pushed the door back again, but there were dozens of hands mixed in those doors, who could push them up as soon as they were pushed up, Wen Zhigeng sternly shouted: "Cut them all off!"

Jin Yiwei raised his knife and dropped it, and the broken hand and arm fell to the ground immediately.

Although Zhaoran knew that these might not all be living people, he still couldn't help getting goosebumps all over his body. He secretly vowed to find a chance to kill Wen Zhigeng first. Zhigeng's level of cruelty and mercilessness would probably crush him to ashes, and even if he could change his skin, he would not be able to survive.

He was thinking wildly, but he heard footsteps behind him, and suddenly remembered something, and when he looked back, he saw the people who played the role of King Zhou's banquet in the hall also came out one after another.

"There are still monsters behind!" Jin Yiwei immediately warned someone.

Zhao Ran hurriedly shouted: "Don't kill them, kill them, they will become monsters!"

Before his words fell to the ground, Jin Yiwei had already had a row of archers squatting on the ground, and the arrows flew out "swish", and there was a pile of corpses in front of the lobby of Li Mansion.