It is said that the people I protect are admired by the Six Realms

Bai Moqian let out a long sigh of relief, put his left hand on Li Shao's shoulder, moved away by himself, and then raised his arm again to embrace him in his arms.

The heart that likes him is like the bright moon in the sky, and I can't restrain it. If there is even a little bit missing, I will try my best to make it up.

Bai Moqian's eyes flickered slightly, he leaned back on the pillar and glanced around.

The cabin is quiet, the golden sunlight shines in, spares no effort to sprinkle in every corner, the glazed lanterns are still on, occasionally the river wind blows in with the waves, the red ribbon flutters slightly, and the "hangover" people fall in disorder on the ground.

There are too few clues left at the scene, all Bai Moqian can do is wait, waiting for a new turning point or new situation.

The sun was shining on his body, it was warm, Bai Moqian held on for a while, his upper and lower eyelids began to stick together, he tilted his head, and fell asleep.

When he woke up again, there were bursts of singing in his ears again. Someone was playing a harp, charming and intoxicating. The lingering music was mixed with the sound of a pipa, which was clanging like silver beads falling on a jade plate.

Shocked, Bai Moqian sat up straight and looked around.

As the golden crows set in the west, the last gleam of twilight was taken away by the river waves. The musicians who had been crooked on the slum gradually opened their eyes, and they sat at the square table again, stroking lightly with bare hands, and the music was loud.

As the music gradually intensified, the drinkers lying on the table also sat up by the table, picked up their chopsticks, picked up their wine glasses, chatted and laughed.

The woman's charming laughter came, and a gust of fragrant wind wafted by, and the dancer who had been lying on her back on the ground began to dance Huxuan dance on the disc again.

Everyone's clothes were neat, their temples were like clouds, and they were talking and laughing, as if the state of running around and shouting and terrified in the early morning of this morning was just a phantom.

Bai Moqian stood up, his eyes slowly swept across the noisy crowd.

"Are you looking for me?" Li Shao's voice came from above his head.

Bai Moqian raised his head, Li Shao was going down the stairs step by step, a plump woman wrapped around him like a boneless body, the woman's red lips parted slightly, and she stretched out her pale hand to caress Li Shao's face.

Bai Moqian's hair exploded in an instant. He rushed forward and stretched out his hand to grab the woman's arm. As a result, he watched his hand pass through the woman's body, just like fishing for a moon in water, only shattering the moon image , but the hands are empty.

"What's going on?" Bai Moqian was stunned, and he reached out to grab Li Shao's sleeve.

"Suo Ling." Li Shao replied, he grabbed the woman's neck, raised his hand, threw her out, and continued to go down the stairs.

After Bai Moqian listened, his eyes froze. He looked up and looked around. To the northwest of the cabin, a magnetite basalt was lying quietly. The spirit of the soul lingers around it.

"A Mo, look carefully." Li Shao walked to the group of drinking people and put his hand on the back of one of them. That person seemed to have never heard of it, and he continued to drink and eat meat.

Bai Moqian squinted his eyes, he hadn't noticed it before, until now Li Shao stood aside, and he realized that the clothes worn by the people in the cabin were the clothes of the emperor/ancestor period!

In other words, these people are all people from 300 years ago!They died a long time ago, and the reason why they can see such a real appearance now is only because the Zhenling Xuanwu locked their souls on this ship!

Bai Moqian was dripping with cold sweat, he walked quickly to Li Shao's side, pursed his thin lips lightly, and nodded to Li Shao with a serious expression.

Li Shao stretched out his hand, lifted the collar, pulled the man in the red robe and purple ribbon from his seat, then pushed him to the ground like planting a tree, clapped his hands, and reprimanded, "Aren't you awake yet?"

A faint blue light flew from the northwest corner and poured into the man's body. The man trembled several times, and his eyes gradually became clear.

"Sir." Seeing that it was Li Shao, the man hurriedly waved his sleeves to salute.

Li Shao nodded slightly, then turned to look at Bai Moqian, "His name is Li Ke, you can ask whatever you want."

Li Ke looked over to Bai Moqian, bowed his hands and saluted.

Bai Moqian returned the salute, and he asked, "What is the 'it' you are afraid of?"

Li Ke's body trembled slightly, he glanced towards the east, and said, "'It' is the sun."

Bai Moqian narrowed his eyes, and said, "Sunshine? What's so scary about the sun? You haven't turned into ghosts, and the sun won't harm you."

Li Ke shook his head, "Our souls are locked up by the Zhenling Xuanwu, we cannot enter the underworld, and our bodies are no longer under our control. Every time night falls, our souls will return to us, and we are like living creatures. It’s the same as coming here, however, I can only repeat what I said and did the night before I was locked up. When the sun rises and the sunlight falls on the east window, the soul will be recalled to Xuanwu’s body. Correspondingly, We would also be incapacitated."

"In this way, day after day, we repeated the same scene, tirelessly, drifting with this ship, immortal, never going to rest in peace."

Bai Moqian's eyes flickered, and he asked, "What happened that night?"

Li Ke sighed heavily, "Mr. sent me into reincarnation. I was reincarnated in a merchant's family in Jiangling City. I studied hard for ten years. At the end of the Chu Dynasty, I became a Jinshi and became an official in the court."

After hearing this, Bai Moqian's eyes froze, he quickly interrupted and asked: "A Jinshi in the last years of the Chu Dynasty? Is there a man named Zhen Chong who was a Jinshi in the same year as you?"

Li Ke nodded, "Yes. He and I not only won Jinshi together, but also entered the court together as officials. His Ministry of Rites and our Ministry of Officials often walk around each other, and we have a very good friendship."

"What happened later?" Bai Moqian didn't expect to get news about Zhen Chong from Li Ke by accident, and hurriedly asked, "Do you know where Zhen Chong went?"

Li Ke was silent for a while, "Later, the emperor/ancestor established a new dynasty, and I and other officials of the old dynasty remained in the court as officials. In the first year of Xianheng, I was transferred from Chang'an City and went to Jiangling as the prefect. If it is far away, I don't have much contact with Zhen Chong, and then, in the second year of Xianheng, I got a spell on this ship and have been adrift until now."

Bai Moqian frowned.

Li Ke was killed in the second year of Xianheng, and the time when Zhen Chong lost news was also in the second year of Xianheng. These two were both old ministers of the former dynasty, and both of them were re-appointed after the emperor established a new dynasty.

With so many similarities, can it be boldly assumed that the person who killed Li Ke and Zhen Chong were the same gang?

Thinking of this, Bai Moqian returned to the original question. He looked up at Li Ke and asked, "What happened the night you were locked up?"

Li Ke shook his head, his eyes dimmed, as if he didn't want to recall, he took a step forward and raised his hand to grab Bai Moqian's shoulder, but Li Shao who was standing beside Bai Moqian waved his sleeve to stop him.

Bai Moqian's eyes flickered slightly, Li Ke wanted to get on his body, let Bai Moqian use his own eyes to "see what he sees" and use his own ears to "listen to what he hears".

This kind of "empathy" is a kind of magic, called "underworld love".

It's just that empathy is the body of the host on one's own consciousness, and Mingqing is the body of the soul of others.

The reason why Li Shao stopped Li Ke was because Mingqing was very dangerous, and if the host's spiritual power was not strong enough, he would easily go mad.

"It's okay, if I feel strange, you can drag me back." Bai Moqian patted Li Shao's shoulder to comfort him.

Li Shao lowered his eyes, stared at Bai Moqian for a while, gave a "tsk", stretched out his slender fingers and tapped his forehead, "With me here, you don't need to risk yourself."

Bai Moqian didn't understand, and was about to ask, when he suddenly felt his waist tightened, his feet lifted off the ground, and the wind whistled in his ears. When he looked closely, he was already held in Li Shao's arms, and he was carried into the air.

Li Shao's robes rattled, his jet-black hair was scattered, and a golden rune appeared between his brows. He raised his hand and waved his sleeves, a gust of wind blew past, and the dazzling golden-red rays of light fell like snowflakes. .

The souls on the back of Xuanwu in the northwest corner seemed to be summoned by something, and they rushed back to the bodies of everyone.

For a while, the sounds of people, music, and wind came into my ears. Bai Moqian was so noisy that he raised his hand to cover his ears.

After about half a stick of incense, Li Shao patted his shoulder, Bai Moqian lowered his arm, and followed Li Shao's gaze.

I saw a group of people in brocade clothes surrounded the two of them and walked in.

The leader is dressed in a silver unicorn robe, with a purple jade crown in his hair, and his face is stern, majestic but not angry. He is Shang Ye, the national teacher of Chaotian Yansi.

Next to Shang Ye, the man in the red robe and purple ribbon official uniform is Li Ke, the servant of the Ministry of officials.

Everyone sat down on the round table in the center of the cabin, and the musicians came forward with various instruments in hand, saluted and then sat down at the side table.

Hu Jia starts the beat, the teeth beat it, the konghou complements the sound, and the pipa rests behind it.

The grand tune shows the vitality of the new dynasty, and also the strength and prosperity of the new dynasty.

Flowers sway on the temples, the fragrance is blowing, the waist is like a cloud, and the dancer's exquisite dancing skills make people fascinated.

Everyone sincerely praised the great achievements of the emperor/ancestor, and looked forward to the rising new dynasty to bring more surprises and admiration to people.

Li Ke smiled and filled up the wine for Shang Ye, "The national teacher came all the way from Chang'an, and the journey was exhausting. I use this glass of wine to clean up the national teacher!"

Shang Ye's face was still as deep as water, and in Bai Moqian's words, it was as if someone owed him eight pennies, and he looked worried all day long.

"Don't dare, you don't have to be polite, the prefect. I came here this time under the order of the Holy Majesty to comfort the heroes who founded the country." Shang Ye raised his hand and pushed away the wine glass handed in front of him. "I don't drink, so I ask the prefect to forgive me."

Bai Moqian was taken aback when he heard that, the founding hero?What kind of founding hero?Isn't Li Ke a former minister?

He looked at Li Shao, opened his mouth, and said softly, "Did that Li Ke lie?"

Li Shao shook his head, motioning Bai Moqian to pay attention.

Bai Moqian had no choice but to temporarily suppress the doubts in his heart, and lowered his eyes to look carefully.

The wine glass that Li Ke handed over was blocked, and he looked a little bit annoyed, he frowned slightly, in order to hide his embarrassment, he had no choice but to drink the glass with his head up.

Shang Ye clapped his hands, and two onmyojis came out from the darkness, each holding a square wooden plate in their hands.

"These were rewarded by the Holy Majesty to the eunuch. During the battle of Quyang, the eunuch and the army led by the Holy Majesty cooperated inside and outside, and our army was able to break through the city. The eunuch's contribution is indispensable." Shang Ye stood up, and he put the cover on the square wooden plate. The cloth was pulled away, revealing the golden gold.

Li Ke hurriedly got up and bowed his hands to salute, he said with a smile: "Where is it, the Chu Dynasty was tyrannical and lawless, and the Holy Majesty did justice on behalf of the heavens, eradicating violence and peace, and it is God's will for the lower officials to seek refuge with the Holy Majesty."

Bai Moqian narrowed his eyes.

It turns out that the fact that the old ministers of the previous dynasty were re-appointed by the new dynasty was not because the emperor/ancestor loved and cherished talents, but because Li Ke betrayed the Chu Dynasty before the war, so there is the term "founding hero".

While thinking about it, Li Ke suddenly heard Li Ke scream, "You...why!"

Bai Moqian hurriedly looked down, and saw that Shang Ye raised his hand and grabbed Li Ke's neck. Li Ke's face was bruised, and he kicked his feet trying to break free.

"I'm just following orders, I'm sorry." Shang Ye glanced at him lightly.

As soon as the words fell, a dazzling white light enveloped the cabin, and when the light faded, everyone fell down.

Shang Ye stood in the middle of the cabin with his hands behind his back, his face was calm, he took a closer look and made sure that nothing had slipped through the net, so he lifted his legs and left.

Li Shao hugged Bai Moqian and slowly fell to the ground, Bai Moqian gritted his molars, "According to orders, whose order is it? The emperor/ancestor?"

Li Ke shook his head, his eyes started to bleed again, the sun was about to rise.

"Sir, please give me an end, I really have had enough." Li Ke knelt down and kowtowed.

Bai Moqian knelt down and grabbed his arm, "Why did the emperor/zu want to kill someone? Do you know something?"

Li Ke was on the verge of collapse, he kept pulling his hair with his hands, "No, I don't know anything, kill me, please kill me, I don't know anything..."

Bai Moqian asked several questions, but Li Ke just shook his head, wishing for a quick death.

"A Mo." Li Shao shook his head lightly, "Let him go."