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In front of the Qianyuan Hall, the emperor and the celestial monarch confront each other.

Xu Ke wiped the long sword clean with his sleeve, turned his head nonchalantly, and said to the ministers kneeling at the bottom of the steps: "I invite you to discuss the matter in the East Palace."

The ministers dared not disobey, but bowed their heads and said yes.

Xu Ke turned his head, glanced at Lin Xin lightly, and said in a low voice, "I will consider what you ask for. Until then, you stay here and don't leave."

Lin Xin responded, "Okay."

Seeing his appearance, Xu Ke suddenly laughed.

In the eyes of others, he just smiled inexplicably at the place where no one was there.

The courtiers thought he meant something, so they just lowered their bodies even lower.

Xu Ke put his sword back into its sheath, walked among the ministers who were kneeling on the ground, and drove to the East Palace.

After he left, Lin Xin pulled out a hand vigorously, and patted the dragon's tail coiled around his body: "I can't breathe anymore."

Gu Yuan let go of him, and withdrew his huge original form: "That person is very scheming."

"I know."

As the dusk fell, Lin Xin looked around,

"However, the emperor passed away suddenly. He should deal with the follow-up matters overnight. He probably won't look for me tonight. Let's look at it tomorrow morning." Lin Xin rubbed the tip of his nose, "Let's go, find a place to sit. What happened today A lot of things have exceeded my expectations.”

He suddenly remembered something and walked into the hall.

The body of the deceased emperor had been sent to the bedroom, and the little eunuchs were busy arranging it.

Just now, a young eunuch, in a panic, turned over the whole note.The dinner on the table was all scattered on the floor.

Lin Xin squatted down in front of the mess, covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, picked up an ivory chopsticks, and fiddled with the leftovers on the ground.

Sure enough.

He stood up, walked out of the palace, and said to Gu Yuan: "I see, let's go."

The night is getting thicker, the ink clouds are scattered and gathered, there are no stars and no moon.

There is a tallest palace in the Wu Palace, which is not the emperor's bedroom or study, but the Chengchao Palace built on 81 steps.

When Lin Xin came here, there was this palace, and he still had an impression of this palace.

On the roof of Chengchao Palace, there are two flood dragons soaring into the clouds.

Lin Xin and Gu Yuan sat on the roof of the Chengchao Palace, where they could overlook the entire Wu Palace.

Lin Xin supported his head, thought for a while, and said leisurely: "Today's matter should be divided into four factions."

He sat up straight and held out both hands.

He moved his left hand first: "This is the emperor." Then he shook his right hand: "This is the group of Taoist priests around the emperor, headed by the two Taoist priests who were killed."

He only had two hands, so he patted Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan smiled, and stretched out both hands in front of him.

Lin Xin patted his left hand: "This is Prince Xu Ke." Then he pointed to his right hand: "Zhenshui Village, and the innocent people in the surrounding towns."

"I originally thought that the emperor, the crown prince, and the Taoist priests were all in the same group on Wu's side. In the end, they have their own fronts."

"The emperor seeks the way, the prince seeks power, and the Taoist priests seek merit. The emperor thinks he is above ten thousand people, but he is actually played around by the prince and Taoist priests."

"The Taoist priest tricked him into building a palace, in fact, to sacrifice his soul and seek Taoism to become an immortal; the prince wanted to ascend the throne and become emperor."

"Just now I checked the emperor's medicinal diet, and found that the medicinal diet was not quite right. The prince should often deliver medicinal diet to the emperor, and the emperor is used to it, so he was not prepared. If it were me, I would not have expected it. After all, Xu Ke is only twelve or thirteen years old. look."

"Putting things together, it should be like this—"

"When Xu Ke usually handles political affairs, he wins over the ministers, intervenes in the affairs of the palace, and gradually deploys his own staff."

"He actually knew about the construction of the palace this time. Maybe he is still behind the scenes."

"He used the pretext of going to the palace to summon a group of officials to persuade the emperor. It happened that during dinner, he and the group of officials witnessed the emperor's death, and he couldn't help but kill two Taoist priests, leaving himself clean. The throne, and by the way, beheaded the evil way of harming the country."

"Zhenshui Village has a radius of [-] miles, and it is classified as a palace. In fact, it is simply a cover."

"This matter will be abolished by him afterwards, and it will also win the hearts of the people."

Lin Xin wiped his face: "I didn't understand it at first, but his scheming is quite deep."

Gu Yuan's tone seemed ordinary: "It's just the emperor's family. It's that Xu Ke, why..."

Before the conversation was over, a sound transmission talisman came from the south.

It was from the little bird in Zhenshui Village.

"Xianjun Xianjun, mother and child are safe, Mrs. Song gave birth to a boy. Daoist Shuanglin said, it's just a little thin, and it will be fine if you bring it back, and the rest will be fine. The child is now asleep and crying softly, like It's like a cat, wait for Xianjun to come back and see."

He rambled and said a lot.

"I don't know if it's going well with Xianjun. The village is okay. Everyone has calmed down. Some people have gone home. Grandpa and the elders in the village are discussing where to move. where."

"If the court doesn't take back the order after fifteen days, everyone may really have to move out. But they will take away the statue of Xianjun, so don't worry about Xianjun."

"Ah... Ah Zhen? Why do you..."

The audio was interrupted here, probably when Xiao Que'er transmitted the sound to him, she was not careful and was discovered by Lin Zhen.

Lin Xin thought for a while, and also sent him a message: "Everything is fine here, you don't have to worry."

When the news came back, Lin Xin sighed.

I'm afraid things are not that simple.

If Xu Ke couldn't see him, maybe the construction of the palace would be over.

But Xu Ke actually saw him.

Lin Xin thought for a while, looked at Gu Yuan, and said firmly, "I think Xu Ke recognized me."

"how?"

"He has a meticulous plan, so he should be a very cautious person. In this way, according to his temperament, when he sees me on the palace road, he will never run up and ask me who I am." Lin Xin rubbed the tip of his nose, " Besides, when I said I was a ghost, he seemed to accept it calmly, without any doubts. Now that I think about it, his appearance is clearly an appearance of complete disbelief. The only explanation is that he recognized me It is Emperor Min of the Yue Kingdom."

Gu Yuan said: "He probably knew you from the history books."

"I think so too."

The matter of Zhenshui Village was entangled in his heart, and Lin Xin didn't have the mood to joke, and propped his head, feeling bored.

Gu Yuan clasped his shoulders: "Do you want to sleep for a while?"

Anyway, Xu Ke has no time to talk to him now.

Lin Xin sighed again, and leaned his head on his shoulder: "Okay."

As winter approaches, the nights are cold.

Gu Yuan also transformed into his true form, coiled up on the roof, protecting Lin Xin from the cold wind.His real shape is much larger than the two stone dragons on the roof.

Lin Xinwei closed his eyes, didn't see his true form, but just rubbed against Gu Yuan: "Yuanyuan, you are quite warm."

Gu Yuan responded with a smile, lowered his eyes to look at him, and then looked at the palace under his feet.

Lin Dao said, "I was here in Wu country before, and I couldn't sleep well. It should be much better now."

Dawn.

Originally, the dawn was late in winter, and when the surroundings were still gray, Lin Xin woke up.

He opened his eyes, wiped his face, looked around, and stretched himself.

Before stepping down the steps, a person came out.

When the emperor died, he put a layer of coarse white clothes on the outside of his robes.

It happened that Xu Ke also raised his eyes and saw him, and waved to him.

Lin Xin said to Gu Yuan, "I'll go down and have a look."

He stood up, and the cold wind blew head-on, blowing his untied long hair and thin robe.

Xu Ke narrowed his eyes slightly.

He couldn't figure it out, isn't this person insubstantial?When I tried to hold his hand, his arm went through.

Why is the wind moving his hair and clothes again?

Lin Xin stood on the ridge of the roof, flew to the ground, and landed firmly in front of him.

Only he can see it.

Xu Ke raised his hand and stepped back to follow the servants.

After everyone left, he said to Lin Dao: "I saw you for the first time yesterday, didn't you say that you were serving in Chengchao Palace? This is Chengchao Palace, let's go in and have a look?"

Lin Xin nodded: "Okay."

In fact, he only remembered one name of Chengchao Palace, and he didn't know anything else.

Xu Ke stepped forward and pushed open the palace door.

Seeing that the hall was pitch black, Xu Ke lit a candle, but only a small area was illuminated.

This Chengchao Palace seems to be very big.

After Lin Xin came in, he closed the door.

Xu Ke stood by the door, standing behind Lin Xin, and said leisurely: "I can read a thousand characters at the age of six, and read a hundred schools of thought at the age of nine, and presided over the revision of history the year before last."

This dynasty compiled the history of the previous dynasty, and what Wu State wanted to compile was naturally the history of Yue State.

"Emperor of the Yue Kingdom, there are three that I like the most, Gaozu, Gaozong and Emperor Min. But when I saw Lin Xin, Emperor Min of the Yue Kingdom, I was very puzzled."

The candlelight danced, making Xu Ke's shadow sway.

"How could there be such a stupid person? He gave his family and country with both hands, and he was humiliated in the enemy's palace." Xu Ke walked to him and stood side by side with him. I didn't think of this layer at all, just to..."

Lin Xin said softly: "Your Highness may not know, some people don't dare to expect too much, and it is already very rare to be able to survive."

"Well, I think you're right." Xu Ke continued, "Later, I went on a tour in Guweifu and passed through the ancient Yue land, and found that the people there all believed in a god, and it was Lin Xianjun, who came from the transformation of Emperor Min of Yue Kingdom. .”

"Especially a village called Zhenshui Village. The people there, no matter what happened there, such as this year's harvest, getting married and having children, as small as walking on the road today and tripping over a stone, they all like to tell Lin Xianjun about it. , very cute."

"In Zhenshui Village, there is a Xianjun temple, and there is a statue of Xianjun in it. An old man heard that I also like Xianjun, and he also took out the portrait of Xianjun at home. I copied one with my own hand and kept it in the In the room, take it out from time to time to have a look."

"But Gu still doesn't quite understand why a king who has subjugated a country can become an immortal? And why can the people here still admire him after hundreds of years."

"You probably don't believe it, and Gu doesn't believe it. Gu's tolerance is so small." Xu Ke smiled at him, "So Gu Bi wrote a song based on folklore, called "Mian Yan Suo."

Coincidentally, it turned out that he wrote it, and Lin Xin had heard the song before.

Lin Xin turned his head to look at him, and found that he was also looking at him.

"Writing there alone, Emperor Min of the Yue Kingdom was greedy for beauty, and brought eight lords to ascend to immortality together." Xu Ke said, "And he sent someone to put the book in front of the singer's door there, and the singer actually sang exactly the same song. gone."

"Gu originally wanted to see if this would change anything. But before Gu got the result, someone rewrote a copy of "Mian Suo" and paid a lot of money for the singer to sing again."

It was Gu Yuan who rewrote the book "Mian Yan Suo" and asked the little girl on the river to re-sing it.

"Gu has been thinking about it all the time, and he still can't figure it out. Why is Lin Xin so stupid? If he really becomes a fairy, and the ancient Yue country is in trouble again, will he abandon everything and come to our Wu country?"

"I also think about Lin Xianjun in my dream. If I can see Lin Xianjun with my own eyes, I would like to ask him personally if I can become a fairy."

A boy of thirteen or fourteen, like a child, tilted his head and looked at Lin Xin: "Lin Xianjun, you are much more beautiful than the picture."