The flower is a tulip [Chu Liuxiang]

"Then," Ji Bingyan said slowly, "Where did Liu Wumei go?"

Su Rongrong was startled, and said: "She has also been to Shenshui Palace?"

Ji Bingyan said: "According to what she said, she has also been to Shenshui Palace, but her description of the path to enter the palace and Shenshui Palace is completely different from what you said."

Su Rongrong said: "Of course I went to Shenshui Palace."

Ji Bingyan said: "I believe it. But have you ever heard that at the foot of the mountain where Shenshui Palace is located, there is a small nunnery called Bodhi Nunnery?"

Su Rongrong shook her head and said, "I haven't heard of it."

Hu Tiehua became curious, pulled Ji Bingyan and said: "You said that Liu Wumei entered Shenshui Palace from Bodhi Temple? Then who did she listen to? Could it be a mistake?"

Ji Bingyan said: "She heard what Shi Guanyin said."

Hu Tiehua suddenly couldn't speak.He also felt that what Shi Guanyin said was correct.

Su Rongrong said: "Since it is a nunnery, there should be nuns."

Ji Bingyan nodded and said: "That's right. There is a nun in Tsing Yi in the Bodhi Nunnery. As long as you find her and explain your purpose of entering the palace, you can enter the Shenshui Palace through her."

Su Rongrong said: "It turns out that this nun in Tsing Yi was also escorted by the palace."

Ji Bingyan said: "But her way of receiving and guiding is much stricter than your way. It may be used for people outside the palace to call for help in an emergency. Therefore, the Tsing Yi nun will first judge whether the visitor can enter or not." Gong, if you can't pass this level, then..."

Su Rongrong said: "So what?"

Ji Bingyan sighed: "I don't know what will happen. But all these years, none of us has heard of this route to enter the palace, have we?"

Su Rongrong couldn't help shivering.

No one has heard of it, which means that no one who knows this road has mentioned it.Some people should have stayed in Shenshui Palace, while others might never be able to speak.

Hu Tiehua suddenly said: "But Liu Wumei came back alive!"

Ji Bingyan said: "Maybe it's just because Palace Master Shenshui knows that she must go back again."

Liu Wumei went to Shenshui Palace to ask the Palace Master to detoxify her.Her poison has not been cured, so Palace Master Shenshui naturally doesn't need to worry about anything.

Hu Tiehua scratched his head and said, "Then what did Liu Wumei see in Shenshui Palace, which you said seemed terrifying?"

Ji Bingyan said: "She didn't see anything."

Not only Hu Tiehua and Su Rongrong, but everyone present was stunned, and could only listen to Ji Bingyan continue: "All she saw was a cave with no end in sight on both sides."

Chu Liuxiang is outside the cave at the moment.

What Su Rongrong's aunt told him was the path Liu Wumei took to enter the palace.

"Those who seek help from Shenshui Palace for urgent matters, or seek to see the Palace Master, will first go to the Bodhi Temple at the foot of Yushan Mountain to find our elder sister."

"Then anyone can ask to see this teacher... Is the teacher too?" Chu Liuxiang asked.

"Bodhi Nunnery is a very small nunnery. Ordinary people who worship the Buddha will not pay attention to it, and only those who know it will enter. Even if someone enters by mistake and sees that my elder sister is deaf and dumb, they will give up and return."

Chu Liuxiang was surprised and said: "Since this teacher is deaf and dumb, how can someone tell her why he came here?"

"She's always been deaf and dumb about what she shouldn't hear, but she'll hear what she should hear."

This answer was too mysterious, but Chu Liuxiang didn't have the heart to think about it.

"Then how did the master send people into the Shenshui Palace?"

"She'd give people a cup of tea and put them in a box."

"What kind of tea is tea? What kind of box is a box?"

"Tea is tea mixed with ecstasy, and the person who drinks it will sleep for at least an hour. The box is an ordinary rattan box, which is both breathable and water-permeable."

"What will she do after she puts people in the box?"

"Beside the Bodhi Temple, there is an undercurrent connected to the water system of the Shenshui Palace. This undercurrent is very strange. Ordinary water flows downhill, but this water flows up the mountain."

Even though this matter sounded weirder and more unbelievable than a deaf and dumb person being able to understand other people's words, Chu Liuxiang still didn't question it.He knew that Su Rongrong's aunt had taken a great risk by telling him this, and he didn't need to pursue the mystery behind it.

He just wanted to know if Hua Manlou had taken this road and where he was now.

"The box containing the person will be thrown into this stream, which will flow up the mountain and enter a cave."

Chu Liuxiang's eyes jumped, and said, "A cave?"

Su Rongrong's aunt nodded and said: "One end of this cave is connected to this stream, and the other end leads to the bottom of the lake, which is the bottom of the Crystal Lake where the Palace Master lives. Usually, the entrance of the cave is sealed."

An uncontrollable uneasiness suddenly rose in Chu Liuxiang's heart, and it took a while before she could make a sound, asking, "When will the hole open?"

"Whenever the Palace Master deems it necessary. For example, the person in the box is a spy who sneaked into the palace."

Chu Liuxiang couldn't imagine what the consequences would be when the hole leading to the bottom of the lake was opened.He only knew that he had to find Huamanlou quickly, but he didn't even know if Huamanlou was walking this way.

Nobody knows.

There were no other entrances and exits to the cave, so Chu Liuxiang couldn't even go into the cave to take a look.He could only follow the stream to the crystal lake, jump directly into the lake, and search for the sealed hole at the bottom of the lake.

Su Rongrong's aunt's voice seemed to still be echoing in his ears, without stopping for a moment.

"If your friend enters the cave from the Bodhi Temple, he will be discovered by the Palace Master soon. When the cave at the bottom of the lake opens, the lake water will pour into the cave, and no one can stop it."

"Of course there is another possibility, that is, your friend didn't come in at all. As a man, he will be seen through when he enters Bodhi Temple and explains his purpose to my senior sister. Since he knows the secret of the palace, My eldest sister will not let him go."

"In either case, the possibility that he is still alive is very slim. And if you are found by anyone in the palace, you will be in great danger. You'd better go back along the way you came, and go back Don't even set foot here."

Chu Liuxiang knew that these words were for his own good.Because he regarded Su Rongrong as his own younger sister, her aunt naturally also regarded him as a relative and nephew.

No one wants their loved ones to have an accident, and no one wants their loved ones to be sad.

But at this moment, how could he give up?

Isn't Huamanlou his friend, brother and relative?

How could he leave Hua ManLou alone?

He no longer cared about being discovered by the people in the palace, he was just sneaking at the bottom of the lake.But no one would have thought that there would be someone like him who could act no differently in water than on land.

Therefore, Chu Liuxiang has already swam around the bottom of the lake very quickly.The lake water is clear and transparent, without any impurities, even if you are in it, it is like being in a huge blue crystal.

There are also many jagged rocks at the bottom of the lake, which can even hide a person.But there was no opening to be seen at all.

Chu Liuxiang became more and more anxious, and even pushed those rocks one by one with his hands.He almost wanted to turn the bottom of the lake up if possible.

He no longer knows what he is doing and what he should be doing.In his mind, there was only one thought left.

We must find Huamanlou, whether he is alive or already...

The stones at the bottom of the lake have all been stroked by Chu Liuxiang.When he wanted to start over again, he suddenly felt a stream of water coming from the side.

He had already seen clearly that there was no water source at the bottom of the lake, and it was completely a stagnant lake.

Although this is very strange, generally speaking, lakes formed by stagnant water are not so clean, and the water volume is not so large, but Chu Liuxiang didn't think about it at all.

Why is there an undercurrent at the bottom of a lake with no water source?

Chu Liuxiang's heart moved, she instinctively stopped swimming, shrank her whole body behind a protruding rock, and carefully peeked at the direction of the water flow.

To his surprise, two figures appeared at the bottom of the lake.

How could two people come out of the bottom of the lake without any entrances or exits?

Could it be that behind these rocks, there are still secret passages unknown to ordinary people?

Chu Liuxiang stared closely at the positions where the two people came out, and the gradually clear figure made him even more surprised.

It was two figures leaning close together, their long hair fluttering in the waves, and their white belts were almost intertwined.

Those are indeed the costumes of Shenshui Palace, and they are indeed two women, but their postures are no different from the sweetest lovers in the world.Their cheeks rubbed against each other, their lips sucked each other, that kind of forgetful expression, as if there was a thunderbolt from the ground, it couldn't stop them.

And Chu Liuxiang has recognized that one of the women is Gong Nanyan.

Who is the other woman?

Could it be that Gong Nanyan's lover is not Situ Jing?

Chu Liuxiang watched them finally separate with full of doubts, while Gong Nanyan's eyes were full of nostalgia and obsession.She waved her hand lightly, and walked behind a stone, while the other woman took two steps forward and sat down cross-legged.

Gong Nanyan pulled hard behind the rock, and the ground where the woman was sitting suddenly rose up, heading straight to the lake.The woman sat upright, like an old monk in meditation, with a peaceful expression, like a solemn treasure.

Chu Liuxiang suddenly guessed who that woman was.

Apart from the Lord Shenshui, who else can use such a secret mechanism in the palace?Who else can still show such a holy and dignified expression after being lingering with his lover?

Under the ground where she was sitting, there must be another secret door. When the switch was pulled, a powerful stream of water would spurt out, sending her up to the clouds.

Chu Liuxiang was no longer interested in this kind of mystification, but turned to look at Gong Nanyan.Because Gong Nanyan had already turned around, she seemed eager to leave this place.

Gong Nanyan did not have Chu Liuxiang's ability to breathe underwater. She had been in the water for a long time, and she must return to land, to a place with air.

When Chu Liuxiang saw her turn around, she immediately followed her.He doesn't need to think too much, he knows that Gong Nanyan can't think about it now, and he doesn't have time to care about whether there are still people following in the water.

Sure enough, Gong Nanyan hastily pulled down the mechanism behind another stone, and immediately a stone door rose slowly.

The lake water naturally also poured into the door.Gong Nanyan rushed into the door, but before she turned her head, her wrist was already twisted, her body became numb and weak, and she could no longer walk.

She was taken aback, and just about to shout, she choked on a mouthful of water.The person who restrained her gently stroked her vest, as if to help her relax.

As the stone gate fell again, they finally returned to the place where there was no water.Gong Nanyan coughed again and again, and couldn't help but look sideways at the person who was still patting her back.

Chu Liuxiang looked at her and said with a smile, "Is it better?"

Gong Nanyan said in surprise, "You...you..."

Chu Liuxiang withdrew her hand from patting her back, touched her nose, and said, "You came to me last time to trick me into Shenshui Palace. Now that I have come in, why are you so surprised?"

Gong Nanyan moved her lips, but she didn't make a sound, but closed her mouth tightly.Seeing that she didn't speak, Chu Liuxiang stopped asking, but looked at the place where they were.

This is obviously a cave connected to the bottom of the lake, but the entrance of the water inlet is skillfully sealed.For a moment, Chu Liuxiang almost cheered, thinking that this was the cave leading to Bodhi Temple.

But he soon realized something was wrong, because in front of them was another door.Although this door is still a stone door, it is not as simple as the previous one, but is carved with exquisite and gorgeous patterns.

This should be the door leading to the most mysterious core of Shenshui Palace, which is the residence of the jellyfish Yin Ji.

Chu Liuxiang pulled Gong Nanyan into the door without hesitation.He already guessed that this place is not accessible to anyone, but Yin Ji just walked out.

Inside the gate is an unimaginably tall palace. The ceiling, the ground, and even the two rows of stone pillars are all carved with wavy patterns.Chu Liuxiang looked carefully for a while, only to find that all of these were excavated directly from the mountainside, so there is no window around the palace, only the candlesticks embedded on the wall emit bright candlelight, illuminating the place like daylight.

Besides, there was no one in the huge palace.

Chu Liuxiang glanced at Gong Nanyan again, and suddenly realized something.

It was Gong Nanyan who accompanied Yin Ji out of the palace just now, and the two were still in love at that time.If they were together before, in this palace, they would obviously send everyone else away.

This kind of love that cannot be tolerated by the world is the secret of the two of them.

Chu Liuxiang's eyes flickered with the beating of the candlelight.He thought he had solved the last mystery in his heart.

So he pulled Gong Nanyan and sat down on the spot, on a large seat in the palace.The seat was covered with thick wool felt, as soft as the clouds in the sky.

Gong Nanyan's face turned pale in an instant, and she blurted out: "You, how dare you..."

Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "This is where the two of you often sit together, isn't it?"

Gong Nanyan said: "You...you..."

Chu Liuxiang no longer looked at her, but said lightly: "We will wait for her here."

He didn't have to wait long.

The palace door opened again, and Yin Ji had already walked in.Her gait is like a true queen.

When she saw Chu Liuxiang and Gong Nanyan sitting in the middle of the palace, she stopped, and a cold light suddenly rose in her eyes.

Chu Liuxiang was also looking at her.

This is a beautiful face, with big and square eyes, a straight and straight nose, and the contour of the lips is as clear as if carved by a knife.Even for a man, such an appearance would seem a little too resolute, not to mention that her figure is undoubtedly that of a woman.

Chu Liuxiang couldn't help but thought to herself: "She really looks like a stone statue. In comparison, Shi Guanyin is made of water."

Yin Ji just looked at him coldly and said, "Chu Liuxiang?"

Chu Liuxiang said: "Exactly. The palace master's eyesight is really extraordinary."

He didn't even stand up, and even held Gong Nanyan's hand.Yin Ji's gaze naturally fell on his hand, stared at it for a while before saying: "You are not timid."

Chu Liuxiang said: "I don't have any other skills, but I'm fairly courageous."

Yin Ji seemed to have never seen such a person before, her eyes became a little colder, and said: "You can fight with me."

Chu Liuxiang said: "Okay."

He agreed almost without thinking.At this moment, he had already stopped thinking about Hua Manlou's worries, because the person who worried about him was now dead.His heart was filled with unprecedented anger. If possible, he just wanted to beat up the two people in front of him and tear down the entire Shenshui Palace into a pile of rubble.

Yin Ji didn't even look at Gong Nanyan again, she just turned around and said, "Come with me."

Chu Liuxiang finally stood up and let go of Gong Nanyan's hand.But he said: "Wait a minute."

Yin Ji said: "Wait?" There was also a trace of dissatisfaction in her flat voice.

Chu Liuxiang said: "I want to say a few words first."

Gong Nanyan suddenly sneered and said: "By the way, what last words do you have, you'd better tell them clearly!" Chu Liuxiang didn't touch her acupuncture points, she was completely free at this time, but she also knew that she didn't need to do it herself.

Chu Liuxiang acted as if he hadn't heard her sarcasm, and still looked at Yin Ji and said, "Madam Xiong is dead."

The effect of these five short words is no different from the thunder falling suddenly, and the mountains falling and the earth cracking.

Yin Ji was still standing there without turning her head, but her body was already trembling unconsciously.She couldn't even suppress the trembling, and when she spoke again, even her voice became as weak as a rabbit fished out of an ice hole.

"What did you say?"

Chu Liuxiang said quietly: "Mistress Xiong, Situ Jing's father, your former lover...he is dead."

Before Yin Ji could speak, Gong Nanyan screamed, jumped up from the seat, and rushed straight to Chu Liuxiang.But Chu Liuxiang just gave way to the side.

Yin Ji said: "Stop it. Let him talk."

She seemed to be unable to say too much, but these five words were enough to stop Gong Nanyan's movements.She thought for a while, then said, "What else do you know?"

Chu Liuxiang cast a faint glance at Gong Nanyan, and said: "I know you like women, but you are with her... not for her, but for that face. Mrs. Xiong is a man, maybe you fell in love with her." He found out later, that's why you gave birth to Situ Jing."

Yin Ji turned around suddenly, staring fixedly at Chu Liuxiang's face.And her expression was no longer dignified and lacked change. At this moment, her face was full of anger and pain when someone exposed the most secret scars.

Chu Liuxiang still continued: "It's a pity that Situ Jing didn't know that you were her biological mother, and she didn't know until she died. On the one hand, you are worried that her death will affect the reputation of Shenshui Palace, but on the other hand, and more importantly, you Worried that others will find out about her relationship with you. At that time, you really are beyond redemption. "

"So you must suppress the theft of Tianyi Shenshui. Even if you can't suppress it, you must find a suitable scapegoat so that you can explain everything."

"This unlucky guy is me. You know, as long as you let the wind out and say that I stole the Shenshui, no one will pursue the detailed process. Anyway, no one can explain such a process clearly."

Yin Ji seemed to be stunned by hearing this, and murmured: "But what...these have nothing to do with him... Who killed him? Was it you?"

At the end of her speech, she was already gnashing her teeth, and her expression became extremely ferocious, like a wild beast that wanted to choose people and devour them.

Chu Liuxiang looked at Gong Nanyan again, and said, "I thought you should know who it was."

Gong Nanyan didn't speak, but suddenly slapped her palm.At the same time, her body also leaped forward like lightning, before the blink of an eye, the palm had already reached Chu Liuxiang's face.

But she couldn't hold it down.

Chu Liuxiang still stood there with her hands behind her back, without even moving her eyelids, but Gong Nanyan felt a huge force grabbing her wrists, and with a "click", she rolled to the ground screaming.

Yin Ji looked at her with exactly the same gaze as a wild dog in the mud, and said coldly, "Is it you?"

Gong Nanyan struggled to curl up her body, and hissed: "You...you are so cruel...I know you always love him, but he...I am doing this for you...for you..."

Her throat suddenly choked, and she could no longer speak, only wailing in pain.

Chu Liuxiang sighed secretly.Although he also thought that Gong Nanyan deserved what she deserved, but he still felt regretful seeing this once beautiful and noble girl become like this.

Yin Ji stared at Chu Liuxiang, and said: "What she said is not wrong, she did all these things for me."

She seemed to have seen that Chu Liuxiang wanted them to turn against each other, and her mind was not without deep thoughts.Chu Liuxiang's eyebrows twitched, and she said, "Then do you know who I heard about Situ Jing from?"

Yin Ji's figure suddenly became stiff.

Chu Liuxiang sighed softly: "She does love you, but not everything she does is for you... Ever since the first time she met me and asked me for Tianyi Shenshui, she had already given you my life. I told me about Situ Jing being seduced. It's not for me to find out the truth, but for you to leave a handle in my hands. She deliberately made me fight with you, no matter who wins or loses, she doesn't care ..."

Gong Nanyan suddenly interrupted him, and shouted: "Fart! You fart!... You despicable, shameless, self-proclaimed bastard..." She fell to the ground, but the more she cursed, the more vigorous she was. No one could have imagined that such a Girls would say such vulgar things.

She was like a torrent that suddenly broke through, pouring out all the rolling mud, water and sand.

Chu Liuxiang closed her eyes and shook her head, and said, "She and Wuhua should have colluded together a long time ago, that's why they came to me when I just found the body of the girl who pretended to be a disciple of Shenshui Palace."

Yin Ji's whole body trembled, and she repeated: "She colluded with Wu Hua?"

Although Yin Ji has never been willing to admit it, of course she has heard of Wu Hua's conspiracy.If Gong Nanyan conspires with Wuhua, the purpose is not only to win Yin Ji's love, but also to win Shenshui Palace.

This can explain her finding Chu Liuxiang again and again, and revealing the secrets in Shenshui Palace, and also explaining that she set traps for Chu Liuxiang one after another, but never actually killed her.

The failure she expected was not Chu Liuxiang's, but Yin Ji's.Only when Yin Ji suffers failure, or even destruction, can she have a chance to save Yin Ji and comfort Yin Ji.

This is indeed too terrible love.

The author has something to say:

I won’t tell you, when I was writing this chapter, I suddenly came up with a stalk, which was about the lake in Shenshui Palace, which is the lake where Lao Chu and Yin Ji fought in the end...

According to the original book, there is nothing in the lake, no fish, shrimp, or aquatic plants...so I think...it should be——

Anaerobic water!

For details, see Toshiyuki Nishimura's "Polluted Straits", but you can see what it means literally.

If that's the case...Old Chu will be...dead! ! !

[So in the end, I didn’t use this stalk, I just made up a small S and M theater in which Lao Chu was pressed in this kind of water to play suffocation in private...