But soon, Hua Yin looked away.

Wen Chi suddenly felt relieved.

At the same time, the person behind him also walked up to him. It turned out to be General Lin, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. Seeing Wen Chi's expression turned ugly, General Lin thought something had happened to him: "Mr. Wen? What's wrong with you?" ?”

Only then did Wen Chi realize his gaffe, he quickly squeezed out a smile, shook his head and said, "I'm fine, thank you General Lin for your concern."

When General Lin heard this, he still worriedly warned: "If Mr. Wen has any discomfort, it's better to say it earlier, so as not to drag a minor illness into a serious one."

Wen Chi nodded, and thanked him a few times gratefully.

General Lin just saw Wen Chi from the sidewalk and thought of coming over to exchange some pleasantries. Now that the exchange of greetings was over, he planned to return to his seat.

Just as General Lin was about to leave, Wen Chi suddenly remembered something. He quickly stopped General Lin, and when he saw General Lin turning back in doubt, he smiled and asked casually: "Speaking of this, I would like to Woke up, I don't know if King Xuan's illness is better or not."

General Lin was at a loss: "Sick?"

Wen Chi said: "When I was in Jinzhou, King Xuan looked very haggard. Later, you left in a hurry. It has been two years since I have never had the opportunity to visit King Xuan... Naturally, I am not If I want to visit King Xuan, I can only ask you, General Lin."

After finishing speaking, Wen Chi showed guilt. He was not good at acting. Fortunately, after he lowered his head, General Lin couldn't see his face, so he didn't need to show much acting skills.

After hearing these words, General Lin immediately understood, so he comforted Wen Chi and said, "Prince Xuan is already fine, please worry about it." After a pause, he sighed, "Speaking of it, this matter needs more Blame me."

Wen Chi said: "What is the relationship between King Xuan's illness and General Lin?"

General Lin thought that Wen Chi was one of the few witnesses, so he didn't hide anything: "Mr. Wen, do you still remember the stone I showed you? The stone that was strung up with red strings that I picked up at the Peach Blossom Banquet .”

Wen Chi had a vague guess in his mind, on the surface he still pretended not to know anything, with a serious expression on his face, nodded and said, "I have a little impression."

"Hey, I thought it was just an ordinary stone, but I don't know how evil it is!" General Lin seemed to be recalling some bad things, with a strange expression, and continued after deliberating for a while, "The whole thing It's a long story, but I guess that stone has a mind-charming effect, and can turn a normal person into something weird."

Needless to say, the person who was made weird must be the Fourth Prince Shijin.

As for what strange things Shi Jin did to General Lin, you can guess one or two from General Lin's awkward eyes. For a while, Wen Chi didn't know whether to sympathize with the innocent Shi Jin or the more innocent General Lin .

General Lin felt that this matter was too mysterious, so he didn't say anything to Wen Chi, he only said that the stone was not a good thing, and told Wen Chi not to pick up anything and wear it on his body in the future.

Wen Chi thought that ordinary people really wouldn't just pick up a stone of unknown origin and hang it around their necks, but the possibility that General Lin was bewitched by the stone could not be ruled out.

Finally, Wen Chi finally got around to the topic he wanted to ask the most: "Where's that stone? Did you throw it away?"

General Lin scratched his head: "It was thrown, but not by me."

Wen Chi: "?"

General Lin explained: "Later I took the stone out and put it on the cabinet. When I got up to look at it a few days later, the stone was gone. Maybe it was thrown away by the cleaning maid, but I asked Those maids, they all said that they didn't see the stone, I inquired a few times, but found nothing, so this matter is just let go."

From the looks of it, General Lin should have gotten rid of the stone before leaving Jinju.

No wonder when Wen Chi ran into Shi Jin and General Lin outside the emperor's bedroom before, Shi Jin no longer rejected General Lin like he did in Jinzhou, and he didn't expect that Shi Jin's strangeness was really caused by that stone.

and……

At the moment when General Lin said that the stone was missing, the name of Hanako appeared in Wen Chi's mind.

His intuition told him that Hanakozo might have taken the stone.

Apart from him and Shi Jin, the only people who knew that General Lin owned the stone were Hanako Cang. stone.

Therefore, Hua Zizang stole the spirit stone from General Lin and returned it to the Hua family, and then the news reached Shi Ye's ears. Shi Ye decided to go get the spirit stone himself, but was injured by the Hua family and fell behind the villa. Outside the bamboo forest...

After connecting all these in series, the cloud and mist lingering in front of Wen Chi's eyes dissipated a lot.

He never dreamed that Wen Liang just picked up a random stone during his outing, but this stone turned out to be the center of many incidents, just like the steamed bun that everyone joked about causing a murder in the movie Wuji.

After General Lin left, Wen Chi couldn't sit still anymore. Fortunately, the focus of this celebration banquet was on Mr. Yin, even if he slipped away quietly, no one would notice.

Ruotao was waiting outside the hall, and was a little surprised to see Wen Chi leaving early, so she trotted forward: "Young master."

Wen Chi walked very fast, without turning his head, he said concisely, "Go back to the East Palace."

Ruo Tao found that Wen Chi's expression was wrong, so she didn't dare to ask any more questions, and followed Wen Chi quietly.

The color of the sky above their heads was extremely dark and gloomy, and dense snowflakes fell from the sky, blending with the heavy snow on the road.Recently, it has been snowing almost every day, and the maids and eunuchs can't clean it. In order to save manpower, they only sweep the snow every three or four days.

There are only two people on this road, Wenchi and Ruotao. Their feet make a creaking sound when they step on the snow. bulky.

Wen Chi walked quite strenuously, but he was also impatient, wishing he could fly back to the East Palace with a pair of wings, and when he got to the back, he couldn't help practicing lightness kung fu.

Immediately behind her came Ruo Tao's frightened voice deliberately lowered: "My lord, we are in the palace! This is absolutely unacceptable!"

It's a pity that Wen Chi couldn't listen to it. After practicing lightness kung fu, he walked faster and faster.

"Young master!" Ruotao followed behind, but he didn't dare to stop him, so he had to persuade, "Young master, slow down! It's bad to be seen by others!"

Fortunately, it was snowing and cold, so everyone tried to stay out of the house as much as possible. In addition, the road they took was relatively remote, and they didn't meet anyone along the way.

Back in the East Palace, Wen Chi didn't walk in the direction of Zhudiju, but went straight to Shi Ye's bedroom.

Ruotao had no choice, so she continued to follow Wen Chi.

Wen Chi arrived outside Shi Ye's bedroom, and was about to step in, but was stopped by two eunuchs guarding the door.

There is no rule without rules, even though Wen Chi used to come here diligently, Hou still had to wait outside the door for the eunuch to go in to report, unless Eunuch Zhu or Xiao Shuanzi led him, he could go in directly.

But now Wen Chi couldn't wait any longer, so he said, "I'm here to find His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

One eunuch had already gone in to report, and the rest of the eunuchs stopped in front of Wen Chi, and said in embarrassment: "Mr. Wen, the slave naturally knows that you are here for His Royal Highness, but this rule is a rule. If there is no promise from His Royal Highness, Even if you give me a hundred guts, I dare not let anyone in casually, so please be considerate of me, my lord."

Wen Chi was silent for a moment, then turned to look at Ruotao, he thought that Ruotao was someone next to Shi Ye, and he might be able to say a few words.

However, Ruotao looked helpless, saying that she was helpless.

Although Wen Chi was very anxious in his heart, it was not good or bad. The rules broke in directly, so he could only wait anxiously outside the door like an ant on a hot pot. After waiting for a long time, he finally waited until the eunuch who notified him hurriedly walk out.

Wen Chi hurried up to meet him.

But the eunuch showed an apologetic expression: "Mr. Wen, Eunuch Zhu said that His Royal Highness is not feeling well. He has already rested now. You should come back another day."

Wen Chi said, "Can I meet Eunuch Zhu?"

"This..." The eunuch glanced at the eunuch next to him, then shook his head, "I'm afraid this is a little inconvenient, Eunuch Zhu is busy serving His Highness the Crown Prince."

At this time, Ruotao also persuaded from behind: "Young Master, it's freezing outside here, let's go back earlier, lest you freeze to death again."

The eunuch also said: "Yes, Mr. Wen, you won't see His Highness the Crown Prince today, you should go back quickly."

After Ruotao and the eunuch sang together, Wen Chi finally changed his mind, turned around and followed Ruotao back to the bamboo flute residence.

At night, the snow that had been falling all day finally stopped.

In Zhudi Juli, everyone fell asleep, only a few lanterns hanging under the eaves swayed gently with the night wind, and the pale yellow candlelight swayed in the dark night.

Wen Chi wore a black robe, and jumped over the wall with ease. His lightness skill was not bad, above eunuchs and ordinary guards, as long as he didn't meet some masters unfortunately, basically no one would notice his existence.

He ran a lot against the wind before arriving at Shi Ye's bedroom.

Sure enough, Eunuch Zhu stood guard outside the hall every step of the way, motionless like a piece of wood, squinting his eyes and dozing off, and there were seven or eight young eunuchs standing beside Eunuch Zhu.

Not only that, there are also teams of guards patrolling outside the hall.

No matter how careless Wen Chi was, he could feel the strict guards in Shi Ye's dormitory at this moment. He remembered that there were not so many eunuchs and guards outside Shi Ye's dormitory before.

If Wen Chi was not familiar with this place, he might already be scratching his head with worry.

Fortunately, he came many times, so he walked around to the window at a remote location with ease. He put his hands on it, exerted a little force, and jumped in over the window.

The sleeping hall is not completely dark, there are countless candles shining, although it is not as bright as day as often described in novels, but it is not so dark that it is difficult to see the road.

Wen Chi walked forward for a short distance based on memory, and soon saw the big bed covered by layers of curtains.

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