Dragon Fate of Shan Hai Ji

The situation in the hall was immediately revealed, Le Yue Du Ruyuan and Lin Jing Zhaoyuan who was hidden behind were all surprised.

The main hall was empty, except for a well in the middle, and a small stone table stood beside the well, with a stone incense burner on it, and a futon under the table, which was obviously used for worship.Lin Jing and Zhao Yuan went to look at the well, and were even more astonished. In fact, it was not a well, but a circle built with stones on the flat ground, which looked like the edge of the well.

Mo Yao knelt down by the threshold, knocked his head three times, and muttered in his mouth: "The servant just didn't intend to collide, don't blame the grandpa of the emperor~~Don't blame the grandpa of the emperor~~" While reading, he stepped into the threshold, closed the door with trembling hands, knocked his head on the threshold three times, got up and shrank, and said to Le Yue and Du Ruyuan: "You two, please leave quickly with your slaves."

Le Yue and Du Ruyuan followed him out of the courtyard of the apse without knowing why, and Mo Yao carefully closed the moon gate.

Le Yue asked, "Isn't the spiritual seat of the emperor Taizu's grandfather enshrined in the Taimiao?"

Mo Yao fell to his knees with a plop, his head banging loudly: "Please don't tell this matter, my son and this one, otherwise the slave will be in great trouble."

Le Yue dragged him up: "Don't worry, we are also afraid of trouble, so we definitely won't talk about it, but, can you please tell me the whole story, eunuch, so that we can avoid it carefully in the future."

The imperial palace is a place where ghost stories are bred. Does this mysterious apse hide a secret history about wronged souls?Mo Yao shrank and said: "In fact, this place should be a blessed place. It is said that the emperor Taizu started his great career here, and it was related to the apse. Therefore, after Emperor Taizu won the country, he decided to They are all here, and the Leqing Palace was specially built to enshrine the edge of the well in the back hall."

Le Yue felt that this statement was suspicious. If it was true, Emperor Taizu could have built a grand hall with a grand altar, and set up a large shrine to worship. Why did he have to build an apse? Lao Liu guards the four corners.

Mo Yao continued: "In addition, there is another saying that there is a tree outside the hall and a well in the hall. In fact, it corresponds to the word "harmony", which is where the imperial spirit of the country lies. I heard that the emperor Taizu once set a rule that every All emperors had to come to worship on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year and on festivals and festivals. But this rule has been abolished since Emperor Fengxiang. The Qing Palace has never been inhabited. It’s just that we eunuchs who work in the palace clean the inner hall on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, and put incense sticks on it. I heard that the emperor Taizu’s spirit has always guarded here, so don’t be negligent and rush.” He lowered his head, "That's all the slave knows."

Le Yue listened to Mo Yao's words, it didn't look like he was lying.But it is hard to say whether what Mo Yao knows is the truth.

Because, when he touched the door of the back hall just now, the Taiqing Jing in his arms trembled, and it was strangely hot for a moment.

In the afternoon, Bian Zhang and Lian Liu brought a group of eunuchs and maids to deliver daily necessities, and the Clothing Bureau also sent people to measure the size of Le Yue's clothes and shoes.

Le Yue and Du Ruyuan dealt with each other, going around in circles.

Taking advantage of this time, Lin Jing dragged Zhao Yuan to inspect the palace, and they floated in the sky, looking down at the imperial city.

The entire imperial city is filled with colorful aura, which is the aura of a phoenix.

Zhao Yuan followed Le Yue into the palace until now, but Phoenix has never shown up.The phoenix aura that shrouded and protected the imperial city showed that the phoenix did not pay attention to Zhao Yuan, the dragon that entered the imperial city.

In the direction of the inner palace, the auspicious aura is charming and beautiful, which shows that it is the place for empresses and concubines, where female phoenixes gather.

Standing on the cloud like this, there is no difference between Leqing Palace and other places.

On the contrary, there is something strange about a place on the east side of the imperial city.

Zhaoyuan and Linjing went in that direction together, and found that the redness in the colorful aura here was particularly red. Zhaoyuan looked carefully, and when the redness was churning, it was a little thick like black. When he rubbed his eyes, the blackness disappeared again. .Zhao Yuan scratched his head and asked Lin Jing if he had seen her before.

Lin Jing shook her head and said no.

"But this place is more popular than other places, there must be a reason." Lin Jing pulled Zhao Yuan down a little bit, saw the words on the plaque in front of the palace gate, and said clearly, it turned out that this is the Prince's East Palace.

Zhaoyuan and Linjing entered the East Palace incognito, and heard the maids who were packing up their things chatting, saying that the crown prince has gone out again, and I am afraid that he will stay overnight in the private residence in the capital again today.

A little court lady whispered: "Also, your prince has been visiting that princess frequently recently, will Miss Tantai who lives in the empress dowager's palace be unable to become a prince concubine?"

Zhaoyuan and Linjing's ears pricked up.

"But Miss Tantai was appointed by the Queen Mother."

"So what is the queen mother's decision? Princess Chuling's status is no worse than the prime minister's daughter. Moreover, the crown prince likes her. Even if he marries Miss Tantai, he may marry that princess in the future. Who will be the empress in the end?" Not necessarily."

"I've seen that princess from a distance, she's not as good-looking as Miss Tantai."

"Whether it looks good or not depends on the prince's preference? I heard that the prince likes spicy things."

Zhao Yuan and Lin Jing glanced at each other, they didn't expect Princess Chu Ling and Tantai Rongyue to be in the palace.

Lin Jing said: "The crown prince doesn't like Tantai Rongyue? If the emperor really supports Le Yue and suppresses the crown prince, maybe there is still hope for Le Yue and Tantai Rongyue to be together."

Hearing these words, Zhao Yuan felt a strong smell of jealousy.It rubbed its nose, and said awkwardly: "Why don't we go back and tell Le Yue about it."

Lin Jing waved her hand: "Let's talk about it later, nothing important has been found yet. Why don't we just go out of the palace now and find out where Luo Lingzhi and Sun Ben are."

Luo Lingzhi is Lin Jing's chosen person. Logically, Lin Jing should be able to detect his aura easily, but after leaving the imperial city, she released her divine sense to search around, and Luo Lingzhi's aura melted like water droplets. It's like entering the sea, and you can't see it at all.

After Zhao Yuan followed Lin Jing for a few rounds of panting around the capital, he found Fei Xianfeng making faces at them on a branch of a tree in the yard of an inn.

Lin Jing and Zhao Yuan landed in the courtyard of the inn, the flying pioneer jumped down from the tree, and led them to the backyard dancing and dancing.Sun Ben was chopping firewood by the firewood pile in the backyard with an axe.

Lin Jing checked that there was no one else around, so she showed up: "You really don't forget to make money wherever you go."

Sun Ben wiped his sweat with his sleeves up: "Sun is not as lucky as others, and lives in the palace. Of course, you must always remember to earn some money."

Zhao Yuan also unlocked the invisibility technique, and stepped forward to help Sun Ben pick up the split firewood and stack it on the firewood pile.

Lin Jing asked: "Did you find out anything?"

Sun Ben grinned and said, "Girl, are you too impatient? Sun has just entered the city today, and he is not familiar with the road yet."

Lin Jing blinked: "I believe in your ability. I know that you have deep meaning even in which inn you choose and which odd job you do."

Sun Ben smiled triumphantly: "Miss Lin really understands me more and more. Have you started to regret that you chose Luo Lingzhi instead of me?"

Lin Jing sighed: "Oh, yes, I found that Taoist Luo is really useless. I don't even know where he went. In this respect, he is far worse than you."

Sun Ben laughed even more proudly, and immediately brought Lin Jing and Zhao Yuan to the room where he lived, and asked the young man to order a pot of tea. Little Taoist Luo left, and then happened to find a clue here, so he stayed in this inn."

Holding the teacup, Zhao Yuan asked, "What clue?"

Sun Ben walked to the window, opened the window and pointed out: "The yard over there may be the prince's private house."

Lin Jing opened her eyes wide and praised sincerely: "Really? You are too good."

Sun Ben said modestly: "It's just luck."

He said that after parting ways with Luo Lingzhi, while wandering the street alone, he found two Taoist priests disguised as ordinary people in a restaurant.

Lin Jing was surprised: "Taoist priests are not monks, they have hair like ordinary people, how can you recognize them when they put on ordinary people's clothes?"

Sun Ben said: "Think about it, what did Sun do back then. To be a bandit, one must be proficient in matching people. Passing customers, rich or not, about their backgrounds, what they do for a living, after a lot of experience, You can tell by looking at them. Although the two Taoist priests changed into ordinary people's clothes, the meals they bought were all vegetarian, and there were incense traces on their hands, the smell of incense on their bodies, and their walking postures were also different from ordinary people."

Lin Jing said: "It may be a monk who has returned to the vulgar."

Sun Ben said: "So Sun went up to check and pretended that he had no intention of colliding with them. As a result, when one person apologized, he inadvertently put up his palms and stood in front of his chest. Only Taoist priests are blessed with longevity. This court respects the art of Xuan Dao, and these two people walk lightly and have martial arts. If they transform into ordinary people, there must be something strange, so Sun followed him to have a look."

Sun Ben followed the two to the gate of an old house in a secluded alley nearby. He climbed up the wall to spy, and happened to see an acquaintance in the courtyard, who was the leader of the Qingxuan sect disciples who surrounded them on the top of the Qingshan sect. , named Shaonan.

Lin Jing clapped her hands and said, "That's right, he is obviously the prince's fellow apprentice, a disciple of the No. [-] sect in the world, why would he hide in the small courtyard sneakily disguised as an ordinary person? Prince related."

Sun Ben said with a smile: "So Sun immediately stayed in this inn, and planned to go to that yard to explore tonight."

Lin Jing was gearing up, and Sun Ben asked her with a smile: "Do you want to go with Sun at night?"

Lin Jing raised her eyebrows: "Why is it necessary at night? Silly Dragon and I use the invisibility technique, we can go now."

She did what she said, and immediately pulled Zhaoyuan up, chanted the magic spell to hide her body, and went directly through the window to kill the small courtyard pointed by Sun Ben.

The small courtyard is in the deep alley opposite the inn. The courtyard is not big, and the houses are not old. It looks like an ordinary house without any special atmosphere.

Lin Jing and Zhao Yuan reached the top of the small courtyard, looked down, but were shocked.

There were several people standing in the yard, and one of them was very familiar to them - Luo Lingzhi.

Lin Jing murmured: "Why is Luo Lingzhi here? Could it be that he is actually with the prince?"

Zhao Yuan believed in Luo Lingzhi's character: "I don't think Luo Lingzhi is that kind of person."

It slowly lowered the head of the cloud, and heard the conversation between Luo Lingzhi and several other people.

"Brother, let's leave quickly. If His Highness or Brother Shaonan come back, it will be difficult to clean up."

"Can I see Master."

"Brother, if Master wanted to see you, he would have seen you long ago, so why make things difficult for everyone?"

"I came here today, just to ask, whether the Taoist Master He Jizi of the Qingshan School and those juniors have been imprisoned by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Master?"

"Indeed, no, Master and Brother Shaonan lost their temper because of this. That Daoist Crane is not an ordinary person, how could he be easily caught by us? Brother, we will not lie to you." Luo Ling Zhi was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly and said, "Okay, thank you for letting me know, I will be in the capital for the next few days, it's okay for you to tell Master and Shaonan about my coming."

Several people who talked to Luo Lingzhi said one after another: "Brother, we will never say anything."

Luo Lingzhi cupped his fists, turned and walked out of the courtyard.As soon as he stepped over the threshold, a person who had just spoken to him suddenly caught up: "Senior Brother Luo."

Luo Lingzhi stopped and turned around, the man said: "Senior Brother Luo, are you with Le Yue? I heard that he entered the palace, are you really planning to fight His Highness the Crown Prince? Luo Lingzhi didn't answer. The man's voice was a bit Hesitating and eager: "Senior Brother Luo, when I first joined the Qingxuan Sect, you took care of me a lot. I don't know what to say or not. Although outsiders may see us as traitors of the Qingshan Sect, we really have something to do. reason.Brother Luo, you are a good person. I grew up watching Le Yue, and I know his character well. There is a saying, I want to remind you that some things are not as simple as they appear on the surface, and some people are not as good as they appear on the surface Luo Brother, you, and Le Yue, don't be taken advantage of by others. "

Luo Lingzhi frowned slightly: "Junior Brother Zhou, who and what are you referring to, can you tell me in detail?"

The man refused to go into details, but said vaguely: "Anyway, please brother and Le Yue pay more attention, so that we can take care of ourselves."

Luo Lingzhi looked at him thoughtfully, then turned and left the courtyard.

He walked out of the long alley alone, and a voice behind him shouted, "Luo Lingzhi."

Luo Lingzhi turned around, but saw nothing, and smiled knowingly: "Miss Lin?"

Lin Jing's voice came down from the air: "Zhao Yuan is also here. Sun Ben lives in room No. 11 of the inn B opposite, and we will wait for you there."

When the boy led Luo Lingzhi into Room B No. 11, Zhao Yuan and Lin Jing were already sitting at the table drinking tea with Sun Ben, and Fei Xianfeng squatted beside Zhao Yuan to peel walnuts, crunching twice, To show welcome to Luo Lingzhi.

The boy bent down and exited, Luo Lingzhi locked the door, went to the table and sat down.

Sun Ben laughed and said, "Brother Luo, I didn't expect you and I to go our separate ways and investigate separately, but we found the same place."

Luo Lingzhi said: "I happened to meet a former fellow apprentice on the street, so I followed him to find the place. I thought, maybe I could find out the whereabouts of Senior He Jizi and Brother Yue's juniors. Lin Jing hugged the teacup Said: "In the end, I heard some unexpected words.Who do you think the man was referring to? "Luo Lingzhi shook his head: "I never speculate on things without evidence. "

Sun Ben leaned closer and asked, "Oh? What? Can you tell Sun about it?"

Lin Jing recounted the scene at that time, and Zhao Yuan sat aside silently.He always felt that what the man was referring to seemed to be possible?Zhao Yuan felt intuitively that this must be wrong.

After Sun Ben heard it, he laughed and said, "Anyway, Le Shaoxia is not here, so Sun just said it directly. I think the person referred to in these words is probably Le Shaoxia's master."

Lin Jing opened her mouth and said: "How is it possible, that old man He Jizi must be a very good person."

Luo Lingzhi also said with certainty: "Senior He's character is absolutely trustworthy."

Sun Ben smiled a few times, and said slowly: "If I say something that is not very kind, people's hearts are unpredictable."

Luo Lingzhi said: "Brother Sun has never met Senior He, so it is inconvenient to jump to conclusions."

Sun Ben raised his eyebrows: "I've never met Le Shaoxia's master, but there's one thing I've always wondered about him." Zhaoyuan Linjing and Luo Lingzhi looked at him together, and Sun Ben tapped on the table, He said unhurriedly: "Le Shaoxia said that his master happened to pass by and rescued him from the pile of dead people during the catastrophe of Tucheng that day. Then, how did his master know the origins of Le Shaoxia's parents in such detail? , place of origin, what kind of business they do for a living, and whether there are any relatives in the family, all of them are clear."

Lin Jing said: "It may be that when He Jizi met Le Yue's family, Le Yue's parents were still alive. They entrusted Le Yue to He Jizi, so of course they had to tell him his name and identity. He Jizi rescued him After Le Yue, help him inquire about the situation at home."

Sun Ben leaned on the back of his chair and said in a calm voice: "It seems to make sense. But on the day of the Tucheng calamity, the whole Tucheng was a purgatory on earth. There were only endless killings and running for their lives. Go into the inn to save people, It is absolutely impossible to save people and listen to people's life experiences at the same time."

Lin Jing retorted: "It can't be saved after the soldiers are massacred."

Sun Ben raised one corner of his mouth: "According to the clues we have found now, in addition to dealing with our Baili family, the robbery of Tucheng was also aimed at Brother Yue's family. Do you think King Anshun and his elite soldiers may Did you miss the life of this baby, Brother Yue?"

Lin Jing opened her mouth, wanting to say that's not necessarily the case, aren't you also left out?But she knew that this rebuttal was a bit unreasonable, so she didn't say it, but sneered: "Anyway, according to your guess, few people are good people!"

Sun Ben crossed his arms: "So Sun himself is not a good person. I have more or less doubts about all people or things. You can't believe everything in the world."

Luo Lingzhi said: "The doubts are not the facts. No matter what, I believe that Senior He Jizi is not that kind of person."

Zhaoyuan grasped the teacup tightly, and it also believed it.

Lin Jing exclaimed: "Look, this is the heart of a gentleman who is upright."

Sun Ben said noncommittally: "Sun Mou never minds being called a villain."

In the end, Sun Ben and Luo Lingzhi lived together in the inn, but they agreed to go out to inquire each other every day without interfering with each other, so as to avoid finding out together like today.

Sun Ben said regretfully: "It's a pity that Shaoxia Luo stunned the snake today. The yard will be strictly guarded tonight. I can't go there, so I have to wait until the next day to investigate."

Lin Jing said: "The crown prince is also really strange. He arranges his fellow disciples in this courtyard, what do you want to do secretly? He has the East Palace, the Anshun Palace, and the Phoenix to help him. Why do you want to do this?"

Luo Lingzhi said with the usual cautious attitude: "There must be a reason to do this. I'm afraid that the crown prince still hasn't given up refining magic tools and pursuing longevity."

The corner of Lin Jing's mouth twitched: "You wouldn't say that the prince is still secretly refining that pickle jar, right? It's too miserable."

Luo Lingzhi frowned in surprise: "Pickled vegetable jar?"

Lin Jing suddenly remembered that at that time Le Yue was afraid that Luo Lingzhi would be too honest and told the prince the truth, so she never told him that the prince's altar was actually a pickle jar.She could only smile vaguely: "This is the nickname Le Yue gave to the treasure altar that was taken away by the crown prince, haha~ the magic power of that altar might be really immeasurable if it can suppress the duck's egg that locked the old dragon. "

Luo Lingzhi said worriedly: "I hope the prince will not use it indiscriminately."

Zhao Yuan sat on the side with his head sullen, cautiously not saying a word.

When it was almost evening, Zhao Yuan and Lin Jing left Luo Lingzhi and Sun Ben shamelessly, and rushed back to the palace for dinner.

Zhao Yuan thought for a long time, but still told Le Yue what the man in the small courtyard said to Luo Lingzhi.

Le Yue was furious after hearing this.To him, the master is more important than the biological parents. It was fine for the senior brothers to betray the master and embrace the thick legs of the Qingxuan sect, but now they are still slandering him.If that senior brother stood in front of him, Le Yue would definitely draw his sword and fight him desperately.

Du Ruyuan persuaded: "This person said this because he thought it was out of good intentions. There must be something that made him have these thoughts. It is not ruled out that someone did it deliberately. If you care about it, Brother Yue, you will fall in love with them instead." Right."

Lin Jing said: "Yes, there is no time to worry about these things right now. What is the emperor planning, why is there no movement in Phoenix, it is really strange."

Le Yue clenched his fist and slammed his forehead: "The emperor has probably made an arrangement for blood recognition. I think the entire palace is under the control of Phoenix, and our every move at this time falls into their eyes."

So neither Fenghuang nor King Anshun did anything at the moment, but just observed the situation silently.But the more inactive they are, the more careful they must be.

Du Ruyuan rubbed his chin and said: "There is still a huge palace with many spare courtyards. The emperor specially arranged Brother Yue into this Leqing Palace. It probably has some deep meaning. I think the intention is probably in the back hall. on a fake well."

Zhao Yuan was puzzled.

Du Ruyuan analyzed: "According to what Eunuch Mo Yao said this afternoon, the old tree and artificial well in the apse are the miraculous traces of the ancestor Taizu of this dynasty. In front of the emperor's throne. There must be a relationship between the two." He predicted with confidence: "I dare to conclude that before tomorrow morning, something will happen about that well."

Zhao Yuan was a little dazed when he heard that, Lin Jing was dubious, Ying Ze picked up the last chopsticks on the plate, and hummed: "Ordinary things are so boring."

After dinner, Lin Jing undid the body-holding technique on the eunuchs and Gong'e in the palace, and disappeared with Zhao Yuan, Ying Ze, and Shang Jing again.Those people only thought that they had just seen Shizi having a meal with that person, and the bowls and plates were all empty in the blink of an eye.But I was in a daze in my mind, and I couldn't remember how those two people ate and how I waited on them.Recalling the same situation at lunch, I can't help but feel evil and creepy.

Bian Zhang and Lian Liu commanded to clean up the dishes and send them back to the imperial dining room, and they went back to the servant's mansion to report the words and deeds of Le Yue and Du Ruyuan today to the general manager.After finishing the report, he took a shortcut and walked through the corridors of the inner palace, rushed back to Leqing Palace, walked to the vicinity of Huangci Palace, and heard someone calling in a low voice at the corner of the fork road: "Bian Zhang, Lian Liu." , the court lady Wanying who served the queen, and Li Huifei's personal court lady Zhilian.

Bian Zhang Lianliu was dragged by them to a corner of the veranda outside Huangci Palace. All the court ladies asked them with twinkling eyes. They didn't find anything special or unusual when they were serving that man and Prince Du.

Bian Zhang looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "To tell you the truth, the two of us have been serving for a day, and we feel a single word, evil!"

The maids took a deep breath, grabbed their handkerchiefs tightly, covered their chests, and urged him to tell him what kind of evil it was.

Bian Zhang looked left and right, and lowered his voice: "Well, it's really hard to say. In short, those two, especially the one named Le Yue, are full of evil. Pick the most obvious thing and say, today A group of us, just in the hall, watched them eat, but no one saw how they ate the meal! It seemed that in the blink of an eye, all the bowls and plates were empty."

Faintly, there was a cool night wind blowing, the ladies in the palace couldn't help but stand up, and some shivered.

Zhilian said in a trembling voice: "I, before I entered the palace, I heard about such a thing in my hometown. Is this the legendary child raising?" Qiongxue pulled her clothes: "Don't talk nonsense. .”

Lian Liu whispered: "Just as Bian Zhang and I brought them into the Leqing Palace, two yuan of dim sum on the table disappeared in the blink of an eye. Each plate is eight yuan of dim sum. There is never a mistake in the palace. As soon as they entered, That's seven dollars."

Zhilian clutched the clothes on her chest: "This, this must be some kind of evil thing they brought."

Lian Liudao: "I heard that letting them live in the Leqing Palace was specially arranged by the higher-ups, because there is a treasure well of Emperor Taizu in the Leqing Palace, which can suppress evil spirits."

Wanying tremblingly said: "I don't believe it, the place of Leqing Palace is already gloomy. I heard from an old man that many people died there before the palace was built."

Lian Liu said with a bitter face: "Anyway, these words can only be said in private, sisters, please don't spread them indiscriminately."

The little maids nodded one after another, promising not to say anything.