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Disliked by his appearance, the "Prince of Thousand Faces" Wang Lianhua immediately covered his face and sobbed. When he put down his sleeves again, it was no longer the fair and delicate oval face of the maid Shuang Xing, but a female version of the wonderful monk. no flowers.

"How?" Wang Lianhua smiled slyly, her tone pretending to be soft and sweet, "Xiangxiang, what's so good about the little monk, you can only look at it but not eat it, the most puzzling style. Look at me, I can become anything A look that you like. Beautiful and ugly, old and young, male and female, we can change one at will every day, without repeating the same every day, how fresh and interesting."

Pei Xiang looked curiously at Wang Lianhua's version of "The Flowerless Girl", then shook his head after a while and said:

"Your appearance is very lifelike, but it's just that there is a little more seduction in the world of mortals, and you lack the ethereal aura that belongs to the Miao Monk."

Wang Lianhua raised her eyebrows and said, "Xiangxiang wants to say, I'm vulgar, I can't pretend to be a monk who doesn't eat the fireworks of the world?"

"Master Kong is not convinced?"

Wang Lianhua is not someone who easily admits defeat, he immediately removed the "female version of Wuhua" disguise, and changed back to the appearance of the maid Shuang Xing, turned around and walked out, saying:

"I'm going to take a good look at that wonderful monk who is famous all over the world now, and see how he is so transcendent. It's just... When I come back, Xiangxiang should not mistake the person, hmph, and confuse the old and the new. Love, that will be punished."

Pei Xiang rolled his eyes indecently, and helplessly called Wang Lianhua:

"Mr. Kong, please wait a moment. If you really want to get a little bit of Buddha nature, why not go to the ancient temple in the deep mountains to live with the old monk who is indifferent and poor. With Mr. Confucius's beauty and intelligence, he can naturally learn the essence, and maybe he can Coax a Shaolin abbot to take over."

These words made Wang Lianhua pause, and he turned around abruptly, his face was not as competitive as before, but he smiled very sweetly, like a male fox who stole a fat chicken.

"Xiangxiang, what you said is wrong."

"Why not?"

"Your words seem to be telling me bluntly that following Wuhua can't feel the character of a true Buddhist disciple. How is this possible? Oh, Xiangxiang, don't tell me that you really succeeded in seducing our Shaolin Miao Monk, did you really let him damage the Brahma life because of love? Hey, if it is true, it would be wonderful!"

The corners of Pei Xiang's lips curled up, neither denying Wang Lianhua's guess and probing nor nodding to admit it, but took a small sip of tea, and then asked slowly:

"Master Kong, I have a piece of news related to Miao Seng Wuhua, which is very valuable. Do you want it?"

Wang Lianhua rolled her eyes, sat down in front of Pei Xiang, and poured herself a cup of tea at the same time.

"What quid pro quo does Xiangxiang offer?"

"I hope that Mr. Kong can 'unintentionally' leak some information you got in the Jinwu Guard to Miaoseng Wuhua."

"what news?"

"It's the things about Mr. Bat that were found out this time, especially... those hidden eyeliners that have been exposed, and Mr. Bat's attitude of resentment and indignation towards the assassins of Xuanyuan Palace."

As soon as this condition was raised, Wang Lianhua sat up straight.

He stared at Pei Xiang intently, his thoughts were spinning, and after all kinds of thoughts came to his mind, he guessed the most outrageous possibility, and suddenly, his beautiful eyes became extremely bright.

"Xiangxiang," Wang Lianhua paused before continuing, "I agree to your deal, so what's your news?"

Pei Xiang tilted his head and glanced at Wang Lianhua, who was in high spirits, and thought that this is someone who doesn't take too much trouble watching the excitement.

"Young Master Kong, you know that I am well versed in the nature of medicine, and it is rare for ordinary people to harm me by poisoning me."

Wang Lianhua nodded.

Pei Xiang said in disbelief: "So, when someone mixes poison in tea and brings it to me, of course I won't drink it foolishly."

"Of course you're not stupid, Xiangxiang, I've never met a girl who is smarter and cuter than you." Wang Lianhua likes to sweet talk.

"Before the Xuanyuan Palace assassination, those rebels planned to poison me. I escaped, did not take the poison, and later appeared in front of everyone intact, which confused the poisoners very much. They guessed and guessed." , and finally thought that someone was secretly against them, and gave me an antidote."

Wang Lianhua was thoughtful.

Pei Xiang smiled slightly, and stopped talking about the poisoning, but changed the subject and brought up Wuhua abruptly.

"A few days ago, Miao Seng Wuhua and Prince Cheng 'meeted' by chance. The two chatted happily and quickly became confidants. Therefore, Miao Seng Wuhua lived in the guest courtyard of Cheng Wang's mansion logically. After that, I was also fortunate I got acquainted with Master Wuhua, who is famous all over the world, and he noticed that there is a residual poison in the body. And the residual poison, it is said that it is a poison residue that can make people feel severe pain in the heart and mouth, and even die in the world."

Wang Lianhua understood the potential meaning of Pei Xiang's words almost immediately, and asked in a deep voice:

"Are you sure you haven't been poisoned recently? Have you ever had a heartache?"

Pei Xiang stretched out his arms and put them on the table, and said with a slight smile:

"I'm very sure. Besides, the little girl is not talented, and she has barely dabbled in some medicine and poison skills, and she can still check her body."

With Pei Xiang's acquiescence, Wang Lianhua reached out to feel her pulse.

After a while, he sighed meaningfully:

"My son is not talented, and I have barely dabbled in some poison medicine techniques. I can still judge that there is no residual poison in Xiangxiang's body."

"So... this is the news I want to tell Mr. Confucius. How did Miao Seng Wuhua know about the poisoning that happened in the palace? I have never been contaminated with that deadly poison, but he claimed that I have taken it to understand medicine but left residual toxins..."

Before Pei Xiang could finish speaking, Wang Lianhua clapped her hands and laughed loudly:

"Okay, okay, this news is really exciting, but it's a pity that there is no good wine at hand at this time. Oh, it really is a wonderful monk, how can the word 'miao' be so good? Haha, it has deceived the whole world. To tell you the truth, Xiangxiang, I I really thought that Master Wuhua was a veritable Buddhist celebrity before."

Pei Xiangyanran: "Then, Mr. Kong, since you have received such interesting news, can you do me a favor? Let the world-famous monk fight with the bat hiding in the dark. If the fight ends in both losers, then it would be best." But, lest they still have the power to harm innocent people."

Wang Lianhua, who was in a good mood, readily agreed to Pei Xiang's request.

He really likes this kind of thing that sees through the hypocrisy of righteous people.Even if there is no conflict of interest with one's own side, it is not a very interesting thing to be able to watch people's hearts and ghosts, and to be able to look at black and white upside down, beautiful and broken.

——As long as there are interesting things, Wang Lianhua is always willing to contribute to the flames and pay more attention to them.

With Wang Lianhua's help, in the next ten days or so, Wuhua has almost no time to play chess, appreciate the piano and drink tea with Pei Xiang.

From his hurried figure, Pei Xiang sensed that some things were speeding up, and he couldn't help secretly applauding the "Master with Thousand Faces" for his ability to make things happen.At the same time, she is also hurrying to complete the arrangements before leaving.

Three days before the distant relatives and former servants of the Qu clan arrived in the capital, Pei Xiang quietly put down a piece of paper with the fragrance of peach blossoms in the guest courtyard where Wu Hua lived.

Therefore, Wu Hua, who came back late at night and was full of fear, immediately realized that someone had broken into his bedroom without permission.

The next moment, he read the warning text on the fragrant paper.

"Please leave the capital quickly/I know Nangong Ling"

At this moment, Wuhua's whole body muscles tensed, and the bloody killing aura that had been suppressed lingered around his body again. He stared coldly at the word "Nangong Ling", his eyes dimmed.

If it was an ordinary warning letter, Wuhua would not have such intense emotional ups and downs.But the other party generously wrote the name "Nangong Ling" in the letter, which shows that an important secret has been controlled by the secret enemy.Apparently, the person who left the letter was threatening Nangong Ling, Wuhua's blood brother and leader of the Beggar Gang.

--who is it?I don't want me to stay in the capital, and I have the ability to find out about Nangong Ling's secret life experience...

Wuhua closed her eyes, and slowly calmed down the turbulent waves surging in her heart. After a few breaths, he turned the paper over...

Seeing the black bat pattern, Wu Hua didn't think it was strange at all. He had already guessed just now, who else could have such a motive and ability besides the mysterious and unpredictable owner of Bat Island ?

Thinking of the open and covert fighting between the two forces in the past few days, thinking of the loss of personnel and property of both sides, thinking of the slight advantage that our side has gained... Wu Hua waved his hand irritably and shattered the Eight Immortals chair in hand.

——It seems that Mr. Bat is planning to use Nangong Ling's life experience as a bargaining chip to force me to admit defeat.

"Admit defeat?" Wuhua murmured in a low voice, there was no trace of elegance and gentleness in her brows, it was all bloody and cruel, "Admit defeat..."

Wuhua hates losing.Once upon a time, he always thought that the only person who was qualified to be the opponent of Miao Seng Wuhua was the bandit commander Chu Liuxiang.In Wuhua's view, even her biological mother, Shi Guanyin, who is mysterious and unpredictable in martial arts, has some stupid flaws and is not enough to be an opponent he really values.

But Wuhua didn't expect that the Bat Boy who had always been indifferent to the river before would push him to such a degree.It not only destroyed his hidden power in the palace, but also messed up his secret layout in the capital. Now that the two sides are fighting in full swing, the bat boy used "Nangong Ling" as his trump card to push himself into a dead end.

"The capital? The rivers and lakes? The Dongying people who cooperated? The succession qualifications of the beggar gang? The desert? The lost head of Shaolin..."

Wu Hua closed his eyes and meditated, without much hesitation, he had a choice in his mind.

At the same time, he also thoroughly remembered the humiliation brought to him by Mr. Bat.Before he left the capital, he had already started thinking about how to get back in revenge.

——Is it a mysterious island in the southeast sea?

On the second day, Wu Hua bid farewell to King Cheng with a gentle smile, and Pei Xiang also went to see him off.

The next day, Pei Xiang first left Cheng Wang's mansion with Yi Rongcheng's maid Shuang Xing, and then she returned quietly, temporarily pretending to be the big housekeeper of the palace, holding her letter to Cheng Wang and a small medicine bottle and pushing it away. He opened the door of the First Prince's study.

"Your Highness, Miss Pei asked my subordinates to deliver this letter and this small medicine bottle to you. She confessed that this letter is all from her heart, and I hope His Highness can read it personally."

King Cheng was admiring the pen and ink left by Wuhua, he was taken aback when he heard this, then laughed and said:

"Xiang'er's letter? This girl, what can't you say in person?"

He first took a look at the unremarkable white porcelain bottle, then unhurriedly opened the letter, and browsed casually...

"boom!"

Cheng Wang, who suppressed his anger and read the entire letter, smashed his favorite inkstone severely.

"Your Highness?" the butler was astonished.

"You, you go and call that girl!"

"Yes, this subordinate will invite Miss Pei to come here."

The butler was about to bow and leave, but was stopped by King Cheng with an ugly face:

"Wait... You, cough, don't go looking for it with great fanfare, go quietly to Miss's yard to see if she is there? Don't make others suspicious."

"Subordinates take orders."

The butler played by Pei Xiang glanced at the small porcelain vase that was intact from the corner of his eye, and then quietly and quickly exited the study.

——She handed in the letter and the elixir in person, just because she was worried about making a mistake or being framed.

After Pei Xiang left, King Cheng, who barely calmed down his anger, opened the letter in his hand again, frowning and rereading the contents inside.

In the letter, Pei Xiang mainly told King Cheng about three things.

First, it is about the health of His Highness King Cheng, which is also the main reason why Pei Xiang has to deal with Wuhua for more than ten days.

——She needs time to concoct a more complex pill.

Pei Xiang told King Cheng that she discovered that there was a chronic poison in King Cheng's body. This poison was the culprit that caused King Cheng to be childless until now, and the pill she left for His Highness King Cheng was the antidote to chronic poison. .

At the same time, Pei Xiang also warned His Highness King Cheng.She suspected that the imperial physicians Liu and Cui who were commonly used by the palace should have been bribed, or they were members of other people's subordinates themselves, so they kept concealing the poisoning of His Royal Highness Cheng.

In the letter, Pei Xiang told King Cheng that the chronic poison in him was indeed not easy to be diagnosed, but it was not so secretive.Based on her testing of Imperial Physicians Liu and Imperial Physicians Cui these days, the medical skills of those two are not in vain, so there is no misdiagnosis.

Afterwards, Pei Xiang suggested that if His Royal Highness Cheng Wang didn't believe her judgment, he could find a few other doctors with good medical skills to check his pulse, and check the medicine she left him to see if it was right.

When King Cheng read this for the first time, he was gloomy.

At that time, he was full of why and full of anger, and all kinds of miscellaneous thoughts rushed into his mind, making him dizzy for a moment.

But it was only for a moment.King Cheng calmed down quickly, continued to look down with a cold face and anger.

Next, Pei Xiang mentioned the second aspect in the letter, which was about Miao Seng Wuhua.

She started with the poisoning of King Cheng, talked about her medical and poison skills, and then told King Cheng that she had never been poisoned at all.

After Pei Xiang revised and filled in some dialogues between himself and Wang Lianhua, he told Cheng Wang again.Then it was concluded that the Miao Seng Wuhua who suddenly appeared and concluded that there was residual poison in her body was very suspicious, and he was very likely to be related to the assassin that day.

After talking about Wuhua, Pei Xiang finally talked about his identity.

She said frankly that she is indeed not the daughter of the Qu family, and of course, she is not a pawn placed by other forces in the Inner Court Jiaofang Division.She is a lucky girl who got an inheritance from an expert by accident.

And the reason why she wanted to save the eldest prince in the Xuanyuan Palace was to avoid being tortured in the Hell and Water Prison, and she needed to use that opportunity to leave the palace.

As for why she pretended to be a woman from the Qu family after saving someone?In fact, there is no more complicated and profound reason.In the final analysis, it was because she was too beautiful and charming, but she was unwilling to have an intimate relationship with a powerful man she didn't like, so she had to do it as a last resort.

——The identity of Qu's daughter can just help her avoid similar troubles.

At the end of the letter, Pei Xiang sincerely thanked the eldest prince for taking care of her, and tactfully pointed out the fact that although her purpose of saving people was not pure, she blocked the dangerous plum blossom dart for the eldest prince. .

What's more, in order to make up for one lie after another, she took the initiative to use some of the more expensive medicinal materials in the inner treasury of Prince Cheng's Mansion to make an antidote elixir for the eldest prince.

"Although the method of obtaining raw materials is not very fair, please be wise and mighty His Royal Highness Cheng Wang, for the sake of good original intention and good results, don't bother with a weak woman."

The "wise and mighty" Cheng Wang read the letter left by Pei Xiang carefully again with a straight face, and finally couldn't help grinding his teeth in the study where no outsiders were present.

——Heh, beautiful and beautiful... a rich and powerful man that I don't like...

"It's extremely daring! Extremely arrogant! Do you really think you are cute? Absurd!"

The disgusted King Cheng sneered and slapped the table heavily.

At this time, the steward of the palace came back quickly, entered the door and whispered:

"Your Highness, I went to Miss Pei to inquire. All the maids and servants staying in the courtyard said that Miss Pei did not rest in the courtyard. Earlier, she took the maid Shuang Xing to the garden. But..."

"go on."

"The subordinate just went to the porter's room. The boy guarding the corner gate said that Shuangxing left the house with a package an hour ago. He said yes, um, he went out to do errands on the order of Miss Pei."

King Cheng sneered coldly, his expression a little cloudy.

After a while, he took a deep breath, carefully picked up the porcelain bottle at hand, shook it lightly, but did not open it immediately.

Pei Xiang glanced at it from the corner of his eye, knowing that King Cheng must be extremely cautious at this time, and he would not dare to touch the medicine provided by someone of unknown origin.

The room was quiet for a moment, King Cheng opened his mouth and said:

"Take my post and token, and quietly go to... Doctor Huang, and then send someone to invite Dr. Lin, the old birthday star of Xinglinchun Medical Center. Remember, it is quietly, so that no one will find out. You put The two doctors politely invited you to the palace, I have something important to ask."

"Obey, this subordinate will do it now."

Pei Xiang took the token from King Cheng, turned around and went out to do business.

After Pei Xiang left, King Cheng summoned trusted guards in the mansion and asked them to search the entire Prince Cheng mansion to see if there was anything unusual.

Therefore, after the doctor Huang and the old doctor Lin diagnosed that King Cheng was indeed suffering from chronic poisoning, the guards who were ordered to search the palace came back to report, saying that they found the unconscious twins in the guest hospital where Miao Seng Wuhua lived temporarily. apricot.After inspection, it was found that the pair of apricots was disguised by a strange woman from the rivers and lakes, and they were not Shuang Xing, the original maidservant of the palace.

King Cheng waved his hand and asked the guards to go down and interrogate Shuang Xing carefully. What he is most concerned about right now is his physical condition...

Three days later, King Cheng took the antidote elixir provided by Pei Xiang, which successfully dissolved the hidden toxins in his body. Afterwards, after being diagnosed by several Xinglin masters, King Cheng's health is slowly improving. It's all right.

At this point, King Cheng and his confidants heaved a long sigh of relief.

"My lord, what should I do with that Miss Pei?"

King Cheng frowned and pushed away the unpleasant tonic prescribed by Doctor Huang, and said in a deep voice:

"Have you found no trace of her so far?"

"The subordinate is incompetent. That Miss Pei should be proficient in the art of disguise, so she can pretend to be Shuang Xing and leave the palace. She can also see through that fake Shuang Xing was wearing a human skin mask, so she escaped." The repeated assassinations of fake Shuangxing."

"She knows how to change faces," Cheng Wang sighed, "There are so many people, it's really not easy to find. Forget it, since she doesn't want to stay, let her go. No matter what, she saved this king."

"The people of the Naqu clan..."

"Send people away, just say that Miss Pei's injury hasn't healed yet, and she found that there is still old poison in her body. The doctors invited by the mansion are just to detoxify her, and it's not appropriate to meet guests for a while. After that, you Then send those old servants of the tribe back to their hometown in Taiyuan."

"Yes, this subordinate will do it."

Before taking the order to leave the study, Pei Xiang looked up at King Cheng, knowing that the way he arranged the Qu family meant that he would no longer care about himself, so he smiled lightly, bowed his head and backed out...

——The medicine I left was taken by King Cheng himself, and it was not replaced by someone halfway, that's good.

After this day, Pei Xiang completely left Prince Cheng's Mansion.