When the devil

Wei Ling lowered his eyes to look at Gu Xiao's wine glass, he didn't drink much, he shouldn't be drunk, but Wei Ling felt that his eyes were slack, as if he was looking at himself, and seemed to be looking at the distance, and what he said was even more incomprehensible up.

"When I was young, everyone around me wanted me to die." Gu Xiao spoke slowly, as if pondering what to say, and after waiting for a while, he started coughing. Seeing this, Gu Yuan quickly got up and rubbed Gu Xiao's back, Persuading him to rest early when he felt uncomfortable, Gu Xiao ignored him, and blocked Gu Yuan's hand after coughing, and continued: "The first emperor was plagued by monsters, and he wanted to kill himself. The queen mother was deeply stimulated and hated monsters to the bone. She succeeded to the throne early at the age of ten, and the Empress Dowager listened to the government behind the curtain. She... listened to the advice of the Taoist priests from the Eastern Realm, and regarded the loyal people left by the late emperor as monsters, and wiped them out one by one."

"Zhaoyang is in chaos, the hearts of the people are lax, and the evil spirits have brought disaster to the country. The queen mother promoted the so-called Eastern Realm warriors to be assistant ministers, but those monsters have their own ghosts, and their eyes are fixed on Zhaoyang and the dragon chair. Remove me before I take over the government."

"The ridiculous thing is that God wants me to live and the East to die." Gu Xiao looked at Wei Ling: "Wei Xianzun, this is destiny, even if you do it all over again, you will still save my life. To live up to the entrustment of heaven, no matter how long this life lasts, Zhaoyang will never be reduced to a meal in the east."

His voice was not heavy, but his words were sonorous and powerful, and Wei Ling found the cold light that could not be violated from his eyes.

"So..." Wei Ling said to him: "I was treated as a sacrifice to Wu Wu, and His Majesty knew it from the beginning?"

Gu Yuan was eating quietly by the side without raising her head, no one asked him, he was just air.

Gu Xiao: "This game was a dangerous game she played. It wasn't until you swallowed the curse of Wuwu that I suddenly realized it. For many years, I have always regarded you as a benefactor and a god who fulfilled my wishes. Yue Erzhen wants to destroy If you die, you will destroy my only sustenance."

Wei Ling smiled wryly: "You really think I'm a fairy."

"Is it important?" Gu Xiao didn't wait for Gu Yuan, he filled himself with wine: "When a person is in trouble, even if a stone saves his life, he will keep it by his side as a treasure. You If I should not, it means that my heart is not sincere enough."

Wei Ling: "You have justified your crazy words."

Gu Yuan paused with her chopsticks, Wei Ling's words sounded like a thorn in the side, no one else would dare to treat the emperor like this.But Gu Xiao didn't care, he laughed while drinking: "How can a madman feel that he is talking crazy."

"There's one thing I don't understand." Wei Ling felt Gu Yuan's eyes, as if reminding him of something, but he didn't respond, and said everything in his heart: "You are paranoid and cruel, since you know that Yue Erzhen is harmful For you, why do you want to keep her?"

Just as Gu Yuan took a sip of wine into her mouth, she choked so hard that she almost spit it out.

Gu Xiao laughed out loud, the kind that came from the heart. He propped up the table and stood up, his robe hanging down his body, reflecting the majestic Tenglong pattern in the flames.

He walked slowly to the fire, and replied firmly: "Stupid woman."

Wei Ling looked at Gu Xiao's back.

"I live, she can live."

After Gu Xiao finished speaking, he started to cough again, his throat became hoarse, but he didn't stop his smile.

"Until now, she has not understood this principle."

Before entering the palace, Gu Yuan fantasized that Gu Xiao would ask him to speak up, such as why he went around so many circles before returning to the palace, why didn't Wei Ling stay in the palace, and other questions that would lose his head if he answered wrongly. , He had already thought up a hundred excuses in his mind.

But after the meal, Gu Xiao seemed to have forgotten his existence. When Gu Yuan followed Wei Ling down the steps in front of the hall, he heaved a long sigh of relief and patted his chest: "Xiao Ling, why don't you accompany me later?" Me, you are good-looking, the emperor is busy looking at you, how can there be such a good thing in the world, we are also brothers, how are you doing?"

Wei Ling and Gu Yuan have been acquainted since they met, and they are used to listening to the glib tone. Gu Yuan said a long paragraph vividly, Wei Ling passed it through, and walked forward while talking about himself: "Gu Xiao's face is pale, his veins are messy. The day is running out."

Gu Yuan said "Ah?", and froze on the spot. Seeing that Wei Ling was still walking forward for a while, he chased after him again: "Father has been ill for many years, why is it that time is running out all of a sudden?"

It was snowing in the sky, and the ground was covered with a thin layer of white. The lights of the fires on both sides of the road were reflected in the snow, making it look a bit lonely.

"It doesn't look like a disease." Wei Ling recalled Gu Xiao's appearance: "Someone poisoned him."

Gu Yuan opened her mouth, hesitated and didn't answer for a long time, he quickly looked around, watched the patrolling guards walk away, and then approached: "Wh, who poisoned...? It can't be..."

Wei Ling: "He is already terminally ill, maybe he ate it himself."

"what??"

"Let's just say it, I don't know." Wei Ling felt cold, and put his hands into his sleeves: "You said that he has been sick for many years, it should be that someone poisoned him for a long time, the poison is not fatal, but it can break the body. Gu Xiao has a mortal body, and there is a monster by his side, if there is a contract, the monster nature will be a kind of consumption for him."

Gu Yuan nodded in agreement: "Long-term, long-term! The only one who can hate him for so many years is the queen mother."

Wei Ling disagreed: "I thought the same way before, but after talking with him today, I suddenly realized that he is the emperor, even if there is no hatred, there are countless people who want his life."

Facing the cold wind, Gu Yuan was blinded by snowflakes. He raised his hand to wipe it away, and looked at Wei Ling with feigned surprise: "If you think so, you're back to the original point again?"

of course not.

Wei Ling has no interest in imperial power disputes. He only wants to find out one thing here, which is what position he plays in this conspiracy.When Gu Xiao called him this time, he had already made it clear that Wei Ling could escape only when the game of chess came to the end.

As the road approached the palace gate, the wind suddenly became stronger. At this time, the night was dark, and the white snow was flying in the light of the fire, like golden sparks rising slowly.

Wei Ling stopped in front of the gate, but Gu Yuan didn't pay attention and bumped into him behind.

"what happened?"

Gu Yuan has an extremely keen sense of danger, so he simply hid behind Wei Ling, tilted his head and looked outside the palace gate. As expected, he saw an uninvited visitor outside the gate in the middle of the night.

"What a coincidence, isn't this the young prince and Wei Xianzun?" Yu Wanfeng stood against the wind in a thin official robe.Xue Guo didn't touch him, making his shadow more compatible with the surrounding silence.

"Principal Yu." Gu Yuan blinked, seeing that Yu Wanfeng was so clean, he felt embarrassed to touch the snow from his hair: "It's dark and windy this month, and you come to see my father in person in the palace, what a shame! Have a heart!"

Yu Wanfeng smiled in the shadows: "I'm stupid, I don't intend to offend Your Majesty, please forgive me, I just heard that Wei Xianzun returned to the palace, and I happened to have some inexplicable things and wanted to ask for help, so I could only risk it." The danger of losing your head came to report to the Holy Majesty."

Wei Ling didn't respond to what he said.

"Dean Yu is serious. You won't die even if you lose your head. What are you afraid of?" Gu Yuan spoke articulately and said unforgivingly, "What's so urgent, tell me?"

Yu Wanfeng walked forward, walked out of the shadow cast by the palace gate, and stood under the flickering light of the fire: "In half a month, the emperor and empress have to go to worship the late emperor. The late emperor died of a demon disaster. According to the tradition of Zhaoyang, The Mausoleum Temple was built under Foshan, a hundred miles away from Yudu. You have just visited Your Majesty, and you should know about His Majesty's situation. Now that there is a lot of fighting in the north, and there are rumors of demons in Zhaoyang, Your Majesty insists on going to keep him safe. , the Taili Academy and the Snow Wolf Army have given up a lot of thought."

"Really?" Gu Yuan thought about it, but couldn't think of any reason, the day was wrong, and the atmosphere was wrong.

"I don't know what your Majesty is thinking. Maybe it's because the palace is too stuffy. Find a reason to go out to ventilate." Yu Wanfeng lowered his eyes kindly: "It's just that General Bai just returned to Yudu today, and I haven't mentioned this matter to him yet. I asked my subordinates to let me know." After sorting out the list, according to His Majesty's wishes, I also sorted out a copy of the escort soldiers deployed by the Snow Wolf Army, and prepared to hand it over to General Bai tomorrow."

Wei Ling looked at Yu Wanfeng, halfway through his words, his face showed embarrassment, as if he was troubled.In addition, he does not have the slightest aura of a monster. If Jin Chuanshi hadn't seen his real body, it would be difficult to associate him with Taotie.

Gu Yuan's hands and feet felt cold from the cold, and she asked directly without going around in circles: "What's wrong? Is there a problem with the Snow Wolf Army?"

Yu Wanfeng said: "They are all dead."

Gu Yuan: "Dead?"

Yu Wanfeng suddenly turned his gaze to Wei Ling. He was answering Gu Yuan's doubts, but he seemed to be saying it to Wei Ling on purpose: "In the early morning of the day before yesterday, someone played games with the girl in Baihua Building in the early morning, and jumped into the river to fish for flower shoes in winter. After jumping in, the person did not come up, and the priest on duty went down to the river to save the person, only to find that a frog monster hiding in the river had swallowed the person.”

Gu Yuan was frightened: "There are monsters in the river in Baihualou!? This king has dropped silver in the river before, but he hasn't found it yet."

Yu Wanfeng smiled: "The little prince is too worried, monsters don't like to eat money, it should simply be that they couldn't find it."

Gu Yuan hurriedly waved her hand: "Uh... It's getting too far, you continue to say, you caught that frog monster? Just now you said that the snow wolf army's death... has something to do with this frog? Could it be that the body was found in its stomach? ?”

Yu Wanfeng said humbly: "I caught it, and I wanted to cut open its belly to save him—just like the little prince's ingenious calculation, we found the snow wolf army with half of its flesh and bones in its stomach."

Gu Yuan: "..."

He thought about the scene, his heart choked up, and he shrank back to Wei Ling.

"Fang Caichen also mentioned that today the Taili Academy is sorting out the list of escorts, and went to the Snow Wolf Army to check them out. There are quite a few of them. This is strange. How can a dead person still be on duty?" Yu Wanfeng narrowed his eyes. , and turned his gaze back to Gu Yuan: "Young Lord, don't guess anymore."

Gu Yuan quickly shook her head: "Don't guess, don't guess, it's freezing cold in the middle of the night, Dean Yu's interest, I can't bear it, don't tell ghost stories, just tell the ending, no matter how cold this king is, I will change." Became a ghost."

Wei Ling listened very carefully, and when he heard this, he already understood in his heart: "The monster killed the Snow Wolf Army, and then transformed into those people to get in? And you are in charge, if they escort His Majesty together with the Taili Court, it may be difficult to cover up the demon body."

"This is the strange thing." Yu Wanfeng turned his head: "He is locked up in the sky prison. I plan to interrogate him tomorrow. Is the immortal interested in going with me?"

Gu Yuan interrupted: "No."

This is digging a hole and waiting for someone to jump, whoever jumps is a fool.

Yu Wanfeng was unhurried, and asked again: "If the Immortal Venerable feels the same, I will just turn a blind eye."

Gu Yuan was puzzled. Yu Wanfeng seemed to have a gentle attitude, but his words were aggressive towards Wei Ling. Wei Ling was in a good mood, and after listening to it for a long time, she didn't even think about refuting a few words. He dared to start a fight with Yu Wanfeng: "Dean Yu, what you said is wrong, evil spirits are a matter of your Taili Academy, what does it have to do with Xiaoling?"

"Yaoxie is the frog in the river. The Tailiyuan has taken it down, but the people from the Snow Wolf Army, I can be sure that it is not a monster. It's just that this matter is strange, and it will be kept in the Tailiyuan for the time being. According to the rules of Zhaoyang, Xue You can't participate in the affairs of the wolf army, and the people of the snow wolf army should also be handed over to the internal affairs of the snow wolf army, little prince, do you think I'm right?" Yu Wanfeng smiled lightly, blocking the flames with his broad shoulders, and stretched his arms. His shadow fell on Gu Yuan's face: "General Bai has not recovered from his serious injury, and there are dark waves around him. Give him another stab at this time, little prince, you want to take his life."

Gu Yuan was dumbfounded, Yu Wanfeng couldn't explain what she said, and he could only cast his eyes on Wei Ling for help.

Wei Ling was much more relaxed than Gu Yuan. He didn't refute Yu Wanfeng because he had nothing to say, but he was thinking about the ins and outs of this matter.

He also has some impressions of Baihualou. Before falling into the demon realm, he chased the silver fox to Baihualou. Later, he and Bai Lie were attacked by a big snake downstairs. In the minority.

The hole dug by Yu Lanfeng was a rare opportunity for him, and he would not catch a tiger if he didn't enter the tiger's den. He wanted to follow the vines and turn Baihualou upside down.

"Okay, I'll go with you tomorrow." Wei Ling said cheerfully, "By the way, let me visit the Taili Courtyard, please?"

Yu Wanfeng raised his eyebrows: "Is the immortal interested in the Taili Academy?"

Wei Ling smiled: "I'm not the only one who is interested."