When the devil

A cylinder of pure fire was lit in the center of the mausoleum, and the cold wind blew in from the outside, making the fire flicker, making the concave and convex murals on the walls dark and bright, blending and blending.

Gu Xiao has been inside for two hours, the light and shadow wandered across his cheeks, and there was no spark in his eyes.When Yue Erzhen entered, he was carefully looking at the carved murals, touching the contours with his fingertips, as if he wanted to draw again, and touched them gently and slowly.

Yue Erzhen stood by the door, the light of Jinghuo swayed with her hair ornament: "Your Majesty, Yuan'er is here, and now I am waiting in front of the ancestral halls of my ancestors."

Gu Xiao turned his head slightly, and most of his face was hidden in the backlight: "What is he doing in the ancestral hall, no one lying there will regard him as his descendant."

Yue Erzhen: "In Zhaoyang's tradition, all princes should go to the ancestors to make a move. Yuan'er now..."

"You know more about Zhaoyang's traditions than I do." Gu Xiao waved his hand, interrupting her words, and then continued to stare at those sculptures, observing carefully like a bewildered man.

He was sick, and no matter how abruptly he spoke, his voice was hoarse and lower than before, and he couldn't hear any serious breath.Yue Erzhen smiled lightly, walked silently, and slowly approached Gu Xiao: "What is Your Majesty looking at?"

She followed Gu Xiao's line of sight, looked at the entire mural, and understood it in a moment.

"Xiwu opened the frontier." Gu Xiao pointed to a mural on the right side, engraved with a man riding a steed, holding a big bow, majestic, "The battle of Wenchenguan Gorge, casualties of nearly [-] sailors." He also said Pointing to the other pair, his gaze fell on those carved warships and stood still for a long time.

Yue Erzhen said: "These murals are all the achievements of Zhaoyang's ancestors. Who carved them?"

Gu Xiao acted as if he didn't hear her, and looked up while walking forward: "Flood disaster in the north, killing Jiuying."

The mural depicts a monster with nine heads and an army at a standoff with it.

Yue Erzhen stood next to Gu Xiao, with her hands interlaced and hanging in front of her body. These murals were so delicate that one could even clearly see Jiuying's ferocious face and the panic-stricken soldiers in the army.

"Achievements?" Gu Xiao realized later, and said lightly, "I lost Bai Ming in this water disaster. Before he died, he carried the felony of stigmatization for me, and he has not been buried until now."

Bai Ming is King Yubei, the only king with a different surname since the founding of Zhaoyang, Bai Lie's father, Gu Xiao's teacher, and a mighty general who fought with the former emperor when he founded the country.

Yue Erzhen was silent, she lowered her eyes, shadows covered by eyelashes, mottled pupils.

"Bai Ming always said that I am not suitable to be an emperor. He is the only one in the world who dares to say this, but I have to be an emperor. No one in the world has the surname Gu, but I am the only one who is still alive." Gu Xiao crossed Jiuying's sculpture and looked at it. Like another mural, that one is engraved with a huge city wall, outside the wall there are corpses strewn all over the place, and demons are wandering away.

Yue Erzhen was startled by his words, and then raised her face again, but Gu Xiao didn't look at her, and continued in the same weak tone as before: "Jiu Ying was recruited by people from the East, and people from the East can step into Zhaoyang The earth is also a gap opened by me, Bai Ming is the pillar of the country, and dying from a monster will surely shake the morale of the army, so the first thing he thinks of when he faces death is to block this monster, and then let his own death become my commander Zhaoyang's move."

The king of Yubei, Bai Ming, led a large army to guard the border all year round. Rumor has it that he formed his own faction long ago, occupying land as the king, colluding with the Eastern Territory and causing evil disasters, and finally the imperial court sent troops to suppress it.

"Do you think I destroyed the Eastern Realm to avenge him?" Gu Xiao looked at the mural illuminated by the Jinghuo: "No, I destroyed the Eastern Realm just to follow his wishes."

King Yubei has been accused of colluding with the Eastern Realm on his back, and he will not rest in peace after his death. However, his death is a foregone conclusion, but he used this foregone conclusion to throw the Eastern Realm forces hidden in the dark out of the water. He gave Zhaoyang hatred for the Eastern Realm. The reason for the situation gave Gu Xiao a dead end where he could only advance but not retreat.

Yue Erzhen's fingers tightened slightly, her nails sank into her hands, leaving reddish scratches.

The silent flames rendered her shadow, as if telling her that she could hate Bai Ming, Gu Xiao, and even Bai Lie, the dynasty built on the bones of the Eastern Realm.

But what are these hatreds?

Nothing counts.

"Yue Erzhen, I named you queen, and I hope you will live well with me. No matter where you are, for the Eastern Realm, death is inevitable. The only difference is whether you live or you die." Gu Xiao turned his head and looked at Yue Erzhen's stiff face: "I am your savior."

He did it on purpose.

He's a lunatic, and it's useless to talk to him.

For so many years, which time has he swallowed the thought of wanting to cut him into pieces.

Yue Erzhen raised her head, she stretched her fingers, and stretched out the mark just drawn little by little.

Hold your breath, hold your breath.

She desperately comforted herself, but when she opened her mouth, her voice trembled violently.

"Your Majesty's gift, concubine, will never... be forgotten."

Gu Xiao’s smile is not a smile, he has never been interested in this kind of words, or, to Gu Xiao, the most meaningless thing is “words”. To him it is no different from the wind blowing through the pinna.

He raised his eyes again, and continued to look at the mural above his head. The sparks flickered in the corner of his gaze.

An ominous thick fog filled the footsteps, and Yue Erzhen's nails cut through the flesh, leaving deep red lines. She drew a circle on the back of her hand, and the circle could close the painting just a little bit, but she stopped, her eyes He just looked at Gu Xiao steadily.

The Jinghuo in front of him trembled, and a strange wind lingered around.

Yue Erzhen closed her eyes, her fingertips trembled slightly, just at the moment she wanted to make a move.

"Your Majesty." A young eunuch with a high-pitched voice was waiting respectfully at the gate: "The time has come."

Yue Erzhen was startled by the voice, she hastily withdrew her hands, and let the sleeves cover the back of her hand.

According to the custom in Zhaoyang, Zishi is the latest time for "returning to the soul". The ancestors should light the "spiritual candle" in front of the mausoleum at Zishi, and regard the light of the "spiritual candle" as the "returning of the soul" of the ancestors. In order to worship the ancestors.

Gu Xiao turned around, but his gaze didn't rest on Yue Erzhen's body for an inch. The eunuch took a step back humbly, bowed his body and lowered his head, as if everything was as usual.

The snow is endless, the night is heavy, and the snow on the ground is so thick that it covers the steps.

Yue Erzhen faced Gu Xiao: "Your Majesty, the child's time has come, and the concubine is stepping down first."

When Gu Xiao walked past Yue Erzhen, he said in a low voice: "Since you're here, stay with me."

Yue Erzhen was startled, looked up at him, didn't say a word for a while, then Gu Xiao said to the eunuch at the door: "Get some thick jackets, don't let the queen catch cold."

"Yes." The eunuch retreated in response.

Yue Erzhen stood in the same place, she gently held the back of her hand, feeling a little confused, seeing that Gu Xiaozhen was about to leave, she said: "Your Majesty, according to Zhaoyang's rules, you cannot face your ancestors unless you are of royal blood. Jingren, Zhaoyang has feuded with Dongjing for many years, if the concubine goes away, wouldn't it disturb the peace of the ancestors."

Gu Xiao stopped at the door, the cold wind was blowing on his face, his old illness relapsed, and he kept coughing without saying a word.

Yue Erzhen hurried forward, helped Gu Xiao's back and patted it gently.

Gu Xiao coughed for a long time, and after his breathing became stable, he held Yue Erzhen and slowly hung it by his side.

"I just want to see." Gu Xiao smiled wearily, and said lightly: "Will they crawl out of the ground?"

【Yudu Tai Medical Office】

It was dark at night, but there was still light in the Imperial Medical Office.

There was a commotion a few days ago, the medicine boys in the pharmacy were still busy, the old doctor Xue Yuan stayed behind to count the medicinal materials personally, and rubbed his eyes when he was tired. Tong started to replace it with a new one, and the light flickered a little, as if waking Xue Yuan out of a daze, and finally made him look away from the booklet full of words.

"Grandpa Xue." Zi Wan'er poked her head out from behind the medicine cabinet: "This is so strange."

"How many medicinal materials are missing?" Xue Yuan was very tired, and the medicine boy kept talking about missing this and that all night, which made him reply without thinking.

"Look." Zi Wan'er trotted up to Xue Yuan, her feet creaking on the wooden floor: "This is the medicine book, it says that Mrs. Bai Liuying came to the Imperial Medical Office to get the medicine, but it doesn't remember who made it .”

Xue Yuan took the medicine book in Zi Wan'er's hand and flipped through it: "Where?"

Zi Wan'er pointed to the small line of words at the bottom: "Here."

Xue Yuan squinted his eyes, and frowned slightly with pale brows: "No, this record was added later, you see, this word can hardly fit in."

Zi Wan'er held her face, tilted her head and leaned against Xue Yuan: "It's true, but there is a rule in our medical office that we have to record all the medicines we take, so how can we add more...and it's so strange, General Bai's medicines look like It’s added, so whoever didn’t forget, just forgot his medicine?”

Xue Yuan felt a little strange, he looked carefully several times, then suddenly stood up, and started searching the medicine cabinet one by one for the recorded medicines. Zi Waner was also sensible, so she immediately asked the medicine boys around to help her look. After an hour, it was finally confirmed that these recorded medicinal materials could really match up.

"Okay." Xue Yuan folded the booklet and stuffed it to Zi Wan'er: "Tomorrow, you can go to the White Mansion to ask first, and keep this matter secret."

Zi Wan'er nodded and put away the booklet.

"Let's do this today." Xue Yuan stood up: "Tomorrow the Taili Institute will investigate, and first tell them all the gaps found."

"Yes." The medicine boys answered in unison.

After Xue Yuan left the Imperial Medical Office, Zi Wan'er stayed for a while under the pretext of sorting out the booklets.At this time, it was approaching the early morning, and the surroundings were quiet, and the patrolling guards circled around twice, as if they were used to the sight of the imperial medical office with lights on in the middle of the night.

She packed up her things, blew out the candles, and was about to open the door to leave, when suddenly someone behind her covered her mouth, dragged her back, and the door that hadn't been opened closed again, and there was a rustling sound in her ear, something Locked the latch.

"Give me the brochure, for the sake of Immortal Venerable, I will spare you from dying."

There was an intimate voice that made Zi Wan'er's hair stand on end.

The so-called one-day horror is unforgettable for a hundred days. Back then, Zi Wan'er was chased all the way to Zhenlu Temple by the owner of this voice.

"Shen, Shen..." Zi Wan'er stammered, unable to remember Shen Feihuan's name for a while.

Shen Feihuan didn't let go of her hand, the other hand had already touched Zi Wan'er's sleeve, and pulled out the brochure: "I heard from you just now that all the prescriptions about Bai Lie in the brochure of the Imperial Medical Office were added later?"

Zi Wan'er raised her hands high, not daring to move: "That was added by me."

Shen Feihuan paused, and suddenly exerted force on the hand covering Zi Wan'er, pulling Zi Wan'er into his arms: "What did you say?"

Zi Wan'er was frightened, and hurriedly said: "You, don't worry, listen to me."

"Say."

"Can you...let me go first." Zi Wan'er was really afraid of him, and wanted to back off more and more, but after thinking about it for a while, it was Wei Ling's account, she couldn't just give up .

A few days ago, the herb picker in the imperial pharmacy died tragically. The task that Wei Ling entrusted to Zi Wan'er was to secretly add the record of Mrs. Bai Lie's taking medicine in the booklet of the Imperial Medical Office.

It is strange to say that the Imperial Medical Office usually has detailed records on the use of medicinal materials. This is Xue Yuanding's rule, because since the elixir began to flood, there have been more than one incidents of reselling rare medicinal materials in the Imperial Medical Office, but it is precisely because of the detailed records. , This kind of reselling situation has gradually subsided. It's just that this rule has continued. No major incidents have happened, and no one will reconcile accounts one by one.

It stands to reason that Bai Lie is the commander of the Snow Wolf Army, and he was wounded for the country. It is a legitimate thing to get medicine from the Imperial Medical Office, but as Wei Ling expected, there is no record of this incident, no matter once or twice, every time Every time it is empty, it is inevitable to make people suspicious.

Zi Wan'er also didn't understand why Wei Ling asked herself to add this record. In order to confirm the medicine that Bai Lie had used, she spent a lot of time thinking. With this paragraph that she has now added to the booklet.

After listening to Ziwan'er's reason, Shen Feihuan took a candle and turned into the closed warehouse behind the medicine cabinet. He lit the candle, sat down cross-legged, and carefully checked the records in the booklet.

Zi Wan'er was terrified, and muttered: "Brother Shen, please do me a favor, this warehouse is full of dried herbs, the weather is dry, so be careful with the candles."

"You just blew out the candle, and you will be suspicious if you light it again." Shen Feihuan responded casually: "Don't worry, I won't burn to death."

Who cares about your life!

Zi Wan'er didn't dare to leave him alone, God knows if he would really set the Imperial Medical Office ablaze, but she didn't dare to get too close, she just stood at the warehouse door in a daze, at a loss.

Shen Feihuan asked, "Where did your records come from?"

Zi Wan'er: "The drug boy recited it."

"You have such a good memory?"

"Of course, they can even memorize all the medicines in these thousands of medicine cabinets. It's nothing to memorize a prescription."

"How likely is it to remember wrongly?"

"It's impossible to remember wrongly." Zi Wan'er patted her chest and said, "Don't underestimate the Imperial Medical Office."

Shen Feihuan put the candle on the ground, and the candle flame trembled, elongating his shadow on the wall: "What medicine is used for any injury, generally speaking, there is not much difference. The prescription you wrote is for treating tendons and removing stasis. medicine."

Zi Wan'er sighed, this Shen Feihuan actually knows how to read prescriptions?

Shen Feihuan closed the brochure: "But, why isn't 'Thousand Moon Grass' written in it?"

"Uh." Zi Wan'er still has some knowledge about medicinal herbs, after all, she has been working with the Imperial Medical Office for two years, and she is not just eating for free: "'Qianyue Grass' is used to suppress demon poison, why does it appear in this prescription?"

Shen Feihuan said: "I am the one who is tormenting the medicine in the White Mansion. There is Qianyue grass in the medicine."

Zi Wan'er was stunned for a moment: "That's not right, today we just order herbs... There is not a single piece of Thousand Moon Grass missing, did you misread something else, and regarded some other medicine as Thousand Moon Grass."

Shen Feihuan chuckled lightly: "Then let me ask you, does the imperial pharmacy have blood grass?"

Zi Wan'er's face turned pale in an instant, and she said cautiously: "This is not a joke, the hundred blood grass is poison, Grandpa Xue has reminded many times before that the herb pickers must not pick the wrong medicine. "

Shen Feihuan: "So, is there?"

Zi Wan'er shook her head straight: "No, definitely not—why did you ask the Hundred Blood Grass..." As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly understood: "Could it be...the medicine for Baifu..."

Candlelight flickered in Shen Feihuan's eyes, and he looked a little cold: "Why don't you confirm whether you took the wrong medicine and mixed it with Qianyuecao, or someone really tampered with the medicine with ulterior motives."

Zi Wan'er was frozen by his gaze, and her heartbeat rose to her throat: "You, don't mess around, I can't help you confirm in the middle of the night, why don't you wait for me for a day? I'll see tomorrow, tomorrow... "

Shen Feihuan lowered his head and continued to study the records in the booklet: "OK."

In fact, for Shen Feihuan, the above two possibilities are not important anymore. He understands why Wei Ling asked Zi Wan'er to add prescriptions so clearly in the brochure. He wants to throw this doubt to the Imperial Medical Office and observe the Imperial Medical Office. Response methods, so as to lock the target more precisely.

Shen Feihuan acted secretly, and the death of the herbal picker was related to him. Wei Ling noticed this and deliberately intervened before Shen Feihuan, because he knew Shen Feihuan's way of doing things.

Thinking of this, Shen Feihuan suddenly felt very funny. He was a troublesome person. Even if he could find the target, he would kill all the people involved because of the possibility of various accidents.The main purpose of Wei Ling's extravagance now is to warn Shen Feihuan not to kill people in the Imperial Medical Office.

Xianzun really worked hard.

Shen Feihuan stared at the booklet, and said again: "Little girl, let me ask you, does the place you add the record have something to do with the order of taking the medicine?"

Zi Wan'er heard that his voice was softer than before, and she was a little relieved: "No, look at these records, they are so densely written, where can I add them, there is only a gap at the end of each page, I can only add there. "

Shen Feihuan said: "Then, does the drug boy still remember the real order of taking the medicine?"

"Is it important that you care about this?" Zi Wan'er didn't understand.

"Hmm...Look." Shen Feihuan spread the booklet flat on the ground: "Every prescription in this booklet is written in order, if we can know which prescriptions are given to Bai Lie before and after, and before and after the combination The name of the person who prescribed the medicine may be able to deduce who prescribed the medicine."

When Zi Wan'er heard this, she suddenly realized: "Really! How about... I'll ask together tomorrow?"

Shen Feihuan showed her a lovely smile: "Thank you."

But just after he finished speaking, he suddenly heard something.Shen Feihuan reacted much faster than Ziwan'er. He extinguished the candle with a wave of his hand, covered Ziwan'er's mouth again, swung the steel wire in his hand, wrapped it around the roof beam above his head, and lifted his feet off the ground in an instant, holding Ziwan'er up together. On the roof beam.

"Huh!? Woo!"

Zi Wan'er didn't hear the movement at all, and struggled for a while in fright, Shen Feihuan pressed her, forced her to the corner of the pillar, and whispered: "Someone is coming, be quiet."

"...!?"

Not long after the words fell, there was a sound of poking the door bolt from the door, and after a long while, the door opened, and someone sneaked in, Zi Guan'er immediately entered the scene, holding her breath, she watched the man walking away in a familiar way In front of the medicine cabinet, I opened one of the cabinets, put some things in it, and took some things out.

Shen Feihuan squinted his eyes, the surroundings were too dark for him to see clearly.

The other party put the things away, lingered near the medicine cabinet for a while, then suddenly turned around and came to the warehouse.

Shen Feihuan immediately understood that the room was airtight, and the scent of the candles that had just been blown out must have been smelled by the man before he went to the warehouse. If he saw candles on the ground, it would definitely arouse suspicion.

Shen Feihuan was quick, and before the man came to the warehouse, he lowered the steel wire, wrapped the candle around it, and quickly dragged it up to the roof beam.

During the whole process, there was no sound at all.

Fortunately, the candles in the hall have just been blown out, so maybe they can get away with it.

Zi Wan'er was almost suffocating with fright, she got close to Shen Feihuan, her heart beat, as if bumping into Shen Feihuan.

The man came to the warehouse, stayed for a while, then turned around and left. At this moment, a patrolling guard passed by outside the Imperial Medical Office, and the bright torch shone through the window, slightly depicting the figure of the man.

Shen Feihuan didn't recognize who he was, but Zi Wan'er shuddered, and she involuntarily grasped Shen Feihuan's hand with her fingertips.

She is too familiar with the people in the medical department.

You can tell the identity of that person just by looking at the outline.

Shen Feihuan held Ziwan'er down and tried to calm her down. After a while, after the man left the house, he approached Ziwan'er and asked each word in a low voice, "Who is it?"

Zi Wan'er's fingertips were cold, and she didn't speak for a long time, but she knew that she had only one choice to answer at the moment, she didn't dare to provoke Shen Feihuan, and she didn't dare to lie at this juncture.

She is still too young to know how to hide her emotions in times of crisis.

So, trembling, she spoke out what she saw.

"Yes, yes... Doctor Zhang..."

Shen Feihuan said: "Go and see what he changed."

The steel wire was entangled into a thick layer, entangled Zi Guan'er to put her down, Zi Guan'er was also very concerned, she couldn't care less about the darkness, and carefully ran to the place where the doctor Zhang touched just now, her eyes couldn't see clearly, But you can touch it with your hands, and the names of the herbs on the medicine cabinet are all engraved on it.

"Thousand Moon Grass, it's Thousand Moon Grass." Zi Wan'er opened the drawer, took one from inside, put it near her nose and smelled it...

Shen Feihuan jumped down, walked to her side silently, and took the medicinal materials from her hand.

"Hundred Blood Grass..." Zi Guan'er said those three words in a daze: "During the counting today, there was indeed Qianyue Grass in it, why did Imperial Physician Zhang want to..."

"The Immortal played a trick to scare the snake." Shen Feihuan sneered: "People who do bad things are starting to panic."