Death Princess

"Shuangxue may have said that this is the antidote given by Sect Master Jiang, but please don't forget that in Xueming Valley, the difference between poison and cure is only a thin line. Similarly, the medicine has passed Xueming Gu Zhishou, the dark pavilion has nothing to do with it, so I hope that Miss Leng will not have any inappropriate thoughts. Whether this medicine is poison or cure, it is all up to you." Zhao Lu smiled, pointing to the medicine box, "please."

The harmless smile in the eyes of people and animals in the past, at this moment, it seems that people can't relieve the hatred in their hearts even if they are hacked into pieces.

Slowly picking up the pill box, gently opening it, Leng Tong swallowed the pill expressionlessly.Putting down the medicine box, drinking the tea in the cup in one gulp, Leng Tong picked up the two knives, clasped his fists, and said with a salute: "Thank you, Young Sect Master, for treating me with good tea, Leng Tong bid farewell."

"Walk slowly." Before the figure of Leng Tong disappeared at the door of the study, the corners of Zhao Lu's mouth were still curled up, but after the figure disappeared completely, the mist in his eyes completely swallowed up the smile at the corners of his mouth.

"Lu'er," a bird landed on Chao Lu's shoulder, "Is it really appropriate to do this?"

"What if it's not suitable, so what if it's suitable? Is it possible that I still have to tell her that she is a princess, and then let Jianzong kneel down and worship her every day? Besides, even if I tell her everything, will she believe it? According to her temperament, once she has any doubts in her heart, she will definitely try her best to investigate, and she will inevitably attract the attention of others. At that time, her royal life will be lost." Zhao Lu sighed and sat back. Going to the small case, I poured myself a drink, "Besides, His Majesty's attitude towards this flesh and blood is still unclear."

"That's right," Bird nodded, "If His Majesty's attitude is unclear, Princess Six Fingers will not be able to appear for a day. After all, the only thing that Princess Six Fingers is useful to us is her identity and evidence of her past existence. It has nothing to do with me. Besides, people like her might not be used to life in the palace, so it's better not to know her identity, just hand over the things."

"But no matter what, it's just in case." Zhao Lu sighed again, "Before everything becomes a foregone conclusion, give her a suitable identity and make her ready."

"That's why you let her take the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance? Help her wash away the dark experience left by the dark pavilion, and help her build her own power and status. In this way, even if she really lives in the palace, she will not have to worry about it." There will be too many worries." The bird jumped onto the table, "Zhazaza, look at Luer, you are thoughtful. When Yier and I came to Beijing for my brother, I didn't see you so active."

Zhao Lu rolled her eyes, took another sip of tea, and said, "Speaking of Yi'er, how is she recently?"

"Princess Changping, who is the only one who has won the favor, how can she have a bad life? Your Majesty has started to let her read the memorial in private. Heh, if the crown prince and King Heping know about it, you are not sure how angry you will be." Bird calmed himself down "Look at your majesty's posture, do you regard Yi'er as your own daughter?"

"As your own daughter?" Zhao Lu stopped drinking tea, looked at the reflection in the teacup, and said quietly, "He was just out of guilt and helplessness."

The bird didn't answer, but jumped up suddenly, "You care so much about Leng Tong and Yi'er, why don't you see Xiao Luer, you care about my brother who has penetrated into the enemy's hole?"

"You asked for it." Just as she was about to continue teasing, Zhao Lu changed her mind as if thinking of something, "By the way, your relationship with Yi'er..."

"Don't worry, no one knows. Compared with me," the bird jumped onto Chaolu's hand holding the teacup, staring at Chaolu with black eyes unblinking, "you are more dangerous. That cold pupil You treated yourself as a ruthless knife, so you treated her like a knife, but..."

"I know it myself." Before Qin Hui's incarnate bird could finish speaking, Zhao Lu flicked the bird away with a one-finger Zen, "I'm not stupid enough to arm the enemy, she No matter what happens in the future, I will not let her threaten you and Yi'er in the slightest."

"You know I'm not referring to this..." Niao'er hesitated to speak, "Hey, just to remind you, Lu'er, be very careful, don't hurt your hand with your own sword. "Before flying away, I left such a sentence.

The bird left, and only Chaolu was left in the study. Looking at the empty teacup, she muttered to herself in a daze: "Whoever practices martial arts, who knows that the one who hurts you the most is often the one who hurts you the most. The weapon in hand."

Looking at the empty medicine box on the table with a wry smile, Zhao Lu shook her head and stood up.

"Ah Lu," at this moment, Wen Yihai knocked on the door and walked in, "Are you looking for me?"

"Well, I have to trouble my brother with a few things."

"My brothers and sisters, if there is any trouble, just say it."

"Senior brother, can you help me to keep an eye on the movement of the Shadow Gate, and take a look at what kind of handle Ange is holding in her hands? She suddenly decided to return to the Ange after she went out to pick up Jing Yu that day. It must be the Ange What threatening news was left on the way." Zhao Lu touched the medicine box, "Also, if possible, help me to find out how Leng Tong entered the dark pavilion back then, and how he was with the previous Pavilion Master Ou. A relationship."

"Okay, don't worry."

Wen Yihai left, and only Zhao Lu was left in the study.

. . .

Dong dong dong, when Leng Tong was upset, someone knocked on the door.

"Miss Leng," said a strange man's voice, "Come to Bofan in Xiaxueming Valley, and come to take the girl's pulse at the order of the young master."

Xueming Valley?Pulse?

Leng Tong's eyebrows furrowed together.

But after a while, she slightly raised the corners of her pale mouth, and replied, "Come in."

Chao Bofan walked into the room and closed the door, gave Lengtong a slight salute, and without waiting for Lengtong to speak, he carried the medicine box and sat on the seat opposite her, posing for a pulse diagnosis, so that Lengtong had to stretch out his hand to cooperate.

"Offended." Chao Bofan picked up the corner of his sleeve, and put two fingers on Leng Tong's wrist without hesitation.

The room became quiet, Leng Tong propped his chin with one hand and faced out the window, but he looked carefully at Chao Bofan from the corner of his eye.It's a pity that she didn't see anything from the frozen expression of the other party. She couldn't see the purpose of his trip, nor could she see the result of the pulse diagnosis.

"Did Zhaolu send you here?" Without warning, Leng Tong asked such a sentence.

Perhaps it was because of his focus on his pulse, Chao Bofan raised his eyebrows inexplicably after being dull for a long time, "What does Miss Leng say? Chao Lu? The young lord of Jianzong Chao Lu? I am a person from Xueming Valley , how can you listen to the orders of Jianzong?"

"No?" Leng Tong's tone was very light.

"I don't understand what the girl means."

"Your surname is Chao."

"My surname is Chao?" Chao Bofan withdrew his hand, frowned as if he had thought for a long time before revealing an expression of enlightenment, and said, "Young lady thinks that my surname is Chao, so she has a close relationship with the Young Master of the Sword Sect with the same surname. ?”

"Is not it?"

"Young lady's words are ridiculous. I heard that the magistrate's mother's surname is Leng. According to the girl's logic," Chao Bofan put away the medicine box and stood up, "Doesn't that mean that you and the magistrate are also The relationship is very close?" With a slight smile, he clasped his fists together, and without waiting for Leng Tong to answer, he left a "farewell" before turning around and leaving the room.

Has a close relationship with the county magistrate?When did the magistrate of Lingzhou lose his mother's surname?

Ah.Looking at the back of Chao Bofan who disappeared, Lengtong snorted from his nose.

It is true that things of a kind flock together and people are divided into groups, and Chaolu, who is full of nonsense, is surrounded by people who are full of nonsense.

morning dew...

Thinking of this name, Leng Tong's brows, which hadn't had time to relax for a long time, frowned again.

She really intended to make herself the lord of the line and manipulate the martial arts secretly?Leng Tong walked up to the pair of new knives, she gently stroked the handle of the knives, carefully recalling the previous conversation with Zhao Lu.

How many of Zhao Lu's words are true and how many are false?Her purpose, really, and only to be the leader of the martial arts?Then why did she spend so long disguising her identity and telling her own words?Then why did he take himself to the slaughtered hometown?These, but a coincidence?What she did in front of A Niang's tomb at that time was just acting?

But... If there is really something in him that Zhao Lu wants, what is that thing?I am just an insignificant assassin, a precarious killer, what can I have?

Leng Tong touched the pattern of the scabbard with one hand, but touched the single-bone whistle hanging around his neck with the other.

She thought of some past events that she had been avoiding all along, her first mission, the first person who should have been killed but was not killed.At that time, after she returned to the dark pavilion with a worried heart, everything was indeed as she expected, and no one realized the existence of the fish that slipped through the net.

Like that, Leng Tong carefully hid that secret without even knowing the real identity of the target, until her hands were covered with blood, until she turned into a dark cabinet, until... three years ago.

She couldn't remember exactly what happened three years ago.She only remembered that at that time, it seemed that when King Ping was in charge of investigating the case of the massacre of the whole houses of King Jing and King Ji a few years ago, he found Princess Changping who escaped to death by chance.When this news reached Ange, Leng Tong had an ominous premonition.Sure enough, within a few days, the father of the Ou family, who was still the master of the dark pavilion at that time, urgently summoned Leng Tong.

Leng Tong didn't remember what the master said or asked, she only remembered that she admitted to letting the assassination target go without permission.She remembered that after she had confessed everything, she remained silent like a stubborn cow and concentrated on waiting for her death, but the master just cut off her two sixth fingers and put her in a dungeon.

Also imprisoned in the dungeon was Master's daughter Ou Xuemu.The reason is that she sheltered Leng Tong and interceded for Leng Tong.

Ten fingers connected to the heart, even if the "excess" six fingers are lost, the pain is unbearable for ordinary people.Leng Tong didn't scream or cry, but she fainted from the pain. She just spent the time in the dungeon in a daze without eating or drinking. In the extremely important few days, at the same time, she also avoided some bad luck that had already quietly approached her.

She remembered that in a daze, the voices of Master, Xuemu, and a strange woman appeared intermittently in her ears, and their tones were full of anger and anxiety; she also remembered that the strange woman seemed to be in her She asked something in her ear, but before she could hear the content of the question clearly, she fell into a coma again.

When Leng Tong woke up, she found that the belongings of A Niang that she carried with her were gone. It was a scarlet jade pendant, but now, it was replaced with a pair of bone whistles. The six-fingered bone whistle that was cut off.

What changed after waking up was not only Leng Tong, but also the Ou Shi siblings, Ange and even the entire Shadow Gate.The Ou Pavilion master of the dark pavilion was assassinated by someone in the study room, and the Ou family siblings became helpless orphans from the jewels of the dark pavilion.As for the bone erosion among the three masters, he didn't know what tricks he used to directly surpass everyone in the pavilion and become the new pavilion master.At the same time, the old head of the Shadow Sect passed on the position of head of the door for no reason to Jiang Tang, an adopted son whom he had never heard of before.

Since then, the Dark Pavilion, which was originally a ruthless place, has lost even the last trace of fellowship.

Later, Leng Tong realized that the master's death was inextricably related to Wu Mian, and the reason why the master sent herself and Xue Mu to the dungeon was not as pure as it appeared.Later, she found out that the strange woman had enmity with her master, but for some reason she was entrusted by her master to take the Ou family and brother out of the secret pavilion, but the Ou family brother refused.

It wasn't until today that Leng Tong realized belatedly that the strange woman might have a great relationship with the thing on her body that Zhao Lu had been staring at.

Jade pendant, could it be that jade pendant?A Niang never left her body during her lifetime, but she never let outsiders see her. What rare and precious thing is that bloody jade pendant?

. . .

After Chao Bofan left Lengtong's room, he went directly to the gazebo in the back garden.

"How? Has her poison been cured?" Han Shuangxue raised her head from the chessboard.

"The toxin is exhausted, and there will be no serious problem after a few more days of cultivation." Chao Bofan replied.

"That's good, it seems that Yingmen's name as a businessman really isn't covered." The person who answered was Chaolu holding Bai Zi, "By the way, have you found out anything about Aunt Jingyu? "

"We found a village." Chao Bofan said, and put a note on the case.

Zhao Lu picked up the booklet and flipped through it for a while, then said, "Well, I see, I'll find some time to check it out by myself. Thank you for your hard work, go and rest."

"En." After a salute, Chao Bofan left.

"The surname is Leng..."

"I'll drink the medicine, isn't it okay to take the medicine?" Zhao Lu interrupted Han Shuangxue's words. She held her breath and downed the black-brown soup on the case, as if doing so could stop Han Shuangxue's mouth, "Ah What the hell is this..." It's a pity that the person who was so miserable that she couldn't speak for a long time was herself.

"Sister, you..." Han Shuangxue sighed, but didn't continue.

After all, there are some things that everyone knows well, and it makes no difference whether to say it or not.

Let's just hope things don't go in the worst direction.