Mao Tuan always wants to attack me

Bai Shuyu and Nightingale, who received the lantern, looked at each other with doubts in their eyes.

"Why did you give me trumpet lanterns?"

"Uh, this, because I want to find a delicate white flower to match the emperor."

Bai Shuyu frowned, "You mean, I look like... a morning glory?"

Xiao Yuntian scratched his hair, "I was lingering on the street outside for too long just now, and the other kinds of white lanterns in the store are all sold out. In fact, in my opinion, the emperor's temperament is probably most like lily of the valley or apricot blossom , Elegant and delicate."

After he finished speaking, Nightingale asked again: "Excuse me, Mr. Xiao, why did you give the Nanding pigeon a lantern?"

"Ah... do you call this bird Nanding Pigeon? Cough, the reason is very simple, because the name of the Chief Wei is Nightingale. Nightingale is a kind of bird, and its body is relatively small, not as big as Dapeng. Birds. The only bird lanterns left in this shop are pigeons.”

After hearing his words, for some reason, Nightingale, who had been expressionless, blushed miraculously.

Xiao Yuntian was taken aback, he must have said something bad unintentionally, right?Seeing Nightingale staying in the same place sullenly, he could only cough dryly twice, and said to Bai Shuyu: "It's getting late, let's hurry up and set off the lanterns!"

Xiao Yuntian dragged the emperor and hurried out of the shop.Nightingale stood there for a while, looked down at the small and cute Nanding Pigeon Lantern in her hand, and walked out slowly.

There are two kinds of lanterns in Mucheng.One is called "swimming lamp", which is used to put it into the river.The surface of this kind of lantern is coated with special materials, which will attract fish under the water to come to chase, thus gradually pushing the lantern to the distance during the chasing process.The process of putting the lanterns in this way is like watching the lanterns "swimming" in the water by themselves.The other is called "flying lantern", as the name suggests, is to light the inner core of the lantern and then release it into the sky.

The trumpet lantern Xiao Yuntian held in his hand belonged to the flying lantern.

"There is a small note in it, it seems that you can write on it."

"Yes. Lanterns are used to pray for blessings, and paper slips are used to write down prayer wishes."

There is a short pen tip attached to the lantern.Xiao Yuntian handed it to Bai Shuyu.

"Hmm...? Don't you write?"

"Haha, I have my own way."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yuntian silently activated his spiritual power, and tried his best to summon the strange beasts nearby.Not long after, the water in the Mu River was churning, fishes of all sizes jumped out of the water one after another, and then fell back into the water.

Xiao Yuntian stayed on the shore to observe for a while, and finally, he selected a big blue fish more than one meter long.There is a bright "lamp" on the head of this big fish, and it is mixed in a piece of lanterns in the evening river, which looks enough to be fake.

"How about it, Your Majesty, isn't this 'Flower Lantern' special?"

Bai Shuyu looked at the big fish summoned by Xiao Yuntian's beast-controlling power, and couldn't help laughing: "This is a blue fish with lanterns. It usually lives at the bottom of the river, but it likes light very much. It is probably the fish floating on the river. The light of the lanterns attracted it, so it floated to the surface to watch the excitement."

"Big fish also like to be lively. Come on, just in time." Xiao Yuntian knelt down and called the lantern blue fish to the shore.

After the colorful lantern blue fish stopped on the shore, Xiao Yuntian patted the big lantern on top of the fish lightly, opened his palm, and sprinkled the small pieces of powder broken off from the small sugar cake into the water.The big fish wagged its tail excitedly, looking for the crumbs of the sugar cake in the water to eat, splashing out a small splash.

After feeding the half of the sugar cake in his hand to the lantern blue fish to eat, Xiao Yuntian took out another sugar cake and asked for a pen.

"Xiao Yuntian, why did you write on the sugar cake?"

"Ha...before setting off the lantern, of course you have to write the words of prayer." After writing on the sugar cake, Xiao Yuntian once again greeted Lanyu with the lantern, "Brother Yu, come and do me a favor!"

The big fish swam over happily.Opening his mouth wide, he ate the whole little sugar cake in one gulp.

"That's good." Xiao Yuntian turned to the side with a smile, and asked Bai Shuyu, "Your Majesty, what do you think of this 'lantern'?"

Bai Shuyu understood his intentions, and said with a smile, "You, you have a lot of cleverness in your head." Seeing Xiao Yuntian gently push on the back of the Lantern Blue Fish, the big fish swayed hugely. body, and swam toward the center of the river.

Xiao Yuntian smacked his lips and stood up from the ground.He watched the distinctive blue light gradually go away, mixed with other lanterns, and merged into a lively light and shadow.

"The big fish ate my sugar cake, so please take my wish away!"

Bai Shuyu looked at the boy's profile from behind.Xiao Yuntian's eyes looking forward are always full of vigor and hope, maybe this is the temperament that matches his early twenties.Compared with himself who was careful and scheming all day long, Xiao Yuntian lived a more free and easy life.

"Hey, Your Majesty, what are you doing in a daze?"

Just as he was thinking, the boy turned around and looked at him, pointing to the trumpet lantern in his hand, "Your Majesty, have you finished writing your note?"

The words of blessing are written on a slip of delicate paper with a gold border.Bai Shuyu rolled the small paper strip into a small roll and placed it inside the opening in the shape of a petunia flower.

There is no source of ignition.Bai Shuyu flicked two fingers, and a small flame ignited from his fingertips, igniting the inner core of the lantern.

The fully burning inner core illuminates the trumpet flower lamp brightly, blooming with eye-catching colors.It rose slowly from the ground, took advantage of the strong wind blowing in the air, and floated away into the distance.In the night sky, large and small shining lanterns fly in the wind, embellishing the dark curtain with brilliance.

Watching the fading trumpet lanterns, Bai Shuyu put his hands together, closed his eyes, and stood silently by the river, silently chanting.Xiao Yuntian waited quietly.After a long time, Bai Shuyu opened his eyes.

"The emperor prays for so many wishes." Xiao Yuntian joked, "Didn't the emperor pray for all the people in the Bai Kingdom?"

"That's natural." Bai Shuyu said lightly, "As the king of a country, of course he should treat all the people in the world as his relatives and friends. The land under my feet, and my people on the land , is the responsibility I have been given in my life."

Xiao Yuntian finally noticed the reason why Bai Shuyu seldom smiled, it was not because he was really aloof or boring, but because he was always carrying too heavy a burden, which made it rare for him to have a relaxed look.The atmosphere became a little heavy.

Seeing Xiao Yuntian looking at him, Bai Shuyu said calmly, "It is the responsibility of the monarch to pray for good weather and peace of the country and the people. Not only is this true for me, but also the monarchs of neighboring countries, and the monarchs of the previous generations of Bai's ancestors. Enjoying the supreme power, of course, must bear the heaviest burden."

"If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight... Ha, it really fits the occasion." Xiao Yuntian happened to think of this old saying, "The emperor cares about the common people, has he forgotten himself?"

A trace of surprise flashed in Bai Shuyu's eyes, "You just..."

"Since the emperor prays for the people of the Bai Kingdom with the amount of a monarch, then it is up to me to pray for the emperor." Xiao Yuntian grinned, "The words of prayer have been eaten by the lantern blue fish. Now that it has entered the middle of the river...the Mu River will probably remember my heart for a long time, just like it has been flowing continuously for so many years."

"Xiao..." Bai Shuyu hesitated to speak, he suppressed the rising emotions in his heart, bit his lips tightly, and forced himself to look away.

"The Quan brothers are the ones I met five years ago."

"Uh... what?"

Bai Shuyu suddenly mentioned Quan Lin and Quan Gui, which caught Xiao Yuntian off guard.

The emperor's expression did not change. "In the past two days, they have come desperately to find me, as if they want to save something. However, in the final analysis, the so-called 'past' between me and them is not that great. Five years ago, they were my companions in the East Palace. Studying and practicing martial arts is also my only friend in the palace."

He squinted his eyes, and his gaze gradually became empty and far away.

"In the first year they entered the palace, they accompanied me in the East Palace. Apart from studying with the Taifu, they also ate and played with me. The late emperor liked pear blossoms, so he planted many pear trees in the palace courtyard. When pear blossoms are in full bloom, The queen mother took me and them to admire pear blossoms in the palace courtyard, and also ate pear flower cakes made by herself.

A few months later, when the new year came, they had to leave the East Palace and return to their hometown in Mucheng.I am very sad, because after they left, I was alone again in the palace.They made an appointment with me that when the pear blossoms were in full bloom in the second year, they would return to the East Palace and meet me again.

So, when the pear blossoms were in bloom the next year, I learned how to make pear cakes with my mother. I got up early and went to bed late every day, and made a lot of them by myself.I took the pear cake and waited under the pear tree in the palace, waiting day after day.But they didn't come back until the last pear blossom on the tree withered and fell.

... I went to ask my father and found out that Quan Lin was engaged to a daughter of a wealthy family in Mucheng.For half a month, he had been busy at home going through all the procedures of the engagement, so he stopped coming.As for Quan Gui... I don't know if he really took the agreement of that day to heart. "

Bai Shuyu was silent for a moment, "I was depressed for a long time after that, and I didn't tell anyone about it. The queen mother noticed that I was strange, and after listening to the words of the palace people around me, she did something. I made a guess and informed my father. My father thought that the Quan brothers had bullied me, so he issued an order to strictly forbid the Quan brothers to set foot in Snow City for 20 years."

He looked at Xiao Yuntian, "I know that in private, people say that I am arrogant, indifferent, and unreasonable. But when I was young, I was also cheerful, and the days when I was studying with them were the happiest time of my childhood. "

Treating people with sincerity, but not being rewarded with the same respect and love.This kind of taste is extremely tormenting for people.Especially for a person like Bai Shuyu who is used to bearing loneliness, for the few friends he has, he must treat them like treasures.But the person he cherished broke his promise, making his waiting in vain.

Xiao Yuntian suddenly remembered that when he expressed his heart to Bai Shuyu back then, Bai Shuyu didn't answer him directly, but only asked "Will you leave me" at the end... It was because he was afraid that his expectations would fail again, so Are you going to be careful next time?

He looked at Bai Shuyu with a heartache.Time will dilute the emotional wounds, but only he can heal the creases.

Xiao Yuntian doesn't know how to say false love words, nor does he have the heart to make verbal promises.Promises are just a matter of lip service, only actions can be convincing.

Thinking of this, he resolutely gently took Bai Shuyu's trembling shoulders.There was still one piece of sugar cake in his pocket, so he broke off half of the large piece and put it in Bai Shuyu's hands.

"This is orchid-tangerine-flavored, sweet and refreshing. Your Majesty, try it."

Bai Shuyu picked up the piece of sugar cake and put it in his mouth, it melted like silk, leaving an aftertaste between his lips and teeth.Xiao Yuntian looked at him, eyes crooked with a smile, and put the other half of the sugar cake in his mouth.

"Is it delicious?"

"Hmm... delicious."

"It's delicious, let's go buy it again, I'm still empty." Saying that, Xiao Yuntian was about to turn around and take the emperor back, "The lanterns are finished, and the blessings are done... Hey, almost Forgot, do we have to go back and look for Nightingale? The Chief Wei seems to have disappeared..."

"Didn't you give him a little bird lantern? He should have put it away." Bai Shuyu suppressed his emotions and came to his senses, "However, why didn't he come back until now?"

The basic duty of a shadow guard is to guard the emperor's side!Although Strictly speaking, Nightingale had already left her status as a shadow guard, it would be more appropriate to call him a personal attendant, but... what would happen if she disappeared without the emperor's request?

The two looked at each other.Xiao Yuntian slowly said: "Something must happen to Nightingale..." The two of them invariably remembered the stalker who haunted the day before yesterday—"he" was so powerful that even the emperor who was being stalked did not dare to give orders lightly. Captured, and even escaped from Nightingale.

"We have to find him back."

Xiao Yuntian was about to leave, but Bai Shuyu called him: "First contact the nearby shadow guards to see. When I travel, the shadow guards will follow me within the relative range." He activated his spiritual power to carry out Scouting, however—

"The shadow guards who followed me remained in their respective positions without changing. But... I didn't notice the slightest breath of Nightingale."

"What?!" Xiao Yuntian was startled, "The aura disappeared, did his whole body disappear, or did he already..." Something bad happened?

The sudden change made Bai Shuyu frowned, he turned around and walked in the direction of the lantern shop.Xiao Yuntian hurriedly stopped him: "Wait, Your Majesty—that tracker is so powerful that even Nightingale can be brought down without a sound, so aren't you very dangerous now, Your Majesty! If the tracker has already dealt with Nightingale, then He will immediately turn back and continue to get rid of the other shadow guards, and finally find the emperor. Since the other shadow guards are staying well, does this mean that Nightingale is currently holding that person back?" He said anxiously, "Let's leave here to save our lives before the stalker comes over!"

Bai Shuyu shook his head lightly, signaling Xiao Yuntian to calm down.He said: "Xiao Yuntian, have you ever noticed that the stalker has followed for so long, and the only two shots he made were not directly aimed at me?"

Xiao Yuntian was also taken aback.That's right, the nightingale left the emperor to find her back last night, that should have been the best time to attack the emperor. Although it was just an ambush by the emperor, judging from the results of nightingale's fight with the opponent, if the pursuer really Taking advantage of the opportunity to attack, those shadow guards in ambush might not be his opponents.

But instead of doing so, he chose to attack Nightingale.

This time, Bai Shuyu and Nightingale were close at hand, and the tracker approached Nightingale silently, but "ignored" the bigger target - was it because he was obstructed by Nightingale, or was his goal not there at all? On the emperor?

This idea is too bizarre, Xiao Yuntian has never considered such a possibility - the tracker has followed them for so long just to attack a guard?Isn't the goal of the general assassins to take down the emperor?Or is it that this tracker has no interest in Bai Shuyu at all, and he really only came here for Nightingale?

"Nightingale..." Xiao Yuntian didn't know how to speak for a while, and wanted to ask Nightingale if he had any personal grievances before?But he knew that the shadow guards were all sent to special personnel for strict training since they were young, and everything they did was for the lord.To put it bluntly, if there is a grievance, there is a debtor, and if the enemy wants to hate, it is also aimed at the master messenger. Who would hate a minion for no reason?

"But if it's purely aimed at Nightingale, then the tracker can attack before I enter the city. I don't have many followers around me, and Nightingale ranks first among the shadow guards in terms of force. If he can beat Nightingale, he can fight him." If you beat the other shadow guards, why bother chasing him all the way to Mu City before attacking him."

Bai Shuyu tossed and turned and couldn't come up with a result, so he quickly contacted the other shadow guards around.

"Nightingale has been with me for many years. He was trained in the palace since he was a child, and became the late emperor's bodyguard at the age of 12. Because of his outstanding performance, he was appointed by the late emperor to follow me at the age of 15. He has been with me almost every step of the way these years. If there is a grievance or entanglement, then I should not be able to escape the relationship."

Xiao Yuntian patted him on the shoulder: "Your Majesty, don't worry, let's quickly find Nightingale, and we will know everything after we find it."

Bai Shuyu activated his spiritual power and gave the shadow guards lurking around him an order to find someone.Some people continued to stay with the emperor to protect safety, while others scattered around to conduct a thorough search.In the short quarter of an hour that Nightingale disappeared, even if the pursuers captured him, it was impossible for him to escape far away.

After a while, the shadow guards who went out to look for people reported news one after another.

No one can be found, and the breath may have been deliberately covered up.

"Relying on the traces that are difficult to detect with human power, maybe the alien beast can find a way to find it." With this idea in mind, Xiao Yuntian tried to summon two alien beast partners.

There was the sound of pattering small steps, and the quilt lizard rushed back quickly on six legs.It stood still in front of Xiao Yuntian, erected its upper body, gestured with its two slender forelimbs, and hissed continuously.

"Your Majesty, the quilt lizard seems to have discovered something."

The quilt lizard hissed, motioning for them to follow.

Bai Shuyu said before that the scouting ability of the quilt lizard and the coiled snake is very good, a million times that of ordinary humans.This statement was well verified tonight.It led the two of them around in the streets of Mucheng, and finally stopped at a dark and deserted alley.

"Fizz!"

The quilt lizard pointed inside and screamed.

Xiao Yuntian stepped forward and saw something familiar deep in the alley.

"This is……!"

The broken things on the ground were the little bird lanterns he had held for Nightingale earlier.

The quilt lizard came forward and sniffed back and forth on the wreckage of the lantern. Then, it drew the shape of a weapon to Xiao Yuntian, and pointed to the saber carried by Bai Shuyu's waist. It meant It seems that the tool to destroy the lantern is the weapon of the knife.

Xiao Yuntian's heart tightened suddenly, he lowered his head to examine carefully, but felt even more shocking: the fragments of the lantern were scattered all over the ground, judging from the sharp scratches on it, the lantern was ruthlessly smashed by some kind of sharp weapon. Sliced, crushed, and slashed and slashed.

He looked around and saw the obvious signs of confusion from a fight in the corner.Did Nightingale break the lantern during the fight with that man?But after thinking about it, I feel that it is not quite right.It stands to reason that when a crisis arises, Nightingale will instinctively free up her hands to fight, and immediately throw away the debris in her hands and concentrate on fighting.But judging from the signs of the lantern being destroyed, it seems that someone deliberately split the lantern into pieces one by one.

Bai Shuyu also saw the clue.He is a martial arts practitioner and knows more about martial arts than Xiao Yuntian.

"This lantern was scratched with a knife, and it was damaged so badly." He said slowly, "It's as if...someone deliberately used it to vent their anger."

That's it - Bai Shuyu expressed Xiao Yuntian's guess.Looking at the traces of the destruction by the extremely fierce technique, Xiao Yuntian couldn't help but feel worried: "That man can't wait to be ashamed of the lantern that Nightingale is holding, if he really catches Nightingale, wouldn't it be..."

While speaking, the quilt lizard screamed again, and galloped forward with its slender legs.At the same time, Bai Shuyu was slightly shocked. Obviously, he also felt it.

"Nightingale's aura suddenly appeared... Sure enough, it was artificially covered up just now!"

The emperor called Xiao Yuntian to follow.But helplessly, Xiao Yuntian couldn't compare to a martial artist like Bai Shuyu, the run just now had exhausted his strength, he stood staggeringly on the spot, gasping for breath.

"Hurry up and turn back into a hairball, I will take you away!"

That's all.With a flash of light, Xiao Yuntian's figure disappeared, and the ball of hair that was originally carried by his waist fell to the ground with a puff.Bai Shuyu picked up the hairball, performed lightness kung fu, and galloped forward.

When Maotuan opened his eyes, he saw Bai Shuyu's long hair fluttering with the airflow.The emperor was leading him to jump quickly over the roof of the building just like in a martial arts TV series.

The feeling of weightlessness made him dizzy for a while, Mao Tuan hurriedly grabbed the emperor's skirt and shrunk into a ball.

"Front!"

After flying over the eaves and walls for a while, Bai Shuyu fell from the roof to the ground. Around him, several phantoms fell to the ground one after another, drawing their weapons to guard.

The two shadow guards stepped forward first, and after confirming, they said to Bai Shuyu: "Report to the emperor, there is only the chief guard here. He, he..."

The two hesitated to speak.Bai Shuyu frowned and hurried forward.I saw a figure leaning against the corner of the wall. Nightingale was sitting by the wall, looking towards them with her dark eyes.

Seeing the emperor approaching, Nightingale opened and closed his lips, but he didn't make a sound.Xiao Yuntian saw his face was pale, and he was panting lightly while sitting there. There were obvious signs of fighting on his body, the clothes on his upper body were torn, and his cheeks were stained with blood.

And the strangest thing was that Nightingale's eyes were very empty. He stared blankly at everything in front of him, and even the appearance of the emperor didn't make him have much reaction.

"His spiritual consciousness has been seriously injured." Bai Shuyu said, and gently pressed one hand on the top of Nightingale's head, transmitting the spiritual power into his body.Not long after, Nightingale's sluggish gaze finally regained some light, but she was still haggard.

He opened his mouth, but there were only four words: "He's back."

The people present looked at each other in blank dismay.Nightingale said again, "He's back." This time, there was fear in his eyes.