That night, two mysterious people took advantage of the dark wind to sneak to the mass grave, which was pitch black, and from time to time there was a small movement on the ground, and these rats had begun to come out to forage for food while it was dark.

There are no corpses around, and there are corpses here, and there is nowhere to put them, unclaimed corpses.

"There have been a lot of female corpses in the past few days, and I don't know what's going on. A few guards carefully carried the corpse.

The two guards walked past the shoulder-high weeds, step by step towards the pit, taking a step, occasionally startling the wild birds that landed in the grass, and finally "quacking" and flying into the distance. At the bottom, it was dark so I couldn't see it clearly, and it seemed to be a crow.

The two guards were terrified, and one of them whispered, "It's all your fault, what kind of wine are you drinking! If we hadn't overslept, we would have come out at this time." ”

"Why don't we throw this body here! One of the guards shivered with fright, and there was a burst of cold air around him, and from time to time there was a putrid smell.

"Makes sense!"

The two of them made such a choice, so they gently put down the corpse and left quickly, if it was cold during the day, not to mention that it was still night, the moonlight tonight was not very bright, under this meager moonlight, the mass grave seemed more and more eerie and terrifying, if it was a living person, who would want to come to the mass grave to walk on it.

After the two guards left, Mu Ling poked her head out from behind the rock, and the two of them came to the corpse.

Bai Ye lifted the white veil, and a faceless female corpse appeared.

Mu Ling looked at such a corpse, and looked at the mole, "Little mute, this is that sister's." ”

The woman's face was ulcerated and was now even beginning to spread to other parts of her body.

"What the hell is going on? What did she die of?"

Bai Ye observed carefully, it was obvious that this was a poison, it could be said to be a liquid poison, this palace maid had not been dead for a long time, and now there were traces of ulceration all over her body, which meant that the toxicity of this poison was very powerful, and it could even make a corpse turn into nothingness in a short time.

"I think I died of some kind of poison. This poison is not an ordinary poison, it can be said to be a rare, artificially refined poison, and this poison is more poisonous than you know. ”

"Poison? but..."Mu Ling looked at the unrecognizable face, and her wide eyes showed that she was particularly frightened at that time, as if she had seen something very terrifying.

"Little mute, look, this corpse has not been attacked or strangled except for its face, and if it is only poisoned, then there should be a residual poison in the throat! ”

Bai Ye casually took out a knife from his sleeve, and Mu Ling was a little surprised, "I didn't expect you to use this to defend yourself, little dumb." ”

Bai Ye ignored Mu Ling, but slashed the throat of the corpse with a knife, everything was normal here, there was no sign of festering, not even swallowing, which meant that this corpse had not entered half a drop of water before it died.

"What's going on? It can't be that this poison is directly on her face, right? Is it that she was killed alive?"

Bai Ye gently touched the festering place of the palace maid with his hand, and then a trace of green smoke came out of his fingers, and then Bai Ye looked at Mu Ling solemnly, "As you said, die of pain." ”

"Ah, isn't it? Who is so cruel, killing people and torturing others to death. ”

Bai Ye once again gently wiped away the rotten residue with his hands, and the green smoke was expelled from his body.

Obviously, those legends among the palace maids really existed. However, they did ignore one point, if there was anything wrong with the national teacher, Bai Ye had no evidence.

But after all, this kind of thing happened on the National Teacher Mountain, so even if the National Teacher didn't know who the murderer who hurt these palace maids was, he should also know to be vigilant.

But he didn't do all the security measures, which makes people have to doubt.

And the poison planted by this woman is demon poison, and if this poison is not visible to humans, humans will mistakenly think that it is just an ordinary poison. And they have no idea that this is the so-called demon poison.

"Let's look for other bodies of the same kind, and compare the two to see if we can find some clues. ”

Mu Ling was a little frightened when she looked at the shoulder-length grass here, so she subconsciously pulled Bai Ye tight.

"You're not going to tell me you... Afraid of the dark, right?"

"I..."Mu Ling timidly pulled Bai Ye tight.

"Okay, let's go together, I'll pull you, don't be afraid. Bai Ye picked up Mu Ling and walked towards the depths of the mass grave.

Through the shoulder-high weeds, Mu Ling directly froze in place, the breath of death here is very strong, and the people here are full of resentment, if they don't obey the arrangement when they go to the underworld after death, then they will become evil ghosts in the world.

The ghost clan, they live around the underworld, some people are unwilling to reincarnate, so there is the establishment of the ghost clan, these ghost clans are the fighters in the elite, they are full of resentment, and they have nowhere to go after completing their long-cherished wishes, so they stay in the ghost world.

Mu Ling didn't dare to tell Bai Ye what she was seeing now, Mu Ling thought that Bai Ye was a human, so she thought that he couldn't see these breaths, and if she rashly told him now, it would definitely cause fear.

"How do you find so many little mutes here?"

Mu Ling looked at the corpses on the mass grave, in a mess, and didn't know where to start.

"I'm looking for you, just stand aside! According to my intuition and judgment, these are still easy to find! If you help me, you will help me make trouble, and when the time comes, I will go to you! So you just stand still and don't move. ”

Bai Ye drew a circle on the ground where Mu Ling was, and white light flashed on it.

"What is a little mute?"

"Actually, I've learned some Taoism in the human world, and I don't know if this thing can work, anyway, you just don't want to make this circle. ”

Of course, Bai Ye wouldn't tell her that it was his witchcraft.

Mu Ling's cultivation is still shallow, and he doesn't know a few spells at all, and he hasn't formally learned some serious scriptures.

For a demon as powerful as Bai Ye, he can perfectly cover his aura when casting spells, and even between equally powerful opponents, he can completely hide his aura without being discovered by the other party. What's more, it's still a Mu Ling who is still shallow in cultivation.

Bai Ye found a few corpses in three or five clicks, and the characteristics of these corpses were simply identical. It was immediately concluded that it was all the same person.

However, among so many corpses, it is really strange that the king does not attach much importance to it.

"Gone. Mu Ling squatted in the circle, and then Bai Ye called.

Mu Ling stood up and followed Bai Ye.

"Little mute, why is it so fast? What have you discovered?"

"These bodies had no other injuries, only their faces festering, and they should have died of pain. ”

Immediately after that, Bai Ye stopped his pace, and Mu Ling hit a solid back unsteadily.

"What's wrong? Why are you stopping?"

Bai Ye turned around and took Mu Ling's hand, "Let me ask you a question." ”

"What?"

"If you were the king of the Muchen Kingdom, what would you do when you encountered this kind of thing?"

Mu Ling didn't even want to say it directly, "Then do you need to say it? Just find out the murderer, otherwise I am afraid that many people will be frightened every day." ”

"You think so, why didn't the king here do it?"

Mu Ling looked at the little mute suspiciously, and finally said, "Do you suspect that this matter has anything to do with the king?"

"There is also this possibility, after all, such a major event, such a major event, makes people panic, if you don't pay attention to it, it's really a little unreasonable. ”

"Little mute, have you forgotten that it wasn't the king who managed this before?"

"The management may be only superficial, but in fact he did not insist on it, and this matter is still going on!

"Then when you think about it, does it have anything to do with the National Teacher Mountain? Or someone specifically targeted the people who went to the National Teacher Mountain, and when they came out, they ended it immediately. ”

At this time, Bai Ye asked rhetorically: "If I give you a certain amount of time, are you sure you can do it in such a conspicuous place in the palace?"

"If it is still feasible to change to the wilderness, according to what you say, then the place where it happened should be Guoshi Mountain! And the place where the body was found was not the first scene at all!"

"That's right, that's exactly what I thought! The National Teacher Mountain is so big, and it is rewarded by the king himself, and the king's jurisdiction over this matter has not been found out. When I think about it, I think there's something wrong. ”

The two analyzed in a whisper, and finally entered the palace without saying a word, and the two walked normally.

Early in the morning, Mu Ling got up early and went to the imperial dining room alone to get some food.

When she came back, the little mute was long gone, Mu Ling threw the bun she got back on the table, she wanted to bring some for the little mute, but now the others don't know where to go.

Mu Ling was bored in the room alone, so she covered the door and went out.

From time to time, a few palace maids and a few guards passed by, and they talked and laughed.

At this time, another row of brightly dressed women lined up and walked slowly. There was also a father-in-law and a grandmother standing next to him.

Mu Ling stayed for a while, and then realized that they were practicing etiquette here.

When Mu Ling thought of these teachings, she couldn't help but think of being in the palace, when Mama Xiao also changed her way to teach her these complicated etiquette, but now it has become her looking at others.

"Mama, my feet are blistered!" a girl looked at Mama pitifully.

"How many?"

"I don't know..."

"I can't stand the little bubbles, if you serve tea and pour water for the master in the future, and accidentally splash the water out and get it on your hands, won't you still have to knock over this wine glass and wine jug?"

Mama is not polite at all, after all, this is her duty, and her duty is to teach these new girls to the palace well.

When Mu Ling saw the girl on the ground, she seemed to be about to cry, so she stepped forward and asked, "May I ask what you are doing here?"

The mother looked Mu Ling up and down, and then asked, "I've never seen you." ”

"I am Master Bai Ye's acolyte. ”

As soon as Mu Ling said this, the other party already understood, "It turned out to be Master Bai Ye's waiter!

"I see that the sister next to me seems to have really swollen feet, why don't you let her rest for a while?"

"You are Lord Bai Ye's waiter, but these are the rules in our palace, you are a little waiter, I'm afraid you can't manage so many things, right?"

Mu Ling looked at Mama embarrassedly, she wanted to help this girl, but she didn't expect to plant it herself.

"Okay then..."At the same time, I can only compromise and pretend that nothing happened.

But at this time, another team came again.

is still a newly entered palace maid standing in a vertical position.

"Why is there so many palace maids now?"

"Oh, this is arranged by the king, he said that there is less beauty in the palace, this session is still less, if it weren't for the frequent bizarre events in the palace, I'm afraid everyone would rush to enter the palace. Nowadays, most of the palace maids are not afraid of death, and some are just for a little reward. ”

"This king is so interesting!" Mu Ling muttered quietly.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay! Mama, if you continue to be busy, I won't bother you. ”

As soon as Mu Ling returned to the room, Bai Ye had already started his leisurely life.

"Where did you get chess?"

"Borrowed. ”

"Can you teach me?"

Bai Ye nodded, so he pulled Mu Ling over.

Before Mu Ling could react, she was already sitting on Bai Ye's lap.

"What are you doing!" Mu Ling wanted to break free but was hugged by Bai Ye.

"Didn't you ask me to teach you how to play?"

Mu Ling looked at her left and right, and asked, "Is there anyone who plays chess like this?"

"Isn't it now?"

Mu Ling was speechless and choked, she didn't expect the little mute to be so reliant.

"Don't move, I'll teach you. Immediately afterwards, Bai Ye took out one of the white chess pieces, and then went down to a wooden board on the table.

This wooden board is carved directly into a chessboard, and all the details inside are very delicately carved.

"Look here, if I go down here, you can't go down, you have to besiege you to death. Immediately afterwards, Bai Ye took another black seed, and then landed next to Bai Zi.

"Baizi means me, Kuroko means you, you have to find a way to surround my Baizi. Got it?"

Mu Ling felt very simple, so he tried to place one, and at this time, Bai Ye also followed.

After a few minutes, the whole board was full.

"I didn't expect you to be so good at playing for the first time. ”

In fact, to be honest, Quan Gong Mu Ling was lucky, and he hesitated and entangled in some places, but in the end he was right.

In some places, she didn't know where to go at all, and she went down at will, but she didn't expect to hit the key point every step.

"What a finishing touch! Okay, okay, let's stop playing. It's just boring. ”

Mu Ling saw that she was about to win, so the little mute shouted to stop, and Mu Ling was a little unconvinced at this time.

"No, no, we continue to have a little more, a little more!"

"Alright, let's play again when we have time! ”

At this moment, Mu Ling suddenly remembered something, "By the way, the little mute just came back and saw that a new palace maid had been added to the palace!"

"What are you carrying in this little brain bag? I wonder all day long, what's wrong with adding some palace maids to the palace?"

"It's not a little dumb, you misunderstood! This decision to add palace maids was decided by the king! And the king has added a lot of palace maids in the past month! Now it can be said that very few palace maids enter the palace!"

Hearing this, Bai Ye suddenly understood something.

"It seems that the information you provided is still somewhat useful! This king of the Dust Country is indeed a little weird, and such a major matter will not be investigated without any investigation. On the contrary, palace maids were frequently added. And the dead were all inconspicuous palace maids. ”

"Little mute! You're wrong! And the concubine. ”

Mu Ling continued: "I also heard from others, at the beginning, the king's concubines were also countless, except for those in the cold palace, almost all of them have suffered misfortune. ”

"Oh? That's really funny. ”

"I heard people say that at first the king was still very concerned about this matter, but later no matter how much he investigated, he couldn't find the reason, so it became an unsolved case. Therefore, it is rumored that all women who enter the National Teacher Mountain will be cursed and will encounter misfortune. ”

This is obviously man-made, and it is not something that ordinary people can do. Bai Ye had something to say, but Mu Ling didn't understand the deep meaning at all.

"Now there is still a suspicion of the king, but it can't be openly pointed out, as for the National Teacher Mountain, I'm afraid it will start with the National Teacher. Alas, by the way, isn't there a new palace maid today?"

"What's wrong?"

Bai Ye approached Mu Ling and whispered softly in her ear.

"That's all... In this way..."

"Little mute, are you sure you want me to go?"

"Are you scared?"

"It's not... It is... Feel... Those people are horrible, I..."

"Don't be afraid, I'm here, I'll follow you closely! ”

Mu Ling looked at the little mute's determined gaze, so she nodded.