On Suzaku Street in the south of the city, under the big tree at the intersection of the street, Li Qinglian was leaning against the tree and looking at the door of the inn opposite.

Passers-by who came and went all cast strange glances when they saw him, as if they were looking at a strange person. He only yawned at this, scratched his face and continued to stare.

This kind of boring staring has been going on for more than half an hour, and this is all because of Di Renjie's request, saying that there is a wanted person in this inn.

But after so much time, the criminal didn't see it, and the guy himself was gone.

"This guy, if I hadn't been able to beat you, I would have slipped away a long time ago!" he felt annoyed.

After waiting for a while, Di Renjie finally came back, still holding two popsicles in his hands.

"Give!"

Taking the popsicle, he looked at the other party with a confused expression, "It took nearly an hour, and you bought this?"

"Ahh

"Ah, are you embarrassed to be so calm?" Looking at the other party's look of course, Li Qinglian really wanted to stab the other party to death with the popsicle in her hand. But knowing that he has no strength at all now, he finally chose to hold back.

He took the popsicle and tasted it, the cold feeling filled his whole brain, and the fatigue disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"How are you looking, is there any problem?" Di Renjie kept moving the popsicle in and out of his mouth.

"No, I didn't even see the rat-headed guy you said, but a few of your people went in!"

"My people? no, most of them went on a mission, a few of them took sick leave, there are not many people in Dali Temple today, otherwise I wouldn't have nothing to do and come out to squat by myself." Di Renjie wondered.

"Then I don't know, maybe I'm dazzled!" Li Qinglian shrugged her shoulders and said.

I saw Di Renjie ponder for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, if it's really what you said, I think there's a problem." ”

"What's the problem?"

"You see, this matter was originally Cheng Yaoxue's task. In the morning, in order to escape, I took the initiative to ask to complete this task, and it is just that several young masters in Dali Temple have official business today, and the only few shadow guards who are idle are also sick at the same time, don't you think all this is too coincidental?"

Li Qinglian thought for a moment and nodded approvingly, "According to what you say, do you suspect that there is something wrong with those shadow guards?"

"I'm not sure, but I can't wait any longer, I'd better go in and have a look!"

As he spoke, Di Renjie walked to the side of the inn, and Li Qinglian followed closely behind.

In one of the inn's rooms, four men were eating and drinking. Suddenly, the door was kicked open, and a young man rushed in.

"What people!"

Seeing the man rushing in, the faces of the four shadow guards changed suddenly. Just then, a figure pounced on him from behind, grabbed him, and stabbed a needle into the other's neck.

"Haha, I've finally been caught!"

It was none other than Cheng Yaoxue, the master behind all this. She was hid by Di Renjie for ten days in a row, but she had no choice but to set such a trap, so that Di Renjie, who was already cautious, fell into the net.

For this reason, she did not hesitate to find four shadow guards as group performers, in order to make Di Renjie completely believe that this inn is not simple. And the moment he came in to see the Shadow Guard, it was just when he let his guard down after confirming his suspicions, so that she could catch him.

It's a pity that she still missed a step.

Looking at Cheng Yaoxue, who was laughing triumphantly, the four shadow guards all reminded with an embarrassed face: "Wrong Cheng Shaoqing, he is not Master Di!"

"Not Di Renjie?"

Hearing this, she quickly turned the person in her arms to look at it, and her face changed in an instant. This is Di Renjie, but Li Qinglian who is wearing the other party's clothes.

"How could it be him!, what about Di Renjie?"

"Master Di is there!"

Just as she was wondering, suddenly a shadow guard pointed out the window and shouted, and then heard the hurried footsteps after something was knocked down.

"I still want to run! There is no door!" Cheng Yaoxue chased him out directly.

Poor Li Qinglian, who was in a coma, was thrown by her at will and fell heavily on the cold and solid ground. Seeing these four shadow guards looking at each other, they were all confused.

"I heard that Zhaoyue is coming back!"

In the palace, the empress was sitting around a table playing chess with a gray-haired old man, while the female official Shangguan Wan'er was watching from the side.

The chess game was in a fierce competition, and Shangguan Wan'er on the side was very nervous, but the two chess players were particularly calm.

The empress was dressed in red, with her hands on her head and a lazy look, her fingers were dotted again and again on the table made of cold jade, and she didn't care about the chess game. As the dean of Chang'an College, Dean Hua always looked at the chessboard with a warm smile and never got distracted to look elsewhere.

On the surface, it seems to be peaceful, but only Shangguan Wan'er, a personal female official, understands the complexity. The empress doesn't care about winning or losing on the surface, but if she really loses, she won't necessarily be happy.

As the No. 1 chess player in Chang'an, Hua Wuqian naturally will not lose to the empress as a junior. But as a courtier, he can't win the empress, and he can't release the water, otherwise it will be humiliating for the empress. So what he had to do was to drag the game out for a long time and be able to reach a draw without being exposed.

Listening to the empress's inquiry, Hua Wujian put a chess piece on the board, and nodded back, "Yes! Princess Zhaoyue came back this time to see Your Majesty, and secondly, to catch ghosts and competitions." ”

"Can she be willing to come back to see me?" the empress snorted coldly, and then asked in a puzzled tone: "But then again, what does this ghost hunting contest have to do with her? Didn't Jixia already send that person named Li Xin over, and what do you want her to do as a ten-year old student...... Huh, a draw!"

As she was talking, she dropped a chess piece, and then she realized that before she knew it, the game had become a draw.

Shangguan Wan'er on the side couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, every time she watched the empress play chess with Dean Hua, she was the most worried, because she didn't know when the empress would get angry. But what she admires is that Dean Hua will always play the must-win chess game into a draw, and it is done by the empress herself.

Looking at the chess game that had been drawn, the empress didn't speak, but the frequency of her fingers on the table slowed down, just like her heart at the moment.

Hua Wujian stroked his beard and smiled, his hand slapped on the table seconds, and in an instant, the white chess pieces on the chessboard disappeared, leaving only the black chess pieces to form two words - Li Bai!

In the inn, Li Qinglian, who was in a coma, smelled a strong smell of blood.

When he opened his eyes, he found that he was lying in a pool of blood at this moment, and there were four bloody corpses lying beside him, and the people who watched him shuddered.