Shen Yan followed Li Chengqi all the way, got out of Jingyuan Temple, walked for a long time, crossed a bridge, and finally came to an abandoned grass house. She found www.biquge.info a withered willow next to the cottage, and under this withered willow, there was a chessboard lying quietly.

Shen Yan suddenly remembered that the bridge she passed in front of her was called "Lukou Bridge". She looked closely at the trunk of the willow tree and the chessboard, and on top of it, she clearly saw the shape of the figure ten. The bridge, the willow tree, the chessboard, and the back of Master Yuanzhi all have the shape of a "ten". This place is exactly the place where Empress Duanjing hints.

It was here that Li Chengqi told Shen Yan a story related to the second prince and Empress Duanjing during their lifetimes.

It turned out that the grass house in front of Shen Yan was where Master Yuan Zhi lived in his early years. Twenty-one years ago, Empress Duanjing went to Jingyuan Temple to pray for blessings with her second prince who was more than seven months pregnant, and was assassinated. Empress Duanjing was separated from the guards and hid here, but it was Master Yuan Zhi who blocked two knives for her with his back, desperately saved her, and also saved the unborn second prince in her womb. He took her with him, hid everywhere, and stayed in the woods for two days and two nights. Empress Duanjing was born prematurely because she was frightened, and he was the one who gave birth.

Later, Empress Duanjing returned to the palace with the second prince who was born, and let the second prince worship him as his father-in-law. He has always guarded the second prince, watched the second prince grow up, taught him martial arts and poetry books, and treated him like his own son.

Li Chengqi said: "In the heart of the second prince, Master Yuan Zhi is closer than his father. But just seven years ago, someone in the palace maliciously spread the rumor that the second prince was the son of his fornication with Empress Duanjing. In order to prove his innocence, and in order to protect the name of Empress Duanjing and the life of the second prince, he abandoned the lord from the palace in front of the current emperor and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and voluntarily cut out his family, and never saw the Empress Duanjing and the second prince again. ”

After listening to Yuan Zhen's story, Shen Yan also had a lot of admiration for him. However, she wondered how Lee Seung-ki could have known so many things as clearly as if he had experienced them firsthand. Does Huo Qing's statement make him empathize? However, he couldn't hold back his tears for Yuan Zhen's death......

"All of this was done by Empress Minjia and the crown prince." Speaking of this, Li Chengqi almost gritted his teeth with hatred.

"Is it the current queen and the crown prince who made Master Yuan Zhi kill this time?" Shen Yan asked.

"Who else but them?" Li Chengqi couldn't be more sure.

"But when we came to find Master Yuanzhi, the queen and the crown prince killed him, and sent some people to assassinate us. It's clear that they don't want us to meet with Master Yuanzhen. Shen Yan sorted out the context of the whole thing, and asked Li Chengqi: "These are all related to the earth-shattering secret you said, right?" ”

Li Chengqi tapped his chin.

Shen Yan knew that if she broke the casserole and asked in the end, what would be involved in the end would be that shocking secret, so after understanding these reasons, she didn't continue to ask, but said: "Queen Duanjing used ** to lure us to Master Yuanzhi, and now that Master Yuanzhi is dead, what should we do?" ”

"As soon as Master Yuan Zhi dies, everything will be in vain." Li Chengqi regretted it, and quickly made up his mind: "Go back to Ning'an City." ”

"Will the queen and the prince's people continue to hunt us down? When we go back to Ning'an City, will it affect my father? Shen Yan was very worried about this.

Li Chengqi was silent, he knew that he knew the big secret, and he was not sure whether the queen and the crown prince would kill people.

"If you want to trouble my father, I won't allow you to go back." Shen Yan's attitude was very resolute, and she also complained: "It's all up to you for such a thing to happen!" Okay, what are you going to do with Huo Guard? It's just a matter of contacting Huo Guard, how can you stir up some earth-shattering secrets to provoke people to chase and kill? ”

"If it weren't for Ling Zun leaking the news, how would we have fallen into such a mess, and how could Master Yuan Shu be killed?" Li Chengqi was accused of being in a hurry, and he couldn't help but bite back.

"My father came to the capital to get the brocade box given by Queen Duanjing, and you didn't instigate it?" Shen Yan would never let Li Chengqi attribute Master Yuanzhi's death to his father, "In the final analysis, you caused all this. Master Yuanzhen, as well as the lives of the sixteen monks of Jingyuan Temple, are all ......"

Seeing Li Chengqi's resentful and gloomy expression, Shen Yan suddenly felt a little ruthless in attributing more than ten lives to his responsibility, so she unconsciously stopped.

"I won't let this matter implicate Ling Zun." Li Chengqi said in a deep voice, and strode in the direction of Jingyuan Temple.

Shen Yan followed closely. She didn't know what he was going to do, but she was so inexplicably convinced that he could do it.

Back at Jingyuan Temple, Li Chengqi wrote a letter and asked Huo Qing to find a way to hand it over to the prince who lived in the Jingyang Hall of the Imperial Palace. When Huo Qing returned from sending the letter, he was about to leave for Ning'an Hou's Mansion.

"What did you write to the prince?" Shen Yan kept asking.

"Invite him to Ning'an City to play." Li Chengqi was so entangled by her that he finally told her the contents of his letter.

"Why did you invite the prince to Ning'an City to play?" Shen Yan asked.

"I have my own arrangements, you don't have to ask." Li Chengqi said coldly. Since arguing a few words at Master Yuan Zhen's former residence, he has always been so indifferent to Shen Yan. Of course, he couldn't be happy, not only because of the quarrel with Shen Yan, but also because of the killing of Jingyuan Temple by Empress Minjia and the crown prince, but also because of the calamity he was going to face next.

They successfully left the capital and entered the territory of Ning'an City. Along the way, there were no eagle dogs of the imperial court, and there were no assassinations, just like Li Chengqi's letter to the crown prince, which played a great role. However, when they walked to the roadside teahouse on the boundary of Ning'an City, the morning when they were invited to rest by the proprietress at the door, the accident still happened.

Just when the proprietress was full of enthusiasm and personally brought tea to the three of them, saying that this tea was the best tea in their shop, an old man sitting next to him suddenly got up and shouted, "The tea is poisonous!" ”。

Hearing this, the proprietress suddenly changed color, and her hands holding the teapot began to tremble, and finally the teapot fell to the ground and shattered. Looking at the ground that was burned little by little by the poisonous tea, she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "It's not me, it's me!" I didn't poison ......"

Huo Qing took out his sword and pointed it at her throat, "Why poison?" ”

"Not me...... It's not me. The proprietress was frightened by the sword glowing with cold light, and she didn't dare to come out.

"Who told you to do that?" Li Chengqi said sternly, "You confess honestly, I can spare you from dying." ”

"Yes...... It's a man wearing a mask, he doesn't speak yin or yang, he looks like a man, and he feels like a woman when he hears the voice, and I don't know who he is......"