Chapter 42: Solving the Mystery
Entering the Pixiang Palace, everything here is the same, but a few peonies in the courtyard are listlessly hanging on their flower heads. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Those peonies were planted by Yun Yao and Bai Zhi'er together.
Bai Zhi'er pulled Yun Yao and sat in the pavilion, Xia Luo and Kuju had refreshments, and then retreated.
Bai Zhi'er took a shallow taste and said, "On that day, I invited the emperor!" β
Bai Zhi'er was referring to the matter of Shufei's steam bath. But why did it suddenly come up? Yun Yao didn't plan to say much, so let's listen to her first.
"I invited the emperor to save you, so how are you going to thank me?"
"Yun Yao is stupid, please make it clear!"
"Good! Since we can all open the skylight and say something, then I don't want to beat around the bush, Yun Yao, I want you to help me kill Concubine Shu, as long as you can do it, I can give you a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, and if you want, I can also find a way to send you out of the palace. β
Yun Yao didn't reply, she still looked at her calmly, Bai Zhi'er looked soft and weak, but Yun Yao had to guard against it, thinking that in her previous life, she was so miserable by her best friend, wasn't she partial to others, but was used?
"What? So that you can become the richest man in the imperial city or other cities overnight, and become the master, are you still not satisfied? Bai Zhi'er held Yun Yao's hand, and there was pleading in her voice.
Yun Yao looked at Bai Zhi'er's eyes as pure as water, and her heart softened.
If it weren't for the fact that she had personally experienced betrayal, Yun Yao would really be soft-hearted this time, but her grievances with Bai Yingying would be avenged by Yun Yao herself, and she would never involve others.
"Xiang Niangniang, where does Yun Yao have such ability?"
"I have a pack of medicinal powder here, you put it in her diet, just a little bit!" Bai Zhi'er pushed the powder bag to Yun Yao's side and begged: "Don't look at the fact that I helped you invite the emperor, just because I brought you into the palace and gave you a good reward, you can promise me." β
"Why do you have to kill her?" Yun Yao couldn't help but ask the question in her heart, she thought it was Bai Zhi'er testing herself, but it didn't look like a fake. Murder came out of the mouth of a teenage girl, and it was so calm that it had to make people feel a little cold.
Bai Zhi'er held Yun Yao's hand tightly, tears welled up in her eyes, she wanted to speak twice, and finally said the reason.
"If she doesn't die, then everyone in the White Mansion will be buried for her."
Yun Yao frowned, looking at her so worried, it really didn't look like a fake.
"Yun Yao, please, help me!"
"Tell why! Don't try to lie to me! Yun Yao withdrew her hands and sat down in front of Bai Zhi'er solemnly.
"Okay, I said, maybe you won't believe it, there are really monsters in this world, although I don't know what kind of demon Concubine Shu is, but I saw her bloodthirsty and murderous, and when I saw her, I cast a spell on my father." Bai Zhi'er looked at Yun Yao in disbelief, and immediately accentuated her tone, "Really, I didn't lie to you!" β
"And then?"
"Bai Yingying is not my sister, I don't have a sister like her, she was picked up by my father from the deep mountains and old forests, she was full of anger at that time, I persuaded my father to throw her away, but my father was like a treasure, and even claimed that she was the only daughter of Baifu, and I was under house arrest by my father in the back garden, for eight years. When I was released by my father, he asked me to enter the palace to compete for favor and stabilize my father's position as prime minister. β
"What does that have to do with Concubine Shu?" Yun Yao asked.
"Bai Yingying is a monster, she somehow carried a heavy responsibility a few days ago, and was beaten back to its original form, my father took it to ask someone to help treat it, because my father planned to let me enter the palace, worried that Bai Yingying's existence would become an obstacle, so she was fostered in Shen Yan's mansion, not long ago, General Abra came in to offer a beautiful woman, heroic and beautiful, Bai Yingying escaped from General Shen's mansion for some reason, and attached Kemeng's body. has become today's concubine. β
"How did you find out?" How could a little girl who has not dried up know so much, this has to make people wonder.
"I also learned about it in the steam bath that day, Bai Yingying has a birthmark on her body, just around her waist, no matter whose body she occupies, the birthmark will not be removed."
In this way, it is reasonable, that birthmark is not very obvious, if it weren't for the fact that she was soaked and dressed so thinly, Yun Yao would not have found that birthmark. However, even so, it won't kill Concubine Shu, she is the only concubine in the palace, how can she say that she will kill her, what's more, it's a demon, what can mortals do to her?
"Just a packet of medicinal powder can kill Concubine Shu?" This is too naΓ―ve, Yun Yao couldn't help but ask.
"This is not an ordinary medicinal powder, there is black dog blood in it, and cinnabar, I spent a thousand taels of silver to ask for it from the outside, but I can do that!" Bai Zhi'er swore as she wiped her tears, as if she had seen its power with her own eyes.
Yun Yao said secretly, "This little girl has been deceived and doesn't know that, if it can be so simple to kill a thousand-year-old ghost goblin, then why do you spend ten or twenty years of penance for Sanhua?" Ay! Little girl! β
"Yun Yao, can you help me?" Bai Zhi'er has never seen Yun Yao so indecisive as she is now, and she has the best way to do it on weekdays, such as the Hundred Flowers Banquet dance costume, Bai Zhi'er pinned all her hopes on Yun Yao, just waiting for her to promise herself quickly.
"I can't help you!"
"Why? Are you not satisfied with the conditions I prescribed? β
"It's not! You can only kill me, but you can't kill Concubine Shu. Xiang Niangniang, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, why should you be in a hurry? β
Bai Zhi'er didn't turn her head, she was angry and disappointed, which made her feel extremely bad, but she was well-educated, so she just said coldly: "If I can wait, why do I beg you?" β
Yun Yao got up and re-selected a cup of tea for her, and then said goodbye.
Seeing Yun Yao's figure getting smaller and smaller, Bai Zhi'er pushed all the tea cups to the ground with one arm, looked at the fragments at her feet, and said with a gloomy smile: "We'll see!" β
Yun Yao left the Pixiang Palace, found a place where no one was around, and left the palace in a retreat. Go straight to the place where Lan Qi and the others are.
"Sanhua, please help me divination, what happened when the emperor left the palace?"
Sanhua half-pinched her fingers, muttering something inaudible in her mouth, and then opened one eye and said: "The emperor secretly left the palace to secretly cooperate with Shen Yan to drive the northern barbarians out of the country!" β
This emperor's possessiveness is really not covered! He is bent on expanding his territory, but he does not care about his people's livelihood.
"But...... Yun Yao, do you know the whereabouts of the spirit beads? Sanhua then asked rhetorically.
"I know, the current Bai Yingying may be lying on the bed crying nose!" Yun Yao couldn't help but laugh as soon as she remembered that she had slapped its ass with a white pearl.
"Really?" Sanhua didn't think so, and said, "How did I calculate that Bai Yingying and Shen Yan were together?" β
"What? Bai Yingying was attached to Kemeng's body, she wanted to kill me, so I injured her with white pearls, she was indeed seriously injured that day, could it be that she was looking for Shen Yan these days behind closed doors, not healing? "I live under the same roof with Kemeng, and I am so careless.
"You forgot that she was cultivating blood arts?"
In a word, the whole room became nervous, and even Li Mo, a martial arts practitioner, felt a gust of wind on the back of his neck.
"If Bai Yingying goes to the front line, then ...... The consequences are unimaginable! Lan Qi put her hands behind her back and looked at the sky outside the door, worried about the innocent people over there.
It seems that he is going to go to the front line in person, Yun Yao picked up the little ghost and said solemnly: "I want to go to the front line!" β
"No! It's too dangerous, besides, you are a palace maid, it is a capital crime to leave the palace without permission, and you still want to appear in front of the emperor, do you want to challenge the imperial power? Lan Qi grabbed Yun Yao's arm tightly and looked at this girl who loved to mess around.
"Don't be afraid! I have a way to get myself out. Yun Yao pulled out her arm, what she decided, she would definitely do, this was her nature.
"I disagree!"
"It's too dangerous!"
"You can't go." Everyone dissuaded Yun Yao one after another. Even the little ghost tugged at Yun Yao's cuffs and pleaded.
"You really don't have to worry, I'm sure! It's Lan Qi that you and Sanhua are doing separately, how are you going? β
"Now there are only 3,000 soldiers, and the elite soldiers are less than 1,000, compared with the guards of the imperial city, it is far worse!" If you don't have money, who will easily sell your life for you, poor Lan Qi has a special identity, and there is no way to make money quickly, almost everything that can be sold has been sold, and now he is a veritable beggar prince.
"Since Bai Yingying is out of the palace, then I should go to her!" Sanhua is the most mindful of the soul beads, if she continues to be bloodthirsty like this, then the spirituality of the spirit beads will be demonized, with Bai Yingying's obsession, become a new monster, this matter is because of himself, so Sanhua recovers the spirit beads, and it is his duty to shirk it.
However, Yun Yao couldn't take Sanhua on the road with her, because she didn't want others to know about her and Brother Qiao.
"There is another matter, I originally wanted to find out the truth of the matter and tell you again, but now it seems that I should tell you and prepare early."
Yun Yao looked at Lan Qi, deliberately slowed down her speech and said, "The jade pendant that the **** Bao'er brought to you was picked up by me in the cold palace. It was dropped from a man whose face had been disfigured. β
"What do you say? That jade pendant is Lan Yu's personal belongings, even if he loses his life, he won't lose the jade pendant. "It was a family heirloom of his mother's concubine, and he had heard his father say that the jade pendant could get ancient treasures. How could it be on a disfigured man in the cold palace?
Lan Qi believed in Yun Yao, but this jade pendant was more important to Lan Yu than his life. If Lan Yu is really under house arrest in the cold palace, then who is the new emperor...... "Lan Shi?" β
"It's unlikely, the old slave understands the four princes, he just likes the elegance of books and ink, how can there be this thunder power!"
"Humph! The imperial power is above, how can it not be coveted? Li Mo sneered at each other, but there was some truth in it.
If it was Lan Yu who ascended the throne as king, and his personality would definitely get rid of his two younger brothers, then it was not impossible for Lan Shi to fight back and become the new emperor.
Lan Qi rubbed his fingers and pondered.