Chapter 136: Two Suspicions (1)
After listening to the conversation between Gong Ling and Qi Yu just now, Duan Chengcheng roughly guessed that the men who were sent to the palace at the same time as her were still alive and would be temporarily incorporated into the Shenji Battalion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It seems that it was because Jiang Xiaolou burned down the abandoned old palace by mistake, and he was afraid that the hidden underground palace would be discovered, so he had to destroy that place and find another place.
But they went to such great lengths, was it just to train a group of guards of the Divine Machine Battalion? That's too much of a fuss.
Before entering the palace, according to Qiu Chan's verification, she found that these men who were specially selected to enter the palace were not only talented and beautiful, but also innocent except for those women who entered the palace.
Other men are different, although most of them seem to be weak, they come from different ways, some are prisoners who have suffered serious crimes but have been pardoned inexplicably, some have been famous and famous in the Red Square, and some have been repeatedly bullied by the powerful......
are all from disgraceful backgrounds, no relatives, no causes, no concerns, and they have resentment in their hearts. Even if these people disappear from the world in the next moment, no one will care about them, and if these people who seem inconspicuous at first glance know how to train and use them, they can indeed get unexpected results......
After the guard Qi Yu retreated, the entire imperial study room was silent.
The palace people standing in their respective positions all bowed their heads cautiously, for fear that if they made any more moves, they would anger the king in this imperial city.
"Duan Qing, what do you think of the fire last night." Gong Ling suddenly broke the silence in the room, and when she asked Duan Qing about this, her tone was quite serious.
She was slightly startled, Gong Ling would ask her this question, which was unexpected by her, and she didn't know what Gong Ling's purpose was in asking this, could it be that their actions last night showed flaws?
"I'm sorry, the murderer hasn't been found yet, and the villain doesn't dare to speculate." She said.
Gong Ling seemed to know that she would say this, and sighed invisibly, but the gloomy color in his eyes deepened, "Since I ascended the throne, people who want to kill me have been one after another, and I also hope that the fire last night was just a pure accident......"
Listening to Gong Ling's words, Duan Qingcheng's eyes couldn't help but flash a little strange, no wonder he took so much trouble to set up a divine machine camp in the inner palace, it seems that this palace is not as calm as she has seen in the past few days.
"The emperor is a little worried, if the fire last night was for the killing of the king, he would not have chosen such a remote place......" she replied, with a bit of seriousness and determination in her tone.
"According to you, those people didn't come to kill me, but to get something in this palace, right?" Gong Ling, who was dressed in a brocade dragon pattern embroidered robe, leaned on the dragon chair, supported her head with one hand, and looked at her meaningfully, but there was a hint of a smile on her still serious face.
Duan Qingcheng was shocked, but he was still calm on the surface, "Dare to ask the emperor, what do you mean by something?" ”
She pretended that she didn't know why, but in her heart she knew it like a mirror, and the thing he said was probably what she was looking for, the Buddha bone relic.
"Well, if I have leisure today, I'll tell you a story......" Seeing the depth of her eyes, Gong Ling became a little interested, and he suddenly got up from the dragon chair and walked slowly towards her.
"Legend has it that 500 years ago, a down-and-out young man entered an abandoned Zen temple in a dream, and there was a high monk in the temple. The young man watched the monk feather on the spot, and after the monk feathered, he left behind five clear relics. The boy felt magical, and after waking up from the dream, he was enchanted, looking for the place of the dream, and really found the Zen temple, and also took those Buddha bone relics, and then sincerely worshipped.
At that time, the situation was in a period of tyranny of kings, invasion of foreign enemies, and great chaos in the world. The boy joined the army for a living, but because of his wisdom and strategy, he gradually won the hearts of the people, all the way to the high position of power, ten years later, the boy finally pacified the world as the king, and the war was quelled.
But after only a few decades, the king grew old and began to fear death. He began to waste his government, collecting money endlessly, and ordered the whole country to be called in to find the elixir for him. The once prosperous kingdom began to wither, and in the long run, the horses were thin and weak, and the great kingdoms became impoverished and disgruntled, except for the king.
The foreign enemy took advantage of the situation to attack, the old king knew that he could not resist, was bewitched by selfishness, gathered all the gold and silver treasures and elixirs in the deep underground palace, and finally ordered one of his Penglai masters to use five relics as a key, and then set up an enchantment with the method of the five elements, hiding the huge palace between the mountains and valleys, such a big royal city, suddenly disappeared from the world, no one has ever found it. Later, these five relics wandered around the world, and their whereabouts are unknown. But there have always been two legends on the rivers and lakes: one is that those who get the Buddha's bone relics go to the world, and the other is that those who get the Buddha's bone relics get immortality......"
Speaking of this, Gong Ling paused slightly, he looked at the person in front of him who would never show a trace, "The world and immortality, which legend will you believe more?" ”
"The villain doesn't know, since it's just a story, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not." After listening to the story told by Gong Ling, Duan Tingcheng was already sweating unconsciously in her palms, but she was still calm, "I don't know what the emperor's intention is when he tells this story to the villain?" ”
"You don't have to be so serious all the time." Seeing that her response was so indifferent, Gong Ling didn't care, but stood slightly sideways next to her, "Actually, it's not any purpose, I just said that I am more idle today, I just want to tell you a story......
"That's a villain's words, please forgive the emperor." She quickly bowed her head.
"Why are you always so rigid, it's exactly the same as Qiyu." Seeing her look at her like this, Gong Ling couldn't help but blame her.
"Yes, the villain knows his mistake." She continued to admit her mistakes, although she didn't know what she was wrong, but on the first day of entering the palace, the chief steward and the female officials taught her so.
She has never been a person who can let go easily, and in this case, she generally does not make mistakes.
"Forget it, it's a waste of time to argue with you." Gong Ling glared at her a little angrily, turned around? Walking out of the door, he said to her casually: "While you are still idle today, you can accompany me to a place." ”
"......" Duan Tingcheng didn't reply, she didn't know what difficult questions the treacherous emperor was going to ask her, but she had to follow silently.
She gradually began to have a bad premonition in her heart, if Gong Ling told that story just now to test her, it would prove that he had begun to doubt himself.
Although she had been fooled by her several times just now, if the other party had caught her before she got the relics, then all the plans she had conceived would have lost their meaning...... (To be continued.) )