Lin said solemnly: "In the face of the emperor, the grass people have no false words. But the emperor can rest assured, since I, Lin Jingzhen, have diagnosed the cause of the disease, I will definitely be cured, and the emperor will give me three days, and I will let the mother recover to her original state. But as for who it is, the grass people can't help. ”

The emperor seemed to relax his tense nerves at once, took a few steps back and sat back in his seat beside him, and the maid hurriedly trotted over to hand over the hot tea. The emperor took the tea and repeated with tears streaming down his eyes: "It's good if you can save it, it's good if you can save it...... My Liu Meiren has been saved, and my Liu Qingjing has been saved...... Heavy reward, heavy reward, Mr. Mu, whatever you want, I will give it to you. ”

The Emperor whimpered, like a lost child of a beloved object. Lin Jingjing quietly cleaned up the broken hair in front of Liu Qingjing's forehead and prepared for treatment, and said: "The grass people have nothing else to ask for, I just hope that the emperor can prepare a house for the grass people to live in, don't be publicized, as long as you can live." The grass people have a precious daughter, who is very smart and well-behaved, and can't bear to see her suffer. However, he thought in his heart, it turned out that the emperor was also a man of flesh and blood.

The emperor nodded and said, "I promise you another 10,000 taels of gold." ”

Lin Jing's hand paused, and he heard his voice trembling slightly: "The grass people can't afford this." The emperor might as well think about how to find the murderer to prevent such a thing from happening again. ”

"Yes, yes. You're right. Who is it...... Who would do such a thing......" The emperor's voice was heavy, anger welled up on his face, he frowned and said to the imperial weapon beside him: "Su Can, Yinfeng, go find out the murderer." Wait, don't startle the snake just yet. When Liu Meiren is almost better, let's go find someone. ”

Yinfeng and Su Can said: "Yes." ”

Unexpectedly, it was Queen Meng - who would know that it was Queen Meng!

Even Empress Meng herself didn't know why she found herself so quickly!

Therefore, when the door of Empress Meng's underground secret room was kicked open by Yinfeng, she was kneeling in the middle of the dark room and chanting a mantra, when she heard movement at the door, she turned her head in horror for a moment, and her eyes met Yinfeng's eyes. Her panic, however, lasted only for a moment, a moment of panic when she was interrupted. She once again regained her original gloomy eyes, which were completely different from the usual eyes of Queen Meng, although the queen was submissive, after all, there was a look in her eyes. But at this moment, the light in Empress Meng's eyes disappeared completely.

Yinfeng said: "Queen Mother, excuse me, you pack up your things and come with us." With that, he stepped into the room with one foot first, only to hear the crunch of a carapace shattering, and he frowned, "Huh?" and muttered to himself, "What sound......

"Be careful. Queen Meng muttered: "Don't step on the ...... of the mourning family"

Babbling. Babbling. Silver Wind looked down, and the black spread down his ankles like a giant mouth of an abyss.

- Don't step on the mourning bugs.

The insects all over the ground were like black whirlpools, biting and stinging each other, and as soon as they saw a living person, they rushed up to the door—the flesh of living creatures, the flesh of rich and soft animals, was what they wanted, and if it were not for the moment of necessity, who would kill each other among their kind? However, the fate of Gu worms was like this, it was killing and madness, it was survival in death, death was death, it was death in life, it was a new unknown creature that metamorphosed from corruption, it was an inconceivable living spell that was highly poisonous.

"All stand down!" Silver Wind reacted very quickly, turning his head and shouting at the guards behind him, "These are Gu worms, they will be highly poisonous if they are bitten!" Then he drew his knife and scraped it on his leg, removing all the insects, and then kicked the door, bringing the blade crawling all the way up, the sparks were as brilliant as stars, and the smell of burning spread.

However, it was too late for these guards, who were not so fast and had such a high level of skill.

As Empress Meng tilted her head violently and grinned, the insects climbed up quickly, the guards screamed and raised their hands, the Gu worms had crawled to the end of the flesh wrapped in their clothes, crawled to their necks and wrists, and a silkworm-like poisonous insect with a golden body crawled onto the neck of a guard, climbing all the way up, and the skin turned golden and then festered into mud and flowed down.

The guard's face showed a strange expression, his teeth bared and gasped, as if he was in extreme pain, and the expression on his face was almost ecstatic; he laughed like this, and tears flowed in his eyes, and he was itchy and painful, he tore at his clothes, and shouted and laughed and cursed, intermittently accompanied by hoarse screams; from that wound, his body continued to fester, and the smell of fish spread throughout the secret room, and more insects crawled towards him, and several other guards hurriedly dodged, and they watched him melt, and a bloody hole began to change from his neck, and the yellow turbid liquid from the hole spread inward, and stained the inside of his body goldThe big hole in his neck became bigger and bigger, eroding the exposed bones, and the bones became soft and brittle and finally melted, and finally with a "click", his head tilted, fell down, and fell into the pile of insects, and was immediately crawled all over by a black pressure of insects.

His headless body followed.

Empress Meng smiled and said hoarsely: "The mourning family hasn't had time to refine into a Gu King, why are you here?"

The bugs were still eating at the body of the first guard. More than a dozen steps away from her, Yin Feng frowned and said, "What didn't you refine into a Gu King, you have already harmed people, Queen, your goal has been achieved, Liu Meiren is so sick that she is about to die, and the cause is precisely because she fell into your Gu!"

Empress Meng was stunned for a moment, raised her eyebrows and said in slight surprise: "What?" There were strange blood-red markings all over her body, flickering brightly and dimly. She seemed to be a little angry and aggrieved, and when her emotions came together, the insects crawled faster, she raised her head, her eyes were dark, and she repeated again, "You say, I poisoned Liu Meiren?"

The insects approached the guards, Yinfeng pulled out his knife and split it twice, deflected the blade and saw the cyan juice on it, raised his head and said impatiently: "Otherwise, queen, aren't you going to play Gu now?" Collect the insects, let us pass, the emperor may be able to forgive you, but the evidence is conclusive, and you don't admit guilt, let alone the emperor, even I will be angry!"

Empress Meng suddenly became furious, and shouted sharply: "It's not the mourning family! The mourning family hasn't killed her yet, she deserves to give birth to a monster, she has been cursed by heaven, the mourning family has already said it, the Gu worm has not yet formed, and the mourning family is looking forward to her living until the day when I go down to Gu, so that her life will be ended by me! However, it is by no means the mourning family who killed her, the mourning family has not yet done it, you are not allowed to slander the mourning family like this!"

Silver Wind sneered and said, "Don't be hard-mouthed, Queen Mother. I know that you are unhappy in your heart, and we also know the methods of the harem, splashing dirty water or poisoning it, and it will pass with one eye closed to one, and if someone is really poisoned, they will admit it. The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and the emperor has nothing to do and does not interfere with the freedom of the harem. The emperor knows that you don't like Liu Meiren, and it won't be strange if you do something to her. But the queen, the reason why the emperor wants to arrest you is because you have violated the biggest taboo in the palace, and it is also something that is strictly forbidden in the palace after the death of the emperor, that is, witchcraft, spells, the queen. If you treat Liu Meiren like this, I don't know if you will treat the emperor and the princes like this in the future!"

"The mourning family has said it, the mourning family has not done it, the mourning family has not!" Queen Meng suddenly roared hysterically, "You are speculating about the mourning family one by one with such great malice, the mourning family is going to kill you one by one, you have to die well, you are all Liu Meiren's henchmen, that cheap embryo!"

The queen's teeth bit her lip, and the blood dripped down and fell into the pile of Gu worms, and her dim eyes emitted a blood-red light, and with the sound of her voice, the insects crawled in the direction of the silver wind repeatedly, extremely fast and fierce.

Yinfeng breathed a long sigh of relief, gritted his teeth and said to Queen Meng: "Queen Mother, don't force me." I'm here to kill those who lurk in the palace, and if I can't catch them alive, I'll kill them on the spot. Queen Mother, I can only say that the emperor has broken off his gratitude to you at this moment, and if you continue like this, I don't know what kind of things I will do. ”

The queen sneered: "Yes, then you are here." Although my Gu King has not yet been refined, these insects are themselves the little Gu Kings among the various Gu Masters, and this poison is more than enough to deal with you. And it doesn't matter if you can't die, these guards all have to die, all the people in this entire palace have to die, and none of them will survive, I will kill you, because if you dare to be rude to me, you are rude to the Huayang Sect!"

"It's not allowed to bring imperial equipment. When she finished the last word, Yinfeng's body jumped up, almost on tiptoe, dragging the knife towards her, Queen Meng saw the bright knife light appear above her head, she suddenly became conscious, and the fear spread up like a worm, and she screamed loudly.

At this moment, in front of her eyes, behind the silver wind, the flames rose into the sky, as if they had fallen straight into hell, the flames were blazing, and the smell of fish was choked in the clattering sound.

Fire, where did the fire come from? How could this place be on fire?—— no. It's on fire, it's going to be burned, help, help!

However, the fire only lasted for a moment, and when it burned her worms completely, the flames suddenly slanted downward, as if they had penetrated into the bottom, and disappeared in an instant.

Empress Meng was in a trance, Su Can came from a distance, her expression and tone were mocking: "What's the matter, Yinfeng? You are so fast, why are you so procrastinating? I have to wait for the beard to grow." ”

Su Can spoke so easily and happily, as if he had just solved a simple trivial matter.

Yinfeng was unconvinced and said: "Who made you have such an immortal ability, you can breathe fire, and of course it will be easier to solve things than us ordinary people!"

"Not necessarily. It is better to solve the problem in a corresponding way. Su Can smiled, "For example, if you throw me into the sea, can I still boil the water dry? Of course I can swim ashore. ”

He walked up to the queen and squatted down, with a smile on his face, and said politely: "Queen Mother, you have to go back with us." No comment, right?"

The queen was so angry and anxious that she fainted in a moment.

"Empress Meng didn't expect that I had already fallen into the Gu, and it was actually the Gu that his father had placed on me, if she didn't do anything, I would be cured by Mr. Mu, and nothing would have happened, maybe I would be able to get along amicably. In fact, she was indeed wished, she didn't succeed at all, all her tools were recovered, her poor conspiracy could not be solved, and even her secret room was used for her other purposes, which was really pitiful. But she really had evil thoughts, so she followed her father's old path and prepared to give me a trick, in a sense, she was not innocent, it could be regarded as a father's debt and daughter's repayment, right? After making such a big mistake, the emperor was naturally furious and ordered the deposition of the queen. The Queen Mother couldn't say anything, after all, this rule about witchcraft was still her own rule back then. The queen chuckled, "Of course, only I know the truth. As for me, of course, I won't tell anyone. ”

Zhao Ji listened attentively, and kept nodding his head in agreement and shock. After the queen finished the last sentence, he looked up and said, "I see. So, what happened to Mr. Mu? Is he doing well? ...... Where?"

The queen looked at him, laughed, and said, "You are very smart, the questions you ask are all on point, and the key to solving all this is indeed on this Mr. Mu." After curing me, he did not ask for money at that time, but only for the stability and peace of the first life, so that the emperor promised that he would never attack him and his relatives, and never go to him unless he encountered great danger, and then the emperor promised him a house that was too small to live in, and he did not ask for anything else. ”

As she spoke, the queen sighed lightly, "It's just that I woke up too late and didn't reward him with anything." If you want to ask someone to go, you can't disturb him. After many years, I still have what I wanted to give him. As of today...... Isn't it a great crisis now, you say?"

Zhao Ji immediately knelt down in front of the queen and said, "I am willing to transfer this thing to him for the queen." ”

The queen groaned for a while, her frowning brows relaxed, and she said quietly: "Okay, then I'll give it to you, please be sure to put it away." I have a token on my body, which was handed over to me by the emperor, saying that if he has any trouble, he can keep me safe. There are not many such things in the palace, but it is a gift from the emperor himself, and those who have this token can walk freely in the palace, and no one has the right to stop it. But only one person can be allowed to pass at a time. ”

Zhao Ji was taken aback, raised his head and said: "Is what Niang Niang is talking about the legendary 'rat talisman'? Those who own this thing can freely enter and exit the palace, and can also enter any hidden corner of the palace." ”

The queen said: "This is exactly what it is. ”

“...... I know. The emperor was worried that he would die one day and did not want his mother to be buried with him. With such a thing, Niangniang can leave the palace and return to the world outside the palace. Zhao Ji said in a trembling voice, "Brother, he's really ...... What a gentle man. But Empress, why don't you use such a valuable thing now, but let me give it to Mr. Mu?"

"Because ......," said the queen, "such a thing is useful to anyone given by the emperor, but not to the emperor alone." He was so lonely that I couldn't bear to keep him. ”

Zhao Ji looked at the queen.

"I see. He nodded, "I'll definitely bring Mr. Mu here." ”

"—Wait a little longer. The queen raised her sleeve and felt her jade bracelet inside, and she closed her eyes and pushed it up to the squeaky nest - many years ago she was a soft girl, a bracelet on her wrist did not move, and after many years, she gradually became thinner, and the bracelet could be pushed to the end. In this way, it is easy to remove. She took down the bracelet that had been on her body for many years, handed it over to Zhao Ji, and said, "When the time comes, show this thing to Mr. Mu, and he will know that it is me." ”

At the moment when Zhao Ji walked out of the cold palace, the cold wind screamed and blew through, the guards saluted him, and Su Can stood aside to greet him. Su Canxiao looked at him slightly, as if waiting for his answer.

Zhao Ji walked up to him and said in a low voice, "Go find Mr. Mu from Bianjing City." ”

Su Can nodded lightly and said, "In this way, I know this person." But he doesn't like to be disturbed. ”

Zhao Ji smiled reluctantly: "His Royal Highness King Duan's order, he can't help but listen." ”

Su Can laughed and said, "It's great that you can say that." Let's go, His Royal Highness King Duan. ”

"Hmm. When Zhao Ji was about to leave with Su Can, he suddenly saw Tong Guan standing not far away looking at them, his beautiful and deep face like a sculpture, and there seemed to be a surge in a pair of uncertain and unpredictable eyes. Zhao Ji was stunned by the sense of oppression coming from him, although his expression was gentle and indifferent, and even the corners of his mouth and eyebrows had a faint smile, but unlike Su Can, Su Can was unpredictable, but at least not as gloomy as Tong Guan. Tong Guan is a beautiful horror, a gentle depression, and the queen mother's henchmen, with him, it seems that the queen mother will appear in the same place at the same moment, and they are not separated from each other.

However, at the moment, there is only Tong Guan here.

Tong Guan smiled at Zhao Ji and said, "His Royal Highness King Duan, where are you going in such a hurry?"

"Father-in-law Tong!" Zhao Ji said happily, "meet again, I'm so sleepy, I'm going home to sleep-" He yawned heavily, and his whole body was shaky and unsteady, "So I'm going back first." I was worried about danger on the way, so I asked the Su guards to send me back. It's okay, am I in trouble, Father-in-law?"

In the face of a gloomy elder, Zhao Ji's biggest magic weapon is to cover up the truth with his cute and innocent smile, and the elders will mistakenly think that this is the truth; So this may not be able to deceive Father-in-law Tong.

Tong Guan just smiled, and he said gently: "In that case, His Royal Highness King Duan should go home quickly." ”

He didn't embarrass Zhao Ji at all, which made Zhao Ji sincerely happy. He immediately amplified his happy mood, saluted Tong Guan, and said, "Thank you Gonggong Tong for taking leave!"

Tong Guan waved his hand and said: "How can a slave have such great power? His Royal Highness King Duan will go back and eat more meat to replenish his body! The slave sees that His Royal Highness King Duan's face is pale, so he has to go and rest quickly!"

Zhao Ji turned around and said, "Okay." ”

After turning around, he heard the sound of Tong Guan opening the door and entering the cold palace.

He chuckled in his heart and wanted to look back, but Su Can said leisurely: "Father-in-law Tong is a lot of doubts." ”

So Zhao Ji turned around again. He suppressed the panic in his heart and quickened his pace to move forward.

"Mr. Wood......" he said, looking down and breaking his fingers, "where will Mr. Wood be?"