Chapter 700
"I want you to help me change my face, move out of this hellish place, and let me appear in front of people as your concubine, along with my children."
Ji Xingxuan offered such a condition, and Liu Hao was not very surprised.
"You still embarrass me like this," he shook his head and said, "I fished you out of the prison that day to save the lives of your mother and son, and you have not repaid me so far, and now you have come to negotiate terms with me, do you really think that I am a bodhisattva?" ”
Whether she was dead or alive was just a matter of his thoughts, and it would be a big mistake for her to think that she could play with him between applause.
Ji Xingxuan looked into Liu Hao's mocking eyes, and his heart turned a thousand times, knowing that he no longer had the slightest love and pity for her, and now that she bluffed, I am afraid that it will be self-defeating.
"Do you remember that in October last year, there was a homicide case in Taishi Shuyuan, and the person who died was Xia Jiangying, the daughter of the Xia Jiang family in the south."
Liu Hao had a vague impression, but he didn't know why Ji Xingxuan suddenly mentioned an irrelevant matter.
"Later, the emperor gave marriage, and Xia Jiangmin, the sister of the deceased Xia Jiangying, married the Nine Emperors as a concubine, which is now Princess Jing."
Liu Hao's eyes flashed, and he was interested in listening.
"I had a good relationship with Xia Jiangying before her death, and the night before her accident, she offered to exchange rooms with me, and she slept in my room and asked me to go home to live. When asked why, she told me that it was her sister Xia Jiangmin who had a nightmare about a thief breaking into her house. ”
At that time, it was approaching the Great Yan Test, and Xia Jiangying was full of ambition. was obviously warned, but he didn't care, and he didn't want to go back to her Xiajiang annex to avoid trouble, but thought of changing rooms with her to sleep, thinking that in this way he would be able to get along well.
"Did you switch rooms with her?" Liu Hao asked, seeing Ji Xingxuan nodding, his expression became subtle.
"Actually, that night, the murderer was going to kill me. But because Xia Jiangying changed to my room. So the one who died became her. ”
When Ji Xingxuan said these words. didn't look at Liu Hao's face, there was inherent indifference in her eyes, and she didn't feel guilty when she talked about the cause of death of her friend. That was after she had gone through so much of her own. Despising life and death.
However, she cherished her life. Because she has lost almost everything, if she even loses this life, she can't be reconciled. She wants to survive and see what happens to her enemies.
"How did you know that the killer was going to kill you?" Liu Hao heard the key.
Only then did Ji Xingxuan look up at him.
"Because I knew the Tao earlier than Xia Jiangying, someone was going to kill me, and I agreed to exchange rooms with her, which was a life-saving move."
Liu Hao was puzzled: "Do you know the way?" ”
Ji Xingxuan bowed her head, looked at his eyes, her voice was low, different from the previous understatement, she was solemn for no reason, she said: "I have a teacher, he has the ability to die. ”
Liu Hao was stunned for a moment, and then surprise appeared on his face, and his thoughts changed sharply, and he asked, "Your master?" Is that the old immortal who taught Yu Lianfang the thaumaturgy of breaking death? ”
It's no wonder that he thinks of Yu Shu, it is really Yu Shu who is famous in the capital, and when it comes to death thaumaturgy, the first thing that comes to mind is her, the Miao Ling envoy.
What's more, he remembered that Ji Xingxuan said that she worshipped a master when she was in Yiyang, and it was the immortal chief who taught Yu Shu Liuyao thaumaturgy.
"No," Ji Xingxuan denied Liu Hao's speculation, "My mentor is someone else. ”
"Who is it?" Liu Hao was a little impatient, if there was really such a master, he was bound to recruit his Ning Wangfu.
Ji Xingxuan saw through his thoughts, there was a slight mockery in her eyes, and it disappeared in a flash, she didn't answer Liu Hao's inquiry, but looked away, looked behind him, and told an unknown story-
"In the ninth year of Zhaoqing, I was twelve years old, and my grandfather was promoted to the right judge of Si Tianjian and took me to Beijing."
The Ji family is one of the best families in Yiyang City, and it is not worth mentioning when they enter Beijing, there are twelve families in Anling City, countless children, Ji Xingxuan is young, her reputation is not obvious, Ji Huaishan took her in and out of various houses, and what she received in private was not goodwill and friendliness, but full of contempt and isolation.
Because she was born with a vision and her fate was precious, her grandfather had high hopes for her, so he arranged for her to take the Dayan Examination the following year, hoping to win a place for her in the Taishi Academy.
In the tenth year of Zhaoqing, she was admitted to the first subject of astrology in the Dayan examination and became a Yi teacher, when she was only thirteen years old, and everyone around her praised her, saying that Ji Huaishan had a successor.
She became a talent at a young age, so she was naturally arrogant, and finally entered the Taishi Academy, but the reality gave her a resounding slap in the face.
She was far from the best one, there were people who were more talented and spiritual than her, better than her family background, and smart everywhere, she became an inconspicuous schoolgirl.
She is unwilling to be mediocre, but she is helpless, the Ji family is called a family for only three generations, compared to those who have been based on the family for hundreds of years, it is not enough to see at all, there is no rare family legend, there is no guidance from respected elders, she can only be reduced to ordinary.
To this day, she doesn't know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, she walked into a certain Yi Hall on Qianyuan Street that day, where she met her future mentor, an elder who came from a mysterious way and made her respect and fear.
He enlightened her, taught her thaumaturgy, informed her of the intricate relationship between the families in the capital, and made her stand out in the Taishi Shuyuan of the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger.
"Every time I met my teacher, he would be masked and revealed, otherwise there would be a curtain to cover it, and it would be difficult to see the true face. I still don't know what his name is, so the prince doesn't have to be investigated, he doesn't want to show up, you can't find him. ”
Liu Hao was already moved, how could he dismiss her mind because of her words, and no longer explore the master who knew the thaumaturgy of breaking death, so he asked her sideways:
"So, in the murder case of Taishi Shuyuan that day, he told you that someone was going to kill you, so you deliberately swapped rooms with Xia Jiangying and asked her to die on your behalf?"
His words were straightforward and sharp, and Ji Xingxuan was unmoved. Calmly tell him another secret:
"There is Wenchen in the north, Xia Jiang in the south, Wenchen's family is famous for its word measurement thaumaturgy, and Xia Jiang's family has the ability to interpret dreams, I heard Xia Jiangying say that her sister Xia Jiangmin has different talents, and often dreams of people's deaths, all because most of the dreams are people who don't know each other, so it is useless. A few days before the crime, she specially ran to warn Xia Jiangying. Tell her not to spend the night in the Taishi Academy. Xia Jiangying listened to her words, and then proposed to change rooms with me, it was she who chose to die on my behalf, this is her fate. She was destined to die. I'm just going with the flow. Where did the intention come from? ”
Liu Hao listened to her confession, smiled coldly, and said, "Why bother to pick everything yourself." Since you know that there is a disaster in the road, you can stop her from taking risks, but you stay out of the matter, it is clearly calculating, someone wants to kill you, if you fail to succeed that night, there will be a next time, but as soon as Xia Jiangying died, someone died, and the matter became bigger, Dali Temple intervened in this murder case, and the murderer did not dare to attack you again in order not to expose himself, you escaped a catastrophe, and since then you have escaped, it is really a trick to kill two birds with one stone, isn't it? ”
By now, he had seen the little woman's heart of stone.
"Say whatever you want." Ji Xingxuan whispered, and lowered her head again, Xia Jiangying died tragically, whether she had ever felt guilty or not, only she knew.
"Are you going to tell me the secret, that's all?" Liu Hao shook his head slowly, "This is not enough for me to agree to your conditions." ”
Ji Xingxuan still hung her head, but her eyelids moved, looking at Liu Hao from a strange perspective, she laughed inexplicably.
"These are just prefaces, the secrets I really want to tell the prince have not yet been said."
Hearing this, Liu Hao's spirit was shocked, and he couldn't help but sit up straight, and heard her say: "What does the prince think that I fell into today's field?" ”
Her family was ruined, her future and reputation were ruined, she lost her innocence, and narrowly saved her life, but she became a fish and meat under the swords of others, and was imprisoned in this deep courtyard and never saw the light of day.
Liu Hao frowned and pointed out unceremoniously: "It's not you who provoke that Yu Lianfang, you will be plotted by her if you harm others, maybe you are still the beautiful Xiuyuan Dayi Master." ”
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but be angry, once he tried every possible way to get the woman in front of him, who knew that time had passed, and today she gave birth to someone else's evil seed.
Ji Xingxuan didn't know Liu Hao's reverie, but listening to the ridicule in his words, it was actually said that she didn't do her best to provoke Yu Shu, so she was embarrassed today, and her face couldn't help but feel a little colder, and secretly told herself not to argue with him, and was silent for a while before she spoke again:
"If I hadn't obeyed Master's orders, but I didn't do things well, how could someone have caught the handle and lead to today."
"What do you mean by that?"
"In April this year, there was another murder case in Taishi Shuyuan, the daughter of the Cao family was hanged on the stargazing platform, on the eve of the case, it was indeed me who induced Cao Youling to go to the stargazing platform at night in the name of Daozi."
Ji Xingxuan confessed her crime coldly, she sandwiched the note imitating Jing Chen's handwriting in Cao Youling's book, knowing that she liked Jing Chen and would definitely go to the appointment, but who knew that this scene was not secret enough and was witnessed by Qin Yuerou.
After the Nine Emperors Liu Tan feasted in Xuanchun Garden, Qin Yuerou confronted her by the lake, was overheard by Xin Liu, chased her to the top of the platform, she had an argument with Xin Liu, and pushed her downstairs by mistake, just when she was about to kill people, Yu Shu arrived and saved Xin Liu, and the two accused her of killing people and killing people, so that she was imprisoned again.
"In this way, you were instructed by your master to persecute Miss Cao, so in prison, you would rather be tortured than confess to him, right?" Liu Haoxin said that this girl was cold, but she was dead set on that master.
"It's not that I don't want to, but I can't, I can only have a glimmer of life by gritting my teeth, if I say it, I can only die."
Ji Xingxuan didn't know what to think, Liu Hao saw her shoulders trembling slightly, as if she was shivering.
"Why did your master kill Miss Cao? Is it just to frame Jingchen? He couldn't figure out how Ji Xingxuan's master could be involved with Jing Chen.
"Perhaps." Ji Xingxuan was a little absent-minded, her thoughts stayed on just now.
"Hmph." Liu Hao snorted coldly dissatisfied, which made her come back to her senses, raised her eyes to look at him, licked her dry lips, the previous production consumed all her physical strength, if she hadn't drunk a bowl of ginseng soup, how could she have the heart to deal with him.
"The prince thinks that how did I choose the princes of Da'an?"
Liu Hao's patience was insufficient, and he was still full of questions, but he was stopped by her words, his ambition for the throne was not a day or two, and he had a furrow in his chest, so he opened his mouth and said:
"Those who are capable live in it."
Who knew that Ji Xingxuan actually laughed when he heard him, and without waiting for him to be angry, he said again: "I'll tell the prince a secret now, you come with your ear, and I'll tell you quietly." ”
Although Liu Hao was defensive of her, he would not be afraid of her as a weak woman, hesitated for a moment, then got up and moved forward, did not sit on the bed, but stood at the head of her bed, bent down, and then, her faint breath came from her ears.
She said: "The Si Tianjian of the past dynasties has mentioned that he holds one of the six founding instruments of the "Xuannu Liuren Book", so it is obvious who will be the next emperor." ”
When the words came into his ears, Liu Hao's hairs exploded, and his face was full of surprise. (To be continued......)