Chapter 661: [Palace of Evil Desire]
Zhanzhao chased the man in black into the woods.
The woods are shaded all year round, the forest is very dark, and the trees are darker...... The fleeing figure was all gray and black, swirling against the trunk of the tree, and suddenly disappeared in a flash.
Fortunately, Zhanzhao didn't let that person escape, and he was always able to find it, except for his light skills, good eyes and ears.
But chasing after him, Zhanzhao was a little puzzled...... This person's light skills are so strange, and his movements around the trees are a bit like the shadow of Bai Yutang...... But it seems to be a little different.
Bai Yutang also chased after Zhanzhao, he had a shark to guide him, so he quickly caught up, and at the same time saw a black shadow flashing around the trunk in front of him.
The fifth master frowned - this person is like a shadow? However, it can be seen that this shadow is used in a tangible and godless way, and this person's internal strength is acceptable, but his posture is strange...... Who?
Zhan Zhao was chasing, when he heard Bai Yutang shouting behind him, "Cat! β
Zhan Zhao turned around, only to see Bai Yutang stretch out his hand and point to the top.
Zhan Zhao comprehended, jumped up to the treetops, and saw two figures, one white and one black, shuttling around the trees in the forest.
Bai Yutang's authentic shadow followed the not very authentic shadow of the man in black in front of him...... As a result, the black shadow was forced by Bai Yutang to panic a little, and went up along a tree, not beware of Bai Yutang, who had already expected him to have this move, and had already circled in front of him.
After taking a look at the black shadow, the fifth master was startled, this person's face was so old that he couldn't see his facial features clearly, and his snow-white face was full of brown wrinkles, like a dryad.
The man turned around and was about to flee, but Bai Yutang grabbed the black cloak, and as soon as his movements stopped, he suddenly lost his true qi and fell.
Bai Yutang saw the man in black fall down, and fell to the mud with a bang, and he was also a little surprised-this person's internal strength is unstable, think about it, it is estimated that he is too old......
Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both fell to the ground, and the man in black was lying on the ground with his body hunched over, and under the black cloak, white withered hair was exposed.
Zhan Zhao noticed his hand pressing the ground, and if he didn't look closely, he thought it was the roots of the tree - what did this have to look like?
Zhan Zhao poked him with Juque, and the man in black suddenly raised his hand.
saw a few silver needles fly out, Zhan Zhao tilted his head slightly, and a few silver needles pierced the trunk behind him.
And the man in black obviously used up his last bit of strength, lying on the ground panting, his voice hoarse with phlegm, as if he was about to die......
Zhan Zhao takes a look at Bai Yutang - who is this?
Bai Yutang shrugged - I don't know.
The old man tried to stand up, but his feet went limp and he lay down, gasping for air.
Zhan Zhao winked at Bai Yutang - is he five hundred years old?
Bai Yutang also felt the same way, this old man looked like an old demon in Montenegro at first glance, but it was a little strange that he actually knew Tianzun's martial arts......
At that moment, footsteps were heard outside the woods.
Ochre Shadow arrived with the Imperial City Army, and had already captured Cui Cheng and the man in black.
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang mentioned the old man in black and also went back to Kaifeng Mansion together.
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At this time, Kaifeng Mansion is very lively, Kuiwang Mansion arrested a bunch of people and put them in prison, and it is also a problem for the Kui family to have a lot of children, which one is involved in the case and which one is not involved and has to be tried for a long time.
Lord Bao felt a headache when he saw the group of sons and grandsons in Kwai Mansion, okay, this number of people is estimated to be judged for half a year!
In addition, there are many related people, people from Luwangfu are here, people from Huangshi Jade Shop are also here, Manji Sugar Shop, the victim of Xu Ji's case back then, and a group of curious people who are onlookers...... What's even worse is that there are also the eight princes and Pang Taishi who came to join in the fun, as well as the students of Taixue...... Fortunately, Zhao Zhen still had a little score and didn't come yet, so he asked Ge Qing to listen to the news.
Yin Hou, Tianzun, Yao Changtian and Master Wusha were shocked when they came back from eating in Taibaiju, and said in their hearts, how did Kaifeng Mansion become a vegetable market with so many people?
Xiao Sizi just went to the opposite door to eat a bowl of small wontons, and when he came out, he couldn't enter the door, and he jumped outside the crowd with Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu roared twice, but the people in Kaifeng Mansion knew that it didn't bite at all and no one was afraid of it, and an aunt pushed it aside to let it not make trouble.
Xiao Wu's soul was wounded, sitting listless at the door, and Xiao Sizi was touching its head to comfort him.
Tianzun and the others also wondered...... What's wrong with this?
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang coming back in the distance, and behind him, Ochre Shadow and Purple Shadow escorted a few black-clothed people together.
"Huh......" Zhanzhao saw the crowd in front of Kaifeng Mansion at a glance, "What is this for?" β
When he walked up, Bai Yutang saw Tianzun.
Tianzun twisted his face, still making trouble about Bai Yutang not letting him go to the Ten Thousand Spell Palace.
Where did Bai Yutang remember this, and reached out and tugged at Tianzun's sleeve.
Tianzun squinted his eyes and said in his heart - do you want to apologize for the good apprentice?
Who knew that Bai Yutang dragged the black-clothed old man from behind and pushed him to Tianzun's eyes and asked, "Do you know?" β
Tianzun was startled when he saw it, "Black Mountain Old Demon?!" β
Yin Hou and Master Wusha also wondered - it was really like an old goblin.
Xiao Changtian stared at it for a while and asked, "Is this a practice of evil skills that has gone mad?" β
Yin Hou and Tianzun didn't look at Bai Yutang and Zhanzhao - what kind of people?
The old man was grabbed by the ochre shadow and struggled, he didn't know what he was muttering with words in his mouth, staring at Yin Hou and Tianzun with bloodshot eyes.
He didn't open his mouth, Tianzun and Yin Hou didn't take him seriously, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the eyebrows of the two of them were raised.
Master Wusha also recited the Buddha, "He recited the mantra of rebirth, but I haven't heard it for many years." β
Yao Changtian was also surprised, "I've lived so long and haven't died!" β
Zhanzhao poked and poked Yin Hou and asked, "Who?" β
Yin Hou said, "Mu Xin." β
Zhan Zhao was shocked - it turned out that this person was Mu Xin!
Tianzun stared at him for a long time, and suddenly became happy, stomped his feet with a smile, and pointed at him, "Are you Mu Xin?" Aha...... God opened his eyes, and he really made the demon king say that he was old and turned into bark! β
Yin Hou couldn't help but laugh.
Mu Xin was already out of breath, but when he was angry with Tianzun, Zhanzhao felt that he was going to roll his eyes.
"Somebody bring him a mirror!" Tianzun looked for mirrors everywhere.
Mu Xin began to struggle, and his feelings became excited.
Zhan Zhao knows that this Mu Xin is not a good person, but the case has not been investigated clearly, is there a way to live?
Seeing that Tianzun was so amused that Mu Xin was about to vomit blood.
Zhan Zhao glanced at Bai Yutang - take care of your master?
Bai Yutang blinked-I'm not happy if he's not happy, why are you happy?
Zhan Zhao was powerless, so he decided to go to the yamen and talk about it...... It's just the man at the door......
"Excuse me." Zhan Zhao said to the person at the door.
No one paid any attention to him.
Zhan Escort supported his forehead, raised his voice and said again, but no one paid attention to him.
Zhan Zhao was helpless, and reached out and patted an uncle at the door who was looking in.
The uncle glanced back, "Yo, Zhan Guard." After saying hello, this person may be a pear seller, holding a basket in his hand, stuffing a duck pear for Zhanzhao, and looking back.
Zhan Zhao took the pear and looked at Bai Yutang.
Bai Yutang said that he couldn't help it, so it was better to climb over the wall and enter.
Zhan Zhao wrinkled his nose - to climb over the wall when he entered the door? Then you carry Xiao Wu in?
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard someone shout, "Hey! Sample open! β
Zhan Zhao and the others turned their faces and saw that Xigulu was coming, and roared at the door, so frightened that the onlookers flashed to both sides with a "sigh", and Xigulu swaggered inside, and everyone hurriedly followed.
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The criminals in the case were all caught, because there were too many people and the time of the crime was too far back, so the interrogation took a long time.
First of all, let's talk about the weird Mu Xin.
Before Tianzun could take the mirror out and show it to him, just after telling him that the method of going to the Ten Thousand Mantra Palace had been destroyed, he suddenly didn't come up in one breath, and he died with a whimper.
Gongsun checked him, and said that the old man was hanging completely with a breath of true qi, and he had already run out of oil and dried up, although he practiced evil skills to continue his life, but when he heard that he could no longer go to the Ten Thousand Spell Palace, all thoughts were lost, so he died with a whimper.
Zhan Zhao was a little puzzled, "Why does he have to go to the Ten Thousand Curse Palace?" β
Cui Cheng, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, and said, "He wants to rejuvenate, return to his twenties, and then live forever." β
Everyone was stunned for a long time, and at the same time "poof".
Yin Hou sneered, "I thought he wanted his master to come back from the dead, but I didn't expect that he just wanted to regain his youth." β
Tianzun hugged his arms and said "hehe" twice, "At the critical moment, he only cares about himself, isn't this what his master taught him?" He's a good learner! β
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Compared with Cui Cheng's side, the Kwai family has all the stolen goods, and Zhao Zhen sent a holy decree over, and Ge Qing read it to Kwai Mu in front of everyone.
Zhao Zhen's meaning is very simple, the Kwai family has a total of four hundred and thirty-eight people, no matter how many children he has and how well he hides, he can catch them! He hadn't used the punishment of beheading since he took the throne, and he didn't mind making an exception for Aoi Mu. In short, Kwai Mu honestly confessed and let his family go, and if he dared to hide it, he would be beheaded all over the house to resist his life!
Facts have proved that it is useless to reason and explain the law to a treacherous villain like Kuimu, and it is only useful to threaten him.
Kwai Mu knew that he was going to die, so he honestly explained what happened back then.
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Things go back many, many years ago, after Li Yu's death, his old ministers fled and surrendered, and the dynasty fell apart.
At that time, Cui Hai, Kwai Shan Qing and Mu Xin were the three brothers with the best relationship, and they were also loyal ministers of Li Yu.
After Li Yu's death, the three of them lost their future and backers, each with their own unwillingness, and at the same time their own plans.
Cui Hai was too loyal and bent on restoring his emperor.
Kiyoshi Kwai only wants glory, wealth and power.
Mu Xin is seriously ill and wants to continue his life.
In this way, three people with different hearts all found that there is only one way in this world to make their dreams come true, and that is - Ten Thousand Spell Palace!
Cui Hai helped Li Yu hide the way to go to the Ten Thousand Spell Palace, he was the only person in the world who knew where the Ten Thousand Spell Palace was, no matter how Aoi Shan Qing and Mu Xin asked, he always refused to tell them where the Ten Thousand Spell Palace was.
So, Aoi Shan Qing and Mu Xin came up with a vicious method, and they instigated the people of the rivers and lakes to create the disaster of the Cui family's annihilation.
Originally, Kiyoshi Aoi and Mu Xin were going to appear in front of Cui Hai as life-saving benefactors. Before Cui Hai died, he would definitely tell the two of them the secret of the Ten Thousand Curse Palace, and let them help him fulfill his wish. It's also a coincidence...... After Cui Hai was injured, he died before Mu Xin and Kiyoshi Aoyama arrived. Seeing that it was self-defeating, the two wanted to save his family...... The heart said that he would always tell a family member a secret, right? But what I didn't expect was ...... Yin Hou saved the children of the Cui family before they arrived, but Aoi Shan Qing and Mu Xin didn't find where Yin Hou took the people. In fact, after Yin Hou took them to a safer place, the Aoi family divided their property and went their separate ways.
Aoi Shan Qing and Mu Xin came to a bamboo basket to draw water, only to know that the secret was hidden in the jade of Yuweidu, and where is the jade? Half of the Aoi family's jade was taken away by the Imperial Palace, and half was divided and taken away by the children, leaving nothing behind......
After the defeat was over, Kiyoshi Aoyama slapped Mu Xin and kicked him down the valley.
Kwai Shan Qing wanted to surrender to the Zhao clan to protect himself, and then slowly investigate the whereabouts of Cui Jiayupei, this secret is that the fewer people who know, the better, Mu Xin naturally wants to get rid of it.
But Mu Xin didn't die, and survived. Mu Xin used to be Li Yu's favorite retainer, and he knew that Li Yu was in a very hidden courtyard in the Western Regions, so he went there to take refuge. There, Li Yu secretly hid some books, including some books about the martial arts of the Silver Demon King. Thereupon...... Mu Xin began to teach himself martial arts, and he was also unruly, so he went mad several times, but he was lucky to survive, his illness was all cured, and his kung fu was getting better and better.
Not only that, Mu Xin also found two descendants of the Cui family, a man and a woman and two children, one is Cui Cheng and the other is Cui Yue.
Hearing this, Zhan Zhao and the others suddenly understood that the drowned Scarlet Moon in the Peacock Lake in the palace was Cui Yue!
Cui Cheng and Cui Yue were raised by Mu Xin, and sure enough, the Cui family inherited the skills of stone carving and jade carving. On the one hand, Mu Xin raised the two and taught them martial arts, and on the other hand, he went to various places in the Western Regions to take in wanderers to work for himself...... That is, the men in black.
Scarlet Moon was sent into the palace by Mu Xin at a very young age, in order to find the whereabouts of the Yuwei Ferry Jade and the Nine Dragons Wheel & Plate.
Cui Cheng and Scarlet Moon have been dependent on each other since childhood, and their relationship is very, very good, and they are not biological brothers and sisters, they love each other.
Cui Cheng did not hesitate to switch identities with Cui Xin to enter the palace, just to see Scarlet Yue. However, Scarlet Moon disappeared, and Cui Cheng heard that she committed suicide by jumping into Peacock Lake.
At that time, Cui Cheng knew that Scarlet Moon definitely did not commit suicide, she must have been killed.
Although Mu Xin raised Cui Cheng and Cui Yue, he had no feelings for them and was very mean. Cui Cheng is very smart, after he grew up, after many investigations, he roughly found out his life experience, so he ...... He was not grateful to Mu Xin at all, but hated it, especially after Scarlet Moon died. Therefore, even if he found the clue of the jade, he would not tell SΓΉ Mu Xin, but secretly hid it. In addition, he is also tracking down the clues of the killer of Scarlet Moon.
In fact, he didn't need to check it, Mu Xin sued him, the only one in this world who was still looking for those jades to go to the Ten Thousand Spell Palace, except for him, there was only one person, and that was the descendant of Aoi Shan Qing.
The Kwai family has a big business, so Cui Cheng came up with a solution...... faked his own corpse and used a fishtail pillow to lead to this case.
Cui Cheng has the same opinion about Mu Xin and the Aoi family, they are both enemies who killed his ancestors. As for Cui Miao and their Cui family, Cui Cheng didn't want to be overly implicated, the reason why he collected so many jade pendants and wanted to go to the Ten Thousand Spell Palace was for one purpose...... He hopes to save the dead Scarlet Moon.
In Zhanzhao's opinion, everyone in this case is very hateful, but the descendants of the Cui family are extremely innocent and worthy of sympathy. Cui Cheng didn't go to the Ten Thousand Curse Palace, so he shouldn't stop if he died.
Cui Miao felt very sorry for these descendants of the Cui family, and gritted her teeth at Mu Xin and Kuishan Qing.
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"Little friend." Yin Hou suddenly said to Cui Cheng, "Do you know that even if you go to the Ten Thousand Spell Palace, that girl will not be resurrected." β
Cui Cheng was stunned for a moment, looking at Yin Hou, "But ......"
"There is a saying that the Ten Thousand Curse Palace can come back to life and turn things around, but in fact, it is not literal." Master Wusha recited the Buddha, "How many people have given their lives for this scam." β
Cui Cheng didn't seem to believe it yet.
Tianzun walked over and whispered a few words in his ear, Cui Cheng's eyes widened, and then he sat down on the ground and said to himself, "It turned out to be just an empty ......"
Ayi and the others went to comfort him.
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is different from Cui Cheng's innocence, in this whole case, the most unforgivable is Kwai Shan Qing and several of his descendants who are still continuing their evil deeds.
Kwai Shan Qing, Kwai Mu and Kwai Xin Worry and other Kwai family heirs have not given up looking for the jade pendant of Yuwei Ferry over the years. The ability of the Ten Thousand Spell Palace to turn things around is extremely attractive to them who are ambitious. As rebel generals, they knew that there would be no way out without a more extreme method to change their fate, so they used court maids and sent retainers to pretend to be guards to find clues and steal all the jade artifacts with fishtail patterns in various places.
At that time, Mei Lie's beloved Scarlet Er and Cui Cheng's beloved Scarlet Moon, both palace maids found that someone was secretly looking for a jade with a fishtail pattern in the palace, and found the Aoi family, so they were wiped out, and the other two corpses in the Peacock Lake were the bodies of the palace maids who were abandoned by the Aoi family.
For several generations of the Aoi family, this trick of using the palace maid has been tried and tested, and the knocking sound used to contact the palace maid is a song left by Aoi Shan Qing, Mu Xin. They felt that if Mu Xin was dead, no one would notice this tune.
But the Yaoqin who sneaked into the palace back then was very skilled, because she knew too much, she determined the score according to the sound of the cylinder, and found the fishtail first, and attracted the disaster of killing.
Liang Qiaoyu, who committed suicide in the palace, was originally Kwai Mu's lover, she was responsible for monitoring Yaoqin, and the gold and silver were all given to her by Kwai Mu. But who knew that Xu Ji's case broke out, and Liang Qiaoyu's family was also implicated.
Liang Qiaoyu has always been a pawn of Kwai Mu, she is very obedient, and Kwai Mu also trusts her. didn't know that Liang Qiaoyu had gradually hated him to the bone, and at the same time, she happened to meet Cui Cheng, just when Cui Cheng went to Shaohua Gong's dry well to put fake bones.
Liang Qiaoyu decided to help Cui Cheng.
She was also the one who created the worship phenomenon in the well, and the reason why she committed suicide was also to let Kaifeng Mansion link the jade of Yuweidu with the Xu Ji case of that year, seize the Kuiwang Mansion, and avenge her family, and she also died a well-deserved death.
In addition, the reason why the method of framing Xu Ji to get rid of Yaoqin was also a plan to kill two birds with one stone in the eyes of the Kwai Wangfu. Cui Miao also said before that the Xu and Man families used to be his cooks and knew the secrets of his family. And the destruction of Xu Ji left Manji because of Manji's family...... I took the painting back and hung it on the wall.
The rubbing painting of the fishtail ferry was the painting that Cui Hai grabbed in his hand when he died, and it was stolen by Xu Jidang's family. Xu Ji's family property was sold to compensate the victims, but no one wanted the painting. After knowing a qiΔ, the man took the painting back and hung it in front of the gate. Everyone didn't notice that in fact, in front of the painting, there were several potted okra. Manji was a threat to his family by knowing what the Aoi family had done. If the Aoi family harms Manji, the true image of the Ten Thousand Curse Palace and Xu Ji's case will be made public. In this way, Manji saved the lives of future generations.
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In addition, there are some small details in the case, such as the matter of being given laxatives for Manji Dim Sum, Cui Cheng admitted that he did it, and he wanted the people of Kaifeng Mansion to link the case......
At this point, the truth is revealed.
Everyone couldn't help but shake their heads, a Ten Thousand Mantra Palace seemed to represent the sum of all the ** of time, the bigger the **, the more vicious the things made to achieve the goal.
The follow-up of the case still needs to be handled by Kaifeng Prefecture.
Zhao Zhen listened to Ge Qing spend half a day in the palace to finish the case that had lasted for more than 60 years, and he was also a little crying and laughing, "I just caught a bird in Peacock Lake, who knew that such a big thing would happen." β
Nangong and Ge Qing both nodded.
Zhao Zhen slipped through the study and said, "The Kwai family has to be sentenced heavily, I Ming'er will go to Kaifeng Mansion to hear the trial, and then it will be better to give the Xu family justice, and the death is too unjust......"
"Your Majesty." Nangong suddenly said, "Let's talk to Zhanzhao tomorrow by the way." β
Zhao Zhen was slightly stunned, puzzled, "What are you talking to the Zhan guard?" β
Nangong reminded, "Your Majesty, the day after tomorrow is the Cat Race." β
Zhao Zhen's spirit was shocked, "That's right! β