Mu Chen took the glass bottle from Wei Yuan's hand, "It's all here?" ”

Wei Yuan bowed and replied, "The four bottles contain the blood of Li Zhong's parents and younger siblings. There's nothing wrong with that. ”

Mu Chen nodded, and asked again, "Are they okay in prison?" ”

Wei Yuan hesitated for a moment, "The prisoner who was condemned for the crime of rebellion...... They are all mortal people, and they will surely suffer some hardships. His Royal Highness also knows the methods in prison. The subordinates were afraid that they would be seen as flawed, so they dared to leave a cloak for his sister to cover herself. ”

Mu Chen was silent, and raised his hand to signal Wei Yuan to retreat.

He walked over to the bookshelf and took out four dolls from a box.

This is made by Chun Yuyan with a lot of effort, from the Western Continent Phantom Wood collected from the Wind City, there are only five in total, which is used to help him escape in a critical moment.

Mu Chen laid the doll flat on the ground, injected the blood in the four bottles respectively, and then bit his fingertips, forcing his own blood into the doll.

The puppet gradually grew and deformed, with a contour and shape, and its facial features became clearer little by little. After about half an hour, he is completely indistinguishable from a real person.

Mu Chen handed the prepared clothes to the dolls and asked them to put them on.

The puppet puppet has been transformed by his essence and blood, and acts completely according to his will.

After everything was ready, Mu Chen was about to call Wei Yuan to come in and identify him, but who expected Wei Yuan to knock on the door first.

"Your Highness, there's an accident over there! It seems to be ...... Someone split the pedestal from the inside with an artifact! ”

Mu Chen's eyes sank, he suddenly got up and walked out of the door.

Wei Yuan and he rushed one after the other to the guest house where Qingling and the others temporarily lived.

The guards guarding the courtyard bowed and saluted, "Your Highness." ”

Mu Chen didn't answer, and went straight inside and pushed open the door of the guest room. One, two, three...... It's all empty!

Seeing this, the guards who followed up were so frightened that their legs weakened, "Subordinate...... The subordinates did not see them go out......"

Mu Chen sighed secretly and instructed Wei Yuan: "Immediately mobilize all the elites under your command and follow me to the Casting Ding Stage!" ”

Because it was wartime, all the mounts remained in the palace. Mu Chen summoned Danfeng, jumped up, and quickly headed west. More than a dozen elites under Wei Yuan received the order of the whistling sound, and they also followed with their own mounts.

Zhuding Terrace is close to the West Market, in addition to an open flat land around the high platform, and then there are vertical and horizontal streets and alleys of houses.

When Mu Chen arrived, he looked down and saw the crowd on the casting platform crowded and kept running down. Some of the overturned candles burned on the ground, staining the night with a halo of golden red, reflecting on the faces of the frightened people. The residents near the high platform were obviously alarmed, and they lit lamps and candles and pushed their windows to investigate.

Mu Chen let Danfeng descend to the front of the Casting Ding Terrace, and his eyes were always eagerly searching in the crowd.

Suddenly, a wail pierced through all the cacophony of sounds, breaking through the air, echoing in the dark night that had changed the lives of many people.

The prohibition set by the unicorn jade plate was automatically lifted with the death of the person who recited the formula, and the figure of the woman at the bottom of the steps appeared.

Qing Ling knelt in front of the steps, his blood-stained hands hugged Yuan Qing tightly, crying bitterly. Next to the two of them, lay the unconscious Li Zhong.

Ning Hao and Mu Han on the stage exchanged glances, and quickly ran down with the heavily armored guards.

Before they could get closer, a cluster of sparks on the stone steps suddenly streaked in front of everyone like a meteor, and a raging flame burst into flames in their path, forming a fiery barrier.

On the other side of the barrier, a handsome white shadow flew down, reflecting the brilliant streamer of flames.

Mu Han's eyes were full of hatred, "He's here too!" It seems that the queen mother and I guessed correctly, these two have long been allied! Turning to Ning Hao, "Just get rid of them together tonight!" ”

Ning Hao glanced around, and then cast his gaze on the figure behind the fire screen, "He brought a lot of people here." If you want to fight it, it will be an uphill battle. The Fenye Forbidden Army and the large camp outside the city have also been alarmed, you better leave immediately! ”

No matter how deep and wide their layout is, they don't dare to take the lives of the emperor and the prince in front of so many people.

Mu Han was unwilling, "Do you want to let them go like this?" ”

Ning Hao looked ahead, his eyes were cold, and he said word by word: "There will always be another chance." ”

Mu Chen leaned over slightly, reached out and stroked Qing Ling's messy hair, trying to help her up. But Qingling desperately hugged Yuan Qing's corpse and refused to let go.

Wei Yuan led his men to jump off their mounts as well.

He quickly checked the pulses of Li Zhong and Yuan Qing, "Your Highness, Li Zhong Gongzi still has breath. Keyuan Qing Gongzi ......"

Qing Ling finally came back to his senses, raised his face full of tears, gritted his teeth and said in a dumb voice, "Mu Han...... Mo Nan Hao...... I'm going to kill them! ”

She struggled to get up, but her hollowed out body could no longer exert half of her strength, she staggered, fainted and collapsed.

Mu Chen hugged Qingling, looked up at Mu Han who was leaving with the guards at the other end of the fire screen, and ordered left and right in a deep voice: "Go back to the house." ”

***

Qing Ling had a long, sweet dream.

In her dream, she returned to her carefree teenage years, and followed her brothers to learn art in Chongwu.

She studied very hard and seriously, did not cheat and lazy, and was often praised by her master. Li Zhong didn't quarrel with her, but asked her for advice very respectfully.

The second senior brother's cooking skills are still very good. The third senior brother's temper is still a little bad, but because she is a superb learner, he has never scolded her again. The senior brother and the fourth senior brother are still very fond of her, sitting under the Du Ying tree and smiling and beckoning to her, "Little Liu, come and watch the senior brother play chess......

Qing Ling fanned his eyes slightly, and felt that a divine power was injected into his body, gradually awakening the perceptual consciousness of the hundreds of limbs.

"Master......"

She looked at the white shadow in front of her and muttered.

Mu Chen helped her to lie on the couch, leaned over and touched her forehead, and then held her wrist and sat on the edge of the couch.

"I've already sent someone to Chongwu to inform your master."

He spoke softly, staring at Qing Ling's eyes dark and deep, not for a moment.

Qing Ling slowly woke up, and the scenes before fainting quickly appeared in his mind. She suffocated in her chest and struggled to sit up.

"What about my brother? Where are they? Where are they......"

Mu Chen held down Qing Ling while using his divine power to stabilize her internal breath, "Your fifth senior brother is fine." I've always had people watch over him, don't worry. ”

Qing Ling's eyes widened, looking at Mu Chen in a daze, her clear pupils overflowing with sorrow, "But my fourth senior brother is dead." ”

Big tears rolled down, she trembled her lips, and repeated: "My fourth senior brother, he is dead...... Dead ......"

Mu Chen stretched out his arms to hug Qing Ling and kept comforting her, "Your body is still very weak, don't be too sad." ”

Qing Ling grabbed Mu Chen's clothes and cried, as if he wanted to vent all his emotional screams.

Sadness, self-blame, guilt, endless hatred......

After a long time, she finally calmed down, sobbing and propping herself up, "It's Mu Han's plan!" He knew early on that I was going to the Casting Tower, which was full of ambushes. I won't let him go! I want him to pay for my brother's life! ”

Although it was not possible to link all the events together, Qing Ling could already conclude that all of this was a killing game set up for her by Queen Fangshan and Mu Han!

Mu Chen said in a deep voice: "It's my fault. I thought that the matter of the Night Clan was a plan they used against me. But I didn't expect ......"

He grabbed Qingling's shoulders and stopped her from staying, "You can't go to him now." He has been prepared for a long time, and he must have prepared a speech to slander you in front of his father. If you go to make trouble now, it will only make him more reasonable. ”

Qing Ling clenched his fists, "He slanders him!" I just want him to die! As long as he's dead, I don't care! ”

Mu Chen's slender fingers brushed her cheeks and gently wiped away the remaining tears, "It's not difficult to kill him, but if he dies, what will the queen do?" What about your fifth senior brother and his clansmen? Qing Ling ......" he paused with difficulty, a look of pain in his eyes, "Since you have stepped into the game, you must know how to be patient." ”

He did his best to keep her out of the power struggle, but in the end she got involved, and she was involved in the bloody killing, and lost her loved ones.

And all this, in the end, is for him......

Qing Ling bit her lip, "It was Queen Fangshan who instigated my father to send me back to Chongwu. The arrest of the Ye clan should have been planned by her behind the scenes. I just didn't expect that the palace maid who was close to me next to me would also be her person. ”

She suffered more than 900 lashes of hatred for the people of Yinque Palace, saved the lives of a few people, and treated them like sisters on weekdays, but even so, she still couldn't get her loyalty.

If it weren't for someone helping to deliver the news and deliberately leaking the information to Lai Chung, how could the queen's plan go so smoothly?

After all, I am too careless, too gullible, too naïve, and too conceited!

Mu Chen had already advised Qing Ling to beware of the attendants around her, but seeing her face full of remorse at this time, he could only persuade and say: "Even if it is not the palace maid next to you, the queen has a way to buy other people." ”

Fang Shan's status in Chaoyan is now in full swing, and it is really easy to buy one or two slaves and maids.

Qing Ling leaned on Mu Chen silently, and his heart was sad and hateful for a while, all kinds of emotions were churning and staggering, and for a moment he lost control, he just wished that he would die like this, and he would be relieved.

One day,

She said to herself in her heart, one day, I will let them taste the pain too. Queen Fangshan, Mu Han, Mo Nanhao, Mo Nanqi...... Every single one of them, she won't let go!

After a long time, Qing Ling opened his mouth faintly, "You just said that my fifth senior brother has always been guarded. What about my fourth brother's ...... Where is it? ”

Mu Chen probed her internal breath and saw that she had finally calmed down, so he said, "The person has been buried, if you think you can control your emotions, you can go to see him at any time." ”

"Burial?" Qing Ling's heart contracted like a pinprick, and he repeated the word with difficulty.

Mu Chen was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "On the occasion of the big war, the army will prepare the burial things in advance. That cold jade ice crystal coffin was originally prepared for me. ”

Qing Ling raised his eyes suddenly, looking at Mu Chen in astonishment and horror.

Mu Chen smiled indifferently, "In the battlefield battle, there will always be casualties. ”

Qing Ling stared at his picturesque delicate face, and unconsciously clenched his hand, as if only in this way could he control the only reliance that could be clinged to.

Before going to Casting Dingtai, she actually had a grudge against him.

Always so sensible, so calm and even cold-hearted...... Regardless of the life and death of others......

But in fact, he, like her, is a poor person who has been forced into a cruel chess game.

It's just that he sees it more thoroughly than she does, and he can hate it more than she does.

Qing Ling leaned his head on Mu Chen's shoulder and whispered, "You won't die." None of us will die. We will live well, better than anyone else......"

Mu Chen let out a low "um", unable to tell whether he was sighing or agreeing.

He slowly gathered his arms and hugged Qing Ling into his arms.