Chapter Twenty-Three: A Game Within a Game
When Mo Gongyin heard this, he stepped back, I don't know if he was in a hurry, or the strength under his feet was a little heavy, he took a step back, and the tiles under his feet were broken one by one, rolling down.
Damn it! I've never been so embarrassed! She stepped back, her feet always empty, her body unsteady and leaned forward, and she fell, her palms poked against the tiles, and she frowned in pain.
And the leader of the guards in the courtyard had already got the bow and arrow, pulled the bow out, aimed the arrow at Mo Gongyin's back, and shot away...
Swish.....
The arrow pierced through the air and shot straight away, sharp and fast, with no chance to dodge.
Mo Gongyin got up and saw the arrow flying towards him, his face turned pale, and as soon as he made a sound in his throat: "Zhan ....." saw a black shadow in front of him, flew over, blocking her vision, and with a muffled snort, the man grabbed her shoulders with both hands.
It's the Dark Guard.
He blocked her arrows....
"Give this to the master, this is the treasure map." With a deep voice, the Dark Guard threw a brocade box into her arms, pushing her out with his palm like the wind, and he turned and jumped out of the yard.
"Ah....." her body fell from behind the roof like the wind, and she had no internal strength, and fell hard into another alley outside the mansion.
Boom...
After falling on the ground, Mo Gongyin didn't have time to care about the pain, touched the thing in her arms, and got up directly from the ground, everything that happened just now was in an instant, her heart was beating irregularly, and it felt so unreal, panicked.
After standing up, she didn't look back, just ran towards the alley in front of her, and as soon as her foot stepped into the alley, a shining sword stabbed at the top of her head, and she dodged the attack with a sharp backflip, cautiously avoiding the corner, and looked up at the man in the guard uniform standing opposite, holding a sharp sword.
She could see the man's face at a glance, it was the man who had just fired an arrow at herself in the mansion, he chased after him so quickly, could it be that the two secret guards had already ......
The man stood still, but the sword in his hand pointed at Mo Gongyin, and said coldly: "Leave the things behind, and leave your whole corpse." ”
Mo Gongyin came back to his senses, a pair of peach blossom eyes bent slightly, smiled as if it were fake, and said abruptly: "You can give things to you, then you tell me whether the treasure map in this is true or false?" As she spoke, she took out the brocade box that the secret guard had given her from her bosom and shook it in front of her eyes.
The man looked angry at first glance, and only said: "This is not a question you should ask, or that sentence, leave the things, I will keep your whole body." ”
The corners of Mo Gongyin's mouth hooked, put away the brocade box, and continued to put it in her arms: "I think this sentence should be left to you..." ”
As soon as the words fell, a black shadow that merged with the night suddenly appeared in front of her, and Zhan Shu pulled out a shiny red soft sword from his waist and stabbed it straight at the man's head.
The man's eyes flashed, he held the sword to receive the move, and the moves of Zhan Shu were varied, especially the red sword in his hand was smooth and sharp, and there was nowhere to hide. He struggled to defend, but gradually became powerless, watching a sword pierce his chest, looking at Zhan Shu with a suspicious expression.
Zhan Shu solemnly and indifferently drew the blood sword, and when he saw the man falling, he said coolly: "Your Highness said, leave your whole corpse." ”
Mo Gongyin stood in the distance and looked at what Zhan Shu was doing indifferently, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, this guy was becoming more and more impersonal.
"Your Highness, you're dead, what now?" After Zhan Shu was sure that the man was dead, he turned around and walked towards Mo Gongyin.
Mo Gongyin glanced at the man lying on the ground, and a trace of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes: "Well, destroy his corpse with corpse Fen." ”
"Yes." Zhan Shu turned around and walked over to the dead man, took out a white bottle from his arms, opened it and poured some powder on the corpse on the ground, and soon, the corpse turned into a pool of blood.
Mo Gongyin raised his eyes and looked at the mansion, and when he saw that there was still a bright fire, he couldn't help but wrinkle his eyebrows: "How are the two secret guards?" ”
This treasure map should not be a coincidence, but the beginning of a conspiracy!
"The subordinates saw that they managed to escape, and they were not injured except for blocking the arrow for you." Zhan Shu walked back, his face was indifferent, and he told everything he saw.
A thoughtful look flashed in Mo Gongyin's eyes, and he took out the brocade box from his arms again, looked at it for a long time, and didn't say a word.
"Your Highness, is this really a treasure map?" Zhan Shu glanced at the brocade box in her hand, and didn't see her open it for a long time, a little curious.
Mo Gongyin raised his eyes to Shang Zhanshu's curious eyes, hooked the corners of his lips, and said with a wry smile: "I don't know if there is really a treasure map in this palace, but this palace is sure that if we open it at this moment, don't think about returning to Mexico alive in Nanjing." ”
After thinking about it for a long time, she finally understood what was going on.
A trace of confusion flashed in Zhan Shu's eyes when he heard this, and he didn't continue to ask, because there were some things that he shouldn't ask.
After thinking about what was going on, she was also relieved, and continued to take the brocade box back into her arms: "Send this palace back to the palace." ”
When she returned to the palace, she was not in a hurry to see Nancheng Xun, thinking that he would not be in a hurry at this time, so she took a bath, changed into clean clothes, and had a good night's sleep, and did not go to the imperial study to report until dawn.
Nancheng Xun has not come back from the morning court, and she is waiting for him to come back in the imperial study, and it is almost noon, Nancheng Xun has come back from the morning court.
Mo Gongyin stood respectfully and obediently beside the desk, without saying a word, until Nancheng Xun walked up to her, and the faint ambergris approached, which smelled very good. She raised her eyes slightly, and saw that the eyebrows were not thick or thin, the narrow and handsome eyes, the bridge of the nose was straight like a knife, and the lip flap was a little thin, but the lines were beautiful, and the color was shiny, but the face was not very good-looking, and she was very angry.
"Emperor.... The emperor...."Mo Gongyin looked at his ice face, and his heart was panicked, and he quickly lowered his eyelashes, lowered his eyebrows, and his arrogant tone became a little lacking, "My subordinates have something to report." ”
"Say..."Nancheng said in a deep voice, her narrow phoenix eyes swept indifferently over her face, and she walked towards her seat.
Mo Gongyin turned sideways and saw that Nan Chengxun had already sat down, so she slowly took out the brocade box handed to her by the secret guard last night and put it on the table, and said truthfully: "I wanted to send this brocade box to the emperor immediately last night, but I was chased and killed all the way, and my subordinates finally escaped death and brought the brocade box back intact." ”
Nancheng Xun didn't look at the brocade box on the table, but stared at her eyes, mouth, a pair of unwavering black eyes flashed with a hint of light, and her thin lips opened slightly: "Is everything true?" Are the words true? Didn't lie? The words asked, without a hint of questioning, but so indifferent.
A trace of hesitation flashed on Mo Gongyin's face, and he said: "Subordinate ......" Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Nancheng Xun's cold voice.
"What a good one to be chased and killed all the way? A good one to survive? Mo Gongyin, do you think I'm too serious about you? How dare you deceive me so blatantly? Where did you go last night? When will I come back, don't think I don't know anything. ”
When the words were all said and done, Mo Gongyin straightened up, looked at Nan Chengxun's slightly angry face, showed disappointment, and smiled bitterly: "Then the emperor really trusts me?" Temptation after temptation? Doesn't the emperor think this is funny? ”
Nancheng Xun's eyes narrowed slightly, his handsome face was dark, and he asked her: "Do you think that the last time I was punished in Mei Xinju and the theft of the treasure map last night were my plays?" ”
Mo Gongyin asked confidently, "Isn't it?" ”
A trace of disappointment flashed on Nancheng Xun's face, and he said in a deep voice: "What if I say it's not? ”
Mo Gongyin's heart trembled, and he pursed his lips and looked at Nancheng Xun, trying to see something on his cold face... After looking at it for a long time, there was only one indifference in those deep dark eyes, and nothing else.
Nancheng Xun saw that she couldn't answer, lowered his eyes and reached out to take the brocade box on the table in his hand, Mo Gongyin stared at the brocade box for a long time without speaking, watching him slowly knock the brocade box lock open, the box slowly opened, there was no hidden weapon shot out as she expected, not just an empty box, but there was a worn-out tiger skin in it, and the white and slender fingers unfolded the tiger skin and put it on the table.
Mo Gongyin didn't take a step forward to see if it was a real treasure map, but was very entangled in his heart, obviously this is not the case, why is it like this?
Mei Xinju's incident she suspected that it was a bitter meat scene co-starred by Nan Chengxun and Nan Wuqing, the two of them just sang yellow face and white face, for her, she had already seen through this kind of drama. If you think about it, it's not like that? If you really want her life, you can just kill her, or assassinate her, and just claim to the world that the prince of Mexico died violently, so why bother so much? Last night's incident, she began to wonder why Nan Chengxun chose her to do such a secret thing, and gave her the treasure map so trustingly, because he was too confident? Or is it a temptation?
When she heard Zhan Shu say that the two secret guards had successfully escaped, she decided that this Nancheng Xun's play was just to test whether she would betray him, or even swallow the treasure map to herself, and there would never be any real treasure map in the brocade box.
Is Nancheng too deeply hidden? Or is she overthinking?
Thinking of this, Mo Gongyin raised his head slightly, looking at the still upright figure, that indifferent and arrogant face, not shocked, the fist hidden in his sleeve was already clenched, and there was a slight pain in his heart.
Suddenly, Gonggong Guo trotted in from outside the house, interrupting the strange atmosphere in the house, and he walked to Mo Gongyin's side and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Luoxi asks to see you." ”
Nancheng Xun furrowed his eyebrows, looked at Mo Gongyin and waved his hand: "You step back first." ”
"Yes." Mo Gongyin glanced at Nancheng Xun lightly and walked out of the room.
"Let Luo Xi come in and see me." After Nancheng Xun looked at her and walked out, he raised his eyes and said to Gonggong Guo.
"The old slave will invite Lord Luoxi to come in." Guo Gonggong replied respectfully, knowing that this Lord Luo Xi was a good friend and military advisor of the emperor, so he didn't dare to slack off, and led Luo Xi into the room after exiting quickly.
Luo Xi was dressed in a blue cloth shirt, his figure was uproaring, there was a shallow smile on his handsome face, a black hair was randomly inserted into a hosta, and he slowly walked in with a jasper-colored jade flute in his hand. didn't salute, but walked to Nancheng Xun's side before stopping, a pair of purple pupils casually looked at the tiger skin on the table, there was a blank on it, there was no trace, frowned, and suddenly asked: "This is the treasure map of the dynasty that has been lost for a hundred years?" How can it be blank? ”