Late at night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the entire Nine Palaces seemed to be shrouded in darkness, with only a little light beating in the night.

It was pitch black in Mo Jue's palace at this time, and there was no one else in the room except Mo Jue, who was lying quietly on the bed.

Several figures quietly came to the gate of the palace with firewood and fire oil in their hands, poured the fire oil on the firewood, and a fire fold was thrown on the firewood, and in an instant, the flames sparked, and the whole palace fell into a sea of fire.

Strangely, there was such a big fire, and no one in the palace noticed it, and there was not a trace of sound.

But these figures did not find it strange, they stood outside the palace, quietly watching the entire palace burned to ashes by the fire before they left.

What they didn't notice was that after they left, two figures appeared not far away, looking at the burned palace with a look of good fun.

In the palace of the Great Elder of the Nine Palaces, Tang Lao suddenly threw down the chess pieces, and said a little anxiously: "Boss, I always have a feeling of unsteadiness in my heart, no, I have to go back and see the Young Palace Master." ”

As he spoke, he stood up and wanted to leave, but when the Great Elder saw this, he pressed his shoulder and pressed the person to the chair again and sat down, "Old Five, you are just too nervous, there are so many people around the young palace master to protect you, what can happen? You and I finally played chess together, the opportunity is rare, you can't sneak away." ”

Tang Lao looked forward to it, with a bitter and bitter look, "Boss, don't you know, my least favorite thing is playing chess." "He's got a lot of temperament, and he's always disliked things that sit quietly.

The Great Elder glanced at the night and said to Tang Lao: "That's it, let's go down the last plate, and then you can leave after the end, okay?"

Tang Lao no longer shirked, and continued to play the last game of chess with the Great Elder, his heart was not as anxious as he appeared on his face, he already knew what would happen tonight.

After Elder Tang left the Great Elder and returned to Mo Jue's palace, what he saw was a pile of ruins, although he had long known what would happen, but when he saw the situation in front of him, he hated those people even more in his heart.

They did this, clearly wanting to create an incident where the palace caught fire and the young palace master died unexpectedly, and the great elder asked him to play chess with him tonight, so that he could bear the charge of poor care, it was really ruthless.

Tang Lao was full of emotions, and soon shouted loudly: "Come on, the young palace master has an accident, come quickly......" He shouted while rushing into the ruins, rummaging around.

It didn't take long for the people who heard the sound to come to Mo Jue's palace, regardless of whether they knew in their hearts who had done everything tonight, and they all looked panicked.

"What's going on?

"Quick, go find the young palace master, you go and invite the great elders and them over. ”

"Old Tang, how could the palace of the young palace master be burned?"

Tang Lao didn't bother to pay attention to these people, there was such a big fire in the palace, until it burned to ashes, and no one found out, is this situation normal?

Obviously, the entire Ninefold Palace was controlled by people, and these people didn't dare to offend the people behind them, so they all pretended not to see the fire in the palace and let the people inside be burned to death.

Tang Lao's silence seemed to everyone to be overly sad, and what he had been looking for everywhere in the ruins should be the corpse of the young palace master.

"That's ...... Is it the Young Palace Master?" Suddenly, a person found a corpse, which was very similar to Mo Jue's figure, but because only the charred skeleton could be seen after being burned by the fire, the person who spoke was very unsure.

As soon as Tang Lao heard this voice, he immediately ran to the skeleton, he picked up a piece of jade pendant next to the skeleton, and cried loudly: "Young palace master, young palace master, blame the old man for not being good, why didn't ......he stay with you?

Listening to Tang Lao's grief-stricken cry, everyone knew that the skeleton was really the young palace master who was burned to death, and someone asked Tang Lao in a low voice as if he wanted to be sure of something: "Fifth Elder, how do you know that this is the young palace master?"

Tang Lao glared at him, picked up the jade pendant and said: "This is the jade pendant worn by the young palace master, I will not admit my mistake, my poor young palace master......" Tang Lao began to cry again.

The two people who watched this scene from a distance couldn't help but look at each other, if it weren't for the young palace master himself standing here, looking at Tang Lao's grief-stricken appearance, they would all believe that Mo Jue was really dead.

Mu Liyue sighed with emotion: "Tang Lao is really wronged in the Nine Palaces, his free acting skills really make me ashamed." ”

When Mo Jue heard this, he scolded in his heart: Why didn't he find that the acting skills of the people around him were so good?

Seeing the ruins of the palace in the distance, the Great Elder, Second Elder and others of the Nine Folds Palace had rushed over, and even Liu Ziqing had already arrived, Mu Liyue said to Mo Jue, "I'll go first." ”

Mu Liyue, who was disguised as the Great Elder of the Liu Family, yawned as she walked inside, "What's wrong? ”

The eyes of everyone in the Nine Palaces looking at her were about to burst into flames, and the young palace masters were all burned to death, and she still knew how to sleep.

Mu Liyue walked up to Tang Lao and the others, saw several people gathered around a skeleton, and asked as if she knew everything, "Who is this skeleton?

When Tang Lao heard Mu Liyue's voice, he immediately jumped up, pointed at her and scolded, "Elder Liu, did you send someone to set the fire?"

Mu Liyue seemed to react at this time, looking at Tang Lao with three points of surprise in her eyes, one point of sadness, three points of schadenfreude, and three points of anger of being wronged, "Fifth Elder, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, when did I send someone to set fire to kill the young palace master?" I've been sleeping in my room." ”

The Great Elder of the Nine Palaces stopped Tang Lao, and pretended to blame himself: "Old Five, if you want to blame me, blame me, if I hadn't pulled you to play chess with me, maybe the young palace master wouldn't have had an accident." ”

The fourth elder continued to say on the side: "Fifth Elder, calm down, we have already checked, there are no other corpses here except the young palace master, we have already asked the night watchman, it was they who were negligent in their duties, and they sneaked out to play while no one was sneaking out, so they did not find the fire in time, which caused the young palace master to have an accident." ”

Boss Tang shouted: "You guys are talking nonsense, even if the night watchman sneaks out to play, there is such a big fire, and there are so many people in the entire Nine Palaces, won't anyone find out?"

As he spoke, he swept over the others, and those who were swept by his gaze all lowered their heads, not daring to look at him, because they had deliberately failed to notice.

The Great Elder comforted: "I will send someone to investigate this problem, if someone deliberately murders the Young Palace Master, I will not let him go, but in this case, we don't have any evidence to prove that it is man-made and not accidental." ”

Tang Lao retorted: "The young palace master who is unconscious in the entire palace is alone, could it be that he burned himself after he woke up?"

Someone muttered: "It's not impossible, maybe the young palace master suddenly woke up and found that no one was there, and he got up and accidentally knocked over the candle flame, which caused the accident of the palace fire." ”

Liu Ziqing said lightly: "It's not that this possibility is not impossible, it's just that the palace master handed over Qingyan to you to take care of the five elders, but this kind of thing happened, five elders, I think you should think about how to explain it to the palace master." ”

Elder Tang seemed to have just remembered this question, and he said to the Great Elder: "Boss, it's all your fault for pulling me to play chess, now that this kind of thing happens, the palace master asks, what should I do?"

The Great Elder said: "Old Five, I didn't mean it, how did I know that this kind of thing would happen? ”

After speaking, he let go of Tang Lao and said to everyone: "Fourth, you take someone to clean up here first, second, third, you take someone to arrange the mourning hall and place the body of the young palace master." ”

Mu Liyue saw that everyone was slowly dispersed, and she and Liu Ziqing followed behind the Great Elder and left.

"Madame, now you believe in my sincerity. "Not far from Mo Jue's palace, the Great Elder spoke.

Liu Ziqing nodded with satisfaction, "Well, since that's the case, then I'll send a message to my father and them and act according to the plan." ”

"Good. ”

The three of them separated, and each went back to his resting place, but they all had no sleep all night.

The next day, after the four elders and others dealt with the matter, they all came to the palace of the great elder, and now Jun Qian is in retreat, and the affairs of the nine-fold palace are handed over to the great elder.

"Boss, why don't I think this thing is right?" The second elder always felt that Mo Jue's death was not an accident.

The Fourth Elder and the Great Elder glanced at each other and asked, "What's wrong?"

The second elder didn't dare to say that he suspected that there were ghosts in the Nine Palaces, and he had always remained neutral, but it didn't mean that he didn't know the twists and turns in the middle, he thought about it, and just said: "As soon as the palace master's wife and the people of the Liu family came to the Nine Folds Palace, something happened to the young palace master, how could there be such a coincidence?"

The Great Elder said: "Don't worry about these things for now, when the palace master comes out of retreat, he will naturally deal with these things, and the most important thing for us now is to handle the affairs of the young palace master first." ”

The second elder stopped talking, and the third elder withdrew, but the fourth elder did not leave.

"Boss, now that Jun Qingyan is dead, and the palace master is in retreat, I don't know if I can come out alive, but on the Liu family's side, I always feel that they have ulterior motives. The Fourth Elder reminded.

The Great Elder looked like he had already seen through it, and said, "I have long known that the Liu family has ulterior motives, and they will not help me ascend to the position of palace master according to the original plan. ”

"What then?"

"Don't panic yet, I've already arranged it, since these people from the Liu family have already entered the Nine Folds Palace, they don't have to put it back. ”