After leaving the palace, it is the road of Kangzhuang. Circling out of the imperial city again, the carriage traveled in an orderly manner, and the surrounding area was full of people to deserted. In a large area of withered yellow grassland, this year's frost fell early, and groups of herdsmen drove a herd of cattle and sheep, singing pastoral songs, and ran from one end of the grassland to the other end of the grassland.

Changtu rode alone, only me and Wanyu were in the spacious and soft carriage, and Xiaobai who was lying on it and ignored me with his head turned away.

Wanyu was in a bad mood along the way, either closing her eyes to recuperate or looking out the window alone to enjoy the scenery.

I was bored with no one to talk to me, and I lifted the curtain, sat down with the coachman, and watched him pull the reins and wave his whip, and now saw me sitting beside him.

hurriedly shouted, "Princess!"

"Well, you go on, I'm just a little bored, and I want to come out and blow the wind. ”

Standing on horseback and smelling the situation here, Changtu also turned his head to look at this side, and slowly approached on his horse.

He raised his hands, clenched his sword, and persuaded me: "The princess should go in quickly, it is windy outside, and the princess's true face should not be exposed at will, so that others can see it." ”

"No one knew it was the princess's carriage, and the chief guard didn't have to worry too much, even though it was on the way. ”

Changtu didn't dare to say more, just a good sentence, and then ignored me.

It's just that his eyes have been on me, consciously or unconsciously, paying attention to all the subtle movements on my side.

There is not only our carriage on the carriage, this line, there are three or four cars in the same drive, when I came I specially instructed the carriage to be low-key, but now compared with the side one, our car is exquisite and gorgeous, and the other is luxurious and cumbersome, but the status symbol can be highlighted through the contrast.

Through the window of one of the carriages, the curtain floated up, and I vaguely saw Tao Qingzhou, who was sitting precariously, and was closing his eyes at the moment.

At a quick glance, I could only see half of his face, and I couldn't see anything inside the carriage.

Sitting on horseback, his back straightened, and his eyes were looking ahead, I whispered to him, "Long guard, long guard!"

"Princess, what's the matter?"

"Look, the carriage in front of us on the right is familiar to you?"

He looked intently, the coachman was driving the horses too fast, and the glimpse just now, when he happened to be riding at the same time as us, could only see the tail of their carriage.

"Tell the princess, my subordinates haven't seen it. ”

Since it is not the carriage he usually uses, then this time out of the city, he must have something to hide, or have some personal affairs, and he is in a hurry, it is estimated that it is a hurry.

"Let me ask you, what do you think of Tao Qingzhou, Lord Tao?"

He glanced at my face, immediately turned his gaze away, looked at my ear, and said: "My subordinates are not familiar with Master Tao, but my subordinates have seen him a few times, and they have never intersected in private. ”

"Oh, that's right, by the way, I'll ask you about something? Where is the disfigured person who entered the palace with Yun Entropy and participated in the canonization ceremony?"

"Your Highness is talking about the adjutant general Quying?"

Qu Ying's record is remarkable, after entering the imperial city, Yun Entropy ascended the throne, he was canonized as a deputy general, but he was seriously injured, and he was forced to stand in the palace that day, I heard that after standing for a long time, because of his movement, he tore the wound, and the blood stains instantly dyed the official uniform red, Yun Entropy saw this, and hereby approved him to return to the palace to recuperate for three months, and then return to the court.

After that, I didn't see him, and every time I asked Yun Entropy, Yun Entropy always diverted my attention with various excuses, and in the end I could only dismiss the idea of seeing him.

is an irrelevant person, but God-given fate, at least I owe him a promise.

"Exactly. ”

"Vice Admiral Qu has never heard of his situation, but there are some intersections in the official position, and he needs to be handed over, but every time he goes to his house, his housekeeper says that he is sick in bed, inconvenient to see guests, and sometimes there are important matters to discuss, but the housekeeper has the emperor's holy decree in his hand, and he has no choice but to give up, so since he took office, he has never seen the legendary Vice General Qu. ”

Qu Ying's disappearance, the gradual deterioration of Yun Entropy's body, everything seems to point the finger at Tao Qingzhou, but this is all a guess in my heart, what is the specific, I have to wait for my return to the palace this time, and then send someone to find out carefully.

"So, no wonder even the royal brother forbade me to visit him. ”

All the way to the south, half a day's journey, finally arrived at Jiyun Town, which has always been a place where foreign businessmen gather and **** people gather. Today, too, the sound of camel bells resounded in my ears.

The crowded street is not easy to walk, the coachman got off the horse to lead the horse's head, I entered the car, Wanyu because of her familiar place, a dull heart seems to suddenly open up.

She lifted the curtains, closed her eyes, took a deep breath of the outside air, then turned her head and looked at me, her eyes shining again, shining like a purple and black grape.

After the sound of shouting and drinking, I quickly walked around the crowded street and entered the bluestone alley, because it was damp and dark because of the perennial sunshine, and the moss on the stone walls could be seen everywhere on both sides of the road, but because there were often people walking in the middle, the middle was not covered with moss.

After Wanyu saw the Cloud Climbing Inn, she jumped out of the carriage, Xiaobai also jumped down, the coachman slowed down, and finally slowly stopped the car in front of the inn.

I also got out of the car, the long picture had already dismounted, looked up at the inn here, and couldn't hide the amazing color in my eyes.

He muttered in his mouth: "It's really a ghostly workmanship, and it is ingenious to seize the Heavenly Palace." ”

"Well, there are more amazing people and things in it, don't be so stunned when you see it later, like a wooden chicken. ”

When Changtu heard my command, he lowered his head and grabbed his hair in embarrassment, turned around and told the coachman to wait here, and then followed me in.

In the inn, as always, in the lobby, there are no living people, not even a fly, after Wanyu left, this shopkeeper no longer exists.

Xiaobai followed Wanyu to the second floor, and Wanyu was going to enter her room.

When I followed, I saw that she had pushed open the door and entered, and the alien prince had long been nowhere to be seen, and when her injuries had healed, she left.

Wanyu didn't know what to rummage through in the closet, so I looked around the room and found an envelope quietly placed in the pillow.

I stepped in and picked it up, and the envelope actually had a faint freshness, and Changtu had been standing outside the door to guard.

Wanyu finally stood up, I handed the envelope to her, and she also handed me a medicine bottle, all black, containing liquid.

"What is this?"

"This is a medicine that can heal my sister's throat, so take it. ”

I went to the round table, pulled out the cork, put the vial between my nose, colorless and tasteless, and was just about to pour the liquid into my mouth, when the long picture and long sword were raised, and my medicine bottle instantly reached the end of his sword.

He took the sword away from me, then took the vase in his hand, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and when he was done, he did not return it to me.

I couldn't help but let go of my voice and shouted, "What are you doing here?" Give me back the bottle. ”

"Your Royal Highness, the emperor instructed me to protect the safety of His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness is not in a hurry to take this medicine now, and when he returns to the palace, the minister will find a doctor to check it, and then Her Royal Highness the princess will not be in a hurry to take it again. ”

He is loyal and loyal, but I found that after entering the palace, I was deprived of even a little bit of my own, can what Wanyu gave me be poisonous?

I didn't speak, I didn't look at him, but the rest of the way, no matter what he said, I didn't pay attention to him or talk to him.

Wanyu opened the envelope, spread out the letter and looked at it for a long time, but there was no response. Seeing her standing under the window, the wind blowing off the envelope in her already loosened hand, I picked it up and looked at it.

Sure enough, something was wrong.

"Wanyu?

"What should I do? Sister, Si Kou is so despicable that he actually kidnapped the master, and he didn't have a way to open the back door, so he actually kidnapped the master. ”

"How come, isn't your master a thousand-year-old fish spirit?

"Sister, don't you know, Master's mana has been getting worse day by day in recent years, and even during this period of time, she even did not hesitate to force her inner Dan out, I shouldn't have left Master, now that she has an accident, how can I save her? ”

Actually forced out Nedan? But to save whom?

Now, there is only one sentence left in the letter: "Those who follow me will prosper and those who disobey me will die, and I will let everyone in the world remember me." ”

Wanyu was anxious to cry, but her tears couldn't fall, and I comforted her. Carrying her into my arms, the room was quiet, and I clenched the letter in my hand, and a great conspiracy seemed to be coming at me.

"Why don't you go elsewhere to find clues first, don't worry, they will definitely not treat your master for a while. ”

The door of the retreat was wide open, and everything placed in the courtyard was destroyed, and it was staggered as if it had been robbed.

Even Xian Si usually has a pipa that never leaves his hand and falls to the ground horizontally, after Wanyu saw it, she ran over and squatted next to the pipa, stretched out her hand, picked up the black pipa that had been broken in two, and hugged it.

"How so? What are they looking for? What do they want to ask your master for?"

"They, before leaving, I came to the master, and heard the thief say that the master should open the back door of the Cloud Climbing Inn, so that he can enter the imperial city with his army, so that the gods can unknowingly take the imperial city into their hands. ”

"These thieves, it's really hateful. Wanyu, why don't you go back to the palace and ask the royal brother to leave the station, and then step on the border soil of his Yue'e tribe, and see if he dares to be arrogant. ”

The Cloud Climbing Inn didn't know if there was anyone at this time, looking at the mess here, what secrets was Wanyu's master hiding? Everything seemed to be connected together, forming a huge conspiracy whirlpool.

Xiaobai turned around, and he didn't know where he was running at this time, and Changtu was looking for it everywhere now.

We looked separately and saw that the first and second floors were empty, and the third and fourth floors were the same, and I pushed the doors open one by one, and the wind blew in the room, bringing up the curtains and curtains that fluttered everywhere.

There was a faint smell of blood in the empty silence, and I followed the smell to the room at the end of the third floor. The door was closed, and the smell of blood emanating from it was extremely strong.