Although at this moment, he had already found out the truth from the prisoners he captured last night, Ji Ran faintly felt that he was being used as a gunman by Wei Xingzhen.

The female official Fuguang slowly walked down the stone steps outside the Taichu Palace, "Master Ji, the emperor sent you to come forward and ask questions." ”

Ji Ran came back to his senses, took three steps and made two steps, and followed Fuguang to the main hall without saying a word.

In the palace, the eldest princess of the year of the sixtieth year was covering her sleeves and crying, and Ji Ran stepped forward and bowed to the emperor and the eldest princess.

"Okay, stop crying, and in front of the young man...... People are going to laugh at you. Sun Youwei looked at her gray-haired daughter with a somewhat coaxing tone.

The eldest princess looked over, "......Who is this?" ”

"Chen Jiran, the current position of Shaoqing of Dali Temple, has seen the eldest princess."

The eldest princess wiped away her tears and smiled, "I can live one more day and take one more look at my mother, it's all thanks to Lord Ji......"

Sun You smiled, interrupted the eldest princess's words, and only urged her to go back to rest quickly, but the eldest princess was reluctant and got up to say goodbye.

After the eldest princess left, the hall was silent again.

Sun Youwei looked at the direction of her daughter's departure and sighed in a low voice, "Among my children, the eldest princess is the most filial and kind-hearted...... Ji Ran, I don't know how to thank you. ”

"Your Majesty's words are serious," Ji Ran lowered his eyes and said, "It is an honor for the minister to share his worries for His Majesty!" ”

Sun Youwei retracted his gaze, and his expression gradually returned to his usual majesty.

"What is going on with the fact that the princess and the eldest princess fell asleep for no reason?" Sun Youwei said softly, "Let's talk about it." ”

……

In the small building, Bu Yan was also talking to Feng Yan about everything that happened yesterday evening.

"Is that so?" Feng Yan stopped the carving in her hand, she looked at Bu Wei who was standing not far away, "Did you really see it clearly at that time?" ”

He nodded. His voice was muffled, sounding like someone had put a wooden basin on his head.

"There were four of them, and when we sneaked in with the adults, we saw them sitting in the cellar of a house in Chunhefang. There was no light in the cellar, so I don't know what they were doing. ”

"And then?" Feng Yan asked.

"Then the lord told me to go up and pick up all four of them," he said, gesturing, "I'll go and pick them up, and then we'll go to Dali Temple together—"

"Hey, you ......," said Go, who jumped down from the table beside him and sat cross-legged on the floor, "Madam, let me tell you about this." ”

Feng Yan laughed, "Okay." ”

"When we entered, we came across those four people who were performing forbidden spells, intending to manipulate the nearby bitter masters to go to the dry well and devour enough wild spirits to kill people."

"Devouring wild spirits?" Feng Yan frowned slightly, "But there are 600,000 people in Luoyang City, and this is a lot of traffic...... It's not a place where wild spirits often haunt. ”

"That wild spirit is not from the city, it is brought from the area of Daizong Mountain, and it is an underground water road." "When we went down to the cellar, there was a square table in the cellar, and in the middle of the table were three eight characters written in blood and water—two of these eight characters were stacked on top of each other, one was the eldest princess and Mrs. Xue Taiwei's Shaw family, and the other belonged to the woman that Lord Ji had captured last night. ”

"Shaw's?" Feng Yan was stunned again, "How could it be the Shaw Family, the person who slept was obviously Xue Taiwei......"

He smiled and lowered his voice mysteriously, "Have you ever heard of 'a thread'?" ”

Feng Yan shook her head.

“…… It's also a type of Wild Spirit Golem? ”

"Yes!" He snapped his fingers, "As long as you manage to get someone's eight characters, hair, and fingertip blood, you can use the 'thread pull' spell to instantly lead the curse mark to the most important person of this person - the most important person in Mrs. Taiwei's heart is the old Taiwei, so it is naturally the Taiwei himself who is hit."

"But this situation is a minority, and for most people, the most important person in the world is themselves - such as the eldest princess, so after she was hit by the 'thread', she fell asleep by herself."

Feng Yan listened and thought carefully, and couldn't help but stand up and pace slowly in the room.

She remembers that when she fell asleep inexplicably last year, her father and mother also wondered if she had been tricked. The Feng family invited the forbidden master to check on the inner mansion at that time, but the courtyard was clean and clean, and there was no trace of puppetry.

"The old lady was in the inner court when he fell asleep," Feng Yan said softly, "There is no shortage of capable people in the palace, if it is really a puppet technique, the forbidden master of the inner court will ...... I can't see it. ”

"My wife doesn't know, this is where the 'first-line pull' is clever," Qu said with a smile, "The first-line lead is different from ordinary puppetry, and it will not leave any traces on the body after being hit."

"The first line is led by wild spirits, and the initial erosion of forbidden spells is only for a moment, and it is difficult to detect unless you prepare in advance. If he can't find the place where the original forbidden spell was cast, and destroy the spell cast, the bitter master will not be able to wake up on his own, and it will look like he is asleep - which is why it is classified as a forbidden spell. ”

"However, the wild spirit is spiritual after all, and if you keep ignoring it, the bitter master will only die of exhaustion."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, "Of course, there is another possibility. ”

"What?"

"It's just like the woman in Chunhefang last night, the manipulator first let the sleeping people go to the land of wild spirits, so that they can quickly get a puppet with plenty of power, just like Nie Xiaojun who set fire to the Ming Hall around the summer solstice."

The expression on his face became serious, "After being infiltrated by the wild spirits, the bitter lord will die slowly within three days, and during these three days, their bodies are all controlled by the manipulator who casts the 'thread pull'. If I'm not mistaken, that Lady Shao and the eldest princess probably went to Luoshui on the night of the Lantern Festival - and then they fell into the trap of the wicked. ”

Feng Yan lowered her eyes slightly.

Her hair and fingertips are bloody, if she has a heart, it is not rare.

Although there were no servants in his yard, there were always subordinates who had to go into the house every day to clean up their things and take a few hairs from the comb, which was a simple matter.

Let's talk about the blood on her fingertips - her hands are calloused and mottled, on the one hand, because of the calluses of playing the piano, and on the other hand, because of the carving.

Occasionally, when she injured her hand, she stopped the bleeding and bandaged it herself, and the blood handkerchiefs and bandages she changed were also handed over to her subordinates to wash.

But there is one item, her eight characters are extremely difficult to get.

Not only her, but all the unmarried daughters of the Feng family are strictly guarded against their birthdays.

Except for when he got married, he would be handed over to the diviner to divinate the auspicious time, and he never used it at other times. Feng Yan still doesn't know when she was born, but from the chat with her mother, she probably guessed that it was in late spring and early summer......

If last year's coma was also because someone secretly performed puppetry, even if that person had hair and fingertip blood, it would not help - Feng Yan had enough confidence in his family's ability to keep secrets.

So, is it probably that there is a person who regards her as more important than herself, and she fell into a deep sleep......

Thinking of this, the figure of a person suddenly floated past Feng Yan's mind.

She didn't have time to think about it, and she even spoke suddenly.

"Speaking of which, this 'important' has two meanings."

"Oh?" Feng Yan looked at her, "What do you say?" ”

"It is a situation to love her husband so much as Mrs. Shao that she regards him as more important than herself." "The other is a strong hatred—hatred that as long as you can take revenge, even if you sacrifice your own life, then this is another level of 'important people'." ”

Feng Yan lowered her eyes, and the old things from the past appeared in her mind again-

"I will never ...... Makes you hurt...... Lord Wei."