Just after the hour, the hurried footsteps of the officials resounded throughout the palace roads of the imperial city.

Although it was still dark, the officials had already returned to their hearts.

The end of the sacrificial ceremony is Da Chu's annual leave, although, for some "adults" who need to control the situation at all times, there is never a so-called annual leave, after all, in this position, a slight wrong step, you may face the result of losing all the plates, which is a consequence that no one can bear.

However, at the end of the year, even political enemies do not take the initiative to stir up trouble, which has long been a "tacit understanding" between different parties in the court, so this is also the most idle period of time for Dachu officials throughout the year.

This point is a high-ranking power, and it is not unavoidable that a few "adults" who will always walk last in the future are also walking in the crowd with others today, and walk quickly towards the palace gate.

In the midst of such a crowd of people walking towards the outside of the palace, some people returned to the side hall on the side of the imperial city against the crowd.

Several guards of the forbidden army who were on duty at night today were patrolling in front of the side hall at this time, and when they saw him coming, they hurriedly saluted and said, "I have seen Zhang Tianshi." ”

Zhang Xie snorted and asked the guards of the forbidden army: "Lord Qiao is inside?" ”

The Forbidden Army guard nodded and replied, "Yes, Lord Qiao is taking a nap in the room." ”

Zhang Xie nodded when he heard this, and without saying much, he walked straight to the side hall, and then stretched out his hand to push open the door of the hall.

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Zhennan.

Qiao Ran is no stranger to these two words on the stone plaque at the city gate, and is even very familiar with them.

From the mouths of those people, they heard the name Zhennan City, and it was not strange to guess that this city was named Zhennan.

Qiao Ran frowned, although she knew that it was a dream, she still couldn't help but associate it with the Zhennan Wangfu that had been extinct in reality, she was indeed not very familiar with Dachucheng County, after all, there are countless cities and counties large and small in the world, and many of them have changed their names several times, which is really difficult to determine.

But the fiefdom of Zhennan Wangfu doesn't seem to be called Zhennan City!

Qiao Ran looked at this plausible city gate with some doubts, stood for a moment, and was in doubt, the guy walking around with a teapot walked up to her with a teapot, looked her up and down, and asked, "Why doesn't a girl's family go home?"

Qiao Ran, from the girl's family, turned her head to look at him.

The man smiled at her, turned his head and reached out to pour a bowl of tea and handed it to her, and then asked with a smile: "Could it be that a foreigner came to Zhennan City to find treasure like those people?" ”

Treasure, this is the second time I've heard these two words from their mouths.

Qiao Ran's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but feel a little more interested in her eyes, and asked the guy, "What treasure?" It is not only the treasure of Zhennan Palace, but what does it have to do with outsiders? Isn't the king of Zhennan still there? ”

Seeing her say this, the people in the herbal tea stall looked at each other, and then laughed together.

Qiao Ran looked at the smiling people in confusion, and said curiously: "What's wrong?" Isn't there a problem with me? "The owner of the treasure is still alive, what treasure is he fighting for?

The guy who gave her a bowl of herbal tea earlier was also laughing, and seeing that she still looked like she didn't know why, she couldn't help but say, "Are you really here to hunt for treasure?" I've seen so many treasure hunters in these days, and you're the strangest one I've ever met. Whoever finds the treasure will give half of it, this is a reward order posted by the king of Zhennan himself, otherwise, how could so many people flock to it? ”

also knew the idiom of "rushing", Qiao Ran glanced at the guy carrying the teapot, and said in his heart: This idiom is not simple, look at this guy dressed as a rough man, I didn't expect to read a lot.

Of course, it doesn't matter how much the guy reads, Qiao Ran's interest in his heart was also mobilized at this time, and he asked the guy with great interest: "Isn't there a requirement and hint for such a thing as treasure hunting?" What's the hint about the treasure of the King of Zhennan? ”

She was not very interested in the treasure than whether it was a mountain of gold or silver, but it was the treasure that attracted many people to come that interested her even more.

"You're really going!" The guy with the teapot seemed a little surprised by what she said, looked her up and down, and couldn't help muttering, "Look at it, it's not very smart." ”

"It doesn't matter to you whether I'm smart or not, maybe I'm lucky!" Qiao Ran replied casually, originally didn't plan to be serious with the guy who carried the teapot, after all, he ate a bowl of tea he sent, but at this time, listening to the thick disdain in his tone, somehow, a nameless fire suddenly rose in his heart, and he simply looked at him seriously.

After looking at this guy, the girl couldn't help but smile: "It's strange compared to me, but it's you, how long have you been a teahouse guy?" ”

The teahouse guy who was asked such a sentence seemed to be stunned, and then instinctively said: "What has been the teahouse guy for a long time?" ”

The girl snorted lightly: "Although you look at the familiar conversation with these tea guests as if you are an old acquaintance, and the tea guests at that table have just returned home from a long distance, it is indeed easy for people to mistakenly think that you have been a buddy in this teahouse for many years." ”

The smile on the teahouse guy's face narrowed slightly, and he looked at her, waiting for her to continue.

"It's just that judging from your behavior of pouring tea and the tea spilled on the table, this seems to be a bit contradictory to the 'old buddy' you show!" As the girl spoke, her eyes moved from his face to his shoulder, "Whether it is a guy from an herbal tea stall or a restaurant or a teahouse, this guy who eats and drinks will carry a towel to wipe the tables and stools, just like pouring out the tea as before, it needs to be wiped in time." But not only did you not bring it, but you didn't realize it at all, which is obviously not right. ”

The teahouse guy restrained the smile on his face, turned thoughtful, and looked at her with a serious look in his eyes.

"Also, you've done this job, but the tea stall owner doesn't say a word, this is not like the attitude of paying for a man." Qiao Ran said, his gaze turned from the man's shoulders to his feet again, "And the white boots on your feet, I have never seen a guy running around in such dirty white boots, plus you just blurted out the words of the crepe, no matter how you look like a teahouse guy." ”

When the girl said this, she handed him back the tea bowl in her hand, looked at him with a smile and said, "There are flaws everywhere, but if you give me a bowl of tea, I will give you this face and not pierce your words." ”

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Zhang Xie pushed open the door of the temple and walked into the hall.

This side hall is not large, and it is stepped in with one foot, and the interior of it is almost unobstructed.

Behind the half-transparent screen, the girl was sleeping in her clothes, and the sleeping posture was somewhat indescribably elegant and dignified, as she had ever seen.

Although she has a temperament and manners that are different from those well-behaved ladies she sees every day, she has a posture that seems to dissolve in her bones, which can only be done by people who have been strictly taught to do her actions since childhood.

How can a girl who has been shunned by her family since she was a child and raised in Zhuangzi have such a demeanor and behavior that melts into her bones?

Zhang Xie slowly walked to the incense ball hanging above the screen.

This is the usual sleep aid incense used by His Majesty, and he smelled it when he entered the door. Naturally, the female official would not neglect her, and the things she used were all according to the specifications of the things used by His Majesty.

It's just that although the fragrance is good, the girl doesn't like this smell, because the nose is far more sensitive than ordinary people, but if there is a slight taste, she can detect it faster than others. Therefore, such a strong fragrance is a little unaccustomed to her.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xie reached out and extinguished the sleep aid incense in the incense ball, and then walked around the screen and sat down next to the soft collapse where the girl was taking a nap.

Even if she has deliberately restrained her footsteps, I don't know if it is because the girl's sleep is very shallow, the girl who was sleeping with regular breathing suddenly lost her previous elegance and dignity, and began to murmur a few times uneasily.

Is it a nightmare? Zhang Xie leaned over and lowered his head to wake her up, but the girl opened her eyes suddenly, and the two looked at each other, seeing that it was him, the girl's sharp eyes turned soft, and she breathed a long sigh of relief.

Seeing that she was awake, Zhang Xie hurriedly reached out to help her up, and then asked her, "Have you had a nightmare?" ”

Nightmare? Qiao Ran thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No, it's probably a dream day and night!" ”

After all, she dreamed that she was going to hunt for treasure and began to check suspicious characters, if it weren't for the familiar sandalwood fragrance on Zhang Jie's body, she suddenly woke up from her lucid dream, maybe she was ready to go into the city to hunt for treasure after checking at this time.

Compared with the inconsequential thing of having a "thoughtful" dream, Qiao Ran did not forget to ask Zhang Jie: "How is it?" Can the sacrificial ceremony go well? ”

"You've found all the troubles, how can it not go well?" Zhang Xie couldn't help but smile a little more in the girl's eyes, paused, and said, "I heard about the fireworks, this matter is ......" After a little hesitation, he said to the girl's clear eyes, "Your Majesty didn't let you interfere, so you won't interfere." ”

Qiao Ran nodded and didn't ask more.

As for Zhang Xie asking her not to interfere, it must not be because there is a corpse hidden in the fireworks, compared to the horror of the moment when she saw the corpse, but the things behind the blind, Lao Zheng and the people who are ready to destroy the sacrificial ceremony are more problematic.

The girl's reaction never let him down. She was smart and knowledgeable, and of course she understood what he meant by doing this, and she knew that he was doing it for her good. But such a "well-behaved" who never asked more still made his heart sour for some reason.

A smart woman is probably what many men in this world want and like, and he also thought that she was so smart that he liked it. But I don't know why, at this time, such intelligence is generally placed on her, but it makes him a little uncomfortable.

is obviously at the age of arrogance, but she is so "sensible" and has never been truly willful.

He was a little unfamiliar with such emotions, and he didn't know why he knew that what she was doing was right, but instead expected her to do something wrong.

The girl's eyes were clear and bright, she reached out and shook it in front of his eyes, he subconsciously reached out and grabbed her hand, the hand in the palm of her hand was slender and soft, just like her person, she looked weak, but she never really flinched in the face of trouble.

Looking into the girl's eyes, Zhang Xie couldn't help but say a few more words: "Those who will do something at this time must be going to Your Majesty, these people have a lot of heads behind them, you ...... It really doesn't have to be mixed in. ”

There was a matter of Jiao and Yuan before, but now there is a real princess, and he really doesn't want her to be involved in other things.

The girl subconsciously tilted her head, he saw her lips move, as if she wanted to ask something, but in the end she didn't ask anything, just "um".

She was curious. He knows.

Being able to do so well in Dali Temple, in addition to being so talented, good at investigating and judging cases, more importantly, liking it, curiosity about the case and the truth is also one of the important reasons that drove her to do these things.

Zhang Xie was silent for a moment, but decided to satisfy the girl's curiosity, so he said: "That blind man's eyes are unusual, if I guess correctly, he should also be a yin-yang magician." ”

Although he himself works in the Yin-Yang Division, and the colleagues he encounters in the Yin-Yang Division are also very cute, this does not make him naïve to think that all the Yin-Yang Warlocks in this world are cute and harmless.

When some people have mastered the means that others don't understand and can't know, it is naturally more likely that they can do what they really want to do.

There are not many yin-yang magicians in this world who are listed as "strange people", and when these "strange people" are recruited by a party, they often do things far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

"There are rumors among the people that if you leak too many heavenly secrets, you will be punished by heaven," Zhang explained.

The girl still tilted her head to look at him, her eyes were clear, and she looked rare and cute, he reached out and gently stroked the top of the girl's head, smoothing out some messy broken hair on the top of her head before continuing, "Regardless of whether there is a curse or not, at least, if you want to calculate a hexagram clearly, it is in urgent need of energy for many Yin-Yang Warlocks." There are too many so-called leaks, which are constantly calculated. For those yin-yang magicians who need to spend energy urgently to calculate a hexagram, such a non-stop calculation is easy to suffer from eye diseases, and the symptoms of eye diseases for such people are somewhat similar to those of this blind man, and ......" Speaking of this, Zhang Xie paused, looked at the girl, and said, "In the dismantled fireworks pile, I found a part of the blind man's body that was not blown away, and among them was his hand, judging from the position of the cocoon in his hand, it is indeed very likely that the result of fiddling with the hexagram for a long time." ”

Of course, these are just speculations so far, and the most important thing at the moment is to find Xingsheng and the person named Lao Zheng and ask them. The forbidden army has already gone down to do these things, and I believe there will be news soon.

The girl was silent, hummed quietly, and then smiled suddenly at the worry in her eyes: "Why is this expression?" Well, there's a lot going on, but I don't have much to do. ”

His Royal Highness is not doing anything in the water, His Majesty is investigating, after all, His Royal Highness is not allowed to do evil such things; For example, the matter between Princess Zhenzhen and the little patriarch of Wusun was also taken over by His Majesty, not to mention the current matter of someone destroying the sacrificial ceremony.

There are indeed a lot of these things, and they are also very troublesome, but none of them need her to do.