Text: Volume IX: The Moon Feast

For Shen Qingdao, the trouble has just begun.

On the Nirvana field, Helian Sheng rushed out of the crowd and ran towards His Highness, his plain white clothes like a wisp of smoke, quietly passing through the crowd.

"Uncle Shen!" Helian Sheng shouted from behind.

Shen Qingdao was very familiar with this voice and stopped. In a few moments, the boy was in front of him.

"Smack!" Helian Sheng grabbed Shen Qingdao's wrist.

Shen Qingdao looked at the young man in front of him, and couldn't help but marvel at the heroic appearance of the young man. The first time Shen Qingdao saw Helian Sheng was in Helian Wangfu, when he was only four years old, he was a babbling child, and now he has become a suave gentleman.

"Are you...... Second prince! Shen Qingdao asked first.

"We only have one side, you kid still remember me?"

The years of training in the mountains have made Helian Sheng's physical fitness leap, and his chest can be seen even through thick clothes, and his strong limbs are strong and powerful.

"Uncle Shen, can you help me bring a message to my mother when you go down the mountain this trip?" Helian Sheng pleaded in front of him.

"I'm going to the palace just in time, I can help you bring a message to your mother."

"Thank you very much!" Helian Sheng hugged Shen Qing excitedly. It was like a giant python tightly wrapped around its body.

"Alright, alright...... Let's say, Uncle Shen has something important to do when he goes down the mountain this time. Shen Qingdao soothed Helian Sheng's emotions.

"Please tell your mother that I have missed her all these years, and let her wait for her sons to return."

Although the hard days on the mountain in these years are not as good as Helian Sheng's in the palace, but in the Huangyu Pavilion, there are fewer rules in the palace, he lives very freely, and he has made a lot of friends, so he is not too lonely and bored on the mountain.

"Okay, I'll bring the words" Shen Qingdao turned around and left down the mountain.

"Child, this mountain is much more peaceful than in the palace......" Shen Qingdao left a sentence.

Helian Sheng understood the meaning of these words, when his mother took him up the mountain, it was not only to avoid the limelight of the family, but also to hope that he could grow up healthily, so that he would not be locked in the cold palace walls for the rest of his life, and become a scheming prince.

Shen Qing walked to the bottom of the mountain, and there was already a cart of people waiting for him by the river.

"I remember the days, it seems that this palace is not very peaceful......" Shen Qingdao estimated.

At the beginning, Shen Qingdao left the palace and promised that Yi Shiyan would return on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival in ten years. But what he didn't know was that the ten years without him in the palace were also the most tormenting days for Yi Shiyan, the powerful ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, who didn't care about this phase, not to mention the old guys wearing masks in this palace, fighting openly and secretly, for the sake of - power!

"By the will of His Majesty, the slave is here to wait for Lord Shen and take you back to the palace." This person is the eunuch next to Yi Shiyan, the person he trusts the most.

"Back to the palace?" Shen Qing was puzzled.

"The emperor is looking for you to discuss important matters, and don't forget, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the emperor is feasting on hundreds of officials in the imperial garden, and you are also going to go."

"Before I do that, I'm going to go to the Helian Palace." Shen Qingdao said.

"It's okay, Your Majesty said that you can enter the palace before the time of unitary."

"Please get in the car~" The eunuch bent down and respectfully asked.

There is a custom in the Northern Chu Palace, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the concubines in the palace can return to their parents' homes and bring their families to the court to have a dinner with the emperor, which is also a rare opportunity for concubines to go out of the palace, so Shen Qingdao did not go to the palace first, but went to Helian Wangfu to find Concubine Lan.

"Grandpa He, why is the emperor's banquet held in the Imperial Garden instead of the Zhengyang Palace?" Shen Qingdao asked in the bumpy car.

"Lord Shen doesn't know, a few days ago, the Zhengyang Hall in the palace was haunted, and the court was suspended for several days, and the civil and military officials did not go to the court for several days, and the emperor also specially invited Taoist priests to do it." His fear could be heard in Grandpa He's tone.

"Haunted?" Shen Qingdao sensed that something was wrong.

"Don't mention it, don't mention it, the emperor will say that the palace must not mention this matter again, the old slave only revealed a few points when he saw Lord Shen ask."

Shen Qing made it clear that the forces in the palace began to act, and the haunting was by no means as simple as Gonggong He said, let the emperor stop the court for a few days, this is the goal!

The carriage was galloping, and Shen Qingdao wanted to return to the palace more and more, but he wanted to see how big a wave it had set off without him in the Northern Chu Palace.

They rushed all the way from Huangyu Fast Horse to Tongzhou City, Huangyu Pavilion is located outside the territory of Northern Chu, Gonggong He didn't want to make any mistakes on the way, so he urged the entourage to hurry up.

The dusk was heavy, and most of the sky was drunk, and the carriage had passed Tongzhou City unconsciously, and it was on the outskirts of Tongzhou. The way back to the palace this time will not be too peaceful......

"Instigation" suddenly shot several short arrows from the soil, and the rider and his entourage were all killed.

Shen Qingdao, who was sitting in the car, closed his eyes, and he listened carefully to the sound of the short arrow rubbing in the air, it was the same wave of people!

"Someone! Protect Lord Shen, come on! He Gonggong shouted in a panic.

It's been ten years, but I didn't expect to meet that wave of assassins here, and Shen Qingdao's sore spot was awakened fiercely.

"Bang!" Shen Qingdao took off the prisoner ox qin behind him, removed the wrapped coarse cloth, and a guqin with a woody fragrance stood in front of Shen Qingdao.

"My father-in-law is hiding in the car." Shen Qingdao got up and flew out of the carriage.

The Assassins took off their disguises and surrounded the carriage. But what they didn't know was that the killing intent of Shen Qingdao in front of them was stronger than theirs.

"The revenge of killing his wife is not shared!" The corners of Shen Qingdao's mouth were biting to the ground, and his eyes were bloodshot.

He turned around and kicked the flying sand to obscure the Assassin's vision, the Assassin's eyes were blocked by the yellow sand, and when they reacted again, Shen Qingdao was already standing on the roof of the carriage with light energy.

The assassins' faces were completely obscured by masks, but there was one thing on their bodies that caught Shen Qingdao's attention, the pattern on their shoulder armor - the Yonghe beast pattern.

"Who sent you?"

The assassin didn't pay attention to Shen Qingdao's words, and they rushed to the carriage together, "Kill!" ”

Shen Qingdao put aside the clothes on his lower body, knelt on the carriage on his right knee, leaned on the knee of the other foot, leaned on the left shoulder on the headstock, and plucked the strings with his fingertips like brushing the water, and a murderous aura suddenly burst out from the roof of the car, startling the surrounding birds and beasts, and the dust on the ground was raised by the sound wave of the qin.

The Assassins suddenly felt an overwhelming force above their heads pinn them to the ground, and their knees went limp, and they collapsed to the ground.

"Hey, hey~" Grandpa He was frightened in the car.

The strings of the prison sound piano are made of the dragon whiskers of the prison cow, the head of the ancient nine divine beasts, the prison cow has a terrifying aura of suppressive power, its dragon whiskers are like a divine sword that cuts the heavens and the earth, extremely sharp, if you want to play this piano, you must practice the exercises in your hands, otherwise it is like taking live flesh to cut the strings.

The Assassin's eardrums were cracked, and he fell to the ground in agony.

"Qing Dao, remember, this qin can change the rhythm and sound waves within a radius of a hundred miles at will, and easily control any creature within a radius of a hundred miles, the prison cow is an ancient divine beast, any creature is extremely afraid of it, and the sound wave of this qin can change with the technique, becoming an extremely ferocious extreme sound, tearing the human body apart, the most terrifying thing about this qin is the fracture space, which will wipe out any creature that exists within its control, disappear and pass away, leaving no ashes behind......" The pavilion master's voice began to echo in Shen Qingdao's ears.

"Buzz!" An extremely unstable air flow began to burst like boiling water, and the air became an extremely unstable turbulence, and the air at this moment was a machine for grinding meat. All the assassins in front of him were blown into a blur of blood, and the picture was extremely cruel.

"Dongzhu ......" Shen Qingdao still can't let go of the obsession of the year.

"Don't remember, Huang Yu disciples cultivate the path of righteousness and do good deeds, and they must not show their killing intent at will!" The Pavilion Master's teachings made Shen Qingdao begin to sober up.

His trembling hands slowly left the strings, and the veins on his face faded.

"Ahhhh Grandpa He heard that there was no movement outside and climbed out of the carriage.

"It's okay, it's just a few little assassins~" Shen Qingdao put on the prisoner's piano again and drove the carriage to continue on his way.

"Lord Shen is so skilled, he can kill everyone with the power of one person, but this method is too cruel...... "Gonggong He said.

"In the future, I will pay attention to the severity of the means"

The carriage was shrouded in fiery clouds, and the corpses of the Assassins lay in pools of blood, their bodies pecked by the birds that flew around, as is the case with the jungle......

The carriage slowly stopped outside Shangjie City, which was the capital of Northern Chu. He Gonggong dismounted and showed the token to the guards, so they were given the opportunity to enter the city first.

"Father-in-law, please!" The soldiers politely led the carriage into the city.

Shen Qingdao lifted the curtain on the carriage and looked at the guards through his limited vision, and soon he noticed the abnormality. Originally, all the defense tasks of the capital were undertaken by the Shen family army, but the soldiers in front of him were not the Shen family army, indicating that someone had changed the deployment of the capital.

"Father-in-law He, why aren't the soldiers at the door guarded by the Shen family's army?" Shen Qingdao asked in the carriage.

"In the middle of autumn today, the emperor pardoned the Shen family army for one day off and let them be transferred to rest."

"The emperor is just too imprudent, but he didn't listen to my instructions at all~" Shen Qingdao couldn't help but sigh.

The carriage drove to the palace of King Helian, and the guards at the door immediately entered the house to report.

"Oh, I don't know how father-in-law is here, Helian Zhen is here to apologize." An old minister walked out of the palace.

"It's not me looking for you, it's Lord Shen~" Gonggong He reminded.

"Lord Shen?"

"Uncle Helian hasn't seen you for a long time~" Shen Qingdao walked out of the carriage.

"Qing Dao! You're back! Helian was very emotional.

"Come and sit down." Helian Zheng immediately invited.

"Grandpa He, you wait for me here for a while, and I'll come out immediately." Shen Qingdao said.

"Yes, Lord Shen."

Shen Qingdao walked into the mansion, but the entire Helian Mansion gave him a depressing atmosphere, the guards who came in from the door were all bitter gourd faces, and the maids who cleaned the palace did not greet him, and the whole palace seemed to have experienced an ominous thing.

"Why is it that everyone has a heart and a blank face?" Shen Qingdao asked.

"It's really been so frustrating lately...... Helian Zhen smiled.

Shen Qingdao turned around and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The tears in the corners of Helian Zhen's eyes flickered faintly, and the whole person seemed to have been poked in the important place in his heart and lost his soul.

"Lan'er hanged herself in the palace a few days ago......"

"What!" Shen Qingdao couldn't believe it.

How many people are hidden in this deep city, and Concubine Lan's self-hanging is the beginning of a conspiracy......