Xue Huai watched the man leave, turned around and walked back to the inner room, brought the medicine stove to the compartment and began to boil the medicine. Chang Yu gave him a hand on the side, but when he handed him the medicinal materials, he pushed him away and went to select the medicinal materials himself. Chang Yuhu said suspiciously and angrily: "Now even I doubt it?!" ”

Xue Huai: "It's because I'm wrong. Hong Ding is not the one who poisoned him. ”

Chang Yu was stunned: "Who is that?" He looked at Xue Huai's rejection of people, and said angrily: "Are you suspicious of me? ”

Xue Huai put the medicinal herbs into the furnace and carefully prepared the heat, and when he stood up, he suddenly pinched Chang Yu's wrist, buckled it on his vein, and said calmly but coldly: "Why do you want to poison General Yue?" ”

"I didn't—" As soon as Chang Yu's rebuttal came out, he realized that his pulse was tightened by three points. He knew that Xue Huai's martial arts were far above him, but he also knew that Xue Huai would not kill, so he continued, "I didn't, you have to believe me!" King Hui doesn't know where he is, how can I follow his orders? ”

"If Yue Song had an antidote, he wouldn't have handed it over until now. Before, I thought that he was the murderer who instructed Hong Dinglai, because among the enemies around General Yue, only Yue Song had the most murderous intent towards her. But," Xue Huai approached half a step, condescendingly oppressing Chang Yu, his dark eyes darkened, "King Hui instructed you to ask me to go back to Lanxi to help fight the plague, I mobilized everything so freely in King Hui's mansion, Jin Shitong was so subservient to me, the Beiting army was so just right to suppress the situation, and General Yue was so coincidentally poisoned and poisoned—everything was pushing me towards a purpose that you expected, and right now, General Yue is a stumbling block to that purpose." He approached half a step further, and the gentle and calm momentum of the whole person was already very different, showing a kind of arrogance that seemed to have been hidden in the bones for a long time, "The immortal merit of repelling Beiting is to be given to me, right?" ”

Chang Yu's eyes shrank suddenly.

Chang Yu didn't actually know who Xue Huai was, he only knew that he must not offend him.

Jin Shitong is also very clear about this.

Whenever Xue Huai wants to come to the palace, King Hui will start preparing at least half a month in advance, although Xue Huai does not have any requirements for accommodation and food, but King Hui will always order someone to arrange it properly for him. Xuehuai's guest accommodation is the largest, most spacious and best-oriented of all the guest compartments; The cooks who made vegetarian food for Xuehuai were the best in the house, and some were recruited from Lincheng; Although Xue Huai would bring his own change of clothes, King Hui would still order someone to prepare a monk's robe made of fine gauze brocade for him, even if Xue Huai never accepted it; Originally, the house was surrounded by gold, stone and jade, surrounded by maids and servants, and the process required from King Hui to stepping out of the room every day was extremely cumbersome and lengthy, but he also enjoyed it very much, but during the arrival of Xue Huai, everything was simple, just to be able to spend more time talking with Xue Huai, and the gold and stone jade in the house were moved away and replaced with wood and sandalwood similar to those in the Zen room to embellish, just so that Xue Huai could live more comfortably and stay longer.

At first, Jin Shitong and Chang Yu both thought that King Hui had developed a strong interest in Buddhism on a whim, and the conversation with Xue Huai was indeed pleasant, and they didn't take it to heart. However, as the days went by, from King Hui going up the mountain to visit the Buddha to Xue Huai coming down the mountain to enter the palace to preach the Buddha, it lasted for seven or eight years unconsciously. Even later, when Xue Huai followed his master down the mountain, when he returned to Lanxi, King Hui would try to see him a few times anyway, and he didn't say anything special every time, but King Hui would always be very happy.

The monk Xue Huai is an important guest of the Hui Palace, and he is more important than some of the big officials from the capital, which is the common recognition of everyone in the palace.