I just took Zhuo Ying's hand and heard Sarong's words: "What? ”

"The heavy snow these days is already strange, this morning I got the news, Si Tianjian said in the morning court, it was your fate that was ominous, causing a vision from the sky. And when you were expelled from the prince's mansion in the evening, I became more and more determined. Sarong dusted his hands, and his pretty face turned pale with anger, "All this is his Bai Xiaohan's handiwork!" ”

"Bai Xiaohan..."I was confused, "How can he have the ability to make it snow?" ”

"Of course he has such a skill, this is the unique skill of the Banner Master of the Water Banner!" Sarong returned to the round table and sat down with Zhuo Ying and me, "Gui Ying, do you know what the tokens of the Five Banners of the Tail Sect are?" ”

"Duan Ming seemed to have told me earlier, but now he doesn't remember it very well." I tried to recall, "The stone python bone of the Gangfeng Banner has the effect of dispersing poison and healing injuries and enhancing internal force. And your Flying Rock Banner's Xin Ao Armor seems to be able to protect the bearer from harm? ”

"Xin Aojia has the effect of warding off evil spirits and protecting people's souls."

Sarong said in a deep voice, "In addition to the Tiger Talisman used to summon the dead soldiers of each banner, the Five Banners Token also has its own supernatural skills. The wolf tooth of the Thunder Banner contained infinite thunder and lightning, and was cast into his Xin Yuan Eight-Sided Hammer by the Heaven-Shattering Stone; The phoenix feather of the Red Flame Banner is said to be the tail feather of the Suzaku mount of the god Suzaku, and those who tell lies will burn themselves in flames when they touch it; The token of the water flag is the Longtan pearl that Qiu Weng has refined with decades of strength, which has the ability to call for wind and rain and condense frost and make snow. ”

"Calling for wind and rain, frost and making snow..."I muttered, "You mean, only Bai Xiaohan, who has inherited the Longtan Pearl, can make heavy snow fall in the sky in Karzhou?" ”

"Exactly!"

"But isn't your dead soldier already searching all over Karzhou City, Bai Xiaohan is not in Beijing!"

"But it turns out he must be there!" Sarong said excitedly, "Although the Dragon Pond Bead has great skills, after all, it is not like the other Four Banners tokens are ancient divine objects, it can only be used in the city where the holder is located. And now only the celestial phenomena in Karzhou are different, I can be sure that the surname Bai is in the city, but I Feiyan Banner Dead Man didn't find him! ”

"He... He risked hiding in Karzhou and painstakingly making snow for so many days just to lure me out of the Prince's Mansion? ”

"-Where is it to lure you out of the Prince's Mansion, he clearly wants to put you to death!"

Wanqiu pushed open the door and walked in, with a sad and solemn face: "Now that Kazhou is about to spread all over the city, I'm afraid that only you don't know it, right?" Today, Si Tianjian faced the saint, saying that you are an ominous person who hinders the fortunes of the country, and united with the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to instruct the emperor to execute you! ”

My thoughts were racing, and I suddenly remembered that on the day Wen recalled the court, the palace curtain once raised his head to look at the sky and said, "Spring is coming, the clouds have dispersed, and even the stars are bright." Lian Gui Hotaru, there are some things that you can't get in if you don't want to cover them. ”

can't be wrong, this must be another calculation of the palace curtain......

Zhuo Ying saw that my expression was different, so he took my cold hand and persuaded: "You don't have to worry, I heard that Lihou has already relieved you." He himself has taken the name of the ominous person in the prophecy of the celestial phenomena, and is now confined to Lifu. ”

"—take my blame?" I almost jumped up from my seat, "How can he do this for me!" ”

Sarong looked at Zhuo Ying with some complaints, but Zhuo Ying didn't know why I was so anxious, and looked at Wanqiu blankly.

Seeing that everyone was a little embarrassed, Sarong interrupted Wanqiu and said, "Didn't Duan Ming help you move the wine jar, why didn't he come up with you?" ”

Wanqiu understood, and looked at Zhuo Ying and me with some embarrassment: "Oh... He said that the snow in the yard was deep, and he was afraid that he would freeze the wine jar when he turned around, so he had to sweep the snow away, so he didn't come up......"

I understand that Duan Ming didn't want to get along with Zhuo Ying, so he made an excuse not to come up. However, at this moment, I didn't have time to take care of his emotions - Hou Ye once again helped me out of the siege, but he also put himself in.

No wonder earlier today, when I went to Lifu, no one opened the door, thinking that it was because there was Chaozhong's eyes staring, and he didn't want us to be involved with each other.

"The palace has fallen, are they still so unwilling to let me go......

"The snowfall in Karju is not a day or two, which shows that the third prince and the fourth prince have planned for a long time." Wanqiu frowned, "Bai Xiaohan is in the dark again, and the emperor is staring at Lifu right now, but if Bai Xiaohan casts another spell to snow, this fire will burn on our heads sooner or later...... This game is really difficult to solve. ”

"It's important to find out Bai Xiaohan, but the emperor's mind is even more important right now! The palace curtain really caught the emperor's suspicion of me this time, and now it involves the Hou Ye, I really don't know where to start......"

Sarong comforted: "Don't worry. The emperor's suspicion was just because the third prince bribed Si Tianjian and made a few words in front of the emperor. If Si Tianjian can change his words, I am afraid that this situation will be solved. ”

"It's easy for you to say, since Gong Wei can let Si Tianjian speak for him, it must be to take their handle. It's not easy to buy them! ”

"Who said we were going to buy them?" Sarong smiled slyly, "What if I say that I have a way to get them to tell the truth?" ”

"Let them... Take the initiative to tell the truth? ”

"Gui Ying, do you remember what I just said, the phoenix feather of the Red Flame Banner that can distinguish lies?" Sarong Jiao's good face smiled more and more, "When the Tang Banner Lord returned to the main altar, he handed over this phoenix feather to me before leaving, saying that he was prepared for emergencies. ”

I watched with my mouth wide open as Sarong reached out to his chest and placed a soft red feather on the table. Looking closely, the feathers are like light dust, and sometimes as bright as the sun in the dim candlelight; Sometimes it is as red as blood, shining, incomprehensible, and you can see that it is an extraordinary product at a glance.

"Qu Xi actually left this treasure for us..."A warm current flowed through my heart, "A few days ago, ** curtain in the Xuan Palace wanted to expose the brother-sister relationship between me and Wen Zhao, why didn't you take it out to save me!" ”

"Are you stupid?" Sarong scolded with a smile, "The last time you entered the palace in a hurry, where did I have the opportunity to give you the phoenix feather - not to mention that the third prince of the family did not lie, it was you who kept denying your relationship with General Wen." If you take the phoenix feather with you, won't you have to get up in front of the emperor at that time? ”

This sentence made everyone laugh easily, and Sarong saw that the clouds on my face had dissipated, and continued proudly: "This phoenix feather is extremely easy to use. If you want to tell the truth of what someone is saying, you have to touch the feather on his forehead when he has finished speaking—if it is true, there will be no reaction; But if it is a lie, then this person will immediately have a fierce fire on his body, and the water will not be able to extinguish it until the person is burned to ashes. ”

"So powerful?" I exclaimed, "Then I'm going to try, I'll talk, you can point me with a phoenix feather." ”

Sarong smiled and picked up the phoenix feather: "Okay, you can think about it, you must tell the truth with sincerity!" ”

I pondered for a long time, and then said with a long sigh of relief: "I miss Shui Qing very much. ”

Sarong couldn't help but look at Zhuo Ying, and the two exchanged a warm look. Sarong solemnly straightened his waist, picked up the tail end of the phoenix feather, and gently sent the tip of the feather to my forehead.

"Ahh

The muscles in his body suddenly contracted, and a sharp pain instantly came from his abdomen. I fell to the ground with a convulsion, and everyone was so shocked that they quickly got up and surrounded me.

"Return to Hotaru! Gui Hotaru, what's wrong with you—"

"Ahh

I screamed heartbreakingly, and the unbearable pain in my abdomen came again and again. In a trance, I saw that my clothes were already spreading a large area of red, and blood was gurgling out from the flesh that had suddenly cracked.

"What's going on!"

My thoughts raced in severe pain, and I grabbed Sarong's cuffs: "Duan Ming... It's Duan Ming! ”

"-What?"

There was a sharp pain in my abdomen like pincers piercing again, and I gritted my teeth to prevent myself from being swept away by the pain: "We are in harmony... Go and save Duan ......! ”

Sarong's pupils suddenly shrank, and he stood up like lightning, and jumped from the fifth floor through the window. In my own cries of pain and the cries of Wanqiu Zhuoying, I vaguely heard Sarong's screams of infinite anger and fear.

Wan Qiu obviously heard Sarong's sharp screams as well, and she suddenly got up and ran out: "I'll go find Aunt Hua and the doctor!" ”

"Zhuo Ying... Help me downstairs! ”

Zhuo Ying pressed my stabbed lower abdomen stiffly, already trembling: "What... Gui Hotaru, are you crazy! You're going to bleed to death when you get up now! ”

"I won't... Duan Ming is dead, I will really die-help me down! ”

Zhuo Ying saw that I was still holding on to the edge of shock, so he had to hold down my bleeding wound with one hand, and dragged me up with difficulty through my armpit with the other.

"Uh..."

I endured a sharp pain that was enough to make people lose their minds, and when I was carried downstairs by Zhuo Ying, the sight before me was enough to make people unforgettable—under the bleak moonlight, red plum blood flowers bloomed on the white snow. Duan Ming, who was covered in blood, was held in Sarong's arms, unconscious. I watched as the wounds on his abdomen, which were the same as mine, evaporated horribly in the cold night sky, and I felt my stomach tumbling and disgusting with the faint smell of blood.

It didn't matter if he vomited, the wound in his lower abdomen was torn open, and there was a heart-rending pain again. Zhuo Ying couldn't hold back me any longer, and the two of them fell together in the courtyard a few steps away from Duan Ming and Sa Rong.

Vaguely, I seemed to hear the cries of Aunt Hua and Wanqiu coming from far away.

The wound was frozen by the snow and gradually lost its sense of pain. My cheeks were lifted from the snow, and I saw Duan Ming not far away being lifted up by the little servant, and went straight to the wing room in the back building. In the last moment of losing consciousness, I saw Aunt Hua's old face full of tears.