"Why are you here?"

Bai Xiaohan chuckled lightly and stroked the sword spike of the long sword behind his back: "Farewell to Zhanyutang, Lord Wen doesn't seem to be doing well." ”

"You still have the face to show the room?" I sneered, "As the master of the Tail Sect, you actually became the eagle dog of the Prince of the Heartfelt Court, Bai Xiaohan, it doesn't matter if you don't have a face, don't you even want your life?" ”

"Seniors are seniors in the end, I really can't hide anything from you..."

I looked at Bai Xiaohan, who was laughing calmly, and I was afraid of it for no reason - he actually confessed to his defection to Gonghuo, as if he didn't care about being known.

"You're not afraid that I'll accuse you of apostasy to the sect leader?"

"Senior, if you say this to any flag master, I won't feel funny. It's just that now that you are the crown prince and concubine of Daxin, what qualifications do you have to say that the younger generation has apostasy? ”

"I approached the palace for another purpose, why are you on par with me?"

"Younger generations are naturally not qualified. The juniors only know that the sect leader did not give you the task of approaching the crown prince, right? ”

"The Gangfeng Banner is directly under the control of the Sect Master, and any banner has no right to intervene." I said coldly, "How do you know that the sect leader didn't deliver the task to me?" ”

"The seniors are clever and eloquent, and the younger generations are ashamed of themselves." Bai Xiaohan shook his head helplessly, and once again showed a treacherous smile, "Then dare to ask the senior to instruct his subordinates to approach the Third Highness, and sneak into the palace of the Emperor of the Sect late at night, but this is also the meaning of the sect leader?" ”

My heart trembled: "What do you mean by that?" ”

"Why should the seniors deceive themselves. From the palace people who brought you food did not return to the palace on time, to the forced break-in of the Green Willow Street Medical Hall, and finally after the Third Highness left the palace with people, the mechanism on the side of the wall was destroyed. Bai Xiaohan's smiling eyes revealed a cold light, "Forgive the words of the juniors, what you did today is really not well planned. I'm afraid that not only will you expose yourself, but even the hidden stake you buried next to the Third Highness will also suffer. ”

I was terrified. Gong Wei really found Yu Yue, so what about the axe... Now that he is still hiding alone beside the palace curtain, is he in danger?

"Didn't you come to me to talk to me about this?"

"It turns out that the seniors are so resolute and don't care about the lives of their subordinates." Bai Xiaohan paced idly, suddenly stood up and looked at me and said, "Then what about Pei Shuiqing, don't you care?" ”

"-What did you do with Shui Qing!"

"Pei's is fine, seniors rest assured. It's just that she is a little noisy on weekdays, if it weren't for the intercession of the juniors, I'm afraid that the Fourth Highness would have killed her a long time ago. ”

"What the hell do you want!"

"Since His Royal Highness left her to do errands, then she still has her value." Bai Xiaohan's tone suddenly became sharp, "It's just that the seniors have repeatedly made trouble, and His Highness is very angry." The junior kindly told me that if you meddle any more, your friend will have to suffer a little. ”

"I don't know what you're talking about! I... I did go to the palace of the king, and I also dismantled the mechanism under the palace curtain, but I just wanted to see Shui Qing, I don't know who else went that day, I-"

"-Whether you really don't know or not, His Royal Highness Hengzhi will not let that person go." Bai Xiao said coldly, "I have brought the words of the Fourth Highness, and the seniors will ask for more blessings." ”

I wanted to say more, but I saw that Bai Xiaohan suddenly turned into a wisp of mist and dissipated into the dark night. While amazed by his strange escape skills, I couldn't help but be frightened. According to Bai Xiaohan's meaning, he has been exposed, even if Duan Ming uses the stone python bone to recall him at this moment, he wants to retreat from the Huan Prince's Mansion, but it is not easy to be afraid.

The night was a very heavy sleep, but it was not peaceful, and the bloody and terrible dreams were one after another, and the dreams were full of sloppy faces, or sincere and urgent, or blood-stained faces.

After waking up in the morning, I fidgeted and waited for the people in the palace at noon. After yesterday's incident, I think Gong Wei already knows that it is useless to send someone to poison me, and it will not be in vain. I am not waiting for the people of the palace, but the palace people who really came to deliver food and medicine on the orders of the emperor. After all, if they find out that I am not there when they come, I will be speechless in front of the emperor, and it will be difficult to stay by the palace to help the palace banner in the future.

When I waited for the time, I didn't wait for the people in the palace, but I unexpectedly waited for the axe.

This time he was different from before, he slowly entered through the main entrance of the annex with heavy steps. He was not dressed in night clothes, but in the regular clothes of the royal family of the county, and he looked very ordinary and haggard.

"My subordinates meet the banner master."

I saw him fall to his knees, and before I could speak, he twisted around and took a long sword from his back and presented it.

"Jian Xiangjian?" I was overjoyed and took the sword into my hand and caressed it. "Isn't this sword in Prince Huan's mansion, axe, where did you get it?"

"Return to the flag master, Yu Yue gave it to me." The tone of the axe was neither happy nor sad, and he couldn't hear too much emotion, "He also stole the poison recipe for this epidemic from the study of the Third Highness, and asked his subordinates to hand it over to the banner master." ”

In disbelief, I took a prescription from the axe's hand, and at a glance, it was full of herbs I was not familiar with.

"Yu Yue actually stole this...", there was a faint ominous feeling in his heart, "Where is he now?" ”

The axe didn't speak, whether it was delusion or real, and I seemed to see his body trembling slightly as he fell to the ground.

"Axe... Where is your brother now? ”

"He ...... it"

"Did Duan Ming summon him back?"

"Returning to the banner master, Yu Yue is dead."

There was a sudden buzzing in his ears, and the body of the axe in front of him trembled more and more violently, as if the masonry under his feet, the courtyard gate behind him, and even the pale sky and the dry willow branches all shook into a mess, like the colors on the ink plate were overturned, mixed into a dim black, obscuring all the light in the day.

That was the first time I saw an axe crying.

When I returned to the Taopin Building, the situation in front of me temporarily relieved my anger - I have never seen the Taopin Building so withered and lonely, although the day has always been not as lively as after nightfall, but now it is the first time I have seen such an empty except for the sprinkler and sweeper.

Walking through the front hall and back to the back building, you will be greeted by a strong smell of smoked vinegar. saw that there was a lot of people in the courtyard, and all the little girls were lining up, waiting for Zhuo Ying to distribute masks.

"Gui Hotaru, why are you back?"

Wan Qiu came out of the building with a few small servants, and the group held buckets and mops in their hands, all wearing heavy masks like Zhuo Ying's scattered to everyone.

"Wanqiu, what about Duan Ming?"

"He and Sarong went to the epidemic area in Xishi early in the morning to treat the victims." Wanqiu pulled me aside, "Didn't you say that you couldn't come out until someone from the Noon Palace had seen you?" ”

"I can't take care of them." I said hurriedly, "What did you just say?" Duan Ming and Sarong went to Xishi to save people? ”

"Yes, you don't know in the villa outside the city, this epidemic is so bad, in just a few days, 500,000 people in the city of Kazhou, there are 60,000 or 70,000 symptoms! Especially in the West City, there is no one in the large and small hundred and ten medical halls in Beijing, and there is no prescription that can dissolve the epidemic virus, and even the imperial doctor is helpless! ”

"Of course they can't do anything, that's the poison prescription of the poison immortals." Zhuo Ying finished distributing the mask and walked towards us with the help of the girl, "At present, the imperial court has drawn up a heroic post to recruit famous doctors from all over the world, and it has been dispersed to all cities across the country overnight. The imperial court also reopened the old market, piling up the dead in the depths of the alley and incinerating, and the living as long as the symptoms were serious and unable to return to the sky, they should also be coaxed into the city, and they waited for death. ”

"What's the difference between this and murder!" I was furious and said, "Isn't it extremely dangerous for Duan Ying and Sarong to go to the West Market now?" ”

"Sarong said that her Flying Rock Banner Xin Ao Jia can protect her from evil, and she herself is proficient in pharmacology, so she really can't sit idly by while the living beings are ruined." Wan Qiujiao's beautiful face showed a hint of embarrassment, "As for Duan Ming, he said that he is physically strong, and he can't go to the West Market alone with Sarong... Oh, and before he left, he told me that if you come back, I want to give this to you. ”

Wanqiu dug deep into the cuffs for a long time before putting the stone python bone in my hand.

"I'm coming back to get this from him," I said distraughtly, "but since he's in danger himself, what is he leaving it for me......

"Duan Ming is also understandable for worrying about you, he- hey, where are you going!"

I grabbed the remaining veil from Zhuo Ying's hand and rushed out of the backyard without saying a word. I ran all the way, and as soon as I crossed Changning Street to the West Market, I saw Duan Ming and Sarong surrounded by a circle of people. The two of them were dressed in cloth clothes, their faces covered with three layers of heavy veils, and they were busy distributing bowls of boiled sour and bitter decoction to the distressing victims.

This usually noisy and prosperous street seems to have been transformed into a makeshift treatment area. The stalls of the hawkers were now covered by hundreds of victims, and each of them lay down in the sky, as if waiting for death to come.

The air was filled with the foul smell of burnt charcoal mixed with decoction, so I stood silently with my mouth and nose covered, and only walked over to the victims in front of Sarong when they had dispersed.

"Return to Hotaru?" Duan Ming gasped, and when he saw me, he ran towards me with a concerned face, "Why are you here, I clearly told Wanqiu and Zhuo Ying not to let you come!" ”

I shook my head weakly, my eyes only staring at Sarong who was sitting on the ground not far away, her face filthy, sweat washing out a few furrows from her forehead, seeping into the veil tightly under her cheeks.

"Her medicine can only delay the symptoms, but it cannot cure the epidemic." Duan Ming followed my gaze and looked at Sarong, his tone was pity and helpless, "There is no poison prescription, even if the Daluo Immortal comes, she can't match the antidote, what's the use of her suffering like this?" ”

"I have a poisonous formula."

Hearing this, Sarong came back to his senses, got up and ran in front of me, grabbed the poison prescription and studied it carefully. I expected a look of joy on her face, but after a long time, she just closed her bloodshot eyes tiredly and shook her head slowly.

"The medicine boy was interrogated by me, and he vomited a lot. This recipe is just a condensed version of him. Sarong had tears in his eyes, but he stubbornly raised his head and refused to let the tears fall, "It's all because I don't know medical skills, I only know some superficial pharmacology." With this alone, I still can't make an antidote. ”

"Show me the recipe."

The three of us were all startled, and we all looked at the sound - this look didn't matter, Duan Ming and I almost instinctively took two steps back, and pulled out the Jian Xiang Sword and the Yu Xiang Sword together.

The woman in red was noncommittal about our reaction. She slowly stretched out her hand, her green eyes like ghosts, and she only fixed on Sarong's puzzled face.