A month ago.

In the Hongfu Tavern, there has been an extra guy these days. He was wrapped in a gray cloth towel on his head, wearing gray clothes, and he didn't look very good-looking, his face was full of pockmarks, and there was a big mole on the side of his nose. The scary thing is that this person is ugly, but a pair of eyes are very bright, and when he stares at people with amber pupils, he always feels that he owes him money.

Because he is too ugly and tall, he always gives people an inexplicable sense of oppression when he stops in the tavern, which has led to the recent Hongfu Tavern. Mrs. Qi stood behind the counter and made calculations, her brows furrowed more and more, she sighed and looked at Xiao Lian and said, "Why don't you go upstairs?" ”

On the day of the palace change, Mrs. Qi was shocked that something was wrong, and hurriedly took Old Man Mo and several brothers in the alliance to Zhengyangmen, but only took advantage of the chaos to pick up Cao Jingzhao's body. After the new emperor ascended the throne, martial law was imposed in the palace, and there was no news of the few eyeliners left in the palace.

Xiao Lian hasn't been talking much since he woke up after being smashed by Xiao Yuanda. He listened to Mrs. Qi tell him to go upstairs, but he didn't speak, turned around and walked upstairs silently.

Hongfu Tavern is the tallest building on Suzaku Street. The attic where Xiao Lian lived was used to store sundries, and although the room was low and cramped, it was better to have a window that could take in the entire Suzaku Street.

The ministers had to pass through Suzaku Street in the last court, and Xiao Lian had been observing for several days in a row, and found that there was not a single car from the palace in the cars that had passed by Suzaku Street in the past few days.

It is estimated that all the clan relatives in this imperial city have been put under house arrest by Xiao Luan. There is Xiao Luan outside, and Xiao Chen controls the Yulin Army inside, and not a single bird can enter or exit the huge imperial city.

Xiao Lian came back from Southern Qinzhou, and there were checkpoints along the way, and people could not communicate between states. It all relied on Xiao Zilun's waist card to enter Beijing. But after entering Beijing, Xiao Zilun was taken back to his mansion as soon as possible, and more than ten officers and soldiers surrounded Xiao Zilun's palace and put him under house arrest.

And Xiao Lian, who pretended to be a car, was not noticed by the officers and soldiers, and fled all the way to the Hongfu Tavern.

He had searched everywhere he could in the past few days, he had been to Yizhuang, and there was nothing in it except a few words of corpses that were already highly decomposed. He also went to mass graves, he shoveled open every new grave, and he was thought to be evil spirits. He had been to the Six Diseases Pavilion, he had been to every medical hall in the capital, large and small, and he remembered that the ghost-faced Langjun had said that if there was no doctor to treat He Jingying, she would not have survived.

But no, nowhere is it.

He hoped that it could really be as bloody as the books he had watched on TV, He Jingying was just rescued by someone, maybe she didn't appear because she had amnesia for a while.

There was a box at Xiao Lian's feet, and the sound of "cooing" came from time to time in the box. Xiao Lian kicked the box. This ghost thing, I haven't drunk He Jingying's blood for several days, and I can't stop screaming all day long.

That day, Xiao Lian put some of his own blood to feed it, but he was disgusted by it. Now I have to catch the rats and throw them in the box.

He always thought that he was leaving Beijing to protect He Jingying. But when he heard Mrs. Qi say that He Jingying had brought the newt back from Lu Liang, and kept talking about killing the faint king, he knew that he was wrong.

He was wrong all along.

He thought that it was his own business that he liked He Jingying, so he couldn't trouble He Jingying, he just needed to like He Jingying silently.

Why did he never think that He Jingying was also helpless?

Why did he stand aside silently instead of grabbing her hand and dragging her out of the mire?

Xiao Lian knocked on the box: "If I take you out, can you find your master?" ”

"Goo-goo."

Xiao Lian sighed, even if you can find your master, I can't just let you out and walk around the street.

During this time, the newt in the box at his feet was all his hope, He Jingying worked hard to bring the newt out of Lu Liang, how could he not come back? She's obviously prepared so much.

Xiao Lian caught a mouse from the small cage next to him and put it in the box, and walked down the stairs silently.

There was a man locked up in the cellar. It was a soldier of Xiao Luan that Mrs. Qi and they brought back from the chaos on the day of the palace change, and it was guarded by Old Man Mo for the past two days.

Xiao Lian walked to the door of the dimly lit wine cellar and watched Old Man Mo come out of it with a medicine bowl, and the pitch-black medicine residue sank to the bottom of the bowl.

The person was obviously chained, but he still let Old Man Mo hang up. Old man Mo touched the swollen half of his beaten face: "This person is still so powerful when he is chained, if it weren't for a bowl of soothing soup that has increased the amount every day, this wine cellar would have collapsed." ”

"Thankfully, Mober."

Old man Mo waved his hand: "Your masked brother is inside, you can go in." ”

Xiao Lian walked into the wine cellar and saw the ghost-faced Langjun in it to apply needles to the man who was chained in chains. The man had been made into a hedgehog in his head.

Ghost-faced Langjun entered Beijing yesterday. After the palace change, the prices outside have increased several times, and the money is worthless, but he can still use the fairy jade dew pill in his hand to exchange for the opportunity to enter Beijing with the salt merchants.

Ghost-faced Langjun looked back at Xiao Lian: "This person is similar to those medicine people in Zhuyi. ”

"Almost?"

The ghost-faced Langjun tied the hair on the back of the man's head and showed it to Xiao Lian: "Look at this, this scar is similar to Xiao Daoci's scratch at the beginning." ”

"Little Hua Tuo?"

"Well, I guess I can't think of anyone else but him. But this scar is a little different from those in Zhuyi, much shorter and much thinner. Ghost-faced Langjun gestured: "Xiao Huatuo used to like to change people's dog brains, isn't this mouth enough?" ”

Xiao Lian frowned: "You don't need to change your brain, maybe you just moved the anterior lobe of your brain." ”

"Anterior lobe? Is it the part of the serial killers that the drama said? ”

"Almost. Anterior lobe defects can lead to emotional and cognitive impairments, and if their pain nerves are removed, these people are no different from killing machines. ”

"That's for sure." Ghost-faced Langjun raised the man's arm, and there was a fresh scar on the man's arm that was deep into the bones: "This man struggled very badly when Mober was feeding the medicine, and I obviously saw that his arm was torn, but he didn't seem to notice it. ”

The ghost-faced Langjun put away the silver needles on the man's head one by one: "It's no wonder that Xiao Luan's attack on the imperial city will be so smooth, such an army will be afraid of it if it is one block ten." ”

"There are also those who are not afraid." Xiao Lian lowered his head and pinched a safety buckle in his hand.

Ghost-faced Langjun glanced back: "I've heard about this too, don't be too upset." ”

"Hmm."

When Xiao Lian returned to Beijing, he happened to see Cao Jingzhao's corpse, which was placed in the courtyard behind the Hongfu Tavern. His head was cut off alive. His body was picked up by Old Man Mo from the Cloud Dragon Gate. The head was picked up by Madame Qi under the bell tower.

After Mrs. Qi took advantage of the chaos to break into the palace, she didn't even see Cao Jingzhao for the last time. But just looking at Cao Jingzhao's corpse, he also knows how tragic the battle of Yunlongmen was.

This young man, who wanted to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy all his life, sprinkled his lonely courage in front of the Yunlong Gate. His arms and body were all wounded.

The enemy he faces is a war machine, and the knife he cuts at the enemy will not make the enemy feel pain. But every knife he endured was Ling Chi.

There is hardly a good place on his arms or on his body. Xiao Lian couldn't understand whether he died of blood, or if he was beheaded by Xiao Luan when he was alive. Either way, it's too cruel.

He was a warrior and was the close guard of the emperor and queen, and Xiao Luan used his head to sacrifice the flag.

Xiao Luan carried Cao Jingzhao's head, stood under the bell tower, and said, "What is taken from someone, you don't need to move." In the face of such an overwhelming force, who would dare to resist?

Wang Baoming wrote down the edict, and Xiao Zhaoye was hanged in Weiyang Palace. These are as easy for Xiao Luan as pinching an ant to death.

Xiao Lian lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "He is my brother." Sometimes I don't know who to revenge. ”

"Do you still believe that the queen is still alive?"

Xiao Lian looked at the ghost-faced Langjun firmly: "As long as I haven't seen her corpse for a day, I believe it." ”

Ghost-faced Langjun shook his head, took off all the golden needles on the locked man's head, thought for a while and said to Xiao Luan: "I have a way to let you enter the palace." ”

"What's the solution?"

Ghost-faced Langjun took off his mask: "Use this." ”

"You want me to pretend to be you?"

Ghost-faced Langjun smiled: "Don't underestimate the Heavenly Master. Although it is not a good thing, there is no lord who does not like it, and he asked, he will live a long life and live a hundred years, and he will have this ideal left when he becomes an emperor. ”

Xiao Lian took the mask from the ghost-faced Langjun: "Thank you." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me, I just thought of this way to let you enter the palace. However, with the current situation in the palace, even if you go in, you probably can't just leave. It takes a lot of work to get the news. And once you enter the palace, you will be alone, and we can't help you. ”

"It doesn't matter." Xiao Lian put the mask on his face.

When he raised his head again, he already looked like a ghost-faced man, except for those amber eyes.

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