Chapter 82: The Blood of the Gu King
In the next day or two, Sui Feng heard the news on the road about him breaking into the palace maid's bedroom and plotting against him, which made him feel that he couldn't wash himself by jumping into the Yellow River.
Iniquity, iniquity.
It's embarrassing for Xiaoxu, an innocent girl, and now people are hiding when they see her.
Zhou Sheng Cuobai on the other side received the news that Xu Zhaohua had passed on to him, and at this time he had already learned that Sui Feng had also joined their camp, although he could not completely say that he was with them, but he was sure that he had the heart to help them rescue Sui Yue and deal with Sui Chen, and that was enough.
However, Zhou Shengcuobai felt a little faintly uncomfortable in his heart, he had already heard the rumors of Sui Feng's romance on weekdays, and he believed that his crispy would not have any superfluous thoughts about him, but he was afraid that he would plot against him, and now he only hated that he was not by his side.
Daduan Daxing Palace
Xu Zhaohua, who watered Huo Yanhua as usual this morning, was still thinking about Sui Feng's strange illness that night, and when he talked to Uncle Shen a few days ago, he probably didn't want to tell Uncle Shen about it, and he didn't debunk him after seeing his thoughts, maybe he was afraid that Aunt Shen would worry, which was also his own entanglement, thinking that Aunt Shen was not in good health, so he didn't mention this matter to her.
I really think about whose business is coming.
Sui Feng walked into the door of Daxing Palace wearing a pale pink robe today, and suddenly the palace maids who were working around forgot to do the work in their hands and looked at him blankly, and some of the bold palace maids couldn't control the joy in their hearts and screamed.
He was good, and when he passed by the palace maids next to him, he threw a wink at others.
Really......
Chu Chenlu, who heard the movement, saw who it was, and before Sui Feng could ask, he half-curtsied to him:
"Lord Feng, the king was too late to review the folds last night, so he is resting at this time, and he doesn't want anyone to disturb him." The tone was neither humble nor arrogant, and he specially said the three words "anyone" heavily.
Sui Feng smiled and said, "I expected, this king is specifically looking for Miss Chenlu today." ”
Chu Chenlu was a little puzzled, what are you looking for her to do?
"You, go pour a cup of tea" Sui Feng pointed at Xu Zhaohua.
Xu Zhaohua quickly understood what he meant, turned around and went to pour tea, today he specially changed a piece of clothing, which clearly hinted that she should pay attention to his clothes and make a fuss from his clothes, and now he can refer to himself to pour tea, then his meaning is self-evident.
Sure enough, this Sui Feng is not simple.
After boiling the tea and bringing it out, Xu Zhaohua deliberately mixed some cold waste tea in a cup of tea, and walked over when he saw that the two of them were still sitting in the pavilion where they had talked a few days ago.
"Lord Feng, do you have anything to do with the slave?" Chu Chenlu asked.
"It's nothing important, it's just that I suddenly want to talk to Miss Chenlu and come over, Lulu won't mind." Sui Feng said innocently.
"How come, Lord Feng and the slave are talking to the slave and the maid to look down on the slave and the maid." Chu Chen said with a smile.
Sui Feng sighed, looked around, and said slowly, "Don't dare to be, I'm almost going to call you the imperial sister-in-law." ”
Chu Chenlu was a little panicked after hearing this, after so many years, no one had ever mentioned this matter to him directly.
"You.... You"
Xu Zhaohua walked over with a tea tray, Chu Chenlu didn't continue to talk when she saw someone coming, Sui Feng then gave Xu Zhaohua a look, and after she put Chu Chenlu's cup of tea away, she pretended to accidentally spill the tea on Sui Feng's clothes when she poured tea for Sui Feng.
Sui Feng stood up with an angry face: "You slave, where are your eyes?" This is the king's new clothes. ”
Xu Zhaohua lowered her head and did not speak, and Chu Chenlu on the side said to her:
"Xiao Ye, why are you so careless, go and take Prince Feng to change his clothes."
After Xu Zhaohua responded, he took Sui Feng to the side hall, and when he entered the side hall, Xu Zhaohua closed the door and found that Sui Feng behind him was looking at her with a smile on the corner of his mouth:
"I can't believe you'll be able to guess what I mean, I was going to do it myself."
Xu Zhaohua smiled in response.
Sui Feng felt more and more that this woman was too smart, it was obviously a freshly brewed tea, but she poured it on him without feeling hot, it seemed that she had already thought of this and deliberately made a trick in the tea on his side.
It's a pity that the love is across the mountains and seas.
It's okay to watch her silently from behind.
Sui Feng took out a human skin mask from his cuff and told Xu Zhaohua that he had solved a maid beside Xianyue, and the maid told him that Xianyue would come to Daxing Palace today, and before she came to Daxing Palace, Xu Zhaohua must pretend to be a maid and follow her to Daxing Palace, and at this time, Huo Yanhua must be destroyed.
Xu Zhaohua thought about it for a while and knew what to do.
"What did you do with that maid?" Xu Zhaohua asked
"Killed." Sui Feng replied indifferently.
"You ......"
"Fool you, I gave her money and helped her leave the Daduan Palace, I have observed her, she has long not wanted to stay by the side of Xianyue, and she is also old, it is time to leave the palace, she has no reason to refuse." Sui Feng said.
Xu Zhaohua gradually put his mind at ease, as long as there were no more innocent people dying because of her.
It was as if he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, your ...... that night"
Hearing Xu Zhaohua mention this matter, Sui Feng's expression became a little serious: "The mother concubine doesn't know about this matter, and I will tell you later, don't tell the mother concubine first." ”
"Okay, let's change my clothes, I'm out." Xu Zhaohua nodded and went out.
After going out, Chu Chenlu was no longer in the original pavilion, and now there was no one around, Xu Zhaohua walked to the front of the Huo Yanhua and secretly took out the lime powder that had been prepared from the cuffs, sprinkled the powder on the branches and leaves of the flower and the roots, and then walked out of the Daxing Palace and ran to the vicinity of the entrance of the Daduan Palace.
Sui Feng said that Xianyue would come soon, at this time she was lurking at the door, waiting for Xianyue's people to follow as soon as she came in, she would not notice the departure and stay of a little maid.
Sure enough, after waiting for a while, Xianyue's figure appeared at the gate of the palace, Xu Zhaohua put on the human skin mask that Sui Feng gave him, and after the people who were waiting for her walked over, he followed closely behind, and a palace maid in front of him turned his head:
"Hey, Xiaoxiao, why did you get to the back, come! Keep up. ”
Xu Zhaohua responded with a smile and quickened his pace.
Xu Zhaohua, who followed behind Xian Yue, came to Daxing Palace, at this time, nearly an hour had passed according to the last watering, and now Huo Yanhua had been burned to death by sprinkling lime powder on it. Seeing this scene, Xian Yue was almost crazy and asked what was going on, but no one knew how Huo Yanhua became like this.
"Where did the maid who took care of the flowers go?" Slender asked.
After her reminder, everyone realized that it seemed that they hadn't seen Xu Zhaohua for some time, and Xian Yue ordered people to look around and didn't find a reason, so angry that he almost vomited blood, Chu Chenlu was a little embarrassed, after all, it was his own people, and now this thing happened......
However, she always felt that Zhao Ye was someone she could trust, and there was something she didn't know about.
When everyone didn't know anything about Xu Zhaohua's whereabouts, in fact, Xu Zhaohua stood in front of them, quietly watching all these things happen.
Huo Yanhua's destruction meant that there was no good medicine for witchcraft, and Sui Chen's plan would not be completed, and the power in his heart would also be lost.
No, this matter has to be discussed with Sui Chen first.
Then Xianyue turned around and hurriedly walked out of the Daxing Palace, walked in the direction of the Imperial Garden, and when she walked to the gate of the Imperial Garden, she asked Xu Zhaohua and other entourages to stop, saying that her favorite flower was destroyed, and she went in to relax, and asked them to be followed.
When the autumn breeze is rising, what is there to relax in the imperial garden, Xu Zhaohua remembered the last time he saw Xianyue helping Sui Yue to pretend to wander in the imperial garden on the rockery, and then walked to the West Third Palace while people were not paying attention, and he didn't let anyone follow her like today.
This time she must have gone to the West Third Palace, could it be that Sui Chen was not in his own fiefdom but in the West Third Palace of this Daduan Palace? remembered the last time Xiao Su told her that there was an underground palace under the West Third Palace, and she understood.
Could it be that Sui Yue is in the underground palace of the West Third Palace?
Thinking that it might be difficult for the maid pretending to be Xianyue to operate in the Daduan Palace in the future, Xu Zhaohua felt that he had to inform Zhou Sheng Cuobai of the news as soon as possible.
Thinking that she had dropped her handkerchief, she went back, and when she reached the rockery, she took the opportunity to go inside, engraved the message on the maple leaves, strung it into the river, and looked up to see a pair of eyes looking at her in the grove below.
It's Sui Feng.
After Xu Zhaohua saw him, he slowly stood up, and went down easily with his light skills along the rockery.
Sui Feng didn't expect Xu Zhaohua to have such a high level of light skills, so it seems that her martial arts must also be excellent. Thinking for a moment, Xu Zhaohua had already walked in front of her, and it seemed that she had made no secret of the fact that she knew martial arts.
"What do you see?" Xu Zhaohua asked.
"All."
"What would you do?"
"Do nothing." Sui Feng saw her eyes and replied.
After getting Sui Feng's answer, Xu Zhaohua breathed a sigh of relief, although he already knew that Sui Feng was a person from their front, but he didn't particularly believe him before, but now seeing his eyes, Xu Zhaohua felt that maybe she should trust him completely.
"Why should I believe you?" Xu Zhaohua asked rhetorically.
Sui Feng told her, "You come to this forest tonight, and I will tell you the answer." ”
Xu Zhaohua agreed, and this time she wanted to find out. On the way back, Xu Zhaohua thought of the palace maid who died tragically in the woods, and she felt that she shouldn't have agreed to him so quickly, in case he had any tricks, but when she thought of the old lady, her heart was at ease.
The Underground Palace of the West Third Palace
Xianyue walked to the dungeon, which had not yet been completely repaired, and was very surprised and spurned in her heart.
This west third palace is the entrance to the underground palace, because there are few people here, no one will notice the change here.
She has been to this underground palace several times, but every time she comes, she is still shocked by the luxury of this underground palace, Sui Chen is equivalent to building a palace for herself under the Daduan Palace, the built-in ornaments are inlaid with gold and silver, and there are all kinds of treasures from various countries. Not only was there a dormitory, but there was also a place the size of a military camp training ground, and iron railings were installed around it, which made this open space look like a cage, but until now Sui Chen hadn't revealed to them what it was for.
The soldiers who built the underground palace were recruited in the name of participating in the war, and they were brought into the underground palace on the first day they came, and what awaited them every day was endless labor, and some of them were even exhausted to death but just couldn't escape.
Sui Chen is really ruthless, although she admits that she is not a good person, but she is very disgusted by Sui Chen's unconscionable approach.
But what does this have to do with her? As long as she does what she is supposed to do, she can get the part of the power she deserves.
Xianyue turned her mind and felt that her thoughts just now were a little funny, he pitied others, who would pity her?
Entering the main hall of the underground palace, Xian Yue saw Sui Chen and Zhou Shengchenmo who were drinking and having fun, Xu Shaoyun was wrapped around Sui Chen's body like a water snake, and Zhou Shengchenmo on the side looked at it with hatred
This woman loved herself and loved her dead and alive some time ago, and she threw herself into the arms of others so quickly, she was really a prodigal, no wonder she was so close to herself at the beginning, and now that he has lost power, she is like this.......
Seeing Xianyue coming, Xu Shaoyun still had no intention of getting off Sui Chen's body, and in the end, Sui Chen pushed her down.
I didn't expect this Xu Shaoyun to be so ignorant.
"Lord Wang, Huo Yanhua has been destroyed." Xianyue said calmly.
"What!" Sui Chen took the case, which was her expected reaction.
"Who did it? Kill him for me! Sui Chen said.
"A palace maid in Daxing Palace, no one can be found now." Fiber moon back.
Xu Shaoyun, who was pushed away on the side, was a little annoyed: "Isn't it just a broken flower?" If it's ruined, it's ruined! ”
"Mad woman, do you know how important that flower is? If you don't understand, shut your mouth. Zhou Shengchen looked at Xu Shaoyun mockingly and said.
This woman is so stupid, and her sister Xu Zhaohua is simply one heaven and one earth.
Sui Chen glanced at Xu Shaoyun coldly and then said slowly: "That's it, now that Huo Yanhua has been destroyed, we must hurry up and take action before we find the blood of the Gu King."
After saying that, Sui Chen didn't hurry, recently there were frequent people in the palace on the ground who were sucked dry of blood and died tragically, he suspected that it was done by someone with the blood of the Gu King, but he didn't know who that person was.
Legend has it that people with the blood of the Gu King will suck human blood to raise Gu when the Gu poison attacks.
"What should I do?" Zhou Shengchen asked.
Sui Chen looked at Xian Yue: "You go to the military camp and tell Xu Qingshan to attack Eastern Qi again."
Xianyue hesitated: "But...... Our soldiers were badly wounded last time, will we be debilitated by doing so?"
Sui Chen smiled coldly and said, "I have my own way to do this in the future, just do as I say."
"Yes." Tsuki replied.
Considering that Huo Yanhua was destroyed this time, Sui Chen specially ordered Xianyue to live in the Daduan Palace after that, although it was a bit laborious to go back and forth between the military camp and the palace, but this was also a way to do it, after all, there needs to be someone in charge of the underground palace, and it can't let something like Huo Yanhua's destruction happen again, obviously Xianyue is the most suitable person.
Slender Moon left the West Third Palace.
Xu Zhaohua was a little surprised to learn that Xianyue had been stationed in the palace since then, but after thinking about it, it was not a good thing, so that he could follow her to often move between the military camp and the palace, and also pass on news.
The afterglow of the setting sun kissed the horizon, and soon the last rays of sunlight fell, Xu Zhaohua had already followed Xianyue and the other maids to the new residence at this time, and everything was going smoothly at present, and no one found out that she was a fake.
Finally waited for midnight, thinking that Sui Feng had asked her to go to the woods during the day, Xu Zhaohua hesitated, but still got up and got out of bed. Fortunately, the dormitory where Xianyue lived was not far from the grove, and it was not long to arrive.
When she arrived in the woods, Xu Zhaohua only saw the fallen leaves sprinkled by the moonlight, the water surface was calm and empty, and just as she was about to leave, she saw a person lying on the ground, because the night was too dark, she only saw it when she walked in.
Sui Feng lay on the ground in pain, her clothes were all wet, and there were still gray spots on her skin, the same as what she saw that day. The scorching heat of his body had made him almost faint, and it had only been relieved by jumping into the river just now.
Xu Zhaohua helped him up: "How should I help you?" ”
"Leave me...... Stay away......" Sui Feng said weakly.
Xu Zhaohua felt that he must have his own reason for saying this, so he got up and took a few steps back. Sui Feng couldn't bear the pain, and after screaming, he leaned over and dipped his head into the river, and there was no movement for a moment.
He's spent many nights like this.
After a long time, about an hour later, Sui Feng woke up.
He got up and sat up, Xu Zhaohua asked him to go back and change into dry clothes, he waved his hand and refused: "It's okay, I'm used to it." ”
Xu Zhaohua stood quietly and did not speak. She was waiting for Sui Feng to speak first.
"This strange disease has been present since I was thirteen years old, and my mother did not know it, for the right and wrong in the court were enough to worry her, and since then I have read every night alone, and no one has found out."
After speaking, Sui Feng glanced at Xu Zhaohua, and Xu Zhaohua knew what he meant.
She was the only one who knew.
"How did this disease come about?" Xu Zhaohua asked.
Sui Feng recalled: "At that time, I had a serious illness, the imperial doctors were helpless, and the palace people thought that my life was short, but the concubine found a master in the outer land, and the master claimed to cure my illness after collecting a few drops of my blood. When I was alone, he fed me a pill and whispered in my ear that if I was going to live, I would swallow it, but I would have to bear the consequences. ”
Xu Zhaohua thought: Could this consequence be the current disease?
"At that time, I just wanted to live, I didn't think about what the consequences would be, now I look at ......" After speaking, Sui Feng looked at his soaked clothes and smiled.
"This illness will come once in a while," Xu Zhaohua asked.
"Once a month, at the beginning of each month."
Remembering that he had seen him and the palace maid in the woods before, Xu Zhaohua asked, "Then what happened to you and the palace maid who died tragically?" ”
Sui Feng stroked the hair on his forehead and pretended to be relaxed: "Hey, that palace maid has always admired this king, and it must be that this king's charm is too great." ”
Xu Zhaohua didn't speak, but he wanted to laugh very much in his heart, this Sui Feng was still so casual after becoming like this.
"As for why she died, I don't know this king." Sui Feng continued.
It flashed in his mind that he often woke up with blood stains on his body sometimes, but he was not injured, and Xu Zhaohua asked this, he was faintly uneasy, but he didn't remember anything he had done.
Xu Zhaohua saw that the sky was almost dawn, and he helped Sui Feng back to the gate of Fu'an Palace and returned to his new residence to avoid being discovered by others.
After dawn, Xu Zhaohua barely got up in good spirits, and their errand as maids was very easy, just to wash and wash Xianyue's clothes, serve her makeup, and clean the house.
Her name here is Xiaoxiao, and she is responsible for taking care of Xianyue's eating, drinking, housing and transportation outside, so Xianyue usually takes her with her wherever she goes. I have to say that the candidate chosen by Sui Feng is really good, and she can follow Xianyue from time to time, so that she can get more information.
This morning, Xianyue was going to the Daduan military camp, and by the way, she was going to inspect the situation of the barracks, and Xu Zhaohua, as a casual maid, naturally followed her to the Daduan barracks.
The moment she saw Xu Qingshan, Xu Zhaohua was calmer than before, in the past, all the bad memories after she saw Xu Qingshan hit like a flood, and hatred washed her away, but now she feels less hatred than before, it's not that she doesn't hate Xu Qingshan anymore, it's that she doesn't take hatred so seriously.
Now she just wants to save more people from the war, and as for the past with Xu Qingshan, she has no intention of dwelling on it.
"Yue'er, why are you here?" Xu Qingshan's confused eyes looked at Xian Yue, and after a few days, this little girl was even more plump.
Xianyue glanced at him in disgust but didn't speak, she really regretted how she chose to marry him as a pawn in the past.
"The prince has an order to attack Dongqi again."
Xu Zhaohua was thoughtful after hearing the news, she couldn't imagine that Sui Chen couldn't wait so soon, it seemed that she had to think of a plan.
"What? Our army is cultivating, and I'm afraid it won't be able to withstand the attack now, what if Xu Zhaohua uses any conspiracy and tricks? ”
"General Xu can't even fight his own daughter, her strategies are nothing more than a few, and she can overcome them one by one." Slender Moon was a little disdainful.
"She's not my daughter! I, Xu Qingshan, have long since denied her as a daughter! Xu Qingshan was a little angry.
Xu Zhaohua on the side listened quietly to him after saying this.
This is the daddy he shouted from childhood to adulthood, no, not now, he doesn't deserve it.
Xu Qingshan was so angry that his eyes kept looking at Xianyue, and as he spoke, his hand was attached to her waist, and he was cleverly dodged by Xianyue, this Xu Qingshan is really lustful.
Xian Yue glanced at Xu Qingshan in disgust, she clenched her fists, but she could only endure it, after all, it was not easy to tear her face with him now to do things for Sui Chen.