His forehead pressed against hers, and she could see the excitement in the other's white eyes, and his cool hand tugged hard at her hair, touching her cheek from time to time, making her feel cold in her bones.

His mouth was still muttering, "Take me, take me." ”

Mu Yuanjing rushed over at the first time when Su Qingmo was dragged into the water, he wrapped one hand around Su Qingmo's waist to prevent her whole person from being pulled into the tank, and with the other hand, he picked up a stone from the side and urged the inside to smash into the water tank, and after a few blows, the water tank burst.

Su Qingmo's whole person was in a very bad state, and he had already fainted.

Mu Yuanjing pressed her chest cavity and sent air into her mouth, and she woke up after a long time.

He helped her sit up, gasping for breath, "Are you alright?" ”

Su Qingmo coughed a few times, his throat was a little astringent, "I didn't expect there to be a water ghost here." ”

Mu Yuanjing gently hugged her, "It's okay anymore." ”

Su Qingmo endured the discomfort and continued: "The water ghost is only afraid that the murderer specially found it in order to prevent the deceased from remembering the events of his life and turning into a powerful ghost to take revenge, the water ghost cannot leave the river where he drowned, and the water in this tank must be the water in the river where the water ghost died."

"And there must be something wrong with the pattern on the water tank, so the water ghost can be sealed here, and now the water tank has been smashed, and the water ghost should have returned to the river where he drowned himself."

Mu Yuanjing glanced at Su Qingmo's not very good face, and hugged her, "Let's leave here first, and then talk about it in detail when we go home." ”

Su Qingmo struggled to get off the ground, "Let me go, I can go by myself." ”

Mu Yuanjing tightened his arm and said softly: "Be obedient, don't move." ”

Su Qingmo immediately stopped moving, in fact, she didn't have much strength left in her body, and she could really walk, it was just a matter of speed and slowness.

Mu Yuanjing carried Su Qingmo and left the alley smoothly, he put Su Qingmo on the horse's back, and then turned over on the horse, afraid that she would catch a cold and try to wrap her in his arms, and rode all the way back to the palace.

Yong'an and Qingzhu in front of the palace hurriedly stepped forward when they saw the figures of their own sons, and Mu Yuanjing, who was the first to dismount, was about to reach out to hug Su Qingmo, but was preempted by Qingzhu, who had been waiting for a long time.

Qingzhu rushed forward with an arrow step and easily hugged the person into her arms, she hugged Su Qingmo and saluted Mu Yuanjing: "The slave maid took the princess back and changed her clothes." ”

Afraid that the master would catch a cold, without waiting for Mu Yuanjing to answer, Qingzhu walked towards Moxiangju with people in his arms very quickly.

Mu Yuanjing looked at the backs of the two of them drifting apart, with an uncertain look in his eyes, "The people around the princess were notified by you?" ”

Yongan cautiously glanced at his master's face, "The slave mentioned it to Qingrui beside the princess, but he didn't elaborate. ”

Mu Yuanjing sighed meaninglessly, and said with a smile: "You really look like the eighth emperor brother of this king." ”

After that, he raised his legs and walked in the direction of Mo Xiangju, and when he left, he ordered: "You don't need to follow this king, go and tell Wei Xu to send people from the hidden world tomorrow to secretly monitor the big and small gambling houses in the capital, and if there are strange people or things happening, come and inform this king." ”

Yongan looked at the master's back, and always felt that he seemed to have offended the master, and asked the guard next to him with some apprehension: "The prince was praising me just now?" ”

The guards around all shook their heads to indicate that they didn't know, and Yongan thought about raising his feet and wanted to walk towards Wei Xu's courtyard.

The palace has a special courtyard for the people of the hermit to live, and Wei Xu naturally lives in it.

Yongan knocked on Wei Xu's door, and pushed the door in after hearing the answer in the house, Wei Xu, who had already rested, was shocked when he saw Yong'an, "Come to me so late, is there something wrong?" ”

Yongan replied: "It's not a big deal, it's the prince's orders." ”

Wei Xu's tense nerves relaxed slightly, and Yong'an continued: "The prince asked Commander Wei to send people to monitor the large and small gambling houses in the capital tomorrow and pay attention to people or things that are abnormal. ”

Wei Xu responded: "Okay, I will definitely do it tomorrow." ”

Looking at the people who remained in place and never moved, Wei Xu was puzzled: "Do you still have something?" ”

Yongan thought for a moment, "There's something I want to ask Commander Wei about. ”

Wei Xu's personality is straightforward and straightforward, and he said generously: "We don't need to ask for advice between the two of us, you say." ”

"If our prince says that a person does things the same as King Yongding, what does Commander Wei think the prince means." Yongan looked at Wei Xu with expectant eyes.

Wei Xu didn't notice Yong'an's expression at all, he had been running for a day during the day, and now he was tired and sleepy, so he said to Yong'an simply: "What can it mean, the prince looks down on King Yongding the most, and he told me before that King Yongding is a fool." ”

Yongan slumped his shoulders, feeling that his position as the first person to do things neatly in the master's heart was about to be lost, so he left without even saying goodbye to Wei Xu.

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The night was getting deeper and deeper, and after Su Qingmo returned to the room to clean his face and bathe, the time was almost over, and when he was lying on the bed and drowsy, the brocade quilt on the other side was lifted, and then someone lay down in the quilt.

Su Qingmo woke up and said: "The person who refines the ghost gold technique will be able to drive the ghost baby tomorrow, and the prince will definitely be able to find the clues of the murderer as long as he keeps an eye on the gambling house." ”

She waited for a long time and didn't hear the answer from the person next to her, and when she turned her head to look over, she found that Mu Yuanjing was looking at her with these inexplicable complicated looks in his eyes.

"Lord Wang?" Su Qingmo opened his mouth and shouted tentatively.

Mu Yuanjing returned to normal in an instant, and his words unconsciously brought some coaxing, "I have already ordered the gambling house, go to sleep, you have worked hard today." ”

Su Qingmo was silent and didn't ask any more questions.

Because of the water ghost's energy, her strength was too much, so she straightened her body and fell asleep in less than a moment.

Mu Yuanjing on the pillow stared at her side face for a long time, and finally closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Since it was determined that someone was refining ghosts and moving gold, the large and small gambling houses in the capital were secretly monitored by the people of the Hidden World, and the people of the Hidden World were not found for a few days, just when Wei Xu was a little uncomposed.

At noon on this day, in Wanjin Fang, the largest gambling house in the capital, Wei Xu hid in an inconspicuous position in the crowd, staring at the man in the corner without missing a trace.

The clothes worn by the man were made of ordinary materials, his face was ruddy, his expression was excited, and even the corners of his eyes were slightly red with excitement, his upper body fell on the gambling table, waved his arms to collect the silver money on the gambling table into his arms, and then took out a cloth bag that was not too small, and pulled all the silver coins in his arms into the bag.

The corners of his mouth were raised high, and he could see that he was in a very happy mood.

While the man collects the money, the banker's face becomes more and more ugly.

After a few more rounds of gambling, the man finally realized that even if he rummaged through his body, he couldn't find a place to continue to hold money, so he reluctantly withdrew his hand, and then the man left the table and walked outside the gambling hall without stopping.

A guy passing by whispered something in Wei Xu's ear when the man was about to leave the table, Wei Xu nodded, and the guy left as if nothing had happened.

The man not far away hugged the money bag tightly and walked out of the gambling house with a satisfied expression, and the dealer at the gambling table glanced at the distance.

Except for Wei Xu, no one noticed that three big men with strong bodies followed the man and left.

Wei Xu left his seat and turned around to an alley, he hid in a hidden place at the mouth of the alley, and heard a man's rough voice from inside, "His grandmother's, don't you hurry up and hand over the money, don't you force the grandfathers to do it." ”

Wei Xu probed and saw that the man who had just left the gambling house was surrounded by three people in the corner.

Although the man curled up on the ground with a cowering movement, he held the money bag in his arms with all his strength, "I advise you to leave quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being unkind." ”

The big man who spoke at the beginning laughed and said disdainfully: "Yo, Lao Tzu will see how you are polite today." ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and snatched the money bag in the man's arms.

The man huddled under the wall, shielded the money bag with one hand, and took out a carved wooden doll from his arms with the other, his expression suddenly became distorted and crazy, "Kill them for me, kill them all." ”

Wei Xu frowned, and as the man's words landed, something strange happened.

The three big men who had just surrounded the man seemed to have been choked by an invisible person, their faces gradually turned purple, their breathing became difficult, their eyes widened so that they were about to come out of the frame, and in less than a moment they stopped struggling and died silently in the remote alley.

The man in the corner gasped and stared at the three of them, and after a while, he found that they still hadn't moved, so he crawled to the side of several people with his hands and feet to protect the money bag, stretched out his hand and tried to snort, and made sure that the few people were really out of breath, and the man's eyes were exposed to excitement.

His face twitched unnaturally because of excitement, looking at the wooden carved doll in his hand, he suddenly laughed lowly, after laughing for a while, he carefully took the wooden carved doll into his arms, and then got up and viciously kicked the corpse on the ground a few times to vent his anger.

When several big men fell to the ground, Wei Xu had already quietly walked behind the man, he endured the inexplicable chill on his back, and when the man wanted to leave, he stepped forward silently, and a hand knife cut the person unconscious, and then he took out a whistle from his arms and blew it, and after the whistle, five hidden guards in dark color armor appeared in the alley.

Wei Xu looked at the five hidden guards with numbers tattooed on their plackets, "Yin Liu went to the neighborhood and called a team of guards to come over, and the four of you tied him back to the palace and handed him over to the prince." ”

Yin Liu was ordered to leave, and the rest of the hidden guards were about to leave with the fainted man, when Wei Xu suddenly remembered something and said: "When you hand over the person to the prince, tell the prince that the wood carving doll in this person's hand is a little strange. ”

It was so strange that it almost scared him out.

One of the four guards broke the man's palm and took the carved wooden doll, and then the four disappeared into the alley with the man.

Not long after Yin Liu left, a team of guards came from outside the alley, and the leading head of the guard stepped forward and saluted Wei Xu: "Commander." ”

Wei Xu pointed to the three people on the ground, "Carry the three of them back to the hermit and hand them over to Fang Mubei." ”

After explaining the matter, Wei Xu turned over the horse tied in front of the gate of Wanjinfang, beat the horse and went to the Linchuan Palace.

When the four hidden guards escorted the man into the Linchuan Palace, Su Qingmo was lying on the couch and reading the book that he hadn't finished reading last time, Qingrui walked in from the outside and said to Su Qingmo: "Yongan said that the prince invited the princess to the study. ”

——

Yong'an was waiting in front of the door of the study, and when he saw Su Qingmo coming over, he stepped forward and said respectfully: "The prince is waiting for the princess in the study." ”

Su Qingmo nodded, Yongan pushed open the door of the study and let Su Qingmo walk in, Qingrui and Qinghe waited outside the door of the study with Yongan.

In addition to Mu Yuanjing, there was also a man sitting on a chair in the study.

Wei Xu saw Su Qingmo for the first time, and heard Yongan say that this princess was good-looking, but now that he saw it, he got up from the chair and stepped forward to Su Qingmo and said, "Subordinate Wei Xu, I have seen the princess." ”

Su Qingmo nodded lightly.

Mu Yuanjing stepped forward and said to Su Qingmo: "The person we are looking for has been found." ”

Su Qingmo looked up at him, and glanced at Wei Xu next to him, Mu Yuanjing said, "Wei Xu already knows what happened that night in the south of the city. ”

It means that there are some things that you don't have to carry on Wei Xu's back in the future.

Su Qingmo said clearly: "Where are the people?" ”

Mu Yuanjing picked up Su Qingmo and said softly, "Follow me." ”

He pressed a hidden raised button under his desk, and a secret door appeared behind the bookshelf with a "squeak", and he led the person into the secret door.

Wei Xu followed behind the two of them, and was a little surprised.

The master really looked at the reappointed princess, and let the other party know the secret of the secret door.

Su Qingmo followed Mu Yuanjing for about half a cup of tea, and the three of them entered a dark room one after another, except for the door they entered the room, there was a door in each of the three directions, northwest and east, and there was a candlestick burning in the corner, and the warm yellow candle light shone on Su Qingmo's body.

Mu Yuanjing pointed to the east door in the room and told Su Qingmo: "This is the dark room of the study, the time to go out from that door and walk half a pillar of incense will go to the back door of the palace, and there are organs in the other two doors, if I am not around, you can easily not go in." ”

Su Qingmo's eyes flashed with a smile, "If you tell me this secret, aren't you afraid that I will tell it?" ”

Mu Yuanjing smiled and asked, "Will you?" ”

Su Qingmo whispered: "It's no good to tell others. ”

Mu Yuanjing instructed, "Bring people in." ”

Wei Xu was ordered to leave from the west door, and after a while, he dragged out a tied person, who was almost tied into a dumpling, and he threw the person on the ground like a sandbag, "The person is still unconscious, do you want your subordinates to wake people up?" ”

"Not yet."

Mu Yuanjing took out a dark wood carving from his sleeve and handed it to Su Qingmo.

Su Qingmo took it, and in his hand was a wood carving in the shape of a fat doll, which looked cute and cute in appearance, but the smile on the corner of his mouth was actually carved into a gloomy atmosphere.

Holding the delicate and smooth wood carving on the surface, Su Qingmo was stared at by the wood carving doll's eyes that seemed to be able to move, and in a trance, he saw the eyes of the thing in his hand blink, Su Qingmo suppressed the desire to throw it out of his hand, "This thing is the shell used to hold the ghost baby." ”

Wei Xu looked at the wood carving doll and said curiously: "Please ask the princess to solve the doubts of her subordinates." ”

Su Qingmo flipped the wood carving doll over, so that its eyes were in the direction of the ground, "This wood carving doll is made of yin wood, yin wood is a locust tree that has grown for fourteen years with the dead as nourishment, and the person who refines the ghost baby needs to give incense to the ghost fetus every night, so that the ghost baby can be driven to collect wealth during the day, and the ghost fetus in Weng is the soul of the ghost baby, and this yin wood doll is equivalent to the body of the ghost baby." ”

Wei Xu asked, "How can I destroy the ghost baby?" ”

Su Qingmo walked to the brazier standing in the corner, threw the yin wood doll into the fire, and after a while, accompanied by a pungent smell, a pool of black oil and water flowed out of the yin wood doll, and the oil and water flowed into the fire, the flame changed from orange-red to green and faint cyan, and then a piercing baby cry sounded, and it dissipated in the air in an instant.

Wei Xu was frightened by the screams of the ghost baby, and his body tensed unconsciously.

After the Yin Wood Doll turned into powder at a speed visible to the naked eye, Su Qingmo looked at the people on the ground and said to Wei Xu: "Wake people up, ask where the Weng who worships the ghost baby is, and then burn it, and the ghost refining and gold will be cracked." ”

"Wait a minute."

Su Qingmo looked at Mu Yuanjing on the side inexplicably.

Mu Yuanjing thought for a while and asked, "Qingmo, do you know who this person is?" ”

Su Qingmo glanced at the person lying on the ground, and after confirming that he had never seen it, he quietly waited for Mu Yuanjing's answer.

Mu Yuanjing's hand in his sleeve rubbed, "He is the husband of the deceased." ”