Wei Xu shook off the goosebumps on his body and asked, "What is Heart Devouring Gu?" ”

Pei Lin also cut off the leg bones, and after discovering that the situation was the same, he explained to a few people: "Heart Devouring Gu is an extremely difficult Gu to obtain, and what I am talking about here is extremely difficult to obtain, not that poisonous Gu is difficult to refine, but that Gu worms are rare. ”

He poured out the corpse of the Gu worm in the white bone hole, the slender worm, which had become dry and black due to the age, and was easily poured out.

Pei Lin casually picked up the corpse of a Gu worm, "None of these Gu worms we see now can be called Mind Eater Gu, because Mind Eater Gu will die at the same time the moment the host dies, and after the Mind Eater Gu dies, countless eggs will burst out from the body, and the eggs will quickly hatch into larvae, and then feed on the flesh and bone marrow of the corpse, and produce eggs again when they become adults, until they can no longer get food from the corpse, and then all die." ”

He looked at the white bones in the pit, "Now Li Guifei's bones are probably filled with insect corpses." ”

Wei Xu swallowed his saliva with difficulty and asked, "What exactly is the effect of the Heart Devouring Gu?" ”

Su Qingmo said: "The Heart Devouring Gu can control people's minds and act against their personal wishes, and when Li Guifei died, I was afraid that she had already been controlled by the Heart Devouring Gu." ”

Mu Yuanjing asked out loud, "How is the Heart Devouring Gu difficult to refine?" ”

"When refining the Heart Devouring Gu, you must feed it with the flesh and blood of the Gu maker, after the fourteen Gu worms eat the flesh and blood raw for three years, then put all the Gu worms into the same Weng, and the last one left is the Heart Devouring Gu, although it is easy to say, but there are very few people who can really succeed."

If the Heart Devouring Gu is used on the person in power, the consequences will be even more unimaginable.

Seeing that the sun was setting in the west, in order to prevent Li Guifei's ghost from coming out to make trouble, several people buried the bones back again, and the sedan chair out of the palace was waiting outside the Liufang Palace, waiting for the previous guards, he saw Mu Yuanjing and his party coming out of the Liufang Palace, stepped forward to salute, and hurriedly sent people out of the palace.

After returning to the Linchuan Palace, it was already past the time for dinner, and several people gathered in the study after a hasty meal.

On Mu Yuanjing's desk was the record of entering and leaving the palace two years ago that the hidden guard had taken not long ago, a tall stack of books, and Mu Yuanjing distributed the books to several people.

During the meal, they abandoned the rule of eating without saying a word and discussed it carefully.

What kind of person wants to kill Li Guifei?

She is just the daughter of an ordinary people's family, and she has no influence in the court, so the one who wants to attack must be the people of the harem.

Mind Eater Gu is already rare, the chance of being a palace maid or eunuch is really small, and the palace maid or eunuch can't leave the palace at all if they don't have a waist card and a valid reason, and not being able to leave the palace means that they can't get the Heart Eater Gu from outside the palace, and even if they have the ability to get the Heart Eater Gu, they don't have the opportunity to get along with Li Guifei face-to-face, so naturally there is no chance to get a Heart Eater Gu.

After excluding the palace maids and eunuchs, the remaining candidates are the palace concubines.

With the degree of favor of Concubine Li Guifei at that time, there are only two people who can be threatened to their status, one is the current queen mother, and the other is the fourth prince at that time, that is, the current King of Chu Xiang, the mother concubine of Mu Yuan Chu.

And Mu Yuanchu's mother died of illness half a year before Li Guifei hanged herself, and the only suspicious person left is the current queen mother.

Although the matter involved the Queen Mother, Mu Yuanjing didn't say much.

Several people focused on the palace maid's entry and exit records around the queen mother, but they never found any clues, and just when the hope was about to disappear, Su Qingmo suddenly asked out loud: "Lord, the abbot of Cihe Temple Huiguang once entered the palace to preach Buddhism for the queen mother?" ”

Mu Yuanjing recalled for a moment before he remembered that there was indeed such a thing in his memory.

"The Queen Mother believes in Buddhism, and when she encounters something she doesn't understand, she will occasionally invite Abbot Huiguang to enter the palace."

Su Qingmo clenched the palace book in his hand, looked at Mu Yuanjing, and stopped talking.

Mu Yuanjing looked at her and wondered, "What's wrong?" ”

Su Qingmo hesitated for a moment, but still spread out the palace book in front of Mu Yuanjing, she pointed to a record on the palace book, "Abbot Huiguang once entered the palace three days before Concubine Li Guifei's death."

Pei Lin, Wei Xu, and Fang Mubei's eyes were attracted by Su Qingmo's words, and after figuring out the meaning specified in it, the three of them had a chill in their hearts.

Mu Yuanjing's eyebrows furrowed slightly, his eyes fixed on the book, not knowing what to say.

Su Qingmo bit his lower lip, looked at Mu Yuanjing's silent appearance, and complained a little that he was too talkative.

Pei Lin glanced at her and pretended to be relaxed: "Maybe the time is just a coincidence, after all, the Queen Mother also invited Abbot Huiguang before that." ”

Wei Xu nodded, he really didn't dare to imagine that if Concubine Li Guifei's death really had the hand of the Queen Mother in it, what would Mu Yuanjing do.

Several people obviously misunderstood Mu Yuanjing's silence, and when he came back to his senses and saw Su Qingmo's regretful look, he smiled: "What you did was not wrong, and I don't mean to blame you." ”

Su Qingmo's heart suddenly relaxed.

Mu Yuanjing shifted his gaze to Pei Lin and asked, "What does the Heart Devouring Gu have for those who are under the Gu?" ”

Pei Lin replied: "If the person who is under the Gu wants to control Li Guifei through the Heart Devouring Gu, then the Gu in Li Guifei must be the one who controls the Gu himself." ”

Mu Yuanjing's eyebrows frowned slightly, "If the Heart Devouring Gu is ordered by the Queen Mother, then the Queen Mother must see Concubine Li, is what this king said right?" ”

Pei Lin nodded.

"But as far as this king knows, Abbot Huiguang left on the day he entered the palace, and after he left the palace, the Queen Mother began to close the palace to study Buddhism, and it was not until the news of Li Guifei's death came out that the Queen Mother opened the palace door."

Having said that, there was a faint hint of strangeness in Mu Yuanjing's heart.

It's too much of a coincidence, Abbot Huiguang hanged herself a few days after leaving the palace, the Queen Mother was always in the palace during this period, and there was a perfect alibi, but there was nothing suspicious in the palace book except for Abbot Huiguang who suddenly entered the palace, which means that if the Heart Devouring Gu has nothing to do with Abbot Huiguang, it appeared in Concubine Li's body out of thin air, but this speculation is not tenable at all.

Abbot Huiguang's clue, which can be called a clue, is no longer useful, and the investigation is in a predicament for a while.

Since he couldn't find more useful information from the Heart Devouring Gu, Su Qingmo thought that maybe they could find another way.

She looked at Mu Yuanjing, "Lord Wang, do you remember the illusion created by Concubine Li Guifei when we first went to Liufang Palace?" The corpses that hung in the hut. ”

Mu Yuanjing waited for her to continue, but Su Qingmo moved his gaze to Pei Lin's body, "Did my cousin feel anything in the Liufang Hall today?" ”

Pei Lin listened to what she said, thought about it carefully, and affirmed: "The yin qi is extremely heavy. ”

Su Qingmo nodded, "That's right, the yin qi in the Liufang Hall doesn't look like it can be created by Concubine Li Guifei alone, I suspect that the corpses I saw before were real." ”

After finishing speaking, she roughly told a few people about what happened on the night when Li Guifei's ghost was trapped.

Everyone in the study quietly listened to Su Qingmo continue: "If we can't find out the truth from the Heart Devouring Gu, why don't we investigate the Liufang Palace and thoroughly figure out what secrets are still in the Liufang Palace." ”

Pei Lin didn't say anything, Wei Xu and Fang Mubei looked at Mu Yuanjing, waiting for his decision.

Mu Yuanjing did not hesitate at all, "In this case, I will do what Qingmo said." ”

Several people took advantage of the night to re-enter the palace, and when they stood in front of the palace gate of Liufang Palace, Pei Lin took out a piece of yellow rune paper from his arms, burned the rune paper in front of the palace gate, and chanted words in his mouth.

After he finished his move, Wei Xu was curious: "What did you just do?" ”

"Tell Li Guifei's ghost, we entered the palace today to find out the murderer who killed her back then, if she wants to know who the real murderer is as soon as possible, don't come out to get in the way."

Wei Xu was a little skeptical, "Will she listen to you?" ”

Pei Lin pushed open the door of the hall and said, "You'll naturally know after a while." ”

Several people entered the hall one after another, and walked to the room where they had seen countless hanged corpses, and there was no ghost of Li Guifei on the road.

The wooden door of the house was closed, and Pei Lin held the compass with the pointer in his hand that kept rotating, with a serious expression.

"That's not right."

Su Qingmo stepped forward, and after seeing the state of the Hundred Ghost Compass, her face unconsciously became solemn, she looked at Pei Lin and asked, "Is it Concubine Li?" ”

Pei Lin shook his head, "It's not her, it can't be her alone with such a heavy yin qi." ”

He glanced around, and finally fixed his gaze on the wooden door not far away, and said to Wei Xu, "Open the door." ”

Wei Xu stepped forward lightly, pushed open the door with his fingertips, and then stood in place dumbfounded.

The scene inside the room was the same as what Su Qingmo had seen before, still those dense corpses, and legs dangling in the air.

Pei Lin never looked away, and after the door opened, she asked Su Qingmo, "This is the scene you saw that day?" ”

Su Qingmo nodded, and when he realized that Pei Lin hadn't seen it, he said, "That's right, it's just that I can't be sure if it was an illusion created by Concubine Li that day." ”

"It's normal for you not to see it, if it weren't for the Hundred Ghost Compass, I'm afraid that even I might not be able to see through the obstacle."

Wei Xu retreated to Pei Lin's side in a few steps, only to hear him continue: "I'm afraid these people were all killed by Concubine Li, she devoured their souls, so the yin qi in the Liufang Hall will be extremely heavy, haven't you noticed that there is no grass in the Liufang Hall except for the plum tree where Li Guifei is buried." ”

He only realized what he said.

Su Qingmo suddenly realized: "When we first entered the Liufang Palace, Li Guifei led us here, at that time, there was no blinding method in this room, what we saw was real, but when Li Guifei let us go, this room was set up to obstruct us, she didn't want us to find the corpse in the house, why?" ”

Regarding this, Mu Yuanjing could roughly guess that he spoke out to solve Su Qingmo's confusion.

"If these corpses are discovered, the Liufang Hall will soon be sealed and abandoned, and if the Liufang Hall is abandoned, Concubine Li is afraid that she will be trapped here for the rest of her life."

Pei Lin agreed: "What the prince said is right. ”

As soon as his words fell, there was a noise in the direction of the palace gate, and a black-clothed hidden guard appeared in front of Mu Yuanjing, and said quickly: "Lord Wang, someone is here outside the Liufang Palace." ”

"How long will it take for the people to arrive?"

"Less than half a moment."

Mu Yuanjing waved away the hidden guard, and then asked Wei Xu to close the door of the room where the corpse was hanging, and then quickly rushed to the direction of the hall gate with a few people.

As soon as the group stood outside the Liufang Palace, they saw a group of people coming not far away, and there was a sedan chair in the middle of the team, and the moonlight hit it, so that Mu Yuanjing vaguely recognized an outline.

When the team walked in, he stepped forward and saluted, "My brother has seen the imperial sister-in-law." ”

Su Qingmo had never seen the queen, but after seeing Mu Yuanjing's movements, she also followed forward to ask for peace.

An unusually gentle voice came from the sedan chair.

"Sixth brother, sixth brother and sister don't have to be polite, just get up quickly."

Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo straightened up, and the queen was helped to get off the sedan chair, looked at the few people kneeling behind them, and said softly: "You guys also get up." ”

The queen's voice was pleasant and comfortable, which made Su Qingmo unconsciously feel a little good, she looked up at the queen, but the moment her eyes touched the queen's shoulder, her body stiffened.

Her gaze was tilted, looking at the Queen, trying to ignore the other face that appeared on the Queen's shoulder.

Mu Yuanjing naturally noticed Su Qingmo's strange appearance, he used the wide sleeve hem as a cover, held Su Qingmo's hand covertly, and pinched it.

The queen's gaze slid over the sleeves of the two, with a hint in her eyes that was not easy to be noticed by others, and said softly: "It's late at night, why are the sixth brother and sixth brother and sister still in the palace?" ”

Mu Yuanjing was silent and did not make a sound.

The queen smiled, "It seems that it is inconvenient for this palace to know." ”

She looked at the closed door of the Liufang Hall and asked Mu Yuanjing, "Does the sixth brother know who lived in the Liufang Hall in the past?" ”

Mu Yuanjing said lightly: "Father's Li Guifei." ”

The queen's face was still soft, but her complexion was a little pale.

"That's right, it was here that Concubine Li hanged herself."

She paused, and reminded as if kindly: "Sixth brother stay away from Liufang Hall in the future, if Princess Anping and King Yongding know, maybe how to speculate about the cause of Concubine Li Guifei's death back then." ”

There was some ill-intentioned remark to say this, and several people could hear it.

Mu Yuanjing didn't seem to hear it, and said, "Brother Chen knows." ”

The queen smiled with relief, "It's not too early, you should get out of the palace quickly, otherwise the palace gate will be closed." ”

Mu Yuanjing saluted the queen, and without waiting for Su Qingmo to move, he led the people away, Pei Lin, Fang Mubei and Wei Xu followed behind the two.

The queen stood quietly in place, until the figures of several people disappeared, and then she got on the sedan chair with the support of the personal palace maid Lan Pei, and on the way back to the palace, the queen relaxed her body a little tired.

Lan Pei was a little worried: "Your health is not good, why did you make a special trip today." ”

The queen closed her eyes, and her beautifully maintained hands gently rubbed her somewhat heavy shoulders.

"Since someone specially revealed the news of King Linchuan's entry into the palace to me, how could I not come and take a look in person."

Lan Pei said softly: "The slave is worried about you. ”

The queen sighed lightly, "I know, but there are some things, it's better to be cautious." ”

The figures of a group of people gradually faded away under the moonlight, and the few people who returned to the Linchuan Royal Mansion were silent.

After a while, Su Qingmo saw that they still didn't mean to speak, so he asked Pei Lindao, "Did cousin see anything on the queen's body?" ”

Pei Lin shook his head, and Su Qingmo muttered in a low voice, "Could it be that I'm dazzled?" ”

Pei Lin was stunned for a moment when he heard this, "What did you see?" ”

"I can't be sure if I'm wrong, but I saw the ghost of a maid on the queen's shoulder, and she lay there until we left."

Pei Lin didn't think that Su Qingmo was dazzled and misunderstood, "Do you still have the bracelet that the master gave you?" ”

Su Qingmo rolled up his sleeves, and a string of white bracelets hung on his wrists.

Pei Lin couldn't think of the reason why Su Qingmo could see the ghost, so he decided to write to ask the master, but he could only give up first.

Mu Yuanjing, who had never spoken since leaving the palace, suddenly said loudly: "Qing Mo still remembers the appearance of that palace maid?" ”

Su Qingmo nodded, and Mu Yuanjing instructed Wei Xu: "Go and invite a painter." ”

Wei Xu was ordered to leave, and after a short time, he brought a middle-aged man into the study.

The man is the painter of the hidden world, after entering the door, after making a gesture towards Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo, he neatly took out his tools and posed, Su Qingmo described the appearance of the palace maid in his memory, and the painter's subordinates kept moving.

After the time of the incense stick, the painter stopped and put the paper with a portrait on Mu Yuanjing's table.

Mu Yuanjing pulled the paper, looked at a familiar face drawn on it, a figure flashed in his mind, and he suddenly said: "This king has seen her!" She used to be Li Guifei's personal palace maid, and she was the one who testified that the wound on Li Guifei's finger was caused by scissors. ”

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