Bai Yixiu no longer looked at Ling Ling, and continued to play the chess pieces that had not been played before with his knuckled fingers holding the white jade chess pieces.

"Recently, many officials in Day and Night City have been mysteriously assassinated one after another, Ling Ling, do you know who it is?"

"I don't know."

His eyes were locked on the chessboard, the black and white chess pieces were constantly alternating, although Ling Ling didn't understand Go, he also felt that the situation on the chessboard was very complicated.

"When I was two years old, something happened in the palace," he said to himself, "at that time, the princess of Xisha Kingdom, Jing Guifei, who was favored by the emperor, passed away, and the emperor told the world that Jing Guifei died of illness, but in fact Jing Guifei was killed by someone. In order to find out who murdered Concubine Jing, many people died in the night city back then. And the person who murdered Concubine Jing found a substitute ghost back then and avoided all suspicions. ”

She didn't know anything about the history of Bai Xiguo except for Xiahou Ling's memory, and Ling Ling only thought that she was listening to Bai Yixiu's story.

After that year, the White Seal Kingdom was calm for twenty years, and twenty years later, the first emperor died unexpectedly, and the same murder methods as Concubine Jing reappeared in the world. Since then, I have begun to investigate the military officials of the government and the opposition, and not long before Prime Minister Xiahou Yi suddenly resigned, he was killed on the way. After that, the actions of the person who murdered Concubine Jing and the former emperor became more and more. Today, the government and the opposition, the Baixi country, and even the Mingyan Continent, are all distributed with that person's power,"

He held a white child, and his hand stopped in the air,

"Recently, his movements have become more and more frequent, and most of the officials who have been assassinated are my henchmen. Therefore, if I want to defend the country, I must uproot all the power of the man I control. ”

Ling Ling understood the meaning of Bai Yixiu's words, and was a little puzzled, and asked, "Why is the emperor so sure that Long Yunmen can help the emperor, instead of being manipulated by that person to murder the emperor?" ”

Bai Yixiu dropped Bai Zi, and a smile rose at the corner of his mouth, which seemed to be elegant, but Ling Ling couldn't figure it out, and he said slowly, "Because the wife and children of the Huo Sect Lord were killed by that person. ”

"What, what?"

She was a little surprised, Huo Yun had never told her about this, and even the Quartet Guardian and all the books in the Dragon Cloud Gate did not have anything about Huo Yun's wife and children.

As if guessing Ling Ling's reaction, the smile on Bai Yixiu's lips did not disperse, and his clear and complicated gaze looked into her eyes,

"Huo Yun's wife and children died of poisoning, the poison is very strange, once it is touched, it will spread rapidly, every time the breath pulls the chest, causing severe pain, until he dies of respiratory failure. Anyone who is poisoned will have a fist-sized purple bruise on their chest,"

Bai Yixiu's words touched Ling Ling's memory, she was poisoned twice, how could she forget it when she was deeply touched!

"That poisonous ......"

"It was that person who got it from a master alchemist a few years ago, and the name is Rotten Heart San."

Seeing that Ling Ling was deep in thought, he continued,

"The enemies are the same, you and I should stand on the same side."

She didn't want to put herself and Long Yunmen in it, but Bai Yixiu's words made her confused, three years ago she was at the temple fair, a few days ago in the martial arts arena, she was poisoned twice, and she was afraid that she had already become an enemy with the person in his mouth, plus he said about Huo Yun's wife and children......

"What is the emperor's plan for that person?"

is already in it, so she can't sit still, for Huo Yun, but also for herself.

He landed the sunspot on the chessboard again,

"On the fifth day of the first month of tomorrow, I will prepare a banquet for the ministers in the palace to catch the wind and wash the dust for you, all the officials in the night city will be present, that person is no exception, Mingyue City was once one of his main forces, presumably he will make a move after seeing you tomorrow. But don't worry, I've got it covered, you just have to cooperate with me. ”

As he spoke, he took out a drawing and handed it to Ling Ling,

"This is the layout of the palace and the entire Night City, the secret passages in it, no one knows except the kings of the past dynasties, I will hand this over to you, you must remember all the secret passages, and you can save your life at a critical moment."

Ling Ling looked at the clear map on the table, and while inwardly glad that Bai Yixiu had given her this and given her an extra thing to protect herself, he was also surprised why he would hand her a map that only a king could see.

"What, don't you want it?"

Seeing that she hadn't accepted it for a long time, Bai Yixiu asked with a light smile.

Either way, this secret passage map is better than nothing! Ling Ling shook his head and put the map away,

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Bai Yixiu nodded in satisfaction, got up elegantly and walked to the door,

"The first time you entered the palace, I will take you for a walk."

She wanted to refuse, but Bai Yixiu didn't give her a chance to speak, pushed open the door by herself, and walked out of the study.

The palace is the same as three years ago, with red walls and glazed tiles on the vermilion lacquer door, simple and luxurious. The palace guards who were constantly coming and going in the palace saluted Bai Yixiu, and occasionally a few would look at Ling Ling like a ghost, she had been mentally prepared for this situation long before coming to Night City, she pretended to look at Bai Yixiu in doubt, Bai Yixiu smiled lightly,

"I said before that you look very similar to one of my old people, she is Xiahou Ling, the daughter of former Prime Minister Xiahou Yi, who died in a fire three years ago."

"Aren't they all treating me like a ghost?" She quipped.

The two of them continued to move forward, Bai Yixiu always had a faint smile on his handsome face, "After tomorrow, if someone dares to look at you like this again, how about I behead him?" ”

The fragrance of flowers in the palace was permeated, and a few rays of sunlight sprinkled down, and the scenery was pleasant, so that Ling Ling gradually didn't think about what happened before.

Although Bai Yixiu's words sounded like a joke, as the king of a country, she was still a little surprised in her heart when such words of defending her came out of his mouth.

Ling Ling suddenly remembered that when she met him when she was a bounty hunter before, she looked at Bai Yixiu beside her, dressed in a restrained dark green brocade robe, at this moment he put away the majesty of the emperor, and his whole body was as elegant and refreshing as a spring breeze, as if he was not an emperor, but just a friend of hers.

The mood that had been gloomy for more than a month suddenly added a hint of pleasure, the corners of her naturally raised mouth opened a beautiful arc, and a smile that she hadn't shown for a long time appeared on her more and more delicate face.

"Isn't it that I didn't kill Beren, but Beren died because of me? The emperor is a Ming monarch, and I believe that the emperor will not be like this. ”

A few rays of sunshine made her smile even brighter and moving, his heart was happy, and his sword eyebrows were lightly raised.

"Oh? Are you so sure, I'm Mingjun? ”

The two slowly walked into the Imperial Garden, and Ling Ling replied while admiring the flowers,

"I'm a bit paranoid, some people, no matter what he looks like in the eyes of others, as long as I'm sure of what he is, that's what he is."

"There's something interesting about what this girl said."

A magnetic and pleasant sound came from not far behind her, Ling Ling's heart trembled violently, she tried to calm down her somewhat chaotic internal breath, and turned to look at the voice with Bai Yixiu.