Outside the Changle Palace, the shadow of the tree swayed with the wind, the winter wind was blowing, out of thin air a little more gloomy, under a few towering plane trees outside the Changle Palace, there were branches swaying with the wind, rustling.

As the sky gradually fell, shadows slowly enveloped the earth, and the shadows under the trees were pitch black, which looked even more strange and abnormal.

"Are the people out there still there?" Kou Shu raised her eyebrows, as if asking out of thin air.

In the air, there was a voice that answered, the voice was very familiar, it was Yuan Ming, who seemed to have been missing for a long time from the outside world, Yuan Ming had come back a few days ago, but when he came back, he found Kou Shu's Changle Palace Gate at the first time, and there were nearly ten more secret guards lurking outside for no reason. Yuan Ming didn't say anything, and found a way to inform Kou Shu.

After Kou Shu learned about it, she let Yuan Ming stay on the beams in the house, after all, no matter how arrogant the secret guards outside were, they didn't dare to enter their own house casually. And Yuan Song hasn't come back yet, Yuan Yun is in the light again, and now the only secret force he can use is Yuan Ming. She has to keep a bit of strength for herself.

Kou Shu thought so, so she left Yuan Ming in the room.

"Hui Niangniang-" Yuan Ming bowed his head: "It's still there." ”

"None of them retreated?" Kou Shu raised an eyebrow.

"Since Yuan Ming came back, it has been these nine people, and in the past few days, there has been no one less, and sometimes there will be a few more." Yuan Ming thought for a moment and said.

"Can you see how many people are going?" Kou Shu said coldly.

Yuan Ming was stunned: "Looking at their footwork and posture, they should be practitioners who have practiced martial arts since childhood, and unlike Kou Mang, those people are not learning orthodox martial arts, according to Yuan Ming, it is a bit like some magic arts, but it is not excluded that their martial arts are deeply hidden." ”

"That is, these people are specially prepared for stealth tracking?"

"So to speak," Yuan Ming nodded.

Kou Shu nodded, and then said, "If you are asked to fight these people, how sure are you?" ”

Yuan Ming raised his head, thought for a while, and then said: "If it is a one-on-one fight, I am more than seventy percent sure that I can agree, but these people's light work, coupled with all kinds of strange methods, if they want to escape, it will be difficult to say." I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to catch them. ”

Hearing this, Kou Shu subconsciously shook his head - this is too risky, only one person is so difficult, and there are nine people outside, if this is the case, he must find another way.

But...... Kou Shu couldn't help but think deeply, who arranged these people outside his palace, Lan Ruoxuan was already dead, Kou Shu's eyes slowly sank, if there is anything unfavorable to him, I am afraid that only the Lanling people in the palace are in the palace.

Thinking of this, Kou Shu was not so nervous, the people of Lanling were all going to track it down, and since the other party sent it to the door, he saved himself trouble.

Yuan Ming saw that Kou Shu fell into deep thought, stopped making a sound, and had already jumped up and crossed over to his own beam.

As soon as Ripple pushed the door, he saw Yuan Ming's shadow flashing, and couldn't help but flatten his mouth, his own mother is a woman, men and women don't kiss, and Niangniang doesn't know what to think, so she actually let a man stay on her own beam.

The mandarin duck didn't think so much, and saluted Kou Shu, and then said: "Niangniang, the slave maid found that there is a person whose behavior is very suspicious, and it also meets all the conditions that Niangniang said. ”

"Who is it?" Kou Shu raised an eyebrow.

"This person, mother, you will never guess." The mandarin duck smiled mysteriously at Kou Shu and sold a pass.

Ripple pursed his lips and glared at the mandarin duck: "In our harem, there are only a few powerful people, is it difficult to be a girl in which palace." ”

The mandarin duck shook his head, looked at the ripples and smiled: "It's not a girl," looked up, looked at Kou Shu and said, "But it's similar to a girl - it's Xu Ling." ”

"Xu Ling?"

Kou Shu was stunned: "You mean Ling'er?" ”

The mandarin duck nodded and said; "The slave carefully interrogated the personal girl next to Rong Guiren, and the girl said that Rong Guiren has been very low-key since the fake pregnancy was discovered, and he doesn't go to crowded occasions very much, but one day when Rong Guiren copied the scriptures, he lost a commonly used pen holder, and when he went back to get it, he met Xu Ling."

Although Xu Ling was named by the Queen Mother at the draft ceremony, he was not favored by the emperor, and since then, he has taken advantage of the wind of the Qing nobles to meet Song Jinyan a few times, but now he is operating dismally, and he has mixed up with a constant position, according to Kou Shu's understanding, although the Queen Mother has mentioned Xu Ling in front of Song Jinyan several times, Song Jinyan has always been indifferent.

"This promise is not favored by the emperor, and if you toss the Rong nobles like this, you won't get any benefits." The ripples are incomprehensible.

Kou Shu waved her hand, stopped Ripple's self-talk, and said to Mandarin Duck, "You go on." ”

Mandarin Duck continued: "There is also the decoction that Rong Guiren takes daily, and the slave maid found that it was also the ghost of the girl Xu Chang by his side, and Xu Changzai gave the girl next to him a pack of medicine, and instructed her to pour a little bit into the Rong Guiren's decoction every time. According to Niangniang's instructions, the slave maid has secretly changed the medicine, and the mouth of the Rong nobleman will heal in a few days. ”

Healing is healing, and if you want to speak again, it will be impossible in this life.

Kou Shu nodded: "Yuan Yun, Xu Ling is the person you found, what was Xu Ling like when you found it, did you find anything wrong?" ”

Kou Shu vaguely remembered that Xu Ling was originally a little girl from a rural family. There is no big family background, and my parents are ordinary farmers, why from words and deeds to today's calculations, every step of the way seems to be born as a country girl.

Yuan Yun frowned, thought for a while, shook her head blankly, and said: "Niangniang, that day, Concubine Lan won the favor of the Queen Mother by virtue of her resemblance to Princess Anping, and that Ling'er was just sent to the Queen Mother to distract the Queen Mother's attention." The slave maid still remembers that when Ling'er first arrived in the palace, when she first arrived at Changle Palace, she looked trembling. It's completely a little girl who has never seen the world in the countryside. ”

Kou Shu listened to Yuan Yun's words quietly, as if she was thinking about something.

Seeing that Kou Shu didn't speak, Yuan Yun continued: "But now looking at this Ling'er's appearance, according to the slave's thoughts, it seems to be a different person. ”

"Like a different person?" Kou Shu was stunned suddenly, as if she suddenly remembered something: "What did you say?" ”

Yuan Yun was stunned: "The slave maid is saying that she feels that Xu Yu's temperament has changed greatly, as if she has changed someone." ”