In the last years of Tiantong, at the invitation of my senior brother, I came to Shengjing to make a living in the imperial palace.

As for the duties, they are basically to get rid of evil spirits and pray for peace, which is similar to the work of priests.

Everyone in the world knows that the king is a person who is not very enthusiastic about gods and monsters, but recently there have been many strange things in the palace, and the unjust souls and wild ghosts who have died in vain in the past have gathered in temples and palaces to intimidate and disturb the royal ministers, so that people are panicked, and the grass and trees are all soldiers.

So the king had no choice but to set up a Hongwen Pavilion in Beijing, and with a suspicious attitude, he supported more than a dozen warlocks from all over the world, including me.

Senior brother was very puzzled and worried about this, after all, at the time of the last separation, I was still a scholar who only knew the sages of my ancestors and had nothing to do with the other world.

"Scarlet, I know you've always been smart, but the palace is not a simple place, don't shake your wits in front of Your Majesty."

On the way, my brother still told me uneasily, and in his words, he obviously regarded me as a scammer with bad intentions.

"I invited you here, originally to get you a clerical errand, who would have thought that you would plunge into the Hongwen Pavilion, how can I be worthy of the master?"

My senior brother Fu Tianzhi, who now serves as a guard in the palace, is loyal, upright, and an interesting and honest man.

My name is Gu Feiran, born in Mobei and grew up in Jiangnan, because I have a blood feud of hundreds of people on my back, and my memories are connected into a sea of blood, so I named myself Scarlet Ran.

This time I came to Shengjing, naturally for another purpose.

"Senior brother, what does the third line of the second paragraph of the one hundred and eighth volume of the Taixu Sutra say?"

"Taixu Sutra, what is this?"

"A book of practice secrets."

"Master taught you?"

“…… Well. ”

"You tell me honestly, how much Master has taught you that I don't know."

"Sort of something I don't know, but taught you."

“……”

The senior brother stopped talking, and after a while, he sighed faintly, revealing an expression of regret.

Most of the apprentices in this world are like this, and they always think that being a master is biased and private, and my senior brother is no exception.

Like us, my brother has been practicing with Master since he was a child, but because the Fu family hoped that he would join the imperial court as soon as possible, he left the school a few years earlier than planned, and my sister and I have been serving under Master's knees, so Senior Brother secretly thought that we had learned a lot more than him, but in fact, it was not like that at all.

Master taught my brother martial arts, but only taught me to read, this reading, all literate people in the world will, and junior sister, all day long to play lazy, can't write, martial arts, didn't learn anything at all, the two of us, especially in front of the hard-working brother, there is really nothing superior, the only thing that can be done, probably we are all better than the senior brother A pair of brains that are quite useful.

But this innate thing, no one can do anything about it.

I sighed, but didn't speak.

I heard the senior brother say again: "The people in the palace say that the king's illness was caused by Shujin Niangniang, do you feel ......?"

"Shujin Niangniang?"

I thought for a moment and asked, "The late crown princess?" ”

The senior brother snorted and said, "I heard that in Mrs. Qi Ru's palace, after the disappearance of His Royal Highness Lingjun, someone heard the cry of a baby in the East Palace......

Seeing that he lowered his voice and looked sneaky, I couldn't help laughing: "...... How can it be. ”