When the three of them came out of the antique calligraphy and painting shop, it was already dark. Walking to the mouth of the alley, Lingwei's carriage was still waiting there, Linghu wanted to ride a horse to protect him, Xiao Yuwen knew that he was also weak at this time, and the three of them took the carriage back to King Jin's mansion.

It wasn't until Xiao Yuwen took off the disguised mask on his face that Lin Wanyan found that his face was very pale, and when she touched his hand again, it was extremely cold, so frightened that she directly stripped Xiao Yuwen's clothes for inspection, but did not find any wounds.

"What's wrong with you? Are you poisoned again?Why are your whole body cold?" Lin Wanyan hurriedly found thick clothes to help Xiao Yuwen put them on.

Xiao Yuwen looked at Lin Wanyan with a light smile, reached out and touched her head, in the past, he was injured and just recuperated silently, and no one would be so nervous about him, now it feels so good to be cared for all the time.

"I'm fine, just drink some medicine and sleep for the night. Xiao Yuwen stretched out his hand and hugged Lin Wanyan into his arms.

"What the hell happened? Why did this good New Year's banquet come to be like this?" Lin Wanyan's questions could not be answered.

"It's not a big deal, you don't have to worry, I'm not fine?" Xiao Yuwen said with a light smile.

Lin Wanyan knew that this guy had always been like this, as long as he didn't want to tell you something, no matter how you asked, he would remain silent.

"Xiao Yuwen, when will such a worrying day be the end? I don't seek glory and wealth, I don't want to be promoted to an official position, I just ask you to be safe and healthy, this is more important to me than anything else! If we have a child in the future, do you want our children to be scared too?"

Lin Wanyan feels that he is the happiest to live a life of small wealth and peace, although his current life is good, the price is too great.

Xiao Yuwen kissed Lin Wanyan's forehead and didn't speak. They all say that if they want to carry the crown, they must bear its weight, but he does not want to carry the crown, but he just wants to save his life, and he must bear so much.

"Could it be that you really want to be that bullshit prince? If so, I don't agree with you, you still let me go back to Tanglin as soon as possible, this princess Jin makes me very uncomfortable, and it's not uncommon for me to be the crown princess, whoever loves to be who should go!" Lin Wanyan said seriously.

"Wanwan is starting to be temperamental again?" Xiao Yuwen smiled, he didn't want to quarrel with Lin Wanyan anymore.

"What kind of temperament do I have? I'm asking you seriously, and you just say that you plan to do this?" As long as Xiao Yuwen is not angry, Lin Wanyan can't afford to lose his temper.

"There was never such an intention. Xiao Yuwen said solemnly. "After the Lantern Festival, I will go to my father and say that I will accompany you back to Tanglin. We also learned from Uncle Eight Emperors to have a good tour of the mountains and rivers. I'm really tired of this South Oak City. ”

Lin Wanyan was stunned for a moment, "It's not enough after the Lantern Festival, and the school hasn't been set up yet! If you want to leave, you have to wait for the school to get on the right track." ”​

Xiao Yuwen laughed, "Okay, it's all up to you." Stop thinking nonsense, promise you something, and I'll do it. Now there are still some things that I need to deal with in the Lingye Palace, and I am used to fighting and killing, and I will not let myself be hurt. ”​

Lin Wanyan didn't say anything more, she naturally understood Xiao Yuwen's responsibilities as the master of the Lingye Palace, but she just looked forward to the day when he would have a golden basin to wash his hands and withdraw from the rivers and lakes. After all, the rivers and lakes are sinister, but there is only one life, and if you die, you are really dead.

She also believes that Xiao Yuwen said that she never thought of being a prince is sincere, because she has always believed that people who can finally come together and become husband and wife must have many beliefs in common.

Even if she has never discussed any ideals or future with Xiao Yuwen, she can feel that the two of them have the same thing in their hearts.

And Xiao Yuwen, as an ancient person, naturally will not be like Lin Wanyan, a modern person, who thinks about poetry and distance when he has nothing to do, and has never even thought about what freedom is.

Xiao Yuwen only knows that he is carrying a lot of responsibilities, and he must always bear them, and he can't escape them. For example, the responsibility to Li Muchuan, the responsibility to Yang Chengyue, the responsibility to Lin Wanyan, the responsibility to all the subordinates of the Lingye Palace, the responsibility to Concubine Jing, the responsibility to the emperor...

Although he has no intention of taking the throne, he also requires the ability to protect the well-being of the people he cares about, and the ability to protect his father and mother to the end of their lives. What is the purpose of a person's life? There are many different kinds of beings, and the answers are different. When you are a son, a husband, and a father, everything is no longer for yourself.

When he didn't get married, Xiao Yuwen ignored his background and experience, and only thought about leading the subordinates of Lingye Palace to do some righteous things.

After meeting Lin Wanyan, life seems to have begun to change, he has to participate in some disputes, and has to succumb to reality. And now because of the halo of King Jin on his head, he has to care more about the affairs of the court.

He never said this, so it was no wonder that Lin Wanyan mistakenly thought that he was interested in the position of prince. In fact, he is more concerned about how the divination operator was exposed, and who died in the end?

Each of the first batch of Lingyin Guards was personally collected by Xiao Yuwen, some of them were met by chance, and some of them were specially admired.

Bu operator belongs to the former type, when Xiao Yuwen happened to pass by the alley where he usually set up a stall, he was very afraid of death and had to pull Xiao Yuwen to count a hexagram.

It's really not a good judgment if it's accurate, but Xiao Yuwen fell in love with his talent and quiet cliché skills, and felt that he had the potential to be a spy. In addition, Bu Operator is not a person who loves money, and he has a chivalrous spirit.

The two also gossiped and drank wine all night in the broken house of the divination operator, but in the end the fortune operator was drunk, Xiao Yuwen did not, and the fortune operator recognized Xiao Yuwen as the master.

When Lingyue came back to report that Bu Operator had indeed been killed on Chinese New Year's Eve, Xiao Yuwen remembered the scene when the two met, and still silently felt uncomfortable for a while.

was killed together with the spirit guard who protected the divination operator, because in the New Year, many spirit guards were idle, so the two were killed and were not discovered in time.

The place of the murder was actually the broken yard where Bu Operator lived every day, and the neighbors next door didn't notice anything unusual. Xiao Yuwen didn't believe it, if it was just a fortune operator, there was a possibility, but if the spirit guard was present, there would definitely be a fight, and a distress signal would be issued in an emergency.

After going to the scene to see it in person, Xiao Yuwen concluded that the fortune operator and the supernatural guard were both dragged back to the courtyard after death. Examining their wounds again, the Spirit Guard was almost killed with one move, but the divination operator was tortured a lot.

Originally, if the spirit guard in charge of protecting the divination operator was still alive, he could ask some words from him, but now he couldn't find any clues.

But even so, Xiao Yuwen also strengthened his conjecture, the traitor must exist, and it is right next to him, it is very likely to be in the Jinwang Mansion, and the twenty-four spirits are not ruled out.

can cause a supernatural guard to die in a few moves, one possibility is that the martial arts are much stronger than him, and at present, there are relatively few such people. Another possibility is that an acquaintance did it, because he is defenseless, so he is easy to be tricked.

Each spirit guard has its own code to distinguish identity, and this code, except for the spirit guard himself, is the person responsible for the code. The divination operator died after being tortured, so it is basically certain that he was forced to ask questions.

In this way, when it is connected in series, it will be clear that someone leaked the information of the divination operator, killed the spiritual guard who protected the divination operator, tortured the divination operator to kill him after saying the code, and then pretended to be the divination operator to the banquet.

The person who leaked the information of the divination operator may be familiar with the supernatural guard who protects the divination operator.

And the New Year's banquet did form a certain panic and crisis of trust in the Lingyin Guard, especially after learning about the death of the diviner. Although these things have never happened before, everyone understands that once you have a beginning, you don't know when you will be able to stop.

Originally, there would be a traitor in the Lingye Palace, which was not unusual, because the Baihua Palace was also mixed with the fine works of the Lingye Palace, which should be said to be unavoidable.

But Xiao Yuwen was heartbroken when he thought that this traitor might be the person he had always trusted.

The next night, seeing that Lin Wanyan was asleep, Xiao Yuwen went to the courtyard of the twenty-four supernatural spirits, except for the spiritual rhinoceros who was still stationed in Xitang, the remaining twenty-four supernatural beings were all present, and they were lined up in four rows in front of Xiao Yuwen according to their ranking.

Xiao Yuwen sat on the chair in the middle and glanced at them, and asked lightly: "You guys said it one by one, how long have you been with me?"

Linghu replied: "It's been almost four years. Ling Mu replied: "It's just four years old." Lingyue replied: "It's been almost four years." ”......

The one who has followed Xiao Yuwen for the longest time is Linghu, nearly four years, and Lingzhen, who has the shortest time, has also been in the past two years.

"Have I treated you badly?" Xiao Yuwen asked coldly.

"The master treats his subordinates like a mountain. Linghu was the first to reply.

He was an orphan separated from his parents and began begging on the streets at the age of six or seven. That winter, when it was so cold that there were few pedestrians on the street, the two copper plates that he had managed to beg for were snatched by the larger beggar, and he fought with the beggar.

As a result, a large group of beggars were called at once, and he was beaten to the point that his head was bleeding, and he lay in the corner of an alley, almost freezing to death.

At that time, Concubine Jing Niangniang and Xiao Yuwen had just been sent out of the palace, and Prince Yue went back to the mansion every once in a while to visit their mother and daughter. On the way back, I happened to see the spirit fox curled up in the corner, so I took him back to the house, and he became a Yuezi guard at a young age.

Later, Xiao Yuwen established the Lingye Palace, and the Linghu was one of the people he picked out from the Yueziwei.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration for Linghu to say that Xiao Yuwen is as kind to him as a mountain. They knew each other when they were very young, and Xiao Yuwen never disliked the birth of Linghu, but took care of him everywhere.

If you want to talk about trust, Xiao Yuwen is also the most trusting Linghu. Because he has lived a difficult life since he was a child, he is especially able to endure hardships, and he is not afraid of losses, and his temperament is also very calm.