The figure walked quickly in the direction of the palace, but after only a few steps, he suddenly felt a cold light flash behind him, and a knife went straight across his neck.

The figure quickly dodged away, and as soon as he wanted to make a move, he felt a pain in both hands, and both arms were firmly cut behind him by the man with the knife. The man with the knife said coldly: "The princess is right, sure enough, you are a traitor to the palace!" ”

The man listened to the familiar voice in surprise, and only then did he see the face of the person in front of him clearly through the faint moonlight, which turned out to be Mo Ying.

The man smiled bitterly and said, "Really? Princess, she's really just testing me? ”

Mo Ying didn't talk nonsense, and directly grabbed the man and went back to the palace.

Yin Xun had also come back at this time, and was discussing with Yin Xun in the room about the situation of the two trading houses he had seen in the afternoon, Mo Ying walked in directly, pressed the person who was caught to the ground and knelt, and said to Bai Junzhuo: "Princess, the person has been arrested." ”

Bai Junzhuo put down the account book in his hand and turned his head to look at it with Yin Xun. Bai Junzhuo's tone was helpless, his face was slightly sad, and he shook his head and said, "Apricot, it turns out that it's really you." ”

Apricot smiled bitterly, looked up and said, "I didn't expect you to doubt me." ”

Bai Junzhuo looked at her for a while, then turned his head to Yin Xun and said, "Zisu, you haven't had dinner yet, have you?" Let's go out for a bite to eat, I have something to say to her alone. ”

Yin Xun glanced at the apricot, nodded, got up and walked out. Mo Ying hesitated a little, and said to Bai Junzhuo: "Princess, when my subordinates went to arrest her just now, they found that she was good at martial arts, so the princess still don't ......."

"Don't get in the way, she's tied up like this by you, can you still harm me?"

Mo Ying heard that she was tied up by five flowers, and there was really nothing she could do, so she nodded and walked out with Yin Xun.

After there was no one else in the room, Bai Junzhuo walked over and untied the rope from Apricot and helped her up.

Apricot was puzzled: "Didn't you listen to Mo Ying, did I know martial arts?" Aren't you afraid that I will harm you? ”

"Your martial arts are not today, if you want to harm me, I will die a long time ago." Bai Junzhuo said lightly, and then leaned back on the stool and sat down, motioning for Apricot to sit too.

Apricot was stunned for a moment, then went over and sat down, looking straight at Bai Junzhuo, waiting for her to speak.

"What a peaceful and serene state of mind it is for you and me to sit and talk like this during the day. I'm afraid that kind of mood will never be there again. Bai Junzhuo sighed softly and said.

Apricot lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then asked with a chuckle: "Yes, what you said in the day was also deliberately said by you in order to lure me to show my feet, right?" You're not a ghost possessed at all, you're the original Bai Junzhuo, right? ”

"What do you think?" Bai Junzhuo didn't answer her.

Apricot immediately laughed and said: "Yes, it doesn't matter what it is, after the fire, you are like a phoenix nirvana, which makes me truly happy and convinced, but before this, I have already given this life to other masters, that person wants to harm you, I must do it." ”

Bai Junzhuo only smiled and did not speak.

Kyoko asked, "I don't think there is any place where I show my feet, when did you start to doubt me?" ”

"Do you know what was written on the things that Concubine Shu asked Fang Yi to send over last night?" Bai Junzhuo asked rhetorically.

Kyoko shook her head.

"In addition to saying that Fu Yunyue is not dead, she also said that the Queen Mother knows everything about me, which proves that there are spies around me. The first thing she suspects is you. Bai Junzhuo smiled helplessly: "You have been with me for so long, how can I doubt you?" So I didn't take Fu Mingyue's words seriously at first, until I went to the Great Ci'en Temple to find Fu Yunyue, and actually met the long-lost second sister Bai Junlan, who said that at the beginning, it was you who kidnapped her. ”

Apricot sighed and said, "Bai Junlan?" After I handed her over to the Queen Mother, I felt that she should almost die. I didn't expect the Queen Mother to not kill her, lock her up in the temple, and meet you so coincidentally. But according to your nature, if you didn't have evidence of real suspicion of me, you wouldn't have tempted me, would you? ”

Bai Junzhuo nodded and smiled, "You really know me." After Bai Junlan and Fu Mingyue both reminded me, I thought about you carefully, you have not shown your feet, you have a lot of flaws. ”

"Oh?" Apricot asked with interest, "For example?" ”

"First of all, I vaguely remember the knife stuck in the corpse of the white divine doctor, the front, the angle is slightly upward, and there are no traces of a fight at the scene. This proves that the murderer is a little shorter than him, and he will not be guarded against. Bai Junzhuo analyzed: "At that time, Doctor Bai was dedicated to teaching his daughter to learn medical skills, and he was afraid that others would steal it, so he drove all the people in the courtyard away, and Bai Junzhuo only left you and Lizi to serve by his side." Lizi is taller than the White Divine Doctor, and if he stabs the White Divine Doctor, the wound should be flat or downward. Of course, it is also possible to go up, and this is just an inference that I have narrowed down the scope of suspects. ”

Apricots listened to the title in her words, and said puzzledly: "Why do you call the white god doctor instead of Dad?" Could it be that you are really not Bai Junzhuo? ”

"My biological parents were studying the molecular mechanism of dead cell resuscitation across the ocean, but they didn't know that their daughter was really resurrected after she died." Bai Junzhuo teased himself and said to Xingzi: "What I said to you during the day is true, not just a lie made up to test you. And I accepted all the memories of the original Bai Junzhuo, so I know about Bai Mansion. ”

Kyoko thought for a while, but she didn't know if she understood, and she didn't get too entangled, and continued to ask, "Do I have any other flaws?" ”

"When you first met the prince in Luoyang, your behavior was too deliberate." Bai Junzhuo said: "You seem to be deliberately doing something every time to attract the prince's attention to me." I guess at that time, you already knew the identity of the prince, right? ”

Apricot nodded: "That's right, the first time I saw the prince, I already recognized him." ”

"Besides, when you first heard what I told you about my life today, you looked very scared, but it didn't take long for you to forget about it and come to serve me as usual." Bai Junzhuo said: "You are so calm, how can I believe that you are just an ordinary little maid?" ”

Apricot Zi's face turned slightly pale, and she smiled bitterly: "In this case, what should I do with me, you are free." ”

"Dispose of you? Why should I dispose of you? You're always reminding me of times I wouldn't have noticed. The thing I want to run away from marriage is that you told Ju An, Mama Huang's means of harming the prince, and you deliberately reminded you. Bai Junzhuo looked at her and said, "I don't know if you wanted to harm me before, but the more I went on, I felt that you were deliberately helping me and reminding me, right?" ”

Apricot pursed her lips and didn't speak.

"Then since your heart is for me, you shouldn't be going to tell the truth tonight." Bai Junzhuo looked at her and asked, "What did you sneak out of the house for?" ”

Apricot stared at Bai Junzhuo for a long time, sighed and said, "Miss, it would be great if I could really serve you." ”

Bai Junzhuo chuckled lightly and said to her, "Why not? ”

Apricot had tears in her eyes, and said, "I, like Shen Qing, are both from the Shadow Guard Camp. People like us have the handle in the hands of the Queen Mother, and we can only serve her, and the Queen Mother saw that Shen Qing and I had not acted for so long, so she began to suspect us, and often sent people over to investigate secretly. What you told me today, even if I don't tell the Queen Mother, someone else will tell you. When the time comes, the Queen Mother doubts me and sends another person over, and I can't ...... I can't always remind you to watch out for their black hands. So I plan to tell the Queen Mother about this in person, of course, I won't tell it all, I will only let her know the useless news. ”

Bai Junzhuo was moved in his heart, and sighed: "It's hard for you to plan for me, fortunately, I didn't really attack you today, otherwise I would have to regret it for the rest of my life." ”

Apricot had red eyes, but she endured tears and said, "If you really do it to me, I don't have to be so tormented in my heart." If the Shadow Guard dies on the way to complete their mission, the Shadow Guard's family will be freed. Therefore, if I really die at your hands, it will be a relief. ”

Bai Junzhuo shook his head at her: "No one will die, as long as we bring down the Queen Mother, you and Shen Qing will not die, and your family will not die." ”

"Wrench, bring down the Queen Mother?" Apricot was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and said: "Miss, although you have some scheming, but in front of the Queen Mother, you are just an axe, and you can't fight the Queen Mother." ”

"Don't underestimate me, when I was in Baifu before, weren't you still worried that I wouldn't be able to fight Bai Juntao and Lin Bailian? The result? Bai Junzhuo raised the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Along the way, there have been too many people who have been defeated by me because they underestimated me. ”

Apricot looked at her expression, was stunned for a moment, and then nodded solemnly: "I know." ”

Bai Junzhuo nodded, the two were silent for a while, Bai Junzhuo thought of the previous incident with Bai Gonglu, and asked, "Did you kill Bai Gonglu?" ”

Apricot was startled, and quickly knelt down, and said with a face full of shame: "I killed the master, I'm sorry ......"

Bai Junzhuo was a little entangled in her heart, she had lived in the new century and new China for so long, and the concept of the legal system was deeply rooted, and she always felt that if she killed someone, she would have to pay for her life, and no matter what the reason, she must be punished by law.

But the apricots ......

After pondering for a long time, Bai Junzhuo still decided to show favoritism, and helped her up with his own hands and said: "You can't be blamed for this, after all, you are also following the orders of the Queen Mother." And you don't have to be ashamed of me, after all, Bai Gonglu is not my father. ”

Apricot stood up, her face still full of guilt.

Bai Junzhuo sat back, thought for a while and didn't ask any questions, and then asked: "Bai Gonglu left Xuchang to Luoyang, it was more than 20 years ago, he left from there, and the Queen Mother will definitely send someone to follow him immediately." But you don't look like you're sixteen or seventeen, aren't you......?"