【Chapter 44】Unexpected Joy, Contract Hunting Clouds
When Bai Liyue returned to the Star Palace, the whole person was tired and lay down.
Anyway, no one in the Star Palace cared about her, so she found a small drop of water from [Li] and asked for something to eat, and Bai Liyue fell asleep.
This time, Bai Liyue learned a lot smarter, and she had already lost some food into [Li] to store the small water droplets, so as not to say anything pitifully to the small water droplets, and the only thing that could be eaten was the blue moon fruit.
Hey, thinking of the Blue Moon Fruit, Bai Liyue felt distressed.
But fortunately, she also went to [Li] to see the Blue Moon Fruit Tree, although it is not very big, but there are already more than a dozen fruits hanging on it, and they all look like they are almost ripe.
Bai Liyue, who was satisfied, slept like this all day.
And the third prince Si Haoyan is tired of being a dog.
Otherwise, people without status are much freer.
He is a prince, in addition to daily chores, Concubine Yun's case has to be investigated, Wu Ding's whereabouts have to be followed, and even the movements of the queen and the prince need to be grasped in real time.
Regarding the matter of "nearly 400 people died in the palace overnight", Si Haoyan discussed with Lin Junci for an afternoon.
Si Haoyan is also very irritable, this matter is actually very simple.
Speaking of which, it's just the "Shower Spiritual Pressure" created by the leader of this wave of ghost clans, Wu Ding, the three elders of the Great Apocalypse, and the summoned "Rain Skeleton", which killed all those who were weaker in cultivation.
Originally, it was a very simple matter, dispose of the corpses of these people, do the aftermath well, and find some palace people to fill it, and the matter will be over.
But partiality is someone who is looking for something.
In addition to Zuo Xiang, several concubines in the palace also protested to the queen collectively, insisting on finding the murderer who infiltrated the palace and murdered the palace people.
Hehe, the murderer of the palace people? Who is so idle to come and kill the palace people?
But this matter can't be explained by the "ghost clan", Si Haoyan and Lin Junci must come up with a thorough reason to explain the bizarre deaths of these palace people and the four concubines.
The most important thing is that there is also a Huang Shunlang in this matter.
That Dali Temple Qing Huang Shunlang, the assistant case-handling personnel assigned by Emperor Si Hongzhen.
In fact, this is just a pacification policy of the old emperor after saying those words to the "Left Prime Minister and the Party", but this person on the bright side, Lin Junci can't slap the old emperor in the face, at least the reason they gave can't let Huang Shunlang have any reason to refute.
However, Si Haoyan and Lin Junci discussed for an afternoon, and did not come up with a result.
However, Concubine Yun's case has some eyebrows.
Lin Junci's subordinates found "Ice Leaf Grass" in that well.
As long as the temperature reaches zero degrees, the water surface will form a layer of thin ice, and the thin ice will release a layer of mist, which is the main nutrient of "Ice Leaf Grass".
The main function of "Ice Leaf Grass" is to preserve the monk's corpse from decay and slow down the dissipation of the aura on the corpse.
In that case, Concubine Yun's corpse was once preserved with a large amount of "Ice Leaf Grass".
And in this harem, there are only those two people who can collect enough "ice leaf grass" to preserve Concubine Yun's corpse at one time, except for the emperor!
But they have no reason to kill Concubine Yun.
They are Concubine Yun's biological daughters! Concubine Yun's death was ten years ago, and ten years ago, Mu Yingshu had not yet entered the palace.
That's right, the two people who can get the "Ice Leaf Grass" are none other than the princesses of the official concubine, Si Nianwen and Si Yiwen.
Concubine Yun's biological mother, the wife of the Duanmu family, is an outsider from the extremely cold land.
Back then, Lady Duanmu relied on all kinds of rare treasures in that extremely cold place to help Zuo Xiang Duanmu Qi cultivate quickly, so as to gain a firm foothold on the list of Great Apocalypse monks.
This is also why it was he who became the left minister, not the brothers of Duanmuqi.
But why did Si Nianwen and Si Yiwen, who were only eight years old at the time, kill their biological mother?
This is incredible.
Could it be that Mrs. Duanmu did it? But it's unlikely.
Is it possible for a relative of hers to reach out to the emperor's harem to kill her daughter?
It's weird.
In the evening, a happy thing happened.
Cloud Hunter is back.
Not only did Hunt Cloud return, but the phalanges of the "Rain Skull" were no longer on its claws, and instead it was an earthy yellow jade plaque.
After taking the jade plate, Si Haoyan recognized it at a glance.
This is the teleportation jade of the Royal Forest!
He remembered that the piece he gave to Bai Liyue was the fire spirit jade, the wood spirit jade in Zuo Yichen's hand, the water spirit jade in Si Haoshu's hand, and the gold spirit jade in the hands of his father, then this earthy yellow jade plate was the earth spirit jade of the Elders' House!
The jade plaque of the House of Elders has always been kept by the Great Elder, so how did Lieyun get it?
And what was the result of letting Lieyun track down Wuding's news before?
"Twitter-tweet-tweet-", Lieyun happily answered Si Haoyan's question, however, the two people in the room, no one understood.
Coincidentally, Bai Liyue had dinner, and happened to come over to visit the door to eliminate food, and by the way, she also drew some more low-level rune arrays for Si Haoyan to supplement.
As soon as Xiao Lieyun saw Bai Liyue, he pounced happily, screaming non-stop, as if he was complaining to Bai Liyue.
Bai Liyue was bumped into the arms of Lieyun, and when she picked it up, she saw that it was this little thing, and she also smoothed it very cooperatively.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that Si Haoyan and Lin Junci were at a loss, Bai Liyue walked forward and asked while rubbing the little hunting cloud in her hand.
Since Qilu was punished by Si Haoyan last time, it has been much easier for Bai Liyue to enter and leave the Linhua Palace, and most of the time it is almost the same treatment as Lin Junci.
No, she came in so swaggeringly, and no one passed it on in advance, and Si Haoyan didn't say anything.
Si Haoyan saw that it was Bai Liyue, so he casually threw the earth spirit jade over, and as soon as the warm jade pendant was in his hand, Bai Liyue suddenly rushed to a familiar spiritual power that spread from the palm of his hand.
"This is?" Bai Liyue looked at the familiar pattern and the similar shape, as if she remembered something, and immediately asked the little droplet to hand out the fire spirit jade.
The two teleportation jade plates were compared together, and sure enough, except for the slight difference in color and texture, the others were exactly the same.
"Understood?" Si Haoyan looked at Bai Liyue's series of movements, and knew that there was no need to explain any more.
"Well, whose is this?"
"Hunting clouds got it back. Si Haoyan only said that he got it back from Lieyun, but he didn't say where he got it back, Bai Liyue looked puzzled, but he didn't ask Si Haoyan again, and turned to look at the little guy in his hand.
Bai Liyue shook the little guy in her hand and asked softly, "Little Lieyun, where did you get this thing?"
"Twitter-tweet-tweet-" Xiao Lieyun said proudly.
It's just that no one can feel its pride.
The three men in the room looked at each other again blankly.
This can make Xiao Lieyun anxious, it is so smart, it knows to get this thing back, how come these people don't seem to know to praise it? It's too much!
Xiao Lieyun screamed a few more times, but no one could understand its words.
Bai Liyue even threw Lieyun back to Si Haoyan, although this little guy is cute, it is not hers after all, since she can't ask why. Then return the goods to their original owners.
This made Lieyun anxious, and he kicked his legs directly, and jumped back to Bai Liyue's arm from Si Haoyan's hand, and the two little paws held Bai Liyue's fingers, "crunched", and bit down.
"Hiss~~" Bai Liyue frowned, what's wrong with this little thing, not to mention that this bite still hurts a little.
"You idiot! I've said it so many times, why don't you understand!"
Hmm, who's talking? This cute and cute voice seems to be from ......
Bai Liyue looked down and saw that the little hunting cloud was staring at her with its small eyes open.
Changing hands, Bai Liyue carried Xiao Lieyun to his eyes, tilted his head, and was a little unclear.
"What are you looking at, stupid human, why don't you put Ben-sama down!"
"Are you talking?" Bai Liyue was a little sure this time, the voice was indeed coming from Xiao Lieyun.
"It's not Lord Ben, who else can it be, hurry up and put Lord Ben down, ouch, strangle me!" Xiao Lieyun kicked his legs to express his dissatisfaction with being carried by Bai Liyue.
"Huh?" Si Haoyan listened to Bai Liyue's question, and then looked at the little red on Bai Liyue's fingers, and he was quite emotional for a while.
Xiao Lieyun, who has guarded the Xi'an Palace for so many years, easily concluded a contract with Bai Liyue?
Bai Liyue didn't know why this Lieyun suddenly spoke, but this was not the point, since Lieyun was able to communicate with her, it was better to ask about the situation of this earth spirit jade first.
Bai Liyue held Lieyun firmly in the palm of her hand and asked patiently, "So Xiao Lieyun, tell me, where did you find this jade plate?"
When Lieyun heard Bai Liyue's question, he told Bai Liyue everything that had happened after it left the Four Seasons Pavilion.
It turned out that Lieyun sensed the scent of the three spiritual power lords in the bones, and two of them pointed to the same place.
So Lie Yun followed the smell all the way to a huge palace on the mountain behind the palace.
And in that palace, Lieyun found one of the owners of that taste.
The man seemed to be tidying things up, though.
Lie Yun kept staring at that person, wanting to see where he was going, so that he could go back and tell Si Haoyan, but he didn't expect that person to pinch a teleportation charm and disappear after finishing his things.
Lie Yun was in a hurry to turn around the house, and as a result, he picked up the real earth spirit jade in a corner of the ground.
And Si Haoyan and Lin Junci only heard Lieyun calling there, and they couldn't understand what it was saying at all.