Lin Zhibai walked outside the gate of Mingxu Palace and saw a group of Taoist priests, eunuchs, and guards walking around the palace. It seems to be searching for something.

He suddenly felt unhappy in his heart, after all, no one likes their home to be turned over by others.

But there was no way, he didn't have enough strength to resist now, so he had to pretend to be calm and walk through the crowd towards the inner hall.

When Lin Zhibai stepped into the palace gate, he saw that his mother and sister were eating on the dining table as if they were all treating that group of people as air.

This peaceful scene was like a breeze in the summer that gently blew Lin Zhibai, smoothing out his frowning brows and making him smile from the bottom of his heart.

"If you are here, it will be a sunny day. ”

Lin Zhibai called obediently: "Mother, I'm back." ”

Concubine Su's hand holding the chopsticks froze, turned her head to look at Lin Zhibai with a loving look, and then took the chopsticks and clicked them on the table, and said to him kindly: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back, sit down and eat." ”

After Lin Zhibai sat down, Concubine Su looked at Lin Zhi's still childish face for a long time, and said to him in a somewhat distressed tone: "Are you busy with Qingchuan Dabi these days, and you haven't eaten well? ”

Caring is chaotic, Concubine Su completely forgot that Lin Zhibai had only lived in the Queen Mother's palace for half a month. No matter how skinny, how thin can you go?

In front of his closest relatives, Lin Zhibai completely unloaded his defenses, and at this time he was like a twelve-year-old boy.

He said to Concubine Su in a coquettish tone: "What did the concubine say, I have gained three pounds?"

Concubine Su smiled at him with a doting smile when she heard this: "Okay, well, it's the mother concubine who said it wrong." By the way, I heard that Bai'er has achieved good results in the Qingchuan Conference recently?"

Lin Zhibai would not say that he won by unsightly means, and replied with a little weakness: "It's just the child's luck." ”

All mothers in this world will have the greatest happiness as long as their children are promising!

Concubine Su is exactly like this, she smiled happily and said, "Haha, Bai'er has a chance, and the mother concubine is very happy." ”

Suddenly, he looked at the crowd around him, and saw that no one was paying attention to this, so he whispered to Lin Zhibai: "Today's palace is not peaceful, you have to be careful, besides, the plague has been rampant recently, if you can go out of the palace less, you will go out of the palace less, the mother concubine does not ask you to be rich and noble, but only to be happy and stable for a lifetime." ”

As he spoke, he looked at a white cloud in the sky outside the door and said secretly: "Sister, you should think the same way!"

"The boy knows. ”

Lin Zhibai replied obediently, and then slightly glanced at the people around him, but picked up chopsticks in his hand and lit a dish on the table and asked, "What is this dish called, why is it so delicious?"

Mother and son are connected, Concubine Su naturally knows that Lin Zhibai is asking the name of the dish on the surface, but she is actually asking what happened in the palace.

She replied, "This dish is called shredded taro." ”

leaned forward to approach Lin Zhibai again, pretending to arrange his collar for him

In fact, he whispered in his ear: "I heard that King Chajing was poisoned and searched the palace, and after checking and searching, I found that there were many puppets engraved with people's names in the palace. This puppet is still a spell, as if it is an ancient witchcraft "plague curse". ”

"A puppet engraved with someone's name?"

Lin Zhibai was shocked when he heard this, and his pupils were dilated several times.

You must know that there are also a lot of "puppets with human names" in his room, although these puppets have no spells on them, but what if they are used by someone with a heart?

He had something on his mind, so he hurriedly put down the chopsticks in his hand and pretended to scratch his back and said to Concubine Su: "Mother, I sweated all over my body in today's competition, and it was a little itchy, so the child went back to the room to take a bath first." ”

Concubine Su is also a delicate heart, knowing that Lin Zhibai must have something to hide from herself, but at this time, there are too many outsiders in the palace and it is difficult to ask too much.

"Go ahead, remember to come back to eat soon after washing, but don't go to bed without eating. ”

Lin Zhibai nodded "um", got up and walked out of the door slowly, and after turning a corner, he secretly stepped on small steps and walked to his room faster

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a Taoist priest from Qin Tianjian leading a group of inner court priests walking around the house to search.

Lin Zhibai became more and more nervous, and looked at the cabinet next to the desk imperceptibly.

He panicked, and he was a little afraid.

I didn't look at it anymore, but I saw that the door of the cabinet was wide open, but the puppets with people's names engraved on them were gone

"Were they really raided?"

Lin Zhibai's hand hidden in his sleeve quietly clenched into a fist, and his whole body froze like an excited cat.

Suddenly, someone gently patted him on the back, and there was a very good-sounding voice that looked like a man and a woman, which frightened Lin Zhibai so much that his fists trembled

After saying "follow me", he walked out of the door regardless of Lin Zhibai's reaction.

Lin Zhibai turned his head to see that it was Zhang Bao. The hand that clenched his fist was slightly loose, and he walked out behind Zhang Bao.

One of them walked in front and the other in the back to a palace wall in the deep palace.

Seeing that there was no one around, Zhang Bao saw that Lin Zhibai looked nervous and nervous, as if he was facing a great enemy, stretched out his orchid finger and shook it upwards and said, "Don't worry, those puppets were all destroyed by my senior brother with spells." ”

Lin Zhibai let out a long sigh of relief when he heard this, and his stiff body relaxed a lot.

But before he could relax for a few seconds, he froze again.

Just because Zhang Bao showed a playful smile and said to himself: "How can those puppets still have our family's name? And unlike other puppets, there are many traces of smearing and a "?"

Uh-uh

Lin Zhibai didn't know how to answer him. had to give Zhang Bao an embarrassing but polite smile.

Zhang Bao didn't want to tease him anymore, so he put away his smile and asked Lin Zhibai seriously, "Do you know what happened in the palace?"

Lin Zhibai nodded slightly and replied clearly: "I heard that it seems to be related to the "Plague Gu Curse" of the Ancient Wu Clan. ”

Zhang Bao was about to say something when he heard this, when he suddenly saw a pair of forbidden soldiers with armor walking briskly towards here, his eyes turned to signal Lin Zhibai, and he bowed to Lin Zhibai with a respectful expression: "The slave is here to congratulate His Highness on winning another victory in the Qingchuan competition today!"

Lin Zhibai heard the sound of footsteps behind him, and knew that Zhang Bao was changing the topic. With great tacit understanding, he took out a silver ticket from his arms, pretending to be domineering, and handed it to him with one hand: "Well, my father-in-law is polite, let's take these to eat some snacks." ”

There are often eunuchs bribing eunuchs in this palace, and those forbidden troops have already seen a lot. Lin Zhibai was a powerless prince again, they didn't know each other, and thought he was just a eunuch, so he just paused and saluted Zhang Bao and walked away again.

After the pair of forbidden troops walked away, Zhang Bao retracted his groveling servile appearance and said to Lin Zhibai: "I heard that the recent plague in Xianyang City is related to this witch secret art. ”

As he spoke, he put his hand next to Lin Zhibai's ear and whispered, "It seems that His Majesty's recent illness is also related to this." ”

The two of them were very close, Lin Zhibai smelled the perfume on Zhang Bao's body, and snorted twice with an uncomfortable nose. But after listening to this shocking secret, he couldn't care about his nose, which was allergic to the smell of perfume, and asked: "How did you investigate the case of King Jing's poisoning and pull out the "plague curse" after investigating it?"

"It seems that Taidian was ordered to search the palace, and as a result, a lot of puppets with witchcraft were found, and the Queen Mother and Her Majesty were very angry, and they had already issued an order to order Qin Tianjian to take over, and the inner court to investigate the palace and the criminal department to check outside the palace. ”

After Zhang Bao finished speaking, he hooked the corners of his mouth and said: "Today is really a bigger thing than the other, I hope our two pond fish will not be affected." ”

Lin Zhibai didn't answer when he heard this, but said secretly in his heart:

"First King Jing was poisoned, and then the plague curse was turned out, how could the two things be so coincidentally connected?"