Li Mengzhou has been meditating and cultivating in the Sword Courtyard of the Imperial Palace, he did not return to Chaosi Lane, nor did he set foot on the streets of the capital, his injuries are indeed very serious, and only in the Imperial Sword Courtyard can he recover as soon as possible.

Otherwise, he was also worried that if he really set foot in the capital, there would already be danger waiting for him.

It's not that he's greedy for life and afraid of death at this moment, and he's not an idiot, since he has the opportunity to hide under the wings of the Imperial Sword Academy to recuperate, why do he have to run out, it would seem stupid.

Although he can't go back to Chaosi Lane for the time being, he also asked Jiang Zihua to help contact Gu Shiyan, even if he wants to recuperate, he has to do something, otherwise there is no point in hiding in the palace sword courtyard.

What's more, he can't be sure whether there is danger in the capital now, he has been recuperating in the palace sword courtyard for some days, and Xue Wangwu has never said anything to him, he wants to take the initiative to find out the situation in the capital.

It just so happened that Gu Shiyan was in Chaosi Lane now, so when Jiang Zihua came to visit, I easily saw her.

Aunt Feng's noodle shop is still open, and her husband who is sick in bed, after Gu Shiyan helped raise money to see a doctor, has now been completely cured, after all, there is a pharmacist to help, if it is not a fatal blow for cultivators, ordinary worldly diseases, except for some special cases, are all hopefully cured.

When Jiang Zihua came to Chaosi Lane, it was already evening, and Gu Shiyan happened to come out after eating in Aunt Feng's noodle restaurant, she knew Jiang Zihua, and she had seen it in Chaosi Lane, but at that time, Li Mengzhou was facing the pressure of Xuanzheng Si and Buluoshanmen, and the situation was very tense, although she had never spoken, she was not a stranger.

"Mr. Six. Gu Shiyan looked at Jiang Zihua standing in front of the small courtyard, frowning.

Jiang Zihua turned to Gu Shiyan and smiled slightly, waved his hand and said, "Gu girl." ”

Gu Shiyan bowed her head slightly, and said: "Li Mengzhou is still recuperating from his injuries in the Sword Courtyard of the Imperial Palace, I don't know what Mr. Six is doing here in Chaosi Lane?"

Since being instructed by Jiang Tingyu, although Gu Shiyan is still acting in the capital, she has been much more low-key, and has been staying in Chaosi Lane most of the time, Aunt Feng's noodle restaurant is the most frequented place, Gu Shiyan knows very well that her identity is no secret in the capital, and there is no Li Mengzhou by her side, so she has also been subject to some restrictions.

The end of the incident in the Tianxing Gambling House also made it rare for there to be any more visitors in Chaosi Lane, and Jiang Zihua was also the first guest in more than half a year.

Jiang Zihua opened his mouth and said: "It's because of Li Mengzhou, otherwise I wouldn't have a reason to come here, he is really seriously injured, and it is still difficult to heal in the short term, but I think he has been thinking about Chaosi Lane, I don't know if he is thinking about Chaosi Lane, or the ancient girl, but my mission here is to convey Li Mengzhou's words, and I want to invite the ancient girl to the palace sword courtyard." ”

Li Mengzhou just asked Jiang Zi to paint, and didn't say anything else, according to the urine nature of Jiang Zi's painting, of course he had to think about it, because he felt that Chaosi Lane could come back whenever he wanted, but Li Mengzhou was so eager that it could only mean that he was not thinking about Chaosi Lane, but about the people in Chaosi Lane.

Thinking of this, he was very excited, and deliberately made a very funny expression, maliciously emphasizing what he thought.

But I don't know if Gu Shiyan didn't understand the meaning of Jiang Zi's painting, or directly ignored that sentence, her expression was very calm, not the slightest unnatural, just replied: "Then Mr. Six, please lead the way." ”

Jiang Zihua was a little disappointed, Gu Shiyan's reaction was not what he wanted to see, but he could only lead the way in front of him very depressed.

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What Li Mengzhou saw was Gu Shiyan in a white dress, still like a fairy as before, but he could detect it from Gu Shiyan's eyebrows, it seemed that Gu Shiyan was not doing so well during her time in the capital.

Jiang Zihua stood there with a smile.

Li Mengzhou raised his eyebrows and said, "Sixth Senior Brother, do you want to go and see if there is a shortage of rice paper for the Third Senior Sister?"

Jiang Zihua looked at him with some resentment, usually Li Mengzhou would not call him senior brother, this was obviously driving people away, he was very angry and threw his sleeves away, deliberately took a very small step, and made a very loud movement, trying to wait for Li Mengzhou to keep him, but he was obviously going to be disappointed.

Because Li Mengzhou's very indifferent voice came from behind him, "Trouble Sixth Senior Brother to hurry up, I'm not in good health now, I can't hear the sound, be careful that I vomit blood to show you." ”

Jiang Zihua shouted angrily: "Then you should spit it out to me!"

Although he said that, Jiang Zihua's pace did begin to speed up, and he secretly hated in his heart, he was really a bastard who forgot his friends.

"What are you looking for me for?" glanced at Li Mengzhou, who was half-lying on the bed, Gu Shiyan was pacing in the bamboo house, this place is the inner courtyard, and it is difficult for outsiders to come in, that is, there is Jiang Zihua to lead the way, so Gu Shiyan is also quite curious about this place.

The bamboo house is built with the fairy bamboo planted by the third senior sister herself, and it is diffused with aura all year round, which can make people feel refreshed, and for the injured person, staying here is indeed twice the result with half the effort.

Li Mengzhou moved up with some difficulty, and said softly: "Actually, there are some things, we should be honest." ”

Gu Shiyan paused in her pacing movements, turned to look at Li Mengzhou, and said, "Usually we just tacitly know, but you are bringing up this matter at this moment, do you want to do something?"

Li Mengzhou said with a smile: "You know me well enough, usually we don't need to trust completely, just need to be roughly clear about our respective purposes, but now the situation is different, if we want to do something, we need absolute trust in each other." ”

Gu Shiyan frowned lightly and said, "You are sick in bed now, what can you do?"

Li Mengzhou pursed his pale lips lightly and said: "It is precisely because I can't do anything now that I need your help, although these words are a little hurtful, but we also know each other, I don't believe in you so much, and you don't believe in me so much, we just have been working together according to the trust above the bottom line, but what I want to do now requires us to each reveal the bottom line." ”

Gu Shiyan looked at him very seriously, and said calmly: "I don't know what you want to do, but you need my help, so you need to know what I am hiding, but for me, it doesn't seem to be any good." ”

Li Mengzhou said: "At least we used to have the same purpose, presumably even if you don't say it, you know very well in your heart, what am I doing, it is precisely because we have a common goal with each other that we can come together, it is very boring to continue to guess each other, even if we don't fully trust, we have experienced so many things, at least our respective characters are trustworthy, maybe the truth is not what we think, but we will also help each other keep secrets, right?"

Gu Shiyan was silent.

Their first acquaintance was to intercept and kill Cheng Taijing in the imperial history outside Jialan Temple, which was their common goal, killing was not the goal, but the inevitable result, because they both wanted to know something from the mouth of Tai Jing.

It's just that what they didn't understand each other at that time was that they wanted to ask whether the things about Taijing were the same, or whether it was just a coincidence.

But since Gu Shiyan lived in Chaosi Lane, everything Li Mengzhou did seemed to coincide with Gu Shiyan's thoughts, and it was definitely not a coincidence.

At that moment, she had some suspicions, but they had reservations about each other, and refused to tell the secrets in their hearts frankly.

"Fuji-dong. ”

"Fuji-dong. ”

They looked at each other in silence, then spoke at the same time, continuing to be silent.

The mutual bottom line was broken, and the secrets in my heart were also revealed at this moment.

"Are you a disciple of the Fuji Cave?" According to Gu Shiyan's understanding, the people in the Fuji Cave should all be dead, but the life and death of one person are uncertain, which is the reason why she came to Jiang Guo.

"The fifth in the Fuji Cave is a woman, and that is also the only female disciple in the Fuji Cave, your age does not match, and she is not surnamed Gu, nor is she a person from the Western Jin Dynasty, the six disciples in the Fuji Cave are from all countries in the world, the senior brother Han Yi, from the Western Jin Dynasty, the second senior brother Zhao Er, from the Liang Kingdom, the third senior brother Li San, is from Jiang Guoren, the fourth senior brother Li Si, from Nanyu, the fifth senior sister Yan Wu, also known as Yan Wuniang, from the Wei State, and the sixth senior brother Chen Liu, from the Song State. ”

"They actually all have their own names, but that was a long time ago, some of them have long forgotten their original names, they are all geniuses with extremely high cultivation qualifications in various countries, and they are basically orphans, or there are changes in the family, they are exiled, and they were taken to the Fuji Cave at a very young age and entered the cultivation world, that is to say, they have no family, only the brothers and sisters in the Fuji Cave. ”

Li Mengzhou looked at Gu Shiyan and said with a serious expression: "I don't understand why you want to investigate the people related to the destruction of Fujidong back then, but I believe that you are at least not an enemy, although you are honest, some things don't need to be said very clearly, because I have already got the answers I want, and I don't like to get to the bottom of things, what do you think?"

Gu Shiyan naturally didn't want to peel herself off, even if it was a little contrary to the meaning of the so-called frank and honest words, but they did prove a lot of things, so there was no need to show all the secrets at the end.

But in fact, Gu Shiyan still had doubts in her heart, but Li Mengzhou didn't ask her to get to the bottom of it, so Gu Shiyan had no reason to continue to raise it.

She just thought that according to Li Mengzhou's age, it was obviously not related to the six disciples in the Fuji Cave, and there were only six disciples in the Fuji Cave, but Gu Shiyan had also inquired that on the day of the destruction of the Fuji Cave, it was the time to recruit the seventh disciple, but no one had ever seen the seventh disciple, because the apprenticeship was arranged after Li Daoling surveyed the Five Realms, but in the process of Li Daoling's breakthrough, the disaster of the Fuji Cave also came.

Strictly speaking, the seventh disciple didn't really worship the Fuji Cave, but Gu Shiyan looked at Li Mengzhou in front of her and felt that this was by no means as simple as a coincidence.

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Looking at the pure and flawless beautiful woman in a white dress in front of him, Li Mengzhou could vaguely understand what the other party was thinking at the moment, and it was precisely because he didn't want to tell Gu Shiyan that he was very fair and didn't ask Gu Shiyan about the problems that still existed, and the only remaining questions were actually not that important, at least not important to what he was going to do next.

He just needs to be sure that Gu Shiyan is worthy of complete trust, who doesn't have some secrets in his heart, and even if he doesn't ask, Li Mengzhou can roughly guess some, and the only person who may be related to Gu Shiyan in the second cave is Han Yi, who is also from the Western Jin Dynasty, as for the relationship between the two, Li Mengzhou doesn't want to explore.

"What do you want me to help you?"

Gu Shiyan was also guessing Li Mengzhou's identity, and she also had a rough idea in her heart, and whether it was the truth or not, they both thought so about each other.

"You should know Qin Chengyi, right?" Li Mengzhou's throat was a little itchy, and he couldn't help coughing a few times, making his pale face a little ruddy, Gu Shiyan handed him a cup of tea, Li Mengzhou thanked him, and drank all the tea in the cup.

At the same time, Gu Shiyan said softly: "His Majesty the current emperor's brother and mother, His Royal Highness Prince Lu, you once asked me to investigate Song Yidao, the doorman beside him. ”

Li Mengzhou nodded and said, "I don't know how much you know about the destruction of the Fuji Cave, but since you can find out about the body of Tan Tai Jing, you should also be able to know that Tan Tai Jing is helping Qin Chengyi do things." ”

"And on the list we got in Swallow Town, there are many officials in the court, and there are also some people in the rivers and lakes, in fact, at that time, I knew what this list was, but at that time, I was still very weak, and it was inevitable that I would have some scruples, so I didn't tell you the truth, not to mention that I didn't trust you very much at that time. ”

"By the way, what about the list?"

Gu Shiyan said very calmly: "At the head of the Heavenly Patriarch Jiang. ”

Li Mengzhou was a little stunned, and then Gu Shiyan simply told him about the things that happened in the capital after he left the capital to enter the world to practice, Li Mengzhou listened, his expression became a little solemn, looked at her and said: "In this way, Qin Chengyi has noticed you." ”

Gu Shiyan was a little puzzled and said, "Tianxing Gambling House is also related to Qin Chengyi?"

Li Mengzhou said: "You want to investigate the behind-the-scenes boss of Tianxing Casino, just because Wang Tianxing's name is on that list, but in fact, the people on that list have something to do with Qin Chengyi, and the appearance of Taijing's name on it is not just a coincidence." ”

"Tang Taijing used to be just a small person in the Imperial History Terrace, and it was because of Qin Chengyi's promotion that he achieved the position of the Imperial Historian, and most of the other officials on the list were the same, and those Jianghu people, or mountain and field monks, were probably like Song Yidao, but Song Yidao was able to follow Qin Chengyi's side as a cronie. ”

"And Wang Tianxing of Tianxing Gambling House, if I expected it to be good, he can open a gambling house in the capital, and it is also linked to money, Qin Chengyi will not be so idiotic as to get silver directly from the Water Mirror Division like King Yu, and there is naturally a special channel in secret. ”

This is a very simple and easy-to-understand truth, but although Gu Shiyan has the list in her hand, she also knows that Yue Shiting is secretly investigating some things, but who is the specific person hiding behind the scenes, she knows a little about it, so she naturally can't think of the depths, and through Li Mengzhou's reminder, she quickly connected those questions.

"Qin Chengyi is the prince of Jiang Guo, and for more than ten years, he has been very low-key in the capital, basically he doesn't go out of the gate, and he doesn't step out of the second gate, how can he have anything to do with the fall of the two caves?"

Gu Shiyan's eyes have never been on Qin Chengyi's body, and naturally she has not secretly investigated, and she came to Jiang Country from the Western Jin Dynasty, it is not easy to find out about Taijing's body, if it weren't for being 'frank' with Li Mengzhou, she wouldn't have thought of Qin Chengyi's body anyway.

"That's just an illusion, on the surface, maybe Qin Chengyi is really low-key, if it wasn't for His Majesty's summons, he would have stayed in the prince's mansion all along, it seems that life is quite boring, and he doesn't participate in the big and small affairs of the capital, but I believe that he must have secretly walked out of the prince's mansion, and even wasn't in the capital for a while, just because he was very powerful in the capital, and he covered up all traces of the past. ”

Li Mengzhou thought that the Heavenly Council supervised the capital, and Prince Lu's Mansion was also within the scope of supervision, although it was impossible to see everything big and small, but His Royal Highness the Prince, if he was not in the capital for a period of time, it was unlikely that he would not be unaware, and the only thing that could be explained was that there were also Qin Chengyi's people in the Heavenly Council.

The members of the Heavenly Council have undergone strict assessments, and there is quite cruel training, most of them are impossible to have problems, not everyone is as lucky as Li Mengzhou, without any assessment, it seems that they entered the Heavenly Council very casually, but whether all the members of the Heavenly Council are free of problems, there is no way to answer with affirmation, after all, there are not so many absolutes in the world.

"Wang Tianxing is the one who helped Qin Chengyi to collect money, although you ruined the Tianxing Gambling House by chance, but the person who helped Qin Chengyi collect money is definitely not only Wang Tianxing, and Yue Shiting's list does not mean that it is all of Qin Chengyi's secret chess. ”

"Maybe even Yue Shiting didn't really find out about Qin Chengyi's body, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to hide that list in Swallow Town, when nothing happened, he was just alert, the potential enemy was in the capital, and it must be in a high position, it was just his self-preservation, but he was killed in the end. ”

Li Mengzhou looked at Gu Shiyan and said: "But you ruined the Tianxing Gambling House after all, and cut off a lot of Qin Chengyi's wealth, he can't be indifferent, Guan Muyun's matter may be done by Qin Chengyi, because of the first appearance of the Jiang Academy, you can be safe, but this matter is not over here, you are not from Jiang Guo after all, if he wants to move you, it is impossible to be blatant, maybe there is already a big net shrouded towards you, as for when to close the net, only Qin Chengyi knows." ”

Gu Shiyan's expression was a little solemn, and said: "I am a student of the Dragon Scroll Academy of the Western Jin Dynasty, but with this identity, Qin Chengyi can't easily move me, but if it's like the Tianxing Gambling House, I secretly play tricks, I don't have the ability to resist at all, he is a dignified prince, and the capital is full of his minions, it seems that I have really been in a very dangerous situation." ”

With the protection of the Dragon Scroll Academy of the Western Jin Dynasty, it is indeed difficult for Gu Shiyan to encounter danger in the capital of Jiang Kingdom, which may also be the reason why Qin Chengyi has not done anything to her for a long time, but it can't be done openly, but secretly she can't do anything, she doesn't know what Qin Chengyi's reason for hesitation is, but when the danger is really imminent, she may fall into a place of no return.

"Although Qin Chengyi is His Royal Highness the Prince of Jiang Guo and has extremely high power, it is not easy to hide from the eyes of the entire capital, but if he leaves the capital alone, he will not have the ability to cause the destruction of the Fuji Cave, there must be a certain or even several cultivation mountain gates in Jiang Guo to help him, although that list is no longer in our hands, but there is a name that I still remember vividly. ”

Li Mengzhou looked at Gu Shiyan very seriously, and said in a low voice: "It is not feasible to directly investigate Qin Chengyi, we still have to act around that list, since the list is in the hands of the head of the Jiang Academy, then we will ignore it first, I hope you can help me investigate a person named Wang Sanshui in Dishui County." ”

"He is the head of the third mountain gate in Dishui County, in addition to Pujiayuan and Muchen Gate, his name is on that list, I have reason to believe that Li Daoling must have been present when he broke through the realm that year, and he was with Qin Chengyi. ”

"Naturally, there are still many things that need to be done next, but at present, we can only take Wang Sanshui first, I hope you can help me pry his mouth open, it is difficult for you and me to bring down Qin Chengyi, only with enough evidence in hand, can we act properly." ”

The matter of the destruction of the Fuji Cave is very widespread, but the Fuji Cave is not the enemy of the world, there are people who secretly steal fun, but there are also people who regret it, this can be used, if it was before, maybe Li Mengzhou was ready to wait for himself to be strong enough, and then he went to kill Qin Chengyi with his own hands, but with Lin Dare to laugh at that thing, the breath that belonged to Long Lao was also withdrawn, and Li Mengzhou had to make other preparations.

Because he really doesn't have a lot of confidence to become strong enough at the moment, after all, he doesn't have so much time for him, and if the destruction of the second cave is revealed to be related to Qin Chengyi, there will be many people in Jiang Guoli who will be criticized and written, after all, it is a big tragedy in Jiang Guo, and Li Mengzhou needs to rely on external forces.

Wang Sanshui is the head of the third largest mountain gate in Dishui County, in addition to Pujiayuan and Muchenmen, of course, that is also to exclude the Xiaonan Tianmen of Mocheng, the number of great monks at the peak of the four realms in Dishui County is not much, but Wang Sanshui is one of them, but Gu Shiyan went to investigate alone, it is a bit dangerous, but fortunately, Gu Shiyan is not weak.

And Li Mengzhou really can't count on others, he didn't plan to tell Qin Chengyi and the brothers of the Leaving Palace Sword Academy, at least temporarily.

Gu Shiyan clenched the sword in her hand and said in a deep voice: "I have entered the peak of the Four Realms, maybe there is still a great danger to go, but I will try my best to complete it, not just because of you." ”

Since Wang Sanshui is involved in the incident of the destruction of Fuji Cave, then even if there is no Li Mengzhou, Gu Shiyan will go, just as she killed Taijing outside Jialan Temple, this is what she must do, she has been 'frank', which represents absolute trust, she did not hesitate, and the first time she walked out of the palace sword courtyard, she went towards Dishui County.