The next morning, the sky was already clear, the cloudy sun rose as usual, and the blood-red light sprinkled in every corner of Xiaoyu Mountain City.

After a night of drizzle, the air was much fresher.

After registering the returned tengu, Xiao Shizhu released all the tengu out of the cage and let them go to the yard to bask in the sun.

Then he paced to the courtyard and stretched out under the trellis, then lay down on the rocking chair, squinting and recuperating, and a pleasant look gradually appeared on his face.

Last night, the ghost mother dropped the phrase "nosy" and walked away, which made Xiao Shizhu feel very faceless. In a fit of rage, he decided not to care about the ghost mother's affairs in the future. Whoever wants to assassinate this woman, let them go.

It is not a bad thing for myself and the tengu to eat, drink, sleep and sleep every day.

At this time, the light wind was blowing, the little sun was shining, and Xiao Shizhu, who was lying on the rocking chair, suddenly felt a burst of sleepiness, so he simply pulled his clothes and closed his eyes.

Just when he was about to fall asleep, the gate of the small courtyard was suddenly kicked open. The courtyard gate immediately made a loud "bang", which woke Xiao Shizhu up and made his sleepiness disappear in an instant.

Before he could recover his senses, two groups of tall and mighty forbidden troops had already rushed in from outside the courtyard, standing in front of him left and right. Immediately afterwards, a woman no more than twenty-eight years old appeared from the back of the group and walked towards him.

The woman was dressed as a man, dressed in a vermilion round-necked robe, wearing a seven-beam crown, a three-foot long sword straddling her waist, and embroidered on the patch on her chest with a fire unicorn that raised her right front hoof and held her head high and majestic chest.

Look at this woman, although she was born with a beautiful and white face, her eyes are bright, and her eyes are not as gentle as a girl should have, but they are a little more resolute, and there is a hint of heroism and calmness between her eyebrows.

This kind of composure is the look that only appears after experiencing countless battles on the battlefield, and the commonplace look of life and death. It is not uncommon to see it on the body of a soldier, but it is the first time Xiao Shizhu has seen it on a woman's face.

Without waiting for Xiao Shizhu to ask her what was the matter, the woman had already stood half a foot away in front of him, and said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "At the behest of my lord, I will take the dog supervisor Xiao Shizhu into the inner court for questioning." ”。

"What kind of dog supervisor, Xiao Ye, I am the first shovel official of the Ghost Mother Palace. As soon as he spoke, the two closest forbidden soldiers had already walked over, sandwiching him between the left and the right, and erected him to follow the woman who had turned away.

Facing the strong forbidden army, after knowing that the resistance was ineffective, Xiao Shizhu had to turn his head to the forbidden army behind him and shouted: "Close the courtyard door, otherwise the tengu will run out." ”。

After a while, Xiao Shizhu was taken by them to the palace gate of the inner court. After passing through the palace gate and entering the inner court, I saw that this inner court was very different from the outer court. Although brick by brick, beam and pillar are still cast of brass, it is more beautiful than the outer courtyard without grass or trees.

In the inner courtyard, there are many ancient cypresses and ancient pines with vigorous branches. Surrounded by peonies and orchids, there are many exquisite pavilions and rockery lotus ponds. Those rockeries were piled up with coral reefs, and the cracks between the rocks were filled with soil and planted with green bamboo, purple bamboo and ancient plums.

Although the rockery is not high, the cave and gully are circling, embedded in the void and wonderful, and even some roads pass through the cave under the rockery, which has a unique flavor. Although the lotus pond is not deep, but the loop is tortuous, the level is profound, the waterfall flowing spring is hidden in the flowers and trees to support the sparse, forming a picture of the stacked stones between the pavilions to win, the cave next to the pavilion is like turning, the strange stones in the lotus pond stand in a forest, the beautiful scenery of the rainbow light lingering under the waterfall.

Forbidden troops can be seen guarding all intersections, which shows that the defense of this inner court is stricter than that of the outer court.

After another cup of tea, Xiao Shizhu was taken to the center of the inner courtyard. I saw a huge pedestal appear in front of his eyes. The total height of this base is about 20 meters, the total width is 100 meters, and it is divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower. The top layer is square, and there is a bronze beast on each side, which is the green dragon and white tiger Vermilion Bird Xuanwu. The middle layer is octagonal, with eight large tripods cast in copper, all of which are one zhang high, and are placed on the top of the eight directions. There are nine phoenixes in the ring on the tripod, which is lifelike and ready to come out. The lower layer is twenty-four sides, and on each side stands a golden phoenix facing the outside of the hall, all of them are one zhang high, and the forms are different.

This foundation alone is magnificent, magnificent, and gorgeous! I don't know that it took a lot of copper ore to build such a large copper casting building in the first place.

Came to the upper floor of the pedestal, and saw that there is a circular hall in the middle, dozens of meters high, about dozens of meters in diameter, and the circular eaves are placed with triple gold tiles. The roof is a spire, and the treasure top is gilded. The upper part of the door and window is inlaid with a rhombus pattern, and the lower part is embossed with a cloud and phoenix pattern, and there is a gilded copper leaf engraved with a phoenix tail feather pattern at the joint. The ground around the main hall is carved with star patterns around the four directions. A gilt plaque is hung on the door of the palace, which reads: "Vientiane Palace." ”

Only then did the forbidden army let go of Xiao Shizhu, standing outside the main hall and not taking a step forward. And Xiao Shizhu was dragged by the female official and brought into the hall.

When I entered the hall, I saw that there were a total of twelve gold columns on the hall that could be surrounded by three people to support the full weight of its roof, and each pillar was engraved with a picture of the nine phoenixes. On the high platform of the seven steps in the middle of the depths of the main hall, there is a throne of nine phoenixes with gold lacquer, and on both sides of the throne are arranged six giant pillars with a diameter of about one meter that are pasted with gold cloud and phoenix patterns, and the gold leaf pasted is made of two colors, so that the pattern is prominent and distinct. There are four pairs of furnishings on both sides of the throne, namely the treasure elephant, the Luduan, the crane and the incense pavilion. Behind the arrange, there are seven large gold lacquer screens carved with cloud dragon patterns.

As soon as you look at these furnishings, you know that the ghost mother is also a ghost who talks about pomp.

At this time, the ghost mother was sitting on the throne, and a personal maid was standing at the bottom of her right with her head bowed and her hands down. There was no one else in the hall.

The ghost mother smiled slightly when she saw Xiao Shizhu enter the hall and beckoned to him.

Xiao Shizhu followed the female official to stand under the ghost mother, and the female official immediately knelt down after the ghost mother's robe, kowtowed, and said, "Back to my lord, the dog supervisor Xiao Shizhu has been brought." ”。

"Thank you Chunyun, get up. The ghost mother said lightly. The female ghost then said, "Thank you, my lord." After that, he slowly stood up.

"Why did you call me here?" Xiao Shizhu looked left and right, and shouted in an impatient tone: "Do you want to show off your wealth? It is both a golden pillar and a golden chair; the country is as small as a prefecture or city, and it is still blindly exquisite. ”。

"Presumptuous!" The ghost mother didn't squeak when she heard this, but the female official named Chunyun showed anger on her face, and then without hesitation, she pulled out the sword on her waist and put it on Xiao Shizhu's neck, and scolded angrily: "Bold dog supervisor, why don't you kneel when you see my master?

"It's none of your business. Xiao Shizhu looked at the cold sword in her hand in a daze, and the cold feeling coming from the sword made him nervous inexplicably. But after he swallowed his saliva, he still had the courage to shout: "You take the sword away!"

The female officer turned a deaf ear, still glaring at him with angry eyes, and naturally did not move the long sword in her hand. Xiao Shizhu's legs trembled, closed his eyes and shouted, "Take it away! He dared to call the ghost mother dear so unscrupulously, he was sure that the ghost present, no one but him knew what dear meant. That's why I dare to say that.

And if the ghost mother didn't give the order, the female official named Chunyun naturally didn't dare to do it. In this way, although the sword is on his neck, he also dares to take advantage of the ghost mother in his mouth.

"Hee-hee. The ghost mother smiled, looked at Xiao Shizhu's closed eyes, and said: "Little ghost, this king has seen you lustful, I have seen you arrogant, and I have seen you proud; ”。 As he spoke, he gestured to Chunyun and motioned for the other party to put down his sword.

Chunyun was stunned when she heard this, and her astonishment and incomprehension climbed up her eyebrows, intertwined, she had followed the ghost mother for thousands of years, from a small maid to the current secretary of the military department of the ghost mother country, and she had never seen the ghost mother so magnanimous to the person who contradicted her. Although she was puzzled, she still followed the ghost mother's wishes, put the sword down and retracted the scabbard.

After Xiao Shizhu felt the cold feeling disappear from his neck, he slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he did was to glared at Chunyun, and said to him in a bitter tone: "Since you are a daughter, don't always use knives and guns, this is not good! It is not good! ”。

Because he pronounced "female red" not gong but red, and teased the high-flying ghost mother regardless of the image, he burst into a toothy laugh. Xiao Shizhu naturally knew that the red character was pronounced gong here, but he did it on purpose.

The next second, he turned his head to look directly at the ghost mother, and said, "What are you laughing at? Hong and gong are whatever I like, and I want you to take care of them." ”。

"You're not a little angry today. The ghost mother put away her smile, and also looked at him and said unhurriedly: "Because I didn't give you face last night?"

"I know, I still ask. Xiao Shizhu muttered and stopped talking. In the past half a month, he inquired many ways to get close to the ghost mother, and learned that although the ghost mother is a female ghost, she eats hard and not soft. It's useless to shoot the whiskers, you have to have real skills to get the appreciation of the ghost mother.

If you have real skills, speak hard, be arrogant, and be arrogant, the ghost mother will not do anything to you, but if you speak softly, even if you have great ability, she will not need you. Therefore, Xiao Shizhu didn't want to deliberately slap her on the back. In addition, the ghost mother didn't give him face last night, so at this time he said another word, and his heart suddenly felt a little more relaxed.

"Okay, I'll give you two options to get your face back. The ghost mother slowly raised her right index finger and said, "First, I will let the forbidden army pull you out of the palace and behead you now." ”。

"Why, what law did I violate?" Xiao Shizhu blurted out when he heard this. I thought it would be a good thing to be an official and a knight, but I didn't expect the ghost mother to kill herself. He muttered in his heart, "It's over, it's a big game now, and the lord of a country can't be so careful, right?"

"You were holding a beaded gun in your hand last night, it doesn't seem to be issued by the palace, right?" The ghost mother who seemed to be smiling looked at him and lowered her head slightly, her eyes were erratic, as if she was dodging something, and said: "According to the "Great Underworld Law", ghost slaves also belong to the grass people, and the grass people are not allowed to carry firearms without permission, and the violators will be killed! ”。

"But I don't have to pursue you for carrying a firearm without permission, because I have left you a second way. After seeing Xiao Shizhu's acquiescence, the ghost mother slowly raised the middle finger of her right hand and said, "Help me find out the remaining traitors and arrest them." ”。

"Is there a third way?" Xiao Shizhu rubbed his hands, laughed dryly, and asked cautiously: "For example, give me a cup of tea, let's sit down and talk about the specific matter of me being a little white face for you." ”。

"Nope. The ghost mother shook her head slightly, and spit out these two words in an affirmative tone.

"Didn't you say I was nosy last night?" Xiao Shizhu spread his hands, showing helplessness, and said: "If I don't help you catch the traitor, it will be death, and if you catch the traitor for such a dangerous thing, maybe you will die." It's not that you haven't seen it, Ming Yichen is just cannon fodder, and he can clamore to solve your ten forbidden troops within twenty breaths, so how awesome are the remaining traitors? ”。

"Yes, it's bullying you. The ghost mother raised her head and smiled, and said, "And I will only give you ten days, and when the time comes, if you can't catch the traitor, I will kill you." ”。 After finishing speaking, he didn't say anything more, and looked at Xiao Shizhu quietly.