The night was deep, and except for the sound of wind and water, there was no trace of insects and birds around.

Ji Cunyan stood still for a moment, and suddenly felt that even the moonlight was dim. When she looked up, she saw a thin cloud enveloping the bright moon, making the whole lake hazy.

At this time, she looked around again, but saw that a few feet away from her, a corner of the pavilion in the middle of the lake, seemed to have some strange light. It was a faint green light, mixed with a pale white, like a ghost fire common in mass graves on a summer night, strange and terrifying. But she couldn't see clearly from a distance, so she could only rub her eyes and then look at it.

There was more than one cluster of ghostly fires, as if they were clustered around a human figure. Because the light and shadow were bleak, yes, the bright moon could not be seen clearly when it was in the sky, and at this time, the moonlight dimmed, and it was discovered by Ji Cunyan.

Ji Cunyan wanted to see more clearly, so he walked towards the stone corridor leading to the pavilion in the middle of the lake, the closer he got to it, the more he felt that it was a human form, but this "person" only had a vague form, but it was ethereal, and through the human form, he could also see the appearance of the weeping willows on the other bank.

Ji Cunyan took a few steps forward, and just wanted to step on the stone corridor, when she suddenly felt a sinking on her shoulder, and someone was holding her shoulder with her hand.

She looked back, but saw a man in black standing beside her, this man was covered in black cloth, with only his eyes, his eyes bright in the moonlight, and his slightly frowning brows were full of warnings.

Ji Cunyan was startled, and sighed in his heart that the person who came was so good at kung fu, he came and went like a ghost, and Rao was always astute and he didn't even notice the existence of this person.

The man in black was afraid of her screaming, and he covered her mouth with one hand, dragging her under the shadow of the tree, and with the other he ripped off the black cloth that covered her face.

The moonlight is hazy, but this person and Ji Cunyan are already old acquaintances. Ji Cunyan recognized this person at a glance as Jian Shaolin of Qin Tianjian.

Only then did Jian Shaolin put down the hand that was covering Ji Cunyan's mouth.

"Jane-" Ji Cunyan hurriedly greeted him, but unfortunately the first word popped out of his mouth, and the words behind him were blocked by Jian Shaolin with his eyes.

Jian Shaolin lowered his voice and said, "What are you doing here?" ”

Ji Cunyan also learned from Jian Shaolin to lower his voice and said, "What are you doing, I'm just doing." ”

Jian Shaolin glanced at her and said, "If you go over now, you will turn into a piece of charcoal like the palace maid who was burned to death." ”

"What's that?"

"Qilin Gu." Jian Shaolin said.

"Ahh That's ...... But why do they glow? ”

"They glow when they're looking for prey or a host. Sometimes it also forms a human form to attract passers-by. Jian Shaolin said, "These Gu worms are very cunning, and like people, they can sense the heat and cold of sounds. So you open your mouth to speak, and they will find you. As soon as you get closer, they will detect the source of heat and will spot you. ”

"They?"

"If you take a closer look, that green ghost mist is actually the Qi Lin Gu Array, which is composed of hundreds of Gu worms."

"What happens if they find out?"

"Think of that burned palace maid!" Jian Shaolin said.

Ji Cunyan gasped, and hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand again. She looked up at Jian Shaolin and asked suspiciously, "Lord Jane, what are you doing as a big man, running to the palace of the concubine late at night?" ”

Jian Shaolin looked down at her and said, "Didn't you answer just now?" I will do what you do. ”

"Now that we have both found the Qilin Gu that killed Cui'er, what are we going to do next? Isn't it possible to make a difference? These Gu will burn as soon as they are touched, how can they be eliminated? ”

Jian Shaolin sighed and said, "I just watched from a distance, there is not only this ghost fire here, but also a woman. ”

"Women?"

"That's right. By the time I got closer, the woman had vanished into thin air. I see you die here. ”

Ji Cunyan pursed his lips and said, "I've been here for a long time!" I don't see any women at all, are you dazzled? Or do you see this Qilin Gu's Gu array as a woman? Look at the shape of this ghost fire, it looks like a woman. ”

Jian Shaolin shook his head and said, "I can't be mistaken. This woman should be the one who casts the Gu. Otherwise, you won't be putting Gu here in the middle of the night. ”

"Ah, actually—" Ji Cunyan thought about telling Jian Shaolin what he had seen and heard today. Her inference was indeed correct, there must be something strange about the pond of Jinyang Palace.

Jian Shaolin interrupted her and said, "Shhh, there's movement!" ”

Ji Cunyan only retracted his words, listened with his ears to the ear, and opened his eyes to look hard, but after watching for a long time, he didn't see any movement.

"What's the movement-" After a long time, Ji Cunyan complained.

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a string of blisters rising from the bottom of the small lake, making a gurgling sound, as if something huge was about to emerge from the water.

The two of them fixed their eyes to look, but it was only the half-sized carp that rolled out of the lake, jumped onto the surface of the lake, inhaled the nearest clump of Gu worms, swallowed half of the Gu array humanoid alive, and fell back into the lake.

Boy! No wonder three years is so big! It turns out that the fish food I eat is not ordinary! Ji Cunyan said in his heart.

At this time, her whole body relaxed, and she suddenly felt an itch in her nose. She was only wearing a single dress, and it was late spring and early summer, and this dress was too thin. At this time, Jian Shaolin was scared into a cold sweat, the night wind blew, and the evil wind entered her body, so she couldn't help but sneeze.

When the Qilin Gu Array heard the sound, it suddenly contracted, turning from a human form into a huge ball.

Jian Shaolin's pupils shrank, and he pressed Ji Cunyan's shoulder and said to her, "Hurry up!" ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for Ji Cunyan to speak, so he pushed her on the back with a palm and sent her out a few feet away.

When Jian Shaolin turned around, the Gu array had already rushed towards the shore, and it was only half an arm's length away from Jian Shaolin.

Ji Cunyan looked back and saw that Jian Shaolin was in distress, she was so anxious that she almost screamed out, she shook out the ink line with her right hand, but she also knew that it was too late to make a move at this time, and she didn't know that this ink line would not work for these Gu worms.

I saw Jian Shaolin's right palm swinging out, and the palm wind was like a mountain, and he was able to blow away the Gu array in front of him with palm power. He touched the ground with his right foot, and the man leaped back a few feet.

But how could the Gu Array give up? gathered again and probed Jian Shaolin's body temperature to attack.

Ji Cunyan suddenly thought that when he was studying the Qilin Gu in the Xuanjing Hall that day, the Xuannu blood could dissolve it. At this time, he didn't have time to think about it, so he took out a thumb-sized copper pipe from his arms and said to Jian Shaolin: "Lord Jane, Xuannu blood!" After finishing speaking, he threw the blood of the Xuannu in the direction of Jian Shaolin.

Jian Shaolin took the Xuannu blood, opened the cap, waved his hand to splash the liquid in the tube into the air, and then waved his palm to beat the Xuannu's blood into a blood mist. The group of Gu worms crossed the fog wall, and sure enough, they were all melted away by this top-level evil exorcism holy water, or immediately turned into ashes, or were self-immolated by the sparks in their bodies, or died when they touched the fog wall, and fell to the ground with a puff.

Jian Shaolin's heart said, Xuannu's blood really deserves its name. He took a step back, and he was side by side with Ji Cunyan.

Ji Cunyan stuck out his tongue at him and said, "I'm sorry, Lord Jane, I didn't mean to sneeze." After that, she sneezed again. Frightened, she quickly covered her mouth.

Jian Shaolin sighed and said, "The Gu were all burned to death by the blood of your family's Xuannu, and it will be fine if you fight a dozen more." But you have to go back quickly, otherwise, someone will find out that you are an insider in the palace. ”

"Ahh Also. Then I'll go first! After Ji Cun finished speaking, he hurried back and forth.

Jian Shaolin looked at Ji Cunyan's back, and after she walked away, he covered his mouth and nose with a black cloth.

Ji Cunyan hurried back to his residence. Fang had just experienced life and death by the pond, and when he turned around, he saw that the palace maids in this bungalow were sleeping deeply, and he didn't even notice her entering and leaving, but felt like a world away. She hurriedly took off her shoes and lay down on her side, her heart still beating like a drum, and her breath was still unstable. She thought to herself, if the movement just now was too big, and the concubine Niangniang noticed it and searched the palace, what kind of explanation would she have? It's okay to kill and not admit it. I just don't know if I was seen going in and out?

In the midst of his thoughts, he heard a noise outside the door, and in a few moments the light of torches flickered in the front yard, and the sound of gongs was heard.

At this time, all the palace maids were woken up, so they all put on their clothes and pushed the door to look, or poked out of the window.

Tian Hui stopped a panicked little eunuch at the door and asked, "Father-in-law, what's going on?" Is it somewhere to go to the water again? ”

Hearing the word "walking water", the little palace maids whispered about it.

"There's an assassin in the palace, and they're looking for it." The little eunuch replied hurriedly.

After a while, the guards on duty in the palace came to search here, and told Tian Hui to close the door and be cautious.

Ji Cunyan said in his heart, Master Jian is good at martial arts, and his light skills are even better, he should have escaped safely at this time, right?

I just don't know, what secrets are there in the lake?

Early in the morning of the second day, Ji Cunyan and the new little palace maid swept the fallen leaves and repaired the flower branches in the front hall.

Qi Yue walked into Jinyang Palace with a few eunuchs and a few food boxes. When passing by the front hall, Qi Yue's eyes did not squint, as if he did not know Ji Cunyan. Ji Cunyan was also with the other little palace maids, bowing his head and waiting for Qi Yue to cross this road.

"Who's that? It's a big show. ”

"That's the close eunuch Qi's father-in-law, who is the highest-ranking father-in-law in the entire palace."

"Oh, I'm so young, and I'm so beautiful."

"Shhh, dare to ridicule Father-in-law Qi, don't you want to die?"

Qi Yue walked into the inner hall and greeted Concubine Cao Guifei, saying, "Your Majesty learned that there were assassins in Jinyang Palace yesterday, and I was worried that Niangniang would be frightened, so I specially asked the little one to come and visit Niangniang." ”

Cao Guifei didn't speak, just looked at the mirror and tried one pair of earrings on the dressing table one after another.

Qi Yue waited for a moment and said, "These things are put down." Again. ”

Cao Guifei raised her eyebrows.

"Your Majesty is really uneasy when he sees that strange things are happening frequently in Jinyang Palace. Now Jinyang Palace should eat and drink, and it will be handled by the imperial dining room. Jinyang Palace's own dining room in the palace, let's stop first. ”

Cao Guifei put down the earrings in her hand with a snap, and said angrily: "Take care of the heavens and the earth, do you still care about the dining room of the palace?" ”

Qi Yue bowed his head and said, "This is what Your Majesty meant." ”

Cao Guifei stared at Qi Yue and sneered: "Your Majesty's meaning, if you say it through your mouth, why doesn't this palace sound right?" Today, the palace must meet His Majesty and ask him for an understanding. ”

Qi Yue said: "If you are a mother, the little one will bring it." It's just that within today, the Jinyang Palace dining room can no longer be responsible for the entrance of the mother. Rest assured, the food in the imperial dining room will be strictly supervised by the small ones, and there will be no mistakes. ”

Cao Guifei looked at Qi Yue hatefully, but she couldn't resist the decree.

She knew that Qi Yue was very good at speaking in front of the emperor and could not be offended, but Qi Yue always looked like a yin and yang strange to herself, which made her very angry. And Qi Yue's attitude towards her made her feel faintly uneasy.

Qi Yue doesn't like her, anyone with a discerning eye can see it. Qi Yue is Your Majesty's tongue, so Your Majesty ......

Concubine Cao Guifei drank the palace maid and sat in front of the dressing table. The bronze mirror reflects himself as beautiful as yesterday, why is His Majesty not as fond of him as before?

Qi Yue walked out of the main hall and stopped when he passed by the vestibule.

He looked at Ji Cunyan, who was still pruning the branches and leaves, and said, "The little palace maid over there." ”

Ji Cunyan put down the big scissors and said to Qi Yue: "Yes." ”

"Come here."

Ji Cunyan walked over and saluted Qi Yue.

Qi Yue saw that she had learned quite similarly, and couldn't help but smile: "Recently, the food of the concubine Niangniang was sent by the imperial dining room. Look at your good looks, you can go with me to the imperial dining room to get lunch at noon. ”

Ji Cunyan followed Qi Yue out of Jinyang Palace with a swagger.