Back in the capital, the rain gradually stopped.

Night Terror put away the oil-paper umbrella and handed it to Luo Ning beside him: "I have to go to the palace later, I may come back late......"

Luo Ning was holding a small medicine bag in her hand, and her steps paused slightly: "Aren't you going to Minglongtan to practice?" What to do when you come back? ”

Do......

Night Terror Hall said seriously: "Cheng'an Hall is the place where the empress sleeps after all, even if I practice, it is impossible for me to really spend the night, try to come back as soon as possible, so as not to worry Luo Nuxia." ”

Luo Ning felt that the thief wanted to see the clothes she bought today, and said coldly: "Come back if you want to come back, I'll boil the medicine for you first." He turned and walked down the street.

Night Terror watched from afar, touched the hungry birds, first bought some food on the side of the street, and then came to the vicinity of Guozijian in the north of the city.

The Guozijian is full of students, and the surrounding culture is very heavy, most of the streets are Confucian scholars, and there are not a few scholars.

Night Terror walked down the street and found a bookstore that looked old, and went inside to look back and forth.

"Tears of a Chivalrous Woman" is a miscellaneous book in the rivers and lakes, although it offended Yuxushan, but no matter how powerful Yuxushan is, it is impossible to interfere with the imperial court to ban books, so there is a small stock on the market, but the collector's edition is rare.

And the book "The Secret History of Cleopatra", just by looking at the name, you know that it is a banned book, and it is written by a queen mother of the previous dynasty, who took who died a hundred years ago, although it is not forbidden in the present dynasty, but it is not easy to find it.

Night Terror Hall looked back and forth in the bookstore for a long time, but did not find "The Secret History of Cleopatra", but found a picture album of "Jianghu Beauty Spectrum", picked it up and flipped through it, and there was indeed a "Toad Palace Goddess" in it, and there was a picture next to it.

But before the empress succeeded to the throne, Luo Nuxia rarely showed her true face, and the picture was engraved and printed, which looked more like a low-profile version of Xiaoyunli.

After the night terror hall glanced at it casually, he put it aside, and after searching for a long time, he found nothing, so he had to find the old shopkeeper of the bookstore, show the sign of Jingwangfu, and ask him to help search in the name of investigating the case.

The shopkeeper was also convenient, turned over an old book from his private collection, and sold it to him in pain.

After Night Terror got the book, he rushed to King Jing's mansion, and looked at it while walking on the road, looking for hidden clues in it.

Miscellaneous books that can be circulated on the market for hundreds of years, and then they are also famous ancient books that cannot be put on the table, and there must be merits. This is the case with this "Legend of Cleopatra", although the author dropped his book bag a little bit, mentioned various buildings, and began to talk about allusions at length, but the plot can also be called ups and downs, full of dangers.

After reading it for two quarters of an hour, you can be sure that this book is not made up, just like the ginkgo tree in Fushou Palace, which is written in the same direction as the specific location, and even pointed out that there is a secret passage in a room in Fushou Palace, which can lead directly to the Shizifu Mansion outside the imperial city.

This news looks very crucial, but it can be recorded in the book openly, and more than two hundred years have passed, and some tunnels have long been sealed by the imperial court, saying that the prince of Wu wants to sneak into the palace to assassinate him, and it is extremely unlikely.

Night Terror Hall continued to look back, and found that the author of this bookbag was unexpectedly well written......

——

On the other side, on the top floor of Mingyu Building, in the study.

Dongfang Liren was sitting behind the desk, looking at a letter in his hand, and his eyes were puzzled:

"King Wu's Mansion has entered the thief...... What's going on? ”

The white-haired old woman stood in front of her and said softly: "I've seen the injury gradually, and I said that the martial arts of the person are extremely high, according to Nangong Shaofeng's dictation, the other party's fourteen sticky cloud hands, one move defeated Nangong Shaofeng and escaped." ”

"One move?"

Dongfang Liren will stick to the clouds with fourteen hands, and he also knows the heat of Nangong Shaofeng, so he thinks about it a little:

"Didn't Master Zun sneak into Beijing?"

"If Xuanji is a real person, Nangong Shaofeng can't even see a shadow, how can he be discovered...... The old body is estimated to be a person who has a relationship with Xuanji Zhenren, Xuanji Zhenren is kind and charitable, and often ignites the martial artists of the rivers and lakes, it is really hard to guess who it is. ”

Dongfang Liren felt the same, and asked, "What did the prince of Wu have lost?" ”

"Nope. Valuables are placed in the dark room under the study, and the injuries gradually leave to see it, they are all calligraphy and painting treasures given by the palace, Nangong Shaofeng is facing the copy scroll inside, and he just collided head-on with the thief. ”

Dongfang Liren couldn't figure out the reason, so he asked the white-haired old woman to arrange someone to investigate, and when he continued to read the news, a maid from the palace came up and said that the night terror hall was coming.

Seeing this, Dongfang Liren put down the official business in his hand, got up and got off the Mingyu Tower, and came to the outside of the palace.

As soon as I turned the shadow wall, I saw a night terror hall in a black robe, standing outside the gate of the palace, with his left hand behind his back, holding a book in his hand, and reading intently.

The fluffy birds, squatting on their shoulders and bowing their heads, are also tilting their heads to look carefully.

Dongfang was slightly stunned, the night terrors she had seen before were all cold and resolute, and her body was like a loose body, this kind of elegant book with her hands in her hands was really the first time she had seen it.

Dongfang Liren raised his hand to let the maid wait, and walked to the door with very light steps, but there were still more than a dozen steps away, and Night Terror closed the book, put it in his arms, and turned around:

"Your Highness, why did you come out in person?"

Dongfang Liren regained the demeanor of the queen, and walked up to him unhurriedly:

"I said that I would take you into the palace, so I naturally had to come out. What are you looking at? ”

Although Night Terror Hall speculated that the murder case on Zhuji Street was related to the high probability of King Wu, but the clues of King Wu were provided by the leader of the Pingtian Sect, and he had no definite evidence, so it could not be said that he sneaked into the study of the prince on a whim and found the "Secret History of Cleopatra", and then speculated from the yellow book that the prince of Wu had a bad plan.

Faced with Dongfang's inquiry, Night Terror Hall just responded with a smile:

"It's just some reference books for handling cases, I don't know anything about investigating cases, and I'm learning."

Dongfang was stunned, but he still wanted to see what kind of books the Night Terror Hall was reading and learning to handle cases, so he raised his hand:

"Show this king, if there is any difficulty, this king will just give you a solution."

The Night Terror Hall did not refuse, and motioned to the carriage that came:

"Your Highness, let's get in the car first, I do have some confusion and want to ask for advice."

Dongfang didn't say much when he saw this, but stepped into the carriage, sat down in the wide carriage, and fetched some snacks for the bird to eat by himself.

Night Terror Hall followed and boarded the carriage, sat on the couch by the window, took out the old book from his arms, covered the name with his hand, and turned directly to the page where he dug the tunnel, indicating the handwriting on it:

"The last time I died, it was a small official of the Ministry of Works, and I was tortured and interrogated, so I wanted to look for books related to architecture. I read in this book, there is a kind of oil that can dissolve stones, is there such a thing in the yamen? ”

Dongfang was inconvenient to probe people, so he got up and sat on the side of the Night Terror Hall, shoulder to shoulder, and carefully looked at the small characters on the paper - it was written about the details of digging tunnels, and the nouns and terminology were very professional, but it looked like a miscellaneous book, and the protagonist was still a prince of a vassal dynasty in the previous dynasty......

Dongfang was a little confused, but still responded:

"Dissolved oil, you say? Indeed, the objects studied by the craftsmen of the previous dynasty can make most of the stone brittle after soaking for a day or two. ”

"Becomes like cinders, shattering when you step on it?"

"Yes. Although the effect is slow, it is secretly used to deal with city walls, prisons, bridges, etc., which has miraculous effects and is strictly forbidden by the imperial court. Last year, there was a case in which thieves damaged the foundation of a pagoda, causing the collapse of the seven-story pagoda and killing more than 30 people......"

When Night Terror Hall heard this, he suddenly had a conjecture in his heart - the stone bricks outside the observation tower of King Wu's Mansion had traces of corrosion, which was most likely caused by accidental dripping when carrying dissolved oil.

The prince of Wu was studying the books on digging tunnels, and he dissolved oil, and the purpose must have been to secretly destroy a certain building......

Dongfang was thoughtful when he saw the night terror, so he wanted to take this miscellaneous book that he hadn't read over and take a closer look.

But Night Terror knew what his reaction would be when he saw the words "The Secret History of Cleopatra", so he took the book into his arms with a flick of his wrist, with a serious expression:

"I have some thoughts on the case last time, do you want to hear it?"

？

Dongfang Liren saw that the night terror hall suddenly put on such a serious expression, and the hand that was about to grab the book pressed back, and sat upright:

"What do you think?"

"I feel that the murderer last time, tortured the officials of the Ministry of Works, was targeting a special building."

"This yamen can see it, but I don't know where the thieves are targeting. Xu Bailin's martial arts are not low, and the background of the person who can move is definitely not small, if it is a green bandit, the target is most likely this king and the saint. The saint is in the palace, and there are countless secret guards, so it is useless to find the layout of the palace; The king is also a guard, and assassinating him on the road is not as simple as entering the palace. ”

Night Terror shook his head: "It doesn't have to be for assassination. Today, I happened to see a book about digging tunnels, and I guessed that the murderer was digging tunnels in the dark, trying to destroy a key place by dissolving oil? ”

Dongfang Liren felt that this thinking was a bit jumpy, and thought about it carefully:

"Digging a tunnel into the palace, the amount of work is too large, it is difficult to hide people's eyes, and you can't do anything if you go in. Elsewhere, it seems that only prison robberies can use this method......"

Prison robbery?

Night Terror Hall felt that this was very possible, and asked:

"Are there any particularly important people in the prison?"

Dongfang Liren shrugged slightly:

"The people who can be detained in the capital are not simple people, and the heavier the weight, the tighter the defense. Before the target of the murderer is not determined, it is difficult to say which place to watch, the last time there was a murder on Zhuji Street, this king has strengthened his vigilance. ”

Night Terror Hall thought for a moment: "Thinking about the worst in everything, if a certain vassal king is secretly plotting against him and trying to rob the prison, who does His Highness think will hit him?" ”

“？”

Dongfang Liren blinked and looked at the Night Terror Hall solemnly:

"Night Terror, did you find something?"

Night Terror Hall did find it, but there was neither any evidence nor physical evidence, and the background of the 'black silk thighs' was exposed when it was said, so it could only be said:

"I'm just guessing based on my feelings, thinking about the worst, if Your Highness feels that there is no evidence, I will check again and find the exact clue as soon as possible."

Dongfang Liren felt that the night terror hall felt very accurate, and there was no intention of disbelieving it, but the unwarranted suspicion of the vassal king may shake the country's capital, she thought about it or said:

"I will pay close attention to this matter, and I dare not say this nonsense until there is evidence."

Night Terror nodded, "Understood." ”

Dongfang thought for a moment, glanced out of the carriage, and then approached the night terror, and said in a low voice:

"If the vassal king is paying attention to robbing the prison, the target can only be the eldest son of the emperor......"

Dongfang Liren said that the matter was very serious, and in order to prevent the guards with high martial arts skills outside the carriage from hearing it, the voice was very soft, almost sticking to the side of his face.

Night Terror caught the key word, his eyes were suspicious, and he turned his head, but his cheeks were warm, with three points of moistness and delicateness......

！！

The words came to an abrupt end.

The two people sitting side by side froze in place at the same time.

Dongfang's eyes widened a little, and he looked at the man in front of him in disbelief.

Night Terror's eyes widened as well, and his first instinct was to hold down the knife at his waist so as not to slash him, and then he stepped back a little, covering his cheeks and looking at his red lips.

Look at each other!

The silver-threaded fat-headed dragon in front of Dongfang Li's body gradually bulged, his face was as red as blood, and his majestic and cold eyes were actually a little mist, and his appearance was similar to the last time he was suddenly seen clean.

Night Terror wanted to make it look like nothing had happened and continue to discuss the issue of the abolition of the emperor, but seeing that Ben Ben was about to erupt a volcano, he obviously wouldn't reveal the matter, so he thought about it and explained:

"Hmm...... I'm also worried about the case, so I accidentally ...... for a while."

"You are presumptuous!"

Dongfang was away from the person for a long time before he recovered from the indescribable impact, gritted his teeth and reached out to hold the handle of the Night Terror Hall.

Night Terror Hall protected the knife: "What an accident, Your Highness is angry." ”

Dongfang Liren's slender eyelashes trembled slightly, and when he saw that the night terror hall still dared to protect the knife, he said coldly:

"You let go of this king! The last time you sneaked into the Canyang Pool and did such a rebellious thing, this king didn't blame you for the accident, and he had done his duty. How dare you be presumptuous this time?! What happened to the accident? Manslaughter is not a crime? ”

Night Terror looked at the red cheeks in front of him, and softly reassured:

"I'm not investigating the case to pay off the debt, this is much more minor than the last time......"

Slight?

Dongfang Liren was seen last time, at least he didn't touch it, but this time he let her take the initiative to kiss her, can this be called a slight plot?

Dongfang clenched his silver teeth, and he couldn't grab the knife, so he raised his finger:

Knock knock~

Night Terror Hall was tapped twice on his chest, and he felt that his qi veins were a little blocked, but there was not much abnormality, and he looked at the stupidity of the fierce god in a daze, and the meaning of his eyes was estimated - it looked like he was angry, and the points could be a little crooked......

？

Dongfang Liren saw that the night terror hall did not lie down, and he was a little surprised, and raised his hand to click two more times.

But how could the Night Terror Hall be tricked a second time, and hold the wrist of Dongfang Liren:

"Okay, okay, I'll add another debt, I'll definitely find a way to solve the case of Zhuji Street, and make meritorious contributions, okay?"

Dongfang Liren's face was red and scary, looking at the wrist held by the man, his eyes were slightly cold!

Night Terror Hall let go of his hand and sat down in the distance, his right hand slightly raised, and his left hand still protecting his waist knife.

Dongfang Liren stared at the Night Terror, his breathing fluctuated, but in the end he didn't pounce on the Night Terror, secretly gritted his teeth, picked up a handkerchief from the couch, and wiped his red lips with disgust.

Night Terror Hall secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and also wanted to wipe his face with a handkerchief, but the clumsy person next to him became angry, and turned his head and glared angrily:

"What do you rub? Don't dislike this king? ”

Night Terror Hall action is a little innocent:

"I wipe my rouge and go out to be seen, isn't it pregnant with His Highness's innocence."

Dongfang looked carefully, and indeed found that there was a red lip print on the face of the night terror, and the fat-headed dragon in front of him puffed up a little, and pointed out with a wave of his big sleeves:

"You go down to this king!"

Night Terror took the handkerchief and asked, "Then do I wipe it or not?" Good...... I see, I'll go down. ”

Night Terror quickly wiped the lip prints off his face and got out of the carriage.

Dongfang Liren clutched his hands under his sleeves tightly, and the scene in the Canyang Pool that he didn't dare to think about was hooked in his heart by this sudden touch, and he felt that he couldn't sit still......

(End of chapter)