Late at night.

Yun Ni took the concubine and the piece that broke into the princess's mansion last night back to the princess's compound, and relayed it to the princess with the same unbelievable words.

Luo Junyue really didn't believe it on her face, after all, there were too many things about climbing relatives in this big family, but people who climbed relatives of the royal family really hadn't seen it.

She carefully glanced at the person named Scarlet Cloud in front of her, just now he seemed to introduce himself as her cousin, not to mention, he looked a little similar.

"Do you have any proof that you're my cousin?" For the sake of the horse's face, Luo Junyue still frowned and asked.

Scarlet Yungang wanted to mention the matter of the jade pendant, but was stopped by Xue Junwu with a smile on his face.

Xue Junwei looked up at An Yang, with an extremely firm gaze in his eyes: "That's right, princess, I can testify that her mother's real surname is Gongsun, and her name is Gongsun Ruoxia." ”

After speaking, Xue Junwu didn't forget to whisper to the scarlet clouds beside him: "Don't talk about the secret treasure, the princess doesn't know yet." ”

"There are many people with the surname Gongsun."

Luo Junyue saw the two of them whispering in private, and said with some unhappiness on her face: "You won't be threatened by him for something, right?" ”

Although it was not a threat, Xue Junwu did have something to hide from Anyang, and just when he didn't know how to answer, Scarlet Cloud spoke.

"I have proof."

Scarlet Cloud took out a jade pendant from his arms, not only in the shape of Chaoxia, but also engraved with Gongsun Ruoxia: "I know that no one will believe my words alone, so when my mother was not paying attention, I stole the jade pendant that she had been putting in the secret compartment at the head of the bed in advance." ”

"What, your mother likes to put things in the bedside compartment too."

Xue Junwu was shocked, it turned out that the two sisters liked to hide a place, and when he was in Ning'an Palace, Gongsun Emperor and Concubine also hid things in the bedside compartment.

Luo Junyue didn't pay attention to what they said, but just took the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, it was indeed the same as her mother who had been wearing the jade pendant before, but the piece of the mother concubine was an auspicious cloud, and now it has been placed by her father's side.

"It's been a busy day, haven't you?"

Luo Junyue was skeptical, and turned her head to look at Xue Junwu: "Let's have some supper first, I let the kitchen stew some chicken soup." ”

"I'm hungry indeed."

Xue Jun touched his stomach worriedly, but he raised his eyes towards Anyang and glanced at the scarlet clouds beside him: "Then what should he do?" ”

"The jade pendant of the mother concubine is not by my side."

Luo Junyue returned the jade pendant, and she was not disgusted with this person in her heart: "Wait until I go to my father's side to confirm the material first, since I have been busy all day, let's use supper first." ”

"Yes."

Scarlet Cloud nodded, with a smile on his face: "Then where do I live, after all, I haven't seen any relatives except for my father and mother when I was a child." ”

Luo Junyue suddenly heard what was meant by the words, and then was stunned, what's the matter with this person, don't you know how to avoid it?

But listening to his words, it was a little pitiful, although Luo Junyue did not deal with the sisters, but at least he was protected by the crown prince's brother, and the cousin in front of him seemed to be quite lonely.

But after all, he is a strange man, and his heart is indispensable for guarding against others, so he replied: "You live in a room with the horse first, try not to act alone in the house, especially not to intrude on me casually, otherwise you will disobey the palace rules." ”

"Okay, I see, cousin." Crimson Cloud.

Luo Junyue was a little uncomfortable when she heard this, but she just nodded lightly.

Not long after following Xue Junwei back to his courtyard, someone brought a steaming chicken soup, which had obviously been boiled for several hours.

It's been busy all day, but he was hungry, so Xue Junwei immediately divided the bowl and scooped a full bowl of chicken soup for himself and Scarlet Cloud.

"What's wrong?"

Xue Junwu saw that Scarlet Cloud seemed to be thinking, so he asked, "So absent-minded." ”

Scarlet Cloud frowned: "I don't feel like the princess's cousin likes me very much." ”

"Nonsense."

Speaking of this, Xue Jun was not very comfortable in his heart: "You said that your identity has not been fully confirmed, so you have to live in someone's house, but anyone with brains must be guarded against whether you are a flower thief, right?" ”

"Shall I go?"

"Forget it, they're all staying, and didn't you promise to help me find a token of your scarlet trick?"

"Okay." Scarlet Cloud nodded in response: "Anyway, the body is not afraid of shadows." ”

"Then again..."

Xue Jun seemed to think of something, took a sip of chicken soup and asked, "Listening to what you just said, you came to find the princess without telling your mother?" ”

"Yes." Scarlet Cloud replied.

"Why? Does your mother approve of your relationship? Or do you have a grudge against Emperor Gongsun and the concubine. ”

"Probably neither... I've always felt that my mother was hiding a lot from me. After his father's death, he stopped saying a word about the past. ”

"How did Ling Zun go?" Xue Jun asked again.

"I don't know."

Scarlet Cloud shook her head and put her hands on the side of the bowl: "So I said that my mother has a lot of things to hide from me. ”

"There's something I don't think you might know either."

Xue Junwu suddenly remembered that Scarlet Yun's mother was the sister of Gongsun Emperor Guifei, so he had an idea and said: "Actually, I have been tracking down the cause of Gongsun Huang Guifei's death, maybe it has something to do with one of the things that your mother is hiding." ”

"Didn't my aunt die of illness?"

Scarlet Cloud raised his head suspiciously: "At that time, His Majesty the Emperor also posthumously crowned his aunt Empress Da Entropy, and even held a state funeral, although I am still young, I remember it clearly." ”

"Actually, it's poisoning."

Xue Junwei responded bluntly: "I have found some evidence and even clues about poisoning, and I think that Your Majesty asked me to be the deputy director of this crime department because he also wanted me to find out the cause of the death of Emperor Gongsun and Concubine Gongsun." ”

"And what are you going to do?"

Xue Junwu sighed lightly, drank the bowl of chicken soup in front of him, looked at Scarlet Cloud and said, "I plan to take a look at what Emperor Gongsun left in the vault first, and then make plans... If the mastermind behind the scenes really pointed to the Marquis of Tanglin, it would be good to say, but if the princess and concubine died in a palace dispute, it might not be a good thing to let the princess know. ”

"You're really thinking about your cousin." The corners of Crimson's mouth are slightly upturned.

"Don't have a long cousin, a short cousin."

Xue Jun frowned, he didn't know why, when he heard such an affectionate name for Anyang, he felt a little uncomfortable: "The royal family has the rules of the royal family, even if you are really her cousin, then you have to call the princess... By the way, I also took you around the house just now, did you find the token of the scarlet trick? ”

Scarlet Cloud shook his head: "I haven't seen anything close to the theory of yin and yang." ”

"Didn't you say you recognized it at a glance?"

"Then I want to see it too, this princess's mansion is so big, and I only have two eyes."

"So what to do..."

Xue Junwu sighed lightly and frowned tightly: "There are so many things that happened today, it is estimated that a bunch of things will haunt me in the future, but when it comes to the assassination of the princess, even if Your Majesty does not look for me, the Nine Infant Protector Mansion will look for me tomorrow." ”

"Don't worry."

Scarlet Cloud looked at him and seemed to think of something: "By the way, cousin... In addition to the jade pendant that the princess left to her by her aunt, is there anything else that her aunt left her? ”

"A dog."

Xue Junwu said casually, and asked rhetorically: "Could it be that your secret token still uses a living thing?" How is it possible, if the dog dies, won't future generations never be able to open it? ”

"Nope."

Scarlet Cloud seemed to understand something immediately, and explained:

"We do have a living creature as a token, because our Scarlet Cue has an ancestral secret medicine, and after soaking the secret medicine for seven hundred and forty-nine days, it will remain in their bodies forever, even if they reproduce, they will inherit the secret medicine."

"And this medicine?"

Xue Jun's face changed slightly, he couldn't really be so bloody, he took the trouble to sneak into the Scarlet Palace, he never thought that the token was in the princess's mansion, he had seen it at the beginning.

As soon as he heard this secret medicine, the more Xue Junwu thought about it, the more wrong it became.

Having said that, he was taken to the bamboo forest by Yunni that day, and after meeting the snow mastiff, he really didn't observe it too closely because of excessive nervousness, and he even skipped it directly in his memory afterwards.

Now that I think about it, it seems that the snow mastiff was born with a different pupil... One blue and one red, it is indeed in line with the theory of yin and yang.

Thinking of this, Xue Junwei immediately asked again: "What are the characteristics of half of the tokens that this living creature has become?" ”

"There are many characteristics, such as appearance, pupils, teeth, or skin color and hair, etc."

Scarlet Cloud explained to Xue Junwu with a light car:

"But the characteristics don't matter, the reason why you need to rely on the key and the token together to open the vault is because the most important part of opening the vault door is to pour the blood of the token or the quenched liquid into the chamber door slot.

At that time, the secret medicine at the other end of the secret tank will be able to react with the liquid taken out of the token, and then open the first door of the secret chamber, and then the innermost secret door will need a secret key. ”

"You just said you need the blood of the token?"

Xue Jun remembered that the snow mastiff was left to Anyang by Gongsun Guifei, if he killed it, he would definitely hate him to death...

"Don't worry."

Scarlet Cloud seemed to see Xue Jun's worry: "If you are a living creature, you should not be able to die if you take a certain amount of blood." ”

"That's good, that's good."

Xue Junwu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and saw that Scarlet Cloud happened to be full of food and drink, so he got up and proposed, "Then I'll take you to that bamboo forest to have a look, and see if that dog is the token needed to open the door of the secret room." ”

"Wait! Right now? ”

Scarlet Cloud was a little puzzled, and looked at the moon curved outside the window, which was already beginning to sink: "Why are you so energetic, don't you need to sleep?" ”

Xue Jun's face darkened, ignoring the scarlet clouds, pulling him up and walking towards the door and said, "You don't know how powerful that snow mastiff is, the first time I saw it that day, I was almost not caught by it... So it was in the middle of the night, when it was in a daze, that we first bleed it, and then we would go to the scarlet tomorrow. ”

Scarlet Cloud was puzzled: "But if you wake it up, and it sees you and lets it bleed, I'm afraid it will hate you even more..."