Chapter 018: Sleepless Nights

All night, there was no movement in the dusty room except for the sound of breathing, not even a simple turnover.

Shuyu stood by the flames of the candles, watching Qingchen's eyes widen and looking straight above him, the curtain on the bed swaying slightly in the occasional night breeze, and then still.

It was destined to be a sleepless night.

No one knows what Qingchen is thinking, including Zhanyu, who has been with her for so long, and she can't fully see Qingchen's thoughts, she only knows now that Qingchen looks like this for Xiao Yi, but she doesn't know what Qingchen is planning in her heart.

And Mu Qingchen, who was lying on the bed, the thoughts in his mind were ups and downs, and different pictures flashed through his mind, but in a short time, it was like experiencing a lifetime.

Thinking about her and Xiao Yi, from the initial defense and suspicion, to the later acquaintance and promise, whether they experienced life or death, there has never been a moment, like now, and my heart hurts for no reason.

It's not because Xiao Yi hurt her, but because she can clearly feel it in her chest, and Xiao Yi is not feeling good now.

I don't know how long it took, the candles in the house had burned out, and the night outside the house had gradually dispersed.

As if he had made some kind of major decision, Qingchen's eyes gradually gathered a trace of charm and restored their former brilliance.

"Childe!" seemed to feel the change in the aura on Qingchen's body, and Ji Yu hurriedly stepped forward, looked at Qingchen, and made a surprised sound in his mouth.

The night mourner who was guarding outside heard the voice of Ji Yu and thought that something had happened to Qingchen, so he turned around and pushed the door in, but saw Qingchen sitting up from the bed, and returned to his calm and calm and wise appearance, as if everything last night was just a dream.

"Hold Yu, you go and prepare hot water, I want to wash. Nightfall, you go and inform Luo Xiaohou and Zhao Yan, as well as the six princesses, and say that after two hours, borrow the study of the six princesses, and I have something important to discuss. Qingchen looked at the two people in front of him and calmly commanded.

Seeing that Qingchen seemed to recover, the two were very happy, and Zhanyu no longer hesitated, turned around and walked out, and went to prepare hot water according to Qingchen's instructions. Seeing this, Nightshade did not delay any longer to inform the person who should be notified.

Anyway, Qingchen is no longer the lifeless appearance of last night, and it is already good.

In fact, this is also the reason why the brothers who picked up the star tower at the beginning were willing to follow Ye Qingcheng to the death. Not only because Ye Tingcheng has great kindness to each of them, but also because Ye Tingcheng is always so calm, so rational, so calm, no matter what happens, he can recover in the fastest time, and then adjust his state.

After being reborn, Mu Qingchen was a little more ruthless than Ye Qingcheng before, but he was also a little soft-hearted. is ruthless, because she once knew people clearly, so in this life, she wants to collect debts from those people, but she is soft-hearted, but because she once failed to protect the Ye family and the three thousand hidden guards, she feels guilty, and now, she wants to protect all the people she can protect, among these people, there are brothers in the Star Picking Tower.

When she met Xiao Yi, she had already disrupted Qingchen's plan, but everyone in the Star Picking Tower was very happy, because they didn't want Qingchen to live in hatred all the time, and there was such a person who could pull her out of the whirlpool of hatred, and they couldn't ask for it. But it is precisely because of Xiao Yi's existence that Qingchen has another weakness.

Soon, after preparing the hot water needed for Qingchen, she bathed comfortably, and then asked Zhan Yu to medicate her wounds, put on new clothes, and rearranged her face so that people could not see the flaws, and then had breakfast and rested for a while before walking towards Nie Xinyao's study.

When Qingchen arrived, Nie Xinyao and Luo Jin were already waiting in the study, and when they saw Qingchen coming, Nie Xinyao said:

"I heard that Mu Gongzi came back very late last night, I don't know what Mu Gongzi went to do last night?"

"I couldn't go over and explore the Three Princes' Mansion, trying to find out what the Panruo in the Yangui Mansion yesterday looked like Xiao Yi, the Emperor of Ningyue, was all about. Qingchen endured the pain of the wound, didn't let Nie Xinyao see any clues, and said half-truthfully, "However, does His Royal Highness the Sixth Know what he found in the Three Kings' Mansion?"

"Although this palace is very curious about what Mu Gongzi found in the Three Princes' Mansion, but ......" Nie Xinyao said as her eyes looked in the direction of Luo Jin, as if she was hinting at something.

Qingchen looked at Nie Xinyao's eyes, and understood in her heart that Luo Jin was rescued by her to the Six Kings Mansion after all, even if she believed it, Nie Xinyao didn't necessarily believe it.

"Sixth Highness, please rest assured, he is his own person, and the plan of the Sixth Highness will only help, and will never become an obstacle. Qingchen said lightly.

"Mu Gongzi's ability, this palace is trustworthy, since Mu Gongzi said so, then this palace will believe him. Nie Xinyao said and spoke again, "So...... I don't know what Mu Gongzi said, what did he find in the Three Kings' Mansion?"

"The secret of the Third Highness has been discovered. Qingchen took a deep breath and said slowly, "The Three Princes' Mansion and the Seven Princes' Mansion live next to each other, and the Seven Princes' Mansion is full of sentry posts, but the Three Princes' Mansion is silent in the dead of night, but it is even more strange that there is no abnormality in the entire Mansion, not even the thief who stole things, His Royal Highness the Sixth Highness knows, what is the reason?"

"Could it be that Mu Gongzi knows?" Nie Xinyao said, "This palace only knows that the Third Emperor Sister has always been gentle and generous in front of people, and her reputation in the hearts of the people is also very good, and there are no thieves in her mansion, and this palace also feels quite normal." ”

"There are no thieves to explain this, but the huge Three Kings' Mansion can't even see a few small maids, there are no night watchmen, no sound of walking, and the silence is a little scary. Qingchen thought back to what he saw on the edge of the wall of the Three Kings' Mansion last night, and said so.

The Three Princes' Mansion is not like what Nie Xinyao said at all, it is because the reputation of the Three Princesses is too good, so the mansion is so quiet at night, but because it is ...... In the entire Three Kings' Mansion, a formation was laid out.

This formation is not visible to ordinary people at all, but it uses some hexagrams such as the five elements and eight trigrams, yin and yang techniques, and even heaven and earth, combined with rockeries in the house, flowers and trees, as well as the layout and structure of the house, to form a natural formation.

This formation usually doesn't seem to be abnormal, but it is full of murderous intent, once a person steps in, he will be trapped inside, unless that person is proficient in the formation and walks out by himself, or the person who laid this formation personally unravels it, otherwise the person who mistakenly breaks into it can't get out at all, and can only fight against this formation, knowing that his energy is exhausted, or he walks out by mistake.

But if you accidentally touch the eye of the formation, or if you touch the killing machine of the formation, then even if someone rescues you, you can only leave your life inside.

However, it was not uncommon for the Three Kings Mansion to have such a huge and exquisite formation, and what surprised her was ...... She had seen this formation before, and she was familiar with it, because this formation appeared on the codex that had been passed down from generation to generation in their Ye family.

The codex says that this formation was created by the ancestors of the Ye family and recorded for future generations to learn, and this codex is only qualified to be seen by the sons and daughters of the Ye family.

Her father, Ye Hong, the first prince of Ningyue Kingdom, is the son-in-law, and she is the eldest daughter of the Ye Mansion, so she is naturally qualified to see it, but why, why did the formation belonging to the Ye family appear in the originally unattainable southern Xinjiang, and appeared in the Nie Xinrou Mansion that she had never known and had nothing to do with it?

Her heart was full of doubts, of course, she wouldn't say it in front of Nie Xinyao, even if she wanted to say it, she would only say part of it, and say the part that could be said.

"So, according to Young Master Mu, what is the greasy thing in the Third Emperor Sister's Mansion?" Nie Xinyao asked.

Qingchen told Nie Xinyao about the formation, and only after the end did he say: "Southern Xinjiang is good at Gu poison and is not proficient in formations, and Nie Xinrou has never been to places outside Southern Xinjiang, so it can only show that the formation in the Three Kings' Mansion is set up by another master, and this master has a lot to do with the Three Highnesses, and is proficient in the formation of the Central Plains." ”

"You mean the national teacher?" Nie Xinyao blurted out his first reaction when he heard Qingchen's words.

"National teacher, you say that jade has no fate? He understands the formation of the Central Plains?" Qingchen was also deeply surprised, because she had never thought that a national teacher who was so admired in southern Xinjiang would actually study the formation of the Central Plains so well.

But after thinking about it, the people who attacked her that night in the Tianxing military camp, and even said those inexplicable words, didn't they also have a close connection with Yu Wuyuan? In this way, it is not a strange thing that Yu Wuyuan understands the formation of the Central Plains.

"Mu Gongzi doesn't know, since the memory of this palace, this national teacher has already existed, and I heard the mother emperor say that the reason why she let the national teacher stay in southern Xinjiang as a national teacher was because of the formation of the national teacher. The national teacher set up a formation at that time, and there were nearly a thousand ironclad guards in the hands of the mother emperor, but they were all trapped and died in that formation, and countless people were injured for a while. But according to the national teacher, those injuries were quite light, because the real killing move of that formation had not yet been stimulated......" Nie Xinyao recalled what the empress had said to her before, frowning.

"Except for the national teacher in Southern Xinjiang, is there no one who understands the formation?" Qingchen asked again.

"Even if you understand, you have learned a fur from the national teacher, and according to what Mu Gongzi said, the formation in the Three Emperor Sisters' Mansion is exquisite, and it is absolutely impossible for a person who only understands half-people to set it up, so the only person who can complete this formation is the national teacher. Nie Xinyao sighed faintly.

"In this way, the Three Princesses have joined forces with the National Teacher, but it is not ruled out that the Three Princesses may be used by the National Teacher......" Qingchen concluded.

"In fact, when Gongzi just said it, Bengong had already expected it. Nie Xinyao said, "If there are only the Seven Emperor Sisters and the Third Emperor Sister, then I am not afraid, after all, it is normal for the children of the royal family to compete for power, and victory or defeat depends on the will of God." But now, if the three emperor sisters really unite with the national teacher, with the help of the national teacher, I am afraid that the throne will not be related to the palace from now on. ”

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(Tianjin)