Gao Cheng had already run for nearly ten miles, and when he looked back, the dense forest behind him was still quiet and peaceful, and those dark Lin troops did not chase after him.

For some reason, he was faintly worried about Qing'er's safety, and after hesitating for a while, Gao Cheng decided to go back and have a look.

He was really a little curious, why did these people in Nanchu chase after him so relentlessly, obviously he was just an insignificant little person, without a father or mother, and the head of the chamberlain was not a very high official position, although the first king Gao Qiang was nominally his father-in-law, but he had never taken care of him for more than ten years, and only trained him as his own son's bodyguard.

In the past ten years of staying in the palace, Gao Cheng has not had much sense of existence, and he has followed Gao Fei a little more, which has also created his loner, free and loose personality now, and he doesn't seem to care about anyone.

But now there are at least two people who make him care, and both are women.

One is the girl in white that he met that day, even Gao Cheng himself didn't know why he cared about her, and after thinking about it, there seemed to be only one explanation: it was the most beautiful person he had ever seen in his life.

People have a natural yearning for beauty, and for a teenager in his youth, the most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, beauty.

The other is Qing'er, maybe her appearance is ugly, but she has a kind heart, in this world, the beauty of the soul is more precious than the beauty of the appearance.

What's more, she is Gao Cheng's life-saving benefactor, so no matter what, he must protect her.

The surroundings were a little strangely quiet, Gao Cheng walked in a hurry, and his pace was constantly accelerating, because he gradually noticed a faint smell of blood in the air, and the deeper he went into the dense forest, the closer he got to Qing'er's grass house, the smell of blood began to become stronger.

The ominous premonition in Gao Cheng's heart became more and more intense, he began to run as fast as he could, and seeing that the grass house finally appeared in the depths of the dense forest, Gao Cheng suddenly stopped and shouted: "Qing'er!"

The scene in front of him made his blood tremble, and his eyes were about to split, and the side branches of a large tree were bent down beside the dilapidated grass hut, because there hung a bloody corpse on it, the corpse was scattered, and the body was covered with deep bone cuts, and it was almost impossible to distinguish the human form, and the identity of the dead man could only be confirmed by the blue clothes that were almost red with blood.

"Ahh

Gao Cheng was filled with grief and anger but couldn't take a step forward, although he was superb in martial arts and stoic, he was still deeply shocked by the bloody and brutal scene in front of him, and at this moment he actually felt a deep fear and a piercing cold.

He couldn't imagine that Tingting's body, which was still alive just now, had become such a miserable state, Gao Cheng let out a strange dry howl, but instead took a few steps back and fell to the ground.

At this moment, the dense forest next to him suddenly shot out countless powerful crossbows, and at this time, Gao Cheng was still shrouded in fear and a huge psychological gap, his reaction was a little slower than usual, and almost instinctively, he stood up with difficulty and brandished his giant sword to split the sneak attack from all directions.

Rao was like this, and there were still a few long crossbows piercing into his body. Gao Cheng snorted, knowing that his strength had not yet recovered, and he was successfully attacked by the other party, and he didn't know how many masters the other party came, so he could only choose to avoid the edge for the time being.

He glanced at the direction of the grass house for the last time, the tragic picture deeply pierced his eyes, Gao Cheng turned his head, gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Qing'er, the grace of saving your life, there is nothing to repay in this life, but I will definitely avenge you!"

In Pinglan Mansion, Zhu Lan was still pacing back and forth, and when he was thinking, he liked to walk around like this, sit down when he was tired, and get up again after resting and continue walking.

It's been three days, and there has been no movement in Diyun City, and there is no news of Gao Fei, as if he really evaporated from the city like this, just like he suddenly disappeared from the carriage before.

"Fortunately, it's not like there's been no progress. Zhu Lan whispered to himself.

In the past few days, the subordinates he sent to search for the original Gao Fei's domestic servants and guards throughout the city, although most of them were dismissed at the time of the coup, and those who stayed were naturally unrelated people who did not know about it, and they could not interrogate any news, but the keen Zhu Lan still found some clues.

There was no news from the family who reported the news, but the twelve guards who followed the carriage to the banquet all found out the details, and all painted portraits, but unfortunately Gao Fei seemed to have taken precautions, and the families and relatives of these twelve people had already taken advantage of the chaos to move away, and they did not know what to do.

"Find a way to pick up one of them, and you'll find clues to Goofy. For some reason, he always thought that there must be something wrong with this team of guards, but he never caught strong clues and evidence, and Gao Fei hid all this too well.

"Second brother!" there was a shout from outside the door, and Zhu Long walked straight in.

Seeing that Zhu Lan was still pacing around, knowing that his younger brother was still struggling with Gao Fei's case, he asked, "Isn't there still a little bit of an eyebrow about Gao Fei's matter?"

Zhu Lan shook his head with a wry smile and asked, "What clues does the eldest brother have?"

"The previous information was wrong. Zhu Long said, "After the family sent the gift back to the carriage, he didn't go back to the Yuanfei Mansion." ”

"What!" Zhu Lan was taken aback.

"The person who followed the road before said that a family member stopped the carriage and went back to the house to get a gift, and after the gift was returned, the family went back to the house again. But in fact, he did go back to the house to pick up the gift, but after giving the gift, he never returned home, this is the news of the secret agent who was ambushed outside the Goofy Mansion, he has been monitoring the vicinity of the Flying Mansion that day, and there will be no mistake. ”

Zhu Lan felt that there seemed to be a breakthrough in the case, but it seemed to be more complicated, and he asked again: "Where is the secret agent who is monitoring Gao Fei Mansion?"

"Just outside the door," said the dragon, Zhao walked outside, "and I called him in." By the way, there are also spies watching on the road, and I also called them in. ”

The two agents were thin and thin, one of them was a spy who had been lurking outside the prince's mansion to keep watch, and their skin was a little darker than ordinary people, they walked into the mansion and saluted Zhu Lan.

"Have you been outside Goofy on the day of the incident?"

"Yes. The agent was solemn and independent, and bowed his head respectfully.

"Has no one been in or out all the time?"

"From the Go-Bey carriage until something happened outside, it didn't happen. ”

"Did you see Goofy get into the carriage with your own eyes?"

"Yes, it's Goofy himself. ”

Zhu Lan nodded, and asked the second agent: "He has been in the car?"

"Yes. ”

Zhu Lan said to himself: "He did get in the car, and he never got out of the car, but he just disappeared, and no one left the convoy from beginning to end, no one ......"

A thought flashed through his mind, and he suddenly closed his mouth because he realized that there was a hole in one of the words he had just said!

It's not that no one has left the convoy, there is one person who has left, this person does not belong to the convoy in the first place, he is the family member who came to report the news halfway!

The birthday gift he sent was not a gift at all, but a set of family clothes, and he gave Gao Fei the clothes to change in the car, and then he sat in the carriage himself, but let Gao Fei, who was dressed as a family member, get out of the car.

So everything makes sense. Zhu Lan couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "When did that family member deliver the gift to the convoy?"

Gao Fei asked the family to go back to the house to get the gift, and the team went to the most famous Jinyuan embroidery workshop in Diyun City, and then Gao Fei picked up embroidery there, and the family Ding sent the gift at that time. ”

"At the gate of Jinyuan Embroidery?"

"Yes. ”

Zhu Lan's voice trembled with a hint of the riddle that was about to be solved: "Let's go, go to Jinyuan Embroidery Workshop!"

Jinyuan Embroidery Workshop is the largest embroidery workshop in the national capital of Diyun City, and it is the only embroidery king merchant in Southern Chu State. Zhu Lan, Zhu Long, and two secret agents came to the door of the embroidery workshop, and the amazing thing is that this very famous embroidery workshop gatehouse is extremely simple and elegant, and there is no decoration of the splendid and rich king.

The owner of the embroidery workshop had long been summoned to the door to greet him, a short, kind-faced old man, who hunched his back and smoothed his hands, silently waiting for questioning.

"On the day of the birthday banquet of the first king, the traitor Gao Fei once came to you?"

The old man lowered his head, and his voice was neither humble nor high-pitched: "Lord Hui, this is indeed the case, the third prince did come to the small shop to choose embroidery, saying that it was a birthday gift for the first king, and the best embroidery was selected, and the little one had been waiting by the carriage at that time." ”

Zhu Lan could hear that the old man didn't seem to accept the charges placed on Gao Fei's head by the imperial court, and his words seemed to imply Gao Fei's respect for the previous king.

Even so, he also knew that Gao Fei had a long reputation among the people, so he didn't bother to make things difficult in this regard, lest the other party know the purpose of their trip and deliberately conceal the reality and confuse the public.

Zhu Lan was convinced of his judgment at this time, because he believed that this was the only possible way, and all he had to do was to confirm all this.

"He picked the embroidery in the car, right?" Zhu Lan asked without a trace of expression.

"Yes, the third prince is a golden body, so naturally he will not deign to get out of the car and choose it personally, so we will arrange it for him. ”

The old man's words added more words of praise to Gao Fei, and Zhu Long, who was standing on the side, had a trace of annoyance on his face at this time.

Zhu Lan still didn't have any expression, he continued to say indifferently: "In the meantime, there was a high-flying retainer who got into the carriage, right?"

"Yes, it is said that it is a birthday gift prepared by the third prince for the king. The old man also sensed the other party's displeasure, so his words were somewhat restrained, but his tone was not weak at all.

"He's got in the car, right?" Zhu Lan continued to guide.

"Yes, I sent it up, naturally to give Gao Fei a look. Hearing this, Zhu Lan's heart became more stable, and he seemed to have a greater grasp of his conjecture.

However, the other party's next words soon disrupted his thoughts: "But the retainer didn't stay in the car long before he got down." ”

Zhu Lan was shocked and asked, "Didn't you stay long?"

The old man thought for a while, and then replied, "It's only two or three sentences." ”

Zhu Lan's forehead began to sweat slightly, he turned his head to look at the spy who was monitoring on the road, the man hesitated for a moment, nodded slowly, and signaled that the old man was not lying.

Time for two or three sentences...... Reason told Zhu Lan that it was impossible to change the clothes of the family in two or three sentences, even if it was too late to take off the clothes and crowns on his body in advance.

The old man didn't seem to notice Zhu Lan's disappointment, and continued to say to himself: "After the man left, Gao Fei was still screening embroidery in the car, and while choosing, he also communicated with the villain on the grade, workmanship, and pattern of the embroidery......

When the old man said this, his face showed respect and love from the bottom of his heart.

Hearing this, Zhu Lan knew that his conjecture had been completely overturned, and he finally felt deeply frustrated: "Gao Fei is still in the car! He already knows our plan, he already knows that we are going to kill him, he could have taken this opportunity to escape, but he is still in the car! and he is still in the mood to talk and laugh with this hateful old man!"

But Zhu Lan was no longer in the mood to listen to the old man's chatter at this time, and he left here gloomily, thinking that he might never be able to solve this mystery again.

Twenty miles to the east of the Demon Realm Forest, is the most famous Qingqiu Mountain in the eastern land, because the northern slope of the mountain is full of cyan ore, legend has it that all the cyan paint in the world is collected here, and the southern slope is unearthed the world's most perfect and purest jade, so it is named "Qingqiu".

Relying on the abundant products of Qingqiu Mountain and the irrigation of the British water flowing down from the mountain, the tribe led by the Nangong clan gradually grew stronger, and finally achieved the most powerful Qingqiu Kingdom in the East, facing the Southern Chu State across the mountain.

Gao Cheng is now sitting at the foot of Qingqiu Mountain. He sat leaning against the boulder, his great sword in his hand, glaring at his pursuers with his tired, blood-red eyes.

There were nearly 100 people in this group of the Gloomy Lin Army, and the long-distance attack did not cause much strain to them, they were still lined up neatly, and the weapons in their hands were cold and intimidating, indifferently facing the scarred Gao Cheng, like a pack of wolves besieging the tigers.

Gao Cheng looked at the sword in his hand, hoping that it would be able to exert miraculous power like when he faced the wolf head mask in the Demon Realm Forest before, as if this was his only chance at the moment.

The previous battle of life and death with the wolf head mask hurt his body too much, although Qing'er healed his external injuries, but his strength recovered less than two percent, and then he was successfully attacked by the other party, and then fought with the elite of the nearly 100 dark Lin army and retreated for fifty miles, Gao Cheng was at the end of the strong crossbow at this moment.

However, it is difficult for this sword to regain its short-lived glory, and Gao Cheng seems to have no hope of survival.

"They killed Qing'er!" Gao Cheng shouted in his heart, "I can't die, I want to avenge Qing'er!" He stood up with difficulty, and the moment he stood up, he felt that he had almost exhausted all his strength.

In this dangerous Demon Realm Forest, he has been rescued twice, but this time, it seems that he is really in danger.

However, things always take a turn for the better, Gao Cheng is like having some kind of special aura, and he can always get the favor of God, because at critical moments, there are always fairy-like people who appear to save him, but this time it is no longer a beautiful sister, but a beautiful young man.

This young man was dressed in white, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and thin lips as sharp blades with a slight smile, he rode a cyan dragon horse from Qingqiu Mountain slowly, and said loudly: "I am Qingqiu Guoying Ling Hou Ying Tianjiao, I heard that Gao Cheng Gongzi is a martial arts genius, I have come to ask Gongzi to talk about it, I hope Gongzi will not shirk." ”