Rao Mengli lowered her head all the way, walked to the palace, passed the curfew, and was shouted again, so shocked that she sweated like rain.

It was the young man who came, Rao Mengli had seen him once, and the bronze mask impressed her deeply. Qing Xuanqi said: "Are you the maid in the house?" Rao Mengli leaned over and said, "Lord Hui, exactly." At this time, another maid came over, and when she saw the disguised Rao Mengli, she asked suspiciously: "Huh, Xiaozhu, why are you here? Didn't you go out to buy rouge gouache, why did you come back in a moment?" Rao Mengli had an idea, and replied wittily: "The rouge shop that was originally purchased is out of stock, so I will come back first to ask for help and see if I can change it." ”

When Qing Xuanqi heard this, he said: "You two go, today the prince is selecting a show girl on behalf of the saint, the house is very busy, and you still need manpower, you must be diligent." The second daughter bowed and said, "Yes, my lord." Then they departed together. Qing Xuanyi turned to the guards guarding the palace and said, "You must take strict precautions to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to infiltrate the palace. The soldier replied.

Rao Mengli breathed a long sigh of relief and whispered to the older maid beside her, "Thank you, sister." The maid was even more puzzled: "Xiaozhu, why have you become so polite? You and I are both subordinates, so why do you want to say thank you?"

Rao Mengli asked again: "Sister, do you know where the show girls who entered the mansion to be selected are?" The maid replied: "Naturally, it is in the courtyard, waiting for the prince to choose." The two walked side by side in the corridor, passing by the courtyard, and saw more than forty or fifty women standing in one place, waiting for the selection, Rao Mengli saw Zhu Qingqiu who was slightly dressed at a glance, and thought about finding an opportunity to recognize her.

At this time, that should be free from the top of the hall, looking down on the forty-eight show girls, although there are many beautiful people, but heavy makeup, free from the surface, only that Zhu Qingqiu, not powder, but elegant and exquisite, if standing out from the crowd, its temperament is far inferior to other vulgar powder. But how could Ying Wujian not recognize Zhu Qingqiu, although he didn't know Zhu Qingqiu's plan, he also knew that she had her plan to take this opportunity to return to the palace.

Rao Mengli hid behind the pillars and peeked, he should not be aware of the disease, but he did not poke Rao Mengli, but in front of everyone, he walked to Zhu Qingqiu's side and said: "Where do you live, what kind of instrumental music do you know?" Zhu Qingqiu replied: "Back to the prince, the little girl is in Tanglin and has been learning guqin since she was a child." Ying Wujian nodded and said, "Okay, then tonight you will play a song for this king, so that this king can see your talent." Rao Mengli secretly breathed a sigh of relief, only to say that Zhu Qingqiu was not recognized, and had the opportunity to get close to Ying Wuji.

That night, it rained heavily in Tanglin Mansion. The lightning and thunder were the only light in the night. Tear open the black clouds, tear open the sky, and rain down tens of millions of silver needles. The sea of clouds is churning and entangled, so that the lights of thousands of homes are extinguished early. At this time, in the hall of the Tanglin Palace, there is no candle flame, and above the empty hall, there is an elegant sound of the piano, which is ethereal and tactful, and it is endless. Zhu Qingqiu sat in the hall and sang softly while playing the guqin: "Who is the white-clothed bare hand for, how can the miserable night rain stop, the fire is hard to burn the heart of the king, and the name of the king is still unforgettable." Si Junxi, Si Junxi, what is the sigh between yin and yang, a pinch of snow buries the cold heart......"

With a bang, the strings broke, and six blades popped out on both sides of the guqin, and the blades glowing with cold light reflected a beam of thunder outside the hall, and reflected the pale face of Zhu Qingqiu. After a string of thunder, lightning lit up the hall for a moment, and Ying Wu's general face was illuminated by electric light, but his expression was very calm. Ying Wujian slowly walked from the main hall to the hall, stood in front of Zhu Qingqiu, and said softly: "Qingqiu, how has this king treated you all these years?"

"The prince rescued Qingqiu from the sea of fire and survived. and raised it carefully, and treated Qingqiu as if she were her own daughter, and the concubine was grateful to Dade, and she couldn't repay it. Zhu Qingqiu replied.

"Now is the time for you to repay the favor. ”

Zhu Qingqiu put down the guqin, bowed to the ground and kowtowed: "The sword mountain and the sea of fire, never give up." ”

The rain was still falling, Rao Mengli stood outside the hall and waited, not knowing what happened in the hall, and was very worried about Zhu Qingqiu, so he tiptoed to the door of the hall and looked in from time to time. All the attendants and guards here were transferred out of the house, and Rao Mengli was not discovered.

Probe looked, only to see that there seems to be a fight above the hall, the sky is too dark and can't see really, only to feel the knife light again and again, the palm wind gusts, through the lightning and thunder to vaguely see that it was Zhu Qingqiu is holding the guqin and the green fox is fighting, the blades on both sides of the guqin and the mask of the green fox are glowing with cold light, and that Ying Wujian is sitting aside, the wound on the shoulder oozing red blood.

Rao Mengli rushed in in a hurry, came to Zhu Qingqiu's side, and took a palm from Qing Xianqi for her, but after all, she is a female streamer, proficient in hidden weapons and disguise, and her martial arts are loose, how can she be able to defeat that Qing Xuan, just one palm took a few steps back, spit out a mouthful of blood, and between coughing, the resin mask peeled off from her face. Rao Mengli knelt on the ground with her chest covered, and Qing Xuanqi sneered when she saw it: "Who am I, it turned out to be the Nine Shadows Golden Finch, the daughter of Xiao Wuxian of the Ten Ghost Hall, it seems that Xiao Wuxian is about to experience the pain of losing his daughter now!"

After that, he was going to hit with a palm again, Zhu Qingqiu was busy using the guqin to block, Qing Xuanqi slapped it with a palm, and smashed the guqin, Zhu Qingqiu was also shocked by the palm wind, Zhu Qingqiu hurriedly shouted: "Xiaoli go quickly, I'll stop them, you go and inform Baiyi quickly!" Rao Mengli temporarily lit his acupoint, and he was very worried, but he knew that if he was consumed here, it would be difficult for the two of them to survive, so he had to try to escape from the house first to find Luo Baiyi and discuss countermeasures. He stood up and tried to run out of the main hall.

Qing Xuanqi rose into the air and landed in front of Rao Mengli, blocking her way, and said viciously: "None of the two of you want to escape today!" Seeing that he was about to slap again, Rao Mengli had nothing to do, and in a critical situation, Zhu Qingqiu flew to block this palm, although the Qing Xuanqi secretly restrained his strength, but he had to fake the real play, Zhu Qingqiu took a palm hard, only to feel that his five organs vibrate, fell to the ground, and couldn't stop vomiting blood.

"Let's go......" Zhu Qingqiu said to Chu Qing'an, she was extremely weak at this time.

Rao Mengli was full of sorrow, so she had to fly out of the palace gate, endure the pain and climb out of the palace wall, and run away to the Yuelai Inn against the wind and rain.

Qing Xianqi hurriedly turned around and helped Ying Wujian up: "Lord Wang, you are fine." Ying Wujian pushed Qing Qian away, regardless of the scars on his arms that had dyed the brocade robe red, came to Zhu Qingqiu's side, lifted her up into his arms, and called softly: "Qingqiu, Qingqiu......"

Zhu Qingqiu had already fainted and did not respond. "Lord Wang, if you don't plan and play this play, wouldn't Zhu Qingqiu be injured in vain?" Ying Wujian also knew this reason, so he said to Qing Xuanqiu: "Spread the news in the city, the Jianghu rebel party pretended to be a show girl, infiltrated the palace and wanted to assassinate the king, put him in prison, and ask for beheading in the city at noon tomorrow!" and sent heavy troops to guard it.

Ying Wujian stood alone on the top of the great hall, and took out the jade Buddha from his sleeve. The pale Buddha statue, illuminated by the lightning flashing, is even more mysterious, "This secret is finally about to be revealed to the world." ”

Besides, Rao Mengli took advantage of the moonlight, dragged her injuries, and rushed back to the Yuelai Inn in a drowsy and heavy rain, the little two were going to close the door, but Rao Mengli crashed into the door, she was already soaked, and as soon as she entered the door, she fell to the ground and fainted. The shopkeeper behind the counter hurriedly came to Rao Mengli's side, and shouted repeatedly: "Girl, girl!" Seeing Rao Mengli's face pale and trembling, he looked at her appearance carefully, and exclaimed, remembering that she was the girl who came to live in the hotel with Luo Baiyi, because they were generous, so they were quite impressed. asked Xiao Er to help Rao Mengli upstairs, and the shopkeeper was busy knocking on Luo Baiyi's door.

At this time, Luo Baiyi was pacing back and forth in the room, anxious in his heart, restless, always feeling that something big was going to happen, but there was no news, so he didn't dare to act rashly. Seeing someone knocking on the door, he thought it was Rao Mengli and the others coming back, so he hurriedly went to open the door. The door opened, only to see the shopkeeper's face full of anxiety, the little two behind him was still holding the soaked Rao Mengli, Luo Baiyi's face was pale, he hurriedly took Rao Mengli, helped her to the bed, turned his head again, and stuffed a silver ingot into the hands of the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper waved his hand again and again and said: "Childe is polite, we saw this girl fall at the door, and found that she was the girl who came with Childe, so we sent her upstairs." ”

"The shopkeeper is about to resign, this silver two is not only to thank the shopkeeper for his kindness, but also to help me buy some medicinal materials to invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis and nourish qi and blood. Luo Baiyi said. The shopkeeper took the silver taels and said, "Don't worry, son, I will immediately send someone to ask a man to come and heal this girl." Luo Baiyi thanked and said: "There is a shopkeeper Lao." After that, the shopkeeper and Xiao Er went downstairs, Luo Baiyi closed the door, and saw Rao Mengli sweating, and he was even more worried. didn't care about the difference between men and women, found a hurry shirt from the luggage, blindfolded himself, and changed Rao Mengli's clothes. Then Luo Baiyi lost his true anger for Rao Mengli, but it didn't work.

After a while, the shopkeeper came in with Lang Zhong, and Luo Baiyi got up to give up his position and asked Lang Zhong to diagnose Rao Mengli's pulse. After a moment of diagnosis, Na Langzhong stroked his beard and said: "The internal injuries suffered by this girl are not deep, fortunately there are no internal organs, and there are no external injuries. It's just that because of the rush of fire, and braving the heavy rain and suffering from the wind cold, he fell into a coma. Just prescribe a patch of medicine, and it will be cured in just a few days. Luo Baiyi was overjoyed and hurriedly paid for the medicine, thanked Lang Zhong, and begged the little second to follow Lang Zhong to buy medicine and come back to decoction. He has been staying by Rao Mengli's bedside, although Rao Mengli is still in a coma, his eyes are still closed, but there are words in his mouth, Luo Baiyi stepped forward and heard quietly, Rao Mengli said softly: "Quick... Hurry up and save... I wish my sister... Dangerous ......"

Luo Baiyi was shocked when he heard this, and saw Rao Mengli fainting again, although he also wanted to break into the palace to rescue Zhu Qingqiu, but Rao Mengli had not yet recovered, and it was not good for him to break into the palace alone, otherwise he would not have Zhu Qingqiu, and he would have fallen in, leaving Rao Mengli alone, although he was very anxious in his heart, but he could not do anything.

How long this night was, Luo Baiyi couldn't help but lean on the side of the bed and fell asleep, until the early morning of the second day, the little two were ordered by the shopkeeper to send the food and decoction to Luo Baiyi's room, Luo Baiyi thanked Xiao Er and the shopkeeper, then helped Rao Mengli up, fed her to drink the decoction, Rao Mengli rested for a night, and was carefully taken care of by Luo Baiyi and got better. Luo Baiyi saw that Rao Mengli gradually opened his eyes, and his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly said, "Xiaoli, are you awake?"

Rao Menglifang came to his senses, and hurriedly held Luo Baiyi's hand and said: "I don't care, I still have to think of a rescue to save Sister Zhu first! I desperately escaped to report the news, and I must rescue Sister Zhu as soon as possible!"

Rao Mengli's heart was anxious, and she felt pain in her chest. Luo Baiyi hurriedly said, "Xiaoli, you should be in a hurry first, this matter must not be rash and impulsive." Although Luo Baiyi is a little impulsive on weekdays, but now things are not the same as before, since the death of Dao Xueke, he has also been much more cautious, "I'll go out to find out the news first, and I'll come back later, you are so recuperating, be careful." Rao Mengli nodded again and again, and Luo Baiyi closed the door and ran to the market.

Tanglin Mansion is still noisy and prosperous, Luo Baiyi walked aimlessly on the still wet bluestone street, looking at the passing pedestrians and vendors, I don't know what to do.

"Get out of the way!" Suddenly, a pair of officers and soldiers rushed through the crowd and shouted, the people avoided one after another, and Luo Baiyi also stood on the side of the road, blending in with the people. After the pair of soldiers finished opening the road, they were followed by a prisoner cart escorted by heavy soldiers, and the prisoner cart was actually Zhu Qingqiu, who was wearing a prison uniform and covered in wounds! But there were more than 100 soldiers guarding the guard, and Luo Baiyi did not dare to act rashly, although he still clenched his fists and was angry, he still restrained himself and calmed down. The prisoner's cart soon passed by, heading toward the city. Luo Baiyi hurriedly patted a vendor and asked, "Little brother, do you know why?" The vendor replied, "Oh~ You asked the female prisoner." I heard that this woman pretended to be a show girl to assassinate the prince, but the prince did not assassinate him, but he was caught, and now he has to ask for beheading!"

Luo Baiyi was shocked when he heard this, and suddenly patted the seller on the shoulder, which shocked the family, Luo Baiyi asked again: "I don't know where to ask for beheading, and when will it be executed?" The seller replied: "At noon today, ask for beheading in the center of the city." As soon as the words fell, Luo Baiyi pushed aside the crowd and ran back to the inn, and in the blink of an eye, he was gone.

After a while, Luo Baiyi had already returned to the inn, jumped upstairs in three or two steps, and entered the room to Rao Mengli's side. Rao Mengli breathed on herself for a while, although she had not fully recovered and was still a little weak, but she had already recovered seven or eight points. Seeing Luo Baiyi hurriedly breaking in, he hurriedly asked, "Brother Luo, but I wish my sister has news." ”

Luo Baiyi hurriedly said: "Oh no, at noon today, Sister Zhu is about to be beheaded!" As soon as these words came out, Rao Mengli was so shocked that she almost fell off the bed, Luo Baiyi hurriedly helped her up, and the two sat on the edge of the bed, anxious and at a loss. Rao Mengli's face was full of worry, and if her heart was on fire, she said in a loud voice: "How should this be a good ......?"

Luo Baiyi patted his thigh and got up and said, "So far, I can't take care of it. I wish my sister kindness to Lao Dao and you and me, and we can't ignore it. At noon today, I will go to rob the Dharma field and rescue Sister Zhu!"

"Never!" Rao Mengli got up and stopped him and said, "There are so many masters in the palace, it will be difficult for you and me to deal with just one green fox, if he supervises and beheads, how can you save Sister Zhu, Brother Luo, but will take your own life! The first half of this statement is very reasonable, after all, everyone in the Ten Ghost Hall has their own strange arts, Luo Baiyi's light skills and Rao Mengli's disguise technique are unique in the rivers and lakes, but their kung fu is not as good as Dao Xueke and others, and they are by no means the opponents of Qingyi. And they disdain to use the tricks of the rivers and lakes, if they want to win the Qingyi, it is really too difficult.

"You're so confused!" Luo Baiyi sighed, "Although Tanglin is not far from Lu'an, even if it is my light skills, it will take more than an hour, and Brother Feng's light skills are not as good as mine, so it will delay the hour, even if they arrive at Tanglin, I am afraid that Sister Zhu has already been separated! ”

Rao Mengli pondered for a moment, unable to refute, and thought for a long time, but the hour must not be delayed. Under Luo Baiyi's constant urging, Rao Mengli had no choice but to agree: "Now there is no perfect solution, and I can only try to the death." In that case, I will go with Brother Luo. ”

"How can this work? This act is auspicious and unlucky, and besides, your injuries have not healed, how can you be in danger?" Luo Baiyi refused.

Rao Mengli said: "First, although my martial arts skills are not high, but one more person also has one more chance, by me to entangle the Qingyi, Brother Luo will have the opportunity to take Sister Zhu away, and secondly, Sister Zhu has fallen to this point in order to protect me from leaving, how can I not go? Third, I have been injured for the most part, if I see Brother Luo in danger, how can I be embarrassed? So Xiaoli has to go, even if it is a death, I will not be lonely on the Huangquan Road!"

Looking at Rao Mengli's pleading but somewhat haggard face, Luo Baiyi's heart softened, so he nodded and agreed: "Okay, without further ado, let's leave as soon as possible and rush to the city to ambush!" The two glanced at each other, then turned over the window and ran towards the place of execution.

After a while, Xiao Er sent a decoction again, knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered, Xiao Er opened the door, but did not see Luo Baiyi and Rao Mengli, and felt strange: "Where have these two gone? ”