"Shadow, how's it going?" Gong Wei appeared silently, standing in the dark, his body slightly tilted, pressing his weight on his left leg.

The shadow tilted his head to bandage the wound on his shoulder, and after a while he replied, "It's not a big problem, and it doesn't leave any flaws." ”

Gong Wei asked, "Is it really no problem?" I saw Xia Peng enter the Qi Palace, and he chased you over, right?"

The shadow said lightly: "The mechanism of the bamboo garden is complicated, as long as Xia Peng goes to the bamboo garden to have a look, it is impossible for him to think that I have the ability to go in." ”

Gong Wei pouted: "That's not necessarily, the organs of Zhuyuan are not as powerful as the Trojan Horse Hou Mansion." Since Childe can steal things from the Hou Mansion, Xia Peng will definitely think that you have the same ability. ”

The shadow paused and continued to wipe the blood from his arm: "That's not important. ”

Gong Wei shrugged, looked at his wound and asked casually, "Who hurt you?"

The shadow got up and washed the blood stains on his hands in the basin of water, with an indifferent expression: "I was negligent and let Xia Peng shoot an arrow." "Pick up the black robe and put it on.

Gong Wei seemed to be laughing: "Xia Peng's martial arts are not as bad as yours, you can be injured by him if you are negligent?" Are you sure you're not joking?"

The shadow glanced at him, "Of course not. I didn't see Mo Zhicough person in Huashan before, so I went to Huashan again before coming here, and I 'discussed' with him on the way. ”

Gong Wei asked curiously, "And then?"

The shadow looked at him for a while, and then said slowly: "I want to test his internal strength, just the weapon contact feels too weak, so I led him to palm with all his strength and received a palm from him." I underestimated his internal strength, and the dark wound left by that palm was more serious than I had imagined. ”

Gong Wei asked, "Does the prince know about this?"

The shadow said, "I haven't told my master yet, I'll go and ask for sin later." ”

Gong Wei was accustomed to his hard temper, and he didn't delay on this issue, and asked, "Do you feel what kind of internal force it is?" ”

The shadow said, "Puppeteer." ”

Gong Wei was stunned: "What?"

"Puppeteer. Shadow affirmed, "Even if his palm is not mixed much, I can be sure that it is the internal force condensed by the 'puppet'." ”

Gong Wei's face changed slightly: "But the puppet is cultivating with corpse qi, but he is a great disciple of Huashan, this is ......"

Shadow said: "The puppet demon is extremely demanding on cultivators, if it weren't for the internal force attack of the puppet demon, it would be impossible to tell the difference. What's more, the puppet evil yin is yin, but it can be refined with the internal force of the yang. Mo Zhiqi cultivates this way to cure diseases, not to gain strength. I think that the purple qi from the east can refine the yin qi inside. Dissolving the yin qi, the puppet demon is indeed in line with the feeling of warming the meridians. ”

Gong Wei asked, "Feelings?"

The shadow bowed: "I'm not sure what the internal force will be like after refining the yin qi, but the kind of internal force that relies on absorbing corpse qi and will erode the meridians will not have the effect of warming the meridians." However, when I palmed him down, the internal force I felt was indeed soft and moist. ”

Gong Wei touched his chin and thought thoughtfully: "It seems that the idea of changing the puppet demon has been successful." ”

The shadow muttered, "I hope so." He looked straight at Gong Wei: "Is the internal force of the puppet really as powerful as rumored?"

Gong Wei thought for a moment: "That's not necessarily, the power of the puppet is that it has many branches, and it can develop a lot of cultivation directions. One or two of them are not very strong, but the puppet demons in the later stage are indeed extremely powerful, but it is a pity that there are really too few people who can cultivate to that realm. ”

Shadow mused: "It's not much, indeed. ”

Gong Wei said: "It is said that the puppet is in the ninefold realm, but what I know is that the puppet palace's previous generation of light and dark palace masters' internal force realm has reached the sixth level, and its power is already terrifying to a certain extent. In fact...... In the final analysis, the puppet demon is the internal force of yin and evil after all, and people who blindly pursue a high realm are almost always exchanged for their bodies and lives. ”

There was a hint of pain in his eyes, as if he remembered something bad.

Hearing this, the shadow looked away, looked at the shadow in the corner and was silent for a while: "Okay, let's talk about your situation." ”

Gong Wei's emotions were quickly hidden: "Which one do you want to listen to first, the surprise I accidentally discovered or the normal report?"

The shadow said indifferently: "If it's too long, or if you have prepared a letter report, let's talk about your surprise first." Instead, let's talk about the specifics first. ”

Gong Wei pouted boringly: "It's so old-fashioned." He took out a large bag of things from his bosom and threw it to him: "This is a report they wrote, and I also wrote one." All of them are there, I'm too lazy to sort them out, so you can take your time later. If it's okay, you can deal with it directly, and I won't go out of my way to talk to Childe. ”

The shadow took it, opened the paper bag and stretched out his hand to sort out the messy letters: "Master, I will read the situation explanation, I will read it all before tomorrow, and if there is a problem, I will go to you." Go ahead. ”

"It's a hassle, you don't have to be that fast. Gong Wei muttered, and straightened his face before the shadow looked at him, "Okay, I've got something important." According to my investigation, the queen and Zhao Shu may have intervened in Bao Zheng's matter, and they probably don't know what each other has done. ”

The shadow was stunned, and lowered his head to turn over the letter in his hand.

Gong Wei said: "You look at it slowly later, I'll talk about it first." I can't write a lot of things clearly, and the ones you have in your hands are also fragmentary. In conclusion, you look easier, too. Ahem, let's put it this way. I think that the incident that made Ouyang Xiu leave the Privy Council was done by Zhao Shu, and the conspiration with the puppet palace was done by the queen, and they didn't know each other's two things. And the killing of Bao Zheng should be a joint action of the two of them. ”

The shadow seemed to frown: "It's too messy." ”

Gong Wei walked over, stretched out his hand and rummaged through the pile of envelopes, grabbed a few of them and handed them to him: "This was given to me by Gongzi when I went to see Gongzi last time, saying that the little prince found something in the Tai Hospital." The main thing is that he found out that Zhao Shu's maid had personal contact with the little imperial doctor who secretly checked the records of the use of medicinal materials in the Tai Hospital. And the medicine that Bao Zheng took was provided by the little doctor. ”

Shadow nodded: "I know this, let's get to the point." ”

Gong Wei flipped through the envelope and continued: "According to our investigation, the people who had contact with those people in Bao Zheng's Mansion before and after Bao Zheng's accident were all from the General's Mansion - that is, the queen's mother's family. The person who contacted the little imperial doctor was Zhao Shu, but it was the queen who did it. So it was probably the two of them who did it together. However, we also found two other things. First, on the day when the little prince and Ouyang Xiu visited Bao Zheng, Ouyang Xiu's eldest son happened to go to Zhao Shu's palace. Second, the queen had the intention of hinting at Ouyang Xiu's idea of letting him contain the little prince, but before it started, Ouyang Xiu applied for a transfer from Ouchi himself. ”

The shadow nodded silently and asked, "What do you think is the reason?"

Gong Wei pondered for a moment: "It's hard to say. After all, we didn't find out if Ouyang Fa conveyed anything for Zhao Shu. In other words, we have no way of knowing whether Ouyang Xiu's departure came from Zhao Shu's intentions. If this is not the case, then it is very likely that he knows the queen's thoughts, and it makes sense to stay out of the matter to avoid unwarranted disasters. ”

Shadow said, "It sounds like the latter is more believable." ”

"Not necessarily. Gong Wei smiled mysteriously, "Maybe it's both?"

The shadow glanced at him and was noncommittal: "In this way, the queen's purpose is very clear, but Zhao Shu's behavior seems a little ambiguous." ”

Gong Wei spread his hands: "This is not something I can guess." ”

The shadow lowered his eyes: "There is no need to guess, it will always be tempted." More concerned than this, I am more concerned about the conspiracy between the queen and the puppet palace that you said. Why would she do that?"

Gong Wei shook his head: "I just guessed that the queen did it, I didn't say that I can be sure." Because now it can only be determined that Bao Zheng was killed by the puppet palace, and the people who have approached the Bao Mansion before and after can only find out a little bit of relationship with the General's Mansion. To put it mildly, relying on this little relationship, let alone proving that the queen did it, it is far-fetched to prove that it is the general's mansion that does it. As long as you have money, what is the fate of a few people?"

The shadow heard the meaning of his words, and his eyes changed slightly: "All dead?"

Gong Wei shrugged: "It's not just dead, there's hardly much scum left." Those old guys from the Magic Word Hall squatted in the General's Mansion for almost ten days before they heard a few words of news. ”

The shadow slowly put the letter in his hand back on the table, and said word by word: "There is no fear." ”

Gong Wei tilted his head: "Probably, right? Sometimes you don't need too many reasons to do something, as long as you are sure that you won't be discovered." ”

The shadow raised his hand, crossed his fingers, pressed his chin against his fingers, and stared down at the shadow cast by the candle on the table, without saying a word.

After waiting for a while and seeing that he didn't speak, Gong Wei raised his head, looked at the beam above his head boredly, and watched the little black insect hidden in the darkness slowly crawl to a place he couldn't see: "Do you want to continue to investigate?"

The shadow seemed to hear it, but it didn't seem to hear clearly, and after a while, it whispered, "Go on." ”

"Right?" Gong Wei's head turned back to his normal angle, looking at the letter on the table, and there was a mocking smile in the depths of his eyes, "There are already three dead." ”

The shadow didn't move, and his expression was still so flat that it could be called indifferent: "Take a step back and live, and die further." But Childe insists on moving forward, what should I do?"

Gong Wei immediately retorted: "But now it's not that Gongzi has to move forward, it's he who makes us go to death." ”

The shadow glanced at him coldly, and said succinctly: "You don't want to?"

Gong Wei was stunned and shook his head: "I didn't want to, but I was suddenly a little scared." ”

"Afraid, afraid of death, or afraid of becoming an outcast?"

Gong Wei looked up in surprise, but only saw the eyes that still did not see joy and sorrow. The fingertips turned around the long whip on his waist a few times, and finally gave a suitable answer: "I am afraid of becoming an outcast who will not be able to sigh until I die." ”

The silver mask on the shadow's face brightened a little in the light of the fire, and then dimmed again: "At least, you and I will be the last outcast." ”

Gong Wei thought about it for a while, and suddenly smiled: "It's much better than becoming an outcast at the beginning, and it doesn't matter what happens in the future." The current son can't ask him for anything anymore. ”

The shadow didn't answer, and after a long time asked in a low voice, "Why?"

Gong Wei understood, and smiled casually: "There is no reason." ”

There was a hint of bitterness in the shadow's voice: "Even I am occasionally a little afraid. It's not chilling...... What would it feel like?"

Gong Wei said lightly: "Of course it's not cold, and I'm not qualified to be cold." Whether it is the son of us or we ourselves, we have an accurate positioning from the beginning. The heart is as dead as ashes, it is the son who gave you and me a new heart, and this heart will never be cold. ”

The shadow looked directly at him: "Then what do you say?"

"It's not cold. Gong Wei repeated it to himself, his eyes were a little distant, the corners of his lips were still smiling, but there was a little more sigh in his voice, "It's distressing." ”

The shadow didn't speak. Or rather, his attitude was more like acquiescence.

Gong Wei shifted the weight of his body to the other leg and teased, "I thought you would never speak ill of your son." ”

The shadow asked, "Did I speak ill of my master?"

Gong Wei said: "Okay, even if you didn't say it." ”

The shadow seemed to be a little tired, so he helped his forehead and cheered up a little: "You go back first, it's too late." As for the investigation of the intelligence in the future, I will think about it again, and then give you new instructions. ”

Gong Wei was not polite, nodded and agreed: "Okay, then I'll withdraw, see you tomorrow." "I didn't see any movement, and my figure was gone.

Shadow sighed, picked up the cup beside him, drank the cold water in one gulp, pinched his eyebrows, opened the letter and began to look at it one by one.