Chapter 226 "Time Demon" (2 in 1)

Author: Bachelor in White

Alley entrance.

A young man in simple clothes set up a small stool and sat on it peacefully.

A simple wooden crutch was leaning against the wall. There was a birdcage hanging on the crutch. In the birdcage lay a sick crow. The crow's feathers were dark red, as if they had been soaked in blood and then dried again.

As if dry.

The sickly crow would open his eyes from time to time and look at the people watching without saying a word.

The young man's face was covered with ugly burnt scars, like squashed sarcomas. His eyes were white and he seemed to be blind.

Most of the people surrounding the young man are young and middle-aged.

Young people ask about their future, middle-aged people ask about their fortune.

Occasionally, a young and beautiful girl is bold and not afraid of the difference between men and women. She shyly sits in the stall and asks about her marriage. The blind young man smiles and takes out a clean gauze scarf, wraps the girl's catkins and touches her through the gauze scarf.

bone.

A penny is really too cheap. Whether people believe it or not, it is not a bad thing to have fun or spend money to hear a few good words.

Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei looked side by side for a while, exchanged glances, and left quietly.

Feng Bei looked confused: "Wei Chen?"

Obviously she wasn't entirely sure either.

The only intersection between Feng Bei and Wei Chen was that they were both trapped in ghosts in Baili Village twenty years ago, and were eventually rescued by Zheng Shan at the same time.

As for Wei Chen, he was supposed to be taken away by Chang An, but in the end it was Wang Cangyun who risked everything and sacrificed himself to rescue him.

Thinking of Wang Cangyun, Zheng Xiu couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"That blood crow must be him. Unexpectedly, he has always been right under the emperor's nose."

"What do you say……"

Feng Bei glanced at Zheng Xiu.

"Zhu is very likely to know this. But Old Wei may not know. In Old Wei's view, Wei Chen died twenty years ago, and no one would have guessed that a 'dead person' would

Show up here."

"You...will tell the emperor about this?"

Feng Bei asked.

Zheng Xiu laughed dumbly: "What do you tell the emperor to do?"

Feng Bei tilted his head, then understood and smiled slightly, understanding what he was thinking.

Zheng Xiu leisurely explained: "There was a grudge against Canquanlou at the beginning, but it was obvious that Canquanlou was not dealing with Ye Weiyang. Ye Weiyang has now become a piece of scattered sand, and Zhu's whereabouts are unknown. As the saying goes, the enemy of an enemy is a friend. The reason why Wei Chen

Setting up a stall here honestly may have something to do with the disappearance of the candle."

"Before Wei Chen reveals his true purpose of coming here, just keep an eye on him, don't be in a hurry."

The Imperial City can be said to be the base camp of the Zheng family. In the imperial city, the Zheng family can be said to be a behemoth comparable to Ye Weiyang. Both the financial resources and the number of thaumaturges have given Zheng Xiu full confidence.

Forget it in other places, in the imperial city, if Wei Chen really has evil intentions, can he still be made to jump up and down?

"It's probably because of senior Wang Cangyun."

Feng Bei smiled and revealed Zheng Xiu's true thoughts: "There are many reasons to touch a person. But there is only one reason why you are unwilling to touch him. Is it because Senior Wang Cangyun wants him to survive?"

As expected of you.

Emphasis on love and justice.

Fengbei didn't like Zheng Xiu in the past. After he escaped from the cannibal painting, everything he saw was good about him.

The more Feng Bei gets to know Zheng Xiu, the more he can understand why so many masters of the Zheng family like to gather around Zheng Xiu and call him "Master Zheng" affectionately.

The reason why the Zheng family became the Zheng family today was not because of Zhonglie's bloodline, nor because of Zheng Xiu's "Zhonglie Marquis" who had an empty title but no real power, but because of Zheng Xiu himself.

It was he who made the Zheng family what it is today.

"I want you to talk more."

Zheng Xiu pretended to be evil, licked his tongue, picked up Feng Bei's little hand and squeezed it without any martial ethics.

In broad daylight, Feng Bei was not used to being intimate with Zheng Xiu in such an environment, but the struggle at this moment was undoubtedly more eye-catching. She could only get closer and hide the hands they were holding in her long sleeves.

Feng Bei always dressed in a low-key manner. He was not like a wealthy daughter who wanted to write the words "beautiful and charming" on her clothes. For a while, not many people noticed the little movements of Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei under their sleeves.

As they were walking, Feng Beitan suddenly opened her mouth in random thoughts. She turned to look at Zheng Xiu, ignoring the frivolous little hand, and her eyes could not hide the surprise: "I understand!"

"What did you understand?" Zheng Xiu was stunned. He could realize it just by holding hands.

Feng Bei pursed his lips, and there was a bit of coldness in his voice: "No wonder the emperor has allowed you to get rich these years, and even tacitly allowed you to gather a group of thaumaturgy masters under his command. He has long wanted to let you Zheng family replace Ye Weiyang.

"

Zheng Xiu was silent for a while.

After a while, he sighed softly: "He is worthy of being an emperor."

Back at Zheng's house, after Zheng Xiu told Qing Shisan about Wei Chen, Qing Shisan slapped his head: "The incomplete building! No wonder there were so many lame, blind, and deaf people in the city before March 3rd!"

Zheng Xiu was stunned when he heard this: "Before March 3rd?"

Qing Shisan: "Back to my lord, just before the royal ancestor worship ceremony on March 3rd, Feng Bei and...ahem, Zheng Shan..." Qing Shisan blinked hard at Zheng Xiu, as if to imply something, but Zheng Xiu didn't

Pretending not to see it, he pretended not to know. Qing Shisan coughed for a while, and seeing that the master did not express his position, he continued: "It happened not long after they went south."

"Qing noticed that something was wrong with the situation at that time, so he secretly kept an eye on the remnants. He wanted to wait until the master woke up in prison and report in detail. As everyone knows, the master later became seriously ill and couldn't wake up, so the matter was shelved.

Got off."

It’s worthy of being celebrated by the brotherhood.

No matter how small or small it is.

Zheng Xiu sighed and felt relieved that he left the matter to Qing for approval. Chao Qing Shisan gave a thumbs up and praised it: "Well done! The monthly payment will be doubled next month! I will let Er Niang write it down for you later."

"Okay! The master is very generous!" When Qing Shisan heard about the extra money, he immediately smiled and narrowed his eyes.

Zheng Xiu asked: "What happened next?"

Qing Shisan pinched it with two fingers, and the dry tobacco bag ignited by itself, and a faint smoke came out. He took a strong puff and said with a smile: "After the ancestor worship ceremony, everyone disappeared inexplicably, and nothing happened. Follow me.

It’s the same as ever, quiet.”

When Zheng Xiu heard this, he was stunned for a moment, thinking that the crown prince that Old Wei finally appointed at the ancestor worship ceremony was the newly born fourth prince, and two drops of cold sweat broke out on his forehead for no reason: "Damn it, could it be... In fact, the incomplete building and the one in it

Is there any collusion among the princes?"

Qing Shisan choked on the cigarette, coughed violently, and showed an incredible expression.

He didn't expect this.

But when Zheng Xiu mentioned it, Qing Shisan also figured it out and looked at Zheng Xiu in shock. His mouth moved and he didn't dare to say anything.

Before March 3, the three princes who had the opportunity to compete for the crown prince each showed their methods. The second prince assassinated the eldest prince, but the eldest prince had other plans, but in the end he lost to the third prince.

"For the cannibal painting, we mobilized all the masters including Sanfengbei on the upper string, Jun Buxiao on the upper string, and Gu Qiutang on the lower string."

Zheng Xiu's mind was spinning.

Suddenly, he connected everything he had experienced not long ago.

"Cannibal paintings were originally in the hands of monks."

"Chu Susu, one of the top ten generals in the air, is looking for the monk and the painting in his hand."

"That is to say, this painting was originally in the hands of Qianchilou."

"But in the end, due to some strange combination of circumstances, the monk lost his memory and ended up living in Shuzhou."

"Wait until the master gives the cannibal painting to Zhu."

"Zhu took the opportunity to continue his century-old plan and target Fengbei."

"Wei Chen knew about this earlier? Did he do it on purpose?"

"They are using each other!"

"Using this incident, the Imperial City was empty at night, and Zhu took advantage of the situation, and the Qianchilou forces secretly entered the Imperial City."

"No matter which one of the three princes becomes the crown prince during the ancestor worship ceremony, there will likely be a vigorous drama of seizing the heir apparent! There will be rivers of blood!"

"However, in the end, Old Wei's light hand turned the secret fight between the three princes into a child's play house, punching the cotton!"

Zheng Xiu thought about it carefully and was horrified. He quickly figured out all the causes and consequences and broke out in a cold sweat. All this seemed to have nothing to do with Zheng Xiu, but the development of the Zheng family relied on the peaceful era and the protection of the royal family. Once the world was in turmoil,

, or the throne changes hands, one can imagine what will happen to the Zheng family next.

He felt at this moment as if a storm was brewing in the imperial city not long ago that could destroy the world. Zheng was in the center of the storm and almost faced the impact. When the storm finally dissipated, Zheng Xiu only realized what happened.

It made him feel scared.
To be continued...