Song Chengming said solemnly: "Why did the puppet run out?"
Feng Junqing raised his hand, holding a dead snake between his fingers: "I was bitten by a snake. The snake's venom took effect."
Song Chengming frowned, took the dead snake, and looked at it carefully.
He had never seen such a small snake in the secret passage before. It was black with a silver ring. He could even smell a vague medicinal aroma. It was very faint and disappeared when he smelled it again.
It seemed like it was his illusion.
In the tunnel.
Liu Ruhai stood in the darkness of the secret passage and saw the secret room reopened, and Feng Junqing and Song Chengming walked out one after another. He was surprised and stunned, it turned out to be Feng Junqing!?
Did he collude with Song Chengming early in the morning?
However, he suddenly realized why after Song Chengming got married, he turned a blind eye to all the secrets in the Nankang Marquis's house? Feng Junqing pretended to be Nankang Marquis and went straight into the inner house. Of course Song Chengming knew about it.
Did it turn out that he had always been in contact with Feng Junqing?
Song Chengming stopped.
In the darkness, a dim yellow light from a bright corner lamp illuminated Nankang Hou's face. His eyes were fierce and he said: "Since King Qin has persuaded your majesty, I will naturally give you a chance. But you don't have to come into the house to see Shu.
Luan."
"I just want to give her the relics that her mother left in Dabei Temple in Xi'an according to her mother's last words."
she?
Lou Shuluan? Liu Ruhai originally thought that he had no choice but to hide here to find out whether the emperor was seriously ill. However, after hearing these conversations, he felt that he should avoid it. After all, it was Mrs. Hou’s private life.
Hidden things?
But he subconsciously thought that Cao Xiwan liked to inquire about such trivial gossip about the house, and he had a completely filthy face.
Liu Ruhai couldn't help but prick up his ears to eavesdrop.
Nankang Hou said directly: "Just give it to me."
"..." Feng Junqing seemed to hesitate for a moment, but took out a small box. Marquis Nankang wanted to open it and look at it, but Feng Junqing stopped him, "She can only look at it herself." After that, he took a Taoist talisman as a seal and used a small bottle.
The fish fat glue is stuck between the lid of the box.
"What is it?"
"Relic."
"..." Song Chengming cursed secretly.
Liu Ruhai could see the clues that Marquis Nankang's mind was too broad. Feng Junqing was an outsider, and he and Mrs. Marquis had given personal items to each other, so he simply didn't ask a few questions? At least he had to ask if the two knew each other.
Have you always had contact?
Song Chengming snorted and turned around.
——Even Liu Ruhai doesn't have such a big heart.
Is it because Feng Junqing is now a Taoist monk? But Taoist monks have affairs with women from time to time.
Liu Ruhai saw the two of them break up and disperse, and Song Chengming turned around again: "What's going on with you and Xiaowan?"
"You'd better kill her. Otherwise, it will ruin our affairs sooner or later."
Song Chengming snorted and said slowly: "It's your Majesty's business."
"Okay. It's not our business." Feng Junqing said indifferently, "She will do bad things. Why keep her? She will do her own thing. Aren't you going to clean up the house?"
Song Chengming looked at him with a smile.
Feng Junqing smiled: "So you want to stare at me?"
"She killed you the first time, and she will kill you the second time. Why can't I bear with her? You are just a traitor to the remnants of the party. You were taken in by the Qin Palace and entered the capital. Naturally, I have to guard against you. What's more, Xiao Wan
She didn't betray me because of you the first time. She won't betray me now. Others... it's hard to tell. Do you think I don't know that Su Jintian's sword skills contain secret magic and mental skills? Xiaowan, she is a useless person, too.
I will never forget what happened in the past.”
After Nankang Hou finished speaking, he slowly smiled, gradually looked up to the sky and laughed, and walked into the secret door.
Liu Ruhai felt that these words should have pierced Feng Junqing's heart. The Taoist priest stood in the darkness, silent for a while, then suddenly burst out laughing and flew away.
After waiting for another half moment, Liu Ruhai blew the snake whistle, the snake he was watching responded, and Feng Junqing left from the exit.
He thought that Song Chengming had too many secrets hidden. Especially after being reprimanded and frustrated by His Majesty, he changed his temper and became low-key and gentle. In the capital, he was upstaged by Li Guogong and took a back seat.
However, Song Chengming was the number one member of the Jinyi Guards, and the true eyes and ears of Emperor Huiwen.
Inner house.
Lou Shuluan stood in front of the door, looking in the direction of Song Chengming's study outside. In front of the Baihua Hall, there was frost all over the ground, the pines were covered with silvery snow, and there was a faint whistle in the evening wind. Mother Chen couldn't bear it, and Mr. Hou stayed in the study outside again.
Bian, has not returned for a long time.
"Madam." She put a silk collar on Madam Hou, "Although it is spring, it is still cold at night."
"Mom." Lou Shuluan held Chen's mother's hand, "I believe today that she doesn't have the Marquis in her heart."
"What do you mean, madam?"
"Master Hou mixed a prescription into her medicine. She must have known it. But she neither escaped nor made a scene. It just passed in silence." Lou Shuluan sat in front of the makeup mirror and smiled bitterly, "She thought in her heart
There is no Marquis. Otherwise, you will be sad."
"Didn't Madam say that the new formula that has been adjusted can save her from paralysis?"
"Having said that, if I get sick, I hope Chengming will let me go like this. Don't let me become a puppet."
Hearing the sad voice of his wife, Chen's mother stopped talking.
It was also after Cao Xiwan was recovering from her injuries in the study that she noticed something strange about her wife and asked her repeatedly. Only then did Madam Hou talk about the puppets in the former Duke Liang's mansion.
When he was in the north, Nanyu, the Duke of Liang Kingdom, received initiation from several monks in the Dayuan Palace, who had great magical powers and possessed secret arts.
They are a different tribe from the Mongolian national master Genabasiba. Genabasiba passed down a book "Nine Transformations of the Netherworld", and also selected guards, palace people, and eunuchs to practice in the palace. And those few
This initiation monk had another secret technique, and once made two guards who were practicing martial arts into puppets.
"There is another saying that the puppet is actually the witch."
Mrs. Hou talked about old news from the previous dynasty, which secretly surprised Mother Chen. She had heard Cao Xiwan mention that the nuns at Chengfu Temple were originally palace maids of the Yuan Dynasty, and several of them were witches.
But when asked again, Mrs. Hou seemed to be unclear about the puppet man's inside story: "I haven't really seen it either."
The girl outside hurriedly reported: "Madam, the Marquis has returned to his room."
Lou Shuluan quickly stood up and went out happily. Mother Chen looked at the figure of the madam and thought that the madam probably felt that the Qing Lady and the Marquis actually had no real relationship between men and women.
Is Lady Qing sad, or not? Mother Chen also sighed secretly.
She originally gave her a bag of golden pearls, fearing that she would be poisoned and told her to run away. If she were a young lady, she would not want to be made into a puppet like Madam said.
Liu Ruhai walked out of the darkness, wearing a high crown and a silver mask on his face. He walked to the secret room to check the mechanism.
The mechanism was difficult to see through for a while, so Liu Ruhai took out a snake whistle and blew a few times against the crack in the wall.
There was a rustling snake tail sound inside the wall. It was his medicinal snake.
Fortunately, he felt relieved. He left ten snakes in this area. There should be at least one or two among them, and they slipped in while the mechanism was opening and closing.
——He still doesn’t know much about Feng Xiaochu being bitten by a snake.
Liu Ruhai turned around and was about to leave, when he suddenly saw the sunken stone room.
He walked closer and took a closer look at the stone bed, groping around the stone wall bit by bit, trying to find out the mechanism. This was the place where Cao Xiwan kept vigil. Is it possible that she didn't discover the secret room?
He sat down and pondered.
Or maybe she was in the dark under the lamp and never expected that there was such a secret room right under her nose.
He stood up and looked into the stone room. There should be other mechanisms in her place.
In the darkness, outside the study room, Song Chengming has left.
Cao Xiwan was lying in front of the bookshelf like a frog, with her ear pressed against the foot of the bookshelf. Mother Luo, who was keeping watch at night, looked at her dumbly.
She has been squatting for half an hour.
According to her, there is a mechanism at the foot of the bookshelf that can hear the sound of the secret passage. She installed it herself. Mr. Hou thinks it is of no use.
Cao Xiwan finally heard the bell.
She jumped up. Someone moved the mechanism around her stone bed.
Mr. Hou?
The Marquis just left.
It's a spy. Maybe it's the walking puppet Xiao Chu.