Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 196 Are you willing to be a son-in-law?

That night, the crown prince also let Xu Zhiqiong live in the East Palace: "I don't know Zhong Shen very well, but I can't trust him."

"Commander Zhong is a good man, and his literary talents are excellent! Your Highness just needs to get along with him."

"Just stay with me for a few more days, I can't bear you!"

"I also hate His Highness, but His Majesty can't tolerate me."

The prince immediately begged Emperor Zhaoxing to let Xu Zhiqiong stay in the East Palace for a few more days, and Emperor Zhaoxing agreed.

He was too lazy to pay attention to Xu Zhiqiong, and he didn't want to have another conflict with the prince.

Back in the East Palace, Liang Yuyao was completely exhausted, calling for the prince to serve wine to celebrate.

The palace was in disarray, the crown prince managed to find a few cooks, managed to cook a few dishes, and asked Zhong Shen to have a few drinks with him.

Xu Zhiqiong rubbed his neck and said, "I got hurt a little, I need to rest early tonight."

Liang Yuyao said softly, "Does it still hurt? Let me rub it for you."

"Impossible!" Xu Zhiqiong waved his hands again and again, "I can't bear the humble job."

Liang Yuyao smiled and said, "There's nothing you can't do."

After finishing speaking, she really walked behind her and rubbed Xu Zhiqiong's neck.

Zhong Shen was dumbfounded.

"Zhiqiong, are you going to be a son-in-law?"

Liang Yuyao smiled and said, "I want you to be the son-in-law, are you willing?"

Xu Zhiqiong was startled: "The princess is joking."

"I'm not joking, I mean it."

"Let me think about it..."

Click!

With Liang Yuyao's move, Xu Zhiqiong cried out in pain.

"You're still thinking about it!" Liang Yuyao spit out, "Which eye do I have for you!"

"If you don't like it, you can't look down on it. Why bother to be so ruthless?"

After laughing for a while, the prince raised his glass and said, "Zhiqiong didn't bow his head in front of that bastard Gongsun Wen, and didn't disrespect our brothers. This cup is a respect to you!"

Liang Yuyao raised her glass and said, "Well said, our big Xuan Erlang's knees are straight and his neck is hard, I respect you for this cup too!"

Zhong Shen raised his glass and said, "Your Highness, I will go out and set up some traps."

He felt like he was superfluous.

After Zhong Shen left, the crown prince said something important: "Sixth sister, King Huai is dead, what shall we do in the future?"

"What should I do? Keep fighting!" Liang Yuyao snorted, "I'm determined to fight you to the end!"

The prince turned his face and said: "Zhiqiong, just feel wronged, marry her, take her home and discipline her properly, and let her stop arguing with me!"

"Married me, but still wronged him? Liang Yuyang, I will never die with you!"

……

Everyone was so excited, they drank from late at night to noon, and fell asleep after drinking until they were so drunk.

When night fell again, Xu Zhiqiong quietly slipped out of the East Palace and sneaked into the secret garden where he hid from the disaster last night.

It's really a hidden place.

The entire palace was searching for King Huai's subordinates to prevent any fish from slipping through the net. It has been a day and no one has found this garden.

Xu Zhiqiong jumped into the yard and entered the attic with an excited face.

In the corner of the attic, Xu Zhiqiong untied Tao Huayuan's yin-yang magic circle, and saw the good things inside.

Good stuff, really good stuff!

Under the magic circle is the entrance to the cellar. There are more than [-] volumes of books in the cellar, including paper books, bamboo slips, and silk.

These books are the yin and yang secrets that Tao Huayuan spent several years collecting from various bookstores in the palace.

These secret books are all written in cipher text, and some of the books can't be seen to have any relationship with Onmyoji from the outside.

Looking at the dots and paintings on the books, Tao Huayuan put a lot of thought into deciphering the ciphertext. Two books were deciphered nearly half of them. Most of the books only deciphered one or two pages, and some even only deciphered one or two lines.

Thieves, how much effort did you spend on this?

I just eat it off-the-shelf, are you not angry?

You can't figure it out, and it's useless to keep these books, so I'll take them for you first.

Xu Zhiqiong took the clothes as a burden, carried away more than twenty books first, and then returned to the Zhonglang Court holding the Yilang seal.

Yang Wu was sitting in Zhonglang's courtyard and was dozing off, when he heard footsteps approaching, he snorted, "Come on, sit down!"

Xu Zhiqiong was not in the mood to pay attention to him, and ran to the backyard with the book in his arms.

"Who is this, barging in without even saying hello?" Yang Wu raised his head, and suddenly heard a pop.

Xu Zhiqiong fell into the pond.

"This pond must be built in this place, find some earth and rocks and fill it up for me!"

Yang Wu agreed, and turned to look for the shovel. Xu Zhiqiong said angrily, "What are you doing now? Pull me up first!"

Fortunately, Xu Zhiqiong's hands were quick, his clothes were soaked, but his books were not wet.

Putting the books away, changing clothes, Xu Zhiqiong turned around and went to the secret garden again, wrapped up the remaining thirty or so books, carried them on his back, and was about to leave when he heard movement outside the attic.

Someone came to search?

No, only one person's footsteps.

If you are here to search for the fish that escaped the net, you will definitely not come alone, otherwise the other party will jump the wall in a hurry and may not be able to beat them.

Xu Zhiqiong was lying on the window of the attic, looking out quietly, but saw a man with disheveled hair, who wanted to sneak into the attic quietly.

The palace is searching for the fish that slipped through the net, and there really is a fish that slipped through the net.

This person was so lucky that he found this secret garden.

The sin karma is two inches and six, and my cultivation is eighth rank, which just happens to fulfill my business.

Xu Zhiqiong drew out the dagger from his waist, and took it back.

Can't kill him here.

Leaving the corpse here is not easy to dispose of.

Xu Zhiqiong turned invisible, quietly came behind the waiter, and patted the waiter on the shoulder: "Are you hungry, come to find something to eat?"

The servant was so frightened that he almost yelled out, Xu Zhiqiong covered his mouth, pinched Yilang's seal, and went back to Zhonglangyuan again.

Yang Wu was startled: "Why did you bring a living person here?"

Xu Zhiqiong threw the servant on the ground, the servant twitched a few times and died.

Zhonglangyuan, Yilangyuan, and Punishment Division are all at the junction of Yin and Yang. Ordinary people who come here, unable to stand the erosion of Yin Qi, will die instantly.

Xu Zhiqiong broke off his horns and released his soul. The servant didn't know he was dead, so he ran away, but Xu Zhiqiong kicked him down and stepped on him.

"What's your name?"

The servant shouted: "If you want to kill or cut, you can do anything! I will never betray His Royal Highness Huai Wang!"

"Okay, there is a kind!"

Yang Wu said from the side: "This is obviously a eunuch, how can there be any kind?"

Xu Zhiqiong couldn't stay in Zhonglangyuan for a long time, he had to rush back to the palace: "You watch him for me first, wait for Changde to come back, give him a good lesson, and make sure what I ask and what he says!"

……

In the Canglong Palace, the two elders did not sleep a wink for two whole nights.

Elder Canglong will inevitably be responsible for such a big incident in the clan.

The star official in charge of interrogating the crime is Lord Dunnian Xing. The two elders offered sacrifices to Lord Dunnian Xing, but Lord Dunnian Xing did not reply for a long time.

Liang Gongping was very sleepy, sitting in the hall and yawning continuously.

Liang Jixiong is still in good spirits, his cultivation level is slightly higher than Liang Gongping: "Elder Shengci, if you are tired and go to rest, I will wait here and call you when King Xing arrives."

Liang Gongping shook his head and said, "I'm not tired, I just feel a little sad that Elder Shengde just left..."

Before finishing speaking, Liang Gongping yawned again.

I can't go no matter how sleepy I am.

If Liang Jixiong is left here alone, who knows what he will say when King Xing arrives.

Say I favor Xiankang?Said me and mud?
When have I ever done something like this?I will not accept this account.

The two waited until dawn, the censer vibrated and the ash fell, and Dunnian Xingjun responded.

The two elders knelt on the ground and told Xingjun what happened.

Liang Jixiong said: "Xian Kang conspired to rebel and steal the country, and now he died in front of Donghua Gate."

Liang Gongping said: "I already knew that Xiankang had ambitions. I tried to persuade him, but he just didn't listen."

"Xiankang, the beast, has harmed Elder Shengde!"

"Elder Shengde has repeatedly shielded him. I persuaded him, but he didn't listen."

"The prince is mentally sound, and he is extremely alert and courageous. I declare that the country will be safe!"

"I already knew that the prince was pretending to be crazy. I advised him not to pretend, but he just didn't listen."

……

The two thought about it, and reported the matter.

Dunnian Xingjun did not make a sound.

The two elders waited for a long time, only to see the censer vibrating again, and the incense ash scattered on the ground left four words.

Dunnian Xingjun replied:

What are you doing to me!

……

The last time Lord Xing came to Canglong Palace and asked about Prince Chu, he just said it casually, and these two elders took it seriously.

As long as it doesn't involve the disputes of the gods, Dunnian Xingjun doesn't bother to bother.

He is entangled in mortal affairs every day, but what kind of star official is he?
The two elders looked at each other for a long time, and could only discuss countermeasures by themselves.

There is no need to worry about the case of King Huai, just hand it over to the emperor.

The key issue at the moment is the loss of an elder.

Liang Gongping said: "And choose one person from among the younger generations to inherit the position of elder."

"Junior?" Liang Jixiong smiled wryly.

In the fierce battle with the blood-jawed gnat that day, the Canglongwei suffered heavy losses, and the entire army of the fourth-rank Canglongwei was wiped out. The elders have been keeping it secret.

Now in the Canglong Palace, the highest-ranked Canglongwei is the fifth-rank, so choose a fifth-rank to be an elder?
Where is the majesty of the Canglong Palace?

Liang Gongping said: "Let's be promoted to the position of elder first, and then give the right of elder after he is promoted to the third rank."

"Wait for him to be promoted to the third grade?" Liang Jixiong shook his head again and again, "Then what year and month do we have to wait?"

When he was at a loss, he suddenly heard that Canglongwei came to report: "The grand master of Zhuque Palace is here to see you."

"Yanhuan?" Liang Gongping frowned, "What is this guy doing here?"

Liang Jixiong stood up and said, "Come on, don't let this fellow see the joke!"

Yan Huan came to the hall, exchanged greetings for a while, and then got to the point: "I heard that King Huai committed rebellion and plotted against him, and he has been executed now. Is this true?"

Liang Jixiong said with a sullen face: "This is an internal matter of my Da Xuan clan, Da Zong Bo should not ask about it."

"You have the same face! As I said before, I don't ask any internal affairs of Daxuan. I only ask you, do you know about King Huai planting the blood tree?"

Liang Jixiong was silent, Liang Gongping smacked his lips.

King Huai drank the sap of blood in public at the Donghua Gate, and everyone saw it.

Yan Huan frowned and said, "If you know you don't know, just say something!"

Liang Gongping began to talk to each other: "This matter has yet to be investigated, and after it is found out..."

"But when do you want to find out? Liang Xiankang built a palace in Ponuyuan, and even in the capital, more than two thousand people are missing. Could this matter be related to the blood tree?"

"This matter also needs to be investigated..." Liang Gongping continued to talk to each other.

"Just wait here. If you don't investigate, I'll just investigate. I'll take care of evil matters to the end!"

Yan Huan got up to leave, but Liang Gongping stepped forward to stop him: "Uncle Da Zong, this is the boundary of Daxuan after all, if you want to investigate, you have to wait for me to tell His Majesty, let's investigate together!"

……

In the secret pavilion, Chen Shuncai escorted the fourth-rank Suzaku cultivator in.

Cultivator Suzaku took off his mask, and she looked like a pretty woman in her thirties.

Emperor Zhaoxing asked: "Are you Xiao Zongbo of Zhuque Palace, Shan Yan?"

Shan Yan nodded.

Emperor Zhaoxing asked again: "Do you want to live?"

Shan Yan nodded again.

Emperor Zhaoxing said: "If you want to live, you have to answer truthfully when I ask you a question, and you have to do it honestly when I tell you to do things."

Shan Yan lowered her head, expressing her obedience.

Emperor Zhaoxing asked, "How many blood trees does Liang Xiankang have?"

Shan Yan said: "Among the beds, I heard him say that there are nineteen trees in total."

Emperor Zhaoxing's eyes lit up, and asked again: "Do you know the whereabouts of these nineteen blood trees?"

Shan Yan shook her head and said, "I only know twelve of them, and I helped him plant these twelve trees with my own hands."

Emperor Zhaoxing frowned.

Twelve, that's a little less.

(End of this chapter)