Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 104 The Imperial City Nightmare (8)
In the end, Gongsun Ce said that he still needs to prepare some things today, and make a big plan tomorrow, and the two of them can go back to their respective homes and rest on their own.As soon as he finished speaking, a man and a woman walked like flying in front of him, one went back to the room and the other went home, lest they walk slowly.Gongsun Ce personally feels that fleeing from the wilderness is the most appropriate description of the two.

What type of situation is this?Gongsun Ce couldn't figure it out, could it be that this cooperation was not very pleasant and there was something awkward?After thinking about it for a long time, I had no choice but to roll up the silk painting first. After finishing the scroll, Zhan Zhao's voice came from outside: "Zhao Hu."

"Hey, Brother Zhan." Judging from the voice, Zhao Hu is in good spirits today.

"This is an ointment for applying trauma, you run there and take it to Miss Duanmu."

Zhao Hu hypocritically declined, like all enthusiastic bystanders, trying to create more opportunities for the two of them to be alone, with a deliberate ambiguity in his voice: "Brother Zhan, why don't you send it yourself?"

Zhan Zhao's voice suddenly turned sharp: "I let you see it!"

Zhao Hu must have been taken aback, because the next moment, Gongsun Ce saw Zhao Hu trotting out through the half-covered door, clearly holding a white porcelain vase in his hand, and staggered a bit when he crossed the threshold .

Zhan Zhao's figure was still reflected on the window sash, Gongsun Ce smiled slightly, seemed to be chanting alone, but also seemed to imply: "The city gate is on fire, and the fish in the pond will be affected."

Zhan Zhao must have heard it, he turned his body slightly, the corners of his lips twitched slightly: "There is a lot of snow on Mr.'s house, it's time to sweep it."

snow?The weather in spring, where is the snow?

Gongsun Ce was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized that Zhan Zhao was going around the corner to let him not care about other people's troubles.

So Gongsun Ce confirmed his guess even more: there must be a quarrel!must!
In the evening, Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao discussed matters in the study.Gongsun Ce said that everything is complete, just waiting for Weiyang's illusion in the palace.Bao Zheng looked at Zhan Zhao: "Have you found Chu Fu's hiding place?"

Zhan Zhao nodded: "Not far from Yao Meiren's bedroom, there is an abandoned well, and my subordinates saw that monster hide in the well with their own eyes."

Gongsun Ce added a sentence at the right time: "Master Bao, you still need to go to the palace to face this matter. Tomorrow night, we will keep away the people who live near Yao Meiren's bedroom, and the palace people who sweep the house are not allowed to approach."

Bao Zheng frowned heavily, paused and said, "Miss Duanmu, did you say how to subdue Chufu?"

"A rune of water and gold chips are attached to the sleeve arrow. Take the alchemy power of the alchemy furnace. When the sleeve arrow enters the body, it will burn the Chu clothes." Zhan Zhao paused, then remembered a section, "Duanmu said, when the Chu clothes are burned, the Chu clothes will burn." Split into thousands of burning Gu worms, Gu worms fleeing in all directions, may lead to water leakage, the palace should prepare fire-fighting water sacs, and deal with it first."

"The case of Yao Meiren..."

"Chu Fu is a demon, and this trip is very dangerous to subdue him. I can only attack and kill him while he is absent-minded for a moment. I am afraid that he will not be able to answer the question, but..."

"But what?" Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce heard that Zhan Zhao's voice was different, and looked at him together.

"However, according to my subordinates' speculation, Yao Meiren was killed, probably because she broke through the adulterous relationship between Chu Fu and the maid, and saw something she shouldn't have seen, so she was... silenced..."

"The adulterous relationship between Chu Fu and the maid?" Gongsun Ce's eyes widened - please, after Zhan Zhao and Duanmucui came back, they never mentioned this episode to him, "Isn't this Chu Fu a woman?"

Zhan Zhao coughed.

Mr. Gongsun was eager to solve doubts, secondly, he didn’t like to give up halfway, and thirdly, he really didn’t think about it, so he naturally showed the spirit of seeking knowledge beyond the casserole: “Isn’t this Chufu a woman?”

This time it was Master Bao and Zhan Zhao who coughed.

So Gongsun Ce understood.

He also coughed a few times, and the three of them looked at each other, and each turned their heads away, all tacitly knowing.

In the afternoon of the second day, Duanmucui came to Kaifeng Mansion to join Gongsun Ce and his party.The clerk in the clothes shop sent over the clothes of the nobles in Chinese style that had been rushed to make yesterday. That is to say, Gongsun Ce had a heavy responsibility, and he had to play the role of the eunuch who passed the decree to give Chu clothes to death.

Previously, Gongsun Ce was very resistant to this arrangement, and strongly recommended Chen Gonggong, who was next to the emperor, to play.Duanmucui saw through his thoughts and snorted: "Not all nobles before the Eastern Han Dynasty were eunuchs, and Eunuch Chen didn't need to come forward. Besides, the fewer people who know about this matter, the better, in case Eunuch Chen is timid on the spot. Array, isn’t it a big deal?”

Gongsun Ce felt that Duanmucui was praising him in a disguised form for being fearless in the face of danger, and that he could take on big things, and once he felt at ease, he had no objection.

Duanmucui looked at the clothes first, but did not offer any suggestions for modification, and suddenly said loudly to Gongsun Ce: "Sir, ask Zhan Zhao to give me two sleeve arrows."

Gongsun Ce looked up at Zhan Zhao, who was more than ten feet away, in a strange way, and was about to say, isn't he right here? You won't ask him for it yourself?Zhan Zhao came over voluntarily and without saying much, he put the two sleeve arrows on the table.

Duanmucui took the sleeve arrow and went to the next door to draw the golden talisman water.Gongsun Ce looked at Zhan Zhao once, then lowered his voice and said, "What's the matter with Miss Duanmu?"

"Nothing." Zhan Zhao was vague.

"Will it be nothing?" Gongsun Ce didn't believe it, and I wouldn't believe it if it were me.

It's just that Zhan Zhao didn't open his mouth, so he had nothing to do, so he could only ramble on: "You don't know that she has a temper, wouldn't it be nice to say a few more soft words?"

Zhan Zhao smiled wryly: "Sir, I don't know... how should I put it softly..."

Gongsun Ce thumped in his heart: It doesn't look like Zhan Zhao's fault...

Anyway, there was still time, the good man made it to the end, so he simply went to the next room.Duanmucui was dipping the two sleeve arrows into the gold flake talisman water, Gongsun Ce waited for her to tidy up before asking: "Guard with Zhan, are you having trouble again?"

Duanmucui blushed, grabbed the sleeve arrow's feathers and said nothing at last, "No."

This is obviously discriminating against his ability to observe the surrounding things. Gongsun Ce is not happy: "Since there is no one, why don't you talk for a day or two?"

Duanmucui bit her lip: "Sir, leave it alone."

It made Gongsun Ce suddenly feel troubled, and at the end he flicked his sleeves, and really didn't care what he was doing.

Everything is ready.

It was already late at night when he entered the palace, and he was still far away from Yao Meiren's dormitory, so he saw guards guarding him. Seeing that it was Zhan Zhao and others coming, he immediately let them go.

Gongsun Ce sighed in his heart: Sure enough, the field was cleared.After thinking for a while, he asked Duanmucui in a low voice: "Is Chu Fu going out temporarily for something, isn't he in that well?"

Duanmucui shook her head: "The two times I saw her, it was in Yao Meiren's dormitory. When she hurt me, she didn't show up in person. Instead, it was Lianxi with her fake hand. I guess, her activity area is very small."

After walking for a while, the three of them stopped when they saw that Yao Meiren's bedroom was approaching.Gongsun Ce put on the nobleman's clothes, took out the imperial edict and said in a low voice, "What if the Chu clothes are opened to see the edict? The edict is empty."

Duanmu Cui also replied in a low voice: "Sir, just do what I say, as long as Chu Fu loses focus for a moment, the matter will be considered successful."

While speaking, she unfolded the silk painting she carried with her.Silk paintings are still just line drafts, with only rough pavilions and halls.Duanmucui's lips moved, and she silently recited a few mantras, the silk painting unfolded by itself, fluttering in the air.

Duanmucui touched the painting with his hands, quietly closed his eyes, and tried his best to recall the scene of the Han Palace that he had seen in the Yichi Bitan before, and murmured in his mouth: "This is the corner pavilion... here is the Qutai, Yilan, here It's the Bitan... the jagged rocks..." Following her soft voice, the huge silk painting gradually revealed light layers like an ink painting, the distant view and the close view...

At the end, she uttered a low voice: "Lend me a high sky and a bright day, with a myriad of weather, under the eyes of the Song Dynasty, the birth of the Han Palace." After finishing speaking, she raised her arm, and the silk painting seemed to be weightless, floating, like mist in the night sky Spread out.After a while, the sky light gradually appeared, which made several people unable to open their eyes.

When it is calm, it looks like a scene at noon, with pavilions, towers and pavilions, majestic and rising, warm wind, birds singing and flowers fragrant.Gongsun Ce was almost stunned. He looked at the corners of the eaves and buildings in the distance that melted into the faint sky. Could it be that this is the Weiyang Palace of the Han Dynasty that "relying on the terrain of Longshou Mountain and living on Chang'an City with a radius of 28 miles" according to historical records. ?

Duanmucui said in a low voice: "Sir, deliver the decree."

As he spoke, he carefully turned to the side of the pillar, at the same time, Zhan Zhao quickly hid himself behind the jagged rocks.

Gongsun Ce made up his mind, suddenly raised his right hand, entrusted the imperial decree, and shouted sharply: "Where is Chu Fu?"

A gust of wind blows, blowing the leaves on the branches.rustle.

Gongsun Ce shouted again: "Where is Chu Fu!"

As soon as the words were finished, there was a bang, and a large cloud of black mist rose from the grass more than ten feet ahead, and an old woman appeared in the place where the clods of soil were flying.

The old woman was covered in a black robe from head to toe, her face was wrinkled, and the black mist was surging around her body. She raised her eyes to look at her surroundings, and then at Gongsun Ce, with a look of extreme confusion in her eyes.

Gongsun Ce strengthened his composure, took a step forward, and said sharply: "The girl Chufu sat down and cursed for the queen, she is rebellious and immoral, she will die quickly, kill her with Gu!"

Chu Fu fixed his eyes on the imperial edict in Gongsun Ce's hand, and trembled imperceptibly.

Gongsun Ce did not miss this subtle change: "Chu Fu, still not accepting the order?"

Chu Fu was stunned for a moment, but unconsciously put his hands on his hands, and took the imperial edict tremblingly.

Gongsun Ce took a step back and stared at Chu Fu intently, but he couldn't help feeling anxious: Why hasn't Miss Duanmu broken Chu Fu's trap yet?
At this end, Duanmucui behind the pillars was also very anxious. Although the evil spirit on Chu Fu's body had receded a lot, it was still fluctuating, and it was impossible to see through her trap.

Sure enough, this illusion of Wei Young alone was not enough to convince Chu Fu that she was in the real Wei Young, and she probably still had a lot of doubts in her heart.

Duanmu Cui's heart froze: I don't care about that much anymore!
She stretched out her hand and tore off the shirt on the outer cover, and she was actually wearing a fiery red dress underneath, and then she reached out to pull off the hairpin on her head, and her long black hair fell down instantly, covering half of her face.

Gongsun Ce was staring nervously at Chufu, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Duanmucui rushing out from behind the corridor pillar, he couldn't figure out why she changed her robes and clothes, and was stunned for a while.

Duanmucui cried out in pain: "Chu Fu can't be killed!"

As soon as she breathed out, she suddenly tripped and fell heavily to the ground.

Chu Fu trembled all over, turned his head suddenly, and said in a trembling voice: "Queen!"

Gongsun Ce's heart was shocked, and he suddenly felt that Chu Fu's voice, the concern and care for Empress Chen shown in it, did not seem to be fake.At the same time, Duanmucui, who was lying on the ground, suddenly raised his head, his eyes were extremely fierce, and he shouted sharply: "Zhan Zhao, back neck, Fengchi!"

The two sleeve arrows pierced through the air with a sound, one in front and one in the back, piercing into the Fengchi acupoint of Chufu successively with an unstoppable force.

Chu Fu let out a miserable cry, black air rose all over his body immediately, and the surrounding area seemed to be shaking.Under the flying sand and rocks, the wind was so strong that the three of them were blown so hard that they couldn't open their eyes.

The next moment, the illusion dissipated, and he was still in the Song Palace in the quiet night. The Chu Fu in front of him wailed continuously, and the flames on his body shot straight into the night sky, and suddenly he hissed, turning into tens of thousands of Gu worms and wandering around, like a collapsed rock. Down.

Duanmucui was still lying on the ground before she got up, the flaming Gu worm had already approached.She screamed in fright, before she could react, someone pulled her belt up, and she heard Zhan Zhao hurriedly said, "Let's go!"

Duanmucui used her strength to stand up, and said anxiously: "There is also a gentleman."

After finishing his speech, he ran, ran for a few feet, couldn't help but look back, saw Zhan Zhao supporting Gongsun Ce, and rushing all the way, he didn't feel relieved.Seeing Huoqi, the imperial guards outside had already brought the water bag Mata prepared earlier, and rushed over all the way.

The three of them interacted with the guards and guards, and their hearts gradually calmed down.

Looking back, there was a group of people shouting and disturbing near Yao Meiren's dormitory, and it was extremely chaotic.

Gongsun Ce suddenly thought of something: "Miss Duanmu, if the fire is extinguished, wouldn't it... save the Gu worm?"

Duanmucui shook his head: "The fire on the Gu worms has a spell, and the fire will only go out when the Gu worms are completely burned. I asked people to prepare a water sac before, just because I was afraid that the fire would attract foreign objects."

Gongsun Ce let out a sigh and felt relieved.

Only Zhan Zhao heard that her voice was muffled, as if she was unhappy, she found a place where she wasn't prepared and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Duanmucui raised her head, looked at Zhan Zhao for a long time, and then said in a low voice: "Although Chu Fu harmed people, he deserved to end up like this, but..." She sighed and muttered to herself, "But after I lied to her in the end, When I looked up and saw her face, her face was full of anxiety... Her concern for Chen Ajiao was sincere, but I used this to kill her. Thinking about it, I always feel..." She also said I don't know why, but I finally lowered my head, feeling empty in my heart, as if I've done something wrong.

Zhan Zhao sighed lightly, since he followed Mr. Bao, he has personally experienced many cases, among which there are many cases where the true feelings of the criminals were used to lure people into the trap, and there are mixed feelings in it.Duanmucui's mood at this moment, he felt the same, he knew that he was powerless to speak at this moment, so he kept silent at the moment, just stretched out his hand and shook hands with her.

At this moment, Gongsun Ce suddenly gasped, and looked at the other side of Miyagi, his eyes widened.

"Guard Zhan..." Gongsun Ce was stunned, "Then, why is there a fire over there?"

(End of this chapter)