Rise in the glory of the king system

Chapter 671 Twilight
It was dusk, the sea was shrouded in a layer of light smoke, the shadow of the boat was faint, and the fisherman's songs were ethereal.The subtle dark purple of dusk gradually diffuses from the sky, flowing into the glorious sunset of the western sky.

A window was opened, and the sunset fell on the window, reflecting a wonderful light. Yao leaned out half of her body, lying on the edge of the bed and squinting at the scenery of the western sky.

Counting the days, it has been almost two months since she arrived here. Two months ago, she had not gone to Chang'an or set foot in the Tang Dynasty, and her life was in a haze. Now she finally has a stable life.

Yao supported her head and turned the brush in one hand. This brush was given to her by Yun Zhongjun, who told her to practice calligraphy, and the rice paper on the desk was full of crooked characters and vivid graffiti that she couldn't bear to look directly at.

At the arch of the yard, a shadow was stretched long and was walking towards here. Yao looked over and smiled instantly.

"Mr. Yunzhong!" she shouted as she rolled down the window.

Hearing the sound of her running over, Yun Zhongjun smiled slightly and walked towards her.

Yao stood still in front of him, "Why are you here?"

Jun Yunzhong said gently: "Master Xuanwei was talking to me about something just now. When he came back and passed by the kitchen, the fireman just made some desserts and brought them out. I thought you like sweets, so I brought them here for you."

As he spoke, he reached out his hand from behind and handed the food box to Yao.

Yao saw it, took it over happily, and said with a beaming smile, "Hee hee hee, thank you!"

Yun Zhongjun smiled lightly, like melting ice and snow, "Remember to make a pot of black tea and eat it together, otherwise it will be very greasy."

"I know! Thank you!" Yao said sweetly.

Yun Zhongjun said softly, "I'm leaving."

Yao looked at the food box in her hand, and asked to stay: "Have you had dinner yet? Do you want to stay and eat together?"

Yun Zhongjun shook his head, "No, I still have things to deal with, today is the night of the full moon, don't come out at night, be careful if you see dirty things, if you wake up at night, don't look out the window, someone tells you to Don't agree, I'll ask my servant to send Ai Ye over later."

Yao scratched her head, "What's the use of Ai Ye?"

"To ward off evil spirits, you can also use it for bathing." Yun Zhongjun replied.

Yao was confused and said: "Why do you still believe in this kind of thing?"

Yun Zhongjun nodded her forehead, and said slightly seriously: "It's all true, ghosts are everywhere, some harm people and some kill people, this is a terrible thing, do you hear me?"

Yao pouted, "Got it, you can go back."

Yun Zhongjun sighed, turned and went back.

After returning to his room, Yun Zhongjun frowned as he thought about what Master Xuanwei had just said to him.

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Half an hour ago, Yun Zhongjun knocked on Master Xuanwei's door and said politely, "Master."

The door opened automatically, Yun Zhongjun walked in, and gently closed the door, Guiguzi sat on the soft couch and looked at him, saying: "Come and sit."

Yun Zhongjun followed the sound and walked over, groped and sat down.

"The old man has been staying here for a while, and I wanted to talk to you when I came here today." Guiguzi said.

Yun Zhongjun smiled, "It's really an honor to be an official."

The waiter stepped back after serving tea, and Guiguzi asked, "How long have you been under the Eastern Emperor?"

"Three years." Yun Zhongjun replied.

Guiguzi praised: "It seems that you are indeed his loyal subordinate."

He looked at Yun Zhongjun's calm and smiling expression, paused, and said: "The old man has never told you why you came here, today I want to tell you, would you like to listen?"

The king in the cloud said: "I would like to hear the details."

"Do you know that on the other side of the sea is the human world. That place is called the Tang Dynasty. It is the most prosperous place in the world. It is the envy of many people from overseas and the Western Regions. But now, some people are eyeing other places. You are here." Guiguzi said.

Yun Zhongjun frowned, "Why?"

Guiguzi said: "Because you have what they want here."

Yun Zhongjun thought for a while, "But I don't have anything valuable here."

Guiguzi looked at him with a scheming look, "I want to ask you another question, when did the girl in your house come?"

Yun Zhongjun said: "Almost two months ago."

Guiguzi asked again: "Then what kind of person do you think she is?"

Yun Zhongjun felt that his question was getting more and more strange, "Master Xuanwei, why is Yao involved now?"

Guiguzi saw that he was pretending to be confused, and couldn't help but said angrily: "Is it true that what I said before was in vain?"

Yun Zhongjun was silent for a moment, and said: "I know what you want to say, you mean that Yao has a problem."

Guiguzi looked at him silently.

Yun Zhongjun sighed, took a sip of tea, and said after a while: "The official never asked her about her past, we all met by chance, but it was just a rescue and sympathy. My feeling is that she is a weird, cute and delicate girl, so I don't think there is anything wrong with her."

There was a moment of silence in the air, Guiguzi let out a long breath, his voice was much tired, "You still trust her so much."

return?Yun Zhongjun was full of doubts in his heart, he said: "If it's really because of her, the lower official can't just let her go because of this, after all, the lower official has already taken her in."

Guiguzi's crutch made a "dong-dong" sound on the ground, looking like he hated iron, "Are you going to risk the safety of the entire city-state because of her?"

Yun Zhongjun smiled lightly and said, "Master Xuanwei, please rest assured that I will definitely keep the city safe. As for Lu Yao, I will definitely keep her safe."

The night falls, and the wind is as cool as water.

On the roof of the inn, Ming Shiyin stood there with one hand behind his back, holding a divination instrument in his right hand, and on the divination instrument, gilded characters rolled line by line, and there was a faint red line between his brows, and his left eye was red and bright. Open flames and robes are also blown away by the evening wind.

An echoing pipa sounded, Ming Shiyin was not distracted by the sound, but just closed his eyes slightly and continued to count.

After a while, Ming Shiyin withdrew his mana, the red lines between his brows disappeared, and his red pupils returned to normal.

He jumped down from the roof, and the window below happened to be open. Yang Yuhuan was sitting by the window, playing the pipa, with downcast eyes, gentle and cold.

Yang Yuhuan raised her eyes slightly, and saw Ming Shiyin standing in front of her window. He was looking at her. For some reason, she saw a touch of tenderness in his eyes.

Yang Yuhuan stopped the pipa, put his palm in front of the pipa, calmed down the vibrating strings, and said, "What have you calculated?"

Ming Shiyin looked away and looked towards the sky slowly, "It's nothing."

Yang Yuhuan put the pipa away, stood up, and leaned against the window with a sleeve of dark fragrance and flow rhyme, and said calmly: "Hu and the others brought back news that no one here has seen Lu Ling, what should we do next? "

"I guessed it. Lu Ling is good at disguising. It's easy for her to change her skin. She didn't expect them to find out the news." Ming Shiyin's voice was as usual, not in a hurry.

Yang Yuhuan sighed, "After we left Chang'an, Di Renjie must have chased after us. If Lu Ling hasn't been found before they come, I'm afraid there will be another fierce battle."

Ming Shiyin said indifferently: "It's okay, someone will stop them for us, even if it's a fierce battle, they will start first."

Yang Yuhuan frowned slightly, "I'm really worried about that child's body, Yi Xing. He was born with a cold body, and he is a terrible fate. He has encountered all kinds of bad things. You don't know how to protect him. years ago."

When mentioning Yi Xing, Ming Shi faintly felt helpless and worried, "Maybe a chess piece can really change his fate."

Fate is something that no one can say for sure, otherwise there would be no saying that people are not as good as God.

In Chang'an City, what Ming Shiyin said was correct, the dead servant Di Renjie sent to Qingzhou was killed before leaving Chang'an, and the murderer was never found, because Di Renjie really couldn't spare the energy to take care of this matter, so this matter was left to young people. Qing and Shangguan Wan'er are responsible.

Chang'an is very lively when the lights are just on. Shangguan Wan'er is walking in the night in men's clothing. She wants to go to the place where the dead waiters were killed again, not because of looking for clues, but because she has a necklace to investigate the case. Lost in time, it was given to her by her grandfather, which means a lot to her.

Shangguan Wan'er arrived at the northwest suburbs, almost out of the city. This is where the dead waiters were killed.She took out a fire stick from her sleeve and lit it. She squatted on this area and kept searching and groping.

As time passed, Shangguan Wan'er became more and more anxious, what would she do if she didn't have the only relic her grandfather gave her?The scope of her search was getting wider and wider. At this moment, Huozhezi suddenly illuminated a person. Shangguan Wan'er looked up, and saw that person standing there with blood red eyes. Yes, it was so vicious that Shangguan Wan'er jumped up in fright.

After being frightened, the torch fell on a pile of wood residues, which looked like a deliberately built fire, and when the fire went down, the debris of the residues burned quickly, and then the wood also emitted black smoke. , and then burn.

"Who?!" Shangguan Wan'er threw out her fan with a quick reaction.

Under the reflection of the fire, the man's face flickered, making it hard to see clearly. He was tall and tall, wearing a black robe and a red cloak, his long hair fluttering in the wind, and his eyes were very dark.

"Who are you? Why are you disguised as a man?" He said in a deep voice, his voice was very magnetic and slightly hoarse.

Shangguan Wan'er was a little startled by his sudden exposure of her gender, but her eyes fell on the long knife in his hand, she squinted and suddenly remembered how those dead servants died, they were all pierced through the chest by a knife, that The size of the wound was visually similar to that of the long knife.

Shangguan Wan'er's heart skipped a beat, she took a step back, looked at the man vigilantly and coldly, and shouted: "Shouldn't you give your name before asking who someone else is?"

The man walked towards her step by step with a long knife in his hand, he was terrified, he said: "Could it be that you are the one with those little mice?"

Shangguan Wan'er was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized that the little mice he was talking about were those dead waiters, and couldn't help but clenched her fan tightly.

She sneered: "What little mouse? I came here to look for my necklace. I remember it left here."

"Lost here? No one will come here, could it be that you are a spy?" While speaking, the man had already killed Shangguan Wan'er.

Shangguan Wan'er quickly turned around to block. She couldn't resist when the knife and the fan were facing each other. She was almost scratched by him several times. Suddenly she caught a glimpse of the man's knife spike. While resisting, she asked: "Why do I Is your necklace here?!"

The man stopped, looked at his tassel, untied it little by little, and held it in his hand, "Is this yours?"

Shangguan Wan'er confirmed the necklace and said firmly, "Yes!"

The man's eyes switched back and forth between her and the necklace, as if wondering, "How do you prove it?"

Shangguan Wan'er gritted her teeth, "I know the words on it."

The man took a closer look and asked, "There is indeed a word on this pendant. Tell me, what is it engraved on?"

"A poem, chanting painting barriers." Shangguan Wan'er stared at the jade pendant.

The man glanced at her, with unknown meaning, "Take it."

For some reason, there was a chilling feeling in his voice.

Shangguanfang took it with a single hand, "Thank you, I see you are also from the Jianghu, so let's not live here."

When he just turned around, the long knife was on her neck, and the man's voice was as cold as a ghost crawling out of hell, "What's your relationship with Shangguanyi?"

The moonlight is hidden behind the clouds and mist, and a little light shines out dimly. The countryside is remote and the cold wind pierces through the bones. What is colder than that is Shangguan Wan'er's heart. She is trembling and afraid.

The man's blade dug a little deeper into her neck, and a few traces of blood could be faintly seen. His voice rose a little higher, "Say!"

Shangguan Wan'er turned around slowly, her face under the bamboo hat was heroic but clear, with aloofness, stubbornness and fearlessness in her eyes, she looked at him with the corners of her mouth raised, mocking indifferently, "What does my relationship with him have to do with you?"

The man squinted his eyes and looked even more dangerous. He said, "Ying Hua Barrier is a famous poem written by Shangguan Yi. It is possible to engrave such a poem on a small piece of white jade. Although the font is small, it is neat and round without edges and corners. The polishing is smooth and meticulous, which is not something ordinary people can have, and this white jade is quite old, are you his descendant?"

Shangguan Wan'er clenched the necklace in her hand, killing intent gradually appeared in her eyes, and the man also withdrew the long knife.As soon as he withdrew, Shangguan Wan'er suddenly held the fan back and spun it into the air to make an illusion. While the man was guarding elsewhere, she hid the fan under her left sleeve with lightning speed, and then used her strength to use the fan The head was hit hard, and the blow hit the man's temple with great force.

The man staggered a few steps and fell to the ground, fainted, Shangguan Wan'er squatted down beside him, turned his face with a fan, and sneered: "If you ask too much about some things, you will die. "

With a glance, she saw a jade pendant hanging on the side of his waist under the red cloak. Shangguan Wan'er glanced at him, picked it up and looked at it, her face changed drastically, and the eyes she looked at him became unbelievable. I have seen it many times, this is the jade pendant of the royal family!It's still a cloud-patterned dragon-shaped pendant!The only one who can have this is the prince, but now there are only two princes, who is this person? !
Out of shock, Shangguan Wan'er's heart beat wildly again, she hurriedly put the jade pendant away, and left in a hurry.

It was already late, and Shangguan Wan'er was afraid of being troublesome, so she disguised herself and only showed her eyes. When she returned to the city, she found that the shops on the street were basically closed. After searching a few places, she found an inn with lights on He ran over and jumped on the proprietress at the moment when the door was about to close, "Excuse me, is there any room left?"

The proprietress was taken aback by her, looked at her simple and crude attire, and said displeasedly: "It's gone, go find someone else's house!"

Shangguan Wan'er didn't know how much eyeliner that person had, but at least she couldn't sleep on the street, otherwise no one would be able to help her. She stretched out two fingers and said calmly, "I'll pay three times the money."

The proprietress glanced at her, and then opened the door, "Come in, the room is upstairs, I'll take you there, but it's late now, there is no hot water, do you think it's okay?"

Shangguan Wan'er nodded, she turned around and looked at the proprietress, "It's okay, but can you lend me the Four Treasures of the Study?"

The proprietress became impatient again, "I don't have the Four Treasures of the Study here."

Shangguan Wan'er took off her veil, and said slowly: "The shopkeeper is very particular about his business, and he will not do more if there is less. You may as well tell me how much money is needed before you are willing to lend me the Four Treasures of the Study?"

The proprietress turned the key, opened the door, and said in a low voice, "The people living in my inn are not ordinary people, do you understand, miss?"

Shangguan Wan'er glanced at the other rooms, she smiled slightly, "Since this is the case, then I won't bother you."

Shangguan Wan'er has maintained the habit of sleeping for many years. She always sleeps with her clothes on, and never sleeps deeply. She can wake up quickly with a little movement, and there is also a fan hidden under her pillow.

The night passed like this, and Shangguan Wan'er left early the next morning, and she went straight to Dali Temple.

The main entrance of Dali Temple had not yet opened, so Shangguan Wan'er climbed over the wall and entered. After entering the court, Li Yuanfang was still yawning. After finishing the yawning, he was a little surprised to see her coming, so he said hello: "Good morning."

Shangguan Wan'er replied: "Morning, is Master Di here? I have something important to do."

"Here, here, how did you get in?" Di Renjie walked in from the side door, holding a stack of cases in his hand.

Shangguan Wan'er said: "There is something urgent to report, let me ask boldly, there should only be two dragon-shaped jade pendants with cloud patterns in the world, right?"

Di Renjie frowned and nodded: "Of course, this is the prince's consort, and the jade pendant is made of the finest suet white jade."

Shangguan Wan'er took off the bamboo hat, and said: "I lost the necklace my grandfather gave me when I was investigating the case, so I went to the countryside to look for it, and then I met a man with long hair, a dark suit and a red cloak, tall He was very tall, and after saying a few words, he handed over his hands. When I found the necklace, I made a tassel on his long knife. I said the necklace was mine. He asked me how to prove it, and I told him that the jade pendant was engraved with A poem."

Li Yuanfang...

(End of this chapter)