Madam General, please run slower.

Chaozhou City is divided into two streets, north and south, by a river. The sunlight is reflected through the river, casting colorful colors on the shore, making the whole town bathed in warm and soft light.

People enjoy a leisurely and peaceful life beside the river. They fish by the river, cool off under the bridge, or stroll in the streets, enjoying the tranquility and beauty.

Li and Wei Shiliu walked along the river, enjoying the unique winter scenery of Jiangnan. However, Li wandered away from the main street, and Wei Shiliu looked at the route getting more and more off-center, "Miss, where are you going?"

"I didn't go anywhere, just took a walk."

"But isn't this place a bit remote? There's nothing to see." Wei Shiliu didn't understand why the little princess chose to wander around in this alley instead of going to the downtown area.

"It's too noisy outside, let's be quiet here." Li responded to Wei Shiliu's words calmly on the surface, but his thoughts had already become a tangled mess.

Just a quarter of an hour ago, bored Li caught a slight fluctuation of spiritual power on the river bank and immediately confirmed it with Tanghulu. Tanghulu also said that this spiritual power was very similar to the spiritual power fluctuation in the capital.

So Li began to look for the gathering place along this strand of spiritual power, and made his way around to the entrance of this alley. He thought he would find the ancient formation set up in the cold palace forbidden area, but the fluctuation of spiritual power completely disappeared.

"Tanghulu, what's going on?" Li did not notice any formation patterns here.

"This should be the outer edge of the gathering place. The spiritual power is too weak and dissipated."

"Then there should be other spiritual power flowing nearby. Let's look for it." Li's mind was in a mess right now. He always felt that there was a key piece of information that he had not grasped.

Li took the confused Wei Shiliu around in the alley, but the spiritual power was intermittent, and finally Li was completely lost.

"Tanghulu, can you sense the direction of the spiritual energy flow?"

"I'm sorry, master. The fluctuation of spiritual power is too weak. Tanghulu can't sense it." Tanghulu yawned loudly. The little ball in the sea of ​​consciousness suppressed his sleepiness and stayed with his master.

"You take a rest, I'll look for it again." Li was a little tired at this time, but only physically tired, and mentally she was still clear. This made Li feel a strong sense of separation, as if her consciousness and Qu Tangli's body were completely separated.

Li took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

She discovered this spiritual power fluctuation by the river. Although the fluctuation was weak at that time, it was not fragile enough to dissipate. But when she followed the spiritual power to this alley, the fluctuation disappeared.

The flow of spiritual power here is different from that in the forbidden area of ​​the capital, so is there a possibility that the flow direction of spiritual power is actually the opposite? ! The spiritual power does not gather towards the center, but spreads out from the center, which causes the spiritual power at the outer edge to dissipate.

She was the first to imagine the situation in the forbidden area of ​​the capital and was subconsciously misled.

Li slapped her forehead speechlessly. Was her brain beginning to degenerate? It was such a simple question, but she had been wandering around in this alley for so long.

"Let's go, let's go back to the river for a walk." Li was about to walk out of the alley when he suddenly felt weakness under his feet and staggered forward.

Wei Shiliu, who had been following Li, noticed Li's pale face at this moment and reached out to take Li's pulse.

Li's vision was still a little blurry. He instinctively resisted the hand that Wei Shiliu extended and stopped his action. "Is there...anything to eat..."

Wei Shiliu immediately understood Li's situation, and hurriedly took out the rice cakes in his arms and fed them into Li's mouth one piece after another.

After Li recovered from the shock, he swallowed the cake in his mouth with difficulty, "Little Sixteen, do you want to choke me to death?"

"I'll go buy some water!" Wei Shiliu said, and was about to go out.

"Wait." Li hurriedly pulled him back. He didn't know who he inherited this recklessness from. "I'm fine. I'll go back home first."

"Are you really alright? This place is a bit far from the prince's residence. How about asking the prince to send a carriage over?"

"It's okay, it's just a lack of energy and blood. I know it." Li waved his hand and walked out first.

How many ghosts do you have! Wei Shiliu was so angry, but the little princess never let him check her body, so he had no choice but to follow her angrily. He tightly grasped the silver needle in his long sleeves, fearing that the little princess would not be able to breathe, so he could give her an injection in time.

After sending Li back to the Prince's Mansion and settling him down, and seeing that he really lay down to rest, Wei Shiliu walked out of the room with peace of mind. However, just as he closed the door, he was taken away by Wei Wu.

"What is going on?" Wei Wu had a serious look on his face. It was obvious that he was frightened by the scene at the entrance of the alley just now.

Wei Shiliu scratched his hair in annoyance. He naturally knew what Wei Wu was asking, but he didn't know the specific situation.

"I don't know either. The little princess didn't let me examine her. The Imperial Hospital examined her several times but couldn't find the cause. They were vague every time, only saying that the little princess's health was getting weaker and weaker."

"She doesn't look weak." Wei Wu had never seen a girl so weak that she could kill a strong wild boar.

"Yeah, I didn't believe it at first. I even wondered if the little princess had used some method to change her pulse and pretend to be weak to deceive the people in the palace. But later I felt that something was wrong. Although she looked no different from an ordinary person on the surface, I could still see from some small details that her body was getting weaker."

"What details? How did you find them?" Wei Wu didn't expect that Wei Shiliu could be so smart.

"It's just that the dizziness when she slaps me on the head isn't as severe as before." Wei Shiliu said calmly.

Wei Wu: ...Uh-huh, how is this not considered a detail?

"Master, do you know that Madam is in poor health? Have you reported this to the master?"

"Yes, everyone in the palace knows that the little princess is going to die soon."

"What does the master say?"

Wei Shiliu became even more melancholy when he mentioned this, and sighed deeply, "The master said: 'Okay, got it, continue to monitor'."

It was obvious from the tone that Yu Xun had spoken, and Wei Wu suddenly didn't know what to say.

Wei Wu: "Do you think it's possible, perhaps, or probably that the master thinks that the lady is acting?"

"Maybe." Wei Shiliu thought about this possibility, and soon rejected Wei Wu's hypothesis, "But when the master brought Chinese medicine into the palace that day, the little princess had just been injured. Not only was she blind, but there were also blood stains on her clothes."

The two secret guards looked at each other in silence; even the air was silent for a moment.

"Forget it, you continue to look after the little princess. I will go and report to the master about what happened to the lady today. As for what the master thinks, it is not something we can guess."

"I understand." Wei Shiliu responded softly.

In the room, Li, who Wei Shiliu thought was resting peacefully, was sitting at the desk. A pile of papers were placed on the desk in a messy and disorderly manner, some of which were only written a few strokes before being smeared and thrown aside.

There were only a few words left on the top sheet of paper:

Chaozhou, forbidden area, body, coincidence?

The word "coincidence" was circled by Li, and after a moment, an "x" was firmly drawn on it. The ink seeped through the paper and wet a small area of ​​the table. The slightly chaotic scene showed the owner's fluctuating mood everywhere.