The villain and I have eight hundred minds combined

She looked at him seriously and asked, "Did you know that the Xirong people were going to attack the city, but you played dumb and pretended not to know, took the reward from the Lan family and returned to Jianmu?"

Feng Xiao lowered his eyes and remained silent. He was afraid that she would be angry if she knew that he had made this decision back then, but he also had his own concerns.

She was very smart, and hiding the truth would be disadvantageous to him, so he said frankly: "We in the Phoenix Clan have a rule for generations that we cannot interfere in the affairs of the human world. As the young master of the Phoenix Clan, I cannot break the rules of the clan, so... even if I know about it, I cannot interfere without authorization."

Mu Hanxing was silent, perhaps because there were too many things that made her angry and sad along the way, so this little thing was not enough to make her angry. Besides, what Feng Xiao said was also true, some races in the heavens and even in the cultivation world could not interfere in the politics of the human world.

"Forget it. As the young master, you abide by the clan rules. There is nothing to blame." Mu Hanxing said calmly, "I just used my spiritual power to detect the surroundings and found that the heaviest yin energy is still in the covered area in the center of the city. Is that the stage?"

"Yes, but now the guards in the city are like frightened birds. I'm afraid there are the most guards around the stage." Feng Xiao said cautiously.

"Aren't they afraid of fire? What are the chances of success if we use force?" Mu Hanxing asked again.

"Those guards moved too quickly. Lu Yusheng was dead in just a moment. If it were the entire city's military force..." Feng Xiao didn't dare to say that he could kill all the guards in a city in an instant.

"If we delay any longer, there will be too many variables. Cui Ren and his gang can only do bad things and cannot help me. We have to find her actively." She now has murderous intentions, and if it doesn't work, she will change the plan.

"Find a way to get the guards to invite us to the show." Jingchen suddenly said.

Feng Xiao looked at him and said with contempt, "Are you showing off your abilities? If you knew how to be invited, would you still be trapped here?"

Jing Chen was too lazy to argue with him, and continued with a serious face: "Based on the situation in the past few days, I was thinking, maybe... we are just like the shadow puppets on the table, all of us are characters in the play."

The two were shocked, and Mu Hanxing felt a chill in his heart and his scalp went numb.

"I remembered a ballad that the children in Huajing had passed down orally. It was something like 'In the year of sweet dew, shadow figures dance, the gentleman is infatuated with the beauty, the song in the curtain, the love in the play, the beauty is only a flower in the mirror."

Both of them only understood half of what was being said, and could only vaguely imagine what was being said in the lyrics.

Jingchen explained: "The background story of the whole ballad is probably that the monarch of Boguo cordially invited Emperor Ning to the city to watch a play. That day, the whole city was filled with singing and dancing, and it was very lively. The stage had already prepared a play, waiting for Emperor Ning. Emperor Ning knew the monarch's thoughts, but he did not intend to marry Princess Lanqin as his concubine. Unexpectedly, he fell in love with her at first sight that day, and his mind changed... However, the lyrics that followed were not allowed to be sung by the people anymore... I heard that it was a taboo for Queen Wu."

I never expected that there was an extremely bloody story behind this.

The king and father wanted to sell their daughter for fame or to exchange for peace in the earldom, but Emperor Ning secretly had no intention of forming a marriage. Who knew that when he saw Princess Lanqin's beauty with his own eyes, he became obsessed with her day and night, and even angered the master of the harem and made the queen unhappy.

Mu Hanxing had no interest in this kind of harem gossip, and continued to ask: "What do you mean by we are people in the play?"

Jingchen learned a lot about the Ganlu years through the scroll, and guessed it by matching the names. He said, "On the day recorded in the ballad, spies from the Western Rong sneaked into the city. It is said that they wanted to take Princess Lanqin as a hostage. It caused quite a stir at the time, and the city guards suffered countless casualties in their efforts to capture the Western Rong people. Compared to the king, the people of the Bo country actually love the princess more... They love shadow puppetry, and they love the princess who is approachable, gifted, and strives to promote the culture of the Bo country even more."

Mu Hanxing felt a pang in her heart: "So, the guards in the city are to protect the princess?"

Jingchen nodded, "I think so. In fact, the rules are not entirely correct. At the beginning, the couple found that their servant disappeared in a place without candlelight on the street, and Xiaoli's body happened to be in a place without light. So, the rule is not that you can't leave Ziyun Inn at night, but that you can't leave a place without light, because... we are all shadow puppets who can only 'move' under the light."

In an instant, Mu Hanxing and Feng Xiao widened their eyes in shock.

"If the rule is not to go out at night, Guangsheng who chased the servant out that night would also die. Also, the ghosts could not invade the Ziyun Inn, so they would find a way to use the nightmare technique in the ghost world to bewitch people, making people involuntarily have hallucinations and run to a dark place outside... I think the first person bewitched by the ghosts was not Xiaoli, but Su Miaoying." Jingchen said again.

"What do you mean?" Feng Xiao frowned, "So Xiaoli is really the scapegoat?"

Jing Chen frowned, "Although I don't like the life-saving trick of the Du'e Girl, I'm afraid it is true, because the ghosts wanted to get rid of the Xirong spies and the Ning people the most from the beginning to the end, and Su Miaoying is a Ning person."

Mu Hanxing suddenly realized... So that's why only Su Miaoying and Xiaoli can hear the ghost girl's laughter... The ghost girl's laughter probably means... that she has discovered her prey.

At this point, Jing Chen spread his hands, with an expression that deserved a beating: "Of course, if you count carefully, I am also a Ning countryman, but I am afraid her ghost way is useless to me."

It's a bit shameless.

"Also," Jingchen continued, "In the beginning, we discovered that there were people coming and going in the city but no sound was made. This was because these walking 'people' were shadow puppets on the stage. Since they were all made of animal skins, how could they 'make' footsteps or talk sounds?"

"Also..."

"Also," Feng Xiao interrupted him quickly, "the guards are afraid of fire because they are shadow puppets themselves."

We can't let this person continue to be so arrogant. He should be able to figure it out.

Jing Chen quickly took the opportunity to mock him, with a fake smile on his face: "Master Feng finally understood?"

Feng Xiao glared at him.

"Don't quarrel." Mu Hanxing tried to stop them. "You two have both made great contributions this time. No one is inferior to the other. If you want to accomplish something, even the smallest contributions may be the key to success. So, there is no need to distinguish who is better or worse in the future. The credit belongs to everyone."

After hearing this, the two of them bowed silently, looking well-behaved and sensible.

Now she finally had a personal experience and knew why the emperors in ancient times were so fond of adopting the technique of checks and balances, because when two people were fighting each other, they had no energy to think about her. That was good. She seemed to be trying to stop the fight, but she was thinking in her heart, why don't you two, no, why don't you three continue fighting.