you got on my tail

Wei Lan scratched the back of his head, and rarely showed blank eyes, as if he really didn't know how to answer. After a while, he smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand with a flattering smile, and was about to hug the cat.

Bai Xuehe ignored him, just stretched out his hand to protect the cat, somehow hurt the kitten, the milk cat let out a soft cry, but the little paw struggled desperately without mercy, and quickly left two scratches on Bai Xuehe's hand mark.

Bai Xuehe suffered from pain and couldn't use his strength for a while, the kitten took the opportunity to break free from his arms, crawled down the clothes, and quickly disappeared into the corner, and meowed twice triumphantly before leaving.

Wei Lan quickly grabbed his hand, quickly pulled up the sleeve to check the wound, seeing that he was about to touch his forearm, Bai Xuehe quickly shook his hand away, smiled and shook his head.

"Master Bai, it hurts so much?" Wei Lan let go of him, and took half a step back respectfully, just thinking that she lost her composure for a while, and didn't notice the wound on Bai Xuehe's arm at all.

Wei Lan hurriedly slapped her own hand, exaggeratingly excitedly said: "Look at me, I was flustered for a while, sir, are you okay?"

Bai Xuehe breathed a sigh of relief just now, raised his eyebrows and then sighed again, "You can't even guess the criminal's mind, how can you guess the emperor's mind when I'm not here and you come to ask questions?"

"Why is your lord not here? I still rely on you here!" Wei Lan smiled obsequiously, suddenly felt that Bai Xuehe's words were different from the past, and her expression paused for a moment.

"I know what you want to say." Bai Xuehe smiled, "If I leave the capital, I will die if I leave the emperor, right?"

"The subordinate didn't mean that." Wei Lan changed his words, swearing and swearing, "Oh, the subordinate is just worried..."

"You don't have to worry." Bai Xuehe raised his head. Although he was in the dark prison, he seemed to be in the sun, with a different kind of gentleness in his eyes. He turned his head to look at Wei Lan, with a smile on his face and eyes The light is deep but extremely clear, "The capital is my home, and I won't go anywhere."

Wei Lan didn't know if he was laughing at himself, so he had to return to the topic just now, "My lord, this subordinate is stupid, you just said that there is something wrong with Xu Gao's words, what is it...?"

"Xu Gao just said that a woman came to look for him. This woman is General Xu's concubine." Bai Xuehe walked forward with a smile, then stopped under a transom and said: "The emperor ordered me to go to the concubine. Shan, I also wanted to see what they were going to do, but I almost lost my life."

"The emperor didn't do it on purpose..." Wei Lan said hastily: "Fortunately, there is no danger, we have to be considerate of the holy will."

"Holy will is God's grace, so I naturally won't say too much." Bai Xuehe smiled, tiptoed enough to reach the skylight, barely grasped the window frame with his hands, and his feet stepped on the ground for a while, and he fell down.

A cloud of dust rose up in the air and danced randomly among the small pillars of light from the transom, causing both of them to sneeze.

"My lord, what are you doing?" Wei Lan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and stepped forward to help Bai Xuehe up.

"Go up instead." Bai Xuehe pointed to the skylight, "Master Wei, can you climb the skylight and lean on the wall?"

"Of course it's possible!" Wei Lan didn't know what the person in front of him was trying to do, and just wanted to make him happy. She quickly jumped up and grabbed the edge of the bed with one hand, her feet off the ground, and easily flew into the air with only the strength of one hand, "Subordinate It's not for nothing that he's the leader, his martial arts are still much better than those boys."

"Then can you go in and out?" Bai Xuehe looked at Wei Lan and grinned, "Go in and out through this skylight without making a sound."

"Ah?" Wei Lan was stunned, then fell off the window frame, scratched the back of her head and shook her head, "How is this possible?"

"So how did Ruan Jin die? What kind of effort was needed to pass through the transom?" Bai Xuehe suddenly asked, "General Xu's men are like clouds, why did he send a woman to deliver the letter? If the emperor didn't order the water, why would he I think Jin Yiwei is a fool—could it be that his concubine who was born in the Jiaofang Division of the General’s Mansion can come and go freely between the prisons?”

Wei Lan was dumbfounded, and suddenly realized after a moment of silence, "You said that..."

"Don't guess, you can't guess." Bai Xuehe smiled, "Let's go see the emperor."

……

Palace, Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The sun is setting on the western mountains, and the floating light is leaping into gold.

"Why would Aiqing think..." Fu Jiying raised her head, narrowed her long and narrow eyes slightly, and her expression didn't know whether she thought it was amused or unbelievable, "Could the murderer be a demon...?"

Wei Lan pulled Bai Xuehe's sleeve, her face was extremely impatient, and beads of sweat rolled down her face.

He originally thought that Bai Xuehe would have clear evidence when he came to see the emperor, but he did not expect that it was "the fox demon's doing" that Lord Bai said.

Not to mention the emperor, even he doesn't believe it!

Fu Jiying's expression remained the same, he had been sitting at the table peeling tangerines, his fingers were slender and white, and his fingertips were trimmed very neatly, watching the white snow crane on tiptoe on the window frame with great interest.

The crystal tangerine petals fell on the snow-white porcelain plate, and the white orchid was painted on the porcelain plate.

"Master Wei can be hung on it." Bai Xuehe jumped down, panting heavily to adjust his clothes, "I can't hold on for a quarter of an hour, but even if Master Wei has high martial arts skills, there is no way to get in and out."

"Ai Qing means that a monster entered the cell through the transom and killed Ruan Jin?" Fu Jiying smiled, and pushed a plate of peeled tangerines to him, "It's very interesting, Wei Qing, is there anything wrong with that?" Martial arts, you can sneak through the air window."

"Your servant knows that you can shrink your bones if you have kung fu. It's not difficult to drill through this kind of small transom." Wei Lan lowered her head and quickly replied, "But it takes a long time to get through, and it's the same when you go out. It's impossible for Ruan Jin not to find it."

"What if they know each other?" Fu Jiying continued to ask, "Then Ruan Jin will think that someone is coming to save him, so he relaxes his vigilance and lets them in."

"Back to the emperor, Ruan Jin stayed awake for several days and never uttered a single word. It can be seen that he is not stupid, nor is he impetuous." Bai Xuehe raised his head and looked at the window beams carved with gold and jade in the palace. With the magical skill of shrinking bones, this person can get in, but he can't take Ruan Jin out. Ruan Jin is not stupid, and he naturally understands that he came to silence, so he will definitely not stay silent, but will open his mouth to call people. "

"There is also Xu Gao." Bai Xuehe continued to explain, "General Xu dared to let a woman go to jail, he must know that this woman would not be found, if the emperor hadn't sent someone to release the water, maybe we would still be here." Keeping it in the dark, I guess, this woman is undoubtedly evil."

Wei Lan stood aside, his face was livid, and he could only try to please him with a smile.

"Aiqing is right." Fu Jiying nodded and motioned him to eat tangerines, "I heard that Aiqing was ambushed in the mine, and the mine disaster was not a real earthquake. It is also hard for me to imagine how ordinary people can climb up the steep slope. Buried in the mountains."

Bai Xuehe smiled happily, holding the tangerine happily and retreating to Wei Lan's side, as if showing off to him.

"But Aiqing, what should we do?" Fu Jiying lowered her head and wiped her hands with a handkerchief, "Are you going to find a Taoist priest to catch a demon?"

Not knowing if it was intentional, Bai Xuehe was startled, and suddenly fell silent.

"Snow Crane." Fu Jiying tilted her head, smiled slightly, feeling a little impatient, "You don't want to play with me, do you?"

Bai Xuehe knew that Fu Jiying absolutely believed that this was a trick he came up with, and he did not believe that there were monsters in this world.

Yu Yan is indeed a fox demon, and he knows that there are monsters in this world, and he doesn't think ordinary Taoist priests can force Yu Yan out to make Xu Yan admit his sins.

Except Cang Hua...

Bai Xuehe smiled, but continued to remain silent. Although Yu Yan deserved sympathy, he was by no means a good person, and he would never pity the fox demon who almost put him to death.

But Cang Hua is an outsider, Bai Xuehe has no hesitation about this, and he must not be dragged into it.

"We don't need to find a Taoist priest, and we don't need to prove that she is a fox demon." After a while, Bai Xuehe rolled his eyes and said quickly: "And we need to release news to the Queen Mother."

Fu Jiying became interested, "What does this mean?"

"Naturally let them be self-righteous, and act first, which is to force General Xu to rebel." Bai Xuehe smiled, then bowed his hands together, "Then congratulations, master, you can finally get rid of the serious trouble in your heart."

Wei Lan was silent, really confused.

"It was Xun Luo who promised you!" Fu Jiying raised his eyes just now, and realized that this was the content of the two people's previous conversation. His eyes were cold for a moment, but he was full of surprise, "He promised readily? He will never commit any temporary heroism. Just leave?"

"Yes." Bai Xuehe smiled triumphantly as if asking for credit, and quickly nodded to answer, "If General Xu makes trouble, General Xun will never turn a blind eye to it, let alone suspect that we are coercing him."

"But how did you convince him...?" Fu Jiying was satisfied for a moment, then suddenly asked, his tone bitter.

There was nothing wrong with it, but Bai Xuehe laughed while avoiding his gaze, deliberately kept silent and did not answer, and rubbed his toes back a little bit.

Fu Jiying finally lost her patience, frowned and raised her hand, seeing that the slap was about to be knocked down.

Only then did Bai Xuehe hold back a smile and cupped his hands, "It's not about relying on the emperor."

……

In the middle of the night on the second day, there was a sudden light snow in the capital, and the watchman let out a breath on the reddish-brown outer wall, and trembled forward with the lantern in hand.

Xu Yan has practiced martial arts all year round and is physically strong, so he only wears a thin shirt and sits in the Nuan Pavilion.

Yu Yan sat beside him making tea, passed the tea soup several times very carefully, and finally came out a bowl of amber tea, without any impurities in it.

Xu Yan drank it all in one gulp, and suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside, so he raised his hand to signal Yu Yan to avoid it.

Yu Yan tiptoed and kissed him on the face, then lingered and turned around the screen, and picked up the embroidery frame in the inner room, on which there were stitches and threads, showing two mandarin ducks playing in the water.

Yu Yan didn't know what happened, she only knew that Bai Xuehe was dead, and Xiao Hei, who saw her doing it, was also dead. At this moment, Xu Yan didn't go out anymore, and stayed with her wholeheartedly.

Yu Yan is very contented, her water-colored eyes are staring into the distance infatuatedly - as long as she can be with her husband, even if she can only bear someone else's appearance for the rest of her life, she thinks it is enough.

A guard walked in from outside the door, knelt down in front of Xu Yan, Xu Yan raised his hand, ate candied fruit one by one nonchalantly, and said vaguely: "What's the matter?"

"News from the palace." The guard stood up and whispered, "The queen mother sent a letter asking you to save the second master... saying that now that Bai Xuehe has found out a lot of things, including Ruan Jin's death, it's better to give the emperor some advice." Soft, hard to say..."

"Ruan Jin really made it? He pretended to be a fool with me and committed crimes by himself, what can I do?" Xu Yan seemed to be unaware of the existence of Ruan Jin and the fake mine disaster, and slammed the table angrily, "They always He would just rely on me, didn't discuss with me before, swore and swore to let Bai Xuehe go to Xingshan, and I thought he had ironclad evidence, and it would be fine if there was some kind of mine accident, but let that person survive, I'll give in? How can the emperor believe it!"

The guard was a little embarrassed, "But that's the Queen Mother after all..."

"The Empress Dowager still has King Yu, what do I have?" Xu Yan shook his collar, "But the emperor somehow created King Ning, I'm afraid I don't believe King Yu anymore, what is this King Yu?"

"This subordinate doesn't know either." The guard replied, "It's just that he came back with Lord Bai, and his name is Cang Hua. This is absolutely true, General, do you think..."

Before the guard could finish speaking, there was a sudden sound in the inner room, as if something had landed on the ground.

"What's the matter, Pei'er?" Xu Yan got up, and hurried to the inner room, seeing Yu Yan holding the embroidery frame in a daze, blood dripping from her fingertips.

"I told you to stop embroidering, you..." Xu Yan grabbed the embroidery frame, his eyes suddenly became a little straight.

Xu Yan doesn't know embroidery, let alone the difference between the stitches, but vaguely feels that the scene in front of him is very similar. In the past, he was not a famous general in the army, and the fox demon he met by chance in the desert was sitting beside him like this. While mending, the embroidery needle accidentally pricked her finger.

"Embroider me a mandarin duck, in pairs..."

"Aren't mandarin ducks the same as ducks?" The silly fox demon Yuyan turned her head, wrapping her arms around her husband-in-law, "It can be roasted and eaten."

The wild sand in the desert hummed silently, and the spring breeze that night once gave Xu Yan a taste of the wonderful taste beyond the human world. He knew the taste by eating the marrow, and it was unforgettable. He also knew that there really are monsters in the world.

So Xu Yan didn't care too much, and lived with the fox demon who opened a tailor shop outside the Great Wall like a husband and wife, until his sister who was a concubine in the palace sent someone over, saying that he had arranged a marriage for him, and the other party was Princess Pingnan, Marry her as a wife, and you will be rich or expensive in the future.

"After you sew the wedding dress, I will send it to the general. After the general's wedding ceremony is completed, I will take you back to the Central Plains." The young Xu Yan said, taking out a gold buckle from the small box to make her happy. It's the button of the general's wife, look pretty."

When Xu Yan was in a trance, Yu Yan was holding the embroidery frame back to her senses, just in time to see Xianggong's paleness at that moment, and her heart felt as if a knife had been stabbed in her heart.

She just stabbed herself in a panic, and it was precisely because she heard Xu Yan's conversation with her subordinates that she knew that Bai Xuehe was still alive, and there was Cang Hua, the dragon god who had long since disappeared.

Could it be that Cang Hua was Xiao Hei from before?No wonder this little chubby snake looks silly, but he has extremely deep cultivation. If he is really a dragon god who lost his sanity due to fighting with a demon god, everything will be explained.

Yu Yan gritted her teeth and thought deeply, even if he is a dragon god, he probably lost eight points of his mana. If he risked his life, he should be able to die with him too!

"You go down first, I have everything to do, don't scare Madam." Xu Yan lowered his voice, waved his subordinates away immediately, and then took Yu Yan into his arms, "Pei'er, don't be afraid, my husband will be fine."

"Yes, it will be fine." Yu Yan nodded, and then lay down with Xu Yan, the two of them were very close, as if they had gone back in time.

In the dark night, Yu Yan got up and blew gently into Xu Yan's ear, Xu Yan immediately fell asleep and lost consciousness for a short time.

"Sir, I'll help you."

Yu Yan got up, instantly turned into a white fox, and shuttled along the carved beams.

There are many lights and shadows on both sides of the road, and at the end of the road is the mysterious man who gives her all the hints.

He must have a way.