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Xu Boyuan is the heir of Prince Yu. Although he has not yet inherited the throne, he has been a fourth-rank idler in the imperial army, and he is also a relative of the emperor. The case of the kidnapping of Duankang princess in Dali Temple is naturally a case. Twelve points of heart.Wu Zuo was called for an autopsy overnight, but the man in black was checked and found no cause of death. When Xu Boyuan came to the door, Dali Siqing was about to send someone to Yu Wang's mansion to send a letter to ask for instructions to see if he needed to have a laparotomy.

"Come here, my son, please."

Fang Jian, Minister of Dali Temple, is forty-two years old this year. He doesn't have much talent in solving cases, but he is very shrewd in dealing with people.Ying Zhou's appearance is really outstanding, his figure is straight under the brocade gray robe, and he is holding a white cat with the word king on his head in his arms.Fang Jian guessed that he should be the servant of Yayan Pavilion. After all, what happened to Princess Duankang on the way home from Yayan Pavilion last night, it was not a surprise that Xu Boyuan brought people from Yayan Pavilion.

Today, His Majesty has few heirs, and there are hundreds of people in the harem, but so far there is only one son.Princess Duankang has been good-looking since she was a child, she is articulate and flattering, and won the emperor's favor. She almost treats her like his own daughter and treats her like a princess.In addition, the crown prince has no other brothers, so the Prince Yu's House is very important in the royal clan. If they can join the Prince Yu's House, it will be a great boost to both their official career and the development of the family.Such a great opportunity should be pursued by everyone, but Princess Duankang is over [-] years old but no one has come to propose marriage so far. The only emperor who teased Ji Shilang of the Ministry of Rites two years ago was politely rejected.

——I can't get married, the habit of visiting brothels is the main reason.

No one in the aristocratic family in the capital does not know that Princess Duankang loves to go to Yayang Pavilion. Although it is rumored that every time he goes to listen to a song and drink a cup of tea, he leaves, but who knows the truth?I don't care if you are a princess or a princess, who would have the time to find such a big green hat for himself to wear.

But it's not his turn to worry about these things, my brother is not in a hurry, he still thinks about how to investigate this case more realistically.Fang Jian watched the nose and the heart, and silence was golden. She led the two of them to the morgue, and personally lifted the white cloth covering the corpse.

It has been five hours since the death of the man in black. Wu has removed his coat for the autopsy, and the white cloth has been uncovered to the chest. You can see the cloud-like corpse spots spreading under the skin, which is purple in color.This is nothing, the most frightening thing is that the strange smile from last night still hung on the face of the corpse, and the angle of the corners of the mouth was already beyond the range of ordinary people. The human scalp is numb.

Xu Boyuan asked: "Master Fang, have you found out the identities of these two people?"

Fang Jian replied: "The portraits of the two gangsters have been drawn and asked people to ask people from house to house, but these two people are probably not from the capital, and it may be difficult to find clues."

This is also expected, Xu Boyuan did not make things difficult for Fang Jian, "Since I have appeared in the capital, I always have to eat, drink, live, and travel, and it is impossible not to contact other people. Please give me a copy of the portrait, Master Fang. People cooperate to inquire."

Fang Jian couldn't ask for more, so she hurriedly went to get the portrait herself.

Only Xu Boyuan and Ying Zhou were left in the morgue, Xu Boyuan said: "Hurry up, he will be back soon."

Ying Zhou nodded, flicked his finger on Xiaobai's forehead, Xiaobai reluctantly jumped from his arms to the edge of the wooden bed where the corpse was placed, starting from the head of the corpse, and raised his nose from top to bottom.At the same time, Ying Zhou stretched out his right hand two steps forward, and an exquisite six-petal snowflake appeared in front of the tip of his index finger. He pressed the snowflake on the forehead of the corpse, and the snowflake slowly rotated three times like an engraving. , After being carved between the eyebrows of the corpse, the light fell silent and disappeared.

Xu Boyuan couldn't see the light, he could only see Ying Zhou's fingers lightly tapped between the eyebrows of the corpse, then he frowned, as if he didn't find the result he wanted, he turned his head and lifted the white cloth of another corpse.What Fang Jian showed them was the corpse that released black energy to attack Xu Jingluan, while what Ying Zhou uncovered was the one that Xu Boyuan shot through the heart, and he repeated the action just now.

This time the snowflakes did not disappear after spinning between the eyebrows, and there was a silvery white shimmer under the skin, Ying Zhou heaved a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it's still there."

Xu Boyuan didn't understand, so, "What's still there?"

Ying Zhou replied: "The soul is still there."

Xu Boyuan was taken aback for a moment, but saw that Ying Zhou had closed his eyes. He was standing upright in the dark morgue, and the aura around him seemed to have undergone a subtle change. For some reason, Xu Boyuan saw in him a kind of aura belonging to the upper class. the majesty of the

He was born in the royal family, and he is very familiar with this kind of aura. It is engraved in the bone marrow, and it cannot be cultivated overnight. It is the strength when occupying an absolute position.

Ying Zhou's consciousness entered another world.

He opened his eyes and found himself standing in the middle of countless steles. Behind each stele was a slope made of piles of white bones. Looking up, the sky was orange red at dusk, the ground was dark after blood dried up, and the forest of steles stretched out. to the end of the land.

Ying Zhou's footsteps moved slightly, and suddenly a human skull rolled to his feet, the empty eye sockets were facing him upwards, and the thick black inside seemed to suck him in.

The scene in front of him was as eerie and terrifying as Abi Hell. Although Ying Zhou didn't feel scared, he still felt very uncomfortable.

He stared at the skeleton for a long time, and said, "Is it you?"

The skeleton didn't respond, it just stared at him stubbornly with its eyeball-less eyes.

Ying Zhou sighed, stretched out his finger, and tapped on the brow of the skeleton. The coldness on the bone seemed to have a substance, as if it had penetrated the barrier between dream and reality and reached Ying Zhou's fingertips. It's all cold.

Ying Zhou asked again: "You have something to tell me, don't you?"

There was a glimmer of light between the skull's eyebrows, which gradually turned into the shape of a snowflake. It was the one he pressed just now, spinning non-stop. Ying Zhou pressed his finger on it, and suddenly a picture flashed before his eyes——

Under the huge peach blossom tree, the slim girl was followed by a short boy. The two held hands, waved and smiled at Ying Zhou, and the peach petals fell on them like a pink drizzle. The girl shouted: "Brother!"

The boy babbled: "Hi, hi!"

A strange feeling suddenly surged up in Ying Zhou's heart, it was about to overflow from his chest, it was warm and sweet, rolling over his chest irresistibly, a bit like the bubbles bubbling up when boiling water, scrambling to come out first Water surface, want to go to the outside world.

The picture flashed by, and he returned to the Land of Bones. The skeleton was under his fingertips, and snowflakes flickered between his brows. Ying Zhou asked softly, "Is that your family?"

"Back... back..." The skeleton suddenly vibrated violently, and its teeth sockets moved up and down, making a hoarse and broken sound, which was almost inaudible in this desolate and boundless space, but the pleading in it passed through the language and came from all directions Entering Ying Zhou's eardrums, you don't need to hear clearly, Ying Zhou already understood what he wanted to say.

"Home...please..."

Ying Zhou sighed silently, "Understood, you go."

After his promise, the skeleton calmed down, and suddenly there was a crisp "click", the eyebrows covered with snowflakes cracked, gradually shattered, and the cracks spread rapidly, but in a short while, the skeleton shattered into thousands of crystal powders, rubbing it together Zhou's fingers flew away, scattered in the dark world.

On the ground where the skeleton used to be, a piece of black talisman paper appeared, with complicated octagonal patterns drawn on it, and the color was blood red. Ying Zhou tore off the talisman paper.

When he opened his eyes again, in the dark and cold morgue, Xu Boyuan was looking at him not far away, his eyes probing.He had the extra black talisman paper on his fingertips, but before he could say anything to Xu Boyuan, footsteps came from outside the door, it was Fang Jian who came back after taking the portrait.

Ying Zhou had no choice but to pick up Xiao Bai, and honestly stood back beside Xu Boyuan.

It was already noon when the two left Dali Temple, and as soon as they went out, they were hit head-on by a gust of hot air.

The seasons in summer are changeable, the sky is still clear before going out, but at the moment the dark clouds are rolling, it seems that a storm is about to come, the capital is shrouded in gloom, and the air is sultry and hot.The wind with the smell of mud licked the skin, but it did not bring the slightest coolness, leaving only sweat on the forehead.

Ying Zhou was really afraid of the weather in this world, and was full of nostalgia for Bu Zhou's mountains and thousands of miles of ice.

The coachman went to the back alley to lead the horse, and the two stood waiting in front of the gate of Dali Temple. Xu Boyuan asked: "Just now you said that the soul is still there, what do you mean?"

"Hmm..." Ying Zhou was so hot that his ears were ringing, and the air was sticky and muddy. He took a breath and his chest became more dull, so he could only spit it out again, and said, "All living beings have three souls and seven souls. After death, they enter reincarnation. Then Before the human soul can leave the body, I ordered his seal and asked him about the curse."

Xu Boyuan looked at him sideways, while Ying Zhou was looking up at the dark clouds in the sky with a sleepy expression.His tone was calm, as if what he was talking about was the alternation of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the rising and setting of the sun, which was a very common thing.If another person said these things, Xu Boyuan felt that he would not believe it so easily, but the words from Ying Zhou's mouth had an inexplicably convincing power, perhaps because what he said was true, Or maybe it was because Ying Zhou's tone was too comfortable, or maybe it was because he was in a hurry to save Xu Jingluan and went to the doctor in a hurry.

"How did he say?"

Ying Zhou asked, "Are there any peach trees around here?"

Xu Boyuan replied: "Many people in the capital plant peaches and apricots, and there is one in the palace garden. What happened to the peach tree?"

"I want to find a peach tree and plant it in a small courtyard. There should be a pair of siblings living in the courtyard." Ying Zhou pointed at the position of his chest. "My sister is about this tall, and my brother is not very good at talking."

"I'll send someone to look for it."

Ying Zhou nodded and said hello, at this time there was a thunderstorm outside the sky, blue light pierced the sky and the earth, amidst the roaring thunder, big raindrops fell on the head and face.It was the first time Ying Zhou saw the scene of rain. Compared with the numerous snowflakes, the rain is majestic, crackling and falling on the eaves, and then converging into water and falling to the ground. Flowers, trees, people, everything in the world is separated from each other. The rain and fog are blurred, the sky is dim and the ground is dark, only the occasional thunder splits the sky and the earth, like a soaring blue dragon, hidden between the clouds, the end is invisible.

The carriage drove back to the palace, and the doorman came to pick him up with an umbrella, but the rain was too heavy, and his clothes were inevitably wet.The two walked into the flower hall, and Ying Zhou took off his wet outerwear casually, but the rain had completely penetrated, and the cold clothes stuck to his body, making him uncomfortable.

Xu Boyuan said: "I asked them to bring a set of clean clothes, you go and change."

"Wait a while," Ying Zhou said, "let's break the curse first."

If he guessed correctly, the black talisman should be the body of the curse.Both men in black were cursed, but the first one was shot through the heart by Xu Boyuan, before the spell could be activated.Since he can peel off the talisman attached to that person's soul, maybe he can do the same to break the curse on Xu Jingluan.

His body has meager mana, but once he leaves the body, the mana contained in his soul is enough to defeat any demonic spells.I didn't know the form of the curse before, so I couldn't start, but now that I have a direction, it's no problem.

Xu Boyuan naturally wouldn't say anything bad, he dismissed everyone in Xu Jingluan's room, leaving only him and Ying Zhou.

Ying Zhou originally thought that it would be a waste of time to enter the soul of a living person, but he didn't expect that the moment his fingertips touched the center of Xu Jingluan's eyebrows, a strong force directly pulled his mind into it.

Xu Jingluan's soul state is a vast sea of ​​flowers. Although the flowers are withered and the leaves are falling at this moment, it is not difficult to imagine what kind of prosperous beauty it would be like on weekdays.Ying Zhou found the sleepy Xu Jingluan in the middle of the sea of ​​withered flowers. Her whole body was covered by a layer of black spherical enchantment, and the top was the black talisman paper.A thin silver thread condensed from his fingertips, and he murmured "Go", the thin thread swam out, directly penetrated the talisman paper, and hooked it to Ying Zhou's eyes.

The barrier around Xu Jingluan's body shattered, and the sea of ​​flowers sprouted and sprouted at an astonishing speed as if they had been injected with fertilizer.The peonies bloomed one after another, the curse on Xu Jingluan's body was broken, and the soul state began to recover automatically.

Things went so smoothly, the curse he was helpless last night was broken so easily, Ying Zhou felt a little uneasy, took out another talisman and put it together with the one on Xu Jingluan, the original two talisman papers The lines on the left and right are actually different, symmetrical to the left and right, each forming a semicircle, and the two semicircles on the left and right can just form a complete magic circle.

He was about to destroy the two talisman papers together, when suddenly blood glistened on the formation, and the two talisman papers flew out of his hand and became a whole, turned into black smoke, and got into Ying Zhou's wrist!

——The pain that pierced into the bone marrow radiated from the wrist, and the black air entered the skin and then meandered upwards, swimming in a circle on the inside of the arm, connected end to end, and bloomed from the center to form a pattern of ink.Ying Zhou's eyes turned black, and after a blink of an eye, he was expelled from Xu Jingluan's soul state.

In front of Xu Jingluan's bed was heavy curtains, and Xu Boyuan's deep and eager voice was next to his ears:

"Ying Zhou? Ying Zhou!"

Only then did he realize that he fell off the bed at some point, and was leaning against Xu Boyuan's arms, and when he turned his head, he saw Xu Boyuan's magnified face.His facial features are much deeper than Ying Zhou's, and there is an obvious gap between the peak of his eyebrows and the eye sockets, probably because he has not slept all night, and his eyes are dark and dark, but for some reason, Ying Zhou thinks that this person looks good even with dark green.

Seeing that he finally opened his eyes, Xu Boyuan heaved a sigh of relief.Just now, Ying Zhou fell off the bed suddenly, his arms were trembling, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his lips turned white, which really shocked him.

Xu Boyuan helped him to sit up, and asked, "What happened to your hand?"

"Ok?"

Hearing that Ying Zhou raised his left arm, he saw that on his wrist, there was a meandering black trace like a snake-biting ring, encircling a flower that looked like a peony at first glance, but looked like a skull when viewed closely.

Ying Zhou's skin was fair, his wrist was white, and the marks were very eye-catching. Xu Boyuan thought, "Is this... a curse?"

Ying Zhou was slightly surprised: "Can you see it?"

"……can."

Ying Zhou pulled up his sleeves to cover up the marks, smiled and said, "It's okay, don't worry about it."

His body is just made of snow statue, the curse that is fatal to mortals has no effect on him, even if he dies, it is just the return of his soul to Buzhou Mountain, which is not a big deal.

At this time, Xu Jingluan let out a slight groan on the bed, the two of them raised their heads together, and saw Xu Jingluan's eyelashes fluttering, and slowly opened her eyes.

In the depths of Qingshi Street, inside Yayan Pavilion.

Zhu Lan sat on the couch with her knees bent, a man in a Chinese dress lay on his lap, and was sleeping with her eyes closed. Zhu Lan held a round fan in her hand, blowing the wind for him one after another.

Suddenly the corners of the man's mouth curled up, and two words came out from his pale lips: "It's done."

Zhu Lan's hand paused, and then he smiled and said, "My king has a wonderful plan."

The man's closed pupils opened, "Buzhou Tiger, that's all."

The man is very thin, his face is tough, and the side face is as sharp as a knife.His skin was sickly white, almost translucent, with blue veins clearly visible underneath.At this moment, he was smiling, as if his red pupils soaked in blood were frozen, his cold smile seemed to be able to penetrate the flesh and be cold to the depths of his soul.

Zhu Lan lowered his eyes and did not dare to meet his gaze, the man said: "Let the tarantula do it."

Zhu Lan said, "The tarantula has already been prepared, but I don't understand why the king didn't just take the life of the dragon son, but instead invited the Jiao king to share the pie?"

The man's hand pinched Zhu Lan's chin, his cold fingertips gently stroked his skin back and forth, with a happy expression.

"That's just a golden dragon, so what if you kill it? Bu Zhoushan is the biggest obstacle. Since he sent him down, I naturally can't let go of such a good opportunity. As for Fan Ye..." The man laughed softly , "He wants to be Jackie Chan, so I will take what we need with him. It can be regarded as a favor, what's wrong?"

The author has something to say: There is no charming villain in this article, he is not charming, not at all, just a villain, I will never write charming villains again!

As for Zhulan and Xiaobai, don’t think about it anymore... I swore that I would never write sub-cp in this article again (friends, move the knife quickly, your neck will be cut QAQ)

Then I want to tell you one thing. I will go to other places for research on the 4th-7th, 12-15th, and 25th-30th of this month. I will return to China for about 20 days for research next month, so the amount of updates will be reduced, but it will be Keep it above 3000, love you guys, meme.