Tang riddles

The next day, things seemed to be beyond Shen Sui's expectation.Zhao Zi'an, who received the news yesterday, hastily went to the Lanling Xiao family to pick up Xiao Keqin from the mansion together with a few capable young men from the Qianyu sect sent to him by Bai Wuding early this morning.Those young men dressed up as apprentices of Zhao's Medical Center, followed Zhao Zi'an, entered the mansion smoothly, and received courtesy.After Zhao Zi'an proposed to take Zhao Shi and Xiao Keqin's mother and son out of the house for a short period of time, Xiao Shi did not object.Everything went smoothly as if in a dream, before lunch time, Xiao Keqin was sent to Guiyan Station.

Ying Niang immediately took over the treatment, and the brothers and sisters of the Zhao family accompanied anxiously, they only had a face-to-face meeting with Shen Sui, thanked them briefly, and did not have any further in-depth conversations.

"Sect Master, what's going on here?" Hall Master Bai Wu Ding Bai felt a little baffled.

"Things won't be so simple." Shen Sui didn't waver easily, "Wait and see what happens, there will definitely be movement in the Xiao family."

Shen Sui was not wrong in the end.In the evening, Xiao Keqin's treatment was still going on, but Guiyan Station welcomed an unexpected visitor.

The uninvited guest came alone, without any weapons, dressed in a refreshing and chic cross-collared green robe, with a long beard and a handsome face.But there was a bit of sullenness between his brows and eyes. Although he was smiling, it could be seen that he was not happy from the bottom of his heart.

He walked in through the main entrance, Shen Sui had received the notification long ago, and greeted him in the courtyard.As soon as he saw Shen Sui, he smiled and stepped forward, bowed his hands and saluted, saying:

"Mr. Bozhao, it's better to meet you than to be famous. It's a great fortune to meet you today."

"Don't dare to be. Dare I ask you?" Shen Sui felt that this person had a kind face, as if he had seen him somewhere before, but he couldn't recognize him.

"I'm Xiao Ao, whose style name is Xuanshi, and I'm the fourth in the same generation. Xiao Qiaofu (Xiao Song's style name is Qiaofu) is my elder brother."

Shen Sui raised his eyebrows, and suddenly smiled and said: "I really don't know Mount Tai. It turns out that he is the younger brother of the first assistant prime minister. Sui has met Mr. Xuanshi."

"Mr. Bo Zhao is too polite."

"Mr. Xuanshi, please come in quickly, come and serve tea!" Shen Sui stepped aside.

Hutuo on the side was busy.

"Mr. Bo Zhao please." Xiao Kai humbly said.

The two greeted each other all the way, entered the guest room and divided the guests and hosts into their seats. Not long after, Hutuo had already served tea.

"I don't know Mr. Xuanshi is here, what advice do you have?"

"In front of Mr. Bo Zhao, how dare you talk about the word "advice". He is naturally dull. In recent years, he has been troubled by a big matter and cannot explain it. Today, I want to ask Mr. Bo Zhao for advice." Xiao Kai said.

"Oh? Brother Xuanshi, don't rush to speak, can I let you guess." Shen Sui laughed.

Xiao Kai cast a curious gaze, and said, "Of course, Mr. Bo Zhao, please tell me."

"Brother Xuanshi, you came here for the antidote to heart poison. Or to be more precise, you came here to decipher the location of the Holy Church's main altar." The copper pot lid, the dense water mist transpiration, immediately covered her face, and her smiling expression was blurred in the white mist.

The room suddenly fell into silence, Xiao Kai seemed to be choked by someone's throat, unable to utter a word for a long time.I don't know how long it took before he opened his mouth and said:

"Mr. Bo Zhao, what do you mean by that?"

"Brother Xuanshi, my time is very tight, and you must be too. We don't have to go around with each other, and you don't have to spend so much brains making up stories to lure me into the bait and lure me to solve the maze for you. Let's be honest, how can I help you?" ?In this extraordinary period, the people who followed Xiao Keqin's footsteps here must be for the sake of poison and the maze, and would not think otherwise. Besides, you must have been staring at me for a long time, otherwise you would not have In the process of getting started, before anyone can introduce me, you recognize me and come forward to say hello. You are so earnest, how can I not be considerate?"

Xiao Kai stared at Shen Sui, and after a while he smiled and said:

"What a Xue Dao is decisive, and his reputation is well-deserved."

"You are also a character. Knowing that this place is my territory, you dare to break in alone. You have the guts. Of course, I know you want to do business with me, right?" Shen Sui divided the tea with a teaspoon, Pushing the teacup to Xiao Ao, said:

"Please, don't worry, I won't do poisoning."

"Hmph!" Xiao Kai sneered, picked up the teacup, and took a small sip.

He put down the tea cup, and just about to speak, Shen Sui said unexpectedly:

"Xiao Xiang, is he also your henchman?"

Xiao Kai's thoughts that had just been sorted out were disrupted, and he clenched his hands on his knees.He took a deep breath and replied:

"He's not one of my henchmen."

This remark was specious, but it also achieved Shen Sui's purpose of disturbing the other party's mind, so she did not pursue it.

Xiao Kai cleared his throat and said with a gloomy expression:

"I came here to get back my unsatisfied subordinate."

"Bai Liuniang? Who is she to you?"

"...Mr. Bo Zhao is really perceptive." Xiao Kai sneered, "She is my subordinate and also my lover."

"Then, among the six priests, which one are you?" Shen Sui asked.Bai Liuniang's position in the cult is the pope, and above the twelve popes, there are only priests. Shen Sui doesn't think that the person in front of him is either the saint or the great pope.

"The Great Sacrifice of Human Beings." Xiao Kai answered very frankly.

"I'm sorry, but with all due respect, I'm afraid the high priest of mankind is not you." Shen Sui said.

Xiao Kai looked at her, his complexion gradually turned blue, and he said:

"Shen Sui, what exactly do you know?"

"Your elder brother, Xiao Song and Xiang Xiang, is the high priest of mankind. Although you know your brother's identity, you are not a high priest. You don't have to lie to me anymore, I said , What exactly do you want, be honest, and I will naturally decide how to cooperate with you."

"Okay, I understand." Xiao Kai stared at Shen Sui firmly, "I am indeed not the high priest of human beings, but I am indeed a member of a cult. I was poisoned and was kept in the Xiao's mansion in Lanling for a long time. The cult controls my elder brother's proton. Bai Liuniang, originally a maidservant in my Xiao family's mansion, is clever and has a keen sense of taste. She has known me since childhood and joined the cult with my two brothers. She was later promoted by my elder brother as pope , and was sent out to perform tasks. She is my most beloved woman, and I don’t want to live in such a life of being controlled by others. My brother was bewitched by a cult, and he wholeheartedly worked for the cult, but I don’t want to be with him anymore. I I just want to find Bai Liuniang, enter the cult general altar with her, find the antidote to lift the shackles on us, and then take her away. I came today to betray the sect, Shen Sui, I confess everything, and I have nothing to say. There is no way out, my request is to use everything I know in exchange for the opportunity for you to protect me and Bai Liuniang to go to the cult's main altar and get the antidote."

"Let's listen to what you said first, and then I'll consider whether to bring you along." Shen Sui didn't care.

"No, you have to take me with you, I'll tell you later." Xiao Kai said.

Shen Sui sighed and said: "Brother Xuanshi, no matter what you know, I'm going to the main altar. Without you, I have a detailed plan, and having you is at best the icing on the cake. I don't know any news about you right now Whether it can bring me benefits, and you are so eager to get out of the control of the cult, but I can't help but wonder if I will be exposed early with you. My current situation is not clear, and I have many things to consider Yes. It’s the same sentence, I hope you can tell me frankly. I have always rewarded those who cooperate sincerely.”

Xiao Kai gritted his teeth.

"Since you plan to betray the cult, shouldn't you show some sincerity? Or, do you want to be left behind by us on the way to the cult's main altar, and die of thirst and starvation in the desert?" Shen Sui continued to walk step press.

"Okay, let me tell you!" Xiao Kai's expression became sluggish, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "I know three secrets, the first one, the person who gave Xiao Keqin the maze model is the saint herself."

"What did you say...?" Shen Sui frowned, "Tell me in detail."

"My brother, Bai Liuniang and I are all members of the Great Pope. We naturally know who are in our camp. Except for my elder brother's human priests, the great priests of heaven, earth, and vegetation are all the Great Pope." The people of the camp. Under the Holy Maiden, there are only two priests, the High Priest of Water and the High Priest of Ten Thousand Beasts. Originally, the power is not balanced, but the Holy Maiden controls the maze formation of the Holy Church's main altar, and at the same time controls tens of thousands of people outside. The antidote to the heart poison of the members of the holy church, so they can be evenly matched. Right now the Pope and the saint have not broken their faces, but the church has already formed a situation of incompatibility.

When that person arrived half a year ago, I overheard from a hidden stake in the city that the High Priest of Water, Anna Yi, appeared in the city with Tang Shisan.Although they only stayed for a short time before leaving, but being able to lure these two people to stay in the city for a while, this person's status is so high that only a person who is comparable to the saint can afford it.There are rumors in the religion that there is a strange person called "Goddess of Thousand Faces" beside the saint, who can change thousands of different appearances, dress up as anyone in the world, and has the miraculous ability to imitate.Maybe that person is the goddess of thousands of faces, but this is just a legend. No one has ever seen the goddess of thousands of faces. Whether she exists or not is a question. "

"The Goddess with Thousand Faces..." Shen Sui frowned and thought about it. After a while, she suddenly remembered something and asked:

"Let me ask you, after the incident of Mrs. Yan happened in Chang'an last April, almost all the cults in Chang'an were wiped out, and only a few people disappeared. Among them was an old woman who had been with Mrs. Yan all year round. This old woman, Who is it?"

"My elder brother mentioned to me that when he was in Chang'an, he went to see Mrs. Yan and the old woman beside her. He mentioned in the letter that the old woman was the person behind the scenes in Chang'an at that time. It might be the Goddess of Thousand Faces in disguise."

"So, is it possible that the saint was in Chang'an at that time?" Shen Sui asked.

"No, this possibility is unlikely. There have been rumors in the church that the saint has no way to leave the main altar, and has lived in the main altar for many years... So, I suspect that the possibility of the thousand-faced goddess is still greater."

No wonder, people in the cult thought that Mrs. Yan was the "Holy Maiden". It turned out that they had judged her identity through the fact that the "Goddess with Thousand Faces" was by her side.However, in fact, this was a bluff, probably aimed at the Pope.If it is true that the Holy Maiden cannot leave the main altar, then her sudden appearance in Chang'an will undoubtedly surprise the Great Pope, and may cause confusion.

So... what is the purpose of disturbing the Grand Pope's sight?

After thinking about it, Shen Sui still felt that he still didn't know some details about the case of the strange ape of mercy. Why did Shanyin face the northeast and hang himself on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda?What exactly was the content of the informant letter to the abbot?What did Shanyin do back then?What does it have to do with the massacre in Princess Taiping's Mansion?

So many unclear details are deliberately concealed because they involve conflicts within the cult?Otherwise, just like the case of Zhu Yuanmao, the truth should be revealed directly.After the Ci'en strange ape case, because she found an old file stored in Dali Temple, and because of the outbreak of Zhu Yuanmao's kidnapping case, she was immediately led to the area along the Yangtze River.Could it be that at that time...the saintess led her away on purpose?If you stay in Chang'an, what will happen?

Shen Sui pondered for a long while without any movement, then Xiao Kai asked:

"Shen Bozhao, have you thought about it? I've told you everything I know, you have to keep your word."

"Don't worry, if you do business with me, you will never be cheated." Shen Sui said.

"I want to see Liu Niang."

Shen Sui saw that he was an aristocratic man, and it was not easy to be so affectionate, so he called Hutuo who was guarding outside to come in and told Hutuo to take Xiao Kai to see Bai Liuniang, and then sent him away directly.Before leaving, Xiao Kai asked:

"It's said that Xue Dao Ming Duan is extremely intelligent. Can you solve the maze?"

"Almost forgot to ask, what solution do you have for the maze?"

"If I want a solution, I still need to come to you?" Xiao Kai said angrily, "I only know that the maze is the key to guide us to unlock the maze formation outside the main altar, and it should be left to you by the saint on purpose. He didn’t want the Pope to know about it, so he kept it secret. According to legend, the main altar is in the sandstorm of the desert, the direction is difficult to distinguish, and the mirage harms people. Without the guidance of a map and a compass, it is impossible to solve the maze of wind and sand.”

"I understand. Don't worry, I will definitely find the main altar. Our goals are the same. I will do my best without your urging."

"That's good." Xiao Kai sighed, left this sentence, and walked out of the guest room.

After Xiao Kai left, Shen Sui sat alone in the guest room thinking.It is impossible for the saintess not to know about Xiao Kai's existence, and she should have expected Xiao Kai to come back to find her.Perhaps this is the reason why he chose the Xiao family in Lanling, Liangzhou, because Xiao Kai had a plan of rebellion and would not hand over the labyrinth to the Great Pope.But even so, he was still worried. He stayed here for half a year just to ensure that the maze would not be taken away by the Grand Pope's people.In this way, everything makes sense.

Goddess with Thousand Faces... Shen Sui frowned, she couldn't help thinking of the mysterious old woman who changed the faces of her and Qin Nu.With such a miraculous disguise technique, how could there be two in this world, could it be one person?But... this doesn't seem to be in line with common sense.

"Alas..." She sighed, ready to stand up and move around.Sitting for a long time, the legs are numb.

But just as she was about to get up, a fragrant wind blew past her.She almost wanted to slap her with a backhand like a conditioned reflex, but she quickly stopped her movements.Before she could turn her head completely, she felt something soft leaning against her back, and a pair of arms wrapped around her waist.Looking down, the lotus flowers blooming on the white sleeves seemed to emit fragrance.

"The lotus maid..."

"What are you thinking about? You're so preoccupied. The treatment at Xiongniang's side is over, and dinner is set up in the canteen, let's have dinner with everyone. Oops..." Zhang Ruohan suddenly exclaimed in a low voice at the end of her words.

"Well, I just happened to be hungry." She turned around, smiled and took her into her arms, and gently stroked her tall belly.

"This kid kicked you just now, and I can feel it."

"The fetus has been moving quite frequently recently, and she said she is about to give birth." Zhang Ruohan said with a smile.

"Naughty, always kicking you, wait and see how I teach her when I come out."

"You're not allowed to mess around!" Zhang Ruohan glared at her.

"Okay, okay, you have the final say." Shen Sui was very depressed, the lotus maid's love for children became more and more serious, and she deeply felt that her status was threatened.If she was pregnant by herself, would the roles be reversed?

She raised her forehead and thought for a while, then vetoed her own idea, regardless of whether she was pregnant or not, anyway, the lotus maid was in charge of this small family.

The author has something to say: I'm sorry I haven't updated it for many days, I've been sick all the time.Then the update should start normally.