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Ming Chengdian Study Room.

Ling Qi reported the matter of Qian Nuo Lou one by one, the emperor nodded after listening, and asked: "How is Dong Jun, is there any injury?"

"..."

To be honest, Ling Qi felt that these two people were becoming more and more strange, and His Majesty seemed to know everything about Dong Jun, but Dong Jun didn't seem to know much.

Ling Qi suppressed the doubts in his heart, restrained his mind and said in a respectful voice: "I was not injured in the battle of Qiannuolou, but I feel that..."

Ling Qi recalled how Ji Wuyue leaned against the tree with pale lips, thought about his words and continued: "Dongjun seems to be suffering from an old illness, and I think his complexion is not very good. I mentioned a few words, but Dongjun seems to be a bit jealous of his illness, so he doesn't want to say more about it."

As soon as the words fell, the emperor immediately asked in a deep voice, "Where did he go?"

Seeing the emperor's sudden frown, Ling Qi became even more suspicious, and hurriedly replied: "Dongjun left half a day earlier than my ministers, and at noon on the [-]rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Qiannuo Tower was wiped out, so Dongjun left on his own. The minister asked a question, and he only said that he was going to Qingzhou."

After writing the desk, Ling Ye tightened his hand on the armchair, and immediately regretted it.

There is no old illness on Chu Heng's body. Since Ling Qi said that he was not injured in Qiannuolou, it can only be that the method he used to return to Mahayana was extremely harmful. Ling Ye had thought about it, but he still underestimated it. level of pain.That day when he saw that Chu Heng's eyes were full of earnestness, he didn't stop him any more. If he had known this earlier, he would never have let Chu Heng go.

He rubbed the center of his brows, nodded slightly to Ling Qi to indicate that he understood, then turned to Rong Shan and asked, "What did you find?"

Rong Shan, the vice-commander of the Son of Heaven's Shadow Guard, was ordered to leave Beijing on the [-]th of Dongyue, secretly went to Lishan Mountain, and did not return until today. Hearing the emperor's question, Rong Shan nodded and raised his eyes to report: "Yes, I have checked all the information on Lishan Mountain in the past two years. Among the important people who passed away, there was only one person related to Lishan Dongjun, the former Qingnang Pavilion master of Lishan, and he was Dongjun's uncle in terms of seniority."

"About three years ago, this person failed to enter the Mahayana and went mad, and was imprisoned in the Tianshuang Terrace of Lishan Mountain. At least he survived. But something went wrong. A year ago, he suddenly escaped from the Tianshuang Terrace formation He came out and started a massacre on Lishan Mountain, but in the end it was really helpless, Dong Jun Ji Wuyue personally took action, and it was settled."

There was silence in the study for a moment, the emperor didn't know what he was thinking, and after a while he said: "Dong Jun used a sword at that time?"

Rong Shan was stunned for a moment, Junji Wuyue of Lishan Mountain is famous for her swordsmanship, everyone in Dayin Kyushu knows it well, the master of Qingsang Pavilion in Lishan Mountain is not a simple person, his inner strength became even worse after he became mad, Dongjun killed him What you want is speed, of course you have to use a sword.

Rong Shan didn't understand why the emperor asked such a question, so he collected his thoughts, nodded and said: "Yes, seal the throat with a sword."

Ling Ye's heart sank, and he closed his eyes, "How was the relationship between the Green Sac Pavilion Master and Chu Heng?"

How could this have something to do with Imperial Attendant Mo again?The emperor's question today was very jumpy, Rong Shan and Ling Qi glanced at each other quietly, both of them were a little confused.Fortunately, Tianzi Yingwei has always been able to find out everything clearly when checking people. Of course, people and things that are close to him are no exception.

Rong Shan said: "I have checked all the deeds of the master of Qingnang Pavilion during this trip. When Chu Shimo was studying art in Lishan, he was taken care of by this little uncle. In terms of age, he is ten years older than Chu Shimo. It can also be said that he watched and accompanied Chu Shimo to grow up, and according to my research, the relationship should be extraordinary."

Ling Ye's heartstrings tightened, and he raised his hand to press his forehead.On the seventeenth day of the winter moon, he once ordered someone to go to the Jiange hidden in the Hall of Martial Arts to get a sword from Lishan, in order to test Lishan Dongjun Ji Wuyue, to see if he really "can't hold the sword".

Everything went smoothly unexpectedly, the sword directly pierced Dong Jun's defense, and stepped on his weakness without any mistake.Ling Ye still remembers Ji Wuyue's gloomy and painful eyes when she saw the sword. Today, there is no need to search any more, everything has the answer——

That sword was stained with the blood of Pavilion Master Qingnang, and it was the hole in Chu Heng's heart that would hurt for a long time even if he touched it lightly.

Seeing the emperor's silence for a long time, Rong Shan looked at the expression on his face, and said in a low voice carefully: "Your Majesty, besides this, I have also found two things."

Ling Ye came back to his senses, exhaled softly, "Let's talk."

"Yes." Rong Shan said, "One is that Dongjun Ji Wuyue has not shown up in Lishan Mountain for nearly a year after she killed Qingnang Pavilion Master with her sword. I sent someone to check everything related to Lishan Mountain. Localities, including Guangling Lushui, Yunzhou Cangwu City, Qingzhou Qianyong City, and the naturalization records of various passes and city gates in Dayin Kyushu, have not found any traces of Ji Wuyue. Until... ..."

Rong Shan paused for a moment, seeing the emperor's expression getting more and more gloomy, he said bravely: "It was not until the twelfth day of the winter month that Chu Shimo's disease relapsed, and Dong Jun came to Luyuan to recuperate his meridians, and then he showed up in the imperial capital. So my minister Thinking about it, in the past year, Dongjun may have retreated..."

"No."

Rong Shan was half-talking, when he suddenly heard the emperor's background interrupt, his heart skipped a beat, he looked up and saw that the emperor's face was sinking like water, he was in a bad mood, he answered "yes" and nodded without saying anything .

Previously, Ling Ye couldn't figure out why Chu Heng didn't want to be a good Mahayana Dongjun, and insisted on coming to the imperial capital for the sin of being under pressure.Lishan has never been involved in the affairs of the court. If you take ten thousand steps back, even if you really want to spy on some information, you will not send their Dongjun to seduce the emperor, even if you want to assassinate him. It's also impossible.

Ling Ye knew in his heart that Chu Heng came here voluntarily. As soon as he arrived in the imperial capital, he was thrown into the Hall of Martial Arts by Zhong Pinghou as an abandoned son. The grievances he suffered in Lishan in the past 20 years are probably not as good as those in the imperial capital. More than a month.

Rong Shan's investigation gave him the answer, Ling Ye thought, the reason why Chu Heng is willing to stay here is probably because he has kept his heart here.

But when he chose to come to the imperial capital, it was probably because the knot in his heart couldn't be untied after a year, but became more and more entangled instead, which made him not only unable to hold the sword, but also didn't want to face his other self-Killer The Lishan Mountain Lord who died of his uncle.He would rather come to the imperial capital, as Chu Heng, even if he has to be looked down upon, scorned and wronged by others.

As long as it can escape, as long as it can give him a breather.

Ling Ye's heart twitched violently, he barely suppressed the turbulent emotions, and asked Rong Shan, "What's the other thing?"

"I have carefully checked the identity of the Qingnang Pavilion master." Rong Shan said, "It is recorded in Lishan's Taoist certificate that his surname is Ming and Yuan, but I feel that there is something strange about it."

"After the death of the master of the Mingyuan Pavilion, he was not buried in the cemetery at the back of Lishan Mountain. Instead, he was buried in Lushui, Guangling. More than 20 years ago, that piece of land was the former site of the Erfei Medicine Sect. Therefore, I boldly speculate that the master of the Mingyuan Pavilion in Lishan Mountain may be the orphan of Er Fei, and may even... have a surname of Guihai." It is the same as the late emperor's imperial concubine Huiyuan.

Erfei Medicine Sect is a secretive existence in Dayin.

In Emperor Lie's later years, the princes competed for the heir, and the Erfei Medicine Sect was once involved in the battle for the heir.After the first emperor came to the throne, under the advice of the Yanxi Zhong family, Cangwu Fang family, Dingkang Zhou family and several other families, he decreed to kill the Er Fei Medicine School on the charge of regicide.Lishan and Erfei are family friends, and several family heads had proposed to kill Lian, but the late emperor didn't want to involve too much, so he dismissed the scriptures and only ordered to knock one or two before turning over the chapter.

There were some fish that slipped through the cracks in the eradication of the Erfei Medicine Sect back then, and the first emperor's imperial concubine Huiyuan was one of them.

Her real name is Gui Haiyanlan, she is the daughter of the suzerain of the medicine sect, and she has learned the truth about witch doctors.Two years after the collapse of the Erfei Medicine Sect, she entered the palace with a new identity as a son of a good family in Gyeongju, and spent 14 long years in the imperial city poisoning the late emperor.

——This is a palace secret that has never been recorded in the history books.

In the heart of the first emperor, the noble concubine Huiyuan was a very special existence. She died before the first emperor, even though the first emperor knew everything later, he still gave her the extremely precious posthumous title of "Yuan" and buried her as an imperial concubine Entered the imperial mausoleum.

But whether the imperial concubine is willing or not, future generations will not know.

Lishan, the deceased Mingyuan pavilion master, is very likely to be a descendant of the Er Fei medicine sect.After all, this involved the late emperor, since Rong Shan found out, he reported the truth.

As expected, the emperor just nodded after hearing this, ordered him to destroy the case file, and let it go.

With mixed feelings, Ling Ye said "hard work" to the two of them, gave him some rewards, and ordered them to go down and rest.

After Ling Qi and Rong Shan resigned, he was the only one left in Ming Chengdian's study.

Ling Ye's heart is full of Chu Heng at the moment, wanting to see him immediately, worrying about his body, feeling sorry for his past, regretting letting him go... All these emotions are intertwined, making Ling Ye restless.

He walked back and forth in the study room a few times, took out the seal of "Master of Mountains and Rivers" from his arms, and rubbed it over and over in his palm.Ten fingers connected to the heart, the warm touch of suet white jade spread to the fingertips, not only did not relieve the confusion in his heart, but made him want to see the person who engraved the seal even more, and let time fly to tomorrow immediately.

In the morning of the next day, in the carriage in front of Luyuan on the outskirts of the imperial capital.

Ling Ye calculated the distance from Gyeongju to the imperial capital in his mind—he knew that Chu Heng would definitely choose a long way to avoid Ling Qi. The time from the [-]rd to the [-]th was still too short. To travel day and night.

Last night, he was so anxious and anxious, now that this moment has really come, Ling Ye wants to see Chu Heng, but he doesn't want to see him so soon - rather than hugging him immediately, Ling Ye hopes that Chu Heng can cherish himself more.

Hearing the approaching footsteps outside the car, Ling Ye hoped that the shadow guard who had just knocked on the door would come back alone, but——

Chu Heng followed the shadow guard all the way to the carriage. He thought His Majesty had sent someone to pick him up and return to the palace. He lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw the person in front of him.

Sitting in the car, Ling Ye saw Chu Heng's pale face and the joy overflowing in his eyes, and suddenly felt a deep pain in his heart.

"Come here," he stretched out his hand towards Chu Heng, his brows furrowed, and his voice was gentle, "I'll give you a hug."