Remembrance of Tianyin's Adventure

After returning home, Zhan Zhao didn't tell Bao Zheng what the fortune teller gave him. First, he didn't really believe what the charlatan said. Second, even if he said it, he probably only provoked Mr. Bao and Mr. Gongsun. Laugh, and then make fun of him.Instead of focusing on comprehending a word that he couldn't figure out at all, it would be better to go to the streets at night to patrol the streets to prevent this bizarre murder from happening again.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhan Zhao had just returned home during the night patrol, but saw his father-in-law Chen Lin rushing to deliver the decree.As soon as Chen Lin stepped into the flower hall, before she could stand still, she panted and said, "Quick! Everyone in Kaifeng Mansion accepts the order!"

Bao Zheng led the crowd to kneel down to salute, only to listen to Chen Lindao: "The Empress Dowager ordered that Bao Zheng, Zhan Zhao, and Gongsun Ce of the Kaifeng Mansion enter the palace immediately to have an audience!" Too slow, the queen mother will let you go to the palace first!"

Zhan Zhao was stunned, thinking, no matter how urgent the matter was before, he always entered the palace with Mr. Bao, why is he so abnormal today, and asked Chen Lin, "Eunuch, what happened?"

Chen Lin opened his mouth and closed it again, and sighed: "Don't ask, hurry up and enter the palace, or it will be too late!"

"Elder-in-law, why didn't you speak clearly?" Chen Lin's evasion made Zhan Zhao even more confused.

Chen Lin had no choice but to be questioned, and sighed: "Princess Taiping and Princess Anning were kidnapped by the vampire banshee!" Anning is Mei Niang's title.

"What? A vampire?" Zhan Zhao's mind flashed the image of the person who was sucked to death a few days ago. If Chunni fell into her hands...he didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Before Chen Lin could reply, Zhan Zhao had disappeared.

It was the first time that Zhan Zhao felt that his martial arts were not enough after he had obtained his master's martial arts for 60 years. He really wished that he could fly into the sky and escape from the earth, so he could rush to the palace in an instant.

——Afterwards, someone once asked him, how much does Mei Niang hold in his heart?He didn't answer, but asked himself in his heart, why was he only afraid of losing Chunni when he heard that Chunni and Mei Niang had an accident together that day——

Under the ancient temple outside the city, in an exquisite stone room, a woman in red is doing her makeup in front of the mirror. She has a beautiful face, but her face is bleak, as if her beauty is not reflected in the mirror at all, only the affection that has passed away is reflected. .

Chunni and Mei Niang were guarded by the maid and stood behind her.

A maid served a cup of tea, came to the woman in red, exchanged glances with her, brought the tea to Chunni and said, "Bring the tea to the master!"

Chunni glared at her, turned her face away, and said nothing.The maid said to Mei Niang again: "You take it!"

"Don't even think about it!" Although Mei Niang didn't know martial arts, she was unwilling to show weakness.

Only the woman in red said lazily: "Why, you are not willing to serve a mere cup of tea, how can I order my girl in the future?"

Chun Ni said: "Hmph! You devil, don't think that we are allowed to be bullied by you!" Pulling Meiniang by her side, she said to her: "Sister, don't be afraid, sister will not let her hurt you! "

The woman in red laughed wildly and said, "What a joke! Just relying on your martial arts?" Then, she flew up to Chuni like a ghost, put her hand on her neck and said, "I just need to move my fingers, You will die!"

Chun Ni smiled contemptuously and said, "I know, you can not only kill, but also suck blood!" She scolded, "You are a cold-blooded and ruthless devil!"

"You dare to call me ruthless!" The woman in red was so angry that her willow eyebrows stood on end, her eyes widened, and she threw Chuni out of her feet with a forceful hand.

"Sister!" Mei Niang broke free from the maid's control, ran over to help Chunni up and said, "Sister, how are you?"

Chun Ni wiped the blood from her lips, and said: "Don't worry, sister, she can't hurt me with this little ability!" Enduring the pain, she stood up stubbornly, and said to the woman in red: "Don't be complacent! Wait for my senior brother to come Let's see how he handles you!"

"Your senior brother? Zhan Zhao?" The woman in red smiled and said, "Do you know why I dared to kill people in the capital? Why did I dare to kill the Queen Mother? And why did I dare to arrest you, Nan Xia's most beloved junior sister?" Her eyes became sharper , said: "It's because I have practiced magic skills, I am not afraid of Zhan Zhao at all!"

Chun Ni thought to herself: "It seems that she really has nothing to fear! Although my senior brother is very strong in martial arts, she practiced magic skills after all. Senior brother, you should stop coming! It doesn't matter if I die, but I must not implicate you!"

Seeing her change of expression, the woman in red smiled and said, "If Zhan Zhao dares to come, he will seek his own death!"

"You're talking nonsense!" Mei Niang said firmly, "Brother Zhan won't lose to you! There is no one in this world who can beat Brother Zhan!" That expression didn't seem to be talking about a person, but rather God in heaven!

The woman in red was startled when she heard this, and realized that the princess in front of her had an unusual feeling for Zhan Zhao.

Only to hear Mei Niang say again: "Just wait, Big Brother Zhan will definitely kill you, the female devil!"

Just as he was talking, Guo Zhongqing came in and slapped Mei Niang in the face with a slap, but unexpectedly the woman in red stretched out her hand to stop him and said, "What do you want to do?"

Guo Zhongqing was full of anger, and said: "She dares to insult you! How can I spare her!" Puzzled: "Why did you stop me?"

The woman in red sighed: "She is also an infatuated person!" She waved her hand to let the maid take Meiniang and the two of them down, then turned around and sat down in front of the bronze mirror, stroking her black hair with her hands, with a lonely and lonely expression on her face.

Guo Zhongqing was behind her, looking at the enchanting back like autumn water, and said in his heart: "Do you know that I am also an infatuated person?"

Guo Zhongqing stood there for a long time, but he didn't see her paying attention to him, so he couldn't help asking: "Aren't you going to kill the queen mother? How did you bring back two village girls?"

The woman in red said: "They are not village girls, they are the empress dowager's two adopted daughters."

Guo Zhongqing wondered, "Why are you arresting them?"

"Do you think I think so?" The woman in red turned around and said, "My plan was flawless, but it was completely messed up by these two stinky girls!" She got up, walked to the stone table and sat down, picked up a brush and wrote it in a snow-white porcelain bowl. Drenched in blood, he said coldly: "However, these two princesses are not completely useless, I want to exchange them with the emperor!"

Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce rushed to the Empress Dowager's palace, and seeing Renzong sitting there, they immediately knelt down and saluted the emperor and ministers.

Renzong asked the two of them to be flat and said: "You two lovers, do you know what the empress dowager called for?"

Seeing the empress dowager's eyes were red and swollen, Bao Zheng cupped his hands and said, "But because of the robbery of the two princesses?"

Renzong sighed: "Chunni was kidnapped by a demon girl in order to save the queen mother, but Meiniang disappeared without reason. The queen mother is extremely worried!"

The Empress Dowager said dejectedly: "It's all the Ai family's fault, they shouldn't be taken out of the palace!" To Renzong, she said: "At the beginning, you all persuaded the Ai family to let Zhan Zhao escort them with you. If the Ai family accepted you, how could you..." The tears couldn't help but rolled down again.

Bao Zheng heard that the Queen Mother mentioned Zhan Zhao, and realized that Zhan Zhao was not here, so he asked, "Queen Mother, is it possible that Zhan's guards haven't entered the palace yet?" He thought, "He should have arrived long ago."

The queen mother said: "He went to investigate the place where the crime happened."

Bao Zheng nodded and asked, "Where did the two princesses disappear?"

The Empress Dowager said: "The old residence of Ai's family in the folk!"

Outside the courtyard of the Empress Dowager's former residence, Zhan Zhao looked at the three corpses parked side by side on the ground, and asked Xu Jingkun, the leader of the guards who stayed behind, "How many assassins are there?"

"There's only one person!" Xu Jingkun said, "And...it's a woman!" Dozens of inner guards were no match for a woman, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt ashamed.

Zhan Zhao recalled the Queen Mother's description, and asked, "The assassin is dressed in red like blood?"

Xu Jingkun said: "Not only that, but she can also suck human blood in an instant!" As he spoke, he walked to a dead body, lifted the white cloth covering his head and said, "Look! His neck!"

Zhan Zhao stepped forward to take a look, and found that the scars were very similar to those of the victim three days ago. He thought to himself: "Could it be the same person? But what is the purpose?" Just as he was thinking, he found a scar on the face of the corpse from the nose and mouth to the center of the eyebrows. The dark traces of gray and gray went straight into the bun, and he couldn't help but feel a twitch in his heart, and hurriedly ordered everyone: "Take off their shirts!"

Immediately, several guards came up and took off the shirts of the three deceased. Admiral Zhan Zhao carefully looked at the chest and back of the three of them one by one, and his expression became more dignified.

Seeing this dark mark, Xu Jingkun wondered: "Guard Zhan, why are their Ren and Du's veins turned blue-gray? They are only bloodthirsty by the witch, how come their meridians are also exhausted?"

Zhan Zhao hesitated for a while but didn't answer, and asked, "Why did the assassin kidnap Princess Taiping?"

Xu Jingkun said: "The demon girl wanted to assassinate the queen mother, but Princess Taiping was kidnapped by the demon girl in order to save the queen mother."

"Has she ever been injured?" Zhan Zhao asked eagerly, "Has she ever been sucked by a witch?"

"No!" Xu Jingkun said: "The princess's martial arts are far from those of the demon girl, and she was captured within ten moves. Although she only resisted for a moment, it was enough for us to come and escort her. If the princess wasn't here today, the queen mother would be in danger! "

Zhan Zhao asked again: "How did Princess An Ning disappear?"

Xu Jingkun took Zhan Zhao into a larger bedroom in the thatched hut, and said, "According to what the queen mother said, Princess Anning slept here last night, and the queen mother slept in the opposite room. Princess Taiping stayed in the living room all night to protect the queen mother. At Yinshi, Princess Taiping seemed to have noticed that there was movement in the house, but when she rushed there, she found that Princess Anning had disappeared. The queen mother and Princess Taiping went out to look for it, but they were assassinated by the demon girl just outside the house."

Zhan Zhao walked to the bed, looked at the smooth board and wondered, "Princess Anning was robbed, and even the bedding disappeared?"

"Exactly!" Xu Jingkun also felt very strange.

Zhan Zhao thought to himself: "Could the person who kidnapped Mei Niang be the same as the demon girl? If not, how could they have committed crimes in such a short period of time? If it was the same way, their target should be the Queen Mother, but why did they want to kidnap her?" Mei Niang?"

While thinking about it, he inspected this bedroom, and he always felt that something was wrong, until he found an old jujube walking stick leaning against the door, and saw a copper cupboard placed in the smaller bedroom opposite. Mirror, it suddenly dawned on me.

"But after Mei Niang was robbed, how was she brought out here without being noticed?" Zhan Zhaozheng was wondering, and accidentally saw a few pink silk threads sandwiched between the cracks of the bed boards. The silk was of very high quality. Knowing is a thing in the palace.He suddenly thought of something, reached out and knocked on the bed board, and heard the sound that the bed was empty, then pushed lightly, and the bed board was a little loose, and then pushed harder, and the bed board turned over completely.There was actually a square hole under the bed board, enough for one person to hide in the hole.Although the cave was empty at the moment, there was a set of messy bedding and a pink purse in the corner.It turned out that those few pink silk threads were the silk pendant on the purse.

Zhan Zhao picked up the purse, only to see that both sides were embroidered with exquisite craftsmanship, but the patterns were different.The front is embroidered with winding red plums, but the back is a precious sword. Upon closer inspection, Zhan Zhao is even more surprised—the shape, color and decorative pattern of the scabbard seem to be his giant sword!