At this moment, Lu Marry also understood the meaning of her words.
She believed that she was able to survive because of the secret arrangement of the empress, and it was impossible for someone like that empress to fall into the trap for no reason. Since she was allowed to live, it must be because there was something else she needed to do.
But if that's the case, then what is that thing
Tang Yu himself didn't know.
But she desperately wanted to know, because she had a vague hunch that this matter must be very important and must be about His Highness.
Even though she knew her empress' plan for her, and even though she just felt absurd and disgusting about her life arrangement, she still chose to believe her, because without her, she would have died on that night not long after she was born.
After all, what is more important than life
Lu Marry asked: "If it is as you guessed, it should be something, you know, but His Highness doesn't know."
Tang Yu immediately said: "As long as there is a slightly bigger matter, I will inform His Highness immediately. How can you hide anything?"
Lu Marian opened the curtain and looked at her weak and pale face. Tang Yu met the woman's eyes that were as clear as snow-capped mountains and streams, and suddenly calmed down.
Lu Marry's voice was cold and soft: "Think carefully about what happened recently. Is there anything weird?"
Tang Yu closed his eyes and pondered for a while, his eyelids trembling as if he was quickly recalling everything that had happened recently.
Weird things…
Tang Yu suddenly opened his eyes and said uncertainly:
"I met a boy."
"juvenile?"
"Well, his name is Ning Changjiu."
"Ning Jiujiu?" Lu Jianjian was slightly stunned, thinking that the things in the world were really coincidences, but this young man was indeed weird.
Tang Yu didn't notice her strange look and continued: "He was a Taoist priest invited by Zhao Shisong to exorcise evil spirits and treat me. He could tell at a glance that I was pretending to be sick. He sneaked into my room at midnight and threatened me. , asked me about some things about the young lady, and... he was very powerful, and he broke my formation in one fell swoop. At that time, I wanted to kill Zhao Shisong, but he stopped me."
"Very powerful?" Lu Jiaoyou had examined Ning Changjiu's body and found that his aptitude was mediocre and nothing special. When Tang Yu said that he broke the formation, she just thought it was because of some strange skill.
"Didn't you tell Zhao Xianger about him?" Lu Marian asked.
Tang Yu shook his head and said: "I immediately summoned the messenger bird and told His Highness the matter."
Lu Marian frowned and said, "Since I've been informed, do you still have any doubts?"
"No..." Tang Yu narrowed his eyes and recalled: "There was another assassin who shot with me that night, and he was also one of ours, because Ning Jiujiu and his junior sister were involved in this matter. In order not to expose His Highness to To cause trouble, we took it upon ourselves to get rid of them. So that night, not long after Ning Chang came to my room, the assassin went to kill her junior sister."
"Ning Xiaoling?" Thinking of this name, the girl's cute face appeared in Lu Marian's mind, but her heart felt cold, and her fists involuntarily tightened.
This time Tang Yu also noticed something strange about her. She thought about it and nodded: "It seems to be called this."
Lu Marian said coldly: "That little girl...what's so special about her?"
Tang Yu recalled: "I met the assassin in private afterwards. He told me about the scene that night. The little girl was extremely agile and seemed to have an innate sense of danger. Even if he made a series of surprise attacks, I tried several knives, but none of them hit me. The most important thing is..."
Lu Marian thought back to that young girl. She had also explored her body. She started practicing cultivation too late. She could not even reach the Nascent Realm at this moment. It was really hard to imagine that she had escaped the assassination just by relying on intuition.
She looked at Tang Yu's incredulous look and asked, "What is the most important thing?"
Tang Yu raised his head, looked at the woman in white, and asked, "I wonder if the assassin was dazzled by it. That little girl... seemed to have an innate spirit."
"What?" Lu Marry was also surprised: "Innate spirit?"
The innate spirit is an innate spirit that is hidden in the purple palace of the body. People who possess the innate spirit are equivalent to having two things absorbing spiritual energy at the same time when practicing, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
In this world, the number of people who can cultivate is only one in a thousand, and those who possess innate spirits are even rarer. Even Yujian Tianzong has never seen a few.
Ning Xiaoling's bones were actually better than she imagined... No wonder she looked a little weird when she asked about her innate spirit that day.
No, if you just have an innate spirit, it can only be regarded as a little girl hiding her clumsiness. The real point is definitely not here.
An idea flashed into Lu Marian's mind like a flash of lightning. She frowned and said in a cold voice, "What is Ning Xiaoling's innate spirit?"
Tang Yu thought about it carefully and said uncertainly: "According to what the assassin said, it was a creature the size of a kitten. It seemed like... a fox with a docked tail?"
At that moment, Lu Marry's heart was filled with excitement, as if a flash of lightning had occurred.
Her voice became hoarse unconsciously: "What...what did you say?"
Tang Yu looked at her frosty face and wondered where her fear came from, so he repeated: "If I'm not mistaken, it should be a fox."
"Fox..." Lu Marian closed her eyes, and her tense and stiff body relaxed little by little. She sighed: "I see... I know what your empress wants you to tell her... I will take you to see Zhao Xiang'er."
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Between the clear jade spring pool at the back of the palace, there is a screen of light and mist. Only the sound of splashing water can be heard from time to time. The jade lotus lanterns float on the water, and follow the light of the girl's fingers, moving far and near, slowly spinning.
The crystal clear water drops fell from the pointing point, sliding over the icy jade skin and the girl's graceful and undulating young body, melting away the fatigue of the day. In the clear and shallow ripples, in the almost exhausted sea of Zifu Qi, the soul The strength is overflowing, just like this warm and sweet spring.
After a long time, Zhao Xiang'er wrapped herself in a bathrobe, walked out from behind the three gauze screens, and curled up in the mist.
At this moment, she had released all her murderous intent, and she was just a beautiful girl. She took off a long and luxurious dress from the wooden stand with engraved phoenix birds, tried it on her body, and finally I put it down and only picked up a plain-colored singlet.
The girl lifted up her long hair that was as wet as seaweed at the moment. Her slender eyebrows were like the crescent moon after the rain. Her thin lips were slightly raised, glowing with a delicate red color. At this moment, her slender snow-white neck and crystal clear earlobes , the spotless jade dimples are all glowing with the faint crimson color of the palace lanterns, which only makes people feel that the pink jade carvings are bright and moving, and there is no trace of the awe-inspiring feeling of holding the sword to the sky to kill the big monster.
Zhao Xiang'er slowly walked to the window and looked at the night. After the continuous autumn rain, the autumn moon was hazy between the evening clouds at night.
She tilted her lips slightly, recalling the time when she sat under the banyan tree and watched the sunset, and couldn't help but smile slightly.
But her mother never showed up, and there was still a lingering regret in her heart.
In the past ten years or so, she was basically raised by her mother, running all over the mountains and plains. Only on her birthday every year, her mother would personally cook a bowl of longevity noodles for herself, and even then, she would always cook it lightly. The veil covers her face. Even though I was born as a daughter, I have never really seen my mother's face more than ten years ago.
She thought of those ten years of carefree life, and also recalled that three years ago, when she was one against the crowd and suddenly enlightened, she actually started to practice hard.
It was absolutely unimaginable that Rong Guo's sword master had not even entered Xuan when he shattered his scabbard.
But now, her borrowed purple court realm has been returned to the Suzaku Burning Fire Pestle, and her own power is still just wandering around the immortal world, and she is still some distance away from longevity.
Three years of practicing Taoism is an unbelievable myth even on the mountain. To use various means to reach the Immortal Realm and finally kill a great demon that has risen to the top of the Five Paths is even more unbelievable.
She should be proud enough.
But for some reason, her Taoist heart could never be truly peaceful.
The girl in snow-white single clothes thought of something, casually pulled on a wide-sleeved double-breasted robe and walked into the night.
In the Jiazi Palace, there was no obstruction. Zhao Xiang'er reached the deepest part, enshrined the fairy sword back on the bronze sword stand, then turned around and headed to another room.
There were many familiar objects piled up in that room. Many of the things that were collected from the Qianyu Palace after it was destroyed are now placed here together.
Zhao Xiang'er found an old wooden box based on her memory. Fortunately, the wooden box was not destroyed by the fire. She opened the box and rummaged around, and found a letter like a book under some strange toys she received when she was a child. The letter was folded like a piece of paper. The letter was more than ten years old, but it was no longer old. The word "marriage" on the front page still looked as new as ever.
This is a marriage letter.
On her sixth birthday, her mother gave her the marriage letter, saying that the person in the letter was the person she would marry in the future, and that the marriage letter was for ten years. If she doesn't want to marry, the marriage letter can be torn up at any time.
When she was a child, she was ignorant and asked her sister in the palace. The sister told her the word "husband" in a hesitant and mysterious way. The little girl didn't take it seriously. She just thought it was an interesting toy, so she kept it and put it away. In the box.
At that time, the marriage letter and the unknown husband were naturally unattractive compared to these interesting toys, so they sank to the bottom of the box unknowingly.
She will be sixteen tomorrow, and the ten-year marriage letter will be invalidated soon. Of course she doesn't want to get married so early, but she always has some curiosity about who the person on the other side of the marriage letter is.
It shouldn't be an easy marriage for my mother to agree to.
She reopened the marriage contract and read it again. She was already familiar with the contents. The marriage contract only said that she would marry a close disciple of a certain Guanzhu.
Since it is written like this, it means that the closed disciple must not have been found at that time.
Originally, she just thought that if the little Taoist priest dared to pester her, she would just tear up the marriage contract. Anyway, her mother had said that this matter was entirely up to her own wishes.
It’s just that so many years have passed... still not found
The owner of this small Taoist temple is quite miserable... But if he knows my mother, he must not be an ordinary practitioner, right
She held the marriage certificate and turned it over casually in her hand. She looked at the two twisted seals at the end and recognized it for a while. One of them was the seal of Qianyu Palace, with a very strange "Holding the Moon" engraved on it. There are four words "昘云", and the other one is written even more like a flying dragon and a phoenix. It can only be seen clearly that the first one is the word "no".
She recognized it for a while, no longer thought about it, and put the elusive marriage letter into her sleeve.
"This little Taoist priest is lucky." Zhao Xiang'er muttered to himself and looked back at the other objects in the house, thinking that if the Qianyu Palace was rebuilt in the future, he would move them back one by one.
Forget it now, it’s a waste of people and money.
When she returned to the palace, it was already late at night, but she saw Song Bian waiting outside the door with several palace maids and guards.
A girl in white clothes stood before His Highness, her cold voice carrying a bit of majesty: "Have you found everything?"
When Song Xiang saw Zhao Xiang'er coming, as if he saw the clear moonlight, he only took one look and didn't dare to look again. He lowered his head and saluted: "Reporting to Your Highness, the treasures scattered in various parts of the imperial city have been found. Please return it to Your Highness." Check.”
As he said that, the four people behind him picked up the four found "keys".
After the death of the old fox, his soul cracked and scattered into fireworks. His unrefined key naturally seeped out of his body, and fell to different corners of the imperial city along with his scattered soul.
The national seal, ancient scrolls, red umbrella and fire pestle have all been recovered. Zhao Xiang'er looked at them one by one and felt relieved. He praised them: "No problem, well done."
She took the red umbrella and pulled out the ancient sword hidden in the umbrella handle. The sword was silver-white, with cloud patterns like water and full of aura.
She nodded lightly and took back the Suzaku Burning Fire Pestle. Then she gently flicked her sleeves and said, "Send these two things back to the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion and the Immortal Forest. Tell Sir that now the Imperial Seal has been brand new and he can practice with peace of mind." , I know what my mother said to him before, so I don’t blame him, but from now on, students will rarely visit him, and I hope he won’t blame him.”
"Song Tie takes the order." Song Tie nodded, knowing full well that His Highness said he didn't blame him, but in fact, he always had a grudge in his heart after this incident.
Song Zhi thought of something again and asked: "Now that the Witch Lord Palace has no owner, should we let his eldest disciple Qiu Li..."
Zhao Xiang'er raised her palms and interrupted: "No need, I have my own candidate for the next witch master. By the way, where is Sister Tang Yu? Have you found her?"
Song Side shook his head and said: "I have ordered people to search for him, but there is no news yet."
Zhao Xiang'er frowned and said: "Look for everyone who can be mobilized. Even if she is dead, I can still light a bright lamp for her. At least she will have an afterlife. If she is found, her soul will be gone..."
She paused for a moment before finally sighing: "That's my fault."
Regarding Tang Yu's matter, Song Zi had many questions in his mind, but he also knew that it was not convenient to ask at the moment, so he kept them in his mind and just accepted the order.
After everyone dispersed, Zhao Xiang'er held a red umbrella in one hand and a fire pestle in the other, and slowly walked back to the palace. Under the moonlight, her slender figure was like a wisp of smoke.
The throne had been destroyed by the old fox before, and no one had cleaned up the broken pieces on the ground. The girl sat down directly on the golden steps and looked along the central axis of the hall.
Because the city wall was also destroyed, the line of sight could fall far away at this moment.
She looked at it dreamily for a while, then suddenly covered her chest. For some reason, she had been feeling connected and uneasy lately.
Just when she was about to deduce the source of this emotion, two figures standing against the light suddenly appeared outside the palace door.
Zhao Xiang'er was startled and stood up immediately.
I saw Tang Yu being supported by a woman in white and walking in. Tang Yu was still wearing the same black outfit as when he was pretending to be himself. Now his outfit was damaged. Even though he was being supported, his steps were extremely unsteady. It was obvious that he was very injured. Heavy.
"Sister Tang..." Zhao Xianger quickly walked down the golden steps and helped her up.
Tang Yu grabbed Zhao Xiang'er's hand. She did not salute or greet her, but the first sentence she said was like a muffled thunder explosion, which shocked people's brains.
"Your Highness... that old fox might still be alive!"
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(Additional update! Good night, see you tomorrow~)