Since it is to be used as a bait, it should naturally be in a place where it is easier to lure that thing.
That night, Xuan Qing and Tian Tian Rui greeted each other and took Lin Rufei into the palace. Fu Hua and the others didn't know what happened, and they were still a little worried. Lin Rufei comforted them for a while, and then the two of them reluctantly agreed. Entering the palace in a carriage, Lin Rufei saw the palace at night. It looked a little different from the daytime scenery. Under the vermilion eaves, there were red palace lanterns hanging everywhere, and sometimes there were palace maids or guards walking slowly along the road, but it was not as quiet as Lin Rufei imagined.
Since there was an object of suspicion in her heart, and Lin Rufei was acting as a bait, the place where she lived should naturally be as close to the target as possible. With this thought in mind, Lin Rufei's resting room was arranged next to the third princess. Lin Rufei, who lived in the room, asked Bai Jinglun if she knew about this, but Xuan Qing shook her head and denied it.
"It can't be said that he doesn't know." Xuan Qing explained with a smile, "After all, it is someone from outside who is going to enter the palace, and the emperor must know, but I didn't tell him that detail, just told him that there might be a night in the palace. There are some clues, so you need to stay in there for a night and look for something."
Lin Rufei thought about it too, Bai Jinglun loved the third princess so much, if she knew that Xuan Qing suspected her and the eldest prince, she would definitely be very unhappy. Xuan Qing was very smart and avoided this crucial issue directly.
In summer, it gets dark very slowly. After the sun sets, the sky is also a pale blue. Looking from a distance, you can still see the gorgeous burning clouds in the sky.
Xuanqing and Lin Rufei sat opposite each other in the room, with two cups of warm tea in front of them, Lin Rufei said, "Master Xuanqing, why don't you go to rest first, it's still early, that thing probably won't come over."
Xuan Qing said, "Will Young Master Lin be bored sitting alone in the room?"
Lin Rufei said, "Boring?" He was a little surprised that Xuan Qing's mind was so delicate, and then he laughed, "No, I liked being quiet since I was a child, and I have long been used to being alone, so Master Xuan Qing doesn't need to worry."
On the Kunlun Mountains, instead of being at the bottom of the noisy mountain, he prefers to stay alone on the top of the snow-covered mountain, wrapped in thick winter clothes, burning a pot of charcoal, and holding two or three scrolls in his hand. one day. Occasionally, although I feel lonely, I get used to it after a long time. It's a pity that the older brothers and sisters have never been able to see him like this, and often drag him down the mountain.
Xuan Qing said to Amitabha, and said a few words to Lin Rufei, then got up and left the room, leaving Lin Rufei alone inside.
After Xuan Qing went out, she didn't take a few steps before entering a house not far from Lin Rufei. Once inside, she saw Bai Tian Rui sitting lazily on a chair with a pot of wine in front of her, drinking boredly. When Tian Tian saw Xuan Qing coming back, he didn't lift his head: "You can rest assured that the young master of the Lin family will be placed in the house alone?"
Xuan Qing smiled and said, "What's wrong with you?"
"If I'm not mistaken, that little boy doesn't have a trace of sword energy." Bai Tian Rui narrowed his eyes, "If such a cute little thing like porcelain accidentally breaks, don't you feel bad?"
Xuan Qing said: "Porcelain?"
Bai Tian Rui raised his eyes to look at Xuan Qing, and asked with his eyes what was wrong with his statement.
"The prince said that Young Master Lin is porcelain?" Xuan Qing smiled and said, "It's the monk's clumsy eyes. After all these years, the monk has never seen such hard porcelain."
Bai Tian Rui understood the hidden meaning of Xuan Qing's words, he put down the wine glass in his hand, and said solemnly: "What is the origin of this Young Master Lin?"
Xuan Qing didn't answer, said Amitabha, sat down opposite Tian Tian Rui, closed his eyes and started chanting.
Tian Tian Rui was annoyed by Xuan Qing's appearance, and he tapped his finger on the table: "The monk and I have been friends for so many years, why is your heart focused on the young master who has only known each other for a few days?"
Xuan Qingli ignored him and regarded him as air.
Bai Tian Rui sighed deliberately, put his head in front of Xuan Qing, almost touching the tip of his nose, and said, "The monk is ignoring people."
Xuan Qing half-opened his eyes and said only one sentence. The reckless Prince of the Eight Realms immediately shut his mouth. He said calmly, "To be honest, the origin of the monk and Young Master Lin must be mentioned a hundred years ago."
Bai Tian Rui should not believe this, but monk Naihe can't lie, so every word he said is true.
Young Master Lin is only in his twenties, so how could he have a century-old relationship with the monk? Bai Tian Rui couldn't understand, but his interest in Lin Rufei was even stronger.
Lin Rufei sat alone in the room and waited for it to get dark. The tea in front of her was almost finished, so he called the palace servants outside the room to change a new pot of tea, and asked what time it was.
The palace man lowered his eyebrows and answered pleasingly, saying that the time of Xu had just passed.
"Oh, it's already time." Lin Rufei was a little curious, "Will the guards outside be on guard all night?"
"Yes." The palace servant replied in a low voice, "But around the time of Hai, a group of guards will be rotated to be on duty at night. What else does the son need?"
"No, let's go down." Lin Rufei waved her hand.
After dark, it was finally not so hot, but it was not too cool. After all, the sun had scorched the earth for a day, and the scorching heat was steaming up, which made people feel a little stuffy. After Lin Rufei took a simple shower, she went to bed, squinted her eyes and took a nap. The light on the candlestick by the window flickered with the wind, until a strong wind suddenly blew out the fire. .
This is also convenient for Lin Rufei, he no longer has to get out of bed and turn off the lights. Lin Rufei opened her eyes and stared at the darkened room in front of her. With the coming of darkness, there is still silence, but this silence is not absolute, and the sound of the windows being gently shaken by the wind can still be heard faintly. I don't know if it was Lin Rufei's illusion, but he vaguely seemed to have caught a wonderful subtle sound, as if someone had gently torn something off of another. The sound was not crisp, with a sticky, unpleasant feeling. But if you want to listen carefully, you will find that this is just your own illusion. In your ears, you can only hear the whistling wind and the swaying wooden windows.
Lin Rufei always felt that this feeling was somewhat familiar. After thinking about it carefully for a moment, he finally found out when he had felt this way—when he saw the picture scroll of the third princess Mu Mu in his childhood in the daytime, he felt I once had such a strange sense of disobedience
If I had to describe this sense of disobedience, it would be as if a wet and cold thing was pasted near my chest, and that thing was still making strange noises, causing people to involuntarily stand upside down.
As soon as Lin Rufei felt this way, she rolled over from the bed and sat up. He carefully observed the windows and the room, trying to find the source of the sound. But at that time, it was really hard to find the source of the intermittent small noises. Lin Rufei thought for a moment, then got up and walked to the window and closed it with a creak, completely blocking out the wind.
The room was completely quiet, and the strange sound became much more obvious, but when Lin Rufei realized where the sound was coming from, his movements froze.
It seems that Xuan Qing is right, for that thing, he is indeed special, and he only stayed in the palace for one night, and that thing came over.
Lin Rufei took a deep breath, slowly raised her head, and looked at the beam above her head. At this time, it was dark in the house, and everything could not be seen clearly, even the beams of the house. However, Lin Rufei quickly noticed something strange on the beams... It was too dark there. Different from ordinary darkness, the top of the beam seems to have been opened with two black holes, absorbing all the surrounding light. From above, he silently stared at Lin Rufei under the roof beam.
When Lin Rufei looked towards them, she actually gave birth to a terrifying sense of being staring at that thing. Seeing this scene, Lin Rufei wanted to call out to Xuan Qing next door, but as soon as his words overflowed his throat, the thing turned into a huge net, covering the sky and covering Lin Rufei's body. Lin Rufei's sight was taken away in an instant. He wanted to shout, but something blocked his mouth. The whole person staggered a few steps and fell directly on the soft side next to him.
"Tianjun." It was the same voice that Gu Xuandu heard that night again, the murderous creature whispered in a low voice, like a curse, one after another, calling Lin Rufei cold all over, "Tianjun... God…”
Lin Rufei pushed back painfully, he was about to suffocate, the thing pried open his mouth abruptly, and put something into his mouth.
"Tianjun..." The murderous thing seems to only say this sentence, repeating it constantly, but with different emotions.
Lin Rufei finally realized what this thing wanted to do. He actually wanted to follow his mouth and squeeze into his body abruptly. His mouth was stretched to the maximum, not to mention calling for help, not even whimpering. Come out, you can only snort a few times. If this thing comes in, it is estimated that his fate will be similar to that of the unconscious third princess next to him. At such a dangerous moment, Lin Rufei forced herself to calm down, he took a deep breath, no longer trying to break free from the control of the murderous thing, but touched the virtual ring on his thumb, struggling to get rid of the virtual ring. Inside, I took out what I had prepared.
It was a paper crane. When Lin Rufei released the ring, it made a sharp chirping. The shadow on Lin Rufei's body trembled as if frightened. Lin Rufei was overjoyed and thought it was afraid of it. But who knew that the shadow called "Tianjun" again, but the voice of Tianjun brought some resentment and anger, as if he didn't understand why Lin Rufei would do such a thing.
Lin Rufei stared, and inconceivably could hear the grievance in the fierce creature's tone. Is this thing still aggrieved? I was almost killed by it... The black shadow had entered Lin Rufei's throat, and it seemed that it was about to continue to slide down. Xuan Qing, who had been silent for a while, finally came late, and with him, there was also Sleepy Eyes. Loose white day Rui.
The two of them entered the room, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they all gasped for breath. They saw Lin Rufei limp on the bed, with a black unknown object attached to the top of her body. That object suppressed Lin Rufei's struggle. He was about to force something into Lin Rufei's mouth.
Bai Tian Rui reacted very quickly, he directly pulled out the blade on his waist, and swung a sword at the thing. The snow-white sword qi disappeared into the shadows, but it was like a stone sinking into the ocean, without the slightest reaction. Seeing that Lin Rufei's breath was getting weaker and weaker, Xuan Qing walked to the table a few steps, picked up the fire book on the table, and blew a sigh of relief, and the bright fire light filled the whole room.
The shadow was lit by the fire, and his body flickered a few times, and then he fled from the window. Seeing this, Bai Tian Rui went after him directly. Xuan Qing was not in a hurry, but walked to the bedside and checked Lin Rufei's condition first.
Lin Rufei recovered from her suffocation and coughed violently against the edge of the bed. Because of the shadow's actions just now, the corners of his lips were split open, and a few strands of bright red blood were slowly dripping down his chin. . Xuan Qing took out the silk scarf and gently wiped the blood stains off Lin Rufei's lips, and said worriedly, "Young Master Lin, are you alright?"
Lin Rufei shook her head: "It's not a big deal, won't Master Xuanqing follow him? That thing doesn't seem to be afraid of sword energy."
"No need." Xuan Qing said slowly, "I know what that thing is."
Lin Rufei said, "What is it?"
Xuan Qing did not answer, but looked at Lin Rufei silently, with compassion that Lin Rufei could not understand in her compassionate eyes.
Lin Rufei didn't know why, so she frowned and said, "Master Xuanqing, what does this mean?"
"It's nothing, I just feel that Young Master Lin has suffered." Xuan Qing said.
Lin Rufei pressed her finger on the wound at the corner of her mouth, snorted, and waved her hand indifferently: "It's just a small injury, it's not in the way."
"Someone will feel distressed when they see it." Xuan Qing stood up, "Can Young Master Lin stand up? There should be a result on Tian Rui's side."
Lin Rufei was naturally fine, that thing didn't do anything to hurt him, so apart from a small wound on the corner of his mouth, he was more frightened. He was not too timid, he came over after a while, followed Xuan Qing to the outside of the house, but did not expect that Bai Tian Rui, who was supposed to be chasing after the shadow, was standing at their door, his face ashen, very ugly.
"Why is the prince here?" Lin Rufei asked curiously, "Have you lost your way?"
Bai Tian Rui shook his head and looked at Xuan Qing: "Did you already know?"
Xuan Qing put his hands together and said Amitabha.
"Smelly monk." Bai Tian Rui spat at the ground, pointed at Xuan Qing and scolded, "Sure enough, you fucking knew it." Then he pointed at Lin Rufei, "Aren't you afraid that thing is really right to Lin Ru? Fei hands?"
Xuan Qing said flatly: "The monk has his own measure."
"Okay, be measured." Tian Rui said, "I'll let you say all the good and bad things, but I want to see how you explain it to my brother later." He snorted coldly.
Xuan Qing made a gesture of invitation.
Bai Tian Rui turned around and went straight into the house where the third princess was next to him. Lin Rufei didn't understand what was going on between him and Xuan Qing, until he went in and sat down and waited for Bai Jinglun before he learned from Bai Tian Rui's mouth What the hell just happened.
Bai Tian Rui didn't chase the shadow, he chased out the window and followed the shadow around the palace. Who knew that in the end, he went around where the third princess was. Tian Rui originally thought that the shadow To be detrimental to the princess, I rushed into the house in a hurry, but as soon as I entered, I saw a black shadow slowly attached to the princess' body, so she became one with the princess, and the princess was still ruddy, as if not smell. At this point, no matter how stupid Bai Tian Rui is, he should understand.
Looking at Xuan Qing's unsurprised appearance, he seemed to have expected everything. Bai Tian Rui was so angry, he obviously felt that Xuan Qing had put himself on the line.
Lin Rufei heard the words, looked at the third princess who was still unconscious on the bed, and sighed, "So what the prince means is that the third princess made all this?"
Bai Tianrui said, "Even if she didn't make it, it must have something to do with her." He said coldly, "The girl has grown up and has her own ideas. As an uncle, I can't control it." The meaning is that he no longer intends to help the third princess to cover up, but even if he wants to cover up, I am afraid he can't hide it. .
Lin Rufei looked at Xuan Qing again, and seeing that his expression remained unchanged, it seemed that he was completely indifferent to Prince Bai Tian Rui's angry accusations. He originally wanted to ask Xuan Qing what, but footsteps sounded outside the door, and Bai Jinglun, who hurried over, pushed the door and said, "What happened?" A coat, it can be seen that he is very concerned about this matter and came in a hurry.
Bai Tianrui ignored Bai Jinglun's questioning gaze and refused to speak with a calm expression. In the end, Xuan Qing sighed softly, took a step forward, and said softly what happened tonight. The more Bai Jinglun listened, the more ugly his face became, but he didn't say anything. But his appearance was obviously extremely angry.
"So you mean, that thing was made by Mu Mu?" Bai Jinglun said coldly.
"Yes." Xuan Qing responded.
"Then why didn't she wake up?!" Bai Jinglun said angrily, "And you didn't find anything unusual about her in the first place!"
"Sacred Lord, calm down." Xuan Qing said, "The reason why we can't find out is that this thing is rather special."
Bai Jinglun said, "What kind of special law?"
Xuanqing walked to Bai Jinglun's side, whispered a few words in his ear, Bai Jinglun narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his head and instructed the servants to bring a few maids in the palace over.
Bai Tian Rui smiled strangely beside him: "Yo, Master Xuan Qing finally figured out a way?"
Xuan Qing didn't care at all, but instead smiled faintly at Bai Tian Rui.
After a while, a few maids came in outside, Bai Jinglun pointed and said, "Go and pull the princess up from the bed."
Several maids looked at each other, not knowing the meaning of the emperor's sudden order, but still obeyed the order and walked to the soft collapse of the princess, and carefully pulled the comatose princess from the bed. The princess was softly leaning against the mother's arms, unable to stand at all, but under the emperor's order, several mothers still grabbed the princess' body from different directions and forcibly stood her up.
The fire in the house was bright, and the princess was restrained and lifted by several people with her head down, like a powerless puppet.
Lin Rufei didn't understand what Xuan Qing wanted to do at first, but after he carefully observed it for a while, he suddenly realized the violation. It is this sense of disobedience that makes people's hair stand up involuntarily.
I saw behind the princess who was forced to stand up, because the candlelight left a black shadow, but this shadow did not look like a princess at all, but rather like a group of ink stains smudged on the paper, presented without any rules. on the ground.
Although the maids didn't understand it, several people present could see clearly that the shadow behind the princess did not belong to her at all.
Bai Jinglun's face was ashen, and he waved his hand to signal the idle people to retreat. When everyone went out, he turned his head and asked Xuan Qing, "What's going on?"
Xuan Qing said, "The princess' shadow was swallowed up by something else."
"Swallow?" Bai Jinglun said, "Tell me more carefully."
Xuan Qing said slowly: "The princess suddenly fell into a coma, but she has three souls and seven souls, and she is not poisoned. This is very strange. I didn't think of this at first, and it was only after Lin Gongzi was attacked that I suddenly remembered it. one thing."
"What's the matter?" Lin Rufei asked.
Xuan Qing said: "I once saw a book in Nanyin Temple, which described a kind of magic method, that is, to control a person's shadow to control that person, just like a puppet that has been pulled off the wire. I read this book. After reading the book, I felt that this method was unrealistic. After all, shadows are not souls, so how can they control people? So I went to my senior brother to ask, but my senior brother said... For people, shadows are equally important. The ones you carry are like organs and limbs, once they are missing, there will be a big problem." He said, sighed, and added, "But my senior brother also said that there are very few people in this world who can control shadows. If you can't pick one out of ten thousand miles, you don't need to worry too much."
The princess suddenly had an accident and fell into a coma. She has been lying on the bed all these days, and no one will notice the difference in her shadow.
"So who controlled her shadow?" Bai Jinglun understood, with suppressed anger in his tone, he obviously didn't want to believe that the third princess did it voluntarily, but felt that she was harmed by someone, "Mu Mu has been very well-behaved since he was a child, and he has never been in contact with any messy people. You also said that there are very few people who can control the shadow, so how can she be one of them?"
Xuan Qing sighed: "I hope so too, but I'm afraid..."
Bai Jinglun waved his hand and stopped what Xuan Qing was about to say. He said, "Don't be afraid, you just need to find the truth."
Xuan Qing nodded.
Now that the source of the matter has been touched, although the specific cause has not yet been figured out, as long as you follow the context, it will soon be over. Bai Jinglun originally wanted Xuanqing to investigate overnight, but Xuanqing made an excuse to say that he could not continue tonight, and the rest of the matter could only wait for tomorrow night to continue.
Bai Jinglun saw that Xuan Qing's attitude was firm, so he had to give up.
It's just that when a few people left, the atmosphere in the house was not too good. Bai Tian Rui didn't say a word from beginning to end. Judging from his expression, he didn't plan to join in and just wanted to watch the play. Xuan Qing sighed more today than he had sighed in a month, but he had no choice but to coax Bai Jinglun first and give him some time to relax.
Lin Rufei rubbed the corner of her mouth beside her, thinking about how to explain this strange wound to the maid.
After Bai Jinglun left, Bai Tian Rui also got up and left, Xuan Qing sent Lin Rufei back to the house, Lin Rufei asked, "Is Master Xuan Qing still sleeping?"
Xuan Qing shook his head, tossing for such a night, how could he fall asleep when it was almost dawn.
"Since you can't sleep, why not chat with me?" Lin Rufei asked.
Xuan Qing said: "Alright." The matter was not finished yet, so he didn't feel relieved to leave Lin Rufei alone in the room. If that thing came again, it wouldn't be a second.
Lin Rufei said: "Since that thing has found me, Master Xuanqing promised me..."
Xuan Qing suddenly realized and smiled: "So you are still waiting for me here. The origin of me and the Bai family has to start from ten years ago, when I happened to pass by Dajing..." He had a light expression on his face. Laughing, lost in memories.
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