When the two arrived, the riots in the arena had calmed down. Sai Panan still closed his eyes slightly, and the old monk was sitting on the stage as if he had settled down, waiting for the next person to solve the game, just like everything just now. Never happened.
Duan Baiyue asked the people around her and found out that someone came to grab the gold, but before she could rush to the stage, she was slapped down by Sai Panan, lying on the ground and struggling for a long time but failed to get up, and was just patrolled on the street. officers and soldiers took away.
"There are so many people watching at the feet of the emperor, who would be so bold?" Duan Baiyue frowned.
"That's not it, I guess I'm poor and crazy, looking at gold is really greedy." The young man said, "It's just that the big guys never thought that this person in the ring looked at Sven and was weak, and he actually had some punches. I didn't even know it. Seeing what was going on, the robber had already vomited blood and flew down, smashing a hole on the ground."
If this is the case, then it is not just a matter of boxing skills, but a master. Duan Baiyue glanced at the stage again, then squeezed out the crowd with Chu Yuan and walked to a secluded place.
"Have something to say?" Chu Yuan asked.
Duan Baiyue nodded: "I want to see who the robber is."
"This kind of trivial matter will be done by the government." Chu Yuan poked his chest, "Don't bother the King of Southwest."
Duan Baiyue said: "Go."
Chu Yuan: "..."
Duan Baiyue continued earnestly: "Southwest Wangfu, my favorite is to meddle in my own business, not to mention other people's fights, even if it is a couple bickering, they must listen to the corner."
Chu Yuan was helpless: "Do you really want to go? Then say it first, I will only take you to the government office and see for yourself." After all, according to what most people think, Duan Baiyue should be in Yunnan at this moment to recharge and prepare. In one fell swoop, it is right to go north to rebel. Definitely shouldn't appear in Wangcheng, and still have a flower windmill in his hand.
Duan Baiyue nodded: "Okay."
Chu Yuan took him through a few alleys and pointed to a high wall: "Turn over to the prison, and at this moment, I guess Zhang Zhican has returned to the house, a robber is not a big deal, and the trial will be tomorrow. retrial."
Duan Baiyue asked, "Am I going alone?"
Chu Yuan: "..."
Otherwise what
Duan Baiyue said: "One way."
Chu Yuan: "..."
Duan Baiyue quickly stuffed the windmill to him, then dragged his waist and jumped, landing firmly in the courtyard.
Chu Yuan raised his palm and hit it.
Duan Baiyue didn't hide, she covered her chest with pain on her face.
Chu Yuan tapped his head with a windmill: "Pretend!"
Duan Baiyue laughed.
The detainees here are all thieves and gangsters, and they are not afraid of jailbreaks, so there are not many patrol officers and soldiers. The two easily bypassed the dozing prison head, as if no one else entered the prison.
The place where the prisoners are held, the environment is not good if you don’t want it, and it’s summer again, and the sour smell will be as pungent as it is pungent. Duan Baiyue took out a hand towel from his arms in time, and rubbed his nose and mouth tightly. cover.
Chu Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Your technique is comparable to that of the kidnappers."
Duan Baiyue froze, then silently loosened the handkerchief.
Chu Yuan stretched out his finger and pointed to the front: "New prisoners who are not on trial will be locked in this area."
Duan Baiyue quietly stepped forward and saw that there were four prisons in a row, and only two were holding prisoners. One of them was a fat man, lying on the ground shaking and screaming. He didn't look injured and slept soundly. As for the other person, he was lying on his side, curled up on the ground and moaning, his forehead was shattered, his head was covered in blood and he looked miserable, and he couldn't see his face clearly. Only when he turned over, the blue tattoo on his left arm was exposed.
Duan Baiyue frowned slightly.
Seeing that his expression was different, Chu Yuan was about to ask what happened, but was instructed to go out first.
The two fell back to the previous alleyway, and the air was much better. Chu Yuan said: "Do you recognize that person?"
"If I'm not mistaken, he should be a burrowing monkey." Duan Baiyue said, "The famous thief in the rivers and lakes has been surrounded and suppressed several times, but all of them have ended without results."
"Kung Fu is so high?" Chu Yuan was puzzled.
"It's not that he has high kung fu, but that this person has worshipped a foreigner as a teacher before and knows how to escape from the ground." Duan Baiyue said, "It's often people who try their best to force him into a blind spot, but disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye."
"If that's the case, then the person who put up the fight should be a master." Chu Yuan said, "Otherwise, he wouldn't be injured so easily."
Duan Baiyue nodded: "It seems that there is no such person in the rivers and lakes. I will keep an eye on him in the next few days."
"It's just a ring to solve the chess game. Even if he is skilled, he didn't disturb the people." Chu Yuan said, "What are you staring at him for?"
"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. If you wait for him to make an accident and then arrest him, I'm afraid it will be too late." Duan Baiyue shook his head, "Besides, this is the root of the imperial city, and there can be no trouble at all."
"As you like." Chu Yuan looked at the sky, "I have to go to court tomorrow morning, I should go back."
"Send you." Duan Baiyue said.
Chu Yuan stepped on the pebble road and walked back slowly all the way.
Duan Baiyue took a few steps to follow him, bathing in the bright moonlight side by side.
The figures were drawn longer and longer, gradually overlapping and intertwining.
The affairs of the DPRK and China were complicated, and Chu Yuan did not take that Saipan Anduo to heart. The next day, a few ministers were left in the early morning and later to discuss matters, and then they went back to the imperial study to approve the papers for a while.
"Your Majesty, it's time for dinner." Si Xi said softly.
Chu Yuan just wanted to say that he had no appetite, but remembered that he only ate a bowl of porridge at noon, so he said, "Let's pass the meal."
Four Xi helped him out of the imperial study, and said as he walked, "The Southwest House sent some lemongrass hot and sour condiments today. If the emperor's appetite has not been good recently, why not change it to a different flavor tomorrow?"
Chu Yuan paused: "Is this going to travel thousands of miles?"
"Yeah." Sixi said, "There is also a carload of cured fish."
Chu Yuan laughed: "Where do you need a car, please share it with the rest of the adults."
Sixi nodded and said yes, then turned around and gave the order.
This time, all the adults have experience. After receiving the cured fish, they all found ropes and hung them under the eaves. No one ate them. After all, in a few hours, the emperor will send troops to take it back.
After dinner was over, Chu Yuan didn't have time to drink a cup of tea, but Master Taifu hurriedly entered the palace to ask for a meeting.
Father Sixi sighed in his heart, the emperor finally got some free time, and he could rest earlier this night, why is there something else.
"Your Majesty." Tao Taifu walked in a hurry along the way, and he was a little out of breath. It looked like he was in a hurry. "I wonder if the emperor knows that someone in this royal city recently set up a chess match?"
Chu Yuan nodded: "Aiqing said that Saipanan?"
"It's really him." Tao Rende said, "That chess game is by no means an ordinary puzzle game, but a heart-wrenching endgame."
Chu Yuan frowned slightly.
"The endgame is called the Star Burning Game. At first glance, it may not seem unusual, but if you devote yourself to research, you will be devoured by the chess game and fall into the devil's way." Tao Rende said.
"Star Burning Bureau, Burning Star?" Chu Yuan stood up.
"The emperor has heard of this mystery?" Tao Rende was surprised.
Chu Yuan shook his head, then sat back on the dragon chair: "Aiqing continues."
"Yesterday, Wei Chen went to Dali Temple and found out that more than 50 years ago, there was a master named Lan Yizhan in the rivers and lakes. It was because this Star Burning Bureau entered the devil's way, committed countless murders, and was finally imprisoned in I went to Jade Coffin Mountain." Tao Rende said, "After that, all the chess records that recorded this game were burned down, and no one in this world has ever seen Fen Xing. Wei Chen was also obsessed with chess games when he was young, and he had collected chess records all over the world. Know the endgame."
"What does Aiqing think this person means?" Chu Yuan asked.
Tao Rende said: "I'm afraid that the other party is definitely not a kind person."
"There are people coming and going every day on Taici's road, and Sai Panan is a strong martial artist. If he really wants to make trouble, he will definitely hurt innocent people." Chu Yuan shook his head, "Since Aiqing knows the end of the burning star, he will be responsible for investigating it thoroughly. Come on, remember to protect the people carefully."
"Yes." Tao Rende took the order and bowed out of the imperial study.
Chu Yuan leaned on the back of the chair, frowning slightly, as if thinking about something.
Sixi stood beside him and did not dare to disturb him.
"Go and invite the King of Southwest China." After a while, Chu Yuan suddenly said.
"Ah?" Father Sixi didn't return to his senses.
"Don't let others see it." Chu Yuan stood up and went out the door without turning his head, "I am waiting for him in the bedroom."
"Yes yes yes." Father Four Xi patted his stomach, and went to order.
Chu Yuan was used to being served by Sixi since he was a child. Even if he ascended the throne when he grew up, he did not keep many palace maids by his side, so the palace was very quiet. The night was dark and the wind was blowing the gauze tent, and only a plum tree was silent in the courtyard.
When the door was pushed open, Chu Yuan was sitting at the table in a trance.
"What's the matter?" Duan Baiyue closed the door and sat beside him and asked, "What happened again?"
"Something happened, but it doesn't matter." Chu Yuan said, "It has something to do with Fen Xing."
"Fen Xing?" Duan Baiyue was surprised, "Why, lost it?"
Chu Yuan stretched out his hand, and a bead was shining brightly.
Duan Baiyue laughed: "So?"
"Today, Master Taifu came to the imperial study and said that the chess game that Sai Panan laid out was also called Fen Xing." Chu Yuan said.
Duan Baiyue frowned: "Feng Xing?"
Chu Yuan repeated what Tao Rende had just said.
"Never heard of it before." Duan Baiyue shook his head.
"I wanted to burn Xingxing, but it was only because my mother occasionally mentioned it, saying that it was an ancient auspicious omen, that's all." Chu Yuan said.
"People in the rivers and lakes are rushing and wanting it, but they say it's because it can bring the dead back to life." Duan Baiyue took Fen Xing away from his palm, "But anyway, before you know the truth, you should stay away from it."
Chu Yuan raised the corner of his mouth: "Can you take back what has been given away?"
"Send another one for another day." Duan Baiyue said, "As for this burning star, if it is determined that it is not dangerous, I will return it."
"Alright." Chu Yuan said, "It's getting late, if nothing else—"
"Let's have a drink together." Duan Baiyue interrupted him.
Chu Yuan raised his eyebrows: "The King of Southwest also brought wine?"
"I came in a hurry, and I didn't have time to bring good wine." Duan Baiyue smiled, "But even if Emperor Chu is diligent and thrifty, there should be at least one jar of wine in this huge palace."
Chu Yuan shook his head: "Tomorrow we have to go to the morning court."
Duan Baiyue said: "Come again."
"There is still a stack of books in the imperial study." Chu Yuan lay on the table, "If you are drunk tonight, I'm afraid a group of old officials will come to make trouble tomorrow."
Duan Baiyue sighed: "If I can help, I really want to do it for you."
Chu Yuan laughed when he heard the words: "It's just that the rumors are right, Langzi's ambition, and Cuizi will also do it for you?"
"It's right from the outside, the King of Southwest is indeed the wolf's ambition." Duan Baiyue approached him with a slightly ambiguous tone, "But I don't want this country, but I want to..."
"Hey!" Chu Yuan dodged and avoided him.
"Huh?" Duan Baiyue reached out his hand calmly and took down a box from the shelf at the back, "Just take something, why panic?"
Chu Yuan was speechless and glared at him fiercely.
Duan Baiyue shook the box in his hand: "It's quite fragrant, what is it?"
Chu Yuan replied, "Chun Xiao is drunk."
Duan Baiyue: "..."
Um
"Will Duan Wang have a drink?" Chu Yuan asked leisurely.
Duan Baiyue opened it hesitantly, it really is... Chun Xiao drunk. The three characters on the bottle were written vigorously, clearly written by the imperial pen.
But this thing…
Duan Baiyue looked up at him again, with a war between heaven and man in his heart.
Chu Yuan's eyes were quite meaningful.
Duan Baiyue reached out to hold him, but was slapped: "What are you thinking about!"
"Um?"
"This is an anti-psychotic medicine, Xiao Jin's match, just name it randomly." Chu Yuan laughed, "You really believe it."
Duan Baiyue breathed a sigh of relief, but didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
Can such a name be randomly chosen
Chu Yuan took the box back: "With this medicine, I can sleep more peacefully at night."
"I don't sleep well because I have something in my heart. Taking medicine every day is always not the way." Duan Baiyue shook his head, "Don't pretend everything to your heart."
"Since he is the ruler of a country, who else can he blame?" Chu Yuan asked.
Duan Baiyue said as a matter of course: "Naturally, it is the group of ministers in the DPRK. Since they have to receive their salary, they have to work hard. Otherwise, what will they do to raise them? It doesn't look good, and there are still many problems." , is also lucky to be born in Wangcheng, if it is changed to the Southwest House, I am afraid that Duan Yao will be slapped with a mouthful of worms in three days.
Chu Yuan smiled and looked at him.
"Forget it, don't drink if you don't want to drink, but don't go to any imperial study room." Duan Baiyue said, "Rest early, as for Burning Star and Burning Star Bureau, I will send someone to investigate."
Chu Yuan nodded: "Thank you."
Duan Baiyue kept watching him enter the inner hall before turning around and leaving. After returning to the inn, the Fen Xing was taken out again, but it returned to its previous appearance, bleak and dull, like the most worthless pearl.
In the next few days, the Imperial Forest Army and the people from the Southwest Mansion kept their eyes on the ring, intentionally or unintentionally, but did not notice anything unusual. There are still people who come to power and break the game every day, but they often return with a big defeat, and they can only watch the golden eyes and stamp their feet.
This morning, Duan Baiyue was drinking tea in the house when she heard footsteps on the stairs and Duan Nian's happy voice: "Master Nan, little prince!"
Duan Baiyue reached out and rubbed his temples.
The door of the house was knocked open with a bang, and Duan Yao said happily, "Brother."
"Yao'er." Duan Baiyue reached out and knocked on his head, but he was a little surprised - he was going to cry again, after all, he was full of reluctance.
Nan Moxie stretched out his hand and took a snack to eat. After looking around, he praised: "It really deserves to be a royal city, and a guest room is much larger than that of Southwest."
"Is this journey safe?" Duan Baiyue poured him a cup of tea.
"Nothing happened." Nan Moye's tone was very disappointed, as if he was very much looking forward to some trouble.
Duan Baiyue said with a headache: "It was agreed in advance that if you want to make trouble, you will wait to go back to the southwest and stop for a while in the royal city."
"Naturally, the teacher is still waiting for you to marry a daughter-in-law, how can it be shameful." Nan Moxie opened the burden and rolled out a bunch of things, "This way, I brought a lot of things to your sweetheart on purpose. Gift."
Duan Baiyue: "..."
Dried vegetables, meat strips, salted duck eggs, copper plates, silver teapots, porcelain-fired vases, and ornaments inlaid with jade, they really bought the specialties of the cities and towns they passed by this trip.
Nanmo evilly said: "Is it okay to look at it?"
Duan Yao sighed beside him, and said that this time Master had been buried in the grave for a long time. How could these junk be taken out and given away? It was a shame. His brother was also a prince, and the Southwest Mansion was not short of money.
"What is this?" Duan Baiyue picked up a gadget made of wood.
"This is Yao'er's." Nan Mo evilly said, "Yesterday I met an old man on the way to Wangcheng, begging for food in rags, Yaoer gave him a bag of buns in exchange for this small agency as a thank you gift. "
"Organ?" Duan Baiyue's heart moved.
"Yeah." Duan Yao put the dim sum in his mouth and came over to demonstrate it for him. After pressing down a small raised ring, five silver needles shot out from the dark hole and penetrated the pillar.
Although the shape is different, it is similar to the ghost wooden box of the day. Duan Baiyue stood up suddenly and said, "Where is the old man now?"
"How would I know." Duan Yao was taken aback, "I met him at Luming Mountain Water Pool yesterday, and I didn't ask him where he was going. He gave the buns and left."
"Follow me into the mountain!" Duan Baiyue carried him out, "In any case, someone will be found!"
Duan Yao was caught off guard and was almost strangled by the neckline.
Nan Moxie was very happy, and followed up happily, for fear that there would be no fun to watch.
A signal bomb roared into the sky, and the people in the city didn't care when they saw it, and they thought it was which sect was recruiting. The dark lines of the Southwest Mansion hidden in various parts of the royal city had already received orders, and they rushed in the direction where the signal bombs were raised.
Duan Nian was guarding the entrance of the mountain road. After gathering the people and horses, he took them into the mountain to find someone!
"Old Mu Chi?" Duan Yao was full of curiosity as he walked, "Why are you looking for him?"
Duan Baiyue said casually: "I don't know."
Duan Yao was choked for a moment and felt a little sad.
Duan Baiyue had no time to comfort his brother, because he really didn't know.
…
There are not too many people in Southwest Mansion, and Luming Mountain is not too big. Moreover, according to what Duan Yao said, the old man was already a few years old yesterday, and his legs and feet were not swift, so he should not be able to walk very fast, so Duan Baiyue ordered everyone to speed up and be sure to find him within a day.
A few hours passed in a flash, and at nightfall, Duan Nian circled around the pool a few times, but no one was found. Just as he was about to change his place, he saw the deep grass beside him moving, like someone, so he immediately chased after him. past.
"Heroes, spare your life!" Seeing someone chasing him, the people in the grass immediately held their heads and shouted.
"Don't be afraid, old man." Duan Nian hurriedly said, "I'm not a robber."
"It's not the robber, you're chasing me." The old man's face was dirty and his eyes were full of alert.
"Is Your Excellency the Old Man Mu Chi?" Duan Nian asked tentatively.
"No no no no." The old man shook his head repeatedly.
Duan Baiyue has already heard the sound and rushed over.
"I'm not really, I'm just a beggar." The old man sniffed and turned to leave.
Duan Yao jumped down from above and blocked in front of him.
"Hey? Why are you, young master." The old man was very surprised.
"My brother is looking for the old man Mu Chi, are you really him?" Duan Yao asked.
"No no no no no." He continued to shake his head.
"If it weren't for the old man Mu Chi, how would he know about such a subtle mechanism?" Duan Baiyue stepped forward, holding the wooden box he gave to Duan Yao yesterday.
"This is a gadget, it's not a delicate mechanism." The old man shook his head without stopping, but his right hand was quietly stuffed into the bag, and he quickly took out a hidden weapon.
But unfortunately, Duan Yao shot three points faster than him.
After being crushed on the grass, the old man cried: "You little doll is so unkind, I kindly gave you something for self-defense, but you brought someone to arrest me."
"I don't want to either." Duan Yao is full of bitterness, "but my brother is really not a bad person, maybe he just wants to ask a few things, and he will let you go." Be full of hope in life.
The old man sat cross-legged on the ground and said angrily, "Then I won't walk, someone will carry it."
Duan Baiyue said: "Duan Nian!"
Duan Yao quickly moved out of the way, fortunately, fortunately he didn't let me back.
Duan Nian was very distressed, put the knife into the sheath, and stepped forward to carry the old man on his back.
"Young man, you still underestimate the enemy." The old man leaned on top of him and shook his head, "Aren't you afraid that I will take the opportunity to poison?"
"I'm really not afraid." Duan Yao followed and said from the bottom of his heart, "Everyone in my family grew up eating poisonous insects."
elder:"… "
After returning to the inn, Duan Baiyue handed the old man a cup of tea with both hands: "There are many disturbances today, please forgive me, Senior Mu Chi."
"Tell me, what are you doing to me?" Old Man Mu Chi tacitly acknowledged his identity.
Duan Baiyue thought for a while and said, "I don't know."
The wood-crazy old man: "… "
If you are sick, go to the cure quickly.
"The one who is looking for the senior is not the next, but a friend of the next." Duan Baiyue continued.
The wood-chilled old man squinted at him: "Sweetheart?"
Duan Baiyue raised her eyebrows.
"You descendants." The old man Mu Chi shook his head again and again, "Last time, there was a demon girl who came to catch me and said that she was going to exchange it for Chundan. I think your sweetheart is also in the same way as her, so it's better to break up as soon as possible. ."
Duan Baiyue insisted: "I also ask the seniors to come with me to see him."
The old man Mu Chi hummed with his hands in his hands: "I've been caught, I don't agree that it's useful?"
Duan Baiyue said: "It's useless."
The old man Mu Chi wrote "I knew it would be like this" on his face, squatted on the chair and sighed.
The person who went to the palace to deliver the letter soon returned, saying that the emperor was waiting in the back garden.
Duan Baiyue took the old man Mu Chi and entered the palace at night.
Duan Yao and Nan Moxie also wanted to go with them, but they were blocked by Duan Niansheng in the house, saying that if they couldn't block it, they would kill themselves and apologize, so they had to drink tea with regret.
It was very quiet in the back garden, there was only a side hall of the cold palace, and no one would come on weekdays.
Eunuch Sixi was waiting on the other side of the courtyard wall, and after receiving the two, he brought them into the hall together.
Seeing Chu Yuan from a distance, the old man Mu Chi rubbed his eyes, and then said in a low voice, "Your sweetheart is really tall, and a woman like this can be called unique." And your aesthetic is not interesting.
Chu Yuan's martial arts are strong and his ears are naturally good, so his face froze.
Duan Baiyue frowned and said: "Hugh is nonsense, he is the emperor."
emperor? The old man Mu Chi was stunned for a moment, then he was full of energy, and ran over with great strides, the speed was simply fast.
Duan Baiyue was startled.
"Caomin sees the emperor!" The old man Mu Chi fell to his knees and saluted extremely solemnly.
Duan Baiyue: "..."
He was unwilling before, why did he suddenly become so enthusiastic.
Are you really okay with your brain
"Old man, please get up." Chu Yuan took two steps and stretched out his hand to support him, "No need to be too polite."
"It's really the emperor." The old man Mu Chi burst into tears and asked Yin Yin, "I wonder if I can live in the palace for a long time after I leave?"
Duan Baiyue: "..."
Chu Yuan laughed: "If the old man is willing, of course it can, I can't ask for it."
The old man Mu Chi continued to cry: "The emperor doesn't know anything, everyone outside wants to arrest me, life is hard." It is very necessary to have a backer to rely on.
Duan Baiyue couldn't see clearly, so he stepped forward and forcibly pulled him away: "If you have anything to say, it's not too late for senior to sit in the room and say it again." As long as Mo always holds his hand and doesn't let it go.
The old man Mu Chi was still weeping and sighing, crying about the tragic state of being chased outside. It would be great if they could live in the palace. After all, even the most daring robbers would not dare to come here to rob people.
Si Xi came in with hot tea and a few plates of dim sum. For some reason, when I saw this stupid old man, I felt that he must be very hungry.
"Thank you for this father-in-law." The old man Mu Chi looked at Si Xi with envy in his eyes, his stomach was so big that no one was chasing after him, and he was still full.
"Can I avoid it?" Duan Baiyue asked hesitantly. In fact, he had no intention of exploring Chu Yuan's secret, nor did he want to eavesdrop. But this old wooden idiot looked at the gods, and didn't know what troubles would happen.
"No need, it's okay to listen to each other." Chu Yuan said, "I want to ask the old man, can we reproduce the Eight Desolate Formation?"