Here, Ji Mingxiu and his team began to thoroughly investigate the details of that woman.
The other party has lived peacefully in the Holy Church for so many years, and it is time to pay the price for the sins he committed.
In fact, it is not difficult to kill her. He Lan threw out his horse and wiped her neck with a knife.
But this is too cheap for her. After ruining that person's life, she also has to taste the feeling of falling from the altar.
How did she steal Yunzhu's life back then, and now she has to pay back twice as much.
There is also the truth about the ghost emperor and the blood demon, and she needs to spit it out word by word in front of Quanshengjiao.
Of course, it is important to check that woman, but it is also important to find the whereabouts of the ghost emperor. They have not forgotten that the ghost emperor left in a state of madness, and now every minute and every second is suffering for the ghost emperor.
We have to bring him back as soon as possible, and find a way to cure his obsession.
Seventeenth, Hai Shisan, Xuanyiwei, and Imperial Guards separately searched for the ghost emperor.
Yan Feijue also wanted to go, but his leg was not healed, so he could only watch Shiqi and Hai Shisan go out helplessly.
He looked at himself who couldn't even stand up, and then at Qiao Wei, who was alive and well, to make sure that the knife was stabbed in her stomach, not his leg
Yan Daxia slumped in his wheelchair helplessly.
After Hai Shisan and his group set off, Ji Mingxiu and Yun Zhu also set off.
The two were going to Yunzhong City.
Everyone has their own flaws, and that woman is no exception. Even because she has many secrets, she has more flaws than ordinary people. They only need to find a thread to pull out all the flaws.
The carriage stopped outside the Holy Church.
At the beginning, Yunzhu was expelled from the Holy Cult for the crime of "helping the tyrant and abusing others", and she would not be able to step into the Holy Cult in this life, but now thanks to the duel, she was able to come to the door openly.
However, she still stared at the reputation of the sinner's daughter.
The young disciple guarding the gate didn't know her, so he stopped her outside the mountain gate: "Who is here?"
Yunzhu said: "Tell you Guardian Lian that Yunzhu came to find her."
There has been a lot of noise about the duel in the past few days. Everyone knows that the daughter of the old leader has come back to snatch the holy religion. What is the name of the daughter? It seems to be... Yunzhu.
After the two disciples exchanged a glance, one of them finally reported to Guardian Lian.
Guardian Lian didn't expect Yunzhu to come to her door. She was sitting on the side of the bed with a dejected expression. Yun Su's injury was finally under control after most of the night's rescue, but after all, she lost too much blood, which was worse than before the treatment. serious.
He was like a living dead, except for his weak breathing and heartbeat.
Yuehua and the new Great Saint Master have already returned to their respective sleeping halls to heal their wounds.
Guardian Lian has been guarding alone until now.
Hearing his disciples report that Yunzhu had come, Guardian Lian thought he was dreaming.
"Lian protector, lotus protector!"
The female disciple called her softly a few times.
Guardian Lian regained consciousness, and said with a normal expression: "Let her wait for me in Lanyou Pavilion."
Lanyou Pavilion is a secluded courtyard of Shengjiao, not on Yinhu Island.
Yunzhu guessed that she would not let her go to Yinhu Island, so she followed the female disciple without saying anything.
There is no place called Lanyou Pavilion in Yunzhu's memory, and she thought it was a newly built residence, but when she walked into the courtyard, she realized that it was the attic where she used to live when she was a child.
"Miss." Protector Lian came out with a gentle expression on his crutches.
Yunzhu looked at the towering sycamore trees in the yard.
Guardian Lian came to her side, raised her head following her gaze, and said with relief, "This was planted when Miss was ten years old. It was just a small sapling at the time, and now it is almost higher than the attic."
Only then did Yunzhu look at her.
She hadn't slept all night, and her face was originally haggard, but under her careful attire, nothing could be seen anymore.
She smiled, met Shang Yunzhu's gaze, and said with a trace of guilt: "One year, it rained heavily for 20 days. The lady's yard was flooded and the damage was heavy. Afterwards, I simply renovated it." .”
"Yeah." Yun Zhu replied in a neutral tone, as if she wasn't interested in whether the courtyard was renovated or not.
Guardian Lian asked hesitantly, "Miss, are you angry that I changed my name?"
Yunzhu looked at her: "You don't have to have a lady at every turn. From the day I was expelled from the Holy Church, I was no longer your lady. You can renovate wherever you like, and change your name to whatever you like. ,not my business."
Guardian Lian was annoyed, lowered his eyes, and said with a faint smile, "What's the matter with the young lady coming today?"
Yunzhu said: "When do you plan to return the Holy Cult to me?"
Guardian Lian's eyes paused: "Miss...what did you say?"
Yunzhu said: "Don't pretend, I'm not very patient, you won't even know this after serving you."
Guardian Lian took a deep breath and said slowly: "That day..."
Yunzhu interrupted her: "We won that day, don't overwhelm me with useless rules, you have even dispatched blood demons, you are no longer qualified to discuss rules with me."
Guardian Lian clenched his crutches tightly: "I still need to report this matter to the leader."
Yunzhu said lightly: "He is almost dead, what else can he do?"
Guardian Lian suddenly looked at Yunzhu.
Yunzhu met her panicked eyes calmly: "Think that draining the blood of the blood demon will save him?"
Guardian Lian's fingers holding the cane turned white faintly: "I don't understand what Miss is talking about."
Yun Zhu said: "It's rare that you are so loyal to him. If you were half as loyal to me and my father as you were to Yun Su..."
Yunzhu didn't say any more about the latter words.
But Guardian Lian said: "I didn't follow Miss back then, didn't I just stay in Yinhu Island to take care of Ghost Emperor?"
Yun Zhu shook her head and said, "I don't want to hear you say this, I just want to ask you, do you want to save Yun Su? If you do, you will announce the truth of that year to the public."
Protector Lian said without changing his face: "What is the truth, I can't understand it."
Yunzhu looked at her fixedly and said: "Do you think I won't know if you don't tell me? I'm just giving you a chance. Don't think that you are really hiding well."
"She is a very cautious person. She will not hide secrets around her, but she will not hide them too far away. She needs to be placed in a place where outsiders cannot approach at will. Only she can monitor at any time without causing suspicion. The place."
Ji Mingxiu's original words flashed in his mind, Yunzhu walked up to Guardian Lian, and said word by word: "It's in Zhaoming's room, isn't it?"
Guardian Lian's eyes changed.
Yunzhu glanced at her calmly: "Master and servant, I will give you three days to think about it."
After all, Yunzhu left without looking back.
Ji Mingxiu didn't wait too long before Yunzhu returned to the carriage.
Ji Mingxiu opened the curtain for her and let her sit in the carriage: "Did you tell me everything?"
Yunzhu nodded: "Say it."
Ji Mingxiu said: "Next, we'll just wait for her to take the bait."
In fact, how did Ji Mingxiu and Yunzhu know if she had hidden something in Zhaoming's room? It's just that a thief always has a guilty conscience. Just in case, she has to check whether her hands and feet are really clean.
After watching Yunzhu leave, Guardian Lian immediately returned to Yinhu Island. As soon as she got on the island, she went to the palace where the jade coffin was placed.
Apart from female disciples coming in to clean the palace at certain hours, there were not many people walking around the rest of the time.
When the female disciple guarding the gate saw her, she bowed respectfully and said, "Guardian Lian."
Guardian Lian asked, "Apart from me, has anyone been here these days?"
The female disciple shook her head: "No."
"Where is the young master?"
"No."
"Where is Mr. Changli?"
"nor."
Guardian Lian paused: "Except for you and your senior sister? Have any other disciples gone in?"
The female disciple said: "No, Protector Lian. In the past two days, my senior sister and I have taken turns guarding the gate, and not even a fly flew in."
Guardian Lian said again: "Then did you hear any strange movements?"
"No." The female disciple looked at her blankly, "Is something wrong, Guardian Lian?"
Guardian Lian said solemnly: "It's nothing, the holy religion is not peaceful recently, we will send more people here, don't let anyone intrude."
The female disciple responded respectfully: "I understand."
After giving instructions to the female disciple, Guardian Lian turned and went back to the house.
She didn't make any unusual movements until night.
On the carriage, Yunzhu looked at the crescent moon in the sky, and asked suspiciously: "We guessed wrong? Didn't she hide any secrets?"
Ji Mingxiu said: "It is impossible for a person like her to have no secrets. There are always some things that she is reluctant to throw away."
The two waited most of the night in the carriage.
When it was almost dawn, Guardian Lian finally made a move.
She went to the bedroom where Zhaoming was placed, and picked a handful of fresh plum blossoms for Zhaoming as usual.
After putting the plum blossoms into the vase, she came to Zhaoming's jade coffin, knelt down, and looked at the bottom of the coffin.
Then she reached under the coffin, fumbled left and right, and with a bang, the mechanism embedded in the ground opened.
She took out a small flat box, checked its contents, and put the box back.
But after a while, she took out the contents of the box again and put it in her bosom.
She left Zhaoming's room with her belongings.
She walked all the way to the backyard of her palace, removed a potted crabapple, dug out a small jar, stuffed things into the small jar, covered it, filled it with soil, and placed the potted plant.
Everything was done seamlessly.
She looked around to make sure there was no one and left with a vigilant look.
Not long after she left, a little black hand stretched out from the wall.
The owner of the little black hand jumped down to the ground, removed the potted plants, dug up the loose soil, pulled up the lid of the jar, and took out the contents of the jar.
…
"A booklet?" Yunzhu looked suspiciously at the little blue book that Zhu'er handed over.
Pearl twirled triumphantly, and happily jumped onto the seat.
Yunzhu opened it and took a look: "It's just some disciple's information."
Yunzhu was disappointed. After waiting for a long time, she only found a roster. This can't explain anything at all, and it can't prove the innocence of the ghost emperor.
Ji Mingxiu took the booklet and looked at it. As Yunzhu said, it was indeed just an ordinary roster: "Does grandma know the people on the booklet?"
Yunzhu turned a few pages and shook her head: "I don't have much memory. I have been away from the holy religion for too long. Those people back then have almost forgotten."
Ji Mingxiu thought for a while, and said, "If it's really just an ordinary roster, she doesn't have to spend a lot of time hiding it. There must be some shady mystery in it. Grandma, you go back to the palace first, and I'll go out for a while." trip."
Yunzhu returned to the palace as promised.
Ji Mingxiu went to a tavern in Cloud City.
About half an hour later, Gongsun Changli came over.
Gongsun Changli looked him up and down, his eyes moved, and asked indifferently: "What do you want from me?"
Ji Mingxiu handed him the roster: "Do you know the people above?"
Gongsun Changli flipped through the roster, looked at it, and said, "They are all women's names, where do I know them?"
Ji Mingxiu jokingly said, "You know him since he's a man?"
Gongsun Changli glanced at him lightly.
Ji Mingxiu smiled lightly.
He was born beautiful, but now he took off his mask, revealing his beauty, this smile is like a spring breeze blowing overnight, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom.
Gongsun Changli's throat rolled, and he lowered his eyes, and took a sip from his teacup.
"I don't know anyone?" Ji Mingxiu asked.
Gongsun Changli's eyes fell on a name surnamed Zeng: "Zeng Qian?"
Ji Mingxiu asked, "Know?"
Gongsun Changli said: "I heard once that she is the niece of Zeng Dharma Protector, but she is not a disciple of the Holy Cult."
Ji Mingxiu tapped lightly on the table a few times with his index finger: "So the people recorded in this roster are not from the Holy Cult?"
"Wait." Gongsun Changli saw another name, "Hu Liufang is the chief deacon of the Holy Church."
Ji Mingxiu asked thoughtfully, "So what's the matter with this roster?"
Gongsun Changli closed the booklet: "There is one person who should know."
…
A quarter of an hour later, Gongsun Changli and Ji Mingxiu, who had been disguised, appeared at the entrance of the dungeon.
The guards in the dungeon saluted Gongsun Changli respectfully: "Mr. Changli."
Ji Mingxiu glanced at Gongsun Changli.
Gongsun Changli said: "I'll go in and see Protector Zeng."
The guard hesitated a little, but finally let it go.
Guardian Lian was busy treating Yun Su's injuries these two days, but he didn't come to the dungeon.
Protector Zeng sat on the ground in embarrassment, leaning his back against the wall, closing his eyes and meditating.
When he heard footsteps, he didn't raise his eyes.
Gongsun Changli opened the cage with a key, bowed in, and said, "Protector Zeng, I'm here to ask you something."
"Hmph." Protector Zeng didn't even bother to talk to him.
Gongsun Changli stepped aside, pointed to Ji Mingxiu behind him, and said very politely: "He is Yunzhu's grandson, there may be other secrets about what happened back then, he came to find out the truth, and I hope Zeng Dharma protector For the sake of our relationship with senior brother and sister Yunzhu, please do us this favor."
Protector Zeng opened his eyes heavily.
Ji Mingxiu is still the same after the disguise, his appearance is mediocre, but his whole body temperament, even in the cage, is noble and noble.
Protector Zeng took a deep look at Ji Mingxiu, his face was not too warm, and even a little cold.
His own brother died in that massacre, and he didn't really want to see anyone related to that massacre.
Ji Mingxiu touched a soft nail, but he was not annoyed, and said in a normal tone: "Guardian Zeng should have realized that what happened back then was done by the blood demon, and the ghost emperor is innocent."
Protector Zeng snorted, "You said he was innocent, so is he innocent?"
Ji Mingxiu sighed: "Not only the ghost emperor is innocent, but the blood demon is also persecuted. Behind this, there are another pair of controlling hands. The poor brother who once protected the law died in vain at a young age, but the murderer is still at large. After so many years, doesn't Zeng protect the law?"
Protector Zeng clenched his fist.
Thinking of something, Zeng Hufa looked at Gongsun Changli coldly and said: "I knew you had no good intentions when approaching the leader, but it's a pity that the leader insisted on going his own way and kept you, a disaster, by his side."
Ji Mingxiu looked at Gongsun Changli strangely.
Gongsun Changli was expressionless, he took out the roster, handed it to Protector Zeng and said, "Do you know who is on it?"
Protector Zeng took the booklet nonchalantly.
The light in the cage was dim.
He looked at the firelight on the wall for a while, and murmured, "Isn't this the roster for Mrs. Yunqing's election?"
Ji Mingxiu was taken aback: "The roster of the wife of the leader?"
Protector Zeng said: "That's right, Master Yunqing has reached the age of marriage, so he should choose a marriage for himself. There are thousands of good girls here, including female disciples of the Holy Cult, and Yunzhongcheng daughter."
Protector Zeng saw Zeng Qian's name, "Yes, that's right, my niece is also on the list, alas, it's a pity that I lost the election."
Ji Mingxiu asked meaningfully: "These girls... who picked them?"
It happened so many years ago, and Protector Zeng almost forgot. He scratched his head and said, "Master Yuehua... No, no, it's not him, Deacon Hu? It's not her either."
Ji Mingxiu asked, "Guardian Lian?"
Zeng Hufa's eyes lit up: "That's right, it's her!"
"Then in the end, who was chosen?" Ji Mingxiu asked.
Protector Zeng sighed: "No one was selected, and Master Yunqing brought a woman back from outside."