Birds are singing and playing with birds, and phoenixes play with the blue waves.

When Qi Ning heard these two sentences for the first time, he heard them from Zhuo Xian'er. If the woman only said these two sentences, Qi Ning might not be sure that she was Zhuo Xian'er. After all, these two sentences were not created by Zhuo Xian'er, and it was not only Zhuo Xian'er who knew them. It was not uncommon to say these two sentences from others.

Birds are singing and playing with birds, and phoenixes play with birds, these two sentences actually refer to two guqins.

According to Zhuo Xian'er, there are four guqins in the world, all of which are famous. For all music experts, the four guqins are well-known to them. However, among the four guqins, there are two guqins, which are legendary magical objects, one bird singing guqin and the other phoenix guqin.

When Xian'er said these two sentences, Qi Ning was very interested, and that was the tone and expression of Xian'er's speech, which Qi Ning still remembered freshly.

Although the woman in front of her looked completely different from Zhuo Xian'er, her expression and tone when she spoke these two sentences were exactly the same as Zhuo Xian'er's words. Qi Ning believed that it was possible that the figures and even the eyes of the two people in the world were exactly the same, but even the words of their speech were exactly the same, which was really rare. Seeing the other person's expression, Qi Ning immediately blurted out.

The woman was stunned for a moment. Qi Ning had already stood up and looked at the woman up and down. The woman felt that Qi Ning's gaze seemed to be looking at a person without any trace. She suddenly felt a little uncomfortable and frowned and said, "You...!" But she didn't know what to say.

"Birds sing in the empty mountains, and tides in the blue sea!" Qi Ning sighed, "Have you heard these two sentences?"

The woman's delicate body shook and murmured, "Birds sing in the empty mountains, and the tides of the blue sea are...!" She tightened her eyebrows, as if she wanted to recall these two sentences from her mind, but soon, she raised her hand and pressed her temples, and a confused look appeared in her eyes.

Qi Ning saw it, sighed softly, and said, "Did you say you sneaked into the palace for a guqin, is it a bird-singing zither or a phoenix zither?"

The woman hesitated for a moment before saying, "No matter whether it is a bird's singing or a phoenix, it is not important. What is important is that a guqin is of no use to you."

"It has no purpose for us, what is it for you?" Qi Ning asked, "Why do you have to get that guqin?"

The woman shook her head and said, "First, you said you only asked me one question. I didn't deceive me, I have told you. Second, I don't know what the purpose of that guqin is. I just want to take the guqin away." Looking at Qi Ning's eyes, she asked, "Then can I leave now?"

Qi Ning pondered for a moment before saying, "Although you have recovered slightly, your injuries have not healed. I am only worried that you will not be able to leave the palace."

"You don't have to worry about this." The woman held Qingzhu and walked slowly out.

Qi Ning thought of something and sighed: "We've seen it not long ago."

The woman paused, turned around, and Qi Ning stared at the woman's eyes and said, "Liu Yi brought several musicians into the palace a while ago. On the day they entered the palace, I happened to be met by me. At that time, I saw that one of them looked very familiar and didn't recognize him for a while. Now that I think about it, that person should be you."

The woman's pretty face immediately showed a look of surprise.

"I don't know how you bribed Liu Yi, but your current identity is the musician in the palace." Qi Ning said: "Using the identity of a musician, he mingled into the palace and looked for opportunities to search for the guqin in the palace... I'm right?"

A chill appeared in the woman's eyes and she asked, "What do you want?"

Qi Ning smiled faintly and said, "It's no wonder you are not worried about not being able to leave the palace. Leaving Longyuan, you will still hide in the palace as a musician. Since there is a way to get into the palace, of course there is a way to leave the palace. Yes, since the guqin has been taken away, there is no need for you to stay in the palace anymore. Next, you will naturally leave the palace quickly and catch up with them before the Donghai Gate returns to the island."

The woman's expression was even colder, and she even clenched her fist with one hand.

Qi Ning saw it and smiled and said, "I want to be glad that you are injured now, otherwise you should have killed someone to silence you."

The woman ignored it, turned around and walked, and took two steps. Qi Ning said lightly: "My name is Qi Ning. Maybe you will never think of me, but if one day you really think of me, I will always be waiting."

The woman just paused for a moment and finally left with her injured body.

When the woman left, Qi Ning sighed lightly. Although all the signs showed that the woman was probably Zhuo Xian'er, that face was the biggest proof of overthrowing his judgment.

He knew that the purpose of this group of people entering the palace was not to deal with the little emperor, but to get the guqin. Since this is the case, there was no need to worry too much about the little emperor.

Just a guqin, why did Chi Danmei betray her?

What secret does that guqin hide? Why did the great master have to get that guqin?

At first, Qi Ning was worried that the things stolen by these people would cause great harm to the State of Chu, but knowing that it was just a guqin, it was hard to think about how harmful a guqin would be to the State of Chu.

Qi Ning stayed in Longyuan until midnight. Fortunately, he was practicing his internal skills in the bamboo forest, and time passed quickly.

Only after the snow dragon in the southern border fell asleep in the middle of the night, Qi Ning got off the python pool and quietly left the palace along the secret passage he had entered.

He had an amazing memory. When Chi Danmei led him in from the underground secret passage, he had actually been secretly remembering the direction. When he went back this time, he followed the direction of the memory, and everything went smoothly. Although this underground secret passage was extremely secret, no mechanism was set up.

When he arrived at the exit of the Maitreya Temple, the Maitreya stone sculpture above sealed the exit. Qi Ning knew that there must be a mechanism to open the exit below, otherwise Chi Danmei, Xiao Shaozong and others would not be able to leave the exit. The surroundings were pitch black. Qi Ning stroked the surrounding stone walls with both hands and looked for the button to open the mechanism. It took him half an hour to finally touch a small round stone that was extremely smooth and raised outwards. He pressed it down hard, and saw that the Maitreya stone sculpture above slowly opened.

He knew that when Chi Danmei opened this mechanism, he would have taken a lot of time. He remembered the mechanism, and then found that there were holes on the stone wall that were used to step on the stone wall. He used those holes to easily get out of the hole. Chi Danmei had previously tinkered with the mechanism of moving stone carving behind the Maitreya Stone Carving. Qi Ning personally tried it a few times, but successfully let the Maitreya Stone Carving seal the hole.

Qi Ning thought that this underground secret passage was really a flaw in the palace. Fortunately, not many people knew about it. Otherwise, if it was spread, if someone wanted to enter the palace for assassination in the future, this would be an extremely convenient shortcut. But of course he could not explain it directly to the little emperor, otherwise the little emperor would inevitably doubt how he knew where the secret passage was. Recently, the little emperor had become distant from his relationship with him, and Qi Ning could not guess what the little emperor was thinking. It would be a good idea not to say this for the time being.

The Maitreya Temple was silent. When Qining left the Maitreya Temple, it was the second half of the night, and the streets and alleys were deserted.

When he returned to the Jinyi Hou Mansion, he found that the main hall of the Hou Mansion was brightly lit. He was surprised. When he entered the pavilion, he saw Qi Feng and Li Tang both in the hall. Gu Qinghan was whispering something to the two of them.

Duan Canghai and Zhao Wushang were transferred by Qi Ning to the commander to train the Black Scale Camp, and Qi Feng and Li Tang were left to be in charge of the guards of the Jinyi Marquis' Mansion. On weekdays, Qi Feng and Li Tang took turns on duty. Today, they were called over at the same time, which was a little strange. Qi Ning was about to go over and ask what was wrong. Gu Qinghan happened to look up and see Qi Ning coming in. He was stunned for a moment. Li Tang and Qi Feng felt that the third wife's expression was wrong, so they both turned around. Seeing Qi Ning, they looked at each other, and their originally solemn expressions suddenly relaxed.

Qi Feng took the lead and bowed, "Mr. Marquis, are you... okay?"

Qi Ning looked down at himself. Except for the fact that his clothes were soaked in the water just now, the clothes were not dry yet, there was nothing wrong. He asked, "What do you think I have something to do?"

Qi Feng laughed dryly and said, "Mr.... It's good that Marquis is fine."

Li Tang also came over, looked at Qi Ning for a few glances, and confirmed that Qi Ning was safe and had nothing to do, so he was completely relieved.

Gu Qinghan walked over and gave a wink to Qi Feng and the others. They immediately bowed and retreated. After leaving the door, Qi Feng seemed to think of something, turned around and brought the door up, and then retreated.

Gu Qinghan looked up and down at Qi Ning, frowned and said, "Where have you... gone?"

Qi Ning knew that the fewer people knew the secret of the underground secret passage, the better, so he could only say: "It's nothing, it's just... just go around!"

"Just go?" Gu Qinghan looked suspicious: "You are covered in water. Have you been in the water? What are you doing? You have been leaving for a whole day, not even saying hello. Do you know...you know how worried we are."

Qi Ning knew that she suddenly left in the early morning yesterday and didn't come back until the middle of the night today. She didn't say anything when she left. Gu Qinghan was naturally worried and comforted: "Sanniang, don't worry, am I back now? I just... just go out for some breathing, nothing big happens."

"Breathable?" Gu Qinghan lowered her voice, lowered her head slightly, and said, "Yes...Is it that I made you feel uncomfortable, so... that's why you ran out by yourself?"

"No...no!" Qi Ning thought to myself, what does it have to do with you when I ran out in the middle of the night?

Gu Qinghan sighed quietly and said, "I know you must be unhappy with what I said the night before yesterday, but... but you don't need to do this, which makes people worry all day long. I don't dare to show off everywhere, so I can only let them look around. They don't look for you in the places you go on weekdays, and I still...!" After saying this, I didn't continue to say it. I glanced at Qi Ning, and then sighed softly: "I... am I really that important to you?"

When Qi Ning heard this, he immediately understood.
Chapter completed!