King Jin spoke the last four words one by one, biting them very clearly, and the light in his eyes increased with each word. After finally speaking, he turned and stared at King Yu, with a cold light blazing out of his eyes.
"Ah? This...this, where do you start talking about this?"
Although King Yu was the elder brother, under the pressure of King Jin's intimidating momentum, he seemed to be a generation shorter. He could not even speak a complete sentence, and he took half a step back again, trembling deeply.
After a salute, he bowed his waist and did not move, not daring to straighten up again.
"Haha, although I'm not as smart as Third Brother, I'm not that stupid, so why should Third Brother act like this?"
After hearing this, King Yu's violently shaking body gradually calmed down, but he still couldn't get up and just sighed deeply towards the ground.
Upon seeing this, King Jin reached out and held King Yu's elbow to signal him to stand up. King Yu then straightened his body slightly, pondered for a moment or two, and finally spoke slowly:
"Yes, after the fifth brother returned to Beijing incognito a few days ago, Patriarch Jin did come to my house... and also informed Brother Yu about what happened to the fifth brother in Qianyuan Prefecture when he was incognito to investigate Xiangrui..."
Before King Yu could finish speaking, King Jin raised his hand to stop him.
"Pah! Pah!"
King Jin raised his hand and clapped his hands three times rhythmically. The applause spread to the second floor. After hearing this, the old eunuch guarding the stairs on the second floor stood up suddenly and bowed to the five old Jinwu lieutenants:
"Excuse me, the captains. Let us carry it up, Your Highness."
"Wait! What is this? Why haven't we seen it this morning?"
The old eunuch of Prince Yu's Palace and the adoptive father of Eunuch Zheng pointed at the wooden basin carried by Jinwu Guards and asked the old eunuch Liu of Prince Jin's Palace.
After asking, he took two steps forward, looked into the basin covered with talismans, and suddenly frowned:
"Hiss~this..."
He took a deep breath and froze on the spot, but the old eunuch chief of Jin Palace ignored him and only motioned to Jinwu's old lieutenants to carry the wooden basin up to the third floor.
“Ding-deng-deng!”
A series of very light steps on the stairs came, and the old eunuch of Prince Yu's Mansion woke up and wanted to say something to stop him, but was stopped by the old eunuch Liu opposite:
"I said Eunuch Cui, we are all old people in the palace, we shouldn't be so ignorant of the rules!
Just now, His Highness the King of Jin personally issued the order, so what? Do you still want to resist the King's order?"
"ah?"
Hearing this, Old Eunuch Cui of Prince Yu's Mansion waved his hands and said he didn't dare. He could only peek up a few times, and at the same time listened carefully to the movements on the third floor.
The five old Jinwu lieutenants carried the dark wooden basin covered with talismans to the third floor, followed by two young eunuchs from the Jin Palace, while the old eunuch Liu was still guarding the stairs on the second floor, not letting the others wait.
building.
The old lieutenants placed the wooden basin gently on the terrace, and the two young eunuchs carefully put away the chessboard remnants. Then King Yu turned around and looked into the wooden basin.
What I saw in the basin was a pool of ink-black water, in which a thick eel with a pale yellow body lay quietly.
King Yu frowned slightly when he saw this, and leaned forward slightly to take another look.
"What? Third brother doesn't recognize this thing anymore?"
King Jin asked with a smile from the side.
"this……"
King Yu stared at the eel in the wooden basin in bewilderment. He thought for a long time before speaking:
"This eel is not bad in size and thickness, but its color is so different from when I first saw it?"
King Jin smiled and said nothing when he heard this. He only glanced at the old captain in black next to the wooden basin. The old captain immediately nodded lightly and said:
"Your Highness doesn't know. When this demon was first captured, it was indeed golden. However, after being sealed in this wooden basin for a long time, the demon's power gradually weakened and its color became much lighter."
"Oh I got it……"
King Yu nodded and said, King Jin behind him took a step forward, pointed at the moon-worshiping eel in the wooden basin and said:
"Ancestor Jin Shuyang has told me everything Third Brother said, and today I will ask this demon to return Third Brother's blood essence to its original owner."
King Yu was startled when he heard this. He waved his hands quickly and said without caring about etiquette:
"No, no, I really just listened to the wandering sorcerer's words at first, saying that after taking a piece of blood essence and giving it to this thing, and then warming it up and taking it, it would prolong life, but I didn't know that it was actually a demon who wanted to put the blame on me.
For my plot to assassinate my fifth brother?
Besides, my blood essence has been in this monster body for a long time, and it may have been stained with monster energy. If you take it back to me again? Wouldn't it be..."
"Snapped!"
King Jin stepped forward from his side, held King Yu's arm with his left hand, and gently stroked his back with his right hand to persuade him:
"Third brother, don't worry. The captains of the Jinwu Guard have refined the essence and blood of the third brother in this demon. If the third brother can't trust Yudi, why can't he trust the Jinwu Guard?
Human essence and blood are precious, how can we throw them away at will? Come, come, come, third brother, just enjoy it with peace of mind."
"this……"
King Yu glanced at the old captains of Jinwu with some suspicion, and the leading captain in black nodded slightly to him.
"Ouch! Big... bold!"
Just as King Yu was hesitating, Old Eunuch Liu's shout suddenly came from the second floor staircase below, followed immediately by the sound of someone hurriedly stepping upstairs.
"Bang!"
The wooden door of the terrace on the third floor was violently pulled open from the house. Cui, the old eunuch of Prince Yu's Mansion, ran out of the house panting heavily and knelt on the ground with a "plop":
"Your Highness! Your Highness! I have something important to report."
After speaking, he hurriedly took out the little princess's gold medal from his arms and raised his hands high above his head.
"Bold! You don't want your life?"
Behind him, Old Eunuch Liu from Prince Jin's Mansion immediately climbed up the stairs and chased after him while shouting. Seeing that Eunuch Cui was just kneeling on the terrace, he had no choice but to kneel behind him.
Cheng Yu looked down from the roof. Two eunuchs were kneeling at the door. At the stairway behind him, there were a group of young eunuchs crowded together. Some of them were dressed from Prince Yu's Palace and some from Prince Jin's Palace. If there was any excitement at this time, everyone was watching.
If you live in one place, you will no longer be divided into two families.
When King Yu saw his old father-in-law coming, he frowned and looked a little unhappy on his face. But in fact, he was just right in saying it, so he hurriedly pretended to scold him:
"Husband, why are you so reckless? You came here without me calling you. Do you have anything important to report?"
"Report to Your Highness..."
Mr. Cui raised his eyes slightly and glanced at the wooden basin on the ground. He couldn't help but vomit and continued:
"I just received the gold medal from Princess Anting from the palace. I was afraid that the princess had something important to do, so I didn't dare to delay any more, so I rushed in rashly. I deserve to die!"
After saying that, he lifted the princess gold medal in his hand a few inches higher.
"Isn't Anting recuperating in a villa because of poor health? Why did he come here from the third brother's house to receive a token?"
King Jin stared at the gold medal in Eunuch Cui's hand and asked with a frown.
"Ah! What the fifth brother doesn't know is that before this girl Anting left the house and came here, she ordered two of her female officials to stay in the house, and also gave them a gold medal, which is the one in my husband's hand. Seeing the order is like seeing me...
…Let me ask you, why did the government send this token?"
At the end of his sentence, King Yu turned to the old eunuch and asked.
"Yes... the mansion has recently hired a big opera troupe to sing a good show to entertain the prince and the princess. Among them is a newly popular martial arts student who has been named by the mansion.
Let the prince see him, he is said to have extraordinary kung fu, rarely seen in the world, so my slaves also brought him here..."
When Eunuch Cui said this, he turned back and looked towards the stairs. Eunuch Zheng, who was crowded with people on the stairs to watch the excitement, saw this and hurriedly turned around to greet Jia Fei, who was still on the second floor, to come up. Then he knelt and climbed to the balcony and said, "Bang."
Bang!" He kowtowed twice before saying:
"It is true as Eunuch Cui said, it was this servant who received the princess's token and..."
Eunuch Zheng was about to take out the recruitment bag in his arms when he suddenly felt his hand on the ground being stepped on by someone. It turned out that the old eunuch Cui who was kneeling in front of him quietly stretched his toes back and stepped on it on purpose.
His hand.
Eunuch Zheng paused for a moment, then immediately remembered what his adoptive father had told him on the way, and hurriedly added:
"We came to the other garden with... and the theater troupe. The theater troupe has finished practicing the ceremony, and the great martial artist is waiting on the second floor at the moment."
"Theatrical troupe? How come the troupe has such a big background and actually wants to use the princess's token? I would like to see it..."
King Jin's interest was aroused. As he asked, he walked towards the two eunuchs who were kneeling on the ground. From the corner of his eye, he saw Jia Fei who had climbed up the stairs to the third floor.
"Um?"
When the King of Jin saw Jia Fei, he was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that the visitor was the troupe martial artist he met by chance at the ferry in Qianyuan Prefecture.
"Ha...it turns out you didn't..."
He hesitated to speak, then for some reason he shook his head and smiled bitterly, muttering in a low voice:
"I didn't expect to be fooled by that Patriarch Jin."
King Jin said these words very softly, but they could not escape Cheng Yu's ears.
While he was listening in all directions on the roof, he was also watching the movement below his feet.
When King Jin was mumbling, everyone present was looking at Jia Fei. Only the captain in black glanced at King Jin. Although there was no expression on his face, Cheng Yu knew that this waterman
The captain of the Wei Department must have heard King Jin's whisper.
Cheng Yu recalled that night at the ferry in Qianyuan Prefecture, when the Mobei witch's assassination failed, and the overall situation on the King of Jin's side had been decided, while he was waiting for the boat to pick him up, he looked at the troupe who were detained in one place, and saw that the King of Jin had an affair with Jin Shuyang.
Have a conversation.
At this time, combined with the meaning of what King Jin just said, Cheng Yu knew that although King Jin at that time was full of honorable words such as all living beings are citizens of Liang, and should love them as sons and protect them, but in fact
He asked Jin Shuyang to take action and silence the entire troupe.
The reason why everyone in the troupe was saved was because the boy holding the incense did not kill anyone, but wanted to use requiem instead of the killing move. Maybe there was a spell in it that could erase everyone's memories of that night.
However, Jin Shuyang never thought that Cheng Yu's invisible barrier would protect the place where everyone in the troupe was. The requiem effect was still there, but his memory had not been erased.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yu conveyed his judgment to the cat demon. The cat demon was expressionless when he heard this, but in his mind, he had scolded the king of Jin across from his ancestors for eight generations.
At this moment, King Jin had taken a few steps towards Jia Fei and said with a smile:
"It turns out to be this little friend. Nice to meet you again!"
When the old eunuch Cui, who was kneeling in front of him, saw King Jin approaching and heard that Jia Fei had come upstairs behind him, he led Eunuch Zheng to climb to the side together, leaving a way in the middle.
Jia Fei stepped out but did not salute the King of Jin. He just stood in the middle of the terrace, with the grace of a beautiful tree facing the wind, knocking down everyone on the terrace, including five old captains and two princes.
Prince Yu, who was still leaning in front of the railing, looked at the newly arrived Jia Fei and then at the back of Prince Jin, thinking thoughtfully:
This martial artist is so handsome, and he is acquainted with the King of Jin?
Could it be... that they are people from King Jin, who want to put them in to monitor me?
But the princess's token came with it. Could it be that the people in the mansion were hinting at me?
"..."
King Jin, who had already stepped forward to greet him, was smiling, but his mind was already spinning a thousand times:
How could I meet him again here?
Is it a coincidence, or was it arranged deliberately?
Could it be... that he belongs to King Yu?
Am I wrong?
Third brother, he is really...
King Jin smiled and nodded to Jia Fei, then turned around and glanced at King Yu.
On the terrace, the two princes looked at each other with smiles like this. For a few breaths, they both saw a trace of doubt in each other's calm eyes.
"call……"
The wind blows and the grass is low, and the rolling hills and valleys of the racecourse are beautiful to the eye, but the watchtower next to the racecourse seems to be frozen in time.
