All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Shen Lingxi's speculative words just came out of her mouth——
Chunjun came forward to report with a solemn expression, "Your Highness, the subordinate is not effective, and the man who manipulated the corpse has been silenced!"

The expressions of the three people in the room changed slightly.

The entire palace is guarded by black armored guards outside and embroidered clothes envoys inside.

Especially the man in the veiled hat, who was interrogated by Chunjun himself, how could he be silenced so easily?

"What's going on?" Chu Yan asked in a deep voice.

Chun Jun: "He pretended to be an embroidered clothes envoy. When he came in, he said to send you an order. The subordinates knew something was wrong. They wanted to follow the plan and arrested him. Unexpectedly, they just talked to him a few words and saw his face. Eyes, I don’t remember anything. When I come back to my senses, the man’s neck bone has been crushed and he is dead.”

"It's Wu Erda's Zhu Youshu." Shen Lingxi said firmly, "Zhu Youshu plus intoxication, can control people invisible, is a person with high martial arts, and it is difficult to resist in a short time without precaution .”

Chu Yan obviously also thought of Zhu Youshu, and said solemnly: "He must still be in this mansion, I will personally lead someone to arrest him."

He looked at Shen Lingxi, "For safety's sake, I'll ask Chunjun to send you back first, and I'll pick you up after I catch Wuerda."

A trace of surprise flashed in Shen Lingxi's eyes.

She knew that Chu Yan had good intentions, but she was not a fragile porcelain doll, especially at this time.

She refused bluntly: "I have to find them tonight, I won't leave."

As soon as these words came out, Chun Jun next to him looked slightly terrified.

No one in Da Zhou knew that His Royal Highness was a one-sided character.

So far, no one has dared to refuse his order in public.

Even though Chun Jun knew that His Highness doted on the Crown Princess very much.

But this does not mean that she will be allowed to do whatever she wants.

Sending her away from the dangerous place was really thinking about her safety.

The Crown Princess is so ignorant, I'm afraid His Highness won't indulge her unprincipledly like before.

However, to his surprise——

"Then I'll accompany you." Chu Yan said, looking up at Chunjun: "Go..."

"Your Highness." Shen Lingxi interrupted him for the first time, and said with serious eyes: "Wurda is cunning by nature, good at blessing, poison and disguise. Your Highness should know that you can lead people in person in the shortest time. found traces of him."

"Your Highness has what His Highness should do, and I also have what I should do. If I am not sure, I will not do it. Since Your Highness chooses to 'marry' with me, you should trust me."

She deliberately emphasized the word "married" to remind him that contract partners should trust each other's abilities.

Chu Yan naturally understood.

He pursed his thin lips slightly, but rarely responded.

Wu Erda is the one who killed his mother and concubine, even Chunjun can be recruited, let alone her...

"Your Highness, don't worry, there are officials next to the Crown Princess." Mu Huai'an said seriously from the side.

Chu Yan raised his eyes suddenly, looking at him sharply.

Mu Huai'an bowed to him, with a candid look on his brows, "Your Majesty will definitely protect the Crown Princess."

Chu Yan's jaw tightened.

He was silent for a few moments, then took out a small Mingdi from his waist, and handed it to Shen Lingxi, "Take this with you, if you encounter danger, use it as a warning, and I will come as soon as possible."

This is what it means to agree with her, to trust her.

The corners of Shen Lingxi's lips curved, and she responded with a smile.

"Let Chun Jun accompany you." Chu Yan added, and silently glanced at Mu Huai'an, signaling him to abide by what he just said.

Mu Huai'an bowed silently.

Shen Lingxi nodded, but this time she didn't refuse again, and said: "Zhu Youshu performs spells by looking into the other person's eyes. If Your Highness meets him, be careful and don't look at him."

"Understood. Be careful too." After saying this, he took a deep look at her and strode out.

After he left, Shen Lingxi looked up at Chunjun, "Please take me to see the corpse of the man who controlled the corpse."

*
Chunjun led Shen Lingxi and Mu Huai'an to a small courtyard not far away.

Because it was late at night and something had just happened, the yard and the upper room were all brightly lit with candles.

As soon as Shen Lingxi walked up the steps, she saw a thin white shadow floating beside the corpse on the upper floor.

That white shadow is none other than the man in the veiled hat who manipulated Yun Hongshan's corpse just now.

It seems that she decided to come and take a look, and she really came to the right place.

There are several embroiderers stationed in the room.

Shen Lingxi walked to the corridor and said to Chunjun, "I want to do an autopsy on this person, please clear the place, you just wait for me outside."

Chunjun responded, walked in and explained twice, and the embroidered clothes envoys immediately retreated from the room.

Taking advantage of Chun Jun's absence, Mu Huai'an turned to her, and asked jokingly in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Can I go in with you, Your Royal Highness."

When Shen Lingxi heard this address, her pupils suddenly tightened.

But in the blink of an eye, she guessed that Mu Huai'an must have heard all of what she said in front of A Weng that night, so she guessed her identity.

"It's up to you." Shen Lingxi said lightly, walked into the room without changing her expression.

Mu Huai'an thought she would be shocked.

I didn't expect such a calm reaction, but I was a little surprised, so I also walked in, not forgetting to say to Chunjun: "I will also conduct an autopsy, and I will assist the princess."

After all, without waiting for Chunjun to react, he directly closed the door.

Chunjun innocently ate the door shut, stunned for a moment, came back to his senses, raised his hand and was about to knock on the door——
But it suddenly occurred to him that just now Shen Lingxi bluntly rejected his highness...

Chun Jun withdrew his hand knowingly, and said through the closed door: "This subordinate also knows a little about autopsy. If the princess still needs manpower, this subordinate will guard the door."

"Got it." Shen Lingxi's voice came from the door.

When Chun Jun heard the words, he knew that this was Shen Lingxi's agreement with Mu Huai'an to stay inside, so he stopped talking and quietly guarded the door.

*
In the room, Mu Huai'an followed Shen Lingxi closely after closing the door, looking around warily with his eyes.

He knew that since Shen Lingxi sent everyone out on purpose, there must be something ulterior in this room.

"Where is it?" he asked in a low voice.

Shen Lingxi snorted lightly, "Since you are afraid, just wait outside."

"Who said I was afraid." Mu Huai'an straightened his back, "Didn't I follow you kindly because I was afraid that something would happen to you?"

Shen Lingxi raised her eyes, stared coldly into his eyes, let out a gloomy voice from her throat, and said to him: "You have already guessed that I am not alone, what can happen to me, Young Master Mu Qing..."

Mu Huai'an was startled by her sudden appearance, and the back of his head was numb.

He has always been afraid of this unexplainable thing.

It's one thing to guess that she is the little princess of Yunguo, but it's another thing to face such a "real" her.

He still needs time to get used to it.

"Shen Lingxi, please speak up!" Mu Huai'an tightly squeezed the fan bone in his hand, his whole body was tense, and he said with a straight face.

Shen Lingxi's eyes turned around on his face, and she smiled knowingly.

This is the normal reaction that people other than relatives should have after knowing her origin.

Therefore, it is the best choice to conceal one's origin in good faith, no matter who it is to.

"Go and sit in a chair far away, don't disturb me." She said lightly.

The endless questioning between the two naturally attracted the attention of the man in the veiled hat.

The dead soul of the man circled back and forth around the two of them.

Shen Lingxi turned around, ignored his dead soul, and walked to his dead body.

The man's body was still in the state before his death. For the sake of being interrogated, his body was firmly tied to the vermilion pillar with a rope by the embroidered clothes.

The fatal wound was on the neck, and there were dark purple pinch marks with folded hands, which was strangled to death.

The head is tilted to one side, the lips are parted, the tongue sticks out, and the eyes are wide open.

Even though he had been dead for a while, Shen Lingxi could see that there was panic in the eyes of this person when he was dying.

"Looks like someone who doesn't want to die."

Shen Lingxi gave a "tsk", and said in a tone of regret, "It's a pity, there are very few people who know how to pull silk puppets nowadays. Although the craft is a bit clumsy, it is definitely not something that can be practiced overnight. It's a pity to die."

The words "clumsy craftsmanship" obviously insulted the self-esteem of the man in the veiled hat.

His soul made a "chuckle", floated to Shen Lingxi, looked her over carefully, and said angrily, "Oh, who am I? It turns out that she is an ignorant yellow-haired girl, and she almost peed in fright just now at the door." , dare to call me, bah! If I was still alive, I would smash the bones of you little girl and make a puppet."

His body had never been collected, and the tongue of the soul body, like the tongue of the body, was half sticking out.

The voice of speaking, with the tongue between them, is full of saliva.

Shen Lingxi raised her eyes in disgust, looked straight into the eyes of his soul body, imitated his current appearance, stuck out her tongue, and said three words: "No, see, know."

The man met her eyes unexpectedly and opened his eyes wide in shock, "You...you..."

Shen Lingxi made a face at him, "What me?"

She directly reached out and groped under the jawbone of the man's corpse a few times, and returned his tongue to its original position with a "click".

The man touched the chin of his own soul in astonishment. No matter how slow he was at this point, he could tell that Shen Lingxi could really see him.

"Who are you?" The man asked, frowning.

Shen Lingxi smiled at him, and reached out to untie the rope that bound his body.

The corpse lost its restraint, and fell to one side stiffly——

Shen Lingxi reached out and grabbed the corpse's wrist.

The moment she touched the corpse, it seemed that the corpse had been infused with a soul, stomping on its own, and standing up straight.

The pair of eyes that had been kept wide open before death blinked slowly, and turned to look in the direction of the man.

"What are you doing?" The corpse made a hoarse voice, and said to him, "Hurry up and kneel down and call Master."

Seeing this battle, the man wanted to understand what was going on in front of the mansion today almost instantly.

His soul thumped and knelt down in front of Shen Lingxi, and shouted honestly with a crying voice: "Master, it's my disciples who don't know Mount Tai, please forgive me."

This "Master Ancestor" really wasn't Shen Lingxi's intention to play tricks on a ghost.

Yunjiang's "Silk Puppet Art" is originally of the same origin.

It's just that the puppetry like her, which uses the soul as the thread, needs chance and talent to learn, and it is naturally from the ancestors.

And the puppet technique that this man used, including wire control, was figured out by later generations according to the classics left by their ancestors.

The Puppet Sect has extremely strict regulations on the silk puppet technique, which can only be used on the corpses of criminals who have committed the most heinous crimes, and cannot be used to do evil.

Regardless of whether Yun Hongshan is good or bad, it is obvious that his body should not be made into a puppet because of his royal status.

There should be something else hidden in this.

Mu Huai'an on the side, although he didn't know what happened, but at this moment the body suddenly moved, and for a while the body turned to the air for someone called "Master Zu".

The scene was simply extremely weird.

He sat stiffly on the chair, even breathing carefully.

Seeing his reaction, Shen Lingxi smiled knowingly again.

She manipulated the man's body, walked to the wooden frame used by embroidered clothes on the ground to carry the body, and lay down on it.

Then, Shen Lingxi turned around and sat on the chair, looking at the man kneeling on the ground, "Tell me, who are you and why did you go down the mountain to manipulate Yunhongshan's body?"

This is the first time in a man's life that he has seen someone manipulate a corpse with his soul, and Shen Lingxi can see him as a ghost.

In his eyes, Shen Lingxi is more than just a "master ancestor", he is simply a god descending from the earth!

Since she asked, the man naturally knew everything and said everything.

"My name is Kui Nineteen, and I am the No. 19 disciple of the silk-drawing puppet technique. Our puppet sect has been ordered to guard the holy mountain so that no one will destroy the tombs of our ancestors."

"After the kingdom of Yun was destroyed six years ago, Da Siming brought the children of Yaogong into the holy mountain and lived in the puppet gate."

Shen Lingxi felt a little relieved when she heard that Da Si ordered to enter the holy mountain.

The holy mountain is full of traps, easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as they hide in the holy mountain, unless they blow up the mountain with firearms, it is absolutely impossible to catch them again.

But why...

"Da Si Ming is also a member of the puppet sect. Under his command, you shouldn't go down the mountain and use puppet art to harm people." She asked in a deep voice, "Did you sneak out?"

Kui Nineteen had a look of sadness on his face, "A year later, under the order of King Yunjiang, General Xiao quietly went into the holy mountain to wipe out the remnants of the medicine palace. The illusion, even Da Si Ming died in the holy mountain."

"What!" Shen Ling stood up sharply, with an unprecedented shock on his face, "Is Yun Hongshan crazy? The holy mountain is where the people of Yunguo believe. How dare he!"

"What he wants to destroy is this belief."

Kui Nineteen said dejectedly: "The Commander-in-Chief said that Yun Kingdom governed the country with the belief of saintesses and gods, which was not tolerated by Da Zhou. Before breaking the country, Yun Hongshan made a secret deal with Da Zhou to kill the saints and destroy the gods. The holy mountain, so that Yun Kingdom can be completely controlled by Da Zhou."

"Master should know that our saint, the little princess Yun Xi... was pushed down the tower by Emperor Li as a victim who cursed the royal family of Great Zhou on the day when the country was broken. Da Si Ming said before his death that this is actually Yun Hongshan , to instigate the ministers and alchemists on the eve of the country's collapse to secretly confuse Emperor Ruo to commit crimes."

"If they hadn't told Emperor Li, 'Curse the Chu family with the life of a saint, you will be able to avenge the royal family of Chu forever', Emperor Li would never have thought of this, and the little princess would not have died because of it..."