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

"footwork."

Mu Huai'an stood up straight, "When the assassin attacked just now, you dodged for a while. I've seen your footwork more than once, so I can tell it right away."

Shen Lingxi suddenly understood.

Her footwork to avoid attacks was learned from a dead soul after her rebirth.

That is the opponent's unique footwork, a life-saving technique, Mu Huaian has known her for so long, it is not surprising to have seen her.

"With just one footwork, you can guess that I am a corpse?"

Mu Huai'an smiled, and pretended to be plain: "I heard that after you came down from the holy mountain overnight, you lost your memory, so I made a special trip to find Yun Huang."

"Yunwang told you?" Shen Lingxi asked in surprise.

When did he get so close to Yun Wang?

"He only showed me an empty coffin, and he didn't say anything else." Mu Huai'an withdrew his hand on her shoulder, and said lightly, "But you are skinny, even if you look at it, just weigh it with your hands. You know you're not alive."

Shen Lingxi fell silent.

Even though this corpse has been embalmed, after six years, there are indeed only skin and bones left. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mummified corpse.

However, although Yun Wang didn't tell him clearly, he also told him the most crucial clue.

It is enough to prove that the relationship between Yun Huang and Mu Huai'an is very close now.

"What are you going to do after her?" Seeing her silence, Mu Huai'an asked again, "Are you still planning to stay in this corpse?"

Shen Lingxi was leaning on a bamboo stick, although her eyes were looking forward "dumbly", Xiang Zhou's soul was always locked on her peripheral vision.

"Watching a play." She lowered her voice, and said meaningfully: "Si Ming has worked so hard to plan for so long, and it is definitely not as simple as just wanting to take a body."

"The sage once said, 'If you want to take it, you must give it first'. He taught me the art of healing and poisoning since childhood, and cultivated me carefully. He spent 15 years planning to let a dead person take my body. I deserve it too. Let him get what he wants first, and then take it back, so that he can 'repay' his teaching to me."

Mu Huaian raised his eyebrows.

A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye.

Sure enough, it was the Shen Lingxi he knew.

No matter how many skins he changed, it was the one he would never admit wrong.

"What can I do for you?" Mu Huai'an was afraid that she would refuse, and said again, "One more helper from me is better than your chance of winning alone with a dead body."

"Catch me." Shen Lingxi looked at him and said, "Think of me as an assassin's accomplice, and keep me by your side. The soul of Chief Commander is around, so be careful not to show your flaws."

Mu Huai'an immediately understood what she meant, and his eyebrows were about to go up to the sky.

However, his hands were not idle, and he directly asked his hands to find a rope and tie it around Shen Lingxi's waist.

"Let's go, little blind man, before your accomplice throws himself into the trap, you will follow this general."

He purposely raised his voice and finished speaking, took Shen Lingxi by the hand, and chased after Tai Shumei.

*
Regarding Mu Huai'an suddenly bringing a blind and dumb little girl over, Tai Shu Mei naturally expressed doubts.

Mu Huai'an explained patiently and respectfully: "When the assassin assassinated the empress just now, it was this little blind man who was covering for him. I think that these troublesome people must have accomplices, so I tied them by my side and waited for them to take the bait. "

Taishu Mei looked at Shen Lingxi from head to toe again. Apart from being thin and small, she was plain-looking and blind. There was really nothing special about her, so she stopped paying attention to her.

The group soon reached the top of the mountain.

The Black Armored Guards and the Xiao Family Army separated the crowd from the altar and the ruins by a considerable distance, so that the entrance of the holy mountain was crowded with common people.

Thanks to Mu Huai'an, Shen Lingxi, as a "suspect", was able to go with them from the side of the crowd, pass through the blockade of Xiao's army, and head to the specially built king's tent beside the altar.

The king's tent is made of white plain brocade, like a spiritual shed, with an open front and back, and the front faces the direction of the crowd.

This is also the reason why Shen Lingxi asked Mu Huaian to tie her up.

Hiding in the crowd to watch the excitement, how can it be as enjoyable as watching a theater up close.

Mu Huai'an escorted Tai Shumei to the outside of Wang's tent, but did not go in. Instead, he leaned against the crooked neck tree on the side, flicked the rope in his hand boredly, and listened to the movement inside together with Shen Lingxi.

As soon as Tai Shumei entered the king's tent, she immediately burst into tears, and said aggrievedly: "Your Highness, just now when my concubine went up the mountain, she was almost killed by an assassin. Let the imperial court kill the concubines and offer sacrifices to heaven..."

Before Chu Yan made a statement, Xiao Rui's expression on the side had changed.

"There is such a thing?!"

He hurriedly bowed to Chu Yan: "Your Highness, it is all the fault of the minister. It is the minister's negligence and failure to press the rumors in time, which will intensify the rumors, instigate the people, and put the princess in danger. The minister... guilty."

Although Xiao Rui said so, he was actually reminding Chu Yan that he had mentioned this matter before, and it was Chu Yan who rejected his kindness.

Chu Yan looked down at him.

Seeing this, Grand Uncle Mei snorted coldly: "Today, the news that His Highness is going to burn the altar and the ruins, who intentionally spread the news, General Xiao knows it well, why bother to pretend here."

In her previous life, she had been the Empress Dowager for several years in the previous dynasty anyway, so how could she fail to understand Xiao Rui's tricks.

Xiao Rui seemed to be taken aback by Taishu Mei's words, he lifted the corner of his robe and knelt down on the ground in fear, kneeling down loyally and saying: "I know that the Crown Princess is quite dissatisfied with me, but the leak of the news this time is by no means a mistake. What I have done, please Your Highness and the Crown Princess clearly observe!"

This king's tent is only used for sunshade, the front and back are open, and there is no brocade curtain in front of it.

Therefore, the people who were stopped not far away saw Xiao Rui's kneeling clearly.

"General Xiao actually knelt down on that demon girl!" Someone in the crowd shouted with righteous indignation, "The demon woman brought disaster into the city, and now she wants to destroy our altar and cruel Zhongliang, she deserves to be killed!"

The rumors circulating among the common people along the way were all boasting about Xiao Rui and pity Xiao Rui.

Invisibly, Xiao Rui established a tall and loyal "hero" image in the hearts of everyone.

At this moment, the "hero" was humiliated and knelt down to plead guilty to a woman.

How could the people who came to petition bear it.

"Kill the witch!"

"Kill the witch!"

Under the instigation of someone with a heart, the common people shouted loudly in the direction of the king's tent.

There were already a large number of people who went up the mountain today, but this time they yelled out the words "Kill the demon girl" in unison, and it resounded throughout the valley.

The entire holy mountain seemed to be boiling.

Taishu Mei was born in a troubled time when the dynasty was about to fall, and she has seen this kind of mob-like behavior a lot, so she naturally knows the severity of it.

In the former dynasty, using violence to control violence is the safest way.

But now is the peaceful and prosperous age, Ruo Chuyan committed murder because of her.

In the future when she returns to Beijing in court, she will still be criticized by the world.

If she is crowned with the title of "Demon Concubine Harassing the Country", she will be abolished at the least, and sacrificed to the heavens at the worst.

Taishu Mei only thinks that she, the crown princess, is really hard to get rid of.

She couldn't solve the problem in front of her, so she could only pin her hopes on this cheap husband with this body.

"Husband, listen, those people outside are going to kill me, you must save me!" Taishu Mei cried.