late night song

Chapter 244
Shu Yuan hurriedly broke into Ling Buhuo's study. He was very anxious. Today he was assigned to supervise the distribution of food and fodder to various military camps and couldn't get away. He was not allowed to lead the team to search in person. However, he was afraid of missing the latest news. Every other Every three or two hours, someone would always be sent over to ask for news about Gu Yuchu. No, as soon as he finished his errand, he had to come over in person without stopping.

But as soon as he entered the door, he bumped into Ji He who was about to go out, and his face suddenly became even more ugly.

"It's getting dark, princess and empress, you can be so relieved!" Shu Yuan, armed with a gun and a stick, satirized the two of them for their ulterior motives.

"You" Ji He looked furious and wanted to retort, but he endured it. He turned around and wanted to support Ling Buhuo, but he didn't even raise his head. Ji He held back his cheeks and raised his voice angrily. He rushed out of the yard with his skirt turned on.

"Is there any news about my sister?" Shu Yuan squinted at Ji He and asked before he even stepped into the study.

"No." Ling Buhuo frowned and replied.

"Then you actually have the heart to have fun here with Ji He!" Shu Yuan was anxious, regardless of superiority or inferiority, and almost slapped his table.

The man glared at Shu Yuan before he became honest. Then, Ling Buhuo suddenly asked as if he had lost his memory:

"How many times have you sneaked in to ask questions today?"

"No less than three times." Shu Yuan replied impatiently.

"No less than three times." Ling Buhuo lowered his head and recited silently, then suddenly raised his chin, trying to figure something out, then decisively stood up and strode out the door.

Shu Yuan saw this and hurriedly followed him. Although he was puzzled, Ling Buhuo didn't say anything and he didn't dare to ask more questions until the two of them rode into the inner gate of Ziyan Palace.

"What's going on!" Shu Yuan couldn't hold it back any longer.

"Today you had official business and you sent someone to ask three times, but there was someone who was as stable as a rock." Ling Buhuo rubbed his right thumb and index finger together and said with squinted eyes.

"Are you talking about Princess Yanfeng?" Shu Yuan hesitated again and again. He originally thought that Ling Buhuo was talking about Nuoda, but they were in the palace now and not the post house. So apart from Yanfeng, the sister who cared most about him in the palace would not be the one. No one else.

"She has such a hot-tempered personality that even if she doesn't come in person, she doesn't have anyone come to question her even once. Don't you think it's strange?"

"It's impossible. She was extremely anxious when she broke into Shenci Zhai last night. How could she yell to catch a thief?"

"Ask her yourself later!"

The two of them angrily broke into Yanfeng's Ruyi Pavilion, and happened to see her happily chewing on the pork bone, her lips shiny. She was so frightened that the bone fell from her hand.

"My appetite is so good, I seem to be in a good mood." Ling Buhuo said coldly, as if he was saying hello or asking for an apology.

Yan Feng glanced at the inner room guiltily and responded with a silly smile.

"What are you feeling guilty about?" Shu Yuan then asked.

"Hey" Yan Feng was obviously not very convinced by him. She was just a princess, and it was just a matter of being scolded by the emperor's brother. But who did Shu Yuan talk to her in such a tone?

So, she raised her eyebrows and said back: "This has to be solved. What kind of evil do you, a foreign man, want to do when you break into the princess's boudoir?"

Who would have thought that a girl's family could openly say such nonsense, Shu Yuan was shocked and speechless.

Ling Buhuo sighed secretly and went straight to the topic: "Where is the person? Hand it over quickly!"

"Who?" Yan Feng, who was still so smug about having the upper hand in the verbal sparring, felt guilty again. She didn't even dare to look directly into her royal brother's eyes.

"What are you pretending to be? Your good friend's whereabouts are unknown, and you just ignored him. You are still hiding in the palace and eating so happily. Isn't it too unloyal to do so?"

"Food must be eaten by others, right? Besides, why am I not paying attention?!" After Yanfeng retorted, he suddenly realized his flaw, punched his own palm with one fist, stamped his feet and sighed at his carelessness. .

Gu Yuchu did hide in her bedroom after escaping from the cold palace. She wanted to tell Ling Buhuo, but the woman wouldn't let him.

"Should you ask her to come out, or should I go in and find her myself?" Ling Buhuo ordered with narrowed eyes.

"She has left." Yanfeng had no choice but to tell the truth, but Ling Buhuo didn't believe it and walked straight into the inner room without any sign of Gu Yuchu.

"Where has she gone?" Shu Yuan asked anxiously.

"I don't know." Yan Feng shrugged and confessed.

"Are you acting when Shen Cizhai breaks into the palace, or do you really know nothing?" Ling Buhuo asked specifically before leaving.

"Of course I don't know anything. Liu Guang broke into the palace and hid in my palace the next morning. She said that she was tied up by Yan Yang and left in the cold palace. The wine at the banquet was drugged. She was so weak that she could only I didn’t get out until the medicine wore off.”

"I got it." Ling Buhuo pursed his lips and warned with sharp eyes, "Next time, if you dare to join her to lie to me, believe it or not, I will marry you to the desert the next day and never return to the court. "

Although it was a joke, Yanfeng still trembled unconsciously and swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva. She was also very innocent. If Gu Yuchu had not firmly disagreed, she would have gone to the tip-off. After all, her My brother is not easy to mess with.

After Ling Buhuo got the news, he rushed to the post house without stopping, but he still failed.

After Gu Yuchu quietly came out of Ziyan Palace, she did not go back to the inn or go to Jingchuan Palace. She knew that it must not be that simple for her to be kidnapped by Princess Yanyang to the cold palace. She did not want to be exposed before she found out who did it to her. As for her whereabouts, since someone wanted her to disappear or make a fuss about her disappearance, she would take advantage of it.

She changed into men's clothes and wandered around the night market that was about to close, thinking about where to spend the night tonight. Unexpectedly, a small thing attracted all her attention.

A string of red lanterns hung high on the right eaves of the largest restaurant in Yunjing. The top lanterns were on fire, and the top ones were burning brightly.It was common for lanterns to be burned due to the evil wind at night. It was nothing unusual at all.But as a former Sunda shadow, Gu Yuchu naturally saw it clearly.

In the busiest restaurant in the city, lighting each lantern has a different meaning.

For example, if you light the lantern at the bottom and the flames are all burning, it means that the whole city is lurking and stopping any action.

For example, if the topmost lantern is lit and the lower lantern is intact, an assassination order is issued throughout the entire process.

Another example is today's situation, where the entire city is searching for someone.

In an emergency, this is one of the signals for the Sunda Shadow collective to communicate with each other, and it is also a task that every dormant Sunda Shadow must do its best to complete together.

Gu Yuchu was very surprised. Her sixth sense told her that their operation was related to her, but she couldn't be sure. After all, she had been missing for a day and a night. The news was suppressed by Ling Buhuo, and almost no one knew about it.

So she continued to patrol the end of the night market and found the only calligraphy and painting stall that had not yet been closed.A small portrait of herself hung unexpectedly among the dozen or so landscape paintings. As expected, she was indeed the target of Tatsumi's operation.

She watched from a distance, wondering who could be so aware of her movements and at the same time have the ability to mobilize the entire Sunda Shadow to find her whereabouts.

In fact, she couldn't think of anyone else except Kai frame.

Who is Noda?He has the same appearance as Qi Jian.

On the day when Nuoda was kidnapped and all the assassins in the posthouse were killed, Shu Yuan, who was in ambush, bumped into Xunying and killed him on the way. She suspected that Nuoda was related to Xunying, but she did not suspect that Nuoda was Qi frame.Because Ling Buhuo had clearly told her that the two people were not the same person, it must have been carefully investigated by the embroidered cloth messenger, so it was unlikely that there was anything wrong.

But now, she was thinking about her disappearance. Even if Ling Buhuo wanted to hide it, Nuoda would definitely know it immediately. If he had a relationship with Sunda Shadow or Nuoda was Kai Frame, then he would activate Sunda Shadow. Finding people is a matter of course.After all, with the ability to open frames, it is not impossible to hide from the detection of the embroidered clothes messenger.

She couldn't understand why Qi Jie still couldn't let her go.

Gu Yuchu was full of questions and his thoughts were racing when a drunken young man stumbled and almost crashed the calligraphy and painting stall.

But even though he deliberately pretended to be drunk, the ring on his finger betrayed his identity.

He put one hand on the table that was missing a corner and murmured that this little lady was really good, so he took out a piece of silver and bought her portrait without any hesitation.

"This official, this money is enough to buy a five-foot-three-inch silk cloth." The scholar selling calligraphy and painting said while holding a silver ingot.

"I like it, it's worth it!" The drunk man said and left without looking back.

Five feet and three inches, that is exactly the length of Gu Yuchu.

The person involved sighed. If she hadn't been familiar with this rule, who would have known that behind the bustle of these streets and the comings and goings of people there was such a secret and fast way of transmitting information.

After all, it was just luck that I met a dormant Sunda Shadow. If I didn't make good use of it, wouldn't I be letting down such a big battle?

Gu Yuchu hid for another day, and when she felt that everyone's patience was about to run out, she appeared near the residence of Xunying, who had been targeted by her for a long time, just before curfew.

That Xunying used drunkenness as a cover again. Gu Yuchu stepped forward without hesitation, covering her abdomen and pretending to be injured, and bumped into him. She didn't say a word during the whole process, and lowered her head so as not to reveal her true face on purpose. , but even such bits and pieces of information are enough to arouse Xunying's vigilance.

Sure enough, the man seemed to recognize her and followed her all the way.When Gu Yu first saw him taking the bait, he walked through the crowd of people leaving the market and vacating stalls, and finally escaped into a nearby brothel.After that, she settled in this brothel with peace of mind and did not move anywhere else.

Early the next morning, Nuoda barged into the wing where Gu Yuchu had stayed last night. The girl, who was rubbing her sleepy eyes and had no time to dress up, walked out from behind the curtain with a blank look on her face.

Obviously, she was not the person Noda was looking for.

The girl seemed to have seen through Nuoda's intention, and she stretched herself and explained impatiently.

Yesterday's benefactor could be seen by a discerning eye as a woman disguised as a man. Fortunately, she was well rewarded and did not need anyone to serve her. She was very happy and very knowledgeable. She also lamented that it would be best to have such benefactors every day so that she could save enough money. To redeem the life of his enslaved sister.

She was mumbling to herself, and Noda looked solemn on the side. Only then did he realize that he had recklessly fallen into that woman's trap.

Gu Yuchu leaned in the hidden part of the small building opposite, observing the movement in the wing room outside the window. Today's game was specially designed for her. She deliberately approached Xunying and deliberately exposed her whereabouts, just to verify whether her guess was correct.

In this way, I became convinced that this man named Noda, who had the same appearance as Qi Zhi, was really related to Sunda Shadow.

At the moment, this situation is like opening the curtains in a pear orchard. The song has been decided. As for how to continue singing, it is only up to the camera.

But what Gu Yu didn't expect was that he hadn't figured out how to show up at the right time, but in less than half a day, rumors of General Yuesheng's disappearance spread quietly in Yunjing under Noda's instructions. Come on.

The protagonist of Yunjing's current hot news is sitting lazily in a teahouse on the street, picking peanuts and millet, and listening to the shocking rumors about her.

"I have long said that the female general is the reincarnation of Yama. The two swords of Yue Gui are such magical weapons. I am afraid that they were captured by the sword spirit and showed their original shape. They hid in Cangshan Mountain to mend their true body skin."

"Well, I heard that Yama's fangs are more than two feet long, his eyes are as big as copper bells, his red hair, and eagle-like talons are very penetrating."

Someone followed and described it in great detail, as if they had seen it with their own eyes. The woman who heard it burst into laughter and couldn't help but laugh softly.

"Nonsense, any demon in human form is not charming and charming. He is greedy for the prosperity of the world, so he has to make himself neither a man nor a woman, and hides in the military camp to suffer the consequences."

There were also a few sober-minded people who retorted like this. When everyone heard this, they thought it made sense and nodded incessantly. Gu Yuchu secretly cursed that these men had poor eyesight and were not lucky enough to see the glorious side of themselves.

Before she could finish her slander, the man continued to say mysteriously: "I heard that the female general lurked in the military camp and stole the secrets of our court and defected to Dongqi."

There was another round of whispers. This rumor seemed to be less absurd than before, but Gu Yuchu still couldn't help but roll his eyes.

But at this moment, among the chatting and laughing crowd, a person who didn't speak much or echoed much, suddenly categorically denied everyone's speculation just now.

"What do you all know? During the Hanguang Ceremony, the Yue Gui swords she unsealed became forked. Not only did blood spread from the sword spines, but it also injured the warrior who tried the swords."

"The blood flow is stopped, but it is a big taboo to open the sword. It is said that only the blood of an unclean woman can do this. Could it be that this female general... is not a virgin!"

Everyone was shocked and surprised at first, and then they all turned into contemptuous laughter and ridicule, which was profound and their dirty thoughts were exposed.

"What then?"

"The sword spirit is so sacred in our dynasty. The unfaithful blood sacrifice will shake the foundation of the country. The old King Ling could bear this, so he secretly dragged her alive and sacrificed it to the Lingshui Water God that night."

"So fast?"

"What's the matter? Such debauched people should immediately throw themselves into the lake to worship the gods."

"Yes, yes." Everyone kept echoing in a cheerful manner.

After another round of whispering, someone asked maliciously: "I'm curious, what kind of man can do something to a woman like this..."

Suddenly, there was muffled laughter in the small teahouse. Hearing this, Gu Yuchu's joints cracked when he squeezed the cup.

"Don't you know yet, that woman was the abandoned princess when Emperor Dongqi Jing was still the prince!"

Oops... the atmosphere suddenly changed again...

"Then our King Jingchuan didn't pick up someone else's broken shoes..."

"No wonder Ziyan Palace is so fast..."

Those people were hesitant to speak, and the men looked at each other with understanding.

Gu Yuchu obviously couldn't sit still. The past events of Prince Qin's Palace flooded into her mind like a tide. Those secret past events were not too difficult for her to talk about and dare not look back on, but she wanted to forget them even more, just like this There has never been anyone like Princess Qin in the world.

Even if she is just a Xunying whose life is like a piece of grass and she is ignorant of the truth, or she is just an orphan from a dead clan who has to hide her name due to a blood feud, either way, it is tens of millions of times better than the embarrassment and embarrassment of Princess Qin after she was established and then abandoned.

What's more, now that she has someone she cherishes in her heart, it's okay for her to endure such gossip, like mountains and seas, like arrows and thorns, but she can't bear to let Ling Buhuo be burdened by her.

Just when everyone refused to stop the three-foot wave rolling on their tongues but had to suppress their excited and passionate emotions, a new piece of news made Gu Yuchu stand up decisively and had to rush back to the post house to apply for his job.

"The latest news is that in order to force King Jingchuan to hand over his military power, the prince arrested General Yuchi as a threat. Now King Jingchuan has brought many people to forcefully break into the prince's house and take care of the prince's request!"

(End of this chapter)