Chapter 271 The long night after the banquet
The palace banquet ended.
The guests returned.
The storm at the palace banquet was not as sudden as Ning Yi imagined. Li Changshou and Shu Xinjun returned in vain and no longer continued to provoke... The latter was confused throughout the whole process, as if someone had a heavy hammer on his forehead, turning into an idiot, with a trance on his face, but no one went to toast him.
After saying goodbye to others one by one.
Ning Yi also left the hall, and suddenly a hand pulled over, carrying the two of them all the way to a remote corner of the palace wall.
The little girl who was running slightly panting, blushed and thanked her.
"Ning...Mr. Ning, thank you."
The little girl is very smart. She knows that Ning Yi's succession has resolved the conflicts for her tonight, and also attracted the anger of Sanqing Pavilion to the top of Shushan.
Ning Yi couldn't help laughing, "I still need to be secretly thief when I thank you, are you a thief?"
Xuan Jing shook his head seriously and said with a stern look: "Mr. Ning, if I go back to Daozong to inherit the Taihe Palace Master from now on, I will remember this favor of you."
Ning Yi looked at the mysterious mirror carefully.
The little girl's eyes are very clear, like a lake. She is young, but there is stubbornness and rebelliousness between her eyebrows.
Few people in this world are so serious.
He is a good girl.
"Shushan and the Academy are already allies. It is worth it for me to help in the palace. I would like to thank you... I would like to thank your senior sister and master."
Ning Yi responded lightly, leaving the little girl's favor debt to the academy very seriously.
He suddenly thought of something and suddenly asked with a smile: "I really feel sorry for you, why don't you agree with me and choose a good day to marry into Shushan?"
Xuan Jing looked stunned and speechless.
This is to carry forward the deception and deception. Did she hear that this Shushan junior uncle had run away from the future mountain master of Zishan, and now he is starting to worry about his junior nephew?
Gu Xiaoyu coughed and secretly grabbed the unreliable uncle's clothes.
Ning Yi sighed with emotion, looking at Gu Xiaoyu's expression was quite interesting.
At this moment, the token in my arms shook.
A brief scan of spiritual thoughts was the news from Yun Xun.
Ning Yi waved his hand and turned around and left with a cool look: "I won't disturb you two little guys from contacting each other. Be careful of safety."
Gu Xiaoyu watched Uncle Master leave and breathed a sigh of relief. Although she couldn't quite understand why Uncle Master wanted to pay attention to safety by herself...
After a while, the silly little guy spoke.
"Well, my uncle has always been like this."
The young man smiled foolishly and explained to Ning Yi, "Uncle Ning is a very good person, but he is not serious occasionally. Don't take what he said just now."
"What are you talking about?" As soon as Ning Yi left, the little witch Xuan Jing returned to her nature. She blinked and asked in a ignorant and unaware manner, and began to tease the ignorant and cute young man Gu Xiaoyu.
"ah……"
On the contrary, Gu Xiaoyu's cheeks were red and blocked and said, "That's right, let's agree to him."
"Why can't you take it seriously?" Xuan Jing smiled and asked softly: "Then I'll take your words seriously."
Gu Xiaoyu sweated and said clumsyly: "You can't take it seriously... Oh, it's wrong... You can take it seriously..."
The little guy suddenly changed his expression. He stretched out a hand and blocked Xuan Jing, embraced the latter's shoulder. He took a step forward, and in front of the white robe that was close to him, his temperament became solemn and cold.
"Li Changshou, what are you here to do?"
The little master of Xiling looked down at the two young girls indifferently, threw out a copper plate, and said, "Xuanjing, please think about the 'ermon'."
Gu Xiaoyu looked confused.
The copper plate rolled gently in the air, drawing a curved arc, landing on the young man's palm, clenched his fists and put his palms on, Gu Xiaoyu took the copper plate, and Li Changshou had already walked away.
This copper plate also contains soul fluctuations.
What does this mean? It seems that there is soul message hidden inside?
The boy had no time to take care of Li Changshou, so he protected the girl beside him until Li Changshou left.
This is in Tiandu, and the uncle is not far away.
Li Changshou had ten thousand courages, but he didn't dare to take action.
However, the young master of the little pavilion was still very oppressed. Gu Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief and turned around and asked, "Xuanjing, what's going on with this copper coin?"
He was stunned.
The girl's face was pale, her temples were wet with sweat, her fingertips unsteadily picked up the copper coins, and her voice trembled: "This is my mother's 'copper coin ring pendant'."
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"Ning Yi, there are many more 'shadow guards' in Tiandu City."
Yun Xun and Ning Yi met, and the two walked in the darkness of the streets. At this moment, the moonlight began to rise. In order to avoid iron law, the two of them went all the way to the secret base of the Intelligence Department.
"These 'shadow guards' are unknown and are nowhere to be found, as if they appeared out of thin air in Tiandu City overnight... The envoy of the Intelligence Department has reported an abnormality, and it is very likely that they are the staff of the Fourth Department. This is the first time that a large-scale 'shadow guard night trip' has appeared."
Yun Xun looked nervous and said, "The palace banquet is just a cover. The prince is summoning important officials. Chunfeng Pavilion has also started an action. The task deployed by the Shadow Guard is still unknown... But it is very likely to be a rush to the East. As far as I know, the collection of evidence of Gongsun Yue's rebellious ministers in the East has reached the last step. Just draw a list, and the prince can arrest people according to the law."
Ning Yi narrowed his eyes and said, "Eliminate internal affairs and eliminate party members."
“That’s right.”
Cold sweat had already oozed from Yun Xun's forehead. If this was the case, it would mean that the sky would soon start the second wave of "fierce tide". Although he was not a rebel from the East, he was also a remnant of the previous dynasty. Logically speaking, this purge would also involve him... So as soon as he learned the information, he notified Ning Yi.
"I need you to give me a teleportation array talisman far away from Tiandu so that I can escape." Yun Xun stared at Ning Yi and said, "My subordinates and I can work hard for you, but some people cannot die. I want them to survive. If misfortune really happens... they will go to the Heavenly God Plateau with me."
"Can."
Ning Yi did not hesitate too much and directly took out the little mother formation and said, "Don't use it directly in Tiandu City to avoid being shot down by iron law... You must leave the imperial city to be safe. If you have any accidents, you go to the Great Wall of the North first, and the General's Mansion will accept you."
After taking the talisman with his fingers trembling, the big stone in Yun Xun's heart fell to the ground.
"If the information is true, such a large-scale shadow guard dispatch, the Fourth Department will be exposed... The prince will take action tonight?" Ning Yi's expression calmed down.
No wonder the night banquet was held... It turned out that the drunkard was not about drinking!
The prince dispatched the Shadow Guard and was afraid that the ministers of the three ministers and six ministries of the palace banquet were checked. For some people, this palace banquet was the last "joy between the king and the minister".
Yun Xun nodded and said in a deep voice: "Not only that, the spy placed on Gongsun also gave feedback... Gongsun Yue did not come to the palace banquet because he died of illness, so he participated in the investigation. He went to the secret house of a high-ranking official within the three departments and 'returned with a full load'."
This was not beyond Ning Yi's expectations.
Gongsun Yue fell ill before the palace banquet... Anyone can tell that it was an excuse.
"Where is he now?" Ning Yi was a little confused. The prince deliberately waved the butcher knife tonight. Is there any special significance?
Since I have raised those "sinners" for three years.
Why bother to hurry up?
The Fourth Division is so perfectly hidden that no one can even find out the exact existence of the Supervision Division.
This is a guillotine that is "wider" than the scope of the law!
As long as this butcher knife does not fall... it will always be scary.
If Gongsun Yue, who symbolizes the butcher, cut that knife in place of the Fourth Secretariat, then there will be another bloody night in heaven. The ending will inevitably be the court that will bring reshuffle, and the Fourth Secretariat will bring backlash... This bloody institution that exists in the dark will have to bear huge public opinion attacks and infamy. Gongsun Yue, as the "grand commander of the Grand Secretary", has a clear ending.
The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook.
He died of guilt for the prince.
But...is this a bit soon?
"Gongsun Yue... was taken to the palace after the palace banquet ended." Yun Xun looked tense and said in a deep voice: "The prince may really be going to do something."
Ning Yi fell into thinking, and his fingers subconsciously tapped the tabletop, forming a regular rhythm, slow and powerful.
The memories of entering Tiandu spread out, the conversation between Gongsun and himself, Li Changshou's intervention, the shadow guard outside the palace banquet... This series of events is like a puzzle, each piece is matched, and a correct outline is pieced together, but when you look closely, it doesn't form a shape.
He always feels something is wrong.
But I can't figure out which link is wrong.
"Ning Yi, just wait and see what's going on."
It took a long time before Yun Xun spoke.
Ning Yi woke up from a trance-thought state. Even if he used the word "Fate", he could not see the future. There was a cloud of darkness. He looked through the formation above the intelligence department base, and his eyes seemed to penetrate the wooden boards, ground, bricks, air, roofs, eaves and tiles... and finally threw himself into the talisman hanging high on the dome of the sky capital.
Is it because of the iron law?
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The secret house of a young leader of the Law Enforcement Department.
Gongsun Yue has come.
The house is big, but it is silent.
The little girl squatting on the ground stretched out her hand, her fingertips were stained with blood, and she crossed the veil and stuffed it into her lips, sucking slowly.
The girl with scorpion tail turned her head and looked at the tilted corpse on the ground. She was terrible, with no sympathy in her eyes, but she was a little regretful. Because she was holding her fingers, she said in a vague voice: "It's all your fault for being slow. You're coming too late, and everyone is cold."
Li Baijing stood in this empty ancient house with his hands on his back.
He whispered: "The house has been emptied."
The girl stood beside him and looked with the second prince. She was very short. She could only see layers of steps. Under the moonlight, it flashed and appeared in a charming blood-colored lake... Many people died on the steps, and the blood flowed down spread layer by layer, winding like a river, which was a very beautiful scenery.
"He has seen it long ago." The little girl stepped on the blood pool on the steps with a light foot, splashing blood, and couldn't help laughing. She raised her head and looked at the iron rule above Tiandu City. Her smile gradually calmed down and became indifferent: "It may be difficult to bring those people back this time."
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Chapter completed!