In the Grand Master's Mansion, Grand Master Yan was disturbed by nightmares for several days.
Several times, he dreamed of a raging fire. A disheveled man glared at him with a resentful look, and uttered a blood-curdling curse: "Master Yan, the law of heaven is clear, retribution is not good! You will not die well either." !”
Master Yan was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and woke up wailing several times. He fell ill soon after and took leave to recuperate at home.
He moved out of his original bedroom and moved to a room near the Buddhist hall at home. He also invited several groups of monks and Taoist priests to visit him, but there was no significant improvement.
Regardless of her old age, the Grand Master's wife took her maid to Zhongfu Temple outside the city to pray for the Grand Master, but it still didn't work.
Just as Master Yan's condition became increasingly serious, the emperor received a secret report and secretly became worried. After all, the fire more than ten years ago was a plan set up by himself and Master Yan together. Now that Master Yan is haunted by nightmares and falls ill, will he be the next one?
After thinking about it, he became a little restless. Rather than stay in the palace and think about it, he would just sit there and wait for death. It's better to ask the Grand Master for clarification. Maybe there is a chance of improvement. So, the emperor took Empress Yan to the Taishi Mansion in the name of visiting a doctor.
Different from the past when they traveled in dragon carriages and phoenix chariots, this time the emperor and empress took only a few personal entourage and quietly left the palace in a sedan chair and went straight to the Taishi Mansion.
After arriving at the Grand Master's Mansion, accompanied by the housekeeper, he came to the new bedroom carefully selected by the Grand Master.
As soon as the two of them entered the door, they saw the grand master lying weakly on the hospital bed, with a haggard look on his face, as if he had aged a lot.
When the queen saw her father looking haggard, she couldn't help but cover her face and sob.
Seeing this scene, the emperor couldn't bear it. He thought for a while and said to the grand master: "Abbott, pay more attention to your recovery! How about I ask the imperial doctors to consult you, or send you some precious medicinal materials to soothe the mind and nourish the heart? "
Seeing that the emperor was still caring about him, the Grand Master stood up and thanked him: "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. My old illness has relapsed. I have asked the doctor to check my pulse. It's okay..."
The emperor nodded and said: "It's good that the grand master is in good health. I still have something unclear and I want to ask the grand master for advice..."
The Grand Master was startled when he heard this, then bowed and asked: "The emperor has something to do that requires my service. I will not hesitate even to the death!"
Upon hearing this, the emperor quickly stepped forward to support the grand master, looked around, leaned close to the grand master's ear, and lowered his voice and said, "Do you remember Imperial Master Xuanyuan?"
The grand master was shocked when he heard this, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. There was a trace of doubt and fear in his eyes, and he asked cautiously: "But that Xuanyuan Ji who was burned to death in Xuanying Hall?"
The emperor nodded, with a gloomy look on his face, and said quietly: "I didn't expect that he had been dead for so many years, and now he is making trouble again..."
The Taishi's body trembled for a moment, and then he carefully observed the emperor's expression and asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, I have thought carefully about it these past few days and it seems that it is not the ghost of old man Xuanyuan who is causing trouble... It is most likely the Xuanyuan family. There are still fish that slipped through the net..."
The emperor was silent for a while after hearing this, his eyes suddenly flashed with panic, and he said in a hoarse voice: "The sixth brother's princess is also a descendant of the Xuanyuan family, but she is pregnant with Liujia now, so she should not be able to control ghosts... If it weren't for her , who could it be?"
After saying that, he fell into deep thought. Master Yan narrowed his eyes when he saw this, carefully recalling the whole story of the incident.
The burning sea of fire... the several corpses burned to coke... and the words and deeds of King Jingbei after he hurried over... He recalled them all in detail, but still couldn't figure out a clue.
The room fell into a state of stasis for a moment. Neither the emperor nor Master Yan said a word for a long time.
Queen Yan drank several cups of tea at the side, and finally lost her temper and interrupted: "I heard that Imperial Master Xuanyuan was accidentally burned to death, how could he be related to King Jingbei..."
Hearing this, the Grand Master secretly glared at the Queen and said calmly: "More than ten years ago, when the late emperor was buried, the Xuanyuan Ji family was accidentally burned to death... But a few days ago, the people we sent to intercept Xiao Kai came back and said that there was someone who knew something. The ghost-controlling girl ruined our plan, so I suspect that there may be other descendants of Xuanyuan Ji still alive...and they are most likely hiding in the Jingbei Palace..."
After listening to the Taishi's analysis, the emperor felt like a thunderbolt. His body trembled violently, and then he murmured in a daze: "Impossible, impossible...except for the sixth younger brother Xuanyuan Wei who doesn't know martial arts... Xuanyuan Ji Every door was burned to death that day..."
After a while, the emperor came back to his senses, stared at the grand master for a while, and asked: "The grand master was also at the scene at the time. Are you not sure whether Xuanyuan's family is dead..."
"Well, King Jingbei came over at that time. We had just cleaned up the scene briefly and didn't have time to confirm the condition of the corpses... I remember when we did the autopsy, seven corpses were reported, two of which had missing limbs... At that time, we thought It's burned out..." The Grand Master suddenly thought of something, paused, and said nervously: "Could it be that someone has done something to it..."
The emperor was shocked when he heard this, and said in a panic: "Could it be that the sixth brother... discovered something?"
The Grand Master pondered for a while, shook his head and said: "Maybe it's just a coincidence... Let's not get into trouble... I have an spy in Prince Jingbei's Mansion. I'll ask someone to spy on me later..."
The emperor nodded and asked with some guilt: "If Xuanyuanji really has a descendant who is still alive and hiding in the sixth brother's house, does the Grand Master have any good ideas?"
The Grand Master pondered for a while and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much. If it really comes to this point, I have another way..."
The emperor was a little excited when he heard the words, and asked eagerly: "Please tell me, my dear, I would like to hear the details."
The grand master said a few polite words, and then said: "I think that if the emperor is worried, he can find an excuse to move King Jingbei to a remote fiefdom... and then send someone to ask the leader of the Yeyou Alliance to try to get rid of Xuanyuan. Descendants of Ji... I heard that there are many people in the Yeyou League who are good at witchcraft and Gu, and they may be of use to me..."
Upon hearing this, the emperor glanced at the Grand Master and said with a complicated expression, "Does the Grand Master think Yeyou Alliance will be willing to cooperate?"
When the Grand Master heard this, he said with high spirits: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have my own way to control these people in the world and make them work for the court obediently... After the matter is completed, I will handle it properly and ensure that the Emperor will not be implicated..." "
When the emperor heard this, he felt a little relieved, and gave Master Yan a few more words before he left and returned to the palace.
Seeing that the emperor was about to leave, Grand Master Yan hurriedly asked the emperor and the empress to stay at the house for dinner. There was another thing on his mind. Once King Jingbei and the descendants of Xuanyuan Ji are eliminated, he will pay close attention to the matter of Jingluo.
After entertaining the emperor for dinner, he took the opportunity to leave his wife and the empress alone, and took the opportunity to persuade his daughter to hurry up and give birth to a dragon son, so that he could assist his grandson in taking the throne as soon as possible.
He himself chatted with the emperor about state affairs for a while, and then drank tea with his own thoughts for a while, until the butler reported at the door that someone asked to see him.
The emperor and Grand Master Yan straightened their clothes and returned to their normal demeanor.
