The market in Jiuchen Valley gradually dispersed, and the lanterns drifted away along the waterways...
The palace gate shrouded in night looks solemn and gloomy.
As the palace lanterns lit up, the palace gate became lively again in what was supposed to be a quiet night.
When Gong Hongyu learned that Gong Ziyu was almost assassinated by Wu Feng when he returned today, he was completely uneasy.
"How did Wu Feng enter the Jiuchen Valley? Huan Yu, as the young master, you need to give me a reasonable explanation!" Gong Hongyu was sitting in the study, with Gong Huan Yu kneeling in front of him.
"Back to father, something went wrong in my practice these days, and I can't take care of it. Wu Feng has been trying every means to enter the Old Chen Valley these years, but father, how can I guard against thieves all the time if I can only be a thief all day long?"
"In the palace gate, there are clearly countless flowing fires that can fight against Wu Feng, why not use it?" Gong Huanyu raised his head and faced Gong Hongyu, whose expression had changed, and spoke decisively.
Gong Hongyu looked shocked: "Xuanyu, how could you have such an idea?"
"That's all, you've been working hard these days, so it's okay to slack off a bit. Since there's something wrong with your inner strength, you shouldn't practice Xuanshi's inner strength recently. Don't rush for quick success. Fortunately, the assassin has been caught by Ayao and Yuanzheng, and Ziyu hasn't been there either. Injured. Please step back. Don't mention Wuliuhuo again!" Gong Hongyu issued an order to expel guests.
"Yes!" Gong Huanyu bowed his head, saluted and then left.
Gong Hongyu looked at the direction Gong Huanyu was leaving, and once again doubted that he was right in choosing Gong Huanyu as his young master. This was not the first time that Gong Huanyu had proposed in front of him that he would use the infinite flow of fire to destroy the infinite. It's sharp.
He has selfish motives. Compared with Gong Shangjiao, he thinks that Gong Huanyu can at least protect Gong Ziyu. Even if he is no longer there, Gong Huanyu can live a carefree life with Gong Huanyu around. Being bullied.
If it comes down to it, Gong Shangjiao is the most suitable candidate to hold the sword. He is decisive and perseverant, and always puts the interests of Gongmen first.
Over the years, Gongmen's income has grown steadily, far exceeding the wealth accumulated during his tenure. And all of this is Gong Shangjiao's running around and dealing with things outside. Build a solid foundation for the palace gate and expand a tight information network...
Maybe the decision he made back then was really wrong!
With a knock on the door...
"Come in!"
"Zhibian, I heard that Wu Feng entered the Old Chen Valley again?" Mrs. Wu Ji came in with a food box, took out the soup and put it on the table.
That's right, it is again!
The one from last time is still in the Moon Palace!
Like myself, I don't know what she will choose after knowing the truth about Half Moon Fly.
"Yes, I almost hurt Ziyu."
"Do you want me?" to figure out Wu Feng's plan.
"No, since you have chosen Gongmen, don't put yourself in danger. I can handle Wufeng's side. You just need to stay at Gongmen with peace of mind and live happily. You just went to see Ziyu. How is Ziyu? ?”
Mrs. Kirihime poured out the soup: "It's okay if I fall asleep. Maybe even if I wake up tomorrow, I won't remember what happened today."
"He is getting more and more nonsense! All day, all day... ugh!" Gong Hongyu sighed. He felt sorry for Gong Ziyu and didn't want Gong Ziyu to bear too much burden. However, he was not willing to let Gong Ziyu become a playboy.
"Ziyu is still young, but he is not sensible!"
"He's almost crowned, and he's still young? The one from Zhenggong is two years younger than Ziyu, and now he has taken on the entire responsibility of Zhenggong! When will Ziyu grow up!" Gong Hong Yu hates that iron cannot become steel!
He can protect him for a while, but he can't protect him forever!
Mrs. Kirihime also lowered her eyes, said nothing, and just sat down quietly at the tea table nearby.
…
In the corner palace,
A little light shines...
Gong Shangjiao sat at the tea table with a gloomy expression, listening to Gong Yuanzheng talk about today's Shangyuan Festival.
Gong Yaozheng was making tea on the side and secretly added some more dendrobium.
Gong Yuanzheng seemed to have noticed, but did not stop it.
"You mean, the assassin this time is not a demon or a charm, but a jackdaw?"
"That's right, monsters, no matter what kind of monsters they are, will release their murderous aura unconsciously, just like the little girl last time. However, the one we caught today has a habit of restraining his murderous aura, and all the internal skills he has learned are used for concealment. Therefore, the only possibility is that it is Jackdaw!" Gong Yuanzheng said about the Jiao that he discovered some time ago.
"But Wufeng, why would he send a jackdaw to assassinate Gong Ziyu?"
"Who knows, maybe he knows that he is not good at martial arts and is not worthy of being used as a demon, even if he is a demon!" Gong Yuanzheng made no secret of his disdain for Gong Ziyu.
"Ayao, what do you think?" Gong Shangjiao asked Gong Yaozheng.
Gong Yaozheng handed the tea to Gong Shangjiao: "I think Wufeng's move is a warning to the palace gate."
"Oh?" Gong Shangjiao raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes full of interest, looking forward to Gong Yaozheng's next words.
"Wufeng is telling Gongmen that they are about to take action. Let Gongmen be prepared and frightened to the point of... panic! It's best to lose control!"
"Besides, that scoundrel from the Moon Palace has been staying at the palace gate for too long. Wu Feng is asking for someone from the palace gate! He wants to see the person alive, but he wants to see the body even if he dies!" Gong Yaozheng looked incomprehensible, and Skylark was made an exception. She also stirred up trouble in the palace when she was the medicine man for Young Master Yue.
"So, there is no solution to this situation?" Gong Shangjiao took a sip of tea, frowned, and put down the tea cup.
"It's not that there is no solution, it's that there is no solution!" Gong Yaozheng said every word, his eyes full of interest.
"Let it go? Aren't you afraid that they will send people over again?" Gong Shangjiao already understood what Gong Yaozheng meant, but he still asked.
Gong Yaozheng glanced at Gong Shangjiao with an expression like "I don't believe you didn't expect it and asked me."
But he saw Gong Shangjiao glance at Gong Yuanzheng, and following Gong Shangjiao's eyes, Gong Yuanzheng's eyes were bright and he was looking at him expectantly.
Gong Yaozheng: "..."
"If they could really break through the guards at the palace gate, they wouldn't have sent a Jie and a Jackdaw so many years ago. The Jie's frame was so small that it could be hidden in a box containing goods. This Jackdaw never left the palace. As expected, his body concealment skills are also outstanding among the Jackdaws, but unfortunately, his martial arts skills are not high. At least for a year or two, Wu Feng will not act rashly!"
This year has just begun...
The selection of the palace gate's bride will be in the winter next year!
After Gong Yuanzheng finished speaking, he looked at Gong Yuanzheng jokingly. Before Gong Yuanzheng could catch the sudden realization in his eyes, he was caught by Gong Yuanzheng.
He took a covert sip of tea. As soon as the tea entered his mouth, he had the same expression as Gong Shangjiao. The Adam's apple rolled, but he swallowed the tea, quickly put down the tea cup, and never touched the cup of tea again.
Gong Yaozheng wondered, is it really that bad to drink?
Seeing Gong Yaozheng's expression, Gong Yuanzheng poured a cup of tea for Gong Yaozheng obediently...
Gong Yaozheng took a sip with disbelief...
…
"Ahem, you don't need to put so much dendrobium next time!" Gong Shangjiao said.
Gong Yaozheng knew that Gong Shangjiao was speaking euphemistically. Was that too much? She didn't put any tea leaves at all.
Gong Yaozheng quickly poured out the dendrobium water in the teapot and made another pot.
Accident, purely accidental!
"That jackdaw, have you figured out how to deal with it?" Gong Shangjiao looked at Gong Yaozheng, his meaning was very clear, you caught him, you handle it.
"What else can we do? Just shut it up! Let's chat with him if we have nothing to do. What if we say something else!" Gong Yaozheng smiled. With such a good target, whatever he said in the future, he would just say it was from This jackdaw asked, there is nothing wrong with it!
"Okay, just do as Ayao said!"
I don't know since when, in the palace gate, everyone from the elders to the young masters and young ladies called Gong Yaozheng Ayao, even Gong Shangjiao was no exception.
Sometimes even Gong Yuanzheng would shout a few words for a minor offence, and then be strictly banned by Gong Yuanzheng!
It seems like that time, when Gong Shangjiao came back from outside the palace gate, he looked particularly embarrassed because he was assassinated and surrounded by Wu Feng.
Gong Yaozheng, on the other hand, knew what was going on like a god. He brought all the medicine and tools with him, met Gong Shangjiao at the gate of the palace, and immediately treated the wound.
Therefore, when the Elder Council and Zhi Ren asked about it, Gong Shangjiao slowly said: "This time there was no danger, thanks to Ayao..."
So, when the sword-wielding general Gong Yao was summoned to inquire on the second day, he said one word after another: A Yao!
Gong Yaozheng was not used to it at first, but now he has become accustomed to it.
Gong Yuanzheng suddenly thought of something and stood up: "Brother, I want to go to the dungeon. Sister will accompany me."
Gong Shangjiao picked up the hand that had just made tea and looked at Gong Yuanzheng with some confusion: "What did brother Yuanzheng find?"
"Yeah, but I'm not sure. I need my sister's cooperation!" Gong Yuanzheng looked at Gong Yuanzheng and made the little move that the two of them had agreed upon.
Gong Yaozheng understood immediately and stood up: "Let's go!"
After saying that, he took the lead in leaving the room.
Gong Yuanzheng followed closely, leaving Gong Shangjiao alone...
Gong Shangjiao picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Looking at the flickering lights, his thoughts gradually drifted away...
Over the years, he has been busy with the affairs of the palace every day. Returning to the palace, looking at the cold corner palace, the laughter and playfulness of his mother and brother Lang gradually drifted away...
Instead, Gong Yuanzheng, Gong Yuanzheng’s sister and brother came to Kakugong every day for two days to eat, and they still disliked the lack of meat in Kakugong’s food...
Gong Yuanzheng was practicing swordsmanship in the courtyard of the Corner Palace. Gong Yuanzheng was eating pastries, nibbling melon seeds, and applauding from time to time.
It made Gong Yuanzheng look like a street performer, so he just wanted to give some reward money.
But Gong Yuanzheng didn't realize it. He felt that this was his sister's recognition of him, and the knife danced brightly and gracefully.
Gong Shangjiao would sometimes exchange blows with Gong Yuanzheng, checking for deficiencies and pointing out shortcomings in Gong Yuanzheng's sword skills.
At this time, Gong Yaozheng became even more excited, and even stood up and shouted: "Come on, Yuanzheng, come on, Yuanzheng, yes, swing your knife, chop him, left, left... Hey, why can't you beat your brother!" "
The existence of these two people in the Corner Palace also feels a lot warmer...
………
The night falls...
The dark and damp dungeon exudes a faint smell of blood...
Gong Yuanzheng covered his nose impatiently, while Gong Yuanzheng took out a handkerchief from his arms, folded it and gave it to Gong Yuanzheng.
There was a faint medicinal fragrance on the handkerchief, which dispersed the smell of blood in the dungeon.
Gong Yuanzheng gave his brother Yuanzheng a thumbs up, and Gong Yuanzheng gave him a thumbs up in return. My sister said, this means you are great!
In the interrogation room, the Jackdaw's jaw was removed, saliva flowed from his mouth, and he was still unconscious.
"Splash him with water to wake him up!" Gong Yuanzheng ordered the guard coldly.
The guard poured a clean bowl of ice water on his face. The jackdaw opened his eyes, glanced at Gong Yuanzheng, and then lowered his eyes.
Gong Yuanzheng stepped forward, put on his gloves, and pinched his chin. After making sure that there was no poison in his mouth, he moved his hand and with the sound of "Kaba!", his chin was pressed up.
"Just kill me!"
The assassin just pressed his chin and said this.
"Kill you? Mr. Yu who assassinated Gongmen, wouldn't it be easier for you to kill you?" Gong Yuanzheng waved his hand and took a step back.
"Sister, tell me...how does Gongmen treat Wufeng?"
Gong Yaozheng picked up the boning knife on the side: "I don't know, but the last Wu Feng who entered the palace gate seemed to have been cut into a skeleton by this boning knife. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, She’s still a little girl!”
Speaking of the little girl, Gong Yaozheng looked at the jackdaw calmly, and saw anger and sadness in its eyes.
Gong Yaozheng was slightly frightened, no way!
She remembered that Jackdaws didn't look like this either!
But thinking of Gong Yuanzheng's little actions, she had no choice but to continue to cooperate.
"Do you want to try it?" The knife was cold, and the knife, as thin as a cicada's wing, stuck to the jackdaw's face.
"What do you want to ask?" I don't know why, but he finally spoke. The voice was indescribably familiar to Gong Yaozheng.
Turns out, it’s really him!
Then, my plan needs to be changed!
"I want to ask you, do you know Yunque?" Gong Yuanzheng took the boning knife away and asked this question in Gong Yuanzheng's shocked expression.
Sure enough, when he heard this sentence, Jackdaw Si's expression changed. He was so shocked that he looked at Gong Yaozheng. If he guessed correctly, this was the second young lady of Gongmen.
That person who even Wu Feng knew very little about her, the description of her in Wu Feng's database was only a few sentences.
"Exceptionally talented, obsessed with pharmacology."
As for why he knew she was Gong Yuanzheng, it was because Gong Yuanzheng called her sister!
"I don't know!" Jackdaw gritted his teeth.
"Oh, then we know each other!" Gong Yaozheng smiled like a fox.
Jackdaw Si raised his eyes. If he hadn't known that biting his tongue wouldn't kill him, he would have wanted to bite his tongue and kill himself now.
"She is very smart. At least, her first reaction was not to commit suicide!" Gong Yaozheng looked at the substantial murderous intent in Jackdaw Si's eyes and shrugged.
"But she's still dead, isn't she?" Jackdaw Si said this in a hoarse voice as if he was trying his best.
"Who told you she was dead?" Gong Yuanzheng looked very surprised. She looked at Gong Yuanzheng: "Did you say that?"
Gong Yuanzheng shook his head and said cooperatively: "No!"
He seems to know what his sister is going to do!
This Jackdaw seems to know Skylark, so will he be used by the palace gate?
"She's still alive?" Jackdaw Si was a little excited for a moment. At this moment, Gong Yuanzheng's sharp eyes and quick hands gently lifted the tip of his knife and unveiled his human skin mask.
Jackdaw Si's cold and stern face was exposed in front of the two of them, and Jackdaw Si knew in an instant that he had fallen into a trap.
Gong Yuanzheng held the human skin mask and smiled proudly: "Hmph, I felt something was wrong when I removed your chin. Your bones are seriously inconsistent with your appearance."
"However, Wu Feng's disguise mask is a perfect fit with the wearer. If the wearer hadn't made an excessive expression, it would really be... impossible to take it off!"
But he still looked at Gong Yaozheng with some hope, hoping that what she said was true.
Gong Yaozheng looked at Jackdaw Si's face and was slightly lost in thought. Jackdaw Si must not die or stay at the palace gate. If there were no Jackdaws, Wu Feng would definitely send other Wu Feng, and the bride who sneaked into the palace would be uncontrollable. She would not be able to control the direction of the plot, and everything would be passive.
Therefore, Jackdaw House has only one choice, to work for the palace gate!
As long as Shangguan Qian and Yun Weishan entered the palace, she was sure to instigate rebellion because she knew them too well.
But if it was other Wufeng assassins, she wasn't sure.
"If I say that Skylark is not dead and I can remove the poison from your body, will you be willing to work for the palace gate?"
Yes, it was the bluffing Half Moon Fly that Wu Feng controlled the demons, but it was the Crescent Moon Gu that controlled the jackdaws.
At the beginning of each month, if you don't take the antidote made from the blood of the bewitcher, you will be bitten by the bewitched insects, which will make you miserable.
Gong Yaozheng told him what happened to Yunque at the palace gate. Based on Jackdaw Si's feelings for Yunque, Jackdaw Si would not act rashly as long as Yunque was still at the palace gate.
Because Skylark is his weakness.
Moreover, he also clearly knew what he would face even if Yunque returned to Wufeng.
A jackdaw with a weakness...how cute!
Jackdaw Si's eyes flickered, what Gong Yaozheng said was not false, Yunque was not dead, and he trusted Gongmen very much! Only when there is extreme trust will one reveal one's life experience.
Gong Yaozheng even knows that Yunque is a coffin son... then...
"If what you said is true, there is no need to untie the poison on me. As long as you promise me one thing..."
"...Deal! But you have to accept this!"
"What's this?"
"poison!"
…
After leaving the dungeon, Gong Yaozheng smiled happily. She was not familiar with Yunque. As for why she knew that, it was because she had watched the drama seriously.
But this was enough to make Jackdaw Si believe in himself.
Jackdaw Si's request is very simple. He wants to use the palace gate to give another demon freedom!
Since the palace can tolerate a skylark, why can't it tolerate another Yun Weishan?
"Sister, how did you know?"
"Skylark told me."
"real?"
"real!"
