"Has he gone mad?" Miss Xiao couldn't help but turn her back and say to her mother.
Madam Xiao was also puzzled: "My dear nephew, is there any misunderstanding? There is no one named Xiao Zhaoling in our house. The eldest daughter is Xiao Yue, and the second daughter is Xiao Ting. Who is this person you are looking for?"
When he failed the college entrance exam and when his father passed away, Lin Zikui became depressed, but he was strong at heart and managed to pull through.
At this moment today, he felt for the first time that he could not go on and that he had absolutely nothing left. I am just an insignificant person. In Jinling City, the common people cannot defeat the officials!
There is no greater sorrow than a dead heart. There is nothing more sad than this.
"Zhao Ling...really, isn't he at your house?" Lin Zikui asked sadly for the last time. He hoped so much that Mrs. Xiao was lying.
But Mrs. Xiao was just confused. She looked at him with eyes full of pity. Poor nephew Lin, he seemed really crazy.
"No, there is no such person, nephew... Should I ask someone to take you to the clinic? Your eyes, oh... oh." Mrs. Xiao covered her mouth.
"Ah! Mom! His eyes are bleeding!" Xiao Ting was frightened and hid behind a scream.
Lin Zikui forgot to bow, forgot to say goodbye, forgot to apologize, and turned to leave. Madam Xiao chased after him: "My dear nephew! The silver, you haven't taken the silver yet!"
Lin Zikui remained silent, and Madam Xiao hurriedly urged the servants: "Take him out through the back door, don't let anyone see him like this. Hey!"
At this moment, Lin Zikui thought of a lot of things in his mind. He thought of the first time they met in Xingzhiguan, when the second young lady came to him and said that he was the second young lady of the Xiao family and Xiao Huang was his father.
At that time, Lin Zikui had not yet clearly stated which second girl he was looking for. He introduced himself so much that Lin Zikui never thought that he was not the second girl of the Xiao family at all, but was... deceiving himself.
He was only accompanied by guards, and all three of them were unique. They are fun and nice people.
But no lady from a noble family would do this.
All the doubts gathered in my mind.
It turns out that "Xiao Zhaoling" is a complete lie...
He staggered down the stairs and fell, and no one dared to help him.
Lin Zikui was in a daze, walking like a walking corpse.
The man from Chunshu Hutong, who had been waiting at the gate of Xiao's house for a long time, took a few looks and made a judgment.
"Isn't it him?"
"That should be the case. Let's go and ask."
Ren Yazi walked up to him and patted his shoulder: "Hey, brother, is your name Lin Zikui?"
Lin Zikui did not answer, but walked forward silently. He could not see clearly, but he was not afraid.
"They say Lin Zikui is a blind man. Look at him, isn't he a blind man? Hahaha!"
"Wow, this dress is pretty good."
"Are you Lin Zikui?"
The human traffickers asked him questions one after another and surrounded him, but Lin Zikui did not answer.
"I'm asking you a question!" Until someone pushed him down. He was already dazed and couldn't stand at all, so he fell to the ground, but he didn't cry out in pain, as if he had no longer felt the pain.
"Is there something wrong with his brain...?"
"Deaf?"
Several people were communicating secretly.
"But he looks good, so it's a good business. He should be able to sell for a good price. I think he is dumb to begin with, so there is no need to feed him dumb medicine."
"It's a pity that you can't speak."
However, at this moment, Lin Zikui raised his head, his eyes were red and blurry, and his voice was hoarse: "Do you know Xiao Zhaoling?"
Several people looked at each other.
"Yes, come on, follow us and we'll take you to see him."
After these words came out, it was obvious that Lin Zikui's red eyes seemed to brighten a little.
These gangsters didn't dare to kidnap people directly on the street. They were all high-ranking officials and it would be bad if they offended them. They wanted to follow him for a while, but they didn't expect him to be a fool. They were coaxed into following them with just a few words.
However, Lin Zikui's unconsciousness was only short-lived and did not last long.
He seemed to realize something was wrong and suddenly stopped.
"Who sent you? Tang Mengyang, or Xu..."
“…”
The brigand rushed forward and tried to kidnap him. Lin Zikui didn't know how to fight, so he could only struggle, punching and kicking, shouting for help: "It's broad daylight, this is Jinling, under the feet of the emperor, you can't get away!" The brigand didn't expect that he still had enough strength, so he shouted: "Hurry up and use drugs to make him unconscious!"
"Brother, brother, I only have that kind of medicine!"
"No matter what, knock him out first!"
A handkerchief filled with a strong and exotic fragrance was wrapped around Lin Zikui's mouth and nose. After a while, he fainted.
Not far away, Yan Sui, the young master of the Yunnan Palace who had just left the palace, heard with his excellent hearing that someone seemed to be shouting for help.
"Did you hear that?"
"Prince...it seems like someone is shouting for help."
Prince Yan: "Damn it, the people of Jinling City are too bad. Let's go! Get your weapons and save people!"
At this time in the inner court of the palace, Xiao Fu was invited to the imperial study. Xie Lao San was treated as a guest of honor by Emperor Wen Tai because he used some insignificant tricks to relieve the pain of the emperor's poison attack.
Emperor Wen Tai looked at Xiao Fu and couldn't help but wonder: "Why does Xiao Fu look so much younger than me when he is only two or three years older than me? It seems that I have been wasting too much time worrying about state affairs and caring about the people."
Xiao Fu didn't even look at him straight in the eye, which made Emperor Wen Tai very angry. He thought that he would chop off his head sooner or later, what an arrogant bastard!
However, at this time, he still had to be friendly and try to please the two of them.
"Thank you, Doctor Xie. May I ask if you have any way to find the queen insect?"
"Hey, Your Majesty, you also know about the queen insect? This is not easy." Xie Lao San crossed his legs.
Emperor Wen Tai also learned and applied what he learned, explaining how the queen worm controlled the poisonous worm: "Once this queen worm dies, I will die for sure, so we must catch the person who controls the queen worm! This person must be the one behind this!"
"This is not difficult. As long as Your Majesty gives me a little..."
Emperor Wen Tai subconsciously replied: "Three bowls of blood?"
"Pfft - no need, no need. Only an unskilled Gu Master would use three bowls of blood to sacrifice to the Insect King."
Wen Taidi instantly felt that he was even more amazing: "Then what does Doctor Xie want?"
"Just a handful of your majesty's dragon whiskers."
“…A handful?”
Compared to the three bowls of blood, I don’t know which one hurts more.
Xie Laosan gestured: "A small bunch, with the roots attached."
"...Okay." Emperor Wen Tai had no choice but to pull out the hair on the back of his head, but the pain was unbearable. He kept scolding the eunuch beside him: "Be gentle, I'm going to take off your head!"
Soon, a small tuft of hair came.
Xie Laosan did the same thing, using his hair to cast a spell on the jar like a charlatan, and then released a small black insect.
Seeing this, Emperor Wen Tai became restless and pulled the eunuch in front of him.
The eunuch also swallowed his saliva and was sweating all over with nervousness.
Xie Laosan dipped his fingers in tea and placed the insect on the ground. Then he used the tea to draw dozens of tangled lines around the insect.
Emperor Wen Tai saw the door and said, "This seems to be... the imperial palace?"
The eunuch blew his whisk and said, "Oh, Your Majesty! This is the map. This is the Imperial Palace, this is Wuyi Lane, this is Taiping Street, and this is Anlefang!"
After a while, I saw the insect slowly crawling up. And as if smelling something, the two small tentacles sniffed around.
This scene was simply amazing in the eyes of Emperor Wen Tai.
Xiao Fu just felt bored and yawned. When would it end? He wanted to go back to the Taoist temple.
Little scholar, you must miss me very much.
"Your Majesty! I'm climbing up to the Dazhong Building. I'm climbing up. Oh, Your Majesty, stop!"
As the eunuch shouted in a shrill voice, he saw the little bug stop in a corner.
"This is..." The eunuch thought for a moment, "Kaishan Temple! Your Majesty, it's Kaishan Temple."
Emperor Wentai looked uncertain and anxiously asked, "Kaishan Temple? What does this have to do with the temple? Could it be that this person is hiding in the temple? Thank you, Doctor Xie, what is going on here?"
Xie Laosan said tactfully, "This means that the people who have come into contact with the queen insect are here."
"Kai Shan Temple, Kai Shan Temple..."
Emperor Wentai murmured a few words and quickly called the Jinyiwei: "Go to Kaishan Temple and find out who has been there today!"
The eunuch beside him covered his mouth and said, "Your Majesty..."
Emperor Wentai gave him a hateful look: "If you have something to say, just say it. If you have something to fart, just fart!"
"Slave, I suddenly remembered that Lord Xu's daughter-in-law is pregnant and the fetus is unstable. After the court session today, Lord Xu mentioned it and said he would go to Kaishan Temple to burn incense."
Emperor Wentai was shocked and said immediately, "How could it be Lord Xu... How could it be! Where are the Jinyiwei? Go check and see if he really went there!"
If this bug ran to the residence of Lord Xu, Emperor Wen Tai, who is a suspicious person, would probably suspect that Xiao Fu was trying to cause trouble.
Anyone who talks about right and wrong is definitely a gossiper.
But when it came out of the mouth of his trusted eunuch, it was completely different.
When the people he sent to track down the queen insect came back and said they had found it in Jishui, Jiangxi Province, the hometown of Lord Xu, a place that produced talented people, this matter became even more certain.
However, it was Lord Xu who arranged for his own daughter, Imperial Concubine Hui, to cast the curse, so he was not innocent.
Xiao Fu looked at the gray sky outside the Fengtian Palace.
The storm is coming, and the weather is about to change.
After Lin Zikui was knocked unconscious, he was stuffed into a horse-drawn carriage. The human traffickers, or pimps, who came from Chunshu Hutong had almost stripped Lin Zikui of all his valuables.
"This dress is something that only the royal family can wear. It's so good... Isn't it said that you are a poor scholar?"
"What's this?"
"Throw away the broken glass pieces!"
"The silver one, keep it."
Ren Yazi took out a cylindrical object about one finger long and as wide as a thumb nail from his arms: "What is this? I don't know, it's a piece of junk."
At first glance, it was worthless, so he threw it out of the window.
At this moment, there was a loud "swoosh" sound, and the fire arrows shot into the sky, bursting out with dazzling light, and scattered like flowers from the sky.
Prince Yan, who was looking for the victim, looked up and said, "Hey, this is the signal arrow from the Yunnan Palace. Who fired it?"
He chased after him without thinking.
In the Fengtian Hall, Xiao Fu, hearing the voice, stood up suddenly and walked out to take a look.
"Arrow!"
Oh no, he only gave the flare to Lin Zikui, but how could he be in Jinling? Could it be someone else who put it there?
The tail of the whistling arrow fell down, emitting a blood-red glow.
Xiao Fu's heart was tense, because this red glow represented that this was a homemade flare arrow in his military camp inside the pass. Only a handful of people had this flare arrow!
Xiao Fu did not hesitate this time. Without even saying hello, he tapped the ground and flew onto the roof of the hall. The next moment, a group of Jinyiwei dressed in red and black flying fish uniforms appeared around him.
Emperor Wen Tai ran out to see and was surprised. What did Xiao Fu want to do? Was he thinking the opposite?
Xiao Fu said: "I have urgent business to leave the palace!"
The Jinyiwei surrounded him and said, "Marquis Dingbei, this is the imperial palace, not your courtyard. Get out!"
"Hey, Commander Huang?"
The commander is in the palace, but the deputy commander is not. It seems that the one who went to Jiangxi is the deputy commander.
Several pieces of information flashed through Xiao Fu's mind for a moment, but he glanced anxiously into the distance. A flare was being set off not far away, and no matter who set it off, he had to go and take a look.
"What if I don't want to go down?" Not only did he not go down, he also took two steps on the glazed tiles on the roof as if he was strolling in a garden, and then kicked a tile away with his foot, and it flew towards Commander Huang unexpectedly!
Commander Huang suddenly raised his sword to block, but Xiao Fu kicked out a row of tiles. Each one of them came directly at him, but because of the tricky angle and fast speed, it was hard to defend against!
His movements were as fast as lightning, and he quickly appeared behind a young Jinyiwei. Without making a sound, he pulled out his sword from behind him cleanly and neatly.
With a swish, his cold eyes were reflected on the silver-white sword blade.
"Rebellion! Rebellion!" Emperor Wentai shouted, "How dare you use force in the palace! Commander Huang, quickly capture him!"
The bright sword light flashed in an instant! The next moment, the sword was somehow placed across Commander Huang's neck. Xiao Fu was only slightly confused, his eyes were extremely fierce: "If you don't want to die, get out of here."
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