Werewolf
I refused to board the ship when the emperor called me, claiming that I was a wine immortal.
But what about the emperor? What about the ministers?
Li Cong slammed the prison door shut, saying, "I always regret that this body is not mine."
He also said that the situation forced him to think about words.
Guiyao looked straight ahead, her long eyelashes slightly furrowed.
The most calm and composed person was Xu Qing. After she realized that this cell was a different world, she changed her clothes and was now wiping her hair with a towel. When she looked up, she was the first person to notice Gui Yao's tense expression, except for Ren Renbei and Li Cong.
She touched her daughter's forehead and then her own.
Not hot.
Looking at her dazed look, Xu Qing smiled.
"I haven't seen you like this in a long time."
Gui Yao calmed down slightly, her brows furrowed, and suddenly asked, "How about this?"
Xu Qing took Gui Yao's hand and whispered, "In the early years, when Yao Yao was still asleep, others didn't know. As your aunt who raised you, I naturally knew. Although you don't like to talk, your expression is quite easy to discern. Sometimes I don't know what you are thinking, but when I see you frowning, I know you will be restless."
Everyone present seemed to hold their breath.
Never opened again.
When Gui Yao looked into her aunt's intelligent eyes, she withdrew her hand slightly. She was afraid that her respected aunt would find out that she was not the original Lady Gui. Now that she could hear her aunt's inner voice, she became even more timid.
Xu Qing touched her temples and narrowed his eyes. She naturally understood that everyone present had their own secrets.
She only hoped that the person she cared about would not be involved in this situation.
Similarly, the white-haired boy stood alone, his eyes flickering faintly under the mask.
Xiaojiu was not very wet. When he wiped the ends of his hair, it seemed more like he was looking for something to do. He would definitely not speak first. As the substitute of the national teacher for many years, he was used to grasping the overall situation and listening to the overall situation.
Rather than taking the initiative and giving others a handle.
Gui Yao returned her gaze to Ren Beixi.
The man was dressed in black and was very close to her. The rain had soaked his thick clothes, which now clung to his strong arms, making him look quite cold.
And standing behind him was Ren Hui.
Ren Hui had just had physical contact with Xiao Jiu's subordinates. Apart from that, he was also the one who was drenched the most by the rain, but he was also waiting for an opportunity to act. At this moment, he was unusually silent, which meant that he was extremely alert.
The current situation is very similar to the board game Werewolf.
However, there was no external force to make the werewolves kill people and let the good guys test it. As a judge, Gui Yao couldn't find a way to chat privately for a while, so she had to take advantage of Li Cong's contemplation to pull Ren Beixi's collar over.
She decided to start with the two of them.
There are three inner rooms in this cell. One can be used to get water, one has a bed, and the last one is the deepest hidden. When Gui Yao walked in, she saw the handwriting on the desk, which was clearly Ren Beixi's.
She sat back in the chair and let Beixi wipe her hair.
"What do you think His Majesty wants to do?"
The man said solemnly, "Perhaps your action of pulling the Queen into the carriage displeased him. In other words, he now wants to escalate this situation and expand it for Li Jiao."
Guiyao simply said, "We are in this together."
Ren Beixi placed the note handed to him by the masked man on the table, his fingertips paused for a moment, stopping at the word "perfect match".
"I think this situation is inappropriate." The man's dark eyes flashed with helplessness. His voice rolled as he raised his eyes to Gui Yao's curious listening eyes and paused, "If he insists on doing this, he cannot disobey the emperor's will."
"In terms of both emotion and reason, there is still a difference between the ruler and his subjects."
Seeing him looking so aggrieved, Gui Yao couldn't help but put her palm against his cold face. As they stared at each other, she suddenly realized, "Put on the mask. To those who don't know, you are still my guard Xiao Hei, and your Majesty is General Ren's brother Li Cong."
How can there be a relationship between ruler and subject? But that principle must always remain in the heart, it is unshakable.
“Bang, bang.”
Gui Yao put on Ren Beixi's mask with her own hands, then took a half step back to let the person knocking on the door in.
As expected, it was Ren Hui.
Is Ren Hui still wearing the mask? When he asked, Gui Yao and Ren Beixi both denied it.
"If you're by my side, I'll have someone I can trust. You know the identities of everyone here, but you can't tell them."
Ren Hui placed the mask on the table and also showed another piece of paper in his hand.
"Ren Hui, a general of the Ren family army, was saved by Ren Beixi when he was young. He is a master of martial arts."
Looking at Li Cong's handwriting, Gui Yao felt a little helpless. It seemed that His Majesty was the judge issuing the identity cards... Unfortunately, there was paper and pen in the study. Gui Yao leaned on the inkstone with one hand and whispered to the two of them.
When there was another commotion outside, Gui Yaofang changed her clothes and walked out of the room.
"What's the matter?" she asked in a deep voice.
Li Jiao and Gui Yao, who were still sitting on the hay bed in the prison, looked at each other and lowered their eyes slightly.
Pin Yue, who was delivering the message outside the door, was also locked up, and Li Congshuang said, "Now that my brother, General Ren, is missing, the higher-ups have sent me here to question him. Every hour, we will select an unrelated person to leave the cell until I find someone else who can be used."
"It's already half an hour."
"Do you have any candidates?"
Xu Qingyan asked, "What will happen to those who leave the cell?"
"If you go out, Madam Xu, you will not be in danger of death. But if you are an unrelated soldier, it would be hard to say what would happen if you fall into the hands of those ministers." Li Cong smiled, stroking the brush gently with his hand. He hadn't taken out the jade ring for a long time, and he missed it a little.
Xu Qing did not speak again, but just gently put her arms around Li Jiao. If Li Jiao wanted to leave, she would definitely accompany her. If she wanted to stay, she was not afraid of going out now, so she would also consider staying with her for a longer time.
Upon hearing this, Gui Yao glanced at everyone present.
"It's your choice, or ours." She seemed to be able to see Li Cong's slightly narrowed eyes through the mask.
Li Cong: "Of course it's us. There are eight of us in the same cell now, and I am the one who can be thrown out."
Guiyao knew, Guiyao understood, and Guiyao cursed the system in her heart.
"When you issued the mission, did you know it would take two hours to send someone out?"
"Calm down, host."
"How can I calm down? Can I go out by myself?"
The system smiled and said no, then slowly said, "If the host successfully matches the character, some unexpected clues will be transmitted from outside the cell. Also, a friendly reminder, the host must not try to escape by force."
"Outside the prison cell at this moment, perhaps, it is no longer the palace."
“…”
Gui Yao raised her hand and said, "What is useful and what is useless? How can we talk about your efforts to save the country? Why don't you let Brother Li Cong tell us first?"
“Swish——”
Li Cong opened the secret door behind the cell.
"As you all know, my brother, General Ren, did escape from this cell."
What you hear is not as good as what you see.
There is such a huge secret behind this imprisonment.
There were no words on the blackboard, but there was chalk dust on the ground that had not been cleaned off. Li Cong shook the chalk in his hand and only wrote two big words.
"Save the country."
His voice was filled with laughter. "To the outside world, General Ren has no reason to be imprisoned, and His Majesty is avoiding court."
"But if I were to tell you that the entire situation from that day until now was a plot set up by these two, the king and his minister..."
Gui Yao pretended to lower her eyes and look at the little green bird in her hand, but her eyes were fixed on Xiaojiu's face.
He was the one who least should have known about this, but the young man was still fixing his hair, as if he didn't know anything.
When he finished speaking, Fang protected his slightly drooping mask.
"Why should we come to save the situation between the king and his subjects?" someone asked.
Hearing this, Li Cong did not turn back. He just wrote a few numbers on the blackboard and then wrote down the names one by one.
One, Guiyao
2. Men in Black
Three, let gray
"This lord, this minister, one is unconscious, the other has disappeared? If we don't save them, who will?" He laughed, "There are many people hiding among us who are involved, don't you think?"
Everyone looked in the direction he was going, and the person who had just spoken slowly took off his mask.
Pin Yue frowned slightly.
Li Cong seemed to notice the two people's gazes meeting, and continued writing.
Four, people from the Imperial Master's Mansion
Wu, white hair
Leave one line and continue.
Lu, Mrs. Xu
Then space out.
Seven,
8. Li Cong
It is not difficult to guess who the vacant number seven is. What makes Gui Yao hesitant is Li Cong's attitude towards Li Jiao.
Was he really going to protect her, or was he really going to do as he said before... allow her to step into the rain, and then hold her hand and splash her with mud.
Li Jiao was silent.
The instigator just watched the lamp oil dripping.
"There's still half an hour left."
"Since that's the case, let me start with number eight and tell you how I can save the country."
Gui Yao listened attentively. Ren Beixi brought a good chair out from the room and motioned Gui Yao to sit down. She narrowed her eyes and obeyed respectfully.
Li Cong set the questions for the first round.
How is your Majesty? How are your subjects?
"Your Majesty is no different to me than General Ren. I don't enjoy the court, nor do I enjoy the frontiers. In my free time, I'd rather be a leisurely young master in Xianyu City. Saving the country is too far away from me, and the country today doesn't need me to save it."
"General Ren invited me to a meeting in prison to tell me the truth about the banquet that day. He also told His Majesty to lock you all up together."
"Today's plan can be said to be the work of the monarch and his ministers alone."
What nonsense is this.
Gui Yao pinched her right shoulder, raised her head and glanced at Ren Beixi's inner voice, and briefly heard the helplessness in it.
Next one.
Li Jiao frowned, stared at Li Cong for half a second, and said timidly: "Your Majesty is an excellent person, and so is the general."
The handkerchief she was holding tightly was almost dry. Suddenly, as if she had made up her mind, she bit her lip and spoke again, "I once read the story of the demon beast Que in a book. Somehow, I keep hearing rumors about Que in the palace these days, saying that Your Majesty... was possessed by a demon beast."
Xu Qing knew clearly that Li Jiao was unwilling to leave the prison.
She pondered for a moment. "Compared to the Imperial Palace, the rumors in the capital are even more rampant. Some people even staged a drama about a monster in the tile house. But I remember that this story was strictly disseminated many years ago by the late emperor, on the grounds that a prosperous era cannot be lacking, and can only be filled up..."
"As for Your Majesty and the General, to be honest, both of you are people I respect, and you are also the husbands of people I cherish."
"I just can't bear to see them suffer."
Guiyao smiled at her aunt soothingly.
As expected, the eyes of everyone present were more or less fixed on Xiaojiu at this moment. Xiaojiu huddled in the haystack and stretched.
"Oh, how about you all throw me out first?" Xiao Jiu narrowed his eyes, but his hands tightly grasped the mask, with a hint of vigilance. Seeing that no one paid attention, he sighed again, "Forget it, forget it. What is my identity? Please let Madam Gui, who has taken me into the carriage, explain it to me."
Guiyao waved her hand.
You cannot interrupt the speech during the game.
Li Cong did not speak to stop him. Gui Yao paused, struggling in her heart about how to define his identity.
Ren Beixi's voice behind him was faint.
"Since there are rules, please follow them."
Xiao Jiu looked at the hand of the black-clothed man on Gui Yao's shoulder and neck, feeling somewhat helpless. However, he could only stand up obediently and bow slightly: "Hello everyone, since I am next to the person from the Fourth Imperial Master's Mansion, I will not hide anymore."
He turned slightly and extended his hand to Pinyue who was leaning against the wall.
Pinyue: ...
The tightly fitting mask from the Imperial Master's Mansion was back on Xiaojiu. He rolled up his sleeves slightly and straightened his posture in his red robe.
"You really caught the wrong person." Xiaojiu laughed.
Even though Xu Qing was a complete stranger to the Imperial Master, he could still recognize who this person was. He had some doubts just now, but now with this look, it was impossible to mistake him. But... Xu Qing had also seen the Imperial Master's true face. If this person was really the Imperial Master, why didn't he take off his mask?
Guiyao gave Xiaojiu a thumbs up.
big courage.
"After hearing so many secrets, if I don't stay and play for a while, how will I explain to the court officials when I leave?" Xiao Jiu said, burying his sleeves in his sleeves, after coaxing himself into a good mood, "I support Your Majesty, so there's no need to say more. Others don't know that General Ren and Your Majesty were childhood playmates, nor do they know that this isn't the first time they've set up a trap."
Pin Yue said: "Your Majesty is not familiar with it. General Ren's brother Ren Zhong once wrote a story about the monster Que."
Eh? Guiyao blinked.
The system in his mind said slowly, "Host, look, whether this person is real or fake, it will be determined in one word."
Ren Hui didn't think for long. Under Gui Yao's encouraging gaze, he said solemnly, "Indeed, the general was imprisoned as a show for outsiders. However, the general was not in a position to appear in front of others a few days ago, so he asked me to communicate with His Majesty."
"The news about the monster was actually leaked intentionally by His Majesty and the General. I just don't know why His Majesty suddenly ordered an attack on the Northern Frontier."
"And why did you really faint?"
He stroked the note lightly with his hands behind his back, and after a moment, he took a half step back.
Man in black.
The first round of speeches was nearing its end. To be honest, the order of the numbers and speeches that Li Cong had originally separated was quite unpleasant. He started with Gui Yao and ended with him, and the number of votes ensured that Ren Beixi, the man in black, would not be eliminated.
The man's hand fell on Guiyao's shoulder.
The contact as if no one was around made people feel quite ambiguous, but there was no concealment in Gui Yao's bright almond eyes, as if this guard of hers was indeed her property and every move was within her permission.
What about speaking?
Ren Beixi simply changed his tone, "I once saw a pigeon from Prime Minister Qiu's house fly into the palace, only to be intercepted by the general. The female officer who arrested us today looked nervous. The blind man was Lu Qingshan, the prefect of Wuhua City. As far as I know, several bodies were dug up in Wuhua Mansion a few days ago."
"Today I am staying by Guiyao's side, just to protect her."
But...Gui Yao unexpectedly discovered that when this ordinary speech was just in progress, Li Jiao, who was sitting next to her, suddenly raised his head, with surprise in his eyes that he could not hide in time.
Guiyao heard her inner voice.
This voice is as pleasant as Ren Beixi's real voice, but it is completely different.
What surprised Li Jiao was not that she recognized that this was Ren Beixi.
But it was this voice that she had heard that day, leaving a deep impression on her, but she had never heard it again.
This person...
He was the general who was beside Gao Shun when he forced the emperor to abdicate.
This thought is like a wild beast; once it comes, you will know the way.
Will come again next time.
Gui Yao's suspicions and doubts were answered at this moment. When she raised her eyes, she seemed to meet Ren Beixi's calm eyes. Through the mask, she seemed to be able to see clearly whether he had done something earth-shattering with such an expression in the past.
Something that shook the mountains and rivers.
But the man just touched Guiyao's head.
"It's your turn."
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