"Yes, this is the outer moat. The inner moat is in the palace, where it is heavily guarded by imperial guards. If you're sleepy, take a nap."
“No need.” Mu Run looked at the mask on his face. “Could you take it off? I want to see your face.”
Fu Yunchen chuckled, "Why?"
She raised her hand and removed the mask, revealing an excessively handsome face.
"You're so pleasing to the eye." Mu Run rested her chin on her hands. "You're really beautiful, especially your eyes, the left one is purple and the right one is black. Did anyone ever say anything about you when you were little because of the color of your eyes?"
“I was black when I was little,” Fu Yunchen replied. “Later, my mother’s bloodline awakened, and I turned purple.”
Mu Run was puzzled but impressed. "What kind of bloodline can change eye color?"
Fu Yunchen replied, "Do you know about Miao witchcraft?"
Mu Run nodded. "I heard Hongmi say that Miao witches are extremely evil. They can refine the dead, which means they can resurrect the dead and turn them into puppets to harm the living. They like to use children as sacrifices to summon demons and monsters from the underworld to wreak havoc on the world."
Of course, she didn't know how much truth there was in those words. Given her own experience of being transported into another world, the existence of ghosts and spirits wasn't entirely impossible.
"The Miao witches are divided into two branches: one is the Black Witches, who use forbidden arts and do commit heinous crimes. The other is the Red Witches, who regard the Black Witches as traitors to the Miao witches and purge and kill them. For thousands of years, they have maintained this antagonistic relationship."
Until the founding emperor of the Northern Jin Dynasty, Wei Wen, appeared. He first used black magic to overthrow the previous dynasty and establish the Northern Jin Dynasty. He then led his army to destroy the red magic, leaving the black magic to dominate.
"Like the saying goes, 'The rabbit is killed, the hunting dog is cooked; the birds are gone, the bow is put away.' The black sorcerer's joy was short-lived; he was also executed by Wei Wen. The world applauded, and their allegiance to the Northern Jin Dynasty increased."
"Who's on the moat?" A patrolling guard passed by the riverbank, spotted Mu Run and Fu Yunchen's boat, and shouted from afar, holding a torch.
Fu Yunchen shouted to the city guards, "Yun Rong, Chief Clerk of the Ministry of Personnel."
As Fu Yunchen responded, he took out a sheepskin bag from his sleeve, took out a human skin mask from it, and quickly stuck it on his face.
Mu Run stared at him, dumbfounded. In a few breaths, his face transformed into another. At the same time, she realized that he was going to the River God's Restaurant tonight to find Xin Sui and get the human face mask.
When the boat reached the shore, Fu Yunchen went ashore and exchanged a few words with the leading city guard. The guards then respectfully bowed to him and left.
Fu Yunchen returned to the boat and continued onward with Mu Run on board.
"What happened?" Mu Run asked.
"When I was in the palace, Emperor Xiaozhi secretly summoned me and gave me a secret edict and an imperial seal that was as if I were there in person. The guards who were leading the city guards just now were Emperor Xiaozhi's men. After seeing the imperial seal, they will pretend that they have never seen me before."
"What secret edict?" Mu Run asked curiously. "What does the imperial seal look like?"
Fu Yunchen showed her the imperial seal.
It is a bright yellow jade seal about the size of a thumb, with a five-clawed golden dragon, and the seal of the Northern Jin Dynasty is engraved on it.
"This emperor has quite the nerve." He's a bandit, after all. Giving him something like an imperial sword, isn't he afraid he'll rebel?
Fu Yunchen said, "Emperor Xiaozhi has asked me to go to the Kingdom of Wu to investigate what happened when Prince Zhou was there."
Mu Run was shocked. "Could it be that Emperor Xiaozhi suspects his own brother of betrayal?"
“So we need to investigate,” Fu Yunchen replied.
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