Chapter 26: The clouds break through the sunrise and the mountains are far away

The light in Qing Chen's eyes moved: "What do you think?"
"Check." Ming Xuan just one word.
"Where do you start?" Qing Chen asked.
"Lord Feng, please show me." Ming Xuan replied.
The Sword Guardian of the Seven Palaces looked towards Qing Chen without exception. Qing Chen said, "I want to examine the body of Nightmare first." Fu turned around and asked, "Fourth brother, would you like to be together?"
Ye Tianling nodded and said to Eleven: "Brother Eleven, purge the three armies, and return to the city later."
Eleventh said: "Okay, I'm waiting for you outside the valley." He smiled at Ming Xuan and said, "I am responsible for killing those dead in the Bixue Pavilion outside. You bury them yourself. Everyone will cooperate fairly."
Ming Xuan arched his hands and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty." Eleven shrugged, turned and left first.
In the back hall of Tianyao Palace, Nightmare's body was lying quietly on the ground, covered with a white cloth.
Although the nightmare was not healed, they insisted on coming together, and gently lifted the white cloth covering the corpse. Senhan's murderous intent came out of the originally emotionless eyes.
He was killed by a knife and cut across the carotid artery from the neck. At that time, a large amount of blood was sprayed all over the body.
Ye Tianling's battle on the battlefield was commonplace, and it was commonplace to be several times more tragic than this, so he was indifferent. Mingxuan and the others were born in the arena, not to mention life and death. But seeing Qing Chen leaning down calmly, carefully inspecting the wounds of Nightmare, Ye Tianling's eyes were somewhat surprised, but she didn't know that she was used to face corpses, which was different from ordinary women.
"It's a stab wound." Hades whispered.
"Yeah." Qing Chen nodded and stretched out his hand. "Lend me your knife."
Under Nightmare's wrist lightly moved, that delicate thin knife fell into his palm, and the blade was like a cicada's wings, slightly glowing with coquettish blood, it was a sharp weapon for killing.
Qing Chen put Xuezhan to the ground, and Xuezhan sniffed at the corpse and let out a low growl. Qing Chen took the knife and said to the people behind him: "You are waiting for me outside, and you must not tell you not to enter. Ming is the sword guardian, please stay."
Except for Xie Jing and Su Niang, Ming Nightmare and others all looked cold, but Ming Xuan Dao: "Follow the order of the Phoenix Lord." Taking the lead to exit Tianyao Palace, Ming stood meticulously in place with a straight face.
Ye Tianling naturally did not leave with them, but stayed aside watching Qing Chen with interest. She leaned down and squatted down to observe, carefully inserting the thin knife in her hand along the wound, wound and knife in the neck of Nightmare. It seems to match. While looking at the wound, she said to Mingze: "I'll find the murderer. You will be watching, so there will be a testimony at that time."
Ming watched every move in her hand and nodded.
Qing Chen moved the knife left and right, frowned, studied the wound condition carefully, and then put away the knife. She was earnestly looking for clues in the whole body of Nightmare, and suddenly found that Nightmare was clenched with her right hand. Although the person has been dead for a long time, but the body is not completely stiff, she hesitated for a moment, and finally raised her hand.
At this moment, a hand blocked by his side was Ye Tianling. She withdrew her hand in confusion, but saw Ye Tianling slowly split the fingers held by Nightmare for her.
Immediately, something fell into the eyes of the two of them. Ye Tianling picked it up and held it in his palm and squeezed it. The thing shook slightly with his slender fingers, sinking. When Ming saw this thing, the pupils in his lifeless eyes suddenly closed, but there was no sound.
"Golden?" Qing Chen asked.
"Yeah." Ye Tianling said lightly, then tore the skirt of the skirt to wrap things up, and handed it to Qing Chen.
After Qing Chen took it, Ye Tianling lifted Nightmare and cut his right hand. Qing Chen and Ming saw a few bruises on the twisted fingers of the corpse, which should have been left behind by hitting something before death.
Ming stretched out his hand to gently close Nightmare's eyes. Ye Tianling stood up and covered the white cloth: "It's nothing?"
"Yeah." Qing Chen thoughtfully said to them, "Let's go and see where the body was found."
"Good." Ye Tianling did not object.
Before Qing Chen went out, he signaled Xue Zhan to sniff the corpse of Nightmare Cut, and went to the place where Nightmare Cut was killed with Ye Tianling and Mingze, in a dense jungle south of the valley.
Along the way, I saw the subordinates of the Mingyi Building dealing with the aftermath. I can roughly estimate that there are not a few casualties, but the three of them did not expect that the place where Nightmare's corpse was found has also been cleaned up. Qing Chen frowned: "I can only see if there are any more. A windfall."
The three of them looked around carefully, and Xue Zhan followed them to sniff among the vegetation. After a while, Qing Chen and Ye Tianling looked at each other and shook their heads to find nothing.
At this moment, he heard Xue Zhan's low cry, while Ming looked back and suddenly sighed. Where his gaze fell, there was a golden thing under the shadow of a few leaves, exactly the same as the one just found in Nightmare's hand.
Ming approached and picked up the thing: "I don't want him to really do such a thing." The words were full of regrets.
Qing Chen took the thing and said to Ming Ze: "Go back, I will have to trouble you later."
Ming lowered his head and said, "Don't worry, Lord Feng."
Qing Chen said: "If you can't bear to do something, it's better to see if His Royal Highness Ling is willing to help to the end?"
Ming glanced at Ye Tianling: "It is the responsibility of Tianquan Palace to clear out traitors. His Royal Highness has taken care of him today, and he dare not work any more."
Qing Chen nodded and said, "That's good."
Back in the branch hall, Underworld Nightmare had already waited anxiously, and there was no clue from Qing Chen's expression, let alone the unchanging appearance of Ye Tianling and Ming's faces.
When Xie Jing saw Qing Chen, he asked, "What can I find?"
Qing Chen scanned the crowd for a week: "Probably already knew the murderer, but I still want to verify it."
She smiled faintly at the Seven Palace Guardian Swordsman, pointed to a table next to her, and said, "Can you put your portable weapons on this table?"
Under Ming Xuan, everyone's faces looked different. Leaving a weapon is a great taboo for those who lick blood with the knife head in the arena. Several people and Qing Chen looked at each other for a moment, Xie Jing first put a long sword on the table, and then Ming also put down his broad-bladed sword.
For the remaining few people, except that Mingxuan never used weapons, Su Niang's was a fine silver whip, Mingxuan was a golden abacus, Mingxuan was holding a soul hook, and Mingmao was a pair of thin knives. One was in her own hands and the other was still in Qing Chen's place. Qing Chen took it out of her sleeve and put it on the table together.
Qing Chen looked at various weapons and said, "Sorry, I locked the murderer among several sword guards. It is not easy to be noticed because I can help the Bixue Pavilion enter the main altar. Only the leaders of the Seventh House can I did it. So everyone, you are offended." She paused, seeing that everyone had no objection, and continued: "I just checked Nightmare's body and found that the fatal one was a stab wound in his neck. This wound is shallow left and deep right, the murderer If it is not left-handed, it must have been from behind Nightmare's hand to cause this situation. From the trend of the wound and scratches, we can be sure that this person should have attacked Nightmare from directly behind. You said just now, Nightmare Cut can be considered a good hand in the Mingyi Building, so the one who can quietly put him to death behind him, if it is not for the martial arts that is several times higher than him, he is a very familiar person. May I ask the sword guard of Ming Xuan, among you, Who can make Nightmare the most unsuspecting?"
Ming Xuan was silent for a moment, and did not immediately answer, but he glanced at Ming Yan and Ming Yan's face changed.
Qing Chen followed Ming Xuan's gaze and looked towards Hades, and then said: "Moreover, judging from the degree of cracking of the wound, the murder weapon is an extremely thin and sharp knife."
Having said that, Su Niang couldn't help but whispered: "Nightmare, you..."
Undermine's anger suddenly grew in his heart, and he blurted out: "What do you mean? Nightmare is my subordinate, and only I use a knife among the seven. Do you mean that I killed Nightmare?"
Qing Chen smiled slightly: "Be safe, don’t be impatient, there must be evidence for everything, I haven’t finished speaking yet. Calculating the time of the death of Nightmare, you are with me, Ming Xuan, Xie Jing, Su Niang, and did not kill anyone. She walked to the table with Xuezhan in her arms, and said,
Everyone knows that Xuezhan is a rare beast. I have just let it smell around Nightmare. It’s better to see whose weapon it is against. There is a reaction, how?" Xue Zhan jumped from Qing Chen's hands to the table, sniffed on Underworld's double knives, and immediately screamed. Qing Chen said: "I used this knife to touch the wounds of nightmare cutting."
Xue Zhan continued to identify the weapons on the table one by one, and when he reached Ming Ze's sword, he raised his head and motioned, Qing Chen said: "Ming Ze will examine the corpse with me, naturally leaving behind the smell."
The sword of Xie Jing, the silver whip of Su Niang, and the soul hook of Ming cling, Xue Zhan walked in turn, and finally stopped at Ming Amnesty's golden abacus, and let out a low growl again.
Qing Chen stepped forward and fiddled with the golden abacus: "Huh? This abacus seems to be inaccurate. How can I settle the account without two beads? Where are the two beads?"
The two mustaches on Ming's lips moved, his face remained unchanged: "I accidentally lost it the other day."
Qing Chen nodded: "So that's it." Turned around and smiled at Ye Tianling: "His Royal Highness is a prince, and there is definitely no shortage of gold and silver on hand. How about asking Your Highness to reward two abacus beads?"
Ye Tian Ling Jian’s eyebrows moved, and he stretched out his left hand, revealing two yellow beads, and said lightly:
Mingyi Building is rich and rich, and a dead principal has this thing in his hands. You can also pick up gold in the mountains and wilds. Is this king troublesome?"
The guards of swords changed their expressions, and Hades sternly shouted: "Meditation!"
Ming Amnesty didn't panic, and respectfully said to Qing Chen: "Master Feng, his subordinates are loyal to Mingyi Tower, and are brothers and sisters to Nightmare. How can they do such things? These two beads have been lost for a long time. ......" After that, the front of the conversation turned, "What's more, it is not difficult for someone to drop two abacus beads at the scene while they are performing an autopsy with the Phoenix Master, right?" The meaning of the words actually pointed to Ming Ze.
Ming's face turned dark, and his already dull expression was even more horrible. When he was about to attack, Qing Chen raised his hand to him: "Oh, I feel like brother. It sounds like you are right, but I still have There is still work to be done for the unknown. Just now Xiao Zichu has poisoned the Mingzhi. Su Niang and Ming are not immune to contact. You rescue Mingzhi all the way back, why there is no sign of poisoning? I know that neither Fengyingxian nor Su Jinhuang tastes good? The wound on your arm is a bit shallow and it’s okay, but why is it cut from the outside to the inside? Did it hurt yourself? I just checked the nightmare cut , How do you feel that the wound on your arm is caused by the same sharp weapon? I am puzzled about these things. I wonder if you can give me some pointers?"
Ming Amnesty finally changed. Qing Chen didn't give him a chance to breathe, her eyes sank, and she looked directly at Ming She's eyes: "Ming She, where is your knife? The bottom of your boots? The side of your legs? Waist? Or in your sleeves? She wants to hide a thin knife next to her. Are there many ways not to be discovered?"
Xie Jing and the others had already taken their weapons back into their hands and sealed Zi Weiyuan in all directions. Ming Xuan said solemnly: "Ming forgive, I have vained my trust in you, you have done such a meaningless thing."
Ming She's eyes flickered, her face slowly showed a look of fear, and Xiang Qingchen suddenly fell to her knees: "Master Feng, the subordinate knows the fault, the subordinate..." With the words, the two handles were quenched with blue light. Suddenly, his sleeve knife shot at Qing Chen with a sharp howling sound.
Although the knife came quickly, there were two yellow lights around Qing Chen that were faster than the knife, biting the sleeve knife that was attacked. The two golden abacus beads that Ye Tianling had been playing with shot down the sleeve knife, and the remaining strength remained unfailing, and he attacked Ming She's front door.
Ming She retreated in shock, and people rushed towards the door. Su Niang's silver whip came across the air, sealing his way out; while Mingzhi and Ming hooked their swords, and forced them in front of him. Xie Jing and Underworld Nightmare did not step forward and flanked them, holding the doors and windows separately, but Ming Xuan never moved and stayed beside Qing Chen.
With one enemy and three, Ming Sha was completely at a disadvantage by several people. Ming Xuan said with emotion: "Ming Yi Building treats him not badly, but he does such things."
Qing Chen looked at Ming Xuan: "Is this the first thing?"
Ming Xuan bowed: "Subordinates are convinced."
Qing Chen smiled faintly, ignored the fight in the room, turned around and said, "I will send His Highness Ling out of the valley, and you will leave the rest."
Ming Xuan bowed and replied, "Subordinates obey."
Seeing Qing Chen turned around, Xue Zhan immediately followed and jumped on her shoulder. Qing Chen was shocked by it unexpectedly, raised his hand and smiled and patted it on the head. Xue Zhan gently turned around on her shoulder and squatted down firmly in the most comfortable position.
Qing Chen rode out with Ye Tianling, thousands of Xuanjia soldiers waited outside the valley, silently. Ye Tianling waved, and the leaders rectified their soldiers and horses, preparing to set off for the city.
Qing Chen took the reins: "I can't go back to Yi Ge for the time being, I will send you here."
Ye Tianling turned back unexpectedly: "What?"
Eleven came to meet them, and he was taken aback when he heard the words: "Aren't you going back with us to see the father?"
Qing Chen smiled at him: "Seeing the emperor? Then naturally I don't want to."
"Why?" Eleven asked.
Qing Chen hesitated for a moment, and said, "Not only the emperor, but also Feng Xiang, King Zhan...all... it's better to be missing."
Ye Tianling twisted her eyebrows slightly, her eyes fell on Qing Chen's hand holding the reins, her sleeves slid down, and her wrist was the string of ice aquamarine that Ye Tianzhan gave her.
In a flash, Ye Tianling looked away from the main altar of the Mingyi Building, and said lightly: "Then you don't have to force it, Brother Eleven, let's go." Turning his horse's head, he left.
"Hey! Fourth brother!" Eleven didn't expect Ye Tianling to find Qing Chen after all the trouble, but now he just said to leave. Seeing Ye Tianling turned and left, Qing Chen's heart sank suddenly. The feeling of being pulled out of the original solid support and suddenly falling into the depths made her startled and speechless.
"Qing Chen!" Eleven's voice called her back. She accidentally discovered that he didn’t have the usual lazy smile on his face, but he said with a stern face:
I don’t know what happened to you with Fengxiang or Seventh Brother, but the fourth brother is looking for you this time, although the Xuanjia army under his command is used. , But also shocked the father. I didn’t want Fengxiang to make a round for us in front of the father, saying that the daughter who had just returned to the house was taken away by the gangster and happened to be met by the fourth brother before he came to help. The fourth brother must give it to him when he goes back. The emperor father will explain it alone, otherwise..." Eleven did not go on, but both of them felt clear in their hearts. The prince who led soldiers like Ye Tianling would be taboo when he mobilized soldiers in Tiandu. Once the emperor had something else in his mind Suspicion is afraid that it will cause unnecessary trouble.
Qing Chen frowned: "Fengxiang?"
Eleven nodded: "Feng Xiang said that the second lady's name is Feng Qingchen. Are you... after all..."
Qing Chen sighed, what did Feng Yan mean? The emperor was alarmed, and nothing happened. How could she stay out of the situation now? She turned her head and watched Ye Tianling walk further and further along the narrow valley, her dark black clothes swept across the breeze, and gradually faded under the quiet and warm sun of the late autumn, somehow making people feel so lonely.
She stared at the front in a daze, suddenly a trace of complicated luster flashed in her eyes, turning her horse's head to chase Ye Tianling's back.
The sound of hoofs is clear, with the pleasant autumn breeze, and the sun is soft, driving back the first chill in the mountains, breaking the long-lasting cold of the sky.
Ye Tian Ling Ma speed seemed to slow down slightly, and the back figure instantly became clear in Qing Chen's eyes, the dark black faintly stained with a faint golden rim, and gradually merged into the warmth of the autumn sun.
"You two are simply my nemesis, I will go back with you!" Qing Chen said helplessly to the eleven who rode on.
Eleven raised his eyebrows, and the irritating smile returned to his face: "You are the nemesis of the two of us, right? Since I saw you, I haven't had a good night's sleep."
Qing Chen gave him an angry look: "We can't cope with each other and we can't tolerate the situation, and we can't stand together. Now are you satisfied?"
Eleven raised his voice and laughed: "Why don't you talk to the fourth brother?"
Qing Chen did not show weakness and replied: "If you have the ability, you can tell him, do you dare?"
The eleventh hand spread out: "Brother is here, I dare not."
Really frankly enough, Qing Chen glared at him, and stretched out her finger in front of him: "In exchange, I'm going to eat the honey crisp pigeon from Changlefang, and the imperial Lingye crisp from Qianyuefang, returning to Honglou. Yipin Xian, and..."
"Robbers!" They had caught up with Ye Tianling at this time, and eleven smiled and said, "Fourth brother, you are going to lose money!"
Ye Tianling had obviously heard them talking just now, watching Qing Chen approaching him with a bulging mouth and eleven one, and said lightly: "I will tell my father, you don't need to go back."
Qing Chen smiled helplessly: "Fourth brother won't be reluctant to give up a few snacks, right? I just lost my two golden abacus beads before I changed them..."
Ye Tianling's eyes swept, and she shook her hand hurriedly: "Don't frown, I will confess and be generous." So she explained how she was robbed in the mountains, how she got to the heaven, how she was rescued by Ye Tianzhan into the palace, how she saw How did the Emperor of Heaven be recognized by the Feng family as a daughter who had been lost for many years, how to manage the Simianlou, how to have a relationship with Mingyilou, and the Turkic conspiracy and tricks to them, just skipping Ye Tianzhan’s support of Jin Hui The thing mentioned.
After Ye Tianling listened quietly, she suddenly asked, "Why are you the master of Mingyi?"
The corners of Qing Chen's lips raised slightly: "Because this can give orders to Mingyilou."
Ye Tianling seemed to have been staring into her eyes, and said, "What are you going to order Mingyilou to do?"
Qing Chen cast a clear smile in his eyes, she turned her head to look at him, and raised her lips slightly: "Don't do anything."
Ye Tianling smiled without a trace in his eyes. After a while, she said: "It's the birthday of the emperor's grandmother recently, and the emperor should be in a good mood.
Qing Chen nodded, and then asked after a while: "On the Pleasure Horse Bridge that day, why did Brother Si trust me so easily?"
Ye Tianling said: "Back in Mobei, you were completely impenetrable, so why did you believe in me so dare to swim across the river with me to avoid hunting?"
Qing Chen was startled slightly, and the birds returned to the forest in the sunset, and the afterglow of the twilight felt a warm feeling in his heart. The two couldn't help but smile at each other, swiftly riding along the horse's rein, the wind galloped and the clouds rushed away.