Chapter 41 Chapter 41: Soulless Night Run (13)

"Mr. Bicheng invited me to play chess late at night, just for the sake of playing chess?" The eldest princess wrapped her sable fur tightly. "Just to play chess." Lei Bicheng looked at the chessboard without looking up, "Besides, I want to try my luck." "luck?" "I know that the eldest princess was once famous for her chess skills in the imperial capital, and my chess skills are not even comparable to His Royal Highness Li Guogong, so naturally I can't compare with the eldest princess. But I want to try my luck this time, if I win this game , It shows that my luck is good, and I can also win the game at Shangyangguan." Lei Bicheng straightened his sleeves, "I really want to win this time, maybe I am a little greedy."

"With Mr. Bicheng's magical skills and foresight, are you still afraid of those rude warriors from Bai Yixiyan?" "I'm sure of defeating Bai Yi, but I don't have absolute confidence in Xi Yan. Has the eldest princess ever heard of an organization called Tianqi?" "Heavenly Exorcist?" The eldest princess smiled contemptuously, "It's just a group of foolish people, intending to secretly accumulate troops to subvert the government. It has been more than 30 years since the royal family ordered the princes to exterminate them? Now there are probably no one left. The last well-known person was You Changji, the descendant of a famous family in northern Shanxi more than ten years ago. It is said that he was a peerless man, but he was lured by the remnant party of Tianqi, betrayed his family, and became the leader of Tianqi. I was chased and killed by Tianqi for some reason, and I have never been seen since then. Since then, Tianqi has also disappeared, and there have been only a few cases in the past ten years."

"If I tell the eldest princess that Xi Yan is inextricably linked to this organization, and may even be the leader of it, what does the eldest princess think?" The eldest princess was stunned: "The majestic General Yu Dianyu, who receives the royal salary, accepts the title of His Majesty, controls the military power of the Tang Dynasty, but colludes with the rebellious party? If the evidence is convincing, you can report it to Your Majesty and order the Tang Dynasty to arrest him." imprison!" Lei Bicheng slowly shook his head: "It's not that easy. Xi Yan is too smart. If he hadn't set up a lot of protection around him, he would never easily reveal his identity to others. So I only say these words to the eldest princess." Said, the eldest princess must not report to His Majesty easily. Now is not the time to expose Xi Yan's disguise."

"Mr. Bicheng is so afraid of Xiyan?" "No, I'm afraid of the sky. Those people claim to be immortal..." Lei Bicheng sighed, "Although immortality is a legend, it has been fulfilled for so many years." He slowly placed pieces on the chessboard: "Immortality is one of the greatest miracles, and it is also a terrible curse." The eldest princess saw him staring blankly outside the water pavilion, she had rarely seen Lei Bicheng's expression like this, and a trace of uneasiness floated in her heart.She grabbed the chess pieces in the box, letting the cold chess pieces flow through her fingers one by one.Neither of them spoke, only the "ding ding" of the chess pieces colliding slightly.

The eldest princess hesitated to choose one.Looking at a small lamp beside the chessboard, she suddenly saw something black and sticky between the chess pieces.She had always hated these unclean things, so she picked up the silver hairpin that was pulling the wick aside.Those things couldn't be picked up, but they stuck to the silver hairpin. The eldest princess put the hairpin directly under the lamp, and was shocked. The surface of the bright silver is full of blood. She looked at Lei Bicheng, and Lei Bicheng was staring at the water in a daze, twisting a chess piece in his hand and hanging it above the chessboard.Inside Lei Bicheng's narrow sleeve, the thick blood was red and black, dripping onto the chessboard drop by drop.

The eldest princess stood up in shock, at this time a strong wind from nowhere on the lake swept the entire water pavilion.The veil fluttered, the lights went out, the tea-making boy chased his blown bamboo fan away, the charcoal in the tea stove shone brightly, and the servant in black stomped on the ground, holding down his waist The handle of the knife is like a beast about to pounce on the ground. "Mr. Bicheng." The eldest princess exclaimed in a low voice. Lei Bicheng also came back to his senses, suddenly grabbed his sleeve and hid it in his palm. "I can't escape the backlash." He sighed lowly, flicked his sleeves on the chessboard, and the chess pieces fell one after another.

"I have something to do tonight, I'm uneasy, so I'll take my leave first." Lei Bicheng got up to leave, and the servant in black followed closely behind him. After the tea-making boy lit the lamp again, the eldest princess recovered a little bit.At this time, Lei Bicheng's figure was about to disappear in the distance of the step bridge.The eldest princess inspected the chessboard and chess pieces, but there was not a trace of blood. It seemed that everything was just an illusion, and was swept away when she waved her sleeves in Leibi City. The eldest princess picked up the hairpin that had fallen aside and put it under the lamplight.

There was a very thin trace of blood on the hairpin, as if scalded into sterling silver. That was real blood, flowing from Lei Bicheng's cuff.That scene was no hallucination.The blood fell on the chessboard, cold and viscous, as if squeezed from the wound of someone who had been dead for a long time.