Both worlds are like dreams

"You've locked me up here for so many days, and you didn't do anything?"

"Before you change your stance, I need a little more leverage."

Xue Huang smiled and said, "So it's because you don't have enough chips. I thought you were such a high-ranking person that you didn't need to use your brain for anything."

Mo Yunchen listened to her words and felt something was strange. He glanced at her expression, which was bright and innocent, just like the sunshine.

Xue Huang ignored him and drank the wine by herself. She finished several bottles of wine very quickly, but she still felt unsatisfied. "Anything else?"

Mo Yunchen looked at her with some amusement, "No more."

Xue Huang couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, "Why are you so stingy now?"

"I never thought you could drink so much."

"It's just light wine, it's nothing."

"I'll bring it to you tomorrow."

Xue Huang tilted her head to look at him, suddenly smiled, and didn't say anything.

Mo Yunchen frowned slightly, "What are you laughing at?"

"It's hard for you to do this for the sake of the immortality Gu."

Mo Yunchen paused as he held the wine glass, his face slightly cold, "I don't want to hear these three words again."

"Why bother?" Xue Huang said calmly, "Do you not have to face it if you can't hear it? Do you think I can forget your purpose by not mentioning the immortality Gu? Mo Yunchen, can you also be naive sometimes?"

Mo Yunchen looked at her and remained silent.

Xue Huang looked into his deep pupils and said in a cold and indifferent tone, "If you want to refine the immortality Gu, just do it quickly. If you want to use me, then use me well. In my opinion, everything you are doing to me now is too hypocritical. Don't waste your energy."

Mo Yunchen's face darkened in an instant, and waves surged in his eyes as he stared at her intently. After a long while, he suddenly curled his lips and smiled, but the smile was full of coldness and a hint of self-mockery that he himself did not even notice, "You are too sentimental."

"That's best." Xue Huang said indifferently.

Mo Yunchen stood up and left, closing the door with a bang.

Xue Huang sat there looking at the wine jar with an unknown expression.

Jinxiu Building

It was already dark when Mo Ruilin arrived at Jinxiu Tower. Before he had time to return home, he went to find Wei Yunzhou and Gu Qinglan first.

Wei Yunzhou seemed to have known that he would come, and for the first time ever, he had someone prepare a table of food and wine for him. However, Mo Ruilin didn't care to be moved, and asked about Xue Huang's whereabouts first.

"No news yet about Xue Huang?"

Gu Qinglan shook his head. "Your Highness, did your visit to the imperial mausoleum go smoothly?"

"I stayed in the Royal Temple for two days and made some other discoveries." Murilan took out a few copper coins from his pocket and placed them on the table.

Gu Qinglan examined it carefully and was slightly surprised. "Is this... a counterfeit coin?"

Mo Ruilin nodded. "It has been circulating in the market for several days. I'm afraid the quantity is quite huge."

Wei Yunzhou picked up a copper coin, put it on his fingertips and looked at it. "It's a newly minted copper coin."

"It's probably not an ordinary person who dares to mint so many counterfeit coins in Shangyang City." Mo Ruilin said. "I don't plan to tell my father about this for the time being, so as not to alert the enemy. I would like to ask Brother Wei to help investigate."

Wei Yunzhou nodded, "Okay."

After a moment of silence, Mo Ruilin continued, "I can tell my father about the disappearance of Xue Huang. With his order, it may be easier to find her."

"No need." Wei Yunzhou said.

Mo Ruilin looked a little puzzled, "Why do you think Xue Huang went to the Taiji Hall that day?"

Wei Yunzhou didn't say anything. He actually had the same doubt. Why would she go there for no reason? Those who were chasing her simply appeared out of nowhere in Shangyang City. There was no clue. Why did they chase Xue Huang?

"Did she know something?" Murray continued.

At this time, Luo Ning suddenly rushed in, "Young Master!"

Wei Yunzhou immediately looked at her, his eyes slightly deep, "Any news?"

Luo Ning nodded, "This afternoon, someone bought three jars of wine at Fengchun Wine Shop. The first jar was peach blossom wine, and the person asked the shopkeeper to add half a lemon to it. The second jar was snow pear wine, but the person said it was duck pear wine, and the third jar was rouge wine, but the person said it was cocktail wine."

Gu Qinglan and Mo Ruilin were originally very excited, but after hearing Luo Ning's words, they were very confused.

"What does this mean?" Gu Qinglan asked.

After getting Wei Yunzhou's approval, Luo Ning explained, "Fengchun Liquor Store was originally used by Shanhemen to gather information. The recipes for Xueli Liquor and Yanzhizui were actually developed by Xuehuang. Duck Pear and Chicken Tail were also proposed by Xuehuang, but these two names sounded strange, so they were not used. Only the young master and Xuehuang, as well as me and the owner of Fengchun Liquor Store, know about this matter."

Upon hearing this, Gu Qinglan immediately asked, "Is the person who bought the wine Xue Huang?"

Luo Ning shook her head. "It was a strange man. The spies from Shanhemen followed him immediately, but they still lost him."

"How could this be?" Mo Ruilin was puzzled. "Could it be a coincidence?"

"It's not a coincidence." Luo Ning glanced at Wei Yunzhou, "Adding lemon to peach blossom wine is not Xue Huang's habit, but yours."

Wei Yunzhou nodded, "When we were young, we often brewed wine with our master in Guigu. The most brewed wine was peach blossom wine, but it was not what I liked to drink. Xuehuang came up with the idea of adding lemon juice to peach blossom wine."

Luo Ning continued, "In the entire Shangyang City, only Fengchun Tavern sells this snow pear wine and rouge wine. Xuehuang must have done it on purpose. It's just..."

Gu Qinglan understood what she meant and continued, "But she passed the message so cryptically. I'm afraid she is trapped somewhere, waiting for us to rescue her."

"But where could this place be?" asked Murilan.

Wei Yunzhou frowned slightly, "Keep looking!"

"Yes." Luo Ning responded, then got up and went out.

Gu Qinglan had mixed feelings. Finally, he was relieved to know the whereabouts of Xue Huang, but where was she trapped?

Mo Ruilin looked at him and patted his shoulder. "Qinglan, since Xuehuang can pass on the message in this way, it means that she should be safe at the moment. Don't worry. We will definitely find her."

……

Two days later, Duan Yun sent Xue Huang another dozen jars of wine, the same ones she had requested before.

Xue Huang picked out two jars of sherry wine and stuffed them into his hands. "Thank you very much. This is for you."

"You're too polite, Princess." Duan Yun quickly took a step back and refused to take the wine.

"It's just two jars of wine. Besides, you paid for it." Xue Huang pressed it into his hand forcefully, "You can throw it away if you don't want it."

Duan Yun had no choice but to accept it, but said, "Then I will give it to His Majesty later."

"As you wish." Xue Huang said calmly.

"The prince seems to be in a bad mood."

Xue Huang opened a pot of wine, it was her favorite rose and lychee flavor. She hugged the jar and curled up in the corridor. Hearing this, she glanced at him and said, "He is such a moody person, isn't it normal for him to be in a bad mood?"

"But I think the prince's recent mood changes are related to the princess."

"It's naturally more tiring and laborious to think about how to use me and maximize my value all day long."

Duan Yun looked a little strange and remained silent.

Xue Huang drank her wine and turned to look at him, "Is Duan Feng your brother?"

"Exactly."

"You two have quite different personalities."

"My brother has offended the princess many times in Jiuxiao City before. I hope the princess will not take it to heart."

Xue Huang smiled and said, "I stabbed him with a sword, don't you blame me?"

"I dare not." Duan Yun's expression did not change. "My brother made things difficult for the princess, and the princess drew her sword to protect herself. It's fair."

"If I had killed him with one sword at that time, would you still say that today?"

"The princess wouldn't do that." Duan Yun said. "It's not that the princess didn't want to kill, but she couldn't, so she didn't kill her brother."

Xue Huang quickly finished the jar of wine and picked up another one. It was unclear whether she was satisfied with the taste of the wine or his answer. There was a hint of approval in her eyes. "People who can stay with that bastard Mo Yunchen really have some brains."

Duan Yun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Princess, only you dare to scold the prince like that."

Mo Yunchen's voice suddenly sounded from the side, "Are you guys having a good time chatting?"

Duan Yun was startled and quickly turned around and saluted, "Greetings, Your Majesty."

Xue Huang glanced at him and continued to look at the sky.

Mo Yunchen waved his hand to signal Duan Yun to leave. Duan Yun responded and left quickly.

He didn't dare take away the two jars of wine that Xue Huang gave him.

Mo Yunchen glanced at Xue Huang, "What did you tell him?"

"What?" Xue Huang asked with a sneer, "Can't I talk to people anymore?"

"Okay," Mo Yunchen said indifferently, "but don't say anything useless."

Xue Huang asked: "Which sentence do you think is useless?"

Mo Yunchen didn't answer. He picked up a jar of sherry wine and sat down in the corridor to drink it.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly asked, "Why did you go to the Taiji Hall that day?"

"I'm more curious about what kind of secret could have made you pursue it for so many years."

"do not you know?"

Xue Huang glanced at him, her brows intertwined with confusion, "How could I possibly know?"

"Do you think the answer will be in the Taiji Hall?"

"I don't know." Xue Huang drank another jar of wine. Her crystal-clear white cheeks were slightly flushed, and she had an ethereal beauty under the moonlight. She picked a jar of peach blossom wine and sat down in the corridor again. "I was chased by those people before I found anything."

"Who are they?"

"Didn't you check?"

"They came out of nowhere, like ghosts." Mo Yunchen frowned slightly, "There has never been any trace of them in the world."

"Where's the body?"

"They were taken away by Wei Yunzhou," Mo Yunchen said calmly, "but I believe they got nothing."

Xue Huang didn't say anything else. The lack of clues was good news for her. At least it could temporarily protect the boy from being found. But these people were very dangerous. What kind of martial arts did they have?

I guess I can only wait for the boy to give her the answers to these questions.