Chapter 53
Chapter 53
The unreasonable request was naturally rejected by Zhu Wu, and he was driven to bed.
Lying on the bed, Zhu Wu began to think about the questions that had been hovering in his mind.
That is, the protagonist of Xi Fanwen.
If it was Ren Yu who he guessed, why didn't the other party make any move?
During the day today, he was led in by the old servant, but he was sent back at his request, and Ren Yu didn't refute, and walked away obediently.
This is really abnormal, and it is very different from other raiders who try their best to get close to Gou Lanyin.
Moreover, why didn't Ren Yu set himself as the prince's concubine at the beginning, but let Gou Lanyin choose by herself?Wouldn't this save a lot of steps and a lot of unknown variables?
Zhu Wu quickly remembered that after he took the player's knight identity card and was exposed by the old servant, the old servant mentioned a word, rules.
Everything here has to follow the rules.
But the rules, aren't they made by the protagonist of Western Fantasy?Or, even in this palace, which belongs to the home field of the protagonist of Xi Fanwen, he is bound by some kind of rules?
Zhu Wu thought about it, and touched his ear again.
In order to test whether cotton balls can block the singing in the middle of the night, he also made two for himself and put them on his ears.
Nothing happened overnight.
When he woke up the next day, as usual, Zhu Wu saw a handsome face with impeccable facial features. That face was slowly approaching him, only a few centimeters away from his face. Suddenly, the other person stopped , his eyes moved to Zhu Wu's eyes that he didn't know when to open.
At that moment, the dark pupils dilated, he shrank his head suddenly, his body almost jumped off the bed, and jumped to the edge on the other side of the big bed.
"I...Princess, you...you are awake."
Zhu Wu sat up slowly, looked at Gou Lanyin's eyes wandering and flushed face: "What are you doing?"
At the moment when he spoke, Gou Lanyin's body seemed to stiffen for a moment, then she turned her face facing the wall again, and said calmly to Zhu Wu: "I wake up early in the morning, and I want to take a closer look at my body. Princess, can't you?"
Zhu Wu stared at his face, thinking for a moment.
Cotton balls are useful, at least he didn't hear the singing last night, and fell asleep until dawn.
From this, Zhu Wu can be sure that the singing can affect the player's cognition, but from Gou Lanyin's reaction, it can be seen that the affected people will not wake up immediately even if they no longer hear the singing.
Sitting at the dining table, Gou Lanyin looked at the absent-minded Zhu Wu opposite.
"Princess, is today's meal not to your liking?"
Zhu Wu didn't speak, he frowned, and was about to ask the servant to take it down and make another one, Zhu Wu said: "It's okay."
The servant breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Zhu Wu noticed it, and suddenly remembered Ye Xixing and Lin Jing who were working non-stop in the servant's room.
Therefore, after breakfast, Zhu Wu packed some biscuits and cakes and headed to the servant's room.
Ye Xixing and Lin Jing were not cleaning today, but doing laundry.
Those clothes were very worn out, soaking in the water basin had dyed the whole basin of water black, like the color of a swamp.
These are definitely not the clothes that Gou Lanyin wears, even the servants who serve Gou Lanyin wear better clothes than these.
Zhu Wu asked, "Did the person who told you to do the laundry say whose clothes you were washing?"
Both of them shook their heads: "No one said, they just asked us to clean up."
But these clothes seem to be unclean, because the washed clothes are hanging on the bamboo pole next to them, and they are still all black, and they don't look much better than dirty clothes.
Zhu Wuduo glanced at it twice, until he was pulled back from his thoughts by Ye Xixing's voice.
"It's delicious, Zhuwu, thank you for bringing us cookies and cakes."
Lin Jing also bit the cake and nodded vaguely: "Yes, I have never eaten such a delicious snack, Zhu Wu... No, you are the princess now."
Ye Xixing was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered: "Yes, Zhu Wu is now the princess, then you and the prince, have you..."
His eyes suddenly brightened, even if his cognition was confused, it didn't change his heart of gossip.
"No." Zhu Wu could almost guess that he had nothing good to say.
"But I heard that these days are the days when the prince and the princess sleep together. The prince pushed back a lot of official duties, so he came back to accompany the princess."
Ye Xixing ate the biscuit and glanced at Zhu Wu, "Is there really no such thing?"
"……Really do not have."
"Then... what about kissing? There is always holding hands, right?"
"..."
Zhu Wu put away the handkerchief containing the biscuits, "If you don't want to eat it, I'll take it away."
"Hey, I want to eat, I want to eat." Ye Xixing laughed twice, protecting the handkerchief.
Zhu Wu didn't stay in the servant's room for too long, because soon a servant reminded him that the prince was looking for him.
But in fact, nothing happened. After Gou Lanyin's cognition became confused, every word and deed followed the identity of a "prince".
Judging from the previous day's experience, the setting of this "prince" is a bit clingy.
Today is no exception, Zhu Wu was taken back by the servant not long after he left, but he was not taken to the bedroom, but to the prince's study.
"Actually, it's nothing." Gou Lanyin sat on the sofa in the study, casually flipping through the book with one hand, while raising her eyes to look at Zhu Wu, "These servants are making a fuss."
Zhu Wu glanced at him, then dropped his eyes on the book in his hand, stayed there for a second, then moved to the bookshelf.
At first, he didn't notice it, but after looking at it, Zhu Wu discovered that the books on the bookshelf all had the same shell.
He frowned, and was about to pick up a book to read, when an old and respectful voice came from the door of the study: "Dear prince and princess, it's lunch time, please go to the restaurant for lunch."
Zhu Wu heard it, but he didn't stop until the old servant's voice pointed at him: "Princess, you can't read books during meal time, this is the rule."
Rules, this NPC is reminding him.
Zhu Wu paused for a moment, then raised his eyes: "What if I must read?"
There was a smile in the old servant's cloudy eyes: "Those who break the rules can't stay in the palace, but there can't be a princess in the palace. If the princess is not here, then... we have to let the prince choose a new princess."
Zhu Wu's eyes turned cold, but someone's expression was colder than his.
"I think you are really old and have a poor memory. You forgot what I said so quickly."
Not only did Gou Lanyin have a cold expression, but even her voice was cold, "I can only have one princess, not two, go out and receive the punishment!"
"..."
Zhu Wu was led out of the study again. Before leaving, he glanced at the old servant, and a trace of resentment flashed in the other's cloudy eyes.
After walking out of the study, Zhu Wu struggled with his hands, the hand holding him seemed to be stiff for a moment, and then let go of him.
When Zhu Wu looked over, Gou Lanyin's expression was already normal.
The old servant had some reservations about what he said, but Zhu Wu still didn't take the book out of the study in the end.
Since you can't read books during meal time, you can always eat after dinner.
After dinner, Zhu Wu asked Gou Lanyin to take him to the study, and then the old servant who had received the punishment appeared again: "Dear prince and princess, according to the rules, you can only enter the study once a week to read. The opportunity has been used up this week, and the only way to enter the study again is next week."
next week?Seven days have passed long ago.
Zhu Wu frowned, but the punishment for challenging the rules was unknown, and it was too risky to forcibly enter the study.
But my intuition told Zhu Wu that there must be something strange in the study room. There is only one kind of book in such a big study room, which is obviously a reminder of something.
Thinking of this, Zhu Wu couldn't help but look at someone complainingly: "Why didn't you call me before entering the study?"
At this time, night fell, and the two were lying on the soft goose down bed.
Gou Lanyin's sleeping posture is standard and upright, and her head is also sleeping upright. Her gaze falls on the chandelier on the ceiling, and then turns to the other side after a while. The light falls on his eyelashes, casting shadows that flicker after flickering .
"I……"
Zhu Wu stared at him for a while, then suddenly leaned over and asked, "Why don't you look at me and talk?"
"..."
There was silence in the air for three seconds, and then Gou Lanyin slowly turned his head, met Shang Zhuwu's eyes that were close at hand, blinked, and said, "Princess, do you still want to wear cotton balls to sleep tonight?"
Zhu Wumo paused for a moment and said, "No need."
The room became quiet again, and Gou Lanyin resumed her sleeping position, and was about to breathe calmly, when Zhu Wu said again: "Let's have something exciting tonight."
"..."
Five minutes later, Zhu Wu was fully dressed, holding a small portable lamp, and looked at someone who was dawdling behind.
"hurry up."
The person approached, but the expression on his face was still a bit squirming: "Princess, what you said...is exciting, are you coming...in the garden...?"
"Ah."
Zhu Wu gave him another small lamp, "Take it well, I won't lend you mine if I lose it."
After speaking, Zhu Wu turned around and looked carefully at the road under his feet.
The journey was fairly smooth. A few days ago, Zhu Wu discovered that those servants disappeared at night and would not stare at them, as if they were sure that they would not be able to move at night.
The singing in his ear became more and more clear, and Zhu Wu became more and more sure of his guess. When he was about to step into the garden, he was pulled back by someone behind him.
"I'll go ahead."
Zhu Wu looked back at the other party, the moonlight tonight was a bit hazy, the light of the small lamp was shining on his feet, Gou Lanyin's expression was a bit blurred, only a rough outline could be seen, he seemed to turn his head, and then turned back again , The scorching heat came from the clasped palms.
"I want to go ahead, you go behind me."
Zhu Wu withdrew his hand and disagreed, he said: "Don't talk, you will startle the snake."
"..."
The proposal to go ahead was rejected, Gou Lanyin seemed to want to say something more, Zhu Wu had already entered the garden, he closed his lips, and quickly followed.
Following the singing, Zhu Wu saw a figure with long hair in the corner near the sea. The long black hair was caught in the flowers. From a distance, his whole body was black.
The figure was facing the sea, and made a sound with all its strength, unaware of the two people who broke into it in the dark night, until a cold thing stuck to his throat.
"what--"
"Don't bark!"
The screaming stopped abruptly.
"Raise your hands and turn around." Zhu Wu's voice was cold, "Do as I say, or this piece of glass and porcelain will cut your throat."
Since you can scream, it means you are afraid.
The figure didn't dare to move anymore, and spoke carefully, for fear of being stabbed by the sharp tiles if he moved too much: "I don't move, don't kill me."
The long hair moved back with his movements, slowly revealing his true colors.
Gou Lanyin raised the small lamp so that Zhu Wu could see clearly.
While Zhu Wu could see clearly, he could also see clearly, and blurted out a disgusted voice: "What kind of monster is this?"
The face exposed by that figure is no different from that of a human being, except that the hair is very long, and the upper body is also the same, until the waist. It is not a human leg, but a pure black tail similar to a fish's tail.
"Don't kill me, I'm not a monster."
Zhu Wu stared at the fishtail, and before he could speak, the other party said, "This is fake, it's made of plastic." He also took off the wig with his raised hand, revealing his cropped hair, indicating that he was a normal male.
He didn't say anything, Zhu Wu also found out, and asked: "Is it you who sing here every night?"
"No... not me."
"We've all seen it, and you still want to refute?"
"It's not really me."
The man was a little anxious, "I just stand here every night according to the regulations, I didn't sing."
"What's the matter with the singing?" Zhu Wu frowned, "When we came, you stopped singing?"
"I……"
The man hesitated, Zhu Wu narrowed his eyes slightly, and the other party hurriedly said, "It's really not me, if you don't believe me, look at my ID card!"
As soon as the three words of the identity card came out, Zhu Wu was stunned for a moment. Except for the only sober player, that is himself, only the NPC in this script knew about it.
Gou Lanyin took the sign with a handkerchief.
Only then did Zhu Wu lean over to take a look, and saw that the ID card read——
npc: Mermaid, the heart servant of the devil, the beautiful singing can make people forget their troubles, but at the same time it can also make people forget themselves.
Zhu Wu stared at the words on it, and didn't speak for a while, Gou Lanyin looked at the man, and said coldly: "You didn't answer our question directly, you said it wasn't your song, so why did you sing? "
"Actually, it's because..." After the man hesitated, his arm moved slightly, Zhu Wu clenched the porcelain in his hand, and the man said quickly, "No, I don't do anything, I just want to show you the recorder in my hand, That's the sound it makes."
He pressed the button above, and the familiar ethereal singing sounded soon.
Zhu Wu felt sleepy for no reason, and immediately said: "Turn off the recorder!"
The man obediently pressed the pause button.
"That's all I know, Prince, please forgive me."
Gou Lanyin didn't speak after listening, he turned to look at Zhu Wu, and saw that Zhu Wu slowly put down the porcelain in his hand, but his face seemed a little unsightly, his eyelashes drooped, and he looked sleepy. The tile cut his own finger.
A touch of bright red soon appeared on the white fingertips.
Gou Lanyin frowned, threw away the handkerchief wrapped in the ID card, and then grabbed the opponent's bloody finger, blurting out the words.
"Zhu Wuwu, why are you so careless?"
After speaking, the air fell into an eerie silence.
Gou Lanyin's drooping eyelids moved up slowly, just in time to meet Zhu Wu's eyes. His eyes froze for a moment, and he subconsciously wanted to withdraw his hand, but Zhu Wu grabbed it, and his slightly lowered voice fell in his ears.
"Gou Lanyin, how dare you lie to me."
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