After quickly wearing the second male lead who was rejected

Chapter 245 Like a Prisoner (1)

Gu Chang smelled the familiar cold fragrance and raised his head slightly.

The palace maids in front of them entered the hall one by one. The hall was lit all around. There was a large hollow circular hole in the ceiling, and sunlight poured down from the hole, falling on a workbench.

Scattered around the workbench are various jade carvings of varying sizes, depicting all kinds of birds and beasts, each one lifelike.

On the left wall are human-shaped puppets wearing colorful clothes, but each one has no head, like a headless mannequin.

Ling Yiyan, walking in front, was hunched over, dressed in a black robe with a loose belt tied around his waist. His hands were thin, with prominent joints and visible calluses. However, what caught the eye the most were the black iron shackles on his feet.

Gu Chang couldn't understand why Ling Yiyan was put in shackles. He didn't look like a palace jade master, but more like a prisoner.

The palace maids in front placed the trays in their hands on the wooden shelves against the wall one by one. After Gu Chang and Yin Li put down their things, it was time for them to leave Yuqiao Palace.

"Wait, leave two palace maids to assist me." Ling Yiyan suddenly spoke.

Upon hearing this, the leading palace maid frowned, pursed her lips, and then turned her head to look at the two palace maids at the back.

It's a new face.

"Then let's go with those two. Master Ling, I hope you can show mercy." The leading palace maid pointed.

Ling Yiyan looked in the direction she pointed and saw two tall palace maids with their heads lowered. They looked quite sturdy. Without giving it much thought, he nodded and agreed, "They can leave before the evening hour."

"Yes, then I will take the others away first." After the leading palace maid finished her ceremony, she took the other palace maids out of the hall.

Before leaving, the leading palace maid looked back at Gu Chang and Yin Li who remained there.

She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, then turned around and left with the other palace maids.

Ling Yiyan walked over to the wooden shelf and picked up a fist-sized piece of black jade. "First, move the puppet on the wall outside and put it with the other puppets."

"Yes." After Gu Chang and Yin Li said in a low voice, they walked towards the wall on the left.

Gu Chang picked up one of the puppets wearing green clothes. It was estimated to be about 1.6 meters tall. When Gu Chang picked it up, he opened his eyes wide in slight surprise.

This puppet weighs about 100 pounds.

Gu Chang turned his head to look at Yin Li, only to see Yin Li holding a puppet in his left arm and another puppet in his right arm, walking out of the door very easily.

Gu Chang:········I always feel exposed.

Gu Chang looked at Ling Yiyan who was crawling beside the table. He was holding the black jade and looking carefully at the sunlight coming through the round hole.

Fortunately, no one noticed that Yinli had gone out with the two puppets.

Gu Chang withdrew his gaze and walked out holding the puppet.

He went to the open space outside and put the puppet he was holding down next to the puppet next to it.

Then Gu Chang turned around and prepared to move the next one.

"What a delicious soul." A sinister, strange and hoarse male voice sounded behind Gu Chang.

Gu Chang paused and called out to Yin Li, "Yin Li, do you think something is wrong here?"

Yin Li walked to Gu Chang and lowered her voice, "Not yet."

"Yinli, I seem to hear the puppet talking behind me." Gu Chang pursed his lips.

Yin Li was stunned, then looked at the puppet with a red smiley face painted on it behind Gu Chang.

Even when the sunlight shines on this puppet, it still gives people a creepy feeling.

"Let's go into the main hall first." Yin Li frowned and said in a deep voice.

Gu Chang said "hmm".

"Host, what did you hear?" the system asked curiously.

"The puppet said, what a delicious soul." After Gu Chang replied to the system, he always felt that someone was staring at him from behind.

This kind of gaze is too strong to be ignored.

However, Yin Li seemed to have sensed this gaze as well. She turned around suddenly and saw that there was no one behind her, and her eyes sank.

At this moment, Ling Yiyan's voice suddenly rang out, "Work faster, you two are so strong, are you stalling for time?!"

His eyes were a dark grey, unlike most people's, so when he frowned, his eyes looked particularly cold.

"Master, please forgive us. We will come right away." Yin Li spoke first. She lowered her posture and lowered her head.

Gu Chang also lowered his head like her.

There are a total of seventeen human-shaped puppets in the hall. Three have been moved out, leaving fourteen.

However, if you look closely, you will see that these puppets are different, with male and female body types.

Gu Chang suddenly remembered what Wange had said. Hundreds of years ago, after the alchemists caught the evil spirits, they would hand them over to the puppeteer family, who would seal the evil spirits in puppets. After chanting for 49 days, the evil spirits would completely disappear.

The assassin last night was an alchemist, and Ling Yiyan was a puppeteer. They both had the same cold fragrance.

"You, come here." Ling Yiyan suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Gu Chang.

"Master, he is not as strong as me. If there is anything, please let me handle it." Yin Li smiled slightly, then walked in front of Gu Chang.

Ling Yiyan frowned, "Didn't anyone tell you to behave?! In Yuyao Palace, you have to obey whatever I tell you to do. Besides, I don't like people who talk too much. She seems to have a quiet personality, so she's more suitable than you."

Yin Li kept smiling, "Yes, I understand." After she said that, she continued to move the human-shaped puppet.

As Yin Li and Gu Chang passed by, he said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Be careful."

After Gu Chang nodded slightly, he walked over with his long legs.

"Come here, hold this black jade in both hands and stand here." Ling Yiyan put the round black jade like a black pearl into Gu Chang's hands.

Gu Chang stood in the sun, holding the black jade in both hands.

The sunlight shines on his body, outlining a handsome outline.

Ling Yiyan looked up and wanted to ask Gu Chang to take a step back, but he was stunned.

The young man in the sunlight had a pair of black eyes as vast as the night sky, cold and deep. His delicate and handsome face was stunning at first glance, and every stroke seemed to be carefully carved from jade, emitting a cold jade color.

"Who... are you? You are not from the palace." Ling Yiyan's hoarse voice sounded slowly.

Gu Chang curled his lips and smiled, "I am just a person who wants to meet the master. My last name is Gu."

"Why did you come to see me?" Ling Yiyan took a step back, his hand tightly gripping the carving knife, staring at Gu Chang warily.

Gu Chang placed the black jade in his hand on the small cushion on the table, then put his hands behind his back and took out a fake mouse and a rolled-up fake human skin from his personal space.

"Master, I would like to ask you if you are familiar with these two things?" Gu Chang placed the two things on the empty space on the table.

Ling Yiyan's eyes widened. "Where did you get these two things?"

"Last night, an assassin sneaked into my room. Not only did he use these two things to scare me, he also threatened me that if I didn't leave Tiandu City, he would kill me. I heard that in Tiandu City, only Master Ling can do such delicate craftsmanship." Gu Chang felt that the sunlight disturbed his vision a little, so he walked out of the sunlight.

Ling Yiyan pursed his lips, glanced at Gu Chang, then walked to the table, picked up the fake mouse, looked at it, and then looked at the fake human skin on the table.

"Probably my disciple, Ling Xiaosu." Ling Yiyan said bluntly. He knew that the two things on the table were things he had made when he was bored, and later he asked Ling Xiaosu to take away these useless things and destroy them.

Unexpectedly, Ling Xiaosu did not destroy it.

"Can I ask you a question, junior?" Gu Chang said in a deep voice.

When Yin Li came back and saw this scene, she stopped and hid beside the gate, listening to the conversation inside.