sbdcsierra Chapter 1249 The Chess Piece Is Not a Wife
Chapter 1249 The Chess Piece Is Not a Wife
Liang Chongyue wandered around the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner's Office again, while the system was also busy.
The saying "a cunning rabbit has three burrows" refers to a person like the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner.
After discovering that the governor's mansion contained many treasures, Li Yu'an ordered his men to dig everywhere. After unearthing a whole courtyard full of things, he thought that was all there was to it.
As a result, he followed behind His Majesty and the dog, watching the dog sniff around on the ground as it wandered from one end of the Provincial Inspector's residence to the other.
Finally, it barked wildly in front of a sealed-off dog hole.
Liang Chongyue raised his hand, and immediately a guard stepped forward with a shovel and began digging down the spot where the puppy had stood.
Li Yu'an stood beside His Majesty with a frown, and the sound of the guards chiseling away reached everyone's ears.
The torches around the perimeter illuminated the deep pit that had been dug by the guards.
The guards dug extremely deep, but still found nothing.
Li Yu'an had witnessed the dog's abilities over the years, and since His Majesty hadn't spoken, he naturally wouldn't stop it.
After waiting a while, two more people had been replaced in digging the pit. The guards were standing in the pit, with only their heads sticking out.
This shows just how deep the pit was dug.
Liang Chongyue stood aside and waited, the system's expression serious, hidden beneath its beautiful fur coat.
A pair of beady green eyes stared unblinkingly at the deep pit.
The system only started shouting when it was almost there, as indicated on the panel.
Liang Chongyue: "Change to a smaller one."
As soon as Liang Chongyue finished speaking, the guards in the pit immediately switched to shovels and slowly dug down with small chisels.
A moment later, the guards inside the pit shouted excitedly, "We've found a box!"
Li Yu'an already knew from the moment the puppy barked for the first time that there were still areas in the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner's residence that hadn't been completely dug out.
But when the box was carried out and opened, Li Yu'an's face turned extremely ugly.
The box didn't contain gold or silver jewelry, but rather a box full of human bones.
The joints were still dark brown, clearly a sign of poisoning.
The system had already moved aside when the box was brought up; the host had just given it a bath, and it couldn't be allowed to get dirty here.
Liang Chongyue approached indifferently, took the handkerchief handed to him by the guard, and picked up a bone from inside.
"It belongs to a woman."
Li Yu'an stood to the side, wanting to step forward to help His Majesty, but His Majesty raised his hand to stop him.
After examining several bones in the box, Liang Chongyue asked the system in a voice inaudible to others:
Are there any boxes left in here?
The system directly brought the screen displayed on the panel to the host's view.
Seeing that the screen was empty, Liang Chongyue put the child's remains back in her hand.
"The Provincial Surveillance Commissioner served in Qiyang longer than the Governor. Are all of his servants still alive?"
His Majesty asked a question, his tone revealing no emotion, but Li Yu'an still sensed that His Majesty was angry.
He quickly stepped forward and replied, "The servants and attendants have all taken custody of him. I will send someone to interrogate him immediately."
When Liang Chongyue lowered his eyes, his deep-set eyes were hidden in shadow, creating an immediate sense of oppression.
Liang Chongyue ignored Li Yu'an's words, simply raised her hand to close the box, and looked at the seal on the box.
He picked it up, looked at it, and gave a cold laugh.
His gaze swept toward the guard standing to the side, who immediately brought the torch closer.
The seal was burned to ashes in Liang Chongyue's hands.
After watching the seal vanish into thin air, Liang Chongyue's voice was even colder and more frightening than the wind tonight.
“I have decreed that no one in the Great Xia is allowed to touch witchcraft. He is quite bold, and he even chose such a good place to investigate. I not only want to know whose remains are in this box, but I also want to know what exactly happened back then.”
The people around all lowered their heads, not daring to even breathe.
When His Majesty is angry, even raising one's head is inappropriate.
When Liang Chongyue left the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner's Mansion with the system, the system didn't dare to utter a sound.
It had been a long time since it had seen such a frightening host, and it was quite scared of it.
After leaving the governor's residence, Liang Chongyue walked along the road with the system in her arms. She glanced at the system and said, "You are faster at investigating than those secret guards. I'll leave this matter to you."
The system's fur stood on end from the host's gaze.
Liang Chongyue already had a guess in her heart. There were only a few things that a man could do that were so ruthless.
On the way to the Provincial Governor's Office, Liang Chongyue didn't say a single unnecessary word.
The system has imported all the data into the machine as requested by the host.
When the system noticed that its host was in a bad mood, it racked its brains to try to cheer the host up.
"Host, I just heard some gossip, the one from the top of the list, do you want to hear it?"
Liang Chongyue initially didn't want to pay attention, but after catching a glimpse of the system's cautious demeanor out of the corner of her eye, she paused for a moment before responding.
The system was encouraged by the host's reaction and became more alert.
"That guy, Brother Qiwan, who begged for a way to turn the princess back into a dragon, went to a place similar to a Western fantasy world. His mission was to rescue the princess who had been kidnapped by the dragon, win her heart, and inherit her country. Everything went smoothly at first."
With the help of the system, he progressed smoothly, defeating the evil dragon, reclaiming the princess, marrying her, and having a lovely daughter. Just as the old king was falling seriously ill, and he was about to complete his mission and begin his wonderful life, tragedy struck.
The system told the story vividly, and occasionally observed the host's reaction. When the host became interested, it told the story even more enthusiastically.
"On the night the king passed away, he passed the throne to the princess. The princess was even younger than that 'Seventy Thousand Brother'. The two of them had a daughter. According to the old king's will, Seventy Thousand Brother was trapped in that world for the rest of his life with no hope of survival."
When he tried to change the old king's will, the princess discovered it and he was imprisoned.
With the help of the system, he escaped from where he was imprisoned. When he was ready to fight the princess to the death, he found that their daughter had turned into a dragon, but she looked much smaller than the one from ten years ago. The princess was watching from the side and even taught her daughter how to use the wings.
He was so terrified his legs went weak, and without even having time to fight the princess to the death, he fled with the system.
Liang Chongyue: "So he saw through the princess's true colors and understood the truth of what happened back then."
A direct confrontation was hopeless, so they planned to have the princess fall from her horse in front of everyone, using public opinion to pressure her, manipulating the people to force her to leave the country, and then smoothly inherit the throne.
After Liang Chongyue finished speaking, the system's eyes lit up.
"Host, you're so clever, how did you guess that?"
Liang Chongyue: "The useless man thought he had really defeated the dragon and was the chosen one of heaven. In reality, he was just the princess who chose the weakest and easiest to control among all the provocateurs."