sbdcsierra Chapter 520: Well Played
Chapter 520: Well Played
Zhou Kingdom Palace
Today, a piece of news came out from Zhou Kingdom's palace that shocked the entire court.
His Royal Highness was assassinated by an assassin last night!
Assassination, the royal family has seen a lot, and it has long been used to it.
If His Majesty and Prince Chu have no one to assassinate them in their lifetime, then it means that they have failed in what they did.
However, this time the assassination is different from the previous ones, the unknown assassin quietly crossed the twelve patrols starting from the four gates of the imperial city, entered the inner palace, escaped the prince's personal guards and entered His Highness Attack, His Royal Highness... er... beat into a pig's head...
An assassin appeared in the forbidden palace, and even nearly assassinated the prince. The emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation! Do everything in the court to find out the assassin!
But the assassin seemed to have evaporated from the world, and it was hard to find him.
At the same time, another incident happened in the palace. Compared with His Royal Highness being assassinated by an assassin, this incident is of course very small, but it is equally unimaginable.
His Majesty's most beloved three princesses accidentally caught wind and cold, and announced that they would rest behind closed doors.
Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the third princess, who usually bullys the weak and fears the strong, is extremely green tea, and likes to act like a baby by the Emperor Zhou when she has nothing to do, is not even allowed to visit by His Majesty!
In the past, when she was ill, she wished she could pretend to be more delicate and weak, and tried her best to win His Majesty's love and affection. She knew how to please His Majesty better than all the empresses in the harem.
What the three princesses are doing now is really puzzling!
five days later
In the royal study
After Zhou Huang talked with the national teacher who hurried back to the capital, accompanied by the national teacher, he met the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment who had been thoroughly investigating the case of the assassin in the East Palace.
Zhou Huang sat behind the imperial case, and the national teacher stood aside, but he was still wearing a black robe to cover his left arm.
In Zhou Kingdom, the national teacher can put his arm inside the black robe and stand beside His Majesty as if nothing had happened. If someone else did this, he would have been regarded as someone who intends to assassinate the king. up.
Minister of the Ministry of Punishment stood in the hall with cupped hands and said: "I see your majesty! I have seen the national teacher."
Zhou Huang said: "Aiqing is alive, and the Donggong assassination, is there any result?"
The Secretary of the Ministry of Criminal Justice said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has not found any details of the assassin's trace after investigating the capital. I suspect..."
Emperor Zhou asked, "What do you suspect?"
The Secretary of the Ministry of Justice said: "The minister suspects that he is someone with ulterior motives in the palace."
Zhou Huang frowned and asked, "The people in the palace? Who does Ai Qing suspect?"
Minister of the Ministry of Justice said: "On the afternoon of the assassin's assassination day, the third princess and His Highness the Crown Prince met Princess Mingyue in a remote corner of the Imperial Garden, and His Highness reprimanded Princess Mingyue a few words, and the sixth prince who was a compatriot of Princess Mingyue's mother treated Princess Mingyue extremely. Cherish it. And some servants saw from a distance that the sixth prince seems to be in the imperial garden, and not far from Princess Mingyue."
Before Zhou Huang could speak, the national teacher beside Zhou Huang spoke first: "Master Shang Shu, do you believe this?"
The Minister of Criminal Justice cupped his hands and said: "Reporting to the national teacher, the sixth prince is currently the most motivated person."
Master Zhou Guoguo snorted, "The sixth prince doesn't know martial arts and Qing Gong. How can he go through layers of palace bans to get to the East Palace where the crown prince is? Is it possible that the guards who can guard against the world's best masters can guard against even a person who is powerless?" Can't stay?"
"This..." The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment was momentarily at a loss for words.
Zhou Guoguo continued: "There are not many people in this world who want to assassinate the prince with impure intentions. Could it be that Master Shangshu couldn't find out the murderer and deliberately framed the sixth prince for convenience? Your Majesty's flesh and blood, how can you allow Lord Shang Shu to use it as a scapegoat so hastily?"
The Minister of the Ministry of Punishment immediately knelt down on the ground when he heard the words of the national teacher, and said in panic: "I dare not! Your Majesty, please investigate clearly!"
The imperial guards in the palace can indeed guard against the world's masters, but there is one person who cannot guard against them.
This person is the National Teacher next to His Majesty!
Master Guoshi's Qinggong Hidden Weapons are the best martial arts in the invisible body, and the speed of explosion in a short period of time is even unmatched by Thousand Li Horse.
But at the time of the incident, Master Guoshi was probably still on his way back to Kyoto from the border.
In this way, Master Guoshi naturally has no suspicion.
Moreover, what the assassin did was obviously unreasonable.
After all, which assassin did the first thing after entering the main hall of the East Palace not to complete the assassination, but to tie up His Royal Highness and beat him into a pig's head?
Where is the heart of assassination?
This is clearly an act of venting anger!
But meeting all the above conditions is just a waste sixth prince who doesn't know the slightest bit of martial arts...
Where does this make him, the minister of the Ministry of punishment, find qualified people? !
Zhou Huang also nodded when he heard the words of the national teacher: "That's right! The national teacher is right. The sixth child is just a person with no power to restrain the chicken. The person who sneaked into the East Palace may be anyone but it will definitely not be him. Besides The Sixth Brother returned from his mission to Chu State and brought back a lot of information for Dazhou. This is not a small contribution. Without definite evidence, we should not investigate easily. Ai Qing should try her best to find out the real culprit, and she must not disappoint my entrustment."
Hearing His Majesty's words, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment had no choice but to bow down again: "I obey the order."
...
at night
There are twice as many patrolling guards in the palace than before, just to prevent any assassins from breaking into the palace.
The only thing that is normal is the harem of Emperor Zhou.
No matter how violent the assassins are, the harem is the only place where no complete man other than His Majesty is allowed to enter or leave after nightfall.
The imperial guards could only try their best to keep the assassin out of the harem wall. If the assassin slipped in without stopping them, there was nothing they could do...
Where Li Xun lives
Li Xun, who was standing in the courtyard, turned around and was about to go back to bed when a low voice came from behind him: "I haven't seen you for a few days, but I am a lot more courageous."
Li Xun turned around and saw a person whose entire body was hidden in a black robe standing in the courtyard, unable to even see his face.
The person in front of Li Xun was cupped hands, and he said, "The teacher hasn't come over these few days, are you busy with something important?"
The black-robed figure said: "The work of being a teacher has been done. After tonight, all martial arts training will continue as usual."
Li Xun nodded, "Yes."
The figure in black robe asked: "You did the prince's business, right?"
Li Xun pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Why did the teacher say that?"
The black-robed figure said: "There is no need to pretend, in the Zhou Kingdom, who else can travel unimpeded under these layers of palace restrictions except you and my master and apprentice?"
Hearing this, Li Xun nodded and said, "It was indeed me."
The black-robed figure said: "Good fight."
Li Xun: "???"
Although he avenged his little sister, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with him, right?
This teacher only focused on himself and never cared about Mingyue, besides, it was the prince who beat him up this time.
What did the teacher say?
well played?
His teacher is out of his mind?
The black-robed figure said: "The crown prince has no talent or virtue, and he intends to persuade His Majesty to form an alliance with the grassland to carve up Chu. Such a person with no righteousness should be beaten! So I am very pleased that you played well."