Chapter 28 gave the murderer (seeking votes)
Before evacuating from the capital, Si Lili deliberately hid his subordinates dressed as bandits outside the city to meet him in order to deceive others. Naturally, everyone is happy that he is freed from doing so now.
Seeing that Fan Xian intended to let him go, Si Lili breathed a sigh of relief and signaled his subordinates to respond, but just as he clapped his hands, he heard a soft sound of armor coming from all around him. Looking again, dozens of iron-clad black riders came out of the forest, each One of them had blood stains all over his body, and a murderous aura rushed towards his face.
"Black Knight!" Si Lili's face changed drastically, and he said in a voice of hatred, "You don't keep your word!"
Fan Xian didn't expect there to be such a group of people in the jungle. He frowned slightly and said, "I didn't send them here."
A man walked out from among the black riders, his whole body was covered in iron armor, and he couldn't see his face clearly. He saluted Fan Xian and said, "Fan Tisi, the director knows that Si Lili has a lot of experts in ambush here, so he specially sent me to respond."
"The dean of affairs in Kyoto already knows, and he sent you a message."
"Me?" Fan Xian glanced at the black riders around him, snorted coldly and said nothing.
"He told you to do it freely, even if the sky is falling, he will help you up." The black knight noticed the guard in Fan Xian's eyes, he couldn't help being a little annoyed, and his tone was a bit worried.
"Let go and do it, does it mean you listen to me?" Fan Xian couldn't figure out what this sentence meant, so he asked tentatively, "Then what if I let Si Lili go?"
The black knight stared blankly, took half a step back, and the surrounding black knights also spread out to make way for Si Lili.
"It seems that you really listen to me." Fan Xian smiled inexplicably, turned to look at Si Lili, and his tone became a little low: "Run away, the farther the better, and never go back to the capital again. .”
Lin Gong died, and Si Lili fled.
Kyoto is now in chaos.
For the sake of Zhou Ji, this case should be dismissed as soon as possible.
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As Fan Xian said, whether it was Cheng Jushu's assassination of Fan Xian who was counter-killed, or Lin Gong's death in another courtyard outside the city, there has been an uproar in the capital city.
These two events were originally unrelated, but under the propaganda of caring people, a unified saying gradually spread among the streets:
Both of these incidents were done by Northern Qi!
For a while, the public was infuriated, and the talk of the Northern Expedition was rampant.
Inside the palace.
Emperor Qing closed the memorial, turned to look at Hong Sixiang, and asked, "Have you seen Cheng Jushu's body?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, this old servant has read it." Hong Sixiang bowed and saluted, and said respectfully, "It is indeed as the Inspection Institute said, he died of a long-handled weapon, and the murder weapon is the same as the huge arrow on the bed crossbow at the scene."
Emperor Qing raised his head and glanced at Hong Sixiang, and interrupted: "That's not what I asked."
"The old slave is terrified." Hong Sixiang bent his back a little more, and continued: "Cheng Jushu's expression was disdainful when he died, without warning, as if he was attacked from behind, and he would kill him with one blow."
"Sneak attack from behind. Kill with one blow." Emperor Qing pondered, "If it was you, would you be able to do it?"
"Cheng Jushu is an eighth-rank master in the Northern Qi Dynasty." Hong Sixiang's expression froze, and he was silent for a moment, "If the old slave hides in the dark and takes advantage of his unpreparedness, there is a 80% chance that he can do it."
"Eighty percent. That means the person who made the attack is no less than rank nine." Emperor Qing took the secret letter from Eunuch Hou, and his expression froze suddenly when he saw words such as 'unknown metal', 'suspected firecrackers' and 'unusual device'. Throwing the secret letter into the charcoal stove with a bang, under the rising firelight, his expression flickered, making it difficult for people to see through his thoughts.
Hong Sixiang replied: "I heard from people from the Appraisal and Inspection Institute that he left the city together with Fan Xian this morning."
"Then don't worry about it for the time being!" Emperor Qing pondered for a moment, and said loudly: "Notify the Inspection Institute to announce to the world that Lin Gong's death has been the real culprit, and it was the work of Langtao, a ninth-rank master of the Northern Qi Dynasty!"
Hong Sixiang resigned.
Emperor Qing waved his hand to signal Eunuch Hou to come closer, and said in a bitter voice: "Northern Qi successively sent Langtao and Cheng Jushu to assassinate the heirs of our court's most important ministers! It's too deceitful! You go to the Lin Mansion to visit Prime Minister Lin for me, and tell me what I mean."
"As long as Prime Minister Lin opens his mouth, I will use all the strength of the whole country to attack Qi State and avenge him!"
Lin Xiang sent off Eunuch Hou at the mansion, couldn't help showing grief, and overturned the table.
"Master, who is this?" Staff member Yuan Hongdao came from the door, saw the scene in front of him and hurried forward, and asked, "I saw someone from the palace just now, what happened?"
"What's the matter? What's the matter!" Lin Xiang raised his head and glared at Yuan Hongdao, his bloodshot eyes were flushed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty just 'given' the murderer for my son."
Yuan Hongdao glanced left and right, beckoning Lin Xiangshen to say that if such complaints spread to the outside and then added fuel to the outside, it would be a big trouble.
Lin Xiang took a few deep breaths, controlled his emotions a little, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Yuan, what happened to the job I asked you to do at the Inspection Institute?"
Yuan Hongdao shook his head, and said with shame: "Yuan violated the entrustment of the Prime Minister and failed to see the relics of the second young master."
"You don't even let me take a look?" Lin Xiang's eyes darkened, and he managed to control his emotions and lost control again. He swallowed the blood welling up at the corner of his mouth, and said in a hateful voice: "The more you don't let me investigate, the more it means Gong'er His death is strange."
"Don't worry, Prime Minister Lin, I still have news from my side."
"According to the gatekeeper who escaped from the other courtyard, the Second Young Master brought back a shoulder-high iron box that day. It was shaped like a coffin, with one end slightly wider and the other slightly narrower, with mysterious cloud patterns on the surface." General Yuan Hongdao Lin Xiang helped him to sit down, and said carefully, "There is only one person who wears this kind of sword case in the whole of Kyoto."
"Zhou Ji." Lin Xiang murmured.
As the prime minister of the current dynasty, he has also heard a little about the current affairs in the court. He knows that Zhou Ji is not because Zhou Ji is Fan Xian's friend, but because Zhou Ji provoked the ninth-rank swordsman Xie Bi'an on the spot during the poetry meeting of Prince Jing's residence.
It was because of that provocation that this unknown person came into the eyes of everyone.
"Where was Gong'er when he was killed yesterday!" Xiang Lin asked anxiously.
"At that time, he rushed from the east of the city to Niulan Street to kill Cheng Jushu. He went on a rampage and passed through many officials' mansions. Many people saw him." Yuan Hongdao said with a wry smile: "After killing Cheng Jushu, he also killed Fan Xian. He and the injured guards were sent back to Fan Mansion, and never came out again."
In other words, Zhou Ji has no time to commit crimes?
"Regardless of whether he had time to commit the crime, Gong'er's death must be related to him!" Lin Xiang fixed his eyes and stood up, "Come, follow me to the Fan Mansion!"
"Your Majesty?" Yuan Hongdao hesitated.
"Wan'er and Fan Xian have a marriage contract, and now that Fan Xian is assassinated, I, as Wan'er's father, should pay a visit." Prime Minister Lin's eyes were red, and it was a gentle sentence, but to him, it was a harbinger of a **** storm. .
"If Zhou Ji is in Fan Manor, then I will confront him face to face."
"If he is not in the Fan residence."
Lin Xiang didn't say anything, only Yuan Hongdao behind him could see traces of blood oozing from his clenched fists.
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(I don’t know if I have tested the waters this week, alas, I am uneasy.)
(end of this chapter)