vrcanaries Chapter 312 Murder
Chapter 312 Murder
In her previous life, the Queen Mother had always been in good health.
Less than two years after Jiang Xing's death, the prince also died of illness, apparently due to health reasons.
However, the Empress Dowager died of depression more than ten years later.
Lu Xuan frowned.
In this life, why did the Queen Mother fall ill so quickly?
She quickly informed Jiang Xing of the news, "This life is so different from the last one..."
"No!" Jiang Xing interrupted her, "I think the most crucial difference is known to me."
He looked into her eyes heavily, "Because this king is still alive. Your life has not been exchanged! Someone's conspiracy cannot succeed smoothly, so the ending of all this will be rewritten!"
Lu Xuan agreed with Jiang Xing's words, and the two were about to continue rushing to the Cining Palace.
At this moment, the sound of an arrow breaking through the air suddenly came from behind.
They were currently in an inconspicuous palace corridor. Not far away was the Internal Affairs Office, where all the palace officials in charge of palace affairs lived.
Jiang Xing's hearing was sharper than that of an average person, so he immediately pulled Lu Xuan to the side.
He looked up at the place where the arrow was shot from. It was the attic of the Shangyi Bureau. The man holding the crossbow had quickly hidden himself.
"How dare you act so openly in the palace!" Lu Xuan's eyes trembled slightly. "The one who has such ability must be the most noble one!"
"Not necessarily." Jiang Xing pulled her forward, and Fei Xing followed behind, putting on full mental defense.
Jiang Xing: "If my royal brother really wanted to kill us, neither you nor I would have survived to this day. He would have had too many opportunities to do so. From what I know about him, he's not such a fool. He wouldn't completely disregard our brotherly love."
"Brotherhood?" Hearing this, Lu Xuan suddenly became a little suspicious.
"Ever since we got married, I haven't seen any brotherly feelings between you and me."
Jiang Xing choked, "I came back this time... maybe it was because of the rift between the Ji family and the emperor's sister-in-law. But in the past, the relationship between me and my brother was indeed good."
At this moment, a paulownia tree beside him suddenly trembled. Jiang Xing had sharp ears and eyes, and before Lu Xuan could see clearly, he had quickly blocked her from behind and punched out into the air.
A guard in brocade clothes jumped down from the tree, holding a long sword and pointing it at Jiang Xing's throat.
Seeing this, Feixing hurriedly stood in front of the two of them and started fighting with the guards.
Feixing had been in Longchuan for many years and had long since adapted to fighting in various environments. Therefore, the guard was soon unable to withstand the attack and was defeated by Feixing's sword.
After three moves, with a "swish", Feixing's sword pierced the guard's clothes, and then he kicked the guard in the heart. With a "bang", the guard was kicked out and fell heavily to the ground five steps away.
Feixing stepped forward and captured him.
Jiang Xing kept looking behind him cautiously.
In a normal assassination, it is impossible to arrange two people like this to fight alone. There must be a backup plan.
However, he waited for a long time, but no one showed up.
He pulled Lu Xuan to interrogate the guard and asked Feixing to tie him up and bring them before the emperor for punishment.
But when the guard saw Jiang Xing and Lu Xuan coming together, he showed an unwilling and desperate look.
"You, you know martial arts..."
Jiang Xing didn't answer him, but glanced down at him condescendingly, "Who sent you here? Tell the truth!"
Judging from the guards' brocade clothes, they are indeed people of high rank in the palace, and it seems that they are from a prominent family.
Lu Xuan felt that the person looked familiar, but he just couldn't place the name in his mind.
The guard glanced at the two of them dimly, then twitched the corners of his mouth a few times.
Feixing immediately shouted, "He wants to bite his tongue to commit suicide!"
Lu Xuan sneered, "Bite me if you want. I can still deal with you even if you die!"
The guard seemed unconvinced. He blinked twice and looked at Jiang Xing with a pleading look.
In fact, Lu Xuan said this just to bluff people.
This is the imperial palace. There is a Qiankun Five Qi Formation set up by someone before. The Longyang Qi is too strong, and when a person dies, his soul will be ejected immediately.
But in order to make this person believe, she immediately made a hand gesture after she finished speaking, and brought the guard into the illusion.
There seemed to be many more people in front of him, and various noisy sounds came from all directions. Those people were all floating in the air, looking at him quietly with their bloodshot eyes.
The guard was so frightened that he cried out and quickly crawled to Jiang Xing's feet to seek shelter.
However, when he closed his eyes and wailed for a while, and then opened his eyes again, those terrifying figures had all disappeared.
In my heart, I couldn't help but believe Lu Xuan's words completely.
If I can be threatened even after I die, then I might as well be alive.
Feeling the person under him holding his legs tightly, Jiang Xing's anger intensified.
He bent down and looked at him, his eyes curled up into a cold and cruel smile, "Didn't you want to bite your tongue to commit suicide? Why haven't you bitten it off for so long?"
Jiang Xing stared at him intently, and the oppressive feeling brought by his cruel smile made the guard close his eyes in agony.
As if he had finally given up, or perhaps he had been thinking about it for a while, the guard finally felt relieved: "I, I say..."
But after saying this, he was somewhat unwilling and whispered, "If I tell you, will you let me go..."
Jiang Xing's patience was short, but it had been wearing him out for a long time. He put his hands on his hips and couldn't help but sneer irritably. "Ha, very good. You can think so. However, I don't have that much time today!"
He looked sharply at the sword in Feixing's hand, then snatched it away and put it directly to his throat: "If you don't tell me, this sword will take you where you should go. You can do whatever you want!"
Seeing Jiang Xing's gnashing teeth, and remembering the moves he had just made against him, the guard hurriedly said, "It's...it's the Third Prince! He's the one who ordered me to assassinate you!"
"He was unhappy that you had your men kill his Yulin soldiers, causing the loss of a large number of his men. So he ordered me and the crossbowmen to be here to intercept them mid-sentence, without anyone noticing..."
Lu Xuan's eyes suddenly widened. She pointed at the guard and almost jumped up in anxiety. "I, I know who he is! He's one of the people who bullied His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at Jinqiu Mountain!"
boom!
After he finished speaking, the guard stared at Lu Xuan, his eyes full of disbelief.
"How did the princess know this?!"
A look of violence suddenly flashed across Jiang Xing's face.
A fierce white light flashed, and there was a "puff" sound. Before the guard could react, a long sword had already been firmly inserted into his heart.
The sword blade shook a few times at his heart, and Feixing was so scared that his body suddenly tensed up.
He quickly looked around and confirmed that there was no one around, then he secretly glared at Jiang Xing in fear.
If someone saw the prince's martial arts skills, it would be troublesome.
Jiang Xing curled his lips indifferently, "Knowing that I am a martial artist, you are already dead. Yet you are still so naive, and you even committed such filthy evil deeds in the past. People like you, living in this world, are polluting the air and food!"
Feixing quickly pulled out his sword and wiped it clean, "Your Highness, what should we do with this corpse?"
"Leave it here as evidence! Let's see if Jiang Xu will come to collect his body!"
After saying that, he took Lu Xuan and continued to rush towards the Cining Palace.
"The prince killed the third prince's men, why would he want to come and collect the bodies? Are we too hasty today?" Feixing asked Jiang Xing while following quickly.
"The two men just now must have been from aristocratic families, which is why we were able to capture them in such a short time. Today is such a sensitive time. If the bodies were left there, I'm afraid disaster would happen at this critical moment."
Jiang Xing was full of irritability and walked hurriedly. He did not answer Fei Xing's words, and his body seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.
Lu Xuan knew that Jiang Xing was in a bad mood at the moment, and seeing that Fei Xing was genuinely concerned about him, he answered for him.
"The Third Prince must have thought that the prince was incompetent, so he sent two mediocre young men from aristocratic families to ambush and kill us."
"If they were discovered, the guards' usual activities would be exposed, and everyone would know they were close friends with the Third Prince. If the Third Prince still wanted to become emperor, how would he explain the death of his own guard there?"
"Through this incident, he must have sensed that the prince was not someone who could be easily manipulated. He was wary and therefore wouldn't dare bet against the prince telling the truth. If the prince truly knew everything, wouldn't he be accused of murdering his brother in front of the emperor and his ministers? Such a shameful side would hinder his plan to seize the throne. He wouldn't do that."
"Furthermore, he acted so hastily, and with so many loopholes, he must be unaware of many things and must be trying to cover up his crimes."
After listening to Lu Xuan's explanation, Fei Xing woke up as if from a dream and nodded quickly to follow.
But at this moment, they did not see that a yellowish, weak and gloomy face gradually emerged next to the rockery behind them.