Stunned, the masked guards cut off the heads of the remaining shadow guards, and then said to me, "Chief Wen, still don't order to find the crown prince?" ”

The matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, so with an order, the guards turned the Qingxin Courtyard upside down. But there was no trace of the prince, but only a gray-haired old man was found in a small room, and the old man looked at him with dementia, and let the two guards drag him to the ground and throw him on the ground, muttering something in his mouth.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but blame the masked guard: "It's all you, what are you doing in such a hurry to kill Wan Yan, and now you can't find Cheng Yan, how can you explain to Prince Zheng?" ”

The masked guard snorted coldly: "I'll explain this, you better continue to search for the whereabouts of the adult toad." After saying that, he raised the big sword in his hand, beheaded the old man, turned around and walked away.

Standing in place for a while, I always felt that something was wrong with this, but I didn't know what was wrong, I pondered for a moment, shook my head with a wry smile, and asked the guards to continue to search the yard to see if there were any clues, and I was walking around in the yard.

Inadvertently, I came to a small room, and the guards around me told me that it was in this room that I found the white-haired old man.

The room had been turned into a mess by the guards, and there were originally books, beds, and so on, all of which had been chopped to pieces by the big sword, and the floor had all been pried open, and it was a mess everywhere.

It is only under this utter destruction that all the organs will be left unrecognizable.

I was about to leave the room, but I found a scroll of books spread out on the floor, densely engraved with a lot of words, and asked the guard casually: "What is written on this bamboo slip?" ”

The guard picked it up and looked at it: "What is recorded on this bamboo slip is just some trivial matters in the palace." ”

learned from the guards that this white-haired old man's surname was Liu, and he had served King Qin Zhaoxiang, King Qin Xiaowen, and King Qin Zhuangxiang successively, and he was a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and many things in the palace were clear.

I took the bamboo slip and looked at it, because I didn't have much literacy, and at a glance, I saw the three words Lu Buwei. Damn, who said that Lao Tzu was illiterate, and he recognized three words at a glance.

Immediately I felt a little surprised, because these three words are separated, and very regular, the fifth word in the fourth vertical row is 'Lu', the sixth word in the fifth row is 'no', and the seventh word in the sixth row is 'Wei', and then look at the back, hey, I know the eighth word in the seventh row and the ninth word in the eighth row, respectively.

Lü Buwei's son? Is this a coincidence or something else? I was a little stunned.

A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, could this be a Tibetan poem or something, according to this arrangement, 'Lü Buwei's son' is exactly above a diagonal line. If you were someone else, you wouldn't have noticed this, but I only knew these few words, so I saw the law at a glance. Immediately pretending to be careless, he pointed to the second word in the first row and asked the guard: "What is this word?" ”

The guard smiled: "Chief, this is the word 'Ying' in the king's surname." ”

I sighed, vaguely guessed something, and immediately asked the guard to look for clues in this room, but I took the book out of the room, and found the other two guards, and asked what the third word in the second row and the fourth word in the third row of the bamboo slip were.

Sure enough, these eight words are connected to one sentence.

Ying Zheng is the son of Lü Buwei.

I froze where I was, and all sorts of strange thoughts came flooding through my head, only to turn into a huge question mark. Could it be that Ying Zheng's main purpose in coming to Qingxin Courtyard was not to find Cheng Chan, but to kill Wan Yan and this old man? After thinking for a while, if he realized something, he beckoned the guards to call it a day.

Returning to the guard's room, he called Guan Badao to a place where no one was around, and he didn't speak, just looked at him with a sneer.

Guan Badao looked at me casually at first, then began to look away, and finally became a little annoyed: "Manager Wen, what do you want?!" ”

I snorted coldly: "Boss, I won't joke with you, you'd better be honest." ”

Guan Badao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed: "Explain what?" ”

"Where's the adult?" I said word for word.

Guan Badao's face suddenly changed greatly, he turned around and ran, and I raised my hand to shoot.

Bang, originally just intended to threaten him, but luckily, he just broke the small tree in front of him with a shot.

Seeing this, Guan Badao's body suddenly suffocated, and he slowly turned around, his face was extremely helpless: "Manager Wen, what do you mean by this?" ”

I pretended to blow out the muzzle of the gun and curled green smoke: "You and Wan Yan are both supporters of Cheng Chan, but Long Kai is a supporter of Prince Zheng, right?" ”

Seeing the uncertainty on his face, I knew that my guess was quite accurate, since Old Man Liu could know that Yingzheng was the son of Lü Buwei, Guan Badao, who was the captain of the Inner Court Guard, and Wan Yan, the captain of the shadow guard, it was absolutely impossible not to know about this, knowing that Yingzheng was not the son of King Qin, they naturally wanted to support the crown prince Cheng.

"Originally, this matter was none of my business, but why did you kill King Qin?" I triumphantly continued to analyze: "If you get the throne by such means, you are not afraid of being punished by heaven?" ”

"We don't!" Guan overbearing roared in a low voice.

"What do you mean, that's the king himself cutting himself in two?" I said disdainfully.

"Believe me, Vincy, it's not that simple." Guan Badao glanced at my gun and said helplessly.

"Why should I believe you!" I sneered: "Unless you can take me to meet Cheng Chan, I want to know the truth." ”

Guan looked at me with a flickering eye, and after a while, he gritted his teeth: "Okay, I'll take you to see Prince Chengyu." ”

Took me left and right, and came to the study where I used to work, I was a little surprised, I didn't know what Guan Badao brought me here for.

Pushed open the door of the study, Guan Badao coughed lightly, and a guard came out of it, with a full beard, this person is Lao Li, who has been on duty in the study, I have rotated with him a few times, so I have an impression.

Guan Badao closed the door of the study and said softly: "See Prince Cheng." ”

I was greatly surprised, I looked around, I didn't see anyone at all, and I was about to ask what was going on with Guan Badao, but the guard 'Lao Li' took off a mask made of human skin from his face, and suddenly, a young man with a face like a crown of jade appeared in front of me.

Could it be that this person is a toad?

Then I said sharply: "What about Lao Li? ”

The dough used by the adult is the same as Lao Li's face, and the original dough of Lao Li is naturally used.

Guan Badao smiled bitterly: "Do you remember the corpse that was with Lao Fang?" ”

The scene by the well of the Yangxin Courtyard flashed in his mind, at that time, in addition to Lao Fang's corpse, there was another corpse, the head seemed to have been hammered by a heavy object, the flesh and blood were blurred, and I couldn't help but suddenly wake up to the fact that the corpse was Lao Li, and the head was smashed to a blur of flesh and blood, which was to destroy the traces of the skin being torn off.

By the way, there was a bruise on the left leg of the corpse at that time, and now that I think about it, Lao Li was kicked by Chang Yu at the door of the study that night, and this was the bruise left.

"You killed Lao Li?" I said coldly.

"No, it's Lao Li who volunteered to do so. If you want to achieve great things, someone must sacrifice, and Lao Li's duty position is the most remote. Guan said in a domineering voice.

I was silent for a moment, but in my heart I was impressed by the domineering of them, not to mention Lao Li's sacrifice of life, just their calmness and wit are very human. The most dangerous place is the safest place, blending in with the inner court guards, others will never think of it.

"Where's the old side?" I asked instead.

"Lao Fang was killed by that murderer!" Guan said in a deep voice: "At that time, he saw a side of the murderer, saying that he was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was, but it was this sentence that made him lose his life." ”

Hey? Lao Fang said that the murderer was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember it at once? This shows that the old party has been in contact with the murderer, but not many times.

Who is this man?

Cheng Chan, who had not spoken, suddenly said indifferently: "Manager Wen, since you can find me, you know a little bit about the ins and outs of the matter." ”

I smiled and nodded: "I know a little, but not particularly clearly, I want to know the whole truth." ”

A wry smile appeared on Cheng Chan's face: "I'm afraid only Ying Zheng knows the whole truth." ”

"Ying Zheng?" I was surprised.

"If I'm not mistaken, this qiē is from his handwriting!" Cheng Chan said word by word.

"You mean, he did the assassination of King Qin?" I was amazed.

"That's right, I did it!" There was a voice outside the study, and it was Yingzheng's voice.

Then the latch of the door was broken, and the four of them entered in turn.

The first three were Long Kai and two guards wearing masks made of human skin, one of the mask guards was the master who went with me to kill Wan Yan, and his skills were only slightly different from Wan Yan. I saw that Long Kai and the three of them were holding a huge iron shield in their hands, building a steel city wall, hiding the three of them and Yingzheng behind them.

"Yingzheng, you did a good thing!" Hearing Yingzheng admit it calmly, Cheng Cheng immediately gritted his teeth and said.

"Isn't that weird? He's not my father anyway. Ying Zheng said with a smile: "Now that I have killed Wan Yan and Old Man Liu, and then I will kill Guan Tyranny, who will know the secret that I am a descendant of the Lu family at that time?" If I kill you next, won't the Qin State be what I have in my pocket? ”

"You planned this series of things?" I asked, surprised.

"That's right. Surprised? Ying Zheng laughed.

I looked at the three of Long Kai, and the huge iron shields they were holding were probably intended to be used to resist the bullets in my hands, perhaps they thought that my pistol was a powerful hidden weapon.

Fool, do you think that's useful? The gun in my hand is a sand eagle, and the impact alone can break your wrists. Of course, I didn't break this point, but said with a smile: "Prince Zheng, why don't you let these two masked brothers show their true colors?" ”

The masked guard who intercepted Wan Yan sneered: "There's no need to let you know. ”

I sneered: "To be a lackey, you must have the consciousness of being a lackey, and when I talk to your master, don't interject casually, understand?" ”

I don't know what the expressions of the two men behind the masks were, but I could see that the shields in their hands were trembling slightly, and I thought they were angry.

Ying Zheng looked up to the sky and laughed, and said after a while: "Anyway, Wen Xi also brought me back from Handan, Zhao State, and now he is dying again, so it is good to meet him with such a request." ”

Momby, you're dying, your whole family is dying!

However, I didn't bother to scold him, and watched as the two guards slowly unmasked.