Chapter 087: Dry Corpse
Hua Qing thought to herself, she and Mo Huaijin hadn't seen each other for more than a month, how did he become such a Meng Lang? She was very dissatisfied and said:
"Mo Huaijin."
"Call me Childe!"
It is rude to name and name, and calling the full names of royals is a taboo.
Hua Qing was speechless about this.
"Okay, Childe. I don't have time to talk to you right now, and I still have something to deal with. In the future, you will still be the king of the Central Plains, and I will only be an unknown village girl in a fishing village in southern Xinjiang. We'll leave it at that. ”
Hua Qing raised her legs and wanted to leave, but she was dragged back by Mo Huaijin again, and she finally couldn't bear to blow up.
"What are you doing? What do you really want? At that time, it was you who wanted to marry Hua Ququ, and now you are the one who came to Fusang to pester me, can you be more self-respecting and make a face? ”
Mo Huaijin heard the other meaning in the words, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and stare at her straight and asked:
"Do you mind if I marry Hua Ququ? Do you care about my marriage? ”
"Who you marry is your own business, and what does it have to do with me?"
"Then why are you so angry? Can I understand that you are jealous? ”
“......”
"Okay, don't be angry, I just teased you, since I just saved you, then in return, I want to ask you to do me a favor."
Hua Qing slandered in her heart, tease me, who teases a person to play is directly gnawing on the other party? Thinking of the indescribable scene just now, Hua Qing's ears were as hot as boiled shrimp.
But Mo Huaijin said to let her help him, she thought to herself that the Gu poison of the Seventh Princess had already been given to Fang Zi to solve it for her before she left. What else could she help him with besides Gu poison?
Mo Huaijin looked at her with a puzzled look and said:
"Come, come with me, you'll know when you get there."
"How do I know if you're lying to me? Let me do you a favor, it's actually trafficking. ”
Mo Huaijin was amused by her words.
"Yo, your consciousness has become higher after coming to Fusang, if you have this consciousness in the Central Plains, you won't be abducted to Fusang."
"I wasn't abducted, I begged His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to take me away."
Mo Huaijin, who was originally very interested, couldn't help but sink his heart after hearing this sentence, the word "Sichuan" flashed, and the bottom of his eyes was indescribably deep.
"Why?"
Even if she said that she was deceived and that she was forced to be brought here, he would feel better. But also, after he and Hua Ququ were engaged, she was strangely quiet, and after she followed him to the Prime Minister's Mansion, she disappeared without a trace, if there was no one outside to answer her, no one would believe that she could escape so smoothly.
The Assassins had entered Washington that night, and she had disappeared with her, and he had been in fear for the rest of his life, lest he would see her again as a cold corpse. But now she stood in front of him unharmed, and told him that everything that disappeared at that time was intentional, and that he himself begged someone to take her away! Oh, what a great irony. He grabbed the crook of her arm with both hands, her brows furrowed slightly, and her face showed a hint of pain.
"You're hurting me!"
She was already born weak, her two jade arms were soft and thin, as soft as a spring day, as if she was going to break it with a little more effort, and her skin was also delicate and delicate.
"Why did you know the prince of Fuso? And why did he take you away? Hua Qing, you shouldn't be a collaborator and treason, right? ”
"Don't talk nonsense. At first, I didn't know that he was the crown prince of Fuso, and I thought he was just an ordinary assassin, so I begged him to take me away, but after I got out of the customs, I realized that I had taken the wrong path, so I made a mistake and followed their team to Fuso. As for why he was willing to take me away, it was because I saved him in the water. ”
"In the water? You knew him before the Central Plains? ”
Hua Qing recalled the past, and her pupils shrank suddenly, and her legs unconsciously took a step back.
"No, it was in Washington, D.C., I was pushed into the water, he was an assassin who was being chased by someone, fell into the water, and got entangled in the aquatic weeds, so I saved him."
"Who pushed you into the water?"
Hua Qing smiled far-fetched and said:
"I don't remember, it's all gone, didn't you just say let me do you a favor? Then you take me away! I'm done with my work, and I have to go back. ”
Hua Qing thought to herself, the person who pushed me into the water is your mother-in-law, I don't think you will believe it if I say it, not to mention, even if you really believe it, in the future, you will treat your current wife Hua Ququ with a kind of face. So he broke his teeth and swallowed it in his stomach, and carried it all silently.
But Mo Huaijin clearly learned some things he didn't know from the conversation with Hua Qing, on the day of the Washington mansion, Hua Qing's disappearance turned out to be pushed into the water, if he remembered correctly, Hua Qing was led away by Mrs. Hua Yang at that time, and when he rushed to the bridge, Yang was also there, there were no other maids to serve her at that time, behind her were the guards of the courtyard, at that time they did not beat the people in the water, but only shot arrows to kill the assassins, when he asked Yang where Hua Qing went, Yang's reaction at that time was a little wrong. However, all his thoughts were on Hua Qing at that time, so he missed paying attention to the details of analyzing the Yang family.
And learned from Hua Qing's mouth that the assassin who infiltrated Washington that night was actually Xiao Zhan, the prince of Fusang. As a prince, he actually risked his life to enter Washington, although the emperor and others were also present that night, but it was obvious that Xiao Zhan did not come to assassinate the emperor, as a prince, he would never make such a low-level mistake. The security that night was placed on the protection of the emperor and his entourage, and the other guardians in the palace were relatively relaxed their vigilance, so when the prince of Fusang entered Washington, he could only steal things, but what items in Washington were worthy of his personal departure? This point was quite puzzling to him.
At this time, Hua Qing followed Mo Huaijin to Yinfeng Tower. The position at Mo Huaijin's feet was exactly where the storyteller was sitting that day, and behind them was a partition, and after pushing it open, there was a secret passage leaking light inside.
She followed Mo Huaijin down, in the dark single hole, Mo Huaijin carried a lamp, but the light was only enough to illuminate the road under her feet, and the stones were paved under her feet, and when she stepped on it, she could still feel the hardness of the stones. She could faintly hear the sound of water coming from the wall of the ground, revealing a chill.
After walking for about half a mile, Hua Qing felt suddenly cold. Mo Huaijin asked her to carry the lamp, and he turned the mechanism on the wall with his bare hands, and a stone door opened.
Mo Huaijin took the lamp and led her into the basement.
The cold light was revealed in the basement, and the moonlight white through the room illuminated a pair of ice coffins placed in the middle of the stone cave, Hua Qing hurriedly grabbed Mo Huaijin's arm, and she didn't dare to come closer out of fear of death.
Mo Huaijin patted her arm and said:
"You're a healer."
"What are you bringing me here for?"
Mo Huaijin approached the ice coffin, and with a hard push, the coffin lid opened. Hua Qing came closer and saw a man lying in the coffin, looking like he was asleep, probably lying for a long time, frost covering his surface, his hair, eyebrows and even lips were covered with a thick layer of frost.
"He is the prince of Northern Liang."
Prince of Northern Liang? It's the last time she pretended to be a dancer and sneaked into the dance team to cheat on eating and drinking, is he? Is it the prince of Beiliang who is married to Duke Wan?
"Didn't he come to Fusang some time ago to marry Princess Hewan? At that time, there was still a big banquet, how could he lie here? ”
"My people investigated and said that on the day when the prince greeted his relatives, he did not enter the palace after a long time, and then the royal family was afraid of delaying the auspicious time, so they came out to look for him, and as a result, there was a murder in Baihualou that day, and the person who died on the top bed was the prince who was going to marry Princess Hewan."
I see. It was the first time she had heard that she thought that Princess Hewan would marry him and follow him back to Beiliang. But he never thought that he would die here. However, as the prince of Beiliang, he died here, why is Beiliang so calm? Even Fusang has no news and is airtight.
"Why would you, the prince of the Central Plains, know about this, this is really incredible."
Mo Huaijin glanced at her affectionately and said:
"After you disappeared, I looked for you everywhere, and then there was an epidemic in the Fusang army, and many people in the court advocated going to war, and the imperial brother thought that it was unethical to rob while the fire was burning, and put it aside, but Fusang was connected to the northern part of the Central Plains, in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the imperial brother sent me to Yumen Pass to guard. A few days after I arrived, I received a secret letter from the imperial brother, saying that the prince of Northern Liang had died, and he ordered me to come to investigate the matter. ”
He never expected that he would plant flowers without blooming, and he would unintentionally plant willows and willows. I spent so much effort before I didn't find Hua Qing, but I never thought that I would meet her in Yinfeng Tower on the way to investigate the murder.
Hua Qing reached out and probed the skin of the deceased.
"He had no wounds on his body, and he looked like he was asleep, but his skin was frighteningly white. It stands to reason that the people of Beiliang, because they live in pursuit of water and grass, receive sunlight all year round, most of them are dark, although he is a prince, but the skin should not be so white, and it is a kind of sickly white, his age, it stands to reason, is only in his early twenties, but the skin is loose, as if he is forty or fifty years old, which is strange. ”
Hua Qing turned out a silver needle and sank it into the top of the prince's head, and after pulling it out, the silver needle didn't react at all. She stretched out her hand and said to Mo Huaijin:
"Lend me your sword."
Mo Huaijin asked:
"What do you want my sword for?"
"Bleed."
After Mo Huaijin heard this, he directly cut the artery in the wrist of Prince Beiliang, but to the surprise of the two, there was no blood.
"There is no blood. No wonder he was so white, his skin was frighteningly loose, it turned out to be a dried corpse. ”
A very bad inference made her can't help but tingle her scalp.
"Childe, the prince's symptoms and manifestations allow me to probably guess the cause of his death, but you may not believe me when I say it."
"Huh? If you die because of it, just tell me directly. ”