Qin Yu and Zimo returned to the Prince's Mansion, and after some inspection in the prison just now, although there is no evidence for the time being, one thing that can be confirmed is that Lord Taishi did not commit suicide, but killed him.

The murderer's methods and martial arts are so unfathomable, and he can freely enter and leave the prison of the Northern Dynasty, and there are only two people in Fancheng: General Yan's subordinate ghosts, and the other person he has never shown up.

In any case, the murderer's motive for killing is obvious, as long as Lord Taishi is dead, then the case can no longer be pursued, in this case, the most unfavorable is the situation on the side of Lord Xiangguo. If he can successfully defeat the forces of the Xiangguo party, then General Yan will have no one else in the court to contend with.

In the palace of the prince's mansion, it was late at night, and the candles in the hall were still bright. Although the light in this hall could illuminate the invisible darkness, Qin Yu didn't like the candle flame here at the moment.

Compared with the bright candles in the palace, Qin Yu preferred the garden in the mansion. He walked out of the temple and walked down the dark path to the garden.

It's night, but everything here seems so peaceful and gloomy. There is a gazebo in the garden, surrounded by flowers and plants. A gust of wind blows, and the fresh earthy smell is mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants in the garden, which makes people forget the troubles of the world for a while.

"Ahh Have you been here all along? Qin Yu asked in surprise.

Zimo walked over slowly, still holding the long sword in his hand. Hehe...... This person who loves to practice martial arts is different, whether it is eating or walking or ......

They all like to carry swords, and it seems that the sword has become one with people. It must not be so easy to reach this state!

Qin Yu didn't like to practice martial arts, he would rather go to the library than go to the armory to see the weapons.

"You said you wouldn't let me go home! Then I'll have to stay with you! Zimo said helplessly.

"Huh...... I've wronged you, the son of the dignified Xiangguo Mansion!! Qin Yu showed a very helpless expression, as if to say, I am also doing this for your own good.

"Your alertness is too low, I've been standing here all the time, didn't you really notice it just now???" Zimo said lightly, as if he was a little sad, he was obviously standing here but was treated as a transparent and non-existent person.

"That's because I was thinking about something." Qin Yu couldn't admit it anyway. And Zimo is the kind of person who basically doesn't think much about what His Highness says, or these things that don't seem to him to have any practical significance, he doesn't bother to think about it.

"And what clues do you have in mind?" Zimo asked straight to the point, and it could be seen that he was very confused and anxious at the moment, after all, this matter was about the life and death of the Xiangguo family.

"Now there is really no evidence to prove that Lord Taishi was killed by him, but this does not mean that we can sit back and wait for death." Qin Yu turned to Zimo and said.

"So Your Highness is ready to take the initiative?" Zimo looked at His Highness and looked forward to his next plan.

"It's already in action, Lord Taishi is dead, and someone is starting to hold it back!" Qin Yu said as he spoke, and the figure of that person seemed to appear in his eyes.

"Could it be him? I was curious from the beginning...... If my assumption is correct, this person is ......" Zimo seemed to see a hint of something strange in the corner of his eyes at this time.

Zimo wanted to speak and stopped.

Outside the garden walls, he seemed to feel a pair of eyes staring at them. Xiao Xiao is a ghost at night, and Zimo has already guessed that the murderer who killed Lord Taishi is a ghost, a killer who can be comparable to himself in speed. can kill Lord Taishi so unknowingly.

"Let's not talk about these bad things, let's go, Zimo, drink and !!" Qin Yu said with a smile.

His Royal Highness is really a lover of wine, and he will always think about wine......

Zimo looked at him with one look, meaning to say: When is it, you can still have the heart to drink.

"Just drink in the house, don't go out to drink!" After Qin Yu finished speaking, he walked into the hall, only to see that there was already a wine jug on the table in the hall, Qin Yu picked up the wine jue, poured a glass of wine, and brought it to Zimo.

"This is the secret wine of the Zhaoguo, the last time I specially exchanged the treasure from the Zhaoguo, you must try it!" Qin Yu said.

"I'm not interested in wine!" Zimo said lightly.

"Alas! The two great things in this world are fine wine, beautiful women, but you say that you are not interested, wouldn't you live up to this beautiful year! Gentlemen don't do it! Qin Yu said with a smile.

Zimo suddenly gave him a look and let him experience it himself! Zimo was also quite speechless.

"By the way, aren't you interested in beautiful women either?" Qin Yu deliberately said this about him.

Zimo put down the long sword, took the wine lord, and drank it all.

"Haha...... it seems that you can say this to you, it works!" Qin Yu said with a smile.

"Can Your Highness be more serious?" Zimo was really speechless at this time, in his impression, His Highness's personality was not so bohemian a few years ago.

At this time, a servant of the Prince's Mansion ran in to report it.

"Prince Qiyu, sure enough, as you said, General Yan quietly left Fancheng with a team of men and horses. According to our informant, they should have gone in the direction of Nanzhengcheng. The man saluted.

"You go down, and by the way, give this letter to Lord Xiangguo." Qin Yu took a letter and handed it to his subordinates. It seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been prepared for a long time, because the letter was written in advance.

"Zimo, when I change my outfit, I'll take you to see a good show." Qin Yu looked at Zimo with his eyes and said confidently, the implication is: I am not as resourceless as you say, I only know how to joke.

"Can Your Highness find evidence to prove Lord Taishi's innocence?" Zimo asked anxiously.

"Not yet, but soon." Qin Yu said, with a strange look in his eyes.

Qin Yu changed his outfits, and the two left the prince's mansion from the back door on horseback overnight.

Two days later, they arrived at the place where the incident occurred, Nanzhengcheng.

"Do you know why the thieves chose to do it in Nanzheng City?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked Zimo.

"I suspect that this could be the land of the thieves, or maybe it's a convenient place for them to get their hands on, and there are people here to help them with the theft." Zimo guessed.

In the past few years, you have gone out to learn swords, and you naturally don't know about the affairs of the court. But as a crown prince, there are some things that you will definitely pay more attention to. Just a year ago, his father ordered the temple to be repaired, and General Yan seemed to be particularly concerned about this matter, and Shang Song asked his father to hand over the matter to him to supervise. ”

"It's no surprise that he's in charge of this." Zimo interrupted the prince's words.

"It's not strange to be in charge of supervising this project, but he secretly built an underground palace for himself on the grounds of supervising the repair of the temple, and this underground palace is in Nanzheng City." Qin Yu said.

"What His Highness means is that the master behind the whole incident of suspecting the theft of military silver is General Yan." was so little bit by His Royal Highness the Prince, Zimo suddenly understood.

"It is very likely that it is General Yan, the reason is very simple, he colluded with Uncle Wang and intended to rebel, but to do this, a lot of money must be used as a backing, and they have collected the people's fat and robbed the people's land on weekdays, which has caused a lot of people's dissatisfaction." Qin Yu said indignantly.

"Then His Highness guesses that General Yan will hide this batch of military silver in that underground palace this time?" Zimo asked.

"That's right, so we have to meet our General Yan for a while today." Qin Yu looked at Zimo and said.

The lights in the Hualin Garden in Nanzheng City are bright, and there are singing and dancing here, which is very lively.

A man in bronze armor was holding a group of raka for fun, and I saw that he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his eye sockets were extremely deep, and his dark complexion contrasted with the ugly dimples on his face.

He was sitting on the platform of Hualin Garden and was watching his archers shoot arrows, and while he was having fun, one of his subordinates came to report: "General, there is a man who claims to be the crown prince who asks to see the general." ”

"Oh? How many people came? General Yan asked with a look of disdain.

"He only brought one person with him, did the general summon him?" The subordinate bowed and replied.

"Let him in, I want to see what trick this kid Qin Yu wants to play today?" General Yan said with a smile.

Qin Yu and Zimo entered Hualin Garden, only to see that General Yan had been having fun with Leki. After one

Huicai said, "What kind of wind is blowing today, and the prince actually came here to look for me?" General Yan asked proudly, not taking His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seriously at all.

"I came to visit the general today, what, isn't the general welcome?" Qin Yu said and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here, it is a great honor!" General Yan said as he hugged the musicians beside him for fun.

Qin Yu looked around Hua Linyuan, the archers under General Yan were testing archery at this time, he hung twenty wine glasses that could hold two liters a hundred steps away, and let the three archers compete to shoot, and in the end, whoever shot the wine glass hit the most times, who could get a hundred taels of gold.

The archer standing on the far right has the best archery, with eight shots out of ten; The archer standing in the middle has the second best archery, with six out of ten shots, and the archer standing on the left has the worst archery with four out of ten. As a result, after some competition, the one who lost must be the one with the worst archery skills.

Seeing that the man was depressed, Qin Yu suddenly had an idea in his heart when he saw it, so he said: "There is no fun in the three of you in archery like this. ”

"Oh? Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have any good proposals? General Yan asked curiously.

"Since it's fun, you should set some rules for this game, so it's fun to play." Qin Yu said.

"What is the best way to play the prince? Let's hear it. General Yan asked.

"Let the three archers stand fifty meters away from each other and shoot an arrow at each other, and the one who is unharmed will win the hundred taels of gold." Qin Yu said.

"And if someone is wounded, or if someone is killed by a bow and arrow, how is the amount of gold distributed?" General Yan asked.

"If one person is unscathed and the other is wounded, then the injured man will only get one tael of gold. Of course, if someone is shot and dies, then there is naturally no need for the dead person to distribute the gold. After Qin Yu finished speaking, his eyes became deep and unpredictable, and as soon as the prince finished speaking, someone complained.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, aren't you deliberately trying to get along with me? I'm the worst archery of the three of us, and I'm sure I'm going to die. As a result, the man with the worst archery skills said indignantly.

At this time, General Yan was angry and reprimanded loudly: "I will let you all retreat when you play a game, and whoever dares to retreat will be executed immediately!! ”

The three men had no choice but to obey the order, and the three of them stood in a triangular formation, each archer fifty meters away from the other.

They took their bows and arrows, and when the judge gave the order, the three of them shot an arrow at the same time, and everyone was optimistic about the person with the best archery, but soon the result of the game came out.

The end result of the game was a surprise: the man with the worst archery survived, while the archer with the best archery was injured. This result made everyone dumbfounded.

"Is this true? Except for one tael of gold for the injured archer, the ninety-nine taels of gold tonight are mine, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really powerful. The archer with the worst bow and archery skills said excitedly.

Qin Yu stepped forward and walked a few steps and said, "This reason is very simple, because both of them have better archery skills than you, so in order for the two of them to survive, they must kill each other first." The result of this match was that the two of them shot each other, and as a result, one of them was killed, while the other was injured. Of course, it doesn't matter if you shoot them or not. There are things that seem to be advantages but are disadvantages, and what seems to be disadvantages are advantages. It's up to you to make the rules of the game. After Qin Yu finished speaking, General Yan's face showed a sinister expression.

"Huh...... It seems that the rumors are not false at all, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really good at having fun. But in my case, only power is the key to everything, only the strong are qualified to make the rules, and the weak must always obey. After General Yan finished speaking, he raised his war knife and slashed it in the direction of the archer who had won the game, and suddenly the arrow target behind the archer split in half, and he was frightened to the point of dissipation.

"Do you still want these bounties now?" At this time, the war knife in General Yan's hand was on top of the archer's head, and the atmosphere became tense for a while.

"No...... Don't be, the minions don't dare! And I saw that the archer was frightened, and he was half on his knees, and he was very frightened.

"Humph! In my case, only absolute strength is the rule! General Yan put down the war knife in his hand and looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with domineering eyes.