Chapter 70: Killing
"You...... Are you from Snowpiercer? "Liaohai saw the coachman's snow hair and blue eyes clearly through the cold moonlight, which are the characteristics of standard Snow Country people!
"Huh? Does white hair and blue eyes mean that you are from Snowpiercer? Isn't your princess also silver-haired? The coachman pulled his white hair, sneered, and said, "Well, if you have to think I'm from Snowpiercer, then I won't deny it." Right now...... I'm really going to send the adults on the road. ”
Liaohai didn't expect that he would suffer such a catastrophe, so he was so frightened that he ran away. The coachman showed a bloodthirsty smile and chased after Liaohai with a knife, but before Liaohai could escape from the alley, he was killed by the coachman's knife. The driver dragged Liaohai's body outside for a while, leaving it across the alley to ensure that it would be found by passers-by tomorrow morning. Then he squatted down and grabbed Liao Hai's fingers, stained it with blood, and wrote two big characters on the ground: Snow Country. The coachman still felt that it was not enough, so he cleverly cut off a lock of his white hair and stuffed it into Liaohai's hands, so he clapped his hands with satisfaction and called it a day.
The coachman walked back to the silver glow of the full moon, and when the time had passed, he suddenly remembered that it was already the fifteenth day of July, and said to himself: "Today is the Midyear Festival, it is better not to wander around the streets...... and then his figure disappeared in an instant.
The innocent Liaohai was lying lifeless at the mouth of the alley, his life ended on Halloween, such a coincidence has to be said to be providential!
As soon as the hour came, the envoys in the post house began to march towards the palace; There was also a commotion from Mengxin Xiaozhu, Ningxin Xiaozhu and Yaxin Xiaozhu in the palace, and the royal family members were also ready to participate in the next competitive events. Almost all the major indoor sports events will be held in the Qiankun Palace, which is the largest banquet hall in the entire palace, large enough to accommodate all the contestants and spectators. In addition to being opened during the Wanchao Meeting, the Qiankun Hall is usually only used to feast the ministers on the Wanshou Festival of the emperor's birthday every year.
Everyone gathered in the Qiankun Palace, and after a while, the emperor and queen also arrived, and Duan Yulin announced the start of the Go competition. The first round of the battle was between the Kingdom of Juree and the Kingdom of Simon, and the Kingdom of Simon soon came down to the town; The second game was a game between Dahan and Dongying, the two countries held each other's hands, and the audience also watched quietly with bated breath, except for a few envoys from the Moon Kingdom who were anxious like ants on a hot pot.
"Brother Wang, Liaohai hasn't arrived yet, what can I do?" The golden mantle was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.
"Did you send someone to pick it up?" Jin Qiu was calm on the surface, but he was actually too anxious in his heart, seeing that the next game was their battle with Snow Country.
"I went a long time ago, but I didn't get it. said that the bedding in the house that entered Liaohai was neat, thinking that he had come out in advance. Jin Yan explained the situation to his brother who had come to report.
"The house is neat and tidy...... Don't...... Maybe Liaohai didn't go back to the post house at all last night! Jin Cicada, who was on the side, suddenly spoke and said the possibility of speculation.
"Didn't come back? Didn't come back! Isn't that going to happen? Jin Yan was so excited that he almost got up to shoot the case, but Jin Qian held him down, and said with a gloomy face: "I'm afraid something has happened...... Besides, you hurry up and take some of your own people out of the palace to find it. If you live to see people, you have to see corpses when you die! Guo Xun silently withdrew from the Qiankun Palace.
The efficiency of the situation was very high, and it was not long before the body of Liaohai was discovered. When he found the scene of the incident, he saw that the alley was already full of onlookers, and he had a hunch that it should be Liaohai who was being watched by everyone. At that time, the yacha had already arrived, but because the corpse was a foreigner, he didn't know what to do with it for a while.
Guo Xun walked through the crowd and walked to the yacha and pointed to the corpse facing the ground: "Two poor masters, below is the chief guard of the Yue Kingdom Mission, Guo Xun, and the prince of our country is sending down to find the missing national hand. Please make it easier for you two to check if this person is the person I am looking for? He also showed them a certificate to prove his identity.
"Your Excellency, please!" After confirming the identity of Ku Xun, the two officials allowed him to inspect it himself. Guo Xun turned the body over and examined it, and it could be concluded that Liao Hai was pierced through the heart by a sharp weapon and died. He noticed that Liao Hai seemed to be holding something in his hand, and when he opened it, he saw a strand of white hair; The word "Snow Country" was also revealed in the place where the other hand was hidden. Guo Xun frowned, and now the problem has become a little complicated. In addition, Xun ordered his subordinates to follow the two yamen back to Dali Temple to report the case, and Liaohai's body was also sent to Dali Temple first, and he himself had to go back to the palace to report the news.
Guo Xun rushed all the way back to the Qiankun Palace, and at this time, the chess game between Dahan and Dongying just ended in a draw. When Jin Qiu saw Guo Xun coming back alone, he shook his head at him with an uneven breath, his expression was full of regret and helplessness, and he understood that something must have happened to Liaohai. The third game is about to begin, and the Snow Country players are already in place, but the Moon Country players are nowhere to be seen, which can't help but cause discussion in the palace.
Duan Yulin also asked suspiciously, "Where is the national hand of the Moon Kingdom?" Why don't you come out of the queue yet? ”
Jin Qian had to step forward to ask for sin: "Holy forgiveness, I'm afraid my country won't be able to cope with this competition." "Jin Yan, Jin Chan and Guo Xun knelt in front of the hall together.
Why is that? Who doesn't know the prestige of Liao Hai, the national player of the Moon Country, in the chess world, how could he surrender without a fight? Duan Yulin was even slightly annoyed that he couldn't appreciate Liaohai's chess skills, but unfortunately he didn't know that what was waiting for him was a big trouble.
"Back to Your Majesty, Liaohai ...... He's dead. Jin Qiu's words shocked the audience and caused an uproar in the hall.
"What? What's going on? Tell me more about it. "It's not a good thing to kill people during the court meeting, especially if it's a foreign envoy who dies. Someone dared to make trouble for him during such a critical period, and Duan Yulin was furious. After hearing Kuang Xun's description, Duan Yulin was silent, the Snow Country Mission was also silent, and the other envoys were boiling.
"I announce that today's chess competition has been cancelled. Except for the envoys of the Moon Country and the Snow Country, arrange for the rest of the envoys to return to the post house temporarily; Xuandali Temple Qing Luo Zhengqian and Shaoqing Luo Zheng entered the palace! Duan Yulin angrily flicked his sleeves and left the Qiankun Palace, followed by the two brothers Jin Qiu, Jin Yan and Helian.
An hour later, Luo Zhengqian and Luo Zheng came to the Qinzheng Palace, and the emperor and the four foreign princes had been waiting for a long time. Luo Zhengqian and Luo Zheng bowed and bowed and reported the details of the case to Duan Yulin in detail, Duan Yulin was furious for a while, threw the jade rosary in his hand out and said: "How can this be reasonable! Dare to assassinate me right under my nose, I don't take me seriously! Don't take Dahan in your eyes! You, you ......" Duan Yulin pointed to the two Helian brothers and asked, "What do you explain this?" As he spoke, he swept the "evidence" on the case in front of the Helian brothers, and the brothers hurriedly knelt down and shouted injustice.
"Your Majesty, my Snow Country has been wronged! This is clearly a frame-up and wants to destroy the relationship between Dahan, Snow Country, and Moon Country! I hope Your Majesty will see it! Helian Luzhi was busy kowtowing, but Helian Luang knelt there without justifying or begging for mercy, so anxious that Helian Luzhi looked at him again and again.
The third prince said this badly. Liaohai has no grievances or enmity with your country, so why bother to frame your country if you lose your life? Before he died, Liao Hai grabbed a lock of hair from the murderer's head, and his hair was snow-white; Coupled with the message of the word 'Snow Country' left by him before his death, isn't this conclusive evidence? "Jin Qiu doesn't want to be at odds with the Snow Country, but he can't tolerate them killing their subjects at will.
"Your Highness has one thing to say, we have no enmity or grudge against Liaohai, why do we have to put him to death?" Helenlyon finally spoke.
"Liaohai is the holy hand of Go in my Moon Country, and his skills are well-known. You know that if you want to play against him today, you must be afraid of losing ugly, so you want to win by crooked ways. As soon as Liaohai dies, you will win without a fight! The golden mantis revealed all the motives he could think of for the killing, but it drew a sneer from Helian Luang.
"Hey, the Fourth Highness is really innocent and cute. Do you think that our Snow Club will do the assassination of the opponent for the sake of a mere game? If it happens, will it have to pay for it? We won't be stupid enough to do that. "Helian Luang really wants to open the head of the golden mantis and see what is inside? The thinking of such a big person is so simple.
Jin Qi also wanted to argue that he was stopped by Jin Qiu, but Jin Qiu analyzed it more deeply than Jin Qiu: "What the eldest prince said is that if it is simply for a chess game, it will not be enough, but if it is to win the final game, it is not necessary to invite His Majesty for a reward. Helian Luang didn't understand what Jin Qiu meant, Jin Qiu just smiled disdainfully, and turned to report to Duan Yulinyu: "Your Majesty, the minister recently learned that the princess of the Snow Country and the king of the Gui Dynasty Ning know each other and fall in love, and the two want to tie the knot, and they are planning to ask Your Majesty for marriage while they are competing in chess. In order to ensure His Majesty's consent, they had already planned to come out on top in today's competition and ask His Majesty for a favor! And King Ning also promised that after the completion of the Snow Country Division, he would propose that His Majesty marry Princess Qinxin to the Snow Country. Your Majesty, you said, for the sake of these two crucial marriages, did the Snow Kingdom have a motive to kill Liaohai? Jin Qiu's words were undoubtedly flat thunder, and Duan Yulin looked at the Helian brothers suspiciously; Helian Luang was also very shocked, he looked at his younger brother's dodging eyes and Qi Lian's remorseful expression, and couldn't help but be annoyed: "You all know? Just hide it from me? Qi Lian, how can you ......" He knew that Qi Lian's move must be for his sake, but it was really not the best policy to entrap the prince in private.
"Prince Helian, what else do you have to say?" Duan Yulin looked at Helian Luang with a gloomy expression, but he didn't expect King Ning to also participate.
"Back to Your Majesty, the minister really doesn't know about this. But even then, we would never use such despicable means to win the game. We didn't kill Liaohai. Ritsu and Qi Lian also echoed and said that they had never harmed anyone. Lu Ang remembered another suspicious point, so he immediately asked Luo Zhengqian: "Dare to ask Lord Luo, is the death message left by the victim - the word 'Snow Country' written in Han script or in Yue script?" ”
"Back to Your Highness, it's Hanwen." Luo Zhengqian replied truthfully. Jin Qian frowned, Jin Yan was puzzled, and Helian Luang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Doesn't the emperor think it's strange? Liaohai was the first time to come to Dahan, and he left a message before he died with a complete instinct to survive, so how could he not write in the Yuewen script that he was most familiar with, but in Hanwen that he had just come into contact with? Does this mean that in fact, this so-called message before death is not from Liaohai at all, but someone deliberately wants to blame Snow Country? The Son of Heaven has always been discerning, and the minister believes that His Majesty will not let the Snow Country suffer injustice! After speaking, Helian Luang kowtowed heavily to Duan Yulin.