Chapter 257: One Step Closer
Xiling Yue watched the table split the corpse above her head, and was shocked to find that she had nowhere to hide, so she ran out of the door with her heart, and before she could cross the threshold, she collided with Xiao Guo who came to the rescue.
"Why are you here?" Xiling Yue was so anxious that she lost her voice.
Xiao Guo didn't care about replying, and pushed her away to join the battle, and the guards of the Imperial Garden also rushed over from all directions, instantly surrounding the house.
Seeing that there were fewer enemies and more of us, and it was difficult for female assassins to get their hands on, Xiao Guo immediately shouted: "Where are the thieves, you can be captured before you are restrained!" ”
"Huh!" The female assassin sneered, suddenly took two steps back to stop the assassination, and said coldly to Li Chengxuan, "I have learned the skills of King Fu today, and I am fortunate to know." ”
With that, she jumped onto the beams of the house, broke through the roof, and ran out. Li Chengxuan shouted "dare to run", and the sword was immediately thrown towards the roof. A muffled grunt was heard, and the dagger fell from the roof, but the female assassin had fled westward on the bricks.
Xiao Guo immediately led people to chase him out, but none of the guards had such a light function to fly off the wall, so he had to raise his head on the ground to pursue, and soon lost the trace of the female assassin.
Li Chengxuan had already expected that he would not be able to catch people, so he didn't move, and picked up the dagger from the ground to look at it carefully. The dagger was unusual in silver, faintly glowing with gold and copper, and there was a trace of blood on it, which should have been left by the female assassin who had just been injured by Li Chengxuan's sword.
Xiling Yue also ran over to check the dagger, and said firmly at a glance: "Fake Ah Luo and Li Heng both died under this kind of dagger. ”
Li Chengxuan frowned when he heard this, but he didn't say anything. Xiling Yue patted her chest and was shocked, and asked suspiciously: "Could it be that Li Qi is a thief shouting to catch a thief?" ”
"No," Li Chengxuan replied in a deep voice, "He doesn't have the courage to kill me yet." ”
"Who could that be?" Xilingyue was a little confused, and secretly sighed that the murderer behind the scenes was so bold, not only dared to burn down Jiang's mansion and kill the prince of Jiedu, but now he also dared to assassinate King Fu!
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that the case was complicated, and she didn't know how to start cracking it, and she was about to ask for advice, but when she saw that Xiao Guo had already run back out of breath, she asked nervously: "Lord Wang, are you okay?" ”
Li Chengxuan waved his hand, his face was very calm, and he only asked him: "Lost people?" ”
Xiao Guo nodded awkwardly.
Xiling Yue was annoyed and asked, "Guard Guo, are you too late?" ”
Xiao Guo opened his mouth to explain, but before he could say a word, he heard Li Chengxuan take the initiative to round the field: "Don't blame him, the female assassin is clever, they are stumped." ”
"Yes, yes, yes!" Xiao Guo immediately answered, "The assassin opened the stable, and more than two dozen horses ran out, and we only cared about looking for horses all over the garden, and we all fell for her plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!" ”
"And her martial arts are unfathomable, I use a sword, she uses a dagger, and she can even fight me." Li Chengxuan's words are clearly praise.
Xi Lingyue remembered that the female assassin could split the case table with her bare hands, and she was shocked and sighed in her heart. She turned her head to look at the "wreckage" of the case, and found that the goose-yellow dress embroidered with gold peony had fallen to the side.
She walked over and picked up her dress, and couldn't help sighing: "Lord Wang, I was wrong, it was her who came to you that night, and she wanted to kill you." ”
"No," Li Chengxuan clenched the dagger in his hand, "You're right, it was Ah Luo who came to me that night." ”
"How do you know for sure?" It was Xilingyue's turn to be puzzled.
Li Chengxuan narrowed his handsome eyes and looked up at the window that was broken by the female assassin: "If she came to me that night, Xiao Guo wouldn't have been able to stop her." ”
He didn't know what he remembered, so he turned his head and instructed Xiao Guo: "You immediately fly the pigeon and pass the book to the household department, I want to know why Wang Qiuluo became an official slave." ”
Ten days later, Li Chengxuan got A Luo's household registration, several people
After checking it out, I found something strange - Aluo's name is "Wang Qiuluo", and the ancestor turned out to be Wang Li, the cousin of Wang Bo, the author of "The Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng"! As for why her ancestors were enslaved, it also involved an old incident that caused a sensation in the court more than a hundred years ago, starting with the usurpation of the Tang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty by Empress Wu Zetian.
When the Empress Wu was still in infancy, the physiognomy master Yuan Tiangang once met her and predicted that she was "a dragon with a pupil and a phoenix neck, which is extremely expensive". After that, she went through the Taizong and Gaozong dynasties and became the queen, so she felt that Yuan Tiangang's prediction was extremely accurate, and she began to believe in physiognomy. Later, when she came to the dynasty to weigh the system, she favored a physiognomy master named "Zhang Jingzang" and asked him about divination.
This master Zhang Jingzang has a disciple named "Liu Sili", Zhang Jingzang once predicted that he will "successively serve as assassins, and become the official to the Taishi". It didn't take long for him to be reused by the Empress Wu by virtue of his master's shadow, until the Empress Wu ascended the throne and became the emperor, changing the name of the country to "Zhou". But he looked down on women as emperors in his bones, remembered the prophecy of his mentor, and thought that the position of the prince was noble, and he must be a meritorious hero to become a hero, so he colluded with Luozhou to join the army with the intention of rebellion.
Long live Tongtian two years, he failed to rebel, and the case implicated more than 1,000 people, involving many civil officials in the current dynasty, which caused a sensation. But in fact, most people did not participate in the rebellion, but were only involved in the rebellion, including several of his friends, Wang Bo's two brothers, Wang Mian and Wang Xian, and a younger brother Wang Zhu, who were all beheaded because of this incident.
It's a pity that Wang Bo has six siblings, except for him and his fifth brother Wang Jie, who died young,
The other three adult brothers were all killed by Empress Zetian, but the youngest brother Wang persuaded the young to escape. And his uncle's cousin Wang Li was also implicated, although he was not beheaded, but the family was exiled for thousands of miles, and his children and grandchildren were sentenced to slavery.
Eight years later, the "Shenlong Coup" occurred, Zhongzong Li Xian was reinstated, and the restoration name was "Tang", and amnesty was granted to the world. Zhongzong loved talents and admired Wang Bo's talent and fame, so he deliberately restored his three siblings to the official position. But for some reason, his cousin Wang Li was missing, and after such a delay, the descendants of this branch have always been official slaves, and it has been five generations since they arrived in Aluo.
After learning of A Luo's life experience, Xilingyue, Li Chengxuan, and Xiao Guo were all silent - Wang Bo, Wang Li, and "Preface to King Teng's Pavilion" were connected together, and no matter how stupid people were, they could guess that Ah Luo's death must have an inside story.
But the dead one is obviously a fake Aluo, could it be that the murderer recognized the wrong person? If this is the case, then the mastermind behind the instructing outsiders to pretend to be the Jiang couple and then burn the entire Jiang Mansion may not be the same as the murderers who killed the fake Ah Luo, Li Heng, and Liu Shopkeeper.
"It's a case within a case!" Xiling Yue had a big headache.
Li Chengxuan was calm and composed: "Now that you have found out Ah Luo's life experience, you are one step closer to the truth." ”
"How do I feel farther and farther away!" Xilingyue took Ah Luo's household registration, but she felt that this clue was too complicated, and she was really difficult to disassemble.
(End of chapter)