Chapter 37: The Corpse in the Tree

When I came to the gate of Xuanyuan Courtyard in a soft sedan chair, the people who could reach the East Palace were basically there. The body has also been covered with a white cloth. Qin Ruoan was supported by two little eunuchs, walked up to me, and said, "Your Highness, the one who died was the messenger sent by the humble position. ”

"Did you find anything?" I asked.

"Returning to Your Highness, the deceased was cut in the throat with a knife until death. There are no other scars. He held up a piece of blue cloth the size of an egg in front of me with both hands, "I found this in the hands of the deceased. ”

The best silk fabric is a little lighter than the dark blue and a little darker than the sky blue. It's the most beautiful shade of all blue. It's also Regulus's favorite kind of blue.

"Master Xuanyuan, have you seen that person?" I pointed to the corpse on the ground and asked Xuanyuan Che, who had been standing not far from the corpse.

"Your Highness!" Xuanyuan Che raised his hand to increase his forehead and saluted me, "I have never seen this person. ”

"This palace wants people to take a look at Xuanyuan Gongzi's courtyard, Xuanyuan Gongzi shouldn't mind."

"Your Highness, please."

"Search!" With a wave of Manager Xu's hand, dozens of little eunuchs rushed into Xuanyuan Che's courtyard.

After a while, the blue robe with the corners torn was turned out, and in addition to this, there was also a token. The token in the messenger's hand that can enter the East Palace!

"Is there anything else Xuanyuan has to explain?" I asked.

"There is nothing to say."

"Well," I raised my voice, "come on, put Xuanyuan in prison, and no one is allowed to visit." ”

"Your Highness, this matter ......" Qin Ruoan wanted to say something more, but I waved his hand to stop him.

Xuanyuan Che didn't have any struggle, and the two guards twisted their arms behind their backs and escorted them out.

I said to the people, "Disperse! "In just a quarter of an hour, Xuanyuan Che has gone from a majestic fourth-grade guard chief to a prisoner who is caught in a murder case.

On the second day, Xuanyuan Che murdered the messenger, putting the prince in danger, and the evidence was conclusive, and the news of his beheading in the West Market in the afternoon of three days later spread like wings to every corner of the capital.

"Lord, the messenger should not have been killed by Xuanyuan."

"I know!" The piece of blue silk cloth in the messenger's hand was indeed on Xuanyuan Che's robe, but the silk cloth was not as easy to tear as burlap, and even if it was torn, it would be a neat large piece, or a long strip.

The people in the palace, the clothes on their bodies are eager to be changed several times a day, no matter how clean the clothes are, they are directly sent to the little eunuch to be washed by the Huanyi Bureau, and the torn robe is hung behind the screen of Xuanyuan Che's change of clothes, even if Xuanyuan Che didn't find that the clothes were broken, but how blind were the eunuchs who served him didn't see that there was a piece of clothing to be washed behind the screen, and it was a torn piece of clothing, so that it hung there for three days, until it was searched out by the chief manager Xu.

Besides, when the messenger arrived at the East Palace, or at the gate of a certain palace, it should have been early in the morning, when Xuanyuan Che was on duty, and he should be wearing a guard uniform, not his own clothes.

The token was placed on the table, this should have been deliberately placed in such an obvious position because the person who was really afraid of searching Xuanyuan Che's courtyard was really blind!

There is also a corpse, if the messenger was taken by Xuanyuan Che to the vicinity of the big locust tree and cut his throat to death, and was directly hidden by Xuanyuan Che on the tree, what about the blood shed by the corpse? If Xuanyuan Che and the other messengers dried up and hid him in a tree, why not just bury him or throw him somewhere else, why not hide it in a tree, or hide it in a tree in front of his own door.

Why did Xuanyuan kill the messenger? How did he meet the messenger without alerting anyone, and carried the messenger or the messenger's body back to the East Palace and put it on the tree?

Hum! Put the corpse on the tree, why didn't he carry it? This is not easier for people to find, and it can prove that the messenger was killed by Xuanyuan! Or he should have written directly on the corpse: Murderer Xuanyuan Che! It's not more straightforward and hassle-free!

If it was Gu Tianba, with her IQ and seeing those evidences, she would definitely have a preconceived idea that it was Xuanyuan Che who killed the messenger so that she would lose her life. But am I Gu Tianba? Am I that easy to fool?

Besides, Xuanyuan Che didn't know that the purpose of the messenger coming to the East Palace was my life.

My brain raced: "The messenger was stabbed to death, and there were no other injuries on his body. It shows that he was not tortured to extract a confession before he died. Maybe even the person who killed him didn't know what he was doing in the East Palace, but he only knew that he was a very important person, and the consequences of killing him would definitely be more serious than killing a eunuch or a guard casually, and it would be easier to cause trouble. The murderer only knew that the identity of the deceased was special, but he did not expect that the identity of the deceased was so special, which may be an unexpected surprise for him! ”

"Then why did you even execute Regulus?"

"Someone has put so much effort into framing him, if I see through it at a glance, it will be too shameless to give people face!"

"The Lord wants to find out who is really behind this matter." Mo Qian hesitated, and then asked: "If you want to talk about the celebrities in front of the lord, in addition to Princess Anping, Xiao Qingyu, Qin Ruoan, Chu Moxuan, and Murong Xingye, who has never asked about political affairs but is rich in the world, these people are much more favored than Xuanyuan Che." Xuanyuan Che is just a palace gatekeeper, and His Royal Highness has nothing special about him, and even intends to prevent trouble from him. Compared with Xiao Qingyu and them, Xuanyuan Che is basically a waste person in the East Palace. Think about it, who would go to such great lengths to deal with a wasted person. And being able to kill people in the East Palace, it can be seen that the mastermind behind this matter is not a simple role, poisoning, *, assassination...... There are at least a hundred ways to take Xuanyuan's life, so why bother with it? It's puzzling. ”

"The mastermind behind this matter is not only capable of killing people in the East Palace." I pointed to the three feather arrows on the table that had been pulled from Mu Yu's body, "I suspect that the people who killed me on the upper floor of Liancheng didn't want to take my life. Otherwise, they should choose an arrow with a barb, because the barbed arrow will bring a large piece of flesh from the victim when the arrow is drawn, which will aggravate the injury of the arrowmaker, or even kill the arrow. Or smear the arrow with poison that seals the throat with blood, and if it touches a little, he will die on the spot. But they didn't. And aren't the killers chasing their targets endlessly? Dozens of top killers, will they give up their mission and run away because of the appearance of you and Xiaoye? If someone hadn't stolen or robbed the Dark Alliance's nest bow to assassinate me, I'd give it to the Dark Alliance. Then it can only be proved that it is the people of the Dark Alliance who planted Xuanyuan Che. ”

Thinking about it, it was very suspicious that Mr. Xu helped Mu Yu down from me in charge of the ink, but the man in black did not rush and waited patiently, but at that time, Mu Yu and I were in danger, I just thought that it was better to die than to die both, but I didn't think about why the man in black was so abnormal.

And the flaw of firing feather arrows with a nest bow, even if I can't see it, but there are so many civil and military generals above the city tower, isn't there one who has a little knowledge?

It makes people feel that the Dark Alliance is trying to cover it up by doing this. In fact, there are other plans. This method is really vicious.

"Although the Dark Alliance is a killer organization that has only emerged in the past two years, it is the strongest killer organization in the rivers and lakes today, and it is impossible for the guy who eats in his hand to be robbed by others. The Dark Alliance pursues the target at any cost, and will never give up so easily just because the unexpected appearance of two people increases the difficulty. Mo Qian frowned. Then why did the Dark Alliance go to great lengths to blame Xuanyuan Che? If you want him to die, just send two people into the palace to kill him, isn't it over? This is another killing and a corpse, and finally let the lord personally order Xuanyuan Che to be killed, after such a big circle, what is he trying to do? ”

"Perhaps, his purpose is for me to personally order Xuanyuan to be killed?" Eliminate all impossibilities, and the rest is the truth even if it is no longer possible.

The other party even took into account my IQ and ability, if I was smart and well-informed, then I would naturally suspect Xuanyuan Che about the matter at the city gate. If I were as stupid and stupid as the rumors, and a corpse fell from the tree, and the deceased was holding a rag torn from Regulus's robe, and Regulus had the deceased's token there, I would naturally assume that it was Regulus.

But did this mastermind behind the scenes ever think that if I was smart enough but not well-informed, and I couldn't find out that the matter at the city gate was done by the Dark Alliance, I wouldn't suspect Xuanyuan Che. Such a clumsy planting of a corpse falling from a tree was seen through by me. Isn't it in vain that he does this?

But after thinking about it, the Dark Alliance found this nest of bows made by Mo Qian two years ago, and Mo Qian went to the top of the Ghost King three years ago, and now that I have won a big victory at the top of the Ghost King, Mo Qian must have fallen into my hands. So it's hard not for me to find out about firing feather arrows with a nest bow.

First of all, let me believe that the Dark Alliance wants to take my life, and the rumored owner of the Dark Alliance is Xuanyuan Che. Regardless of whether the rumors are true or not, for the sake of my own life, I will never keep Xuanyuan Che. Whether or not the corpse on the tree was done by Xuanyuan Che, it will be my best excuse to get rid of Xuanyuan Che.

"It can't be Murong Xingye's doing! Taking advantage of the rumors that the master of the Dark Alliance is the best prince of Xiliang, he hired a killer of the Dark Alliance to pretend to kill the master, so that he can not only heroically save the United States at a critical moment, but also take the opportunity to get rid of Xuanyuan Che, killing two birds with one stone! Mo Qian suddenly shouted: "Because of love and hate, first Xuanyuan Che, who the Lord doesn't care about the most, then Zhuangyuan Xun, Qin Ruoan, and Xiao Qingyu...... Get rid of the men around the Lord one by one, and in the end only he is left, and the Lord will naturally be his. ”

"Neurotic, you!" Xiao Ye will not be so perverted, not to mention, Xiao Ye's love is hot.

I don't know why Mo Qian and Xiao Ye are so incompatible, and they squeeze each other when they find an opportunity, which is really a headache.

"The subordinates lost their words, the lord is not strange, no blame!"

"If Xuanyuan Che is really the master of the Dark Alliance, is there any point in him framing himself and then asking me to order him to be killed? Or is he just too bored to get something out to pass the time? If Xuanyuan Che is not the master of the Dark Alliance, then the Dark Alliance has spent so much effort, does it just want the world to know that their fake master has been killed? How arrogant and boring the Dark Alliance must have been to come up with this idea. ”

"Why didn't the Lord ask Xuanyuan Che?"

"Stupid you! If Xuanyuan Che is really the master of the Dark Alliance, and he did all this by himself, then will he admit it? If he wasn't the master of the Dark Alliance, he wouldn't know anything, so why would he have nothing to do? Anyway, his answer is the same, and I don't know if what he said is true or not. "I'm not a lie detector!