Chapter 208: Analysis
When Li Hongpeng heard the voice, his back stiffened, and he suddenly realized something, and immediately put the long sword in his sheath and threw it on the stone bed, because he almost injured her last time, and he still remembers it vividly, and he can't afford to take this risk.
Although their revolutionary friendship was established in money, she was very kind to him, and the two gradually narrowed the distance, and he did regard her as a beloved apprentice, and that feeling was like an old father's feelings for his daughter, without any impurities.
"When can I get out?" Li Hongpeng kept a safe distance from her and asked loudly.
Ye Xintian approached, put the decoction in his hand on the stone table, and said, "Master, bear with it for a while, it's not safe outside for the time being." ”
"The Prince's people are still watching?" Li Hongpeng frowned as he spoke, he always had a bad premonition in his heart these days, he wanted to catch it, but he always pounced.
Ye Xintian nodded and said, "Yes, and there are more people than before, I am weeding in the yard, and I always feel that several pairs of eyes are staring at me." ”
"Don't give up after so long? What the hell is the prince waiting for? Li Hongpeng supported his cheek with one hand, frowned and said suspiciously.
"At first, I thought that the prince wanted to get the stolen goods and make me ruined, but after a long time, I felt that he was ostensibly targeting me and taking this matter, but now it seems that the target is the entire Jin Palace." Ye Xintian said his speculation in the past few days.
"It seems that the rumors of Yi Siyu and Yi Sijin's feud are true, but I didn't expect my brother to be like this." Li Hongpeng sighed.
"For the throne?" Ye Xintian asked with a twisted eyebrow.
"Who knows, I'm the most innocent anyway, I've never missed, I became a bait that night, and I was poisoned by an arrow." Li Hongpeng has been thinking about the whole thing carefully in the past few days, and how wrong he thinks.
The prince came to King Jin's mansion to arrest him, that is, the hidden arrow of the treasure house was designed by him, but why could he calculate it so accurately, it was expected that he would go that night, and a praying mantis to catch the cicada and the yellow finch came behind.
It seems that even the heavily guarded King Jin's Mansion can't escape the infiltration of spies. It's just that it's hard to make a conclusion about who the prince's play is for at the moment.
"Speaking of which, I have questions and want to ask the master." Ye Xintian has a question that he has never been able to figure out.
Li Hongpeng turned around and saw her serious face, he also became nervous, carefully recalled the situation that night, and said, "You ask." ”
"After the master entered the treasure house, did he find anything different? Like, what do you see, what do you hear? ”
Li Hongpeng is the number one sword in the world, in addition to swordsmanship, his light skills, martial arts attainments are also second to none, even if it is a cold arrow, he will be the first to notice, why was there no alertness at that time?
Moreover, the emphasis is on gold sore medicine. Although this bottle of gold sore medicine is a tribute, for Chen Guo, it is just one of the bottles, and it is not particularly cared for, nor is it uniquely stored, which proves that he does not care about gold sore medicine at all.
However, it was so accurate, Li Hongpeng went to steal it, and he just fell into the trap.
"There is no difference, but ......" Li Hongpeng in and out of the palace is commonplace, basically no one will notice, he recalled the situation that night in his mind, he successfully sneaked into the palace, familiar with the way to the treasure house, opened the big lock of the treasure house at a very fast speed, everything went quite smoothly, he did not find anyone following, suddenly he narrowed his eyes and said: "Everything has not changed, but that night when I opened the door, I smelled a unique sandalwood fragrance, and it was unforgettable when I inhaled it." ”
"That's incense." Ye Xintian suddenly realized and made a bold guess.
Li Hongpeng looked at her and asked, "How do you say this?" ”
"All scents have two sides, maybe just ordinary fragrance, but some use fragrance to numb people's nerves, and the master may encounter the latter. What's next, what happened? Ye Xintian probably understood what was going on, but he still needed Li Hongpeng to continue to say before he could reach a conclusion.
"It was quiet in the vault, as usual I've been, no different. I began to look everywhere for gold sore medicine, I searched all over the bookshelf and didn't find it, followed the aroma and saw a brocade box on his table, I opened it by a ghost, and at the same time as I opened, a cold arrow came out from behind me, so fast that my eyes were spent, I moved my footsteps, the arrow grazed my arm, and the next moment I felt the blood rolling all over my body, and the pulse of my wrist instantly turned purple and black. After Li Hongpeng finished speaking, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, but he blamed himself for being too careless at the time.
"Is there an incense burner in the treasury?" Ye Xintian asked.
Li Hongpeng's eyes widened and he asked in surprise, "How do you know?" ”
"The incense invades your nervous system while you are looking for it in the treasure trove, making you unresponsive and delirious, which is the first step; Then use the scent to guide you to the brocade box; Finally, the moment the master opened the brocade box, the last mechanism was activated, and the poisoned arrow was shot, and you were too heavy to make a large dodge action, and the arrow was inevitable. Ye Xintian analyzed.
"But I didn't see any mechanism, the brocade box is exquisite, that's all."
"Master, do you see any transparent threads or something?"
"Nope."
"Master, think about it again."
"There is no transparent thread, but before opening the brocade box, I played with spider silk, very thin silk thread, not the sunlight penetrates, I will not find it at all."
Ye Xintian nodded, Li Hongpeng's every word was verifying her thoughts, she probably had the picture of the time in her mind, restoring the whole thing, she said: "Master, from the moment you step into the room, everything that happens is interlocking, spider silk is the key to open the poisoned arrow, the brocade box is the reason to lure you to the past, and the fragrance is the fuse that makes you lose your calm thinking." ”
"I kind of understand what's going on!" As he peeled back the cocoon, Li Hongpeng suddenly realized that he had stepped into the trap step by step without knowing it.
"It's just that I don't understand, how did the prince know that I want to master you to steal gold sore medicine." Ye Xintian had other worries.
"Maybe the person behind the scenes is not the crown prince, he was just tricked into breaking into King Jin's mansion at night?" Li Hongpeng thinks that he does not have their ability to design and play with such finesse.
"No, the Lord's messenger is the prince." Ye Xintian affirmed.
"Why are you so sure it's him?"
"Master, the thief shouts the words catch the thief, and he is talking about the prince." Even if Yi Siyu is not the mastermind behind the scenes, he is also an accomplice.
"And how did he find out about our plans?" Li Hongpeng squinted his eyes and asked.
Ye Xintian sighed helplessly and said, "It seems that it is necessary to investigate the entire Jin Palace, such a thing as the inner line is really impossible to prevent!" ”
"You can't protect yourself now, and you still want to check on others?" Li Hongpeng had a 'you're crazy' expression.
"Master, do you want to make a bet?" Ye Xintian said with stars twinkling in his eyes.
"Bet on what?" Li Hongpeng saw her smiling like a fox, and knew that she had a bad idea in her heart, but he didn't know who would be unlucky next.
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Ye Xintian held the candle flame in his hand, and before he walked out of the secret passage, he heard a knock on the door that did not stop, and Qing Ling's anxious voice.
She walked out quickly, closing the entrance of the secret passage while responding, it turned out that it was already dark, and time had passed so much unconsciously, no wonder Qingling was in a hurry to knock on the door.
Qingling is a smart child, Ye Xintian explained that if she didn't respond, she wouldn't go in, so she obediently kept knocking on the door, turning back from time to time, seeing Fang Qi's face, and she was so frightened that she continued to knock on the door.
"Princess, princess, are you awake?" Qing Ling deliberately blocked the door with his whole person, so as not to let Fang Qi have a chance to break in, although he didn't dare.
Fang Qi held the account book, his face was full of impatience, but he still kept the corners of his mouth up, and he said, "If the princess is still sleeping, then the little one will come back later." ”
Qing Ling exhaled cautiously, the knocking on the door stopped, and when she turned around, she found that Fang Qi hadn't even moved his heels, and she had no intention of leaving at all.
Qing Ling sighed and raised her hand in resignation, intending to continue knocking on the door.
"What's the matter with Qingling?" Ye Xintian raised his voice and asked impatiently.
Ye Xintian put her hands on her chest, sorted out her breathing, and regained her composure, because she believed that Fang Qi's coming this time was not easy.
Before Qingling could respond, Fang Qi took the lead and shouted: "Princess, it's a small matter of urgency." ”
Ye Xintian's eyes narrowed into a line, he didn't mean to ask Qingling to open the door, and said through the door panel: "Even if it's urgent, you shouldn't disturb the master's sleep, as an old man in the house, you should understand, right?" ”
"It's the little one who offended the princess, but the little one really has something urgent to report." Fang Qi thought that he had served so many masters, what masters and what personalities, he knew in his heart, but only Ye Xintian's thoughts, he still hadn't figured out accurately, such a person who didn't eat oil and salt was really annoying.
Ye Xintian sneered and said, "Qingling, let him in." ”
It's best for Fang Qi to really have something very important to tell, if it's just a trivial matter, wait a minute, don't blame her for turning her face and being ruthless!
Fang Qi came in with the account book, knelt down respectfully and kowtowed, the number of etiquette should be the same, halfway through, he secretly peeked at Ye Xintian's reaction, but found that she was drinking tea, and did not say a word from beginning to end, he could only bow his head and grit his teeth to continue.
"Manager Fang, I have always respected you, you are also an old man in the palace, I have a lot to rely on your help, but your behavior today is really in vain what I value you." Ye Xintian said earnestly.
She has always held grudges, she has not forgotten the first day she became the hostess, Fang Qi threw a few account books for her, let her see things by herself, obviously she didn't want him to interfere in many things.
"The little one knows that he is wrong, and he asks the princess not to remember the villain." Fang Qi gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.
Ye Xintian waved his hand, half-squinted his eyes and said, "Manager Fang can say something if he has something, I'll listen." ”
Fang Qi stepped forward respectfully and spread the paper in his hand on the table, which recorded some things in detail.
"What is this?" Ye Xintian looked at one of them casually, and he couldn't see it.