The room was as dead silent as the outside, and the lights that were still on were swaying by the cold wind that was blowing in from outside, and one of the lights flickered a few times before going out.

The light dimmed, making it harder to see whether the two people who fell to the ground were alive or dead.

Looking around at the empty antechamber in the house, Zhan Qi strode inside, and at the same time said to the bearded man, "You go inside and have a look." ”

Zhan Qi walked to the position where the two were lying and squatted down to check on the situation of the two.

Yu Tianfu was lying on the ground face up, Yu Tianjun was lying sideways on Yu Tianfu's right hand, the eyes of the two opened in unison, and their surprised expressions were frozen on their somewhat distorted faces. Probing their snorts, both of them were dead, but their bodies were still warm, apparently just dead.

When examining their corpses, Zhan Qi found that Yu Tianfu had a deep wound on his neck, the wound was neatly incised, judging from the shape, it should have been cut out by a thin and sharp weapon, there were no other obvious wounds on his body, and the wound on his neck should be a fatal wound; Yu Tianjun's body did not necessarily have obvious scars, and what made him fatal was a short sword that pierced through the heart from behind and the tip of the sword pierced from the chest. Upon closer inspection, the blade of the sword was sharp and thin, and the gem on the hilt looked very familiar, as if it had been seen somewhere.

Zhan Qi thought for a moment, and suddenly remembered that when he was in the barracks, he had seen Shangguan Hongpei with a short sword of a similar style.

At this time, the bearded man and the two guards who had entered the inner room came out, and the bearded man stepped forward and said, "General Zhan, there is no one inside, and the window is closed from the inside, and nothing suspicious has been found." ”

Zhan Qi stood up and walked to the table not far from Yu Tianfu and Yu Tianjun's lying bodies.

The table was full of dishes, as well as a jug of wine. The carbon in the small oven of warm wine is still burning, the wine in the jug is still warm, and the dishes on the table have not yet turned cold. There were no signs of a fight at the scene, and the clothes on the two dead were neat, not like they had struggled.

Zhan Qi turned to the bearded man and said, "The two princes died in Kunkang Palace for no reason, this matter is not trivial, I have to immediately explain to His Highness everything that happened here." You stay here to protect the scene and continue the search to see if you can find clues or find people who witnessed what happened. ”

After saying that, he hurriedly left the scene of the murder and ordered the ironclad soldiers guarding outside the Kunkang Palace to assist the bearded man in the search.

When Zhan Qi led a few ironclad soldiers to the main hall in a hurry, Yu Tianzheng and his guards had already controlled the overall situation, and when they entered the door, they happened to run into two guards escorting Hui Concubine out of the hall.

Entering the hall, a strong smell of blood came to the nostrils, and many wounded or dead imperial guards were scattered all over the hall. The defeated Imperial Guards were either killed or surrendered, and the uninjured Imperial Guards, who surrendered, helped to remove the corpses from the main hall under the watchful eye of the Guards.

Zhan Qi walked through a group of busy imperial guards and guards, walked to Yu Tianzheng, and ran directly to the subject without thinking about anything else: "Your Highness, the bodies of the eldest prince and the third prince were found in the Kunkang Palace, and their bodies were preliminarily examined, and they were all injured and killed by sharp weapons. ”

After Yu Tianzheng controlled the overall situation, he was about to arrest Yu Tianjun, but now before he took action, he heard such a shocking and unexpected news brought by Zhan Qi, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Have you caught the murderer who killed them?" ”

"Nope." Zhan Qi shook his head and briefly said everything he had seen in the Kunkang Palace, and then added: "The short sword left on the Third Prince's body, I have seen Guan Hong have the same one in the military camp before. ”

Yu Tianzheng frowned and said, "I'll go over and take a look." ”

Yu Tianzheng and Zhan Qi walked out of the main hall together, and were about to walk towards Kunkang Palace, but they saw a young military general walking towards this side with Lingling.

Seeing the youth and the spirit, Zhan Qi couldn't help but be surprised. He recognized Lei Dongsheng, Shangguan Hong's cronie when he was young, and Shangguan Hong's cronies actually arrested Ling Ling, an important figure in Yu Tianjun's camp, and sent him here?

In Zhan Qi's slightly surprised gaze, Lei Dongsheng had already escorted Ling Ling to Yu Tianzheng's side. He saluted Yu Tianzheng and said, "Your Highness, this person intended to escape from the palace while taking advantage of the chaos, but was discovered and captured by his subordinates. ”

Yu Tianzheng smiled slightly and said, "Dongsheng, you did a good job this time!" ”

Hearing Yu Tianzheng's words, Zhan Qi reacted quickly, it turned out that Lei Dongsheng was a spy arranged by Yu Tianzheng by Shangguan Hong's side.

Lei Dongsheng's head kept low, and when he heard Yu Tianzheng's appreciation, he also lowered his head and bowed and said, "Your Highness has won the award." ”

After speaking, he straightened his waist and still lowered his head and said, "My subordinates still have something important to report to His Highness." ”

Yu Tianzheng glanced at him and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Lei Dongsheng knelt down abruptly and said, "My subordinates have failed to protect Miss Du well because of the trust of His Highness, please condemn Your Highness!" ”

"What?!" Yu Tianzheng and Zhan Qi both shouted in unison when they heard this, and Yu Tianzheng even pulled up Lei Dongsheng, who was kneeling on the ground, and asked eagerly, "Didn't Miss Du enter the palace with you?" Where is she? Where is she now? ”

Lei Dongsheng replied: "After we entered the palace, Miss Du was left alone by the third prince. The subordinates later inquired that Miss Du was taken away by the third prince, and no one knew where Miss Du was taken to, but from the eunuchs beside the third prince, the third prince had ordered someone to go to the imperial infirmary to get a bottle of poison before taking Miss Du away. After that, his subordinates searched secretly in the palace for a long time, but they couldn't find any trace of Miss Du. ”

Hearing this, Yu Tianzheng and Zhan Qi's faces changed.

Yu Tianzheng didn't have time to blame Lei Dongsheng, turned around and called a few guards, and ordered: "You go and find out all the palace people around the third prince immediately!" Also, go and bring the steward of the Imperial Infirmary with you! ”

Several guards took the order and left, and after a while, they brought back all the people that Yu Tianzheng was looking for.

The people who were found had done things for Yu Tianjun before, and now Yu Tianzheng had just controlled the overall situation in the palace and found them out, for fear that Yu Tianzheng would find them to settle accounts, and the others knelt in front of Yu Tianzheng in fear. In order to save their lives, they were very cooperative, and they didn't need Yu Tianzheng to interrogate him to tell everything he wanted to know, and they didn't dare to hide it in the slightest.