Chapter 035: The Murderer

The fourth prince Xiao Ji and the sixth prince Xiao Lun are all concubines, one was born to Dong Shuyi, the other was born to Ding Chonghua, and almost all the heirs of the Xiao family have both talents and appearances, but except for Xiao Tong, the prince of Zhaoming, who has almost no stain on his character, the other princes are either weak and incompetent, or tyrannical.

And this Shaoling king Xiao Lun is one of the tyrannical temperament, in the previous life she heard that the prince in Yangzhou as a state assassin Shi Shi, it was rampant, fish and flesh people, but also often wandered with servants between the market, once when asking an old farmer to evaluate him, because the old farmer truthfully answered four words: "tyrannical and impetuous", he cruelly called the old farmer to swallow the yellow eel and die.

In addition, he has done many incredible things, which can be described as incomprehensible.

Of course, Xie Ling was most impressed by the most despicable thing that this prince did when Hou Jing besieged Jiankang, originally Hou Jing had already run out of food and grass after three months of besieging Jiankang, and the soldiers were hungry and tired, and they were already unable to fight, so Hou Jing's strategist Wang Wei proposed an idea to Hou Jing to deceive the military rations of the imperial court.

When Hou Jing proposed to surrender to the imperial court, Xiao Lun's son Xiao Qu resolutely opposed accepting Hou Jing's surrender, and said that this must be Hou Jing's strategy to delay the army, to retreat as an advance, with the intention of seizing the food and materials of the imperial court, Xiao Qu at that time was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and even a young man who had not tied his hair could see Hou Jing's tricks and conspiracy, but no one in the entire Nanliang royal family trapped in Taicheng stood on the same front as Xiao Qu,

Hou Jing learned that Xiao Qu's courage and determination to stick to Jiankang City, he was already cowardly, in order to drive away Xiao Qu, he repeated the old trick again, asking Xiao Yan to drive Xiao Qu out of Jiankang Taicheng, Xiao Qu swore to die and did not want to leave, as his father Xiao Lun actually forced him to die, and even drew his sword to each other, saying: "If you don't leave, I will take your head and dedicate it to Hou Jing" Such ruthless words.

In the end, Xiao was indeed driven out of Jiankang City, and Nanliang also collapsed as he expected, and the young man had no revenge, but he was destroyed at the hands of a group of cowardly, incompetent and selfish fathers, and the handsome young man who wanted to protect his country finally died at the hands of Hou Jing.

After the overthrow of the Southern Liang Dynasty, Yu Xin, whose family has the title of "Seven Generations of Xiucai and Five Generations of Anthologies", once wrote a "Mourning Jiangnan Fu", in which there is a sentence that says: "How can there be a million righteous teachers, once the armor is rolled, and the Yiyi is cut down, like grass and trees!" ”

It means that the imperial army with millions of soldiers is attacked by a judgment army with only 8,000 soldiers and horses, and it is like being cut grass, and there is no power to resist, how many people can know the helplessness and mockery in this?

And before Xiao Cheng died, all he had left in his heart was this full of resentment and helplessness!

While Xie Ling was thinking about this, the three princes also looked at her curiously.

"Hey, who is this little Langjun? It is quite a bit of a dragon and yang, and the imperial brother seems to have never seen it before. It was still Xiao Xu who was questioned.

Before his words fell, he heard Xiao Tongyi shouting: "Shut up! Don't hurry up and apologize to this Xie Wulangjun! ”

Xie Ling also frowned: being praised for having the posture of Longyang is not a beautiful word, and the former prince of Yan, Murong Chong, served the enemy Fu Jian with the posture of Longyang, which can be described as extremely humiliating.

However, it is not surprising that these words came out of Xiao Xu's mouth, because Xiao Ji in his previous life was very good, and when he saw Liancheng standing beside Xiao Ji as a strategist, he tried his best to bring Liancheng into his account as a staff member.

Of course, in addition to Xiao Xu, Xiao Lun and Xiao Ji are also involved.

"Xie Gorou-kun?" Xiao Xu hurriedly bowed his head, and immediately seemed to think of something, and said, "Could it be the Xie Ling who led the thunder fire to kill Dong Shizi and Xia Houhong?" Is it the son of the emperor's brother's teacher, Xie Jingxiang? ”

Xiao Tong's face was presumptuous.

Xiao Xu turned to Xie Ling and said: "Apologize, Xiao Langjun really deserves to be a disciple of the Xie family, he was born too handsome and beautiful, and his words were a little abrupt for a while, no wonder, no wonder!" ”

Although he apologized, there was no apology in his tone, but it gave people a sense of ridicule.

"Oh, by the way, what are you doing here?" Xiao Xu pointed to the people around him and asked.

"Investigate the case!" The one who answered these two words was Princess Yongxing.

"Investigating the case?"

"Yes, your imperial brother is breaking a headless case!" Princess Yongxing walked over in a daze, looked at Xie Ling again, and asked, "Since you just proved that you are not the murderer, then who is the murderer?" ”

"Yes! Who is the murderer of Master Ning Yuan? Someone in the crowd also asked.

Xie Ling said, "I don't know. ”

"You don't know?" Princess Yongxing's eyes widened, and she looked at Xie Ling as if she was amused and surprised, and then covered her mouth and giggled, "You and Master Ning Yuan are here to argue, since you are not a murderer, then you can always see who stabbed this arrow into Master Ning Yuan's chest, right?" ”

"I don't know." Xie Ling said again, "The arrows I saw were shot from the position of three points on the left and three points on the right of Angsu, the speed of the arrows was thirty zhang per breath, and the arm strength of the person who shot the arrow was four stones, and the distance was at least a hundred zhang away. ”

When Xie Ling said this, many people's eyes widened, and there was a puzzled and surprised look in their eyes, and Princess Yongxing was even more stunned, frowning: "What...... What do you mean, you know from what direction the arrow is coming from, how fast the arrow is, and how much force the person who shoots the arrow uses? How do you know? ”

"Calculate." Xie Ling only replied with two words, and then said no more.

Xiao Tong, Xiao Gang, and even Xiao Xu all showed disbelief in their eyes.

"You-" Princess Yongxing still wanted to be unrelenting, but Xiao Tong interrupted, "Sister, don't ask anymore, Xie Xiaolangjun said that he didn't know, that is really not knowing." ”

"Brother Huang, the case is not judged like this, you are deliberately biased."

"Why should I be frank?" Xiao Tong replied, "It's the imperial sister, why do you want to fight against Xie Xiaolangjun?" Is the murderer her, and what does it have to do with you? ”

Xiao Tong asked, Princess Yongxing immediately raised her eyebrows, and shouted: "What do you mean, do you suspect Sister I ......?"

Before she finished speaking, she heard Xie Ling cut off: "Actually, if you want to know the murderer, it's not simple, don't you know if you ask these three little monks?" ”

As soon as Xie Ling said this, everyone's eyes once again focused on the three little monks.

"Yes! These three little monks framed Xie Wulangjun like this, they must have been instructed by someone, and the person who instructed them was very likely to be the murderer. ”

"Yes, yes, we should deal with the torture of these three little monks, so that we can know who killed Master Ning Yuan."

In the midst of everyone's discussion and accusations, the faces of the three little monks gradually sank, showing a look of panic and fear, two of them seemed to want to escape, and in a blink of an eye, they were pinched by the collars of the two horsemen.

The two little monks were panicked, and they all pointed to the little monk who was the leader, and shouted: "It's him, it's him who threatened the two of us to lie and pointed the murderous finger at Xie Wulangjun, we actually don't know anything, we didn't see anything, and when we rushed over from the backyard of the temple, the master was already ......."

"Yes, we are all under his command, and he is the one who coerces us!"

"You talk nonsense, nonsense......" The identified little monk was also panicked, his eyes rolled several times, and he saw that the surroundings were full of people, and even a fly could not fly out, seeing that there was no hope of escape, he suddenly pointed at Princess Yongxing, "It's her, she killed Master Ning Yuan, and then asked us to blame Xie Wulangjun." ”

With an uproar, the crowd dispersed, all a few steps away from Princess Yongxing, and the eyes of Xiao Tong and Xiao Gang and the princes all fell on Princess Yongxing.

In front of everyone's eyes, Princess Yongxing was also shocked, and shouted: "You are talking nonsense, what does this matter have to do with this princess?" How dare you frame this princess, why don't you come quickly and kill him! ”

When the little monk heard this, he laughed, pointed at Princess Yongxing, and said loudly: "You committed adultery with your own uncle, Xiao Hong, the king of Linchuan, and was discovered by my master, so you want to kill my master, and you still want to kill me!" ”

As soon as these words fell, the crowd was even more like an explosion, and there were disbelieving discussions, but Xiao Tong's face was covered with a little worry and embarrassment.

"He's talking nonsense, he's wronging me, brother, you let people kill him, kill him!"

At this time, Princess Yongxing didn't know whether she was angry, or if she was really stimulated, she actually ordered Xiao Tong like crazy, and seeing that Xiao Tong also looked at her with stunned and incredulous eyes, she simply pulled out the sword in her hand and stabbed at the little monk!

"Sister Huang, stop!"

Xiao Tong shouted loudly and raised his hand to grab Princess Yongxing's arm, but he was still a step too late, and only heard the sound of "porphyry", and the sword had already penetrated the little monk's chest.