Soon, the steward in charge of the birthday banquet in the front yard hurried over.

"Lord of the City, no one left early in the middle of the banquet, and no one joined in the middle of the banquet."

"No one left early, and no one entered halfway?"

Jin Kai was a little unconvinced, according to his guess, the mysterious man should be in the birthday banquet now.

"Lord City Lord, I have asked all the servants in the mansion, and it is true that no one left the scene in advance, let alone left halfway."

The steward replied with some trepidation.

Immediately, Jin Kai's gaze became deeper, and soon he thought of a possibility.

"How many people have been to Xijing in the middle of the birthday banquet?"

"This! At the beginning of the city lord's birthday banquet, some people went to Xijing one after another, and it was difficult to investigate it for a while. ”

The steward said with some embarrassment.

After all, the people who came to the birthday banquet were all distinguished guests, and it was not easy for them to come forward and ask one by one.

"When did you find the female assassin and the mysterious man?"

Jin Kai also knew that it was impossible to find out the mysterious man by asking them one by one, so he had to narrow down the scope of his search.

"Just half an hour ago."

Kowako quickly replied.

"You're going to check who left the table half an hour ago?"

Jin Kai now had a bad premonition, and he felt that his master's birthday banquet was very likely to have been targeted by the Dayu Dynasty.

He even suspected that the deaths of the two sons of the Yue Kingdom were planned by the Dayu Dynasty.

In fact, Jin Kai and his master Shi Fangzheng both understood what the calculations of these major forces who came to congratulate him on his birthday, and the relative Dayu Dynasty should also know these people's Xiao Jiujiu.

It's just that according to his master Shi Fangzheng and his own thoughts, the Dayu Dynasty should not do this kind of assassination of the princes of the vassal states in order to dispel the ambitions of the vassal states in various places.

Because this can easily lead to these feudal towns and vassal kings of the entire Dayu Dynasty taking the opportunity to rebel.

But the current situation is completely beyond their expectations, as if the royal family of the Dayu Dynasty does not care about the rebellion of these feudal towns and feudal kings.

If they want to say why they think that these people are people sent by the Dayu royal family and not other forces, Shi Fangzheng and Jin Kai also discussed this matter.

Judging from the other party's way of doing things and his decisive and ruthless style, they are very much like the dead soldiers that Nansi has secretly cultivated.

Ordinary people don't know much about these dead soldiers, but as the envoys of Anzhou Jiedu and the city lords of Anzhou Prefecture who have provided weapons and equipment to the Dayu Dynasty for a long time, they still have heard of this.

Of course, this does not rule out that other forces are trying to provoke contradictions between the feudal towns, the feudal kings and the imperial court.

But this is also clearly not in their own interest.

If you want to say that there are only two forces in the whole world who most want the feudal towns and vassal kings of the Dayu Dynasty to rebel, one is the grassland tribe, and the other is the grass army that is now making a lot of noise in the south.

As for saying that there are vassal kings or festival envoys, who want to provoke chaos in the world and then take advantage of the situation, this is basically impossible.

Because no matter which vassal king or jiedu envoy has some brains, he will not do this, after all, the cavalry of the steppe tribe is still raging in the north.

At this juncture, it will only benefit the grassland tribes to provoke the civil strife of the Dayu Dynasty, and even give the grassland tribes the opportunity to enter the Central Plains.

At that time, even if they want to defeat the grassland tribe that the Dayu Dynasty can only compete with with the strength of the whole country, it will be a fool's dream.

Therefore, the most correct way now is to drive the grassland tribes away from the Dayu Dynasty now, and it would be best if some of the strength of the Dayu Dynasty and other feudal towns and vassal states could be consumed during the period.

However, it is basically impossible for either the grassland tribe or the grass army to send a group of dead soldiers to assassinate the prince of the vassal kingdom to provoke the situation in the world.

Eliminating all impossibilities, the remaining one, no matter how incredible, is the final answer.

Since the grassland tribes, grass armies, and various feudal towns and vassal states have been dispatched, then the only thing left is the possibility of the Dayu Dynasty.

And the reason for his assassination of the prince of the vassal kingdom Jin Kai has also thought about it.

Nothing more than the following.

1. The move of the Dayu Dynasty was intended to deter the feudal towns and vassal states, and their killing of the prince of the Yue Kingdom was a kind of deterrent.

Second, the Dayu royal family has discovered the plot of the king of Yue, and feels that even if it kills the son of the king of Yue, it is a blow to the Yue country, and even wants to provoke the king of Yue to send troops to rebel, and destroy the Yue country first on the grounds that the northern grassland tribes are approaching and the Yue country does not know the general situation.

3. There may have been different factions within the court, and there was a party dispute between them, and some people wanted to use the murder of the prince of Yue to subdue the other side.

But no matter which one is possible, this shows that the current Dayu Dynasty has serious problems in decision-making on military affairs.

Just as Jin Kai was thinking, the steward who had gone to investigate hurriedly ran over again.

Immediately, he handed Jin Kai a note with his name written on it.

"The host just saw that you were not at the birthday banquet and asked me about you, I told the host what happened in the backyard, he looked shocked and at the same time he asked you to hurry up and investigate, because the birthday banquet is almost over."

The steward told Jin Kai what Shi Fangzheng had said.

Jin Kai was also full of bitterness at this time, he also knew that the birthday banquet was coming to an end, and once the birthday banquet was over, he would have no chance to find the other party before he found the mysterious man.

After all, the identities of the people who participated in the birthday banquet this time are very special, and they can't leave everyone behind for investigation.

Even they can't make a public announcement, because once this matter is known to outsiders, then their Anzhou face will be completely lost.

Think about the fact that the prince of a feudal kingdom was killed in the Jiedu Mansion of Anju, how does this make outsiders view Anju?

Then he unfolded the list and looked at it carefully.

Although this note is not big, there are more than a dozen names on it, after all, there are still a lot of people who came to participate in Shi Fangzheng's birthday banquet this time.

After simply excluding some older and younger people, as well as those who were physically weak and could not do martial arts, soon the rest of the people on the list were individuals.

So Jin Kai immediately returned to the front yard where the birthday banquet was held, and he raised his glass casually and drank with the people at the wine table again.

He still had that trademark smile on his face, but his eyes were on the four tables he had flagged as suspicious.

After drinking a few times, he pretended to be drunk, and walked towards the four tables with the flask and the glass.

Once he had reached one of the tables, he squinted his eyes and said drunkenly.

"Today is the 60th birthday of the family teacher, it is a day of great joy, today I Jin is very happy, come to everyone raise the cup for the family teacher to drink this cup."

At his suggestion, everyone at the table raised their glasses and drank it all, and even those who were already drunk at the table were awakened by the people next to them.

In this way, Jin Kai began to toast table by table, and soon after the first three tables were finished, he did not find anything unusual about the three people.

Then he carried the wine jug to the table where Li Yi was.

At this time, Li Yi was already lying on the table and began to fall asleep.

When Jin Kai came to this table, Li Yi was woken up by Mu Qingyang next to him.

He opened his sleepy eyes, staring blankly at Jin Kai standing at the table, and it took a long time for his gaze to focus.

And although Jin Kai walked crookedly at this time, as if he would fall to the ground at any time, his small eyes were looking at Li Yi like electricity.

He knew that the young man in front of him was the last of the four.

However, when he looked at Li Yi's drunken appearance, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and he felt that the young man in front of him was even more unlike the mysterious person than the person in front of him before.

Because the other party's eyes that didn't wake up were too real, and Jin Kai could still see the crystal saliva on his cheeks.

No matter how you look at it, the kid in front of you should be drunk and just woke up.

To say that this is also acting, Jin Kai doesn't believe it at all, he thinks that acting in front of people is also an expert.

Whether the other party is acting or not, he should be easy to distinguish.

Just in front of his absolute eyes, this kid should not be the mysterious person, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly found that Li Yi's clothes had dirty marks on his chest.

Although there were a lot of lanterns lit in the courtyard because the birthday banquet was held, the relatively dim light made it impossible for him to tell what the stain on Li Yi's chest was.

According to the servants of the prince of the Yue Kingdom, the mysterious man fell by the wall before.

And he also carefully inspected the place where the mysterious man fell, and since some flowers were planted in that area, the servants of the palace would take care of the area and sprinkle water frequently.

So it stands to reason that the mysterious man should have some dirt on his body.

When Jin Kai found the stain on Li Yi's chest, he couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, and he said to Mu Qingyang with a big tongue holding a wine glass.

"Prince Zhaoguo, who is this little brother next to you? I see he's drunk a lot tonight! ”

Jin Kai did not ask Li Yi directly, but looked for a breakthrough from Mu Qingyang.

"This is my friend's name is Li Yi, and he is also the junior brother of Mu Junhe and Brother Mu."

Although I don't know if Mu Junhe and his own generation are the same generation, Mu Qingyang was already a little drunk at this time, so he directly called Mu Junhe the eldest brother.

Hearing the three words Mu Junhe, Jin Kai was taken aback, and he had already heard of the name Mu Junhe.

With a royal background and the number one swordsman in the world, this Mu Junhe is a well-known figure in the Dayu Dynasty.

Jin Kai didn't expect Mu Junhe to come to congratulate his master on his birthday today.

At this time, he found that there was an extremely tall and burly man sitting beside Li Yi.

Although he didn't speak at this time, Jin Kai could feel the surging sharp sword intent from his body.

"It turns out that I didn't know that Mu Daxia is here, please Haihan!"

Jin Kai's sentence Mu Daxia said very well, he had heard that the world's number one swordsman had a lot of conflicts with the Dayu royal family, so he only called Mu Junhe a hero rather than a son.

Regarding Jin Kai's initiative to show goodwill, Mu Junhe just nodded lightly and did not show much enthusiasm.

It's not that Mu Junhe doesn't know the number of etiquette, it's just because Mu Junhe has never liked this kind of occasion.

And Jin Kai had already heard about Mu Junhe's past deeds and understood his temperament, so he turned the topic to Li Yi again.

Just now, when he heard that Li Yinai was Mu Junhe's junior brother, he was a little more convinced that Li Yinai was that mysterious person.

After all, as Mu Junhe's junior brother, the strength of this Li Yi in front of him must be extraordinary.

So, he poured the wine glass in his hand to himself, and then walked to Mu Junhe's side.

"Today, Mu Daxia can come here to participate in my master's birthday banquet, which really makes our Anzhou Pengsheng shine, and Jin once again toasts you two brothers and sisters."

Although Jin Kai was talking to Mu Junhe, his eyes were always staring at Li Yi beside Mu Junhe.

At this time, although Li Yi's face was as usual, he still looked drunk, but he already knew that the chubby city lord of Anzhou Prefecture in front of him was doubting himself.

So he immediately reached for the wine glass on the table, but by chance he touched the wine glass directly.

Immediately, the wine in the wine glass spilled on the table, and at the same time, the round wine glass was about to fall under the table, Li Yi reached out and grabbed the wine glass in his hand.

But the spilled wine made his hands wet, and Li Yi couldn't help but burp and smile.

"Golden City Lord, I'm sorry!"

Immediately, he motioned for Mu Qingyang to pour him wine, and then naturally wiped his hand stained with wine on his chest.

And Jin Kai also saw clearly at this time that the stains on Li Yi's chest were two long handprints, and at first glance, the color seemed to be the color of the soup stock on the table.

"Is this a coincidence, or is this kid in front of him deliberately covering up the original marks on his chest?"

Jin Kai's heart couldn't help but start to wonder at this time.

Just when Jin Kai was still thinking about whether Li Yi was the mysterious person, Li Yi had already raised it and poured a glass of wine into his mouth with a tilt of his neck.

Jin Kai had no choice but to put on an admiring look and drank the wine in his cup.

"This little brother Li is so drinkable!"

Jin Kai nodded in praise.

"Isn't that right? My brother Li Yi just took turns to drink with us four times at the whole table, and the wine he drank alone was more than the amount of five or six of us! ”

At this time, Mu Qingyang praised with a wine burp.

Jin Kai couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, there were ten people at this table, and Li Yi drank a full four rounds, even if he didn't drink with Mu Jun, he drank more than thirty cups.

Even he couldn't stand so much wine.

"If you want to sneak into Mu Fenglin's room and fight the female assassin after drinking more than thirty glasses of wine, and then return to the birthday banquet without knowing it?"

Jin Kai couldn't help but ask himself in his heart.

At this moment, Li Yi's body, who had just taken a sip of wine, began to shake suddenly, and then I saw him suddenly staggering two steps to the edge of the fence and began to vomit.

The wine in his stomach poured out like a flood that had burst the floodgates, and the others couldn't help but frown.

And Jin Kai couldn't help but shake his head secretly when he saw this.

"It seems that this kid is not the mysterious man."

Jin Xingxing finally made a judgment, but he didn't notice that the corner of Li Yi's mouth showed an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth after he had finished vomiting against the wall.