Chapter 182: Deceit
"Shopkeeper Qin, this time, the prince of Tan Guo is so domineering, can I just put up with it?" In the early morning fog, several horse-drawn carriages drove slowly through the mountains, and in one of them, a seductive woman was grumbling with an angry face.
"I never thought that this prince of Tan Guo would be so repulsive to women, judging from what I heard before, he should be a promiscuous." Shopkeeper Qin sat on the wheel of the carriage and was also puzzled.
"Didn't he discover our intentions?" The woman guessed.
"It shouldn't be! We did it very secretly this time, and we didn't even notify Aunt Ai, so it stands to reason that there shouldn't be a leak. Shopkeeper Qin said with a horsewhip.
"Except for Aunt Ai, there should be no one else in Anzhou Prefecture who knows our identity." The woman shook her head, believing that it was impossible for them to leak the news.
"Miss Moyan, based on your experience, is it possible that this prince of Tan Guo is a person with a habit of breaking sleeves?" Shopkeeper Qin pondered for a moment and came up with what he thought was the most likely conjecture.
"This shouldn't be possible, I've been paying attention to him since I got on the boat, and his eyes, actions, and words all show that he was moved when he saw us, but for some reason he suddenly became as indifferent to us as Megumi Yanagishita." The woman known as Moyan shook her head and said.
"In that case, I'm afraid he really knows who we are."
"But how the hell does he know?" Mo Yan and Shopkeeper Qin both fell into deep thought. At this time, Mu Fengxiang, the prince of Tan Kingdom, who was guessed by them, was standing leisurely at the bow of the ship, breathing the air soaked in mist.
With each inhale, he felt a cool breath rush into his lungs.
"Your Royal Highness, the fog above Chen Shui is too big, and the visibility is too low, so you still have to wait for the sun to rise before you can sail." Just as Mu Fengxiang was standing at the bow of the boat and taking a deep breath, Commander Qing came over to report.
"It doesn't matter if you wait, by the way, Bai Chu and Xiangyi cooperated well last night, let's quietly take their families back to Tanguo after a while!" Mu Fengxiang turned around and ordered.
"It's Your Highness, I immediately ordered someone to prepare for this matter."
"By the way, go back and let Bai Chu and Xiangyi go to my cabin, I still have something to ask them." Mu Fengxiang added.
Soon, the so-called Bai Chu and Xiang Yi were taken to Mu Fengxiang's cabin by the Qing Commander.
"Bai Chu and Xiang Yi knock to see His Royal Highness the Prince." At this time, a man and a woman were kneeling at Mu Fengxiang's feet and bowing to him.
"Hey, two of you, please get up, the two of you have been doing fine work in this Anzhou city for more than ten years, it can really be described as hard work, how can I accept such a big gift from you, I should salute the two of you." Saying that, Mu Fengxiang walked quickly to the two of them, and he was about to help the two of them up one by one.
Hearing Mu Fengxiang say this, the two couldn't help but be moved to tears.
"His Royal Highness the Prince of the World really exalts us, and it is an honor for us to be able to contribute to the Tan Kingdom." The man known as Bai Chu immediately bowed his hand.
At this time, the man showed his face, it was the man who had cut off his hand by Mu Fengxiang last night.
And the other woman was the same woman who had her tongue removed last night. It's just that the two of them at this time are intact and don't have any scars.
"Hey, the two of you are so modest, if it weren't for the two of you last night, I'm afraid I would have really fallen on the path of leaving the Hate Palace." Mu Fengxiang still said politely.
It turned out that the reason why he was unmoved by those dancing girls last night was not because he was so high-minded, but because he had been secretly interrogated by these two people.
Only then did he know that the shopkeeper Qin and those dancing girls were actually women from the Palace of Hatred. This time, they wanted to use the Anzhou Festival to make Shi Fangzheng's birthday quietly send the women of the Lihate Palace into the major forces, and wanted to spread the power of the Lihate Palace to the entire Dayu Dynasty.
And once these women are really favored by the princes of the various feudal kingdoms and the children of the families of the Jiedu envoys, then it will be difficult for the feudal towns and feudal kingdoms to have secrets about the palace of hatred.
Even these women will use all means to control the sons of these vassal kingdoms and the children of the powerful. At that time, once the chaotic times begin, then the Lihate Palace will be able to easily manipulate these feudal towns and feudal kingdoms, which will be a complete disaster for each feudal town and feudal country.
What's even more terrifying is that these women will also get away by killing the target after they have lost their useful value.
"Your Highness has a good reputation, and it was only by chance that I discovered the secret of the Hate Palace." Bai Chu said modestly.
"By the way, since the Lihate Palace is so desperate to send these women into the major forces to become pawns to control the major forces, do the other Jianghu sects also have the idea of controlling our feudal kingdoms and feudal towns?" Now Mu Fengxiang is very worried that their Tan Kingdom has been infiltrated by people with hearts.
"During this time, we have paid special attention to the movements of the major forces, but judging from the current situation, these Jianghu forces obviously don't want to be the first bird."
"Yes, Your Highness, except for the Hate Palace, neither Taoism, Confucianism, nor even the Mo family have made much moves." Xiang Yi also added.
"No, my uncle's 60th birthday banquet was only opened with the joint efforts of the major forces, according to reason, whether it is the forces in the temple or the Jianghu sect, they should show their own purposes!" Mu Fengxiang couldn't believe it.
"His Royal Highness, although I can't understand why the other Jianghu sects didn't make too many moves this time, according to my speculation, it is very likely that this birthday banquet was held too smoothly, so that these Jianghu sects all smelled danger from it." Bai Chu said what he thought.
"Oh? What does this mean? Mu Fengxiang didn't understand what Bai Chu meant.
"Has Your Highness heard about the incident at the Rejuvenation Medical Center that happened a few days ago in Anzhou Prefecture?"
"Hey, haven't you heard of this! Not long after this happened, someone secretly released the news. Subsequently, all the people who came to this birthday banquet knew about Mu Qingyang, the prince of the Zhao Kingdom, who had a stroke and was assassinated. When he mentioned this, Mu Fengxiang's face couldn't help but show a playful smile.
"Don't you know, this Zhao prince Mu Qingyang has now become a laughing stock in our world's circles."
"Your Royal Highness, in fact, things are not as rumored outside." Bai Chu put a smile on Mu Fengxiang's face, and he immediately reminded.
"Oh? Could it be that there is something else going on in this? Mu Fengxiang saw that Bai Chu and Xiang Yi's faces were more serious, so he couldn't help but put away his contempt.
"His Royal Highness the Prince of the Prince, in fact, the Prince of the Zhao Kingdom didn't have a wind at the beginning, he was just drugged by the people who left the Palace of Hatred." Bai Chu said that Xiangyi's face was flushed, although she had already married and the children were already in their teens, but when Bai Chu said that she had a wind, her face would still become hot.
"How can there be such a thing? Then why did this Lihan Palace frame Mu Qingyang so much? Mu Fengxiang thought for a while, but still couldn't understand what the Hate Palace was doing.
"In fact, at that time, the hated palace originally wanted to make Xiao Qing'er, the flower of Yicuilou in Anzhou Prefecture, become Mu Qingyang's woman, and at that time, Xiao Qing'er's ambition was greater, and he wanted to directly become Mu Qingyang's concubine, so he secretly drugged Mu Qingyang and wanted to use this to make himself pregnant." Bai Chu told Mu Fengxiang what happened in detail.
"So, that's how Mu Qingyang got the wind later because of this?" Mu Fengxiang couldn't help but ask curiously, he didn't expect that the cause of this incident was just Xiao Qing'er wanting to get pregnant.
"Your Highness, things are not as you think, that Mu Qingyang didn't have the wind right away at that time." Bai Chu continued.
"Then how did this Mu Qingyang get the wind and be carried to the Rejuvenation Medical Hall by others in a smooth and slippery manner?"
"Actually, Mu Qingyang didn't have a good wind at all, at that time, the two sons of the Yue Kingdom had a dislike for Mu Qingyang, so Mu Fenglin, the third son of the Yue Kingdom, came up with a plan to ask Bai Wanjun, the head of the Oiran from the Juhua Pavilion, to seduce Mu Qingyang and stun him, and then lied that the other party had a wind immediately." Hearing this, Mu Fengxiang couldn't help but show a different color.
"I didn't expect this Mu Fenglin to be so shameless and want to do such a villainous act." Mu Fengxiang couldn't help but curse to himself.
"But although this can ruin the reputation of the prince of the Yue Kingdom, such a petty trick is disgraceful." Mu Fengxiang added.
"Things are not that simple, in fact, what Mu Fenglin wants to do is not to ruin Mu Qingyang's reputation, but actually to kill Mu Qingyang directly with the help of outsiders."
"In this way, the battle that happened in the Rejuvenation Medical Pavilion later was a fight between the two gangs of Yue Guo and Zhao Guo?" Hearing this, Mu Feng thought that he had analyzed the truth in the incident at the Rejuvenation Medical Center.
"Your Highness, what you said is not entirely correct, in fact, there are four waves of people in the Rejuvenation Medical Hall······." Then Bai Chu explained all the causes and consequences of the matter.
"So, I'm afraid I know who sent those mysterious people!" The playful smile on Mu Fengxiang's face was even worse.
"In this way, I can also understand why those Jianghu sects have not made any moves." Although Bai Chu and Xiang Yi wanted to know who sent those mysterious people, they didn't dare to ask.
After all, sometimes the more you know, the closer you are to death. If you think about it, how can it be a general person who can play with the two major feudal kingdoms in the palm of your hand?
"By the way, I went to say goodbye to my aunt when I left early this morning, but he was not at the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion at that time, did he find something at that time?"
"Back to Your Highness, when I leave the city today, I listened to the gossip of the soldiers of the city guard battalion in the city, and the envoy of Jiedu and the city lord of Anzhou Prefecture City went out early in the morning to catch the villains who killed Mu Fenglin."
"How can those people not leave their tails for people to catch!" Mu Fengxiang was very surprised when he heard that Shi Fangzheng and Jin Kai were leading people to arrest Mu Fenglin's murderer.
He had the impression that those people with mysterious origins would not leave a living eloquence, and even if the mission failed, they would commit suicide in the first place.
"Your Highness, it is said that it was not those guys with mysterious origins who killed the third prince of Yue Kingdom, but outsiders who were accidentally involved in this rejuvenation medical hall war."
"So that's the case, so it seems that the guy who killed Mu Fenglin should also be considered a ruthless stubble." Mu Fengxiang couldn't help but sigh.
You must know that the person who was able to kill Mu Fenglin under the protection of many guards and successfully escaped must be a martial arts master.
And now that the city lord of Anzhou Prefecture and the envoy of Anzhou Jiedu have come out to arrest people in person, it is even more obvious that the other party is a brave and resourceful figure.
"Did my uncle catch that guy later?" In Mu Fengxiang's mind, as long as someone commits a crime in Anzhou City, then he will definitely not be able to escape the siege of the Anzhou City City Guard.
After all, the terrain of Anzhou Prefecture is special, but if someone commits a crime in Anzhou Prefecture, as long as the twelve passages down the mountain are blocked, then it will be difficult to fly even if the other party has wings.
"Although I haven't gotten the news of the other party's arrest when I get out of the city, according to my judgment, the other party has probably fled." Bai Chu's words immediately aroused Mu Fengxiang's curiosity.
"How so?" Mu Fengxiang didn't understand why Bai Chu would say that the other party had probably fled.
"Your Highness, don't you know, when I went out of the city, I found that there were hundreds of soldiers of the city guard battalion wearing armor and riding war horses on the mountain road."
"And these kinds of things, it's just weird." Mu Fengxiang couldn't help but sigh.
"Yes, not only that, according to our observation at the time, the other party should have left in two groups."
"It's getting more and more interesting, and now I really want to have a drink with these guys!" Mu Fengxiang looked out the window longingly, the fog sealed the river, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of pride in his heart.
It's just that what he didn't know was that it seemed that the god of fate really heard his prayers, and in his next trip, he would really meet the ruthless man who killed Mu Fenglin.
"By the way, how did Jin Shi and Mr. Shangyang and his party think about it?" After sighing, Mu Fengxiang turned his head and asked the green commander behind him.
"Back to Your Highness, I have asked them several times if they are willing to go to my Tan Kingdom, but whether it is Jin Shi or Mr. Shangyang, they have politely refused." Commander Qing scratched his head and said with some embarrassment.
In his opinion, it was a dereliction of duty not to convince them. Originally, according to his experience, if the other party did not agree to return to Tan with him, then as long as he used a little trick, they would be obedient.
But this time, Mu Fengxiang announced at the first time that he would not use force and coercion against Jin Shi and Mr. Shangyang.
For this reason, the green commander can only pull his hair in distress and try to find a way.
"This matter is not your fault, whether it is Jin Shi or Mr. Shangyang, they are both strong-willed people, even if you use force, they will definitely not give in." Mu Fengxiang patted him on the shoulder and whispered comfort.
"Well, I'll meet these two groups now and see if I can keep them." As he spoke, Mu Fengxiang pushed open the warehouse and walked in the direction of Mr. Shangyang.