Chapter 47: The Thousand Shadows
The palace is guarded by a dragon, and the dust can only find another way, and now he can only use people without spells to go to the palace to steal the phantom fan, but no one knows where the phantom fan is placed, and the palace is heavily guarded, and it is difficult to steal things from the palace, so there is only one other way, to lure Concubine Rong out of the palace, but how to lure her out has become a problem.
Shenchen thought about it, he could use the Yue'er girl in Tianxianglou, but after many days, he found that Nan Yanxue had already treated her as a sister, if she was taken away, the girl was afraid that she would have trouble with him, which would give him a headache, forget it, forget it, let's wait, he has traveled in the world for many years, and he doesn't care about this moment, besides, he can still tease that stupid girl if he stays here.
On the side of the palace, after many days of secret investigation, the prince confirmed the fact that the offshore tax was withheld, and he had to make all the evidence disappear, and the biggest witness in this case was the Jiedu envoy.
"Jiedu makes Ma You unable to stay!" said the prince to Wu Changjun.
"Then let him disappear completely. Wu Changjun said and gestured to his neck.
"Do it cleanly. ”
"Okay, let the Thousand Shadows Gate go out this time. ”
After hearing this, the prince nodded, Qianyingmen is a well-known killer organization in the rivers and lakes, and it is full of female killers, they are always holding long swords, dressed in black and red clothes, with cold faces and cold eyes in their eyes, but their professional quality is particularly high, as long as the money is in place, they will agree to any request, and they will never drag the mud and water.
Leng Xue, the master of the Thousand Shadows Gate, is even more like her name, ruthless, the person she wants to kill, then she will definitely not be able to hide, no matter how you beg her, she will not waver in the slightest.
Leng Xue often takes in some fatherless and motherless orphans, and then trains them from an early age, she locks them up in the wolves, let them fight with the wolves, the winner can continue to live, become a qualified killer, the defeated will be bitten to death by the wolf on the spot, human life is like ants in her eyes, she always tells them to be ruthless.
"Once people have feelings, they have weaknesses, which is taboo for killers, as a killer, you don't need to have feelings, just obey orders. ”
Under the leadership of Leng Xue, the Thousand Shadow Gate has stood out from the killer organization in just a few years, and the rivers and lakes are terrified, but if you want the Thousand Shadow Gate to dispatch, you must also have enough financial support, because the starting price of the Thousand Shadow Gate is 50,000 taels of silver.
Wu Changjun took 150,000 taels of silver to find the Thousand Shadow Gate Master Leng Xue.
"The Southwest Festival Envoy, Ma You, leaves no trace. ”
"Good. ”
The master of the Thousand Shadows Gate looked at the deposit piled on the ground, the envoy of the Southwest Festival, Ma You, in their eyes, it was not worth so much money, it seemed that she had offended some big man this time, but she didn't need to be careful about this, she just needed to kill him.
"It will take two days. Leng Xue said to Wu Changjun that the southwest region is far away from the Thousand Shadows Gate, and it will take a day to travel alone.
"Good. ”
"After success, where will you go and what will be the evidence?" Leng Xue asked.
"No trade-offs, no vouchers. After Wu Changjun answered, he turned around and left.
The first time Leng Xue met such an employer, the previous employers all asked for someone to take a head, or a finger or something, but he didn't want anything, or even a reply.
A day later, in the southwest Wanzhou Canyon, seven or eight young women wearing black veils flew down from the top of the mountain holding red oil-paper umbrellas.
In the canyon, the festival made Ma You just return to his place from the capital of the country, the southwest mountains and rivers are beautiful, the canyon is long, Ma You has always liked such scenery, which is why he is willing to stay here, but he didn't expect that he would die here today.
Ma You, who was riding a horse, was galloping with five or six followers, and they did not notice the killer floating down behind them.
The female killers each hit a target and killed them with a sword from behind, Ma You and his entourage instantly fell off their horses, and before he fell to the ground, he looked at the black veil floating in front of him, behind the veil was a delicate face, she smiled evilly at him, and then slowly flew away from the canyon with an oil-paper umbrella in her hand.
He knew that this was a killer sent by the prince, he was cautious in his life, and the only person who offended was the prince, but on the one hand, there were heavy casualties, and on the other hand, the powerful prince, he struggled for a long time, but he still stood on the side of the people.
They believe in him, respect him, and he wants them to know that there are still people in this court who care about their lives and deaths.
He knew that this day would come, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, and he didn't even have time to say goodbye to his family.
Ma You slowly closed his eyes, hoping that his death would save the lives of those who were affected.
Three days later, the news reached the palace of the country, and the festival made Ma You be killed in the Wanzhou Gorge, and several entourages were killed, and no one knew who was killed or why.
"Check, we must investigate thoroughly!" The emperor was furious, and the ministers above the court were so frightened that they didn't dare to speak.
However, the emperor's anger was broken a few days later by a good victory, a great victory in the northwest, and Li Feng successfully repelled the enemy, resulting in heavy casualties.
When the good news came into the capital of the country, the courtiers were all happy, but the emperor's expression was solemn, and the prince also entered the palace at this time, and he knelt outside the palace hall.
"The ministers have no way to teach their sons, and the ministers are guilty, please punish the emperor. ”
"Your Majesty, the minister has only one son who is filial piety under his knees, and the other son of the minister has not returned for many years, and the minister is willing to cut his post and retire, and he also asks the emperor to see that the old minister has been loyal for many years, and Rao Chen's son has gone offshore once. ”
Many ministers in the main hall were moved by the behavior of the prince, although there were offshores, but Li Feng's merits were enough to make up for it.
"Your Majesty, I hope that the emperor will look at the general who has left the country and the hard work, and he will be lightly offshore. The servant said.
"Please let the emperor take it lightly. Half of the courtiers knelt on the ground to intercede for the prince, only some of them were still standing stubbornly, and the people who stood were all people who supported Concubine Rong, although they didn't know that Concubine Rong did this, but the relationship between Concubine Rong and the prince, they could still get a glimpse of it.
"The state has national laws, and the family has family rules, please ask the emperor to deal with it according to law. ”
"Please think twice. ”
The two forces competed in the court, and the noisy emperor had a headache.
He looked at the minister kneeling on the ground and the prince outside the hall, it seems that he can't let go today, he and the prince grew up together, and the shore is also his nephew, and in his heart he also intends to spare his life, but he didn't expect that he would be forced to release people today, and the power of the prince in the court also shocked him, when did his world become the world of the prince, but he didn't plan to tear his face today, he still needs time to clear the power of the prince, and it also takes time to reduce the power of the prince.
"Come, bring the shore into the main hall. After Li Heng finished speaking, he walked out of the hall and stretched out his hand to help the prince.
"Prince, please get up, it's not your fault about the offshore, after being closed for so long, he must know that it's wrong, so take him back." ”
"Thank you to the emperor, the minister will be strict in the future. The prince wiped away a handful of old tears as he spoke, and Li Heng turned around and didn't look at him, he was trying his best to restrain the anger in his heart.
Offshore was brought into the main hall by several guards, and he knelt on the main hall and buried his head deep in the ground.
Li Heng originally wanted to say something, but he saw that the prince suddenly didn't want to say anything, he waved his hand and motioned for the guards to take the shore away, and the shore knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, he didn't expect that he would come out alive.
Li Heng walked out of the court without saying a word, he walked into the study, kicked over the bookshelves in the study, and the guards and eunuchs at the door knelt on the ground in fright.
"Is this world my Liheng's or his prince's!" Liheng's roar came from the study, and the people kneeling at the door trembled with fright, and a clever palace maid secretly ran to Yonghua Palace.
But after a while, Concubine Rong came to the study.
"Naturally, it is the emperor's world. Concubine Rong said and pushed the door into the study, the books in the study were scattered all over the ground, and she motioned with her eyes to the palace maid and the eunuch to sort out the books scattered on the ground back to the shelves.
"Your Majesty......" Concubine Rong shouted tenderly with a teacup.
"This world is naturally the emperor's world, but the prince is too powerful, and the emperor can start with the minister and slowly eliminate his henchmen. ”
Concubine Rong wanted to take this opportunity to bring down the prince in one fell swoop, but who knew that the offshore was finally let back, the matter did not work out, and she reduced her life span for a few years in vain, she couldn't swallow this breath anyway, and the emperor's thunderous anger was just enough to help herself, she decided to add another fire to make this anger fire burn more vigorously.
On the second day, Concubine Rong secretly came to Tianxiang Building.
"Yue'er, Ma You's death must be related to the prince, send someone to investigate this matter, I will let this person accuse the prince. ”
"Niangniang can no longer use illusion, Niangniang is just a mortal, forcibly using illusion will shorten her life, the emperor must know that Ma You's death is related to the prince, why should Niangniang lose her life in vain. ”
"The emperor naturally knows, but if there is no evidence, even if he knows, he can't help the prince, then I will give him this evidence, it doesn't matter to me how long I live, as long as I can take revenge, I don't care about anything. ”
"Niangniang......", "Okay, I'll send someone to investigate. ”
"In addition, Niangniang, there have been several groups of people in the city recently, I am afraid that they are fanning at Niangniang's phantom spirit, Niangniang must be more careful. ”
"Good...... The phantom fan is placed in the palace, and they don't dare to break into the palace to get it, so you have to pay more attention outside, especially the people in the palace. ”
After Concubine Rong finished speaking, she left Tianxiang Building, and Mingchen in Tianxiang Building was sitting in the lobby chatting with Nan Yanxue.
"It's been some time since you came and left the country, but what have you found out, and what is the prince's intention in keeping you in the palace?" asked Styx.
Nan Yanxue listened to his words, scratching her head strangely, they had been leaving the country for a few days, the prince didn't say what he wanted them to do, but he had been refusing to let them go, she could see who the prince wanted to deal with, but she didn't seem to have made up her mind.