It was only two days before the murderous incident at the funeral spread throughout Kyoto.
Two curly Xihu people were swaying past the main street with two medicine bags. Passersby gave them a lot of gazes, and their ears were not idle either.
Today, the city is talking about the funeral.
"This is the evil ghost who covets the bright moon and dew seeds at work." After hearing this for a long time, the two of them had to come to such a conclusion.
"Let's go quickly. If we don't go back, our highness will hit the wall again."
In the past two days, the Prince Zhuyue has been having a severe headache. He can't sleep without taking medicine at night, and cannot get up during the day without taking medicine. The last bit of strength I missed in the fight against the disease is getting angry with the wall.
This may have been cursed by the evil ghosts.
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The day before, Situ Cheng sent a letter to Yi Chen, asking him to wait at the Shangshu Mansion the next day. After the morning court, Lord Shangshu had something to nag with him.
Coincidentally, this morning, Lu Yanzhi was also in Mr. Zhang's courtyard. He did not come to listen to the class, but came to Mr. Zhang to solve his doubts with a lot of sorrow.
"I have heard of the funeral....." Mr. Zhang said as he stroked his beard and disappeared.
"This incident has alarmed the emperor, and Mr. Cheng's place is also a bit difficult to deal with. This situation is really difficult to break."
"This matter has exceeded the scope of the Ministry of Justice - as long as the emperor understands this, there is no need to worry about Mr. Cheng." After saying that, Mr. Zhang put his hands down and then said, "The Prime Minister has not come back so early these two days, right?"
"Well, I will stay in the palace after the morning court."
Mr. Zhang nodded gently and looked at Yi Chen chasing again, "Is the marshal still not letting anyone into the courtyard?
Yi Chen nodded, his eyes slightly dimmed, "I don't know what the adoptive father is like."
At this point, Mr. Zhang narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment, and said, "Everything in this world can be used, and all things are like this, and the extraordinary power is the same."
"The teacher means, someone wants to use the Ghost Stars and the Land of the Moon?"
"Human desires are endless, but as long as there is desire, there is purpose, and if there is purpose, there are flaws."
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The two stayed with Mr. Zhang for a short time, but Yi Chen chased him and Lu Yanyi out of the courtyard for a quarter of an hour.
First, Mr. Zhang told them to pay more attention to the movements and situations in the city. Second, these two people have their own affairs and it will not last long.
Lu Yanzhi and Yi Chen chased him outside the courtyard and bowed his hand to his words, then he left with his back.
"Chen Zhui," Lu Yanzhi suddenly called him again.
Yi Chen stopped and turned around.
"I heard from the Prime Minister that the emperor is very concerned about the Marshal. Maybe he will visit the Marshal's Mansion in person in the near future. You need to be prepared..." His last few words slightly increased his tone, and his words were intentional.
Yi Chen Zhui knew it and replied, "Thank you, Brother Lu, for your reminder." After thanking him, he looked a little solemn, "I will definitely do my best..."
Lu Yanzhi nodded with a smile, then waved his hand to him humbly. Yi Chenzhuan bowed and turned around and left.
Lu Yanzhi looked at the young man's tall and slender back, and felt relieved, but he couldn't say what he was sighing. When he walked away, he turned around and left.
Yi Chen chased out of the alley and turned eastward, but before he even took his legs, he was scared and retreated.
He looked at Liying standing against the wall in shock, and was so scared that he was a little confused, "Why are you here?"
Liying was wearing a light coat and soft armor, holding a sword in her arms. After hearing his voice, she glanced faintly, "The city has not been peaceful these days, so you better not act alone."
“…”
Although Li Ying's concern moved Yi Chenzhui very much, how could she sound a little strange...
Liying didn't say anything more, and carried the sword and lifted her legs first.
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Yi Chen chased the monk's carriage to the Shangshu Mansion almost at the same time. Yi Chen was invited into the hall by the butler of the Shangshu Mansion. Lord Shangshu broke in with his official hat and poured a cup of tea in front of him.
"Brother Cheng..." Yi Chen was about to greet him with courtesy, but the guy caught his hand and dragged him to the east tea case.
"I have something big to tell you."
Yi Chenzhu's wrist was still held by him, but he threw the person on the seat against the case. At this moment, Yi Chenzhu could only lean half of his body on the case to make the angle of his wrist feel a little more comfortable.
"you say……"
Situ Cheng put his official hat on his knees, and his hands naturally slapped Yi Chen Zhui's wrist on the table, frowned, and returned to his seriousness.
"Have you heard about the funeral?"
Yi Chen was also buried in the desk after chasing his face, his wrist could not move, "I heard..."
"I have something to show you." Situ Cheng finally let go of Yi Chen's wrist, waved his hand and rushed out the door with a move, and the waiter came up with the support desk.
Situ Cheng took out the case file from the entrusted case and handed it to Yi Chenzhui, "Look at it."
This volume records the details of coroners' inspection of the remains.
Among the three, one died of a body explosion, one died of a heart-digging, and one was shattered in the skull, and the brain marrow was broken, which was the most scattered.
"The causes of death of these three people were also caused by the three people, and the murderer asked one of the corpses to convey the news to us." Situ Cheng fiddled with the official hat in his hand, "and tried his best to rob the person out of prison and kill him..."
"Kill someone to silence?"
Situ Cheng paused for a moment, "If it was a murder to silence us, why leave us clues?"
“What is the clue?”
"'There is an end to the east and the night of returning to the west', the sentence in "The Four Wastelands"."
Yi Chenzhui frowned slightly, and the case file of your Excellency, "It's also clearly pointed to the Western Regions?"
Situ Cheng thought about it and nodded hesitantly, "At the beginning of the whole thing...who wants to send us the message..."
"Brother Cheng guesses, what will the position of these people who committed the crime?"
Situ Cheng shook his head with no clue, "I have no clue now."
"Then maybe just do it."
Yi Chen Zhui said this, and Situ Cheng was about to say something, but unexpectedly, he saw this guy being serious and extraordinary in a blink of an eye.
Situ Cheng waited quietly for him to start.
"You said, why were the three ghost collectors so coincidental? They just picked up the wooden box containing the image of a drought-bar in front of the broken monument?"
This question may sound incredible at first, but if you think about it carefully, you will immediately find the clues.
Whether it is the ancient farewell to the old war or the current affairs, it seems that the connection between the ghost star and the four realms is pointed out in the dark. No matter how it changes, it will never be separated from this foundation.
Situ Cheng fell into thought after hearing this.
More things are too difficult to express, but this sentence seems to be enough to lead to clues.
Situ Cheng seemed to have suddenly poked a clue, so he raised his face, but before he could even lift his anger, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a small figure locked by the door.
"Hey? That's..." Situ Cheng forgot everything he wanted to say, he was stunned and glanced at the door.
Yi Chen also looked at it in a blink of an eye, but saw that Li Yue held the door frame with both hands and poked half of her head in.
"Yue'er?" Yi Chen and Li Ying's voices started together.
"The Emperor's Mansion is here..." Li Yue hurried beside the door and said.
"Ah?" Yi Chen was so shocked that he jumped up.
"Emperor?" Situ Cheng also said in shock, but then he reacted and quickly pushed Yi Chen to chase him. "My father has been greeting the emperor about the Western Regions. Maybe he really has that plan now. Go back quickly and you must take this matter no matter what."
"Oh, okay..." Yi Chen followed and rushed out of the door.
Situ Cheng followed him quickly, and he still shouted at the door: "This matter is almost certain. Don't be nervous, you must go to the Western Regions!"
After shouting, Lord Shangshu calmed down, relaxed a little, and became even more nervous.
I am afraid that this matter can no longer be found in the Central Plains, and there is only the only way to explore overseas.
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Li Yue's letter was prompt and compact. When Yi Chen chased the Shangshu Mansion back to the General's Mansion, the emperor's carriage had already turned into the alley.
So the three of them turned temporarily and flipped into the back wall.
It is no trivial for the emperor to arrive in person, and the King of Northern Yan and the Prime Minister are also accompanying him.
Even Shu Ling, who was used to the situation with Jun Han, caught the sudden visit off guard.
What is even more annoying is that the emperor must have come here under the guise of visiting the marshal.
It would be fine if the marshal was really sick and he was still alive on the couch. The problem is that there is no such big Buddha in the temple now, and even if the emperor comes, he will not be able to incense!
But helpless, Shu Ling didn't even arrange it, but the emperor's dragon carriage had already stopped at the gate.
"Go and call the young master." Shu Ling could only tell this in vain when he was in danger.
"The young master hasn't come back yet." The old butler said anxiously.
At this moment, Shu Ling really wanted to find a wall to hit him to death.
But in a state of chaos inside and outside the gate, Yi Chen suddenly chased the heavenly man and walked out of the hall like an exiled man.
"Young Master!" The old butler suddenly shouted, as if he had seen a savior.
Shu Ling slammed back into his stomach with a breath, which suddenly made him feel a little nervous.
Yi Chen chased and rushed into the coach's mansion from the back wall, threw his cloak, and walked quickly with his clothes on his back. He didn't take a break, but he still rushed to pinch it.
Before Yi Chen chased Chen Feng, who had been moving around, he had already saluted His Majesty under the lintel of the General's Mansion.
"See Your Majesty."
The emperor was shocked as Yi Chen was chasing him, with a tall and arrogant demeanor, and sighed that the young man had indeed inherited the aura of his adoptive father-
Yi Chen chased after him but he didn't expect that he hurriedly brought about the sharpness he had never seen before.
"My dear oneself." The emperor smiled.
Yi Chenzhui breathed a little relieved and stood up.
He was so angry that he rushed along the way.
However, when I raised my eyes, the tight heartbeat suddenly missed another beat.
It turns out that the emperor was not only the King of Northern Yan and the Prime Minister, but also a man with brown hair and green eyes and luxurious clothes in the Western Regions—
This is His Royal Highness Zhuyue’s Crown Prince.
Zhuyue's prince owed his Majesty and the two adults, and seemed to be intentionally avoiding his eyes.
"I wonder if the marshal is still safe?" The emperor asked before he could even step into the threshold.
"The Marshal is slightly injured and has been unconscious until now."
Shu Ling's words made Yi Chen chasing tighten his heart.
Finally, I learned about his adoptive father's "real situation"...
When Shu Ling lies, he had already prayed to all the gods from ancient times to the present, asking His Majesty to give up the idea of ​​visiting the disease.
Anyway, I can't say anything when I see you, and it's just a little trouble if I see you. Why not just stop seeing you... I hope.
But the emperor sighed and said, "I have been thinking about the Marshal these days, so I will take me to take a look at him."
"Yes..." Shu Ling responded with Shunhe, but her heart was already full of brilliance-
Chapter completed!