Chapter 1483: 788 Executions

"Concubine Shizi, the clothes are dead!"

As soon as Zhu Xing returned to Bixiaotang, the first thing he did was to report the matter to Nangong Yue.

At this moment, the two are in Xiao Yi's outer study. Nangong Yue is sitting on Xiao Yi's Taishi chair. For her, the slightly larger Taishi chair makes her smaller and smaller, Baihui and Haitang are at the side. .

The result of Zhu Xing's report was also beyond Nangong Yue's expectations. Nangong Yue couldn't help but stare in surprise. Haitang and Baihui also exchanged glances in shock.

There was silence in the outer study for a moment, Nangong Yue half lowered her eyes and pondered, the surrounding atmosphere was solemn.

After pondering for a moment, Nangong Yue raised her eyes to look at Zhu Xing, a glint of light flashed in her jet-black eyes, and she slowly asked, "Zhu Xing, tell me, how did Qi Yi die? Are there any clues left?"

The state of Qi Yi's death was bloody and horrifying. Zhu Xing originally wanted to say so, but since Nangong Yue asked, he said in detail, "Concubine Hui Shi, when Qi Yi's body was found, She was fixed to the wall with three daggers, one in each palm of both hands, and the third in her throat, but the fatal injury was that the blood on the side of her neck was cut, and the blood flowed out little by little... Li Yi died of excessive blood loss in the end, and the daggers used were all ordinary daggers, and there were no special clues left behind..."

Before finding the body of Li Yi, Zhu Xing felt that the people who rescued Li Yi were probably from Baiyue, but with the death of Li Yi, he could not be sure.

Nangong Yue drank tea while listening, seemingly casual, but her mind was spinning fast. After putting down the tea cup, he asked again, "Can you tell whether she was killed first, and then the body was nailed to the wall, or was it upside down?"

No one else can answer this question, but Zhu Xing, a veteran who has been on the battlefield and has seen a lot of blood on his hands, thought about it and immediately replied: "It's the latter..."

In other words, when he was alive, he was first pierced by a dagger in his palm and nailed to the wall, and then his throat was cut to bleed?

"Murder." Nangong Yue muttered, thoughtfully.

Zhu Xing narrowed his eyes and lowered his eyes in thought.

From the first time he saw Qi Yi's corpse, he intuitively felt that it was torture.

Luo Yue City was the site of the Zhennan Palace. The person who rescued Qi Yi did not hesitate to take such a big risk. This shows how important Qi Yi was to him. People are brutally murdered.

Obviously, the perpetrators should have some purpose, either to torture something, or to punish them to vent their anger...

What Zhu Xing thought of, Nangong Yue naturally thought of it, and after a moment of indulgence, he instructed: "Zhu Xing, continue to investigate!"

The identity of the person who robbed the clothes is still unknown and their whereabouts are unknown. Of course, this matter must continue to be investigated!

Zhu Xing's eyes flickered, he immediately clasped his fists to take orders, and then proposed: "Prince Prince, this subordinate wants to double the number of guards in the palace and Bixiaotang, what do you think of Concubine Prince?"

Nangong Yue nodded, "I will tell the prince over there." Nangong Yue has full control over all matters of Bixiaotang, but in the palace, a prophet needs to meet the king of Nan.

Seeing that Nangong Yue said it lightly, Zhu Xing couldn't help but feel a little sighed in his heart. With the prince and concubine, it would be much more convenient for the prince to do things. No wonder the saying goes, a virtuous wife and a husband have few misfortunes!

It's not even the hour, and the day has just begun. For Zhu Xing, there are still many things to be busy with today.

After Zhu Xing retired, Nangong Yue rubbed her brows, showing a little tired look. She slept late last night and woke up early this morning, and she didn't rest for a few hours all night.

She took another sip of the refreshing tea in the tea cup, and then instructed Baihui: "Baihui, go and ask the lord if you can increase the guards of the palace. It is said that the Chinese New Year is coming, and there are many people coming and going, so I'm afraid Some people have the idea of ​​hitting the descendants, after all, our palace has resisted the decree twice..."

Baihui smiled and led the way. The two maids are well aware. Now, in the mind of King Zhennan, the most important person is the little grandson. As long as it is about the comprehensiveness of the young grandson, let alone doubling the number of guards, it is to adjust the strength of the first army. Come here, King Zhennan probably won't say anything.

As for Nangong Yue, after drinking the cup of refreshing tea slowly, he got up and took Haitang out of the outer study, planning to go back to his yard.

Unexpectedly, she had just stepped out of the study door, and the air around her suddenly became cold.

"Boom! Boom!"

Two shimmering sleeve arrows pierced the air and shot towards Nangong Yue quickly. These two arrows were much smaller than ordinary feather arrows, but their speed and sharpness remained unchanged. , with a strong, fierce murderous aura.

However, Haitang was still behind Nangong Yue, and the study door was just big enough for one person to enter and exit at a time.

The speed of the two hidden arrows was extremely fast, but in the blink of an eye, they had already shot several meters away. One arrow was aimed at Nangong Yue's eyebrows, and the other arrow went straight to her left chest...

? Just between the lightning and flint, Haitang stepped on the door frame at the back, and then leaped out with her strength, her petite body nimbly leaped over Nangong Yue's head, and at the same time, her left hand shook. A flying knife slammed into a sleeve arrow, knocking it away, and the whip in the right hand was thrown out like a snake, wrapping the second sleeve arrow.

In this quiet morning, the sound of the weapon handover was particularly cold and harsh.

"Susususu..."

There was an abnormal sound of the branches and leaves swaying from the canopy of the tree where the hidden arrows were shot. Obviously, the perpetrator had gone away.

Haitang instinctively took two steps forward, but she stopped decisively and did not catch up.

For her, her most important task is to protect the concubine's integrity, and other things are extra little things.

If you are thrown off the mountain because of a moment of anger, it is because of the small and the big, and you will only regret it!

Haitang held the whip unwillingly, and looked coldly at the two sleeved arrows that had been shot down by herself.

Soon, there was a sound of footsteps not far away, and the change here attracted the guards who were guarding outside the courtyard, and walked into the courtyard in a chaotic manner.

Naturally, they saw the Hidden Arrow that fell to the ground at a glance, and guessing what happened just now, their faces changed greatly, and they were afraid for a while.

"Someone assassinated the princess!"

"Quick! Go after the assassin!"

"Hurry up and report to Butler Zhu!"

"..."

The commotion in the outer study spread like a plague, and after a while, the entire Bixiao Hall knew that the princess was assassinated.

It is even more fierce, more turbulent, and even more powerful than last night!

The Bixiao Hall is in chaos!

After a while, Zhu Xing returned to the courtyard of the outer study with a team of guards. With this as the center, the guards searched the corners of Bixiao Hall upside down, but they were busy for a long time, but they still found nothing. .

This made Zhu Xing more alert than disappointed. He decisively changed his original plan, and directly used Xiao Yi's prince token to transfer a hundred elite soldiers from the Luoyue City camp to temporarily serve as the guards of the palace and Bixiaotang.

For a time, both the palace and Bixiaotang were put on emergency alert. As long as everyone in the palace thought that there might be a hideous and terrifying assassin in a corner of the palace, they were all worried. The atmosphere in the palace was a little tense, and there was a kind of turmoil. a feeling of.

At this time, Nangong Yue had long since returned to her house under Haitang's escort, and the first thing she did was go to the inner room to see Xiao Yu.

Seeing the little guy spitting out saliva bubbles in his sleep, Nangong Yue only felt lucky, fortunately, because of the fact that he was rescued last night, she ordered Xiao Ying and Xiao An to protect Xiao Xiao Yu, otherwise it would be an assassin. Aiming at the little guy, she couldn't even think about it...

Nangong Yue looked at the little guy's sleeping face tenderly for a while, and her impetuous heart slowly calmed down, as if she had found a refuge in her heart.

After calming down, she began to think back to what had just happened.

Obviously, the assassin should have come prepared, and he had been lurking in that position for a long time, so he could decisively assassinate the moment he walked out of the study!

Failing a single blow, he left resolutely without any reluctance, leaving no clue, not even seeing his figure.

This neat and elusive style made Nangong Yue naturally think of the person who took away and killed Qi Yi.

Nine times out of ten, there is a connection between the two, and it should be the same group of people.

But who will it be?

Nangong Yue tilted her head crookedly, thinking of the death of the clothes in her mind, and muttered to herself, "Murder..."

But why pose like that, why use three daggers?

Nangong Yue always felt that the death of the clothes was too deliberate, too characteristic...even with a sense of ritual.

Maybe it's not pure torture...

Haitang on the side saw Nangong Yue lowered her eyes and thought, and said casually: "Prince Shizi, this servant thinks that the murderer should hate Qi Yi, so she let her lose blood little by little. This process must be extremely important for Qi Yi. Painful, but relatively speaking, the murderer also has to take a greater risk and wait for Qiyi to die slowly..."

Nangong Yue raised her brows and looked at Haitang. Haitang said this, it can be ruled out that the murderer was to torture Qiyi, which means that this person took so much trouble to save first and then kill, in order to——

punish!

He also deliberately chose some kind of ritual punishment.

Qiyi is the Saintess of Baiyue. As far as she knows, in Baiyue, more than half of the people are entrusted with Shengtian Religion, and the saints represent the messengers sent by God to the world, and they are the most supreme beings in the Holy Heavenly Religion. The status is second only to the Baiyue royal family...

Nangong Yue didn't know much about Baiyue, that's about it.

"Thrush, Queer." Nangong Yue called out loudly, "You two find a way to go to the bookstore in the city to find some books about Baiyue."

"Yes, Concubine Shizi."

The two maids answered crisply, knowing that this matter was about the assassins who killed Qiyi and the concubine, they didn't dare to delay, and went out with a few little maids. There are few bookstores to look through.

This search took two or three days, during which time the books were sent to Bixiaotang from the major bookstores in the city.

At the same time, Zhu Xing led the guards and the Southern Border Army to search and inquire around the city, intending to find suspicious persons, but there was still no clue.

This assassin, or this group of assassins, seemed to appear out of thin air, and then disappeared out of thin air, leaving no trace like a ghost.

During this period of time, Nangong Yue has not been idle. She has to prepare for the New Year, take care of Xiao Xiaoyu, and spend time reading books. Although Baihui and Ying'er can help her, it still takes a lot of time. .

The books were moved into Nangong Yue's small study box by box, and then moved out box by box.

On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, a surprise cry suddenly came from the small study, Queer stood up abruptly holding a book with a yellowed cover, which suddenly attracted the attention of others, including Nangong Yue.

"Prince Prince, look here..."

Queer couldn't wait to present the book to Nangong Yue, and her slender jade pointed to the picture on a certain page.

Nangong Yue raised her right eyebrow slightly, her eyes were immediately attracted by the picture in the book.

This picture shows a woman pinned to a wall with her arms wide open. Countless people are rushing to throw stones at her. The woman's death is tragic, and at the same time, she feels a little familiar, which reminds Nangong Yue. To the dead state of the clothes.

Nangong Yue settled down, turned a page forward, and started from the beginning.

This book is about Shengtian Sect, and the history of Sacred Heaven Sect is also a history of Baiyue.

It has been more than 300 years since the founding of Baiyue. According to records, more than 300 years ago, there were only a few thousand believers in Shengtian Cult. At that time, an elder in the church, Dazhen, actively expanded the influence of Shengtian Cult. In the middle of the year, Shengtian Religion grew to tens of thousands of people, which aroused the fear of Baiyue people in power at that time. They tried to eradicate Shengtian Religion in the name of a cult. After three cities, in the next few years, it attracted many believers with its teachings, and its momentum became more and more powerful. In just ten years, the old dynasty was overthrown and the current Baiyue was established.

After Dazhen became King of Baiyue, Shengtian Sect became Baiyue's Sacred Sect. He claimed to be the holy son of God's choice, and chose a female elder in the sect at that time as a saint, in charge of Sacred Heaven Sect. The system of the saintess of Vietnam also began from this.

The Holy Maiden is sacred and has a high status. She must believe in and pay for the Holy Heavenly Religion all her life.

But huge power also represents ambition. In the history of Baiyue, there have been saintess who formed gangs for selfishness, and there were saints who encouraged believers to rebel. All of these saints were sentenced to death.

The picture Queer found in the book is of the saint who was executed, and this punishment was specifically for the saint.

In other words, Qi Yi was executed and died!

A bright light flashed in Nangong Yue's eyes, and her thoughts flew around.

The so-called "sentence" has a condescending connotation, and it is often the punishment of the superior to the inferior.

It seems that the person behind the scenes is indeed a Baiyue person, and his identity may not be simple.

"Baihui, Haitang, let's go to the outer study!" Nangong Yue stood up and instructed, "Thrush, go find Zhu Xing and come see me."

The maids hurriedly responded, and followed the master and servants to leave the house and go to the outer courtyard.

When Zhu Xing heard that the concubine wanted to see him, he immediately rushed to the outer study as quickly as possible.

Without further ado, Nangong Yue directly asked Baihui to hand him the book and showed him the execution map and the paragraphs before and after it.

Zhu Xing read it at a glance and ten lines. He is a smart man, and he understood it at once.

Obviously, Baiyue, who had already lost the country, had a distinguished person. This person not only respected the rules, but also was bold and careful.

Meeting Zhu Xing's stunned gaze, Nangong Yue, who had already calmed down, commanded in a deep voice, "Zhu Xing, be sure to look after Carrero, the sixth prince of Baiyue in the back mountain. Since this person punished Qiyi with Baiyue's rules , definitely not only has a distinguished status in Baiyue, but also believes in the rules and orthodoxy... Now that Kui Lang is dead, then this person is likely to rescue the sixth prince of Baiyue."

Zhu Xing heard the words, his face froze, and there was a cautious look in his expression. The princess said yes. Since this person knows that the clothes have fallen into their hands, it is also likely that Carrero has become their prisoner. Now I am in the dark, and I am not sure when the other party will shoot again...

"Thank you for the suggestion, Concubine Shizi." Zhu Xing hurriedly clasped his fists, and then retired to do business.

At the same time as the guarding of the Houshan prison was strengthened, the search in the city and the palace did not stop. For two consecutive days, soldiers of the Southern Border Army could be seen patrolling the streets and alleys of the city, exuding a cold atmosphere.

But after so much work, still nothing.

Zhu Xing could only ask Nangong Yue for instructions again, and suggested whether to show his feet on purpose, and Carrero in the mountain prison would be the bait to lure the other party into taking the bait.

This is a good idea!

After obtaining the consent of the concubine, Zhu Xing immediately mobilized the army and strengthened the guard of the back mountain again, but two days passed in a blink of an eye, and the other party still showed no sign of taking the bait.

The mastermind behind the scenes seemed to have left Luoyue City without any action.

However, Nangong Yue and Zhu Xing still did not dare to ignore it. They all vaguely felt that from the perspective of his behavior, he should be a person who failed to achieve his goals and vowed not to let it go. I am afraid he would not retreat so easily.

As the saying goes: "Only a thief can be a thief for a thousand days, but there is no one who can prevent a thief for a thousand days." It is not a good strategy to "wait" like this. Nangong Yue simply proposed to use herself as bait, but was strongly opposed by Zhu Xing, Haitang and others. This time it was no different than dealing with the Nine Kings of Nanliang. They knew too little about this mysterious behind-the-scenes person. Represents danger.

According to Haitang's statement, "Concubine Shizi is made of porcelain, and she cannot collide with such rotten tiles!"

For the next few days, Bixiaoli, Wangfuli, and Luoyue City were all calm, everything was as usual, as if nothing had happened.

But even so, Zhu Xing and the others did not dare to take it lightly. They always felt that this was the calm before the storm. The enemies were like poisonous snakes and beasts hiding in the shadows.

Zhu Xing uneasy dispatched a few more secret guards to secretly protect the courtyard of Tingyu Pavilion and Nangong Yue. For the eldest son, the concubine, the younger grandson, and Mrs. Fang are the most important people, and there must be no mistakes. .

In this seemingly calm atmosphere, the New Year is approaching day by day, and the New Year's flavor is getting stronger and stronger, but under this lively and busy, there is a vague atmosphere of swords drawn, dark tides surging, from south to North, in the distant capital as well...

In the imperial study room of the palace, the atmosphere was solemn, as if a thick haze shrouded it.

"My minister Lu Huaining sees the emperor." Jinyiwei commander Lu Huaining bowed respectfully to the emperor on one knee.

The emperor sitting behind the imperial case looked at Lu Huaining with a grim expression, raised his hand a little irritably, and said, "Get up."

The emperor's mood is very unpleasant. In the past few days, the receipts from the southern border and the western border are not good news. First, the Zhennan Wangfu resisted the decree and refused to marry, and then the Weiyuan Hou came to report to Xiye. Negotiations are not going well...Everything is contrary to his expectations, and nothing makes him happy!

The more the emperor thought about it, the more gloomy his face became. Especially three days ago, the matter of "the meeting of the people" became more and more intense in the capital like a sudden storm. Even the common people were talking about it vividly, and even more so. The emperor was furious.

In this way, the emperor became more and more convinced that Xiao San was right. Someone must have deliberately framed him and helped to fuel the flames behind the scenes. Otherwise, how could ordinary people dare to arbitrarily talk about the royal family's right and wrong, so the emperor ordered Lu Huaining to investigate the matter secretly two days ago.

"Tell me, how did the investigation go?" The emperor's majestic voice echoed in the imperial study.

Lu Huaining's expression became more and more respectful, and he replied in a deep voice: "Go back to the emperor, according to the minister's investigation, this matter was secretly done by the empress..."

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