bastard returns

"You're here." Sikong Xu relaxed when he heard Gao Feng's voice, "Is there any clue about what I asked you to investigate?"

"The subordinate is incompetent." Gao Feng put down the food box and whispered, "It's because the corpse appeared suddenly, and the matter has not progressed."

"Hmph, if you can do something like this on the side of my mansion without anyone noticing, you won't be able to find out easily." Sikong Xu snorted softly, turned around and looked at the few dishes on the small table, Frowning: "What's going on?"

Gao Yu brought out a lot of dishes from the food box, there were three or four dishes, but obviously there were no good dishes, they were all tofu mixed with needle mushrooms, patted cucumbers, pickled mustard and so on, without any meaty smell.

"There is no more meat in the kitchen. If you don't transfer the money, I'm afraid you won't even have these vegetarian dishes." Gao Yu said in a low voice, "This subordinate came here this time just to ask His Highness when the money can be distributed. After all, there are some servants in the mansion who still owe the monthly rules and have not paid them."

"Ask the housekeeper about this kind of thing, what's the use of asking me!" Seeing those dishes, Sikong Xu lost his appetite, and the suppressed anger in his heart surged up again.

"Your Highness, have you forgotten?" Gao Feng said, "You kicked out the butler a month ago."

Sikong Xu was taken aback for a moment, and then he remembered that the butler had offended him a month ago, and he ordered him to beat him out of the Prince's Mansion.

"What about the routine money that is distributed to us every month!" Sikong Xu asked.

"Since His Highness was grounded, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has reduced your highness's allowance by more than half. This subordinate once asked about this matter and said it was the empress's intention." Gao Feng paused, "The remaining ones must be kept at the basic level. Expenses are all reluctant, not to mention those dark parts that His Highness cultivated outside, all need money..."

Sikong Xu waved his hand, indicating that Gao Feng already knew it, so there was no need to say any more.

Originally, he would not have fallen into such an embarrassing situation. Even though the Ministry of Internal Affairs reduced his expenses as a prince under the Queen's behest, he had secretly saved a lot of money in the past, but since the incident with the concubine Yue, Sikong Just in case, Xu began to greatly expand the dark power of his subordinates. He spent a lot of money and already emptied him. He originally cultivated those powers to reserve an extra card for himself, but the power has not yet After taking shape, he and Pang Song suffered successively.

Gao Fuxu knew that Sikong Xu was in a bad mood, so he didn't speak any more. Sikong Xu glanced at the food on the table gloomily, and finally picked up his chopsticks and reluctantly took a few mouthfuls.

At this moment, a charming figure in a fiery red leather skirt came striding forward from the yard in the distance, and the servant who had just left followed the figure obediently, with a look of wanting to stop but not daring to stop, The mouth kept saying: "Princess, our Highness said that it is inconvenient to see you, princess, why do you... ah!"

Before the servant could say a word, he was whipped on the face by a horsewhip that Princess Jinyu took out from nowhere, and half of his face was immediately dripping with blood, and he fell to the ground trembling in pain.

"Crack!" Glaring at the servant, Murong Yu put away his horsewhip, kept walking, and checked the direction, just in time to see Sikong Xu who was sitting in the room with the door wide open, looking at him gloomily. , then strode forward and said: "Are you the Fourth Prince?"

Although he has never met Sikong Xu, she can tell who is the master here at least from her vision.

Sikong Xu frowned tightly, this person doesn't need to guess too much, it must be the Jinyu princess who came to his door one after another recently to bother him, but he didn't expect that this person is so presumptuous that he dared to break into other people's mansions.

"The princess is really very courageous." Sikong Xu said nonchalantly: "This is the fourth prince's mansion, not a market. If you barge in like this uninvited, you are not afraid that I will take you directly. Take the punishment!"

"Take me down and punish me? Alright, come and take it if you have the ability!" Seeing Sikong Xu talking to herself like this, Murong Yujiao laughed a few times, "Your Majesty, don't be the princess and you don't know. If this was the mansion of other princes, this princess might not have the guts to rush in, but you are different. No one in the entire capital knows that you don’t like your emperor. You take me down and see how your emperor will be in the end. Punish me for trespassing, or punish you for disrespecting his distinguished guests!"

Murong Yu was right, she had counted on Sikong Xu's loss of power, and dared to barge in like this, but she also had some brains, and left all the guards she brought with her outside, only she barged in alone, After all, as a daughter of her own, with a noble status, it would not be a big deal to break into the mansion of a prince who has fallen out of favor, but the meaning of breaking into it with the guards is quite different, and she dare not cause trouble.

Hearing Murong Yu's words, Sikong Xu's face became even more gloomy, but Murong Yu went straight to the door of his room, stretched out his hand, and said in a very unfriendly tone: "The princess has only one thing to do here, Your Highness. Hand over the murderer who murdered Commander Lao, the sooner the better!"

"I don't know what it means!" Sikong Xu threw the chopsticks in his hand, "This hall has already said that the death of the people around you has nothing to do with this hall. Why do you come to this hall again and again to ask for a murderer!"

"I said, Your Highness, who are you looking at?" Faced with Sikong Xu's denial, Murong Yu obviously didn't believe it at all, "Commander Lao died inexplicably in the dry well next to your mansion. There are not many steps to the side gate of your prince's mansion, if it wasn't done by your subordinates, who would it be?"

"Regardless of who he is, this matter has nothing to do with this hall. If the princess is messing around here again, don't blame this hall for being ruthless." Sikong Xu shouted, "Gao Feng, see off the guests!"

Gao Feng bowed his head and said yes, and was about to step forward to pull Murong Yu, but she dodged it all at once, and screamed at the same time: "Take your dirty hands away, you dare to touch this princess, you want to die!"

Gao Feng was taken aback for a moment, as if he was really timid about the threat of the Jinyu princess, and slowly withdrew his hand.

"Your Highness, the Princess is here to say what she said. If the prisoner cannot be obtained today, the Princess will not leave no matter what." Murong Yu was in a broken posture. When it came to a last resort, she was not willing to push herself forward like this at all.

Who told her to stay in Dazhou for so long, and she will soon turn against the court. If the murderer who murdered Lao Chi can't be found before she goes back, she asks herself that she can't bear the downfall of Queen Mother Xia who has lost one of her fierce generals. anger.

In the absence of other clues, she could only keep her eyes firmly on the fourth prince's mansion, and she had come to Sikong Xu many times before to beg for the murderer, but each time she returned without success. As the deadline approached, she also knew that she could not procrastinate any longer, so she simply kept on doing nothing. After being rejected by Sikong Xu again, she did not retreat as before, but broke into the Prince's Mansion.

At first, she was still a little guilty. After all, even if everyone outside said that the fourth prince fell out of favor, he was still the prince of a country. Would it be too much for me to do this? But after entering the prince's mansion, I saw that the surrounding area was overgrown with weeds and messy. , He didn't even look like a servant, he immediately felt relieved, there is nothing terrible about a prince who is living such a bleak life.

"This hall has already said that there is no one to hand over to!" Several veins appeared on Sikong Xu's temples, and a tinge of dark red appeared on his pale face, "Gao Feng, this hall wants you to get this troublesome guy out of here. Didn't you hear me!"

"Whoever dares to touch the princess, the princess will have his head fall!" Murong Yu screamed, and Gao Gao stood there with a strange expression, unable to move. She is going all out today, and she will force Sikong no matter what. Xu handed over a "murderer" so that he could go back to deal with the Empress Dowager Xia.

"Kang Dang!" Sikong Xu suddenly shook his hands and overturned the table in front of him.

Murong Yu made a move, saw Sikong Xu strode in front of her, grabbed her arm forcefully, and exclaimed, "What are you going to do!"

"Send you out!" Sikong Xu almost gritted his teeth and said these words, mercilessly pulling Murong Yu's arm and dragging him on the way back and forth,

Murong Yu's wrist was pulled by Sikong Xu as if it was about to be torn apart. She was spoiled and raised all the way. How could she have suffered this kind of crime? She immediately screamed, "Let me go, let me go quickly! Otherwise, I will immediately go to the palace to sue You want to be unfaithful to this princess!"

Sikong Xu suddenly stopped, looked back at Murong Yu, his eyes flickered and said: "What did you just say?"

"Hmph, are you afraid?" Murong Yu mistakenly thought that Sikong Xu stopped to compromise with himself, and immediately said: "My princess told you, you hand over the murderer immediately, there is nothing left for this princess to do." It happened, otherwise this princess will enter the palace immediately and tell your father that you plan to molest me, and see how your father will treat you!" Murong Yu said more and more arrogantly, "How dare a prince who lives such a useless life be with me? The county leader takes action, and you deserve it too!"

As soon as Murong Yu finished speaking, she realized that Sikong Xu had suddenly let go of her hand that was holding her like an iron hoop. She immediately pulled her arm back and looked at the five finger marks on her fair skin that were so red that they were almost Fan Qing. , while blowing lightly to relieve the pain, he said in a sarcasm tone: "This is justified, your life is so sad now, and you think you are His Royal Highness, just do as the princess said, and say Maybe this princess can say a few good words for you in front of your father, at least send two more people to clean up the weeds in your yard."

Speaking of this, Murong Yu saw that Sikong Xu was silent, and continued: "Actually, the princess did not intend to force you, but Commander Lao died for no reason, even if it has nothing to do with you, but the corpse is It was found next to your mansion, you have to give this princess an explanation, and let the princess return to the queen mother, otherwise... Uh!" Before Murong Yu finished speaking, she suddenly felt something A cold palm touched her neck, and then suddenly retracted, stuck the remaining half of her sentence in her throat.

She raised her eyes in horror, and what she met was Sikong Xu's red, crazy eyes.

"What does it mean to live a worthless life? Who thinks that he is a high-ranking prince? Tell me, keep talking!" Sikong Xu's whole face was flushed strangely, and there was a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth. Full of madness, "Are you looking down on this hall? The hall tells you, but anyone who looks down on this hall must die! Must die!"

"No...save..." Murong Yu struggled in pain, but she was no match for Sikong Xu who had practiced martial arts, her beautiful face was distorted completely, she opened her mouth wide, trembling towards the not far away Gao Feng stretched out her hand, as if she wanted Gao Feng to save her, because of suffocation, her whole face was covered with blue, and her eyeballs almost vomited out.

Gao Feng was obviously taken aback by the scene in front of him. Sikong Xu seemed to be insane. It seemed that he really wanted to strangle Princess Jinyu to death. He hurriedly took a step forward, trying to stop Sikong Xu's crazy behavior, but after one step, His eyes flickered suddenly, his expression struggled for a moment, not only did he not move forward, but took back the step he took, and stood there with lowered brows, as if he couldn't see what was happening in front of him at all.

Murong Yu was completely hopeless. Apart from remorse, she only had one thought in her mind now, she shouldn't have left all the guards outside.

Immediately afterwards, a crisp "click" sounded, and she fell into a boundless darkness.

Seeing Murong Yu's wide-eyed head limp on the side, Sikong Xu still didn't intend to let go at all, screaming with all his strength, as if he had really been possessed by an evil spirit, and he didn't know how long it had passed. After Gao Feng came forward, he called Sikong Xu many times before the blood red in his eyes slowly receded, and then he let go of his hand in astonishment, and Murong Yu's body fell limply beside him. In front of her, her head was twisted at a strange angle. Obviously, her neck had been twisted off by a huge force. There was even a trace of black in the black skin of the neck, and blood beads soaked out of the surface.

Sikong Xu stared blankly at Murong Yu's corpse, and took two or three steps back, the madness on his face was gone, and turned into a panicked expression, "This... this..."

"Your Highness! You just now..." Gao Feng greeted him with concern, "You suddenly attacked the princess, and it was too late for my subordinates to stop him. Now that the princess is dead, what should I do..."

"I... I don't know..." Sikong Xu's face turned pale again, and he looked at his hands in disbelief, as if he still couldn't accept what he had done, "I don't know, I don't have a new one, She keeps saying I'm a loser and I just want her to shut up... I really just want her to shut up..."

For so many years, it was probably the first time for Sikong Xu to experience such a feeling of panic. Even after he knew that Pang Song's house had been ransacked and letters involving treason were sent to the palace, he had never been so panicked.

At least for those matters that did not directly involve him, he could use various means to get rid of the crime, but now, the Princess Jinyu who came from Daxia was alive and dead in his hands.

He has already lost his sacred heart. If this matter is discovered again, it is possible for the emperor to really kill himself in order to appease Daxia's anger!

"I can't die, no, I can't die!" Sikong Xu was sweating profusely, he gritted his teeth suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, he ignored Murong Yu's paralyzed corpse, and hurried towards his bedroom go.

The guards brought by Murong Yu waited for two full hours outside the fourth prince's mansion, but they still didn't see their master come out, and they all felt a little nervous.

Finally, the leading guard couldn't stand it any longer, and the princess didn't come out for a long time. Maybe he had to rest in this mansion today, so he knocked on the door, intending to find a servant to come out and inquire.

But after knocking for a while, it was very quiet inside, and there was no sound of answering the door at all.

At this time, the guards finally realized that something was wrong, and no longer avoided suspicion, they found a secluded place, jumped over the courtyard wall one after another, and entered the mansion.

These guards also knew well that if the princess had nothing to do, the princess would naturally bear the charge of trespassing on the prince's mansion for them. If something happened to the princess, then they would be dead if they did not trespass.

But as soon as they jumped into the courtyard wall of the Fourth Prince's Mansion, these people were dumbfounded.

Because the scene in front of me is really hard to compare with the so-called Prince's Mansion. It is so messy and overgrown with weeds, there is not even a shadow of a servant, and it is quiet in all directions. Dead fish, as if no one has lived in this mansion for a long time.

Several guards were guarding and searching forward, but no one appeared along the way. Suddenly, one of them screamed and ran forward quickly. The others followed the sound and were all struck by lightning. Generally frozen in place.

Their master, Princess Jinyu, was lying on the ground in front of her, without any movement around her body, as if she had lost her breath!

****

"The entire capital is going to be noisy, and your place is the cleanest." Zhao Mo pushed open the gate of Ning Yuan's house, and said to the two people in the courtyard who were constantly teasing Xue Lihong with bait: "Princess Jinyu Died in the fourth prince's mansion, do you know about this?"

"I knew it last night." Ning Yuan responded, and took a look at Huyan Yuanchen beside him.

Once Lao Chi died, the power that could restrain Huyan Yuanchen disappeared immediately, and he immediately took Yan Fei out of the posthouse. After all, Lao Chi's trip wiped out all the power around him, even Yan Fei He was taken care of, and even though Lao Chi was dead now, none of the people in the post house were his cronies. Naturally, Huyan Yuanchen didn't want to stay there any longer, so he went to Ning Yuan's house in a grand manner.

Of course, after knowing that Lao Chi died at the hands of Ning Yuan and that Eunuch Qi, Hu Yanyuanchen was really surprised, and explained to Ning Yuan from the beginning to the end the purpose of keeping the situation from him. Although Ning Yuan was annoyed that Huyan Yuanchen didn't trust him so much, but thinking that Lao Chi was so powerful, it was thanks to Eunuch Qi's action that he could clean it up. Princess Jinyu understood himself, and I'm afraid he really couldn't stop it. Huyan Yuanchen's actions were all to protect his comfort, so he didn't continue to blame the other party.

After untangling some entanglements, the two who hadn't seen each other for a while naturally began to warm up under the joy of reunion. Huyan Yuanchen had the first experience, and this second time was in Ning Yuan's. Cooperating with the wind and the water, it was even more difficult to quench my thirst, so I came back many times in the next few days. During the daytime, Xu Jingan would ask Ning Yuan if the official duties were too heavy recently. Why is it so stiff to walk.

For such an inquiry, Ning Yuan could only laugh it off under shame.

Regarding the death of Princess Jinyu in the Fourth Prince's Mansion yesterday, Huyan Yuanchen got the news through some channel last night, and informed Ning Yuan, which also surprised Ning Yuan for a long time.

He passed the peak and threw Na Laochi's body into the dry well next to the Fourth Prince's Mansion without anyone noticing. The purpose was first to divert attention, and second, of course, to let Princess Jinyu go to argue with Sikong Xu, so as to further Hit the fourth prince, but he never imagined that Princess Jinyu would die in the prince's mansion.

In his memory, Sikong Xu was a person with a deep city, and he would never do such impulsive things, so he felt strange.

Of course Ning Yuan didn't know that Sikong Xu might have been very deep in the city, but under the successive blows of adversity, the limit of his mental endurance had already reached the edge, especially since Sikong Xu had always regarded himself very highly and had a strong self-esteem. In the ups and downs of the original situation, Princess Jinyu was ridiculed one after another and scolded him for being useless, which became the last straw to crush him. Then he suddenly went crazy, and accidentally strangled Princess Jinyu to death.

Even though Ning Yuan was involved in all of this, it is not an exaggeration to say that Princess Jinyu is seeking his own death. If she hadn't repeatedly slandered Sikong Xu, he wouldn't have lost control of his mind and had such a tragedy happen.

"So you already know." Zhao Mo looked a little disappointed, and moved closer to the two of them, "Then do you know the movements of His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince?"

Ning Yuan's expression changed, and he turned around, "I don't know, what's the matter, the emperor always has to explain to the Empress Dowager Xia when something like this happened in his mansion, is it possible to cover it up?"

"Protect? That's not true. The emperor is also furious now, and he is dispatching troops everywhere to catch this unfilial son." Zhao Mo said with a smile: "Yesterday, the fourth prince's residence was empty, even the servants and guards There is no shadow, presumably the Fourth Highness knew what happened, and because of his current situation, he could not escape the murder, so he fled in order to protect himself."