Yangyue

Henry Zhang sat alone on the bed in the room, wiping the scabbard of the sword with a knife and silk.Over the years, he has developed the habit of wiping the knife clean before going to bed. If the knife is not used that day, he only needs to wipe the scabbard. If the knife is used that day, he also needs to wipe the blade clean.

The saber is his only pillow, so he needs to take good care of it.

Henry Zhang's residence is not far from the prince's courtyard, only two courtyard gates away.After wiping the sword, Henry Zhang didn't fall asleep immediately, but got out of bed, opened the door and came to the yard.

The Wangfu is no better than the Duckweed Pavilion official residence, living outside, even if there are guards, Henry Zhang still needs to inspect it in person again.

Three guards jumped down from the eaves and knelt in front of him on one knee. Henry Zhang waved his hands to signal to continue guarding, and walked towards Dongyuan Xianwang's bedroom.

He walked through a courtyard gate, and the maidservants who were carrying lanterns to watch the night saluted him. Xiao Yangyue came to the courtyard where the prince lived, and walked around the outside of the hall.Through a thin layer of windows, he saw the flickering candlelight in the king's bedroom, and suddenly, a shadowy figure was reflected.

Henry Zhangyue's eyes were condensed, her fingers were subconsciously clasped on the saber, and she asked the servant next to her in a low voice: "Is there anyone else in the prince's room?"

"Return to your lord, that's Qianxi, the servant girl who changed the sedative incense for the lord." The young servant bent over holding the lantern and replied, "The lord is not sleeping well now, and he needs to burn the sedative incense every night to fall asleep."

Xiao Yangyue stood still, and faintly heard the sound of the curtain being pulled in the room, and someone made a series of painful breaths as if struggling or wailing.Henry Zhang pulled out his sword in an instant, broke the window and rushed into the room, and saw King Xian fell to the ground with a gray face, pulling the door curtain with his stiff fingers, and a figure in a long lotus-colored dress stood straight beside him.

Xiao Yangyue directly drew out the sword, and someone raised his palm and hit the pear blossom wooden frame beside him, Xiao Yangyue's sword bent and stretched out and cut the wooden frame to pieces like mustard, the sword wind picked up the man's hair, revealing a pair of hair underneath. face.

Xiao Yangyue's sword tip paused, and the person in front of him actually had exactly the same appearance as him!

And the long skirt worn by the assassin was the standard long skirt of the palace maids.

The assassin pulled out a soft sword from his sleeve and mixed it with Henry Zhang's sword. The blade made a "ping" sound, shaking a sharp evil spirit in the room, and all the tables and chairs shattered with a loud noise.

The assassin's soft sword is invisible and flexible like a swimming snake. Henry Zhang withdrew from the sword, and the opponent entangled him again. A vicious internal force rushed up from the hilt, shaking Henry Zhang's wrist for a while. .

Henry Zhang kicked up her scabbard with one foot, and with the other hand used the scabbard as a knife to slash at the assassin's head. The opponent withdrew his hand and jumped back out of the window.The servants and maidservants standing outside screamed, the assassin scratched their throats with the soft knife, blood gushed from several people instantly.

The assassin jumped up to the eaves with one step, and Henry Zhangyue's clothes twirled and fell on the roof tiles.

There was a sarcastic smile on the corner of the assassin's mouth, and even his voice was the same as that of Henry Zhang: "It is said that you are the third in the world, but now it seems that it is nothing more than that."

Thick clouds above the head partially obscured the moonlight, and the assassin's face became blurred like quicksand, and his facial features were twisted into a ball like a whirlpool, and the ghostly scene was ever-changing, making it impossible to tell whether it was real or not.

A moment later, with a flick of his sleeves, the assassin suddenly changed into another face.

She is a beautiful woman, Henry Zhang has some memories, she is the maid who is in charge of changing Anshenxiang in the room of the virtuous king.

Henry Zhang stared at her with cold eyes, and after a while, he slowly raised his sword, exerting a surge of internal force all over his body, the tiles under his toes suddenly shattered, and Henry Zhang came to her in a blink of an eye, There was a sharp sound as the blade struck the roof tiles.

"You want to use the seven-step Qinglian swordsmanship?" The woman stepped back quickly, a cloud of black air condensed in her palm, "I won't give you a chance!"

She smashed the tiles with both hands, and the internal force actually lifted all the tiles on the roof away. The tiles were like a string of straightened bead chains, and they fell on Henry Zhang's body one by one like dense raindrops.

Suddenly, a flower-shaped gap was dug out in the middle of the fallen tiles. Henry Zhang's swordsmanship was like cutting off water with a knife. Whenever it touched the blooming petals, the tiles would shatter and disperse like quicksand.

After the tiles fell, Xiao Yangyue was no longer seen.The woman's heart tightened, and she was about to turn her head, but a murderous aura came from her side, Henry Zhang did not know when she came to her side.

Xiao Yangyue's blade waved down, the assassin's light work was obviously very good, and he jumped up dangerously, but the tip of Xiao Yangyue's knife still slammed across her ears, only a stern scream was heard, Xiao Yangyue chopped down woman with one ear.

The woman covered her ears, the wound was bleeding profusely, her eyes were bloodshot, and in an instant she stepped on the eaves of other courtyards and fled towards the outside of the palace. Henry Zhang landed on a corner of the eaves like a flying swallow, and shouted coldly: " Chase!"

The surrounding Duckweed Pavilion guards scattered to chase, Henry Zhang jumped down to the ground, the palace was already in chaos, the lanterns and candlesticks fell to the ground, and the maidservants and servants screamed.

Xiao Yangyue shouted to the rest of the guards: "Go and wake up Lord Hou!"

"Yes!"

The three guards took orders and went straight to Qi Zhu's courtyard, and just when they opened the door of Qi Zhu's room, they almost ran into Qi Zhu head-on.

Qi Zhu was obviously awakened by the sound of fighting in Dongyuan just now, maybe because he got up in a hurry, he only put on a coat.

Guard: "Master Hou, there are assassins in the palace, something happened to the prince!"

At this moment in the bedroom, King Xian was lying on the ground, his stiff fingers were still clutching the door curtain, his whole body had turned blue and black, the collar of his jacket was soaked with white froth, his black lips were wide open, and he vomited out half of his tongue , his eyes turned white, his legs were filled with defecation, and he had been dead for a long time.

After the fight just now, the bedroom is already a mess.Xiao Yangyue stepped into the room, stared at the corpse of King Xian for a long time, with ice-like coldness in his eyes, he turned around and ordered to the guards of the duckweed pavilion: "Enclose the palace, and no one is allowed to be released. , all the servants and servants of the palace are brought to Dongyuan, and the number of people is counted, and no one is allowed to touch the dead body of the prince."

"Yes!"

"Guardian."

The guard envoy Bai Yu went out to listen to the order: "This subordinate is here!"

"Immediately send someone to send a letter back to the capital to report to the emperor that the virtuous king was assassinated by an assassin."

"Yes!"

In just a quarter of an hour, several corpses were laid out in the heavily guarded palace, and the lingering cries and bloody smell were everywhere.

Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps behind him, Henry Zhang turned around, and it was Qi Zhu who came.

Qi Zhu came to the bedside, his sharp eyes slowly swept across the entire bedroom, and finally settled on the horrific dead body.Perhaps it was because when he came in just now, he had seen the corpses with their throats cut outside the hall, and Qi Zhu didn't show much horror at the death of King Xian.

"Tongue sticking out, defecating and incontinent." Qi Zhu squatted beside Xian Wang's body, muttering, "There are still fingerprints on his neck, the prince was suffocated to death by someone strangling his neck."

Xiao Yangyue asked someone to call the steward in the palace, but the steward knelt on the ground with trembling knees, his face was as pale as if covered with a layer of hoarfrost.

Henry Zhang said coldly: "How do you screen people?"

The steward was terrified, and kowtowed repeatedly: "I really don't know, you little one! I really don't know!"

Qi Zhu said: "There is something strange about this matter. When the prince died, he was lying under the curtain, a few steps away from the bed, and there was a screen in between. Why did the prince suddenly get up and leave the bed at night and come under the curtain?"

Qi Zhu came to the bed, stretched out his hand and gently shook the curtain beside the bed, and heard a crisp silver bell.

Qi Zhu said slowly: "My lord hung this string of hanging bells beside the bed. I just moved the bed curtain a little, and the bells rang, and the bells were hung on the inside. If people outside want to touch the bells, they have to lift them." Opening the bed curtain and reaching in, the bell will definitely ring. However, the bell has not rang from the beginning to the end, and I am afraid that only the prince himself can do it."

After Qi Zhu's words fell, the bedroom was completely silent, whether it was the guards standing on both sides or the steward kneeling on the ground, it was all dead silence.

Suddenly, Henry Zhang asked coldly: "How does Lord Hou know that the bell has not rang?"

Qi Zhu paused, he knew, it was naturally because he didn't hear it, with his hearing, in the silence of the night, it was easy to hear the bell.

"Just now I asked the maid who was on guard outside." In order not to let Henry Zhang get entangled in this topic, Qi Zhu asked instead, "The prince's abnormal behavior must have something to do with this assassin, my lord, you fought with the assassin just now Do you have any clues?"

Henry Zhang was silent for a while, and replied: "When I first came in, the assassin disguised himself as me."

Qi Zhu was slightly surprised for a moment, and then a somewhat clear smile appeared in his eyes: "This can explain why the prince came down by himself."

The Xian Wang has been attached to Xiao Yangyue for a long time, if the assassin changed his appearance into Xiao Yangyue's appearance, and said a few more bewitching words, with the beauty in front of him, the Xian Wang would probably obey him.

Henry Zhang obviously heard something in Qi Zhu's words, and his eyes became colder and colder: "Master Hou, what the assassin used was not an ordinary disguise technique. After she disguised herself as me, she even had the same voice as me, and I and I When she fought to the roof, her appearance changed into that of that maid again, as if she had used some kind of evil secret technique."

Ordinary disguise, just take a human skin mask and stick it on your face, and then use special equipment to adjust the facial features.The disguise can be completed without borrowing a mask, and even the voice can become exactly the same, Henry Zhang has never heard of it.

The smile on Qi Zhu's lips slowly dropped, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "You mean, the assassin can change his appearance at will out of thin air?"

"Yes."

After Henry Zhang finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that he had just cut off the assassin's ear.He ordered someone to remove the severed ear from the eaves, and after a while, the guard returned with a left ear in his hand.

Qi Zhu took a closer look, and there was a very faint mole on the earlobe of the broken ear.

At this moment, the steward of the Wangfu suddenly stumbled in and said tremblingly: "My lord, a corpse was found in the small pool behind the back room in the West Garden of the Wangfu. "

Henry Zhangyue's eyes turned cold, and he shouted: "Bring it over."

The servants carried a corpse to the steps outside the hall. Perhaps it had been soaked in the pool water for too long, the corpse was already white and swollen, and its shape was terrifying.

Although the face was wrinkled, it was still possible to recognize that the female corpse had exactly the same appearance as that of the assassin.Qi Zhu squatted down and brushed away the hair sticking to the face of the corpse. Both ears of the corpse were intact.

And on the left ear of the corpse, there was actually a black mole exactly like the broken ear.