Yangyue
Chapter 26
Such a mole is unlikely to be a coincidence.
If it is really as Henry Zhang said, then the assassin can change his appearance at will, even such a subtle point can be transformed, it is like a snake that sheds its skin, and the skin of the whole body can be transformed.
Qi Zhu asked the steward, "Have you checked the Anshen incense that the prince usually uses?"
The steward suddenly came to his senses: "The incense and candles used in the prince's bedroom are all made by craftsmen in the mansion, and they are never purchased outside... and the incense and candles are used by the princes, concubines, and concubines in the mansion, and there has never been a problem. ah!"
Qi Zhu: "It's best to search carefully the things that the prince usually uses, especially things like bedding, bed curtains, tea sets, bowls, candles and spices."
Qi Zhu said that he walked to the incense burner and opened the lid. At this time, the incense had been burned out, leaving only a handful of incense ash in the burner.
Qi Zhu picked up a handful of incense ash with his fingertips, and wanted to sniff it on the tip of his nose, but his arm was suddenly slapped away, and the incense ash from his fingertips spilled down.
Henry Zhang looked at him heavily: "Master Hou, don't move."
It's a pity that Henry Zhang's action was a bit late, Qi Zhu had already smelled the smell of incense ash.He has a good understanding of the pharmacology of various poisons, and just by smelling it, he knows that this is just ordinary incense, and there is nothing special about it.
Henry Zhang took the censer away and handed it over to the guards of the duckweed pavilion for inspection. After a while, two guards of the duckweed pavilion who were chasing the assassin fell from the eaves and landed in the yard, reporting: "My lord, please forgive me. Incompetent, did not catch up to the assassin!"
Qi Zhu listened secretly, although the duckweed pavilion guards were not as good as Xiao Yangyue's in martial arts, they were not extraordinary, and there were more than one guard, so they couldn't be caught, the assassin really had some skills.
Xiao Yangyue asked the guards to go down to strengthen the guards of the palace, and said to Qi Zhu: "Master Hou, go back to the room."
Qi Zhu: "Nothing, I'm not tired."
"Master Hou, this is not advice." Xiao Yangyue said lightly, "This house needs to be searched, so it is inconvenient for Master Hou to stay here."
Qi Zhu had no choice but to go back to his room.
After returning to the courtyard where he lived, Qi Zhu went straight into the room, never thinking that Henry Zhang also walked in.
Qi Zhu looked back at him and asked, "Is there something else, Master Pavilion?"
"Now that there are assassins in the palace, it's not safe for Lord Hou to stay in the room alone." Henry Zhang sat down at the table in the inner room, and said expressionlessly, "The emperor told me to protect Lord Hou well."
Qi Zhuhe lay down on the bed, and the candlelight rubbed Henry Zhang's shadow on the floor of the bedroom. He stared at the curtain above his head, and slowly recalled the details of the Southwest case in his mind.
The emperor was assassinated at the beginning of the year, and now the virtuous king is also assassinated. Is it a coincidence?A member of the Hongyue Society?Or people from other sects?
About an hour later, there was a light knock on the door in the room.Henry Zhang pushed open the door, and Bai Yu was standing outside. He was about to report, when Henry Zhang raised his hand to signal him to lower his voice.
Only then did Bai Yu realize that Master Hou was resting in the room, so he bowed his head and said in a low voice: "My lord, we checked the incense ash in the incense burner and the rest of the calming incense in the mansion, and they are indeed just ordinary incense. There are traces of poisoning. The things the prince usually uses have not found anything strange."
The conversation between the two fell into Qi Zhu's ears word by word.Another half an hour passed, and the sky was slightly brighter. Qi Zhu pretended to wake up from his sleep and sat up on the bed.
Qi Zhu: "What time is it?"
"At the second quarter of Maoshi." Henry Zhangyue said, "Bai Yu came to report when Lord Hou was sleeping, saying that the things used by the Lord have not been found out yet."
"Really..." Qi Zhu said slowly, "Now that the prince is dead, let the housekeeper take care of these things."
That morning, white cloths for condolence were hung up and down the mansion of King Xian. Xi Yuan, where the female relatives lived in the mansion, cried continuously. The concubines and several children of King Xian cried bitterly beside King Xian's coffin, and fainted several times. past.
Qi Zhu looked at the desolate scene in the palace, and remembered that the Xiankunhou's mansion last year was also like this.However, their grief seemed to be an expression of their true feelings, and when it was their turn, it was a different situation.
Zhu Zhongqian, the son of the virtuous king, supported his mother and concubine, his eyes were red from crying, and he bowed and bowed to his father's coffin. He looked at Henry Zhang who was standing aside, and walked forward, with a hoarse voice full of grief and indignation: "The assassin I hope the Lord Pavilion Master will do his best to search for the whereabouts of the king, so as to comfort the spirit of the father in heaven, otherwise... the father will die with peace!"
"Don't worry, my son." Xiao Yangyue replied, "The emperor will issue an imperial edict in a short time. My son will cheer up as soon as possible, so that I can take care of the palace."
Zhu Zhongqian solemnly arched his hands towards Henry Zhang, and left with the help of the grief-stricken princess.
Qi Zhu: "The son has a true temperament."
"Didn't Lord Hou do the same at that time?" Xiao Yangyue stood at the side of the mourning hall with his hands behind his back, staring at the figures of the eldest son, the princess and a group of maidservants leaving, "Master Hou's filial piety once became a good story in the capital."
Kneeling beside the coffin was a weeping man in filial piety, and two maidservants beside him were choking up and persuading him. He was crying so sadly that he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
This person is Zhu Zhongyan, the second son of the Xian Wang, a brother of the first son and his mother, who is only two years younger than Zhu Zhongqian, and has already been named the County King of Fujian. Came here.
Qi Zhu smiled slightly: "It seems that someone is more sad than Shi Zi."
After the maid persuaded him for a long time, Zhu Zhongyan slowly got up and went back to his room.Qi Zhu watched him leave, and finally turned around and left the mourning hall with Henry Zhang.
After lunch that day, Qi Zhu and Henry Zhang went back to their room through the garden of the Wangfu. Now Qi Zhu has moved to another compound in the Wangfu to live with Henry Zhang.
Qi Zhu lightly shook his fan, and when he walked past the rockery in the yard, his eyes suddenly focused, and he turned his head to look at the rockery behind him, only seeing a little maid in the mansion trimming flowers and plants, but no one else.
Xiao Yangyue: "What happened to Lord Hou?"
Qi Zhu stared at the little maid, and replied: "It's nothing, I just saw the peony flowers in the courtyard blooming very brightly."
After finishing speaking, Qi Zhu raised his hand and called the little maid.The little maid ran over to salute, and asked Lord Hou what he needed, Qi Zhu replied, "Pick a peony flower for me."
The little maid agreed, picked one and handed it to Qi Zhu, Qi Zhu took the flower, but her fingers seemed to touch the little maid's wrist inadvertently.
The little maid seemed to be a little startled, and then her immature face turned red, and she quickly turned around and trot away.
Qi Zhu gently turned the peony flower in his hand, and then handed it to Xiao Yangyue beside him: "My lord, I will give this flower to you."
Xiao Yangyue stared at the flower silently, and then said: "Why, Master Hou likes that little maid?"
Qi Zhu only felt that his image in Henry Zhang's heart was not very good, and when he was preparing for a funeral at his mansion, he was still thinking about his maid?Qi Zhu couldn't do this anyway, and when he wanted to say something, Xiao Yangyue said: "Master Hou likes to talk to the prince, and I think the prince will not be stingy."
After finishing speaking, Henry Zhang walked away.
Qi Zhu looked at his back, shook his head with a wry smile, looked at the flower in his hand, bent his fingers slightly, wrapped the flower in his palm, and paused for a second.
Qi Zhu didn't use any force, and when he opened his hand again, the peony flower had been broken into petals from a complete flower, and each petal was intact.
Qi Zhu heard that the peony flower seemed to imply farewell, so he casually sprinkled the petals into the small pool beside him, watching the bright red color sink into the bottom of the pool where the fish were playing.
It rained that night, and the raindrops fell on the steps in front of the hall, the wind seeped into the gaps in the window lattices, and there was a whimpering sound, and the white curtains hanging from the eaves were also fluttering. Don't hold the lantern tightly in your hand, lest the light be blown out by the wind.
There was a faint incense burning in the prince's dormitory, Zhu Zhongqian frowned, tossed and turned on the bed, a thunder suddenly struck the air, Zhu Zhongqian sat up from the bed suddenly, panting in shock, his face was pale.
He looked up, and in the dark room, a winding shadow was reflected on the window, crawling down, spitting out a scarlet snake letter.
Zhu Zhongqian yelled in shock, his pajamas were drenched with sweat, and the maid who was guarding outside rushed in, startled by the terrified look of the prince, and asked anxiously what was wrong with the prince.
Zhu Zhongqian opened his eyes again, but saw that the shadow was not a big snake, but the shadow of dancing candle flames.He gasped for a long time, and said in shock, "Go... blow out the candle."
The maid had no choice but to blow out all the candles in the bedroom as Zhu Zhongqian said.There was no light source in the room anymore, Zhu Zhongqian changed out of his sweaty pajamas, but his heart was still haunted.
In the morning of the second day, when Qi Zhu and Henry Zhang saw Zhu Zhongqian, the latter's complexion was ashen, his eyes were black and blue, and his expression was also very tired, obviously he didn't sleep well last night.
Qi Zhu stared at Zhu Zhongqian and asked, "Is your son not feeling well?"
"Thank you, Lord Hou, for your concern." Zhu Zhongqian said, "Perhaps it's because my father left suddenly...it's inevitable that I think a lot at night."
As soon as Zhu Zhongqian finished speaking, a servant girl ran in hurriedly and said in panic: "His Royal Highness, the King of Min County suddenly has a high fever!"
Zhu Zhongqian stood up from the chair at once, and said in surprise: "How could there be a sudden high fever?!"
The maid cried: "Last night, in the middle of the night, I heard the king of the county complaining that he was not feeling well. We wanted to invite the doctor in the mansion, but the king of the county said that he was dizzy and sleepy. Maybe we should sleep for a while, so we didn't find the doctor... who Knowing that this morning, the servant girl who waited on the county king to get up in the morning went in and saw that the county king was already burned all over his body!"
Zhu Zhongqian was burning with anxiety: "Quick! Take me there quickly! Have you invited a doctor yet?!"
"Please, please! The doctor has already gone first!"
Zhu Zhongqian hurriedly followed the maid to Zhu Zhongyan's bedroom, Qi Zhu and Henry Zhang looked at each other, then got up and followed.
Zhu Zhongyan was lying on the bed with a cloth soaked in cold water covering his forehead, looking really sick. Two doctors from the palace surrounded the bed and were telling the maid how to decoct the medicine.
Zhu Zhongqian hurriedly asked the doctor how the situation was, the doctor saluted him, and replied: "Your Highness, don't worry too much, the King of Minjun seems to have suffered from the usual cold, plus he thought too much during the day and didn't have a good rest at night. You'll be fine with a few days of rest."
Only then did Zhu Zhongqian feel relieved a little, and told the maids to decoct the medicine carefully.
Zhu Zhongqian sat down on the edge of the bed, saw that his brother with closed eyes was still full of weakness, and was about to stretch out his hands to tuck him in the quilt, but Zhu Zhongyan suddenly opened his eyes, and his pale face was filled with fear.
Zhu Zhongyan suddenly sat up from the bed, waving his limbs madly, as if he had lost his mind, and murmured in fear: "Snakes... so many snakes... go away! Go away!"
If it is really as Henry Zhang said, then the assassin can change his appearance at will, even such a subtle point can be transformed, it is like a snake that sheds its skin, and the skin of the whole body can be transformed.
Qi Zhu asked the steward, "Have you checked the Anshen incense that the prince usually uses?"
The steward suddenly came to his senses: "The incense and candles used in the prince's bedroom are all made by craftsmen in the mansion, and they are never purchased outside... and the incense and candles are used by the princes, concubines, and concubines in the mansion, and there has never been a problem. ah!"
Qi Zhu: "It's best to search carefully the things that the prince usually uses, especially things like bedding, bed curtains, tea sets, bowls, candles and spices."
Qi Zhu said that he walked to the incense burner and opened the lid. At this time, the incense had been burned out, leaving only a handful of incense ash in the burner.
Qi Zhu picked up a handful of incense ash with his fingertips, and wanted to sniff it on the tip of his nose, but his arm was suddenly slapped away, and the incense ash from his fingertips spilled down.
Henry Zhang looked at him heavily: "Master Hou, don't move."
It's a pity that Henry Zhang's action was a bit late, Qi Zhu had already smelled the smell of incense ash.He has a good understanding of the pharmacology of various poisons, and just by smelling it, he knows that this is just ordinary incense, and there is nothing special about it.
Henry Zhang took the censer away and handed it over to the guards of the duckweed pavilion for inspection. After a while, two guards of the duckweed pavilion who were chasing the assassin fell from the eaves and landed in the yard, reporting: "My lord, please forgive me. Incompetent, did not catch up to the assassin!"
Qi Zhu listened secretly, although the duckweed pavilion guards were not as good as Xiao Yangyue's in martial arts, they were not extraordinary, and there were more than one guard, so they couldn't be caught, the assassin really had some skills.
Xiao Yangyue asked the guards to go down to strengthen the guards of the palace, and said to Qi Zhu: "Master Hou, go back to the room."
Qi Zhu: "Nothing, I'm not tired."
"Master Hou, this is not advice." Xiao Yangyue said lightly, "This house needs to be searched, so it is inconvenient for Master Hou to stay here."
Qi Zhu had no choice but to go back to his room.
After returning to the courtyard where he lived, Qi Zhu went straight into the room, never thinking that Henry Zhang also walked in.
Qi Zhu looked back at him and asked, "Is there something else, Master Pavilion?"
"Now that there are assassins in the palace, it's not safe for Lord Hou to stay in the room alone." Henry Zhang sat down at the table in the inner room, and said expressionlessly, "The emperor told me to protect Lord Hou well."
Qi Zhuhe lay down on the bed, and the candlelight rubbed Henry Zhang's shadow on the floor of the bedroom. He stared at the curtain above his head, and slowly recalled the details of the Southwest case in his mind.
The emperor was assassinated at the beginning of the year, and now the virtuous king is also assassinated. Is it a coincidence?A member of the Hongyue Society?Or people from other sects?
About an hour later, there was a light knock on the door in the room.Henry Zhang pushed open the door, and Bai Yu was standing outside. He was about to report, when Henry Zhang raised his hand to signal him to lower his voice.
Only then did Bai Yu realize that Master Hou was resting in the room, so he bowed his head and said in a low voice: "My lord, we checked the incense ash in the incense burner and the rest of the calming incense in the mansion, and they are indeed just ordinary incense. There are traces of poisoning. The things the prince usually uses have not found anything strange."
The conversation between the two fell into Qi Zhu's ears word by word.Another half an hour passed, and the sky was slightly brighter. Qi Zhu pretended to wake up from his sleep and sat up on the bed.
Qi Zhu: "What time is it?"
"At the second quarter of Maoshi." Henry Zhangyue said, "Bai Yu came to report when Lord Hou was sleeping, saying that the things used by the Lord have not been found out yet."
"Really..." Qi Zhu said slowly, "Now that the prince is dead, let the housekeeper take care of these things."
That morning, white cloths for condolence were hung up and down the mansion of King Xian. Xi Yuan, where the female relatives lived in the mansion, cried continuously. The concubines and several children of King Xian cried bitterly beside King Xian's coffin, and fainted several times. past.
Qi Zhu looked at the desolate scene in the palace, and remembered that the Xiankunhou's mansion last year was also like this.However, their grief seemed to be an expression of their true feelings, and when it was their turn, it was a different situation.
Zhu Zhongqian, the son of the virtuous king, supported his mother and concubine, his eyes were red from crying, and he bowed and bowed to his father's coffin. He looked at Henry Zhang who was standing aside, and walked forward, with a hoarse voice full of grief and indignation: "The assassin I hope the Lord Pavilion Master will do his best to search for the whereabouts of the king, so as to comfort the spirit of the father in heaven, otherwise... the father will die with peace!"
"Don't worry, my son." Xiao Yangyue replied, "The emperor will issue an imperial edict in a short time. My son will cheer up as soon as possible, so that I can take care of the palace."
Zhu Zhongqian solemnly arched his hands towards Henry Zhang, and left with the help of the grief-stricken princess.
Qi Zhu: "The son has a true temperament."
"Didn't Lord Hou do the same at that time?" Xiao Yangyue stood at the side of the mourning hall with his hands behind his back, staring at the figures of the eldest son, the princess and a group of maidservants leaving, "Master Hou's filial piety once became a good story in the capital."
Kneeling beside the coffin was a weeping man in filial piety, and two maidservants beside him were choking up and persuading him. He was crying so sadly that he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
This person is Zhu Zhongyan, the second son of the Xian Wang, a brother of the first son and his mother, who is only two years younger than Zhu Zhongqian, and has already been named the County King of Fujian. Came here.
Qi Zhu smiled slightly: "It seems that someone is more sad than Shi Zi."
After the maid persuaded him for a long time, Zhu Zhongyan slowly got up and went back to his room.Qi Zhu watched him leave, and finally turned around and left the mourning hall with Henry Zhang.
After lunch that day, Qi Zhu and Henry Zhang went back to their room through the garden of the Wangfu. Now Qi Zhu has moved to another compound in the Wangfu to live with Henry Zhang.
Qi Zhu lightly shook his fan, and when he walked past the rockery in the yard, his eyes suddenly focused, and he turned his head to look at the rockery behind him, only seeing a little maid in the mansion trimming flowers and plants, but no one else.
Xiao Yangyue: "What happened to Lord Hou?"
Qi Zhu stared at the little maid, and replied: "It's nothing, I just saw the peony flowers in the courtyard blooming very brightly."
After finishing speaking, Qi Zhu raised his hand and called the little maid.The little maid ran over to salute, and asked Lord Hou what he needed, Qi Zhu replied, "Pick a peony flower for me."
The little maid agreed, picked one and handed it to Qi Zhu, Qi Zhu took the flower, but her fingers seemed to touch the little maid's wrist inadvertently.
The little maid seemed to be a little startled, and then her immature face turned red, and she quickly turned around and trot away.
Qi Zhu gently turned the peony flower in his hand, and then handed it to Xiao Yangyue beside him: "My lord, I will give this flower to you."
Xiao Yangyue stared at the flower silently, and then said: "Why, Master Hou likes that little maid?"
Qi Zhu only felt that his image in Henry Zhang's heart was not very good, and when he was preparing for a funeral at his mansion, he was still thinking about his maid?Qi Zhu couldn't do this anyway, and when he wanted to say something, Xiao Yangyue said: "Master Hou likes to talk to the prince, and I think the prince will not be stingy."
After finishing speaking, Henry Zhang walked away.
Qi Zhu looked at his back, shook his head with a wry smile, looked at the flower in his hand, bent his fingers slightly, wrapped the flower in his palm, and paused for a second.
Qi Zhu didn't use any force, and when he opened his hand again, the peony flower had been broken into petals from a complete flower, and each petal was intact.
Qi Zhu heard that the peony flower seemed to imply farewell, so he casually sprinkled the petals into the small pool beside him, watching the bright red color sink into the bottom of the pool where the fish were playing.
It rained that night, and the raindrops fell on the steps in front of the hall, the wind seeped into the gaps in the window lattices, and there was a whimpering sound, and the white curtains hanging from the eaves were also fluttering. Don't hold the lantern tightly in your hand, lest the light be blown out by the wind.
There was a faint incense burning in the prince's dormitory, Zhu Zhongqian frowned, tossed and turned on the bed, a thunder suddenly struck the air, Zhu Zhongqian sat up from the bed suddenly, panting in shock, his face was pale.
He looked up, and in the dark room, a winding shadow was reflected on the window, crawling down, spitting out a scarlet snake letter.
Zhu Zhongqian yelled in shock, his pajamas were drenched with sweat, and the maid who was guarding outside rushed in, startled by the terrified look of the prince, and asked anxiously what was wrong with the prince.
Zhu Zhongqian opened his eyes again, but saw that the shadow was not a big snake, but the shadow of dancing candle flames.He gasped for a long time, and said in shock, "Go... blow out the candle."
The maid had no choice but to blow out all the candles in the bedroom as Zhu Zhongqian said.There was no light source in the room anymore, Zhu Zhongqian changed out of his sweaty pajamas, but his heart was still haunted.
In the morning of the second day, when Qi Zhu and Henry Zhang saw Zhu Zhongqian, the latter's complexion was ashen, his eyes were black and blue, and his expression was also very tired, obviously he didn't sleep well last night.
Qi Zhu stared at Zhu Zhongqian and asked, "Is your son not feeling well?"
"Thank you, Lord Hou, for your concern." Zhu Zhongqian said, "Perhaps it's because my father left suddenly...it's inevitable that I think a lot at night."
As soon as Zhu Zhongqian finished speaking, a servant girl ran in hurriedly and said in panic: "His Royal Highness, the King of Min County suddenly has a high fever!"
Zhu Zhongqian stood up from the chair at once, and said in surprise: "How could there be a sudden high fever?!"
The maid cried: "Last night, in the middle of the night, I heard the king of the county complaining that he was not feeling well. We wanted to invite the doctor in the mansion, but the king of the county said that he was dizzy and sleepy. Maybe we should sleep for a while, so we didn't find the doctor... who Knowing that this morning, the servant girl who waited on the county king to get up in the morning went in and saw that the county king was already burned all over his body!"
Zhu Zhongqian was burning with anxiety: "Quick! Take me there quickly! Have you invited a doctor yet?!"
"Please, please! The doctor has already gone first!"
Zhu Zhongqian hurriedly followed the maid to Zhu Zhongyan's bedroom, Qi Zhu and Henry Zhang looked at each other, then got up and followed.
Zhu Zhongyan was lying on the bed with a cloth soaked in cold water covering his forehead, looking really sick. Two doctors from the palace surrounded the bed and were telling the maid how to decoct the medicine.
Zhu Zhongqian hurriedly asked the doctor how the situation was, the doctor saluted him, and replied: "Your Highness, don't worry too much, the King of Minjun seems to have suffered from the usual cold, plus he thought too much during the day and didn't have a good rest at night. You'll be fine with a few days of rest."
Only then did Zhu Zhongqian feel relieved a little, and told the maids to decoct the medicine carefully.
Zhu Zhongqian sat down on the edge of the bed, saw that his brother with closed eyes was still full of weakness, and was about to stretch out his hands to tuck him in the quilt, but Zhu Zhongyan suddenly opened his eyes, and his pale face was filled with fear.
Zhu Zhongyan suddenly sat up from the bed, waving his limbs madly, as if he had lost his mind, and murmured in fear: "Snakes... so many snakes... go away! Go away!"
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