Death Princess

In the early morning, in Xishan Valley, the courtyard where everyone from the Shadow Gate lived temporarily.Jiang Tang put down his mouthwash, yawned and looked out the window, "Tomorrow is the martial arts conference, by the way," he turned his head and asked the attendant beside him, "In this way, it's been a long time since Wumian gave Duohun an order. In three days, what happened to the Ou family? Did Duohun really go out to assassinate him?"

"Back to the sect master, the Ou family siblings escaped from the dark pavilion last night, and their whereabouts are unknown now. The master of the dark pavilion is pursuing them privately, but they have found nothing."

"Oh?" Jiang Tang raised the corner of his mouth, "Then did you follow my orders last night?"

"Yes, it's just that the subordinates don't understand..."

"I don't understand that I didn't deny Wumian's arrangement on the surface, but why did I send Wumian to participate in the martial arts conference, and then I also helped the Ou family escape? Hehe," Jiang Tang knocked on the table, "you and I How many years?"

The attendant couldn't react to Jiang Tanghe's words for a while, but he still replied honestly: "Back to the sect master, three years and two months."

"Three years and two months." Jiang Tang looked at the servant with a smile on his face, but his eyes were not smiling. "It's only been three years and two months, and you have already started to question my decision."

thump!The attendant hurriedly knelt on the ground, trembling for a long time without saying a word.

But Jiang Tang didn't pay attention to his reaction, but said: "You are like this, let alone the foggy face? It has been six or seven years, since he was only bone erosion, he has been following me, should he know? He knows all about it. It was the first time he was able to keep secret about the Ou family behind my back, who knows what the second and third times will be? People's hearts will change, and I have to watch them from time to time. Let's see if these people have changed their minds to follow me, right? As for the Ou brothers and sisters, I let them go because I have my own purpose. Some chess pieces are useless if you hold them tightly in your hands."

Hearing this, the attendant knocked his head on the ground, sweating profusely.

Jiang Tang kept that seemingly harmless smile, and said nothing.

After an unknown amount of time, the poor attendant was relieved by a knock on the door, "Master, His Royal Highness Prince Ping is here to visit." The people outside the door reported this.

"Let Your Highness wait a moment, I'll go right away." Jiang Tang was not surprised by King Ping's visit.He stood up slowly, patted the shoulder of the attendant who was still kneeling aside, and walked out of the room without saying a word.

. . .

"Grassman Jiang Tang sees His Royal Highness King Ping."

"Hey." Before Jiang Tang had time to kneel down, He Yupeng took three steps forward to stop his movement, "Third Uncle's behavior is really annoying my little nephew, how can my little nephew stand it?" Third Uncle, this is my salute."

"Your Highness was joking. Your Highness is His Majesty's Second Prince, and I'm just a scumbag. Your Highness' 'Third Uncle' really hurt the grassroots." Jiang Tang replied with a half-smile.

"Third Uncle, don't do this," He Yupeng hurriedly supported Jiang Tang after hearing this, and led him to the seat next to the table, "I have sent away the idlers and others. Only you and my uncle and nephew," pointing to himself, "I, He Yupeng, the grandson of King Sui," pointing to Jiang Tang, "the third son of King Sui, He Kunshu."

"Your Highness, it's better not to mention the three words 'He Kunshu' again," Jiang Tang said, but his body sat down cooperatively, "I'm just Jiang Tang now, Jiang Tang, the shadow sect master of Jianghu .”

"Cut," He Yupeng said with displeasure, "If it wasn't for the stupidity of the first emperor, third uncle, you are a dignified prince and third son, how could you have fallen to such a state? What about Sui Wang's grandfather, father, second uncle and elder brother and second brother?" Will he be charged with an unwarranted treason charge, die young, and not be buried in the imperial mausoleum?"

"Heh," Jiang Tang still half-smiled, "According to what His Highness said, I, the third son of the rebellious prince, was able to escape to death thanks to the unwelcome third son of a brothel girl. Woolen cloth."

"Hey, third uncle," He Yupeng felt a sense of frustration that he was kicked instead of being flattered, "You know nephew, I don't mean that..."

"Let's talk," Jiang Tang didn't intend to continue pestering, "His Royal Highness came to the humble house, but because of the secret art of Jianzong?"

"Ahem," his thoughts were mercilessly broken, He Yupeng coughed twice in embarrassment, and said, "Exactly."

"Why, Your Highness also wants to get that secret technique?" Jiang Tang raised his eyebrows.

"How could it be?" He Yupeng said while stretching out a finger and shaking it in front of his face. In an instant, a flame from nowhere rushed to his fingertips, but did not hurt him at all, "Nephew Of course, I know that the so-called secret technique has the same goal as this Yijiao technique, so how could I go to such lengths to get my hands on that secret technique? It's just..."

"It's just that you don't need the secret technique, Your Highness, but the prince can't get the secret technique?" Jiang Tang continued He Yupeng's words again.

He Yupeng withdrew the flame and nodded.

"Why? Who doesn't know that the person on the dragon chair is taboo against evil races and sorcery, why didn't he let the prince stop the secret arts? him?"

"No, no, no," He Yupeng shook his head, changed his attitude as a junior, and said seriously, "It's not worth it to use a secret technique that is enough to bet that the emperor will abolish the prince. The prince is different from me, who holds 30 Wan Ding Yuanjun, if he really got this thing, he might not pay attention to whether he is the crown prince or not."

Father, he called He Kunzhe, and called the son who killed his father's enemy "Father".Jiang Tang narrowed his eyes, but didn't say anything.

"As for his crown prince," He Yupeng thought of the secret letter that had been burned to the point that only three words remained, "maybe we don't need to do anything, and soon Father will do it himself. It seems that I thought it was true that there was a gap between their father and son, and not only is it true, the gap is not as big as usual."

Jiang Tang wondered what He Yupeng was referring to, but he didn't ask, because he knew that even though the two were uncles and nephews in terms of blood, in fact, their status was far apart.There are some things that he should not ask or intervene in now.

"Don't worry, Your Highness," Jiang Tang said, "I tried it a few days ago. The secret technique that the young master of Jianzong said is probably a lost martial arts secret book, and has nothing to do with the real secret technique."

"Oh?" He Yupeng said with disbelief all over his face, "Third Uncle, are you sure?"

"If Your Highness doesn't believe it," Jiang Tang thought for a while before saying, "Send someone to take that thing away? I heard that Princess Changping is also living in Jianzong now, and she is quite close to the young lord of that dynasty." until.

"Take it, let Yi'er take it, ha ha," He Yupeng smiled mockingly, "Third Uncle, I'm ashamed to say, nephew, I don't even know whether this Changping is an enemy or a friend. Back then Seeing that she had no relatives or reasons when she first entered the palace, the emperor loved her very much, so he planned to take her for his own use, but in the end, he didn't know whether he used her or was used by her."

"Why did Your Highness say that?" Jiang Tang really frowned this time.

"Didn't Third Uncle know what to ask?" He Yupeng twitched his lips, "Eight years ago, what happened eight years ago was done by Shadow Gate, how could you not know, Third Uncle?"

"Didn't your Highness say that?" Jiang Tang felt a drop of cold sweat dripping from his forehead, "But everyone who participated in or knew about this incident, as early as three years ago when I became the head of the sect, took the opportunity..."

"No, no, third uncle, don't panic. What I'm saying is not that there is something wrong with the people under the third uncle, but," He Yupeng knocked on the table, "He Yi, King Jing's orphan, did the third uncle ever think about this orphan?" Where did it come from? According to her own statement, King Jing and King Ji did not take her with them when they set off to return to Beijing, so she escaped with her life. But we have always ignored a possibility, if what she said is not What about the fact? What if she was also in the heavy snow eight years ago? Third Uncle never thought about it, right?"

"I've thought about it," Jiang Tang rubbed his chin, "but eight years ago, Princess Changping was only a ten-year-old child, how could she escape in that heavy snow fight?"

"Unless..." He Yupeng met Jiang Tang's eyes.

Jiang Tang shuddered, and continued, "Unless there are others who escaped with her..."

"Third Uncle still remembers that after what happened back then, Jianzong was the first to arrive at the scene." After seeing each other's astonishment in each other's eyes, He Yupeng continued, "And I met Jianzong a few days ago. The Young Sect Master has come into contact with him, and he is totally different from an ordinary Jianghu sect disciple..."

"Could it be that he really..."

"There is a scar on his neck," He Yupeng pointed to his own neck, "the scar is very deep and old. Also, it was Yi'er who proposed to stay in Jianzong, and Yi'er's enthusiasm for him far exceeds I expected it. If the young suzerain of the Sword Sect is not the suzerain's own son, but the orphan of King Ji, if He Yi and him have known each other since they were childhood sweethearts, or even cousins, then everything would make sense."

Jiang Tang supported his forehead, recalling the few contacts he had with Chao Lu.

Yes, in this way, it also explains the commission to assassinate the young lord of the Sword Sect with an unknown employer. Such a generous move, it must not be an ordinary person in the world, but an extraordinary person spends a lot of money just to assassinate a person in the world The young master of the sect...

Jiang Tang analyzed, could it be that the employer is the crown prince?He also made such a bad move because he had guessed the identity of Zhao Lu?

"This person can't stay." While Jiang Tang was still in his own contemplation, He Yupeng had already come to a conclusion, "I'll leave this matter to my third uncle, and I believe that a little master of the Sword Sect will be able to do it on my behalf. For such a huge Shadow Gate, it’s definitely not a problem.”

"But..." Jiang Tang was thinking about something.

"Oh?"

"...Okay." Jiang Tang seemed to have made his own plan in his heart.

"Then I will trouble third uncle, and my nephew will take my leave." She saluted slightly.

"Your Highness, go slowly." Get up and see off.

After He Yupeng's back disappeared into the room, Jiang Tang once again thought of Chao Lu's hippie smiling face with the word "troublesome" written all over it.Young master of Jianzong, who should be sent to take this difficult life?Jianzong will definitely offend him thoroughly, but how can he minimize the damage to Shadow Gate...

The next moment, Jiang Tang thought of Leng Tong's unsmiling face, and the Ou Shi siblings who just escaped last night.

So be it.Jiang Tang made a decision.

At this moment, he regretfully did not realize the relationship between Leng Tong, who was deliberately concealed by the former Ou Pavilion master of the Dark Pavilion, and the assassination eight years ago, and it was precisely because of his "unawareness" , making the subsequent things completely out of his control.Of course, it is also out of the control of anyone who thinks they are strategizing, including the morning dew who knows that her life is very hot.

The author has something to say:

These uncles and nephews got a lot wrong.

ps the next update will be the day after tomorrow