Chapter 115: Eating People Without Spitting Bones

Twelve days ago.

Early August in the capital city of autumn is getting thicker, the streets and alleys of the newly bloomed Dan Gui exudes a dark fragrance, streams and springs flowing in the air.

Shen Qi was wearing an ultramarine-colored flying fish patterned cloud brocade trailing spread, wearing an embroidered spring sword at his waist, standing in the middle of a ten-foot alley. Behind him, there was Shi Yifushuang, a thousand household, and more than ten robust and skillful Jinyiwei Tiyi Riders.

A ten-foot alley is not a ten-foot long, but a ten-foot wide. Alleyway is not narrow, both sides piled up colanders, bamboo poles and other sundries, and from the walls of the family occasionally floated down one or two pieces of clothing in the drying, all can not stop a galloping horse.

This is the shortcut to the official office of the Jin Yi Pro-Army Commanding General’s Department, for a person who is familiar with the roads of the capital and is in a hurry to catch up with the road, it is a natural choice to pass through here.

Therefore, Zhu Hailin had no problem to gallop through this alley, the question was whether the person who assassinated him had already known the route that the Crown Prince passed through, or had secretly followed him and chose to ambush him here?

Shen Qi thought it was the latter.

Zhu Hailin first went to Xin’s residence to look for someone, and only after learning that Xin Zhenhai had been injured in a fall did he make a temporary decision to go to the government office to look for his successor. The assassin could not figure out his route in advance unless he used “injuring Xin Zhenhai” as the first stage of the layout, so that the chain of events could be interlocked.

However, Shen Qi herself knew better than anyone else who had injured Xin Zhenhai.

So the assassin was most likely keeping watch in the marketplace, after all, from time to time, the Crown Prince would leave the palace in microdress and sneak around the inner and outer cities. If one had the heart, one could keep an eye on it with some time, patience and luck.

Less than six hours had passed since the assassination. With this alley as the center, several miles around were blocked by heavy troops, forbidding anyone to go in or out, and the people living nearby huddled in their homes in fear and anxiety, guessing what had happened. And the heavens are also lucky, no wind and rain, the traces left behind that night are all well preserved.

Shen Qi leapt up the two side walls, and on the back of his lone hand were the teeth marks of a silver-ringed snake, while in the area of the capital, there were only pit vipers. He suspected that the snake was an exotic species that had been bred.”

Shen Qi was surprised that King Yu was also involved.

Because Su Yan was taken away by force the day before he left the capital, he hated King Yu to the bone, forced himself not to think about it, and only wanted to find a suitable opportunity to get rid of it.

–What about the Prince? It’s still flesh and blood. No matter how valuable your life is, there’s only one.

But undeniably, Yu Wang military horse for many years, meet the enemy against the battle experienced, vision is also poisonous, will be so accurate to inform the Prince of the species of poisonous snakes, I think it must be nine out of ten.

At least he had one more clue beyond the blood pupil, the silver-ringed serpent.

After leaving the East Palace, Shen Qi went straight to the North Township Division, but at the street corner of the road, he met an uninvited guest.

The wide and gorgeous carriage was right in front of his horse, King Yu lifted up the curtain, revealing a half-smiling handsome face: “Tongzhi Shen?”

Shen Qi’s eyelids fluttered wildly, a strong killing intent mixed with bloody gas seeped out from the cracks of the bones, cutting the sinews from the body. He hurt in the three souls and seven spirits, so much so that he wanted to chop up all the blurred and swaying silhouettes in front of his eyes, and listen to how a person squeezes out a mournful wail in the poor way from life to death.

He inhaled the searing karma fire and bone chilling air and returned, “Your Highness, King Yu.”