Qian Yin and others disguised themselves and sneaked into the heavily guarded main village. The night was dark and the lights were bright. The Tong family courtyard was crowded with people inside and outside, participating or watching the new king of Dongshan Kingdom succeed to the throne.

At this time, everyone stopped and held their breath, so they could hear Hu Zhongyuan’s loud announcement from afar:

"Since the founding of the Shadowless Sect, poisonous techniques have been spread for five generations. There are many talents who have reached the pinnacle, which is beyond the reach of others in the same sect. However, anything good in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. I, the Hu family, originally had a sincere heart to serve the country, but I was framed and suffered by the traitor for no reason.

The unjust injustice disappeared from the world, and he had to hide from the world to survive. Unexpectedly, the martial arts in the Southern Song Dynasty still did not distinguish between right and wrong, and regarded us as crooked and evil, and scolded us in countless ways..." Hu Zhongyuan raised his arms and shouted, with a look of sorrow on his face, "My clansmen!

Can we bear the charges that were not ours for more than thirty years? Now is an important moment to clear away the grievances. How can the Prime Minister's Mansion be left without a leader?!"

"Huh, very impassioned." Yin'er sarcastically said softly. She knew that Hu Zhongyuan's step was indispensable in order to confuse people and incite support.

"The major families in Jingkou of Dongshan Kingdom are all burdened with blood feuds, and they should not just disappear. Only by working together can we defeat our enemies, realize our ambitions, and promote martial arts across the country. Therefore, the country cannot be left without a master for a day. We

Today, I will elect an acting king here to command all the troops of Dongshan Kingdom until the end of several cases, until all the truth comes to light." Dai Chen's words are not so much a supplement to what Hu Zhongyuan did not say, but more like a statement.

To win over the hearts and minds of other people in Dongshan Kingdom, what kind of king should not sit down to the end in the end?

As soon as Dai Chen finished speaking, he walked up to Hu Zhongyuan and said with piercing eyes: "I propose that Brother Hu take over - you are the most virtuous and respected senior of the Shadowless Sect, and you are also the elder who the Prime Minister is closest to and relies on."

"It's really...hypocritical!" Li Fengxing sneered. He understood that Dai Chen also wanted to spy on the throne, but unfortunately his qualifications and martial arts were obviously not as good as those of Hu Zhongyuan.

"Brother Chen, how can Zhongyuan be so virtuous..." Hu Zhongyuan declined symbolically.

"Are they still cooperating...?" Yin'er looked at Lin Qian when he said it. He was noncommittal. He was looking in all directions, paying attention to the golden man who he thought might appear at any time. Yin'er understood and turned to look

Hu Nongyu's mother, as the highest-status prisoner in the Dongshan Kingdom, was sitting beside the throne where the empty seats were waiting. Her eyes were as calm as ever. She raised her head after a while, and Yin'er hurriedly looked away.

Next to the throne, there are several sacred objects belonging to the Shadowless Sect, including various cold poisons including real gentian, as well as all the monarch's symbols except the jade seal seized by the Prime Minister's Palace in the last war. Those are indeed from the Jin and Song Dynasties.

At the critical moment when Jianghu is competing against the odds, each of them lacks and urgently needs it most.

"Brother Hu, there is no need to be self-effacing. At present, you are the only one who can conquer people's hearts and stabilize the overall situation." Dai Chen was still pretending to be conceited, but Yin'er calmed down and paid attention again.

"Zhongyuan, you are originally Chu'er, Die'er's brother. Now the suspicion of jade manipulation has not been eliminated, and Fengming's life and death are uncertain. Only you can..." said an old man with a white beard who looked like an elder. This kind of thing should be commonplace.

Hu Nongyu and others wanted to take him with them because they wanted to use him to legitimately integrate the two factions of the Dongshan Kingdom. Unfortunately, we don’t know what he served in the end.

who.

Yin'er glanced at the old man while peeking out of the corner of her eye. Hu Nongyu's mother seemed to be looking around for something occasionally. Finally, a trace of anxiety appeared on her face. Was she looking for Sister Nongyu and Fengming? Or was she waiting for the golden man to respond?

?Yin'er instinctively grasped the sword tightly.

"Although Brother Chen is a foreigner, he has a sworn relationship with Brother Lai, and just now the avalanche saved Suqin's life." The Suqin mentioned in Hu Zhongyuan's words is obviously the mother of sisters Hu Nongyu.

Hu Zhongyuan and Dai Chen were still giving way to each other, as if they regarded the throne as their own. Jin Ling and Lin Qian looked at each other, nodded, walked out of the crowd and stepped forward, decisively saying: "Inherited by succession"

It's not them two, it's me." Suddenly there was silence, and everyone's eyes were focused on the stage and off the stage. I didn't expect that there would be a third person who could be the candidate for the king of the country. No, he even put on a show of choosing who else to choose over me.

"You... you're not that...?" Dai Chen frowned, and Hu Zhongyuan said sullenly: "These heavy guards really can't stop Queen Leng's people, what are you outsiders doing to cause trouble?" The white-bearded elder is about to die.

, just now he was talking and dozed off. When he saw Jin Ling shining back, he was overjoyed: "Die'er! You, you are back!?" Before he could finish speaking, he almost couldn't breathe.

Dai Chen and Hu Zhongyuan hurriedly looked at him. Everyone nearby was in chaos. Jinling immediately took advantage of Sheng's approach. The prodigal hurriedly raised his knife to stop him: "Who are you?" Such a close encounter, looking at each other carefully, is really surprising and suspicious:

"Queen, she is yours...?!"

"I came here this time to take over the position of prime minister and the power of the queen from my mother." When Jinling said this, everyone was shocked. No one knew that Leng Piaoling and Hu Nongyu in Dongshan State represent the queen and the prime minister respectively. The one who surrenders may not be able to surrender.

On the other hand, Hu Die is the only one who is the unique intersection and link between the two factions, and the one who can convince the public the most. Is there really a descendant of Hu Die in the world, and is it here?

Jin Ling never disclosed his life experience when he first entered Daoxiang Village. He originally wanted to keep a low profile until the incident was over before he could recognize his ancestors and return to the clan. Unexpectedly, he would come in handy tonight, following Hu Fengming's "peace" with Hu Zhongyuan.

"You...are the queen's descendant?!" Years of love have condensed into the mixture of joy and sorrow at this time. Unknowingly, the prodigal sword has been restrained. Although he is used to being cynical, he will only respect Hu Die as king in front of others.

"What evidence do you have for pretending to be a descendant of the Hu family?" Dai Chen stayed awake and questioned Jinling.

"My martial arts and hidden weapons are all inherited from Jin Daxia, who is familiar with you; my wife's ability to decipher the 'Sun and Moon Humming Poison Formation' was personally taught by her mother, the Shadowless Poison King." After Li Fengxing explained, Jin Ling will accompany him

The weapons bag she was carrying was moved out, many of which were left to her by Hu Die. Dai Chen stepped forward to look at it, with a shocked look on his face: "This, indeed, is the old belongings of the previous queen..."

"When I saw you before, I had my doubts. It turns out that you are the daughter of Butterfly Sister." Although Hu Zhongyuan was reluctant, he had to admit it.

The elder of the Hu family fell asleep and woke up again. Hearing that she was the daughter of Hu Die, he was overjoyed: "You, you, can you kill the soul?"

"It's a pity that I don't have any talent." Jin Ling shook his head.

"Sigh. This generation." The elder sighed deeply. Although several younger Hu elders were regretful, they were not happy, and they all commented: "It's already very rare." "It's better than Nongyu." "Previously.

Seeing how many hands she showed, I should have thought of it a long time ago."

"I have long said that you have ulterior motives, but now it has finally been revealed - it seems that the real gentian released last night was not to help Queen Leng regain her position, but to help you seize power?" Hu Zhongyuan's eyes were deep and his words were unhurried.

Vicious, "I didn't expect Butterfly Girl's descendants to be so vicious——"

"If she had imitated the real gentian a long time ago, why would she come here to ask it to save my life? If those who save people are willing to harm me, who else in the world will help the strong and help the weak?" Yin'er spoke righteously and angrily denounced this insinuation on Jinling's behalf.

"Asking for medicine is just a cover. No matter how eloquent you are, you can't escape the suspicion of poisoning and seizing the throne." Hu Zhongyuan's well-hidden true face was finally torn apart due to his obsession at the moment when he was about to succeed - although at this moment he was

He was still so calm and composed, but his insistence and extreme resistance to Jin Ling showed that his mentality was not right.

The next moment, it was impossible to keep him calm and composed——

"Hu Zhongyuan, who is the one who is suspected of poisoning?" The crowd dispersed and Tong Fei stepped closer. Hu Zhongyuan glanced at him from a distance at first, and then his expression changed drastically.

"The village chief's younger brother!" "Yes, yes!" "Isn't that the second young master of the Tong family?" "He's still alive!" The onlookers were all talking, and Tong Feifan obviously hid his brother's affairs tightly, which was very annoying.

admire.

"It is Hu Zhongyuan's cronies who led his troops to chase us and poison us with real gentian!" Although Tong Feifei whispered, his testimony was thunderous. Everyone present followed his finger and looked at Hu Zhongyuan and his family.

Among the cronies around him, Hu Zhongyuan's image as a gentleman and his aggressive momentum were shattered by him, making him look ridiculous.

"Jinling, who doesn't know that you are a master of poison? What poison was used to control him?!" Hu Zhongyuan was stunned for a moment. He was inevitably confused, but he forced himself to calm down. He borrowed the unsolved murder case in Zhulin.

This is used.

"What do you mean? I can't testify yet?" Tong was very angry, and Li Fengxing quickly held him down to stop him. Jinling did not expect Hu Zhongyuan to ask such a rhetorical question, and his words suddenly felt difficult.

"Hu Zhongyuan, do you dare to teach your cronies to lead out the horses, take off their shoes, and test it with me? There are bamboo forests everywhere in Daoxiang Village, but the soil quality in Songhai is different from other places. There will be fallen pine needles mixed in the mud."

Lin Qian spoke and calmed down the situation, which was still chaotic and did not know how to proceed. Hu Zhongyuan was surprised at first when he heard the words. He seemed to have thought of the earthen pine needles. He hesitated for a moment and then laughed: "Everyone knows that I and my subordinates have been there.

Songhai, it was just early this morning when you were waiting to besiege the Prime Minister." The confidant nodded: "As you all know, when the crime occurred last night, although we were ordered to pursue him, we failed to catch up and went astray."

"Most people here have been to Songhai, but the pine needles have been exhausted by the cold poison this morning. If we had gone then, there would be no marks under the horses' hooves or soles." Lin Qian shook his head, who would pay more attention than him?

The time, place and people are favorable. "It snowed in Daoxiang Village the day before yesterday, and the sea of ​​pine trees has accumulated a thick layer. If we had gone there before last night, the pine needles and soil would have been separated by snow and would not have been mixed in the mud. Only last night, there was a thick layer of snow."

It's thin and pine needles get into the mud, for example, it's on the soles of my wife's shoes, because she was here last night." Yin'er was slow, and it took him a while to figure out what he was talking about, so he quickly raised his feet to show off.

"That can only prove that my subordinates were there last night, but last night was so long, how could it be the time when the crime occurred." Hu Zhongyuan continued to argue without changing his expression, showing his temperament in the face of danger.

Just like his martial arts, he has the demeanor of a master.

"No. Only the time before and after the crime occurred, when the snow was not thick and the wind was strongest, the needles of the fallen pine trees were not only dry and withered, but most of them were new leaves forcibly blown off by the wind." Lin Qian continued to lay out the evidence.

Zhongyuan was so confident that Yin'er thought he would have nothing to say. He didn't expect Lin Qian to be so familiar with the Songhai area. Didn't he go to the crime scene yesterday instead of going back to look at the map?

"Look at the pine needles in the mud under the horses' hooves or stuck to the soles of their shoes. Just look at whether they are new or old, dead or alive. To be cautious, show every war horse and soldier under your command, without exception, to see how many percent there is. Those who are clean will be clean by themselves.

"Jinling understood and immediately added what Lin Qian said. Hu Zhongyuan was immediately speechless. Do you want to blame him for making a mistake? It's a pity that he didn't have the leisure and didn't dare to clean the horse's hooves to attract attention, and he never thought that the environment was

The most silent and steadfast witness.

"Yes, we did chase and catch up at that time, but no poison was introduced! No poison was released!" What's the use of the confidant admitting it now? If there is no ghost, why didn't he say it? Inconsistency, too much talk will lead to mistakes.

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"As for who put it in, we...have never seen it..." Perhaps the confidant found that arguing was useless, and his voice gradually became quieter.

Even so, the suspicion lies with Hu Zhongyuan. What Tong Changcheng and Lin Qian said can only prove that the confidant Zi Shi was present. However, if he was present, why did he announce his absence to the public and lie to people that he had gone astray? How could he not rush to arrest him if he was present?

, after the murder occurred, there was no trace left, so it seems that the mission was completed and he returned to deliver the work? There is a problem with his character, which is not trustworthy at all.

"I stress again, they were just following the orders of the Prime Minister and me to chase fugitives. I ordered them to shoot arrows as a deterrent when necessary, but they did not poison me - I don't have real gentian!" Hu Zhongyuan said every word in a loud voice.

, solemnly, "They hid at that time because of temporary fear; now I refused to admit it, and I was just afraid of getting into trouble..."

That's awesome. The charges were immediately reduced to dereliction of duty, defense of one's shortcomings, concealment of information and cowardice.

"Okay, let's not mention this case for now, but I wonder why you specially lured us outside Hu Fengming's house after the Prime Minister was imprisoned? Isn't it because you deliberately framed the person who stood in your way to inherit the Prime Minister's position?" Li Fengxing sneered, "You probably don't

Knowing that he was very careful, in order to lure us away, he got too close to us and exposed his presence."

Nong Yufengming's mother, Suqin, stood up after hearing this. Her emotions fluctuated, and it didn't look like she was lying: "Zhongyuan?! Is this possible? Why did you harm them?!"

"I'm just anonymously reminding you that Hu Fengming is hiding secretly and may very well frame the Prime Minister!" Hu Zhongyuan was afraid that evidence would be left at the scene, so he simply stopped denying it and revealed other possibilities. In this way, he would be guilty of the crime.

Skim it cleanly.

"Very good. Then why did you poison the Tong family guards outside the Prime Minister's prison?" Yin'er asked closely.

Hu Zhongyuan was just about to answer when he suddenly woke up and shouted angrily: "You say you have no basis for it, where is the evidence?!" Yin'er sneered, feeling that he was taking advantage of others' danger.

"The poisoning of the guards was deliberate and invulnerable. However, the avalanche in the bamboo forest was so sudden that it was a temporary act, so you were exposed at that time." Lin Qian said again after not speaking for a long time.

Jin Ling was regretting that Tong Fei couldn't accuse Hu Zhongyuan, who was hiding deep inside. He could have used various reasons to escape, but he didn't expect that Lin Qian seemed to have a piece of evidence in his hand.

"What?" Hu Zhongyuan's voice became extremely soft.

"At the time of the avalanche, the place where the Hu Nongyu sisters were standing was originally not in danger. You acted according to the opportunity and fired a hidden weapon at the bamboo near them, causing the snow to pile up on it." Lin Qian said, Hu Zhongyuan's expression remained unchanged and solemn.

Counterattack: "That's nonsense. The first person hit by the avalanche is you. How can you see that?!" What he said made the audience feel that it made sense, and they nodded and whispered.
To be continued...