Chapter 285: The New Staff of Yongwang Mansion (3)
Four days later, an 800-mile expedition letter knocked the city gate of Chang'an.
The messenger hurriedly handed the letter to the city gate guard, and then fainted. The guard did not dare to neglect and sent people to the palace directly.
The morning court had just begun. Before the saint Li Longji had thought about what to say today, he heard a soldier shouting outside the palace:
"Expedited letters are delivered!"
The court officials in the hall looked at each other and muttered in their hearts: "What urgent matters can be there recently? There are no natural disasters and man-made disasters in the country. The weather is good and the weather is peaceful. Except for the army that conquered the Khitan in the north, there has been no progress for a long time."
"Is it because they have urgent news coming back?"
The saint Li Longji obviously thought of this aspect, and his face was solemn, saying:
"Come on here!"
The expedited letter was handed to Li Longji from outside the imperial city, one hundred steps away from the city gate guards, the imperial imperial guards, the Yulin Guards, the palace eunuchs, and the eunuch Gao Lishi.
Li Longji frowned deeply and opened the letter that had been wet with sweat. After unfolding it, his face suddenly stiffened.
Seeing the saint's gloomy appearance, everyone in the hall couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
...
After the morning court dispersed, the news spread rapidly in the imperial city like a plague. No one stopped it, nor could anyone stop it. Until finally, it came into the ears of Li Chu, the King of Guangping who did not attend court due to illness.
And as soon as Li Chu heard the news, he ordered Li Xin'an to be found.
Originally, Li Xin'an was in seclusion and was about to break through to the second-grade middle, but the precipitation over the past few days was broken away by the ruthless knock on the door.
"Brother Li! Come out quickly, something big happened!" Murong Bai slammed the door outside the door and shouted anxiously.
Li Xin'an said angrily: "Be gentle, for fear that I will not get possessed, right?"
He slowly stood up holding the wall, hammered his sore legs, walked towards the door, opened the door and walked out.
Murong Bai looked solemn: "Your Highness sent someone to find you, I'm very anxious."
"Have you found Xuanyuan Youpeng? Or are you going to attack An Qingxu?"
After being surprised, Li Xin'an immediately calmed down, shook his head and said to himself:
"It shouldn't be. He knew that I was in seclusion and wouldn't let someone come to me because of these two things. Unless... the saint dies!"
"Then he will send someone to kill you as soon as possible. Before Yang Guifei gave birth to a prince, it is a foregone conclusion that the prince succeeded to the throne, and Yang Guozhong could not turn the tables." Murong Bai said coldly.
"Oh, I hope Your Highness can give me some surprises. I have finally felt like I was going to break through these days, so I immediately called me back to the prototype. It won't go as I wish."
Li Xin'an brought the "Snow Filling" in dejectedly and followed the visitor straight to the Guangping Palace.
Stepping into the mansion, Li Xinan found the study with a familiarity, pushed the door open and saw Li Chu with a tired face at a glance.
Li Xin'an was shocked. The two of them hadn't seen each other in just a few days. Li Chu seemed to have become more than teenagers, and his temples were a little white!
"Your Highness, what's wrong with you?" Li Xin'an rushed to Li Chu's side, touched his wrist, and frowned:
"Although your pulse is disordered, there are no signs of poisoning. Or is it that the toxicity is strange and I can't detect it?"
Li Chu gently pushed him away and sighed:
"Oh...I'm not poisoned."
"Then why do you look like this?" Li Xinan looked at Li Chu suspiciously, "You look as old as His Royal Highness."
Li Chu had no strength to scold him, and sighed: "I feel at ease, something happened."
"The Japanese mission, namely Igarashi Qifeng and others, were killed outside Luoyang City."
“Along with Igarashi Kazuki, Miyahara Kazuya
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Including Kikukawa Dai, a group of forty-three people, none of them survived.”
Li Xinan took a deep breath, widened his eyes, and said in surprise:
"How is that possible!"
"It's true. This morning, the report sent by Tiance Prefecture of Luoyang was rushed."
Li Xinan stepped back in a daze and hit the wall, as if he had lost his soul.
"How could this... be clearly a few days ago, I was still a living person."
"I know, it's hard to accept, but that's the case." Li Chu comforted.
"They are Japanese missions. Who has the courage to kill them? No... Forty-three people are all capable people of the fourth grade or above. Who has the ability to kill them?"
"According to the coroner's autopsy, the nine people who died first died were all under hidden weapons. The rest were covered with sword wounds. Moreover, they were killed with one blow."
Li Chu said worriedly: "I don't think this is something that the people in the Tang Dynasty did. It is very likely that those who killed them were still Japanese!"
"The Japanese...whether there are Japanese?"
Li Xin'an's words had just blurted out, and the next moment, he remembered something, his eyes were frightened and his body was trembling slightly.
Li Chu looked at him and nodded slowly:
“There’s another one.”
"Ju...An Qingyuan..."
Li Xinan shook her head in disbelief and said, "How is it possible... Senior Ju wouldn't do this."
Li Chu's face was a little strange: "Xinan, why do you want to protect him? You seem to be very familiar with him."
"Oh, it was Koga Yusuke whom I killed with. In short, he was still half of my life-savior. It would be a bit difficult for me to say that he committed such a evil deed."
Li Chu said: "Heart is at ease, I understand your emotions, but Juan Qingyuan's suspicion is obviously obvious, and it is the biggest. Moreover, he is a master of hidden weapons, isn't he?"
"He is...but in this way, the sword wounds that killed one blow cannot be explained clearly. Ju An Qingyuan..."
Li Xinan fell silent. He couldn't convince Li Chu, let alone convince himself.
Can Juan Qingyuan know sword skills? Of course he can! At the time when he was called An Dingfang, Juan Qingyuan won the title of Black Snake with his hidden weapon and soft sword.
He is no longer a person from the Blood Clothes Hall, nor is Li Xin'an's confidant. It is completely understandable that Juan Qingyuan did these things.
After all, among the forty-three people, there were heirs from the Igarashi family and the Miyahara family, and the half-dead Kikugawa family's number one master.
If you kill them, the more likely the Kiri family will conquer the Sakurajima Hachi family in the days to come.
"Although Juan Qingyuan is the most suspicious, this is just my guess." Li Chu said, "There is another possibility that Takeyoung Kato's people secretly conspired to murder."
"After all, for the Kato family, the eight most powerful families in Sakurajima, it is a bit unreasonable to let a Kato Takeyoung, who has no martial arts skills, come to us. Perhaps, for a long time, the Kato family masters have been hiding in the dark, and while Igarashi and the others are rushing to kill them and avenge Kato Takeyoung."
Li Xinan secretly rejected: "Impossible. If there were indeed a mysterious master of the Kato family, they would have appeared as soon as possible after Kato Takeyoung was killed. Why wait until now to kill Igarashi Kiyoshi and the others who have nothing to do with Kato Takeyoung's death?"
In short, it seems that the possibility that Ju An Qingyuan is the murderer is still the biggest.
"Your Highness!" Li Xin'an raised his head suddenly and said:
"I want to go to Luoyang."
"Go now?" Li Chu looked at him in surprise.
"I want to see the scene. No one knows the assassin better than the assassin. When the murderer kills people, there will definitely be traces that ordinary people cannot find."
"Okay, it's the most reassuring for me when you go." Li Mo
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Ran sighed, "Oh, you are leaving too. Xieliya and Zhong Nanxun have tasks, but there are no one around me who can be used."
Li Xinan smiled and said, "Your Highness, you will be five days soon, and you will be ten days later, and I will be back."
"You go to Luoyang, don't forget the task I assigned to you before."
"Zheng Yang, the magistrate of Luoyang County, keeps Xinan in mind every moment."
"Well, go ahead, I will let someone prepare the documents. The title of the Right Guard Chief is too sensitive now. You'd better not use it. I'll prepare a new identity for you."
"Oh, who do you want to bring? I will prepare it for you together."
"Thank you, Your Highness, Xin'an only brings one person with you."
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The next morning, Li Xin'an told Murong Bai to take good care of his family, so he and Xiao Xuangan took Li Chu to fake the identity of the government, left Chang'an and headed straight for Luoyang.
The two of them wanted to take a small road, but they arrived within three days, but the weather was not good. They encountered heavy rain and the rocks buried the road. They had to cross the mountains and cross the road. This delayed a day's journey.
By the time the two of them arrived in Luoyang in a dusty manner, it was already the fifth day since they left Chang'an.
The place where the Japanese delegation was killed was still top secret. There were heavy troops guarding it around, and spies from the Tiance Mansion were searching around. Without an official identity, no one could get close to it.
The two submitted a forged identity certificate to Luoyang Prefecture by Li Chu. Li Xin'an's identity was Cao of Jingzhao Prefecture, and Xiao Xuangan was his deputy.
After watching the corpses of Igarashi Nagaki, Miyahara Kazuya and others, Li Xinan could almost conclude that there was only one murderer. Because their sword injuries were the same, but they did not look like the soft sword of Hakuan Hyuki Gen.
Moreover, what made Li Xinan curious the most was that the baggage of the Japanese delegation was not lost, but the booklet he gave to Igarashi Kazuo disappeared.
After seeing the body, Luoyang Prefecture happily approved their request to go to the scene of the Japanese mission's murder. After all, someone shared the worries of the Luoyang Yamen, and they couldn't ask for it.
The death of Igarashi Kazuki and others was fifty miles east of Luoyang City, just on the main road. At present, this section of the road has been completely separated and has to pass through the farmland on both sides.
On the way to the scene, Li Xin'an frowned as he watched the endless crowd walking by the green farmland that was still briskly.
"Can the government compensate the owners of these farmlands?"
"Compensation?" the official leading the way smiled, "Sir, you are joking. Sharing the worries of the government is a blessing for these people, and they still want to compensate?"
"But if you do this, the land harvest of these farmers will definitely be poor, there is not enough food, and they cannot pay taxes, and they will be punished again."
"If you punish me, just punish me." The official snorted coldly, "It's just a group of untouchables, what's so pitiful."
Li Xinan glanced at him coldly: "Who gave the order? Luoyang Prefecture Prime Minister?"
"No, no, no, it's not Lord Mei." The official knew that Li Xin'an was going to attack, and knew that the official in Beijing could not afford to offend him, so he hurriedly smiled:
"It's our county lieutenant, Lord Zheng Yang, the idea."
"Oh, it's him."
A sneer appeared on Li Xin'an's lips: "Zheng Yang... There is another reason for you to die."
After the soldiers' investigation, Li Xin'an and Xiao Xuangan successfully arrived at the scene where the Japanese delegation was killed.
The two of them felt a trembling heart - the earth was stained with blood. It is not difficult to imagine what a terrifying massacre had passed here?
This made Li Xinan wonder, is there really only one murderer?
Li Xin'an looked around and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, there were no people from Tiance Mansion here, otherwise it would be much trouble.
After shutting away the idle people around him, Li Xin'an and Xiao Xuangan carefully observed the scene. Soon, Li Xin'an had already inferred the murder process of the murderer.
However, Li Xinan felt a strange familiarity in that process.