Chapter 131 The Assassin's Identity

There were only two people on duty in the charity cemetery. They were holding wine jugs and snoring loudly.

Yun Qingqing casually made a gesture to ensure that the two would not wake up from their sweet dreams all night, and then she walked into the hall where the bodies were placed with peace of mind.

More than twenty corpses were covered with white cloth and laid on the ground. The white flags around them were fluttered by the people walking by. Nan Zheng felt inexplicably chilly.

These corpses are the ones who assassinated Xiao Changheng during the day.

Yun Qingqing walked to the first corpse, lifted the white cloth, and stuck a talisman on the dead man's forehead.

Xiao Changheng and Nan Zheng stared at her movements intently, very curious about how she was going to make the dead speak.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew up, and white smoke came out from the top of the corpse. It gradually deformed and gathered, and finally condensed into a translucent human figure.

The air around them dropped noticeably by a few degrees.

Nan Zheng took a deep breath and glanced at Yun Qingqing, who looked calm as usual. Suddenly, he felt that it made sense.

The princess is omnipotent. Isn't it natural that she can summon spirits? There's no need to make a fuss.

He thought so in his heart, but he took a step back carefully.

Yun Qingqing looked at the ghost and spoke directly:

"Who hired you to assassinate the Regent?"

"Who is the... Regent... King?" The ghost looked dazed, staring at Yun Qingqing blankly, his movements as stiff as a puppet.

Yun Qingqing narrowed her eyes:

"Don't you know that the person you assassinated today is the Regent of Liang?"

"Liang Guo...Regent King...I don't know." The ghost shook his head mechanically.

Nan Zheng frowned at the ghost and shouted in a low voice:

"Do you know that you are already dead? Why do you still need to pretend to be crazy and stupid to keep the secret for your master?"

The ghost slowly turned its head, looking at him with a pair of blank eyes, with no expression on its face.

Yun Qingqing waved her hand and said:

"He didn't lie. People have three souls and seven spirits. Generally speaking, unless there are special circumstances, when a person dies, the seven spirits will disperse first, followed by the heavenly soul and the earthly soul, and finally the life soul will leave the body."

"This process lasts for seven days, and the life soul, as the root of the seven spirits, will leave the body on the last day, which is the seventh day. This is also the origin of the first seven days."

"I have only summoned two souls now. Such ghosts do not have complete intelligence, but their memories are the same as the real ones. Now no matter what you ask him, he will answer truthfully."

"So that's how it is." Nan Zheng was stunned and his eyes gradually brightened.

Doesn't this mean that if there is a similar situation in the future, there will be no need to worry about not being able to keep the person alive? As long as the princess takes action, it will be easier to pry things out of the dead person's mouth!

Yun Qingqing thought for a moment and asked the ghost in a different way.

"Who sent you to assassinate me?"

The ghost slowly turned to her and said slowly:

"Zhu, Lao, Ying."

"who is he?"

"Yes, us, boss."

"What do you do?"

"Kill, hand."

"Then who hired you killers?"

"No, recognition."

Nan Zheng was getting anxious when he heard this pattern of asking one question at a time and squeezing one point at a time, so he interrupted and said:

"What do you know? Can you tell me all at once?"

The ghost slowly turned to look at him, his eyes even more confused than before.

Yun Qingqing shook her head and said:

"I told you that he is not fully intelligent and cannot be asked this question. He can only answer the simplest and clearest questions now."

Southward Expedition: ...

It's so frustrating.

Xiao Changheng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke:

"What country are you from?"

The ghost slowly turned his head again, facing Xiao Changheng, and then spoke slowly, word by word:

"I am... a Nanyu person."

Yun Qingqing paused for a moment and exchanged glances with Xiao Changheng.

"Are all of you killers from Nanyu?" Xiao Changheng asked again.

Yun Qingqing secretly gave him a thumbs-up.

As expected of a man who does great things, he found the breakthrough point right away.

The ghost mechanically nodded: "Yes."

"Then is the employer who hired you to commit the assassination also from Nanyu?"

"It seems to be...Nanyu's accent." The ghost nodded again.

Yun Qingqing asked a question that she was most concerned about:

"Where did you get the weapons for the assassination?"

"Employer, owner, provider."

"Then do you know what the patterns on those weapons represent?"

"No, I don't know."

Yun Qingqing had a rough idea of what was going on. A few people asked her some more questions, and when there was nothing new, she took back the talisman.

Then he changed a few bodies, summoned their souls, and asked the same questions again.

The caliber is basically the same, and no one knows much.

In general, the employer and the killer were both from Nanyu, and the employer was so considerate that he provided the killer with weapons with the royal emblem of Jing Kingdom, but did not let the killer know.

Of course, it is also possible that these killers are just small fry, and only their boss, Zhu Laoying, knows about it.

Unfortunately, there was no killer leader among these corpses. Yun Qingqing asked several ghosts to identify them one by one and confirmed that Zhu Laoying should have escaped.

At this point, things are basically clear.

If it was Nan Yu who assassinated the Regent, it must have been to prevent the Liang and Jing states from forming an alliance.

After all, Nan Yu has been eyeing the fat piece of meat of Jingguo for a long time.

Before, Nanyu was busy annexing other small countries in the surrounding area and had never taken action against Jing State because the terrain of Jing State was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Now that most of the surrounding small countries have been finally destroyed, Nanyu has become a southern power that is almost on par with Daliang, Beicang, and Xilan. Originally, it seemed that Jing Kingdom would be in its hands in the next step.

But Nanyu didn't expect that the Regent of Daliang would visit suddenly. He knew that Nanyu would never be willing to form an alliance between the two countries, so he resorted to this method in order to make the two countries become mortal enemies so that he could profit from it.

Yun Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief.

If it was just a conspiracy between countries, now that the alliance has been formed, as long as the regent returns safely to the capital, the other party will have no reason to continue chasing him.

Now there's only one small problem.

The talisman she gave to Xiao Changheng showed that someone had cast a curse on him.

If this curse is also a means for Nan Yu to ensure the success of the assassination, then it is understandable. For the same reason as above, they will not continue.

The only worry is that this curse might be the work of the mastermind behind Xiao Changheng's blindness and crippling of his legs.

"Qingqing? What's wrong?" Xiao Changheng's low voice brought her back to her senses.

"Nothing." Yun Qingqing put away her worries, shook her head, and repeated her analysis except for the curse.

Xiao Changheng nodded and said coldly:

"That's right, this should be the work of the Nanyu court. Don't worry about it for now. After the northwest is pacified, I will settle this account with Nanyu!"

The few of them returned to the Honglu Temple quietly without alerting the Jing State's defenses.

On the second day, Jing State had prepared all the food and fodder early, and was only waiting for the Liang State Regent's approval before setting off.

When they set off, Situ Qinglan came to see them off riding a giant elephant.

She reluctantly held Yun Qingqing's hand, with a look of resentment on her face:

"I came to look for you yesterday, but the Liang guards said you were tired from the journey and had rested, and they wouldn't let me in no matter what! It must be your prince who is being mean and stingy."

As she spoke, she glared at Xiao Changheng hatefully.

Yun Qingqing raised her eyebrows: "Didn't you like him yesterday and wanted him to be your husband?"

Xiao Changheng: ...

Situ Qinglan snorted, pulled her away a little, then leaned close to her ear and whispered:

"I was just about to remind you of this. Your husband is just good-looking. Don't be deceived by his appearance! Didn't you see how scary he was when he was chopping people yesterday?"

"Qingqing, what's so good about this paralyzed and vicious man? You didn't marry him out of necessity, did you? If you have a chance, you should divorce him and run away!"