Chapter 353: Protecting the Prince's Dignity
Li Tianzhuo, who had not yet fully woken up, suddenly lost his sleepiness.
"What did you say?"
"What happened?"
Li Tianzhuo asked nervously.
Not only did Jiang Yuan look strange, but the hem of his clothes was stained with blood. Anyone who saw it would know that something serious must have happened.
Jiang Yu presented the letter.
Li Tianzhuo's mouth corners were tense and his eyebrows moved slightly.
After reading the letter, anger suddenly surged in my heart.
However, this letter alone cannot prove that Jiang's mother was killed by the princess.
Even though each of them knew this, they still couldn't produce any evidence.
The general content of the letter was that the other party already knew that Jiang Yu was following Prince Changle to investigate another spy of Nan Xin.
Since this spy didn't have the ability to attack King Changle, he first targeted Jiang Yu, a poor scholar who didn't even have a guard or bodyguard at home.
"Jiang Yu, I'm sorry, it's me who has implicated you."
Li Tianzhuo felt a little guilty.
As a prince, he is really useless and can't even protect the people around him.
Jiang Yuan shook his head tiredly, "Your Majesty, how can you be blamed for this? Evildoers are everywhere, and it is my own negligence in taking precautions."
He now blames himself very much. If he had lived in a big house early on like other officials and hired batches of guards and servants, perhaps the princess and her people would have been afraid and would not have acted so quickly.
Isn't this just bullying him because he is alone?
"I promise you that I will find the murderer and avenge your adoptive mother!"
Li Tianzhuo patted his shoulder and comforted him.
Jiang Yuan had just lost his mother and was in a low mood. Li Tianzhuo had nothing better to comfort him with, so he could only ask his uncle to get some wine.
Just as Uncle Gui was about to go out, the gatekeeper came running over in a hurry.
He gasped for breath and said, "Your Highness, something bad has happened. News just came from the Honglu Temple that the Western Fortress envoys and the jailers guarding the prison have all been killed!"
Li Tianzhuo, Jiang Yu:!
"They are trying to silence us!"
Even Uncle Gui noticed it.
They both calmed down quickly.
"Being able to break into the Honglu Temple prison quietly and kill people, I think there is a high possibility that there is a traitor in our Honglu Temple." Jiang Yu analyzed.
The rainstorm came quickly and went away quickly.
The rain has now decreased a lot and is gradually showing signs of stopping.
The sky had cleared up slightly and daylight was gradually rising.
"Let's go to the Honglu Temple to check out the situation."
Li Tianzhuo asked Uncle Gui to bring two umbrellas, and gave a set of his own clothes to Jiang Yu, asking him to change his wet clothes.
After all, you are a temple minister, you can't meet your subordinates in such a miserable state.
Jiang Yu had no other emotions towards Li Tianzhuo except gratitude.
Even if he sacrificed his own life, he would still work for Prince Changle until his death and be absolutely loyal to the prince.
The two men were holding umbrellas, one in front and the other behind. When they looked up, one was a cold, sinister king who killed people without blinking an eye, and the other was a minister who was deep-minded, gentle but strong.
Before leaving, Li Tianzhuo did not forget to remind Uncle Gui not to disturb Deng Youning's sleep because of this matter.
But as soon as he finished speaking, Deng Youning's figure flashed out from outside the door.
She had been waiting for them outside the door for some time.
I didn’t expect Jiang Yu to be so slow in changing clothes!
"Azhuo, such a big thing happened, and you didn't tell me?"
"Fortunately, this princess has sharp ears and heard it herself!"
Deng Youning raised her neck proudly.
Li Tianzhuo looked doting on her. He couldn't do anything about her and just wanted to let her have a good rest.
He held an umbrella for her, and took Jiang Yu with him, and the three of them rode in a carriage towards the Honglu Temple.
When we arrived at the Honglu Temple, it was already completely light.
The fish-scale clouds in the sky are arranged in rows and neatly.
The clerk who was on duty at the Honglu Temple last night saw them coming and hurriedly led the way.
The crime scene has not been cleaned up yet, and I’m afraid that Prince Changle and their temple officials will come and take a look.
"Look for any clues."
Li Tianzhuo instructed everyone.
Deng Youning interrupted him, "Don't waste your time. Even if there is a clue, we came so late that it has already been taken away by the murderer."
Even so, Li Tianzhuo still chose to look for it seriously.
Just as Deng Youning said, there were no clues.
But Jiang Yu seemed to have made a new discovery.
He picked up the murder weapon beside him and said to the two of them, "This knife is the same one that stabbed my adoptive mother and the others. It's exactly the same. It should be mass-produced."
Deng Youning took the knife from his hand and looked at it carefully.
"I learned about this when I was idle in Dongji before. This kind of scimitar should be the saber of the Western Frontier Army. It is difficult for ordinary people to get it."
"The people who killed them and your adoptive mother were all sent by the Zhu family!"
"It seems that in addition to the shadow assassins used by the Yuan family, there is also a group of Zhu family soldiers lying in ambush all over Nanxinyun City."
When talking about these things, Deng Youning instantly thought of Dongji two years ago.
It was the same at that time. The soldiers of King Si and King Yi were hiding everywhere in their capital, and those people from Nanxin also disguised themselves as people from Dongji.
Li Tianzhuo thought the same thing as her.
Having already paid the price for this once, they will never be so passive again this time.
If we can't find these people immediately, we would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go.
"Tell the Household Registration Department to bring all foreigners, regardless of their country, to the Honglu Temple before sunset today."
"This princess can put a poison in their bodies that can be activated at any time."
"Don't worry, if I don't activate the mother Gu, these poisons will be planted in their bodies and will not have any effect on them."
Fearing that Li Tianzhuo might be afraid, Deng Youning went out of her way to explain more.
She was indeed more ruthless than Li Tianzhuo. She called all the foreigners, regardless of which country they were from, and cast a curse on them.
Even those who claim to be her citizens of Dongji will not be spared.
Because the identities and even appearances of those Nanxin people may be fake.
We have to be on guard!
They were busy in the Honglu Temple, but they didn't know that the Changle Palace was also in chaos at this time.
Around dusk, a group of officials claiming to be from the Dali Temple broke into the palace without permission and arrogantly demanded that they hand over Han Xinxin.
"How dare you! This is the Prince Changle's Palace. No matter what you want to do, you cannot enter the palace without permission. You should wait for the prince to come back before making a decision."
Uncle Gui brought a group of servants to guard the house and stand guard at the gate. Even if he risked his life today, he would never let these people in.
He was not only protecting the young lady of the Han family, but also protecting the dignity of his own prince.
"Old man, what do you know? We are doing this for the good of the prince. We want to take the culprit of the poisonous cloth away from the palace before more people know about it."
"This way, the prince won't be cursed because of her."
The leader among the officers and soldiers was also a difficult guy to deal with, and he always claimed to be doing good for King Changle.
Instead, they described your uncle as a disloyal slave who instigated the prince to shield the criminals.
Uncle Gui had no way to defend himself and wanted to order someone to quickly go find the prince, the princess and the others.
Even if a fight broke out, he and the servants in his mansion who only had mediocre skills would be no match for the well-trained Dali Temple runners.
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