revenge
On the eighth day of October, Prince An returned to Beijing.
Lin Yan was squatting on a mountain fifty miles away from the capital. He could see the official road at the foot of the mountain, which was the only way for Prince An to return to the capital.
There is shade from trees nearby, which is perfect for assassins to hide. This is the best place to assassinate King An.
Lin Yan hid in the dark, looking at the assassins who were also hiding around him, and thought to himself that he was right. They wanted to assassinate Prince An here.
Prince An's carriage was coming from a distance. One of the assassins made a gesture and all of them rushed forward.
The guards following behind Prince An's carriage were caught off guard and started fighting with the assassins.
Lin Yan hid aside and did not take any action. She was waiting, waiting for the person behind the scenes to take action.
Sure enough, a group of people suddenly appeared and helped Prince An's guards kill all the assassins.
Prince An in the carriage did not show any panic from beginning to end. He sat in the carriage with his eyes closed to rest.
If you observe carefully, you will find that several people hidden among the guards are all very powerful and can easily deal with assassins. They do not look like ordinary guards.
Lin Yan looked at all this and raised his eyebrows: "It seems that Prince An is not a simple person."
When it became quiet outside the carriage, the leader of the group of people who appeared outside later clasped his hands together and said, "Your Highness Prince An, my master invites you."
Prince An half-opened the curtain and said, "Lead the way."
From Lin Yan's angle, he could only see the corner of Prince An's mouth. For some reason, he felt that he looked familiar.
But now is not the time to think about these things. Lin Yan followed them and watched them enter a valley.
The valley was guarded by outsiders and it was not easy to get in. Lin Yan looked around, circled around and found a breakthrough. He climbed up the highest peak and entered the valley. He avoided the patrols of the people in the valley and successfully found King An.
In a courtyard deep in the valley, Prince An was brought into a room by a maid. The maid bowed and said, "Your Highness, please sit for a moment. My master will be here soon."
Prince An nodded, sat on the cushion, and calmly poured himself a cup of tea.
Half an incense stick later, the man pushed the door open with a mask on his face. Prince An raised his eyebrows and said, "You invite me to be your guest but don't show your true face. You are really insincere."
"When the matter I discussed with Your Highness is concluded, it will not be too late to see my true face then." The man's voice was hoarse and difficult to hear clearly.
At this time, Lin Yan climbed onto the roof, held his breath, lifted the tiles, and looked at what was going on inside.
What caught her eye was Prince An's handsome face. Lin Yan fell into deep thought. She was very familiar with this face. This person looked exactly like Mo Chen.
She had never heard that the late emperor had other sons who were the same age as Prince An, which could only mean one thing: Mo Chenyu was Prince An.
Lin Yan didn't blame Mo Chenyu for hiding his identity from her. After all, she had never asked about Mo Chenyu's identity, and she had never been curious. She just didn't expect that Mo Chenyu was actually Prince An.
Now is not the time to think about these things. The content of their conversation is the most important.
They talked for about an hour, and Lin Yan climbed on the roof and listened to the entire conversation.
The masked man changed his voice and disguised his figure, being very cautious. If he stood in front of her again, she would not be able to recognize him.
"Your Highness, please consider carefully what I said and wait for good news," said the masked man.
Prince An nodded and followed the maid who brought him into the valley out of the valley.
Lin Yan was not brave enough to tear off the mask of the masked man in this place. Not to mention whether he was the leader of that force, even if he was, there were countless archers hiding in this valley, and she would be shot once she was exposed.
Watching Mo Chen leave, Lin Yan saw that the masked man had no intention of taking off his disguise, so he also left.
Prince An got into the carriage he came in and continued to drive towards the capital.
The carriage was not moving fast, so Lin Yan quickly caught up with it and found the right moment to jump into Prince An's carriage.
The guards following outside the carriage saw Lin Yan's dark shadow and immediately drew their swords, ready to attack.
Song Xuan shouted: "Don't panic, we are one family."
Seeing someone suddenly break into the carriage, Song Xuan panicked for a moment, wondering who was so bold and had such strength that his men couldn't stop him. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lin Yan.
Then he was surprised again and teased, "It turned out to be you, Ah Yan. I just sent you a letter a few days ago, and you are so impatient to come and greet me today."
"Your Highness Prince An," Lin Yan called out to Song Xuan.
Song Xuan's face changed. How could he forget the logo of Prince An on his carriage? He wanted to tell A'an in person, but now he is doomed.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to hide it from you." Song Xuan immediately admitted his mistake and carefully observed Lin Yan's expression.
"I was wondering why you were with that group of officers and soldiers when we first met in Sangzhou. It turns out you are Prince An." Lin Yan remembered that the officers and soldiers looked a little strange. She should have suspected that he was not a simple person. "You even mumbled that you were just passing by and saw something unfair. I actually believed you."
When Song Xuan heard Lin Yan's relaxed tone, he knew that the other party was not angry. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "I was afraid that you would know my identity and alienate me and no longer treat me as a friend."
Lin Yan: "Forget the drink I owe you. You have to treat me when the time comes. But I'm not here to drink with you this time. I'm here to ask you something."
Song Xuan responded in a low voice and returned to his nonchalant attitude: "What's the matter? If Ah Yan asks, I will tell you everything I know."
The carriage was not a place for meetings, so Lin Yan followed Song Xuan to his Prince An's Mansion in the capital.
Inside the study of Prince An's Mansion
Song Xuan made tea and poured a cup for Lin Yan, "There is no wine in the house, so just make do with this."
Lin Yan looked around the study and said, "You have never been back to the capital, but this place is quite clean."
"I asked people to clean it in advance." Then he realized, "No, Ah Yan, how do you know that I have never been back to the capital? Haven't you only been in the capital for half a year? And it was for Ning girl, how do you know all this?"
At first, Song Xuan just thought that Lin Yan knew he was going to the capital and came to greet him specially. He was not surprised that she appeared on the outskirts of the capital.
"This is related to what I want to tell you," Lin Yan said seriously, "Who was the person you talked to in the valley today?"
If someone else asked Song Xuan about this, he might have killed them to silence them, but since Lin Yan asked him, there was nothing he couldn't say.
"I don't know that person's identity," Song Xuan asked in confusion. "It seems that A'an appeared there not for me, but for the identity of Prince An. But I remember that you have never cared about the affairs of any royal relatives or nobles."
"This is a long story, and I can't explain it in a short time." Lin Yan couldn't tell him about Zhong Yuxi's affairs, and she couldn't tell him either.
"I heard your conversation with that man. You came to Beijing this time to find the murderer of Concubine Wan, but as far as I know, Concubine Wan died of illness."
Song Xuan was silent for a moment, then said: "When I was ten years old, my mother passed away. Not long after, I was sent away from the capital. At first, I thought my mother died of illness, but a few months ago, I met a person with a disfigured face. Then I learned that she was a maid in my mother's palace. She escaped from the secret passage in my mother's palace and was chased all the way. In the end, in order to avoid being hunted down, she destroyed her own appearance with her own hands. She said that my mother was poisoned to death, and the person who poisoned her came from the palace. This time I returned to the capital, I came to investigate the murderer who killed my mother."
After hearing this, Lin Yan was very surprised. There was a hidden story behind Concubine Wan's death. Zhong Yuxi must know about it. She wanted to use this to make Prince An and the so-called villain join forces to deal with the male protagonist Gu Shi. So what role did Gu Shi play in this?
"Do you have anyone you suspect?" Lin Yan asked.
"Yes, one is the former Crown Princess, the mother of the current emperor, one is Concubine Liang who competed with my mother for favor, and the other is the Empress Dowager."
Lin Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "How dare you say that? One is the biological mother of the current emperor, and the other is the person who raised the emperor personally. Aren't you afraid that I will tell it to the outside, and then you will be really dead."
"You won't," Song Xuan was very confident. Even though they had only known each other for seven years, Lin Yan was one of the few people in the world he could trust.
Although "so confident" was a question, Lin Yan's brows relaxed, and he was obviously very grateful for the trust of his good friend, "But why do you doubt them?"
"My mother was the emperor's favorite concubine back then. Moreover, after I was born, the crown prince died. My mother was likely to be named empress. Then, I might have become the biggest competitor of His Majesty, who was then the crown prince. She might have killed my mother. Not to mention the other Concubine Liang. She was jealous of my mother and had harmed her many times. She might also have been the murderer. As for the current empress dowager, she was not favored at first, but her son, Prince Jing, was a very outstanding prince, and also attracted more attention from my father. Later, my mother died, and the crown princess also died. The crown prince had no one to educate him, so it was the empress dowager who took the initiative to ask for orders to raise the crown prince. But in fact, at the beginning, my father wanted to place the crown prince under my mother's lap. Although no one knew about this, the empress dowager could not get rid of suspicion."
After listening to this, Lin Yan fell into thought, "Azhou mentioned to her that the Crown Princess is an excellent person. She is not like the one who would still be Concubine Wan. The Empress Dowager raised Song Jing herself and even sent her own son to the border. After Prince Jing rebelled, it was the Empress Dowager who provided clues, which enabled them to annihilate Prince Jing's party. Could it be her?"
Lin Yan hesitated whether to tell Chen Yu about her relationship with A Zhou. She secretly didn't want the Crown Princess to be the one who killed his mother. If that was the case, Chen Yu's target of revenge would be the current emperor, and A Zhou was on Song Jing's side. As a good friend of Chen Yu, she didn't want him to sacrifice his life for revenge.
In the end, Lin Yan still spoke.
When Song Xuan heard Lin Yan say that Song Yizhou was her childhood sweetheart Xie Zhou, she tightened her hands hidden under her sleeves, lowered her eyes, and suppressed the loss in her heart.
Then he looked up and asked Lin Yan a question with a smile, "If the murderer who killed my mother was really the Crown Princess, and I wanted revenge, what would you do?"
Lin Yan thought about it seriously and said, "I won't stop you. If it was really the Crown Princess who killed your mother, it's up to you to seek revenge. If you fail, I will definitely find a way to save your life."
After hearing Lin Yan's last words, Song Xuanzang's clenched hands loosened, and at the same time, his heart skipped a beat.
Song Xuan raised the corners of his mouth, unable to hide his joyful mood, and said seriously: "Ayan, thank you."
Lin Yan patted Song Xuan on the shoulder and said, "What's the big deal? You are one of the few good friends of mine, Lin Yan, in the world. I would go through fire and water for my friends."
Song Xuan's lips curled up, his eyes filled with smiles, "I will go through fire and water without hesitation."
The two hadn't seen each other for a long time. Song Xuan ordered someone to buy some wine and the servants to prepare a table full of dishes. They drank together for the entire afternoon.
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