Shen Yan picked up a whip from the interrogation table, used it to lift the assassin's face, reached out to push the hair on her face aside, and then said with a smile.
"Hey, isn't this the fourth prince of the Xiongnu? How come he didn't have the chance to enter the capital openly? Did he sneak in instead?"
Shen Yan asked why this person looked so familiar, and suddenly remembered that he had never seen this person before, but he had seen his portrait.
He had heard about his fourth brother from Yelu Changqi a long time ago. His fourth brother was the child born from the marriage between the Xiongnu king and a Han Chinese. The Han Chinese was of very low status and was abducted by the Xiongnu king when he attacked the border.
Less than a year later, she gave birth to the fourth Hun prince. But not long after, the Han woman could no longer endure the bullying from the Huns and committed suicide by cutting her wrists.
Only this small child was left. It was Yelu Changqi's mother. Seeing that such a small child could not live alone on the grassland, she asked the Xiongnu king to raise him.
So she grew up with Yelu Changqi, and the relationship between the two was quite good. However, the people he had to face were not only Yelu Changqi and his mother, but also other people on the grassland.
The people on the grassland looked down upon the Han people the most, especially since his mother had passed away, so they often bullied him. Yelu Changqi would sometimes help her when he saw this, but after all, the two of them were four or five years apart in age and had different things to learn.
Therefore, they did not have many opportunities to be together often, which caused her to become more and more taciturn. The Hun king originally liked strong children, and when he saw this child becoming thinner, more silent, and less likable, he slowly forgot that he had such a child.
Yelu Changqi had a portrait in his hand, which was a portrait of the three of them, mother and son. After two days of fighting, the two sides signed a peace agreement. Shen Yan and Yelu Changqi had a good relationship and often made appointments to go out for drinks together, so he was fortunate enough to have seen this album.
The fourth prince's name was Yelu Changchen, a name given by Yelu Changqi's mother. The Xiongnu king did not even give this child a name, which shows how little he was valued by the Xiongnu king.
The assassin didn't say anything, but lowered his head again after Shen Yan took his hand. He was now exhausted and had no way to hold up his head.
Shen Yan asked the person next to him again: "What's wrong with him? Didn't he explain anything?"
The man next to her shook his head and said, "This person may be mute. No matter how severe the torture is, she won't say a word or make a sound."
The person next to her wiped the sweat from her head and said that she had heard from others that the regent in front of them was extremely tyrannical and that this dungeon was built by him. There were many ascetic practices in it that were unheard of and unseen before, and they were all original creations of the regent.
She spoke cautiously, fearing that the regent would throw her into the dungeon if he was dissatisfied with something.
After Shen Yan nodded, he waved his hand to let him leave. When Lu Daxin heard that the man in front of him was the fourth prince of the Xiongnu, he couldn't help but frowned.
He had heard about some things in the Xiongnu royal family. The fourth prince in front of him had no chance of inheriting the throne, so why would he travel thousands of miles to the capital to assassinate the second prince?
So she waved to Chen Yan and walked out of the cell. Seeing him like this, Chen Yan followed him out.
"This matter is really too strange. Not to mention that the Fourth Prince has no one to dispatch to break into the capital, and he has no qualifications to inherit the throne. Why would he come here from afar?"
Lu Daxin asked his own question. The Fourth Prince had no money and no power. Where could he find so many experts to command?
Shen Yan thought for a moment and said, “We may not be able to figure it out, but we should be able to find out the truth by asking the Second Prince.”
Chen Yan suddenly remembered that when the Second Prince talked about his younger brother, his expression was very gentle, so they should have a good relationship. Maybe this was just a misunderstanding.
So the two men hurriedly left the dungeon and told the people in the dungeon not to torture the assassin anymore and to find a doctor to check his illness.
The man guarding the dungeon was very surprised. He had seen a lot of things in the dungeon. People in the dungeon either died or were injured. Some were even disabled and had no chance of getting out of the dungeon. But this time, someone was actually sent to the dungeon to see a doctor.
But he didn't know what to say, so he just lowered his head and said yes.
The first thing Shen Yan and Lu Daxin did after leaving the dungeon was to go to the inn where the second prince of the Xiongnu was.
Although Yelu Changqi was also injured before, the wound was not deep and only his arm was injured, so he looked much better than Chen Yan.
After hearing that Shen Yan and the others had arrived, he happily went out to greet them.
"As expected of you, Brother Shen Yan. Your wounds healed so quickly and you can run around now. How's the investigation of the assassin going? Do you need my help?"
Yelu Changqi was a very enthusiastic person. He asked original questions, and they were all about his concern for Shen Yan.
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