"Your Majesty, I was referring to the Yu residence, the residence of the Junior Tutor!"
Everyone gasped in shock; the thief's ambition to assassinate the Junior Tutor was still burning!
"Little Bead, is it coming for me?"
【Master, the target is indeed you. Last night, seeing that you were sleeping soundly, Little Bead didn't wake you.】
Anyway, there are only a dozen or so small fry. We don't even need the city patrol. If they get any closer to our residence, Chunying and the others, along with that new guy named Dai Yuxing, can take them all down!
"Who did this this time?"
[The enemy assassins were from the Western Qiang the night before, the Northern Li who was captured last night, and a Southern Yue who was hiding behind them. He escaped after seeing the Northern Li captured.]
Shen Kang, who was standing in the crowd, suddenly relaxed his furrowed brows.
It turned out that the people he lost track of in Anmin Lane last night were assassins from the Southern Yue Kingdom, and he seemed to know where to look for them.
"Do these people value lives or people?"
The primary goal is naturally to take the master away alive; if that's not possible, a dead master will do.
"Ha, they really dare to dream!"
[Isn't that audacious! For the Crown Prince's wedding this time, the leader of the delegations from various countries, the one from Nanzhao, is still Princess Lan Xuan'er.]
The other countries sent different representatives. Bei Li was represented by Bei Yue's younger brother, Bei Ye. Nan Yue was represented by its second princess, Gan Tang.
As for the Western Qiang, they were the adopted sons of the Western Yan, the newly appointed remnant kings, Xi Yuanshan.
Master, this Xiyuan Mountain is Jiang Yuanshan, the daughter of the Feng family of Nanzhao, and the son of Feng Xu.
"The Jiang family, the Tian family, and the Feng family—the three families clashed, and now there's a result? It seems Feng Xu took on three opponents single-handedly and won?"
That's right. If we're really talking about cunning and strategy, even if the three of them were tied together, they wouldn't be as good as Feng Xu.
However, in order to win over the Tian family, the three families conspired and changed their story. In the end, Xi Yan not only acknowledged Jiang Yuanshan but also did not doubt Xi Ling's identity.
"Then why did Jiang Yuanshan change his surname to Xi and still maintain the status of an adopted son?"
This is the result of the final power struggle among the various parties in Xiqiang, although everyone knows that this is a legacy left behind by Emperor Xiyan among the common people.
However, the royal family, especially the princes, did not want another brother to compete with them for the throne, so they eventually succumbed to pressure.
Xi Yan could only adopt Jiang Yuanshan as their godson and bestow upon him the title of Prince Yi. His current status effectively excluded him from the line of succession.
Moreover, he had another identity: the husband of Princess Pingning, Xie Zhiyao, and the son-in-law of the Dayan Xie family, a royal family.
"Isn't Xie Zhiyao's fiancé the Fourth Prince, Xi Xiang?"
[The Prince of Yi got drunk at the family reunion banquet and 'accidentally' went to the wrong room, where he happened to see Princess Pingning of Dayan changing clothes.]
Therefore, the groom was successfully replaced, from the Fourth Prince to the remnant Prince Xiyuanshan.
"Were these two set up?"
[They were indeed set up, but one of them went along with it and turned the tables. We'll talk about this another day.]
Now let's talk about yesterday's assassination attempt on the master.
Wei Ping, Cai Xian, and Feng Tang all perked up their ears. They arrested someone that night, and the three of them took one person each and interrogated them separately.
Those three were incredibly stubborn; even if you peeled three layers of skin off them, they wouldn't utter a single word.
The one who was interrogated in a closed court was even more ruthless. He first pretended to talk, and after the servants removed the wooden plug from his mouth, the man took the opportunity to bite his tongue and almost died.
Therefore, Feng Tang is still extremely depressed, and his brows have been furrowed since last night.
Bang! Emperor Mingxi slammed his hand on the imperial desk and roared, "That scoundrel Xiao dares to plot against my Junior Tutor? This is utterly audacious and outrageous!"
"Wei Ping, can you find out who did this?"
"Your Majesty, I am incompetent. Although I interrogated the three criminals overnight with Lords Cai and Feng, they have not uttered a single word to this day."
Cai Xian also stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, I have already sent people to intensify the investigation and will surely find the whereabouts of the dozen or so people who escaped."
Those people have already left the city and are now hiding in an abandoned temple in Lotus Mountain. These fools are too stupid to find them anywhere in the city!
"Little Pearl, who ordered these people to act? Could it be the Fifth Prince, Bei Ye?"
"Master guessed correctly; they were acting on Bei Ye's orders. Moreover, these people are not the same group as the Bei Li people who assassinated Master last time."
Those men's master is Emperor Bei Ji of Bei Li, while those men last night were Bei Ye's private soldiers, some of whom had been lurking in Dayan for many years.
Some of them, disguised as merchants, followed the delegation all the way to Dayan.
"I've never met this Bei Ye before, and I have no grudge against him. Why is he so eager to take my life?"
Of course, it's for inheriting the throne of Northern Li.
Master may not know, but you are now an important bargaining chip in the eyes of heirs from various countries.
Whether you capture them or kill them, it's a great achievement.
Hmph, daring to use their master as a bargaining chip for advancement, Little Bead thinks they're courting death!
"He's really asking for trouble. Little Pearl, do you know this Bei Ye?"
[Master, there's a big surprise about Bei Ye, do you want to try it?] Little Bead thought killing him was too easy.
Doesn't he want the throne? Let's make sure he can see it but can't touch it.
Before killing him, I must first destroy his spirit, then his body, only then can I quell the hatred in my heart.
"What big news? Tell me about it."
The crowd was chilled to the bone by the divine artifact master's words of striking at the heart before killing, but they were also speechless.
These two bastards, people are trying to kill you, and you still have the mind to gossip!
So, what kind of juicy gossip is behind Bei Ye that the Divine Artifact Master calls it a "big gossip"?
Is it even more explosive than the scandal involving his brother Bei Yue?
We have to listen!
At this moment, the Dayan court was divided into two factions. One faction was terrified by the emperor's wrath and hung its head, while the other faction, though seemingly timid, was actually listening intently.
【Master, I don’t know if it’s hereditary in the Northern Li royal family, but they are all a bit indiscriminate when it comes to matters of the heart.】
Among these royal family members, some, like Bei Yue, only have a penchant for men, while others, like Bei Ye, are open to both men and women.
"What the hell? You mean, the ancestors of Bei Yue and his family had this kind of taste? And the current emperor, Bei Ji, is the same way?"
Yes, Bei Ji also has his share of gossip, but we won't go into that today. Let's talk about the Fifth Prince, Bei Ye, first.
"Okay, go ahead!"
Emperor Mingxi: How come some disreputable people have infiltrated my ranks?
It's one thing that the emperors of Nanzhao were of different genders, but how come the emperors of Beili also had different hobbies!
This Bei Ye isn't like his brother Bei Yue, who is devoted to only men. He's a staunch believer in monogamy.
"Little Pearl, is your monogamy literally monogamy?"
"Master" means exactly what it says. Bei Ye simply wants to live a life with his wife and husband, a family of three.
His current wife is Qi Xia, the daughter of the General of the Northern Le Eastern Army, who commands 100,000 men in the Northern Le Eastern Army.
His ex-boyfriend, Wei Qingyi, was the eldest son of the Wei family of Beili.
Their friendship was broken when Bei Ye decided to marry the daughter of General Qi, who held military power.
Wei Qingyi fell seriously ill as a result and was heartbroken for a long time.
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