Chapter 77 Chapter 77 [VIP]
Chapter 77
At this time, King Pingchang was being held at knifepoint by a "barbarian".
The other party is not a Hu person at all.
He had a black mask on his face and a tall and slender figure. He was not short and stout like the Hu people, but more like a gangster killer.
King Pyeongchang never expected that he would be in deep danger tonight. When he heard from the guards that the second wave of Hu people was coming, he had the same idea as the princess, thinking that it was a backup plan prepared by Lady Park, and the target was Song Yunzhi.
But the Hu people went to the backyard, killed the guards outside the door, and were not even afraid of his title as King of Pingchang. They broke into his room and pointed the knife at his neck.
King Pingchang's arm was already injured, and the man who came was very skilled in martial arts. He quickly forced him off the couch, made him crawl for a while, and then blocked him on the ground, not daring to move at all.
King Pyeongchang didn't know who the visitor was, and the first person he suspected was Madam Park. He wanted to wipe out the Park family tonight.
But he couldn't think of any reason why Madam Park wanted to kill him. How would his death benefit the Park family? Without him to mediate, everything the Park family held would be turned over to the court. Would the Park family be willing to do that?
It's not impossible.
Unless the Park family breaks off relations with him and throws all their eggs in one basket, however, judging by the current situation between the two families, it hasn't come to that yet. With a knife pressed to his throat, King Pyeongchang struggled to breathe, a layer of cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. He asked the man in front of him, "Who do you belong to?"
The other party actually answered him, "What do you think, Your Highness?"
He was indeed a fake Hu man. King Pingchang tried to negotiate with him, "No matter how much he gives you, I will give you ten times more. How about that?"
"Your Highness is rich." The other man smiled, the knife in his hand an inch closer to him, but his words were gentle and elegant, "But I am a loyal man. My master asked me to come tonight and tell you a secret that happened five years ago."
When he heard about five years ago, King Pingchang was shocked.
The other party didn't give him any chances and slowly revealed the most unspeakable secret in the heart of the King of Pingchang. "Five years ago, the barbarians invaded Kyoto and tried to break down the city gates and massacre the people. Where was the prince at that time?"
King Pingchang's face turned pale instantly.
who is he?
The masked youth said, "When the prince received the news of the barbarian attack on the city, he, like the rest of the royal family, made preparations to flee. However, because he had so much stuff with him, he ended up being the last to leave. He accidentally ran into Qian Mincheng, a merchant from Yangzhou who had come to support him."
He said, "One hundred servants of the Qian family and more than ten carts of military supplies persuaded the prince to stay and fight the enemy."
King Pyeongchang held his breath.
"Your Highness was unwilling to take the risk at first, but Qian Mincheng informed you that the Shuzhou army was ten miles away. As long as they could hold out for half an hour, the Hu people would be driven back." The masked youth looked at the prince, whose legs were beginning to tremble, and continued, "How could Your Highness not be tempted by such a great achievement? You promised Qian Mincheng to stay with you to fight the enemy, and you did as you wished, waiting for the Shuzhou army to arrive. But the moment the Shuzhou army reached the city gate, you feared your escape would be exposed, so you turned around and killed Qian Mincheng and his son. You framed the rest of the people as Hu people and shot them to death with arrows..."
The truth that he thought would rot in the past was finally revealed, and King Pyeongchang's heart was beating rapidly.
That group of people back then were strangled to death before they even entered the city.
How could anyone else know?
Could it be that there are still members of the Qian family alive? King Pingchang looked at the masked young man with horror, "Who are you?!"
"Don't worry, I'm not a member of the Qian family. The Qian family still thinks that Qian Mincheng died at the hands of the barbarians. If they knew that you, Your Highness, not only stole the Qian family's military achievements, but also killed their former head of the family, what would they do? They would probably go to the capital and tell His Majesty. What would His Majesty do if he knew?"
King Pyeongchang's face was shaking.
The masked youth pointed the knife at the Prince of Pyeongchang's face, slowly slashing a long bloody streak in his intense fear. His tone was filled with the elegance of a scholar, "The master wants to tell the prince that it's not just him who has the leverage, but the prince as well..."
As the pain came, King Pingchang's body gradually became wet.
He wanted to escape, but was afraid that the knife in the other person's hand would cut his neck in the next moment. In the end, he could only stammer for help: "Come, come..."
This call was useful, Prince Song had arrived.
Song Yunzhi stabbed the masked young man from behind with the long sword in his hand. The masked young man had to withdraw the knife from King Pyeongchang's neck and turn around to resist.
The scimitar and the long sword collided back and forth, sparks flew, and the noise alarmed the soldiers outside.
At the same time, a short flute sound was heard, and the masked young man no longer wanted to fight and fled from the back window in an instant.
Song Yunzhi glanced at King Pyeongchang lying on the ground, picked up his sword and chased after him. Outside was another courtyard of the Park family. The masked young man had jumped onto the roof after escaping. Song Yunzhi followed closely and was about to hit the masked young man's back with the hidden weapon in his hand when a panicked scream suddenly came from the courtyard below.
"princess!"
, there is an assassin! "
"The princess was killed!"
......
Song Yunzhi turned his head and saw that the courtyard was full of billowing smoke and flames, and figures were running and fleeing.
The man was dressed in black and had a nimble figure. He walked out of the darkness and was exposed to the firelight. He seemed to be waiting for someone to help him, and his eyes quickly looked towards the roof.
The moment he saw Song Yunzhi,
At that moment, Song Yunzhi's whole body became stiff, and his steps seemed to be frozen.
The soldiers behind him caught up with him. The person opposite him no longer looked at him. He ran too fast and too hastily. The hairband on his head suddenly fell off, and his black hair spread behind his head. Stirred by the night wind, it spread in the hot flames of war, like a phantom, and soon disappeared.
Wang Zhao chased after him and saw the Prince of Song standing motionless in the courtyard. He hurried forward and asked, "Prince, where is he?"
Song Yunzhi did not respond.
Wang Zhao knew that the other party had escaped, and he could not help but say angrily: "Where did these thieves come from? They come in waves, with no regard for the law. They actually committed crimes under our noses..."
At this moment, Wang Zhao finally understood what the prince had said: Yangzhou is too chaotic.
Tonight is a complete mess.
Soon someone came to report: "Prince, Your Majesty, the princess is gone..." and then said: "She was killed by Madam Park."
Wang Zhao was stunned. "Did Madam Park kill him?"
The subordinate reported: "Just now, the Park family found the missing Second Young Master Park in Mingfeng House. The Second Young Master's tongue had been pulled out and his penis had been castrated. Mrs. Park, heartbroken by the loss of her son, had an argument with the princess. As soon as the princess left, Mrs. Park chased her and killed her."
There are witnesses and evidence, so there is nothing to say.
Tonight the Park family is ostensibly hosting a banquet for the prince, princess, and Crown Prince Song, but in reality they are hiring someone to kill someone.
——
It was already late at night when Qian Tong returned to the Qian family with disheveled hair.
After Fu Yin met her, she asked, "Why is your hairband broken?"
Qian Tong also wanted to know how cheap that broken thing was. It broke after just two uses. "When Meng Qing wakes up, ask him which stall he bought it from. I'll make the stall owner pay me for it."
Whether to pay the money or not, Fu Yin thought it was a trivial matter. What Fu Yin was worried about was, "My wife has thought about having a child. How will we explain this to Prince Song?"
How to explain it?
Let’s talk about it when people come.
The Park family was in chaos. The princess died, the prince was scared and had a lot of things to do to keep him busy. Qian Tong felt that Prince Song would have to wait until the next day before he would have time to question her.
But she didn't expect that Prince Song would rush over in the second half of the night.
When Qian Tong noticed the movement and woke up from her dream, she saw Prince Song sitting beside her couch, holding the hairband that she had dropped in his hand.
She had slept for a while, but Prince Song probably hadn't slept a wink all night. Qian Tong climbed out of bed, wearing only a thin layer of clothes, and asked distressedly, "Are you tired, Prince? Why don't you rest for a while? I won't run away. I promise I'll answer whatever you say. And everything I did tonight was for your own good. Just think about it, if Madam Park knew that the Second Young Master she'd been looking for was hidden in her own home, and that while she was flattering him, her son was being tortured by his daughter, wouldn't she go crazy?"
Song Yunzhi said nothing, just stared at her indifferently.
Qian Tong continued, "Even the most magnanimous person would turn against the other party if they knew their son had been tortured for a long time and had his life cut off by a knife. What's more, the eldest lady of the Pu family is not a magnanimous person. I just went to disrupt the Pu family's backyard tonight and let the eldest lady of the Pu family know that her son is in the hands of the princess. In this way, the Pu family and the prince will inevitably fall out, and the two families will become enemies. Then the canal issue will be settled, right?"
"Is that so, Prince?" Qian Tong knew that he was angry, but he was just suppressing it in his heart and not expressing it to her. The more he acted like this, the deeper the guilt in Qian Tong's heart became. She whispered softly, "I'm really doing this for the Prince's sake. I don't want to see you being bullied by them..."
People were about to kill him, why did he go to save them...
He couldn't do it, so she did it.
She looked at him with gentle eyes, her bright and charming eyes shining brightly in the dawn. Song Yunzhi didn't react at all. He just lowered his head and squeezed the hairband in his hand. As if resolute in his thoughts, he raised his head and said solemnly, "Qian Tong, when you left the Park family today, I told you that after this matter is over, I will come to ask you for clarification."
Qian Tong remembered everything and nodded, saying, "Good son, when the prince finishes dealing with the matters at hand, you can come and ask anytime."
Song Yunzhi said, "Okay, let me ask you."
He looked at her somewhat bewildered face and asked word by word, "Do you want to have physical contact with the eldest son of the Park family?"
Qian Tong was stunned. He had never expected that he would ask this.
Song Yunzhi didn't give her a chance to hesitate. He raised his voice and said, "Answer me."
Qian Tong subconsciously answered, but suddenly realized that he was not asking her whether she had had physical intimacy with Mr. Park, but whether she wanted to have physical intimacy with him.
Qian Tong shook her head firmly, "No, I swear..." She only wanted to kiss him, and had only kissed him.
Song Yunzhi said: "Let me ask you again, do you still like him in your heart?"
Qian Tong shook his head again, "No."
"I believe you." As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Song Yunzhi say, "After dawn, I will come to the Qian family to propose marriage. You and I will be married within half a month. If you dare not respond, I will take you back to the cell. You can choose which path to take from now on."
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