Chapter 246 Go behind me!
The Tianguang Temple, once famous in the imperial capital, has now become a pile of ruins, with only a few halls containing Buddha statues remaining that have not been completely burned down.
Prince Liang did not believe in Buddhism and had never set foot here before. It was only after the death of the crown prince that he sighed and poured a cup of wine on the ground in front of the Buddhist temple.
Now, when they arrived at the door again, Cheng Nianying walked in front, familiar with the way, and finally came to the hall that was the most severely damaged.
"Tung oil?" Prince Liang's nose twitched. "Was the hall set on fire by arson?"
Cheng Nianying looked up at the huge Buddha statue.
really.
Even if the entire Tianguang Temple were burned down, the Buddha statue would still remain.
But those eye holes, I don’t know if they were burned or smoked, look even more terrifying because they are pitch black at first glance.
I'm not afraid anymore.
Cheng Nianying strode to the back of the Buddha statue.
Prince Liang had already started to walk around on his own. On the pillars of the hall that had never been completely burned, he found arrow marks and black marks left by charcoal fire.
He closed his eyes and could almost picture the situation in his mind.
A flying arrow was tied with a strip of cloth, which was then poured with tung oil. It flew into the temple, and a fire broke out in Tianguang Temple.
There was a soft "click" sound.
Prince Liang put his thoughts aside and hurried towards Cheng Nianying: "How... is there a secret passage?"
Cheng Nianying nodded, holding the door open with familiarity, and then walked up the stone steps. The entire inner wall of the Buddha statue also had traces of being burned, but it was not as serious as the outer room.
King Liang was shocked, feeling that there were many secrets in the imperial capital, but he had never paid attention to them.
Just follow it to the platform.
In the eye sockets of the Buddha statue lay a corpse that had been burnt for who knows how long.
"Don't look!" King Liang shouted instinctively, then took off his outer robe with a quick movement and covered Cheng Nianying with it.
Cheng Nianying reached out and lifted up her robe.
King Liang suddenly remembered, yes, she had stayed in Shaoqu Tower for so long...
King Liang felt a pang of pain in his heart. He slowly lowered his arm and forced a smile, saying, "I'm making a fuss out of nothing. My daughter is so capable, how could she be afraid of a corpse?"
He felt better when he saw that she did not refute "my daughter".
At this time, Cheng Nianying said: "This person is Wei Xing."
"Who is Wei Xing?" King Liang was puzzled.
"Wei Yanhua's father."
Prince Liang coughed awkwardly: "This Wei Yanhua is..."
Cheng Nianying thought for a moment and said, "He's a friend. He's my friend."
When King Liang heard this, he felt better. "Okay, okay, Xiao He also has his own friends! Then, wouldn't Wei Xing's death be..."
"Good death." Cheng Nianying continued.
The rest of King Liang's words were stuck in his throat.
After a moment, he regained his voice: "D-die well?"
"Wei Xing treated her badly, and he treated her mother badly too. He was a very bad father."
Hearing this, King Liang straightened his back unconsciously. He wanted to make it clear that he would never be such a person.
"Her uncle wanted to send her to Tianguang Temple to seize her house. It was here that she met Prince Rui. Her mother was already very ill, but they would not allow her to see a doctor. Prince Rui coaxed her into saving her from suffering."
"Did King Rui do this?"
"No. He only gave the benefit to Wei Xing because Wei Xing was an official in Kuizhou at the time and was useful to him."
King Liang sighed, "So Wei Yanhua and her daughter are still suffering?"
"Yes. Her mother, unwilling to burden her any longer, burned herself to death."
King Liang took a deep breath and punched the inner wall of the Buddha statue, leaving a dent there.
Cheng Nianying turned around and pointed to the chair in the center of the platform. "Prince Rui used to sit here, watching over everyone who came to Tianguang Temple to worship and ask for help from the gods and Buddhas. He would then select those he could use. He only chose women."
The King of Liang murmured, "Once a woman loses her virginity, she's easy for him to manipulate. Most of them are daughters of different families, wives and concubines. Now, they've all become his eyes and ears. He wants to keep all the news from the Imperial Capital under his nose."
Cheng Nianying tilted her head and looked at him.
King Liang saw a hint of surprise in her eyes.
I couldn't help but said quickly: "I can still think of this!"
Cheng Nianying nodded.
King Liang circled the chair. Sitting here, he treated himself as if he were a god, high and mighty, yet he ignored the suffering of those kneeling before the Buddha statue...
King Liang felt nauseous.
"But how did you find out from here that the owner of this place belongs to King Rui?"
"I came from here at that time." Cheng Nianying patted the armrest, "I took away some clothes."
"That person has the habit of sitting leaning to the right when relaxing, and often stroking the armrest with his right hand," she continued.
"Yes... you can still see the traces of years of caressing here." King Liang pursed his lips. "But why didn't anyone expose the woman he victimized?"
"They all thought the lover was the prince."
King Liang suddenly realized, "I was wondering why so many women were seduced by him. So, that's why... When the Crown Prince was captured, wasn't that also a scapegoat for him? No, no, he has a leg disease. If he was impersonating the Crown Prince, why didn't others recognize him?"
"What if he didn't have a leg problem?"
"Everything... is fake?"
King Liang was furious: "Go! Go back! Go back immediately!"
The two of them came in a hurry and left in a hurry.
Outside the half-collapsed Zen room, a figure hurriedly hid, his face instantly pale as he gasped for breath: "...How could they be here?"
Cheng Nianying suddenly stopped in her tracks.
"What's wrong?" asked King Liang.
Cheng Nianying had just taken the medicine on the day of the autopsy, when her sense of smell and hearing were extremely sharp.
She slowly turned and looked in the direction of the meditation room, and said to King Liang in a very low voice, "Someone is there."
"Are you here to clean up the remains of Tianguang Temple? No, no one has dealt with the traces in the temple. The people nearby? Why would they hide?" King Liang reasoned, then raised his hand to push Cheng Nianying behind him.
Cheng Nianying said, "Go to the back."
Prince Liang was stunned: "Me?"
Cheng Nianying: "Yeah."
After she finished speaking, Cheng Nianying had already disappeared into the shadows of the trees with light footsteps.
The old trees in the temple stood still, just enough to shade the figures.
The person hiding behind the wall clenched the dagger in his arms with one hand and held his breath...
Is it time to go?
They left in a hurry, as if they were in a hurry to do something. Is it time to go?
So he slowly poked his head out from behind the wall.
Silently, Cheng Nianying appeared in front of him.
The figure showed horror on his face and raised his hand to stab, but Cheng Nianying bent his arm and hit the side of the man's neck with his elbow, knocking him against the stone wall behind him.
He could barely utter a sound, let alone resist.
King Liang chased after him, worried. "How's it going? Did she subdue her?" Just as he was about to exclaim at his daughter's prowess, realizing there was no room for her to show off, he paused. "That woman looks familiar."
"Muhe." Cheng Nianying uttered.
"I was wondering where she had gone to hide, but it turns out she ended up at Tianguang Temple after leaving Prince Ding's Mansion!"
Cheng Nianying frowned: "You're using too much force."
King Liang bent down and reached out to touch the side of his neck: "He's still alive, take him back first."
"Um."
Cheng Nianying reached out to grab the magnolia.
King Liang said hurriedly, "I will do this kind of work. You take a rest, take a rest."
Cheng Nianying blinked and saw King Liang pick up the lotus with one hand and then stride out.
The people from the palace who were waiting outside Tianguang Temple hurried over to greet them. How did they pick up another person?
"Wait." Cheng Nianying suddenly ran back.
When she slammed the woodwood against the wall, she heard a crisp clanging sound.
Cheng Nianying searched under the wall and found a dagger.
...Could this be... the knife that killed Princess Zhaoning?
Cheng Nianying wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it in her pocket. When she turned around, she saw King Liang standing behind her.
King Liang said awkwardly, "I'm worried about you coming back alone."
Cheng Nianying responded with a "hmm" but didn't say anything else. The two of them walked out together and took a carriage back to the palace.
"Keep her under guard first," King Liang ordered his men. "Don't let her escape, and don't let her die."
"Go see Prince Rui first." Prince Liang said this to Cheng Nianying.
Stepping onto the long corridor, King Liang whispered, "Wait for me here."
Cheng Nianying nodded.
King Liang tried his best to walk lightly as he approached. From a distance, he saw King Rui through the half-open window.
Prince Rui sat in his seat.
In fact, they were very close in the past, so this made it seem more like they were not being looked at by outsiders.
But today... Prince Rui, who had relaxed, sat leaning to the right, stroking the right armrest, his brows slightly gloomy, and it was unknown what he was thinking deeply about.
King Liang bent his fingers, closed his eyes, and then threw a silver ball at his leg.
The silver ball hit the chair leg with a crackling sound, startling Prince Rui so much that he jumped up and took two quick steps after it. "Who is it?"
Only then did King Liang move his steps and slowly approach.
The light from his body gradually dimmed and finally stopped.
"It's me."
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Cheng Nianying stood under the eaves and waited for a while, and felt that King Liang was still too honest and straightforward.
Prince Rui was much more vicious.
She ran over and hid behind the wall.
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