When she arrived at the North Mountain where Ying Er was buried, she saw that there was no tombstone or grave, and she could barely tell that the land was newly turned.
"here?"
"Yes, right here."
“Why not erect a monument?”
"Our Shadow Guards' rule is that we don't build graves or erect tombstones. We are nameless during life and leave no trace after death." Ying Wu followed Xu Yixing today. There was no sense of sadness when he said this, as if the person who died was a person who had nothing to do with him.
"This rule is sick."
"It's also because I'm afraid that if I had enemies during my lifetime, my grave might be dug up after my death. You don't have to come here anymore. If someone with ulterior motives were to stake out your position and implicate you, that would be bad."
"Doesn't that mean he'll be alone here from now on, with no family, friends, or relatives to visit him?"
"Do you care about this?"
After Xu Yixing's death, except for the day she found her own body and buried it, she herself never visited the grave again, let alone someone else in this world who was completely independent of her.
"Okay, I won't come here anymore. Siwen, take out the things. We'll need to take them away later. Don't forget anything. Someone you've met is buried here. Don't think about him anymore, but don't forget him either."
"Ah?" Si Wen knew that a big incident had happened in the capital yesterday. Although she was in the shop, she saw all the waves of soldiers and fire signals without missing a single one.
It turned out that yesterday there was also a person who was related to me but not so related. He died quietly in the black smoke without leaving a trace.
Si Wen knelt down, took out the items from the basket one by one, kowtowed, and put them back. The three of them went down the mountain as if they had never been there.
When I returned home, I naturally saw the letter that Ah Da had waited all morning to hand over to me.
"Did your master send you here?"
"That's right. Your Highness knows that you, Madam, are concerned about the follow-up of yesterday's incident, so he specially wrote this letter last night. You will know the whole story at a glance." General A handed over the letter with a "sincere" smile on his face, which he had learned from Lu Anyuan.
Xu Yixing found it amusing and took it with one hand, mocking it as he did so: "Your master is really clever. He didn't come to tell me in person. He did this kind of thing. Does he really intend to never have any contact with me again? If that's the case, then tell him to give me a letter of divorce as soon as possible, so that we don't have to worry!"
"This!" Ada's mind was full of lawsuits. Didn't you drive His Highness away? How come it became our Highness who didn't come?
Ada was still waiting for Xu Yixing's next words, but she saw Siqin standing behind her, winking at her and saying something.
"Ah! I'll go and ask His Highness to come over and explain it to you face to face!"
Watching Ada running away, Xu Yixing burned the letter in his hand with a candle. It was really boring for the whole family to still be doing these things!
"He has a high level of understanding."
Not long after, Lu Anyuan walked in with happy little steps. He even knocked on the door a few times before sitting down next to Yixing, smiling: "I heard that Madam is looking for me? What's the matter..."
"If you don't tell me, leave now!"
"Tell me, tell me!" Lu Anyuan sighed sadly. He still couldn't beat Yixing.
After dismissing his attendants, he began to explain, "Yesterday's note was written by my second brother. He held my fourth brother hostage, then set up a trap in his house with gunpowder and poisonous smoke, dispersed everyone in his house, and then lured me there. His intention was to kill my fourth brother and me."
"The Second and Fourth Princes have teamed up?" This was Xu Yixing's first thought, and it was also a commonplace reaction. If they hadn't teamed up, how could this long-sought-after criminal have appeared in the Fourth Prince's presence? How had they orchestrated this?
"I thought so too, but Fourth Brother said at the time that he didn't know anything about it. He said Second Brother had been staying in his house for ten days without anyone noticing, and only showed up yesterday and forced him to go to the trap that had been set up long ago."
"That's outrageous."
"Indeed, but even if they joined forces, judging by what happened yesterday, there must have been a disagreement between the two of them, or he must have been deceived by my second brother and fell into a trap."
Xu Yixing shook his head. This situation was clearly inconsistent, and he needed more information to analyze it. "Yesterday, Ying Er broke the mechanism in the Fourth Prince's mansion, so it wasn't that that exploded. Then why did you come back yesterday with such a gloomy face?"
"Yes, it was Prince Cheng's Mansion. After escaping from the Bamboo Forest Pavilion, I concluded that my second brother would enter the palace, so I led my men all the way to the palace gate. However, it wasn't there, but rather Prince Cheng's Mansion where I rushed over when I heard a puff of black smoke. There's a secret passage under my uncle's study, and my second brother was found dead there."
Xu Yixing reported, "We went to Prince Cheng's Mansion... So that secret passage leads to the Imperial Palace?"
"Yes." Lu Anyuan stretched out his hand to pull Yixing's hand, but it was ruthlessly opened. He could only smile awkwardly and continue speaking:
"Yesterday afternoon in the palace, my uncle explained that secret passage to everyone. It was originally built by a certain emperor of the previous dynasty. I heard that the emperor at that time often left the palace in disguise and used that passage.
When my dynasty came, my uncle's residence was there, and it was discovered during construction. I reported it to my father, who ordered the exit at the end of the palace's secret passage to be sealed, and continued to pretend they didn't know about it. My uncle also deliberately built his study there to keep this secret."
"That's really interesting, but how did the Second Prince know this?"
"That's unknown. After all, my second brother is dead, and no one can make a dead person speak." When this matter was mentioned yesterday, even my father didn't know the answer. It seems that this will become a mystery.
"In other words, the Second Prince's original plan was to use that secret passage, blow open the seal with gunpowder, break into the palace, and ultimately kill the Emperor and his men, then take the throne himself."
Lu Anyuan nodded, indeed. "I didn't hear any explosions when I rushed to the palace yesterday. I think it's because Prince Cheng's mansion is so large, and the explosion happened underground, so there was only black smoke and no sound. When I saw the smoke, my second brother must have been knocked unconscious in the tunnel."
"Then why did it explode?" Since the affected area was within Prince Cheng's Mansion and not within the palace walls, it meant that the explosives exploded before the Second Prince reached the sealing position. This didn't make sense.
Lu Anyuan gave a thumbs up and once again admired Yixing's sharpness. He was able to think of the key to the problem, which was really amazing.
"According to the investigation results provided by the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Justice, the gunpowder used by my second brother was extremely special and highly flammable. He may have found a talented person to modify the formula.
Improved gunpowder is much more powerful than ordinary black powder, but its disadvantage is that it is extremely flammable and needs to be carefully stored. I think when he rushed to the tunnel with his men yesterday, there must have been a problem with the storage, which caused the explosion."
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