Chapter 993 She Misses Home
Luo Qinghan said, "I'm afraid it won't work. Yi Zhou was poisoned at the city gate. There were a lot of people coming and going at the city gate, and many people saw it with their own eyes. It's hard to suppress this matter completely."
Fang Wujiu frowned slightly. This matter was a bit troublesome.
If the news that the little prince of Qiandao Kingdom was poisoned to death spread, those enemies hiding in the dark would definitely seize the opportunity and try their best to create hatred for the Emperor of Dasheng.
Luo Qinghan ordered people to prepare a fine coffin and put Yi Zhou's body in it.
In order to prevent the body from decaying, the coffin was specially stored in an ice cellar.
In the future, when the real murderer of the poison is caught, Luo Qinghan will order people to send Yi Zhou's body back to the Thousand Islands so that he can return to his roots after his death.
Fang Wujiu handed a letter to Luo Qinghan.
"This is the letter I found on Yizhou when I was giving him acupuncture just now."
Luo Qinghan opened the letter and pulled out a thin piece of writing paper.
The paper was written entirely in the language of the Thousand Islands.
Although Luo Qinghan could understand the language of the Thousand Islands, he was not very familiar with their writing.
So he handed the letter to Fang Wujiu, asking Fang Wujiu to help translate it.
Fang Wujiu unfolded the letter, quickly read the contents inside, and said.
"This is a letter asking for help. Guan Ying said in the letter that the third princess has been killed and that he and the little prince are in danger. He hopes that the emperor of the Thousand Islands can send troops to support them as soon as possible."
When Yi Mei heard this, she couldn't help but walk over and asked cautiously.
"Can I see this letter?"
Fang Wujiu handed over the letter.
When Yi Mei saw the handwriting in the letter, she immediately recognized it as written by Guan Ying.
She couldn't help but ask, "He hasn't even seen my body yet, how can he be sure that I've been killed?"
Fang Wujiu: "He doesn't care whether you are really dead or not. He just wants to let your father know that you were killed in Shengjing City. That's enough."
Luo Qinghan: "It seems that the purpose of his planning all this is to destroy the harmony between Dasheng and the Thousand Islands and provoke disputes between the two countries."
Yi Mei was still confused: "But what good will this do him?"
Fang Wujiu: "Maybe he accepted benefits from others, or maybe he himself is a spy planted by another country. The real reason should be asked by him."
Just then, Zhao Xian came in hurriedly.
He clasped his hands together, bowed, and spoke solemnly.
"Your Majesty, when I sent people to the Honglu Temple, Guan Ying had already disappeared. We searched the entire Honglu Temple but couldn't find him. No one in the Honglu Temple knew where he went."
Fang Wujiu gave an ambiguous chuckle: "He had expected someone to come and catch him, so he slipped away in advance."
Luo Qinghan has always had people keeping an eye on the Honglu Temple, especially on the Thousand Islands delegation.
But today, apart from the incident involving Yi Zhou, everyone's attention was focused on Yi Zhou, resulting in a significant reduction in surveillance. Perhaps Guan Ying seized this opportunity and slipped away from the Honglu Temple quietly.
Luo Qinghan couldn't help but have a guess in his mind.
He said in a deep voice.
“Perhaps Guan Ying deliberately asked Yi Zhou to deliver the letter.
On the one hand, he wanted to let Yi Zhou take the poison in front of everyone so that the fact of Yi Zhou's death could not be hidden.
On the other hand, he wanted to use Yi Zhou to divert everyone's attention and create an opportunity for him to escape."
This is an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.
Fang Wujiu sighed, "If this is true, it only means that Guan Ying is more cunning than we thought. Now that he has escaped, it will cause us endless troubles."
Yimei has been listening silently.
Her fingers holding the letter trembled slightly, and she felt extremely angry.
If Guan Ying was here, she would definitely grab his collar and angrily ask him why he did this? Why did he betray the Thousand Islands?
It’s a pity that Guan Ying ran away.
Yi Zhou also died.
She could do nothing but stand there like a useless wooden stake.
She didn't even know what to do next?
Luo Qinghan ordered the city gates to be blocked and the whole city to search for Guan Ying's whereabouts.
But he knew that doing so would be like closing the fold after the horse has bolted and would not be very effective.
Given Guan Ying's cunningness, he would leave Shengjing City as soon as possible after sneaking out of the Honglu Temple.
He would not be so stupid as to stay in the city and wait to be caught.
The fact was exactly as he expected. The patrol battalion searched house by house, almost turning the entire Shengjing city upside down, but still found no trace of Guan Ying.
He has completely disappeared from this city.
After leaving the palace, Yimei returned to the Honglu Temple.
Not giving up, she gathered all the members of the delegation and questioned them one by one, wanting to know where Guan Ying was.
But no matter how she asked, these people knew nothing.
Seeing that she couldn't get any useful information, Yi Mei could only give up in disappointment.
She turned to search Guan Ying's residence and found that most of his luggage was still there, only the wooden box where he kept his silver and money was empty.
In addition, the brocade box that originally stored the sea flower was also missing.
When Guan Ying left, he not only took away all the money, but also took away the Haishenghua.
It was already evening when Yimei left the Honglu Temple.
She stood on the steps, watching the people coming and going on the street, and suddenly felt very confused.
Everything here is so strange to her.
She suddenly missed her relatives far away in the Thousand Islands.
She misses home.
Yimei slowly squatted down, sat on the steps, hugged her knees with her hands, and buried her face in her arms.
This is a posture that makes her feel safe.
A pair of black official boots walked up the steps and stopped in front of her.
"Your Highness, Third Princess, what are you doing sitting here?"
This time he spoke the Thousand Islands dialect, but his pronunciation was not standard and it sounded a bit weird.
He had deeply experienced the inconvenience caused by language barriers, so these two days he pestered his senior brother to learn the language of the Thousand Islands.
Although his learning progress was not as fast as Luo Qinghan's, he was still doing pretty well due to his hard work of staying up late to study. At least he had learned some commonly used Thousand Island dialects, so basic communication was not a problem.
Yi Mei slowly raised her head and saw Chu Jian standing in front of her.
The night is hazy and the north wind is howling.
He just stood there straight, his clothes swaying gently in the wind, his face blurred by the night, only his eyes looked gentler and calmer than usual.
Yi Mei stared at him blankly until her eyes became sore, then she came to her senses and spoke softly.
"I don't know, I just want to sit for a while."
Chu Jian: "Don't you think it's cold sitting here?"
It hasn't snowed in the past two days, but the temperature at night is still very low, and it is even colder with the howling north wind.
Even he, a martial artist, felt a little chilly, not to mention Yimei, the little princess who had been pampered since childhood.
(End of this chapter)
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