Chapter 131 The Assassin's Identity
There were only two people on duty in the charity cemetery, holding wine jugs and snoring loudly.
Yun Qingqing casually made a gesture to ensure that the two would have a sweet dream all night and would never wake up, then she walked into the hall where the corpses were placed with peace of mind.
More than twenty corpses were covered with white cloth and spread out on the ground. The white flags around them were disturbed by the people walking by. Nan Zheng felt inexplicably chilly.
These corpses are the group of people who assassinated Xiao Changheng during the day.
Yun Qingqing walked to the first corpse, lifted the white cloth, and put a talisman on the dead man's forehead.
Xiao Changheng and Nan Zheng stared at her movements intently, very curious about how she was going to make the dead speak.
Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew up, and white smoke emerged from the top of the corpse. It gradually deformed and gathered, and finally condensed into a translucent human figure.
The air around them dropped noticeably by a few degrees.
Nan Zheng took a deep breath and glanced at Yun Qingqing, who looked calm, and suddenly felt that it was reasonable.
The princess is omnipotent. It is natural that she can summon spirits. There is no need to make a fuss.
He thought so in his heart, but he took a step back cautiously.
Yun Qingqing looked at the ghost and spoke directly:
"Who hired you to assassinate the Regent?"
"Who is the... Regent... King?" The ghost looked dazed, staring at Yun Qingqing blankly, his movements as stiff as a puppet.
Yun Qingqing narrowed her eyes:
"Don't you know that the person you assassinated today is the Regent of Liang?"
"The Regent King of Liang State...I don't know." The ghost shook his head mechanically.
Nan Zheng frowned at the ghost and shouted in a low voice:
"Do you know that you are already dead? Why do you still have to pretend to be crazy and stupid to keep the secret for your master?"
The ghost slowly turned its head, looking at him with a pair of blank eyes, its face expressionless.
Yun Qingqing waved her hand and said:
"He wasn't lying. People have three souls and seven spirits. Generally speaking, unless there are special circumstances, when a person dies, the seven spirits will disperse first, followed by the heavenly soul and the earthly soul, and finally the life soul."
"This process lasts for seven days, and the life soul, as the foundation of the seven spirits, will not leave the body until the last day, that is, the seventh day. This is the origin of the first seven days."
"I have only summoned two souls now. Such ghosts do not possess complete intelligence, but their memories are the same as the real ones. Now, no matter what you ask them, they will answer truthfully."
"So that's how it is." Nan Zheng was stunned and his eyes gradually lit up.
Doesn't this mean that if there are similar situations in the future, there is no need to worry about not being able to keep the person alive. As long as the princess takes action, it will be easier to pry things out of the dead person's mouth!
Yun Qingqing thought for a moment and asked the ghost in a different way.
"Who sent you to assassinate me?"
The ghost slowly turned towards her and said slowly:
"Zhu, Lao, Ying."
"who is he?"
"Yes, us, boss."
"What do you do?"
"Kill, hand."
"Then who hired you killers?"
"No, recognize."
Nan Zheng was getting anxious listening to this pattern of asking a little bit and squeezing in a little bit, so he interrupted and said:
"What do you know? Can you tell me everything at once?"
The ghost slowly turned to look at him, his eyes even more confused than before.
Yun Qingqing shook her head and said:
"I've told you he's mentally handicapped and can't be asked that question. He can only answer the simplest and clearest questions right now."
Southern Expedition: ...
It's so frustrating.
Xiao Changheng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke:
"What country are you from?"
The ghost slowly turned his head again, facing Xiao Changheng, and then he spoke slowly, word by word:
"I am... a Nanyu person."
Yun Qingqing paused for a moment and exchanged glances with Xiao Changheng.
"Are all of you killers from Nanyu?" Xiao Changheng asked again.
Yun Qingqing secretly gave him a thumbs-up.
As expected of a man who does great things, he found the breakthrough point right away.
The ghost mechanically nodded: "Yes."
"Then the employer who hired you to assassinate him is also from Nanyu?"
"It seems to be...Nanyu's accent." The ghost nodded again.
Yun Qingqing asked a question that she was most concerned about:
"Where did you get the weapons for the assassination?"
"Employer, provider."
"Then do you know what the patterns on those weapons represent?"
"I don't know."
Yun Qingqing had a rough idea of what was going on. A few people asked her some more questions, and when there was nothing new, she took back the talisman.
Then he changed a few bodies, summoned the souls, and asked the same questions again.
The statements are basically the same, and no one knows much.
In general, the employer and the killer were both from Nanyu, and the employer was so considerate that he provided the killer with weapons with the royal emblem of Jing Kingdom, but did not let the killer know.
Of course, it is also possible that these killers are just minions, and only their boss, Zhu Laoying, knows about it.
Unfortunately, there was no killer leader among these corpses. Yun Qingqing asked several ghosts to identify them one by one and confirmed that Zhu Laoying should have escaped.
At this point, things are basically clear.
If it was Nan Yu who assassinated the Regent, it must have been to prevent the Liang and Jing states from forming an alliance.
After all, Nan Yu has been eyeing the fat piece of meat of Jingguo for a long time.
Before, Nanyu was busy annexing other small countries in the surrounding area and had never taken action against Jingguo because Jingguo's terrain was easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Now that most of the surrounding small countries have been finally destroyed, Nanyu has become a southern power that is almost on par with Daliang, Beicang and Xilan. Originally, it seemed that Jing Kingdom was about to be taken over in the next step.
However, the Regent of Daliang suddenly visited, and Nanyu would never be willing to form an alliance between the two countries, so he resorted to this method just to make the two countries become mortal enemies so that he could profit from it.
Yun Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief.
If it was just a conspiracy between countries, now that the alliance has been formed, as long as the Regent returns safely to the capital, the other party will have no reason to continue pursuing him.
Now there's only one small problem.
The talisman she gave to Xiao Changheng showed that someone had cast a curse on him.
If this curse is also a means for Nan Yu to ensure the success of the assassination, then it is understandable. For the same reason as above, they will not continue.
The only worry is that this curse might be the work of the mastermind behind Xiao Changheng's blindness and disability.
"Qingqing? What's wrong?" Xiao Changheng's low voice brought her back to her senses.
"Nothing." Yun Qingqing put away her worries, shook her head, and repeated her analysis except for the curse.
Xiao Changheng nodded and said coldly:
"That's right, this incident must have been caused by the Nanyu court. Let's ignore it for now. After the northwest is pacified, I will settle this account with Nanyu!"
The few of them quietly returned to the Honglu Temple without alerting the Jingguo guards at all.
On the second day, Jing State had indeed prepared all the food and supplies early, and was only waiting for the approval of the Regent of Liang State before setting off.
When they set off, Situ Qinglan came to see them off riding a giant elephant.
She reluctantly held Yun Qingqing's hand, with a look of resentment on her face:
"I came to look for you yesterday, but your Liang guards said you were tired from the journey and had already rested, and they wouldn't let me in no matter what! It must be your prince who's being mean and mean."
As she spoke, she glared at Xiao Changheng hatefully.
Yun Qingqing raised an eyebrow: "Didn't you like him very much yesterday and wanted him to be your husband?"
Xiao Changheng: ...
Situ Qinglan snorted, pulled her away a little, and then leaned close to her ear and said in a low voice:
"I was just about to remind you of this. Your husband is only good-looking. Don't be deceived by his appearance! Didn't you see how scary he looked when he was chopping people yesterday?"
"Qingqing, what's so good about this paralyzed and vicious man? You didn't marry him out of necessity, did you? If you have the chance, you should divorce him and run away!"
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