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Now all the clues point to the group of assassins who assassinated the Goryeo Crown Prince during the day. The leader of that group of assassins, the Seventh Prince of Goryeo, was a little panicked.

He wanted to find an opportunity to go out and kill his men hiding in a ruined temple outside the city, but Bao Zheng told him that before finding any clues, the envoys present should not leave the inn easily or have contact with people outside, because there was a possibility that someone in the inn got up in the middle of the night and killed the Prince of Goryeo.

Although the Seventh Prince wanted to go out and contact his subordinates, as soon as he said he had something urgent to go out for, everyone present, including the people from Goryeo, looked at him with suspicion.

The Seventh Prince knew that if he insisted on leaving, not only the people of the Song Dynasty, but even the people of Goryeo would suspect that he had killed the prince.

Therefore, the Seventh Prince gave up the idea of ​​going out to look for his men, and only hoped that those men would be smarter and not be caught easily.

The Seventh Prince's insistence on going out did arouse Bao Zheng's suspicion. He thought that the Crown Prince might have really been killed by the Seventh Prince. If that was the case, it would make sense that the man in black knew where the Crown Prince lived.

Therefore, Bao Zheng asked Lord Gongsun to send more people out to search, and try to find the whereabouts of the group of men in black as soon as possible.

In order to dispel the suspicion that the Song Dynasty had harmed the Crown Prince of Goryeo, Lord Gongsun spared no effort in sending people out to search for the man in black and even issued a reward of twenty taels of silver for anyone who could reveal the exact whereabouts of the man in black.

Twenty taels of silver could support an average family of six for two or three years, which was considered a considerable sum of money.

Chu Chu, who had been hiding in the Bamboo Forest of Hundred Ghosts, saw the reward and suddenly remembered that she seemed to have seen traces of black-clad men's activities in the ruined temple outside the city.

It happened that the money she brought from home had been used up, so she went to the government office to provide Bao Zheng with clues.

Bao Zheng recognized Chuchu as the little beggar who had saved the prince when the man in black was trying to assassinate him, and believed in the clues she provided. He then informed Lord Gongsun and asked him to send someone to capture the man in black.

Shen Liang and Captain Lu led the team and captured the group of men in black in the ruined temple.

The men in black in the ruined temple fought hard and several of them died, but they were also captured alive.

Information was extracted from the survivors through torture, revealing that they were the Seventh Prince's subordinates, and that they had indeed been ordered to assassinate the Crown Prince, but had failed. Since then, they had been waiting in the ruined temple for the Seventh Prince's next instructions.

Bao Zheng was about to continue investigating when he heard a deep male voice coming from outside the door.

"No need to investigate. The Crown Prince of Goryeo must have been killed by the assassin sent by the Seventh Prince. How could they admit to such a serious matter?"

When the visitor entered the room, Lord Gongsun recognized him as the Eighth Wise King.

It turned out that the court learned that the Crown Prince of Goryeo had died in Luzhou. Fearing that the death of the Crown Prince of Goryeo would cause disputes between the two countries, the Emperor sent the Eighth Wise King to investigate the truth.

Bao Zheng felt that there were still some doubts and wanted to continue investigating, but the Eighth Wise Kings hoped that Bao Zheng would stop there.

If the responsibility for this incident was pinned on the Seventh Prince, then the death of the Goryeo Crown Prince was an internal struggle among the Goryeo princes.

Disputes would not easily arise between Goryeo and the Song Dynasty.

With just a few words, the Eighth Wise King turned the death of the Goryeo Crown Prince into an internal conflict among the Goryeo princes.

Shen Liang felt complicated. If this incident turned into a fight between Goryeo princes, then Song Dynasty and Goryeo would not be able to fight.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But the Eighth Wise Kings overlooked one person, that was Bao Zheng. He was never the kind of person who gave up easily. He felt that the Seventh Prince did have the intention to kill the Crown Prince, but whether he had actually killed the Crown Prince remained to be verified.

Therefore, Bao Zheng wanted to continue the investigation. He followed the Eighth Wise King to the inn to look for the Seventh Prince.

Shen Liang followed Bao Zheng out of the government office in silence.

I accidentally saw Feng Yihan appearing on the street corner, fiddling with a pearl flower in his hand.

Feng Yihan had obtained the exact information through Master Pang at the same time as Shen Liang and others received the news.

Knowing that the Eighth Wise King wanted to pin the death of the Goryeo Crown Prince on the Goryeo Seventh Prince, if the Eighth Wise King really confirmed it, Master Pang's plan would fail.

Therefore, he immediately captured Shen Liang's wife, the woman named Xiao Ai, intending to force Shen Liang to continue his mission, lest he be too soft-hearted and delay Master Pang's plan.

When Shen Liang saw the familiar pearl flower, his face turned cold. He bought that pearl flower for Xiao Ai not long ago. Xiao Ai liked it very much recently and wore it every day.

But now that the pearl flower is in his hands, then Xiao Ai must have fallen into his hands, right?

Even though Shen Liang was extremely anxious, he did not dare to act rashly for Xiao Ai's safety.

He calmly slowed down his pace. Bao Zheng in front did not notice that there was one less person behind him, and was still concentrating on catching up with the sedan chair of the Eighth Wise Kings.

Shen Liang left Bao Zheng and followed Feng Yihan to an empty alley. Feng Yihan stopped, turned around and threw the pearl flower in his hand to Shen Liang.

"If you want her to be safe, continue with the mission!"

Shen Liang held the pearl flower, frowned and looked at Feng Yihan, and asked coldly: "Where did you take Xiao Ai?"

Feng Yihan smiled calmly, "As long as you kill the Seventh Prince of Goryeo, I will tell you her whereabouts!"

Shen Liang knew that Xiao Ai was the bargaining chip that Feng Yihan used to force him. He took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart.

"Very good! You will hear the news of the Seventh Prince's death tonight, but you must release Xiao Ai immediately after receiving the news!"

"Of course. A martial artist's word is his bond. When I heard the news of the Seventh Prince's death, I immediately had her released!"

Shen Liang did not dare to waste any more time, and after getting Feng Yihan's approval, he used his Qinggong to rush to the posthouse.

In the end, he was one step ahead of the Eighth Wise Kings and Bao Zheng and arrived at the posthouse first.

He knew the layout of the posthouse guards and found a place where the guards were weak to sneak into the posthouse. Then he knocked on the door of the Seventh Prince.

The Seventh Prince opened the door and saw that the person knocking was Shen Liang. Knowing that Shen Liang was from the Song Dynasty government, he was not very wary of him and even wanted to ask him about the progress of the search for the man in black.

When Shen Liang was telling the Seventh Prince about the man in black, he drew his sword and cut the Seventh Prince's throat when he was not paying attention.

The Seventh Prince covered his severed throat and stared at Shen Liang in shock.

Shen Liang vigilantly guarded the Seventh Prince, whose throat was cut, until he bled to death like the Crown Prince of Goryeo.

At this time, the voices of Bao Zheng and the Eighth Wise Kings were heard from outside. He closed the door from the inside and shouted loudly while hiding at the door.

Bao Zheng and the Eighth Wise Kings outside heard the noise and rushed in with their men, only to see that the Seventh Prince had his throat cut and died from excessive blood loss.

When everyone's attention was on the dead Seventh Prince, Shen Liang walked from behind the door to Bao Zheng, pretending to have just appeared. After observing the Seventh Prince's body, he said, "It's exactly the same as the last time the Crown Prince died."

"Yes, it seems that the Seventh Prince is indeed not the murderer of the Crown Prince!" Bao Zheng said with a frown as he looked at the Seventh Prince's body.

Shen Liang was then sent by Lord Gongsun to capture the murderer. He did not see that when Bao Zheng moved the Seventh Prince's hand away, a cross written in blood was revealed underneath.