Although Qin Liexing didn't know the details of what happened in the hunting ground, he got a general idea from inquiring from others.

In general, the emperor encountered a tiger on the road and was assassinated.

However, we need to find out who is the mastermind...

He changed his mind and thought again, this matter had nothing to do with him, so if he tried to investigate, wouldn't he be just causing trouble?

Qin Zhaolie lamented when he had become so nosy. Now he could barely take care of his own business. What did it have to do with him who did it?

He pulled the corners of his lips in self-pity and used a thin silver hook to pick up the silver charcoal basin, trying to make the fire burn more vigorously.

No matter how warm the tent was, it was not as strong as the walls inside the palace, and his hands were cold from beginning to end.

Unexpectedly, a cold wind blew in my face, and a chill spread through the tent, dispersing the little bit of warmth that had been accumulated with great difficulty.

Qin Liexing looked up unhappily and was about to scold the blind man, but he saw that the person coming was Su Jingyu.

Qin Liexing took the fox fur coat and walked quickly to the door of the tent. He carefully glanced through the gap in the curtain and confirmed that no one was following him. Then he turned around and lowered his voice with a slightly reprimanding tone:

"Didn't I tell you not to be so openly with me right now, lest there be trouble and unnecessary criticism? Don't you understand?"

Su Jingyu looked a little disheveled, with disheveled hair and many tears on his sleeves and clothes, as if he had just returned from the hunting grounds and had not even had time to change his clothes before rushing to find him.

The horsewhip in his right hand was swung towards the air in front of him. It was as winding as a snake and as fast as lightning. The sound of breaking through the air suddenly rang in Qin Liexing's ears.

Judging from his angry expression, it seemed that he wanted to punch Qin Liexing instead of the air.

Qin Liexing's face remained calm, and he still stood there, looking at him calmly. He waited until his anger subsided a little before saying:

"What exactly does the Fourth Prince want to do?"

"What do you want to do? I want to ask Prince Su what exactly is he planning?"

Qin Liexing was puzzled, but he still listened to him indifferently and continued: "If you want to advance your plan, murder your emperor, and seize the throne, you can do it in your court!

"Why do you have to use Nanyuan as a cover-up and put the blame on me now?"

Qin Liexing roughly understood that Su Jingyu believed that he was the mastermind behind the incident in the hunting trip.

Qin Liexing just found it funny. Some things, the more he tried to avoid them, the more they stuck to him like a dog-skin plaster.

"Fourth Prince, do you have any evidence to prove that I am the mastermind? Don't make rash judgments based on nothing."

Su Jingyu pulled out a feather arrow from his waist and threw it on the ground in annoyance.

Qin Liexing bent down calmly, picked up the arrow and looked at it carefully.

It is a unique arrow of the Nanyuan royal family. It has a sharp arrowhead, a sharp tip at the front, and is equipped with a four-way arrow head, an ebony arrow shaft, and roc falcon feathers.

He held the arrow feathers in his hand and said puzzledly:

"It's unique to your Nanyuan, so what?"

Su Jingyu snorted coldly: "The arrows I used today are just the most common ones! They are almost the same as the ones you use! Here, besides you, who else knows and understands the structure of my Nanyuan arrows?"

Qin Liexing handed the arrow back to him: "So you can conclude that it was me who did it?"

"King Rong has been at war with you Nanyuan for many years. Didn't that arouse your suspicion?"

"These are the arrows that I recently improved! I am bringing them with me to Kyoto for the first time! I have not used them yet! Even if we rush to make them in batches, it will take time. From the banquet to the winter hunt, there is not enough time!"

"On the contrary, Prince Su, you are the only one who knows the time when I actually arrived in Kyoto, and you and I have met before. If I ordered someone to steal it from then, it would not be difficult. There is plenty of time to forge it from then on!"

"What else do you have to say!"

"What did you say at the beginning? I will help you. In the future, I will use the war in the northern border to contain Prince Rong and complete your great cause."

"Similarly, if you ascend to the throne, you can also use this to help me defeat my brother."

"Now Prince Su is trying to get rid of the donkey... No, I am not a donkey!"

"I never thought that Prince Su would be such a person! What do you think of me as, someone you can just throw away after using me?"

Qin Liexing frowned even more tightly. Su Jingyu's words were convincing and well-reasoned. Even if he had never done it, for a moment, he could not find any reason to refute or prove his innocence.

Most likely, it was caused by someone's instigation.

Su Jingyu did not take the arrow, and Qin Liexing did not force him, but gently placed it on the table.

"I can't find any reason to prove anything to you at the moment, but this matter really has nothing to do with me."

"You and I may have been provoked."

Su Jingyu was furious, roaring at him like a mad beast: "You said it has nothing to do with it?"

"As we clean up the scene now, the arrows will most likely be discovered. Before long, your Emperor Beixuan will find out and will definitely suspect that I am the mastermind behind the assassination! How do you want me to end this? If you can't find a solution, I will just go all out and tell your story to your father, the Emperor!"

"No, Fourth Prince. If this matter is exposed, we will be in danger. Do you think that if something happens to me, you will be able to escape responsibility?"

"At worst, I can just say that I was bewitched by you! As the prince of Nanyuan, I don't think your Majesty Beixuan would dare to do anything to me!"

Qin Liexing was so angry that he almost wanted to curse. This Fourth Prince did not think about solving the problem together, but kept thinking about betraying him.

In a hurry, Qin Liexing's chest and lungs were short of breath, and he couldn't help coughing a few times:

“Ahem… Fourth Prince, please be patient. This matter probably won’t come to this… Ahem.”

Su Jingyu heard that there was a turn for the better, and suppressed his anger: "Then tell me, what should we do now?"

"This matter is unavoidable. The Fourth Prince has no choice but to accept it..."

"Admit it!? Qin Lie, you really want to kill me!"

Su Jingyu pulled out his horsewhip and hit him a few more times. Just as he was about to attack, several people suddenly rushed in from outside the tent. They had cold faces, drew their swords and stood in front of Qin Liexing, staring at Su Jingyu coldly, and it seemed that they were ready to fight to the death with him.

Qin Lie said, "Listen to me, Fourth Prince. When I say I admit it, I only admit to the arrow. I will never admit to the crime of assassination."

Qin Liexing pushed aside the guard in front of him, walked up the mountain, and whispered a few words to Su Jingyu.

The anger in Su Jingyu's eyes gradually dissipated, replaced by a smile.

He clapped his hands and exclaimed: "As expected of you, Prince Su. I am actually glad that you and I are allies. If we were enemies, I would probably be dead..."

Qin Liexing withdrew a little further away from him and said:

"I heard that the one who was seriously injured was not my father, but a nobody around him. This means that the situation is not hopeless."

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