Chosen Prophet [Unlimited]

Hearing Wang Hao's question, Duan Yi stepped forward first and said, "If you want us to help you, you have to have no reservations."

The princess looked up into his eyes. "What do you want to ask?"

After saying this, the concubine temporarily made a silent gesture to him, then raised the tent and looked at the lieutenant outside the curtain. "Leave first. I have something to talk to them alone."

The lieutenant hesitated a little. He glanced at the situation in the tent, and then said to the princess: "But...these merchants from the Hua Kingdom are unknown, in case they hurt you..."

"Don't be afraid. I'm going to die anyway." Wangfei said, "Go."

"This... is..." The lieutenant general frowned, and finally led the soldiers back.

When he left, through the raised curtain, Duan Yi noticed that he looked back at every step, as if he was very worried.And looking at him like this, he seemed to want to report everything that happened here to the general as soon as possible.

After a while, the lieutenant left with a group of soldiers holding spears, and the princess put down the curtain with her own hands, and walked in front of Duan Yi. "What do you want to ask?"

Duan Yi asked: "Why does the princess have no face?"

Upon hearing this question, Wang Hao's complexion changed a little, as if someone had poked her into something very embarrassing.

At this moment, Hong Xian walked up to Duan Yi, lowered his voice and said, "I still don't know which side this princess belongs to. What if your question offends her?"

"You have to ask what you should ask." Duan Yi replied in a low voice, watching the princess slowly sit on the fox fur with her knees hugged, "This is the general's territory. Anyway, these two people are now seeing each other for some reason Constraints. We belong to the middle party, and there is room for everything.”

The princess lowered her head, as if she didn't listen to the argument between the two.Or maybe she heard it, but she didn't care at all.

After a while, the concubine finally sighed, and said, "Her name is Xiaoge. She had no face when she was born, and her whole head was like... like a meat ball. Her father almost killed her as a monster." Fortunately, the National Teacher helped me. The National Teacher sent people to investigate and found out that I was killed.

"The king had a side concubine at the time. She poisoned me and wanted my child to die. As a result, my daughter was not poisoned to death, but she was congenitally deformed. Speaking of it... I don't know about it either. For my daughter, whether it is luck or misfortune...but after all, my daughter is not a demon, she just looks different from others.

"After the national teacher found out the truth, the king executed the side concubine. But my daughter couldn't see, hear, or even eat. Later, the national teacher tried to help her. He put a tube in my daughter's abdomen, Injecting food crumbs into it every morning can ensure that she will not starve to death.

"My daughter was taken care of by the national teacher since she was a child, and he later taught my daughter magic. In this way, even if she has no eyes, ears, and mouth, she can see, hear, and speak. The national teacher said that she was born with a lack of She has five orifices, but she is more talented in the cultivation of spells. Maybe she will surpass him in her achievements in the future. She will be Loulan's hope."

These words seemed to arouse some kind of good memories of the princess, so when she said this, there was a warm smile on her lips. "Xiaoge often jokes with me. She said that her so-called magic tricks are just playing tricks. They are all illusions. She can make me feel that I can really hear her, and she can make me think that she is very beautiful. , is the most beautiful girl in Loulan. But that's all. She also said—"

At this point, Wang Hao's expression became sad again.

Looking carefully, apart from sadness, there was also anger hidden in her eyes. "She said that she just knows these illusions and can do a little trick. How can she be called Loulan's hope? She said... Loulan's real hope should be a general. To fight the enemy and protect the family and the country, you must By brave and fearless generals."

Hearing this, Dongfang Yu was the first to step forward and ask curiously. "So she fell in love with the general very early?"

The concubine did not blame Dongfang Yu for being abrupt, but nodded and said: "Yes. One day, the general won the battle and just returned to the capital. His home was vacant for a long time. It was time to go to the street to buy things. She had heard early that he would go Because of the illusion, the general didn’t know that Xiaoge had no face, but fell in love with her. Not long after, he really came to the palace to ask for a kiss..."

Duan Yi couldn't help asking: "But the general originally had a wife. His wife's name is Ayun. Does Xiaoge know about this? She told Ayun—"

"What do you mean?" The concubine, who has always been very good-tempered, finally seemed to be angry at this time. She stood up, pointed at Duan Yi, frowned tightly, and asked in a sharp voice, "You mean, Xiaoge for Marry the general and kill Ayun?"

After being silent for a while, Duan Yi just said: "Sorry, I was just trying to figure out the hatred between you and the general. The general protects Loulan, you, the king, and the princess. He is still your son-in-law. Even if he is not Really love the princess, the relationship between you should not be so bad."

"The hatred between me and him? Good question!"

Probably due to the fact that the lieutenant general had already been dismissed and was irritated by Duan Yi, the princess said bluntly, "Okay, I'll tell you directly now. I suspect the general killed Xiaoge!

"Businessman of Hua Country, let me tell you, Ah Yun died a long time ago. At that time, Xiaoge was only 12 years old, and he had never been out of the palace, nor had he seen a general. The national teacher saw the heroic appearance of the general killing the enemy on the city wall, and fell in love with him. At that time, his wife Ayun was no longer alive! After five years, Xiaoge married the general at the age of 14. She and Ayun Yun's death has absolutely nothing to do with it, don't talk nonsense!

"Xiaoge didn't harm Ayun, nor anyone. But the general killed her. He must have killed Xiaoge! Do you know? The general didn't let me see the body! He hid Xiaoge's body !"

Raising her hand to rub her hair, the princess shed a few tears, and said again: "The general actually said... that Xiao Ge's body was taken away by a painting. I wouldn't believe a word of that! It was he who killed Xiaoge. There was evidence of his murder on Xiaoge's body. That's why he was afraid that I would see Xiaoge's body.

"Unfortunately now... the king doesn't believe me at all. This is also his daughter. Just because she has no face, doesn't he love her? He won't help my daughter avenge... no..."

The princess's words revealed a key message.

——King Loulan is on the side of the general, and because of the congenital deformity of the princess, he probably has limited affection for the princess.The current princess is alone and helpless. She is the only one who thinks that the general is the murderer who killed Princess Loulan. She can't find anyone to help her find out the truth.

Probably because of being reminded of the sad past, the elegance that the princess tried to maintain has faded, and now she really can't hide the pain and sadness in her heart, tears keep falling, and she gradually begins to speak incoherently.

She complained in a tone like a thought: "Yes, I also know that the general is powerful, and he has made great contributions to Loulan! I also know that he has worked hard for Loulan for so many years. But he...he It is true that he killed my daughter. He has merit, and he is the murderer of my daughter. These are two irrelevant things, right?

"But the king actually said that I was crazy! He said that the general is a hero, and it is impossible to do such a thing. Why did he say that? Why did he mix these two things together?! Can't a hero be a murderer? "

At this point, the princess finally revealed her real purpose to the businessmen.

"Everyone believes in the general, and all Loulan people are on the side of the general. No one is willing to believe me! Merchants... only you are not Loulan people around me. I will give you money. Before I die, you help me Find Xiaoge's body, and help me make the general's crimes public!"

The naive and ignorant princess fell in love with the general who defended the country.She devised a trick to marry the general, making everyone think that there was love at first sight between them.

Such stories are not uncommon.

At this time, the general's first wife, Ayun, had passed away for many years.Then the matter of the princess marrying the general did not involve ethics.

So far in the story, nothing unusual has been seen.

Looking at the general again, he can win the sincere appreciation and love of the princess, the praise of the entire Loulan people, and the wholehearted trust of the King of Loulan.This at least shows that he is not a person of low character.

Then Duan Yi is still puzzled - why did he kill the princess?He really has no motive.

After speaking the long paragraph just now, it seemed that the depression in her heart had finally been relieved a little. The princess took a few big breaths and calmed down a little.

Seeing that her mood improved slightly, Duan Yi asked tentatively in order to clarify the question in his heart: "Before your daughter married the general, what kind of person do you think he is? In your heart, is he also a hero? "

The concubine's expression was still not very good, as if she was being forced to admit something she was unwilling to admit.

After a while, she reluctantly said: "Yes. I admit that he is a hero. He is Loulan's hero. Occasionally, I hear that he has a bad temper, but... without him, there is no Loulan today."

From the perspective of the princess, she can still make such an evaluation of him when she has such a deep hatred with the general. It can be seen that for Loulan, the general is indeed a great hero.

The princess continued: "His father died because of Loulan. He has been mixed with his father in the military camp since he was a child. No one in the army disapproved of him, and no one said that he was not good at all. When he met people on the streets of the capital, he also He treated them kindly, and never did anything to bully the people because of his status.

"These... I have to admit. He has a good character and is a hero. But as I said just now, even though he is so good, he is still the murderer who killed my daughter."

When she said the last sentence, Wang Hao's eyes were almost crazy.

She didn't look like she was pretending, but because of genuine grief.

Duan Yi inevitably frowned, and didn't continue to speak for a while.

On the side, Bai Sinian came over and asked again: "But, the general must have a motive for killing, right? Why did he kill your daughter? Since he is so loyal to Loulan and the king, how could he do such a thing?"

Wang Hao's expression became painful again, she pinched the back of her hand with her nails, and her tone was very helpless. "Why did he kill my daughter...I don't know either. The king asked me about this, and everyone asked me. I really don't know. But I can be sure that the murderer is him!"

Seeing that the princess had scratched the back of her hand, and her speech became a little crazy, everyone couldn't help but looked at each other, obviously expressing doubts about her words.

The general is so loyal to the country that there seems to be no motive for killing at present.

Even the queen had to admit this.

She just suspected that the general killed her daughter, but she herself couldn't explain why.

At this moment, Wu Junlan walked up to the princess, knelt down and helped her cut her hair very gently, trying to calm her emotions.When the concubine calmed down a bit, Wu Junlan asked her again: "Then can you tell us...why do you think he killed your daughter?"

"Finally someone believes me, right?" The princess looked up at Wu Junlan, held her hand tightly, and couldn't help but shed another tear, and then narrated the past.

According to the narration of the princess, on the day the princess got married, the national teacher did a divination on the tortoise shell, and the divination showed that the princess's trip might be very dangerous.

After learning about this, the princess naturally advised the princess not to get married today, or to choose another good day to remarry.

But the princess would not listen.

The person she wants to marry is the general she has silently admired for many years.Now that she finally got what she wanted, how could she give up by herself?

So the princess resolutely decided to marry as planned.

Before leaving, the national teacher gave her a painting, which is said to predict the future.

He told the princess to let her hold the painting at all times. Once she sees a bad scene from inside, she may be able to make changes in time to avoid possible risks.

Speaking of this, the princess said: "That painting is really mysterious. Not everyone can see everything in that painting anytime and anywhere. I have tried it myself a few times, but I can't see anything. So I think this method It was not appropriate, so Dao Luo was specially sent to protect the princess.

"Dao Luo is a maid with strong martial arts skills. She grew up in the palace and has absolute loyalty. I ask her to protect Xiaoge every step of the way, and she will definitely do it."

"Later, something happened to Xiaoge on the way. They encountered a big wind and sand and had to stop. According to Dao Luo, when Xiaoge sat in the car with the painting in his arms, he encountered some problems. She claimed that someone in the painting was holding her hand and trying to bring her in. She was so frightened that she pushed the person back into the painting and threw the painting into the desert.

"Actually, looking back now...in fact, the painting may be helping her and reminding her. If the person in the painting really stopped her from moving forward, she would not marry the general...she would not die .”

Sighing deeply, the princess said again in a hoarse voice: "Later, the wind and sand stopped, and they continued to move forward. Dao Luo followed my Xiao Ge all the way to the General Fort not far from this military camp. She followed Xiao Ge all the way. Song, followed her to hold a ceremony with the general, and even accompanied them into the new house.

"Nothing happened to Xiaoge all this way. Until the end... Xiaoge and the general were about to have a husband and wife affair, Dao Luo couldn't stay in the room any longer, so he left. But she didn't stay away from Xiaoge, she kept guarding the door .

"In the middle of the night, she felt uneasy, and in the name of Xiao Ge's liking to get up in the middle of the night to drink goat's milk, she opened the door and entered the room to check. But she found that Xiao Ge was dead. The general was lying next to Xiao Ge, pretending to be do not know anything.

"Before and after Dao Luo entered the house, except for Xiaoge, there was only the general in the house. And Dao Luo stayed outside all night, and no one approached their new house alone on the way. You tell me——"

Pointing at everyone, the princess asked, "The murderer is not a general, who else could it be?"

If the princess hadn't lied, and the maid named Dao Luo hadn't lied either, then on the wedding night of the general and the princess, no one would have entered or left their new house.

There are a total of two people in the room, the general and the princess.

The princess died, and of course the general became the biggest suspect.

But the question remains, what is the general's motivation for doing this?

In addition to thinking that the general has no motive, after listening to the whole story, Duan Yi also found a suspicious point - even if the general had a motive and really wanted to kill the princess, would he make the murder so simple and rude?

What he wanted was the princess of a country, and he would definitely plan this matter carefully. He would not kill people in such a hasty manner and draw all the suspicion on himself, and he didn't need to leave a personal certificate like Dao Luo.

This matter seems very simple, but when you think about it, there are many doubts.

Duan Yi couldn't help asking Wang Hao: "May I ask, when Dao Luo went into the house in the middle of the night to check, was Xiao Ge wearing a wedding dress?"

In the wedding pictures and burial pictures that Duan Yi and the others had seen, the princess was wearing the same wedding dress. It looked as if she had died on the wedding night before having sex with the general.

After all, if two people have taken off their clothes and shared the same room, after the wife dies, the husband will let her go to the earth in her wedding dress, which is a bit strange no matter how you think about it.

That's why Duan Yi and the others had previously assumed that the two of them hadn't shared a room yet, and they weren't really married. The general had the princess buried in a wedding dress, in fact, to commemorate this happy and regretful night.

But this logic makes sense, there is a premise - the general loves the princess.

But now Duan Yi finds out that the general doesn't love the princess at all.

In this case, the wedding dress on the princess is very strange.

If the general doesn't love the princess, there is no need to commemorate this night, and there is no need for the princess to be buried in her wedding dress.After all, usually no one does it, it's not customary.

And even if the general was always under the influence of illusion and thought that the princess was Ayun, there was no need for him to do so.Because Ayun and him have been husband and wife for many years, he shouldn't have the obsession to let her be buried in the wedding dress, and he doesn't need to commemorate this night in this special way.

At this point, Duan Yi can't help feeling that things are gradually becoming more interesting.

——Simple stories are not simple.All the small details that seemed ordinary before have hidden deep meanings.

After hearing Duan Yi's words, the princess seemed very happy.

She stood up all of a sudden and looked at Duan Yi. Her eyes, which had been exuding helplessness, hatred, or sadness, finally had a little brilliance at this moment.

Walking all the way to Duan Yi, the princess said to him: "You also think this is wrong, don't you? I knew that you are different from other Loulan people, and you will not blindly trust the general like them. You also found that gone?"

Duan Yi had no choice but to follow her words: "Yes. I think it's a bit weird that the princess is buried in her wedding dress. So I want to ask about the details. When Dao Luo saw the princess died—"

"Xiaoge is wearing a wedding gown! Dao Luo said that when she walked into the new house in the middle of the night, she saw Xiaoge still wearing her wedding gown lying on the bed, so she felt strange why they didn't have sex." The princess said, "You know What happened later? The general ordered Dao Luo to be detained, and she was not allowed to tell the story.

"The general detained Dao Luo, blocked the news, and immediately found a cemetery for Xiaoge in the desert. He wanted to bury Xiaoge without telling the truth about me and the king! He—"

Emotionally excited again, the princess trembled and said: "I heard about this, it was already three days later! When I arrived at the General Fort, the General actually said that he had buried Xiaoge! I want to see the corpse, I Ask him to hand over Xiaoge's body. He first justified that the body should be buried in the ground for safety. Then he saw that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he changed his words and said that Xiaoge's body was missing and was taken away by a painting!

"At first, I was the same as everyone else. I also respected the general, and I also regarded him as a hero! I never thought that he would be the murderer of my daughter! But look what he did?

"Seeing what he did, I asked Dao Luo to ask him everything. Only then did I know that the murderer was the general! There must be evidence of his murder on Xiaoge's body. That's why he wanted to bury Xiaoge quickly, and now he still wants to bury Xiaoge." The reason for hiding her body.

"When I questioned him, he was so guilty that he didn't dare to look at me!"

While crying again, the princess glanced at all the players. "Tell me, if the murderer wasn't a general, who else would it be?"

No one answered the princess's question for a while.

Because everyone feels that there are many things that cannot be explained clearly.

What's more, everything is just one side of the princess.

And not long after she finished asking this question, there was finally movement outside the camp that had been quiet for a long time.

Then came a woman's voice. "Princess, the king asked me to take you back as soon as possible. He said that you are not in good health, so don't overwork yourself."

Inside the tent, Wang Hao's eyes lit up, and she immediately called the girl in.

After she entered the account, Duan Yi found that she was a well-dressed girl.

She had a knife pinned to her waist, and she seemed to be quite skilled.

Afterwards, Duan Yi knew that she was actually Dao Luo after the princess' introduction.She came to Loulan with the princess, and their family has protected the princess and her family for generations.

According to the princess, there is a contract between their two families.So Dao Luo is absolutely loyal to her, and it is impossible to tell a lie.

"Dao Luo, tell them what happened at that time. I'm afraid I'm in a bad mood and I've missed something. Tell them again quickly!"

After the princess finished speaking to Dao Luo in this way, Dao Luo faced Duan Yi and his party and retold the story of her marrying the princess and seeing the princess die.What she said was more detailed than the princess, and there was no conflict between the two.

After telling the story, Dao Luo urged the princess to return to the palace.

Before leaving, the concubine left a sentence: "Businessmen, help me investigate carefully, and I will reward you. I am not in good health, and Dao Luo will come to you at that time. If you need anything, just tell her directly. "

After Wang Hao and Dao Luo left, there were only ten players and a place of ancient jewelry left in the camp.

Hong Xian picked up something with his index finger to check, and said with disgust, "What kind of animal's teeth can be used as a necklace?"

Shu Rongrong probably also gave up on acting affectionately with him at this moment, she laughed and said, "It matches you quite well."

In this way, the two immediately exchanged a few words with guns and sticks, but the rest of the players did not participate in it, because they were all thinking about the story told by the princess.

Wu Junlan asked Duan Yi: "I don't think this princess is pretending. But do you think... the general is the murderer?"

"If he is a murderer, firstly, he has no motive; secondly, he would not kill the princess in this way; thirdly, he temporarily detained Dao Luo as a witness, but why didn't he kill her directly, instead Let her tell the princess so much? These things don't make sense."

Duan Yi frowned and said, "But if he is not the murderer, there is indeed something wrong with him. Take the matter of the princess wearing a wedding dress to be buried, in fact, I think the princess's analysis makes sense. The general seems to be Deliberately hiding something. He not only let the princess be buried in a wedding dress, but also hurriedly buried the princess without telling the king and queen, which is too strange.

"Do you still remember what we did in the painting? We snatched the princess's body away, and the general sent guards to chase us in. They fought with us for a long time, causing countless casualties, but in the end he didn't actually want to win us, or Entering our world to explore, in fact, he has only one purpose - to bring the princess's body back."

Wu Junlan couldn't help saying: "At first we thought that the general did this because he loved the princess deeply, so he hated us for taking the princess's body, and he must take her back. But now it seems...on the princess's body, It is likely to hide a secret that he does not want outsiders to know. This is the real reason why he must snatch the body back."

"Yes. I think so too. The general is not necessarily the murderer. But there must be a mystery behind the princess's body. And there must be a very secret and important relationship between the general and this mystery." Duan Yi said, "Speaking of which——"

Thinking of something, Duan Yi's expression became serious. "Why did the general detain us... The truth behind this has actually surfaced."

"He detained us because he didn't really think that we were foreigners who knew magic and took away the princess's body. But he charged us first—" Wu Junlan's eyes sank, "He didn't want to Shall we be scapegoats?"

"It's very possible. Although everyone believes him. But the princess has been biting this matter. After all, the princess is the king's pillow, and the general will still be worried. So he wants to find a scapegoat for the dead princess. It is very likely that he He wanted to transfer the suspicion of killing the princess and stealing her body to us. From this point of view, he does have the face of a murderer. It's a pity—”

Duan Yi rubbed his nose, "The painting is still there now, but I tried it, but it couldn't be drawn. It's really a pity. At that time in the cemetery, I was the one who spent the longest time with the princess. If I took off her clothes, Just check to see if there is any mystery on her body, why didn't I think of taking off her clothes at that time—"

As soon as the words were said here, the curtain of the camp tent was suddenly lifted.

Immediately after, Duan Yi saw a beautiful tall soldier walking in.

Duan Yi's frowning eyebrows suddenly loosened, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he suddenly caught a glimpse of the little soldier looking towards him, with some surprise, doubt, shock, and slightly injured eyes.

After realizing something, Duan Yi quickly changed his words: "No, why didn't I think of it at the time, find a girl, ask her to help take off the bride's clothes, and then let her see the details of the corpse. Cough that..."

Looking at Bai Sinian without changing his face, Duan Yi asked: "What sky burial platform did the princess mention just now? If I'm not mistaken, this is something used by Tibetans. You said that you saw a well-dressed man alone in this barracks yesterday. People like monks, do you think he has anything to do with all of this?"

"It's indeed related." Bai Sinian also saw the little soldier coming in from the door.

After being slightly taken aback, he said again: "To be precise, that's not a monk. He doesn't belong to Buddhism, but his appearance is similar. He should be a religion similar to Buddhism 4000 years ago. I'll just call him a believer. "