Dragon Pattern Roll Set

The Beihai Imperial Palace didn't know what happened, and the two princes died all at once.The two princes were killed less than a day apart.

After returning to the Prince's Mansion, Bai Yutang sent Su Yi and Fu Gao to inquire about the news.

After a while, both of them came back.

Su Yi said that the Eighth Prince went out to do some business early this morning and just returned to the mansion.His eunuch was bringing tea to him, when he saw the prince's head was placed on the table, and the corpse was lying beside the table, which was exactly the same as how the sixth prince died last night.

"The same person?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Could it be that the murderer didn't leave last night and was still lurking in the palace?"

Su Yi nodded, "It's possible."

"Hurry up and send someone to search." Zhan Zhao was anxious.

Su Yi seemed a little embarrassed.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yutang asked.

Su Yi sighed, "The emperor is taking a nap... Huai Mi went to report back, and the emperor said that we will wait until he is full of sleep."

……

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are a little speechless at this moment, okay, let alone the death of two sons, even if it is the death of two domestic cats and dogs, they should investigate the reasons, right?This Xuanyuan Jie really doesn't care about anything.

Xuanyuan Jie didn't care, but the other princes did.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were listening to Su Yi's report, when they saw Fu Gao stumbling in from outside, "Your Highness, the First Prince and the others are here again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the eldest prince roaring from outside, "Bai Yutang! Come out!"

Su Yi walked to the door, "Bold! Don't call the prince by his first name!"

The eldest prince pointed at Su Yi, "As soon as he came, my two younger brothers died tragically for no reason. Who would believe him if he was not suspected!"

Bai Yutang himself felt that was the case after hearing it...it was indeed that Beihai started to die as soon as he came.

"But His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went to visit the imperial city with us just now, so it is impossible to go back to the palace and kill people!" Fu Gao retorted, "If the eldest prince says that someone is suspected, there must be real evidence!"

The eldest prince sneered, and pointed at Fu Gao, "You dog slave, don't forget, your master only lives in Beihai for one month, and will return to the Central Plains after one month."

Fu Gao curled his lips, "The servant is here to serve the crown prince by the order of the emperor."

"You dare to use the father to suppress me? I want to see if the father will punish me if I kill you, a dog slave today!"

After finishing speaking, the eldest prince drew a knife and wanted to kill Fu Gao.

Fu Gao went to the market and hid behind Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao.

Su Yi stopped, "The emperor has ordered that irrelevant people are not allowed to enter the Prince's Mansion! It is not allowed to act wild in the Prince's Mansion!"

……

Zhan Zhao was a little curious, so he asked Fu Gao who was behind him, "Why does the eldest prince have a good relationship with those two dead princes? Look at how furious he is."

Fu Gao shook his head, "The feelings are so-so, but both the Sixth Prince and the Eighth Prince belong to the faction of the First Prince. If they die, the First Prince will suffer a greater loss!"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao understood, and nodded, no wonder they became irritable.

In the room, Tianzun felt the commotion outside, so he asked Heiying, "Why is this?"

"Probably the matter of the dead prince." Heiying peeled an orange for Tianzun, and said, "By the way, Tianzun, before you called me here last night, the prince just received a message from the wolf king Xiao Tonghai. They found many corpses of the North Sea army in the glaciers to the north."

Tianzun was curious, "In the ice river?"

Heiying nodded, "It's inconvenient to say outside just now, I suspect that the decrease in the number of soldiers in Beihai has something to do with it. But I ran to Beihai last night without going to see it. I still have to ask the prince for details. .”

Tianzun gently touched his chin, "There are corpses frozen in the ice river...um..."

……

Su Yi wanted to ask the eldest prince to leave, but the other party refused, insisting on searching the prince's mansion and investigating Bai Yutang's weapons, the two sides were at a stalemate.

At this moment, from the palace on the top of the mountain, there was a sound of bells ringing. Compared with the haste when the two princes announced their funerals before, this bell sounded low and slow.

Fu Gao told Bai Yutang, "This is the bell ringing for the emperor to summon all his ministers to the palace to face the saint."

Bai Yutang nodded.

Although the eldest prince was not reconciled, he still wanted to enter the palace to face the saint when he heard the bell. He flicked his sleeves, gave Bai Yutang a hard look, turned around and left.

Zhan Zhao was a little puzzled, "If the two princes belonged to him, it would be unfavorable for him to die, and it would be more beneficial for him to fight against that camp. Why does he doubt you and not the third prince? He would also say that you only live in one moon."

Bai Yutang smiled, "There must be some reason for him to be suspicious."

Back in the room, Bai Yutang said he was going into the palace, and told Tianzun to take a nap in the room and not run around.

Tianzun squinted at Bai Yutang, and the black shadow signaled that he would look at Tianzun, so that the two of them don't have to worry.

So, Bai Yutang took Zhan Zhao into the palace, and Tianzun happened to be sleepy anyway, so he jumped on the bed, covered himself with a quilt, and took a nap.

Hei Ying sat by the bed and combed Xiao Wu's hair, while pricking up his ears to be on guard.

Tianzun suddenly turned over and looked at him, "Aren't you tired after driving all night last night? Go to sleep."

"But, I'm in charge of vigilance..."

Tianzun smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Relax, Tianzun is here, who else can come in?"

Sombra blinked.

Tianzun said, "Take off this matchmaker and have a good sleep, and you will be refreshed when you wake up."

Heiying nodded, "Yeah!" He got up to wash, went to the opposite bed and fell asleep.

……

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao entered the palace and found that there were quite a few courtiers. Sure enough, everyone commented, thinking that the two princes died strangely, and suspected that the murderer was still staying in the palace, which meant there was some panic.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao also came, but they were not courtiers, and they didn't know where to stand, but Huai Mi came out to greet them first, and sat down on the front steps of the court hall by the throne.

The courtiers looked at each other in blank dismay - this position is only two or three steps below the dragon chair. From the emperor's point of view, he really recognized the position of Prince Bai Yutang.

In this strange atmosphere, Xuanyuan Jie went up to the Golden Palace with light steps. The first thing he did when he sat down was not to let the officials rest, but to ask Bai Yutang, "Madam Bai is still used to living here?"

Bai Yutang nodded.

Xuanyuan Jie nodded, "That's good, I'll visit another day."

"It may not be very convenient." Bai Yutang helped Tianzun to refuse.

Zhan Zhao stood at the back with some embarrassment, thinking that it wasn't true... the mouse wouldn't really say it...

"She's having her period and she's in a bad mood," Bai Yutang said.

The place was silent.

Zhan Zhao sighed in his heart—Mice, you really belong!This can be said...

"Oh..." Xuanyuan Jie nodded, "Then let the kitchen prepare some tonics, it's cold here, and put a heater in the room?"

Although Bai Yutang was not afraid of the cold, neither was Tianzun, but Zhan Zhao was afraid, so he nodded in agreement and thanked Xuanyuan Jie by the way.

Xuanyuan Jie was obviously in a better mood, a stove called Bai Yutang to thank him, he wanted to fill the whole prince's mansion with stoves.

"emperor……"

Finally finished chatting with Bai Yutang about the daily life, the courtiers and the prince kneeled down until their legs and feet were numb, and before they could get up, Huai Mi could only remind Xuanyuan Jie in a low voice.

"Let's get back together." Xuanyuan Jie waved his hands, "I called you here to discuss the autumn hunting season."

The officials were stunned, even Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little dumbfounded—what?Instead of talking about his son's death, study hunting?

"We need to prepare well for this hunting season. In addition, it is a great gift from God that I can find the prince. The ceremony of rewarding the god must be grand." Self-ordered.

Even so, the courtiers present only dared to nod obediently to obey orders, and no one dared to interrupt.

It wasn't until Xuanyuan Jie finished speaking that he was about to retreat... the eldest prince took a step forward, "Royal father."

Xuanyuan Jie looked at him.

"The assassination of the sixth and eighth brothers..."

"Oh." Xuanyuan Jie nodded, "Go and prepare for the funeral, but don't offend the gods."

"The matter of catching the murderer, I implore my father to let my son be responsible!" the eldest prince requested.

Xuanyuan Jie looked at him, "But you have to prepare for the hunting season and rewarding the gods..." Saying this, Xuanyuan Jie glanced at Bai Yutang, "Yu'er, I heard that you have a close relationship with Zhan Zhao of Kaifeng Mansion? "

Bai Yutang nodded, "I am familiar with the whole Kaifeng Mansion."

"That's just right." Xuanyuan Jie nodded, "I heard that Lord Bao of Kaifeng Mansion is good at investigating cases, so you should be in charge of investigating this case."

Bai Yutang froze for a moment, as if he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"Father!" The eldest prince became impatient, "Bai Yutang is the main suspect!"

Xuanyuan Jie looked at him, "What evidence do you have?"

"This... Bai Yutang's murder happened as soon as he arrived!" The eldest prince was dissatisfied, "We should start the investigation on him first!"

Xuanyuan Jie squinted his eyes slightly, looked at the eldest prince for a while, then nodded, and said, "You have stayed in the imperial city for too long, how about this, leave tomorrow for the fiefdom in the extreme north, as for the matters in your hands, I will deal with you." Give it to someone else."

This time, not only the eldest prince was shocked, but also the officials... Did Xuanyuan Jie want to depose the eldest prince and drive him to the bitter cold north?

The eldest prince's followers, princes and courtiers all pleaded for him.

Xuanyuan Jie sneered, "Why did I tell you yesterday that no one should go to the Prince's palace to bother you? Can you ignore my words?"

Seeing Xuanyuan Jie's expression, the eldest prince knew that he was not joking.In fact, Bai Yutang's sudden arrival made the princes feel unbalanced, and they really underestimated Xuanyuan Jie's importance to him.Originally, although they were not favored by the emperor, they were used to being arrogant and domineering, and Xuanyuan Jie seldom paid attention to them.But this time, Xuanyuan Jie was about to relegate the hot heir to the crown prince to a place of bitter cold just because he had bumped into Bai Yutang twice... This caught the eldest prince by surprise, and even more so shocked the others.

The so-called good man doesn't suffer from the immediate disadvantages, and he can't get along with Bai Yutang. In the end, he just took advantage of the third prince.

The eldest prince immediately knelt down and admitted his mistake, hoping that Xuanyuan Jie would give him a chance.

Xuanyuan Jie asked Bai Yutang, "What does Yu'er think?"

Bai Yutang also felt embarrassed, so he shrugged his shoulders, expressing that he didn't care.

Xuanyuan Jie glanced at the eldest prince again, "Then after you, you can handle things carefully, you must know that you are the prince, and Yu'er is the prince... there is a difference between superiority and inferiority."

"Yes... my child understands." The First Prince bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

The other princes saw it, and the so-called killing chickens to scare the monkeys was justified. At this moment, the other princes also followed the eldest prince and bowed their heads. No one dared to be disrespectful to Bai Yutang anymore... Everyone only hoped that the old man would stay for a month Then leave quickly, otherwise anyone who accidentally offends him will have a worrying future.

Xuanyuan Jie asked everyone if there was anything else, all the officials shook their heads, and Xuanyuan Jie got up and retreated.

Before leaving, Xuanyuan Jie also told Bai Yutang, "Tomorrow I'm going to see the hunting ground, so you go with me."

Bai Yutang nodded, and Xuanyuan Jie left satisfied.

All the ministers left one after another.

It is said that Xuanyuan Jie's behavior seems to be like a foolish emperor, but the officials are not surprised.Xuanyuan Jie was only cruel but not stupid, and it was not the first time he had seen the ministers being ruthless to his sons and heirs, just get used to it.

Before the First Prince left, he gave Bai Yutang a look of resentment, obviously unable to swallow his breath.

Bai Yutang also felt helpless. In the past few days in Beihai, although he hadn't figured out the strength of the army, he managed to turn the Beihai court upside down. The key was Xuanyuan Jie's cooperation.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang returned to the Prince's Mansion, pushed the door open and entered the house, only to see Soi Ying and Tianzun sleeping.

Hei Ying sat up, and both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao knew he hadn't slept all night, so they told him to rest.

At this time, Tianzun yawned and turned over, and said lazily, "Three groups of people came just now, the first time was when you just left, about a dozen of them circled the Prince's Mansion outside. Listen I thought it was a patrol at first, but they scattered something along the corner of the wall around, so I guess it wasn't a patrol. Then another group of people came, carefully passing by the door, and they should be facing the four corners of the Prince's Mansion I put something in the place, I heard the sound of them digging, it is probably buried in the ground. In the end, there was a person with good lightness kungfu and high internal energy, who ran past the prince's mansion. The direction should be to I went down, I just walked not long ago, and I followed you."

Heiying opened his mouth wide and looked at Tianzun—is there such a thing?I didn't notice it at all!And Tianzun has been sleeping steadily, how did he notice this?

Tianzun blinked at him, that means - I told you, Tianzun is here, don't worry sleep!

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other after hearing Tianzun's words, and walked out quickly.

Zhan Zhao walked around the base of the Prince's Mansion, and found a lot of off-white powder, which was not easy to find mixed with snow.Zhan Zhao picked up some and smelled them, then sneered——flint powder.

Walking back to Bai Yutang, I saw him pulling away the grass beside the several passages next to the Prince's Mansion, and saw that there were organs buried underground.

Zhan Zhao showed him the flint powder, and Bai Yutang sneered, "It seems that someone is planning to burn us to death. If we don't burn to death, we might be hit by a trap and die if we escape."

Bai Yutang called Su Yi and asked him to eradicate all the traps and flint powder.

"Who do you think did it?" Zhan Zhao asked with a smile.

"If you need to go to the trap, then you shouldn't be a master." Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows.

"Then... who is the expert who flew down from our roof?" Zhan Zhao tilted his head.

Bai Yutang looked down and touched his chin, "The sixth child died, and the eighth child died... Guess who is next?"

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin, "According to the rules, is it the tenth? Or the fourth?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, "Master said he went down..."

Zhan Zhao smiled, "Mice, are you pretty smart?"

Bai Yutang smiled, "When the first two died, the eldest prince desperately questioned me but did not doubt the third prince. It can be seen that he had some reason. If someone interferes, he is likely to be the next to be killed."

Zhan Zhao folded his arms and looked up and down at Bai Yutang, "Tsk tsk, you're learning pretty fast!"

Bai Yutang smiled, and the two hurried down the mountain... to the First Prince's Mansion.

At this time, the eldest prince was setting the table in the mansion.

"He actually wants to depose me for a bastard who has only been recognized for a few days, and demote me to the bitter cold Saibei... Is he my real father!" The eldest prince raised a vase and smashed it.

The eunuch beside him hurriedly stopped him, "Your Highness, walls have ears, don't speak nonsense in a hurry..."

"What am I afraid of talking nonsense? He has all his heart on the prince now, how can he see us princes!" The eldest prince pushed away the eunuch who came up to stop him, and drew his sword...

Just as he was raising his sword to strike the table, he heard a gust of wind coming through the air, and then the window was smashed open, and a black shadow rushed in like an arrow. At the same time, a cold light swept straight towards the First Prince neck.

The eldest prince was also a coincidence, fortunately he had a sword in his hand, he subconsciously blocked it...

The sword blocked his neck, but there was still a long gash on his shoulder and chest.

The eldest prince was in pain and was surprised - it happened that the sword was in front of him, and he saved his life by coincidence, otherwise, wouldn't it be that his head fell to the ground?As soon as he thought of the head falling to the ground, he thought that this method of death was the same as that of the two imperial brothers!So the person in front of him...is the murderer? !

When the eldest prince looked up, he saw the black figure rushing towards him again. At this time, the eldest prince also saw the knife in his hand and his face covered with black cloth.

It was a coincidence that the first knife could be dodged, but the second knife, before the First Prince understood what was going on, his neck was already chilling.

The eunuch serving him screamed, "There is an assassin!"

As soon as his voice fell, the eldest prince felt that the assassin's sword had touched his neck... He took a deep breath, knowing that his life was over.

But just as he was waiting to die, suddenly a black shadow flickered in front of him... as if he was avoiding something.

But still got kicked in the chest...

The eldest prince first saw a white boot, then saw a white shadow flashing in front of him, and kicked the man in black away.

"Bai Yutang!" The eldest prince was startled.

As soon as the man in black heard Bai Yutang's name, he turned around and wanted to run towards the window...but as soon as he reached the window sill, he was kicked back by Zhan Zhao who was waiting there.

After the man in black rolled into the room, a silver knife with simple patterns in front of his eyes touched his neck, and Bai Yutang said coldly, "Don't move."

The man in black froze in place.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other. Although this person is a master, he is not as high as the man who killed the sixth prince last night without knowing it. He is just an ordinary master.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and tore off the mask of the man in black - he saw that he was from Beihai, with an ordinary appearance, so he didn't have much impression.

"It's you?!" The eldest prince was so angry that he wanted to stab the man to death with his sword.

The sword was caught by Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang glanced at him, "What else do you do besides killing people?"

The eldest prince was so angry that he withdrew his sword and pointed at the man in black, "He is the third brother's trusted bodyguard!"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao glanced at each other—a person of the third prince?

"Wouldn't you kill him without proof?" Bai Yutang was a little worried about the wisdom of the eldest prince.

"Tsk..." The eldest prince was in a hurry when he saw that the guard had already stared at him and committed suicide.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little confused—suicide?

"Hey!" The eldest prince became angry, "The killer sent by the third brother is naturally a dead man. If he is caught, he would rather kill himself than hurt my third brother. Anyway, he is dead. Let me stab him to relieve my heart." Hate, it's also good to kill the spirit of the third brother!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, then silently stepped aside, which meant—you should poke.

The eldest prince looked at the dead bodies on the ground with his sword, and dropped the sword angrily, and said to several guards who ran over, "Drag it out and deal with it!"

"Yes!" Several guards took orders to dispose of the corpse.

The eldest prince was still a little embarrassed, the eunuch asked the imperial doctor to check his wound, the imperial doctor also said it was very dangerous, thank God he didn't die.

The eldest prince asked Zhan Zhao, "Could it be that my third brother sent someone to kill my two brothers?"

In order to avoid showing his flaws, Zhan Zhao basically didn't speak when he and Bai Yutang appeared in front of the people in Beihai. Now that the eldest prince asked, he naturally didn't answer.

The eldest prince looked at Bai Yutang with some puzzlement, "Don't you say you are the No. 1 martial arts guard? Why don't you talk, are you dumb?"

Bai Yutang didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so he replied casually, "The martial arts of the person who killed your two brothers should be much higher than this person. Be careful yourself." After finishing speaking, he was about to take Zhan Zhao away.

"Hey! Wait!" The eldest prince stopped Bai Yutang, flung his sleeves, turned his back, and said, "This prince has always had a clear sense of gratitude and resentment. Since you saved my life, tell me, what kind of gift do you want?!"

After the eldest prince asked, he didn't hear Bai Yutang's answer, and said, "My prince has a lot of gold and silver. It's okay to thank you for whatever gift you want. I don't want to owe you a favor..."

It's just that after he finished speaking, no one answered, but the little eunuch gently tugged at his sleeve, "Your Highness..."

The eldest prince turned his head... There is no Bai Yutang behind him.

"Where are people?" The eldest prince looked around.

The eunuch was helpless, "His Royal Highness has already left."

The eldest prince got angry and kicked the chair over, but it touched the wound again, and he rubbed it in pain, "It hurts me to death!"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao walked up the mountain.

Zhan Zhao asked, "So it seems that the one who works outside the prince's mansion should not be the eldest prince."

"This boss is short-sighted, just reckless and domineering." Bai Yutang said, "Not a delicate person."

"Then you think the third person sent people to do it?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang shook his head lightly, "I always feel... something is wrong."

Zhan Zhao smiled, "I also feel that although this guard is by Lao San's side, it may not be sent by Lao San, and the agencies outside our mansion may not be set up by Lao San either."

"Then who do you think it is?" Bai Yutang was curious.

Zhan Zhao sneered, "This move feels more like killing people with a knife. It takes the opportunity to stir up hatred between the First Prince's faction and the Third Prince's faction, and let them kill each other. There has never been a prince fighting for power and killing in the palace before." Things, it can be seen that this is the first time. The two princes have already died blindly, and the eldest prince was almost demoted. The third prince got a big advantage. Indeed, taking this opportunity to kill the eldest prince is a big opportunity. But it's too risky. I think the third prince is a person who makes some little tricks behind his back, just from the fact that he asked the eunuch to take us to the garden. He may not take such a big risk to gamble. Besides, if you didn't come, it's still possible for them to have such a fight. What they should do now is to deal with you first, and then pinch each other... So this trip is of no benefit to anyone. The assassin can kill himself If you say you don't want to implicate the third prince, you can also say that you have given the third prince the crime, so that there will be no proof!"

Bai Yutang nodded, "It's a pity that the other party has counted thousands of times, and it probably didn't count that my master is here."

"That's it!" Zhan Zhao was quite proud, "Tianzun sits in charge, absolutely safe! Are you afraid of people making small moves?"

"Borrowing swords to kill people, sowing discord, killing many birds with one stone?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Who came up with such an idea?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, "According to Xuanyuan Jie's method of teaching his son, these ten princes are worthless. Those who can come up with such a plan are not only smart, but also insidious! Think about it, the princes around , who added an insidious and cunning villain to help?"

Bai Yutang frowned, "You mean Xun Yuebai?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, "We have seen Xuanyuan Jue's character in Northwest Hai County, but after coming back this time, have you noticed that he has kept a low profile? He has been missing for a while, and Xun Yuebai is also quite low-key. "

Bai Yutang nodded, "Xun Yuebai is deeply scheming and insidious... When you say it like this, it really seems like he came up with an idea."

"It's definitely what he wanted." Zhan Zhao curled his lips.

Bai Yutang was curious, "It's rare that you dislike someone so much."

Zhan Zhao turned his face away, "I hate that type of person the most!"

Bai Yutang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What type of person?"

Zhan Zhao gritted his teeth, "You talk about benevolence and morality and ask others to sacrifice their lives for you; you use other people's lives as bargaining chips to bet on your own victory; you shout about justice, but in fact you do some shameful things! You are definitely a bitch! "

Bai Yutang raised his face, and saw someone walking down the mountain from far away.

Bai Yutang softly said to Zhan Zhao who bowed his head and gritted his teeth, "That bitch is right there."

Zhan Zhao raised his head... Sure enough, he saw Xuanyuan Jue and Xun Yuebai walking down near the suspension bridge with more than two floors, and his steps... were in a hurry.