Seven Chapters of Facial Paralysis

In fact, it was useless for Hua Manlou and Tang Wuxun to enter the cabin, they could still hear the sound on the deck.

The dialogue between the emperor and his cousin was quite long, but in summary, there were only a few things. First, the emperor earnestly persuaded his cousin to return to the capital to be a good son and stop running around. His cousin said he would never go back; It was his cousin who told him that the assassination of him this time was jointly launched by certain officials in the south of the Yangtze River, because those officials had embezzled a lot of funds for water conservancy construction. The emperor had already caught a lot of clues this time. The reason is that they thought he was just an imperial envoy sent by the emperor to spy on him, so they planned to kill him to silence him.

"But Mingyu, you have never cared about these things, how do you know they are going to kill me as an 'imperial envoy'?" The emperor asked suspiciously, "And you also know why they want to kill me, and who they are... ..."

As he was talking, his voice suddenly revealed a sense of elation, "I know! It turns out that Mingyu, my family, has been paying attention to me, brother, so he knows my whereabouts. You still secretly protect me, don't you?" ?”

His cousin said impatiently: "Who protected you? I just saw you on the shore today and thought it was strange that you appeared here, so I went to check."

Hua Manlou pulled Tang Wuxun's hand, looking a little surprised.

Tang Wuxun knew what he was thinking just by looking at his expression—it was not easy for this man to find out the reason why the emperor was hunted down in such a short period of time.

But the emperor still had doubts, "But it was my bodyguard who assassinated me. He knew my real identity. Didn't he tell those people?"

His cousin snorted and said, "It's your Wei Qing's fault. You can't even tell that the guard was killed and transferred."

He even knew that the guard had been reassigned, he was even more powerful than the emperor.It has only been half a day since he saw the emperor during the day, yet he has found out so clearly.It stands to reason that the emperor should be afraid to see his brother so powerful, but he still acted like a good brother who loves his younger brother, and said to his cousin very lovingly: "It seems that our Ming Yu is the most powerful, Sigh, why don't you child come back to help your brother share his worries?"

His cousin said coldly: "No time."

The emperor said bitterly: "Oh, what's so good about floating in the rivers and lakes? Go home when you've had enough fun. My brother and your father miss you very much."

His cousin was silent for a while, then suddenly changed the topic, and said: "This year, the tax money handed over to the imperial court from the fief was robbed, 500 million taels. The prince entrusted thirteen escort agencies from the Central Plains to escort him to the capital from the fief, passing through the Taihang Mountains. When leaving Tongguan, a small town at the foot of Taihang Mountain suddenly disappeared."

King Taiping is the emperor's only uncle and the younger brother of the first emperor. He doesn't have to stay in the fief for the rest of his life like other vassals. He can't enter Beijing without the emperor's call. However, the capital also has a palace, and hundreds of thousands of troops in charge of the capital guard the capital, but this does not mean that he does not need to take care of his fief, for example, every three years. He still has to take care of things.So when paying taxes this year, he entrusted the thirteen largest escort agencies in the Central Plains to escort the 500 million taels of tax silver from his fief to Beijing—because the feudal king cannot raise private soldiers in the fiefdom, so he can only entrust the escort agency I didn't expect this tax money to be robbed.

The focus of the emperor's attention is not tax money, but...

"Ming Yu, why do you still call your father the prince?" He said melancholy, "Uncle Wang will be sad if you are like this."

His cousin didn't answer.

"Okay, so you want to investigate this case?" the emperor asked.

His cousin said indifferently: "No, he sent a letter asking me to go to the Thirteenth Bodyguard Agency and the guarantors to be held accountable. Those guarantors are now in the south of the Yangtze River, and I happen to be here, so I'll just ask you about the rest. Leave it to me, send someone to investigate yourself."

After finishing speaking, he flew up without saying a word, stepped on the river and went ashore, and disappeared after a while.

The emperor stood on the deck for a while, then suddenly sighed softly, and went back to his cabin.

The next day, the ship had arrived near Yangzhou.The emperor sent a bodyguard into the city to inform the imperial army to send some experts to pick him up, and he told Hua Manlou and Tang Wuxun about his cousin.

His cousin is the only son of his only uncle, King Taiping, Zhu Mingyu, the son of King Taiping. When the child was seven years old, he suddenly worshiped an unknown master as his teacher, and was quietly taken away from the palace by that master. King Taiping searched for several years but failed to find him. It was not until he returned home by himself at the age of 17 that everyone was relieved.But he only stayed for two years when he came back, and he went out to wander around again. His family refused to listen to their persuasion, but they have never seen him make any name in the world.

When talking about this, the emperor said angrily: "If I knew that old man would kidnap my only younger brother for so many years, I shouldn't have let Ming Yu know him! At that time, I should have let my father beat him up." Into the heavenly prison! Now a prince of the royal family has gone to mess around in the rivers and lakes, alas, I don’t know if our family Mingyu is living a life of eating and sleeping outside."

Tang Wuxun and Hua Manlou were silent, they both wanted to say to the emperor: You think too much...

Judging by Zhu Mingyu's state just now, no one would believe that he was not doing well. Only the emperor, a pathetic younger brother, would feel that his younger brother was wronged.

But then the emperor sighed again: "Ming Yu has grown up, and is much more powerful." When he said this, his expression became a bit cloudy.

Hua Manlou and Tang Wuxun didn't know what he meant by what he said, so they had no choice but to remain silent.

The masters of the Forbidden Army finally arrived, and they welcomed the emperor into Yangzhou City in a very low-key manner, but just to be on the safe side, Tang Wuxun and Hua Manlou escorted the emperor to the palace with them before leaving.

The ancients once said that "fireworks go to Yangzhou in March". Although it is already the beginning of May, the scenery in Yangzhou is still very good. Huamanlou and Tang Wuxun thought that since they have come here, it would be a pity not to have a visit, so they went to Yangzhou After playing for two days, I returned to Jinling on the original boat.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they returned to Jinling, they heard an amazing news in a certain teahouse-the Yangtze River Water Flight who was still carrying out the Eagle's Nest project with them last month, unexpectedly, at the end of April shortly after the end of the project, at the end of April. He died suddenly at the bottom of the water during a routine daily inspection, and it was fatal with a single knife.Shui Shangfei's water quality is known as the best in the world, and the murderer was able to kill him with a single knife in the water, and his underwater kung fu is naturally more refined than him.

Following this news came the news that the Central Plains Thirteen Escorts had been held accountable by Prince Taiping's son.Hua Manlou and Tang Wuxun's old friend Yingyan Lao Qi, as the biggest guarantor, was brought to the door by Prince Taiping to ask for an explanation. It is said that Prince Taiping gave the Escort and these guarantors a 3000-day deadline to find a way Get the tax money back, if you can't get it back, you have to go bankrupt and pay for it, but it's [-] million taels of silver, even if you sell Eagle Eye Seventh, he can't afford it!That's more than half of the three-year tax payment of a prince's fiefdom!Even adding those bodyguards and bodyguards is not enough!

So Eagle-eyed Seventh found Xiaolou, and he wanted to ask Lu Xiaofeng to help him solve the case, but he couldn't find it anywhere, so he had to try his luck at Huamanlou.

In the Eagle's Nest Project, the people involved in the project got along well. Hua Manlou already felt sorry for the accident on the Yangtze River, but now that he heard about the tragic situation of Eagle Eye Seventh, he felt that it was time to help him. Fortunately, he also heard from Lu Xiaofeng about where he was going before, so he told Eagle Eye Lao Qi: "He told me that he was going to eat rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival at the owner of Woyun Tower, and now the Dragon Boat Festival has passed. It’s been a few days, and I don’t know if he’s still there.”

Eagle-eyed Seventh was about to set off for Woyun Tower in Huzhou immediately, Hua Manlou dragged Tang Wuxun to go with him, even if he couldn't find Lu Xiaofeng, maybe he could help him a bit.

On the way, Hawkeye Lao Qi told them the whole story of the case.All the one hundred and three people who secretly escorted the darts and silver disappeared, leaving only one seriously injured person, but this person was stabbed to death in the secret room after being in a coma for three days. The person in charge of taking care of him They also died, and their method of death was exactly the same as that of Changjiang Shuishangfei who died at the end of last month.It was also recalled that earlier this year, the old owner of the "Iron Sword Villa" in Songyang was also stabbed to death in a secret room, and the method of death was also a one-shot death.

Many people wondered if there was another terrifying killer organization popping up in the rivers and lakes, but so far no clues have been found.

Eagle Eye Seventh and the others sent three groups of people, one group went back to Taihang Mountain to look for clues, another group went to look for sword masters in the rivers and lakes, and another group started to prepare compensation in case they couldn't find the dart money. Compensation for Taiping Palace.

And Eagle Eye Seventh's own mission is to find Lu Xiaofeng to help him solve the case.

Unfortunately, when they arrived at Woyun Tower, the owner of Woyun Tower told them that Lu Xiaofeng had gone to sea.

Eagle Eye Seventh was almost dying of anxiety, and said that if Lu Xiaofeng came back, he would not have to investigate any cases, and there was only one thing left to do, which was to carry Eagle Eye Seventh's coffin.

Now that he has this case on his shoulders, it is impossible for him to go to sea to find Lu Xiaofeng. If he goes to sea, if Prince Taiping thinks that he has absconded in fear of crime and takes the knife on his brother, he will die unjustly.

When he said this, Hua Manlou already understood what he could do, so he smiled and said, "Let's find Lu Xiaofeng for you." He didn't ask Tang Wuxun, because Tang Wuxun had already held his hand, silently expressing his feelings support.

At this moment, they received another mission - to search for Lu Xiaofeng.Sure enough, as soon as they encountered a case related to Lu Xiaofeng, they would be able to receive missions with generous rewards.What surprised them the most was that the number of map fragments rewarded by this mission... seems to be enough for them to put together a whole map!