Rebirth of the Golden Bastard

"It's the third prince."

With Xia Cangqiao's words, all eyes focused on the third prince whose face was whitening for a while.

"Yan Jin!" Si Kongding slapped the table violently, "Aren't you telling the truth?!"

Following the sound of slapping the table, Sikong Yanjin lifted his clothes and knelt down. He clenched his fists and said: "Uncle Emperor, I..."

Cang Qiao on the couch answered slowly, "It's impossible."

"..." Sikong Yanjin almost gritted his teeth and stared at him.

"Ahem." Cang Qiao cleared her throat and put on an innocent face, "My throat is still a little sore... I'm really embarrassed to speak out of breath."

Si Kongding waved his hand, "Yan Jin get up first." He turned to look at Cang Qiao, "What's going on?"

"Although my injury was caused by the third prince, he was definitely not the one who poisoned me." Cang Qiao took the water from Xia Yunqing, moistened his throat and said, "Excuse me, my lord, are all the arrows here? "

"Yes." Si Kongding frowned, "The arrows on the prey are also here."

"What about the arrow that shoots empty in the woods?"

"This..." Sikong was in a dilemma, "It's too hard to find."

"So." Cang Qiao shrugged, "There are so many arrows on each prince's body, and each one looks the same. If you want to know which one is poisoned and which one isn't, it's very easy to find it yourself, let alone someone else. question."

Si Kongding was puzzled: "That's why I made a mark on the arrow."

"The onset time of this poison is so short, the Ninth Prince will investigate immediately if he can't rub the sand in his eyes. Make a mark on the feather arrow? Isn't this superfluous?"

Xia Yunqing said clearly: "So this arrow was framed by someone else to frame the Third Prince?"

"If the feather hadn't been broken, I might not be sure. But this break means that there is no silver 300 taels here."

Gu Xiao suddenly clapped his hands, "Master, this metaphor is great!"

The second half of Cang Qiao's sentence stuck in her throat, and she almost choked.He turned his head and stared at Gu Xiao: "Don't interrupt me when I'm being handsome!"

Gu Xiaobian lowered his head, thinking: What kind of word is handsome?

Si Kong Yanjin saw Cang Qiao's eyes change slightly, no matter how much he knew in his heart that he was obviously playing tricks on him just now.But for the sake of clarifying for himself at this moment... just take it as the price of hurting him and write it off.

……

Since he was framed, it would be difficult to track down the murderer.

Ninth Prince asked Cang Qiao to rest for a while, and took people out.Xia Yunqing pulled the wooden chair beside her and sat down, looking at Cang Qiao with deep eyes: "Why did the third prince hurt you?"

"It's just a fight with him." Cang Qiao rolled his eyes, as if he was still thinking about something.

Xia Yunqing frowned, "Brother, we are ordinary people, we must be cautious when talking to the prince."

If it was Xia Cangqiao from before, he wouldn't worry about this.The previous Xia Cangqiao was a complete bully and a bully.Looking at the prince, it was too late to flatter him, so how could he contradict him.

And now Xia Cangqiao...

He sighed in his heart, he was not sure whether the life of offending the prince was more dangerous, or the life of arousing the wrath of the people was more dangerous...

But brother, can’t you choose neither?

"Hmm..." Cang Qiao's voice drew back the man's attention, and he looked up at him, "What's wrong?"

"The third prince's arrow was fixed in the soil at that time, and he left after that." He recalled the scene at that time, "You said, would a person like the third prince remember his own arrow after leaving?"

Xia Yunqing said without hesitation: "No."

To talk about a few more popular princes, right now they are: First Prince, Third Prince, Eighth Prince, Ninth Prince and Thirteenth Prince.

Because the eldest prince was shared by the emperor with many official duties, and he was the oldest, he no longer attended the hunt a year ago.The thirteenth prince is still young and has no interest in hunting, so he never participates.

The third prince, Sikong Yanjin, is notoriously arrogant and conceited. He has a pure royal temperament and cannot tolerate any contamination from others; Although he looks clumsy, he has good martial arts; the Ninth Prince, Sikong Shen, is famous for his exquisite appearance, and his palace is so deep that he can't be underestimated.

These three people were all present today, and when it came to picking up things that had been left behind, Sikong Yanjin was the least likely to do such a thing.

"Could it be that the other princes framed him?" Cang Qiao looked excited, and that look was purely for stealing gossip from the royal family.

Xia Yunqing was helpless: "The other princes don't have the guts."

Cang Qiao blinked, then stroked her chin with a thoughtful expression.

"This forest is so big, who didn't hit the young master, but the third prince." Gu Xiao was still dissatisfied with Cang Qiao's injury, "Maybe he deliberately pretended to be like someone else framed him?"

Xia Yunqing frowned: "Gu Xiao! How can you say such nonsense!"

Gu Xiao shrank her shoulders, lowered her head and dared not speak.

"That's right..." Cang Qiao thought of something, "The forest is so big, so I happened to meet me."

He remembered the strange sound he heard when Yingjun stopped.If it wasn't for what Gu Xiao said, he would have already forgotten about that cha.

Thinking about it now, that wasn't the sound of the Eighth Prince talking, let alone the sound of horseshoes.

"Hmm..." Cang Qiao suddenly raised the corners of her mouth and smiled slowly.

……

When Si Kongding checked back and forth in the camp, his brows were still slightly wrinkled as if he had something on his mind.

Xia Yunqing walked to his side, "My lord, elder brother said he knows who the murderer is."

"Oh?" Si Kongding's eyes lit up, and he led the others to go back, but Xia Yunqing pointed to a minister standing far away, "You, too."

Si Kongding turned his head in doubt, and met the same blank gaze of the man.

"You are..." Before Si Kongding could remember, the man hurriedly saluted, "Go back to your lord, this villain is a subordinate of the guard who is in charge of this hunt, Liu Shan."

"Oh." Sikong Ding nodded, "If I tell you to come, you will follow."

"Yes."

After they returned to the camp, Cang Qiao was much better.The antidote was really effective, and soon after it worked, the pain in his whole body disappeared.

It's just that my strength seems to be drained, and I'm very tired so I don't have much energy.

Seeing Sikong Ding and the others come back, Cang Qiao greeted Liu Shan who was at the end: "Hi!"

Liu Shan was taken aback, and quickly saluted, "I've met Mr. Xia."

Cang Qiao smiled and asked: "I forgot to ask you before, do you have diarrhea too?"

Liu Shan shook his head, "No, no."

"Oh..." Cang Qiao said kindly, "I saw you coming out of the forest with your belt still unfastened, so I thought you had diarrhea too."

Xia Yunqing stared closely at Liu Shan's face, seeing a trace of panic in his eyes.

"The villain, the villain is just for convenience."

"Hmm..." Cang Qiao glanced at him, then suddenly changed the subject, "Third Prince, did you have any followers with you when you were hunting?"

Si Kong Yanjin frowned at him, "Why do you bring your followers?"

"For example, helping to pick up arrows at any time."

"No." Sikong Yanjin said simply.

"Then who was responsible for the quiver before it reached your hands?"

"Of course the guard."

Cang Qiao turned to look at Liu Shan, "You heard me, you are responsible for the arrow."

Liu Shan fell to his knees with a plop, wailing again and again: "The villain is wronged, although we manage the arrows every year. But with so many arrows, how does the villain know which one the third prince will use?"

Si Kongding also nodded, "Yes, Cang Qiao, how do others know which arrow Yan Jin will use to hurt you?"

It was because no one else would know about it, and there were too many coincidences, so Si Kong Yanjin was indisputable.

"You don't need to know." Cang Qiao took it for granted, "All the arrows are poisoned."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.Xia Yunqing said: "Brother, the third prince is here to hunt."

The implication is that if all the arrows are poisonous, then those prey just now...

"Because someone knows that the third prince doesn't really hunt." Cang Qiao looked at Sikong Yanjin, who looked at him calmly without changing his expression, "If I remember correctly, when we met in the forest, the third prince's There were no missing arrows in the quiver at all; on the contrary, the Eighth Prince's quiver had already lost more than half of the arrows."

Si Kongding looked at the man, "What's going on?"

Sikong Yanjin was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Because I don't want to lose."

Xia Yunqing noticed that the eyes of the other princes showed light, while the ninth prince, Sikong Shen, looked sideways at the third prince.

"Losing?" Si Kongding glanced at the princes, "What are you hiding from me?"

Sikong Lang couldn't hold his breath anymore, and took the lead to stand up, "Uncle Emperor, it's actually... the brothers made a private bet, this time the one who wins the first prize can monopolize the chance that others let him go, and the one who loses, Take the blame for the winners."

"Wait, wait!" Sikong Ding was confused, "What did you let go of? What scapegoat?"

Sikong Lang gritted his teeth, but before he could speak, Sikong Shen slowly continued: "For something that cannot be predicted in the future."

Si Kongding was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly understood.He was furious, his whole face was flushed with anger, and the roots of his hair seemed to stand on end.

"You guys!" He lifted a wooden table and kicked it flying. The wooden table flipped a few times in the air, and it fell to the ground and fell apart. "Now you are thinking about rights?! Now you are thinking about how to plot against the other party." ?! You all hope that your father dies early!"

"not like this!"

Several princes knelt down one after another, and even Sikong Shen, who was usually calm, lowered his head and dared not speak.

"Isn't that so? Huh?" Sikong Ding was angry like an angry lion. He walked around the tent several times, his chest rising and falling, "Brother Huang ruled the world with benevolence. He has never been a tyrant! His ideals and hopes, As sons, don’t you know? If you let him know that his sons planned to kill brothers from the beginning, it will break your father’s heart forever!”

"Uncle Emperor..." A few timid ones were already crying.

Cang Qiao was a little dazed by the reversal of this scene, he would never have guessed such a result anyway.When Si Kongding calmed down, he rubbed the space between his brows, and then opened his eyes, which were full of disappointment.

"Continue." He waved his hand and sat down on the chair next to him, "I don't want to lose, so why don't you compete?"

Sikong Yanjin nodded silently, he was just taking advantage of a loophole, and it really wasn't something that could be brought to the table.

Everyone's eyes fell on Liu Shan at this time, even Sikong Yanjin understood it.

Liu Shan trembled: "Injustice, injustice! Villain, how will villain know that the third prince is not going to hunt?"

"How do you use your method to find out, we don't need to know." Cang Qiao propped his face with one hand, and said slowly: "Just find the result."

At this time, Gu Xiao suddenly came in from the outside with a quiver on his back.

Even Xia Yunqing didn't notice when he was not in the camp.

"I found the young master." Gu Xiao smiled and put the quiver on the ground, "As expected, the quiver is placed under the bed in Liu Shan's camp!"

"Well, the more dangerous the place, the safer it is." Cang Qiao shrugged, "This trick is a good one. After everyone returns, you pick up the arrow that scratched me from the forest, break off the feather and put it in In the prepared ordinary quiver, the third prince's quiver full of poison was replaced."

"You...you..." Liu Shan stammered, unable to say a word.

Cang Qiao continued to hit him hard: "If you still want evidence, it is that in your quiver full of poison, there will be a non-poisonous arrow."

"You have calculated that the third prince has no way to explain why the poisoned arrow that fell in the forest returned to the quiver? It should not be there, but in order to frame you, you must retrieve the arrow. And the third prince can't admit it He wounded me with that arrow."

Cang Qiao shook her finger, and looked at Si Kong Yanjin sympathetically: "It's really a dumb person who eats coptis, and I can't tell how hard it is."