Lian Erye's Road to Imperial Examination

The six hidden guards sent by the Supreme Emperor were all strong in martial arts and rich in experience. They were fast, ruthless and accurate in their shots. The remaining ten men in black from last time were no match for them at all.

Of the ten men in black, two were not killed at the beginning, but were seriously injured. However, if the dead men fell into the hands of the other party, they would not survive, so they bit their tongues and committed suicide on the spot.

Jia Lian and the others took off the masks of the ten men in black, each of whom looked very ordinary.I checked them all over, and still didn't leave any clues to reveal their identities, but everything is secret...

The ten men in black were stripped of their clothes, and one of them had a strange tattoo on his chest, a hexagonal tattoo with a dot in the hexagon.

"This is?" The dark guard saw the mark, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Seeing that something seemed to have happened to the hidden guard, Jia Lian asked, "What's wrong?"

"This mark, the subordinates know."

When Jia Lian heard this, his eyes widened instantly, and he quickly asked, "Really? Whose tattoo is this?"

"Tattoos?" The dark guard heard this word for the first time, and his eyes were full of doubts.

Jia Lian realized that he had said the wrong word, and immediately corrected him: "It's the imprint, do you know which one it belongs to?"

The dark guard nodded slightly: "This imprint belongs to the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County."

Jia Lian's eyes widened, with a look of astonishment on his face: "The Prince's Mansion in Beijing County?! Are you sure? Are you reading it right?"

Although the dark guard's face was covered with a mask, no expression could be seen, but he could see seriousness from his eyes. "This subordinate confirms that this subordinate has seen the dead man from the Prince's Mansion in Beijing County before."

"Why don't other people have a mark, but this person does?"

"This person should be a small leader among the dead men." The dark guard said, "The dead men in the palaces and county palaces in the capital have their own marks, but they are generally not known by others. Not every dead man has a mark on him." , but those who have a higher status among the dead will have a mark. This mark is equivalent to glory to them."

"Are you sure it's the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County?"

"This subordinate is very sure." The dark guard's tone was very firm.

"Prince's Mansion of Beijing County?" Jia Lian thought of a person, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and showed a cold smile, "It should be dissolved in water."

"The son of the King of Beijing County?" Wang Shiwei and Zhang Shiwei looked puzzled, "My lord, why did the son send someone to assassinate you?"

"He has a lot of hostility towards me. When he was studying in Zishan Academy, he picked on me everywhere, but after I defeated him, he didn't bother me anymore." Jia Lian said coldly, "In the past few years he has been He didn’t do anything to me anymore, I thought there would be nothing more, but I didn’t expect that he would send someone to assassinate me, and he insisted on putting me to death.”

"Master Jia, is there any deep hatred between you and the son, otherwise why haven't you let you go after a few years, and even insisted on killing you?"

Jia Lian carefully recalled the matter with Shui Rong, and there was nothing special about it.

"No, as soon as I arrived at Zishan Academy, he made trouble for me. Before I went to Zishan Academy, I had never met him at all, so how could I form a deep hatred with him."

"That's strange, okay, why did the prince put you to death?"

The dark guard interjected: "The heir son of Prince Beijing has a very good relationship with Prince Jin."

"The relationship with the fourth prince is better?" Jia Lian probably guessed what was going on, and the corner of his mouth raised a sarcasm smile, "The fourth prince valued me a lot before, so I guess he is jealous of me."

When Wang Shiwei and Zhang Shiwei heard this, their heads were full of black lines: "Even if they are jealous of you, they shouldn't be cruel to you. Besides, after you won the first prize, you didn't get close to Prince Jin."

"Perhaps, he's still jealous that I'm prettier than him." He remembered that when he was in Zishan Academy, Shui Rong satirized him that a man was actually more beautiful than a woman.

Wang Shiwei: "..."

Guard Zhang: "..."

Dark Guard: "..."

Jia Lian has always felt that Shui Rong is too girly, both in looks and actions, she is very girly.It is said that before he went to Zishan Academy, Shui Rong was the most beautiful man in Zishan Academy, but after he went to Zishan Academy, he took away the title of the most beautiful man from Shui Rong, and he felt very resentful towards him.

"It's possible that the fourth prince hasn't given up on me, which makes him more and more jealous. After all, I beat him hard when I was in Zishan Academy." Jia Lian pinched his chin and speculated, "He's afraid that I'll go He stole the limelight from the Fourth Prince." This Shui Rong seemed to care about the Fourth Prince.

After hearing this, Wang Shiwei exclaimed in surprise: "Lord Jia, are you going to the Fourth Prince?"

Jia Lian gave Wang Shiwei a blank look: "How is it possible, what am I going to the fourth prince's place for? Shui Rong is afraid that I will go to the fourth prince's place and steal his limelight."

After Wang Shiwei heard this, he showed a relieved expression: "That's good."

Zhang Shiwei glared at Wang Shiwei with disgust on his face, he didn't expect his partner to ask such stupid words.

"Dark Guard, please report this matter directly to the Supreme Emperor." Now that he knew who the assassin was, he can rest easy and don't have to worry about his own life for the time being.

"Don't worry, my lord, the subordinates will report to the Supreme Emperor."

"Let's dispose of the body."

"Yes."

"Dark guard and so on."

"Is there any other order, sir?"

"Master Jiang left 10 taels of silver before he left, please keep an eye on it and see how they deal with the 10 taels of silver."

"Yes, my lord."

"The 10 taels of silver, they must have put it in their own pockets." Zhang guard said mockingly.

"It's better to put it in your own pocket, so that you can have evidence to get rid of these moths."

"That's what the lord said."

Jia Lian stretched her waist, "I can finally sleep peacefully."

"My lord, your injury hasn't healed yet, go and rest quickly."

"it is good."

At this time, the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County.

Shui Rong is hesitating whether to send another group of dead men to Jinling to assassinate Jia Lian, but he is very unwilling to kill Jia Lian.However, the emperor has sent someone to Jinling to investigate the assassination of Jia Lian.Although he was confident that the identity of the dead man would not be exposed, it was still not safe to be hit.

Just in case, he still didn't send the dead men over there, and let Jia Lian go for the time being.There will be many opportunities to kill Jia Lian in the future, so don't be in a hurry at this moment.

It is impossible for ordinary people to perceive the identity of the dead soldiers of the Shui Rong faction, but Shui Rong didn't know that Jia Lian was surrounded by the Emperor's hidden guards.

The next day, the Supreme Emperor received the news from the secret guard, and immediately sent someone to call Emperor Longwu over.

Emperor Longwu raised his eyebrows in surprise after reading the news from the dark guard: "It's actually made of water?!" Emperor Longwu's tone was mixed with disbelief.

"I didn't expect it to be water-soluble."

"The dark guard read it right, right?" Emperor Longwu frowned slightly, "How could it be water-soluble? That child has always been very well-behaved, how could he send someone to assassinate Jia Lian?"

Not only Emperor Longwu had a good impression of Shui Rong, but Emperor Taishang also had a very good impression of Shui Rong.When he received the news, he didn't believe it was made of water.

"The dark guard can't make a mistake."

"Why did Shui Rong send someone to assassinate Jia Lian? What kind of feud does he have with Jia Lian?" Emperor Longwu was puzzled.

The Supreme Emperor shook his head slightly: "I don't know."

Emperor Longwu frowned slightly, with a pensive expression on his face, and soon thought of one thing.

"Shui Rong is very close to the fourth child. He shouldn't be jealous of Jia Lian being appreciated by the fourth child, right?"

The Supreme Emperor thought it was impossible: "He is the eldest son, no matter how capable Jia Lian is, he will never surpass him."

"What's that for?" Emperor Long Wu didn't expect that this matter would involve Shui Rong.

The Supreme Emperor thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's for the fourth child."

Although the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County has a noble status, it doesn't have much power.In order to have power, the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County went to support the Fourth Prince.

"No, if it's for the fourth child, there should be clues pointing to the boss." Emperor Longwu believed that Shui Rong's assassination of Jia Lian had nothing to do with party disputes and was purely personal hatred. Ruthless.

"Go and call their father and son."

"How do you plan to deal with their father and son?" Emperor Longwu asked.

The Supreme Emperor glanced at Emperor Longwu, and said angrily: "Now you are the emperor, and I am not the emperor. How to deal with their father and son is up to you."

"You don't want to vent your anger on Jia Lian?"

"I believe you can give Jia Lian an explanation."

Emperor Longwu, who was deeply trusted by his father, was very moved.

"Where is Concubine Tai?" Concubine Wu is the aunt of Prince Beijing, and Emperor Longwu was afraid that Concubine Wu would come to make trouble.

"She doesn't dare."

With the words of the Supreme Emperor, Emperor Longwu felt relieved.It wasn't that he was afraid of Concubine Wu, but that Concubine Wu was an elder, if she made a scene shamelessly, it would be difficult for him.

Emperor Longwu sent Li Jinzhong to the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County and called the father and son of the Prince of Beijing County.

The Prince's Mansion of Beijing County was rarely summoned by Emperor Longwu, and rarely went to the imperial study to see Emperor Longwu.They can't usually enter the palace, they must be summoned by Concubine Wu before they can enter the palace.

This time, the emperor unexpectedly summoned their father and son all at once, always feeling that something bad happened.

"Eunuch Li, do you know what the emperor asked us to do with our father and son?" The King of Beijing asked Li Jinzhong.

Li Jinzhong said with a smile on his face: "Young Lord, the emperor didn't say what happened, so the miscellaneous people don't know."

Shui Rong scolded Li Jinzhong in his heart, this old fox has a very strict mouth, and trying to get words out of this old fox's mouth is harder than reaching heaven.

King Beijing also knew that Li Jinzhong couldn't get anything out of his question, but he felt very uneasy, so he couldn't help but ask.

Li Jinzhong took a deep look at Shui Rong, and sighed in his heart, this prince has a bad brain, and it is not good to provoke anyone, but he chose to provoke Mr. Jia, and he wanted to put Mr. Jia to death.

After a while, the three arrived at the Imperial Study Room.Li Jinzhong went into the imperial study and gave a report.Then, choose Beijing County Prince and his son to go in.

The Prince of Beijing County and his son bowed to Emperor Longwu in a proper manner. They thought that the emperor would let them get up after the ceremony, but the emperor didn't say anything.

King Beijing's heart sank suddenly, and a deep uneasiness welled up in his heart.

"Water soluble." Emperor Longwu called out coldly.

Shui Rong only felt a chill in his heart, "The minister is here."

"What's the deep hatred between you and Jia Lian?"

When Shui Rong heard this question, his heart sank into the ice cellar, and a panicked expression appeared on his calm face just now.My mind went blank, and I didn't answer for a while.

Because Shui Rong was kneeling with his head down, Emperor Longwu couldn't see his expression, but seeing his body shaking slightly, he knew that he was afraid.

"Why did Jia Lian offend you, and you sent someone to assassinate him?"

When King Beijing heard this, he turned his head suddenly, widened his eyes, and looked at his son in disbelief.

Shui Rong was full of fear, and his mind was in a mess, but he still instinctively knew to refute: "Your Majesty, I have nothing against Jia Lian, and no one sent someone to assassinate him." How could the Emperor know that he sent someone to assassinate Jia Lian? ?Impossible, the identity of the deceased in their family is impossible to be known.

"You didn't send anyone?" Emperor Longwu sneered, and then cast his cold eyes on the King of Beijing, "Could it be that you sent someone to assassinate Jia Lian, the King of Beijing?"

The king of Beijing County said with a look of panic: "Back to the emperor, I didn't send anyone to assassinate Jia Lian."

"That's strange. Since neither of you father and son sent anyone to assassinate Jia Lian, who else in your county palace can order dead soldiers to assassinate Jia Lian?"

After Shui Rong heard this, fear spread in his heart, how could the emperor know that the dead man belonged to their Beijing County Palace?

"Dead man?" The king of Beijing County looked puzzled.

"Don't you dead soldiers of the Prince's Mansion in Beijing have a special mark on their chests?" Emperor Longwu looked at Li Jinzhong, "Show them to see if this mark belongs to their Prince's Mansion."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Jinzhong took a piece of paper from Emperor Longwu. A hexagon was clearly drawn on the paper, and there was a point inside the hexagon.

Li Jinzhong handed the paper to King Beijing, who saw it, and was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.

Shui Rong raised his eyes and looked over, when he saw the imprint on the paper, his face turned pale, and he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground, trembling all over.

"Is it a dead man from your county's palace?"

The king of Beijing quickly came back to his senses, knelt up and pleaded with Emperor Longwu: "I beg the emperor for mercy! I beg the emperor for mercy! I beg the emperor for mercy!"

Shui Rong also came to his senses, and dared not deny it any more, so he hurriedly pleaded with Emperor Longwu.

"Your Majesty, I did this to Jia Lian out of jealousy. Please forgive me!"

"Jealous? Why are you jealous of Jia Lian?"

"I'm jealous that he's smarter and better than me." Of course, Shui Rong couldn't say that he was jealous that the fourth prince cared about Jia Lian.

When Emperor Longwu heard this, he said in his heart that it was true.

"Just because you are jealous that Jia Lian is smarter and better than you, you want to put him to death?!"

"Chen...Chenchen...was angry for a while, so..." Shui Rong was so frightened that he couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

"Jia Lian is the official of the imperial court, what are the consequences of assassinating the official of the imperial court?"

"Please spare your life! Please spare your life! Please spare your life!" The father and son of King Beijing kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Just because of jealousy, you murdered the court officials." Emperor Longwu said coldly, "Shu Shui Rong, you really let me down."

"Uncle Huang, my nephew only sent someone to assassinate Jia Lian when he was confused for a moment." Shui Rong was full of tears, looking very pitiful, "Nephew will never be there again, please forgive this time."

Emperor Longwu didn't pay attention to Shui Rong, but put his cold and non-warm eyes on King Beijing.

"The good son you taught!"

The king of Beijing County was so frightened that he kept kowtowing to Emperor Longwu: "I beg the emperor to be kind! I beg the emperor to be merciful! I beg the emperor to be merciful!"

Emperor Longwu looked coldly at the father and son who didn't speak, just tapped the table with his index finger.

The sound of tuk tuk was particularly loud in the quiet imperial study.

The father and son of Beijing County only felt that it was like a beating on their hearts.

"For the sake of the concubine again, I will forgive you this time."

When the father and son of Beijing County heard this, their eyes suddenly brightened.

"However, killing an official ordered by the court is not a trivial matter, and I must punish Shui Rong."

Hearing this, Shui Rong's heart tightened suddenly.

"Shui Rong has a strong jealousy and is not suitable to be the heir of the Prince's Palace in Beijing County."

"Uncle Huang, my nephew really knows his mistake, and my nephew will never dare again..."

King Beijing pressed Shui Rong's head and said loudly: "Thank you, Your Majesty Long En!"

Emperor Longwu was very satisfied with how well-acquainted the king of Beijing County was, but he still had to beat him down.

"If this kind of thing happens again in the future, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Be your county king honestly, don't think about something all day long."

When King Beijing heard this, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and said with a frightened expression, "Yes, Your Majesty."

"When Jia Lian comes back, you take Shui Rong to apologize to him."

A look of humiliation flashed in the eyes of King Beijing, but he could only obey: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Go down."

"I retire!"

The Prince of Beijing pulled his son away from the royal study with weak legs. Because he was too frightened, the father and son went out of the palace in a trance, and they didn't come back to their senses until they returned to the Prince's Mansion.

Naturally, Shui Rong was severely scolded by the king of Beijing County. In order to show the emperor, the king of Beijing County hit Shui Rong very hard, beating Shui Rong half to death, at least he had to rest in bed for several months.

When Emperor Longwu received the news, he naturally knew that King Beijing had done it for him on purpose, but he was very satisfied with what King Beijing did.

The fourth prince soon learned of this matter, knowing that Shui Rong sent someone to assassinate Jia Lian, he was shocked and angry.

"My lord didn't expect that the prince sent someone to assassinate Mr. Jia."

"He is no longer the crown prince." The fourth prince said expressionlessly, "This king really misjudged him!"

"Shi..." Lin Shaoxiong realized that he had made a mistake again, and quickly changed his words, "Why did Mr. Water Rong assassinate Mr. Jia?"

The fourth prince probably guessed what was going on, "He was afraid that Jia Lian would take his place." Although Shui Rong was the fourth prince's cousin, in the fourth prince's heart, Shui Rong was not as good as Jia Lian.

Lin Shaoxiong instantly understood the profound meaning of the fourth prince's words, and for a while didn't know what to say.

"No matter what, he can't match Jia Lian." When Shui Rong came to look for the fourth prince, the fourth prince had no intention of accepting him, and he climbed into his bed on his own initiative.

Lin Shaoxiong thought, that's true, Shui Rong can't compare to Jia Lian in any aspect.

"Since it has been found that the murderer who assassinated Jia Lian was Shui Rong, then this matter has come to an end." Speaking of which, Jia Lian was assassinated because of him.This made the fourth prince feel very guilty.

The mastermind behind the assassination of Jia Lian was Shui Rong, and this matter quickly spread throughout the capital, causing quite a stir.

The eldest prince was very happy when he heard the news.Although the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County has no influence, it has always supported the fourth child.Now that the Prince's Mansion in Beijing County is despised by the emperor, the fourth child loses a supporter, which is a good thing for him.

"My lord, Jia Lian was assassinated before, and the clues left point to us. We have to deal with this matter quickly, otherwise the emperor will still be upset."

The eldest prince smiled and said: "Lord Cao's memorial should be sent to the royal father in two days. I will explain to the royal father at that time, and let the royal father know that it is the fourth brother who framed me."

"Although this matter cannot bring down Prince Jin, it is also a great thing for us to make the emperor despise Prince Jin."

"It's impossible to overthrow the power of the fourth child so easily, but as you said, it's already very good to make the father start to dislike him."

"Next, we will find a way to remove Prince Jin's influence step by step."

"kindness."

When Liuyuan Mansion received this news, Zhuang Jingrong felt a lot more at ease. Now that he knew who assassinated her husband, then no one would assassinate her husband again, and her husband would be safe.

"I don't know when Brother Lian will come back?" Jia Amnesty heard that Jia Lian was fine, but he was still worried. "I don't know how his injury is?" Although Brother Lian's life is not in danger, but his injury is serious, he doesn't know what's going on now.

"Father, my husband is recuperating from his wounds in Jinling. He should continue to provide disaster relief. He won't be able to come back for a while."

"Continue to provide disaster relief, what should we do if we are in danger?"

"There should be no more danger."

"No matter what, I hope Brother Lian can come back before the Chinese New Year."

The Wang family was shocked when they learned that the real murderer who assassinated Jia Lian was Shui Rong, not Mrs. Wang.

Wang Ziteng felt that he had done something stupid, "Mother, what should I do now?"

Mrs. Wang did not expect the truth of the matter to be like this, and felt very uncomfortable.

"I've done everything, so what are you afraid of?" Mrs. Wang comforted, "Besides, we won't find out that we did it, so you don't have to worry."

Wang Ziteng thought about it, and felt relieved.

"Mother is right." Suddenly thinking of Mrs. Wang, Wang Ziteng looked apologetic, "Mother, we wronged little sister."

"We didn't wrong her. Although she didn't send someone to assassinate Jia Lian, she did have this idea. It's good to teach her a lesson, otherwise she will do something that hurts our Wang family again."

"What mother said is true." Wang Ziteng felt that it was better to leave Mrs. Wang alone.

When Mrs. Wang of Jia's mansion heard about this incident, she was filled with anger and resignation. She clearly did not do it, but Mother said she did it. She taught her a lesson and even severed the mother-daughter relationship with her. .

She was wronged, and Mother didn't send someone to comfort her, pretending she didn't know about it, it was too much.

Mrs. Wang couldn't help but began to resent Mrs. Wang.