Chapter 46: Prince was killed

Jing Zhaoyin sweated on his forehead, "The county owner was joking, and the next official just wanted to investigate this matter clearly, and I would like the county owner to do it for convenience.
The head of Huining County sneered, "I just took my servant to Xiangguo Temple for incense. I didn't expect to see the corpse in this place just when I arrived here, and noticed that it was the carriage of the prince's cousin, so I got out to check."
At this moment, the guard who went to investigate has already returned to report, "Return to your lord, there is a group of horseshoe prints in the direction of the woods, and there are blood stains. Someone should have escaped, are they going to chase?"
"Go chasing it." This is a big event for the prince to be assassinated. If the evidence can be found, it will be a good thing. If it can't be found, Jing Zhaoyin himself will do it.
And before Jing Zhaoyin finished speaking, half of the guards from the Prince's Mansion who followed him rode to the woods to chase, and the other half was investigating the scene with others, and some of them went to check the carriage.
The county lord of Huining saw someone chasing him, and there was a touch of anxiety in his clear eyes. Since there are no three princes here, he must have escaped, but there are chasing soldiers to chase, and the danger is even more unknown. He immediately ordered his guards, "You A few also helped to chase after him." You must ensure that Zhou Jingyan is safe.
The hand under the broad sleeves of the county lord of Huining couldn't help trembling slightly. The thing she worried most was that it might happen. No, no matter what, she couldn't let Zhou Jingyan and Yun Xiao meet.
"My lord, come and see!"
Jing Zhaoyin immediately strode over, and there were already guards pulling away the guards of the dead Prince's Mansion, revealing the word "five" that had been hidden under his head.
"Five? What do you mean?"
The county lord of Huining also hurried over, seeing the word'five' with a touch of doubt in his eyes.
The guards of the Prince's Mansion naturally saw the word and showed murderous intent, "Today the prince enters incense and invites the third prince and the fifth prince together. Is this the fifth prince?"
The person who checked the body on the other side has also returned to report, "My lord, His Royal Highness was stabbed to death with a single knife. His Royal Highness has martial arts and can be stabbed to death. This person must be very close."
Jing Zhaoyin heard this, and his face was pale. He immediately remembered that this was a premeditated assassination. "This matter, the subordinates dare not make a rash decision. You must tell your majesty to make a decision." Zhou Jingchen's body was lifted away.
The guards of the Prince's Mansion said directly, "We will bring the body of the Prince's Royal Highness back to his majesty for inspection. It is better for the lord to trace the murderer first."
The host of Huining County kept thinking about problems while walking into the carriage, and there was a touch of murder in his eyes.
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At the entrance of Xiangguo Temple, a wupeng carriage came to a halt slowly. The carriage was simple and decorated very simply, except that the carriage walls were made of fine pinewood, which must be rich or expensive.
The groom got out of the cart and knelt under the cowl, and came out of the cart. A rich young master stepped on the groom and got out of the cart. The young master erected his crown and smiled at the corners of his mouth. There was a radiance in his eyes, and he wore a piece of rain on his body. The sunny robe has a slight smile, and the temperament is like dust.
This scene attracted the attention of many people, but many of the people who came to Xiangguo Temple for incense were the wives and young masters of wealthy families, so everyone just turned their eyes and turned away.
Zhou Jingchen just stepped forward and heard a childish voice not far away, "I beg you kindhearted people, save my father. My mother died of illness six months ago, leaving me and my sick father behind. We are dependent on each other. Now that we sold the real estate and land lease, we still failed to cure my father’s illness. The drugstore’s shopkeeper drove our father and son out. I really can’t get the money for my father to continue the treatment. I beg good people to save my father."
The child looked only seven years old, looked thin and weak, and his face was brown. It was obviously caused by chronic malnutrition. His crying with tears attracted many people to watch.
Zhou Jingchen frowned. This world belongs to the Zhou family. If such a thing is installed by myself, as a prince, I can’t ignore it. Otherwise I’ll be impeached by Jade. Even if I’m not at fault, I’ll have to say it’s at fault. Right."
"Yes, young master," the entourage is meaningless naturally, and the guards behind followed suit.
Zhou Jingyan stepped forward. The guard had already let the person in front of him make his way. Zhou Jingyan glanced at the crying child. Behind him was a man in tattered clothes. The man had half-white hair and wrinkled faces. , The body is weakened, and it looks like there is more air out and less air in.
He immediately ordered his entourage, "Give him fifty taels of silver, and then find someone to send to the hospital for treatment." Even if he was cured, he would not live long, but he finally had all the filial piety of the child.
Ordinary people, twenty taels of silver can pass a year, this person makes fifty taels of money, and immediately attracted the attention of many people.
The entourage put the silver in front of the child, the child raised his head in surprise, and his expression was full of gratitude. He stepped forward and knelt in front of Zhou Jingchen, "Thank you for the kind person, thank you for the kind person."
Zhou Jingchen just chuckled, "It's just a matter of effort, it's rare that you have such filial piety..."
As soon as the voice fell, I saw the child who had been kneeling on the ground suddenly stood up, pierced Zhou Jingchen with a sharp dagger in his hand, and yelled, "Traitor, take your life." ."
And the man who was lying on the ground with more air and less air suddenly jumped up and attacked Zhou Jingchen.
Zhou Jingchen and the child were very close. Seeing that the dagger had been pierced, he had no time to avoid the vitals of his body in a hurry. The seven-year-old child's strength was surprisingly strong. The dagger pierced the shoulder and the blood flowed. As noted.
Zhou Jingchen immediately waved the child to the side, and the entourage by his side had already reacted. The two blocked the man pretending to be sick, and two more went to kill the child.
It's just that when the child fell to the ground, his body suddenly changed, and everyone was shocked. This is a seven-year-old child, clearly a strong man, his eyes are bright, when everyone is astonished, he has raised his sword and killed the guards around him again. go with.
Zhou Jingchen took a step back and suddenly noticed that the blood from the wound on his shoulder turned out to be black, and it turned out to be poisonous!
When the entourage saw his face pale, he immediately shouted, "Protect Your Royal Highness, come and protect Your Royal Highness."
Zhou Jingchen glared at him, "Shut up!" The shout at this time obviously attracted everyone's attention, and he also found that all the people selling things in front of the temple rushed over with sharp swords.
I thought that there was a large group of people to attract the attention of others, but I didn't expect the people behind to have this arrangement. It was really a vicious plan!
Zhou Jingchen immediately released the signal flare in his hand, and the monks ran towards the Xiangguo Temple in fright. The expressions of all the believers changed drastically. No one would have thought that such an assassination would happen in front of the temple, and the scene was chaotic.
After only a while, many believers were already lying on the ground. Zhou Jingchen felt dizzy and shouted, "Don't run around, find a place to hide."
It's just that the voice just finished speaking, it was just a mouthful of black blood vomiting out, the entourage immediately helped Zhou Jingchen and walked towards the carriage, "His Royal Highness, are you okay?"
Zhou Jingchen couldn't say a word, and the guards who had killed the father and son had already drawn two back, covering Zhou Jingchen and walking towards the carriage.
People in ordinary clothes have been pressing against them all the time. The guard kept waving the sword in his hand, his eyes were killing, and his body had a lot of wounds.
Finally one of the guards fell down, still holding the sword in his hand tightly in his hand, making an assassination action, but soon the body was flattened by the people who came up.
Zhou Jingchen's brows frowned, and he hurried to the side of the carriage, but just walked to the cowl of the carriage, another guard also fell down, his body was split in half, and the plasma gushed out, and the rain fell on Zhou Jingchen and the sky cleared. On the robe.
Zhou Jingchen couldn't help but his eyes widened, and at this time, the rescuers finally arrived, and they rushed to kill them, but those who were chasing them ignored the chasing soldiers behind them, all of them reddened their eyes, and just wanted to kill Zhou Jingchen.
Zhou Jingchen and his entourage jumped on the horse, glanced at the guard who had been trampled into blood and mud, and set up a carriage like a run in a place with few people.
The assassins in ordinary clothes also rushed up to chase after them, and several assassins grabbed one side of the pilgrim's horses and chased them up.
Zhou Jingchen saw the entourage's hand trembling while holding the horse's rein, and the carriage became more unstable. He grabbed the horse's rein and drew a whip. The horse immediately speeded up under the pain, but Zhou Jingchen's gaze turned sharper. It's getting colder and paler as paper.
"His Royal Highness, those people are catching up, let's drive the minion." The entourage stretched out his head and glanced behind him, he was even more afraid, and his words were a little trembling.
The horseshoes are getting faster and faster. Just when Zhou Jingchen thought that they had finally escaped the assassination of those people, a group of people in black appeared in front of them. Those people in black were holding the hilt of their arrows, and they had drawn their bows to aim them. Here.
Zhou Jingchen's face turned pale, and immediately lost the horse's rein and got into the carriage.
The horse runs at the same speed, but no matter how fast it is, the arrow will not be as fast as the arrow. The arrow is raining and straight to the carriage. In an instant, the horse has become a hedgehog, and the carriage body has also been bowed. Nail Man, the entourage who was still talking just now, was also full of sharp arrows, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and couldn't catch his eyes.
The carriage stopped not far away, and there was no movement.
The black-clothed leader cast a wink at the left and right. The two black-clothed men immediately rode forward and opened the curtains of the carriage. They saw Zhou Jingchen, who was spitting out a mouthful of black blood and stabbed with four or five sharp arrows. Among them, there was still a hint of horror in his eyebrows, his eyes staring at the door of the car, the same staring.
Unexpectedly, the soldiers were divided into two directions, and they were already careful and careful, but they were still calculated and died on the spot!
"Return to the master, the prince is dead!"
The man in black glanced at Zhou Jingchen, only revealing a pair of eyes with a touch of ice cold, glanced at the rescuer who had caught up, and snorted, "The mission is complete, go back!"
In a blink of an eye, the man in black's horse disappeared at the end.