Don’t Show the Son

   Chapter 141 No face

   Palace, Imperial study.

   Emperor Xia was reading a book.

Qin Wu, the uncle of Zhongyong, died. The result of the investigation by the Qing officials was that he died suddenly when he was on the verge of bliss. Speaking of which, their family was too unlucky. The eldest son was assassinated and died. The dead are even more outrageous. When he is older, he still needs to be a little bit more restrained, unless he has the same body as his own.

   Huang Xia is still very satisfied with his body.

   He put down the memorial and asked Zhu Jin, "What about the result of the secret investigation?"

  Although the Qing Li Division has given the results, he believes in the Secret Investigation Division more.

   Zhu Jin said: "Back to Your Majesty, the Secret Investigation Division has carefully inspected Qin Wu's body and found that he died strangely. The preliminary judgment is that Qin Wu did not die suddenly, but was infected with a rare poison, which caused the illusion of sudden death."

  Xia Huang's expression did not waver, and asked: "That is to say, he was assassinated?"

"Yes." Zhu Jin nodded and said, "Not only was Qin Wu assassinated, but after Qin Wu's death, the old slave felt that his second son Qin Rui was also killed, so he asked people to investigate. ."

   Emperor Xia asked, "What's the result?"

  Zhu Jin said: "The case of Qin Rui's death has been closed for a long time, and there is not much evidence to find out, but a few days before his death, there were rumors in the market that Qin Rui had awakened the magic of ice."

   Huang Xia asked: "Does this have anything to do with his death?"

Zhu Jin explained: "It should have nothing to do with it, but the old slave always felt that this matter was strange, so he asked people to check it and found that in the past few years, the people who have awakened the magic of ice in the capital are all without exception. Not only that, but in the past few years, no one who has awakened this ability has been spared. Your Majesty still remembers that the young lady of the Zhao family had been assassinated several times a few years ago. After the awakening of the abnormal technique, I almost lost my life several times..."

   Huang Xia frowned and said, "Of course I remember, I just withdrew the secret investigator who was protecting him."

   Zhu Jin said: "It now seems that he will be assassinated, not because of his marriage contract with the Zhao family, but because of his ability. Some people don't want to let the awakened ice magician live."

   Emperor Xia asked, "Have you found out who it is?"

Zhu Jin shook his head and said, "He hired killers to do all these cases, and it is impossible to find out his identity directly, but someone who hates the magic of awakening ice so much and has the ability to kill so many people, he must be A high-ranking person in the capital, the ability to awaken is fire or water, more likely the latter, in addition, his mind must be extremely narrow, and there is no tolerance for people..."

   Huang Xia was silent for a moment and said, "I know who you are talking about."

   Zhu Jin shook his head again and again and said, "Old slave didn't say anything."

   Huang Xia glanced at him and said, "You are about to say the name of the prince directly."

   Zhu Jin was silent.

Xia Huang's face was sinking like water, and he said, "The magic of ice is so rare. If it is extremely talented, it may not be the pillar of the country. The Zhao family will definitely be one of the pillars of Xia in the future. If something happened to Lin Xiu, wouldn't it? Is it even worse for my affairs?"

   Zhu Jin said at the right time: "Prince is indeed a bit too much."

   Huang Xia was silent for a moment, then said: "Go tell him, I don't blame me for what happened in the past. If he dares to act recklessly in the future, don't blame me for not giving him face!"

   Zhu Jin said: "The old slave obeys the order."

  East Palace.

  Uncle Zhongyong is dead, and the court has no doubts at all. His death is abnormal, and the prince is extremely satisfied. After so long, he finally found a reliable assassin.

   He turned to look at the **** behind him and asked, "Did he say when will he attack Lin Xiu?"

  The **** whispered, "Just tonight."

   The prince was about to say something when his face suddenly turned serious and he said, "This palace has finished reading these booklets, and I will send some new ones over."

  Zhu Jin walked in from the outside and said with a smile, "Your Highness is really working hard. If Your Majesty knows, I will be very pleased."

  The prince said: "It is what this palace should do to share the worries for the father and the emperor."

   Then he asked: "Manager Zhu is not by the father's side, come to my east palace, is it because the father has some orders?"

  Zhu Jin looked at the **** behind the prince and said, "Your Majesty has an oral order, let our family pass it on to the prince."

   After realizing what Zhu Jin meant, the prince glanced at the **** behind him and said, "Go down first."

  The **** immediately withdrew and closed the door of the palace by the way.

  The prince looked at Zhu Jin again and asked, "What did the emperor say?"

Snapped!

   Zhu Jin slapped the prince on the face.

  The prince's head was buzzing, and he looked at Zhu Jin in shock, his mind went blank, because he was too shocked and even forgot his anger.

Zhu Jin looked at the slap print on the prince's face, and said leisurely: "Your Majesty asks the old slave to tell His Royal Highness that the past things, Your Majesty, let go of the past. It's Lin Xiu and the second lady of the Zhao family, don't blame your majesty for not showing you face, your majesty can do it for yourself..."

   After he finished speaking, he bowed to the Crown Prince again and said, "Your Highness, don't blame our family, our family also conveys His Majesty's intentions, including this slap, which His Majesty asked our family to hit..."

  The prince's face was gloomy and he was silent.

   Zhu Jin said: "Your Majesty's intention, our family has already conveyed it, and our family has to return to the palace to return to life and retire..."

   After saying that, he turned and left.

   As soon as Zhu Jin left, the **** ran in and said worriedly: "Your Highness, the assassin will act tonight, do you want to..."

  The prince stretched out his hand to stop him, gritted his teeth and said: "No, the emperor said, let the past things go by the way, this palace let him do it a few days ago, this is before..."

After   , he said gloomily: "Old man, this slap, this slap, Ben Gong has written down, after Ben Gong ascends the throne, he will definitely smash your corpse into ten thousand pieces!"

   At this moment, he didn't notice that a blue-crowned short-tailed parrot that had already made a nest on the tree outside his window was lying in the nest, and its green bean-like eyes kept rolling.

  This bird has been here for a long time, and everyone in the East Palace knows its existence.

  Because this bird is very beautiful and quite human, the servants of the East Palace will feed it some rice grains from time to time.

  Prince went to the window and looked at the bird, feeling very happy.

   After today, there will be one less person he hates in this capital.

  …

   The night is deep.

  The moonlight is like water, and the evening breeze is breezy.

   Lin Xiu and Ake did not speak to each other sitting on the stone bench in the yard.

  Ake came to the capital this time to kill the bully and Uncle Zhongyong. Now that both of them are dead, it should be time for her to leave.

  She is different from Lin Xiu, she has an organization behind her and also has tasks.

   In addition to the royal capital, there are many oppressed people in various places waiting for them to rescue.

   This time, she has actually stayed in the capital for a long time.

  Lin Xiu was a little reluctant.

   In the past few days, it was difficult for someone to accompany him to talk and practice with him at night. After Ake left, he was left alone.

  Ake has also been silent.

   These two missions were probably the easiest missions she had ever performed.

   She used to be alone and complete tasks by herself, but now someone accompanies her and helps her arrange everything. She likes this feeling very much, but she knows that this is only temporary.

  Lin Xiu and her are people from different worlds after all.

   She had imagined that if he also joined the Tiandao Alliance, they would complete tasks together in the future, help the people who were oppressed by their hands, appreciate the great rivers, watch the sunrise and sunset together...

   But he has family and there is no reason to follow her on adventures.

   In Ake's opinion, he was unfortunate enough, she couldn't and would not drag him into an even more unfortunate abyss.

When    was already a child, the two of them sat quietly in the courtyard without speaking, which seemed a little strange.

   After a faint voice, the figure who came in from the outside and jumped into the courtyard was even more strange.

  In the middle of the night, the lonely man and the woman do not sleep, what are you doing here?

   Do you bask in the moon?

   He listened outside for a long time just now and was sure that there was no one in the courtyard, so he turned in from outside the wall and decided to let the target this time die silently in his sleep.

   But as soon as he landed in the yard, he saw such a scene.

   Lin Xiu and Ake had already brewed a strong atmosphere of parting, but because of this sudden intruder, it was completely destroyed.

  Lin Xiu turned his head, looked at him calmly, and said in a dissatisfied tone, "You're finally here, we've been waiting for you for a long time..."

  Lin Xiu and Ake certainly didn't have to sit outside and bask in the moon.

   He knew what had happened in the Prince's Mansion in the past few days.

   Including tonight, an assassin will come to him.

   And, Zhu Jin went to the East Palace today, slapped the prince, and warned him a few words, Lin Xiu also knew.

   It seems that the death of Uncle Zhongyong still attracted the attention of the Secret Investigation Division.

   Within half a year, three loyal and brave uncles died. They may have followed the clues and found out the abnormality of Qin Rui's death.

   What Lin Xiu didn't expect was that Emperor Xia locked the crown prince so quickly. It seems that the secret detectives under him are not all unreliable guys like old beggars and merchants.

   Lin Xiu had expected the assassin to come, but the assassin was so frightened that his heart almost jumped out.

not good!

   Mission exposed!

   The target he wanted to assassinate actually waited for him here in advance. Could it be that the employer deliberately leaked his traces, this big business, on the surface, asked him to kill, but actually the enemy wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of him?

   In a short moment, the assassin's heart turned round and round, and then he turned and fled without hesitation.

   But there was no way he could escape.

   He just turned around when a short sword was placed around his neck.

  Ake held the dagger and said coldly, "Since you're here, don't leave."

   But the next moment, she felt her body soften, she didn't even have any strength, she couldn't even hold a weapon, if Lin Xiu hadn't stepped forward to support her in time, I'm afraid she would have fallen directly to the ground.

  The assassin had already vacated the sky, but at this moment, in the darkness, a silver arc suddenly shot out.

   The arc flashed and entered his body.

   His body was instantly paralyzed and he fell from the air.

   A cold light streaked across the night sky. He covered his throat and looked at Lin Xiu with wide eyes. Blood spurted out from his fingers, and the light in his eyes gradually dissipated.

  Lin Xiu held a gun in one hand, and held Ake, who was completely weak in the other hand, who was obviously poisoned, and said, "Why don't you leave, how can I feel at ease when you walk around like this..."

   (end of this chapter)