I am a prince in Zhutian Films

Chapter 103: Assassination at the Hanging Temple
Fan Xian and Lin Wan'er's wedding caused a lot of fanfare, but no one expected that this wedding would turn out to be like a ghost marriage.

Although the Crown Prince and the Second Prince were both under house arrest, they still requested permission to attend the wedding. Probably because there was no assassination attempt from Northern Qi and no Baoyue Tower case, the Second Prince and Fan Xian did not have any verbal confrontation at the wedding banquet. At least on the surface, they were quite harmonious.

After the wedding, Fan Xian officially took over the inner treasury. In order to fill the deficit of 20 million taels of silver, Fan Xian took advantage of his honeymoon opportunity to go to Cangshan and invited wealthy merchants from Kyoto Prefecture to attend.

Speaking of wealthy merchants in Kyoto, it is no exaggeration to say that Li Chengzong is the richest in Kyoto Prefecture. Naturally, he also received Fan Xian's invitation, but unfortunately he was not interested in buying the inner treasury bonds.

More importantly, he was busy restarting the palace's business and had no time to participate.

Spring goes and autumn comes, and in the blink of an eye, it is the season when chrysanthemums are in full bloom.

On this day, Kyoto and its surroundings were bustling with people. Many people set out from Kyoto to head to the Hanging Temple. The official road was filled with horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. The convoy stretched for dozens of miles, like a long dragon.

Li Chengzong was also in the convoy, and when he was approaching the Hanging Temple, a team of city defense troops stopped his carriage.

"Your Highness."

"General Ye, long time no see, how are you these days?"

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I am feeling well."

Ye Zhong smiled cheerfully and said, "If I remember correctly, this is the first time that the Third Prince is attending the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Conference, right?"

"good."

"In previous flower-viewing events, we, the imperial guards, were not allowed to disturb His Majesty and the other gentlemen's interest in flower-viewing. Therefore, the Hanging Temple was heavily guarded for several miles. In contrast, only the palace guards were guarding the Hanging Temple. Today, Your Majesty, please take good care of the Hanging Temple."

"With General Ye here, do I still need to take action?" Li Chengzong joked.

"We are short of manpower. Among all the ministers, only Your Highness and Xiaosama Fan are the best fighters, so I can only ask Your Highness and Xiaosama Fan for help."

"Fan Xian is here already?"

"It has passed."

"Okay, I'll see what happens then, let's go!"

The carriage slowly arrived at the Hanging Temple, where Fan Xian and Qin Heng were chatting. Just as Li Chengzong was about to say hello, the building over at the Hanging Temple suddenly caught fire and emitted thick black smoke. Fan Xian could no longer sit still, and quickly jumped up from the carriage and rushed straight to the Hanging Temple.

Interesting. He knew I was coming, but he still arranged an assassination. What was Chen Pingping thinking?
Li Chengzong thought so in his mind, and asked Lu Jun, who was driving, to go directly back to the mansion. He then caught up with Fan Xian and flew up to the Hanging Temple.

After taking a look at the place where the fire started, he slowly walked into the main hall of the Hanging Temple, just in time to hear Fan Xian persuading Emperor Qing to return to Kyoto for temporary shelter.

Li Chengzong joked, "Father, Fan Xian is right. If someone wants to assassinate you, it would be better to return to Kyoto."

"Third Prince, His Majesty has experienced forty-three assassination attempts in his life and has never retreated..."

Emperor Qing glanced over, forcing Eunuch Hou to hold back the rest of his words. He then looked at Li Chengzong and said, "When have you ever seen me retreat after being attacked? Besides, you are here with me, can't you protect me?"

Li Chengzong smiled and said nothing.

You would think that Emperor Qing was not timid. However, a great master was frightened by a weapon and could only hide in the palace and use conspiracy and trickery.

But if you say he was a coward, it's just like what Eunuch Hou said, he never showed any fear when faced with assassination attempts.

And because of the appearance of Li Chengzong, Fan Xian did not try to persuade him any further.

After all, he is the number one person under the Grand Master. As long as the Grand Master doesn't come to assassinate him, Li Chengzong will have no problem protecting Emperor Qing with his ability.

After everyone chatted for a while and listened to Emperor Qing's words of emotion, they sat down and drank three or two cups of wine. Then one of the internal guards took the lead in making trouble.

"There are assassins!"

"Protect Your Majesty!"

For a moment, the whole pavilion was in chaos.

Fan Xian subconsciously rushed forward and knocked him down almost instantly.

Emperor Qing sat quietly on the Diaoyutai, while Li Chengzong drank slowly, as if he saw nothing.

As for the others, the eldest brother calmly dealt with another assassination attempt by the inner guard. The younger brother was dodging in panic and was pulled to his side by Li Chengzong. The prince seemed to step on the wine glass accidentally, but actually fell down on purpose. The second brother stood there in a daze, seemingly calm, but a little panicked inside.

In a flash, a man in white came flying, the sword in his hand carrying a cold murderous intent.

At the same time, a eunuch next to Emperor Qing took out a dagger.

Fan Xian also noticed the eunuch's actions, but ignored them and rushed directly towards the man in white who was flying towards him.

His judgment was correct because Li Chengzong took action.

When the eunuch raised the dagger, the white jade wine glass in Li Chengzong's hand flew over with a sound of breaking through the air and embedded itself into the eunuch's forehead.

As the eunuch fell, Fan Xian's true energy burst out, knocking a man in white clothes flying. The man in white clothes missed the attack and retreated decisively. Just as Fan Xian was about to chase him, Emperor Qing spoke.

"I heard that Si Gu Jian has a younger brother who ran away from home when he was young. Catch him!"

Emperor Qing's eyes flashed with cold light, his face was gloomy, and he said in a cold voice: "I want to see if these two brothers are idiots."

Hearing this, Fan Xian decisively chased after him.

Li Chengzong, on the other hand, had no intention of taking action at all.

At this time, calm had returned to the attic platform.

Regarding the sudden assassination, the Second Brother and the Crown Prince were not only a little panicked at first, but now they couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. There was one thing they both agreed on, which was that they both hoped that Emperor Qing would die in this assassination.

Especially the crown prince. Although he looks worried on the surface, he actually hopes that Emperor Qing will die in his heart. Because as long as Emperor Qing dies, he, as the crown prince, will be the most legitimate heir to the throne. When Li Chengzong does not want to sit in that position, he has the greatest hope of ascending to the supreme position.

Although the second son is not as impure as the crown prince, he is not much better. He is one of the most powerful princes in Qing Kingdom. As long as Emperor Qing dies and Li Chengzong has no interest in the throne, he will compete with the crown prince for the throne.

No matter what, the Crown Prince is much easier to deal with than Emperor Qing.

A biological son longing for his father to die is quite shocking in an ordinary father-son relationship, but it is actually very normal in the royal family.

After all, the royal family is ruthless, and this is not just a casual remark.

Emperor Qing glanced at Li Chengzong, patted the chair lightly, and flew to the edge of the platform as light as a swallow.

It was the first time that he used martial arts in front of everyone, and everyone was shocked except Li Chengzong.

I have to admit that Emperor Qing hid it really well. Even his personal eunuch Hou was surprised.

It can be seen that Eunuch Hou doesn't know that Emperor Qing has martial arts skills.

At this moment, Fan Jian ran up anxiously and asked in an accusing tone, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, why did Fan Xian catch up alone?"

"Why don't you worry about my safety?" Emperor Qing looked calm and leisurely adjusted his clothes and belt.

"Your Majesty is very lucky, so he will be safe. Moreover, you have the Third Prince to protect you. But my son..."

Emperor Qing interrupted calmly, "Don't worry, the imperial guards have sealed off the mountain, Fan Xian will be fine."

"But……"

"Come, accompany me to appreciate the flowers."

Fan Jian was in no mood to look at flowers now, so he looked directly at Li Chengzong.

"Your Highness."

Li Chengzong sat there without moving.

"Third brother, Fan Xian may not be a match for that assassin."

Hearing Li Chengru speak, the younger brother also called him "Third Brother", obviously asking him for help.

"Okay, I'll go take a look."

When Li Chengzong chased after him, Fan Xian and the man in white were fighting in the stone forest.

The man in white is Shadow, who is already a ninth-rank master. Apart from the people in Prince Ding's Palace, his strength can be ranked among the top five among the ninth-rank masters.

In addition, he had trained in the palace for a period of time and was now close to the peak of the ninth rank. Naturally, Fan Xian was no match for him and was completely suppressed by Shadow.

But even Zhao Huai'en and Hong Sixiang, who were at the peak of the ninth rank, were just a piece of cake for Li Chengzong, let alone their shadows.

Yingzi knew how powerful Li Chengzong was, so he didn't dare to get entangled with Fan Xian anymore and left decisively.

On the other hand, when Fan Xian saw Li Chengzong chasing him, he stopped.

But what surprised him was that Li Chengzong had no intention of chasing him.

"Aren't you going to chase me?"

"With the guards here, he shouldn't be able to escape. You are seriously injured now, so taking you back to heal is the most important thing."

As soon as he finished speaking, Fan Xian spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted.

Helplessly, Li Chengzong had to do some hard labor and carried Fan Xian back to the Hanging Temple.

(End of this chapter)