Song of Peach Blossoms: Alluring Princess

Chapter 306 The Water Is Too Deep

"Master Liu, is this the result of your confession to the old man?" An Guogong pointed to the novice monk with a bloody face wrapped under a white cloth on the ground, and questioned Master Liu.

"This novice really used his proficiency in birds to lure Vice Commander An out of the guest house. Later, under the wall of the guest house, he used raptors to attack Mr. An. As a result, Mr. An died suddenly. Later, he used Mingjue Temple to drink water Tandi’s waterway, transferring the corpses to the release pool, has achieved the purpose of deceiving people.”

"Then let me ask you, since my son's hands and feet were bound, how did he jump on the wall and get outside the guest courtyard? My son, a deputy commander of the Royal Forest Army, would be afraid of a flock of birds?"

"Perhaps Vice Commander An experienced some stimulation when he was young? For example, he was pecked by birds, or experienced disasters related to birds?"

After Master Liu finished speaking, Duke An's face suddenly changed, and he glared at Master Liu angrily, as if his scars had been exposed, "What do you mean?"

"The lower official is just stating a hypothesis, and has no intention of slandering Vice Commander An." Master Liu hurriedly bowed his hands and saluted, showing his inadvertent move.

"You can't make random assumptions even if you state a hypothesis. My son is a Khmer warrior, and he earned his honor with his illustrious military exploits. Now that innocent people have lost their lives, you just use a dead body to prevaricate the old man. What are your intentions?"

"No, I absolutely didn't mean that, my official..." thud thud thud, someone ran towards the door of the palace, and stopped quickly when they reached the door.Mr. Liu looked back and saw that it was his subordinate, the policeman, he straightened his clothes and asked, "What's the matter?"

"My lord, Ms. Su found several letters from the novice's pillow, and the abbot of Mingjue Temple confirmed that this novice just came to Mingjue Temple a few years ago and has not taken the full ordination. It was the elder Jiujie who found him in the forest At that time, he was injured all over his body, and it took him a month to recover. After that, he became a monk in Mingjue Temple, but he never mentioned his family situation or the past."

"This is the letter in his pillow." The police handed the letter to Mr. Liu. The letter came from two people and said the same thing.Sha Mi's older sister was singing in a teahouse and was bullied by someone who tortured her with almost perverted methods to make her life worse than death.The woman hanged herself after writing the reply letter to the monk. The letter explained two things: the murderer was An Pingzhi, and second, An Pingzhi was inhumane, so he had a perverted cruelty towards women.

"Your Excellency." Master Liu waved his hand to signal the arrester, and then said to An Guogong, "If I remember correctly, Vice Commander An was indeed attacked a few years ago, and the other party hurt Vice Commander An. One of his entourage was wounded and fled. Dali Temple wanted to thoroughly investigate the matter, but was stopped by Vice Commander An."

An Guogong flicked his sleeves and sat down beside him, "What does Master Liu mean?"

"The meaning of the lower official is that this novice was wounded and escaped into Mingjue Temple to become a novice. It happened that Vice Commander An came to the temple the day before yesterday. The novice said that he was ill and was secretly preparing to carry out an assassination. When Vice Commander An was tied up, he was thrown into the guest room. The novice monk did this and killed Vice Commander An."

An Guogong did not speak for a long time after listening. Who would have thought that the dignified son of An Guogong's mansion, the deputy commander of the Royal Forest Army, would be inhumane.He used to be just skeptical, because he refused to tell him about the marriage several times, but now it seems that it is a protection for fear of the secret being discovered by others.

Although he still wondered what Pingzhi saw to be frightened to death, but he was afraid that the result of the investigation would be another secret that would shame Pingzhi and embarrass An Guogong's government.So he had nothing to say, but because he was his own son, he felt that it was too aggrieved to let it go like this, and there was a moment of regret on his face.

Master Liu let out a sigh of relief. Although he also felt that An Pingzhi really deserved to die, after all, it involved the face of the Duke's Mansion and the Imperial Forest Army, and it was necessary to keep a low profile to cover up the peace.So he said in a low voice: "My lord, why don't you learn about this case with a personal grievance, which can be regarded as the reputation of Vice Commander An."

Hmph, An Guogong got up and walked away. Master Liu held the letter and looked at An Guogong's back with cold eyes. How did this novice know that he could scare An Pingzhi to death with a bird?
After the minister of Dali Temple left with the yamen and the murderer, Su Tiange received news from Qian Miansheng that An Pingzhi used to go hunting with his master riding and shooting when he was young, and was attacked by a group of birds because he killed the leader of a group of birds. It's hard to recover from an injury.

"I see Duke An's expression, he doesn't seem to know about this matter, and An Pingzhi will never tell outsiders, how did that novice know?" Su Tiange pinched the paper, very puzzled.

"Why haven't I seen Elder Jiujie in the temple?"

"I asked the people in the temple that Elder Jiujie traveled all over the world a few days ago."

"Maybe the master of riding and archery leaked the news, maybe it was the attendant who followed, the doctor who treated An Pingzhi at that time. These people are all possible. The matter is over, so there is no need to worry about it. I am more worried about the government of An Guo. We I'm afraid I won't be able to go there again."

Su Tiange put the paper in his hand on the candle and burned it, looked at Shen Yu and said, "I never told you that Duke An knew what happened to me in Dali, so he thinks I'm not the real Su Tiange. He wants the nine secret keys of Qianshou Villa, in exchange for his silence on this matter, he will also help me avenge the hatred experienced by the Su family."

"What does he want the key for?"

"I don't know, so I asked Yan Qianxun to sort out a piece of information about these secret keys for me, and ask someone to bring them along. I should be able to arrive in Yancheng within two days."

"Now we have to guard against the prince An Guogong and the person who shot in the back the day before yesterday. I think this person may have something to do with the insider hidden in the Dali we are looking for. He may have smelled something." Shen Yu looked a little bit Dignified, as the saying goes, it is easy to hide with a gun and hard to defend against an arrow in the back, and the enemy hiding in the dark is the most troublesome.

"Maybe it's a good thing or maybe, at least the other party started to move."

"Miss Su, Miss Su, come and see what I found?" The sixth prince walked in with a scripture, "I went into Elder Jiujie's room and found this, see if the words on it are right? Very familiar." The sixth prince opened the scriptures and pointed to Su Tiange, the flamboyant handwriting opened and closed.

"The writing in the guest room." Su Tiange recalled the calligraphy and paintings in the guest room that he had seen, "Let's go to the guest room and have a look." The three rushed to the guest room where An Pingzhi had stayed, and the walls were empty.Someone moved.

"Do you still remember the words on that painting?" The sixth prince opened the scriptures, "Maybe you can find them here."

"It's all in Sanskrit, I can't remember it at all."

"The water in Yancheng is still this deep." The sixth prince looked at the empty wall with his hands behind his back, with a serious expression.

When leaving Mingjue Temple, Su Tiange meant to stay in a hotel with Shen Yu first, if it is not possible, rent a small yard.Unexpectedly, at the foot of the mountain, the carriage of Duke An's mansion was waiting in place.

Seeing the two of them leaving the gate of the temple, the coachman took a step forward and counted, "Master asked me to send you two back to the Duke's mansion, please."

(End of this chapter)