Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 604 Succession Edict
"Succession edict?" The eldest prince and the others looked at each other in surprise.

"Uncle Wang? Is this really the succession edict?" The eldest prince asked in surprise.

Li Canghai glanced at them. These people were all staring at the scroll in their hands, seeming to attach great importance to it.

"That's right, this is indeed the enthronement edict. It says that if Brother Wang is going west by crane, he will let..." Li Canghai paused intentionally at this point, and looked at the few people who were obviously a little nervous.

"Let the third prince, Xizhen, inherit the throne." Li Canghai said calmly.

As soon as these words came out, several people were stunned at the same time.

Xizhen was even more bewildered. Pointing to his nose, he said at a loss, "Me? Uncle Wang, did you read it wrong?"

Li Canghai glanced at him, then showed the edict to several people, and said, "You should recognize your father's handwriting, take a look, is this handwriting fake?"

Although the three of them were a little surprised, they all looked towards the imperial edict.

After the second prince Xiyuan read it carefully, he said, "Uncle Wang, this is indeed written by my father."

The eldest prince's expression was obviously a little strange. He stared blankly at the imperial edict, then at the third prince Xizhen, and frowned slightly.

"No, no, no. My father must have written it wrong. I am still young, and I am not as good as the elder brother in terms of martial arts, and inferior to the second brother in terms of talent and learning. How could the father pass on the throne to me? Definitely It's the father who wrote it wrong!" The third prince was at a loss and waved his hands repeatedly.

"Xizhen, since my father has passed on the throne to you, you will be the Lord of Silla from now on." The second prince Xiyuan knelt down to the third prince and said, "I see you, Your Majesty!"

The eldest prince hesitated for a while, then followed suit and bowed down.

The third prince was startled, he hurriedly helped the two of them up, he was at a loss and said: "Brother Big King, Brother Second King, I can't be the king! Anyway, you should do it!"

"Xizhen, this is my father's last wish. If my father let you be the Lord of Silla, there must be my father's reason. If you give it to us, wouldn't we be making trouble?" the eldest prince said seriously.

"This... this...." The third prince was so anxious that he almost cried, he looked at Li Canghai as if asking for help.

Li Canghai glanced at him, and pondered: "Since it is your father's will, you are the king of Silla."

"But, I'm still very young... No matter in terms of talent or status, the two princes should succeed me!" The third prince said, blinking his big innocent eyes.

"Xizhen, since my father chose you, it means that you have the ability. Don't worry, we will do our best to assist you." The second prince patted the third prince on the shoulder and said seriously.

"This... alright." The third prince hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.He looked at Li Canghai and said seriously: "Uncle Wang, my father's bones are not cold yet. I want to hold the succession ceremony after my father's burial."

Li Canghai nodded, and said: "This is what it should be. Right now is an eventful time. The matter of succession can be postponed. The most important thing is to find out the truth about the death of Brother Wang and prevent the Japanese army from attacking."

After a pause, Li Canghai sighed, and said, "Leave this imperial edict with me first, and you all go to arrange the funeral affairs of Brother Wang first!"

"Uncle Wang, then we will take our leave." After saluting to Li Canghai, several people surrounded the third prince and walked out.

"Cang Hai, why did the King of Silla want a boy who was only 15 years old to inherit the throne? I think the eldest prince and the second prince are more suitable for this throne!" Di Qing said.

"Perhaps this was done on purpose by Brother Wang! At first, I thought that someone killed Brother Wang and then forged this edict, but after they identified it, it was confirmed that it was written by Brother Wang himself, and my doubts were dispelled. " Li Canghai pondered.

"Cang Hai, are you suspicious of them?" Di Qing asked.

Li Canghai frowned slightly, and while sorting out the memorials on the table, he said, "Not really, after all, they are the biological sons of Brother Wang, so they wouldn't commit such an act of patricide."

But at this moment, Li Canghai suddenly discovered that one of the memorials was a little bloody.

He picked out the memorial from the middle, and then unfolded it to have a look.

This is a memorial about the destruction of the city, and the handwriting on the memorial was written by the king of Silla.

On the memorial, there was a puddle of blood, which stained the entire memorial in blood. What surprised Li Canghai was that there was a thumb-sized blank space in the lower right corner of the memorial that was not splashed by blood.

Li Canghai suddenly remembered that when he was examining the corpse of King Silla, there was some dried blood on the back of the thumb of King Silla's right hand.

"Is this the blood of Brother Wang? But why did it appear here?"

Li Canghai looked at the blood on the memorial, and a picture gradually emerged in front of his eyes.

King Silla was looking at the memorials of casualties in various places, when suddenly someone came in and stabbed him in the chest with the golden toad sword with lightning speed.

The sharp sword pierced his chest, and the king of Silla spat out blood, and the blood sprayed on the memorial, just above his right thumb.

However, Li Canghai immediately shook his head again.

If this is the case, it means that the king of Silla died in the royal study, not the Buddhist hall.

Moreover, there are many places that do not make sense.

First of all, the golden toad sword that killed the king of Silla has been sealed in the treasure house, and the key to the treasure house is kept by the king of Silla. If the murderer uses the golden toad sword to kill the king of Silla here, then Jin Where did the toad sword come from?

Secondly, after the murderer killed Silla, why did he transfer his body to the Buddhist hall?

Moreover, the most important point is that the Golden Toad Sword was inserted into King Silla's chest from the front, which shows that the murderer was standing directly opposite King Silla when he killed the man.

A person can stand directly opposite the King of Silla, which is enough to show that the murderer is a very important person, and he is very familiar with it.

And in this palace, there are not many people who are qualified to stand opposite him, and who are so close.

This made him think of several princes in an instant, but after a little thought, he denied the idea that the King of Silla died here.

Because, the footprints in front of the Buddhist hall clearly indicated that he was alive when he left the imperial study and went to the Buddhist hall.

Li Canghai frowned. Although he suspected that the King of Silla was murdered to death, all signs showed that the King of Silla committed suicide!

Because, except for the huge Buddha statue that no one can move, there is no evidence that the king of Silla was murdered.

"Curse to kill people? How can there be such absurd things in this world? There must be something that I have overlooked." Li Canghai thought for a while, and then let Di Qing push him back to the imperial garden again.

In the small courtyard of the Buddhist hall, Li Canghai was sitting in the snow facing the Buddhist hall, staring at the row of footprints on the snow in front of him, lost in thought.

(End of this chapter)