"The most important thing at the moment is that if Guo Songling was not the assassinator that night, then why would he die at the hands of Changling Guard?

And according to your opinion, Guo Songling's martial arts should not have been killed by Changling Guards, so why did he die and who did he die?"

"Not bad!" Chen Ling frowned tightly, "He probably found evidence at the beginning, but he had no choice but to hand over the evidence to his daughter.

No one knows his daughter's identity, so it is no different from hiding in the vast sea. What kind of difficulties and obstacles make him use such a bad strategy?

Since he had already expected that there were many difficulties in the future, he would never be unprepared. However, he still said. How could the person behind the scenes be able to see the sky? Is Nanling Prince's Mansion really relaxed after being in charge of Jiangnan for hundreds of years?"

The sun gradually sets westward, and a few crows flapping their wings and jumping from the eaves to the sky.

"Chee—"

A sharp chirping sounded, and the crow that had just flew back into the eaves as if it was frightened, and several of them fell directly into the tall chimney.

Chen Ling responded with a roar, and the eagle in the sky flew down with its wings and stopped on Chen Ling's wrist.

After taking off the bamboo tube, Chen Ling quickly unfolded the letter paper.

"Sure enough, Guo Songling's daughter is missing."

"That's right! Since Guo Songling can be arranged as the fuse to provoke the battle between Tianquan Villa and Princess Changling, and as a chess piece that diverts our attention. The mastermind behind him has a very deep understanding of him..."

"However, Guo Songling has almost never appeared in the past eight years. He was arranged by me to join the spy in the Great Neiku eight years ago. He has been acting in secret for eight years. No one knows his identity except me and my father..." Chen Ling suddenly thought of something.

"For eight years, Guo Songling and Huo Tian have never been together, and they have never been in a horizontal relationship..."

"It doesn't mean there is no horizontal contact. They are sworn brothers. Even if there are any secret contact information, you may not know."

"From the clues on Princess Changling's side, Xie Tianci is the mastermind behind it. But if the mistake comes from Tianquan Villa, then Huo Tian..."

"Chen Ling, do you know? Who is the most likely to be deceived by our business?"

"Unrelated people? They are good at pretending to be behind irrelevant people?" Chen Ling thought about it and asked seriously.

"No!" Lu Sheng gently tapped the table, "It's us."

"Our own reasoning and our own determination! Just like now, you and I have already confided Xie Tianci, and what we are looking for now is nothing more than evidence of Xie Tianci's sin.

However, counting Xie Tianci is a speculation and suggestion in itself. But from when did we become extremely determined that Xie Tianci is the mastermind behind this? Is it all kinds of coincidences, or is it because he is the only person with suspicion and ability?"

"Isn't he?" Chen Ling narrowed his eyes slightly, and a different kind of sharpness flashed in his eyes, "He should be!"

"I know your mission. Xie Tianci has defected to the third prince, so you want to defeat him for the fifth prince?"

"It's not for the fifth prince, but for the emperor!" Chen Ling stood up slowly, "The five dragons fought for the throne for nearly eight years. In the past eight years, the art of power and strategy was fully demonstrated in everyone.

However, under such a struggle between the five princes, the Dayu Dynasty had never had any trouble. Why? Because in this game of fighting for the throne, the five princes were playing the show, but the one who really controlled our emperor.

The emperor was raising a heir who was capable and qualified to inherit his throne. Therefore, the emperor placed every prince in the position they were good at and showed their talents to the fullest.

The balance among them is the rope that the emperor holds in his hand. The emperor will not allow anyone to break this balance. If he allows it, it means that the emperor has chosen the right person.

The fifth prince had many military generals support, but these generals were also implied by the emperor. Without the instructions, they dared not support them openly. Xie Tianci, he could not be the springboard for the third prince to enter the Ministry of War. Therefore, it does not matter whether Xie Tianci is the mastermind behind the scenes. What is important is that he can no longer take charge of the Shanghai Navy."

"So you decided from the beginning that Xie Tianci had a problem, and I was gradually led by you. From this line of the fisherman, the grudge between the fisherman and the Princess Changling was implicated.

And from this assassination, Princess Changling is involved, who will be the biggest beneficiary if she is killed? Undoubtedly, Xie Tianci is the most likely one."

"I want to thank Tianci for military power, but I think Xie Tianci is the envoy, but it is not just these reasons. When you go to Yanluo Island, you still remember that all the fisherman survivors on Yanluo Island were poisoned? And the people who poisoned them were people they trusted and unprepared.

Except for Xie Tianci, who has had a close relationship with the fisherman, who can do it? Also, after returning from Yanluo Island, you quickly locked in the Ningyuan Business. Although there is no evidence, you have not confirmed that Ningyuan Business is Xie Tianci’s empty shell business?

There are many more, such as three million taels of official silver, which entered Shanghai Mansion through Princess Changling's caravan. Apart from Princess Changling, who else has this ability? Xie Tianci!

So many clues point to the same person. Can’t it be determined that he is the mastermind behind the hijacking of Guanyin?”

"He can be regarded as the most suspicious one, but it cannot be identified. It is a taboo to identify a person before there is no solid evidence! If it is Xie Tianci, it is indeed reasonable, but there are still many doubts.

If the assassination was successful that night, the biggest beneficiary would be Xie Tianci. But if Xie Tianci was behind the scenes, wouldn’t it be too risky for him to do this?"

"Adventure?" Shen Ling shook his head sneered, "If I hadn't been there, they would have succeeded. Although I regret why I was there at that time now,..."

"Yes, but! You may not know the mastermind behind the scenes, but does Xie Tianci know either? Don't tell me, Xie Tianci doesn't know your identity, and your cultivation and martial arts?"

"This..." Shen Ling's face paused, and he had never thought about this question.

"Since Xie Tianci knows that you are here, if Xie Tianci is behind the scenes, why would he choose that opportunity to assassinate? Or why didn't he add more power? Did Xie Tianci expect that failure? Another question is Guo Songling.

Guo Songling's identity is top secret. As a secret agent in the Neiwei for so many years, how did Xie Tianci know about him and find him accurately and send him to Princess Changling?

We have seen Guo Songling's body, and only one sword penetrated through his chest. With Guo Songling's martial arts, how could he be killed by a sword? Either, it was because Guo Songling was unprepared, or Guo Songling voluntarily died under the other party's sword. Xie Tianci did not have these two conditions."

After listening to Lu Sheng's analysis, Chen Ling's heart was also shaken at this moment. He stood up and paced back and forth in the room.

"Actually, there is another reason that makes me gradually feel that Xie Tianci's suspicion is getting smaller and smaller..." Lu Sheng picked up the teacup and took a sip. "We found that Xie Tianci's line was too easy. After returning from Yanluo Island, we found Xie Tianci's line so quickly.

The massacre on Yanluo Island was so clean that the murderer did not leave any other useful clues, but he left behind the meals in vain. Moreover, it was a unified meal.

Is it because we were too haste to deal with the food or did we forget it? If I had changed to me, I would have sunk them all into the sea. But, there was no! We found Ningyuan Trading Company through these foods to lock in Xie Tianci.

If the mastermind intentionally locks our attention on Xie Tianci, then is the assassination of Sansheng Temple also the purpose of this?"

"Wait first! Let me sort it out... I feel... my brain is a little too short!" Chen Ling stopped Lu Sheng's words, stopped and covered his forehead and fell into deep thought.

"Lu Sheng, if this is the reason, then who is behind the scenes? Who can lead us through such a big circle but hide so deeply without revealing any clues?"

"Yes, this person is very terrible!" Lu Sheng stood up solemnly, "If there is really this person, it means that from the time I came to Shanghai Mansion, my every move was under his nose.

Chen Ling, think about it, after returning from Yanluo Island, we locked in Ningyuan Business within two days. Soon, we found out that Dongzhu Auction House, a subsidiary of Ningyuan Business, was a money laundering agency.

And when we just learned all this, Ningyuan Business is about to be auctioned.

We went to Ningyuan Business for granted and saw the money laundering scene they performed in the business. And it was even more coincidental that on that day, we met someone who wanted to wash out three million taels of silver.

This made me confirm the whereabouts of the three million taels of silver in the hands of the man who took out the fake Manita. I was deeply trapped in it and couldn't notice it, but now looking back, what step we took was not carefully arranged by someone?"

Hearing this, cold sweat on Chen Ling's forehead suddenly appeared.

"If it's really as you think, what kind of calculation and layout is this? Playing with people's hearts is applauding... If he digs a hole in front, won't we jump along?"

"Yes! At this moment, my interest in the person behind the scenes is far higher than the whereabouts of the three million taels of official silver. I even have an idea that the mastermind behind the scenes is probably not for the three million taels."

"What does it mean?" Chen Ling's face changed and he asked in fear.

"Three million taels may be just a guide, a bait that leads the court to intervene, and everything he does behind it is the real layout of the mastermind behind it. Xie Tianci, Princess Changling, and we are all his chess pieces. He put these chess pieces into the chessboard step by step, and he controlled all this until his goal was accomplished."

"The chess player..." Chen Ling's eyes flashed, "Maybe the chess player is also in the chess player. He is a chess player when he jumps out of the chess board, and he is a chess piece when he jumps into the chess board. Lu Sheng, after you say this, I can see this chess game more clearly.

It seems that this is just a case where a group of robbers hijacked three million taels of official silver, but it involves two old cases.

Twenty years ago, there was a case of the fisherman being exterminated. Eight years ago, there was a case of grudge between the three heroes of Jiangnan and Princess Changling. These two cases had a deep feud with Princess Changling."
Chapter completed!