"Grandma, I suspect you the most!" Chen Jinyang howled in his heart.
However, in front of all the elders, he could only reply in a cold tone: "After all, there is no basis for what you say. Please consider that I have lost my beloved son and cooperate with you. I am very grateful!"
"I'm grateful? What's the use of that?"
Chen Shen rolled his eyes: "You want to check my young master's space mysterious ring, right? OK!"
"If there are puppets, I'll do whatever you want. But if there aren't..."
The young man suddenly raised his head and said, "I don't want much, just pay me 30 million gold for mental damage, or use the Five Elements Spiritual Stones of equal value to offset the price, how about that?"
"What the hell are you paying for mental damages? It's hurting your mother!" the elder almost cursed.
Looking at the playful smile on the corner of the other person's mouth, he couldn't help but recall that during the family assessment, he was really cheated by this kid for 30 million. Thinking about it now makes him feel sick.
"Could it be that he really had nothing to do with Hu'er's death?" Chen Jinyang frowned and was silent for a moment.
"Hehe, this is a good idea."
The little princess raised her eyelids and imitated Chen Shen's tone and said: "I can also let you explore the Xuan Ring. If there is no puppet, you can pay me...whatever it takes, 50 million."
"Wow! Are you darker than me?" Chen Shen glared at the other party exaggeratedly, but in his heart he shouted, "Well done."
"Humph, I'm a princess, and I'm your teacher, so the compensation should naturally be higher than yours!" the little princess said with a smile on her face.
Chen Yan's Yang Qi turned blue, Chen Shen just paid it back, now even the little princess has joined in, this...
The other elders all looked up at the sky or buried their heads at the ground, secretly enjoying themselves but not showing off.
If the little princess hadn't intervened, the four elders might have said a few good words for Chen Jinyang.
But now...
No one wants to offend the only daughter of the King of Great Xia, right?
What's more, Xia Qingchan was famous both inside and outside the royal city for being naughty and unruly, and no one wanted to offend her, a "little ancestor."
In the end, it was Third Elder Chen Qiunan who spoke up to save the situation: "First Elder, how about... let's look for other clues?"
Chen Jinyang took a deep breath and thought: Since Chen Hu and Zhang Detian had arranged to meet in Xi Xianglin's ruined temple, they might find something there, so he nodded.
Chen Shen and the little princess looked at each other. The former shrugged and said with regret: "Oh! It's a pity that I didn't get the money from the scam. It's a failure."
The little princess pursed her lips and nodded with a serious face: "Yes, yes, what a pity..."
When Chen Jinyang heard this, the flesh on his face twitched violently, and he cursed in his heart: "Fuck your mother..."
As a result, everyone returned to Xi Xianglin all the way.
On the way, the elders naturally did not forget to look around, and they found nothing except the footprints left by the puppet.
Not even a single human footprint was seen.
This scene made everyone couldn't help but think to themselves: It seems that what Chen Shen and the little princess said is true. Only if they were knocked unconscious and brought to the same place, not even a single footprint would be left.
Not long after, the ruined temple was in sight, and Chen Jinyang was the first to open the door and enter——
After the "squeak" sound, the first thing that caught the eye were the broken beams and walls everywhere.
Apparently, there had been a fierce fight here.
"Huh? Look, there's a dead body there!"
Suddenly, the third elder, Chen Qiunan, shouted loudly.
Everyone followed his gaze and saw that there was indeed a corpse under the altar in the temple. Oh no, it might be more appropriate to say it was a pool of flesh and bones.
Chen Jinyang suddenly frowned: "The clothes... must be Zhang Detian's without a doubt! He was actually bombarded and looked like this?"
The old man was horrified.
But he could not disclose the identity of the deceased to the public no matter what, so he could only keep everything in his heart.
Only by keeping this secret tightly guarded can his conspiracy with Xia Caiyue not arouse everyone's suspicion.
"This corpse is beyond all recognition. I wonder who it is?" the old housekeeper Yixiu muttered to himself.
"I don't know. It seems that he died not long ago. Chen Shen, Your Highness Princess, do you recognize this person?"
The princess held back her nausea and took a look, then slowly shook her head: "I can't tell who it is, but his clothes... look a bit like the miracle doctor Chen Hu was looking for."
Chen Shen will continue to pretend to be stupid to the end. Anyway, you all know that I was stupid before. How can a fool pay attention to what others are wearing?
"Hmm...that's weird, why is his body under the altar, but his hands flew more than ten meters away?" Second Elder Chen Qibing was full of doubts.
"Well, judging from the skin texture of these two hands, the deceased should be young." Tenth Elder Chen Xin expressed his analysis.
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Next, the elders discussed the situation.
But they obviously would not have thought that the two hands actually belonged to Chen Hu and the body belonged to Zhang Detian. There was no relationship between them at all.
After a while, Eighth Elder Chen Shixiao concluded: "Judging from the traces of fighting in the temple, most of them were left by hard hitting by puppets."
"In addition, there are very few signs of using fire-based mysterious energy. From this, it can be seen that this matter has nothing to do with Young Master Chen and the little princess."
The Sixth Elder Chen Yiru also expressed his position: "That's right. As we all know, Young Master Chen's mysterious energy attribute is thunder. We all saw it clearly during the Hundred Schools League Battle Hall Finals."
"And Her Royal Highness the Princess has inherited the royal family's wind skills. This is enough to show that the two of them were unconscious long before the incident and had no idea what was going to happen next."
Rumor has it that there are two unique sets of ancestral techniques in the Imperial Court of Great Xia.
One of the sets is the "Six Cardinal Principles of the End of the World" of the wind system. It is a low-level spiritual class and can only be practiced by the current monarch and the prince's lineage appointed by him to succeed the throne.
Although the princess is not the prince, she is Xia Yuanlong's only daughter and is loved by thousands of people.
Being a woman, she was destined to be unable to seize the throne by herself, so the King of Daxia also passed on the "Six Outlines of the End of the World" to her.
The other set is the fire-based "Fire Dragon Yan Yan Gong", which is high-grade at the Xuan level and can be practiced by any royal family.
As a member of the royal family, King Xia Chunqiu of Huainan practiced the "Fire Dragon Yan Yan Kung" which was one level lower than the "Six Outlines of the End of the World".
His granddaughter Xia Caiyue and his close confidant Xia Lie also practiced this method, so the attribute of their mysterious energy is fire.
"Okay, now that the suspicion between the princess and I has been eliminated, can we leave?" Chen Shen suddenly asked.
Chen Jinyang snorted coldly and turned away, which was regarded as his acquiescence.
Chen Shen chuckled, turned around and left.
The old housekeeper Yixiu followed closely behind - Chen Hu had died unexpectedly, and he didn't want Chen Shen to cause any trouble again at this time.
"Bad guy Shen, where are you going?"
The little princess took a few steps to catch up: "It's class time now. I order you to follow me back to the Imperial Capital Academy to play... Oh no, it's back to the Imperial Capital Academy for classes!"