Shortly after Ma Jingjing left, more than twenty men in black descended on the fish pond.
Most of them are high-level Xuanshi masters, and the leader among them is a three-star Xuanshi master.
As soon as they arrived here, the more than twenty people jumped into the fish pond without any explanation and started looking for the princess's body separately.
An hour later, the queen's chamber.
The leader of the men in black came to report that they had searched the fish pond but could not find Her Royal Highness.
"There are some low-grade torreya fish in the fish pond. I think Xia Qingchan has become the food for those animals."
Hearing this, Queen Fu nodded slowly, waved her hand, and the man in black left.
She was not worried at all about what happened today being leaked. There was no need to say more about Prince Gong. Even the more than 20 people she sent to find the princess's body were the backbone of the Fu family, and they shared the same glory and loss as Empress Fu.
All lose.
Naturally, they will not do stupid things that go against the interests of the family and their own interests.
"The matter of that dead girl Xia Qingchan is over. The biggest headache for me is Prince Gong..."
"How can I get 20% of the treasury's spiritual stones and gold coins in one month?"
Empress Fu frowned, and her charming face was full of murderous intentions: "Xia Yuanlong, I and your son are dead, but you only care about the war on the front line and national affairs, and never fight for anything for Tong'er.
, even the comfort to my Fu family seems dispensable."
"Do you think that with Tong'er dead and my ancestor of the Fu family also dead, the Fu family will no longer be of use to you? Humph! You deserve to die!"
"There is also the second prince Xia Yuan. This son must not be kept!"
"I will never allow myself to painstakingly plan and narrowly escape an assassination attempt, only to end up taking advantage of someone else's son!"
She slowly rubbed her forehead and murmured to herself: "Chen Shen, Chen Shen, you brutally killed my ancestor of the Fu family on unfounded charges, and that's why I fell into this passive situation."
"When you come back, I will definitely punish you with a Ling Chi crime, and make you, along with all the core members of your Chen family, die a good death to repay the hatred in my heart!"
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Time returns to the present, the important town in Huaibei, Triangle City.
In the main hall of the city lord's palace, the mysterious energy barrier sacrificed by Qian Qian included him, Chen Shen, and Chen Zangfeng, and the expressions on everyone's faces were extremely solemn.
"The late emperor was as kind as a mountain to me, and your majesty was even more kind to my Chen family! Who, who exactly, assassinated your majesty? I have no sworn relationship with him!"
Chen Zangfeng became angry and roared, the fire elemental mystical energy burst out uncontrollably, and the power of the Three-Star Xuanwang scorched the sky and the earth!
With just one roar, the old man almost shattered the mysterious energy barrier that Qian Qian sacrificed into pieces.
Fortunately, he has not recovered to the six-star Xuanwang's cultivation, otherwise, once the Xuan energy barrier is broken, his roar will be heard for dozens of miles, making the entire city aware of it.
"Grandpa, calm down. If what Empress Fu said is true, the deceased is already dead, so what's the use of being so angry?"
Among the three, Chen Shen was the calmest.
Perhaps it's because as a soul who traveled from another world, he doesn't have a strong sense of belonging to the King of Great Xia: "The most pressing priority is whether to obey Queen Fu's military order or not?"
As soon as this question was raised, Chen Zangfeng and Qian Qian frowned more and more: "Oh! What a dilemma!"
"Why don't you try using the sound transmission array to contact the Imperial City?"
Chen Shen shook his head: "It's useless. I already tried it when Queen Fu just hung up the summons."
"I wanted to give her another warning, but who would have thought that the sound transmission energy array between Triangle City and the Imperial Capital was actually blocked, and I wasted a hundred kilograms of Five Elements Spiritual Stones!"
"It's obvious that that unreasonable woman doesn't want to talk nonsense to me at all."
"Chen Shen, don't be rude!" Chen Zangfeng shouted angrily when he heard that the other party described the mother of a country as an "unreasonable woman".
"Grandpa, don't be too busy saying nice things to her. Your grandson always feels that something is fishy."
Chen Shen rubbed his chin and said slowly: "It stands to reason that after the death of the King of Daxia, Queen Fu, in order to consolidate the power of the royal family and the control of the army, should understand and act rationally towards a general-level commander like me.
Love is the only way to do it."
"How can it be like her, whose words are full of aggressive threats?"
"Even if her ancestor of the Fu family was killed by me, and she has resentment in her heart, she shouldn't be hasty and have to show it at this time, for fear that I won't know, right?"
"Well? What do you mean?" Chen Zangfeng seemed a little moved.
"What I mean is very simple. This woman...may have a direct or indirect relationship with His Majesty's death."
"Moreover, the fact that he told me so impatiently about her attitude probably made me fearful, so that I did not dare to lead the army back to the imperial capital, so that she could be convinced of my charge of 'betraying Daxia', and thus put her to death.
I, and even the entire Chen family, will be eradicated!"
"The queen has already said in the sound transmission array that if you don't lead your army back to the imperial capital within a month, she will attack my people. This is an indisputable fact."
"However, whether she has anything to do with His Majesty's death is just your conjecture. You can't do it without evidence. You must not spread rumors to cause trouble. Do you understand?"
Chen Zangfeng said with a serious face.
"Okay, okay, let me listen to you, okay?" Chen Shen couldn't resist the stubborn old man and could only nod with a wry smile.
"Then what should you do now? Come back? Or not?"
"Go back, of course I have to go back!" Chen Shen nodded decisively: "If I don't go back, that crazy woman will definitely be harmful to my people. How can I let her do what she does?"
"Chen Shen!"
"Okay, okay, you're not a crazy woman, queen, your highness, okay?"
Chen Shen rolled his eyes and said: "I plan to rush to the imperial capital alone. As for the army, all of them will stay in the Triangle City."
"Firstly, it can prevent the city from being empty, and Taikoo or Huainan can take advantage of it; secondly, once the emperor changes, Grandpa, you and Qian Lao can also support you from outside, so you won't be blamed."
When Chen Zangfeng heard this, he remained silent.
However, Qian Qian said without hesitation: "Young Marshal Chen, you should think twice! If you go to the meeting alone, suppose..."
Speaking of this, he glanced at Chen Zangfeng from the corner of his eye and emphasized the word hypothesis: "Suppose the queen really has any bad intentions towards you, the consequences will be disastrous!"
"But if I don't go back, she will take the opportunity to cause trouble. She won't be able to escape this disaster, right?"
The disaster was approaching, but Chen Shen smiled as calmly as a cloud: "Haha, don't worry. My one-horned red-maned beast has been promoted to the king level, and Han Tianhu is the peak of the three-star beast king."
"Even if you can't fight against the Imperial Guards commanded by the Queen Mother, you can always escape by running away."
In order to reassure Grandpa, the young man deliberately put on a playful smile and comforted him: "Besides, Grandpa also said that this matter may not be as dangerous as we expected."
"Perhaps, the Queen's angry words and scoldings are just to warn me, the flying general..."