After listening to what Chen Shen said, Li Zongming's old face was uncertain for a long time, and finally he breathed a sigh of relief and said lukewarmly: "The master of the pavilion told me this, but after all, it is only your one-sided words."
"For example, the injury on Xia Qingchan's neck is indeed caused by the Fu family's unheralded bone-throat locking claw at first glance. However, it is not unreasonable for a person with great ability to forcibly fabricate this illusion by attaching strong mysterious energy to his fingers.
Possible."
Speaking of the latter, Li Zongming's eyes were fixed on the golden mask on Chen Shen's face, and the meaning was already obvious.
As far as he knew, with the cultivation of Tianqi Pavilion Master Five Star Xuan King, it would not be difficult to forge the claw skills of the White Bone Throat Claw, a low-level Xuan skill.
Chen Shen shrugged: "To be honest, I don't care whether you believe it or not. The reason why I am willing to tell you the truth is because the King of Daxia treats me like a friend, and my disciples were brutally slaughtered.
For your sake!”
"I want the truth to be exposed to the world, and I want to make Empress Fu, a vicious woman, pay a very painful price for her vicious deeds!"
Speaking of this, Chen Shen unleashed the power of the Seven-Star Xuan King without any concealment. Li Zongming was pressing forward as if he was being pressed down by a mountain, and he couldn't breathe!
"In this retreat, I have successfully broken through to the Seven-Star Xuanwang Realm! Do you think that if I use any means and look across the country, who can stop me from killing Queen Fu?"
"I tell you the truth because I am responsible for the deceased, so that the innocent soul of the King of Great Xia can smile with a smile..."
After Chen Shen gathered the mysterious energy into his body, Li Zongming's expression changed several times and finally relaxed: "Okay, I believe you."
"That Ma Jingjing, if the pavilion master has a clear conscience, he can lend her to the old man. I need time to confirm everything you said."
Chen Shen raised his brows and nodded slowly: "Okay. But you'd better hurry up. Before dark, I have to do a big thing with you, and I will let you witness everything I said with your own eyes.
"
"good……"
Not long ago, in the civilian area northwest of the imperial capital, in front of a fish pond.
An unattractive old man and a childlike girl came here at the same time.
The old man gave the fish pond owner a hundred gold coins, saying that he wanted to take his granddaughter to swim and play in the fish pond.
Seeing the money, the fish pond owner happily agreed. Before leaving, he warned in every possible way that he must be careful of the torreya snails and square-scaled fish in the water to avoid any accidents.
It turns out that this old man is the eunuch Li Zongming, and his so-called "granddaughter" is actually Ma Jingjing.
"This is the fish pond where the princess was brutally murdered, right?" Li Zongming asked quietly after the two of them jumped into the pond together.
"Yes." Ma Jingjing nodded honestly. Before that, Chen Shen had already told her that she knew everything about this old man.
"Okay, you can swim as you like and show off. I'll come back when I go." After saying that, the old eunuch suddenly fell into the water.
While he was swimming quickly, he did not forget to spread his consciousness, as if he was looking for something.
A quarter of an hour later, the old man frowned: "Strange... there is no longevity lock anywhere. Is Master Tianqi Pavilion really deceiving me?"
It turned out that the reason why he asked Ma Jingjing to lead the way was to find the longevity lock around Princess Xia Qingchan's neck.
As Xia Yuanlong's most trusted person, the old eunuch still remembered the scene when Concubine Xiang died in childbirth after giving birth to the little princess. His Majesty personally put the longevity lock she had asked for around Xia Qingchan's neck.
When the wounds on the princess's neck were examined in the secret room, it was found that there were only four blood holes and scars, and one was missing.
Moreover, the longevity lock that the princess never left her body was also missing.
Since then, Li Zongming has suspected that the longevity lock blocked the most deadly finger for her, and wanted to find out.
If what Master Tianqi Pavilion said is true, there must be a longevity lock in the fish pond.
Because it is impossible for the queen to be so stupid as to leave a loophole for herself, killing people and abandoning the bodies, but also taking away the longevity lock, which arouses suspicion.
And if there are none around the fish pond, it means that the master of Tianqi Pavilion is also suspected.
Perhaps, Xia Qingchan was not killed by Queen Fu here at all.
This fish pond, and even the late night meeting between Prince Gong and Empress Fu, may have been fabricated by Master Tianqi Pavilion!
Li Zongming was just about to give up the search when he suddenly saw a torreya snail not far away. It was swimming uncoordinatedly in the water and gave him a sense of...constipation.
"Torreya snail and square scale fish are the first-level low-grade mysterious beasts. Because their meat is fresh, tender and sweet, and easy to raise, it is the most common fish cooking ingredient in the imperial capital."
"For this kind of fish, the male will be eaten by the female in early winter, and the female will not lay eggs until the following spring."
"It's impossible that fishermen don't know this common sense. Therefore, in just a few days since the princess was killed, the torreya snails in the fish pond should not have been shipped out yet."
"Could it be... that the Torreya snail accidentally ate the longevity lock?"
As soon as he thought of this, the great eunuch immediately swam up to the "constipated" Torreya snail and square-scaled fish, and with a wave of his hand, he cut off the tail of the black fish with the mysterious energy of his hand.
As the blood spread, a gray-white lock the size of a thumb's belly came into view.
"Well? This, this is the princess's longevity lock, right!"
At this moment, Li Zongming's doubts about the master of Tianqi Pavilion were finally gone.
When he thought of what the other party had told him before he left, his whole body suddenly became filled with murderous intent: "Queen Fu, Queen Fu, did you kill the king and kill your husband? It won't take long for the truth to come out."
"If it is really you, I, the King of Heaven, will have no reason to say anything - kill without mercy!"
…
That night, the Royal Palace, Luoxingyuan.
This is the temporary residence of the second prince Xia Yuan.
The second prince's housekeeper, Guo Yun, and two personal maids and guards were nearby.
Outside the Falling Star Courtyard, there are three thousand forbidden troops, protecting them day and night.
In the courtyard, there are even "Ten Dragon Guards" who used to follow Xia Yuanlong to guard him in shifts.
They guarded the only "dragon species" in Daxia like an iron wall.
In fact, all this was not the intention of Empress Fu, but the spontaneous behavior of the eunuch Li Zongming.
The old master was killed in front of his eyes. The old eunuch blamed himself deeply and would never allow a similar thing to happen to the only prince of Great Xia again.
Although Empress Fu hated this deeply, she could do nothing about it. However, she never gave up on the assassination of the second prince, and had been planning for several days and was about to launch the operation.
That night, Empress Fu came in the name of visiting the second prince. Mother and son met each other, exchanged greetings, and everything was fine.
The next night, the same thing happened again. Xia Yuan's injury was already healed and he asked that he could return to the prince's mansion.
However, his request was blocked by Empress Fu on the excuse of "taking care of him for a few more days to avoid future troubles" and he continued to stay in the palace.
Until the third night, drastic changes occurred...