Xia Shang sat in the hall and told Mrs. Sai his thoughts.
Mrs. Sai was also happy in her heart, but she didn't know why she was so happy.
Just looking at my daughter with a smile on her face, I just think she is happy for her.
But Mrs. Sai did not write all the joy on her face like her daughter, and still maintained the reserve of the hostess.
Xia Shang was a little curious: "Mrs. Sai, why do you want to leave the capital?"
Mrs. Sai frowned slightly: "The capital is a place of disputes, and it is not a place where we, mother and daughter, will live for a long time."
It was a simple sentence without any content, but Xia Shang already understood the difficulties of the mother and daughter.
It was not their intention to come to the capital. In the past few years, the emperor had never thought of taking care of these two people. Now that the emperor is dead, their status is even more embarrassing.
It was okay to have Li Xin's protection in the past, but now that Li Xin is dead, no one even knows their true identities.
Mrs. Sai has had a lifelong dream, and now she is completely awake.
If one day his identity is exposed, he will definitely die in the capital. Only by staying away from the capital can he find a peaceful place.
After some conversation, Mrs. Sai agreed to her daughter's proposal and decided to return to Yangzhou with Xia Shang's family.
Moreover, Mrs. Sai has already prepared her luggage for leaving Beijing, which shows that she is very anxious.
Once Xia Shang had the idea of leaving, he was also very impatient.
Since both parties are so anxious, they might as well bring the three members of the family to Xiafu to stay temporarily for a few days, which will save them a lot of trouble when they leave.
After some discussion, everyone came to the same opinion.
When Xia Shang left, he took the mother and daughter of the Sai family with him.
When they returned to the mansion, the family members were shocked when they saw their master coming back with three women and carrying large and small bags, and they didn't know what he was doing.
After asking questions later, everyone felt at ease.
The team leaving Beijing in Xiafu was very strong. It didn't matter if there were three more people. Qin Huairou quickly arranged accommodation for the three of them and was very enthusiastic.
Jiang Nan originally wanted to have a good talk with his husband, but who knew that as soon as Xia Shang arrived at the house, someone came from the house, saying that the prince had something urgent to do and summoned Xia Shang.
After hearing that the prince had summoned him, Xia Shang replied that it was an imperial edict from the imperial court.
So Xia Shang didn't stop and just followed the person who sent the message.
This meeting was not in the Prince's Mansion, but in the palace.
It's right to think about it. The prince is about to ascend the throne and become the emperor, so naturally he will spend more time in the palace.
When they arrived at the palace, Xia Shang met Li Xiangyang in the side hall behind the Jinluan Hall.
But Xia Shang did not wait for the imperial edict to remove him from office, but instead received a stretcher covered with gray cloth.
In addition to Li Xiangyang, there was also Jin Niang in the side hall.
The expressions of these two people looked very serious, as if they had encountered something difficult.
Seeing Xia Shang coming, Li Xiangyang nodded from a distance, and at the same time, waved to those who were following him to step back.
When only the three of them were left in the side hall, Li Xiangyang said in a deep voice: "Open it and take a look."
When you open it and take a look, you will naturally see the stretcher covered with gray cloth on the ground.
Xia Shang didn't think much, he went up and opened the top layer of gray cloth.
The moment he opened the gray cloth, Xia Shang's heart skipped a beat and he took a step back in fright.
Covered by gray cloth is a corpse!
Xia Shang has also seen many dead people, and ordinary dead people cannot surprise Xia Shang at all.
But the dead person in the hall looked very scary, like a mummy, all skin and bones. It felt like the muscles under the skin had atrophied to the extreme, and the skin still looked fresh, not like a person who had been dead for a long time.
Xia Shang frowned: "What do you mean?"
"Huh..." Li Xiangyang exhaled, "This is the person I sent to follow Li Yong."
"The people following Li Yong..."
Xia Shang thought that Li Xiangyang had just mentioned to him that when Li Yong left the capital, Li Xiangyang sent people to follow him to know Li Yong's actions.
"It's only been a few days? Are you dead?"
Li Xiangyang nodded: "Dead..."
Li Xiangyang looked worried and a little weird.
Only one of his subordinates died, but Li Xiangyang had many of his subordinates, and countless others died at the hands of Xia Shang. I had never seen Li Xiangyang suffer such a heavy blow before.
Xia Shang thought about it and gradually realized that things were not simple.
"He's a Grandmaster?"
"That's right."
"So, Li Yong has talented people around him who can easily kill the Grandmaster!"
Li Xiangyang pointed to his body: "It's not surprising that Li Yong's men could easily kill the Grand Master. What's strange is the state in which this man died."
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With this look, could it be that someone has sucked all the energy away?" Xia Shang guessed.
Jinniang on the side spoke: "Master Xia, don't you feel familiar with this dead look?"
"Familiar?" Xia Shang frowned and looked again, but he really didn't see anything familiar.
"My lord, you can try to feel this man's heart. It is estimated that there is only a trace of true energy remaining in his body at this moment."
"Can a dead person still feel his heart pulse?"
Xia Shang was very confused, but Jin Niang still put on a look of invitation."
Seeing Jin Niang's expression, Xia Shang tried to put his hand on the heart of the corpse.
When he first came into contact with him, Xia Shang didn't have any special feelings. He just felt like a dead person, with no pulse at all.
But after a few seconds, Xia Shang's fingertips went numb, as if he had been electrocuted, and he subconsciously withdrew his hand.
"How is it? What do you feel?"
Xia Shang stood up and looked at his fingertips that had been electrocuted.
The feeling of being electrocuted just now was nothing unusual, but recalling the moment just now, it turned out that there was an unknown energy flowing in this man's body. It was about to disappear, and it was very weak, so it was difficult to detect.
The true energy is weak, but its intensity is terrifying.
The Qi of different warriors has their own unique feeling.
Although this infuriating energy was strange, Xia Shang really found a hint of familiarity in the feeling.
After thinking for a long time, Xia Shang's scalp felt numb, and he thought to himself: "How does it feel... could it be the emperor?!"
That’s right! Absolutely right!
This feeling of true energy is the feeling of true energy coming from the emperor, that kind of domineering and cold feeling, with the magical ability to swallow other people's true energy.
Xia Shang's feeling was pretty good, it definitely felt like it came from the same source as the emperor's true energy!
Isn't the emperor still dead?
But Xia Shang saw with his own eyes that the emperor was reduced to ashes by thunder!
How...how...
In an instant, Xia Shang was sweating all over his body, and he asked tentatively: "Could it be...could it be that the emperor is not dead?"
"Hahahaha..." Li Xiangyang burst out laughing when he heard Xia Shang's guess, "Xia Shang, aren't you a smart man? Why are you talking so ridiculously now?"
"But this feeling..."
Li Xiangyang calmed his expression: "The person who killed him was Li Yong!"