amaotonovel Chapter 822 Early Morning
Chapter 822 Early Morning
. The Mystery of the Eastern Palace The frosty moon was high in the sky, and the candlelight flickered in the East Palace's Pepper Room. Xiao Mingyuan's hand holding the memorial trembled slightly, and the words "Two hundred thousand cavalrymen from the northern border are approaching the border" on the secret report made his eyes hurt. The jade ruyi bestowed by the emperor on the desk glowed with a cold light, and in a trance it turned into a teacup that was smashed by his father in anger. "Your Highness, the Right Prime Minister requests an audience." The voice of the personal eunuch De Shun sounded in the corridor. Xiao Mingyuan stuffed the secret report into the secret compartment, and his gray face was reflected in the bronze mirror - since the corruption case of the Ministry of Works implicated the officials of the Eastern Palace three days ago, the memorials impeaching him in the court have been flying like snowflakes. Right Prime Minister Cui Yuanzhou stepped into the hall, and his dragon robe and jade belt glowed faintly under the candlelight. "Does the Crown Prince know that His Majesty summoned the Third Prince to the palace for a secret talk this morning?" He tapped the Northern Frontier war report on the table with his fingertips, "Half of the border army generals are from the Cui family. If at this moment..." Before he finished speaking, there was a sound of tiles breaking outside the window. Xiao Mingyuan picked up the bronze sword on the table and rushed to the courtyard, only to see the black-clad assassin fighting with the guards. A cold light flashed, and the sword went straight for his throat. At the critical moment, a white shadow passed by, and the long sword just brushed his ear and pierced into the corridor column. The person who came was the newly recruited counselor Su Yan. His plain white long gown was stained with blood, but he smiled calmly: "Your Highness was frightened." When the assassin was captured, the secret letter that fell out of his arms had the seal of the Third Prince written on it. Xiao Mingyuan stared at the bright red mark, remembering the way his third brother always liked to pull his clothes and call him "Royal Brother" when he was a child. Cui Yuanzhou twirled his beard and sneered: "Your Highness, this trick of borrowing a knife to kill someone is something you have learned from your Majesty." In the study of the East Palace at midnight, Su Yan spread out the map. "The war in the northern border is strange. The 300,000 taels of silver allocated by the Ministry of Revenue half a month ago has not yet arrived at the border." His wolf hair brush drew heavy ink marks on the rice paper, "I ask your Highness to go to the northern border in person, first to investigate the military situation, and second..." The candlelight suddenly dimmed, and Xiao Mingyuan caught a glimpse of the fleeting sharpness in his eyes. On the day of departure, the Crown Princess Shen Qingru stood in front of the Suzaku Gate, her red skirt fluttering like a butterfly crying blood. She was the daughter of a general who guarded the country. She had been engaged to Xiao Mingyuan since childhood, but because he was obsessed with government affairs, they were still strangers after three years of marriage. "Your Highness, be careful of Cui when you go there." She handed over the medicine bottle wrapped in a brocade handkerchief, "Su Yan is...too unpredictable." The cold wind in the northern border was like a knife, and Xiao Mingyuan's black cloak rustled. In the big tent of the military camp, Li Changfeng, the garrison commander, presented the account book. The densely packed numbers on the account book were far from the records of the Ministry of Revenue. "I sent people to investigate and found that the silver car last appeared in Cui's private mine." Li Changfeng's armor was stained with blood. "Three days ago, the lieutenant who went to investigate... had his tongue cut off." Late at night, Xiao Mingyuan paced in the tent and suddenly heard the sound of a zither coming from outside the tent. Following the sound, it turned out that Su Yan was leaning against Hu Yang playing the zither, and the moonlight plated him with a silver edge. "Your Highness, do you know "Ten Sides of Ambush"?" The strings of the zither suddenly broke, and Su Yan picked up the broken strings and wrapped them around his fingers. "When Emperor Gaozu started his army, he used this strategy to defeat the enemy." The next day, Xiao Mingyuan ordered all the main roads to be blocked and personally led people to search Cui's private mine. In the mine, rotten silver boxes piled up into a small mountain, but at the bottom of the box was a tiger talisman engraved with the emblem of the third prince. The news was passed back to the capital, and the court was in an uproar. The third prince knelt in front of the Taiji Palace, tears streaming down his face: "I am innocent, the prince must have framed me!" When Xiao Mingyuan held the tiger talisman to kowtow to his father, he caught a glimpse of Cui Yuanzhou's gloomy face beside the dragon throne. The emperor's eyes swept over the tiger talisman, and suddenly threw the memorial at him fiercely: "What a prince of the Eastern Palace! In order to seize the throne, he actually framed his own brother!" Xiao Mingyuan looked up and met the defensiveness and suspicion in his father's eyes. Those memories of riding on his father's shoulders in childhood were now shattered into cold light all over the ground. During the days of being imprisoned in the Eastern Palace, Xiao Mingyuan stared at the medicine sent by Shen Qingru every day. Deshun secretly brought news: "The third prince was imprisoned, the right prime minister was sick at home, but Lord Su has been in and out of Cui's house frequently recently." Before she finished speaking, Shen Qingru lifted the curtain and came in, her red skirt stained with blood: "Su Yan rebelled! He joined forces with Cui to forge the edict of your majesty!" Xiao Mingyuan held her cold hand tightly, and suddenly heard the shouting and killing outside the palace. Shen Qingru drew the soft sword from his waist: "My father has led the imperial guards to come, Your Highness, hurry up!" As soon as the two arrived at the palace gate, they saw Su Yan standing on the top of the Vermillion Bird Tower, his white clothes fluttering like a soul-calling flag. "Your Highness, do you still remember what I said when you first met?" He raised a roll of yellow silk, "This world should have the surname Su." A rain of arrows broke through the air, and Shen Qingru threw Xiao Mingyuan to the ground, and blood suddenly bloomed on his shoulder. Xiao Mingyuan roared and picked her up, and suddenly saw a cold light flash behind Su Yan - it was Li Changfeng's spear! It turned out that during the trip to the northern border, Xiao Mingyuan had already noticed that Su Yan was colluding with the Cui family, and deliberately used their tricks. When the dust settled, Xiao Mingyuan held the unconscious Shen Qingru and stepped into the Pepper Room. The morning light penetrated the window lattice and shone on her pale face. Deshun knelt down holding the imperial edict: "Your Majesty, pass the throne to the crown prince, and ascend the throne immediately." Xiao Mingyuan gently stroked her blood-stained hair, and finally understood the deep affection in her eyes that had been hidden for three years. On the day of ascending the throne, Xiao Mingyuan stood in front of the dragon chair in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, looking at the ministers kneeling down on the steps. Cui Yuanzhou's family had been confiscated, Su Yan was executed, and his third brother was exiled to the border. He touched the jade pendant at his waist, which was given by Shen Qingru when she came of age, and it was engraved with "Life and Death Will Not Be Failed". The sound of chimes came from afar, and he knew that although the mystery of the East Palace had ended, a new storm would brew over this land.
Chasing the murderer in the dark night Raindrops were like silver needles, densely piercing the glass curtain wall of the Qingyang Public Security Bureau. Tang Tang held the mug tightly. The strong tea in the cup had already cooled down, but it still couldn't dispel the fatigue between his brows. On the computer screen, one photo after another slowly passed in front of his eyes - the missing female college students, the last place they appeared was near the abandoned factory in Qingyang City that looked ordinary but exuded a strange atmosphere. "Captain Tang, the seventh one." Chen Mo pushed open the door of the office and slammed the folder in his hand heavily on the table, making a dull sound. His face was solemn and his eyes were full of anxiety. "Like the first six, they are all young women, and the last place they appeared was in that abandoned factory." Tang Tang's fingers unconsciously rubbed the edge of the cup. There was a long and thin crack there, which was a souvenir left when he chased the drug dealer three months ago. His thoughts returned to that thrilling night, the bullet flew past his ear, and the glass shattered. At this moment, this crack seemed to remind him that danger was never far away. "What new findings did the forensic doctor have?" Tang Tang raised his head, his eyes piercing. "Lin Xia said that skin tissue was extracted from the nails of one of the victims." Chen Mo opened the folder and pulled out a report, "But there is no matching result in the database, as if it appeared out of thin air." Tang Tang frowned even more. No matching result means that the murderer is either a first-time offender or an extremely cautious veteran who has never left any traces.