allendalepharm Chapter 508 Assassination
Chapter 508 Assassination
"The master behind Youlan Garden is not that simple." The prince of Rongguo shook his paper fan, "Didn't you hear about the Qin family's incident in the capital?"
Jiang Youzhen looked confused. She had never heard of this before. She quickly cupped her hands and said, "I'd like to hear more about it."
"It was about three years ago, right? At that time, the most popular courtesan in Youlan Garden was not Ruhua, but Qirou. Qirou was so pretty that she naturally attracted many people. The eldest young master of the Qin family was her admirer."
"But the eldest young master was a dissolute man who had a bad character. In order to get Qirou, he even robbed her. Who would have thought that as soon as he brought her back to the mansion, the people from Youlan Garden came to kill her. I don't know how the people from Youlan Garden negotiated with the Qin family that day, but Qirou was brought back anyway."
The Prince of Rong tasted a peanut and when he saw the three people at the same table looking at him, waiting for his next words, he said slowly, "But after that, within two days, the entire Qin family was found dead in their home. Not a single person was left alive."
The Third Prince frowned, "I'm in the capital, how come I haven't heard of this before?"
"Although the Qin family is a wealthy family, they are just merchants doing business, and it is difficult for them to have direct access to the emperor. Moreover, this tragic case of extermination has never been solved, and the news has long been blocked by the prefect. At that time, various evidences pointed to the business rivals who were seeking revenge, and they found people from the underworld to do the work."
"How could it be such a coincidence?" Li Dongsheng didn't believe it. He had just offended Youlanyuan and his entire family was wiped out. Who would believe him if he said it had nothing to do with Youlanyuan?
"How dare you be so rampant under the feet of the emperor?" The third prince looked at the madam of Youlan Garden with unfriendly eyes. This was a challenge to the laws of the court.
"There are even more outrageous ones! A distant relative collected the bodies of his family and planned to build a tomb for them in their ancestral home. But when they went to their ancestral land, they found that even the ancestral grave had been dug out without them noticing, and the Qin family ancestral hall was burned down to ashes."
Li Dongsheng took a deep breath when he heard this. "Isn't this too ruthless? Why do you have to do this?"
Jiang Youzhen shook his head. "What they want is to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, but the method is extremely cruel and too much."
"Yes!" Li Dongsheng's gaze changed when he looked towards Youlan Garden again.
"Hmph! I don't believe that there are no clues. This is the prefect's dereliction of duty." The third prince felt that it was necessary to investigate this Youlan Garden. They actually did not take the imperial court seriously.
"I heard that Youlan Garden has some connection with a killer organization. After this incident, no one dares to attack Youlan Garden anymore." The Prince of Rong said, shaking his head with some regret.
In the Great Yun Dynasty, the fighting and killing of Jianghu organizations was not under the control of the court. Of course, if innocent people were killed indiscriminately, the court would definitely intervene. And those Jianghu people had their own circles, which was an agreement signed between the previous dynasty and the court.
People in the underworld are the most protective and vindictive. Even if they are high-ranking officials in the court, they will stay away from them if possible and will not take the initiative to provoke them.
"I heard that there are killer lists and bounty lists in the martial arts world. I don't want to offend these killers for a woman."
"You have a good life. You are a prince, yet you are still afraid of those people from the martial arts world. I am not a soft persimmon. If they dare to offend me, I will kill them all, no matter what martial arts world they are in." The third prince said disdainfully.
"Then you can expect to be hunted down! They are very united and have a sense of brotherhood. Even if you go to the ends of the earth, they will hunt you down."
When Prince Rongguo saw the suspicious look from the Third Prince, he stopped explaining.
At this time, the sound of drums began to be heard, and the sound of stringed instruments reached everyone's ears. The two girls began to dance to the sometimes sparse and sometimes dense drum beats.
Seeing this, Jiang Youzhen quickly started painting. She was here to act as a painter today.
Not far away, the Second Prince was sitting on a small boat, observing the movements on the pleasure boat. "Where's the Fourth Prince? Why haven't we seen any movement from him?"
Zhou Hai shook his head, "Maybe he didn't come?"
"Impossible, he will come." The second prince shook his head affirmatively, "Maybe he disguised himself and mixed into the crowd, especially the big ship. Send someone to watch and see if there are any suspicious people."
Zhou Hai thought it made sense, "Then I will send someone over right away."
The third prince came to Jiang Youzhen and saw that he was writing with divine help. With just a few simple strokes, the outline of a dancing beauty appeared on the paper.
Jiang Youzhen's paintings are very good at capturing the spirit of the artist and are extremely similar to the artist himself, but his posture and face are more delicate.
Jiang Youzhen was concentrating on watching the two beauties dancing. She wanted to remember their every move in her mind and reflect it in her painting.
However, when she took a quick glance, she discovered that there was something unusual about the music being played nearby.
The musician was in his thirties, tall and slender, with a mustache and messy hair.
However, what caught Jiang Youzhen's attention was not these, but the fact that the man's mustache was slightly raised. He looked around and found that no one noticed.
The beard is fake, that's for disguise, so what's this person's purpose?
Jiang Youzhen suddenly thought of something and turned to look at the Third Prince. Unexpectedly, the Third Prince was watching her painting from above her. When Jiang Youzhen raised her head, her head bumped into the Third Prince's chin.
There was only a muffled groan, and the Third Prince covered his mouth and said angrily: "Why did you suddenly look up?"
"This? The student really didn't mean it. Are you okay?"
Who told you to stand next to her in silence? At least say something!
"Do you have eyes? Can you afford to pay for the damage?" The third prince cried in pain. Did this kid practice iron head kung fu?
Jiang Youzhen was speechless, "Who has eyes on the back of their head?"
Forget it! Originally, I wanted to remind the Third Prince that this person was abnormal, could he be an assassin? But Jiang Youzhen didn't want to say it now, so I'll just have to pray for the best for a while!
The third prince waved his hand, sat back in his seat, and ignored Jiang Youzhen.
The prince of Rongguo admired the two girls' graceful dancing. At the same time, he kept staring at the place where the bouquet passed, for fear of missing him, and didn't take Jiang Youzhen and the third prince's affairs seriously at all.
Jiang Youzhen was getting into the groove of her painting, and she was a little lost in it. But the next moment, she suddenly saw something coming towards her from the corner of her eye, and she quickly caught it.
However, at this moment, the drumbeats suddenly stopped, and at this moment the boat suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked at Jiang Youzhen, no! To be more precise, they looked at the bouquet in his hand.
"Jiang Youzhen, it was you who received the call?" The Prince of Rongguo was a little surprised, but said with regret.
Even the Third Prince snorted, "I don't know what kind of shit luck I have."
Jiang Youzhen hadn't put down the paintbrush in his hand yet. Upon hearing this, he stuffed the bouquet into the arms of the prince of Rongguo and said, "Here you go!"
Before the Prince of Rongguo had time to be happy, a musician at the side suddenly jumped up, pulled out a long sword from the drum stand, and stabbed it in the direction of Jiang Youzhen.