351. To Make the Announcement Fair and Square (II)

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

“What are a.s.sa.s.sins?” Xu was a little puzzled.

Long didn’t bother to talk to a drunk and just listened to the sound outside.

The sound of fighting was heard.

Long frowned.

At this time, Liu came in again.

Long hurriedly asked, “Who are they? What on earth is going on?”

“Zhu Qingzi is here,” Liu whispered, “I’ll stay with you here. Ask Xu You to keep quiet.”

Long understood and nodded. He pulled Xu towards him and covered his mouth.

Xu didn’t struggle and directly fell asleep with his head on Long’s shoulder!

At this time, Long really wanted to say, “Are you a pig? You can even sleep at such a moment!”

But Long really didn’t bother to pay more attention to him.

The sound of fierce fighting outside never ceased.

Long looked at Liu with concern. “It’s been such a long time… Seems that Zhu Qingzi is a hot potato.”

“Yeah.” Liu nodded. “That woman is also an expert in poisons.”

“How are her skills compared with yours?”

Liu shook his head slightly. “We’re not the same. The poisons she’s good at are quite bizarre.”

“What do you mean?”

Liu said, “You won’t understand even if I tell you.”

Long’s face darkened at once.

Liu said again, “Tianxiang Zi is a match for her, because they’re familiar with each other.”

After thinking for a while, Long suddenly said, “Will you win if you have to fight against Tianxiang Zi?”

Liu looked at him. “If we have to fight, she’s no match for me. However, I have to prepare in advance. If she makes a sneak attack, I’m not sure who’ll win.”

“It’s like this…” Long blinked. “Alright, I see.”

While they were talking, Long seemed to hear that they had stopped fighting outside, so he said, “Is it over?”

Liu shook his head. “Don’t go out. When it’s totally safe, the Shadow Guardians will come to tell us.”

Long blinked. “Okay, I got it.”

The two of them and a drunk waited for a while. Finally, a Shadow Guardian came over and said, “You can come out.”

Liu opened the door. Long didn’t go out first, but said, “Let’s send Mr. Xu back to his room first.”

Liu nodded in agreement.

Then, Long carried Xu back and left three Shadow Guardians to watch him closely.

Later, Long and Liu went out together.

Zhu Qingzi brought about ten fighters over there and all of them were quite powerful.

Therefore, the mansion of the fourth prince was seriously damaged.

However, not many people knew that Zhu Qingzi was working for the crown prince at present.

Furthermore, both the second prince and the third prince had been a.s.sa.s.sinated, so it wasn’t surprising that the fourth prince would also be attacked.

Were they some supporters of the previous dynasty?

Or were they from an organization which was against the imperial court?

It was impossible for the crown prince to do that, right? It was blatant! Was the crown prince that stupid?

Therefore, when most people thought like this, they became further away from truth. If they blamed the crown prince for this, other people would think he was framed! Then it would be detrimental to the fourth prince!

“It’s really destructive.” Long raised his eyebrows.

It had caused serious damage. It was worth mentioning that many doors had been knocked open.

It could be seen that the a.s.sa.s.sins were looking for someone.

Unfortunately, they didn’t find the person they wanted.

There were eleven a.s.sa.s.sins, among which three escaped and the others died.

Those corpses were just lying on the ground in the mansion.

Long looked at the corpses and touched his chin. “Go report it to the government.”

“Yes.” One man responded and left soon.

Liu stepped forward and held Long’s hand. “My husband, let’s go back to the room.”

Long knew that Liu had something to say, so he nodded.

After asking the butler to deal with everything outside, Long followed Liu back to the room.

“What’s the matter? What do you want to say?”

“I want to do research on those corpses.”

“Huh?” Long blinked. “Why’s that?”

Liu looked at Long and didn’t want to explain more. “I just want to do research. To make poisons and antidotes, I need to research on the corpses.”

“But they’ve reported it to the government. These corpses will definitely be taken away.”

“I don’t need so many of them. Just two or three would be enough.”

“We can leave two bodies here.” Long nodded. “You can tell the Shadow Guardians yourself.”

“Okay. I just wanted to let you know. Besides, I thought of one thing.”

“What’s that?” Long looked at him.

“The sacred object I left at the border.” Liu lowered his voice.

Long raised his eyebrows. “Why did you think of that?”

“That was originally something from Eastern Darkness… Besides, I wonder if Tianxiang Zi and Zhu Qingzi know about that object.”

Long frowned upon hearing this. “It’s hard to say. What do you want to do?”

“We have been doubting Tianxiang Zi’s motives, haven’t we? Although what she said seems to be reasonable…

we still don’t believe her, right?”

“Do you suspect that she might have something to do with that object?”

“That’s not what I think. I just suspect that she might know something. It’s also about poisons. She has no reason to know nothing, right? Besides, since that object belongs to Eastern Darkness, it is very likely that both of them know it, right?”

Hearing the words, Long began to think about it carefully.

“Once Fang Shuoyang appeared, Tianxiang Zi went to him and directly told him his real ident.i.ty. It’s highly possible that she has been paying close attention to him. Fang Shuoyang has been staying in our nation. If she’s been keeping an eye on him, how could she not know that his father rebelled? Back then, we all knew that Fang Qiuhua was cooperating with the people from Eastern Darkness. Before he died, he also said that he only felt sorry for his wife and son in this life. We knew that Fang Qiuhua was cooperating with someone here and the information we found showed that it was just one of the princes. But what if that isn’t the truth? What if the princes are just used to cover for someone?”

Liu was stunned. He didn’t expect Long to think of so much at once.

In surprise, Liu couldn’t help but say, “You mean, maybe… it’s Tianxiang Zi?”

“It’s also impossible, isn’t it? Look, Tianxiang Zi knows Fang Shuoyang’s ident.i.ty, so it’s very likely that she had contact with Fang Qiuhua a long time ago!”