Wei Shutong's expression changed with horror, and he lost his voice: "Prince, you... what did you say?"
Li Hongxin smiled faintly and said, "Master Wei, don't you understand what I'm saying?" He said in a deep voice, "Come here, bring me up!"
Soon, two guards were seen carrying a stretcher upstairs and placed it carefully on the ground.
Wei Shutong took a look and saw that the stretcher was covered with white linen and his pupils shrank. Qining glanced sideways and said nothing.
Li Hongxin stood up slowly, his figure was a little shaky. He walked over slowly, squatted down, stretched out his hand, and gently opened the white linen cloth. Wei Shutong took a step forward and saw clearly that on the stretcher , it is Li Yuan, the crown prince of Shu.
Li Yuan's face was cold and stiff, without a trace of blood, and there was no sound at all. He knew he was dead at first glance.
"Ah...!" Although Wei Shutong had already guessed two points, he was still surprised when he saw Li Yuan's body.
Li Hongxin stretched out a hand, his hand trembled, gently touched Li Yuan's face, and murmured: "This is my son, the only son left. This is how I looked at my eldest son back then. He left me, but there was nothing he could do. It’s just that I was still young and had no white hair on my head back then, but today, I have already grown white hair on my head. It’s really a white-haired person giving a black-haired person...!" said At this point, there was another weird laughter. The laughter was so sad that it made people feel horrified when they heard it.
Wei Shutong frowned and said, "Your Majesty, this... what on earth is going on?"
Li Hongxin raised his head and asked without answering: "Master Wei, if your son is killed by someone, how would you deal with it?"
His analogy is obviously very inappropriate.
Wei Shutong frowned slightly, but still said: "Of course we have to find the real murderer first!"
"What if the murderer is found?" Li Hongxin's eyes were cold and his tone was cold.
Wei Shutong said: "If the real culprit is found, he will naturally be interrogated carefully and then dealt with in accordance with national laws."
"That's good." Li Hongxin laughed strangely, stood up slowly, and said, "What if the murderer is not an ordinary person, but an important official of the imperial court?"
"An important minister of the imperial court?" Wei Shutong frowned and said: "Your Majesty, with all due respect, if there is evidence in hand, even if it is an important official of the imperial court, he must be held accountable. If the local government cannot try it, then go to the emperor and let the emperor decide. Order to interrogate.”
Li Hongxin nodded and said: "Master Wei is absolutely right." He glanced at Qining and then said: "I invited the Governor and the Marquis to come over today just to find out about this matter." After a pause, he said coldly: " The murderer of Li Yuan has been found and is here now."
As soon as these words came out, Wei Shutong looked slightly shocked, and Qi Ning also frowned and said, "My lord, you said the murderer is here?"
Li Hongxin sneered and said, "Not bad."
"Your Majesty said that the murderer was an important official of the imperial court. We are the only three people present who can meet this standard." Qi Ning said slowly: "Of course it is impossible for Your Majesty to be the murderer, so the murderer can only be one of me and Master Wei. , I wonder if my understanding is wrong?”
Li Hongxin smiled and said: "Master Hou understood it correctly." Although he was smiling, the coldness in his eyes was like the thousand-year-old ice.
Wei Shutong's face darkened and he said, "Your Majesty, this is no joke."
Li Hongxin said lightly: "Master Wei, do you think this king is joking?" He slowly put his hands on his back, looked at Qining, and asked: "Master Marquis, you are the imperial envoy of the imperial court. If this king reveals the real murderer, can you You cannot be impartial and impartial.”
Qi Ning looked solemn and said: "Your Majesty, I can be impartial, but when it comes to upholding justice, I'm afraid I'm too ambitious but not strong enough. I'm not a member of the Criminal Department, so I'm not good at this kind of thing."
"Then let's ask the Marquis to be a witness." Li Hongxin said, turning to look at Wei Shutong, his eyes like daggers, and asked: "Master Wei, you have been in Xichuan for many years, and I have always cooperated with you in governing Xichuan. , although you and I have some differences on some things, I always put the overall situation first. I would like to ask, is there anything I can't do to you?"
Li Hongxin suddenly asked this. Wei Shutong was surprised and frowned: "What does the prince mean by this?"
"Although Li Yuan is naughty, he is not a treacherous and evil person." Li Hongxin's tone became serious: "Master Wei, I want to ask you, where did he offend you, and you want to kill him? ? Or maybe I did something wrong, and you want me to cut off my descendants?"
Wei Shutong was stunned for a moment, opened his eyes wide, and said in horror: "Prince, you... you mean... I killed Li Yuan?"
Li Hongxin sneered: "Of course Mr. Wei will not admit it." He said in a deep voice: "Bring the people up!"
Wei Shutong looked surprised. Soon, he saw two guards escorting a person upstairs. Wei Shutong saw that the person was a woman in her early thirties. Although she was not very attractive, she was still pretty. The figure is soft and feminine, but the pretty face is full of panic and fear.
"My lord, is this...?"
Li Hongxin glanced at the woman and said calmly: "Tell everything you know exactly. There is no need to be taboo with this king here."
The woman bowed cautiously and said, "The bitch is the Wu Sun family, and the husband is Bo Wuda, the head of the household department."
"Oh?" Wei Shutong frowned and asked, "Do you know how the prince was killed?"
Mrs. Wu lowered her head and said softly: "Bitch... Bitch knows...!" She raised her head and glanced at Li Hongxin, but did not dare to continue.
Qi Ning suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, this is Wu Da's wife. How did she know that the prince was killed? Where was the prince killed?"
Li Hongxin said with a cold face: "To be honest, Li Yuan was killed in the Wu family last night."
"Wu family?" Qi Ning asked curiously: "Wu Da is just a small household secretary with a low status. What is the status of the prince? Why did he appear in the Wu family last night? Could it be that the prince sent the prince there?"
Li Hongxin snorted coldly, looked at Mrs. Wu, and said, "Just tell the truth."
Mrs. Wu, however, lowered her head, her plump and delicate body trembled slightly, and did not dare to speak.
Li Hongxin raised his hand and said: "You all retreat." After several guards retreated, Li Hongxin said in a deep voice: "No one else is present, so why don't you tell me."
Mrs. Wu had no choice but to lower her head and said: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty went to the bitch's house last night and said... He said he saw a bitch on the street during the day and liked her, so...!" She is a woman after all, this kind of thing It was an embarrassing thing to say in front of several grown men, and I felt extremely ashamed.
Qi Ning sighed and said, "It goes without saying." He asked, "Did you see the assassin assassinate the crown prince?"
Mrs. Wu hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty is using force, bitch... When the bitch woman struggled, the prince got angry and pushed the bitch woman, and she hit the table...!" At this point, she raised her hand to tease her. She raised her hair from her cheeks, and there was indeed a bruise on the side of her head. She continued with a trembling voice: "The bitch fell to the ground at that time. She was dizzy and couldn't get up, just thinking...!" Hesitant, not daring to say anything. Go down.
Li Hongxin said in a deep voice: "Don't hesitate, speak quickly."
Mrs. Wu did not dare to disobey and could only say: "The bitch wanted to pretend to be asleep at that time, just hoping... I just hoped that the prince would spare the bitch. At that time, the bitch heard the prince scream, bitch The woman didn’t know what was going on and didn’t dare to open her eyes, so... so she heard a voice asking the prince not to scream.”
Qi Ning nodded slightly and asked, "What happened next?"
"I heard the prince ask who the man was and what he wanted to do, and the man... the man said...!" Mrs. Wu glanced at Li Hongxin tremblingly, and then said: "The man said that the prince had gone too far and wanted to kill him. Your Majesty, let me have a taste of what it means to have no descendants...!"
When Mrs. Wu said this, Li Hongxin slapped the corner of the table with his palm, and there was a "click" and the corner of the table shattered.
Mrs. Wu was shocked. Qining shook his head and said, "You don't have to be afraid. You can continue to tell us what happened next."
"Later... Later, the Crown Prince said that he could give those countless people gold, as long as... as long as that person showed mercy...!" Mrs. Wu's voice trembled, and her delicate body trembled, "But the person said that he was entrusted by others to ask for help. Help... I want to help the Governor get rid of the thorn in his side...!"
Wei Shutong's expression changed with horror and he said sternly: "How dare you, you bitch, how dare you talk nonsense here."
"Master Wei, those who are clean will be clean themselves, so you don't have to be upset." Qi Ning said in a deep voice: "A little woman would never dare to talk nonsense here."
Li Hongxin sneered and said: "Yes, if she dares to talk nonsense here, I will kill her immediately. Master Wei, if she is unjustly accused, you don't have to be so anxious."
Wei Shutong looked ugly and said, "If you keep talking, what else will that person say?"
"The Crown Prince asked that person if... was Wei Shutong sent here?" Mrs. Wu lowered her head, "The man said... The Crown Prince said that it would be useless if the Crown Prince knew about it, and he also asked the Crown Prince to remember that the person who killed him was... It was a throat assassin. The bitch closed her eyes and heard no sound after that. The bitch opened her eyes after a while and found... she found that the prince had been... killed by someone...!" At this point, Mrs. Wu almost collapsed.
Wei Shutong said with a livid face, "Your Majesty, someone must have put the blame on me."
Li Hongxin waved his hand and signaled Mrs. Wu to step back first. Mrs. Wu’s legs were weak and she supported herself down the stairs. After Mrs. Wu left, Li Hongxin was already sitting on the chair with a gloomy face and said: "Mr. Wei, Chengdu It is true that there are assassins, but Throat Throat is my name for assassins. Apart from me, I have never heard anyone mention these three words."
Wei Shutong frowned and said, "What does the prince mean by this?"
"The Marquis came to Chengdu and entertained the Marquis with a simple meal that night. There were only three of us at the time." Li Hongxin said slowly: "I used the title Throat-throat Guest at the dinner table and no one heard it. Why did the Assassin But he calls himself the Throat Killer? Is there such a coincidence in the world?"
Wei Shutong grimaced: "Your Majesty, you thought the assassin was sent by me and deliberately used the name Throat Killer?"
"Isn't it?" Li Hongxin said.
Qi Ning suddenly said: "My lord, I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding. Not to mention that Mr. Wei would never do such a thing, even if it was really sent by Mr. Wei, why would the assassin need to expose Mr. Wei's identity in front of the prince? ? Isn't this exposing a flaw?" He glanced at Wei Shutong and said, "If we really want to send an assassin, he will definitely do it quickly and swiftly, and he will never be so sloppy and talk nonsense."