Chapter 530: Failed Assassination
Su Yirong didn't see Chen Liang for a whole day, and became alert and called Zhang Yang to ask.
Zhang Yang didn't know where Chen Liang went, but he felt something was wrong from the conversation the day before. Chen Liang must have done something stupid, right? He didn't dare to hide it from the important matter and told Su Yirong all the conversation with Chen Liang that day.
Su Yirong had an unknown premonition when he was ready. Chen Liang was a man with extraordinary skills, but he had one flaw. He didn't like to act according to orders, was a little good at making decisions, and was extremely cruel. If this trip was not really dangerous and could not find someone with more martial arts than Chen Liang, she wouldn't have brought Chen Liang with him.
Now that she heard Zhang Yang say this, she immediately made a quick decision and asked Zhang Yang to clean up quickly and leave here first, so as not to cause anything to happen to Chen Liang and implicate them.
There is nothing to clean up. This is their temporary place to settle down. I originally planned to withdraw when the situation is not good. I pack all the important things and leave when I can take them. I forget what is not important. I will come back to clean up if I have nothing to do.
In this Yan City, they temporarily prepared several places to settle down. In some places, only Su Yirong knew about it, just to prevent any of them from making mistakes and giving out what they were caught.
When he arrived at another courtyard, Su Yirong calmed down and his second order was to order Zhang Yang to go around the Dingwang Mansion to see if anything happened to the Dingwang Mansion last night. But be careful in everything, and you should not ask deliberately. You can only stroll around nearby teahouses and restaurants. It is best to hear anything. If you don’t hear it, you should not ask. They are innocent faces, and they may reveal their whereabouts and attract attention.
Zhang Yang wrote down one by one. They were all trained. They would naturally do this without Su Yirong's instructions. Fortunately, Yancheng is the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. There are many people coming from south to north, and their faces are not suspicious. If it were other smaller towns, they would not even dare to go to teahouses and restaurants. The faces were the objects of doubt.
I was also a little lucky. Chen Liang, who dressed up as a small porcelain vendor, sat down at an open-air tea stall and heard someone talking nearby.
A man with a deer-headed rat head excitedly said to the people around him in a mysterious tone, "Last night, someone was thiefed in our street, which was noisy and very disturbing. It seems that he still had a life."
The poor scholar next to him was dressed up a little dissatisfied. "Wang Si, are you talking nonsense again? Not only is the widow next door to your house stole the man, and was found out and shouted a few times. I live next door with you, why didn't I hear anything?"
Wang Si was swept away and waved his hand impatiently, "Go away, Li Er, you poor scholar, sleep like a dead pig every night. You snore and can't even thunder. What can you hear? You miss Mrs. Lu all day long, without any moral character. She is a widow, but a serious person. Don't just sneer and blame others. Who doesn't know what you think."
"What do I think?" Li Er was angry and embarrassed, "Who is this Widow Lu? You talk to her all day long. Is there anything shameful about you two?"
"What did you say?" Wang Si immediately became angry, stood up and rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Li Er, "If you have the courage, do you say something?"
Li Er looks not as thin as Wang Si, but scholars are weaker in nature. Judging from Li Er's attitude, he is a little scared. However, there are so many people around him, so it is not easy to show weakness. He swallowed his saliva and his voice became a little weaker, "Just talk, why are you guilty?"
"You still said?" Wang Si clenched his fist and took another step forward, which was very meaningful to swing his fist.
Seeing that the situation was wrong, the tea stall owner was afraid that the two would really fight and smash his stall, so he came out to smooth things over, "Okay, okay, they are all neighbors on the left and right, and they don't look down. What's the point of being quarrel? Li Er, just say less, a man, don't talk about women before getting married, Wang Si, continue to say, which family has been thieves, and has anyone caught?"
They were all neighbors, and Wang Si didn't really want to fight with Li Er. He just scared him. When he saw someone smooth things over, he went down and started talking: "Actually, I don't know what kind of family it is. Anyway, it's a big family. There are no people coming in and out on weekdays, and they don't interact with the neighbors around him. Just a few days ago, someone suddenly moved in and out, and they carried things in and out. It seems that they are not rich but noble."
"Is it just a pair of stone lions at the door?" someone interrupted and asked.
Wang Si nodded, "Which one is it."
"That's the villa of Dingwang Mansion. You don't even know this?" Li Er, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but show off proudly. The tea stalls were covered with mud legs, and it was impossible to tell who was the high-ranking official and who was the local rich man.
"There are so many nobles in Yancheng, what does it have to do with us? Who is so careful when asking for it?" Wang Si just couldn't stand Li Er being too proud and sarcastic, "It's just that you, Li Er, dreaming every day, that's why we ordinary people only know that they are noble people, and that cats and dogs in our families cannot offend them."
"So you will be a life of muddy legs for the rest of your life." Li Er's eyes turned and he started to sneer.
"Yes, I know this is the case in my life. What about you Li Er? What do you think you are? Do you still want to be an official? Dreaming." Wang Si sarcastically said, "If you can become an official, can we ordinary people still have a way out?"
"Hey, hey, why are the arguments started again? Wang Si, are you still talking about your thief? Everyone has no intention of listening to you two argue." Seeing that the topic was about to be pulled apart again, the tea stall owner was afraid that the fight would start again, so he hurriedly pulled the topic back.
Wang Si glared at Li Er fiercely, and then continued: "That night, when I got up to go to the toilet, I heard a little noise in the distance, and then the direction suddenly became bright. In the middle of the night, I was afraid of some water from the house, so I went out to take a look. I heard a noise in the other courtyard, and a bunch of people who looked like guards rushed out, holding torches around, and I was afraid of being regarded as a thief, so I didn't dare to get close."
Speaking of this, Wang Si stopped.
The people around him were attracted by interest and asked hurriedly: "What? Keep talking about it."
Wang Si spread his hands, "That's it, and then the movement became smaller, and I went home."
"That's it?" Everyone around was disappointed. Wang Si said mysteriously at the beginning, but after talking for a long time, they aroused their curiosity. There was nothing else, which was really disappointing.
Li Er was as disappointed as others and couldn't help but mutter, "I thought there was a thrilling process. After talking for a long time, you guessed it. Maybe the other person had lost his cats and dogs, so he went around to search for it. You said just now that the cats and dogs of noble families are more valuable than others, and there are thieves there. This idea is so thief who is so thief. So many wealthy businessmen in the city don't steal. Go to the royal palace to steal? Can this royal palace be entered by ordinary people? I caught the one who was beaten to death without hesitation."
Li Er's words made everyone around him nod. As the saying goes, "Don't fight against the rich, and do not fight against the officials." The royal relatives are even better than the officials. The world belongs to their families. Can they be afforded by ordinary people?
Afterwards, everyone's discussions turned to various speculations.
When Zhang Yang heard this, he put down two copper coins and settled the bill and left.
Although the one named Wang Si heard only a little bit, he could be sure that something happened in the villa of Dingwang Mansion that night, combined with Chen Liang's disappearance, Chen Liang, who broke into the villa of Dingwang Mansion at night, was undoubtedly the time to enter the villa of Dingwang Mansion at night.
The only thing that cannot be confirmed is whether Chen Liang was caught. According to Wang Si's description, he should not have caught anyone at the beginning. As for whether he was caught later, I don't know, but if he was not caught, where would Wang Si be now?
Chen Liang returned the news he had heard and reported to Su Yirong.
Su Yirong pondered for a moment and felt that Chen Liang should not have been caught. With Chen Liang's skills, as long as he had a chance to escape in a moment, he would not be caught again.
However, if he is not caught, why don’t he come back? There are two possibilities: First, the people who are pursuing him closely, so he can’t get rid of it for a while, or he is not sure whether the other party deliberately let him escape so as to follow the clues, so he hides first. Second, although Chen Liang escaped, he is very likely to be injured and unable to come back.
If it were the former, they would not do anything for a while, but if it was the latter, they would have to search for it and be sure to find the person, live to see the person, die to see the body.
Chen Liang knew too much and could not let him be outside. Although this man was trained, even if he was caught, he would not tell any secrets. However, as long as he was alive, he would have the possibility of his mouth being pried open.
Su Yirong was not sure about Chen Liang. If Chen Liang was desperate, she would be indecisive. Especially when Chen Liang dared to violate her orders and acted as a stubborn person to assassinate Princess Ding, such a person would not have any absolute loyalty.
I really shouldn't have brought Chen Liang at the beginning. If you are disobedient, no matter how good your skills are, they will only cause trouble.
But now that things have come to this point, regret is useless. Su Yirong can only instruct people to try their best to hide their whereabouts and then slowly look for Chen Liang. As for other matters, stop first.
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Dingwang Mansion
After Lu Teng carefully asked Luocao, after what happened that night, she couldn't help but fall into deep thought again.
As she had expected first, the princess was indeed in danger. It was obvious that this attack must have been related to the group of people in the temple. Maybe it was the killers sent by those people, otherwise it would not have been that coincidence.
But that night, what happened after the assassin broke into the princess' room? Who repelled the assassin? According to Luocao, she heard the movement and rushed in the first place. When she saw the princess, she stood in the room. The room was just a little messy, as if someone had accidentally knocked over something. It didn't seem like there was a fierce fight, that is, the assassin should have been repelled by one move.
She followed the princess for so long, but she had never seen any trace of her martial arts. Although some people will reach the level of returning to nature after practicing martial arts to the peak, which is no different from ordinary people, she can almost be said to be together day and night when she is with the princess. No matter how hidden a person is, it is impossible for her to hide martial arts all the time.
At most, the princess can have some tricks to defend herself. Ordinary female family members cannot threaten her. As for anything else, it is really unlikely that the princess will definitely not look like a person with superb martial arts skills.
Then who repelled the assassin? Could it be that there are secret guards around the princess whom she doesn't know?
This is very likely. The prince has always been a cautious person, and may have saved his life for the princess.
"Sister, what are you thinking?" Luocao saw that Lu Teng didn't speak for a long time, and couldn't help asking. It's not that she couldn't hold back, but that this matter was really too big.
Someone actually wanted to assassinate the princess in the dark. He was too bold and reckless. Due to the negligence of the guards of the royal palace, he didn't even see the assassin, and he didn't know whether the assassin was a man or a woman.
Wait, Luocao suddenly thought of a possibility. She just thought about it for a moment, and shook her head again in a blink of an eye. This is too incredible and impossible.
While Luocao was thinking about it, Lu Teng had the same idea in her heart and lowered her voice: "You said that after you entered, you didn't see anyone at all, and there were no signs of fierce fighting in the house? There was no blood."
"Yes!" Luo Cao nodded, "Just the guards outside chased them out, but they didn't see anyone."
"Then the princess didn't say anything?" Lu Teng asked again, "I mean, the princess didn't say what the assassin looked like afterwards, or blamed the guards for the unfavorable protection of the guards?"
"No, the princess really didn't say anything." Luo Cao said, "Actually, I asked the princess, and the princess only asked me to retreat. She wanted to calm down. The next day, I wanted to ask again, but the princess looked a little wrong, so I didn't dare to ask too much, just thinking that there was no light in the room that day, and the princess didn't see anything."
This is even more wrong. Green Teng's doubts deepened. In other words, the only one who can prove that an assassin in the mansion is invading was that scream, and the only one who really saw the assassin was the princess.
Could it be that no such person has entered? It would be fine if there were no signs of violent fighting in the house, there was no blood. How could this be possible? Logically speaking, the assassin should have screamed after being injured. So that means the assassin was injured. If he was injured, how could there be no trace of blood left?
There is only one explanation, or it doesn't break into this matter at all. The whole thing may be that the princess is making a fool of herself. As for the purpose?
It is also easy to explain. The princess noticed the danger and felt that someone would attack her, so she made up this. It was easy to pretend to be a person's scream. The princess herself made this scream, making people think that an assassin broke in. The purpose was to warn some people with ulterior motives, and to make people feel that there must be masters around the princess guarding the dark, and to ask those people not to act rashly.
Chapter completed!