Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 92
[Chapter 92 The Dark Hand Finally Appears]
There is a large lake in the East Palace.
The original East Palace did not have an inner lake, but after the current crown prince was enthroned, the court expanded the East Palace and dug out a lake.
Most people may only think that this is to enhance the scenery of the East Palace, but some of the top wealthy families in the capital know that the inner lake of the East Palace was built for the crown prince’s ability. The
crown prince’s ability is to control water, which is a secret to the people.
After all, the crown prince is the crown prince and will ascend to the throne in the future. His special abilities cannot be publicized to the outside world. Some special abilities are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining. If the crown prince’s abilities are known by unscrupulous people, it is easy to design an assassination against his abilities.
However, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. Although the court has always kept the crown prince’s abilities secret, in the eyes of the top dignitaries in Daxia, this is not a secret.
Today, the weather is clear, the clouds are still and there is no wind, but the inner lake of the East Palace is turbulent. A water dragon circling out of the lake and smashing a stone tablet by the lake.
If this force falls on a person, the bones of an ordinary person will be shattered in an instant, and there is no possibility of survival.
This is the power of the heavenly-level magic.
A short figure emerged from the lake, stepped on the lake surface, and walked to the grass by the lake. His clothes and soles were not wet at all, and there was no trace of water.
Another middle-aged man stepped forward and said respectfully: “Congratulations, Your Highness, your strength has improved a few points. It is just around the corner to enter the earth level.”
The prince waved his hand and said: “I know my talent. I spent so many Yuanjing to barely reach the upper realm of the Xuan level. I am still far from the earth level. I can’t compare with the one from the Zhao family…”
The middle-aged man didn’t say anything, but sighed in his heart. The prince really didn’t know. The talent of the Zhao family was top-notch in the entire continent. Even the genius of the Tianziyuan of the Magic Academy had an unbridgeable gap with her, not to mention the prince with mediocre talent in magic…
He shouldn’t have thought of comparing with the one from the Zhao family.
After finishing his practice of magic today, the prince left the lake and came to a palace to handle government affairs.
In fact, there were not many government affairs that needed him to handle. Most of the government affairs were handled by the Twenty-Four Departments themselves. Some important matters would be discussed in the court, and those that were not important or urgent would be given to him to practice.
Even so, he read those memorials very carefully, as these were all experiences for him to rule the court in the future.
A beautiful bird stood on the tree outside the window, chirping from time to time, but the prince, who was busy reviewing the memorials, did not notice it.
At some point, an old man with white hair and beard walked to the door of the palace, saw the prince handling the memorials seriously, stroked his beard, nodded with satisfaction, and left.
At the moment when his back disappeared, the prince paused in reading the memorials, then threw them aside and whispered, “How is that matter going?”
An eunuch who had been standing by the pillar stepped forward and said respectfully, “Your Highness, someone has dealt with it.”
The prince tapped the table lightly with his index finger and murmured, “The one far away has been dealt with, but the one near has been flashing in front of my eyes. There was only one before, and now there is another one…”
The eunuch looked embarrassed and said, “Your Highness, he is closely protected by the Secret Investigation Department, and there is no opportunity to attack him. As for the other one, her strength is too strong. Without the strength of the upper realm of the earth level, I am afraid she can’t complete the task, and no assassin dares to take her task…”
The prince picked up another memorial and said slowly, “Don’t worry, I have plenty of patience and will always find an opportunity…”
…
Lin Mansion.
It was late at night.
Lin Xiu hadn’t slept yet.
He sat on the desk in front of the window, and the window was open. After an unknown period of time, a black shadow suddenly passed through the night sky, flew in from the window, and landed on his desk.
It was the blue-crowned short-tailed parrot he had tamed.
At the Empress Dowager’s birthday banquet, when he looked into the eyes of the prince, Lin Xiu became more suspicious of him and made him the first person to be investigated by Lin Xiu.
Lin Xiu sprinkled a handful of rice grains on the table, and the parrot pecked at the food while chirping.
It stayed in the East Palace for a whole day, helping Lin Xiu to keep an eye on the prince.
This parrot naturally had never seen the prince, and it took Lin Xiu two days to teach it the route to the East Palace and how to find the prince among the people in the East Palace.
It monitored the prince for a day today and came back to report to Lin Xiu in the evening.
Parrots are birds with high IQs among animals. They can clearly describe everything they saw today in bird language.
The prince is indeed a water control person, and he also practices martial arts. The royal family is very strict in educating the princes, not to mention the prince, the future king. The resources he enjoys on the road of practice are probably incomparable to the geniuses of the Yishu Academy such as Lingyin.
In addition to handling government affairs, the prince’s day is spent practicing strange arts, martial arts, eating and sleeping.
It seems that there is nothing special. Lin Xiu looked at the parrot and transmitted his voice: “What did he say?”
The parrot pecked a few more grains of rice and said in a very strange tone: “Yuan Jing, Xuanjie, upper, far from it…”
This is why Lin Xiu did not use the thrush, but spent time training this parrot. Although the thrush can also help Lin Xiu monitor the target, it cannot understand human language.
Parrots cannot understand human language either, but they can imitate. Although the pronunciation is not very standard, it does not affect the transmission of information.
These words do not reveal much information. Lin Xiu can probably guess that the prince’s cultivation is the upper realm of Xuanjie, the same as Lingyin and Princess Minghe, but he is older and the resources he enjoys are not comparable to Lingyin and Minghe. He is still only awakened four times, which shows that his talent for strange arts is not very good.
Of course, as the future emperor, he does not require any talent for cultivation. The current emperor does not have the ability of strange arts, but this does not affect his becoming the master of a country. Many strange arts and martial arts masters will serve him.
Lin Xiu looked at the parrot and continued to ask, “Are there any more?”
The parrot paused for a long time, as if recalling something, and then said, “One, and one more…”
“One, and one more…”
Lin Xiu looked suspicious, not understanding the meaning of these two words. After all, the parrot was not a human being, and it could not understand the prince’s words. It could only repeat them to Lin Xiu in two or three words, intermittently.
Perhaps, it imitated wrongly, or perhaps these two words had no meaning.
At this time, the parrot was still speaking in a strange tone: “Secret detective, protection, can’t find, an opportunity…”
Hearing the words “secret detective” and “protection”, Lin Xiu’s eyes condensed.
It was indeed the prince.
These words are not difficult to understand.
He has a secret detective protecting him, and the assassin can’t find an opportunity.
At this time, the parrot continued to say: “Another one, too strong, no, assassin…, this palace, patience, opportunity…”
Lin Xiu seemed to understand something, and murmured: “One, and one more…”
Combining these words, the two inexplicable words above are not difficult to understand.
Obviously, the prince wanted to assassinate more than one target, Lin Xiu was just one of them. He was protected by secret detectives, so the prince could not arrange for anyone to take action. His other target was too strong, and no assassin dared to take it…
In addition, the prince did not give up on them, and he was still looking for an opportunity…
At this point, it was clear who was behind the two assassinations. What
Lin Xiu couldn’t understand was that since the prince wanted to kill him, why didn’t he do it before, but he assassinated him twice in the past few months…
And who would the other person the prince wanted to kill be?
What does “one, and one more” mean? This sentence seems to mean that Lin Xiu was not among the prince’s assassination targets before, and he only had this idea recently, that is, he wanted to kill Lin Xiu not because of his engagement with Zhao Lingjun…
After all, that engagement was made before Lin Xiu was born.
This seems to explain Lin Xiu’s first doubt, why the prince didn’t do it for so many years, because the engagement was not the reason for him to assassinate Lin Xiu.
Then there is only the second possibility.
Could it be that it was because his ability was water and Lin Xiu’s ability was ice, and he wanted to kill Lin Xiu because his ability was restrained by Lin Xiu?
Lin Xiu had thought of this possibility, but how crazy would one have to be to do such a thing, wanting to kill someone for such an absurd reason?
However, based on this possibility, Lin Xiu found that everything could be explained.
The first time Lin Xiu was assassinated seemed to be a few days after his ability awakened.
He was assassinated twice, not because of the engagement with the Zhao family, but because his ability awakened–from the beginning, he got the direction of the investigation wrong.
Not only him, but everyone got it wrong.
Now thinking back, the top wealthy families in the royal capital are all experts in playing with power. It is impossible for them not to know that His Majesty would never marry Zhao Lingjun to them no matter what, and even if Lin Xiu died, it would not be their turn.
One, one more.
If the prince wanted to kill him for this reason, then this sentence is not difficult to understand.
In the entire royal capital, there happened to be only two people who possessed the ice skill.
One was Lin Xiu and the other was Lingyin.
…
The next morning, Zhao Lingyin came to the Lin Mansion. She came to practice with Lin Xiu.
Although she had persuaded the dean to let Lin Xiu share the practice resources with her, he could not enter the Tianzi Courtyard without her.
Lin Xiu did not sleep well last night. On the way to the Yishu Courtyard, he asked casually, “Lingyin, have you ever encountered assassinations before…”
Zhao Lingyin glanced at him and asked, “Why are you asking this?”
Lin Xiu said, “I just suddenly remembered it and asked casually.”
Zhao Lingyin said, “There were a few times when I was a child, but later it gradually became less…” Lin Xiu’s
expression was indifferent, but his heart was not calm.
Just because of the restraint of Yishu ability, he wanted to put someone to death. This is a pervert, a pervert with an extremely twisted mind. What’s more terrifying is that such a person is the crown prince of one of the five major dynasties on the mainland, the future emperor of Daxia… It’s
fucking outrageous.
The plot of the prince assassinating Lin Xiu was foreshadowed in Chapter 22. It was mentioned in one sentence in the conversation between Princess Minghe and her personal maid, and it was a hidden plot. I would like to briefly mention it here. This was designed a long time ago and was not a spur-of-the-moment idea.
(End of this chapter)
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