Chapter 341. The Death of the Third Prince (I)
Two days later, when Fang Shuoyang was with the imperial censor, the butler of the censor hurriedly reported that something big had happened. The censor was now kind of Fang Shuoyang’s “colleague”.
Due to the arrangement of the emperor, Fang Shuoyang now had the same rank as the censor, and his duties were similar to the latter.
This time, the Worship Ceremony in Western mountain would be held soon after a few days.
Therefore, some details needed to be perfected.
Fang Shuoyang was responsible for some of the works, so was the imperial censor.
Therefore, Fang Shuoyang had started to come to the censor’s home for discussion for several hours since yesterday.
The censor was supposed to go to Fang Shuoyang’s place originally. After all, how could he bother the Fourth Prince to come to his place back and forth? But Fang Shuoyang refused.
Seriously? With so many secrets in his mansion now, what if the censor discovered anything abnormal?
Although through their previous and present connection, the censor was already on his side to a certain extent.
However, this was too big a thing to be treated randomly!
The butler came over and said that something big had happened outside, and it only took the censor a second to report it at once.
Of course, Fang Shuoyang was still there.
The censor did so for a reason. Since what happened outside was definitely not the secret of his mansion, and the Fourth Prince would know it sooner or later, he could take the chance to flatter him.
With such thought in mind, of course, it wouldn’t take more than one second for him to give such an order.
The butler immediately reported, “My Lord, I heard that the Third Prince was attacked by two groups of assassins. And now, he is dying.”
“What!” The censor was really surprised for he didn’t expect to hear such news.
Fang Shuoyang almost jumped up. “What did you say? My third brother was assassinated? When did this happen?”
“On the street not long ago. Many people have seen it.”
“How so? Tell me the details!” The censor hurriedly said.
It turned out that the Third Prince accompanied his concubine to buy jade in the famous jade building in the Imperial City.
Only because it would be the birthday of his concubine’s father in a few days.
As the son-in-law, the Third Prince cared about his concubine, so he’d like to honor her family as well. However, since the family of the concubine were just wealthy merchants instead of courtiers, the gift he was about to send should be proper.
Given the above, the Third Prince decided to send him a jade, which happened to be favored by his father-in-law who was very knowledgeable about all kinds of jade.
And the Third Prince and his favorite concubine decided to buy a superior one as a gift.
Their destination, as a matter of course, was the most famous jade building in the Imperial City.
Unexpectedly, their convoy was attacked when it was marching on the street of the Imperial City!
Only two people attacked the convoy.
The public could only see that they were one man and one woman. Also, that woman was very good at using poison.
After the woman sprinkled a handful of powder, many people in the Third Prince’s convoy were almost blinded. After all, they had their eyes open before they had time to protect them.
And then, it only took the woman a moment to directly attack the carriage.
Since the Third Prince was swaggering through the street, the curtains were opened, and many people saw with their eyes what had happened. The assassin attacked the Third Prince directly. But at the critical moment, the Third Prince pulled his concubine from aside unexpectedly.
The assassin killed the woman with a single blow of a sword, while the Third Prince took the opportunity to escape from the carriage.
The remaining guards surrounded the Third Prince.
At this time, two more masters arrived.
They should be the bodyguards specially invited by the Third Prince.
The Third Prince seemed to be very relieved to be protected by the two of them. He even asked his guards to leave him and attack the assassins. Within a short time, the two assassins were caught in a desperate situation.
However, the two were both great martial artists.
Especially that woman. She could easily subdue two or three people with a handful of powder.
After that, the woman was even able to attack the Third Prince again.
The two bodyguards confronted her afterward. But after less than ten minutes, a large number of guards were finally arriving.
The woman seemed to have realized something at this time. She even would rather suffer the risk of being hit on the shoulder to throw an explosive projectile towards the Third Prince.
The projectile exploded, and there was poison gas inside!
The Third Prince screamed immediately. Some guards hurried away, while some others who were coward… ran away immediately!
The two bodyguards fought against the two assassins crazily.
The two assassins, on the contrary, saw that many officers and soldiers were about to arrive, so they retreated.
The two bodyguards looked at each other and chased them behind.
The officers and soldiers were about to arrive. At this moment, a black figure suddenly floated on the roof on the other side.
The figure was very fast and directly rushed into the smoke-filled field which was caused by the explosive projectile. The person got in there within a blink and quickly came out. After that, he jumped onto the roof and fled immediately.
Some of the public even saw the whole process.
And all the people watching were stunned.
Then, the officers and soldiers finally arrived, but the Third Prince…
After the smoke cleared, they found that the Third Prince’s face turned greenish-black. In addition, there was a wound on his neck.
Even so, the Third Prince was still tenaciously breathing.
Well, at least when the officers and soldiers arrived, he hadn’t died yet!
If he was dead at that time, the first thing these officers and soldiers were about to do was to capture the murderers.
However, the Third Prince had not died yet!
As a result, the first thing they had to do was to save the Third Prince’s life!
In this way, the officers and soldiers marched to escort the Third Prince to the imperial doctor…
And that was what the public knew…
Fang Shuoyang immediately said, “Master Zhang, I’m afraid that I have to leave.”
“Greetings, Your Highness.” The censor could ill afford to stop him.
When Fang Shuoyang left, Liu Suifeng also healed an “assassin”.
Wasn’t it an assassin indeed? The Third Prince might not necessarily die if they just relied on the poison gas!
Tianxiang Zi was being nice on that day, otherwise, if the poison gas spread, it would definitely not only hurt the Third Prince and his people, but the innocent people on the street would also suffer.
And too much impact would cause the emperor to be furious and desperate to find the murderers even if he had to rummage the whole city!
Moreover, most assassins would not like to get the innocent involved during their mission.
Therefore, the poison that Tianxiang Zi made was not fatal.
Ying Feng’s attack later, however, was deadly!
But Tianxiang Zi’s poison was very powerful as well. Even if Ying Feng took the detoxification pill given by Liu Suifeng beforehand, he almost failed to come to Liu Suifeng!
Fortunately, he still made it.
After Liu Suifeng treated him, he said, “You are fine now, but try not to use internal force in the next two days.”
Ying Feng nodded. “I see. Thanks a lot.”
Liu Suifeng waved his hand. “How’s the Third Prince?”
“He won’t survive,” Ying Feng said confidently.
Liu Suifeng smiled. “Ying Feng, that’s quite a smart trick you played. If the Third Prince had died on the spot, the officers and soldiers would have chased and fought against you crazily. Even if they couldn’t catch you, it would do us no good if they caught Tianxiang Zi, which could possibly get us involved. But letting the Third Prince nearly at his last gasp could distract them to take the chance to save him… And at the same time, both of you could escape.”
Ying Feng smiled slightly. “I dare not take the credit. I only did so under the command of my master.”
“Long Xiaoyuan?” Liu Suifeng lowered his voice.
“Yes.”