Daxuanti criminal officer

Chapter 339 Unbelievable

According to what Shen Xingran said, Xu Zun secretly sorted out the whole story of the iron coffin case, and felt that he had a new understanding.

First of all, Qiu Dingtian, a nearly hundred-year-old national teacher, mastered a royal secret about Empress Dowager Lin, so she was hunted down by her.

As a last resort, Qiu Dingtian fled to Xiazhou and sought asylum from the Ruan family.

However, the Ruan family was afraid of the power of the queen mother, so they had to kill Qiu Dingtian, put the body in an iron coffin, and secretly escorted back to the holy capital by the inner guards.

Since Ku Niang was hidden at the bottom of the iron coffin, and her skills were similar to those of the Ruan family, it is possible that Ku Niang was a bodyguard sent by the Ruan family.

Or... there are other purposes.

Then, an accident happened, the iron coffin was robbed in Xinye County, the inner guard was killed, Ku Niang was imprisoned, and the whereabouts of Qiu Dingtian's body was unknown.

Since the person who imprisoned Ku Niang was Shen Gong and Shen Tiande, then Shen Tiande must have participated in the iron coffin robbery.

So... the question is, why did Shen Tiande snatch Qiu Dingtian's body?
Could it be that there are some secrets still kept in Qiu Dingtian's corpse?
However, Xu Zun can roughly judge that the person who ordered Shen Tiande must want to know the big secret that Qiu Dingtian knew.

From this point of view, that secret must be very important. Once mastered, it can probably threaten the regime of Queen Mother Lin.

However, obviously these people didn't get what they wanted, either they didn't find the secret from Qiu Dingtian's corpse, or there was no Qiu Dingtian's corpse in the coffin.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have imprisoned Ku Niang for more than two years and tortured her severely.

It stands to reason that Ku Niang should know best whether there is Qiu Dingtian's body in the iron coffin, but now that Ku Niang has lost her memory, she may not be able to know the answer for the time being.

Thinking of this, Xu Zun remembered another thing, that is, when he personally asked Queen Mother Lin about the iron coffin case, Queen Mother Lin's reaction seemed a bit extreme.

It seems that the big secret hidden behind the iron coffin case is definitely of sufficient weight.

Otherwise, Empress Dowager Lin would not have deployed in Yonghui to try to put pressure on the Ruan family in Xiazhou.

Understood, Xu Zun arranged them briefly.

Shen Tiande and the forces behind it should not be from the Taoist sect, so it is very likely that they are some forces that want to overthrow the Queen Mother's regime.

Shen Tiande became an official back then because he was a member of the royalist faction. It seems that the royalist faction really wanted to get the big secret that Qiu Dingtian knew, so as to overthrow the Queen Mother Lin.

call……

Xu Zun exhaled heavily, feeling that the court is more sinister than imagined!
If you don't know which step is wrong, you will be doomed!

So... for the matter of looking for the prince right now, I have to do it myself.

"Brother Shen," thinking of this, Xu Zun asked Shen Xingran again, "Do you think there is anything strange about the attack on the crown prince?"

"Strange?" Shen Xingran paused, and asked, "Why do you ask that? Jiying, things like sea monsters are unimaginable. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it would be hard to believe it!"

"I..." Xu Zun thought for a while and said, "I'm not talking about the sea monster, I'm talking about drifting on the sea for ten days after your Tianfu giant ship was attacked.

"What happened in the past ten days?"

"Ah? You..." Shen Xingran frowned, full of doubts, "Don't you believe me? The hull of the ship was severely damaged, and the sailing was uncontrollable. You could only drift with the current. Although Wei Pu and others tried their best, the ship was still in the end. It crashed into Gufeng Island."

Hearing this, Xu Zun's expression was solemn and he didn't say a word.

"What? Jiying?" Shen Xingran felt something and asked, "Do you think that after Gufengdao came out, I was the only one left, which is illogical?"

Xu Zun still didn't speak, but looked at Shen Xingran very seriously.

"Jiying," Shen Xingran was slightly sullen, "what do you mean?"

"Brother Shen," Xu Zun finally opened his mouth and asked, "Yingying, what's going on?"

Yingying is the beautiful woman in red dress dancing rainbow dance.

"Yingying?" Shen Xingran was startled, and said, "Oh, she...she is a court dancer, and she and I...um...we had nothing to do with her."

"Then you are on Gufeng Island, risking your life for her?" Xu Zun asked.

"Oh, well," Shen Xingran said helplessly, "I have been in love with Yingying since the beginning of my mission, but it's a pity that her identity is sensitive and we can't make it public.

"Later, when we arrived at Gufeng Island, alas..." he said in pain, "Seeing the woman you love being taken away by different men every day, do you know what it's like?

"However, my strength is weak, and I am not a match for those warriors." Shen Xingran said, "In order to save Yingying, I insisted on fighting every day. I think... this is the motivation for me to survive?"

Shen Xingran's words were full of helplessness and bitterness, it was indeed a painful thing.

Moreover, those people who took Yingying away were on the same boat now, so meeting each other was inevitably embarrassing.

However, those warriors didn't do it intentionally, it was all because of the lemon toxin, Shen Xingran was even more helpless.

"Then..." Xu Zun could feel Shen Xingran's suffering, and immediately changed the subject and asked, "Where is the princess? I can't figure it out. As a noble princess, there must be a maid by her side, right? But why, she is the only one?" What about people?"

"Well..." Shen Xingran recalled carefully, and replied after a few seconds, "there are six personal maids around the princess, and I saw them during the ten days of drifting, but... it seems that after entering Gufeng Island, they will be there again. Didn't see it either.

"How about..." he suggested, "Why don't you ask the Crown Princess herself? She should know, right?"

"I have already sent someone to ask," Xu Zun said, "The Crown Princess was taken away by Wang Dian as soon as she entered Gufeng Island, and her maid was missing. Didn't you see it?"

Shen Xingran shook his head: "At that time, people became confused and couldn't remember many details! Could it be... those maidservants were also..."

"Then..." Xu Zun asked, "Do you have any impression of those people who gambled?"

"It's also very blurry," Shen Xingran said with a bitter face, "The gambling place is inside the palace, and I rarely see them.

"At that time, all my attention was on Yingying, so... so... oh..."

Shen Xingran pinched his forehead, as if in pain.

"Brother Shen," Xu Zun hurriedly comforted, "In this case, then stop drinking! Lime toxin stimulates the spirit, although I didn't stay there for a long time, recalling it now, it still feels like a big dream.

"What's more, you have been affected for so long?"

"Jiying..." Shen Xingran said, "I don't know what to say about finding the prince!

"Are you, still don't believe in the existence of sea monsters?"

"No," Xu Zun said after taking a sip of his wine, "It's not that I don't believe in sea monsters, but I don't believe in people's hearts!
"Brother Shen, if the crown prince was really attacked by a sea monster, why were the survivors who reported back to the news silenced?"

(End of this chapter)