Tian Sheng Monster Hunting

Chapter 54 Black Cat
The moon was dark and the wind was high, and there was silence in Tiansheng Palace.The walls of the palace are towering, and one can see that the East Palace, which was brightly lit in the past, is not lit today, and there is no prince in Tiansheng...

Pass through the high wall of the East Palace and jump into the small courtyard next door.This is the Prince's Garden where the princes who have not established a mansion live. They study and practice here on weekdays. The deposed prince was established as a prince before he was an adult, so he has not established a mansion outside. Now that he has moved out of the East Palace, he can only live temporarily in desperation. Here, only the most simple staff are left to serve, and it is embarrassing that the tiger has fallen into Pingyang.

In the middle of the night, a group of elite soldiers patrolled past the door with lights and weapons in their hands. There were heavy bamboo shadows and a sudden breeze.

"Wait a moment!"

Chen Xi stopped alertly, "Go in and take a turn!"

"Yes!"

A dozen soldiers swarmed in, and when they heard the movement, the lights in the princes' rooms gradually lit up.

Seeing that the lights in the Prince's room had not been turned on, the soldiers knocked on the door.

"what happened?"

The deposed prince opened the door with some displeasure.

"Too... His Royal Highness, the Third Prince, General Chen noticed something unusual and sent us in to check it out. Is everything safe here?"

The young soldier looked inside curiously, the room was pitch black and he couldn't see anything clearly.

The deposed prince still had a gloomy face, with incomprehensible eyes, looking at him abruptly in the dark, which startled the young general.

"What a fuss!"

He closed the door angrily.

The young general returned to the team somewhat self-indulgently.

"Report to the commander, there is no abnormality in the courtyard."

Chen Xi glanced hesitantly, "You two are on duty here tonight."

The two young generals were left behind, and the imperial commander Chen Xi led the team to continue patrolling. After all, his duty is to protect the emperor, and the princes are just passing by, especially the abolished prince. , I have flattered him before, but he doesn't seem to appreciate my feelings very much. He only exchanged greetings with him because of his status as the imperial commander. Of course, he can feel it.

Now, he is unwilling to care more about the defeated general.

At this time, the prince's room was pitch black, and just after Chen Xi's army left, he fell silently on the ground, motionless, and he didn't know if he fell asleep or what.

The breeze hit again, the lantern on the eaves was knocked to the ground, and a cat meowed from the roof.

The two young generals looked up and saw a black lizard slave standing on the roof, staring at them with a pair of dark green eyes, jumped down and ran away in a blink of an eye.

They looked at each other and smiled, and hung up the lantern again, not knowing which empress' new favorite it was.

In the early morning of the next day, the morning court had already come down, and the people who cleaned the palace hadn't put down their work when a scream came from the Prince's Garden, which woke up the entire palace.

The soldiers who were close pushed open the doors of the Prince's Court one by one, and when they arrived at the room of the deposed prince, the soldiers hesitated for a moment, this man was very fierce.

"His Royal Highness the Third Prince?" The soldiers knocked and shouted at the door.

No one responded.

Chen Xi pushed away the fearful soldiers, and shouted loudly, "Third prince, my subordinate Chen Xi, lead the troops to inspect the abnormality, offend me!"

He kicked open the door, and the derelict prince fell into a pool of blood, his eyes stared in shock, his face was bloodless, and the three neat and terrifying paw prints on his chest were clearly visible.

Duan Yuzhi, who had just gone to court, was called back again, and hurriedly ordered to investigate the matter.

He saw this scene as soon as he entered the door, and he couldn't be more familiar with it... He frowned and his lips were tightly closed, thinking about how to cover up this matter.

He had already guessed that Sheng Yang would not let the prince go.

"grown ups!"

Duan Zi held up the objects found under the corpse.

Duan Yuzhi took a look and felt a little nervous. It was a fragment of a jade pass token, and there were still some pieces of jade foam on the ground. It seemed that it fell to the ground and was crushed by the corpse the moment it fell. The perpetrator hurriedly helped him up. The corpse picked up the token, ignoring the fragments.

He thought about it carefully, and breathed a sigh of relief, it was not from Princess Shengyang's mansion.

He handed the token to Duan Zi, "Check, which prince's mansion is in."

In fact, he already had some guesses in his mind, now that Pingyang is like a big ship that must sail in a storm, this jade plaque can only belong to the center of the storm - the residence of the Second Prince.

It's just that Sheng Yang...wasn't he conspiring with the second prince, how could he frame the second prince...

Did you guess wrong?

The young general who was on duty last night was brought up.

"My little one pays homage to Master Taifu!"

"I heard Commander Chen specially left the two of you on duty last night?"

"Yes, Master Taifu, it's the younger ones who have neglected their duties!"

"Don't rush to admit your mistake. Was there anything unusual last night?"

The two teenagers looked at each other for a long time, "No, no one came in or out last night, and there was no sound..."

Duan Yuzhi interrupted them, "I don't mean people."

"what……"

The two young generals were stunned for a moment, and immediately recalled.

"Yes! A black cat appeared on the roof last night!"

Black cat... Chiyu again... Duan Yuzhi's eyes darkened.

An hour later, the news that the deposed prince was killed by the cat demon spread throughout Pingyang.

The common people are in danger. Last time, in the case of the servant girl in the Princess Mansion, it was the prince of Zhen Guo who colluded with the cat demon, and the prince of Zhen Guo was killed by the cat demon. But this time, the cat demon participated in the murder of the prince.

All the relatives of the royal family in power were killed!I don't know whether it is a demon or a person who commits the crime!
And two hours later, the truth of the cat demon case has been presented to Emperor Zhao's study.

Emperor Zhao was no longer as calm as when Sheng Feiyu died last time. The concubine Sheng was his favorite concubine, and the crown prince was his favorite son. .Even if he lived up to his expectations and got the name of a collaborator, he just dismissed him, thinking that he would think about his mistakes for the rest of his life and live a peaceful life. Unexpectedly, he died not long after the dismissal .

He sat on the couch with his forehead propped up, and the room was burning with ambergris, because his thoughts were too chaotic at the moment.

"Your Highness." Duan Yuzhi led the order into the hall to report the situation he had investigated.

Emperor Zhao was too tired to lift his head, and his voice was full of fatigue, "Duan Qing, what's going on..."

"Your Highness, I have inspected the third prince's body, it is a cat demon."

Emperor Zhao suddenly raised his head and said angrily, "It's a cat demon again!"

"Yes, it's the cat demon again."

"Sheng Feiyu was also at that time..." Emperor Zhao slammed the table and stood up, "Who on earth is so bold that he dares to associate with cats and repeatedly harm the emperor's relatives?"

Duan Yuzhi lowered his head slightly, and handed over the evidence in his hand, "Your Highness, I found this object under the third prince's body."

Emperor Zhao took it, his eyes suddenly froze, he was very familiar with this thing, only the tokens in the palace of princes and princesses who are as noble as him are made of jade.

"who!"

"Second prince."

Emperor Zhao looked at Duan Yuzhi in disbelief, seeing that his eyes were determined, and an elusive mist gradually formed in his eyes. After a while, he sat back on the couch and said:

"There is no need for the second child to kill the third child... The eldest brother will be buried in three days. You should investigate this matter secretly. No matter how long it takes, find out who it is."

(End of this chapter)