Longevity starts with inheriting a friend's legacy

Chapter 51: Wisdom, Resolving

Seeing the Golden Scale Guards scattering and starting to collect traces left at the scene, Fang Xu felt a little nervous.

"You seem frightened?"

Seeing Li Xun personally going to check out the pile of rotten flesh and blood, Yun Wan's voice came again.

Fang Xu was slightly stunned and thought to himself that something was wrong.

It must be because I was worried that Wang Erhu's grave would be discovered, and the nervousness that was inadvertently revealed in my expression was discovered.

But why is this girl Yun Wan staring at me?

Did she discover something?

Fang Xu thought about it, but he bowed slightly and said, "I heard that these soldiers died tragically at that time. Some of their bodies rotted immediately and turned directly into bones."

"I was wondering if there are still some witch tricks left here, such as poison or something..."

"Oh..." Yun Wan nodded slightly, but did not continue to ask, and just said lightly: "I have brought people to check here, there is no poison left, just don't touch the corpses."

"Prince, I have discovered something!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the voice of a Golden Scale Guard came from the bottom of the cliff.

Li Xun was checking the corpses nearby. When he heard the shout, he immediately jumped up and jumped directly off the ten-foot-high cliff!
Seeing this, Yun Wan also fluttered like a startled wild goose and floated down the cliff.

Seeing this, Fang Xu tried on the cliff, but found that he didn't have the ability to jump off the cliff like them. If he jumped down like that, he might break some bones. He could only slide down the gentle slope at the side.

"Prince, someone has buried something here, and it was buried just after these palace soldiers died." A Golden Scale Guard analyzed while holding the soil in his hand.

Fang Xu, who had just come over, frowned slightly when he heard this.

Can this be analyzed?
"Dig it up and see!" Li Xun said immediately.

The two Golden Scale Guards started digging immediately after receiving the order, and dug out Wang Erhu's body in a few moments.

"The armor of the palace soldiers!"

Looking at the black armor in front of her, Yun Wan was slightly stunned, and immediately used the sword in her hand to pick out an iron plate from the neck of Wang Erhu's rotten corpse.

"It's Wang Erhu, a soldier from Huangzhou Prefecture." Yun Wan said as she looked at the name on the iron plate.

Hearing this, Li Xun narrowed his eyes and said, "Is that so... This is a good discovery, Fang Xu, don't you think so?"

As he spoke, Li Xun turned his head and looked at Fang Xu.

Meeting his gaze, Fang Xu bowed slightly and said, "I don't think so, kid."

"Ok?"

Li Xun, who had been thinking of finding some sense of identity in Fang Xu, saw that Fang Xu actually denied his guess, and his eyes suddenly became cold.

On the side, Yun Wan was also a little confused. How could he, who had been trying his best to disguise himself, say such words at this time?

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. Please allow me to analyze it. If you think it is unreasonable, how about punishing me again?" Fang Xu bowed.

Li Xun sneered and said calmly: "This prince will give you a chance. If you can't explain it, I will bury you here with this body."

Glancing at Wang Erhu's body, Fang Xu said slowly, "Your Highness, I guess you don't know who Wang Erhu is, right?"

Li Xun was slightly stunned when he heard this: "What identity? Isn't he a soldier in Huangzhou Prefecture?"

Fang Xu continued: "Yes, but he has another identity. He is Wang Ergou's younger brother."

"To be honest, my lord, Wang Erhu is from Fenglin Town. He has often visited your home since he was a child and is familiar with most of the people in the town."

"If you happen to see him die tragically on the roadside, it is natural for the neighbors to bury him on the spot because they cannot bear to see his body being eaten by wild animals."

Li Xun didn't know that Wang Erhu was from Fenglin Town.

In his opinion, Fang Xu's analysis was reasonable. If he continued to investigate this point, he would inevitably waste a lot of time.

"Your life is saved." After thinking for a long time, Li Xun suddenly spoke.

Upon hearing this, Fang Xu quickly bowed and said, "Thank you, Prince!" Although he couldn't figure out what Li Xun was planning to investigate with the help of Wang Erhu being buried here, he was the one who buried the body, so he could not let Li Xun investigate further.

If the truth is really discovered by then, I might even lose my life.

That's why he took the risk of rejecting Li Xun's guess and directing his attention in other directions.

Still careless.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been so soft-hearted and buried Wang Erhu, otherwise there wouldn't be the danger today.

"Have you collected all the other clues?" Li Xun asked, looking at the Golden Scale Guards behind him.

"Your Highness, we have collected everything!" said a Golden Scale Guard with a bow.

"Let's go!" Li Xun immediately waved his hand and prepared to take the Golden Scale Guards back.

"Your Highness!" Fang Xu suddenly raised his hands and shouted, "I want to rebury Wang Erhu's body before I leave. Please allow me to do so."

Li Xun turned around slowly, his expression changing slightly.

He did not completely believe Fang Xu's words, and even began to doubt Fang Xu's intention to risk his life to disobey him.

But now hearing him actually asking him to bury Wang Erhu's body before leaving, Li Xun suddenly felt that maybe what he had just said was true.

It is possible that some common people in the town really found Wang Erhu's body when they went into the mountains and buried him here.

"Hurry up, don't keep me waiting for too long." Li Xun said calmly, his doubts dispelled.

Fang Xu hurriedly bowed, dragged Wang Erhu's body back into the pit, and quickly buried it. Then he quickly walked to Li Xun's side and said, "Sir, we can go now."

At night, in the same restaurant in the town, the three of them were sitting around a table drinking.

After eating and drinking, Li Xun glanced at Yun Wan and did not ask to send her off. He took the twenty Golden Scale Guards back to analyze the clues.

Yun Wan woke up Fang Xu who was pretending to be drunk and said suspiciously: "You seem to have something to do today."

"Why stop Li Xun from investigating who buried Wang Erhu's body there?"

Fang Xu burped and smiled faintly, "Miss Yun, do you want to hear the truth?"

Yun Wan did not answer, but her eyes were already filled with scrutiny.

Wang Erhu was a soldier of Huangzhou Prefecture, and she was the princess of Huangzhou Prefecture. The killing of the soldiers was a slap in the face of Huangzhou Prefecture, so she naturally wanted to catch those witches as soon as possible to save face.

If Fang Xu intended to obstruct, she would not mind executing Fang Xu on the spot as Wu's accomplice.

"People will die...if we investigate further, people will die..."

Fang Xu murmured, "As a prince, you have already hit a snag in Fenglin Town this time. If you take a useless clue as the main direction to investigate today, and spend a lot of energy and time, and finally find out that it was a Li Shu in the town who buried Wang Erhu, what do you think the fate of that Li Shu will be, Miss Yun?"

Yun Wan was slightly stunned.

According to the rumors, Li Xun had a capricious and tyrannical character. If he spent a lot of energy to investigate and finally found out that it was a mistake, he would be so angry that he would definitely kill the entire family of Li Shu to vent his anger!
"Why do you protect the common people in this town so much?" Yun Wan asked curiously.

Fang Xu sighed slightly and said, "My grandfather used to be a famous carpenter in the town. When I was a kid, I often followed him to the homes of the people around me to do some work and repair farm tools. I got to know most people in the town."

"They are all ordinary people who just want to have three meals a day and live a stable life."

At this point, Fang Xu smiled faintly, looked at Yun Wan and said: "Although I have the cultivation level of a martial artist of the second level, I am also an ordinary person. I will help them to the best of my ability."

"But you rejected Li Xun's guess in public today. Aren't you afraid that he will kill you?" Yun Wan asked again.

"He won't." Fang Xu said firmly: If there is any possibility that he will kill me, I will not stand up for him."

"After all, my own life is the most important. If I succeed, I will help the world. If I fail, I will just take care of myself..."

"Ms. Yun, it's getting late, you..."

Looking at the silver light all over the ground outside the window, Yun Wan slowly stood up, looked at Fang Xu deeply and said, "Walk with me."

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