atypical prostitute

Chapter 185 Grievance
"Yes."

Younv has experienced big scenes, she knew from Lici's tone that the young lady had a bad feeling, but she said calmly: "I was ordered to follow all the way, and I ran into a carriage three streets away from Prince Liang's mansion. But the situation was worse than I expected. All the guards were dead. Judging from the scene, it was a long-planned ambush. All the guards died at almost the same time. There was no residual scent of incense. I checked the wound and the assassin used What was used was a blunt weapon close to an iron braze, and the strike was fierce, all of them were killed by one blow, and there was no extra blood on the ground and walls."

"In other words, a professional assassin with military qualities?"

Li Ci's description made You Nu slightly embarrassed, and finally nodded, saying: "Their killing methods remind me of a gangster organization called Nighthawk, but Nighthawk is just a bunch of mobs, maybe it's okay to let them deal with ordinary gangsters. It is impossible for their scale and martial arts to instantly deal with more than 20 guards who are equivalent to second-class Jianghu masters, and this organization was disbanded as early as ten years ago. The only possibility I can think of is that Nighthawk's assassination skills were destroyed by someone The nobleman got it, when the nobleman trained his own soldiers, he also integrated the assassination technique of the Nighthawk into it."

After listening to You Nu's analysis, Li Ci nodded.

Because of the friendship with Dao Fengli and others, the changes in the small rivers and lakes in the capital are under the control of the Ye family. Those rivers and lakes organizations with powerful forces will be monitored once they enter the capital.Although there are also masters who are invincible in Jianghu, but when their force reaches their level, any defensive measures are futile. Fortunately, most of the masters are proud. Their strength allows them to easily obtain money and power, so most of them work alone. It is easy to work for others and does not like to be threatened by others, so it is not included in the secular category.

In fact, since ancient times, the prestige and many gangster organizations have always been more threatening than the best martial arts masters.

"Who got this power?" Li Ci murmured, then suddenly raised her head and asked, "How are the two concubines?"

"The princess was taken away."

You Nu said coldly, the expression on Li Ci's face should have been like this.

"Are there signs of fighting?" she asked.

"No, the carriage is very clean. There are two brocade gowns stacked on top of each other, belonging to Princess Liang and Princess Yan respectively. The clothes are very clean, with no stains, damage, or blood. Obviously, the two princesses took them off on their own initiative. In addition, I checked the compartment and the ground, and found no broken hair, gold or platinum."

The outer robes of noble ladies are mostly made of heavy brocade and mixed with gold, silver, pearls and jade. When you take them off, your hair will be pulled if you are not careful.If the two princesses were restrained and forcibly took off their coats, even if they gave up struggling, hair ornaments and even hair might be torn off.This subtlety proved Li Ci's other conjecture that one of the two princesses was acquainted with the kidnapper.

Stripped of her noble status, the concubine is just a woman, and being kidnapped means possible insult to a woman.Both Yujing and Yan Wangfei are not weak-tempered. Seeing that all the guards were killed, even if all the kidnappers were women, they could not completely give up struggling and waiting to be restrained.

So one of them must know the kidnapper and be sure that the kidnapper will not harm her.

Now there is only one thing left to be sure.

This kidnapping was the conspiracy of King Liang and King Yan, or it was done by one person alone.

While pondering, You Nu asked in a soft voice: "The disappearance of the princess is no small matter. After dawn, someone must come to ask the teacher about the crime. Madame, what should we do now?"

Li Ci glanced at her casually, and said: "Go down and rest first, A Mei stays here, I have something to ask you."

"Ah."

Bai Yinmei answered vigorously, because he was robbed of the task of tracking the princess by You Nu, he had been depressed for most of the night.At this moment, being deliberately left behind by Li Ci, he was finally in high spirits. Looking at the back of You Nu leaving, his eyes were shining with complacency.

Like a child who has snatched candy.

Seeing his happy appearance, Li Ci was also happy in her heart, but thinking of the current situation, her face became serious again.

"Amei, have you contacted people from Xiliang recently?"

"Forehead?"

Asking suddenly, Bai Yinmei couldn't help being startled, but fortunately he was quick-witted and realized Li Ci's meaning at random, and said unhappily: "You don't suspect that I sent someone to kidnap them?"

Because there were only the two of them in the room, Bai Yinmei didn't hide his contempt for the members of the royal family of Xie Dynasty, his tone was indifferent and his attitude was not bad.

"Because they use iron brazing, you doubt me? I've been by your side for the past few days!"

He argued eagerly, because of being wronged, the corners of his charming eyes were clouded with mist, and his bright red lips were pouting high, looking very aggrieved.

Li Ci sighed, and said, "Of course I believe in you, but the Xiliang survivors around you...they don't completely obey you. Besides, Ye Ying originally originated from the Western Regions... If I'm not wrong, Ye Ying's Most of the members are from Xiliang, they have already become part of you, right?"

Li Ci's words made Bai Yinmei subconsciously bit her lips, eyes drooping, and said sullenly: "After the fall of Xiliang, there were indeed many people from the Nighthawk Organization who joined us. But we are united to survive. We are not fools, we are very aware of our own strength, how could we possibly confront Xie Chao with that weak family background!"

"Confrontation is of course impossible, but how about taking advantage of the chaos to seek some benefits? There are many leaders in the alliance, and there are many factions, all relying on a single belief to gather together. It is hard to guarantee that there will be no wise people. Given the current situation, Xiliang's restoration of the country can be described as It’s illusory, it’s better to grab the power in front of you than to be exhausted and waste your life.”

As Li Ci said coldly, the corners of Bai Yinmei's mouth twitched a few times, as if he wanted to refute, but he finally chose to remain silent.

"Now, the two concubines are missing. Regardless of public or private matters, this matter must be thoroughly investigated. I hope you temporarily cut off contact with them. After all, the weapon of iron brazing is too obvious. Jing Zhaoyin only needs to do a little investigation. The people of Xiliang were found, and most of them would follow this path. The vassal king is not something that little Jing Zhaoyin can shake. Transferring the matter to the remnants of Xiliang is the best way to close the case. Amei, you can make a choice."

She spoke as calmly as possible, with unshakable determination in every word, but Bai Yinmei still lowered her head, her hands hidden in her sleeves clenched into fists.

His shoulders trembled with excitement.

Li Ci sighed and patted him on the shoulder.

"I know you are reluctant, but the most important thing now is to stabilize the situation and wait for His Majesty to return. Only when Your Majesty returns can we have the strength to fight. Before that, no matter who provokes you, you must endure it. As for this Those people who sacrificed this time...they didn't listen to your orders, and it's a good thing for you to end up like this."

"Good thing?"

Bai Yinmei finally couldn't bear it anymore, he raised his head, his eyes were cold, and he looked straight at Li Ci.

"Is it really a good thing?!"

"Of course it's a good thing. Taking this opportunity, you can eliminate the forces that don't obey you. Although the whole body will be temporarily weakened, it's a good thing in the long run."

Li Ci spoke as calmly as possible, as if death was just a number in her eyes.

She was provoking Bai Yinmei.

And Bai Yinmei was indeed irritated by this indifference.

He sneered, and said brightly and coldly: "You are right. Temporary weakening in exchange for long-term strength is indeed a good thing. I am grateful to the traitor who colluded with you Xie people, and thank him for clearing me up. Opportunity for someone different. So, what should I do now? Is it to write down the names of all the people I dislike and give them to Jing Zhaoyin so that he can arrest them according to the list?"

Under the candlelight, his smile was a bit ferocious.

Li Ci took a deep breath and said, "I know that everything I say is unfair to you, but... I still have to say it. I have always believed in you, but I can't trust them."

"But I'm also part of them! Why can you trust me but not them?"

Bai Yinmei said angrily, tears could not stop flowing from the corners of her eyes.

"Actually... Actually, you have always been on guard against me... You are worried about me... You can't restrain yourself and do things that harm your interests... This time you can finally be proud, you can kill all those who are annoying Get rid of it, don't need to... Do you know? If you didn't involve innocent people, not only would I not be angry, but I would even feel very happy. You care about me and need me... want to break me off from my past Open... But, I... I also have my responsibility... Of course, those old things deserve death, but the young people are innocent... I... your decision... I am nothing more than..."

He was sobbing, his choked up voice was pathetic.

But when Li Ci stretched out his compassionate fingers and tried to touch his face, he took a step back in disgust, crying and saying:

"I know that you are about to face an extremely dangerous situation, and I also know that my identity can't help you this time... It will drag you down, I think I'd better... let's go. Then you don't have to worry about my identity And my wife's benevolence affects your layout... For the layout of the Xiliang survivors, you can play casually... The country is gone, what's the point of having a silly dream of restoring the country?"

When the last word was uttered, tears were streaming down her face.

With tears in his eyes and endless grievances, he walked alone in the darkness before dawn. Numerous slaves passed by him with lamps, and they all stopped for him, but no one dared to call him out.

He looked so lonely, so pitiful, as if he would shatter if touched.

Finally, he walked away and disappeared at the end of sight.

"Does it hurt?"

Laughing at herself, Li Ci withdrew her gaze. Although she had been prepared for a long time, her heart couldn't help but twitched when she saw his aggrieved and heartbroken gesture.

She had driven him so far!
But this is something you have to do!

She understands Bai Yinmei's contradiction, but she also knows that she is right.

In the face of interests, people are vulnerable.

Those old foxes behind Bai Yinmei are masters at manipulating people's hearts. Although Bai Yinmei has seen through power tricks, his followers are still young and ignorant.

The younger you are, the more passionate you are, the easier it is to be bewitched and be dazzled by ideals.

So she had to push him to the edge of the cliff, force him to give up his dream of not lacking in reality, and see clearly the reality of the jungle.

Strength, and only strength, is the capital to settle down.

This battle is not only her battle, but also his battle.

In fact, to Li Ci, whether or not Bai Yinmei controls the survivors of Xiliang has always been irrelevant, because their loyal object is only limited to Bai Yinmei, and it is impossible to be loyal to her.But if he can be reborn from the ashes and gain great strength, Li Ci will be equally happy.

...It's a pity that growth is doomed to be accompanied by tearing pain...I hope he can understand his painstaking efforts as soon as possible...

(End of this chapter)