Don’t Show the Son

Inside the Eastern Palace, there is a large lake.

The original East Palace did not have an inner lake, but after the crown prince was established, the imperial court expanded the East Palace and dug out a lake.

Ordinary people may only think that this is to enhance the scenery of the Eastern Palace, but some top wealthy families in the capital know that the inner lake of the Eastern Palace was built for the crown prince's ability.

The prince's ability is to control water, which is a secret to the common people.

After all, the crown prince is the crown prince, and he will ascend to the position of honor in the future. His ability of strange magic cannot be advertised to the outside world. Some of the different skills can be mutually restrained. If the prince's ability is known to the unruly people, it is easy to plan an assassination against his ability.

However, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. Although the court has always kept the crown prince's ability a secret, it is not a secret in the eyes of the top dignitaries in Great Xia.

Today's weather is fine, the clouds are calm and there is no wind, but the inner lake of the East Palace is choppy. A water dragon circles out of the lake and shatters a stone tablet by the lake.

If this force falls on a person, the bones of an ordinary person will be shattered in an instant, and there is no possibility of surviving.

This is the prestige of the heaven-level strange art.

A small figure emerged from the lake, stepped on the lake, and walked to the grass by the lake. The clothes and soles of the shoes were not wet at all, and there was no trace of water.

Another middle-aged man stepped forward and said respectfully: "Congratulations, Your Royal Highness, your strength has improved a bit, and you can step into the ground, just around the corner."

The prince waved his hand and said: "I know the talent of this palace. It took so many yuan crystals to barely reach the upper level of the mysterious rank. It is still far from the ground rank. There is no way to compare with that of the Zhao family... "

The middle-aged man didn't speak, but just sighed in his heart. The prince really didn't have any points in his heart. The talent of the Zhao family was top-notch in the whole continent. The gap, not to mention the prince with mediocre talents in different arts...

He shouldn't have thought of comparing with the Zhao family at all.

After finishing today's practice of strange arts, the prince left the lake, came to a palace, and began to deal with government affairs.

There are actually not many government affairs that need to be handled by him. Most of the political affairs are handled by the 24th Division. Some important matters will be discussed in the court, and those that are not too important or urgent will be handed over to him for practice. .

Even so, he read those memorials very seriously. These are all his experience in the future.

A beautiful bird stood on the tree outside the window, singing crisply from time to time, and the prince, who was reading the memorial, didn't pay attention.

At a certain moment, an old man with white hair and beard walked to the gate of the hall, saw the prince who was seriously handling the memorial, stroked his beard, nodded in satisfaction and left.

At the moment when his back disappeared, the crown prince stopped reading the memorial, then threw the memorial aside, and said in a low voice, "How is that matter going?"

An eunuch who had been standing by the pillar stepped forward and said respectfully, "Return to Your Highness, it has already been dealt with."

The prince tapped the table lightly with his index finger, and murmured: "The far ones have been dealt with, but the near ones have been dangling in front of my eyes. There was only one before, but now there is one more..."

The eunuch showed a look of embarrassment on his face, and said: "His Royal Highness, there are people from the Secret Detective Division next to him to protect him, and he can't find a chance to attack. As for the other one, she is too strong, and she has no high-ranking status." With her strength, I'm afraid she won't be able to complete the task, and no assassin dares to take her task..."

The prince picked up a memorial again, and said slowly: "Don't worry, I have a lot of patience, and I will always find opportunities..."

...

Lin Fu.

It was late at night.

Lin Xiu hadn't slept yet.

He was sitting on the desk in front of the window, and the window was open. After an unknown amount of time, a black shadow suddenly flew across the night sky, flew in from the window, and landed on his desk.

It was the blue-crested cockatoo he domesticated.

At the empress dowager's birthday banquet, the glance she had with the prince, and what she saw in the prince's eyes, made Lin Xiu more suspicious of him, and made him Lin Xiu's first investigation object.

Lin Xiu sprinkled a handful of rice grains on the table, and the parrot chirped while pecking at it.

It stayed in the East Palace all day, helping Lin Xiu keep an eye on the prince.

Naturally, this parrot had never seen the prince before. It took Lin Xiu two days to teach it the route to the East Palace and how to find the prince among the people in the East Palace.

It monitored the prince for a day today, and came back to report to Lin Xiu at night.

The parrot is a bird with a high IQ among animals. It can clearly describe everything it sees today in bird language.

The prince is indeed a person with the ability to control water, and at the same time he is also practicing martial arts. The royal family is very strict in educating the prince, let alone the prince, the future king, the resources he enjoys on the road of cultivation, I am afraid that even Lingyin The geniuses of the School of Different Arts are also incomparable.

In addition to dealing with political affairs, the prince's day is to practice different arts, martial arts, as well as eating and sleeping.

Seemingly nothing special, Lin Xiu looked at the parrot and said via voice transmission, "What did he say?"

The parrot pecked a few more grains of rice, and said in a strange tone: "Yuanjing, Xuanjie, go up, it's far away..."

This is why Lin Xiu didn't use the thrush, but took the time to domesticate the parrot. Although the thrush can also help Lin Xiu monitor the target, it can't understand human language.

Parrots can't understand human words, but they can imitate them. Although the pronunciation is not very standard, it does not affect the transmission of information.

These few words don’t reveal much information. Lin Xiu can probably guess that the crown prince’s cultivation is at the upper level of the mysterious rank, which is the same as Lingyin and Princess Minghe, but he is older, and the resources he enjoys are not Lingyin. Comparable with Minghe, it is still only four awakenings, which shows that his talent for strange arts is not very good.

Of course, as the future emperor, he is not required to have any talent for cultivation. Today, he does not have the ability of different arts, but this does not affect his becoming the lord of a country, and many experts in different arts and martial arts will work for him.

Lin Xiu looked at the parrot and continued to ask, "Are there any more?"

The parrot paused for a long time, as if recalling, and then said: "One, and one more..."

"One, and one more..."

Lin Xiu looked suspicious and didn't understand the meaning of these two words. The parrot is not a human being after all. It couldn't understand what the prince said, so it could only repeat two or three words for Lin Xiu intermittently.

Perhaps, it imitated it wrong, or perhaps these two words had no meaning in the first place.

At this time, the parrot was still saying in a strange tone: "Secret investigation, protection, if you can't find it, if you have a chance..."

Hearing the words "secret investigation" and "protection", Lin Xiu's eyes froze.

It really is the prince.

These words are not difficult to understand.

He was protected by a secret detective, and the assassin couldn't find a chance.

At this time, the parrot continued to say: "Another one, too strong, no, assassin..., Ben Gong, patience, opportunity..."

Lin Xiu seemed to understand something, and murmured, "One, and one more..."

Combining these words, the above two inexplicable words are not difficult to understand.

Obviously, the prince wants to assassinate more than one target, and Lin Xiu is just one of them. He is protected by secret agents, and the prince has no way to arrange for someone to attack him. His other target is too strong, and no assassin dares to take it. ...

What's more, the prince has not given up on fighting them, he is still looking for an opportunity...

At this point, it is clear who is behind the two assassinations.

What Lin Xiu couldn't understand was, since the crown prince wanted to kill him, why didn't he do it before, but in the past few months, he assassinated him twice...

And who is the other person that the prince wants to kill?

What is "one, and one more", the meaning of this sentence seems to be that Lin Xiu was not among the prince's assassination targets before, and he only had this idea recently, that is to say, he wants to kill Lin Xiu, isn't it Because of his engagement with Zhao Lingjun...

After all, that engagement was made before Lin Xiu was born.

This also seemed to explain Lin Xiu's first doubt, why the prince hadn't done anything in the past so many years, because that engagement was not the reason for him to assassinate Lin Xiu in the first place.

Then there is only the second possibility.

Could it be because his ability is water and Lin Xiu's ability is ice, and Lin Xiu restrained him because of his ability, so he wanted to kill him?

It's not that Lin Xiu never thought about this possibility, but what kind of crazy person would it take to do such a thing, because of such a ridiculous reason, wanting to kill others?

However, based on this possibility, Lin Xiu found that everything can be explained.

The first time Lin Xiu was assassinated seemed to be a few days after his ability awakened.

He was assassinated twice, not because of his marriage contract with Zhao's family, but because of his awakening ability --- from the very beginning, he got the wrong direction of the investigation.

Not only him, everyone got it wrong.

Thinking back now, those top wealthy families in the capital are all experts in playing with power. It is impossible not to know that His Majesty will not marry Zhao Lingjun to them no matter what. Even if Lin Xiu dies, it will not be their turn.

One, and one more.

If the prince wants to kill him because of this reason, then this sentence is not difficult to understand.

In the entire capital, there happened to be only two people who possessed the magic of ice.

One is Lin Xiu and the other is Lingyin.

...

Early the next morning, Zhao Lingyin came to the Lin Mansion. She came to find Lin Xiu to practice.

Although she had persuaded the dean to let Lin Xiu share the cultivation resources with her, without her leading Lin Xiu, he would not be able to enter the Tianziyuan alone.

Lin Xiu didn't sleep well last night. On the way to the Academy of Abnormal Arts, he seemed to inadvertently ask: "Lingyin, have you ever encountered something like assassination before..."

Zhao Lingyin glanced at him and asked, "Why are you asking this?"

Lin Xiudao: "I just thought of it suddenly, just ask casually."

Zhao Lingyin said: "I had it a few times when I was young, but it gradually became less and less..."

Lin Xiu's expression was calm, but her heart was not calm.

It is a pervert, a pervert with extremely distorted psychology, and what is even more frightening is that such a person is also the prince of one of the five great dynasties in the mainland and the future emperor of Great Xia ...

Just fucking outrageous.

The line that the prince will assassinate Lin Xiu left a small foreshadowing in Chapter 22. In the conversation between Princess Minghe and the maid of honor, it was mentioned in one sentence at that time, and it was a hidden line. Let me mention it here, this is It was designed very early on, not a temporary idea.