EBE Chapter 390 It’s Too Early
Chapter 390 It’s Too Early
Although the skinny monkey said this, he couldn't really do it. He was pretending to move forward, so he stopped and forced a stiff smile: "Haha..., Your Majesty is right, I have the will but not the courage. If I say I can take the medicine, it's ok. There are many such things in the palace, but the matter of white knife in and red knife out..., although I don't have any dietary restrictions, I don't like eating blood sausage."
Aunt Jing's eyes were red, and she went up to snatch the dagger from the skinny monkey: "You are useless, I will do it..."
Zhou Chang quickly stopped her: "Aunt Jing, your hands shouldn't be stained with this fellow's blood. Just wait a little longer."
Some people were more anxious, so she was not so anxious.
Liu Dexia's donkey face was ashen, he could only breathe out but not in, but his eyes were still wide open and he refused to die.
Zhou Chang felt weak all over and fell into the chair. He saw a rope in the corner of the room from the corner of his eye: "There is still a rope. Why not use it to send him to death as soon as possible."
"Yes, why didn't I think of it?" The skinny monkey immediately put down the dagger and went to pick up the rope.
He would do what he said as long as there was no bloodshed.
Liu Dexia's neck was strangled from behind and he was completely unable to make a sound. His eyes rolled up, but his hands and feet were still scratching and kicking around.
It is true that good people don’t live long, but evil people live for a thousand years.
Zhou Chang didn't dare to look closely, but he didn't understand why Liu Dexia was so difficult to kill?
"Bang..." Zhou Chang's heart skipped a beat and he smashed the teacup on the low table next to him into pieces.
She had not expected such a scene.
After all, being a bystander and being on the scene are not the same thing.
Killing someone, no matter who you kill, is not as simple as you think.
"Your Highness, don't be embarrassed..." Gao Yuan said as he walked behind the skinny monkey and shouted, "Get out of the way..."
Before the skinny monkey could react, Gao Yuan had already reached Liu Dexia's side, covered Liu Dexia's mouth and nose with one hand, and somehow exerted some strength on his hand, just like that...
Liu Dexia's body suddenly stretched and stopped moving.
Zhou Chang's heart skipped a beat, and then finally calmed down.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
After a moment of silence, the skinny monkey threw away the rope in his hand first: "Brother Gao has such skills, he should have done it earlier, so that I would have wasted so much effort."
As soon as Zhou Chang felt relieved, he felt exhausted all over and collapsed in the chair.
There was no emotion in Aunt Jing's eyes anymore, she just let out a breath quietly.
Uncle Qiu leaned against the wall and let out a long sigh.
Zhou Chang originally didn't want Gao Yuan to take action because this matter had nothing to do with Gao Yuan and he didn't want Gao Yuan to be responsible for any loss of life. But Gao Yuan had been on the battlefield and in the underworld after all, so he was better than any of them in this matter.
Gao Yuan took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands, his voice still muffled: "I thought you wanted to do it yourself, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult."
"Brother, brother, you really think too highly of me." The skinny monkey wiped the sweat that had dripped onto his eyelids, glanced at Liu Dexia's body, and felt relieved.
Compared with Gao Yuan and Shouhou, Zhou Chang felt that he was the real waste.
I was just hoping that Liu Dexia would die soon, but now I dare not look directly at Liu Dexia's corpse.
He could only stand up with his arms, bowed and nodded to Gao Yuan: "Thank you for your help tonight."
Taking someone's life is one thing to think about and another to do.
Even if she lives several more lives, she still won't be able to do it.
Gao Yuan hated to see Prince Yi like this, and dodged like he was on fire: "Your Highness, what are you talking about? If you hadn't saved my two brothers back then, I wouldn't be where I am today."
Zhou Chang had only done half of the work. He forced himself to stand up and was about to order people to deal with the bodies quickly when he heard faint shouts from outside: "The fire is coming out!" and "Put out the fire!"
He quickly turned around and took two steps to the door, putting his ear to it to confirm.
Finally, she got angry and subconsciously shook her clothes. From the inside out, her whole body was soaked with sweat.
The skinny monkey also reacted: "My Lord, someone really set the fire."
"Aunt Jing, Uncle Qiu, go outside and check." Zhou Chang turned sideways to open the door and immediately acted according to the pre-planned action. "Also, make sure to distract the strangers so that we can deal with the body."
"Yes..." Uncle Qiu came up and opened the door, and a cool mountain breeze blew in.
Several people were immediately cheered up.
Aunt Jing went out first, looked around and saw that there was no one around, then waved to Uncle Qiu.
Uncle Qiu then hobbled out and closed the door again.
The room became stuffy again.
Skinny Monkey took the sack in the corner and, together with Gao Yuan, put Liu Dexia's body into the sack.
Since the fire broke out in the Hunting Palace, Zhou Chang could, as he had planned, take Liu Dexia's body to the fire scene and destroy the evidence in the chaos.
"What is that?" Zhou Chang suddenly found something falling from Liu Dexia.
The skinny monkey picked up an envelope and opened it. There was only a piece of paper inside.
Zhou Chang took it and there was only one simple line of words on it: "I'm ill. I'll be back soon. Waiting for your message."
What does it mean?
Is it too early to tie it up?
Zhou Chang couldn't help but frown, feeling that he had missed something.
Thinking of Liu Dexia's dying struggle just now, he should have been assigned by Concubine Yi, Gu, to deliver a letter to Prince Duan tonight.
Then "postpone" and "wait for the letter" should be told to Prince Duan.
But who is ill?
What are “postponement” and “wait for the letter”?
Could it be that the arson has to be postponed?
If this is the case, Prince Duan did not receive the letter, and calculated the time, it should be past 3:45 pm, and the arson has started "as scheduled", isn't it...
The more Zhou Chang thought about it, the more uncertain he became.
Not sure if it would ruin Prince Duan’s “good deed”.
Even less sure what will happen next.
"Your Highness, it's time for us to go." Fat guys like Shouhou are most afraid of heat, and he has been sweating profusely for a long time.
Zhou Chang was unsure and had no idea.
"It's a good opportunity now since there's a fire outside." Gao Yuan didn't know what was written on the paper.
Now that things have come to this, there is no point in worrying.
Zhou Chang made up his mind, stood up and burned the letter paper and envelope in his hand on the oil lamp. At the same time, he adjusted his plan slightly: "First go to Prince Duan's Tingfeng Garden and go from the back. After all, the fire is the hottest there. Throw the body where there is fire and burn it, and then throw it into the well."
"Why is it Prince Duan? What if there's no fire over there, wouldn't we just bump into him?" The skinny monkey was not completely clueless.
Zhou Chang was just going to take a gamble: "If the inference is correct, the fire was set by Prince Duan, then in order to clear himself of suspicion, he would definitely set fire to his own palace first."
As he spoke, he pushed open the door, and a cool breeze and a cloud of smoke from fire flowed into the room.
Aunt Jing happened to turn around and come back: "Your Highness, everyone has been sent out. I think I can help..."
"Aunt Jing, just wait here. If we can catch Xu Wei tonight..." Zhou Chang was becoming more and more unsure.