C71 Part1

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- The Royal Palace -

Murong Yu came out of the bath room wearing the intimate "moon-white" silk.

The dim yellow light from the bedroom illuminated the water droplets on his forehead, as crystal clear as ice crystals.

After a cup of tea, he took a book and prepared to read it for a while before going to bed, but there was a knock on the door in the quiet summer night.

The rhythm was very strong, but imperceptible.

Murong Yu went to open the door.

The Ghost Guard, Wuying bowed, and said,

"Prince Regent, the spies from the Western Qin Kingdom reported that there is still no trace of the girl."

Murong Yu nodded slightly, as his eyebrows furrowed, as if he was used to this answer,

"Keep looking."

Wuying took the order, and said:

"Regarding the source of the Blood Jade that the Prince ordered his subordinates to investigate, nothing has been obtained yet."

"You couldn't find the origin of the Blood Jade?"

"I went to the Eastern Chu Kingdom and met an old Jade craftsman who had been with the Jade arts for a lifetime.

He looked at the Blood Jade and said that they should have been produced in Yuqing Mountain, in the Eastern Chu Kingdom, but he couldn't tell for sure..."

"Why?"

"It is rumored that Blood Jade were produced in Yuqing Mountain a hundred years ago.

Not long after the Imperial court learned about it, and they sealed Yuqing Mountain, and even the farmers and hunters in a radius of ten miles had to move away!

Since then, there have been soldiers in Yuqing Mountain to prevent the common people from sneaking in and out."

"The Eastern Chu Kingdom must have sealed Yuqing Mountain with the intention of digging for Blood Jade.

Over the past century, Yuqing Mountain should have produced a lot of Blood Jade."

Murong Yu squinted mysteriously.

"Perhaps the Blood Jade that appeared in the Fengtian Temple was really produced inside Yuqing Mountain."

Wuying wondered,

"Where did all this start?

The Blood Jade produced in Yuqing Mountain should all be in the Palace of the Eastern Chu Kingdom.

How could it appear in the Palace of the Northern Yan Kingdom?"

Murong Yu's deep eyes were filled with clouds,

"Blood Jade is extremely rare and precious.

Even if they have a Jade field that produces Blood Jade in the Eastern Chu Kingdom, they won't easily let them be taken outside the Country.

The fact that Blood Jade suddenly appeared in the Fengtian Temple like that, can only be explained like this:

Some people didn't hesitate to spend their money."

As if the lightning and flint had pierced a stone and cracked the clouds, Wuying suddenly understood something,

"The Prince means that the Heavenly Blood Jade from the Fengtian Temple is related to the Royal Family of the Eastern Chu Kingdom?"

"More than that.

That Ballad, those suspicious cases, murder cases, and the successive layouts may all be related to the Royal Family of the Eastern Chu Kingdom."

"But haven't those suspicious cases and murder cases been investigated?

Isn't the person who laid them out the murderer Cui Nong, King Rui's Concubine?"

Wuying was shocked.

"Until she died, Cui Nong didn't tell where the Blood Jade came from, let alone explain how she possessed high-strength Martial Arts, because this is her secret, and she couldn't possibly tell when she died.

Perhaps Cui Nong was just a chess piece at the mercy of others."

Murong Yu said solemnly.

"The Prince means that this whole game was not deployed by Cui Nong alone.

There was an expert behind her, and that expert should be the Royal Family of the Eastern Chu Kingdom."

Wuying became more and more frightened as he heard it.

He hadn't expected the Emperor of the Eastern Chu Kingdom to stretch his hands so far.

Murong Yu smiled lightly and glimpsed,

"This King has planted so many spies in the Eastern Chu Kingdom, and the Emperor of the Eastern Chu Kingdom is wise and strategic, and will also plant spies in other countries."

Wuying couldn't understand again,

"But what is the attempt of the Eastern Chu Kingdom in organizing such a confusing game?

To frame the Prince?"

Murong Yu smiled,

"The Ballad was directed at this King.

The Eastern Chu Kingdom wanted this King to be the target of the public, and become a treacherous minister cursed by his citizens."

Wuying was horrified,

"As a result, that would have caused a civil strife in the Northern Yan Kingdom.

When the state was turbulent, the Eastern Chu Kingdom would have attacked...

If the Southern Yue Kingdom, the Western Qin Kingdom and the Eastern Chu Kingdom were to form an alliance, then we Northern Yan Kingdom will..."

Murong Yu's eyes suddenly shuddered,

"How can this King give them a chance to?"

Wuying nodded, no longer thinking about it, because he believed that the Prince had the ability to pass the sky and prevent it, and he would be able to stabilize the Country and not let he Northern Yan Kingdom's internal chaos to ever happen.

"By the way, Prince Regent, my subordinates have received news that there were weird movement in the Military Supervisor."

"Military Supervisor?

What's the matter?"

Wuying told his master about his subordinates' discovery, and his expression became heavy.

The Military Supervisor was responsible for building all battlefield weapons.

It was the strongest blade of a Country's powerful soldiers and the key to the invincibility of the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Northern Yan Kingdom.

Once the Military Supervisor was involved, the impact would have been very bad and the military could become turbulent.

Murong Yu's eyes became cold, and it seemed that he was going to leave for the Military Supervisor.

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END of CHAPTER 71 PART 1

.....................to be continued