Chapter 1193: This is the King's Wisdom

At 4:00 PM that day, Iron Hand mansion.

People were coming out of the courtyard one after another. Su Xiao was sitting behind a desk, with dozens of pieces of parchment in front of him.

"In other words, you were the last person to see the little princess?"

Su Xiao dropped the parchment in his hand and looked up at a maid kneeling on the ground in front of him.

"Yes, my lord."

This maid was very nervous, her breathing was rapid, and her heartbeat soared to over 140 times per minute. She was deliberately concealing certain things.

"Come here."

Su Xiao spoke, and two guards walked into the room. He waved his hand, and the two guards looked somewhat confused, and the maid kneeling on the ground was also confused.

"My lord, specifically how to..."

A guard spoke in a low voice, his wording very cautious.

"Slaughter her."

"Eh."

The two guards were stunned, and the maid knelt on the ground.

"I... I just stole the princess's headpiece, I, I don't need to die, woo..."

It was very clear that what the maid was desperately concealing was just this fart-sized thing.

"Get her out."

Su Xiao rubbed his forehead lightly. He had already obtained many similar useless clues.

"Then my lord, do you want to..."

A guard placed his palm in front of his throat, making a throat-cutting gesture.

"Imprison her."

Su Xiao leaned back in his chair; this was the most headache-inducing mission he had ever encountered, bar none. To date, he had not found a single clue. The little princess seemed to have been killed by a "ghost," leaving behind absolutely no trace at the scene.

Just when Su Xiao had a headache, an imperial guard pushed open the door.

"My lord, there is a clue."

An imperial guard handed a wooden bucket as thick as an arm to Su Xiao. There was a royal mark on it, which showed the confidentiality level of this thing.

Su Xiao opened the wooden bucket, and a roll of parchment slid out. After seeing the content inside, the doubts in Su Xiao's heart were suddenly cleared.

After the investigation by the detective named 'Nonista Ford', the person who killed the little princess was not someone else, but Legion Commander Karen.

Su Xiao had also suspected Legion Commander Karen before, but the other party's height and weapon had a significant difference from the killer.

Su Xiao still had an impression of the gaze Legion Commander Karen had before he died. That was a very helpless and angry gaze.

Through the text description of that detective, Su Xiao understood what was going on. At the time of the crime, Legion Commander Karen bowed and stood behind the little princess, and used a weapon he had temporarily obtained to pierce the little princess's chest.

As for why the little princess didn't scream, the reason was that she covered her own mouth, desperately enduring the pain.

When Su Xiao saw the description 'the little princess covered her own mouth', his thought was to get that detective and give the other party a chance to reorganize his language, and let the other party say it again in front of him.

But seeing the detective's subsequent description, Su Xiao dismissed this idea. This was a master of reasoning.

The subsequent description Su Xiao saw was that the 13-year-old little princess was actually pregnant! What was even more outrageous was that her mother was also pregnant. One must know that the old king was already 65 years old, and the hardware aspect basically didn't allow it.

A pair of mother and daughter who were pregnant, who was their lover? Normally speaking, the possibility of being the same person was not high, but with the openness of this world, it didn't exclude this possibility...

"So... that's it."

The thoughts in Su Xiao's brain were suddenly cleared. This was not a murder at all, but someone self-directed and self-acted a good show.

The little princess and the Queen were deliberately killed in the back garden. The little princess's death was to attract Su Xiao over, and the Queen's drinking poison was to delay time. They were all pawns, and Legion Commander Karen, who died together, belonged to the victim. He was forced to do this thing. After the incident, the corpses of his family were found in a foul ditch, and the whole family died neatly.

A pair of mother and daughter used their lives to perform this good show. The most critical places were two points: one was the location where this good show happened (royal palace), and the other was the time of this good show (old king banqueted all power-holding officials, big wealthy merchants, princesses, princes, etc.).

At this time, Princess Shalin Herbert was murdered in the back garden of the royal palace. As Iron Hand, Su Xiao would definitely arrive at the scene immediately, which could draw him away from the old king's side.

The other party's main purpose was already obvious, which was to assassinate the old king and all the power-holding officials, big wealthy merchants, princes, and princesses in the banquet hall.

If these people died at the same time, the power system of the Holy Sodin Kingdom would instantly paralyze, and the kingdom might even perish because of this matter.

The moment he learned that the little princess was murdered, the old king immediately issued an order to let Kingdom Legion Commander Heslet rush to the front line immediately. This was because the old king had vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Heslet had followed the old king for many years, and he understood the old king's words immediately. Therefore, after he left the banquet hall, he didn't rush to the front line immediately, but used the secret order the old king had quietly given him to summon all the imperial guards. The five imperial guards waiting for Su Xiao at the door of the banquet hall earlier were just a small part of them.

After sending Heslet away, the old king's next move made the attackers' plan die in the womb, which was to send Joe Valentine to blockade the royal capital and leave a secret instruction: if he unfortunately died today, the First Prince would temporarily ascend to the throne.

Joe Valentine was not going to blockade the royal capital at all. He managed all officials and knew the functions of the officials. He was going to prevent the collapse of the power system.

The old king's last somewhat 'out of composure' action was to pour out a cup of poisoned wine in his own hand. For this cup of poisoned wine, those assassins had carefully arranged for 2 years, and the king assassination plan failed completely.

It had to be said that ginger was still old and spicy. The old king didn't go to sit in the first seat of the banquet hall, which had already surprised the assassins very much. And when sitting near Su Xiao and the others, the old king would only drink wine from the wine pot that Su Xiao and Heslet had drunk from, because the old king knew that both were strong, and had terrifying insight into toxins, and his cup was used by Heslet before.

The old king's series of on-the-spot responses gave the assassins no chance to strike. They didn't dare to attack the royal palace openly, otherwise they wouldn't have 'sacrificed' that pair of mother and daughter to attract Su Xiao's attention and draw Su Xiao away.

Their opportunity was only a few minutes, but within these few minutes, the banquet hall was surrounded by hundreds of imperial guards.

The old king who ruled the kingdom for more than 40 years was just an ordinary person, but he was not so easy to kill. This was an old lion, an old lion that even Su Xiao was somewhat wary of.

The person who arranged this matter was absolutely meticulous. This kind of person was usually very proud, so he might not be able to accept such a complete failure.

"This... old lion."

Su Xiao's elbows rested on the wooden table, his hands clasped in front of him.

Just at this moment, Su Xiao stood up with a 'whoosh'. He thought of a very critical point, which was that when the old king said the little princess was murdered, the first person to speak was not Heslet, nor was it Administrator Joe Valentine, but Kingdom Finance Officer Rowan Harvey.

The old king hadn't given an order yet, and Rowan Harvey whispered a few words in the old king's ear. Afterward, the old king let Rowan Harvey leave to handle the follow-up of the house raid.

Su Xiao now really wanted to know what Rowan Harvey said at that time. Although the house raid was important, the little princess's murder might lead to disturbances in the royal capital, thereby affecting the collection of Elvi Anthony's wealth, but Rowan Harvey, who was the first to propose leaving the banquet hall, was very suspicious.

That feeling seemed to be just looking for a legitimate excuse to leave the banquet hall.

Although the little princess died in the hands of Legion Commander Karen, the real murderer was not Legion Commander Karen, but the mastermind behind the scenes. Su Xiao's quest target was to find this mastermind behind the scenes. ===== CHAPTER 1194 =====