Chapter 30: Duke T'ai Goes Fishing

  The lake surface, because of the sudden occurrence of a blood case, frightened all the people present. The ladies screamed loudly, Du Yuanzhen's two maids were so scared that they burst into loud crying. The guards who were guarding the nearby princess's mansion rushed over quickly, some checking Du Yuanzhen's injuries and others asking about Li Sitong's whereabouts. For a time, the entire lake center hall was in chaos.

  Someone immediately invited the Empress Dowager out, and upon hearing the news that her son had fallen into the water, the Empress Dowager surprisingly maintained a calm demeanor and quickly organized people to dive in and search for him.

  At the same time, Du Yuanzhen was confirmed to have died on the spot, killed with one knife. As for the murderer, in the eyes of witnesses who did not see a flash of white light, it was naturally Anping Wang's son, Lei Sitong, who later stabbed the flower-like rain with red eyes!

  That is to say, Li Tongtong not only killed Du Yuanzhen, the daughter of the Minister of the Imperial Household Department, in public, but also killed Hua Zheyu, who was about to change the medicine for the Empress Dowager!

  Everyone was discussing in terror, and the salvage operation was still ongoing.

  Not far away in a pavilion, Chu Mingqiu was questioning a silver-robed guard.

  "We've been keeping an eye on Miss Qi, and what happened just now was too fast. We were some distance away, all we saw was Miss Du falling down, Mr. Li bending down, and then Miss Du was stabbed by a knife. Immediately after that, Miss Qi cried out, and Mr. Li stabbed her with the knife as well. Then both of them fell into the water." The silver-robed guard quickly reported what he had seen of the murder case.

  Looking at the person who was constantly searching by pushing aside the lotus leaves, Chu Mingqiu's expression did not show any ups and downs, but only slowly asked himself: "It's simply unthinkable, is he a fool or a madman? The entire Anping Wangfu has already reached its final moment of destruction?"

  No one answered him, only the wind moaned.

  Hua Zhe Yu was baffled as to why the unconscious Lisi Tong would be pulled away by a force, she held her breath and grabbed his hand, following the force upwards. It wasn't until she adjusted to the dim light at the bottom of the water that she saw that the force pulling Lisi Tong was actually coming from an extremely thin, transparent thread-like thing wrapped around his waist.

  She was completely stunned, when did this thread get entangled with him? And where does this thread want to pull people to?

  She didn't care about anything, stretched out her hand from the bun and pulled down a phoenix-tailed hairpin. She bit the pinhead with her teeth, opened it, and the phoenix-tailed hairpin turned into a cold and sharp little knife with a blade. She held the pin tail upside down, kicked her legs hard, borrowed force, and the small knife cut fiercely towards the transparent silk thread.

  She thought cutting the silk thread would be like cutting a strand of hair, but as soon as she cut it, the thread didn't budge, and instead, Li Si's body was pulled away from her hand by an unstoppable force, bursting out like water breaking through a dam.

  She was shocked and turned around to swim back, but in the next instant, that thread seemed to have grown eyes and wrapped itself around her waist again.

  It was impossible to hide, she cursed silently, her entire body bursting out like a broken dam, flying over the windowsill and landing with a loud "thud" on the wooden board.

  She let out a muffled grunt and, ignoring the pain in her waist, used one hand to support herself as she sat up with a whoosh. When the serene figure holding a fishing rod made of green bamboo and slowly reeling in the line appeared before her eyes, her bad temper from her past life burst forth once again, "Bastard, it's actually you playing tricks on me!"

  "Not bad, huh? Being killed and chopped and drowned in water, yet still having the energy to scold people. It seems I should sink you into the lake again to cool off." Fang Lisheng sat on a low stool, still wearing a spotless moon-white long shirt, his posture elegant, and no matter how one looked at him, he radiated a warm and refined light.

  He took the silk thread off the green bamboo pole, wound it up and put it in his bosom, then picked up the small knife with a phoenix tail on the ground, looked at her and said, "Look at you, a girl, not only can you fight, swim, but also hide a killer, scold people, tell me, what else can't you do?"

  He shook his head, making a tutting sound with his mouth, "In the past, a fierce girl like you, I would have taught you a good lesson, but... alas, now that my temper has improved, I'll let you off with just a warning."

  His tone was completely that of an elder scolding a younger one, and Hua Yu couldn't help but feel her nose twist in anger. This guy looked to be only twenty years old or so, and she thought to herself that he must have been someone in his twenties in his past life as well - how dare he act superior in front of her?!

  She snorted, twisted her body and stood up, walked to his front and grabbed the phoenix-tailed dagger from his hand, raised an eyebrow, "I see you haven't even collected your natal hair, what qualifications do you have to teach me?"

  She inserted the small knife that had lost its scabbard into her wet hair and twisted it back and forth as she looked at Lei Sutong, who was still in a coma.

  Fang Xian's face turned red with anger and he couldn't help but laugh, and yet there were still people saying that he was not fully developed? And it came from the mouth of a little yellow-haired kid?

  He shook his head again, poured himself a cup of clear tea, and smiled: "If the prince hadn't handed you over to me, I wouldn't have bothered to rescue you. It's been obvious for a long time that you're the kind of person who repays kindness with enmity."

  Hua Zhe Yu was gazing at Lei Si Tong's eyelids when he suddenly remembered the reminder from Shao Yao, and couldn't help but take a deep breath. He slightly shifted his body to the side and slowed down his tone: "If your fishing rod was used to rescue someone, then can I assume that you already knew someone was hiding underwater waiting to kill people?"

  Fang Ling blew the tea leaves and said, "I'm not a god, how would I know? It's obvious that this assassination is targeting you, and framing Si Tong in the process. If you don't go to the right wing, who else would know where the killing intent lies?"