Chapter 1202: The King's Wisdom
At four o'clock in the afternoon, at the Iron Hand residence.
People came out of the residence one by one.
Su Xiao was sitting at a desk that had dozens of different information sheets on it.
— So you're the last person to see the youngest princess?" Su Xiao asked and pushed the information sheet forward.
A palace maid was kneeling in front of the table.
— Yes, master, " the maid replied, looking very nervous. Her breathing was rapid, and her heart rate exceeded 140 beats per minute..
She was hiding something.
— Come here, " Su Xiao said, and two guards entered the room.
He waved his hand, to which both he and the maid were confused.
— Sir, how exactly do you want... " the guardsman asked in a low voice.
— Kill her.
— Well.
The guards took a step forward at the same time, and the maid immediately leaned her forehead on the floor.
— I-I just stole the princess's headdress. I - I don't want to die, u-u-u...
She was trying to hide an ordinary theft.
Su Xiao rubbed his forehead.
He had received too many useless hints like this recently.
— Should we... " one of the guards asked and gestured to see if they needed to eliminate her.
— Throw her in jail, " Su Xiao replied and leaned back in his chair. This was the most difficult task he had ever faced. So far, he hadn't found any leads. The little princess seemed to have been killed by a "ghost", for there were no traces left at the scene.
Just as Su Xiao was racking his brain over this question, the guardsman pushed open the door and walked inside. "Sir, we have a lead," Yi handed Su Xiao a wooden barrel as thick as his arm.
There was a royal emblem on it, which showed how important the item was.
Su Xiao opened the keg and took out a piece of paper.
After reading the contents, Su Xiao's doubts were immediately dispelled.
Detective Vernista Ford conducted his investigation and found that he killed little Princess Karen, already a former commander of the Royal Guard.
In the beginning, Su Xiao had thought that it was Karen who killed Charlotte, but his height and weapon were very different from the assassin's height and weapon.
And Su Xiao still remembered Karen's expression before he died. His gaze was filled with helplessness and anger.
But he didn't stop there and decided to finish reading Vernist's conclusion to the end.
According to him, Karen was standing behind the little princess and stabbed her in the back with a homemade weapon.
The little princess didn't scream because she covered her mouth with her own hand so that no one could help her.
When Su Xiao saw this, the first thing he wanted to do was meet this detective and make him repeat this little girl's feat, but in the end, he decided to read it to the end.
And after seeing his further explanation, Su Xiao gave up on the idea.
This detective was a master of reasoning.
According to his verification, the little princess, who was only 13 years old, was pregnant! What was even more outrageous was that her mother was also pregnant.
The current king was already 65 years old, so his device definitely wouldn't be able to give birth to a new child.
Pregnant mother and daughter... Who was their lover? It was unlikely that they were the same person, but given the realities of this world, it couldn't be ruled out...
— So... Everything in Su Xiao's mind suddenly fell into place. It wasn't murder at all, but a well-written and perfectly staged play by someone.
The little princess and queen died in the palace garden intentionally. The death of the little princess should attract Su Xiao's attention, while the death of the queen due to poison should only delay time. They were all pawns, while Commander Karen, who decided to kill himself, was only an innocent victim. He was forced to do this, which is why soon after the bodies of his family members were found in a stinking ditch.
His entire family was killed without too much noise and dust.
Mother and daughter played this play at the cost of their lives. The two most important points in this whole play were the place where the whole drama took place, which is the royal palace, and the time when the king gathered all the ministers, rich businessmen, princesses, princes, and so on.
If a member of the royal family was killed in the garden of the palace, Su Xiao, being an Iron Hand, would definitely immediately arrive at the scene, in fact, he would get as far away from the king as possible.
The customer's true purpose became obvious. He wanted to kill the king and all the officials, rich businessmen, princes, princesses and so on, right in the banquet hall.
If all of them died, the entire system of the Saint Sodin Kingdom would be paralyzed, if not completely collapsed in the blink of an eye.
As soon as the king found out that the little princess had been killed, he immediately ordered the kingdom's army commander, Huslet, to immediately return to the front lines.
He gave such an order because he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Huslet had followed the king for many years, and he immediately understood what he meant by this order, so after leaving the banquet hall, he didn't rush to the front lines, but instead used a secret order and called the entire guard together.
The five guards who were waiting for Su Xiao at the exit of the banquet hall were only a small part of this special guard.
By sending Huslet out of the banquet hall, the king essentially destroyed his enemy's plan in the bud, and as if that wasn't enough, he allowed Joe Valentine to block the kingdom's capital and gave him a secret order that if he died today, the eldest prince would temporarily become the new king.
Joe Valentai, in fact, should not have cordoned off the capital, but should have carefully monitored all officials so that if the current king was killed, the entire system of the kingdom would not collapse overnight.
And the final blow to the coffin lid was that the king "accidentally" dropped the wine glass from his hand when he heard the latest news from the Iron Hand. He dropped the glass of poisoned wine.
The customer planned all this for 2 years, but his whole plan went down the drain.
It should be noted that time was a key factor in this failed plan. The plan went awry from the very beginning, as the king did not take his proper place, but a place at the table with his loyal subordinates, and drank only the wine that his subordinates drank, because he knew very well that Iron Hand and Huslet would easily find something strange in the wine, and As soon as they left, he decided not to take any chances and pretended to be greatly shocked by the latest news from Iron Hand.
The king's rapid series of counterattacks left the assassins no chance. They didn't dare to openly attack the palace, or else they wouldn't have sacrificed mother and daughter to distract Iron Hand's attention.
They only had a few minutes to spare, but during those few minutes, the banquet hall was surrounded by hundreds of elite warriors.
Although the current king had ruled the kingdom for more than 40 years, he was just an ordinary person, but it wasn't so easy to kill him. He was an old lion that Su Xiao himself was a little afraid of.
The customer who created this entire plan must have been very meticulous. Such people were usually very proud, so he probably wouldn't be able to accept such a complete failure.
— This... old lion, " Su Xiao muttered as he placed his elbows on the wooden table and clasped his hands in front of him.
The next moment, Su Xiao got up from his chair with a whoosh. He remembered a really important point. When the King was told that the little princess had been killed, it was not Huslet or Joe Valentine who spoke first, but Rowan Harvey, the treasurer of the kingdom.
Before the king gave his first order, Rowan Harvey whispered a few words to him, after which the king told him to leave and deal with the matters that were related to the confiscation of property.
What Su Xiao most wanted to know right now was what Rowan Harvey had said to the king. Although the confiscation of property was an important matter and killing the little princess could cause riots in the kingdom's capital, which would affect the confiscation of Herve Anthony's property, Rowan Harvey, the first person to leave this banquet, acted too strangely.
He seemed to want to find any decent excuse to leave the banquet hall back then.
Although the little princess had died at Karen's hands, the real killer wasn't Karen, but the gray cardinal who was still hiding behind the scenes, and Su Xiao's goal was precisely to find this gray cardinal.
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