An Yihou listened to the movement outside the military tent, and the joy he felt when he saw his son put on the armor immediately disappeared.
Even though a layer of skin has been replaced, the flesh is still as toothy...it hasn't changed at all.
An Yihou looked at the person next to the bed. The person in front of him claimed to be his aunt's grandson. An Yihou frowned slightly. He usually visited his mother and his aunt's home. He also saw some of his descendants at the banquet, but that
They were all direct children, and he had no impression of the sons of commoners.
The man showed a hearty smile: "Your Majesty, this is your true temperament. Everyone in the military camp is like this. There are not many rules."
Marquis Anyi said: "Why did you come here? Are everything okay at home?"
The man touched his head and looked a little embarrassed: "I actually don't know."
No matter what he said, An Yihou was stunned.
The man seemed to be thinking about how to speak again, when someone announced: "The eldest lady is here."
The man's eyes suddenly lit up.
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Xu Qinghuan opened the curtain and walked in, and immediately saw the person in front of his father's bed.
She couldn't help being surprised when she saw this face. She had experienced so many people and things after a lifetime, and she never expected to meet him here in this life.
This man's name was Cui Hao, and he was an out-and-out murderer. He killed twenty-three people in one night, shocking the capital and even the entire Zhou Dynasty.
The Cui Hao case was also Li Xu's first major case in Beijing.
Cui Hao was not only cruel but also greedy for money. He killed the Shunyang County Prince's family who came to Beijing to meet the emperor, took their money, and fled overnight. His behavior was very similar to those thieves who kill people and steal goods.
The Yamen was confused by his methods and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to track down the thieves near the capital, but the case never made any progress.
Many officials from the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple were held accountable.
It was because of the lack of manpower in the Ministry of Punishment that Li Xu, who had just become an official, could follow the minister to investigate the case. When Li Xu inquired about the case, he found that unlike the other twenty-two people who were killed, the King of Shunyang County had a knife stabbed in his eye before he was killed.
He picked up a jade hairpin and concluded that this case was not a robbery but revenge by an enemy. He searched for clues again and finally traced Cui Hao.
Cui Hao was the centurion of the Northern Xinjiang Guard at that time and had quite a reputation in the army. After he committed a murder, he returned to the Northern Xinjiang Guard as if nothing had happened. His behavior was no different from before. He looked completely unlike the man who escaped after killing someone.
Evil man, and Prince Shunyang brought a lot of valuable items to the capital, and those things disappeared. Cui Hao lived in the military camp all day long, and those things were not around him.
Li Xu entered the military camp to investigate the case and encountered many obstacles. The military households and people in northern Xinjiang all believed that Li Xu had deliberately wronged Cui Hao in order to investigate the case. Even the postmaster of the posthouse treated him coldly. The investigation of that case was extremely difficult.
, fortunately, Cui Hao was caught by Li Xu just when he was about to commit another crime.
After Cui Hao was arrested, he confessed without much persistence how he sneaked into Prince Shunyang to kill people. The reason why he attacked Prince Shunyang was because he heard that Prince Shunyang had misbehaved and he wanted to eliminate harm for the people.
Naturally, the court did not believe Cui Hao's story and tortured Cui Hao, but Cui Hao still refused to change his story. The court had no choice but to make a false confession, claiming that Cui Hao was motivated by wealth, used drugs to stun the guards of Prince Shunyang, and then killed him.
Li Xu felt that although Cui Hao killed people, he obviously concealed a lot of inside information. For example, Cui Hao did not mention where the property stolen from Prince Shunyang was, and how could Cui Hao alone deal with so many guards from the Prince's palace?
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The Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple also knew that there were clues to the case, but to them it was already a trivial matter. The person who killed the royal family was arrested, and everyone who had contact with Cui Hao was interrogated. The doubts Li Xu mentioned were just speculation.
That's all, if the case is not closed, the emperor may be angry, so Cui Hao was executed.
It was at that time that Li Xu was convinced that this case had the same mastermind as the Fengxiang case. From then on, Li Xu was busy trying to find the person behind the scenes.
Everything has changed now, and all the cases no longer happened like they did in the previous life, but now Cui Hao is here, and he comes to meet him as an in-law of the Xu family.
It's strange why the past life and this life are so different.
An Yihou said: "I went to Zheng's house last year, but I never heard your grandmother and mother mention you..."
Cui Hao immediately said: "The Marquis doubts my identity. It's no wonder. If someone comes to recognize me like this, I'm afraid they will be thrown out. I didn't expect the Marquis to talk to me for so long."
An Yihou found Cui Hao's words more and more strange.
Cui Hao touched his head again: "Even if the Marquis thinks I am a liar, there is nothing wrong with that.
I am a concubine, and I was kidnapped once, and I have never been able to recognize my ancestors again."
After Cui Hao said this, An Yihou finally understood: "I see, but... do you have proof that you were kidnapped?"
"No," Cui Hao smiled awkwardly. "If I had, the Zheng family wouldn't think I was a scoundrel or a liar. The aunt who gave birth to me has passed away, and my father... Mr. Zheng has also been ill in bed for a long time. I left."
I have been home for so long that no one in the Zheng family can recognize me. Unless I can find the person who abducted me, Yazi. I have found information about that person, but he has already received retribution for his many evil deeds, and his death will be long gone.
He was caught by the court and executed."
An Yihou said: "So, no one can testify for you. How old were you when you were abducted? Why do you think you are a member of the Zheng family?"
Cui Hao smiled and said: "After I was abducted, the slaves sold me to a family as a servant. There was an osmanthus tree outside the yard of that family. Every time I missed my aunt and my family, I would go and cry under that tree, because
There are also sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted in my aunt’s yard, so my aunt’s name is Guiniang.”
Xu Qinghuan looked at Cui Hao. If he was really a member of the Zheng family, why did he not reveal this in his previous life until his death?
Xu Qinghuan carefully thought about the past life. Just after Cui Hao was arrested, her aunt Mrs. Zheng came to Beijing and mentioned the case.
Later, she married Li Xu, and the Zheng family came to congratulate her. In the previous life, the Zheng family had a good relationship with the Li family, especially after Li Xu became the commander of the guard station, the Zheng family came to join him. Mrs. Zheng's daughter Zheng Shu also married Li
Family children.
She also heard that Mr. Zheng once had a concubine, but he died in infancy.
An Yihou was silent for a moment and said: "After I recover from my injury, I will go to Zheng's house to inquire. If what you tell is true, we may be able to find a way to solve the matter."
Cui Hao's eyes lit up, but he soon regained his composure: "That also requires real evidence. I'm afraid it will be difficult for Mr. Marquis to ask. I traced those people to Changzhou. I heard that there was Aunt Wu who was very knowledgeable about people.
I traced the incident to the Wu family. After I arrived, I found out that Aunt Wu had been arrested by the Yamen. People said that Miss Xu had taken her away. I checked carefully and it turned out that Miss Xu was... An Yihou