"It's not wrong." Xu Mingyi reached out and lifted up the hem of the shroud. After the almost piled hem was lifted, a pair of thick foot bones were exposed. He seemed to be pointing out: "This shroud doesn't seem to be cut to fit.
——”
Qiao Tian shook his head subconsciously.
No……
His father's shroud was not ill-fitting, because his father committed suicide in the Imperial Medical Office, so people from the palace were involved in the funeral. Most of the things used in the funeral ceremony were arranged by the palace. He remembered this shroud.
It was also made quickly by the people in the palace. The workmanship materials are all of the highest quality, and the details are also taken care of.
At this time, there is no need to check whether the shroud fits or not...
Just looking at the position of the foot bones was enough for him to figure out the clues!
His father was more than seven feet long, with his head and feet almost touching the coffin. Even if the skin and flesh rotted away after death, the bones in front of him were obviously less than seven feet long...!
But...could this be a deviation in his memory?
He often heard people say that when he was young, the elders he saw always seemed to be tall. But when he grew up, he felt that those elders who were as tall as mountains seemed completely different from what he remembered...
Qiao Tian's mind was even a little confused at this time.
But his eyes quickly caught the important point again.
The left hand of the corpse was empty - and he clearly remembered that when his father passed away, his mother had put a gold-inlaid Ganan incense wood inlaid longevity bracelet on his father's left wrist.
There is no left hand, and if you look at the right hand, there is nothing!
Qiao Tian immediately didn't care, picked up his gown and went down into the pit.
He searched the coffin carefully, but found no trace of the bracelet. He couldn't help but murmured: "No, I will never remember that bracelet wrong..."
Height will be biased due to long memory, but the real thing is different!
Did he recruit a tomb robber?
But there are clearly other buried objects in the coffin. There are many valuable items among these jade objects. If a tomb robber came, how could he only take away a bracelet?
Hearing the meaning behind his words, Wu Chao said: "Clothes are easy to change, but the bracelets that fit the body...maybe not so careful."
replace?
Qiao Tian's face turned pale, and mixed but intense emotions were surging in his heart: "Young master, what you mean is... after my father was buried, someone secretly took away my father's body?"
Wu Chao: "Now it seems that it should be so."
The newly buried grave has been dug up and reburied, leaving no traces that are too suspicious.
Qiao Tian obviously thought of this, but he still didn't dare to allow the hope in his heart to grow too much. He looked at the bones in the coffin, as if he was asking himself, and as if he was trying to get the final confirmation from others: "
But what's the use of taking away my father's body? Even if my father was forced, he did hang himself, and I don't expect there to be any other suspicious clues on him..."
Under such circumstances, wouldn't it be unnecessary for the other party to bother to replace the body?
"The corpse is naturally useless." The girl's quiet voice sounded next to her, "But the living person is different."
living person...
Qiao Tian said in a stiff voice: "But I have seen my father's body with my own eyes. When my father was sent back from the palace, it was clear that there was no trace of warmth in his body..."
"There is a kind of medicine that can cause people to have symptoms of suspended animation after taking it." Xu Mingyi said: "Mr. Qiao also said yesterday that people in the palace are involved in the affairs of your father's funeral. With such cooperation, if you want to cover up the past
, then it will be easier.”
After hearing this sentence, the last trace of suppression in Qiao Tian's heart was completely broken, and in an instant, it was like a flood bursting its embankment and there was no way to stop it.
If this is true...then his father may indeed be alive!
So, the most critical thing right now is——
"If my father were still alive...where would he be?!"
Where will it be?
Xu Mingyi's eyes moved slightly.
Judging from the clues given by the Queen before, the person...may be in the palace.
And now they are one step closer to the truth.
If Dr. Qiao can really be found, the truth about what happened to the former Princess Yan may become clear.
It might even involve a bigger secret...
…
The queen received the letter two days later.
The letter was from his nephew, and it clearly stated the fact that Qiao Bingying's 'body' had been exchanged.
The Queen sat quietly for a long time holding the letter, her eyes full of thoughts.
All these clues point to the possibility that Qiao Bing is probably still alive...
Fake death to escape and disappear from people...
The more complicated the inner story behind this, the more important it proves this person.
She must find this person...
"Empress."
The palace lady's voice sounded through the bead curtain, and the queen immediately subconsciously put the letter away and hid it in her wide sleeves.
"Just now, my maid saw that Tianfu has returned." The palace lady only said outside the curtain, but did not come in.
Looking at the tabby cat that had run in at some point and was walking towards her, the queen smiled and said: "I have seen it, please step back."
"Yes." Gong'e slowly withdrew from the outer hall.
"I haven't seen it for a long time. Where did it go?" Nanny Jiang on the side had quick eyes and quick hands. She bent down and picked up the heavy cat, then took out a handkerchief and wiped the debris and a few sticky strips on the cat's body.
Spider Web: "...Maybe he slipped away to a dirty place like the Dark Courtyard again."
Dark court...
Now that the queen heard these two words, she couldn't help but think more.
Yes, when Tianfu was first sent to her palace, he would run out every now and then. Several times, people in her palace saw him slipping out of the dark court.
She even joked with her grandma at that time that such a fat cat might not be a wild cat at all, but was raised by someone.
Although she likes her very much, she is not easily loved by others, so she does not deliberately restrain herself.
But even if Tianfu slipped out, he would still come back to find her.
She was very happy about this and told her grandma that she and Tianfu were destined to be together, and Tianfu also liked her very much.
However, Mammy corrected her in a very embarrassing way - maybe she just likes the fish in Yukun Palace and wants to have two families with one cat.
If this is true, the food at that house must not be delicious. After all, Tianfu does not run around once for ten and a half days now. At most, he is running around in the Yukun Palace. It is extremely rare to leave the Yukun Palace.
Something happened.
Until this morning——
The cat didn't know how he sneaked into the tea room last night, and actually pulled the jar that Gong E used to store dried yellow croaker from the shelf. The jar shattered into pieces, and the cat's belly was so round that it had accumulated food this morning.
Already.
She was about to ask the imperial doctor to come and take a look, but the cat disappeared out of sight in a flash.
It's time to come back again.
"Maybe he ate something blindly outside again..." When Aunt Jiang was wiping Tianfu, she saw some brown-black stuff on the cat's chin.
I wiped it with a handkerchief. It was sticky and seemed to have a faint medicinal smell——
