My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1212 Witnessed

It was pitch black in the room, and the wind was rumbling outside.

In the whimpering wind, there was also the howling of wild animals, adding a bit of gloom.

Brother Jiu drank the medicine, his eyelids became heavy, but his mind was very clear. He warned himself not to think about it, but the head without facial features was still clearly engraved in his brain.

He became short of breath, worried about Shu Shu and also afraid, he raised his arm vigorously and put it on Shu Shu's waist.

Shu Shu opened her eyes, looked at the top of the tent, and was looking at the timeline.

In history, there were a total of two transition points in the relationship between Kangxi and the prince.

Once in the 29th year of Kangxi, on the eve of the Ulan Butong War, Kangxi was seriously ill, and the prince visited the army in person, with an indifferent face.

Once in the 42nd year of Kangxi, when Suo'etu questioned him, the prince lost Suo'etu's greatest help.

The one in 29 years has already passed.

As for the 42 years, there is no more.

Suo'etu's resignation four years in advance is not a bad thing for the prince, and the conflict between father and son has not yet been brought to light.

Long Kedo has also called a curtain call, and the fourth elder brother seems to have lost his greatest support.

Does anyone else have a chance?

As she was thinking about it, brother Jiu had already put his arm around her waist, and he was pulling her into his arms vigorously.

Seeing that Brother Jiu was not breathing properly, Shu Shu hugged him back and patted Brother Jiu on the back.

It's better to be timid, this is the awe of life.

With their identities, they are less than a few people and more than tens of thousands of people. If they lose their respect for life, it is not a good thing.

Brother Jiu only felt a softness in his arms, and the familiar magnolia fragrance lingered around his nose.

His fear and anxiety subsided, and in his mind was a little girl without hair, like Niguzhu, with arms like lotus knots, dressed in bright red, and her eyes were wandering around.

Huh?
It's like riding a black colt...

It's not a horse, it's a black bear, a little black bear, the size of a big dog...

Brother Jiu was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth for a while, but felt so cute, and wanted to pinch her chubby face...

*
"Da da da da..."

At midnight, the sound of horseshoes was very clear and could be heard very far away.

When I got closer, there was the sound of wheels again.

Cao Shun's lips were chapped, he licked it, and got off his horse.

There was the sound of drums in the distance, and it was four o'clock.

Outside the Anding Gate, there are barracks on both sides, which were expanded from the lack of houses in the Eight Banners a few years ago.

Someone with a clever mind would rent out the house next to the official road, and a small businessman would take over and open a noodle restaurant to give rest to those who are separated from the city gate.

Cao Shun and his party rode over and entered the noodle shop.

One and a half rooms with front door, five or six tables, Cao Shun brought in two long entourages, ten guards, and two coachmen, and the room was full.

The boss and Xiaoer is a middle-aged man in his forties, and he hurriedly said: "You guys eat noodles? The store serves stewed noodles and soup noodles, as well as side dishes such as pork head meat and stewed fat intestines, dried tofu, soybeans in sauce... ..."

Cao Shun glanced at everyone, he was on the road today, and he ate a few mouthfuls of fried rice while feeding the horses at the post station, and he was already hungry.

"One bowl of stewed noodles and one bowl of soup noodles per person, each table will have a portion of the food you mention..."

The boss responded, immediately wiped the table and asked everyone to sit down, and went to the back kitchen to place an order.

Cao Shun brought a chief to sit with him, and his two chiefs and two coachmen sat at the door of the shop, so that they could stare at the carriage and horses outside.

The remaining nine guards sat at three tables.

Although everyone didn't have fast horses galloping and had to match the speed of the carriage, they were more tired than fast horses because they had been riding for too long...

*
At the moment of Yinzheng, the city gate opened.

Cao Shun ordered the guards to stay outside and guard the carriage. He took two long followers and went into the city alone.

There is no way out.

If it's just a bear corpse, it's fine, but if there are corpses, you have to ask for an order before you can enter the city.

Otherwise, according to the regulations, the soldiers and civilians in the inner city died outside, and the remains were not allowed to enter the city, and they had to be mourned outside the city.

Obtaining the emperor's favor, except for the meritorious service of returning the coffin to the city.

As soon as he entered the city, there was someone waiting in front of him with a lantern.

It was Erhe who came.

Cao Shun's temperament was cautious and appropriate, Erhe guessed that he would guard outside the city gate and wait to enter the city, so he waited here.

"The emperor wants to listen to the government in the morning, and wants to see the officials who turned over the cards yesterday. I guess he won't be free until after the beginning of the year..."

The two rode to the imperial city, Erhe said to Cao Shun.

Cao Shun was a little nervous. He had seen Sheng Jia, but at that time he was in the south of the Yangtze River, following his uncle, and the emperor looked at him warmly.

Now I have become a bird of mourning, which is very unpleasant.

Erhe took Cao Shun into the imperial city, went directly to the Xihua Gate, and met the guards on duty, please pass the message to Qianqing Palace.

This is the manpower sent back by Brother Jiu, and speculation about Brother Jiu is hot.

The counselor didn't delay and went directly to Qianqing Palace.

All the news came to Liang Jiugong.

Shengjia is ready to listen to the government, and Liang Jiugong has no chance to report.

When Kangxi came back from listening to the government at Qianqingmen, sat down to have tea, and was about to pass on to the officials who met Hou, Liang Jiugong was free and told about Erhe and Cao Shun waiting outside Xihuamen.

Kangxi did not respond, but was silent for a while, and said, "Let Zhao Chang..."

After half a cup of tea, Zhao Chang came over.

Kangxi took a pen and wrote a letter, stamped it with a seal, and handed it to Zhao Changdao: "Allow the carriage escorted by Cao Shun to enter the city, and send it directly to the apse of Jingshan, and send it to the Secretary of Punishment for inspection."

Zhao Chang bowed in response, stepped back, and headed towards Xihua Gate.

Sitting on the kang, Kangxi looked at the officials who were going to meet this morning. There were two officials surnamed Tong, one to see and the other to say goodbye.

Both of them were from the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army, and they were relatives of Orondai.

With a blank expression on his face, Kangxi put down the list in his hand and motioned for Liang Jiugong's successor to come in.

Most of the people you met were Beijing officials who were at the fifth rank and above, and the ones you resigned from were the local officials who were close to the people.

Because of Tong's surname, Kangxi paid great attention to those two people, and found that one was a doctor from the household department, and the other was a magistrate from Jiangnan, both of whom were fat and vacancies.

He was noncommittal, showing no signs of happiness or anger, and asked a few questions according to different positions, and the Mandarin and Chinese were also switched.

Those who are not too shy, and they look fine, so he encourages a few words and calls them to kneel down.

It's just that after seeing a circle of people, his eyes still fell on the list.

He is not old-fashioned yet, the Tong family is considered a common surname, and they are distributed in the Eight Banners, so they are not all clansmen of the two Cheng'en Gong mansions.

But in recent years, among the children of the surname Tong who have filled the vacancies, there are still more Xianghuangqi and Zhenglanqi, which are the relatives of Cheng Engong's family and Tang.

Kangxi was happy to see such a situation in his early years, and it was also caused by him.

For now, he felt he could stop.

He and Shu Shu wanted to go together, and felt that if Long Kedo really died, it was probably "infighting".

The scope of this "inside" is not very large, perhaps even smaller than imagined.

Fraternal fratricide, which is even more chilling and chilling.

*
Outside the Xihua Gate, Erhe and Cao Shun waited until Zhao Chang.

With the emperor's will in mind, the two of them had nothing to say, they took Zhao Chang back outside the Anding Gate, and brought the two carriages into the inner city smoothly.

The city gate school on duty never had the chance to lift the curtain of the carriage.

Such a mysterious thing was sent back to the capital overnight, and it was received by someone from Yuqian again...

Is it hiding two stunning beauties?

When it comes to the imperial court, everyone dare not discuss it openly, but whispers are unavoidable...

Zhao Chang and his party went to Dianmen and drove the carriage directly to the apse of Jingshan.

This is the place where the concubines in the palace were enshrined when they died of serious illness. It is empty on weekdays, only some old eunuchs are on duty.

The two officers of the Department of Punishment have already heard the message and are waiting here.

It's cold today, and it's about to freeze, so neither the bear carcasses nor the remains of the corpses are corrupt.

It's just that there are not many things that can be checked. There is a head with all the five sense organs missing, a section of the upper torso, a calf bone with all the skin and flesh removed, and an arm bone.

Wu Zuo examined it carefully, starting with the torso, which was the best to distinguish, and according to the surface injury, it was indeed a trace of whipping.

There are grades of caning, 25, 75, [-], [-], [-], and [-].

In fact, more than fifty lashes are rare, because most of them are quasi-redemption.

According to Wu's inspection, such dense scars are not healed yet, and the caning is more than [-], and the time is not more than ten days.

Therefore, as long as you inquire about the people who have been whipped within a ten-day period in each of the Eight Banners yamen in Gyeonggi, you can count the population.

Because there was a complete calf bone, Wu Zuo also estimated the height of the deceased. He was not a short person, and it was about five feet two inches to five feet five inches.

The bone has already grown, it is very dense, and there are no beehives. This is a young bone, and the age is between 20 and 50 years old.

Next, look at the hair, the scalp is clean, not greasy, it looks clean, the family is in good condition, and it is convenient to take a shower.

If it is really embarrassing, it is inconvenient to take a bath in winter, and the hair will be greasy.

Look carefully at the position of the facial features, determine the position of the brow bone, and have a simple drawing with eyes closed.

Check the bones inch by inch, and there is an abnormal crack in the back of the skull, which seems to have been hit with a blunt instrument.

Check the remaining leg bones and arm bones.

The leg bones looked smooth and smooth, but there were fractures on the arm bones that hadn't fully healed, and had been injured during his lifetime.

The two authors are father and son. The older one talked while checking, and the younger took a notebook to record.

Together with Cao Shun, Erhe stood next to Zhao Chang and witnessed the incident with his own eyes.

The two of them didn't speak, they just looked at each other, feeling uneasy.

Now, they are really worried that this is not Longkodo.

If that's the case, their Ninth Master would make a fuss and seem unsteady when encountering things.

Instead of Jiuye misjudging, they still hope that this is Longkodo.

It's just that the evidence at the moment is not convincing.

The deduced image, if it is said to be like Longkodo, has two or three parts; if it is not like Longkodo, it can really pick out the difference.

As for a good family background, this cannot be sure that it is Longkodo.

Eight Banners is a hardcore crop and loves to save face. It is not uncommon to take a bath this winter.

The two of them have never heard of the arm injury, but they just think that if Long Kedo is injured, the imperial court will probably take pity on him and will not force him to leave Beijing at this time.

However, if there are no other missing persons, Longkodo is more likely.

Because bannermen are not allowed to leave the station casually.

Jingqi is no exception.

The room was quiet, and Wu Zuo had already cut a piece of skin and flesh left on the neck of the skull to see the blood coagulation inside.

This can deduce the time of death.

"More than three days..."

The old clerk explained the basis for identification, one by one, and explained to his son for records.

Zhao Chang looked at Erhe.

Erhe thought about it carefully, and said: "According to Yicheng's statement, the Tong family and his party arrived at Miyun Station on the first day of the first day, and left at noon on the fifth day. The record at the Gubeikou checkpoint matches this. There are 15 people in total, including one woman, one boy, and 15 young and strong..."

Just as he was talking, there was movement at the door.

Everyone looked towards the door. Kangxi was wearing ordinary clothes and came in surrounded by several eunuchs and guards...

(End of this chapter)