The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

To be precise, it should be broken limbs and bones, because his body had been eaten beyond recognition by wild beasts, and his identity could only be identified based on the clothes and characteristics he wore at the time.

When Liu Zhenzhen learned about this, she was so heartbroken that her eyes were bloodshot. She couldn't bear the blow and fainted.

Qu Zhengyan was in charge of all the affairs after Liu's father's death. The final result was: Liu's father went to the deep mountains and forests for some reason, encountered a ferocious beast on the way, and was defeated by the beast and died tragically.

Even if the matter was over, once Liu's father was gone and Liu Zhenzhen was a woman, all of the Liu family's assets naturally fell into Qu Zhengyan's hands.

Just one month after Liu's father passed away, Qu Zhengyan ran for the position of leader of the martial arts world, and eventually won the first place against all odds, becoming famous overnight.

The days went on in an orderly manner. Two years later, Liu Zhenzhen gave birth to a baby boy, and she slowly came out of the pain of losing her father.

But the good times did not last long. On the night when the baby boy was one month old, Qu Zhengyan was working overtime in the martial arts gym when a fire suddenly broke out in the Liu Mansion.

The fire burned for more than half an hour. By the time the servants put out the fire, Liu Zhenzhen and her one-month-old baby in the room had been turned into two corpses by the thick smoke.

Fortunately, Qu Xiaoyou, who was only five years old, was hungry that night and sneaked to a faraway kitchen to find food. After eating and drinking, she fell asleep in the firewood pile in the kitchen and thus escaped the disaster.

Later it was heard that Liu Zhenzhen's personal maid who came with her as a dowry escaped from the sea of ​​fire, and when Qu Zhengyan came back he sent her to the government without saying a word.

After investigation, it was found that the maid was refused to borrow money from her master, so she became murderous and set fire to Liu Zhenzhen and her young son in the dead of night.

The maid's arson case caused a sensation, and the maid was eventually beheaded under the indignant requests of the people of the city.

Xia Younan and the others knew what happened next. It was nothing more than Qu Zhengyan's collapse and grief. Then, with the sympathy and help of everyone, he got out of the predicament, used the Liu family's assets to do business, and became the richest man in the city.

After telling everything, Qu Xiaoyou let out a deep breath, frowned slightly, and looked extremely lonely.

After listening to this, Xia Younan and Lu Xiuyuan fell into a brief silence. After the silence, the two looked at each other tacitly, with a strange expression on their faces.

"Your grandfather is the owner of a martial arts school, so his martial arts skills must be extremely advanced. If he encountered a ferocious beast in the wild, even if he couldn't fight it head-on, he should be able to use light skills to escape, right? How could he be mauled to death by a wild beast?"

Xia Younan raised her first question.

Qu Xiaoyou shook her head, "I don't know either. I was still young at the time and didn't understand anything. Anyway, that's what the final result said."

"Your grandfather had just passed away, and your father became the leader of the martial arts world who could command heroes all over the world. Isn't this a bit of a coincidence?" Lu Xiuyuan also said.

Qu Xiaoyou looked at him in astonishment and said, "I don't know why you would ask such a question?"

Lu Xiuyuan raised his eyebrows, but did not answer her question. He took a sip from the teacup and continued to ask, "What is the origin of that maid?"

Qu Xiaoyou recalled for a moment and replied, "It is said that she is an orphan and was sold to the Liu Mansion when she was six years old."

"She and my mother have been together for more than ten years. My mother treats her very well and they are as close as sisters. I really can't imagine why someone could be so cruel."

Lu Xiuyuan nodded, pondered for a moment, and said thoughtfully: "With such a deep relationship, your mother must have treated her well in terms of material things. And she is an orphan, why would she want so much money for no reason? Will she harm her sister's life for money?"

Qu Xiaoyou was completely confused and couldn't answer his questions at all.

After Lu Xiuyuan's reasoning, Xia Younan couldn't help it and raised several doubts one after another.

"Why did your father send the maid to the government office as soon as he saw her when he came back that night? How did he know that it was the maid who set the fire? Couldn't the fire have been caused by accident?"

"Did that maid admit from beginning to end that she was the one who set the fire?"

"She admitted it!" Qu Xiaoyou nodded heavily, "I heard that she later pleaded guilty and signed a pledge."

Xia Younan was not surprised and asked calmly, "Did you use torture?"

Qu Xiaoyou was speechless. After a moment of silence, he lowered his head and said, "I used it."

Xia Younan raised his eyebrows and said nothing more, but the meaning was self-evident.

Upon hearing this, Chanmu could no longer hold back and asked, "There is a river across the road from your front door, so getting water should be quick and easy. There are quite a few maids and servants in the mansion, so how could the fire last so long?"

Qu Xiaoyou sighed and said sadly, "I heard that something happened in the martial arts hall that night, and my father called all the servants to the martial arts hall to help. Only four people, including the maid, were left at home, and they were all women, so they were not capable of putting out the fire."

"Oh? What a coincidence?" Everyone became suspicious upon hearing her say this, and felt that this matter was increasingly unusual.

After pondering for a long time, Xia Younan said, "The human body has the instinct to foresee danger. If you inhale smoke and feel uncomfortable during sleep, you will definitely wake up immediately."

"That is to say, your mother should have woken up when the fire started, and your brother should have cried. And your house is a large courtyard, and there is a wide field just outside the door. How could your mother not run out?"

After being questioned by them, Qu Xiaoyou was speechless and was shocked. Why were there so many unexplainable doubts about what happened back then?

"So what you mean is..." Qu Xiaoyou looked at them nervously, her voice trembling a little, and her thumb unconsciously clasped her index finger.

Xia Younan looked at her and sighed, "There must be something else behind the maid's arson case!"

Qu Xiaoyou's heart skipped a beat, and she retorted in amazement: "How could this be possible? The maids all admitted it, and they were all beheaded in public, how could there be a hidden story?"

Xia Younan shrugged and said, "Then how do you explain our doubts just now?"

"I..." Qu Xiaoyou was speechless. She frowned and thought for a long time before asking helplessly, "But if the murderer is not her, who else could it be? Who has such a deep hatred for my mother?"

This time, no one answered. They already had a guess in their minds, but they didn't dare to say it out loud for fear of upsetting the poor girl in front of them.

"Xiaoyou!"

Just as they quieted down, they heard a hearty call from outside the door, and then Qu Zhengyan strode into the room.

He saluted Lu Xiuyuan and asked Qu Xiaoyou impatiently, "My dear daughter, Daddy went out for something today. When I came back, I heard that you were looking for me everywhere. What's wrong?"

Qu Xiaoyou couldn't help but get furious when she thought about what happened at the grave today. She stood up and faced him, telling him all the strange things she had discovered and sternly questioned him what was going on.

After hearing this, Qu Zhengyan's face changed drastically, but then his eyes rolled and his expression calmed down again. He did not answer immediately, but lowered his eyebrows and eyes, with an expression of guilt and grievance.

"Father, please tell me something. The dried-up soul-calming well and the ghost-killing talismans that marked my mother and my brother's birth dates were all made by you, right?"

Qu Xiaoyou asked with tears in her eyes, and she didn't know whether she was nervous or angry, her body was shaking slightly.

Qu Zhengyan took a deep breath and nodded with red eyes, as a sign of acknowledgement.