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Although Eunuch Liu is an eunuch in the palace, his status is actually very special.

Speaking of which, this father-in-law has a very close relationship with the queen mother.

Back then, he was only a teenager when he was sent to the palace. He was very stupid and was often beaten and scolded.He didn't know what else he broke that day, and was hanged up by the eunuch and beaten.It happened that the Queen Mother, who was Concubine Li back then, passed by and felt sorry for him, so she rescued him and kept him with her ever since.

Concubine Li had a gentle personality when she was young, and she was very generous to the servants around her. When Eunuch Liu was young, she also took special care of her.

This Eunuch Liu has been treated like a pig and dog since he was born, and this is the first time in his life that someone treats him well, so he is absolutely devoted to Concubine Li and protects Concubine Li wholeheartedly.Later, when the civet cat was replaced by the prince, Concubine Li was in trouble and exiled among the people. In order to save her, Eunuch Liu was severely injured and thrown into a mass grave.He also had a hard life. After crawling out of the pile of corpses, he met an expert and learned martial arts all over. He was determined to avenge Concubine Li.

This person is withdrawn and cruel, but he is loyal to the Queen Mother.Concubine Li's experience back in the palace was quite bumpy, and the one who helped her the most, besides Master Bao and the Eighth Prince, was Grand Master Pang.

The grand master is tactful and has a very good vision. He has done a lot for Concubine Li in secret, and he gets along very well with Eunuch Liu.

The eunuch had no heirs, so Eunuch Liu regarded Concubine Pang and Concubine Pang Yu as his own, especially Concubine Pang, and the Empress Dowager liked her, and he particularly liked the girl's slightly savage temperament, so this time he was busy , but a lot of effort has been made.

Zhan Zhao knew that this old man was very good at kung fu, and that he practiced evil kung fu. Although he had a vicious personality and didn't help his relatives, he definitely cared about the Pang family, so he should have a lot of clues.

As soon as the old man arrived, Zhan Zhao cupped his hands and said, "Elder-in-law, there is one thing I need to ask first."

Eunuch Liu was not surprised, and asked Zhan Zhao, "Master Zhan, do you want to ask if Fang Jun's death has anything to do with the young master?"

Zhan Zhao nodded with a smile——as expected, all the eunuchs in the palace were of the level of demons.

Eunuch Liu shook his head seriously, "It doesn't matter at all!"

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly.

"I'm not partial to the young master." Eunuch Liu said very seriously, "First of all, Fang Jun's kung fu is very good, and his internal strength is very strong. If you want to kill him with a single punch, you must be a top expert! However, the prince has no internal strength at all, and he is spoiled With a lack of exercise on weekdays, he can't even kill a dog with one fist!"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

"Secondly, there are some strange things about this incident." Eunuch Liu continued, "Although Hou Ye is arrogant, but with so many generals around him, why did he personally fight with someone who is so much better than him? Know who Fang Jun is! According to the family generals who were with him and some of his friends, it was Fang Jun who provoked the young master and acted to insult Concubine Pang and the Grand Master."

Zhan Zhao was surprised, "Didn't Fang Jun say that he is well-versed in both civil and military affairs?"

"That's the blame!" Eunuch Liu said, "Many employees and guests at Taibaiju saw it that day, and they all said that Fang Jun's words were very ugly. If he used such words to humiliate his sister and father, a man would fight."

Zhan Zhao was puzzled—could it be that Fang Jun was all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, and his knowledge of books and etiquette was just a rumor, and he was actually rude?Or is there a festival with the Pang family, deliberately provocative?

"I asked the friends who had dinner with Fang Jun at that time." Eunuch Liu continued, "Someone mentioned that Fang Jun was in an extremely weird mood that day."

"What kind of weird method?"

"Fang Jun himself is relatively calm, and he is very polite and well-bred. I don't know what happened that day, but he has a bad temper!" Mr. Liu said, "That day he humiliated Pang Yu with vicious words, which made several of his friends very angry. Unexpectedly... In addition, they also mentioned that Fang Jun's footsteps were weak that day, and he seemed to have no strength, so they entangled with Pang Yu for several moves, otherwise, Fang Jun would have easily killed Pang Yu with one punch."

"Could it be that he felt unwell before the fight with Pang Yu?" Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "Actually, there is a simple way, just an autopsy."

Eunuch Liu waved his hand, "When Fang Jun just died, the yamen took the body to Dali Temple, and then Fang Jun's second brother arrived, emotional, and the next day his elder brother also arrived, and no one was allowed to touch the body. In a few days, Lord Jin Dao arrived at the gate of the imperial city with his youngest son and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other after hearing this, the process was really unreasonable!

"Why is Fang Jun in Kaifeng?" Bai Yutang asked.

Eunuch Liu shook his head, "I don't know, I didn't summon him! But he was only inheriting the title and has no job. Maybe he came here with his second brother for business or for fun."

"Is the body still in Dali Temple?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Yes..." Eunuch Liu hesitated.

"What?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

"Fang Ba won't allow an autopsy." Eunuch Liu was helpless.

"Why?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Hindering the case?"

Eunuch Liu sighed, "The Fang family said that the man died during a fight with Pang Yu. At that time, so many people saw it, and the evidence was already complete. What's the need for an autopsy?"

Zhan Zhao blinked, "It's all right... Then I can also say that he died suddenly while eating in Taibaiju. So many people saw it, maybe someone poisoned him."

Eunuch Liu smiled wryly, "The Fang family said that the young marquis is a relative of the imperial family. Dali Temple and Kaifeng Mansion, no matter who conducts the autopsy, what if they do something wrong?"

When Zhan Zhao heard it, he found it unpleasant, "He doubts Master Bao's justice?!"

Eunuch Liu spread his hands, "The actual ability of this old servant is really limited, and it depends on Mr. Zhan and Young Master Bai."

Zhan Zhao frowned, while Bai Yutang leaned against the railing and continued to remain silent, but after listening to Eunuch Liu's narration, Bai Yutang also felt that there was something suspicious about it!

"Then Fang Ba promised to wait for a month, which means he promised to have a trial after Mr. Bao returns?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Yes, yes, yes, but the autopsy is still not allowed."

At this time, Zhao Zhen came out.

Eunuch Liu hurriedly saluted, Zhao Zhen signaled no need, and sighed, "If my beloved concubine hadn't come to jail with her pregnancy, I doubt that Fang Ba could tear Pang Yu to pieces in front of me."

Zhan Zhao frowned, "So horizontal?"

Zhao Zhen put on a pitiful look, "Yes, it's hard for me to be an emperor."

The corners of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's mouths twitched subconsciously—to a certain extent, Zhao Zhen's personality is quite strange.

"Why does Sibit refuse to do an autopsy?" Zhan Zhao couldn't figure it out.

"I might know about this." Zhao Zhen gave Zhan Zhao another clue, "Fang Ba is actually brave and foolish. This person's military exploits were not bad back then. It is said that... he owes it all to the witch religion."

"Witch Cult?" Zhan Zhao really wanted to scratch his ears - what do you mean?Do you do a fortune teller or pray before a battle?

"The shamanism has many rules. I need to ask some veterans or someone in the Ninth Uncle's Army to know about it." Zhao Zhen said, "The shamanism rules are very strict. One of them is that you must never touch the corpse after death!"

When Zhao Zhen said this, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were both stunned—is it a coincidence?It seems that the people who were in charge of the fire before did not allow people to touch the corpse.

"It seems to be some kind of death." Zhao Zhen said, beckoning to the front.

Sure enough, Nangong Ji appeared in front of everyone from nowhere.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang lamented that Nangong and Zhao Zhen's shadow are everywhere.

"The Queen Mother's edict has been passed on?" Zhao Zhen stretched out his hand and patted Nangong's shoulder. There was some dust, and it seemed that he had just returned from his journey.

"It has been delivered." Nangong replied in a low voice, "Vice General He said to leave it to the Ninth Prince."

Zhao Zhen sighed helplessly, "What god of death did you find out before?"

Nangong Ji thought for a while, "The god of death... is the ghost general, right your majesty?"

Zhao Zhen seemed to remember it, nodded, "It seems so, you can tell them, I'm going back to the palace first." After speaking, he took the people away.

Nangong was helpless.

Eunuch Liu also went into the house to visit Concubine Pang. Nangong was about to speak, but Zhan Zhao stopped him, "Wait a minute! Save it for dinner!"

Nangong opened his mouth, Zhan Zhao dragged Bai Yutang, and invited Nangong Ji to eat hot and sour crab in Taibaiju.

……

Taibai lives on the third floor, in the private room reserved by Bai Yutang.

Nangong Ji looked at Bai Yutang, who was drinking by the window, and Zhan Zhao, who was holding a crab leg... finally understood what it meant to "have dinner".

Zhan Zhao put a crab in front of Nangong Ji's eyes, and asked him with a smile, "What the hell is death?"

Nangong was also hungry, peeling the crabs, and said to Zhan Zhao, "I asked a few veterans about Fang Ba... let's put it this way, when we were fighting, many generals enshrined a kind of witchcraft. Gods are ghost generals!"

Zhan Zhao sounded strange, "The one who fights the most is Guan Erye, and other gods?"

"Ghost general..." Bai Yutang drank his wine and muttered to himself.

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Have you heard of it?"

Bai Yutang took another sip of wine slowly and replied, "The name is really ugly."

Nangong Ji shook his head, "The legend of this old general is not popular now. It seems that because the Nine Princes fought wars, even Bodhisattvas refused to worship, so this trend was killed later. It was very common in the early years... It is said that this ghost general has a ghost head. , Human body and horse legs."

"Human body and horse legs?" Zhan Zhao raised his face and began to think. After a while, he asked again, "Is it the front legs of a horse or the hind legs?"

Nangong made him amused, "The veteran told me that it is the human head, body, plus the horse's body and legs."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang tacitly raised their faces together and began to imagine, for a long time...

Bai Yutang asked, "Don't you wear pants?"

The corner of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched——Bai Yutang's focus was indeed different from that of normal people.

Nangong put down the crab, took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands, took out a piece of old yellow paper from his waist, and handed it to Zhan Zhao, "This is a picture of a ghost general in a veteran's house."

With a crab leg in his mouth, Zhan Zhao took out a handkerchief from Bai Yutang's sleeve pocket, wiped his hands, stuffed it in Bai Yutang's sleeve pocket, took the blueprint, and shook it in front of his eyes.

Bai Yutang felt that Zhan Zhao's movements were done in one go, extremely smooth...

The so-called "ghost general" painted on that image has a ferocious face and is very scary.A ghost face, blue-faced fangs, disheveled hair.Wearing worn-out armor, he held a broadsword and a shield in both hands.This person's upper body is very strong and burly, with abrupt muscle lines and bulging veins.And his lower body turned into a horse.Not to mention, the transition from a human body to a horse's body is quite natural, with thick and powerful hooves and a lion's tail.

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao touched his chin with emotion, "It's amazing!"

Bai Yutang glanced at it and suddenly laughed.

Zhan Zhao raised his face to look at him, as if to say—what's so funny?Saying it made me laugh too.

Bai Yutang pointed at the man, then at the horse, and said, "I don't know if it's a man or a god, but I just think the spine looks really strange, it's bent at the corners, and also, he has ribs at the top and bottom. How many hearts and lungs? Eat or eat grass?"

Zhan Zhao blinked, and continued to touch his chin—it was really ridiculous.

"Is this god so powerful?" Zhan Zhao asked Nangong Ji.

"Well... According to legend, as long as you pray correctly, the ghost will suddenly rush into the enemy's barracks that night and kill the enemy without leaving a single piece." Nangong said, breaking open a crab, feeling a lot-there are so many crab roe!so spicy!

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang stared at Nangong.

"Really." Nangong scooped up crab roe with a spoon, "The old soldier told me so, I didn't make it up."

"But we can worship the enemy as well, right?" Zhan Zhao felt unbelievable, "Why didn't ghost generals rush into our barracks?"

"The general is Han!" Nangong Ji answered briefly.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were speechless again.

"Then why did the emperor say it was the god of death?" Zhan Zhao was more careful, and asked Nangong, "Do you have something to say?"

"Hmm..." Nangong thought for a while and said, "I heard rumors that the ghost general is doing a life-for-life deal. In other words, as many enemies as you want him to kill, you have to give him as many lives."

"What do you mean?" Zhan Zhao frowned.

"There are two theories." Nangong Ji broke off the two crab claws and said, "On the surface, some generals use paper figurines to deceive ghost generals, and some say that they use animals instead."

"What about the secret story?" Bai Yutang asked.

"It is said that when the war was fought, although the battle was won, the people in the nearby villages mysteriously disappeared."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were surprised.

"You mean, the generals from back then killed the local people and changed their names with ghost generals, thus winning the war?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Then why fight? Isn't the war just to protect those people?"

"So it's just a legend, and there's no way to verify it." Nangong Ji reminded, "Fang Ba is already in his eighties, and he was under 40 when he was fighting. It's not easy to find a veteran now!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded.

"It is for this reason that on battlefields where ghost generals haunt, the local villagers often die overnight, so many places call this ghost general the God of Death." Nangong Ji said, "When I told the emperor, His reaction to this is a bit big, maybe the ghost has forgotten him, and only remembers this god of death."

"It's because of this reason that Fang Ba didn't allow anyone to touch Fang Jun's body..." Zhan Zhao felt that the old man was probably hopeless.

"There's another rumor, do you want to hear it?" Nangong Ji ate something to fill his stomach, and started to gossip.

Zhan Zhao nodded to express that he wanted to hear, and Bai Yutang also looked up at him.

"Fang Ba actually has five sons!" Nangong Ji said, "Fang Wen, Fang Wu, Fang Quan, Fang Cai, and the youngest Fang Jun, who is talented in civil and military affairs."

Zhan Zhao was at a loss, "This is the first time I've heard of it. Don't you say that there are only civil and military talents? Where is Fang Quan?"

"The real third child should be Fang Quan." Nangong Ji said, "These four brothers are named according to their talents in both civil and military affairs. How could there be Fang Jun back then? Who would have thought that I would have a son in my 60s? ?Fang Ba is obsessed with war and never forgets the battlefield. He always hopes that he can train a few generals to gallop on the battlefield to serve the country. So back then, when he was worshiping ghost generals, he asked for a trigram, which was to test his four sons separately. Promising. Back then, a blind fortune-teller broke the hexagrams for him. It is said that the hexagrams are: one is honest, two is straightforward, three is disobedient, four is unlucky, and five is prosperous!"

Zhan Zhao frowned, "Why does this old general believe in the horoscopes of these gods and Buddhas like an old lady who cooks?"

"Everyone has his own way." Nangong shrugged, "Because of this hexagram, Fang Ba never loved the third child since he was a child, and when the fifth child was born, he was overjoyed, and he believed in the fortune teller's interpretation... Also because This one, it is said that the old Sanfangquan had a hard life since he was a child, and even his mother was not favored. In the end, on the way Fang Quan went out to do errands, he encountered a flood in the hotel and was burned to death. Not long after his death, his mother died of illness No. Fang Ba didn’t even send anyone to find Fang Quan’s body, he just changed the family tree and removed Fang Quan.”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't understand what he heard. This is really a big forest with all kinds of birds. It's useless for the overbearing general to regard his own son as an enemy because of a few words from a fortune teller...

"It can be seen that the fortune teller is not accurate." Zhan Zhao sneered, "This fifth child didn't go anywhere, and died so early."

"The fortune teller is very accurate." Bai Yutang held the cup and said quietly, "Who told him to get rid of the third child? Without the third child, the fifth child will become the fourth child. Isn't that just unlucky!"

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, then nodded, "That's the case."

Nangong had finished what he was about to say, and he was full after eating and drinking, so he clapped his hands and said that he would go back to the palace to return to his life. Before leaving, he reminded Zhan Zhao, "Ouyang and Zou Liang will be here tomorrow, and Ouyang is expected to go to the front of the battle to meet Fang. Let's have a fight."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang somehow decided to order some duck necks and chicken feet, and find a better place tomorrow to watch Ouyang Shaozheng cursing.

"Speaking of which, Fang Ba is over 80 after all." Nangong shook his head, "Don't be mad at Ouyang tomorrow." After speaking, he left through the window.

After the others left, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang continued to eat crabs and drink alcohol. After discussing with each other, they sneaked into Dali Temple at night to take a look at Fang Jun's corpse...

Speaking of this, Zhan Zhao suddenly said, "Ah!"

Bai Yutang was startled by him, looked at him, "What's wrong?"

Zhan Zhao knocked on the bowl with the crab legs, "I forgot to ask why Bao Yan is in jail!"