For the emperor

It took half a month for Li Guangde of Pingyang City to transport the bodies of the guards back to Beijing.

There were more than 2000 escorts, and more than 800 corpses were left behind. When they were sent to the capital, because the weather was getting warmer, the corpses were decomposed to varying degrees, and because of bumps and damage during transportation, many corpses had been lost. recognized value.

When Cang Tiansu learned that the corpse had arrived in Beijing, he directly claimed that he was sick and pushed the court early, and went to the morgue early to wait. He stood silently for more than half an hour, and Li Guangde's subordinates came in with a cart full of corpses. Seeing someone inside, he couldn't help but froze for a moment.

Someone he recognized hurriedly squeezed away the people in front and came over. He was Li Guangde's warlord named Zhang Jin, and he didn't do it himself just now, but urged and directed the ordinary soldiers under him to carry the corpse.

Zhang Jin saluted first, and Fang said: "Your lord, did you come to identify Duan... the body of Lord Duan?" He originally wanted to say General Duan, but in the middle of the sentence, he remembered that Duan Yu didn't have any official positions on his head, so he changed it temporarily. And because Cang Tiansu and Duan Yu were known to have a close relationship, it was not easy to address them by their names directly, so they mixed it up with the word "adult".

Most of the corpses were blurred and could not be identified at all, but Duan Yu was in an official position at the time, and his clothes were different from others, so Cang Tiansu followed the familiar clothes style to find them.

The corpse’s face was swollen, eyeballs protruding, lips everted, chest and abdomen bulged into a ball, limbs were fat and thick, the skin was dirty green, the muscles of the whole body were emphysema, and the body was full of stench. This is a typical giant phenomenon.Every corpse here looks like this, full of corruption.

Cang Tiansu stood still, Zhang Jin came over and said: "My lord, I'm afraid the person is no longer recognizable, but judging from the clothes on his body, it is likely to be the body of Mr. Duan. Do you want to find someone to take it back? The body was buried before the explosion."

Zhang Jin paused, and complained: "The journey is too far, and several corpses have exploded when we sent it over."

Cang Tiansu didn't make a sound, and glanced at the clothes on the waist of the corpse, where he could vaguely see the word "Duan", and a hidden peace symbol was embroidered next to the word.

This is a small habit of Duan Yu, which he learned from his father Duan De. Duan Yu still begged Cang Tian to draw the peace talisman, and find another embroiderer to embroider.

It was a little dark before his eyes, Cang Tiansu stretched out his hand to uncover the front of the corpse, he remembered that there was a light blue mole on the left side of Duan Yu's chest.

It's a pity that the corpse had been decomposing for too long, and the clothes were covered with rotten flesh. When it was lifted at this time, half of the chest cavity was taken off, and the smelly pus flowed out, gathering on the ground into a big sticky puddle.

Cang Tiansu closed his eyes, turned his head and looked to the side, Zhang Jin carefully hid a few meters away, looking in this direction vigilantly, with an expression of fear of the corpse exploding.

The eldest prince of Cang Kingdom was silent for three seconds, and let go of the hand holding the rotten clothes: "Master Zhang, please, I will order someone to carry away General Duan's body—have you found Master Ning Yuan's body?"

He didn't return to the palace until the evening, Li Renqiang was waiting anxiously in the study, when he saw Cang Tiansu, he rushed to greet him: "How is it, the corpse really belongs to Ah Yu?"

Cang Tiansu glanced at him: "Go in and talk."

Liu Quan took away the two guards guarding the gate with great interest, and arranged for other people to guard the yard far away. At the same time, he grabbed Li Gouzi who wanted to walk in, and warned with a cold face : "Have you forgotten all the rules I taught you, and this is what you can lean over to listen to?"

Cang Jingcheng hated secretly in his heart, his face remained calm, his face blushed instantly, he gave him a shy look, and bowed his head in shame to admit his mistake.

In the past, Cang Tiansu never hid this kind of thing from him, but this time he was very resolute in keeping him out, how could Cang Jingcheng not understand, it was because what he said yesterday annoyed others.

Although Cang Tiansu put his attitude on the bright side, Cang Jingcheng still didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said yesterday. His elder nephew was obviously angry after being exposed. He really didn't love Duan silly boy.

The most obvious manifestation is that when Duan Yu's life and death were unknown, Cang Tiansu watched all the servants of Duan's mansion being imprisoned.

Cang Tiansu said that he couldn't get in and could do nothing, Li Renqiang, who didn't understand his secret background, would believe this, but Cang Jingcheng, who had roughly figured out what Cang Tiansu could do with his observations over the past few months, would not believe it anyway.

Cang Tiansu tried his best to hurt his muscles and bones, and could have saved the Duan family, but he didn't.At this moment when he was about to fight the Liu family, the eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom would rather choose to hide and defend rather than play his cards for Duanfu.

At least in this relationship, Cang Tiansu's rationality completely overwhelmed his emotions. He might be willing to cut off his arm for Duan Yu, but he would never panic and destroy the Great Wall himself.

Cang Jingcheng smiled lightly, it seemed that he had been worrying too much before.

As soon as the study door was closed, Li Renqiang asked, "What's the matter? Does that corpse belong to Ah Yu?"

"It has been delayed for more than ten days. In this weather, the corpse has completely lost its value." Cang Tiansu walked to the desk, pulled up a chair and sat down, rubbing his swollen forehead, "I can only recognize that the clothes are Ah Yu wore it when he left, but that doesn't mean anything."

Li Renqiang cursed viciously, smashed the desk through with a fist, and didn't care about his hand that was scratched by the wood. He gritted his teeth and said: "It took ten days to send it from Pingyang City to the capital, Li Guangde What exactly is it for?"

Hurry up about something that lasted only four or five days, and now it took double the time, obviously it was deliberately delayed. The attack on Ningyuan was a major event, and the general had the guts to delay it again and again, which was naturally instigated by someone.

Li Renqiang was full of worries. Many generals who had made friends with Duan De in the past few days had fallen apart, and someone secretly obstructed the transportation of the corpse. Judging from the emperor's attitude, the Duan family might be in big trouble.

This "Duan family" is not just a matter of Duan's family, it has extended to the relationship network that Duan De painstakingly built during his lifetime. Li Renqiang did not understand what Emperor Cang Jing wanted to do. Anyway, the generals of Duan Yu's lineage in the Northwest Army Three have already lost their official positions, and two have been transferred from the capital.

"I also saw Master Ningyuan's corpse." Cang Tiansu poured him a cup of tea and gently pushed it over with his white jade-like fingertips. "He died a terrible death. His tongue, ears were cut off, and his eyes were also gouged out." , lead was poured into the throat, and all limbs were chopped off."

Ning Yuan's situation is different from Duan Yu's. According to the bones, it can be judged that the corpse is indeed an old man who is about to die. If the person who did it is really Emperor Cang Jing, Cang Tiansu can't think of him bothering to replace Ning Yuan's body. reason.

Sure enough, Li Renqiang heard something was wrong, frowned, and said after a long silence: "As long as Master Ning Yuan dies, it will be a great blow to the emperor's reputation. Because the insider will be silenced—and so many days have passed, and no similar rumors have been heard."

If it was really the Qi people who did it, as he thought before, they would definitely publicize the tragedy of Master Ningyuan now, not to mention cutting his lips and tongue is already miserable enough, and it is not efficient to insist on pouring lead into his throat The method of killing is more like venting anger.

General Li was suspicious, but he saw that Cang Tiansu was only holding a volume of military books, looking like he was not reading. Su Bai's hand gently turned over a page of the book, and the sound was so clear and piercing.

"The corpse wearing Ayu's clothes was pierced through the chest with a sword from the front, and he was killed with one stroke." Cang Tiansu smiled neatly, his phoenix eyes were so deep that it seemed to cover all the abyss in the world, "With Ayu's ability , so that you can’t even dodge a frontal attack.” Even if you can’t dodge, at least you shouldn’t be hit in the heart, and you have the ability to avoid it a little bit.

Li Renqiang took a deep look at him, nodded, and said without further words, "I'm retiring, my lord, take care of your health."

The emperor's intention to question the crime is so obvious, the young prince in front of him has already had an arm broken by his own father, and the four-year Jiji camp was destroyed in an instant, even with Li Renqiang's mind, he also admires his calm and steady appearance.

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The news of Master Ning Yuan's murder shocked the entire Da Cang Kingdom. Before the aftermath was over and the number of casualties had not been counted, a major event happened that shocked the whole country.

The left and right prime ministers connected together, and eight officials of the third grade or above jointly sued the Liu family, their relatives, for relying on their power, oppressing the people, and occupying good land, which caused complaints among the people, and the people were in dire straits.

The dossiers were written in dozens of volumes, and they were moved to the court in a mighty manner. The emperor detained several officials of the Liu family in the court, and sent the Yu Lingjun to search the Liu mansion. Many illegal utensils were produced.

Emperor Cang Jing had been quite irritable in the past few days and had punished several officials. Seeing this, he immediately expressed that he would punish them severely.

After all, the Liu family is a powerful family. The current empress and the second and third princes' natal families are such a hot potato that no one wants to mess with. It is just the time for you and me to shirk.