Pavilions and pavilions, birds chirping and flowers fragrant.
The servants were sweeping the fallen leaves, and the maids were feeding the fish by the pond. Everything was as peaceful as an ink painting.
Shen Tiande was wearing dark blue casual clothes, lying on the stone platform and looking at something attentively.
On the stone platform is a chess game, with the chess pieces made of precious ivory.
What is unexpected is that there is no one playing chess with him on the opposite side of the chessboard, but there is a birdcage, and in the cage is a green bird.
"Yes, that's the situation," Xu Zun's voice came from the stone bench next to him, "Father, you don't want Sissi to be a widow before she gets married, right?"
Bah!
After hearing Xu Zun's nonsense, the chess piece fell from Shen Tiande's hand and made a crisp sound.
"Ji Ying, can you speak more auspiciously?" Shen Tiande glared at Xu Zun angrily and said, "I thought you were here to kowtow to me and admit your mistake! I didn't expect that you would actually ask for someone from me. Still... still so confident?"
"Uncle, oh no, foster father," Xu Zun wiped his nose and asked like a weakling, "What do you mean by playing chess with a bird? Come on, let me play with you!"
"You're laying eggs!" Shen Tiande frowned, "What's wrong with me! You kid, you still have the same virtue! You want Huo Anu from me, how can I help you get it? She is a woman, a woman! Sissi Can you agree?"
It turned out that Xu Zun came to his father-in-law specifically because he wanted his father-in-law to lend Huo Anu to him.
Huo Anu is known as the number one expert in Akiye County. If she is around to protect him, his sense of security and survival rate will obviously be improved.
"Father," who knows, Xu Zun did not answer the question directly, but said something vague, "Do you know the situation about the iron coffin case two years ago?"
"What?" Shen Tiande asked, frowning, "What the hell?"
"Hey? Isn't this a nice bird? Why haven't you seen it before?" Xu Zun pointed at the birdcage and asked.
"I've been raising this bird for four years, and you haven't seen it before?" Shen Tiande's eyebrows almost twisted into knots, "Hey, can you speak properly?"
"Father," Xu Zun lay on the ground, picked up the fallen chess piece, and said, "Two years ago, an iron coffin case occurred in Qiuye County. A black iron coffin appeared on Zhangqiao, and the dead man next to it appeared. 37 people were killed, do you know this?"
"Know?" Shen Tiande looked at Xu Zun and asked, "You are a county captain, don't you know?"
"I really don't know!" Xu Zun shook his head, "I didn't even know that the former county lieutenant was exiled because of this case! Don't you think this iron coffin is very abnormal?"
"Of course it's not normal, but...it's not like you don't know," Shen Tiande put down the chess piece and said seriously to Xu Zun, "It had been less than two years since I returned to Qiuye County for retirement, and that case had already happened!
"But the strange thing is that this case seems to have been suppressed. People in Akiye County keep it secret and rarely talk about it.
"Later, when I was having dinner with the officials in Wude City, I heard some of the inside information. I felt it was really shocking!"
Wude City is the provincial capital of Tangzhou, and obviously the officials Shen Tiande was referring to are all provincial-level officials.
"Oh?" Xu Zun was overjoyed. He didn't expect that his father-in-law actually knew some of the facts of the case, so he asked quickly, "Tell me, what was in the coffin two years ago?"
"Something?" Shen Tiande was stunned, "There is nothing?"
"What?" This time it was Xu Zun's turn to be surprised, "Is there nothing?"
"Yes," Shen Tiande was very sure. "The official who mentioned this during the meal had witnessed the coffin opening process and confirmed that there was nothing in the coffin!
"But..." he added, "he said that there was a partition inside the coffin, and there was a space under the partition, but after opening it, it was still empty!"
"No way?"
Xu Zun was immediately confused. If what Shen Tiande said was correct, then it meant that there was a body outside the coffin but nothing inside the coffin.
But now, there is a body inside the coffin, but there is nothing outside the coffin.
It makes no sense...
"Then..." Xu Zun asked again, "What about those dead people? Who are they?"
"I don't know," Shen Tiande shook his head, "The official said they didn't know either!"
"Damn!" Xu Zun sighed and asked, "How was the case handled? Where did the iron coffin go? Where did the body go?"
"I don't know," Shen Tiande shook his head, "By the way, Jiying, why do you suddenly ask these questions?"
"Alas! The iron coffin has appeared again!" Xu Zun said without any ambiguity, "Master Liu died in the coffin!"
"What?" Shen Tiande was shocked and asked, "Which Chief Liu? Liu Zhang?"
"Yes!" Xu Zun said again, "Liu Zhang died on the floor below, and there is an old Taoist on the floor above!"
"Old Taoist?" Shen Tiande was confused, "Old Taoist is also dead?"
Xu Zun nodded.
"Then..." Shen Tiande asked again, "What about outside? How many people died outside?"
"There are no dead people outside..."
Xu Zun told his father-in-law everything that happened today.
"So," he said calmly, "I am worried that I will die too, so I have to borrow Huo Anu to use it!"
"If that's the case..." Shen Tiande said with concern, "You'd better come back to live in Shen's Mansion! I'll add a few more people to you. If it doesn't work, I won't be the county captain anymore. I'll go to the prefect to give it to you." Just find a job..."
this……
The old man's casual words made Xu Zun feel warm and warm. With a husband who loves him so much, what more could he ask for!
"It's better not to cause trouble for you!" Xu Zun shook his head and said, "I think Huo Anu is enough! She is from the Western Regions, so don't worry!"
"Oh? Are you really relieved?" Shen Tiande grinned, with worry in his eyes, "Last time, she almost maimed you. If I hadn't stopped you in time, you would have..."
ah?
Xu Zun quickly searched for relevant memories and found what Shen Tiande was talking about.
It turns out that in an engagement breakup farce a few months ago, Huo Anu was ordered by Miss Shen to beat Xu Zun so violently that Xu Zun couldn't get out of bed for a week!
No way?
Is this woman so violent?
"But..." Shen Tiande weighed it and said, "It's not impossible to lend Huo Anu to you!"
"This..." Xu Zun flinched as he recalled the tragic situation when he was beaten.
"Okay!" However, Shen Tiande had already made up his mind, "Although this Huo Anu has a violent temper, he is highly skilled in martial arts, alert and cautious, and absolutely loyal and reliable! With her protecting you, I can rest assured! It's just that , I have to explain it to Sissi..."
Gulu, Xu Zun swallowed, his expression was very complicated.
On the one hand, he really needs a helper he can trust;
On the one hand, Huo Anu is highly skilled in martial arts;
On the other hand, her figure is hot and exotic, which is pleasing to the eye and pleasant to the smell. I wonder if something good will happen if we stay together for a long time?
However, when he thought of Huo Anu's heavy iron umbrella, Xu Zun's fantasy was instantly wiped out...
