Xu Jingxing looked at the smiling face of the "little leather ball" in the courtyard, which was as bright as a summer flower, vaguely overlapped with the treacherous Wuxi mud doll in the inner courtyard, and then raised the corners of his cold and hard mouth.

The living often face more troubles than the dead.

The affairs of the Ke family developed too fast, and it only took two days for the incident, conviction, family raid, and clan extermination, and relatives and friends were immediately implicated after pleading, killing and degrading, and in the end, no one collected the bodies of the Ke family.

Zhang Xian and Chen Xu, the sons of Rongguo, as the sons-in-law of the Ke family, took over the matter. In the past, the elders of the Ke family had to be sent back to their hometown in Yingchuan, but after the incident, the Yingchuan Ke family opened an ancestral hall to draw a clear line with the Liangguo Mansion in the capital, and refused to allow the remains of the Liangguo Mansion to enter the ancestral tomb of the Ke family in Yingchuan.

Zhang Xian and Chen Xu could only discuss buying a remote place in the suburbs of Beijing to bury the female dependents who committed suicide when the Ke family raided the house, and the remains of the female dependents were just transported out of the city, and the fire broke out in the edict prison that night, and the prisoners burned to death in the cell were not only the Ke family's, but after a simple investigation, they were all transported to the mass graves outside the city.

A few days later, the bodies of Ke Lu, the former Duke of Liangguo, and Ke Ting, the former son of the family, were transported back to the capital, and Zhang Xian and Chen Xu went to get them back, and buried them in the cemetery purchased outside the city with the female relatives and men of the Ke family.

Immediately after Ke Min's body was found, Chen Xu became ill after winning Ke Min's fame, and his illness lingered for half a year.

Later, his body finally recovered, but he still couldn't accept the reality that Ke Min committed suicide by jumping into a well.

Xu Jingxing felt sorry in his heart and persuaded twice, "That incident, since it has happened, you still have to cheer up, even if no one does it, isn't there a girl who needs to rely on you?" ”

He lost his parents when he was a child, and was raised by his elderly grandfather and widowed aunt. Such a life may be lonely or miserable, but he has understood a truth since he was a child, that is, no matter who he loses. He can still live his life, nothing to fear.

Chen Xu clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and said after a while, "I just don't believe it." Why did she have to die? ”

Xu Jingxing was stunned, Chen Xu's wife Ke Min he had seen before, the Xu family and the Ke family were also considered to be a turning parent, Ke Min often lived in Cining Palace, played with the county lord of Anning, and met in the palace, Ke Min also called him a cousin with the county lord of Anning, and the object of the county lord of Anning was Ke Min's twin brother Ke Xuan.

The temperament of the sister and brother is quite different, Ke Xuan follows Ke Lu, the Duke of Liangguo, and is a good person. In that treacherous capital, it is often the good people who are unlucky in the end.

Ke Min is more like the Duchess of Liangguo, Liu, smart and decisive, sharp, it is said that because of this, he often quarrels with the lord of Anning, and the sisters often either quarrel or fight, and after two days they automatically reconcile.

Such a strong and powerful woman, like that sharp dagger, the sharper it is. The thinner the blade, the easier it is to break when sharpening iron like clay.

When he entered Beijing at that time, the dust was basically settled, and he only heard that Chen Xu's wife committed suicide because of her mother's family. It's a pity, it may be that I don't want to live because I don't have face, and the reason why a woman committed suicide is not difficult to guess.

But now Chen Xu is so obsessed, he can't help asking, "What doubts have you found?" ”

Chen Xu stared at the turquoise tea soup slowly. Shaking his head hesitantly, "I'm not sure, so ......" He paused, his originally tight lips suddenly relaxed, and after a long time of stuffing in his heart, he finally found a suitable audience, and the depression in his heart was relieved.

"So, I want to ask the people involved in the raid carefully."

He actually wanted to say in his heart that maybe something unexpected happened to the raiding of the house, and the director Ke Min could no longer survive in the world, or she was simply pushed into the well by someone taking advantage of the chaos.

It's just that this so-called "accident" may not be very glorious, and it is inconvenient for him to break it.

Xu Jingxing understood, and he asked suspiciously, "Then you should investigate in the capital, why did you come to Pukou?" ”

He was the youngest champion of this dynasty, he stayed in the Hanlin Academy for two years, he could have served in the capital, went to his favorite criminal department or Dali Temple, if he wanted to get in touch with the dossier or the like, it was also an opportunity, but he chose to take a foreign post, or to be a small magistrate in Pukou, which is very unreasonable.

Chen Xu said, "I have checked the people who stayed in the capital, and found nothing, among the people who were responsible for raiding the house back then, there were also those who were later implicated and degraded to the place, and the most of them were in Jinling, and I plan to investigate them one by one." ”

Xu Jingxing's good-looking eyebrows furrowed, his expression tightened, and said, "Do you want me to help, the officers and soldiers who raided the house are all people in the army, and I have more connections than you." ”

Chen Xu pondered for a moment and said, "I'm afraid of startling the snake, so let's infiltrate it slowly, but someone has been transferred to Ningbo, I will write his name and hometown to you, and you will help me pay attention to it when you go to Zhejiang." ”

Xu Jingxing readily agreed. In fact, they are also people in the same boat, they are all related to the family that was purged this time, but miraculously they were not affected, and whether the one above has a backhand or not, only his old man himself knows, and he has the opportunity to know more about the inside information, and he can avoid some dangerous shoals and reefs when making family decisions.

This tea was already cold, and Xu Jingxing continued to boil the water.

Now that he has opened the conversation box and has common interests, Chen Xu said a little more, and the suffocation day and night really tortured him a lot.

"Actually, I suspect the fire...... It's just that the situation is unclear, and I don't dare to touch it. ”

Xu Jingxing nodded, he understood that Chen Xu was referring to the fire in the Imperial Prison, he took a sip of tea with a deep sigh, gently put the tea bowl back on the tea tray, and wrote lightly, "You did the right thing, the truth will always be there, and ten or twenty years is not too late." ”

When Chen Xu heard this, his heart was shocked, his fingers trembled, and the hot tea soup splashed his fingers, but he didn't care about the pain at all. He raised his head in amazement, and happened to bump into Xu Jingxing's cold and sharp eyes, he was also staring at him, as if he had been waiting in the dark for a long time, he observed him carefully, not wanting to miss any of his subtle facial expressions.

After the initial surprise, Chen Xu did not dodge, but looked straight into the depths of those dark eyes, the two looked at each other for a moment, and each opened his eyes as if nothing happened, each understood the other's attitude, and did not leave the slightest truth, and tacitly forgot the back and forth of Fang Cai.

In the courtyard, the tall maid steadily lifted Linghui up to pick the white magnolia blooming in the corner of the yard, the big flower attracted the attention of the child, and the short fingers gently picked up the pure white petals, and slid down.

The little girl pursed her lips a little in annoyance, and it was a bit like the sinister and cunning little girl she had just seen. (To be continued.) )