The hill that Huang Wude refers to originally did not have a name, but because since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the eunuchs who died in the palace will be buried here, and the Central Plains has always had the saying that "there are three unfilial filial pieties, and no queen is great", so no matter how beautiful the eunuchs were in the palace during their lifetime, they could not enter the ancestral grave after death, and even the eunuchs themselves were unwilling to bury their mutilated bodies in their ancestral graves, because they felt that they had no face to see the dead ancestors, so in this case, the hill where the eunuchs were buried had a name, It's called Wuyan Mountain.

Zhao Yan and Huang Wude came to the mountainside of Wuyan Mountain, where there is a stream flowing between the mountains and rocks, and there is a small open space by the stream, which can be said to be a rare feng shui treasure in Wuyan Mountain, and Xu Dezu's cemetery is located here.

"This is a good cemetery, I and several other fathers-in-law in the palace have taken a fancy to this place, but unfortunately Xu Dezu took the lead!" Huang Wude pointed to Xu Dezu's new grave in the open space and said with a smile, he and Xu Dezu had no friendship in the first place, and even after knowing that Xu Dezu was the leader of the Yin Hell Division, Huang Wude hated him even more, so he really hoped that Xu Dezu was buried in the grave now.

Zhao Yan didn't pay attention to Huang Wude's words, only to see him step forward and go around Xu Dezu's tomb, only to see that although this tomb is not very big, but the construction is very exquisite, the round mound is paved with smooth green bricks, and there is a tall tombstone in front of the tomb, which is engraved with a few big words "Xu Gongde's ancestral √'s tomb", in addition, the tombstone is blank, and there is no other introduction, but this is not surprising, because as eunuchs, their identities are already despised. Therefore, after death, he absolutely does not want to let people know the identity of his eunuch again.

"Lao Huang. Don't be emotional, hurry up and ask someone to dig up the grave, it's only been a few days since it was buried, the body shouldn't be completely decomposed, I must see with my own eyes what the dead Xu Dezu looks like? Zhao Yan suddenly raised his head and commanded at this time.

"Yes!" Huang Wude immediately bowed down and replied when he heard this, and then saw him command. The guards who came with them immediately stepped forward with their tools, and began to dig the grave with all hands and feet, and after a while, the sealing stone at the entrance of the tomb was opened, revealing the black entrance to the tomb below.

Immediately after that, more than a dozen guards jumped off the tomb, and after a while, they lifted a heavy coffin from inside, and then put it on the ground with a "bang", although Zhao Yan couldn't see what material this coffin was. But judging from this weight alone, it is estimated that it is also a very valuable wood, and it seems that this should also be specially ordered by the Empress Dowager Cao.

"Open it!" Zhao Yan commanded lightly, and then the four guards held crowbars and inserted them into the gap above the coffin, using this very violent means to open the coffin lid, but this is also a helpless thing, after all, when the burial is underway. The coffin had already been sealed, and it could only be opened by such violent means.

With the combined force of several guards. The sturdy coffin was finally opened, and as the heavy coffin lid was lifted down, a rancid smell immediately emanated from the coffin, fortunately, Zhao Yan and the others had already retreated to the upper wind, and when the rancid smell in the coffin was almost blown away, they stepped forward with a towel dipped in vinegar to cover their noses.

"Huh. How much did the corpse not decompose? Zhao Yan stepped forward to take a look, and immediately said to himself in surprise, only to see that although the corpse lying in the coffin was stinky, it had not changed much on the surface, which was really rare in this relatively hot weather.

"Don't be surprised. The coffin used by Xu Dezu is not simple, but the queen mother specially asked people to find nanmu from Nanyang, which was originally used by the queen mother to make a coffin, but the materials were transported a little, and the remaining nanmu was given to Xu Dezu by the queen mother, and the result was made into this small coffin, although it looks small, but it can prevent the corpse from decomposing. At this time, Huang Wude said with a smile.

"I see, I didn't expect Nanmu to have such an effect, I want to prepare one for myself." Zhao Yan couldn't help but say to himself in surprise again when he heard this, he has always had no taboos about life and death, but saying such things at his current age made Huang Wude and the others around him a little unacceptable, after all, he is not like Huang Wude, who is most of his body in the ground, and now it seems a little too frustrating to say this kind of thing.

However, Zhao Yan didn't care about the reactions of the people around him, but began to seriously look at the people in the coffin, although the corpse was a little swollen, and there were some dark spots on the skin, but it could still be seen that this corpse was indeed exactly the same as Xu Dezu, and even when Zhao Yan saw him, he began to believe that the body in the coffin was Xu Dezu, but soon his reason told him that Xu Dezu would definitely not die so easily.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yan put down the towel covering his nose, picked up a pair of scalp gloves and put them on his hands, and then personally checked Xu Dezu's body, first of all, he first determined the authenticity of this corpse, such as whether it was manipulated or not, but he was soon disappointed, this corpse could not see any traces of artificial transformation, and although Zhao Yan did not meet Xu Dezu much, he also remembered several features of his face, and as a result, these facial features could be found from the corpse.

"Strange, could it be that this is really Xu Dezu's corpse?" Zhao Yan couldn't help but feel a little suspicious of his previous insistence at this time, the corpse in front of him didn't look like a fake, whether it was appearance or some facial features, it was almost exactly the same as Xu Dezu, and even Zhao Yan opened the corpse's mouth and looked at his teeth, but he didn't find much difference.

"King Jun, although I don't have much contact with Xu Dezu, I can be regarded as an acquaintance, so I'm sure that this corpse should be him, and it is absolutely impossible to admit it!" At this time, Huang Wude saw that Zhao Yan did not find the flaws in the corpse, and immediately said, in fact, from the beginning, he thought that there was no need to open the coffin for an autopsy, because it was impossible for so many people in the palace to recognize the wrong person at the same time, and it was impossible to lie at the same time.

"No, you and Xu Dezu don't have much contact with each other, and I have only met Xu Dezu a few times, so the judgment of the two of us is likely to be wrong, Lao Huang, you go to the palace now, find a few people who are most familiar with Xu Dezu, and let them identify them one by one!" Zhao Yan is usually a very easy-going person and is willing to listen to other people's opinions, but Xu Dezu left too deep an impression in his heart, so he definitely didn't believe that Xu Dezu would die so lightly.

Seeing Zhao Yan so stubborn, Huang Wude was also very helpless, so he had to order people to go back and find a few people who were most familiar with Xu Dezu, but Zhao Yan and the others waited for more than half an hour before they saw a carriage rushing towards them, and then a few young eunuchs came down from above, and when they saw Zhao Yan and Huang Wude, these people immediately knelt down and saluted.

"King Jun, these people are the little eunuchs who usually serve Xu Dezu, and they can be said to be the ones who are most familiar with him!" Huang Wude opened his mouth at this time.

Zhao Yan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately stepped forward and asked: "Since you are serving Xu Dezu, you must know some of his characteristics best, and now you all try to recall, whoever can name a characteristic of Xu Dezu, this king will reward ten pieces of money!" ”

With Zhao Yan's identity, he can naturally order these little eunuchs to do things, but Zhao Yan still likes to use money to drive them to take the initiative to do things, after all, compared to orders, the temptation of money sometimes makes them work harder, especially for tasks like now, recalling Xu Dezu's characteristics without any standards.

When several little eunuchs heard Zhao Yan's words, their first reaction was not excitement, but they looked at each other in disbelief, it is estimated that it is the first time they have met a prince like Zhao Yan, fortunately, Huang Wude scolded angrily at this time: "What are you still doing in a daze, do you still want the reward of the county king?" ”

Hearing Huang Wude's words, the little eunuchs came to their senses, and the chubby little eunuch standing in the middle was the first to speak: "King Qiyu, the villain is usually responsible for serving Duke Xu to change clothes, and he is most familiar with the features on his body, but I remember that he has a mole on his left wrist, and there is a small scar on his stomach and right leg. ”

"Yes, what's your name?" Zhao Yan was also very happy when he heard this, and these physical features were probably only recognized by the people around Xu Dezu.

"The king of Qiyu, the villain's name is Wu Qun." The little eunuch replied excitedly.

"Very good, wait for you to find the old Huang next to me to receive the reward!" Zhao Yan smiled and pointed to Huang Wude beside him, which made the big leader of the Imperial City Division very depressed, obviously Zhao Yan said that he wanted a reward, but he didn't expect to ask him to pay in the end.

Hearing Zhao Yan's words, Wu Qun also hurriedly thanked him, and several little eunuchs next to him saw this, and they all rushed to provide the information they knew, and after a while, Zhao Yan almost mastered more than a dozen characteristics of Xu Dezu's body, which made him overjoyed, and immediately asked people to carry Xu Dezu's body out, and then verified them one by one, and the results were unexpected by Zhao Yan, and the physical characteristics provided by these little eunuchs were all matched.

"Lao Huang, have you checked all these little eunuchs, is it possible that Xu Dezu is the one who was placed in the palace?" Zhao Yan finally suddenly pulled Huang Wude to the side and asked in a low voice, he suspected that the little eunuchs provided false news.

"The king of the county, the people Xu Dezu has contact with in the palace are all in my inventory, and these little eunuchs are the key targets of the investigation, but no problems have been found for the time being, and some things are not only known to them, so their words are still credible." Xu Dezu said helplessly again at this time, the characteristics were all right, but he didn't expect Zhao Yan to still not believe it.

"In that case, we have to use the last resort!" Zhao Yan finally gritted his teeth and said. (To be continued......)