Li Ru asked this question very casually, but in fact, it had a deep meaning.

The little commander who was accompanying him didn't notice this, but he just accompanied him carefully, nodded and replied: "Mr. Yu, the fire here is very fierce, and all the corpses have been burned into a pile of charcoal, which is unrecognizable. ”

Li Ru was a little impatient, turned around, looked at the little commander, and asked again, "Where are the bones?" How many are there? Is it possible to distinguish between a man and a woman? ”

The little commander was obviously stunned, obviously he didn't know why the red man in front of the hussar general was so interested in such a thing, but on his face, how dare he show the slightest impatience, so he quickly became more careful, and replied with a smile: "The bones have not been counted, but Mr. has instructed that all the corpses should be placed separately, so ......."

"Where are the bones? Take me there! ”

Li Ru interrupted the little commander's words, and didn't want to listen to his long-winded answer any more, so he ordered without refusal.

No matter how stupid the little commander was, he could hear the impatience in Li Ru's words at this time, and he didn't dare to say more, so he promised and took Li Ru to the side.

The place where the bones of the dead in the Yong'an Palace fire were placed was a huge camp tent that had been set up temporarily, and Li Ru just looked at it from a distance, and immediately silently estimated in his heart that this camp tent should be a hundred steps long and dozens of steps wide.

As soon as he approached, a scorching smell mixed with the smell of meat came to his nose, Li Ru was caught off guard, his whole body stiffened, his heart was upset, and his stomach immediately turned a little upside down, and he almost spit out all the wine and delicacies he had enjoyed before.

He was not slow to react, holding his breath, raising his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and jumping backwards with his skills several times faster than usual. It wasn't until he couldn't hold his breath anymore that he put down his palm and gasped for breath.

Fortunately, the smell just now can no longer be smelled here, otherwise, with Li Ru's state, I am afraid that he will vomit all the overnight meals on the spot.

The little commander's face immediately turned pale, and the uneasiness in his heart was conceivable, and he couldn't help but blame himself in his heart: "Why didn't you think of it, why didn't you think of it......"

He really didn't expect it. When he took Li Ru to this side, he was very careful with him, but he forgot that this gentleman looked like he was in good shape. is only thinner than a typical Xiliang man, but he is an out-and-out weak scholar. When I first came here. Except for those who deal with corpses all day long, everyone retched, let alone this weak gentleman.

After being stunned for a long time, the little commander came to his senses, took three steps and two steps, and came to Li Ru. With a frightened face, he repeatedly picked his face with the palm of his hand, and said in a trembling voice: "The little one should be damned, the little one should be damned." Zhiling rushed into Mr. ......"

Li Ru had already felt that he had improved a lot at this time, and his stomach was no longer turning over the rivers and seas, he waved his hand impatiently, frowned tightly, and said, "Who is in charge of this matter, go and call it!" ”

The little commander hurriedly agreed, turned around and ran briskly into the big tent, and after a while, he took a person and walked out quickly.

Li Ru was not polite to them, and asked Fang Cai's question directly, and the servant behind the small commander took a step forward, crossed his hands in front of him, and replied respectfully: "A total of seventeen corpses were cleaned up in that side hall, and from the skeleton, six were male, five were female, and the remaining six were too damaged to be distinguished. ”

This answer made Li Ru's heart slightly less uneasy, he remembered very clearly, last night with the state of Mu Lu Bu from the side hall withdrew, Lu Bu's personal soldiers reported that seven chamberlains and eight palace maids were all killed, such as the Queen Mother and King Hongnong, just seventeen corpses.

But he was still a little uneasy, and asked, "Are there traces of knife wounds on the bones?" ”

Without thinking, he replied, "Yes, the bones of the twelve corpses have stab wounds, mostly at the neck bone. ”

Li Ru pondered for a moment, feeling that in this regard, he was no match for the servant in front of him, no matter how carefully he asked, he couldn't ask anything, and when he turned around, he asked again: "From the bones, it is possible to distinguish the Queen Mother and King Hongnong?" ”

I was stunned, and I couldn't answer.

Li Ru suddenly knew what was going on, thinking that even if he was respected as the queen mother and the king of Hongnong, after being robbed by this fire, there would only be one corpse left, and there was no difference between other lowly people.

It is precisely because of this that the work in front of him is so fragmented that he can't answer, he replied "yes", it is clear that it is deception, and answering "no" is obviously disrespectful to the Queen Mother and King Hongnong.

When he was groaning, Li Ru's heart lit up, squeezed out a smile, and nodded: "Well, no matter what method you use, it's best to identify the Queen Mother and King Hongnong, otherwise you'll ......."

This sentence is full of threats, but when he hears it in his ears, it is tantamount to reminding him that no matter what method is used, the focus is to identify the bones of the Queen Mother and King Hongnong, as for whether it is really or not, only God knows.

He just didn't expect Li Ru to ask like this, and he was caught off guard and lost his mind for a while, so he couldn't answer.

At that moment, he nodded again and again, and promised to come down, until Li Ru turned around and took the little commander to him, he breathed a sigh of relief, felt a cold sweat on his forehead, reached out and touched it, and realized that there was nothing there.

Li Ru took the little commander and returned to the side hall again, surrounded the blackened ruins, and circled around two or three times before asking, "What about the various items cleaned up here?" ”

The little commander was shocked, but quickly calmed down and replied, "It's all gathered together." ”

"Where? Take me to see it. ”

This time he didn't go far, but when Li Ruzhen saw these things, he couldn't help but be disappointed.

All the items, there are also special people in the cleaning and identification, in order to, of course, also to identify the Queen Mother and King Hongnong, the Queen Mother and King Hongnong wore jade pendants, jade Jue and other things, Li Ru just glanced at it, then put it aside, only to melt into a lump of gold lumps, quite interested, asked: "This is?" ”

"Mr. Huiyu, this is a gin jug, there are a lot of these things in the palace, and a few over there are gin bottles."

Li Ru picked it up casually and looked left and right. But no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see the reason, so he had to put it down and asked casually: "What is so special about this kind of gin jug?" ”

"Sir, this kind of gin jug, made in the palace, looks the same on the outside, but is actually divided into two halves on the inside, which can hold two different wines. By twisting the lid, it can be poured out separately. ”

"Huh?!"

Li Ru's heart jumped, he raised his head, and looked at the person who answered with blazing eyes, thinking in his heart.

If so. Doesn't it mean that the wine that the Queen Mother and King Hongnong drank last night. Could it not be poisoned liquor with poison?

Think a little deeper. Only then did he realize that when he put the poison, it was Lu Bu who sent his own soldiers to do it and avoided everyone, that is, if the personal soldiers did not put the poison in. He didn't know either.

Thinking of this, the uneasiness in Li Ru's heart rose again, and he hurriedly returned to the place where the bones had just been placed under the leadership of the little commander. Summoning Fang Cai's servant, he waved his hand to order the little commander to walk away, and asked in a low voice, "Among the corpses in the side hall, are there any signs of poisoning in the bones?" ”

He didn't dare to hide it at this time, and hurriedly replied: "Yes, a man and a woman!" ”

Li Ru's eyebrows were furrowed, and he was about to squeeze together, and he groaned for a long time, Fang Zai's face was gloomy in his confusion, and he said, "Is it the Queen Mother and King Hongnong who are poisoned?" ”

This time, he learned well, and from Li Ru's tone, he heard some affirmation, and his mind turned around, and he nodded and replied affirmatively: "Yes!" ”

Sure enough, he saw that Li Ru's complexion had not changed much, and he immediately knew in his heart that his answer was right.

"It's a big trouble, don't tell outsiders, last night in and out of the side hall, the one who guarded the Queen Mother and King Hongnong was the general Lu Bu of Zhengbei, if he knew......"

Li Ru is well versed in the mysterious trick of speaking, and halfway through his words, he stopped, and at the same time couldn't help but look at the work in front of him, as if he was looking at a dead person.

He was taken aback, and said in a loud voice: "Don't dare to be lowly, don't dare to be lowly." ”

His surprise was not pretended, but from the inside out, he was really surprised. He originally thought that this errand would be a fat errand, but he knew that it was such an errand that would cost people lives at every turn.

The bones involved the Queen Mother and King Hongnong, and the poisoning actually involved the legendary murderous general Lu Bu, who was said to be a murderer in the north.

When he was frightened, he saw Li Ru smiling mysteriously at him before turning to leave, he couldn't help but be stunned, and couldn't help but guess in his heart: "What does he mean by this......"

No matter how old and sophisticated this man is, how cunning and sophisticated he is, he can't guess what Li Ru is thinking at this moment, he was stunned in place for a long time, and the panic in his heart gradually calmed down, and when he turned around and walked towards the camp tent, he made up his mind that he couldn't say anything about this matter to anyone, even if the old man in the west of the city was good, he couldn't reveal anything.

He was busy until the end of the day, and together with the others, he was escorted by a group of fierce soldiers back to the yamen in the west of the city. Everyone parted one after another, and after thinking for a while, they did not choose to go home, but came to his old friend, and prepared to rest for the night and clean up their mood.

After pouring a few large bowls of hot wine, he tossed and tossed with his old friend for a long time, and he fell asleep contentedly, but he didn't know that the secret he wanted to keep tightly guarded was leaked in his sleep.

In his sleep, he muttered to himself, although it sounded very vague, but he was still able to make up for it by himself: "Queen Mother, King Hongnong, poisoned!" ”

In the next three days, he entered and left the city as always, until all the bones in the Yong'an Palace were cleaned up, and the matter was not over, and as for the subsequent matters, it was not his business.

But when he returned home and heard a rumor mentioned by his wife's room when she was nagging him, he couldn't help but feel so frightened that his whole body was chilled and he couldn't help but tremble.

This rumor is very simple, so simple that there is only one sentence, but the meaning contained in this sentence is that it makes people dizzy when they think about it for a while, and vaguely see the little ghost who hooks the soul and asks for his life, who is there to wave and smile to everyone who hears this rumor.

This rumor is: "Lu Bu, the general of the expedition to the north, poisoned the Queen Mother Hongnong Wang!" (To be continued......)