Chapter 314: Killing Without Blinking
An Yihou listened to the movement outside the military tent, and the relief of seeing his son put on the armor immediately went clean.
After changing a layer of skin, the husk is still the same...... Nothing has changed.
An Yihou looked at the person beside the bed, the person in front of him claimed to be his aunt's grandson, An Yihou frowned slightly, he was in contact with his mother and aunt's family on weekdays, and he also saw some descendants at the banquet, but they were all descendants, and he had no impression of the son of the concubine.
The man showed a hearty smile: "This is the true temperament of the prince, everyone in the barracks is like this, there are not too many rules." ”
An Yihou said: "Why did you come here, are you okay at home?" ”
The man touched his head, revealing a slightly embarrassed expression: "I don't actually know." ”
How to say this, An Yihou was stunned.
The man seemed to be pondering how to speak again, when he heard someone say, "The eldest lady is here." ”
The man's eyes lit up.
……
Xu Qinghuan opened the curtain and walked in, and saw the person in front of his father's bed at a glance.
She couldn't help but be shocked when she saw this face, she had experienced so many people and things in a lifetime, and she didn't expect to meet here in this life.
This person's name is Cui Hao, and he is an out-and-out murderer who killed twenty-three people overnight, which shocked the capital and even the entire Great Zhou.
Cui Hao's case is also Li Xu's first major case in Beijing.
Cui Hao was not only ferocious but also greedy for money, he killed the Shunyang Junwang family who entered the capital to face the saint, robbed them of their money, and fled overnight, acting very much like those thieves who killed people and oversold goods.
Confused by its methods, the Yamen spent a lot of manpower and material resources to track down the bandits near the capital, but the case never progressed.
Many officials from the Criminal Department and Dali Temple were held accountable.
When Li Xu asked about the case, he found that unlike the other twenty-two people who were killed, before the king of Shunyang was killed, a jasper hairpin was pierced in his eye, and he deduced that this case was not a robbery but a revenge of the enemy, and he re-searched for clues, and finally traced Cui Hao.
Cui Hao was the centurion of the Northern Xinjiang Guard at the time, and he had a good reputation in the army, after he killed someone, he returned to the Northern Xinjiang Guard Station as if nothing happened, and his behavior was no different from the past, and he didn't look like the wicked man who escaped after the killing, and the king of Shunyang County carried a lot of valuable soft in Beijing, and those things were gone, Cui Hao lived in the barracks all day long, and there were no things around him.
Li Xu entered the barracks to investigate the case, and encountered a lot of obstacles, the military households and people in northern Xinjiang thought that Li Xu deliberately wronged Cui Hao in order to investigate the case, and even the post man in the post house was cold-faced, and the case was extremely difficult to investigate, but fortunately, he was finally caught by Li Xu when Cui Hao wanted to commit murder again.
After Cui Hao was arrested, he didn't insist much on confessing how to sneak into the side of the king of Shunyang County to kill people, the reason why he attacked the king of Shunyang County was just that he heard that the king of Shunyang County misbehaved, and he wanted to eliminate harm for the people, the court naturally did not believe Cui Hao's words, and tortured Cui Hao, but Cui Hao never changed his words, and the court had nothing to do, so he had to make a false confession that Cui Hao was interested in seeing money, and used medicine to charm the guards of the king of Shunyang County, and then killed him.
Li Xu felt that although Cui Hao killed people, he obviously concealed a lot of inside information, such as where the property stolen from the Shunyang County King was, Cui Hao didn't say a word, and how could Cui Hao alone deal with so many county palace guards.
The Criminal Department and Dali Temple also knew that there were still clues to this case, but those were already trivial matters to them, the person who killed the royal family was arrested, and all the people who had dealings with Cui Hao were interrogated, and the suspicions that Li Xu said were just speculations, and if the case was not closed, it was afraid that the emperor would be angry, so Cui Hao was corrected.
It was at that time that Li Xu was sure that there was a mastermind behind this case like the Fengxiang case, and since then, Li Xu has been busy looking for the person behind the scenes.
Now everything has changed, and all the cases have not happened like in the previous life, but now Cui Hao is here, and he is coming to meet him as the in-law of the Xu family.
Wonder why the past and present lives are so different.
An Yihou said: "I also went to Zheng's house last year, and I never heard your grandmother and mother mention your ......."
Cui Hao immediately said: "Hou Ye is suspicious of my identity, no wonder, if someone comes to confess to me like this, I am afraid that I have been thrown out, I didn't expect Hou Ye to talk to me for so long." ”
An Yihou felt more and more that Cui Hao's words were strange.
Cui Hao touched his head again: "Even if Master Hou thinks I'm a liar, that's not wrong."
I am a concubine, and I have been abducted, and I have never been able to recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors. ”
After Cui Hao said this, An Yihou understood: "I see, but it's ...... Do you say you have evidence of being abducted? ”
"It's just not," Cui Hao smiled awkwardly, "If there is, the Zheng family won't think I'm a scoundrel and a liar, and the aunt who gave birth to me has passed away, father...... Master Zheng has also been sick in bed for a long time, I have been away from home for too long, and no one in the Zheng family can recognize my appearance, unless I can find the person who abducted me back then, I have found the news of that person, but he has been punished for his many evils, and he has already been caught by the imperial court. ”
An Yihou said: "In this way, there is no one who can testify for you, how old were you when you were abducted?" How do you think you are the Zheng family? ”
Cui Hao said with a smile: "After I was abducted, the people sold me to a family as a subordinate, there is an osmanthus tree outside the yard, every time I miss my aunt and home, I will go to cry under the tree, because there is also an osmanthus tree in the yard of my aunt, and my aunt's name is Gui Niang." ”
Xu Qinghuan looked at Cui Hao, if he was really the Zheng family, why didn't he reveal this in his previous life until he died.
Xu Qinghuan thought carefully about the past in her previous life, and just after Cui Hao was arrested, her aunt Mrs. Zheng also mentioned this case in Beijing.
Later, she married Li Xu, the Zheng family came to congratulate, the Zheng family and the Li family had a good relationship in the previous life, especially after Li Xu became the commander of the guard, the Zheng family came to defect, and Zheng Shu, the daughter of Mrs. Zheng, also married the children of the Li family.
She also heard that Master Zheng once had a son, but he had died.
An Yihou was silent for a moment and said: "After I am healed, I will go to the Zheng family to inquire, if what you say is the truth, maybe you can find a way to solve this matter." ”
Cui Hao's eyes lit up, but soon he regained his composure: "That also needs real evidence, I'm afraid it is difficult for the Hou Ye to ask, I tracked down those people to Changzhou, I heard that there is a Wu Lady who is very familiar with people's affairs, I traced the Wu family, and only after I arrived did I know that Wu Auntie had been arrested by the Yamen, and it was said that it was Miss Xu who took people away, and I carefully inquired about the original Miss Xu...... The eldest lady of the Anyi Hou Mansion. ”