Akiba County, Shen Prefecture.

Pavilions, birds singing and flowers.

The servants were sweeping the fallen leaves, the maids were feeding the fish by the pool, and everything was as calm as an ink painting.

Shen Tiande was wearing a dark blue civilian clothes, lying on the stone platform and looking at something intently.

On the stone platform is a chess endgame, and the pieces are made of precious ivory.

Surprisingly, there was no one playing against him on the opposite side of the board, but a birdcage with a small emerald green bird in the cage.

"Yes, that's the case," Xu Zun's voice came from the stone bench next to him, "Father-in-law, you don't want to be widowed before you get married, do you?" ”

Let's go!

Hearing Xu Zun's nonsense, the chess pieces in Shen Tiande's hand fell and made a crisp sound.

"Ji Ying, can you be more auspicious when you speak?" Shen Tiande glared at Xu Zun angrily and said, "I thought you were looking for me to kowtow and admit your mistakes!" I didn't expect that I would still ask for someone from me, and I would ...... Still so reasonable? ”

"Uncle, oh no, father-in-law," Xu Zun wiped his snot and asked weakly, "What do you mean by playing chess with birds?" Come on, come on, I'll go with you! ”

"Lay eggs, you!" Shen Tiande frowned, "I'm breaking the endgame!" You kid, it's still this virtue! You want fire Anu with me, how can I help you get it? She's a woman, a woman! Can Sissi agree? ”

It turned out that Xu Zun came to the old man, and he wanted the old man to lend him the fire Anu.

Huo Anu is known as the number one master in Akiba Prefecture, and if she is by her side to protect her, it will obviously improve his sense of security and survival rate.

"Father-in-law," who knows, Xu Zun did not answer the question directly, but came out of nowhere, "Do you understand the case of the iron coffin two years ago?" ”

"What?" Shen Tiande twisted his eyebrows and asked, "What is it?" ”

"Huh? This bird is good, huh? Why haven't I seen it before? Xu Zun pointed to the birdcage and asked.

"This bird has been raised for 4 years, haven't you seen it?" Shen Tiande's eyebrows were about to twist into twists, "Hey, can you talk well?" ”

"Father-in-law," Xu Zun lay on the ground, picked up the chess pieces that had just dropped, and said, "Two years ago, there was an iron coffin case in Akiba County, a black iron coffin appeared on the bridge, and 37 people died next to it, do you know about it?" ”

"Know?" Shen Tiande looked at Xu Zun and asked rhetorically, "You are a county lieutenant, 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 abnormal? ”

"Of course it's not normal, but ...... It's not that you don't know," Shen Tiande put down his chess pieces and said to Xu Zun seriously, "It's been less than two years since I returned to Qiuye County to retire, and that case has already happened at that time!"

"But the strange thing is that this case seems to have been banned, and the people of Akiba Prefecture are very secretive and rarely talk about it.

"Later, when I was having dinner with those officials in Wude City, I heard some of the inside information, and I felt really amazing!"

Wude City is the provincial capital of Tangzhou, and it is obvious that the officials Shen Tiande is referring to are all provincial-level officials.

"Oh?" Xu Zun was overjoyed, but he didn't expect his father-in-law to know some of the facts of the case, so he hurriedly asked, "Then tell me quickly, what was in the coffin two years ago?" ”

"Something?" Shen Tiande was stunned, "There's nothing?" ”

"What?" This time it was Xu Zun's turn to be unexpected, "Is there nothing?" ”

"Yes," Shen Tiande was very sure, "When I was having dinner that year, the official who mentioned this matter had seen the process of opening the coffin with his own eyes, 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 when it was opened, it was still empty!" ”

"Won't it?"

Xu Zun was suddenly confused, if what Shen Tiande said was correct, then it would mean that there was a corpse outside the coffin back then, and there was nothing inside the coffin.

And now, there are bodies inside the coffin, and there is nothing outside the coffin.

It doesn't make sense......

"Then ......," Xu Zun asked again, "what about the 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 later?" Where did the iron coffin go? Where did the corpse go? ”

"I don't know," Shen Tiande shook his head, "By the way, Ji Ying, why did you suddenly ask about this?" ”

"Alas! The iron coffin has reappeared! Xu Zun said unabashedly, "Master Liu died in the coffin!" ”

"What?" Shen Tiande was shocked and asked, "Which Master Liu?" Liu Zhang? ”

"Yes!" Xu Zun said again, "Liu Zhang died on the lower floor, and there is an old Tao on the upper floor!" ”

"Old-fashioned?" Shen Tiande was confused when he heard it, "Lao Dao is also dead?" ”

Xu Zun nodded.

"What about ......," Shen Tiande asked again, "what about outside?" How many died out there? ”

"There are no dead people out there......"

Xu Zun told his father-in-law everything that happened today.

"So," he said calmly, "I'm afraid I'm dead too, so I'm going to borrow Fire Anu for it!" ”

"If that's the case......" Shen Tiande said with concern, "You better go back to the Shen Mansion to live!" I'll add a few more people to you, if it doesn't work, don't be the county lieutenant, I'll go to Taishou to find you an errand envoy......"

This......

The old man's inadvertent words made Xu Zun's heart surge with a warm current, with an old man who loves him so much, what more could a husband ask for!

"Don't get you in trouble!" Xu Zun shook his head and said, "I think it's enough to have fire Anu!" She is from the Western Regions, so she can rest assured! ”

"Oh? Really reassuring? Shen Tiande grinned, with a look of worry in his eyes, "Last time, she almost crippled you, if I hadn't stopped it in time, you would have ......"

Yes?

Xu Zun hurriedly searched for relevant memories, and only then did he find what Shen Tiande said.

It turned out that in a divorce farce a few months ago, Huo Anu was instructed by Miss Shen to beat Xu Zun violently, causing Xu Zun to not 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 you Fire Anu!" ”

"This ......" recalled the tragic situation when he was beaten, Xu Zun flinched a little.

"Okay!" However, Shen Tiande had already made up his mind to pay attention, "Although this Huo Anu has a violent temper, he is strong in martial arts, shrewd 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......"

Grunt, Xu Zun swallowed his saliva, and his expression was very complicated.

On the one hand, he does need a trusted helper;

On the one hand, Huo Anu is strong in martial arts;

On the other hand, it is her figure that is angry, full of exotic style, pleasing to the eyes and comfortable to smell. I wonder if something good will happen after a long time?

However, as soon as he thought of Huo Anun's heavy iron umbrella, Xu Zun's fantasy was instantly shattered......