No matter where Xu "died", anyway, it can be learned from Jin Miao's rhetoric that the second room of the Jin family had a conflict with the Xu family after going to Beijing, and asked Jin Juren to divorce his wife, but Jin Juren did not agree, but in order to calm the anger of the second room, he still sent Xu to Wu's mansion and prepared to enter the palace to be a nurse for the imperial heir who was about to be born to Queen Wu.

Then Xu "killed himself".

The brothers and sisters of the Hai family all know that Concubine Xu Xian has not come out since she entered the palace, otherwise she would not have to stay in Cining Palace to be a palace person for so many years, so the three members of the Jin family all believe that she is dead, what is going on?

The version that Empress Dowager Zhou told Zhen Guogong in her family letter was that Concubine Xu Xian, the palace person next to her, recognized her sister Xu, who had been separated for many years, and after saving the person, she was quietly sent out of the palace, but after Xu returned home, he fell ill because of fright, and died of illness in a few days, and the Jin family left Beijing.

This is the statement of the Empress Dowager Zhou, but there is no reason for the Jin family not to know that the Xu family has never been out of the palace at all. They all believed that she was dead, and she died of illness, but Jin Miao's words were unknown, and the prisoners suspected that the second room of the Jin family saw that Jin Juren's wife was unpleasant and killed her. Jin Miao refused to admit it, and scolded the Xu family for being the bane, and refused to stop when he died, causing the whole family to be unpeaceful, and was forced to flee back to his hometown. He's still in debt in his hometown!

No matter what the prisoners in the prison said, Jin Miao never revealed that her cousin-in-law Xu's "waiting for nobles" actually went to the palace to be a nurse, nor did she say that she had walked through the palace once and encountered the fire of Kunning Palace, as if she suddenly fell ill at home and died. Obviously, he knew the taboos here, even if he was a stupid person with no brains, he knew that some taboos could not be easily spoken.

So what are the facts determined by the second room of the Jin family?

Haijiao told his sister Haitang that Jin Miao gritted her teeth and refused to speak, and Jin Liu's and Aunt Jin were in the women's prison, and they never refused to say what happened at that time. However, the two women went to prison for the first time, and after being locked up for a few days, they were even more scared than Jin Miao, and some small things they thought were insignificant, but they still honestly confessed.

The three of them can basically match the confessions of what happened in the capital back then, and the slight difference is also due to their different positions and different ideas, for example, Jin Liu's family will feel that his brother-in-law Jin Miao is too loser, and he has affected his husband and wife, which is more excessive than Jin Juren and Xu's; Aunt Jin thinks that the two brothers are too greedy and ruthless, and the Xu family is not kind enough, but the Jin Liu family is even more ruthless.

Their accounts of Xu's death are also mixed.

Jin Liu's claim that the person died of a sudden illness, and it was a plague, and it was useless to ask the doctor to catch medicine, and he died of illness in two or three days, which shows that this person is not blessed. As for where the disease came from, what doctors she had consulted, and what medicines she had taken her, her eyes flashed and she was speechless.

Aunt Jin said that she had waited for the patient's medicine for a month, and even remembered the several doctors she had seen and the prescriptions she had caught, and she felt that Jin Liu's was too ruthless to the patient, and she was frightened when she saw it, and since then she has stayed away from her eldest brother and daughter-in-law. But when she spoke of Xu, her tone became cold again, and she was very disgusted, as if her previous pity was all fake.

She also mentioned that the Xu family was buried in the capital, and the aftermath was done in a very hurry and simply, even when the front foot was just out of the city and buried, the Jin family left the capital on the back foot, and did not return to the city to pack their luggage. Huang Zhutou listened, and always felt that they seemed to be using the excuse to go out of the city for the funeral of the Xu family and take the opportunity to escape from the capital, so embarrassed and hurried, is there something wrong with it?

Could it be that Xu's death really had an inside story, and the second room of the Jin family fled in a hurry in order to prevent being discovered?

Huang Zhutou was quite concerned about this, and wanted to interrogate to the end to find out whether the second room of the Jin family had committed a felony of murder more than ten years ago. If the second room of the Jin family had committed an accident, the Chang'an Mansion would directly sentence the person, and it would save him any more verbosity.

When Haitang heard this, he couldn't help but ask Haijiao: "Does Huang Zhutou know about Concubine Xu Xian?" ”

Haijiao said: "I have probed his tone, and Huang Zhifu must have known, but I don't know if I have told Huang Zhutou." Huang Zhutou never mentioned Concubine Xu Xian to me, only claimed that Jin Juren recruited the killer because he offended the Sun family. And he was wealthy, which caused the jealousy of the second room of the Jin family, so he colluded with the killer and harmed his family. He never mentioned that Jin Jiashu's biological mother had ever entered the palace, nor did he say that she and Concubine Xu Xian were sisters. However, I am only a friend of Jin Jiashu, and even if he knows the inside story, he may not tell me the truth. ”

That's right. Even if the Zhou family didn't know the true relationship between Concubine Xu Xian and Jin Jiashu, they wouldn't casually spread the gossip about the concubines in the palace, not to mention the scandal that Sun Guifei sent a killer to kill someone. Zhenguo Gong and Huang Governor's Mansion will not spread the news, and Huang Zhutou is valued by Huang Governor's Mansion, and even if he knows, he will hide it. The official version of the Jin family's murder case in Chang'an City now says that Jin Juren is upright and disobedient to the traitors of the Sun family, which leads to revenge, and the second room of the Jin family is greedy for money and afraid of death, and betrays his relatives. Even if someone knew that there was a secret fight between the two palace concubines here, they would not shout casually all over the street.

Regardless of whether Huang Zhutou knew that Concubine Xu Xian and Xu's were "sisters", he now insists on pursuing the truth of Xu's "death", and he doesn't know if it was the instruction of Huang Governor's mansion. Huang Zhifu clearly wanted to offend Concubine Sun Guifei, so he simply turned his head to curry favor with Concubine Xu Xian and the eighth prince born to her, which also paved the way for his future.

He was a very flexible officer.

Haijiao admired Huang Governor very much: "He is a good hand at adjudicating cases. Why did the prisoners Jin Miao meet in the prison take his words? This is also specially arranged by the Huang Governor's Mansion! ”

Governor Huang was not in a hurry to interrogate the three people in the second room of the Jin family because he had unique interrogation skills. He used to like to let his servants disguise themselves as prisoners, and if he went undercover to trap other prisoners, Huang Zhutou stood out from the crowd because he asked for key information from important prisoners four times undercover, and Huang Governor looked at him differently.

However, Huang Tou has been undercover many times, so this trick will not work. On the contrary, some prisoners who had watched his undercover talk experience shrewdly put forward the terms of the deal to the Huang Governor's Office, expressing their willingness to cooperate with the government and talk to the new prisoners in order to make meritorious contributions in exchange for their own commutations.

After thinking about it, Huang Zhifu selected some prisoners who did not commit serious crimes, all of whom were imprisoned for crimes such as being forced to fight back or accidentally injuring people with the wrong hand, and they were not really vicious, and they were not stupid or stupid, and they were a little clever, and specially divided a special prison area to detain them, and gave them preferential treatment in terms of daily food and supplies, in exchange for the prisoners' cooperation with the interrogation.

It's a very useful idea. The cooperating prisoners can live a little better and can see their relatives a few more times, and some new prisoners who are tight-mouthed are also trapped, and those who have committed crimes cannot escape, and those who are really wronged can avoid disaster.

Jin Miao, one of the three members of the Jin family, was classified as this kind of prisoner by the Huang Governor's Mansion and entered this special prison area, which really revealed a lot of truths. As for Jin Liu's and Aunt Jin, normal interrogation is enough. Although Jin Liu is more cunning and tight-mouthed, the interrogators are also experienced, and it is more than enough to deal with her, a country woman.

Haitang recalled the news revealed by Jin Liu's and Aunt Jin, and thought that the "Xu family" who died in the capital that year was very problematic: "Aunt Jin seems to have a different attitude towards Xu's and the patient, could this be two people?" Was there really a woman in the Jin family who died of illness and was buried in the capital? The Jin family buried her as Xu, and only said that Xu was dead? ”

Haijiao raised his eyebrows: "Little sister is saying that the Jin family believed that the Xu family died in the fire in the palace, and in order to avoid being implicated, they took another woman as her and buried it in the capital?" But who could this woman be? Didn't she have a family to look for? ”

The first update of 2024, I wish you all a happy New Year's Day~~~ and a safe ~~~~~ New Year

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