Bingwen waited eagerly in Mingxiang Garden every day, and finally received a letter from Xia Chu on April 19th.
Although the content of the letter is still shocking, Bingwen's endurance has become much stronger after experiencing the Huiwang Mansion incident.
Therefore, although he was shocked, he did not lose his temper.
After instructing Jiao Shitong to report Huo Tianxiu to Wentian Pavilion, he thought about it, ran to Kong Changhui's room, pulled him out, and took him with him from Mingxiang Garden to Wentian Pavilion.
Kong Changhui was compiling official documents in his room when Bingwen pulled him directly onto the street.
He looked confused and asked as he walked: "Brother Bingwen, where are you taking me?"
"Take you to investigate a big case." Bingwen looked mysterious.
"I am an editor from the Hanlin Academy, not from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishments?" Kong Changhui was even more confused by what he said.
"You just need to agree with me later." Bingwen couldn't explain it to him for a while.
"Huh? But..." Kong Changhui hesitated to speak.
While he was talking, Bingwen had already led him to the door of Wentian Pavilion and asked him, "Changhui, do you trust me?"
Kong Changhui naturally nodded.
"In that case, you just need to straighten your back beside me." After Bingwen said that, he took Kong Changhui to the second floor.
As a result, Huo Tianxiu came before Sang Yi's tea was made.
Bingwen bowed to Huo Tianxiu and said, "Admiral Huo."
"Second place this year?" Huo Tianxiu asked with raised eyebrows, looking at Kong Changhui standing next to him.
On the morning of April 2nd, when the emperor conferred the title of "Third Class A", they came out to express gratitude. Huo Tianxiu glanced at them from afar, but he was still somewhat impressed.
"Since I know Admiral Huo, I don't need to introduce him." After Bingwen finished speaking, he introduced Kong Changhui: "This is Mr. Huo, the Admiral of the Nine Sects."
When Kong Changhui heard Bingwen salute and call the person in front of him to be the admiral, his head was already buzzing.
Now when he heard that Bingwen actually introduced him as the Admiral of the Nine Sects, he instantly felt that his legs were a little weak.
Before, he was wondering why Bingwen asked him to straighten his back for a while. Only then did he realize that he was really unable to straighten up now. Huo Tianxiu was looking domineering all over.
As an editor of the Hanlin Academy, Kong Changhui went to the morning court on the day he was enthroned, and he stood at the very end, with his head lowered the whole time.
Therefore, although he and Huo Tianxiu went to court once, he had never even met him.
Seeing that he was stunned, Bingwen quickly patted him on the back.
Kong Changhui reacted and quickly bowed and said: "Kong Changhui, editor of the Imperial Academy, has met the admiral."
Huo Tianxiu frowned and nodded, then looked at Bingwen and asked, "Are you willing to take on this case and investigate it to the end?"
Bingwen asked Huo Tianxiu to sit down and said, "Yes, I just need Lord Kong's help. That's why I brought him to see Admiral Huo."
"Him?" Huo Tianxiu looked away again.
Kong Changhui looked a little embarrassed under Huo Tianxiu's gaze, but he still pretended to be calm, but he was muttering in his heart, wondering what Bingwen wanted to do by dragging him up
"Master Kong has a delicate mind. With his help, this case may be solved." Bingwen spoke for Kong Changhui.
"I have already reported this matter to the Emperor. Your Majesty has been gracious and sympathized with the pain of losing my brother. He has given me full power to investigate thoroughly. Since I have entrusted you with it, if you think his compilation is useful, I will second him to you, Hanlin I'll say hello to you at the hospital." Huo Tianxiu said indifferently.
"Thank you, Admiral Huo. Bingwen will find out the real culprit for your brother." Bingwen's words were conclusive, and he was bound to win.
Seeing the confidence on his face, Huo Tianxiu couldn't help but let out a breath, took out a 10,000 tael of silver notes from his arms, put it on the table and said: "This is a deposit of 10,000 taels. Even if it is not found out in the end, As a token of my thoughts, if the truth comes out in the end, I will give you the mantissa and the seal."
Bingwen didn't look down on the ten-thousand-tael banknote at all, but he accepted it respectfully and said to Huo Tianxiu: "I would also like to ask Admiral Huo to tell me carefully about the situation in front of my brother."
Huo Tianxiu squinted his eyes slightly and said to Bingwen: "Young Master Bingwen must have investigated the matters that are known to everyone."
Bingwen nodded. Huo Tianxiu had been practicing martial arts since he was a child. He stood out among the many children at the beginning and was selected by the then emperor, who was still a young prince, to become the young emperor's martial arts partner.
Later, he slowly grew up with the emperor, became the emperor's bodyguard, and later became the emperor's personal bodyguard.
After the emperor went to war, he went with him.
And his younger brother has been frail and sick since childhood, and he relies entirely on Huo Tianxiu's salary to support him.
Huo Tianxiu was favored by the Holy Spirit, and the emperor specially sent Zhuo Xiande, the imperial physician at that time and now the imperial hospital envoy, to treat Huo Tianyang.
Most of Huo Tianxiu's monthly money was given to Zhuo Xiande to nurse Huo Tianyang back to health.
After Huo Tianyang became an adult, although his body was not strong, he never suffered any serious illness.
After Huo Tianxiu returned to Beijing with the emperor, he used the half of the money he saved every month to marry Huo Tianyang a beautiful and delicate daughter-in-law. His sister-in-law Yao Meizhen gave birth to a baby girl for Huo Tianyang a year later, named Huo Wenshu.
Because Huo Tianxiu vowed not to marry for life, the Huo family still needs to pass on the incense.
So Huo Tianyang had another child three years later, and the following year Yao Meizhen finally gave birth to a baby boy.
Huo Tianxiu was extremely happy and named him Huo Wenkang, hoping that he would have a healthy life in the future.
It turned out that Huo Tianyang's childhood was quite enjoyable with Huo Tianxiu's help, and he had both children.
However, it didn’t take many years.
His health deteriorated and he finally left home alone when his son was six years old.
Yao Meizhen came to Huo Tianxiu crying, saying that Huo Tianyang sneaked away in the middle of the night because he didn't want to drag down their mother.
When Huo Tianxiu heard this, he sent people to search everywhere. They searched all over the capital and outside the city to no avail.
Huo Tianxiu returned to Beijing in despair. After looking at Yao Meizhen, who was still young and beautiful, he took the initiative to take Huo Tianyang's young children to his side to raise, and gave Yao Meizhen a sum of money so that she could live a good life in the future.
Originally, Huo Tianxiu still held on to a glimmer of hope, thinking that his brother might still be alive, but he didn't know where he was.
It wasn't until the official document was posted in Dali Temple that Huo Tianxiu knew that Bingwen should have known what happened before, so he started talking about it from the day he took Huo Wenshu out on the street.
Huo Wenshu had just turned fifteen this year. Seeing that the day when she had hairpins was approaching, he didn't know what adult gift to give to his niece, so he simply took her out and let her choose by herself.
Huo Tianxiu and Huo Wenshu planned to go to Huacai Fang first. On the way, they happened to see the official document from Dali Temple and stopped to check it out.
Unexpectedly, Huo Wenshu, who was following him, suddenly pointed at the embroidery and murmured in disbelief.
"Uncle, that is the pattern I used to embroider for my father..."
(End of chapter)