Huo Wenshu's words were like a bolt from the blue, shattering Huo Tianxiu's only hope.
He turned around and looked at Huo Wenshu, who was also shocked, and asked, "Are you sure it was done by you?"
"It's better to take a look in person, just in case it's not the father." Huo Wenshu comforted Huo Tianxiu, but she was already convinced. It was her first time to embroider on the sleeves, and she was deeply impressed.
Huo Tianxiu took her quickly to Dali Temple. Seeing that Huo Tianxiu was eager to break into the temple with a woman, the officers and soldiers of Dali Temple stepped forward to stop her.
After Huo Tianxiu announced his identity, the officers and soldiers were startled and stumbled over to notify Hu Yingmao.
Hu Yingmao originally just wanted to make a good impression on Bingwen. Who would have thought that someone would actually come to identify the body, and the background would be so big.
He hurriedly wanted to rush out to greet her, but Huo Tianxiu had already entered the temple with Huo Wenshu.
Hu Yingmao quickly saluted Huo Tianxiu, and when he saw him waving his hand, he hurriedly led the two of them to the morgue.
The corpse was too decomposed to be identified.
Hu Yingmao explained: "This corpse was dug out in a yard next to Mingxiang Garden. It was exposed because the owner wanted to renovate the yard."
Although the corpse could not be identified, Huo Wenshu still saw the lotus embroidery on the sleeves at a glance.
The position, embroidery method, and embroidery work were all exactly right, and my eyes immediately turned red.
Huo Tianxiu also held his breath and asked with a hint of extravagant hope: "Did you embroider it?"
Huo Wenshu's tears were like broken beads when she heard this. She nodded in tears and was speechless.
Huo Tianxiu took a deep breath, calmed down, patted Huo Wenshu on the shoulder and comforted him: "Uncle will bury him well, you go to the side hall to rest first."
Upon hearing this, Hu Yingmao quickly ordered someone to send Miss Huo to the side hall. Unexpectedly, Huo Wenshu raised her head and sobbed and said to Huo Tianxiu: "Uncle, my father may have really been killed."
After Hu Yingmao heard this, the veins on his forehead jumped.
It was originally about identifying a body, but why did it turn into murder
Huo Tianxiu asked Huo Wenshu with piercing eyes, "What do you mean by this?"
Huo Wenshu suppressed her grief and thought for a while before saying: "Back then, my mother said that after my father left, Wenkang told me that my father was stabbed to death with a needle by the doctor who treated him."
Huo Tianxiu frowned when he heard this.
then
Wenkang was only six years old at that time.
Huo Wenshu saw Huo Tianxiu frowning and continued: "I was only ten years old at the time and didn't take his words seriously. Doctor Zhuo has been doing acupuncture for my father all the year round. I think Wenkang is young and may not be able to tell whether Doctor Zhuo is treating my father's illness and talking nonsense." When he was talking nonsense, he covered his mouth and scolded him not to talk nonsense in the future. Thinking about it now, since his father's body was buried in the courtyard of the capital, he had never left home alone that year. In this case, what Wenkang said before was probably real."
Hu Yingmao's head buzzed. He didn't know much about Huo Tianxiu.
The only thing he knew was that the emperor had sent an imperial doctor from the palace to treat Huo Tianxiu's younger brother.
The doctor who treated Admiral Huo's brother all year round was Zhuo Xiande, the imperial doctor back then.
That…
Huo Wenkang said that the person who murdered Huo Tianyang was Zhuo Xiande, the current envoy of Tai Hospital
Although Zhuo Xiande's official rank was a fourth rank, two ranks lower than Hu Yingmao, he still couldn't stand up to the vast number of imperial doctors in the hospital, most of whom were Zhuo Xiande's apprentices.
Although those imperial doctors are only of the sixth grade, they are very good at treating those nobles and making them happy.
In addition, Zhuo Xiande, as the envoy of the hospital, was already trusted by the emperor and had always taken care of the dragon's health, so he could not afford to offend him.
A layer of fine cold sweat broke out on Hu Yingmao's head. At this moment, he felt Huo Tianxiu's cold eyes looking towards him. In an instant, his back was also wet.
He turned to Huo Tianxiu with a bitter look on his face and said, "Admiral Huo, this happened five or six years ago. Based on the one-sided words of a six-year-old child, this cannot be investigated."
Huo Tianxiu's eyes were as bright as fire, and he said to him with anger: "Now that my brother's body has appeared inexplicably in the courtyard of the capital, just because he was a child, will the case not be investigated?"
Hu Yingmao wiped the big beads of sweat on his forehead and said softly: "After the corpse was brought here, I immediately ordered the Wuzuochutang of Dali Temple to check it. There are indeed no injuries on the body, let alone If we investigate, I’m afraid we won’t even be able to establish a case.”
"Hu Yingmao, you don't even dare to open this case, and you don't even investigate it. The Taiyuan Hospital prevents you from offending me. You're going to offend me, right?" Huo Tianxiu snorted coldly, and the more he spoke, the more he said. The stern and oppressive Hu Yingmao almost fell to his knees with a plop.
"Admiral Huo, please don't make it difficult for me to get off the job. According to the law, this case really cannot be established." Hu Yingmao said with a trembling voice and an old face that almost made him cry.
Suddenly his eyes lit up, he cheered up and said to Huo Tianxiu: "Admiral Huo, why don't you go find Mr. Bingwen on the second floor of Wentian Pavilion."
Huo Tianxiu, the young master Bingwen of Wentian Pavilion, had also heard about it, and he suddenly became a household name in the capital a few years ago.
When Huo Tianxiu followed the emperor on the battlefield in previous years, Prince Hui Gu Shiqing also took good care of him.
So, after something happened in Prince Hui's Mansion.
He also went to comfort Gu Xingyun and heard Gu Xingyun mention Mr. Bingwen.
At this time, he heard Hu Yingmao mention Bingwen again, and he was really interested.
Seeing that the chill in Huo Tianxiu's body had subsided, Hu Yingmao continued to encourage: "This case cannot be established on the face of it. Based on the friendship between Admiral Huo and the emperor, if we report a private investigation, I believe the emperor will not refuse."
Huo Tianxiu snorted coldly when he heard this, and no longer embarrassed Hu Yingmao. He left Dali Temple with Huo Wenshu. After returning to the Admiral's Mansion, he found Huo Wenkang and asked him about the situation in detail.
When Huo Wenkang saw Huo Tianxiu asking about this, he looked at his sister Huo Wenshu beside him.
Huo Wenshu's eyes were red, she suppressed her sad mood, and said softly to her younger brother: "Wenkang, please carefully recall what you saw back then and tell your uncle."
Seeing Huo Wenshu's serious face, Huo Wenkang frowned and thought carefully: "I was still young at that time, sleeping in the back room with a screen in my parents' room. In the middle of the night, I heard my father shouting twice, and when I got up, I saw the doctor. Pull the needle out of father’s belly.”
"He went to your father's room to perform acupuncture in the middle of the night?" Huo Tianxiu asked with a frown.
"Maybe it was my mother who called me to treat my father." Huo Wenkang mentioned to his sister that he stabbed his father to death, but her sister scolded him, saying that it was Dr. Zhuo who was treating his father.
But Bingwen understood what Huo Tianxiu said and asked Huo Tianxiu: "Do you know where your brothers and sisters are now?"
Huo Tianxiu shook his head. After giving her a sum of money, she seemed to have left, and he never paid attention to her again.
"Yao Meizhen is now the third concubine of Ambassador Zhuo Yuan."
(End of chapter)