123 [Ghost General]
"I asked my friend who was having dinner with Fang Jun at that time." Eunuch Liu continued, "Someone mentioned that Fang Jun was in an extremely weird mood that day."
"What a weird way?"
"Fang Jun himself is relatively calm, and he is very polite and well-educated. I don't know what happened that day, and he has a bad temper!" said Liu. "That day he humiliated Pang Yu, which surprised several of his friends... In addition, they also mentioned that Fang Jun's steps were weak and he didn't seem to have much strength, so he got entangled with Pang Yu for several moves. Otherwise, Fang Jun would easily kill Pang Yu with one punch."
"Did he feel uncomfortable before he fights Pang Yu?" Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "In fact, there is a simple way, just take a autopsy."
Eunuch Liu waved his hand, "When Fang Jun died, the yamen carried the body to Dali Temple. Then Fang Jun's second brother arrived, and he was excited. The next day, his elder brother also arrived and did not let anyone touch the body. After a few days, Prince Jindao took the third brother and tens of thousands of soldiers to the gate of the imperial city."
After hearing this, Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang. This process was indeed unreasonable!
"Why is Fang Jun in Kaifeng?" Bai Yutang asked.
Eunuch Liu shook his head, "I don't know, I didn't summon him! But he was just inheriting the title and not having a position. He might be coming to do business or having fun with his second brother."
"Is the body still in Dali Temple?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"I'm there..." Eunuch Liu hesitated.
"What?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.
"Fang Ba will not let the autopsy be examined." Eunuch Liu was helpless.
"Why?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Stop handling the case?"
Eunuch Liu sighed, "The Fang family said that people died when they were fighting with Pang Yu. At that time, so many people saw it, it was already considered that people and physical evidence were all complete, so why did they test the corpse?"
Zhan Zhao blinked, "This is OK... Then I can also say that he died suddenly while eating in Taibaiju. So many people have seen it, maybe someone else has poisoned him."
Eunuch Liu smiled bitterly, "The Fang family said that the little marquis is the royal relative, Dali Temple and Kaifeng Prefecture, no matter which side is taking the autopsy, what should I do if I do something?"
Zhan Zhao felt it was unpleasant when he heard this, "He doubted Lord Bao's justice?"
Eunuch Liu spread his hands, "The old slave really has limited ability, and it depends on Lord Zhan and Young Master Bai."
Zhan Zhao frowned, Bai Yutang leaned against the railing and continued not to speak, but after listening to Eunuch Liu's narration, Bai Yutang also felt that some of them were quite suspicious!
"Who Fang Ba agreed to wait for one month and said that he would agree to the trial after Lord Bao comes back?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"I agreed, but the autopsy is still not allowed."
At this time, Zhao Zhen walked out.
Eunuch Liu quickly saluted, Zhao Zhen signaled no, and sighed, "If my beloved concubine had not brought her pregnant to jail, I suspect Fang Ba could have torn Pang Yu into pieces in front of me."
Zhan Zhao frowned, "So arrogant?"
Zhao Zhen looked very pitiful, "Yes, it's hard for me to do this emperor."
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang subconsciously twitched the corners of his mouth - to some extent, Zhao Zhen's personality is also weird enough.
"Why are you reluctant to take the autopsy?" Zhan Zhao couldn't figure it out.
"I may know this." Zhao Zhen provided Zhan Zhao with another clue, "Fang Ba is actually brave but not resourceful. This man's military achievements back then were pretty good, and it is said... it is entirely attributed to the Witch Cult."
"Witch Cult?" Zhan Zhao really wanted to clean his ears - what does it mean? Before the war, he should first make a fortune or a prayer?
"There are many rules in the Witch Cult. You need to ask some veterans or someone in the Ninth Uncle's Army. " Zhao Zhen said, "The Witch Cult rules are very strict. One of them is that corpses must not be moved after death!"
When Zhao Zhen said this, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were still stunned - was it a coincidence? The people of the Huo Sect before did not seem to be allowed to move corpses.
"It seems to be some kind of death god." Zhao Zhen said, waveing to the front.
Sure enough, Nangong Ji didn't know where he appeared and appeared in front of everyone.
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both sighed that Nangong and Zhao Zhen's shadows were really everywhere.
"Has the Empress Dowager finished his imperial edict?" Zhao Zhen reached out and patted Nangong on the shoulder. There was some dust. It seemed that he had just returned from the road.
"It has been sent." Nangong replied in a low voice, "Deputy General He said he would hand it over to the Ninth Prince for handling."
Zhao Zhen sighed helplessly, "What kind of death did you find before?"
Nangong Ji thought for a while, "Death...is the Ghost General, the Emperor?"
Zhao Zhen seemed to remember and nodded, "It seems that, tell them, I will go back to the palace first." After that, he took the people away.
Nangong was helpless.
Eunuch Liu also went into the house to visit Concubine Pang. Nangong was about to speak, but Zhan Zhao stopped him, "Wait a minute! Keep it for dinner!"
Nangong opened his mouth, Zhan Zhao pulled Bai Yutang and invited Nangong Ji to Taibaiju to eat spicy and sour crabs.
...
Taibaiju is on the third floor, in the private room set up by Baiyutang.
Nangong Ji looked at Bai Yutang who was drinking against the window while holding a crab leg... and Zhan Zhao finally understood what "get the meal" meant.
Zhan Zhao put a crab in front of Nangong Ji and asked him with a smile, "What the hell is going to die?"
Nangong was hungry, peeling the crabs and saying to Zhan Zhao, "I asked a few veterans for inquiries. Fang Ba... Let's put it this way, when the war was in war, many generals enveloped a kind of witch sect, and the gods worshipped were ghost generals!"
Zhan Zhao heard it all fresh, "The most people who fight war can pay homage to Mr. Guan, or to pay homage to other gods?"
"Ghost General..." Bai Yutang drank wine and muttered to himself.
Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Have you heard it?"
Bai Yutang took another sip of wine slowly and replied, "The name is so ugly."
Nangong Ji shook his head, "The legend of this former general is no longer popular now. It seems that because the Ninth Prince refused to worship the Bodhisattva in a war, this trend was later killed. It was very common in the early years... It is said that this ghost general has a ghost head, human body and horse legs."
"Human body and horse legs?" Zhan Zhao raised his face and began to think. After a while, he asked again, "Is it the front leg or the rear leg?"
Nangong made him amused, "The veteran told me that it was the head, body, and horse's body and legs."
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang tacitly raised their faces together and began to imagine, after a long time...
Bai Yutang asked, "Don't you wear pants?"
Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched - Bai Yutang's focus was indeed different from that of normal people.
Nangong put down the crab, pulled out the handkerchief to wipe his hands, took out an old piece of yellow paper from his waist, and handed it to Zhan Zhao, "This is an image of a ghost general collected by a veteran's family."
Zhan Zhao took a crab leg in his mouth and pulled out a handkerchief from Bai Yutang's sleeve pocket. He wiped his hands and stuffed it into Bai Yutang's sleeve pocket. He took the drawing and shook it open in front of him.
"There is another rumor. Do you want to hear it?" Nangong Ji had some food and was in a slightest way, and he actually started to gossip.
Zhan Zhao nodded and expressed his desire to listen, and Bai Yutang also looked up at him.
"Fang Ba actually has five sons!" Nangong Ji said, "is Fang Wen, Fang Wu, Fang Quan, Fang Cai, and the youngest Fang Jun, Wen Wu Quan's talent."
Zhan Zhao was confused, "This is the first time I heard that this is the only talented people in civil and military affairs? Where can I find more square?"
"The real third brother should be Fang Quan." Nangong Ji said, "These four brothers were named according to the civil and military talents. There was no Fang Jun back then? Who would have expected that he would still have a son when he was over 60 years old? Fang Ba was obsessed with war and was obsessed with the battlefield. He always hoped that he could train several generals to gallop on the battlefield to serve the country. So when he was worshiping ghost generals, he asked for a hexagram to measure the future of the four sons. The hexagram that a fortune teller broke for him was said to be: one kind, two are honest, three are disobedient, four are unlucky, and five are prosperous!"
Zhan Zhao frowned, "Why is this old general like an old lady who believes in these gods and Buddhas so much?"
"Everyone has their own preferences." Nangong shrugged, "Because of this hexagram, Fang Ba did not love the third brother since he was a child. Later, the fifth brother was born, and he was overjoyed and believed in the fortune teller's explanation... Also because of this, it is said that the third brother Fang Quan has lived a hard life since he was a child, and even his mother was not favored. In the end, Fang Quan was caught in a hotel while he was burned to death. Not long after his death, his mother died of illness. Fang Ba did not even send anyone to find Fang Quan's body, but directly changed the family tree and removed Fang Quan."
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were puzzled by the fact that there were all kinds of birds in the forest. The general of Wu Fangba actually used his biological son as his enemy because of a fortune teller's words...
"It can be seen that the fortune teller is not accurate." Zhan Zhao sneered, "This old fifth brother didn't even go anywhere, he died so early."
"The fortune teller is very accurate." Bai Yutang held the cup and said quietly, "Who asked him to take the third brother? Without the third brother, the fifth brother will become the fourth brother, but it is not a blessing!"
Zhan Zhao thought about it and nodded, "That's the matter."
Nangong had finished all the things he was about to say, and had enough food and drink, so he clapped his hands and said he wanted to return to the palace to report his life. Before leaving, he did not forget to remind Zhan Zhao, "Ouyang and Zou Liang will arrive tomorrow. Ouyang probably will go to the front of the formation to have a fight with Fang Ba."
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang inexplicably decided to call some duck necks, chicken claws, etc., and tomorrow they found a better place to watch Ouyang Shaozheng curse.
"Speaking of it, Fang Ba is over 80 after all." Nangong shook his head, "Don't be pissed to death by Ouyang tomorrow." After that, he walked through the window.
After the people left, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang continued to eat crabs and drink. The two discussed and sneaked into Dali Temple to see Fang Jun's body at night...
Speaking of this, Zhan Zhao suddenly said, "Ah!"
Bai Yutang was shocked by him and looked at him, "What's wrong?"
Chapter completed!