All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 5
"His Royal Highness King Ning Jin'an." Everyone bowed respectfully.

The person who came was none other than the grandson of the emperor, Chu Yan, who was canonized by Taizu himself when he was alive.

Four years ago, Taizu passed away in a hurry, and now he hastily succeeded to the throne. He should have issued an imperial edict for the promotion of the crown prince, allowing the grandson of the emperor to officially enter the East Palace.

Unexpectedly, the princes and princes died one after another today, so the matter was shelved.

In the past four years, there is only one prince, who is still in his infancy.

The edict to establish the crown prince has not been issued for a long time, so the title of emperor grandson has always been hung on Chu Yan's head.

Today, he is Chu Yan's uncle, and if the world calls Chu Yan the grandson of the emperor, it is a generation difference.

So he had no choice but to call him his previous title, King Ning.

Although King Ning has not been canonized as a prince today, he has always been treated as a prince.

King Ning is in charge of the Xuanjia army left by Taizu, and also in charge of the embroidered envoy who can act on behalf of the emperor.

Regardless of the battlefield or the court, the methods have always been vigorous and ruthless, making the world frightened.

At this moment, King Ning's cool starry eyes swept over without anger and prestige. The people who were calm and relaxed just now tensed their nerves and stood up straight, bowing their heads.

He walked to the side of the couch and sat down, stretched out his bony hands, took the white jade bowl containing the medicinal juice from the maid's hand, stirred it a few times with the jade spoon in his hand, scooped up the medicinal juice and handed it to the Queen Mother's lips.

His usually indifferent face rarely showed a hint of pampering.

"Grandmother, drink the medicine obediently, and my grandson will tell you what happened to the so-called female ghost."

Empress Dowager Dou looked at the concoction, her brows were wrinkled, and her face was full of disgust.

But I couldn't help being too curious in my heart, so I had to pinch my nose and drink the medicinal soup spoon by spoon.

After she finished drinking, Chu Yan took out a caramel from his sleeve pocket, peeled off the paper clothes and put it into Queen Dowager Dou's mouth.

Only then did she speak in her expectant gaze: "That's the unique silk puppet secret technique of a remote tribe in Yunjiang. Make the corpse into a puppet mechanism, and pull it with tough filaments to make the corpse feel like a puppet." Walking like a living person. Presumably the little maid supporting the bride is the one who used this secret technique to control the corpse."

He frowned, and added indifferently: "This secret technique destroys the joints of the corpse. It is very disrespectful to the dead. It is very vicious. The person who committed this case is also bold. According to the law of the Great Zhou, digging the coffin Stealing a corpse is hanging, mutilating a corpse and turning it into a puppet is also hanging, and using ghosts to deceive people is even more hanging, if the magistrate is not stupid and incompetent, then the little girl and her accomplices will die at least three times."

The successive "hangings" made Queen Dowager Dou's head buzzing, and suddenly felt that the caramel in her mouth was not sweet anymore.

"Go, go!" She waved her hand at him in disgust, "If it's true according to what you say, Aijia thinks that maid is doing a good deed, if she didn't take action, wouldn't the dead Yaoniang die in vain? Xuan Ping The Yaoniang of the Hou family really made a good match for Li Tanhua! The Ai family is getting old, and he can't see a good person being wronged. The Ai family doesn't care, you go to the Mu family boy yourself, this case must not embarrass that maid. .”

Although Chu Yan had a lot of reluctance on his face, he still complied.

Empress Dowager Dou thought of something, and instructed: "A while ago, Li Jinwang went to Sucheng to find embroidery samples of shrouds for Ai's family, but the people in Shangyijian embroidered things, and Ai's family didn't look like it. Ai's family originally wanted to order that embroiderer When he entered the palace, Li Jinwang couldn't find the woman who embroidered her. If you have time, send someone to look for it for Ai's family. Ai's family likes the embroidery very much. Also very happy."

"Okay." Chu Yan replied warmly: "Don't worry, grandson will definitely bring that embroidered lady into the palace."

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Not long after noon, the carriage that came to pick up Shen Lingxi from Xuan Ping Hou Mansion stopped at the door of Shen's coffin shop in Wangxian Village in the east of the city.

A woman in her 40s stepped out of the carriage, wearing a bean-green bijar, with a red gold and jade-encrusted Ruyi hairpin on her smooth bun.His hands are well maintained, without even the slightest calluses, and at first glance, they are the very shameless stewards in the Hou's mansion.

"Mother An, the guy said that Miss Wu is still in Fu'an Hall and busy with something, let's wait a while." The little girl trotted out from the coffin shop and reported.

When Mama An heard the words "Fu'an Church", her complexion immediately turned dark.

Fu'an Hall is directly opposite Shen's coffin shop.

It was a courtyard just before entering, the courtyard door was wide open, under the scorching sun, there were still many dark coffins parked in the shade of the courtyard.

There was the smell of burning atractylodes and saponins coming from the yard, making one faintly sick.

What is "Fu'an Hall", the name sounds auspicious, but to put it bluntly, it is a righteous village where the dead bodies are stored.

This fifth girl who grew up in a coffin shop is really a country girl who can't stand on the stage, and she doesn't know the slightest bit of etiquette.

Knowing that today he was going to pick her up to return to the Marquis' Mansion, he would not burn incense and take a bath, so he was a bit shy, and even had to deal with the unlucky thing with the corpse.

Mother An was glad that she had prepared before she came.

She covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and pointed to the four burly servants who were following the car, "You four, go inside with me and 'invite' the fifth girl out, and quickly take the fifth girl back to the mansion, Lord Marquis." Mrs. and I are still waiting."

The four servants knew it, but when they saw the coffin in the yard, they were terrified in the end, and they secretly strengthened their courage, so they went into the yard with Mama An.

Although Fu'an Hall enters the courtyard, it is divided into upper and lower parts.

In order to store the corpse for a longer time in summer, Shen Lingxi persuaded Old Man Shen to dig a huge ice cellar under the Fu'an Hall three years ago for storing the corpse.

It is precisely because of such an ice cellar that the yamen will send some corpses for storage from time to time.

Shen Lingxi is in the cellar right now, doing the final inventory of the corpses stored in Fu'an Hall.

She is going back to the Hou Mansion soon, the coffin shop and the Fu'an Hall are the painstaking efforts of Ah Weng's life, and they cannot be closed just now.

Ah Xiang, Da Huo and Zhuang Sheng have done a lot of white things with her in the past few years, and they can still cope with it on a daily basis.

Only the parts handed over to the yamen, especially the corpses sent by Dali Temple, she had to register in person and hand them over to Mu Huai'an.

Counting the time, if Mu Huai'an took over Yaoniang's case, it would be time for her to come to her.

"Fifth girl, fifth girl... where are you?" A voice suddenly came from above.

Fifth girl?
Shen Lingxi was stunned, and then remembered that this was the ranking given to her by the Xuanping Hou Mansion - the top three elder brothers, plus Shen Yuyao who hugged her wrongly, she was ranked fifth.

She closed the booklet in her hand, answered, walked up the stairs and walked out.

Mother An was guarding the entrance of the ice cellar in the main hall with four strong servants. When she saw a young girl in plain white gown, with a beautiful appearance and a delicate appearance, she knew that she was going to take her back to the house. people.

She stepped forward to give a blessing, "Fifth Miss, the servant's surname is An, she is the mother in charge of the eldest lady, Master Hou ordered the servant to pick you up. Please also ask the girl to board the car quickly and go back to the mansion with the servant. You have to take a bath and change clothes when you arrive at the mansion." To get rid of bad luck, we can go to see the elders."

　Regarding the law in this book, all refer to "Tang Law Shuyi".

　　
　
(End of this chapter)