Volume 1 Zhangqiao Iron Coffin Chapter 21 Borrowing Troops
Xinye County, Shen Mansion.
Pavilions, towers, birds singing and flowers blooming.
The servants were sweeping the fallen leaves and the maids were feeding the fish by the pond. Everything was as peaceful as an ink painting.
Shen Tiande was wearing dark blue casual clothes, lying on the stone platform, looking at something intently.
On the stone platform is a chess game, with the chess pieces all made of precious ivory.
Unexpectedly, there was no one playing chess with him across the chessboard. Instead, there was a birdcage with a small emerald green bird in it.
"Yes, that's the situation," Xu Zun's voice came from the stone bench next to him, "Godfather, you don't want Xixi to be a widow before she gets married, do you?"
Click!
Hearing Xu Zun's nonsense, the chess piece in Shen Tiande's hand fell with a crisp sound.
"Jiying, can you please speak more politely?" Shen Tiande glared at Xu Zun unhappily and said, "I thought you were looking for me to kowtow and admit your mistakes! I didn't expect that you would ask me for someone else, and... you are so confident?"
"Uncle, oh no, godfather," Xu Zun wiped his nose and asked like a weak chicken, "What's the point of playing chess with a bird? Come on, come on, let me play with you!"
"You're laying eggs!" Shen Tiande frowned, "What a mess I've made! You're still like this! You asked me for Huo Anu, how can I help you? She's a woman, a woman! Can Xixi agree?"
It turned out that Xu Zun came to his father-in-law specifically to ask him to lend him Huo Anu.
Huo Anu is known as the best fighter in Xinye County. If she is by your side to protect you, your sense of security and survival rate will obviously be improved.
"Godfather," Xu Zun did not answer the question directly, but asked casually, "Do you know anything about the iron coffin case two years ago?"
"What?" Shen Tiande asked with a frown, "What is that?"
"Hey? This bird is pretty good? Why haven't I seen it before?" Xu Zun pointed at the birdcage and asked again.
"I've raised this bird for four years, and you've never seen it before?" Shen Tiande's eyebrows were almost twisted into knots, "Hey, can you please speak properly?"
"Foster father," Xu Zun said, lying on the ground, picking up the chess piece that had just fallen, "Two years ago, there was an iron coffin case in Xinye County. A black iron coffin appeared on Zhangqiao, and 37 people died next to it. Do you know about this?"
"Know?" Shen Tiande looked at Xu Zun and asked, "You are the county lieutenant, don't you know?"
"I really don't know!" Xu Zun shook his head. "I didn't even know that the previous county lieutenant was exiled because of solving this case! Don't you think this iron coffin is very abnormal?"
"Of course it's not normal, but... you know it," Shen Tiande put down the chess piece and said to Xu Zun seriously, "I returned to Xinye County for retirement less than two years ago, and the case had already happened!
“But the strange thing is that this case seems to have been banned. People in Xinye County are very secretive about it and rarely talk about it.
"Later, when I was having dinner with the officials from Wude City, I heard some of the inside stories. It was really surprising!"
Wude City is the provincial capital of Tangzhou. Obviously, the officials referred to by Shen Tiande are all provincial officials.
"Oh?" Xu Zun was delighted. He didn't expect that his father-in-law actually knew something about the case. He asked hurriedly, "Then tell me quickly, what was in the coffin two years ago?"
"Things?" Shen Tiande was stunned. "Nothing?"
"What?" This time it was Xu Zun's turn to be surprised, "Nothing?"
"Yes," Shen Tiande was very sure, "When we were having dinner that year, the official who mentioned this matter had personally witnessed the coffin being opened and confirmed that there was nothing in the coffin !
"But..." he added, "He said there was a partition inside the coffin, and there was a space underneath the partition, but after opening it, there was still nothing!"
" No way?"
Xu Zun was suddenly confused. If what Shen Tiande said was correct, then there was a corpse outside the coffin, but nothing inside the coffin.
But now, there is a corpse inside the coffin, but there is nothing outside the coffin.
This doesn't make sense...
"Then..." Xu Zun asked again, "What about those dead people? Who were they?"
"I don't know," Shen Tiande shook his head, "The official said they didn't know either!"
"Damn!" Xu Zun sighed and asked, "How was the case handled later? Where did the iron coffin go? Where did the body go?"
"I don't know," Shen Tiande shook his head. "By the way, Jiying, why are you asking all this suddenly?"
"Alas! That iron coffin appeared again!" Xu Zun said bluntly, "Liu Zhubu died in the coffin!"
"What?" Shen Tiande was shocked and asked, "Which Liu Zhubu? Liu Zhang?"
"Yes!" Xu Zun said again, "Liu Zhang died on the lower floor, and there is an old Taoist priest on the upper floor!"
"Old Taoist?" Shen Tiande was confused. "The old Taoist is dead too?"
Xu Zun nodded.
"Then..." Shen Tiande asked again, "What about outside? How many people died outside?"
"There are no dead people outside..."
Xu Zun told his father-in-law everything that happened today.
"So, " he said frankly, "I'm worried that I'll die, so I need to borrow the fire from Anu!"
"If that's the case..." Shen Tiande said with concern, "You should return to the Shen Mansion and live there! I'll give you a few more people. If that doesn't work out, you can just give up your position as county lieutenant. I'll go to the governor and find you a job..."
this……
The old man's casual words actually made Xu Zun feel warm inside. With a father-in-law who loves him so much, what more could he ask for!
"It's better not to cause you any trouble!" Xu Zun shook his head and said, "I think Huo Anu is enough! She is from the Western Regions, so you can use her with confidence!"
"Oh? Are you really relieved?" Shen Tiande grinned, with worry in his eyes. "Last time, she almost beat you to a pulp. If I hadn't stopped her in time, you would have..."
ah?
Xu Zun quickly searched the relevant memories and finally found what Shen Tiande had said.
It turned out that in a farce of breaking off an engagement a few months ago, Huo Anu was instructed by Miss Shen to beat Xu Zun up so badly that Xu Zun couldn't get out of bed for a week!
No way?
Is this woman so violent?
"But..." Shen Tiande weighed the pros and cons and said, "It's not impossible to lend Huo Anu to you!"
"This..." Recalling the tragic scene when he was beaten, Xu Zun retreated a little.
"Okay!" However, Shen Tiande had already made up his mind, "Although Huo Anu has a bad temper, she is a skilled martial artist, smart and cautious, and absolutely loyal and reliable! With her protecting you, I can rest assured! But I have to explain it to Xixi..."
Gurgle, Xu Zun swallowed his saliva with a very complicated expression.
On the one hand, he really needed a trustworthy helper;
On the one hand, Huo Anu is highly skilled in martial arts;
On the other hand, she has a hot body and is full of exotic charm. She is pleasing to the eyes and smells good. I wonder if something good will happen if we stay together for a long time?
However, when he thought of Huo Anu's heavy iron umbrella, Xu Zun's fantasy was instantly shattered...
