Chapter 348: What is it if it’s not murder?

Aunt Ning’s mother and son both went to the Da Lisi to be tried, with Aunt Ning herself making a big deal out of this, the news that the dynasty was searching for an imperial offender named Long San also spread, the founding of the country for more than twenty years, this is still the first time that there is an imperial offender who dares to wreak havoc with the dynasty and is waiting to be caught, and all kinds of speculations were made for a while.

As a result, especially after Yun Qianyi drew a portrait that resembled Long San’s ninety-nine percent as a notice posted at the city gate, he couldn’t easily leave the city.

But Huo Xiu, after all, had a different identity, and ways could always be thought of.

After a few days of quiet observation, it just so happened that it was about to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, the city was bound to have some celebrations, there were many vehicles coming in and out, especially the powerful and wealthy people in the city would be out of the city for a trip, so this was a good time to mingle and catch fish.

“I don’t understand you since they only follow your orders, why would Long San go AWOL and do these things again? Could it be that you didn’t have a hint?”

Sitting on the bed, Huo Mingyu has lost a circle of weight in a few days, and a pair of dark circles under her eyes makes her eyes look even bigger and emptier.

Huo Xiu picks up the soups on the maid’s tray and waves them out, then blows on one side and walks over to the couch, “You think too highly of me. Why are they obedient to me? It is only because I am mother’s son. Their lives were saved by their mother, and their allegiance is to her, and they do all this for the sake of what is in their hearts.

“If one day mother’s murderer is standing right in front of us and I tell them not to kill, they will definitely not listen to me. –Take the medicine. No temper tantrums next time.”

Huo Mingyu tilts her face away.

Huo Xiu persists for a while, and when she’s still unmoved, he also puts the medicine bowl on the bedside table.

“Where are you not convinced?”

“Of course I don’t.” Huo Mingyu turns her face away, “I don’t understand why you didn’t go into the palace to ask the Empress Dowager for clarification since you’ve come this far?”

“Do you think I can ask the truth from a murderer? If we do ask, will we still be able to live?”

“But if you do this, will you be able to survive? If the Empress Dowager is really a murderer, she will still kill us to silence us.”

“That’s different. Even if it’s the same in the end, I’ve at least let the truth be known, and let everyone in the world see her hypocritical face clearly. Let them know how worthless mother’s death was.”

“But I don’t believe the Empress Dowager is that kind of person.” Huo Mingyu shakes her head with tears in her eyes, “I’ve thought about it over and over again in the past few days, and since I was a child, the Empress Dowager has raised me longer than my mother has raised me. And she is also the same to treat you, just returned to the capital that day, the first thing she cares about is your marriage! If she is a murderer, then how can we both have such favor today? Have you forgotten that when you were sick in bed after your father’s death, it was she who stayed by your bedside without rest? If she is really because of the emperor’s skill, then why would she save this woman’s benevolence and not simply take the opportunity to kill you as well?”

As Huo Mingyu’s words fall, the air in the room seems to freeze.

Only after a while does Huo Xiu speak, “Perhaps not everything in this world can be reasoned out.”

Huo Mingyu says, “Don’t you think you’re being a bit bullheaded?”

“Even if it is, so what?” Huo Xiu’s eyes are as deep as ink pools, “I just want to seek justice for my mother who died unjustly after a great battle, as a son, can avenging his mother’s death be considered a mistake? Or, just because the whole world says she is good, that mother a human life is not worth to get back?”

“I didn’t say ……” Huo Mingyu hung his head, “found my mother’s murderer, I will want to kill him more than anyone else. If mother is still around, father definitely wouldn’t have left so early. I don’t have to envy other people’s family happiness. However, I still can’t accept that it was the Empress Dowager who killed mother, I can’t ……”

Before the words were finished, she had choked to the point of not being able to speak.

The person she loves killed another person she loves, who can be frank in the face of this torment?

Huo Xiu reached out to caress the top of her head: “Just don’t want you to be sad, have not told you.”

“Brother,” Huo Mingyu lifted her head, “you check again, okay? Could it be that it’s not the Empress Dowager? Could it be someone else? The empress dowager is dedicated to the welfare of the women of the world, the Flower Moon Society is her lifeblood, she shouldn’t be like this! She needs someone like mother to strengthen the Flower Moon Society, she has no reason to do so!”

“Then have you ever thought that the Flower Moon Society might just be a scam for her?” Huo Xiu took his hand back, “At home from the father, married from the husband, thousands of years of ancient custom, she is also a big girl from the family, why suddenly want to deviate from the way to overthrow it? Where did she get the confidence to overthrow it? Look at her all these years, did she do it?”

“Or was it killed by the very people who don’t want to see the women of the world stand up and stand up?!”

Huo Xiu gets up from the edge of the bed and stands straight up in front of the bed to look at her, “Have you noticed that you’ve been excusing her?”

Huo Mingyu purses her lips.

Huo Xiu pulls out a flat box from his pocket and throws it in front of her, “What’s in here is an arrowhead taken from mother’s left breast. The engraving on it is the country name of Da Liang at that time! You say, this is not murder is what?”

Huo Mingyu opens the box with a trembling hand, a heavy, hooked ravine with a dark red arrowhead rolls onto the bedding.

“You go to see the Ministry of War and the Da Lisi on the mother’s sacrifice of the various wounds recorded, to see the size of the arrowhead with the width and depth is not the same?”

Huo Mingyu’s fingers tremble even more. “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

“It’s not too late. Take a look at the writing on the other side of the national symbol, is it also the unique insignia of the Three Thousand Battalions? The emblems of the 3,000 battalions are engraved differently on the weapons they make every year. At that time to Guangxi, there is a 3,000 battalion of elite cavalry, 3,000 battalion is under the management of the palace, and at that time they have weapons of the emblem, is this one! Now, do you still have questions?”

Huo Mingyu’s hand loosens, already unable to speak.

Huo Xiu picks the arrowhead up in his hand and looks at it carefully, a trace of confusion surfaces between his eyebrows, “I have also thought about this many times in my mind, I thought that maybe I was mistaken, or maybe they had a hard time, but I couldn’t think of anything else that could explain all of this, other than that? In the nick of time, if the murderer hadn’t already gotten the signal, how could he have accurately stabbed it at a heroine who was charging into battle for her country?”

“Marquis.”

The air in the room was as quiet as the night, suddenly broken by the voice outside the door. “There is a decree from the palace, the Emperor has summoned you to enter the palace.”

Huo Xiu twisted his head, the hand holding the arrowhead paused in the air for a few moments before it was slowly taken into his arms: “Got it.”