Chapter 376 – The Fox’s Tail

After straightening up, Huo Xiu looked toward Huo Mingyu: “You first go back to your room to rest, I’ll entertain the Marquis.” After saying this, he also says towards Marquis Jingnan, “Marquis please.”

Marquis Jingnan excuses himself, “I won’t stay much longer, there’s a banquet at home today, we’ll gather again another day.”

After waving his hand, he turns around and walks away.

Huo Xiu can’t help but see him off.

Inside the courtyard, Han Jun, Zhao Sum, and Zhao Su Chen Han looked at each other. When Huo Xiu returns, Zhao Su says, “Marquis, the county princess was frightened last night, Aunt Chen is a female doctor and has been to the palace to move around in front of the empress dowager, so can we go to the county princess’ place to see if she is uncomfortable anywhere?”

Huo Xiu knows that she and the emperor are together, before he showed his cards out in the palace, he glances at her at this time, “What you have to say, you can just say it.”

Zhao Su looked around the courtyard, only to see that the Huo family subordinates who were still accompanying her earlier had unconsciously retreated, leaving only the five of them in place. After a brief pause, she exchanged glances with Chen Han and said, “Sheriff Master is the person that Marquis cares about the most, and since Marquis has said so, then I don’t want to say anything in the dark, but I feel that there is something fishy about what happened to Sheriff Master last night.”

“Where do you see something fishy?”

“According to what the princess said earlier, there was only one person who entered the residence last night to commit the murder, and after that person knocked her unconscious and brought her out of the wall, she soon cried out to attract Marquis Jingnan, and was thus saved. This time counting, is it not inconsistent with the time that Marquis Jingnan said he came to invite guests, and then found out that the county princess had an accident, and so on in a series of events?”

Huo Xiu sizes her up, “And then?”

Zhao Su then said: “According to the expression of the Sheriff, the Marquis of Jingnan appeared in the Sheriff’s side should be soon after the incident, but he looked for the Marquis when you have been a long time, in the end, where is the error? The county princess memory is confused, or he is actually in the pick up the county princess, and then go to find the marquis?”

Huo Xiu has turned his sideways body all the way around.

“Does the marquis believe that the county princess will lie?”

Huo Xiu already had an oppressive coldness all over his body. “Sister Yu never lies. She won’t lie, and there’s no need for her to lie!”

“Then it can only be that Marquis Jingnan is lying.” Zhao Su blandly said, “When he appeared in front of county princess, it was shortly after she was robbed out of the marquis. He saved the county princess and even put her in a good place before he came to the Huo family and finally went to find the marquis.”

“You have proof?!”

“On the back of Marquis Jingnan’s right hand, there are two wounds, I can testify to that.” Chen Han took a step forward, “In the morning today, I was at the Marquis of Jingnan’s residence and saw the wounds on the back of his hand with my own eyes. But just now, the back of his hand let his sleeve get in the way.”

Huo Xiu’s face suddenly trembled, his body stilling into a mountain.

“Although I can’t be sure of the origin of this injury, if he was just walking on the street last night, it’s impossible for him to land an injury. Even if he had helped the county princess to relieve herself, he is a person who always has escorts around him, I don’t believe that someone can hurt the back of his hand, even if there is really a fight, it should also be a weapon fall wound is. What does the marquis think?”

Huo Xiu didn’t say anything.

Next to him, Zhao Sum cleared his throat and stepped out, “In fact, I can also testify. Yesterday night, after you accompanied the emperor into the palace, I stood and chatted with Marquis Jingnan, and not only did I see the wounds on the back of his hands, but I also saw the nightclothes that were exposed under his outer robe. But just this can’t prove anything, so I came back here, talked to Han Jun, and early this morning, also told the emperor.”

Huo Xiu turns his head away, “So, the emperor let me out of the palace because you already have a target.” He clenches his hands, “Is there any other evidence?”

Zhao Su slowly voice: “to the marquis of the strict guards, ordinary people is not easy to sneak into the marquis, he can come in, first of all, explains the martial arts is absolutely strong, and secondly, there is also a long time to analyze, to be able to get in and out of the house, in addition to good martial arts, must also be familiar with the marquis of the terrain, can meet the two conditions of the people and not many. Think about it, now in addition to the Marquis of Jingnan meet outside, who else?”

Marquis Jingnan is a founding minister, the first batch of dignitaries in Da Liang, he and the Princess and the old Marquis Weiyuan are old friends, but also the same robes, the number of times in and out of the Huo family is absolutely quite a lot, he has this condition. Huo Xiu can not think of other than him, who else in the capital is more in line with the conjecture, high martial arts, such as the Marquis of Qingyun, Guangping Bo and others, they have always been normal with the Huo family dealings, the key is that Huo Mingyu just happened to be saved by the Marquis of Jingnan, do not think it is too much of a coincidence?

“It’s him.”

He clenches his fists tighter.

Zhao Su picks up the conversation, “Last night that moment to rob the county princess, is to intensify the contradiction between the marquis and the empress dowager the emperor, the emperor and the empress dowager naturally won’t allow him to have his way, but if he kills the county princess and the commission is more difficult to end, so can only manage to put her back again after the conspiracy fails. But no matter how to put, it is estimated that will reveal the cracks, so so he appeared in the identity of the benefactor to save the life of the county, in the county when the confusion of the thoughts let go of the helper, and then she took her out of harm’s way, this move to make him take in her this night looks justified, the second to make the county have no opportunity to find clues. So while we were waiting to see how the murderer would release the Sheriff, the murderer showed up as a benefactor. So from the beginning he planned to merely create such an incident, leaving himself a way out.”

“That’s right,” Zhao Sumi looked up, “so even though right now we’ve combed through all the links, there’s no way to get evidence of him committing the murder. That’s why he was able to send the county princess back openly and honorably and still claim credit from the Huo family.”

Huo Xiu’s face was already gloomy to the extreme: “Although I harbor suspicions about him, I didn’t think that he had already revealed his flaws. In that case, he was also the one who assassinated me and the Emperor in the palace in the first place.”

Han Jun mused, “Yu Qingping worked as a guard in the palace, and the Yu family had some intentions of getting Yu Qingping into the palace. With his status as Marquis of Jingnan, he has been in the capital for many years, so if he wants to make some arrangements in the palace, it’s not a completely impossible thing to do. Not to mention just utilizing a cat.”

“So he’s that third person we’re looking for!”

Zhao Su offhandedly said what was on everyone’s mind, “Don’t forget that Marquis Jingnan was present at that battle in Guangxi back then, I don’t dare to say that he must be the murderer, but if there must have been a person who poisoned the Princess at that time, then Marquis Jingnan definitely possessed the opportunity! And the soldiers of the 3,000 battalion should also have his old troops, right? In that situation, it would be effortless to try to kill a general of his own side!”

Huo Xiu slammed his fist on the flower stand beside him, and a pot of Jianlan fell to the ground in response, instantly blooming!

He looked at the long sky with his head held high, his lean body like a taut bowstring.

“With the man sent back, he’ll soon hide his fox tail tightly as well. We have to strike while the iron is hot and find a way to pull out his tail!”

Zhao Su was anxious about this.

Huo Xiu turned back and gazed for a moment, “Let’s start with the few people who delivered the petition this morning.”

“Do you have any ideas yet?”

He is silent for a moment, “Yan is helping me think of a solution, I wonder how things are going on her end?”