In the dead of night, the executioner was already sharpening his knife in the death row.

"Young man, I'm just following orders from above. If you die by my blade tomorrow and become a vengeful ghost, don't make things difficult for me. The grievances have their source, and the debts have their debtors. Go find whoever ordered your death."

After the executioner finished speaking, he placed half a chicken on Liu Fu's plate and told him to eat it.

But just like a magic trick, he saw that Liu Fu suddenly had boxes of account books, letters, and other evidence in his hands.

The executioner immediately stared at something and froze on the spot.

"Oh my god, this thing... isn't this thing ruined?"

"How...how did I end up here again?"

Upon seeing the executioner's eyes, Liu Fu knew that the other man must know the origin of this item, and immediately asked him.

But the executioner, as if he had seen a ghost, immediately ran away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Liu Fu ignored him and immediately opened the object to take a look. It turned out to be a pair of extremely sharp copper hooks!

The copper hooks were stained with blood, which had become impossible to remove over the years. Since they were murder weapons, they must have taken the lives of countless people.

Liu Fu began searching through the files and soon discovered correspondence between Prefect Liu and a high-ranking official in the court.

Even Liu Fu didn't believe it when he heard it!

The person who secretly corresponded with Prefect Liu was none other than Chen Jiulin, one of the three top meritorious officials of the Later Han Dynasty.

Liu Laowu rose from a peasant to an emperor in twenty years, entirely thanks to the assistance of three top meritorious officials.

One of them was Prime Minister Jiang Zhengren, who was upright and incorruptible and had the ability to govern the country. Liu Laowu's struggle to build his empire in this chaotic world was entirely due to Jiang Zhengren's governance in the rear, which stabilized the rear and provided a continuous supply of food and supplies.

Secondly, there were his two sworn brothers. One was Grand Commandant Chen Jiulin, a veteran of countless battles who made many contributions to Liu Laowu's expansion of territory. The other was Huang Xuan, who was now the Imperial Censor of the Later Han Dynasty, responsible for supervising all officials.

These three men held the rank of the Three Dukes and were the pillars of the entire Later Han Dynasty.

But when Liu Fu saw the correspondence between Grand Commandant Chen Jiulin, who held military power, he clenched his fists in resentment.

Chen Jiulin had been on the battlefield for many years and had been injured several times, some of which had even damaged his vital organs. As a result, he was already in very poor health at just over fifty years old, as weak as an elderly person in their seventies or eighties.

The Later Han Dynasty had just been established, and the good days had just begun. Chen Jiulin's health collapsed before he could even enjoy them. How could this be allowed?

In order to recover and enjoy the bliss of having multiple wives, Chen Jiulin began to visit famous doctors, but none of them could cure his illness. In the end, he began to have wicked thoughts.

I've heard there's a method called "yin-yang replenishment," and Chen Jiulin specifically chooses beautiful women, who all lie on his bed at night to warm him up.

They had to eat the food that the women had chewed in their mouths, and then feed it to them.

He insisted on drinking only the finest human milk, and even when washing his feet, he would mix it with the saliva of these women. Moreover, in order to recover faster, he listened to the sorcerers' wicked words and began searching everywhere for placenta.

"Ziheche" refers to something like the placenta, but the real Ziheche is actually an unformed fetus still inside the placenta.

The sorcerer required a placenta weighing seven ounces, meaning the placenta and fetus together weighed approximately seven ounces before being removed intact from the body.

Such a cruel method can only be effective by extracting the placenta from a woman who is about four months pregnant.

Chen Jiulin then entrusted the matter to Prefect Liu.

For no other reason than that Chen Jiulin became Grand Tutor, and Prefect Liu came from the Liu family of Jiangbei, a powerful and influential family in Jiangbei. His sister married Chen Jiulin's son, and the marriage between the Chen and Liu families united the two families, making them relatives. Therefore, Chen Jiulin secretly entrusted such a private matter to Prefect Liu.

The copper hooks that made the executioners pale were the tools used to extract placenta from the women alive.

According to the correspondence, the person who did this was the same executioner from before. They secretly selected suitable women, kidnapped them, removed their placentas, and buried them alive, doing so without anyone knowing.

However, Prefect Liu also knew that this matter was extremely alarming. If it were investigated in the future, he would definitely be in deep trouble, and the entire Liu family in Jiangbei might also be implicated.

Therefore, he always kept the letters and evidence between himself and his powerful uncle Chen Jiulin to himself and secretly hid them.

The purpose was to have a backup plan in case the family was ever wiped out, so that they could use these things to ask their uncle, the Grand Commandant, for help to save their lives.

Prefect Liu originally thought this was something only Heaven, Earth, and himself knew.

Unexpectedly, Liu Fu, relying on the treasure-hunting rat, actually found the secret letters buried there, and he read them with gritted teeth!

That night, Liu Fu did not take any action.

The next day, because prisoners had to be paraded through the streets before execution, Liu Fu was put into a prison cart and his mouth was gagged.

"I'm telling you, young man, you're about to die, why don't you say a few words before you die? Leave your name behind?"

"Yes, even if you could sing a few lines of opera, and shout something like, 'Twenty years from now, I'll be a hero again,' what would you say?"

"A man may die, but he can't lose his spirit! Can someone remove the food from his mouth and let him shout a few words?"

Thousands of people gathered to watch the spectacle, all of them there specifically to witness the beheading.

But Prefect Liu was afraid that Liu Fu would talk nonsense, so this time he actually sealed his mouth shut.

But Liu Fu didn't care about anything else. Seeing that almost everyone had arrived, the cloth in his mouth suddenly disappeared, and he started shouting at the top of his lungs:

"In the first month of the year Jia Yin, Liu Qianglin, the prefect of Yanshan Prefecture, presented five thousand taels of silver to congratulate the Vice Minister of Rites on his birthday!"

"On the third day of the first month of the Jia-Yin year, to congratulate the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Revenue on taking a concubine, I presented him with two thousand taels of silver..."

As soon as Liu Fu opened his mouth, he began reciting Prefect Liu's bills, which made things complicated.

Not only that, Liu Fu also recited all of Prefect Liu's dirty deeds, correspondence, and evidence in front of so many people on the street, word for word.

At this moment, Prefect Liu was unaware of what had happened and was sitting upright in the execution ground, waiting for Liu Fu to be escorted there and beheaded.

It wasn't until Liu Fu's clamor reached the entire street and he started spreading rumors about the Grand Commandant's practice of "yin-yang replenishment" that someone reported it to Prefect Liu.

Liu Qianglin couldn't sit still any longer!

"Shut him up! Go and shut him up! You bunch of useless people, why are you letting him spout nonsense?"

The person who came to report shook his head like a rattle drum:

"My lord, it's no use."

"This kid seems to know some kind of sorcery or evil magic. We just tried to gag him with a piece of cloth, and the cloth disappeared. We can't stop him at all!"

At this moment, the escorting procession was getting closer and closer to the execution ground, and the number of the two or three thousand people gathered at the execution ground had increased even more.

Liu Fu opened his mouth and shouted:

"Gentlemen, gentlemen, our Prefect Liu Qianglin has secretly sent men to kidnap pregnant women, cut open their bellies while they are still alive to extract their placentas, and use them to replenish the yin and yang of Grand Commandant Chen Jiulin. If any of your families have missing pregnant women, hurry up and report it! Your missing wives and daughters were murdered by this Prefect Liu Qianglin and Grand Commandant Chen Jiulin!"

Liu Fu shouted at the top of his lungs, which was like a landmine falling into a cesspool, causing a huge uproar.

Immediately, the news spread like wildfire among the people.

Liu Fu was secretly pleased with himself at this moment:

"Let's see how you handle this situation today."