"What?" Su Xuening was instantly stunned, her eyes filled with disbelief.
Bai was also stunned: "What's going on? Isn't that your father's grave? Why aren't those your father's remains?"
Pei Luo and Dao Yi also looked at You Yi and Su Yun'an.
How come our trip to Sujia Village uncovered so many things?
You Yi remained silent; it was better for this kid to handle these matters.
Su Yun'an knew Su Xuening would be shocked and upset, so he explained, "I couldn't find any clues about the Su family army, so under the guise of renovating the ancestral graves, I renovated all three graves of my grandparents and father, and even replaced the coffins. When I replaced my father's coffin, I found that it had been pried open. At first, we thought my father's grave had been robbed, but after we opened the coffin, we found that none of my father's burial objects were missing, and my uncle even discovered that there was something wrong with the remains."
As Su Yun'an spoke, he looked at You Yi, hoping he would explain.
You Yi spoke up at the opportune moment: "The kneecaps of that skeleton were completely necrotic. If the leg bones had just broken before death, there wouldn't have been time for the leg bones to develop diseases. Such diseases take several years to develop. This means that the skeleton's legs had been necrotic for several years before the person died. Also, although the lower leg bones of that skeleton were very long, they were particularly thin, which means that the person was paralyzed for a long time before death. Therefore, in addition to slowly necrotizing, the leg bones also began to degenerate. All of the above proves that the skeleton was paralyzed before death."
Su Xuening frowned and subconsciously said, "Impossible. My father is in good health, and his legs are fine. Even if he has suffered any injuries to his legs, they are all minor injuries and he has never been paralyzed for a long time."
As a great general, it's impossible for my father to be completely unscathed. He certainly suffered minor injuries, but he never sustained any major ones. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to go to the battlefield repeatedly.
As for the battle in the Northern Rong, it's possible that my father suffered a serious leg injury. However, my uncle also said that the leg bone of that corpse wasn't recently broken, but rather had been broken for many years before he died, so it definitely couldn't be my father.
Su Yun'an was still baffled by the fact that his father's remains had been switched: "At first, I suspected that Su Huiyan and Su Renyi had pried open the coffin. Perhaps they were looking for my father's military tally. After all, they even dared to imprison my mother to find the tally, so they might be capable of digging up graves and breaking open coffins. But I don't understand why they would switch my father's remains?"
Su Xuening was stunned. It was quite possible that Su Huiyan and Su Renyi were the ones who pried open her father's coffin.
These two heartless people would do anything to get the military tally of the Su family army. They wouldn't be satisfied without searching in their father's coffin, but obviously the military tally of the Su family army wasn't in their father's coffin.
They may be looking for the military tally, but they have no reason to switch the father's remains.
The father is already dead, why would they bother to change his remains? It's completely unnecessary!
Su Xuening suddenly thought of something and looked at You Yi, asking, "Was the skeleton in my father's coffin nine feet tall when he was alive?"
“Yes.” You Yi nodded, quite certain, “Judging from the size of that skeleton, he was indeed very tall, at least nine feet.”
Although the man's leg bones were not in good condition, it did not affect his height.
Upon hearing this, Su Xuening immediately became excited: "Then..."
"Sister, what's wrong?" Su Yun'an quickly grabbed Su Xuening's hand when she saw her suddenly become so agitated.
Su Xuening also gripped Su Yun'an's hand tightly, looking at him excitedly and saying, "Yun'an, our father is very likely still alive."
"What?" Su Yun'an was stunned for a moment, his mind went blank, as if there was something wrong with his ears and he couldn't hear what Su Xuening was saying.
The Bai family was also taken aback by Su Xuening's words: "What do you mean? General Su is still alive?"
Wasn't General Su's body transported back to Kyoto before? The Su family confirmed it at the time, so how could he possibly still be alive?
Su Yun'an also recovered and immediately grabbed Su Xuening excitedly: "Why did you say Father is still alive, sister?"
What did my sister find out?
Su Xuening was also very excited at this moment, but she knew that she was pregnant and was afraid of affecting the child. She took several deep breaths and tried her best to calm down before she spoke: "If the person in the coffin is nine feet tall, then it means that the skeleton that was sent to Su Family Village was this skeleton, which is also the skeleton that was sent back from the battlefield."
Su Yun'an was very clever. When he heard Su Xuening say this, he immediately understood: "Because few people can compare to Father's stature."
Su Xuening nodded: "Yes, it's because Father was very tall, especially in Dongchu. People who are nine feet tall are probably few and far between, so finding someone of Father's stature would be very difficult. First, even if Su Renyi and Su Huiyan pried open the coffin to find the military tally, Father is already dead, so they have no need to replace his remains. Second, even if they really had some reason to steal Father's remains, they could just steal them directly. There's no need to replace them, and even if they did, they wouldn't actually find the remains of a nine-foot-tall person to replace them. There's no need to go to such great lengths!"
The Bai family understood what he meant.
"So, this means your father's remains were fake from the beginning, and someone provided fake remains to impersonate your father, making you believe that your father was dead?"
“Yes.” When her father died, Yun’an was only three or four years old and probably didn’t remember much. But Su Xuening remembered it vividly: “When my father was brought back, he was covered in wounds, even his face was injured. In addition, the journey from Beirong to the capital was long, and my father had been dead for many days. His body had long since decomposed, and when his body was brought back, it was unrecognizable. At that time, apart from the blue dragon mark on his shoulder that was still faintly visible, you really couldn’t see anything else.”
Speaking of the scene when her father was sent back, Su Xuening seemed to fall into despair again: "When my father was sent back like that, my mother was heartbroken. I was not very old at the time, and Yun'an was even younger. We identified my father's identity based on the blue dragon mark on his shoulder. If there is a problem with that skeleton now, it means that the mark is also fake."
Or even if the mark is real, it's not his father, but another member of the Northern Wei royal family.
Suddenly, Bai thought of something and narrowed her eyes, saying, "Since that person could even forge the mark on your father's shoulder, it means that person is very familiar with your father, or rather, very familiar with the fact that your father has a blue dragon mark on his shoulder, so that he was able to make a fake corpse to deceive you."
These words were like a wake-up call. Su Xuening frowned and said, "Only our family knows about the blue dragon mark on Father's shoulder. The person who forged it must be from the Northern Wei. So it was the Northern Wei who replaced Father."
Upon hearing this, Su Yun'an became instantly excited: "Does my sister mean that Father is still alive in Northern Wei?"
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