Chapter 76: The Man Prince Lu
"Go and find the household registration records of Shanxian County, as well as the travel permits for entering and leaving the city."
By checking each item, we can find out who this woman really is.
Huo Jiajun's efficiency is beyond question. Despite the dilapidated state of Shanxian, with the entire town covered in dust, everyone worked together and managed to find the household registration and travel permits within half an hour.
The files, piled up for over twenty years, were no small undertaking. Su Zhenzhen first put all the documents into the storage compartment, and then put them all out again when she returned to the coffin shop.
The woman's body was also taken into the coffin shop.
Su Zhenzhen spent the whole night reading through these files, and the comments in her mind actually started reading along with them.
[This Wang family actually has a sixteen-year-old stepmother and a sixteen-year-old daughter. Do you think the matchmaker might confuse the daughter with the grandmother when they come to propose marriage?]
This man married three wives, each of whom bore him three daughters. Yet, he actually adopted a son from his brother's family. Nobody knows what he was thinking.
Su Zhenzhen was getting a headache from all the noise, so she simply made use of the comments and turned the pages one by one with her eyes closed.
[In the spring of xx year, a father and his two sons from the border region entered a mountain county and paid a toll of twenty coins. How is this calculated? Twenty divided by three is not a whole number.]
Hey, look! A mother and daughter entered Shanxian County that same winter and weren't charged a toll. Is there some kind of winter welfare policy?
Su Zhenzhen opened her eyes and carefully compared the details. She discovered that no matter what day it was, women did not have to pay tolls when entering the city that year.
interesting.
Su Zhenzhen found the county magistrate of that year based on the year.
The county magistrate's surname was Chen. He was transferred after only one year in office, but the destination of his transfer was not recorded.
This year also happened to be the last year of Emperor Chang's reign, and the year before Jiang Yichun ascended the throne.
It's no wonder Su Zhenzhen is suspicious; it's just too strange. Women traveling alone into the city don't have to pay tolls, but families with women are charged tolls.
Moreover, this only happened during the year that Magistrate Chen was in office.
Is it simply because they feel sorry for a lone woman?
Su Zhenzhen didn't think so.
“Old Bai, I remember you said that the Northwest was once the fiefdom of the Prince of Lu.”
Old Bai put down his work. "Yes, is this girl we found today related to him?"
Su Zhenzhen didn't answer, but asked another question, "How old was the Prince of Lu when he was conferred the title of Prince, and how long did he live?"
"This..." Old Man Bai counted on his fingers, "He should have lived to be fifty or sixty years old? Seventy or eighty years old? He was quite old when he was made a king, but I don't know his exact age. I've only heard about it, but I've never actually met the King of Lu."
Su Zhenzhen then summoned Qingshan and others, but unfortunately, they also did not know about the Prince of Lu.
They were stationed at the front line. Although Prince Lu was the highest ruler of the Northwest, he never went to the barracks. If it weren't for the siege of the capital, his presence would have been so low that everyone would have ignored him.
"Li Da, you don't know either?"
Li Da, who was helping the old man Bai make a coffin for the female corpse, paused upon hearing this. "Miss Su, I am just a eunuch, and the Northwest is far from the capital. Even the Empress would have a hard time meeting the princes appointed outside the capital."
Su Zhenzhen frowned. "Is this prince a member of the royal family, or was he granted the title of prince for some merit? You should have heard about that, right?"
Li Da shook his head and continued planing the wood.
The case of Magistrate Chen is already shrouded in mystery, and now there's also Prince Lu.
Su Zhenzhen didn't understand why, as the highest-ranking official in the Northwest, no one in the military camp had ever seen this person before.
Surely not everyone who saw him died on the battlefield?
Furthermore, since Prince Lu was able to participate in the rebellion, where did he get his troops? The Northwest is such a small area, where could he hide those private soldiers?
Su Zhenzhen looked at Jiang Sijin, who was fast asleep behind the gauze curtain. The girl was so peaceful and serene that Su Zhenzhen could not hear her breathing at all.
Perhaps she wasn't breathing at all.
I don't know why a little monster would try to sleep like a human, and make it all seem so ritualistic.
"Jiang Sijin".
Su Zhenzhen called out, but no one answered.
"Your Highness."
The gauze curtain was lifted from the inside, and a slender hand reached out, followed by half of Jiang Sijin's body.
The young woman's demeanor was graceful and elegant; it must be said that she was quite pleasing to the eye.
"What do you want with me, Princess?"
Su Zhenzhen rolled her eyes inwardly. He really knew how to put on airs.
"May I ask, Your Highness, have you heard of the Prince of Lu? Why was he granted the title of prince? Did he have the authority to command troops at the time?"
Jiang Sijin got off the bed and gracefully walked to Su Zhenzhen.
"Even if I knew, why should I tell you?"
Su Zhenzhen almost couldn't help but roll her eyes; he really wasn't putting on enough airs.
"May I ask what Your Highness would like this humble subject to exchange?" Su Zhenzhen's main approach was to be flexible and go along with what was agreed upon.
If Su Zhenzhen admired Jiang Sijin the most, it would be that she never beat around the bush or hides anything; she just says what she wants and doesn't beat around the bush.
"I want a phoenix crown."
Why don't you just ask for a dragon robe instead of a phoenix crown?
Before Su Zhenzhen could finish speaking, a golden phoenix crown appeared before her eyes, with a lifelike nine-tailed phoenix, each tail inlaid with a ruby.
Jiang Sijin picked up the phoenix crown, admiring it with great delight, "Only such a rare treasure is worthy of my status as a princess."
Su Zhenzhen noticed a comment floating through her mind.
[The female lead can take this (sunglasses emoji). I'll cut the price to 9.9 yuan with free shipping. My dog's tired of playing with it.]
Su Zhenzhen suppressed the urge to laugh. Let's not even talk about the fact that it cost nine yuan and ninety cents, and it was a toy that Gouzi had already played with. But Jiang Sijin felt that this thing was just right for her status.
To be honest, the dog is indeed very dog-like, but Jiang Sijin is not human either.
"Um... Your Highness, can you tell me about Prince Lu now?"
Jiang Sijin raised her chin arrogantly, "Aren't you going to put the phoenix crown on this princess properly?"
Su Zhenzhen was too lazy to argue with her, so she quickly combed her hair into a bun and put the phoenix crown on her head.
Su Zhenzhen wondered how the dog had played with the phoenix crown, and whether there were any bacteria on it. She rubbed her fingers, which had touched it, hard on her clothes.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Sijin asked suspiciously.
"My hands are itching, let me rub them." Su Zhenzhen changed the subject, "Why don't you tell me about Prince Lu?"
Jiang Sijin believed it to be true, probably not expecting that the phoenix crown had other origins, after all, no one would have thought of that.
"The Prince of Lu was Emperor Chang's adopted son. Emperor Chang's concubines were all unable to conceive and had not been able to give birth to a child. There was a saying among the people that if you adopt a child first, your wife will soon be able to get pregnant. Emperor Chang, as a last resort, adopted an orphan from the common people."
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