"Three days."
Hua Ziyun's face fell, "Can't you stay a little longer?"
"We still have things to do. We will come back after we finish them." Xiao Moer comforted him sensibly.
Hua Ziyun pouted and said, "Okay."
Chu Yu secretly observed the interaction between Hua Ziyun and the mother and son, and was secretly surprised. It was hard to imagine that Hua Ziyun would show such an innocent side in front of others.
In everyone's eyes, Hua Ziyun is mature beyond his years and does not have the aura of his older brothers at such a young age.
A few people ate, drank and chatted about all sorts of things.
As the lights came on, lanterns lit up the streets. Since Tianxiang Tower was next to the water, the street seemed even more lively.
The group ate and drank until very late. Hua Ziyun asked Chu Yu to send someone to the palace to tell them, and then he shamelessly followed Bei Yutang and the others to the Duke's Mansion and lived in the same courtyard with them.
The Duke's Mansion is Chu Yu's home and also Hua Ziyun's grandfather's home. He is very familiar with this place. After having breakfast early in the morning, Bei Yutang paid his respects to the ancestor of the host family and was then pulled out by Hua Ziyun.
As soon as they left the house, a servant came hurriedly.
"Master, we found the person."
Everyone was delighted, and Chu Yu hurriedly asked, "Where is it?"
The attendant took a breath and then spoke, "They're right by the moat. Judging from their appearance, they should be the ones we're looking for. However..."
"Just what?"
"They're already dead."
"What!" Hua Ziyun was shocked.
"Walk."
Bei Yutang immediately boarded the carriage, and the others followed, driving the carriage directly to the moat. At this time, a group of people gathered outside the moat. These people were all the people who had gotten up early to enter the city.
The yamen runners had already cordoned off the area, and after Chu Yuliang revealed his identity, they let a few people in.
There were two bodies, one big and one small, lying on the river bank, and the coroner was performing an autopsy on them.
Hua Ziyun took just one look, immediately turned his head and vomited to the side.
Xiao Moer frowned and stared at Xiao Tiezhu.
He was only three years old, and that man was willing to kill his own son for fame and fortune.
"When was it discovered and by whom?" Bei Yutang asked.
Perhaps it was Bei Yutang's tone that was too cold, causing the constable to instinctively reply, "Their bodies were fished out this morning by a boatman while clearing the river. The old man was terrified. When they were fished out, they were trapped in sacks filled with rocks. If the old man hadn't caught the sack with his hook and hauled it out with all his might, I'm afraid we still wouldn't have discovered them."
After the coroner's initial examination of the bodies, he told the captain, "They both drowned. They were thrown into the river while still alive and drowned."
"Are there any other scars on your body?" Bei Yutang asked.
"Apart from some daily injuries, there are no other signs of injury. The initial diagnosis is drowning."
"Time of death?"
"Judging from the degree of swelling of their bodies, they have been soaked in water for at least twelve hours. The exact time can only be determined after I perform further autopsies." After the coroner finished speaking, he realized who the person who had just asked the question was.
"The time of their death must have been the night before yesterday," Bei Yutang said with certainty.
That night, two groups of people were divided. One group set fire to the house and tried to kill them, while the other group drowned Li Guixiang and her son in the river.
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