Chapter 62: Jingyou Period
In the spring of the thirty-eighth year of Jingyou.
This spring, miraculously, there was no late cold snap, but warm sunshine. The Xue family was still immersed in the joy of their eldest son's marriage, and Xue Changyang had also been immersed in the happiness of marrying his beautiful wife since his marriage.
But one day, he was supposed to return home at the end of the You hour, but he was delayed and sent someone back home to tell his wife that he had to go out of the city on business. He probably couldn't return to Bianjing City for the whole night.
But Xue Changyang really cared about his wife, and after finishing his work, he rushed back to Bianjing City overnight.
But how could Xue Changyang have imagined that when he rushed home at night, what was waiting for him was not tenderness and care, but his virtuous wife who usually got along with him was sleeping in the same bed with his father-in-law.
Xue Changyang's appearance also alarmed the person on the bed. He was completely unable to accept what he saw.
His men rushed over when they saw the commotion in the main house. They were shocked when they saw what Xue Changyang saw. When Xue Changyang was struggling with Duke Yingguo and Zhang Tu, Xue Changyang's parents and his eldest sister and brother-in-law who had returned to their mother's home for a short stay were also alarmed.
When Xue's father, mother, sister and brother-in-law arrived, Xue Changyang was being pestered by Zhang Tu, and the Duke of Ying also left in embarrassment.
At that time, Zhang Tu was crying and making a fuss, pestering Xue Changyang. No matter how reluctant Xue Changyang was to attack Zhang Tu, Zhang Tu still didn't say a word.
It seemed as if she tacitly approved of Xue Changyang's accusations and insults against her.
Xue's father and mother cried out that their family was unfortunate and wanted to go to the Golden Palace to ask the emperor to uphold justice and let the people of Bian Jing see how absurd the Duke of Ying was.
Xue Changyang beat and scolded Zhang Tu, alarming the entire mansion.
But within a moment, the entire mansion knew what the young lady who had just entered had done with the Duke of England, and they were all shocked and indignant.
This night was destined to be restless, and the Xue family stayed awake all night in anger.
At three quarters past midnight, a silver light flashed above the brightly lit Xue Mansion, and a group of people in black rushed into the Xue Mansion.
The maid in Xue Changyang's courtyard heard the noise outside and went to the outer courtyard to check. Just as she walked through the hanging flower gate, she saw a flash of cold light in front of her eyes. The pain in her throat and the spurting blood made the maid's pupils dilate, and then she slowly fell to the ground.
The knife in the black-clad man's hand fell, and the bloodstains on the knife were shocking under the light.
What followed were screams and sounds of fighting in the courtyard.
Xue's father and mother were the first to come out of the main house. They were horrified to see a dozen masked men in black hacking and killing the servants in the courtyard. Just when they wanted to escape, four or five men in black attacked them.
Xue's father and mother fell in a pool of blood before they could react.
In order to protect his pregnant sister, my brother-in-law couldn't withstand the fighting and fell in front of his sister.
In order to save his sister, Xue Changyang was also killed by the hacking.
My sister knelt down and begged for mercy, and even though she was pregnant, she kowtowed to the man in black, but she still couldn't escape the poison.
At this time, Zhang Tu was so shocked by the scene in front of her that she could not move. She watched the men in black coming and going with empty eyes, and the sounds of fighting in her ears were getting farther and farther away.
It was not until dawn that someone discovered something was wrong with the Xue Mansion. Not long after, people from Kaifeng Mansion and the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion arrived. When they learned that Zhang Tu was still alive, the people from the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion hurriedly took Zhang Tu back to the Duke's Mansion.
The massacre of the entire Xue family that day shocked the entire Bian Jing. When the people in Kaifeng Prefecture cleaned up all the corpses in the Xue Mansion, Kaifeng Prefecture's coroner Liu Jiangbai went back to the yard where the master of the Xue family was killed.
When he entered the inner room of the main house and took a closer look, he noticed something strange in the box behind the screen.
When he opened the wooden box, he found a child with a pale face. He just felt pity for the child and didn't think about knowing anything from the child. Most importantly, the child had nothing to do with him.
Liu Jiangbai took the child away in the evening and raised him carefully for a few days until he found that no one was chasing the child.
It was not until half a month later that Liu Jiangbai learned the child's identity from the child's mouth.
He was originally the six-year-old child of Xue Changyang's eldest sister.
Liu Jiangbai thought that the master of the Xue family was dead, and if he was sent back to Xue Changyang's eldest sister's husband's family, he would inevitably be killed again, so he kept him by his side. Because of his identity as a coroner, he rarely interacted with others, so no one cared if there was one more or one less person around him.
Therefore, the child became Liu Jiangbai's adopted son and was named Liu Wenyang.
Later, Liu Wenyang followed in his father's footsteps and became an inconspicuous coroner in Bianjing, dealing with corpses.
He has been taciturn during the years he lived with Liu Jiangbai. At the beginning, Liu Jiangbai would ask about the massacre of the Xue family, but every time Liu Wenyang ended in silence.
Now Liu Jiangbai thought that his son had forgotten about the Xue family, but he didn't expect that when he came back today, he would curiously talk to him about the massacre of the Xue family.
"What?" Liu Jiangbai, half buried in the ground, hunched over as he looked at his son pouring him a glass of wine. "It's been almost seventeen years, and you're only telling me now."
Liu Jiangbai picked up a peanut and glanced at Liu Wenyang again: "Duke Ying and his daughter?"
Liu Wenyang placed the full wine bowl next to his father and whispered, "At the time, I only remember my grandparents and my uncle scolding my aunt. My mother didn't allow me to go to that courtyard, but I went there quietly anyway. I only remember my grandfather saying that our family was in misfortune, and my mother and father trying to persuade my uncle that the Duke of Yingzhou couldn't afford to offend them. They just needed to send my aunt back to the Duke of Yingzhou and the Xue family would write a divorce letter."
"I was playful at the time and didn't realize how serious the situation was. I just remembered Duke Ying and my aunt. Later, I heard sounds of murder in the courtyard. Mother found me and stuffed me into that box."
Liu Wenyang spoke expressionlessly as he recalled his memories. He seemed to recall his pregnant mother's tenderness towards him. He looked up at his adoptive father across from him and said, "I can't remember what my mother looked like anymore. I only remember her begging for mercy and the sound of her kowtowing to those beasts."
After saying that, Liu Wenyang picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp. When he put down the bowl, his slightly red eyes were full of hostility.
Liu Jiangbai sighed and said, "Who told you that, Yang'er? Even if what you said is true, can you shake the Duke of Ying's Mansion? How can you avenge yourself?"
"Don't worry about it." Liu Wenyang poured himself another bowl of wine. "All the money I've saved over the years is in the brocade box on the second row of my bookshelf. Drink less. If I can't come back, that money will be enough for you to spend your old age."
"What the hell are you talking about, you damned brat!?" Liu Jiangbai stood up abruptly, his old face showing distress and fear. "I know you can't let it go, and you've been holding it in your heart since you were a child, but..."
"Dad, they are my closest relatives. What crime have they committed?" Liu Wenyang's eyes were moist. "Why should my closest relatives die for that adulterous couple? What did they do wrong?"
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