Zheng Quchi had no intention of answering She Guan's questions. She asked directly: "The coffin has been opened. Can we go for the autopsy now?"
Seeing that her attention was all focused on the corpse in the coffin, She Guan also knew that she had no intention of dealing with anything else, so he suppressed his emotions for the time being and snorted angrily: "You can test it if you want."
He said he had bad intentions, as long as you don't feel scared and disgusted when you see the corpse.
The other people in Julu Kingdom stopped laughing now. Do they not like to laugh?
No, I can’t laugh anymore.
They were completely different from the previous proud and arrogant look. They couldn't believe that such a weak and petite woman could solve their problem so easily. With anger in their hearts, they deliberately retreated to the side and stood aside, watching. She stood alone in front of the dark plain coffin.
Don't you have the ability to unlock the mechanism of the plain coffin? Let's see if she has the ability to lift the coffin lid. Now that the imperial army has retreated, most of the courtiers here have a bad relationship with Yu Wensheng. The remaining ones avoid the stench and evil aura of the rotting corpse. For a moment, there is no A person has the intention to step forward and help.
But Zheng Quchi was not willing to wait for another second. She didn't rely on anyone's strength. She just raised her hand, pushed hard with her elbow, and slid the loosened coffin lid away from the bottom of the coffin with one palm, "pop" It hit the ground with a heavy thud.
Everyone present was shocked: "..."
No matter how light this coffin lid is, it weighs more than a hundred pounds. If she had used ingenuity before, it must be her true strength now.
They stared at Zheng Quchi. I really didn't expect that this general's wife actually had a strange, no, magical power.
But they didn't have much time to be surprised. As the coffin lid was completely removed, as everyone expected, a strong stench suddenly wafted out of the coffin. All the people in the palace couldn't help covering their noses and hurriedly ran away. Some People can't help but want to vomit.
What does the corpse smell like? Zheng Quchi couldn't tell, it was inevitable that it would smell bad.
But the thought that this body might be Yu Wensheng's... was not unbearable.
Zheng Quchi stood next to the coffin and did not avoid it like the others. She even put her hand on the coffin in preparation for the autopsy.
The ministers of Ye State looked over in surprise. At this time, they were really full of admiration and amazement for her.
Hiss~
This general's wife is so brave. She was able to endure such a nauseating smell without showing any sign of disgust.
And the people in the Julu Kingdom didn't expect that the lady they thought was "weak" at first was actually not weak at all. Not only was she not weak, she was soft on the outside and strong on the inside, with a strong temper and heart.
No wonder she dared to marry a man like Yu Wensheng. After all, she was not an ordinary woman.
Zheng Quchi was so preoccupied with confirming the authenticity of the body that she didn't care much. Just as she was about to poke her head into the coffin to inspect it, she saw Yuan Xingzhou walking down quickly, taking out a plain white handkerchief and covering her mouth and nose. superior.
Immediately, the foul smell in his nose was replaced by the cold agarwood that belonged to him.
"Cover it." Yuan Xingzhou said.
She turned to look at him.
"Don't touch it, it may contain corpse poison."
Corpse poison? Is this still on the body?
Zheng Quchi didn't understand this, but since Yuan Xingzhou kindly reminded her, she nodded and obediently covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief.
Finally, she probed her head and saw clearly the bruised body inside the coffin.
After such a long time and being soaked in water, the degree of decomposition of the body can be imagined. Even if the temperature was not high some time ago, the people of the Julu Kingdom added some ice cubes and repellent in order to transport the body so as not to stink. The insect powder prevented the body from being covered with maggots, but the body was still shocking to see.
"Is it Yu Wensheng?" Yuan Xingzhou didn't care about the body, but stared at Zheng Quchi intently.
He does not need to cover his mouth and nose because he knows the method of Turtle Breathing.
Zheng Quchi didn't reply. She seemed to be slowly drowning in the deep sea. She couldn't hear anything clearly. She used her eyes instead of her hands to search for evidence on the body.
according to.
Prove it was him.
I also want to prove that it’s not him.
In her eyes, it seemed that this was not a corpse, but an evidence, and she had to go through the task of identifying the authenticity.
The mask on the corpse was very familiar. She had seen Yu Wensheng wearing it from time to time. There were many of the same style in the cages at their house.
The clothes he was wearing and the accessories hanging around his waist were all exactly the same as those on that day, even the wounds from sharp weapons and arrows...
She slowly closed her eyes, and her memory returned to the day she escaped from the Julu Army. She stood on the bow of the ship, surrounded by red flames, clear water, dense water plants, and others. In the air, my limbs were hooked by the claws of sharp weapons on the shore, and finally I was hit by countless flying arrows...
Zheng Quchi's lips suddenly turned white, and she suddenly opened her red eyes.
Without hesitation, she reached out and took off the other person's mask, but the face was swollen and rotten, and her facial features could not be recognized clearly, but...but the two drops of blood-hot phoenix tears at the end of the other person's eyes were like irrefutable evidence. It was so conspicuous, and every wound on his body was the same as she remembered, making it impossible to mistake him.
She has a very good memory. As long as she mobilizes her past memories and compares them one by one, she will know that the figure she saw falling tragically to death is the same person.
Yuan Xingzhou turned her body around, preventing her from facing the corpse anymore.
"That's enough, yes or no... it doesn't matter anymore." He frowned.
"The wounds on his body are the same..." Zheng Quchi looked into his eyes and murmured softly: "Every wound on his body, probably no one in this world understands it better than me except him."
Yuan Xingzhou's pupils froze when he heard this, but in an instant he returned to normal. He directly regarded Zheng Quchi's words as a kind of certification, and said solemnly: "This is the body of General Yu Wensheng of Ye Kingdom."
The courtiers breathed heavily, their eyes widened, and they all looked at the black coffin. Is this really the body of Yu Wensheng, the living Yama?
Is he really dead?
It was hard for them to believe that such a crazy and violent man could die so easily, but the general's wife has verified it, and His Highness has personally witnessed it. How could this be false...
Yu Wensheng was really dead. At first, they were doubtful, thinking that people from the Julu Kingdom were causing trouble and that Yu Wensheng had just disappeared. But now that the body was in front of them, they couldn't believe it anymore.
Seeing the stunned and distracted expressions on the faces of the Ye Kingdom's courtiers, She Guan no longer hid it and gave him a heavy blow: "The general's wife is sincere and did not lie because she wanted to protect the Ye Kingdom. Of course this is Yu Wensheng’s body has been found, because we fished him out of the river within a few days, but we kept claiming that we had not found him. Until recently, this was just to prevent Yu Wensheng’s people from stealing the body.”
In this way, when they picked up the corpse, it was not as rotten and dilapidated as it is now. They already knew that Yu Wensheng was dead, and the purpose of sending the corpse to Ye State was simply to attack and humiliate Ye State.
——Look, your patron saint of the Ye Kingdom has died in the hands of our Julu Kingdom. From now on, no one in the Ye Kingdom can stop the Julu Kingdom’s cavalry from trampling it.
This must be the main purpose of Julu Kingdom sending coffins in such a big and high-profile manner.
Sure enough, after the courtiers understood Julu Kingdom's insidious and vicious intentions, their faces suddenly turned pale and they were furious, but they dared not speak out in anger.
Indeed, in the past when Yu Wensheng was in court, there was no doubt that a huge mountain was pressing on their heads, making them breathless. Many people both feared and hated him.
But it is undeniable that their country, Ye, has been able to survive in the shaky Seven-Nation Peace Covenant until now, all because of Yu Wensheng, who is like a god in military skills. But now that this mountain has collapsed, they are secretly happy in front of them, but now they are afraid behind.
This is just like a naughty child who always complains that his parents are too strict and wants to get out of their control immediately. But once his parents no longer protect him from the wind and rain, their real hardships and storms come, and they understand what their original resistance and rebellion really meant. How stupid.
Zheng Quchi came to her senses, she frowned and faced She Kou:
"What are you stealing the body? Yuwen Sheng is my husband. He should naturally return to his country and home. Do you still want to take his body as your own?"
She Kou sneered: "Madam General, I'm afraid you are confused. Yuwen Sheng was an enemy general who was executed when he stole important information from our Julu Kingdom. In view of this, I, the Julu King, saw that the main culprit was dead. He did not continue to pursue the Ye Kingdom. This is already showing magnanimity to you. As for the sinner Yu Wensheng, he was burned wherever he should have died. Defeating the person who was executed is the military exploits of the Julu Kingdom. Do you want to Returning the body, why?”
War in this era was both cruel and horrific. I heard that in order to shock the enemy, some countries would pile up all the corpses of defeated enemy soldiers on both sides of the road, and then tamp these corpses with soil to build huge pyramid-shaped mounds. To show military merit.
As for the commander-in-chief, if anyone can cut off his head and hang it on his waist, this person will definitely be the first to achieve success in this battle. And Yu Wensheng, a long-famous general, died at the hands of Sima Moye of the Julu Kingdom. Yi Moye suddenly became the top powerful man praised by everyone in Julu Kingdom.
Zheng Quchi understood.
Yu Wensheng's body is now a trophy that these people from the Julu Kingdom show off to the Seven Kingdoms, and they are not willing to let it go easily.
She asked Yuan Xingzhou: "How did the Holy One decide?"
"What he means...is that peace is most valuable." A strange mockery appeared on Yuan Xingzhou's face.
Zheng Quchi had heard from the Queen before about King Ye's attitude that he would definitely not offend the Julu Kingdom in order to take back Yu Wensheng's body. He would only settle the matter, even if doing so would disgrace the Ye Kingdom in front of the other six kingdoms. It will also cause the people of Ye State to lose confidence in him and the entire country, become disappointed and sad.
Zheng Quchi suddenly smiled. She stood here today. In fact, she had made up her mind and would stick to it no matter what. "King Ye gave up on Yu Wensheng, but I won't. Now I want to claim it back in Zheng Quchi's personal name." My husband’s body, general, can you have a voice in the Julu Kingdom and be the master?”
The courtiers of Ye State were greatly surprised when they heard Zheng Quchi's words.
Does she know what she is doing?
Did she really think that the Julu Congress would allow Yu Wensheng, his enemy, to be buried in peace after his death and be worthy of enjoying the Ancestral Temple? It would be considered merciful that they didn't let him die. Now that she wanted to ask them for the body, she was afraid that the other party would only treat her as a joke.
Sure enough, after hearing her innocent words, the people of the Julu Kingdom laughed loudly: "Do you know who General She is? He is the uncle of the Julu King and one of our Julu Five Tiger Generals. Wei Zhenhe Shuo is famous all over the world, do you think he can be spoken to in the Julu Kingdom?"
Zheng Quchi took a deep breath: "General She, you are also a father, a son, and a husband. I believe you can understand how I feel now. My husband, Yu Wensheng, protects the family and the country, and does his best on the battlefield to serve the country of Ye. Everything, he and you are just loyal to the emperor and protecting the country, and each has his own position. There is no personal grudge. However, after his death, no one was willing to speak out for him, but I, my wife, had to stand up and get my husband back. A complete body allows him to rest in peace."
Yuan Xingzhou heard how she defended Yu Wensheng during his lifetime and insisted on asking for it after his death. She had always been a kind-hearted person, but she was not a philanthropic person with no bottom line. There were very few people who could make her risk everything. , except for her family members, they are those who are kind to her, and now Yu Wensheng may have become her family member.
Hearing this, She Kou was silent for a moment and then said: "Zheng Quchi, I did look down on you before, but now I admire you a little. Compared to the wimps like Ye Guo, you are brave and loyal, but this matter You can't do it just by saying a few sensational words."
"I know." Zheng Quchi spoke fluently, her eyes serious, and said: "I just heard that General She is very good at leading troops in war. This time, I will go to the battlefield during the Six Nations Trial. Why don't you, General, and this woman like me... Let’s have a contest, and if I win, the general will return my husband’s body to me.”
"What are you talking about? You want to compete with me, the general?" She Kou was surprised, then stared at her absurdly for a long time, raised his neck and burst out laughing: "Hahaha... you and other women and children are actually going to do it.
On the battlefield, is it true that after the death of Yu Wensheng, there are no real men left in the Ye Kingdom? Hahaha……"
Ye Guo's military attache lost his face on the spot.
"Mr. Yuwen Zheng, what are you talking about? You are just a lieutenant general, and you are an assistant to the commander-in-chief. Don't talk nonsense here to make General She smile!"
"That is, how can you, a woman, be compared with a man? How could General She agree to such a ridiculous thing? Betting against you is like an adult bullying a child. You have no chance of winning."
"Do you really think that everyone knows how to fight? If it were that simple, Ye Country wouldn't have had a God of War, Yu Wensheng, for decades."
Zheng Quchi listened to the blows, taunts and ridicules from different voices, but she didn't even blink her eyelids and said calmly: "You are quite capable. You cower like a rat externally, and you are domineering and trampling internally. I can't, so there are some of you who Who dares to stand up?"
