"Returning to Before Husband's Castration" 《回到老公自宫前》Chapter 21

 Lu Ying never called his father’s foresight into question, but this one time was an exception.

Lu Ying angrily said: “The embroidered uniform guards reputation has been ruined by you!”

Wang Da Xia was scared of ghosts not people, he also didn’t care that Lu Ying and Lu Bing were father and son, he directly answered back, “Don’t scam me by setting up an “accident” to demand compensation from me, do the embroidered uniform guards have a good reputation? Clearly you spend time with bad people you become bad, my pure self has been dragged down by the embroidered uniform guards.”

Lu Ying said to himself “the overall situation is most important”, he held himself back from hitting him, “The big and small coffins have been opened, young lady He had one corpse, two lives, the small one had run, it’s an empty coffin, go take a look.”

Wang Da Xia curled up shivering in the carriage, “I don’t want to see corpses, it’s too scary, young lady He died with grievance, I heard pregnant ghosts are the strongest and most violent, what's more there’s a small ghost in her belly, two for the price of one, it’s double the evil tendencies, Chen Qianhu father and son definitely had their lives taken from a deadly malicious ghost!”

Damn it he really was a young genius at solving crimes!

Lu Ying thought it was better to ask a dog for an opinion than Wang Da Xia, at least a dog wouldn’t be afraid of ghosts, it wouldn’t blame everything onto gods and ghosts.

The more Wang Da Xia spoke the more stirred up he became: “A malicious ghost demanding life, Chen daliang had died after the sun had set, Chen Qianhu died around midnight, they took place at night, malicious ghosts don’t dare to come out during the day, they specialise in demanding for life at night.”

“Old woman Wang was washing clothes at night when she was pushed into the water to drown by the malicious ghost.”

“The study companion was struck by lightning in the night summoned by the malicious ghost.”

Lu Ying really couldn’t carry on listening to Wang Da Xia’s weird drivel, it disturbed his strict heart, he angrily said: “Get lost! Stop talking nonsense here.”

“I’ll leave then.” Wang Da Xia entire body was hung with amulets, he left the carriage with the copper buddha in his hand, climbing onto a horse, “There is a malicious ghost here, I don’t want to stay here a minute longer, goodbye!”

Wang Da Xia hurriedly urged his horse forward, Lu Ying didn’t stop him, thinking it was better for that demon personifying pestilence to be as far away as possible.

Lu Ying instructed: “Take the corpses and bring them back to the embroidered uniform guards office, this is all evidence.”

Wang Da Xia sped along, entering the city from the Zhengyang gate, his expression turning from scared to anxious, from the south of the city he ran to the north, the horse was so tired it was foaming at the mouth, he came directly to the Gulouxisxie street, he went to the ready made clothing store and bought a set of women's clothing to change into, then leading the horse he headed to Santong tavern.

The Wang Da Xia in women’s clothing dismounted from the horse, tossing the reins to the waiter at the door, “Feed some food and water to my horse, look after it.”

Wang Da Xia checked into a room, giving the waiter half a string of coins as payment for him running errands, lowering his voice: “I’m not feeling well, go to Tianshui lane and invite a female doctor by the name of Wei Cai Wei over to treat me.”

The waiter held the money, he ran very quickly, Tianshui lane wasn’t far from here, and there were only two families there, one was he high ranking residence of Wang Qianhu, another was a small storied house, a triangle flag hung outside the door, written on it was “Gynecology and divine physician”.

It must be this! The waiter knocked on the door, “Is doctor Wei home?”

Wei Cai Wei opened the door, the waiter told her about the customer who asked for her by name.

Wei Cai Wei didn’t want to go, she was thinking about how to make Wang Da Xia’s life good again, but she was already a suspect of the embroidered uniform guards, in order to avoid any exposure, she had to display a hardworking wandering doctor who just came to the city.

A wandering doctor who wasn’t famous couldn’t turn down work.

Wei Cai Wei put the tough bag onto her bag, putting on her cotton curtain hat, turning her tiger palm, “Let us go.”

Santong tavern, tian second room.

The waiter lightly knocked on the door, “Customer, doctor Wei is here.”

A woman’s soft and low voice came from the room, she sounded rather tired, “Let her in, the door isn’t locked.”

The waiter gave a flattering smile: “The tavern can take the prescription and brew it for the customer, you only need to give me a little money.”

Wang Da Xia choked out, “I understand, you can leave.”

The waiter left, Wei Cai Wei pushed the door open and entered, she saw the figure of a slender beauty under the window, she was immediately alarmed: She looks exactly like Wang Da Xia! But I never heard him say he has sisters?

“Quickly lock the door.” Wang Da Xia returned to his normal voice.

Wang Da Xia had suddenly changed, Wei Cai Wei had a bad premonition: This dead husband got a room and swindled me over, what on earth did he want to do!

It can’t be...to have an affair? This shameful guy!

Wang Da Xia said: “You are He family’s second young lady, in order to revenge your older sister, you killed old woman Wang, Chen daliang and Chen Qianhu, the three of them.”

Caught off guard and having her true identity exposed, it was like a bolt from the blue, fortunately Wei Cai Wei had the mentality of a fifty years old, she had experienced great changes, she had enough self-preservation, her heart was frenetic like a pot of boiling congee, she had an astonished expression on her face: “What delusions is Wang Ya Nei saying? Why are you dressed as a woman?”

Wang Da Xia failed in his first attempt to extract information, but he believed in his judgement, “Don’t pretend in front of me, I came to save you.”

Wang Da Xia told her about how the Commander Lu Bing of the embroidered uniform guards wanted him to help solve the cases, and he went to Huaqingqi casino to question Chen daliang’s study companion, the study companion spilled the scandal of what Chen daliang did to his former fiancee young lady He.

“...That very night we went to the west Sanlihe to find the accomplice old woman Wang, but discovered it just happened to be the seventh day after old woman Wang’s death. Today the embroidered uniform guards opened up the tomb of your He family, the coffins were opened for autopsy, they confirmed your older sister’s corpse had two lives, your coffin was empty.”

She didn’t expect her damned husband to help the embroidered uniform guards look into her! It really was a failure to recognise a familiar person, family not recognising family!

In this lifetime before they recognise each other as wife and husband, he’s ready to punish his own family!

Wei Cai Wei was about to explode on the inside, her mouth however continued to feign calmness: “I don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m called Wei Cai Wei, I come from Tieling, I have a household record as proof. If the embroidered uniform guards don’t believe me, they can send a pigeon with a letter to the Tieling military station, look into my background, my family background is very plain, there’s nothing stopping an investigation, don’t chase the wind and clutch at shadows, wrongly accusing a good person.”

“I saw the list of suspects in Lu Bing’s carriage.” Wang Da Xia firmly stared at Wei Cai Wei, “All the customers who had stayed at the tavern that night, only your age matches that of second young lady He, both of you are seventeen years old, there aren’t many single women who stay at taverns, most of them are middle aged married women with servants by their sides.”

“Let alone from the first day you entered the capital city, there were three continuous murder cases, is everything a coincidence? If I can think of it, the embroidered uniform guards can too, you’re the main suspect, right now you’re in a lot of danger.”

Wang Da Xia pointed outside the window, “Even though Lu Ying is a stubborn conservative, like an old pedant, he is meticulous and full of suspicion. Yesterday he acted like he was letting you go but actually sent someone to follow you, now all your movement is in his grasp, that’s why I didn’t dare to come find you, I directly put on makeup and pretend to be a woman, getting the waiter to invite you to the tavern to speak.”

Wei Cai Wei heard these things, saying to herself: This boy finally shows some intelligence like when he was Chief eunuch of Eastern Depot. 

Wei Cai Wei said: “I’m not second young lady He, you’re mistaken, even if the embroidered uniform guards question me again, even if they send someone to do a thorough check in Tieling, I wouldn’t be scared, there are a lot of people in my hometown who would vouch for me, even though I’m unknown and nameless in the capital, in Tieling, a lot of patients would often come to Xiangya mountain for treatment having heard of my reputation.”

Wang Da Xia hurriedly said: “It’s useless even if you’re a miracle doctor from Tieling! When has the embroidered uniform guards ever been reasoned with? Lu Ying is very aggressive, he wants to hurry up and solve the case to distinguish himself before Lord Lu. He’ll take you to the embroidered uniform guards prison, it’s infamous for interrogation by torture, even the strongest bones wouldn’t be able to withstand it, let alone a delicate and beautiful widow as you?”

“It doesn’t matter if you’re the culprit or not, whether you’re the second young lady He or not, if the embroidered uniform guards says you are, you will be.” He stumped Wei Cai Wei with this question.

She had confidence that she had left no evidence behind, there were no human testimony or material evidence.

However, the embroidered uniform guards didn’t care about proof, didn’t care to reason, and it wasn’t uncommon.

The embroidered uniform guards can really obtain confessions under torture, even if she gritted her teeth and didn’t confess, they could still get her bloody hand print on a confession.

Wang Da Xia took off the women’s clothes, “Let’s quickly change clothes, I’ll pretend to be you, take off your veiled hat, tiger palm, I’ll lure the ones watching away. You pretend to be me, take this key and check out, leave the city on my horse.”

“Hurry up and strip, when Lu Ying sends someone to arrest you, you won’t be able to leave.”

Wang Da Xia urged: “You’ve helped me a few times, take this as me paying you back...besides, if I was second young lady He, I would also kill all these bastards.”

“You have to leave now, you can’t go back to pack.” Wang Da Xia took out a banknote from his sleeve, “This is a banknote for five hundred silvers I have deposited at Santong bank, use it wisely, it should keep you fed and clothed for a lifetime.”

The author has something to say: Today Wang Ya Nei’s husband power is to the max. Wei Cai Wei came from the major city Tieling, at the start of Ming dynasty the emperor Hong Wu set up the Tieling military station there from the name, the same way Tianjin is called Tianjin military station. Wei Cai Wei lived on Tieling’s Xiangya mountain, that’s why, right now there ought to be the sound of fighting: My hometown, is at that station~~~so down to earth all of a sudden.

As for Wei Cai Wei’s stroke of luck in the last ten years in Northern China, I actually frantically hinted at the person she met, no one paid attention, but it doesn’t matter, I will slowly explain. Actually Tieling is a very obvious clue...