Chapter 52: Exposing

In history, Cao Pi used Cao Cao's funeral to make a big fuss and eliminate dissidents. Especially for the brothers who did not come to attend Cao Cao's funeral, Cao Pi was punishing him a lot.

The more famous one is Cao Zhi, who was blamed by Cao Pi for not attending Cao Cao's funeral. Finally, he relied on Qibu Chengshi and Mrs. Bian's plea to save his life.

Speaking of Cao Cao's death, he shouldn't even attend the funeral when he was a son. Cao Zhi is a well-read person and is even more aware of etiquette and filial piety. He shouldn't even attend Cao Cao's funeral. So there is a big trick in this.

Now, Cao Cao died of illness in Xudu. At this time, Cao Zhi had not been named King of Chenliu and was also in Xudu City, so Cao Pi did not find this opportunity to rectify Cao Zhi.

Cao Cao's funeral was held very grandly, and it lasted for more than a month to complete. Fortunately, it was winter and the weather was relatively cold. Hua Tuo dealt with the body. Otherwise, if it was hot, the body might have rotted long ago.

When Cao Pi thought of Xu Chu Zhongyong, he posthumously named Xu Chu the Hou Mou Township Hou and specially buried Xu Chu next to Cao Cao. Xu Chu's son Xu Yi was also named Guannei Hou.

After Cao Cao's funeral was finished, Hua Tuo finally breathed a sigh of relief. Unlike ordinary doctors, Hua Tuo is a surgeon who is proficient in dissection. So when dealing with Xu Chu's body, although Xu Chu's body had been burned to black, Hua Tuo still found that there was not much smoke and ash in Xu Chu's instrument tube and lungs, which means that Xu Chu was not smoked or burned to death, but that the surrounding area began to catch fire after death.

Then, the careful Hua Tuo discovered that there was a wound wounded by a sharp blade on Xu Chu's chest. Because Xu Chu's body was cleaned from the ruins, it was not surprising that there were wounds on his body. However, if there was no ashes in Xu Chu's trachea and lungs, Hua Tuo immediately thought that Xu Chu was killed by someone piercing his chest with a sharp weapon. In order to cause the illusion that Xu Chu was burned to death, the murderer set a fire to burn the house where the accident was.

Under normal circumstances, Hua Tuo might tell the government and Xu Chu's family about this matter, but Cao Cao was also killed with Xu Chu. Thinking of the strange fire in the Prime Minister's Mansion, I don't know how many tricks there are in it, so this matter cannot be treated as a general criminal case at all.

Hua Tuo is not a fool. Although the doctor's conscience told Hua Tuo that he could not hide this matter, in order to save his life, Hua Tuo still wisely chose to remain silent.

For many days, Hua Tuo's heart has been hanging, and his conscience has been condemned. Finally, Cao Cao and Xu Chu have been buried, and Hua Tuo's heart has also been relieved. At this time, Hua Tuo was ready to bury this matter forever in the long river of history and never be exposed.

Because of knowing this big secret, Hua Tuo felt unable to sleep at night. Hua Tuo was afraid that the mastermind would kill him to silence him. Finally, after Cao Cao's funeral was finished, Hua Tuo decided to leave Xu Du, a place of right and wrong and never come back.

When Cao Pi heard that Hua Tuo was leaving, Cao Pi politely tried to keep him. However, when he saw that Hua Tuo insisted on leaving, Cao Pi no longer tried to keep him. He rewarded Hua Tuo with some gold and silver, and asked Hua Tuo to leave.

At the gate of Xudu City, Hua Tuo looked back at the high Xudu City Wall, and a hint of emotion arose in his heart. His experience in the past few months was really like a dream. He first helped Guan Yu scrape his bones and heal his wounds, then helped Cao Cao open a craniotomy and treat his illness, and then discovered the shocking secret of Xu Chu's death.

When Hua Tuo thought of Xu Chu, a hint of uneasiness arose in his heart. After all, he knew that Xu Chu was killed, but he chose to remain silent because he was afraid of the mastermind behind it. This was completely inconsistent with Hua Tuo's past style.

"Oh..." Hua Tuo sighed. He was old and brave. Hua Tuo shook his head helplessly, turned around and walked forward.

"Doctor Hua! Please stay!" A voice came from behind Hua Tuo.

Hua Tuo turned around and found that behind him was Xu Yi, the son of Xu Chu.

"Doctor Hua, please stay!" Xu Yi took the lead to Hua Tuo and said, "Doctor Hua, thanks to you these days. If it weren't for you, my father wouldn't have left so peacefully. Please accept my Xu Yi's worship!"

After Xu Yi finished speaking, he bent to Hua Tuo, and Hua Tuo quickly stepped forward to help Xu Yi up, and said with his mouth: "General Xu, you must not be able to use it, kill me!"

Looking at Xu Yi's sincere smile, Hua Tuo sighed again.

"Why did Doctor Hua sigh? But what difficulties did he encounter? If Doctor Hua has any difficulties, just say that as long as I, Xu Yi, can help me, Xu Yi will definitely die." Xu Yi asked.

"I..." Hua Tuo opened his mouth and then held back.

Seeing that Hua Tuo wanted to speak but stopped, Xu Yi knew that Hua Tuo must have something to do, so Xu Yi patted her chest and said, "Doctor Hua, just say anything if you have something to do. I, Xu Yi, will definitely try every means to help you!"

Seeing Xu Yi's sincere smile, Hua Tuo gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, General Xu, I will tell you about this. When General Xu Chu died a few days ago, I had contacted General Xu Chu's body, and I found that there was no ashes in General Xu Chu's body."

"There is no ashes in my father's body, so what?" Xu Yi obviously knew nothing about medicine.

"General Xu, listen to me, usually those who are burned to death will definitely inhale a lot of dust and ashes. General Xu Chu's body did not have ashes, which means General Xu Chu did not inhale ashes. General Xu, please think about why there were no ashes in General Xu Chu's body?"

"Why?" Xu Yi asked directly without thinking.

Seeing Xu Yi like this, Hua Tuo had to open the skylight and say: "General Xu, please think about it, if everyone is dead, how can he inhale the ashes!"

"Oh, what Doctor Hua said!" Xu Yi nodded, and then immediately realized the meaning of Hua Tuo's words.

"Doctor Hua, are you saying that my father was not burned to death! He was already dead before the fire?"

Hua Tuo nodded, and Xu Yi finally understood.

"Later, I checked General Xu Chu's body and found that there was a consistency on General Xu Chu's chest, which was a sharp blade that penetrated directly into the chest!"

"Ah!" Xu Yi took a breath of air. Xu Yi did not doubt what Hua Tuo said at all. At this time, Xu Yi's mind was already in chaos.

"General Xu, I'm done with my words. I'm going to say goodbye first!" Hua Tuo nodded at Xu Yi, turned around and left, leaving only Xu Yi standing there blankly.

Unexpectedly, Xu Chu was killed! But with Xu Chu's martial arts, how many people in the world can kill him!

Xu Yi was a man who was not easy to study since childhood, and was young, and was not very sensitive to political issues. At this time, Xu Yi did not think of what role Cao Pi played in the middle. There was an idea in Xu Yi's mind that his father was killed, and he should tell Cao Pi and let him find out that the murderer surrounded him and avenged him.

Prime Minister's Office, conference hall.

At this time, Cao Pi was discussing affairs with the civil and military ministers in the hall. After Cao Cao's death, Hua Xin and others submitted a petition to Emperor Xian, asking Emperor Xian to make Cao Pi the Prime Minister, and Emperor Xian also agreed. Although Cao Pi had been in charge of the country for several years, when he truly took over Cao Cao's power, he was still a little frivolous. Fortunately, there were Chen Qun, Hua Xin, and Xiahou Dun, Cao Zhen and others in the literature, and Sima Yi, a versatile civil and military talent, Cao Pi stabilized the situation for a while.

"Sir, you want to seek justice for your father!" Crying sounds came from outside the hall. Everyone looked outside and found Xu Yi running in crying.

Xu Yi came to the hall, knelt in the middle and cried loudly, and at the same time he snorted: "My father died injustice, the Prime Minister must avenge my father!"

"Xu Yi, if you have something to do, come on slowly!" Cao Pi said.

"Prime Minister, my father was not burned to death. He lost his body after being killed!" Xu Yi said crying.

After hearing Xu Yi's words, Cao Pi felt a little relieved, and then forced himself to calm down and asked, "How do you say this?"

"Prime Minister, this is true. Hua Tuo once inspected his father's body and found a fatal injury on his father's chest, which was a sharp blade!"

"Well, there is nothing strange about this. Maybe it was because the house collapsed and was injured by broken wood, shingles and stones!" Cao Pi felt guilty and quickly made up his mind.

"But Doctor Hua also said that there was no dust and ashes in my father's chest!" Xu Yi continued.

There are many capable and strange people present, and there are also many people who are a little versatile in medical skills. At this time, everyone understood that there was no dust and ashes in Xu Chu's chest, which means that Xu Chu was killed and burned his body!

Cao Pi's face slightly sank. At this moment, Cao Pi kept scolding Hua Tuo, who was meddling in his heart. But on the surface, Cao Pi still pretended to be surprised and began to say, "This is actually the case! This matter must be thoroughly investigated!"

After saying that, Cao Pi looked at Sima Yi in the hall, and then said, "Zhongda, this matter will be left to you to handle. You must check this matter clearly!"

"I accept the order!" Sima Yi stood up and spoke.

Sima Yi understood the whole process of this matter. At this time, Sima Yi understood that Cao Pi's move was to try every means to smooth the matter out. At the same time, Sima Yi also knew that since this matter was brought up, it might not be so easy to smooth out.

Late at night, Sima Yi’s mansion.

Cao Pi secretly came to Sima Yi's home. Sima Yi immediately invited Cao Pi to the secret room.

"Zhongda, you should understand what to do about this matter!" Cao Pi said.

"I understand, don't worry, Prime Minister."

"Well, there is also that Hua Tuo, arrest me, find a suitable opportunity to give him..." Cao Pi said, making a move to wipe his neck.

"As for orders, it's just the Prime Minister. I'm not worried about anything else. But if the incident today reaches the third prince's ears, it's probably a little wrong!"
Chapter completed!