It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

Chapter 708: The Same Handwriting Reveals a Clue

In the evening, twenty carriages with the flags of the Ye family caravan entered Chang'an City in a mighty manner. The scene was also very spectacular. Recently, Ye Xueke made a lot of money and took on many royal errands. Naturally, he was rich and powerful. The common people did not dare to provoke him and avoided him.

Because Xu Henian and Mao Hongbin were informed early in the morning, they also arrived at Ye Xueke's house early. Xu Henian said that he needed manpower, so he asked Yang Xiankang to lend him more than ten servants. They were busy preparing yellow paper, cinnabar, compass, realgar and other things, and also arranged the candlelight and incense table, waiting for the arrival of the 5,000 porcelain figures that Ye Xueke had asked the craftsmen to make.

The female members of the family all stood at the back, including Cui Xi who came to watch the fun.

She also brought a number of maids and servants and stood in the corridor of the Ye family.

Ye Xueke also knew that Cui Xi's status was different from other family heads, and he was thinking about whether he should kowtow to her or something. However, Yang Xiankang said that it was unnecessary and asked him to concentrate on doing today's work.

Dusk fell and the sky became completely dark.

The Ye family lit the lamps, and the surroundings were bright.

The weather was getting colder, and the maidservants around Cui Xi put on thick coats. However, Cui Xi, who was skilled in martial arts, only wore a padded robe and gave the hand heater to the maidservants.

However, everyone's attention was on Xu Henian at this time.

He watched carefully as the Ye family's servants and domestic servants unloaded the boxes of porcelain figurines from the truck. These porcelain figurines were only half the length of an arm and were neatly stacked in wooden boxes. The inside was padded with rags to prevent them from being bumped during transportation.

Xu Henian ordered everyone to take out the porcelain figures one by one and put them in the middle of the yard, because he still had to check whether they were qualified. There were men, women, old and young, all of them were lifelike, and their names and birth dates were burned on their backs according to his instructions.

Five thousand porcelain figures are indeed spectacular.

I guess it must have taken a lot of manpower and resources to make it. It took Ye Xueke some skills to complete it in three days.

He was indeed quite proud. Standing next to the porcelain figurine with his hands behind his back, he said to Xu Henian, "Master Xu, you can rest assured that the quality of this porcelain figurine must be first-rate. I, Ye Xueke, can guarantee that the products of my Ye family must be the best."

"Where are these birth characters?" Xu Henian lowered his head to look again, and summoned Mao Hongbin and his guards to come over and check together.

"Don't worry, although I wrote it randomly, there is absolutely no repetition. This matter concerns the lives of my family, how dare I treat it as a joke? I have checked it all, and specially asked the craftsman to write it down one by one."

"There's only one master?" Mao Hongbin was amazed at the porcelain figures. "They are really beautiful."

"Yes." Ye Xueke's smile widened. "I have a craftsman who is very skilled. In order to avoid mistakes, he wrote all the birth dates and horoscopes himself this time."

"Then he has worked really hard." Mao Hongbin nodded and followed Xu Henian.

"The color is also good, very bright. This cinnabar red seems to be something I have never seen before, but what new pigment was used?" Yang Xiankang also came over and rubbed the lips of a female porcelain figure to reveal a bit of cinnabar.

Cui Xi even raised her eyebrows.

"That's a color specially formulated by our Ye family's craftsmen. It's an exclusive secret recipe that only we have. It makes your lips look a little red and your cherries look like honey." Ye Xueke said this in a frivolous tone, and Cui Xi's face became even darker.

Xu Henian did not speak, but picked up each porcelain figure carefully. After carefully examining them, he put some of them back in their original places, and picked out some and asked Mao Hongbin to hold them. When Mao Hongbin could not hold them anymore, he asked his servants to hold them. In a blink of an eye, he actually picked out seven or eight pieces. Mao Hongbin suddenly turned around and placed the porcelain figures on the incense table while holding them. The servants quickly followed and placed the porcelain figures flat on the table. The key point is that they made the porcelain figures face down, with only the words on the back showing.

Immediately, Mao Hongbin took out a cloth bag from his arms, unfolded it, and took out one or two pieces of broken porcelain and compared them with the handwriting on the back of the porcelain figure.

It was this action that caused Ye Xueke's face to change drastically, and he asked repeatedly, "What happened?"

"What do you think?" Mao Hongbin raised his head and stood up straight, while the guards beside him had already drawn their swords and pointed them at each other.

"I don't know, I know nothing!" Ye Xueke was very nervous and shouted.

Because of this change, the women of the Ye family also screamed in panic, and the scene was a bit chaotic. However, Cui Xi, who was standing with them at this time, had already taken action and pinned Ye Xueke's wife Yu to the ground. Several maids around her also took action to control the others.

However, the maid holding the hand warmer kept backing away, and a tall man stood in front of her to protect her.

Seeing that the situation was under control, Xu Henian came over with another porcelain figurine, picked out a piece of porcelain from Mao Hongbin's cloth bag and put them together, sighed and said, "It's really well made, it's even exactly the same!"

Mao Hongbin also lowered his head to take another look, and shouted at Ye Keke in a deep voice: "At this point, what else do you have to say? The handwriting on your porcelain figurine is exactly the same as the words hidden in the Ruyi porcelain bottle in the Pingyang Palace!"

The cloth bag of Mao Hongbin was the broken porcelain pieces they had found from the Pingyang Palace. It was related to Liu Cong's death, and this matter was also kept secret. Many people from the Shaoying Group secretly found it and handed it to Mao Hongbin. Cao Zheng was thoughtful and also picked up most of the fragments of one of the porcelain bottles and pieced them together carefully.

The pattern on this porcelain vase is a man and a woman having sex, which looks extremely indecent. Liu Cong placed them in the harem, thinking that he would have some fun with his women. Unexpectedly, one day a beauty accidentally broke one of them, and the words on the inner wall were revealed, which turned out to be Liu Cong's birth date.

This is an extremely vicious witchcraft curse.

Liu Cong was already very suspicious, and his mental state became increasingly abnormal.

Seeing this, his blood rushed to his head and he fainted.

His attendant Wang Shen smashed quite a few of them and saw that some of them contained Liu Cong's birth date and horoscope, which clearly indicated that they were cursing him.

Without waiting for Liu Cong to wake up, Wang Shen immediately ordered the imperial guards to kill all the suppliers and the eunuch in charge of purchasing. He also charged them with treason and executed their entire family.

The person in charge of purchasing was Xiao Yi's sworn brother Fang Zhishen.

There was chaos outside the palace, and there was chaos inside the palace.

Because Liu Cong died unexpectedly.

He had not even arranged for his successor, nor had he sorted out many things. Although Wang Shen and others had been in charge of the government for some time, they were all doing it under Liu Cong's nod. His sudden death made these people panic and confused.

However, it was precisely because of this that Liu Yao was elected as the emperor.