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Chapter 79 Death is not a pity
In front of Cao Tianbao, Zhu Yu asked Cao Chenfeng to wear a sword, and what this meant was obvious.

The Jingzhao Yin glanced at Cao Tianbao cautiously, feeling worried for this little official in the Xiaoyao Palace.

Cao Tianbao looked at his nephew with a fierce face, his eyes fell on the sword at his waist, as if a storm was about to come.

Cao Chenfeng gritted his teeth, slowly took out his sword from his waist and handed it to Zhu Yu.

Zhu Yu took it, pulled out the knife, and shook his head slightly.

The blade of this knife is too wide. It is not the one that stabbed Zhuang Lanlan to death.

Cao Chenfeng kept his eyes on Zhu Yu. When he saw her pull out the knife and shake her head, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"General, this knife is not a murder weapon." Zhu Yu told Cao Tianbao truthfully.

Jingzhao Yin wiped his forehead and was about to speak to find a way out for Cao Chenfeng, when Zhuang Zhi on the other side suddenly jumped up and said, "Sir! This sir!

Of course, that knife was not the weapon that killed my daughter! Because when I found my daughter dead, the knife was stuck in her body and had not been pulled out!
The knife should still be in the government office, so how could it be hanging on Cao Chenfeng's body? "

The veins on Cao Tianbao's forehead were bulging. Although his voice was filled with anger, he was quite restrained. He waved his hand and said to the Jingzhao Yin, "Master Wu, send someone to fetch the murder weapon.

This sword is not the one my nephew usually carries.

The sword he carried with him every day was a gift from me. He never took it off in the past, but now he suddenly replaced it with such a broken sword for no apparent reason. Even I, his uncle, felt that something was wrong.

I, Cao Tianbao, have spent most of my life fighting on the battlefield, living on the edge of a knife and licking blood, but no one has ever died in vain in my hands, and I have never killed an innocent person by mistake.

If Zhuang Lanlan's death is really related to my incompetent nephew, I, Cao Tianbao, will never tolerate it in the slightest!
Go and get the murder weapon!"

Since he said so, what else could the Jingzhao Yin do? He had to turn around and order someone to take the knife that was stuck in the corpse.

Zhu Yu looked at General Cao in surprise, but his reaction made her feel a little admiration for him.

I thought that if such a powerful general who assisted the country deliberately wanted to protect his nephew, he could have taken advantage of the situation to cover up the matter and help Cao Chenfeng get away with it when he said that the blade on his sword did not match that on Zhuang Lanlan's body.

Unexpectedly, he did not protect his relatives at all, and even seemed to want to sacrifice his own family for the sake of justice.

Cao Tianbao seemed to sense Zhu Yu's gaze and looked at her again: "What else did you see in there just now?"

Zhu Yu shook his head and said, "General, I'm sorry I can't answer you right now. We can only make a judgment after we retrieve the murder weapon."

This statement was a bit of a warning to Cao Tianbao, but Cao Tianbao didn't seem to mind. He didn't ask any more questions, but just stared at Cao Chenfeng fiercely, as if he wanted to cut a piece of flesh out of him with his eyes. Cao Chenfeng didn't dare to look back at his uncle, and could only kneel on the ground and tremble.

Zhu Yu didn't know what Cao Chenfeng's behavior was like in his daily life, but based on what this guy had done, regardless of whether he was the one who killed Zhuang Lanlan, it was obvious that Cao Tianbao had made a wrong bet by wanting to support such a nephew to prop up the Cao family.

After a while, the yamen runners from Jingzhao Prefecture brought over the sword that was pulled out from Zhuang Lanlan's chest, along with the scabbard.

The knife indeed looked much better than the one hanging on Cao Chenfeng's waist just now. Even Zhu Yu, who knew little about weapons, could tell at a glance that the knife the yamen runner brought was definitely a good one.

I saw that the lion-head ring-handled sword was exquisitely carved, with pearls and jade embedded in it, and there was a faintly visible word "Cao" on it. The sword guard was inlaid with gold, and the blade and the back of the sword were double-edged, looking cold and shining, and the Yanchi-shaped tip of the sword was slightly curved.

Zhu Yu took the sword from the yamen runner's hand, which could be hung around his waist as a grand ornament or drawn out as a handy killing weapon, and examined it carefully in his hand.

When Cao Tianbao saw the knife, the rage in his eyes almost burst out. He suppressed his rage and asked the yamen runner, "Is this the knife that was stuck in the woman's body?"

"Yes..." the yamen runner answered tremblingly, "The knife was stuck in the woman's body, and the scabbard was thrown aside. We collected them all..."

"Nonsense!" Cao Tianbao was so angry that his beard was shaking. He pointed at Cao Chenfeng, who looked as pale as death, and said to Jingzhao Yin, "You are just fooling around!
I had a craftsman forge that sword for him when he was a young man. It has the mark of my Cao family's name on it. Can you really not see it?!
I, Cao Tianbao, am upright and have never done anything to abuse my power or bend the law!
Are you trying to put me in an unfair position?!"

"No, uncle! I really didn't kill Zhuang Lanlan! Uncle, I was wronged!" Cao Chenfeng heard that Cao Tianbao's words clearly meant to sacrifice his own family for the sake of justice, so he quickly knelt and crawled in front of him, "I swear to God, I really didn't kill anyone!"

"You!" Cao Tianbao didn't expect that Cao Chenfeng was still denying it at this point. He couldn't suppress his anger any longer, so he pulled out the horsewhip from his waist and swung it at Cao Chenfeng.

He was not just pretending. Not only was the whip in his hand raised high, but it also came down with great force. When the whip hit Cao Chenfeng, the sound alone made Zhu Yu's heart tremble.

Cao Chenfeng was whipped hard by his uncle and screamed in pain. A blood mark instantly appeared on the thin fabric of his clothes.

Cao Tianbao stood there with his eyes wide open, like a furious King Kong. The blood mark on Cao Chenfeng's body was not enough to eliminate his anger. He raised the whip again, and it passed through the air like a flash of lightning and landed on Cao Chenfeng.

Cao Chenfeng was beaten so hard that he rolled on the ground in great pain. In a short while, his body was covered with wounds. The blood and dust on the ground mixed together, forming a black and red mass. He looked extremely miserable.

Zhu Yu didn't want to be innocently implicated by Cao Tianbao's angry whip, so while they were fighting, he went around to the side, put the knife in a sunny place to dry, and stood guard by.

"Old General! Old General, you can't do this! Stop it now!" Jingzhao Yin couldn't bear to watch it any longer and hurried forward to pull him away. "If you keep beating him like this, you'll be dead in a moment!"

"He is violating morals and killing people. He deserves death!" Cao Tianbao said angrily.

"Uncle... I am innocent... innocent! I really didn't kill Zhuang Lanlan... Even if... even if you beat me to death today, I can't admit to something I didn't do..." Cao Chenfeng was really beaten half to death at this moment, and he didn't even have the strength to speak. But even so, he still refused to admit to killing Zhuang Lanlan.

(End of this chapter)