Lu Dynasty

Chapter 556 Clues

Just when the servant wanted to cover Liu Biao's face with cloth, Liu Pan suddenly noticed something strange about Liu Biao's corpse!Liu Pan was once sent by Liu Biao to fight Shanyue. He had seen the poisonous arrows used by the Shanyue people.Generally, people who died from poisoned arrows looked similar to Liu Biao, except that Liu Biao was even thinner.Although Cai Mao and Mrs. Cai had groomed Liu Biao's body, when the servants were covering Liu Biao with cloth, they removed some makeup powder from Liu Biao's face, revealing Liu Biao's livid face and ruddy lips!Originally Cai Mao said that Liu Biao died of illness, even if Liu Pan saw something wrong with Liu Biao's face, he would not care.How can a person who died of illness have a good face?But Liu Biao's lips are so ruddy!People who have been ill for a long time rarely have chapped lips. How can they have rosy lips?There will be no dead people with livid faces but red lips!In addition, Liu Pan had seen that a kind of poison from Shanyue could make people become like this, so he immediately suspected the cause of Liu Biao's death!

Liu Pan hurriedly called Liu Bei and Liu Qi, wanting them to determine the cause of Liu Biao's death.But Liu Bei and Liu Qi have never seen anyone who was poisoned to death by Shanyue's poison, how could they see it!Anxious Liu Pan didn't want Liu Biao's death to be unknown, but now it's Da Lian. After the coffin lid is nailed on, he wants to open the coffin for an autopsy, but it will be difficult!Liu Pan immediately wanted to stop the coffin being built and asked Liu Bei to preside over the investigation of the cause of Liu Biao's death!Liu Bei's behavior made Liu Bei very embarrassed. It wasn't that he didn't believe Liu Pan, but that Xiangyang City was full of Cai Mao's troops. If he really found out the cause of Liu Biao's death, he wouldn't want to leave Xiangyang City!This is not helping Liu Biao to find out the cause of death, but Cai Mao's desperation!
Liu Bei's embarrassed expression made Liu Pan think that Liu Bei didn't want to avenge Liu Biao. He grabbed Liu Bei by the collar and said, "Liu Xuande! You came to vote after you were defeated. How many people advised my uncle not to marry you, but my uncle regarded you as a family member." In order to take you in despite all the arguments, Xinye was given to you as a garrison, so that you are completely independent from our army! Now my uncle is killed by a villain, and you are indifferent to protect yourself! You are right My uncle?" Liu Pan's actions almost made Sha Moke and Wei Yan explode, and Liu Bei knew that his two younger brothers could not tolerate other people's disrespect to him, so he hurriedly waved his hand to stop it!

Why didn't Liu Bei want to prove that Liu Biao died of poisoning, so that he could use Liu Qi to control Jingzhou, and he would have a base.But now is not a good time to verify that Liu Biao died of poisoning.If he really verified that Liu Biao was poisoned to death, Cai Mao must be in a hurry!Liu Bei asked impromptuly, "Liu Pan, may you confirm that brother Jing Sheng died of poisoning and not of disease?" Liu Bei's question was nonsense, of course Liu Pan couldn't be sure.Liu Pan is not a doctor, he doesn't know what kind of disease Liu Biao is suffering from, and what are the symptoms of that disease, he just thinks that Liu Biao's symptoms seem to be poisoned by a kind of poison from Shanyue!Liu Pan shook his head, and Liu Bei said angrily, "You just let me inspect brother Jingsheng's body based on guesswork and doubts! Do you know that tampering with the dead body is disrespectful to the dead! Don’t understand?” Liu Pan was stunned by Liu Bei’s yelling, he demanded an autopsy without evidence, and even made a big fuss in the mourning hall to interrupt Da Lian, which is really disrespectful to the deceased!Moreover, with Liu Pan's character and mind, he couldn't see the real purpose of Liu Bei's opposition to the autopsy.Even Liu Pan felt a little ashamed that he wanted Liu Bei to believe him based on a little guesswork, but Liu Bei refused, and he even scolded him!
After the end of Da Lian, Liu Biao, as a prince, will have to stay for a while.Liu Pan, Liu Qi, and Liu Bei went back to Changsha, Jiangxia, and Xinye to handle military affairs respectively, and attended the funeral after Liu Biao was buried.However, the obvious is the case. In fact, both Liu Pan and Liu Qi were called back to Xinye by Liu Bei, and Liu Bei also suspected the cause of Liu Biao's death!When Liu Bei expressed his thoughts to Liu Qi and Liu Pan, Liu Pan immediately jumped up and said, "Mr. Xuande, since you believe my words and doubt the cause of uncle's death, why did you prevent me from performing an autopsy?"

Liu Bei glanced at Liu Pan and said, "Cai Mao deliberately concealed the cause of Brother Jing Sheng's death, so what can you find out in the autopsy? What can we find out? We all have to die in Xiangyang. Who will avenge Brother Jing Sheng? Besides, the autopsy Is it a good idea? I, Liu Bei, will be the first to object to anyone who dares to move brother Jing Sheng's body!"

Liu Pan sat back in his seat dejectedly. He looked at Liu Bei and asked, "Is that all? Do you want to hand over uncle's foundation to Cai Mao? I'm not reconciled!" Liu Pan clasped tightly. This 30-year-old The battle-tested general actually shed two lines of dissatisfied tears!
"Who said that's all?" Liu Bei stood up and said, "If Brother Jing Sheng was really killed, I, Liu Bei, will be the first to help him avenge him! Brother Jing Sheng has not yet repaid my kindness, how can I see it Let him die in vain? We can’t move Brother Jing Sheng’s body, won’t you arrest the doctor who treated Brother Jing Sheng and the waiter who served Brother Jing Sheng and torture him? Collect some medicine bowls that Brother Jing Sheng used, As long as the medicine jar has been filled with poison, there will definitely be residues! As long as we have evidence, we can clean up Cai Mao, which is better than your reckless autopsy! It’s okay to find out that it’s poisonous. Don't you want to apologize with death?"

Liu Pan looked at Liu Bei in surprise, he didn't expect this man who had been defeated repeatedly to have such wisdom.Liu Pan said in admiration: "Mr. Xuande is worthy of being a hero that my uncle valued. I can rest assured that Jingzhou will be entrusted to you!"

Liu Bei really wanted Jingzhou very much, but Liu Pan said so, he was worried that this was Liu Pan's temptation to him.Liu Bei smiled and said, "Jingzhou is brother Jingsheng's territory, and his son inherited his father's business. Now Mr. Liu Qi is still here. What you said seems to have the intention of invading Jingzhou. I, Liu Bei, swear here that if I have the intention of invading Jingzhou, Just let me..."

Before Liu Bei finished speaking, Liu Qi laughed and said, "Uncle, why bother to swear? You know that I don't like to care about trivial matters like my father, and my brother Liu Cong is young! No one cares about Jingzhou anyway. It's still better to trouble uncle, it's better for uncle to take the Jingzhou shepherd's position than someone else to take it!"

"No! No!" Liu Bei quickly refused, and Liu Pan smiled and said, "Mr. Xuande doesn't have to refuse. Uncle has long wanted to do so, but not many people know about it! Besides, Jingzhou is still in the hands of Cai Hao's thief, so we have to discuss it." It's too early! How about discussing the ownership of Jingzhou's shepherd after we bring Jingzhou back?" Liu Bei and Liu Qi also felt that it was too early to discuss these things now, and their top priority was to deal with Cai Mao!
(End of this chapter)