Don't mess with the stupid concubine

Chapter 268: The Man in the Coffin! 3
"Then what are you waiting for, sister, let's chase them out. Although they have left the city gate, they must not be far away with so many family members."

"Don't be reckless..." Caiyi stopped Xiaocui and said, "So what if you catch up? Can you search again? Even if you can search again, what if you still can't find it?"

"This... ouch, this doesn't work, that doesn't work, so let's just watch the old guy take that traitor Shangguanze away from the capital and let him get away with it?"

Sima Chu and Taichu looked at each other, but lost their mind for a while...

When Caiyi, who was in deep thought, glanced at Sima Chu from the corner of his eye, he suddenly asked, "Your Majesty, when did your clothes get such a big tear?"

"Is there? Why don't I know?"

"Not the front, but the back..."

Sima Chu turned around to look, and sure enough, he found a half-foot-long slit in the robe on his back.

After thinking about it carefully: "I don't know when the torn clothes..."

Caiyi said: "Your Majesty, is the place where the clothes were slashed, the place where you bumped into the jade coffin just now?"

Sima Chu suddenly realized: "That's right, I used the position of my back to knock open the lid of the jade coffin. Could it be that the queen still has doubts about the coffin?"

Caiyi said: "It's not suspicion, it's certainty..."

Taichu said: "Affirmative? Empress, you mean that Shangguanze was hiding in that coffin. Just when the emperor knocked open the coffin, it was Shangguanze who tried to assassinate the emperor with a dagger in the coffin, but unexpectedly You missed it and only scratched the emperor's clothes?"

Xiaocui said: "No, if Shangguanze is in the coffin, why was there no sign of Shangguanze when the coffin was opened?"

Sima Chu said: "Could it be that the queen suspects that Shangguan Ze used his internal force to cling to the bottom of the coffin lid, so we only saw the general's wife in the coffin, but not the person hiding under the lid?"

Xiaocui clapped her hands together and said, "That's right! Why didn't we think of this! Shangguanze must be attached to the bottom of the coffin lid!"

But Caiyi said: "No, the jade coffin is finely crafted and has a smooth surface. It is impossible to hold a person's weight by holding the smooth lid with both palms."

When everyone heard this, they were all confused by Caiyi again...

Caiyi said: "The emperor's clothes were not made by Shangguanze, but were scratched by the opening on the side of the coffin after the lid of the jade coffin was knocked open..."

"The hole in the coffin wall?" Sima Chu thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "I know, the whole body of the jade coffin is smooth and round, but there is a hole on the side of the coffin, it must have been deliberately opened by the old general." The gap in the coffin has only one purpose, which is to prevent the people inside from being suffocated when the coffin lid is closed!"

Xiaocui immediately said: "Wow, what are you talking about, your majesty, don't be petty about me, the woman in the coffin, her face is pale, she can tell that she has been dead for many years, how can she breathe? Could it be... Could it be?" Is she a living dead?"

Speaking of this, Taichu had already fully understood: "What the empress means... Shangguanze was hiding in that coffin, and it was placed under his dead mother's body!"

Caiyi and Sima Chu almost said in unison: "That's right! Chase!"

Sooner or later, several young people ran out of the General's Mansion one after another, jumped on their horses one by one, reined in the horse's head, and quickly chased in the direction of the north gate...

(End of this chapter)