After transmigrating into the book, I helped my mother reconcile with her divorced husband.

Lu Yun flipped through the entire file in his hand but found no record related to it. There was a record about the armor, which stated that the armor was intact, without any marks of swords or hidden weapons. There was bloodstains on the armor near the neck, suggesting that the victim may have died from a neck injury or broken neck.

"The theory of a neck injury is reasonable, but how did they deduce that he died from a broken neck?" Lu Yun held the dossier: "Based on the area of ​​the armor stained with blood? It's not written there."

"The Temple of the Hanging Neck General, 'hanging neck' refers to hanging by the neck, but many villagers are illiterate and mistakenly interpret 'hanging neck' as 'dropping the neck.'" Han Ting reached out and wiped Lu Yun's neck: "In addition to the rumors related to the general's death, they subconsciously believed that it was the general's ghost, or that the murderer had cut off those people's heads."

"You have quite a vivid imagination."

"It's not that they have a vivid imagination, but the scene was indeed eerie."

Han Ting clapped his hands, and an attendant entered, carrying a piece of armor from the previous dynasty. Lu Zhiyuan was unsurprised, but Lu Yun's eyes widened as he picked up the armor.

"As expected of Chief Han, where did you get this?"

“It was dug up from a grave to the north.”

"Grave... The leader of the number one gang in the world actually dug up someone else's grave? Han Ting, you've really made something of yourself." Lu Yun gave a thumbs up: "Tell me, whose grave did you dig up? Were there any burial goods or anything? Were they valuable? We're brothers, it's not unreasonable to split them in half when we meet, right?"

“Don’t listen to his nonsense. This armor must have belonged to General Zhenyuan before his death.” Lu Zhiyuan took another sip of tea. “General Zhenyuan had a lieutenant who lost both legs to the enemy while saving him. He was a skilled commander and general; if he hadn’t been so inexperienced, he could have been promoted to general based on his military achievements. Without his legs, he couldn’t fight on the battlefield, so General Zhenyuan kept him in the army as a strategist. Three years later, the strategist, who was also the lieutenant’s family member, wrote to him, saying that they had found him a marriage and that he should return home to get married. Before parting, General Zhenyuan gave him the armor he had worn in battle.”

Han Ting added, "He lied to General Zhenyuan. In fact, he had his family write the letter. During his three years in the army, he was of limited help to General Zhenyuan and always felt that he was a burden to the army. He had dignity and pride, but he couldn't bear to let the general down and make him feel guilty about his legs. So, he wrote a letter to his family behind the general's back, using the excuse of going home to get married to leave the army and the general in a dignified manner."

Lu Yun asked, "Is he married?"

Han Ting flicked his head: "Of course we got married, otherwise how would this armor have been passed down and ended up in my hands?"

Lu Yun touched the armor, which showed obvious signs of wiping and repair: "His wife must have been an excellent person."

Han Ting nodded: "They were neighbors. When the deputy general joined the army, she was just a little girl. She liked him, she had liked him since she was a child, and she turned down the marriage arranged for her by her parents, waiting wholeheartedly for him to return. When he returned, he had transformed from a dashing young general into a young man in a wheelchair, with limited mobility and a sullen personality. She didn't ask him why he came back, nor did she ask about his legs. She just chattered away in front of him as before, making all sorts of noise. She didn't treat him as someone with limited mobility, and she didn't order him around all the time. Gradually, his personality changed, as if he had returned to his former self."

Lu Yun looked at Lu Zhiyuan: "I understand. Madam said that the worst thing for a patient is for others to treat him as a patient. It may seem like concern, but it is actually a reminder that he is different from the past. If you treat him as a normal person, he will forget his illness and his pain, and live like a truly healthy person."

Han Ting did not refute, and continued, "A year later, they got married. Another year passed, and they had a child. The deputy general opened a martial arts academy in his hometown, teaching children from all around the area military strategy and martial arts. His wife, father, mother, and even his in-laws would come to help at the academy. His descendants also served in the military, becoming deputy generals just like him back then. This suit of armor was originally hanging in the main hall of the academy. When they learned that I wanted to investigate what happened back then, and that the person in charge of the investigation was a descendant of General Xie, they gave me this suit of armor."

"After all that talk, you still haven't said what you want this armor for." Lu Yun circled around the armor in place: "You don't mean to use the folk method of summoning the soul, do you? It is said that the clothes worn by a person in life retain their spirit, and by summoning them, one can ask about their life and death."

“Miss said there are no ghosts in the world!” Han Ting spread the armor on the table: “I brought the armor here so you can see what the armor of the previous dynasty looked like, so you won’t talk nonsense here.”

Compared to the armor of the Northern Liang, the armor of the previous dynasty was more complex in its craftsmanship and extremely cumbersome to wear. General Zhenyuan's military achievements were earned through his own hard work, with each spear, sword, and arrow. Unlike those generals with powerful backgrounds, he disliked being taken care of and, except when injured or unconscious, he did everything himself, including putting on and taking off his armor.

General Zhenyuan was left-handed and habitually used his left hand to do things. The knots he tied were also different from those of ordinary people.

Lu Yun said, "That's natural. The knots tied with the left hand are in different directions than those tied with the right hand."

Lu Zhiyuan closed her eyes: "That's the strange thing about it! The knots on the armor of the soldiers who died in the General's Temple were all tied with their left hands, and none of them were left-handed. They were resting in the General's Temple and then disappeared, leaving behind only dozens of suits of armor, which still looked like the ones the soldiers wore. Apart from ghosts and monsters, they can't think of anyone else in the world who could make the scene so bizarre."

"A torrential rain fell, and the general and soldiers responsible for transporting the provisions split into two groups. One group hid under the tarpaulin and disappeared along with the provisions. The other group hid in the general's temple and also disappeared. They were better off than the group that hid under the tarpaulin, as they left behind their armor. There were no signs of a struggle at the scene, and the nearby villagers did not hear or see anything. Apart from the possibility of ghosts, there was really no other explanation."

"Yes!" Han Ting took out a bottle of bone-dissolving water: "If you kill a person, you can use this water to dissolve the body. If it rains heavily at night, it can both cover up the smell and wash away the corpse water. No one will know, and even ghosts won't notice."

"Impossible!" Lu Zhiyuan denied Han Ting's statement without even looking at it: "I have all the bone-dissolving water in the martial arts world. It's impossible to make something disappear without a trace as described in the case file, especially when wearing armor. It's even more impossible to turn all the bones into water. Even if it were possible, it would still stain or seep into the armor and the clothes inside. The coroners in the county yamen aren't stupid. With so many people, they could smell it. They could easily find the reason by simply removing a piece of armor. Why would they write 'unsolved case' in the county yamen's case file?"

"What does Miss think...?"

"The dossier is fake. The government knew the truth but did not write it down for some reason. They also deliberately used the death of General Zhenyuan to confuse the public and released those statements related to ghosts and monsters."

"What is the reason you mentioned, Miss?"

"The disappearance of the general and soldiers is a hoax, a complete conspiracy and plan." Feeling a bit uncomfortable lying down, Lu Zhiyuan stood up, wrapped in her clothes. "They were the ones responsible for transporting the military rations, and they were also the ones who stole them. Soldiers are thieves, and thieves are soldiers; naturally, they can get away with it without anyone noticing."