"Mad man, that eunuch is a mad man! Ugh!"
As Brother Yun was talking, he suddenly started vomiting uncontrollably. He pointed at the door and shouted, "Get out! Get out! I don't want to see you."
…
Baili Xin propped up his cheek and looked at the bleak scene outside.
It is now the next morning. The weather is not good today. There are dark clouds in the distance and evil winds are raging. It feels like a storm is about to come.
Last night he and Dijia listened to the conversation together. At the end, Hu Mei ran out crying, leaving Brother Yun alone in the room sighing.
Judging from the content of their conversation, Hu Mei and Yun Ge were lovers. After Hu Mei was sold to the wealthy Mr. Li by her parents, in order to be able to stay with Yun Ge forever, she simply asked Li Caizhu to take Yun Ge in.
People should have a period of happy days at the beginning. At least during that carefree period, Rich Man Li did not whip or abuse Brother Yun.
Later, the truth of the matter was revealed and discovered by the wealthy Mr. Li.
This led to the subsequent abuse.
But is it really that simple
When Brother Yun said at the end that Mr. Li was a madman, he always felt that there was something he hadn't said.
Although Dijia said last night that he wanted to stay for the night, he was just talking big. In reality, he left after sending Baili Xin away.
Haha, you coward.
In my mind, I started to take out all these scattered fragments of clues and let them run in a circle.
Tragic death, eunuch, beast bite, fox hair, portrait, eighteenth concubine, grave…
As he thought about it, he opened the taskbar.
Mission 1: Survive 55 nights. (Ongoing: 11 nights/55 nights)
Mission 2: Find the murderer of Mr. Li and the truth behind his death. (In progress: Progress 5)
The time in the right corner was already 11 noon, and a man walked up to Baili Xin respectfully, "Master Xin, it's time to go to the front hall for dinner."
Baili Xinke was sitting lazily by the window, his arm resting on the window frame. The window frame was half open. He was wearing a lake blue robe and jacket, and he looked as warm as the moon in the water.
The servant took a quick look and immediately buried his head in his neck with a red face.
It's really strange. Miss Xin looked like this before, but why do I feel like something is weird when I see him now
It's really not strange.
It's just very charming.
Although Miss Xin's gaze was still timid, he felt that there was something particularly bright in those timid eyes.
Before it was like a rabbit, now it is like a fox.
It's very tempting.
The servant swallowed secretly and raised his head secretly, only to see that Baili Xin had turned around at some point and was looking at him leisurely.
There seemed to be a sea of stars flowing in her watery eyes, and one look at her seemed to suck her soul in.
He stared at her for a second, his legs trembled and he hurriedly took a few steps back, his face flushed and he said, "Xin, Miss Xin."
Baili Xin leaned against the soft golden nanmu couch, looking down at the boy in front of him, "Raise your head."
The servant's neck shrank, but he still raised his head obediently.
"I have lost my memory. You should know this, right?" Baili Xin looked at the servant in front of him. "I don't remember you. Are you the servant who serves me or one of the servants in another room?"
The servant's eyes were sunken into Baili Xin's. Those attractive eyes were staring straight at him. They looked so gentle, yet they concealed a sharpness that frightened him, as if if he lied, the other party would see through it immediately.
Not daring to look into Baili Xin's eyes, the servant turned his head slightly to avoid Baili Xin's gaze and said nervously, "I am specially sent by the master to serve you. My name is Xiao Xizi, don't you remember me?"
Baili Xin: "So, you are also mine?"
Xiao Xizi nodded quickly: "Yes, you have been locked up. I have been cleaning this yard. I will wait for you to come back, Miss Xin."
Baili Xin: "How long have you been in the Li residence?"
Xiao Xizi: "I moved into this house when I was 14 years old, and I have been here for 6 years now. At first, I helped in the kitchen, and then Grandma Fourteen saw that I was capable, so she called me to serve her in her yard."
"After Grandma Fourteen passed away, I was assigned to the woodshed, and not long ago I was assigned to your yard."
Baili Xin: "Six, you are considered an old man in the house. I will ask you a few questions. You'd better tell me everything you know. If I find out that you lied to me, I will send you back to the woodshed. You don't want to stay there any longer because you work a lot but get little pay, do you?"
Because of his character, even if Baili Xin said something to threaten others, it would sound like soft and sweet coquettish words to others.
But for some reason, Xiao Xizi felt that the cotton candy sound was wrapped with thousands of pounds of steel bars, hitting his heart one by one, making him dare not even breathe.
Xiao Xizi nodded quickly, "Master Xin, just ask. I will tell you everything I know!"
Baili Xin: "First question, who is this master?"
Xiao Xizi: "Well, I'm young, so I don't know much about what happened before. But I heard from people around me that the master is not a local here. He is that... eunuch. I heard that he was a popular person in the palace. Later, he left the palace and brought a lot of money to settle here."
Baili Xin: "Then did the master marry his first wife here too?"
"That's not the case," Xiao Xizi thought for a moment and shook his head, "The master came with the eldest lady. The master has a quick temper, but the eldest lady has a very good temper. She treats other masters and the rest of us very well. Before the eldest lady died, the master often had a smile on his face, but after she died, he completely changed."
Baili Xin: "How did the eldest lady die? When we talked about the eldest lady's death yesterday, everyone's expressions seemed a little strange."
"The eldest lady..." Xiao Xizi paused, then looked at Baili Xin hesitantly. Seeing that he was listening attentively, he continued, "The eldest lady was choked to death."
Baili Xin raised an eyebrow: "Choked to death?"
"Three years ago, Fengcheng experienced the coldest winter. The mountains were covered with snow and charcoal fires were scarce in Fengcheng. The eldest lady was afraid of the cold and always placed a pot of charcoal fire in her room at night to ward off the cold."
"The coal that night was a little damp, so when it burned, thick smoke billowed."
"When the maid found her in the morning, the eldest lady was already dead."
"She inhaled a lot of thick smoke. When the first lady died, her face was blue and purple. I heard that her eye sockets were bulging out. She died tragically." At this point, Xiao Xizi shuddered. "The master was shocked when he saw it. He kept saying that she was here to take his life. Not long after, the master became obsessed with Taoism. He kept talking nonsense all day and no longer cared about the family business. He handed all these things over to the first lady."
"There is a suspicious point," Baili Xin frowned slightly, "Charcoal fire is irritating and choking. Normal people would stay away from it if they came into contact with it. Even those maids would have noticed something was wrong when they were burning it, right? Moreover, there was a charcoal fire in the master's room, and no maid came in to add charcoal or watch the fire all night long?"
"You left the Madam alone in the room and didn't find her until morning?"
Xiao Xizi shook his shoulders, as if he recalled something bad, and his face turned pale. "The maids are all dead."
"There were originally four sisters serving in the eldest lady's room. Every night when the eldest lady went to sleep, the four of them would take turns to watch over her."
"But that night, they all died in the eldest lady's room."
"Just like the first lady, her face was blue and purple, her eyes were wide open, and she died with her eyes open."
"Except for the eldest lady who died in bed, the other four died in very strange postures as well."
"When we found them, they had many red scratches on their bodies and were pinching their necks fiercely, as if they were strangling themselves to death. Their expressions were hideous and terrifying."
"Several concubines fainted from fright and had to stay in bed for a long time. It was freezing cold then, and some of the weak ones didn't recover and died, while others who managed to survive became ill."
Xiao Xizi's voice trembled and he patted his cheeks hard to calm himself down.
Baili Xin held his chin with one hand and tapped the table lightly with the other.
The rhythmic "click" sound cut through the thin film of memory and pulled Xiao Xizi back from his memories.
Baili Xin: "Did you call the police at that time? How was it handled afterwards?"
Xiao Xizi: "The police were called and they came. The room was locked at the time, and there were no signs of prying. The police said that although it was strange, it didn't seem like homicide. The master also said that the coal was not good this winter, so the matter was just hastily closed. The master gave a large sum of pensions to the families of those maids and hastily disposed of the bodies."
"Speaking of this carbon is not very nice," Baili Xin tapped the table lightly, "What about the carbon in other masters' rooms? What kind of carbon is it?"
Xiao Xizi looked down at her toes, feeling very uneasy, and lowered her voice a lot, "In fact, even the broken charcoal we burn is pretty good, there is not much soot."
The problem is the basin in the eldest lady's room
Baili Xin: "I have another question. Did the master lose so many concubines because of that weird charcoal fire death?"
He looked down at Xiao Xizi's panicked face and pointed to the bench beside him, "Sit down and talk."
Xiao Xizi went to sit down in a daze. After sitting for a few seconds, he suddenly stood up and said, "Hey, I am a slave."
"So many people from Guqing have died, how can there be any slaves left? They are all here to make money and eat, who is not a human being?" Baili Xin tapped lightly with her fingertips in the air, "Just sit down if I tell you to."
"Okay, thank you Master Xin." Xiao Xizi looked around and sat back awkwardly. He moistened his throat with saliva before continuing, "So many concubines were not killed because of that incident."
"The master has been here for more than ten years and has married eight wives in total. Some of them were originally reserved for the eldest young master to have children. Master Yun was the last one at that time."
"After that incident, the third and fourth concubines died of illness one after another. The seventh concubine recovered and survived, but she died shortly after the beginning of spring."
"Since the death of the first wife, the master's mood has changed drastically. In the past three years, he has married eleven wives, including you. I don't know if there are unclean things in this house, but several of his aunts and grandmothers have died one after another."
"We shouldn't discuss our master's affairs, but sometimes we can't help but chat about it in private."
"We sometimes guessed who would leave first, but we never expected that the one who left would be the master."
Baili Xin: "You just mentioned so many concubines. I was at the mountain last night to keep vigil for the master. How come I didn't see the thirteenth concubine's grave behind the master's grave?"
"Thirteenth Concubine," Xiao Xizi hesitated for a moment, "There is no Thirteenth Concubine at all."
He hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Master Xin, I am only saying these words to you, and I have no intention of talking nonsense about you. Let me tell you this, ever since the death of the first lady, the master has been talking nonsense all day long. He clearly had a twelfth concubine before, but when he was preparing to take in a fourteenth concubine to arrange the seniority, he insisted that there was already a thirteenth concubine, and that the thirteenth concubine was at home."
"We were scared to death when he said that. We were busy running around the Li family every day, and we didn't even notice that there was one more person in the house."
"During that time, we even wondered if the master had seen a ghost. We were so scared."
"But after a while, we didn't see anything happen, so we thought it was just the master's nonsense, so we got bolder."
Suddenly, a man's voice was heard from outside the courtyard gate. Xiao Xizi stood up from the bench and said hurriedly, "Master Xin, it's getting late. We should go to eat."
Seeing Baili Xin stand up from the couch, Xiao Xizi hesitated and said, "Master Xin, I have told you so much today. Don't go out and ask around and say that I told you. The master set a rule when he was alive that no one is allowed to mention this matter. Although he is gone now, the rule still exists."
Baili Xin nodded seriously: "I understand, thank you."
He walked to the door and was about to push it open to go out when his eyes suddenly fell on the robe he was wearing.
A tall figure suddenly appeared in my mind, along with the words "If I see you without wearing cheongsam again, the punishment won't be so simple."
The half-stretched leg slowly retracted, Baili Xin's eyes drooped slightly with red eyes, "You stay outside for a while, I'll change my clothes."
Xiao Xizi wanted to say something but stopped himself.
Master Xin looks good in this, why don't you change into something else
Five minutes later, a beautiful woman with long black hair, wearing a military green cape on the outside and a lake green silk cheongsam on the inside, came out with her skirt swaying.
Xiao Xizi stared with wide eyes.
Change! Must change! Good change!
Who wouldn’t say “wonderful” after seeing this
…
When Baili Xin walked into the front hall, most people were already seated.
Baili Xin took a quick glance and his eyes were immediately attracted by an unexpected yet reasonable figure.
The man's gaze fell across the lobby on Baili Xin, and Baili Xin even read a word from his eyes: regret.
Sorry for your sister.
Fortunately, he was smart and changed into a cheongsam.
It is better to let the audience in front of the live broadcast room get a bargain than to let the dog get the meat.
, is he meat
Baili Xin frowned slightly.
As soon as he stepped over the threshold, he saw Dijia waving at him.
Ignoring the Second Madam's increasingly gloomy expression, Baili Xin walked straight to Dijia's side.
Dijia naturally patted the seat beside him and said, "Sit down."
This seat, facing the door, is the main seat.
As soon as Baili Xin sat down, he heard a heavy exhalation coming from the Second Lady beside him.
Tsk, it seems like he's pretty angry.
He is not trying to grab the main seat, he is just doing this based on his character setting, right
After Baili Xin sat down, he glanced around the table.
Except for the fifth concubine Hu Mei, everyone has arrived.
Brother Yun was still wearing that exaggerated makeup, with his shoulder-length hair like peach blossoms, looking very gorgeous.
Except for Brother Yun, the remaining concubines are all women.
The ones starting from the ninth one all came in within three days, and they were obviously much more low-key and timid than the other three.
This person was not the last one to arrive at the table. Fifth concubine Hu Mei had not shown up yet.
Second concubine Feng Gu held the handkerchief in her hand and said, "In this huge Li residence, it has only been a short time since the master left, and everyone has started to behave so unruly? Where are the fifth elders?"
It seems like a veiled criticism.
Baili Xin ignored her completely and sat quietly, his eyes watching his nose and his nose watching his heart, all he thought about was the news he had just heard from Xiao Xizi.
When those maids died, their faces were blue and purple, they were clutching their necks, and the charcoal fire was a little damp.
If it was placed in the science copy instead of the supernatural copy, it would be carbon monoxide poisoning caused by incomplete combustion of charcoal fire.
But this is a supernatural copy, so it’s hard to say what the specific cause of death is.
While he was thinking, something fell on his thigh.
Baili Xin's thoughts were suddenly cut off. He turned his head and looked at the man beside him in surprise, and saw a smile in the man's eyes.
In full view of everyone, the other party blatantly reached under the crimson blue tablecloth.
It's simply outrageous.
If one of them accidentally drops a chopstick on the noodles, that person will immediately notice what's wrong with them.
An adopted son and an unmarried stepmother.
Just think about it...
Stimulate.
Baili Xin's eyes flickered, and he quickly lowered his head, facing Dijia with his profile.
Because of the game's settings, his body perception has now reached its peak.
Afraid that the Second Concubine beside him would notice his abnormal expression, Baili Xin propped up one arm against his temple and slowly reached the other arm into the tablecloth, trying to stop this audacious madman.
At the moment when his fingertips touched the back of the other person's fingers, the other person suddenly turned around and held Baili Xin's fingers tightly.
Baili Xin's body stiffened, and mist suddenly welled up in his eyes.
The difference between the two was only a dozen centimeters, but the other person's was much bigger than his.
The rough five fingers with thin calluses grabbed his own, and the thumb rubbed back and forth on his back, and sometimes he pinched one of Baili Xin's fingers with his index finger and thumb to play with it.
Dijia's face was as gloomy as water and he didn't look away, but his eyes were always on the long-haired beauty beside him.
The soft, delicate and round fingertips were pinched casually by myself. They were smoother than tofu and softer than cotton.
As he rubbed his fingertips vaguely, Qing's eyes began to become moist and his cheeks began to turn red uncontrollably.
The peach blossoms in full bloom in March are not even one tenth as charming as him.
I have to say, Baili Xinxiang is the best in this copy.
He really had to thank the system for giving him such a benefit book by accident.
Baili Xin secretly glanced at Dijia, trying to pull away.
The other party took the initiative, pulled his, lifted the cloak and cheongsam covering his legs, and pushed his penis in through the slit.
Baili Xin's eyes trembled slightly, and he used all his self-control to prevent his breathing from becoming so abrupt.
He glared at Dijia with his gradually blurred eyes, and a tear fell from the corner of his eye.
Hey, what are you doing, let me go!
What Dijia received: Woo woo woo.
The man smiled, and a system prompt sounded in his mind: Ding! Congratulations, you made the target cry x1. The current mission progress is 2/10 of the target crying mission, please keep up the good work. Mission completion reward: restore the true body.
Friendly reminder: Please strictly follow the character settings, and do not ooc. The character setting of the adopted son of the wealthy Mr. Li is: beautiful and lustful.
Died of laughter.
This is totally not OOC, okay
Before Baili Xin's tears were about to fall in strings, Dijia grabbed Baili Xin's hands and covered her with cheongsam and cloak again.
But he did not let go of Baili Xin, still holding on to the thing hidden under the tablecloth.
A handkerchief was brought to Baili Xin, and a man's deep voice came into her ears, "Little mother, wipe your tears. The dead cannot be resurrected. It's too difficult."
Baili Xin: "..."
You are right, even if you are widowed, you cannot be resurrected.
You're dead, you bitch!
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Studio.
Why is God Xin crying again
What did the boss do to Xin Shen under the table! This is Xin Shen! Our Xin Shen! Can you please just lift the tablecloth and be bold? !
Died of laughter. Lift up the wallpaper? Do you believe that we are all in a dark room, with black screens? Thanks to the wallpaper.
Woo, she cried so beautifully, like pear blossoms in the rain, shy and timid. Who wouldn’t say “hurry up” after seeing this
Hey, I suspect you were driving, but I have no evidence.
In front of everyone, the adopted son vs. the stepmother, how unbecoming, how unbecoming! Swish.
Decency: I can go away on my own, thank you.
Tsk tsk tsk, Xin Shen is as unlucky as ever, hahaha, this time he even has to ban ooc. At this time, the location and people are favorable, and I even suspect that this is a welfare book made by the big boss for himself.
This is because you haven't eaten enough Xin Shen.
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"Oh, sorry, sorry, I kept you guys company for so long."
A charming female voice came. As soon as Hu Mei sat down, she smiled in the direction of Feng Gu and said, "Sister, don't be angry this time."
"I'm here late tonight for a reason."
Feng Gu took a deep breath, "What's the reason?"
Hu Mei: "I left home early this morning and went to the plum garden on purpose."
After she finished speaking, she paused and looked at Feng Gu expectantly, as if she wanted someone to ask her what she was doing in the plum garden.
But Feng Gu just exhaled heavily from her nose and didn't say much.
Brother Yun replied, "Oh, what are you going to do in the Plum Garden?"
Baili Xin glanced at the faces of the three people. Although Brother Yun hated Hu Mei, he still gave Hu Mei a way out in the occasion.
Hu Mei was originally feeling awkward, but when she heard Brother Yun's words, her face immediately lit up again, "Tonight, the Plum Garden is going to perform "The Romance of the West Chamber", and I begged the owner for a long time before he was willing to reserve the elegant pavilion on the second floor for us."
"Sister, I was wrong yesterday. Let me treat this play as my apology to you. Is that ok?"
Feng Gu didn't say anything, and her cold face softened a lot.
"That's the most popular Peking Opera theater in Fengcheng. Every performance is always packed and tickets are hard to buy." Brother Yun said with a pinched throat, "Not to mention the elegant room on the second floor. You have to book a seat ten or half months in advance, right?"
Hu Mei: "That's right, I really put in a lot of effort."
Feng Gu's expression finally relaxed completely. She looked at Hu Mei, then turned to look at Brother Yun and asked, "Is it really that famous? Do you want to see it?"
Brother Yun nodded blankly, and Hu Mei's smile froze for a second.
Feng Gu finally laughed, "Okay, although I have no interest in opera, since you want to watch it, and it's Fifth Sister's gift, then let's go and watch it."
Hu Mei forced a smile with the corners of her mouth.
After saying this, Hu Mei seemed to have just noticed Dijia's arrival, and exclaimed in surprise: "The eldest young master is here too. I was just busy talking about the happy event in Meiyuan and didn't notice it. I wonder if you have time tonight. If you do, can you go and take a look together?"
Dijia gently kneaded Baili Xin's fingertips under the table and replied sparingly, "Okay."
Hu Mei was stunned.
Originally she asked out of politeness, but she didn't expect the other party to actually agree.
Isn't it a spoiler for everyone to have such a big ice cube there?!
Dijia glanced at Baili Xin beside him and said, "Since everyone is here, let's start the feast."
A master's image.
Feng Gu's complexion, which had just improved, turned dark again in an instant.
It was not until dinner time that Dijia let go of Baili Xin's right hand reluctantly.
He didn't talk while eating or sleeping. There was no other sound during the meal except the clinking of porcelain plates.
…
The gloomy sky outside was still gloomy, but it just remained in that state. Thin clouds hung in the distance, blocking the sunlight, neither approaching nor leaving.
After a meal, Dijia also stated his purpose: "We have finished our meal, who can take me to see my father's room?"
Several people had not left the table yet, Feng Gu was slightly surprised.
She glanced at the table and pointed at someone: "Hu Mei, Xinge, you two should accompany the young master. I am easily moved by the past, so I won't go."
God, the scene brings back such sad memories.
Hu Mei's face turned green.
…
"The master's yard is in front of us," Hu Mei twisted her handkerchief, looking very reluctant, "In fact, I can't enter the master's yard once, so I can't help you with anything."
"So I have found Li Yuan, who often cleans the room for the master, for you. If you have any questions, you can ask him directly."
"You just heard it. I made Second Grandma angry. Now I have to go to Plum Garden to remind Yi Ya Ge about this matter. Don't make any mistakes."
Hu Mei stood at the gate of the yard. The evil wind blew, making the white silk hanging in the yard whistling, and the trees in the yard swayed from side to side.
It was noon, which should have been the time when the yang energy was at its strongest, but the yard felt just like it did last night, with not a single ray of sunlight getting in.
Although it wasn't a sunny day outside, it was still a normal day. Across the wall, the trees and bamboo branches in the yard piled up and blocked all the sunlight.
Hu Mei shook her body, and the word "reluctant" was evident all over her.
Dijia glanced at her and said, "Okay, go now."
Hu Mei's face lit up with joy, and she turned around and left quickly, as if a ghost was chasing her.
There was a man standing next to Baili Xin and Dijia, who was Li Yuan that Hu Mei had just mentioned.
Li Yuan looks to be 30 years old, with a regular and ordinary appearance, and seems to be very honest and kind.
His face was somewhat pale, and there was a thick layer of dark shadows under his eye sockets and between his eyebrows. He was out of breath after walking a few steps.
Li Yuan bowed to Dijia, "Master, I never thought I would see you back in my lifetime."
Dijia nodded slightly: "Go in."
Baili Xin came in last night, and although the investigation has been almost completed, the light is better in Baiyang, and maybe we can find something that we missed last night.
They first came to the study.
There is nothing different from yesterday's decoration.
Baili Xin wiped the table at the entrance gently and did not find any dust.
Li Yuan said, "Before, I sent people to clean the master's room, but after the master died, those people were scared, so I cleaned it myself."
Baili Xin: "Did you just clean today?"
Li Yuan nodded: "Yes."
Baili Xin walked straight into the inner study room. He stood where the rich man Li had stood yesterday and swept the wall in front of him carefully.
Although there is not much dust on the wall, the marks left by the paintings are difficult to clean.
"What was hanging here originally?" Baili Xin turned his head to look at Li Yuan, but found that Li Yuan's eyes were a little dazed and numb. He stood there stupidly and didn't hear his voice at all.
"What was originally hanging here?" Just when Baili Xin was about to ask again, Dijia spoke for him.
A cold and dark voice cut through the air and pierced directly into Li Yuan's ears.
Li Yuan was in a trance for a moment, and then light gathered in his dull eyes.
He exclaimed, looked at the people, then at the wall, and after a moment he replied, "It's a portrait of a Taoist temple's founder. When I came here, I found that the scroll was torn, so I put it away."
Dijia and Bailixin looked at each other.
Dijia asked: "Is the scroll with you now?"
Li Yuan waved his hands in panic, his eyes flickering, "No, no, no, no. The master liked this painting very much. He told me before that if he died, he would take this painting with him even if he didn't wear anything else. I saw that the painting was broken, and the master said that, so I burned the painting in the yard and gave it to the master."
He pointed through the open window to the brazier filled with black ashes in the yard and said, "Look, the ashes are still there."
A portrait of the Taoist temple’s founder
Really
Dijia asked again: "Whose ancestor is this portrait of?"
Li Yuan: "I really don't know. I'm alone. You can ask me to pack my things, but I can't read a single word, so I really don't know."
While they were talking, Baili Xin had already arrived in front of the bookshelf.
These books were all bound with thread, and the titles could not be seen from the spines. The light and time did not allow him to look closely at the bookshelf last night.
There were not many books on the bookshelf. Baili Xin picked up a few at random, either about the Four Books and Five Classics or about business.
He read to the end, but he didn't see any books of the □□ kind.
Baili Xin turned around and looked at Li Yuan. "It is said that the master is obsessed with Taoism, why is there no trace of Taoism in the study? Does the master have another room dedicated to studying Taoism?"
Li Yuanhou thought about it seriously and shook her head. "I have always been with the master, and I really haven't heard of this."
Baili Xin: "Then how did you know that the master is obsessed with Taoism?"
Li Yuan: "The master often goes to the Taoist temple in the mountains to practice, and he practices for half a month. He also invites Taoists to his home from time to time, and he always treats them warmly. I always accompany the master when he goes to the Taoist temple, and he even changes into a Taoist robe when he is there."
"After a long time, I accompanied the master to the mountain and continued to come. I would go back to the mountain to pick up the master when the half-month deadline was up."
Dijia: "Is the Taoist temple you are talking about called Qingyun Temple?"
Li Yuan's eyes widened: "How did you know, Master?"
Baili Xin also looked at Dijia curiously.
"Didn't I leave in a hurry yesterday?" Dijia looked at Baili Xin, "The adjutant told me that they found a body in the mountains. The cause of death should be very similar to that of Mr. Li, with the stomach ripped open and no heart, liver or lungs."
"His face was already bloody and it was hard to tell what he originally looked like. The undead was wearing a Taoist robe, and there was a Qinglian Temple near the corpse."
"The adjutant and his men brought the people from the Taoist temple to question them and confirmed that the deceased was the abbot of Qinglian Temple."
"What?!" Li Yuan shouted, "You said the deceased was from Qingdao?"
Dijia: "You know him."
Li Yuan: "Of course I have. The master went to the Taoist temple to practice with him. He often told me how mysterious Taoist Qing was and how much he admired Taoist Qingyun."
Baili Xin lowered his eyes: "And then they all died. Is there anyone who still interacts with them regularly?"
"Are you saying there might be another victim?" Dijia tilted his head slightly and his eyes fell on the slender jade neck.
Baili Xin frowned: "I am just guessing, just my sixth sense, but I always feel that things have just begun."
"If we really want to name someone who is more familiar with them," Li Yuan patted his head, "it should be Mr. Huang from the antique shop."
"I often see the three of them together in the Taoist temple."
Li Yuan shrank his neck in fear, "Master, if that's the case, then I often appear there, and that vicious guy will come looking for me, right?"
Dijia laughed and said, "Then tell me first, have you done anything immoral?"
Li Yuan's already pale face turned even paler. "How, how is this possible? I am an honest and upright person!"
Dijia: "Tell me when you have made up your mind. If necessary, I will send soldiers to protect you."
"Let's go to the bedroom next door and take another look."