"Did anyone come to see me last night?"
After Gu Huaian returned to the room, he closed his eyes and rested for a while. After the person who took care of him came in, he slowly asked questions, but through a screen, people outside could hardly see anything.
"No, my lord is seriously ill, and no one dares to disturb your recovery."
Gu Huaian thought for a moment, but still did not continue to ask.
It seems that this person came here last night to check if he really couldn't move, but he didn't have the courage to come in, so he squatted at the door for a while.
Gu Huaian thought for a moment and sent someone to call Song Lin over.
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Carrying three lives on his body, the murderer obviously heard Song Lin saying that Master Gu had woken up and knew about the murderer, and he slowly began to panic and became restless.
He secretly took out the dagger hidden under the bed, which had already been stained with the blood of three people, and walked out of the room at night.
The person in the same room was about to turn off the lights and go to sleep. When he saw him getting ready to go out, he was a little confused, "Why are you going? It's already so late and you can't go out."
He was suddenly stopped and looked a little flustered. He turned his head silently for a long time and said, "Ah... I have a headache from memorizing the book. I'm going to go out and get some fresh air."
The scholar entered Gu Huaian's room in the dark. The person serving in the room had already left. Song Zhiting had also left after changing Gu Huaian's medicine. The lights in the room were turned off, and only a figure approached silently.
The person who touched the window curtain did not hesitate at all, lifted the quilt and plunged in hard.
But there was something wrong with the touch of my hand. I hesitated a little, stretched out my hand to touch the person on the bed, and suddenly remembered a voice behind me, "Are you looking for me?"
While talking, he turned on the lights in the room. With the weak light in the room, it became even more awkward for the two of them to look at each other.
The scholar subconsciously hid the knife in his hand, but he couldn't justify breaking into someone else's room in the middle of the night.
"Sir, you... aren't you seriously injured?"
Gu Huaian picked up the feather arrow on the table and said, "Things like this may not be able to hurt me on the battlefield. You don't think you can really kill me with one arrow, do you?"
The scholar did seem to be honest. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Gu Huaian wouldn't have believed that the man in front of him was the murderer who had attacked him many times and still had three lives in his hands.
"Is it time for you to tell me how you killed those three people?"
Gu Huaian basically knew what his killing methods were like, but he was still curious about how he could do this with one person.
While Gu Huaian was talking, Song Lin and Song Zhiting, who had clearly left just now, also came in, followed by many government officials, including the family members of the three dead people.
Gu Huaian wanted everyone to bear witness, so he called them all over, and they should have heard what he just said.
"I don't know how to practice martial arts at all. Several of them have been practicing martial arts since childhood. How can I beat them?"
Gu Huaian walked into the room and asked, "Would it be much easier if we knocked them out before doing anything? And it wouldn't be difficult for you, after all, you can still come and go freely at that time. , the three of them also humiliated you."
Don't ask Gu Huai'an personally about these matters. Song Lin has already received the information from other candidates. If these candidates wanted to protect this murderer at the beginning, and the matter dragged on for so many days and delayed their exams, they Gradually I couldn't sit still anymore.
Naturally, he told him what those three dandy boys had verbally insulted him.
"But hasn't Mr. Gu already checked the bodies? They weren't poisoned at all, were they?"
The murderer was imprisoned and is still unwilling to admit it.
"That's because what you used wasn't poison at all, but incense."
Gu Huaian entered the room again and did not smell any rotten smell. Instead, he smelled a fragrance. In other words, was there something covering it up
"What does Mr. Gu mean by this? My children have been practicing martial arts for so many years. The mere incense should not be able to make them lose their resistance."
The father of one of the deceased retorted. He did not believe that the thin man in front of him could be the culprit of killing his child.
"But what if the person pretends to be someone they won't be suspicious of?"
Gu Huaian actually made a guess at first, because the spices smelled in the corpse room in his house were the ones he often smelled when he went to Yuhua Tower before. The reason why he felt familiar was because of these, Gu Huaian Got a bold idea.
If it was really just like other candidates said, these three people just said that this poor student was shabby. There were also other poor students in this examination room, so why did they target him alone
Coupled with the doubts he discovered when he was at the scene that day, Gu Huaian was now really sure that the person in front of him really killed him, but he must have suffered a lot of humiliation before killing him.
For example, these three officials' children actually have some special hobbies.
But on this point, in front of these officials, Gu Huaian didn't know whether he should say it out loud. He always felt that he would be refuted, but if the person in front of him suffered such unfair treatment, it would still be somewhat...
"They often get together on weekdays and eat, drink and have fun a lot, but how did this person get in?"
Although Song Zhiting thought it was terrible that the man in front of him had killed three people, she still couldn't stand the behavior of these officials exposing people's wounds.
"If your son did nothing wrong, how could he force an honest man to do such a thing?"
To put it simply, the reason why Song Zhiting knew this was actually because this person once asked her for help.
But with so many men present, she, a woman, really didn't know how to say it.
The official seemed to be aggrieved and wanted the invigilator to give him an explanation, "Mr. Song, should your sister also take responsibility for saying such things? Maybe she already knew something, but she has always been Didn’t say anything.”
Gu Huaian interrupted them at this time, "Miss Song does know some inside information about this matter, but I think telling this matter will not do any good to your dead son."
When Gu Huaian became suspicious of this matter, he had already investigated it secretly. Even if the people nearby couldn't give him any inspiration, it didn't mean that he couldn't find anything outside.
For example, there were obviously many doubts that had not yet been investigated where the three of them died that day, so Gu Huaian went in to take a look around while the scene was not yet destroyed.
It was close to a brothel, but the three of them wanted to find a man to have fun. If they guessed correctly, the murderer in front of them was probably insulted by the three of them in this way.
The scholar in front of him looks thin and frail. No matter how you look at him, you feel that he is much thinner than the average man. After staying in the capital for a long time, Gu Huaian has naturally seen more things, so he naturally thinks of it. These.
These three people had probably set their sights on the scholar when they were in the tavern. Their repeated verbal teasing made the scholar endure to a certain extent and he had already accumulated some anger in his heart.
However, they did not know how to restrain themselves and continued to provoke, and even used some means to make the scholar in front of them commit themselves to the three of them, which intensified the subsequent conflicts.
The scholar did not say it clearly, and Song Zhiting never told the truth about himself. However, the scholar had killed someone, and he still had to pay a certain price. However, Gu Huaian felt that this fact was a pity. If he had not wasted that time on the road, , maybe the situation here will not happen.
He must be blaming himself in his heart.
After handling the matter this time, the three officials did not say anything. Gu Huaian focused on making the exams here safe and sound, and also wrote a letter to inform them of the situation. There was always nothing in the capital. The movement was too obvious, so he ignored it.
I thought that after the exam was over, I could pack my bags and go back to the capital, but I didn't expect that at this moment, Song Zhiting suddenly came to find me.
Gu Huaian originally wanted to go back to the capital to make some preparations before coming back. After all, he had not yet decided whether to marry her or not, and he did not know if this Miss Song was waiting for him. He wanted to go back and deal with the matters at hand before coming back. Ask carefully.
But unexpectedly, Song Zhiting revealed his identity first.
"You are too dishonest. You promised to come back and marry me, but why have you disappeared for so long? Could it be that you have become a high-ranking official in the capital and want to deny your promise?"
Gu Huaan didn't expect that the person in front of him could recognize him so easily. He was stunned for a moment, but then he started laughing again.
"If you are willing to marry me, you can come back to the capital with me now. I will definitely be responsible for you."
Gu Huaian thought that half of the girls would not agree, and it would take some time to think about it, so he said this without joking. Unexpectedly, the person in front of him reacted quickly.
"Of course I will marry you. I have been waiting for you for so long. I came here just to let you take me away with you."