Fu Mingrui looked at Duanmu Qingchen with disdain and mounted his horse: "I have to go to handle a case today and have no time to accompany you." Fu Mingrui pulled the reins and dismissed him in a perfunctory tone.
If Fu Mingrui knew that Duanmu Qingchen would be so clingy, he would never have followed his father into the palace to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. His "evil fate" with him started from that imperial banquet.
Duanmu Qingchen rode his horse close to Fu Mingrui's horse and kicked his foot: "I'll go with you! What case?"
Fu Mingrui already had a headache, but Duanmu Qingchen was the prince, so he couldn't go too far, so he could only answer: "I have a new clue about the secret room hanging case I told you about before, and I have to investigate it now."
"That case! Okay! Take me with you! You didn't tell me how you solved it last time, you must tell me this time!" Duanmu Qingchen was even more excited.
Fu Mingrui turned and looked at him solemnly: "The case is serious, so it is inconvenient to take you with you." Anger was already rising in Fu Mingrui's black eyes.
Duanmu Qingchen looked at him for a while, his peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his lips curled up mischievously: "Okay~~ Then I won't disturb you, Lord Fu, from working on the case~~ I'll go find Youyou to play!" As he said this, he was about to turn his horse around.
Fu Mingrui leaned forward in a hurry and grabbed Duanmu Qingchen's hand holding the horse reins.
Duanmu Qingchen looked at Fu Mingrui's hand holding his and smiled mischievously: "Oh, Master Fu, I didn't expect you really like me~~"
Fu Mingrui immediately withdrew his hand and frowned angrily: "Okay, come with me to investigate the case!" Fu Mingrui swung the reins angrily and ran in front.
Duanmu Qingchen smiled triumphantly behind him and followed immediately.
Guangyuan Town is outside the eastern suburbs of the capital. The capital city is very large, with a radius of 100 miles, so Guangyuan Town is also 100 miles away from the capital. When Fu Mingrui arrived, it was already noon.
Duanmu Qingchen followed Fu Mingrui closely, feeling a little hungry, but Fu Mingrui still showed no sign of stopping to eat.
When Fu Mingrui was checking the files, he had memorized the address of Yu Pingting's home. He had been handling cases in Beijing for many years, and the map of Beijing was already imprinted in his mind, so he didn't need to ask anyone when he walked through the streets and alleys.
Duanmu Qingchen followed him all the way, not knowing where Fu Mingrui was going. Just as he was wondering, he saw Fu Mingrui had stopped in front of the Yu family's mansion.
Next to the Yu family mansion is the Kaiming Academy founded by Yu Hezhang. The purpose of studying is to enlighten the mind. The word "enlightenment" represents Yu Hezhang's good wish for every student who enters the academy.
Fu Mingrui dismounted and tied the horse to an old banyan tree nearby. Duanmu Qingchen followed immediately.
Fu Mingrui was about to go forward and knock on the door, but he saw the door open and a doctor hurried out, followed closely by Yu Hezhang, who looked tired and old.
During these three years, Yu Hezhang has aged very quickly. Although he is only middle-aged, he already looks very old, thin, with gray hair and beard.
The old doctor walked very quickly and waved his hands repeatedly: "President He, I am really at my wit's end. Please seek help from someone else." The old doctor apologized and bowed repeatedly.
"Doctor Yao! Please take another look! The girl is in so much pain that she can't sleep. Please have mercy on her!" Yu Hezhang, with an old face, grabbed the old doctor and begged.
The old doctor was also quite helpless and sighed repeatedly: "Dean He, if I had this ability, how could I not want to cure that poor child of Ya'er? But... Tsk, I really can't tell what's wrong, I'm really! Alas!"
Yu Hezhang saw that the old doctor was really at his wit's end, so he could only let go in pain and bowed to the old doctor: "Thank you, Doctor Yao."
"Oh, I'm ashamed, ashamed..." The old doctor covered his face and left.
Fu Mingrui looked at the old doctor who left in a hurry. Someone in the Yu family was seriously ill. During the conversation between the two, Ya'er was mentioned. This Ya'er was Yu Pingting's eldest daughter and the only child who survived when Yu Pingting committed suicide by jumping into the river. Her full name was Bai Yuqi and her nickname was Ya'er.
During the trial of Bai Zhankui's case of patricide and matricide, the villagers of Baijia Village mentioned Ya'er in their confessions, saying that after Yu Pingting committed suicide, Ya'er was taken back to the Yu family by Yu Hezhang and his wife, and changed her surname to Yu. Because Ya'er suffered from a strange disease and cried day and night, the Bai family believed that Ya'er might find a better doctor to treat her if she went to the town with her grandfather.
But what surprised Fu Mingrui was that not long after Ya'er was taken back, Bai Zhankui's family also moved into Guangyuan Town, the old Yu family house. Since the Bai family would move into Guangyuan Town, why didn't they take care of Ya'er themselves, but instead handed her over to Yu Pingting's parents
At that time, because the main investigation was on the case of Bai Zhankui's murder of his father and mother, Fu Mingrui focused all his attention on solving the mystery of the hanging in the secret room, and rarely considered the details about Yu Pingting. Now that Fu Mingrui has locked Yu Pingting as the murderer, he realizes that there are many doubts in the many confessions about the Bai family.
Fu Mingrui hurried forward and saw Yu Hezhang standing inside the door with a dazed look on his face. His old face did not look like a man in his early forties at all, but more like an old man in his late sixties.
People say that time makes people grow old, but growing old with time is a natural law. It is pain that makes people grow old that really makes people grow old.
"Is this Dean Yu?" Fu Mingrui bowed as he entered the room.
Yu Hezhang raised his head slowly. The pain he had suffered over the years had made his reaction slower and slower. He looked at Fu Mingrui for a while before he realized that he was wearing the uniform of an official of the Eight Gates. The embroidery on his sleeves and the gems on his belt proved that he was of a high rank.
Yu Hezhang was the president of the academy, so he naturally knew the official rank and uniform.
He was stunned: "You are... the leader of the Eight Gates?"
Fu Mingrui nodded calmly: "It is me. I came here this time to ask you about your daughter Yu Pingting's life."
When he heard his daughter's name, He Zhizhang immediately became excited: "The person is dead! Why are you still asking?! What! You still want to say that the whole Bai family was killed by my daughter! Get out! Get out!" He Zhizhang was so angry that he saw the broom by the door, grabbed it and swung it towards Fu Mingrui, "Get out! Get out--"
After Bai Zhankui's family died, people in Guangyuan Town were talking about it, saying that Yu Pingting's evil ghost was collecting debts. Her daughter had a miserable life, and after her death she continued to be abused and stigmatized. No one could bear this.
There are even more vicious people who say that Yaer’s illness is caused by the fact that her mother has done too many evil things and she deserves it, and that it is the retribution for Yu Pingting’s evil deeds that has come upon Yaer.
The girl is only three years old, what crime has she committed? It is already pitiful that she has to endure the pain day and night, and she is also criticized by those vicious people every day. The old couple Yu is really exhausted and in great pain.
Fu Mingrui was forced out of the door by Yu Hezhang's broom. The other party was an elder, so Fu Mingrui couldn't fight back.
Duanmu Qingchen watched from the side and shook his head. He couldn't help but think of the time when Fu Mingrui went to Saixian Pavilion and couldn't even get in, and was laughed at by Lian Youyou.
Duanmu Qingchen stepped forward calmly, and when Yu Hezhang was about to close the door, he said, "I know the imperial physician!"
With just one sentence, the door opened wide, revealing Yu Hezhang's face full of expectation and excitement. (To be continued)