"Father, I'm going to the Hanwen Library." Bo Ruoyou said anxiously, then looked at Eunuch Fu, "Eunuch, may I trouble you to send an attendant from the Marquis to take my adoptive father home?"
Eunuch Fu naturally nodded in response, and Cheng Yunzhi said: "But I have figured out the key points of the case."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "I figured out one thing, my daughter will go to the Yamen later—"
Cheng Yunzhi didn't ask any more questions, Huo Qinghong looked at Bo Ruoyou curiously, but his eyes were eager to move, "What did you figure out? What are you going to do in the library?"
Bo Ruoyou was in a hurry to go to the library, too lazy to talk to Huo Qinghong. Seeing that she was about to leave, Huo Qinghong also stood up, "I want to go see too—"
Eunuch Fu was a little helpless, "What is the son going to do?"
Huo Qinghong said pitifully for a moment: "I haven't left the gate of the Marquis Mansion for half a year."
This is the truth, Bo Ruoyou's heart moved slightly when he heard the words, and said: "It's okay for the son to go, but I don't care about the son."
Huo Qinghong scratched his head, "I still want you to take care of me?"
Bo Ruoyou didn't say much, and went straight to the outside of the mansion, while Huo Qinghong ordered people to prepare horses. Seeing that he had regained his energy, Eunuch Fu hurriedly ordered the servants of the Hou's mansion to follow him. After a while, a group of people parted ways outside the gate of the mansion. .
Bo Ruoyou rode a carriage to the Hanwen Library, which was not far from Lanzhengfang. On the way, Bo Ruoyou muttered something, as if thinking about something, when the carriage stopped in front of the library, Bo Ruoyou got out of the carriage and entered library.
She found the shopkeeper, and only asked about the storybook called "The Story of the Hairpin", what the shopkeeper said was the same as that of Feng's servants, Bo Ruoyou hurriedly asked: "How many people have come to buy this storybook these days?"
The shopkeeper smiled, "Of course there are many, this story book is the latest story, and there are two restaurants that want to compose music for the book and sing it, the girl is here to buy the story book"
Bo Ruoyou naturally shook her head, "The shopkeeper, do you remember who bought it before the thirteenth day?"
The shopkeeper frowned for a moment, "After so many days, I can't remember, but there were not many people who bought in the first two days, but we don't specifically remember the appearance of customers, and this library comes in and out all day long. Yes, I really can’t remember…”
Bo Ruoyou was a little disappointed, Huo Qinghong watched from the side, "How, are you thinking wrong?"
Bo Ruoyou shook his head, turned around and left the library and went straight to the yamen. Huo Qinghong was a little dazed for a moment, but quickly followed. When he arrived at the yamen, he happened to meet Wu Xiang just coming back from outside.
Seeing Bo Ruoyou, Wu Xiang said with a depressed face that he hadn't found anything yet, seeing Huo Qinghong following, he couldn't help being very surprised, but Bo Ruoyou said, "Captain, I know why Liu Yao seems to be dead In the Chamber of Secrets—”
"You know?" Wu Xiang's eyes lit up first, but he quickly grasped the point, "Why does it look like he died in a secret room?"
Bo Ruoyou said with a serious face, "Because this secret room was not arranged by the murderer, but Liu Yao locked the door from the inside, thus creating the illusion that the murderer murdered her in the secret room and then escaped."
Wu Xiang was taken aback for a moment, he thought of many tricks, but he never expected that Bo Ruoyou would have such a simple deduction, "This... She was seriously injured at that time, can she still come to close the door..."
Bo Ruoyou said: "She didn't die violently. The autopsy and the blood on the bed can be found. She was seriously injured and then died of excessive blood loss. After the murderer committed the crime that day, seeing her bleeding profusely, he probably felt frightened." Wanting to leave the house immediately, after he left, Liu Yao woke up, and then she closed the door."
"The blood stain behind the door panel is the best proof. We have never figured out before that how could there be blood stains behind the door panel. If it was left by the murderer, most people would hold the handle behind the door when opening and closing the door. Instead of touching the door, the head catcher should remember that the blood behind the door was on my shoulder. I guess Liu Yao was dizzy and weak after closing the door, and rubbed the blood on it when she leaned against the door. "
Wu Xiang thought this inference was unbelievable, but after listening to Bo Ruoyou's words, he felt that it was reasonable. The theory of the secret room was indeed preconceived. Coupled with the experience of handling cases in the past, the first reaction was that the murderer deliberately arranged it as a secret room. In order to pretend that the deceased committed suicide, but the nuns also said that many items fell on the floor of the house, and it seemed that there had been a dispute. If the murderer wanted to mislead them, how could he not clean it up when setting up the secret room? What about the scene
"There is some truth in what you said, because we thought this matter was too complicated before."
Bo Ruoyou continued: "Besides, there may be two reasons why Liu Yao closed the door, one, she was afraid that the murderer would go and return, and the other was that she wanted to prevent the murderer from coming back to take away the physical evidence he left behind. "
"Physical evidence?" Wu Xiang frowned.
"Do you still remember Liu Yao's books on the desk?"
"Of course I remember, but we have read those books, and there is nothing unusual."
Bo Ruoyou shook her head, "The stories on the storybook are indeed common, and there is no evidence of a single sentence left behind, but what is unusual is the time when the storybooks began to be sold on the market, and there are many chapters on her desk. The writings are still relatively new, but today I accidentally learned that one of the scriptures was actually on sale half a month ago."
As soon as this remark came out, Wu Xiang immediately understood, "The scriptures that started selling half a month ago appeared in the nunnery, which means that someone bought them and gave them to her as soon as they started selling!"
He quickly recalled, "According to the testimony of everyone before, no one in the Liu family mentioned that they went to see Liu Yao half a month ago, and the nuns said that there was no one in the nunnery on the fifth and sixth day, so the murderer must have gone there on those two days. Pass the nunnery!"
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "Yes, someone in the Liu family is lying. Right now, we just need to find out who bought the script and who concealed the fact of going to the nunnery, and then we can find the murderer!"
As soon as Wu Xiang grasped the saber by her side, she raised her thick eyebrows, her eyes were shining brightly, and the dullness of a moment ago was swept away, and she wished she could step into Liu's mansion to grab someone right now, "Which script is it?"
"It's called "Looking for the Hairpin". I've seen it several times in Liu Yao's cage, and I'm sure I can find it when I go to the Liu family."
After Bo Ruoyou finished answering, Wu Xiang immediately ordered the servants to prepare the frame, and then asked her, "Do you want to go with me?"
Bo Ruoyou immediately nodded. At this moment, she looked back at Huo Qinghong as if she remembered something, but saw Huo Qinghong also looking at her with bright eyes. Seeing her looking over, she immediately said: "Then I will go too."
Bo Ruoyou frowned, "Why are you going with me? The yamen is on errands, so it's not good for you to go with me."
Huo Qinghong was a little dissatisfied at first, but met Bo Ruoyou's gaze, and said as if discouraged: "Then how about I wait outside?"
Bo Ruoyou was a little helpless, looking at Wu Xiang, Wu Xiang hurriedly said: "If you don't enter the house, the Liu family won't feel anything, so follow your son if you want."
Bo Ruoyou sighed, looked Huo Qinghong up and down, didn't see what Huo Qinghong was thinking for a while, soon the carriages and horses were ready, and a group of people went to Liu's house, Wu Xiang thought about it carefully on the way, and thought of Liu's house The confession of the fourth son, "Do you still remember that the fourth son of the Liu family said that he went out of the city to go to Xiangguo Temple to offer incense on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and he was carried in because of illness on the way back?"
Bo Ruoyou naturally remembered, and Wu Xiang said again: "It's just that the two young men who followed him were interrogated that day, and the two young men also said the same thing, and said that there was a driver to testify. Our people also went to Xiangguo Temple to inquire. The Zhike monk in the village still remembered him, saying that he arrived at the temple at noon, stayed in the temple for two hours and left. According to the schedule, it was dark when he returned to Beijing. Later, he felt a little uncomfortable on the road. Ask someone to carry a small sedan chair out and carry him in."
Bo Ruoyou thought about the location of Xiangguo Temple, "Two hours is enough to go back and forth from Xiangguo Temple to Shuiyue Temple..."
Wu Xiang said: "I also asked the monks in the temple about this. He wanted to have a vegetarian meal in the temple, and the monk who delivered the vegetarian meal saw him kneeling in front of the Bodhisattva statue and reciting scriptures."
Bo Ruoyou was thoughtful, "The testimonies of monks and servants are somewhat unreliable."
Wu Xiang nodded in agreement, and when the carriage and horse arrived at Liu's Mansion, Bo Ruoyou ordered Huo Qinghong to wait in the carriage, and then followed Wu Xiang into the gate of Hou's Mansion, Huo Qinghong lay on the window sill and looked at the gate of Liu's Mansion , with a dazed look on his face for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking.
Liu Yan came to pick him up again in Liu's mansion, when he heard that Wu Xiang was going to Liu Yao's house, Liu Yan immediately said: "Fortunately you come today, if it is a day later, we will take away Seventh Sister's belongings."
Liu Yan led the way, and they came to this remote courtyard again, opened the door, and Bo Ruoyou saw the untouched boxes and cages in the house at a glance. changed.
She stepped forward quickly, "Has anyone been here in the past two days?"
Liu Yan was slightly surprised, "No, the key is in the hands of the steward now, and he wanted to tell me when he opened the door, and he didn't hear anyone entering the house."
Bo Ruoyou rummaged while listening to him. Last time she stayed in the house for a long time and read the books and scripts. She couldn't be more clear about which books were put where. The book case was also found, but the "Looking for the Hairpin" really disappeared. Seeing her expression, Wu Xiang stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? I can't find it anymore."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "It's gone, the only thing missing is "The Story of the Hairpin."
Wu Xiang immediately looked at Liu Yan with deep eyes. Liu Yan also felt weird when he heard it, and immediately ordered the servant to call for the steward. Soon, the steward of Liu's residence came quickly, and Liu Yan shook the key in his hand, "These days the key Where are they all placed? Has someone asked you for the key?"
Upon hearing this, the steward immediately said: "Second Young Master came to ask for the key last night."
"What? The second brother came to ask for the key?" Liu Yan was very surprised.
The steward nodded, and said with some trepidation: "Second Young Master said he wanted to see Miss Seven's belongings."
Liu Yan looked at Wu Xiang hesitantly, but Wu Xiang pulled her lips, "Then I have to invite Second Young Master to come over..."