After having dinner at the Hou's Mansion, Bo Ruoyou talked about the case of the Bird Garden, "The five of them all studied under the same old teacher. About seven or eight years ago, the old teacher's class left the capital, and they went to their respective schools. He got lost in theaters and boats, and was later bought into the Bird Garden by the King of Nan'an County because of his poultry show. This time, the three brothers and sisters were murdered one after another, and they always feel that they have something to do with old things."
"Have you ever found out why the family class broke up?" Huo Weilou asked.
Bo Ruoyou shook her head, "The head arresters have sent many people to investigate these days, but after all, many years have passed, and it's not a famous family class. It's hard to hear anything now, and we have to wait."
The night was dark outside the window, Bo Ruoyou thought it was getting late, so she felt relieved, and then said as if thinking of something: "During the past few days when Lord Hou came back, have you ever seen His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess?"
Huo Weilou should say, "I saw it the day before yesterday, and I've been in a daze for the past few days, so it's okay."
Bo Ruoyou said: "After Lord Hou left Beijing, I mentioned the illness of His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess to my adoptive father. From my appearance, my adoptive father seems to be somewhat sure of the symptoms. Would you be willing to let my adoptive father try?"
Huo Weilou was very pleased, and Bo Ruoyou made the decision sooner rather than later. Tomorrow, Cheng Yunzhi and Cheng Yunzhi will come over to the Princess's mansion. Huo Weilou should come down. Seeing that it is late, even though he is reluctant, he still orders someone to send her back to the mansion. .
After returning to Cheng Zhai, Bo Ruoyou and Cheng Yunzhi talked about seeing a doctor for the Eldest Princess, Cheng Yunzhi responded, and went to prepare some medicinal materials, planning to take them to the Eldest Princess' mansion tomorrow.
Early the next morning, Bo Ruoyou and Cheng Yunzhi first went to Marquis Wu Zhao's mansion, and then went to the eldest princess' mansion together. When they arrived at the eldest princess' mansion, Huo Weilou did not go to the eldest princess because he was afraid of making the eldest princess sick. Going to see the eldest princess, Huo Weilou had a moment of leisure, and took Bo Ruoyou to the garden of the princess mansion.
It is now the beginning of October, the weather is suddenly cold, and the flowers and trees in the garden are less tended by craftsmen, and they are also withering.
Huo Weilou led Bo Ruoyou up a stone bridge, stood on the bridge, and took in most of the garden of the Princess Mansion. Huo Weilou pointed to a courtyard pavilion in the north, "That's where I lived when I was young. Afterwards, I seldom returned to the mansion, until I was granted the Marquis title at the age of eighteen, and I never came back to live in the mansion again."
Bo Ruoyou thought about business and wanted to see it, but Huo Weilou said, "I haven't returned for many years, and all the servants in the garden focus on serving my mother. The rest of the courtyard is deserted, and so is the place where I live."
Bo Ruoyou was afraid that he would be emotionally affected by the scene, so she suppressed this thought and only talked to him on the stone bridge.
It took Cheng Yunzhi to ask for the pulse and see a doctor, and it took longer than they expected. Not long after, Eunuch Fu came to them by himself, and saw that he was the only one. Both Huo Weilou and Bo Ruoyou had doubts on their faces. When they came to the front, Eunuch Fu smiled Said: "Mr. Cheng really has a solution. Just now the eldest princess was a little disturbed when she saw the stranger. Mr. Cheng lit incense and talked to the eldest princess for a while, which made the eldest princess trust him very much. He is now giving the princess Applying the needles, the old servant watched, although the eldest princess was in pain, she didn't show signs of illness."
Huo Weilou said to Bo Ruoyou: "In recent years, many famous doctors and imperial physicians have been invited to the mansion. Some people only have a face-to-face meeting with their mother, but they are not liked by her mother. If these people are allowed to see a doctor for my mother, it is very easy to make her sick. , so normally only Guilan is allowed to pass through the residence."
Bo Ruoyou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, "It's good that Her Royal Highness doesn't reject the adoptive father."
Eunuch Fu laughed and said, "I heard what Mr. Cheng said just now. He has cured such diseases before, and he has cured him. He also wrote about the daily multi-medicine diet, and he drew it slowly. It is very organized."
Huo Weilou was slightly surprised, "Have you been cured of madness?"
He looked at Bo Ruoyou, Bo Ruoyou tilted his head and thought about it for a moment, but he didn't think about it for a while, "It's probably because the adoptive father arrived in Qingzhou before his adoptive father left Beijing. Apart from recuperating his adoptive mother, he almost stopped practicing medicine."
Huo Weilou also guessed this way, and knowing that Cheng Yunzhi had been cured of madness, he trusted and hoped for Cheng Yunzhi more and more.
After waiting for a while, Cheng Yunzhi came out from the inner garden, and when he saw Huo Weilou, Cheng Yunzhi sighed, "His Royal Highness has been ill for many years, and now her body is extremely weak. I prepared the acupuncture method but dare not use it. Now We can only recuperate slowly, so as not to go too far, and recuperate for a year or so to see if it can make her recover a bit."
The Eldest Princess has been ill for more than ten years. She has been seeking medical advice and tried all kinds of remedies. Even Huo Weilou felt that her hope was bleak. Now she heard this and said in relief: "Sir, just follow your own advice." The way to heal my mother is, I don’t want to completely cure my mother now, as long as she no longer hurts me by being moody.”
Cheng Yunzhi has confidence in this, "It's not difficult, at most one year's work, and the first effect will be seen."
The cold wind of late autumn suddenly became warmer. Huo Weilou was in a good mood, and he looked at the eldest princess from a distance in the inner garden. Just now, he invited Bo Ruoyou and Cheng Yunzhi to return to the Marquis Mansion, leaving them to stay in the mansion. After lunch, Cheng Yunzhi will go to Lin's house to see a doctor, while Bo Ruoyou will go to the yamen.
Huo Weilou ordered Zhou Liang to send Cheng Yunzhi to the Lin family, and he himself took Bo Ruoyou to the yamen to meet him.
As the carriage was walking on the road, Huo Weilou held Bo Ruoyou's hand. Although he didn't say much, Bo Ruoyou felt that his heart was extremely uneasy. If you are good to others, you can also treat the eldest princess well."
Since the eldest princess always regarded him as Ding Guogong, their mother and son have been strangers. After the age of fifteen, he clearly had a mother, but it was as if he had no mother. Not only that, the disordered resentment of his biological mother A strong person will eventually find it unbearable. If the eldest princess's condition improves, even if she is still groggy and can't remember things clearly, as long as she can get along with him peacefully, at least he can be filial in front of his mother.
Huo Weilou held her hand tightly, "I know, I believe in your adoptive father."
When they arrived at the yamen, Sun Zhao saw Huo Weilou coming together, so he immediately cheered up. When he asked about the case of the Bird Garden, Sun Zhao took them to the inner warehouse, "When I came back yesterday, Wu Xiang brought two people into the inner warehouse. Ku, he said he was digging through an old case, but he couldn't find it all night, and he is still looking at it today, but they are all rough people, and it's okay to search and find people. It's really embarrassing for them to look at those files, Yamen There are not many Liwen officials... "
As he spoke, he arrived at the entrance of the Neiku, where Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou had been here several times. In the clear sky, Wu Xiang held a book, his eyelids drooped, his head drooped a little, and he almost fell asleep .
"Ahem—"
Sun Zhao coughed, and Wu Xiang woke up suddenly. Seeing Huo Weilou and Bo Ruoyou coming, she stood up with a changed expression, "Master Hou, Xiao Bo—"
Bo Ruoyou entered the door, "Why did the arrester turn over these old files?"
Wu Xiang rubbed her face and suppressed the sleepiness, "Last night, I went to the Bird Garden to ask a craftsman as you said, and I found out that the feather turned out to be the feather of a white parrot. Someone watched, people come and go during the day, so it is not easy to commit murder, so I thought, the place where the murderer killed must not be in the compound."
"After further questioning, I found out that there are more than a dozen top-grade white parrots in the garden. Parrots like camphor wood. A small piece of camphor wood is planted in the northwest of the garden. During the day, parrots will stay there when they come out of their cages. There are also two large water tanks for feeding the birds, and when we went there yesterday, there were indeed parrot feathers floating in the water tanks.”
"The servants in the garden said that they would clean the water tank on weekdays, but there are tiny feathers that are difficult to detect, so there will be omissions. After a month, although we can't find direct evidence, we have traveled all over the garden and still feel that the water tanks are too small. Mulin is the place where Jiang Xing was killed."
It was almost the same as what I expected, Bo Ruoyou felt relieved, and Wu Xiang said again: "After I came back last night, I went to inquire about the old master's yamen. I don’t know that seven or eight years ago there was a troupe from Chaozhou in the capital. Liu Qing said that the troupe was called Zhao’s troupe, and the troupe’s master, the teacher’s father, was called Zhao Qianshan. Ask one thing—”
"A master worker in the theater said that there was indeed a Zhao family troupe in the capital eleven or twelve years ago. They were famous for their miscellaneous operas. Clean, many people died, the troupe didn't know whether he escaped or died, anyway, the troupe disbanded soon, I don't know who reported to the officials, but there were only a group of half-grown children left in the troupe, and finally they didn't find out what happened. If a fire breaks out, the people in the troupe will go their separate ways first."
Bo Ruoyou asked sharply, "Are they lying?"
According to them, the theater troupe that had an accident due to a fire more than ten years ago became a family troupe that could not earn a living seven or eight years ago and disbanded.
If the government only asked about what happened seven or eight years ago, I'm afraid they won't be able to ask about the traces of the Zhao family class anyway, and it will be nothing at that time, and Liu Qing and others are all over the age of double tenth, so at least there were some people when the accident happened. Seven or eight years old, this is not an age that you can't remember.
And the great event that many people died, they should never forget it for the rest of their lives.
Wu Xiang pulled her lips, and said with a sneer: "It's annoying to say, Ye Fei and the others died three people, and the remaining two still refused to talk about the past, and asked if the brothers had any old enemies. , They all kept silent, I guess the murderer will kill next, maybe one of them, now I bring him back to the yamen and lock him up."
Even if he was about to be murdered, he still refused to cooperate with the government. The concealment in this matter can only be judged if he knows what happened back then. Bo Ruoyou knew what Wu Xiang was looking for, so he immediately offered to help, because it was just an old civil case and did not involve The court's secrets, Sun Zhao naturally agreed.
Bo Ruoyou went to help read the old case files, Huo Weilou and Sun Zhao stood together talking, Huo Weilou hadn't gone to court for many days, Sun Zhao picked up all the affairs of the court and talked about it, and while talking, he suddenly remembered something , "There is another incident recently. I don't know if Lord Hou knows it. The young master of Mr. Lin's family had made an engagement earlier, and the betrothed was Xiao Bo's cousin. But just two days ago, the Lin family was going to regret the marriage."
Huo Weilou's eyes were on Bo Ruoyou, and when he heard this, his sword eyebrows slightly raised.