Bo Ruoyou suddenly felt strange, "Why did the adoptive father say such a thing?"
Cheng Yunzhi turned his gaze away from her, and his tone was undeniable and undeniable, "Anyway, listen to me, I have to prepare for your wedding in the next few days, and I will go to Xiulou to fix a wedding dress for you tomorrow, and I will tell you everything." Now, let's put this case aside for now, hasn't Hu Yuzuo returned to the yamen?"
Cheng Yunzhi met Hu Changqing in the sick camp, and knew the situation in the yamen. Bo Ruoyou looked at him for a moment, and said along the way: "To make wedding clothes? That's fine, I'll go to the Xiulou first tomorrow."
After a pause, Bo Ruoyou still couldn't help but said, "But this matter doesn't conflict with the case, why doesn't foster father want me to investigate this case?"
Cheng Yunzhi frowned slightly, with a serious expression on his face, "You listen to me, it's freezing cold now, and the yamen is not an endless business, and I can't bear for you to run around and suffer."
After speaking, he didn't want to stay any longer, and told her to rest earlier and went back to the room.
Looking at the direction Cheng Yunzhi left, Bo Ruoyou was suspicious for a while, used some soup to go back to the room to wash and lie down, still not understanding why Cheng Yunzhi said that suddenly tonight.
Since persuading Cheng Yunzhi to let her learn how to make money, he has seldom prevented her from conducting an autopsy to push the case. Although the case is difficult to solve this time, it is really strange that Cheng Yunzhi refuses to allow her to investigate it.
Cheng Yunzhi treats her like his own daughter. If he stops her, there is only one reason - this case may not be good for her.
When she fell asleep in a daze, Bo Ruoyou still hadn't figured out what was wrong with her in this case.
In the early morning of the second day, Bo Ruoyou got up and followed Cheng Yunzhi to the East Market. This time, preparing the dowry was nothing else, but she had to come to the embroidery building to make the wedding dress herself. Cheng Yunzhi also wanted to make the wedding dress She chooses what she likes. Although Bo Ruoyou was given a marriage, she only had a real sense of it when she went to Xiulou and saw all the things she wanted to marry.
Xiu Niang had already made an appointment, Cheng Yunzhi had tea downstairs, and Bo Ruoyou had her body measured upstairs, which was very neat, and within half an hour, the father and daughter returned home, but how could she really ignore the yamen's affairs? case
Bo Ruoyou was waiting for Huo Weilou to pick her up.
Before noon, the carriages and horses of the Hou's Mansion stopped in front of Cheng Zhai. When Bo Ruoyou heard that someone was coming, he greeted him personally, opened the door and winked at Huo Weilou, and said softly: "Don't say goodbye The adoptive father said that we should go to the yamen, that we should visit His Royal Highness the eldest princess."
Huo Weilou raised his eyebrows, and when he saw Cheng Yunzhi also coming out from the inside, he went forward and greeted Cheng Yunzhi, and when Cheng Yunzhi asked where he was going to take Bao Ruoyou, Huo Weilou said in an ordinary tone: "Mr. After a few minutes, I want to take Youyou to visit my mother."
Cheng Yunzhi had no doubts, he had treated the eldest princess for two months, and he knew that the eldest princess was suffering, and the two juniors cared for her, which was naturally excellent, so he didn't say much, and watched them leave Cheng Zhai.
After getting into the carriage, Huo Weilou looked at Bo Ruoyou leisurely, and Bo Ruoyou sighed, "I don't know what's wrong with my adoptive father. I came back last night and told him about the case, but he didn't let me take care of it anymore. Could it be... Because I have been married to the Marquis, you don’t want me to be contaminated with these? Afraid it will be bad for the marriage?”
After she finished her analysis like this, she didn't believe it, she sighed and said, "But foster father is not such a pedantic person."
Not to mention Bo Ruoyou, even Huo Weilou was a little surprised, after much deliberation, he still comforted him: "Xu Shi felt that the murderer in this case was quite strange, and the place where the crime happened was outside the city, and now the yamen has another agent, I don't want you to work hard."
Although these reasons fit Cheng Yunzhi's words, they are not convincing. Bo Ruoyou frowned and worried, and Huo Weilou gave her a tender hand, "He must have some worries to make this happen, so what do you do?" Intend?"
Bo Ruoyou pondered for a while, "If it's not necessary, I'll go out of the city, and I'll ask Hu Yuzuo to help a lot, but Lord Hou knows that I'm afraid that there are old cases that have been missed in these years, so I want to go to the yamen to look at the files."
Huo Weilou naturally understood, "Forget it, I'll cover for you once."
Said so on the surface, his eyes were a little dark, and he was wondering why Cheng Yunzhi stopped Bo Ruoyou from investigating this case.
When they arrived at the yamen, Wu Xiang hadn't returned yet. Bo Ruoyou called Hu Changqing to meet Sun Zhao together. When the case was reported, Sun Zhao's expression changed slightly, "It's just a life case under this year's festival. Some old cases?"
Sun Zhao didn't delay, and took a few people to the inner treasury. Bo Ruoyou was no stranger to this place. When Sun Zhao called the civil servants, they looked through the old files again according to the clues they got the day before yesterday. Come.
Bo Ruoyou and Hu Changqing said: "The murderers target children around six or seven years old, so the victims we are looking for are six or seven-year-old children. The unresolved murder and disappearance cases start from the 17th year of Jianhe until the 17th year of Jianhe. Now, I have to search again." After a slight pause, she continued: "To be on the safe side, the age is not fixed, and it is fine to be under ten years old."
This is even more difficult than finding the records of the Zhaojiaban fire before. The files in the past 14 years have to be reviewed. Every year, there are many people who get lost, abducted, and children die in accidents. Screening is required so as not to make a mistake.
Bo Ruoyou said again: "The murderer likes to lure the children to a place where there is no one with their favorite things first, and then take them away. It will not harm them violently, but it will drain their blood, so the body of the deceased There were small wounds, most of these wounds were on the feet, and the state of death was mostly from excessive blood loss, or there were other causes of death, but there was also a lot of blood loss."
The more clues there are, the easier it is for everyone to screen. Bo Ruoyou is afraid of missing something, and he dare not be too strict with the conditions. Now this case is the latest, so the civil servants plan to search backwards. There is no objection, because she can't be sure whether Ming Guilan was really almost murdered back then.
Looking at the files is a very boring job, and Wu Xiang is still outside the city, most likely because he has not got accurate and powerful clues, the officials will find out the suspicious files separately, and then Bo Ruoyou will follow along to avoid missing anything. After being busy for half a day, he actually found a few eligible cases.
"Only 30 years after Jianhe, that is, last year, five children from inside and outside the capital have gone missing and have not returned. The youngest lost is five years old, and the oldest is eight years old. The murder case is okay. There are only two cases, one is four years old and one is four years old. Six years old."
Bo Ruoyou marked the files in front of her, and said, "A child fell into the river in summer and died. When he was found, the body was swollen and there were many wounds on his body. The person who performed the autopsy at that time—"
Hu Changqing raised his hand from the long case, "I'm the one doing the autopsy."
After he finished speaking, he walked over, because it was last year, and he still had some impressions, "This child was indeed drowned, because there was a lot of sand in his mouth and nose, and the signs on his face also looked like he was drowned, but his body There were traumas, especially the wounds on the feet, and there was a lot of blood, but I thought at the time that the child was cut by the stones on the water floor when he fell into the water and struggled."
While listening and watching, Bo Ruoyou noticed that the child's family was in the south of the city, the mother was sick in bed, and the father was doing hard labor, so he lost custody and let the child run out to play in the water, and the time of death was in summer, it seemed that Not quite.
She looked at the second murder case for the time being, "There was an accident on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month last year, and she was found dead under the ancient city wall in the south of the city. She fell to her death."
Hu Changqing immediately said: "It's like this. Although I don't know how to do an autopsy, I can touch the bones. He was lying on the ground on his shoulders and side, and his bones were completely broken. When he was found, there was a lot of blood under his body. Everyone in the ancient city wall It’s all available, but it was later determined to be an accident.”
These dead are all autopsied by Hu Changqing, he naturally has the most right to speak, and the detailed records of the yamen's investigation and visits on the file do not mention the children being coaxed and abducted, etc., and the clues related to the murderer It doesn't even match.
She was in a bit of trouble, but at this moment, a servant from the Yamen suddenly walked to the door, "Master Hou, the county lord, the young master of Ming Tai's doctor's family is here to visit."
Both Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou's expressions changed, Ming Guilan was able to come to the Yamen to look for them, could it be that he remembered something
Bo Ruoyou ordered Hu Changqing to watch in Neiku, and he and Huo Weilou went to the front hall to meet Ming Guilan, Sun Zhaoben was dealing with errands in the nearby yamen, so he rushed over after hearing the words.
Ming Guilan's complexion was very bad, as if he hadn't slept all night, when he saw them, he cut to the chase and said: "I thought about it all night last night, and I did think of some details. I didn't explain it clearly, but last night I found out how the child died, and I suddenly felt wrong."
Bo Ruoyou's eyes tightened, and he looked at Ming Guilan motionlessly, and he continued: "At that time, I was taken away, and my consciousness was sometimes chaotic and sometimes still a little clear. When he brought me back to the ruined temple, he touched the veins of my bones, from the blood vessels on the side of the neck all the way down to the soles of my feet, and he even put his hand on my veins to breathe."
"At that time, I regarded that gangster as a kidnapper. I only thought that before he kidnapped me, he had to check my health, whether I was strong, whether I had any disabilities, or to see if I was really fainted." Ming Ming Gui Lan said with deep eyes: "But now that I think about it, he seems to know the arrangement of blood vessels in a person's body, and his inspection like that seems to be determining how to open a wound on my body to bleed."
Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but her black pupils lit up, "Is there absolutely no mistake?"
Ming Guilan shook his head, "I can't remember wrongly. I studied medicine later, and I can still vividly remember the events of that year. I had doubts about it in my heart, but I just thought that that person seemed to be from a rich family. Maybe I really know medical skills, and I heard that kidnappers never abduct weak and sick children, so I didn't think much about it."
Ordinary people, who would have thought that a murderer would be so cruel to bleed a child's body
Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou both looked deep in thought, at this time Ming Guilan said again: "Besides, I also remembered that I heard a special voice in a daze at that time, it wasn't that you guys said yesterday rattle, but a bell-like sound…”