No one in the officialdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty knew Huo Weilou's nature.
Although he has power in the government, he is not close to female sex, and he is most taboo to bring female sex into his work, because of the word "female sex", the number of people who have been investigated by Huo Weilou is countless.
He Cheng was scared out of his wits, "No, no, no, it's not the office of the Qingzhou government office, but the office of the Qingshan County under the jurisdiction of the government."
Huo Weilou is only at the age of a weak crown, but he can stand in front of everyone, but he has an overwhelming momentum like mountains and mountains. His phoenix eyes are narrow, and his voice is more pressing than the cold winter wind, "That Qingzhou tax counts down every year Poor and small county?"
He Cheng was shocked, he didn't expect that Huo Weilou knew a lot about Qingzhou, he was afraid of hurting his subordinates, so he hurriedly asked for help: "Although Miss Bo works as an office worker in the Qingshan County Government, she is not an office worker with lowly nationality and government documents. I won't use her, she... she has been helping the government because she has some medical skills and excellent autopsy methods... "
It's really unheard of for her to be a woman from a lowly background, but not from a lowly background.
On Huo Weilou's face, it was difficult to distinguish between emotions and anger, and he just said: "Women are not allowed to enter any place where the Marquis is on business."
After these words were settled, Huo Weilou raised his steps, and he walked straight past Bo Ruoyou, without letting Bo Ruoyou get up, let alone looking at her again. He is Marquis Wu Zhao who is worshiped by all the people. To him, Bo Ruoyou is like dust on his feet, he doesn't even need to be brushed, just need the wind to blow gently and he will fall into the snow and mud.
Huo Weilou is like this, how can other people pay attention to Bo Ruoyou, everyone followed in silence, although He Cheng was full of apology, but he did not dare to plead for her, everyone came rushing, and the tsunami left, only Bo Ruoyou Still kneeling in the ice and snow.
Although Bo Ruoyou is humble, she has never experienced such contempt, and she feels that even if she gets up and leaves now, she will not disturb that superior Wu Zhaohou.
However, she didn't dare.
The sky was getting darker, and the new wind was blowing up. Bo Ruoyou looked up at the sky where the snow was about to fall, and the sigh was scattered in the wind before it could go far.
As soon as he entered the gate of the courtyard, Huo Weilou's eyes sank. He glanced at the talisman paper gourd and walked straight to the main room. There was a slight change in expression, in the entrance, standing in front of the coffin bed, his eyes swept over the corpse and the paper-tied shadow boy in a nonchalant way.
"When the second deceased, Zheng Wenchen, was pushed down the stairs, why did you conclude that it was the ghost of the old lady?" Huo Weilou had only spent two cups of tea at the mansion, but he had already asked the whole case. Now that he saw the corpse, he asked Vital point.
At this time, a man in Chinese clothes took a step forward and said respectfully: "It was the first seven days of my mother. There was a ritual in the house, and all the children and grandchildren were required to come, but everyone arrived, but the second brother was not there. I went to look for it, and said that the second elder brother had arrived at the Yaoyue Pavilion and locked the door from the inside."
The person who spoke was none other than Zheng Wenyan, the third master of the Marquis of Anqing.
He continued: "We felt something was wrong when we heard it, and at that time we suspected that he had something to do with the death of our mother, so we all went to Yaoyue Pavilion to visit. As soon as we got downstairs, we saw the second brother standing on the edge of the railing on the third floor. Behind him, a figure was not in the darkness, we felt strange, and saw that shadow pushed the second elder brother down, and the robe that the shadow was wearing was the same one that the mother wore when she passed away. robe."
"My mother believes in Buddhism. It is a plain jacket made of crow green embroidered silk with auspicious cloud patterns to imitate the robes of Buddhist monks. There is only one and only one in this world! Because it was worn by my mother when she died, after she changed her shroud and died, she died. According to the rules, the robe has been taken away and burned, and the bright moon hung high that night, even though it was on a high place, we could all see it clearly, and the figure and appearance of the shadow were exactly the same as that of my mother, who was old and had a bent back , and so is the shadow."
After Zheng Wenyan finished speaking, he let out a long sigh, and grief welled up between his brows and eyes, as if he was about to cry, "It is rumored that the appearance of a person when he dies is the appearance of his ghost. My mother has worked hard all her life, but in the end she was killed by her own flesh and blood. This made her soul restless and gave birth to evil spirits."
Huo Weilou glanced sideways at him.
Zheng Wenyan's appearance is quite gentle, he was born in the Marquis Mansion, and he treats people with respect and courtesy, but Huo Weilou's glance made him lower his head quickly, as if the grief on his face was just a thin layer of paper, and Huo Weilou lightly poked him , it broke.
Huo Weilou withdrew his gaze, "So Zheng Wenchen fell to his death?"
Zheng Wenyan hurriedly said: "Exactly, the head was broken and bleeding, and he lost his breath on the spot. The corpse is now parked in the west courtyard wing. If Hou Ye wants to see it, he can go now."
Huo Weilou didn't move, and looked at the old lady's body again, "Prefect He, please tell me."
He Chengnai, the chief officer of the case, was shocked when he heard the sound, and immediately said: "Master Hou, I think that the killing of ghosts is really shocking. Although I saw it with my own eyes, I still have doubts. At that time, the old lady had passed away. It was done by others, and as for the old lady's death, it may be... possibly due to a sudden hidden illness."
After He Cheng finished speaking, he was still trembling with fear. He went to the front hall to discuss the matter of autopsy, but as soon as he arrived in the front yard, he heard that the people sent by the capital had arrived. He was already panicked at that time, and what he didn't expect However, the person who came was not from the Xinyang Houfu, but the Wu Zhaohou who was feared by the officials and people of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty!
Later, it took a long time to pick up the driver and pay respects. Fortunately, Wu Zhaohou quickly asked about the incident, but until he came here, he did not have the opportunity to ask for the autopsy.
Huo Weilou frowned as expected, "Hidden disease?"
He Cheng was about to answer, when Zheng Wenyan cupped his hands and said, "Master Hou, my mother has always been in good health and has no illnesses. Otherwise, she would not have stayed up all night in the 30th night. Therefore, as the magistrate said, absolutely impossible."
He Cheng glanced at Zheng Wenyan with some disapproval, "Third Master, the old lady is old. Although she looks healthy, her internal organs are very likely to suffer from unmentionable diseases. She usually suffers from no symptoms, but at a certain moment she suddenly falls ill Violent death is not impossible."
Zheng Wenyan looked at He Cheng, "This case has been handed over to my lord for half a month. My lord has always said that the cause of my mother's death could not be found out before. Now that Lord Hou is here, there is a rumor of a hidden illness. I don't know why?"
After Zheng Wenyan's polite speech, He Cheng felt a knife on his neck in an instant, and he hurriedly glanced at Huo Weilou, "Third Master's words are wrong, this is not because I am in a hurry, but because I have tested it." !"
Zheng Wenyan sneered, "Which foreman?"
He Cheng raised his finger to Bo Ruoyou outside, "Miss Bo! That's what Miss Bo said!"
The ridicule on Zheng Wenyan's face was even worse, and when he thought of the rumors about Huo Weilou, he was even more unscrupulous, "Your Excellency will believe what you say about a woman! There is my mother's body in this courtyard. It is impolite for you to bring outsiders here without permission. Now , and actually reported a woman's nonsense to Lord Hou, and I don't know what kind of ecstasy drug that woman gave Master He?"
He Cheng was always careful to accompany these dignitaries on weekdays, and he was a clumsy person with a clumsy tongue, how could he handle these soft knives, so he couldn't help but said at this time: "What nonsense? Miss Bo Although she is a woman, she has already helped the government solve several outstanding cases! The government has been an official in Qingzhou for many years, and there is no backlog of cases in hand! Almost all the cases in the past two years have been helped by Miss Bo!"
He Cheng stared angrily, Zheng Wenyan glanced at the calm Huo Weilou, and said with a smile: "Okay, then the magistrate will tell me, what kind of hidden disease did my mother die from?"
Just now He Cheng answered confidently, but this question stumped him, his face froze, "Well... Speaking of this, I have something to ask the third master. And died, but it is He Yinji, she needs another autopsy to make a decision, and this re-examination requires an autopsy, I don't know the third master..."
"What? An autopsy?" Zheng Wenyan's voice suddenly rose, his eyes swept over Huo Weilou, and he suppressed his voice again, but he was still furious, "What is the identity of my mother! How can you allow your autopsy? Besides, my mother's soul is still alive, if you It's hard to let go of her old man's resentment, and if she commits another crime, who will be responsible then?"
Zheng Wenyan gritted his teeth and said: "Don't say she is a little girl, even the Heavenly King Laozi is here! Don't even think about touching my mother's body!"
He Cheng said helplessly: "Third Master, everything is for solving the case, don't you want to know how the old lady died? To really find out the truth of the old lady's death is to comfort the old lady's spirit in heaven."
Zheng Wenyan sneered again and again, and wanted to reprimand again, but Huo Weilou turned around suddenly, he walked out slowly, stood still by the porch, and looked towards the gate of the courtyard.
The cold wind was blowing, the clouds were overwhelming, and in the icy and snowy land, Bo Ruoyou was still kneeling, but her figure was like the bamboo on her cloak, unbroken in the slightest.
Huo Weilou narrowed his eyes, "She came for an autopsy?"
He Cheng hurriedly said, "Yes, Lord Hou."
Zheng Wenyan stood behind and snorted, "Master Hou also thinks it's impossible? That woman looks so young, I think Mr. He was confused by her appearance, and actually believed her! What's more, the government's investigative methods There are so many, why do we have to have an autopsy?"
"Let her autopsy."
Everything in the world is quiet.
Zheng Wenyan looked at Huo Weilou, as if he couldn't believe that those four words just came out of his mouth.
He Cheng was stunned, but he didn't react.
After all, just a moment ago, Huo Weilou also said - women are not allowed to enter the place where he works.
Huo Weilou's words are cold, but the words are very important, there is no doubt, "When the Marquis came here, he was entrusted by the Marquis of Xinyang. If there is any doubt about the death of the old lady, he must find out the reason. For this, he can pay any price. "
The present Marquis of Xinyang is the eldest brother of the old lady.
Zheng Wenyan opened his mouth, but he didn't say a word for a while, not to mention that he was entrusted by the Marquis of Xinyang, but he didn't, if Huo Weilou said it could be autopsyed, who would dare to say no
Huo Weilou's words were the final result, he ordered in a low voice: "Bring people here."
Wu Yangyang followed behind, most of them were Huo Weilou's relatives, and one of them had gray hair at the temples and looked old, but his face was pale and his eyebrows were very light. Compared with other young and serious guards with knives, It is particularly noticeable.
As soon as Huo Weilou finished speaking, he stepped forward with a smile, "I'm going to invite this old servant, it's really pitiful to see you kneeling for so long."
The voice of the mouth is slightly high-pitched, it is actually a father-in-law.
If someone else was in front of Huo Weilou, he would never dare to be so voluntary, but this person is like this, Huo Weilou's expression is normal, he turned his head and looked into the hall, "Remove these things, bring a chair. "
After finishing speaking, Huo Weilou entered the house, and the guards with knives entered the door together, and quickly moved the paper-tied Yin Boy out of the house.
These are the shadowy boys who suppressed the old lady's soul!
Zheng Wenyan and fifth master Zheng Wen'an stood outside the door, with fear in their eyes, but they didn't dare to take a breath.
These guards with swords are embroidered with three-legged and one-eyed golden crow dark pattern with silver thread on each lapel. Even a hundred guts dare not stop him.
Outside the courtyard gate, Bo Ruoyou was frozen to death. She thought helplessly, so this is the famous Wu Zhaohou. It is rumored that he is not close to women. Some people say that he has a hidden disease, and some people say that he likes Longyang...
Bo Ruoyou didn't see whether Huo Weilou had hidden illnesses or whether Longyang was good or not, but he could tell that he really hated women involved in work.
Bo Ruoyou rubbed her knees, and just when she thought she was going to kneel until it got dark, there was a sound of footsteps approaching behind her, and then a slightly weird voice sounded, "Girl, I'm so sorry for making you kneel for so long —”
Bo Ruoyou turned her eyes, and a kind face appeared in front of her the next moment, and the visitor sighed, "Our Lord Hou knows everything, but he doesn't know how to cherish the girl's house. Get up quickly..."
The person in front of him smiled gently, and his tone was gentle and apologetic, Bo Ruoyou was slightly startled, "You are..."
"My surname is Fu, and I am the servant serving Lord Hou."
Bo Ruoyou was stunned, but asked, "But Master Hou ordered me to leave the house?"
Eunuch Fu sneered, "What mansion are you leaving! Master Hou wants you to do an autopsy, get up quickly."
This was really beyond Bo Ruoyou's expectation, she was surprised, Fu Gonggong gave her a hand, and his voice became serious, "Girl, this is your only chance, if you miss it, you will really have to leave the house."
When Bo Ruoyou followed Eunuch Fu to the main room, he saw that the lights inside the door were brightly lit, and all the shadowy children tied with paper had been removed. Huo Weilou Hengdao immediately sat on a wide chair, his gaze fell on the old lady's on the corpse.
Hearing the noise, Huo Weilou glanced over.
Bo Ruoyou also looked at him, unexpectedly, met his eyes again.
With a thud in his heart, Bo Ruoyou quickly lowered his eyes in a submissive gesture, while Huo Weilou raised his brows slightly.
Being threatened by him like that, but there is neither fear nor resentment in his eyes, which is rare.
Standing behind Huo Weilou, He Cheng said at this moment: "Master Hou, Miss Bo is very good at autopsy, as long as she has an autopsy, the old lady's cause of death will be known."
Huo Weilou didn't know whether to be happy or angry, but what he said made Bo Ruoyou and He Cheng's faces change, "If you really know how to test it, then you will stay. If you can't test it, I won't listen to any excuses."
He Cheng's eyes darkened, and he almost fell to his knees. He could understand that if he couldn't check it, it would mean that he had neglected his job, and he hired a woman. Huo Weilou was ruthless in the officialdom, and he was known as the jade-faced Yama. He Cheng faintly felt that his black yarn might not be guaranteed.
In contrast, Bo Ruoyou was calm, her eyebrows seemed to be raised, but her expression soon returned to calm.
Huo Weilou saw it in his eyes, pointed to the corpse, "Go." After a pause, he said again, "All the idlers back down."
The two Zheng Wenyan brothers looked at each other, Fugong said fairly: "Go out and wait, you can't stand it."
Zheng Wenyan and Zheng Wen'an looked at each other, bowed their hands to Huo Weilou before retreating.
Bo Ruoyou untied his cloak and rolled up his cuffs, and selected a knife from the prepared utensils, and when he stood beside the coffin bed, Huo Weilou's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly—because of Bo Ruoyou's body, there appeared a kind of ecstasy. Familiar, almost grimly focused awe.
It was gloomy outside, but a few more oil lamps were added in the house to illuminate everything clearly.
The bright lights also reflected the beautiful face of Bo Ruoyou, Eunuch Fu stood behind Huo Weilou and clicked his tongue, "It's rare, it's rare, a beauty is beautiful when seen under the light, and there is a corpse next to it, and the beauty is even more beautiful .”
His voice was so low that Bo Ruoyou, who was concentrating on the autopsy, didn't hear him, but He Cheng and Huo Weilou did.
He Cheng was sweating profusely because of Huo Weilou's words. He glanced sideways, and saw Huo Weilou's gaze was falling deeply on Bo Ruoyou's face. He Cheng was startled. There are only a handful of them in Qingzhou City, and no matter how abstinent Huo Weilou is, he is still an adult man, could it be...
As soon as this idea came out, Huo Weilou's gaze slipped down and landed on Bo Ruoyou's knife calmly. Obviously, compared with Bo Ruoyou's face, Huo Weilou wanted to see how she would cut open the carrion in front of him .
He Cheng was dumbfounded, thinking that the rumors were indeed true!
Bo Ruoyou's first knife cut precisely three inches below the corpse's ribs.
The old lady passed away for many days, her body was rotten and swollen, especially her chest and abdomen. At this moment when the flesh was cut open, a rotten smell that had accumulated in the abdominal cavity for many days suddenly came out. Both He Cheng and Eunuch Fu frowned subconsciously, but Bo Ruoyou's eyebrows It has not changed, and her movement of cutting the flesh of the corpse is as ordinary as cutting tofu.
The belly was cut open, revealing the rotten and discolored internal organs. To ordinary people, it would be difficult to distinguish a mass of dirt, but Bo Ruoyou carefully rummaged through it, her expression was serious, her black pupils were like knives, As if any abnormality could not escape her eyes, such a thinness almost made people feel sacred and solemn.
Don't say that there are no ghosts in the world, even if there really are ghosts, I would never dare to get close to her.
The lights in the main room were dimmed and then brightened, and outside the door, the night was completely shrouded. The small courtyard was hidden in the snowy night, revealing a sense of sadness and horror for no reason. Inside the house, Bo Ruoyou's slender and fair fingers were soaked in the cold corpse water, but her hand holding the knife was still steady. After almost an hour, she exhaled and straightened up.
There was a thin layer of sweat hanging on his forehead, and Bo Ruoyou was obviously a little tired, He Cheng couldn't wait to ask: "Xiao Bo, how are you?"
"The old lady died of a hidden illness indeed."
As soon as Bo Ruoyou opened his mouth, he determined the cause of the old lady's death.
"A large amount of congestion was found in the abdominal wall of the corpse. This is due to the formation of blood vessels in the abdomen, the blood stasis, and then the blood vessels swelled and then ruptured. This hidden disease has been going on for two or three years, but there were no symptoms at first. It is extremely difficult to detect, and within three months, the old lady should have back pain, but back pain is very common for the elderly, and it must have been ignored by the people in the house."
He Cheng hurriedly asked: "So, the old lady was not murdered?"
Bo Ruoyou frowned, and there seemed to be hesitation in her eyes.
Huo Weilou never opened his mouth, but now he said: "It's okay to be straightforward."
Bo Ruoyou pursed her lips, "According to the amount of blood congestion in the old lady's abdominal cavity and the degree of rupture of the blood collaterals, the size of the knots is not large enough to break on its own. It is stated in medical books that the blood collaterals in the abdomen are knotted, and the blood collaterals It can be swollen to the size of a cup, and at that time, even if it is just lying down, it can rupture, but the blood in the old lady's abdomen is only the size of a walnut at most, and if there is no accident, she should not suffer from the disease and die suddenly."
Bo Ruoyou described it concretely, and Huo Weilou said, "What kind of situation will make it sick?"
Bo Ruoyou thought about it for a while: "Tired from work, extremely angry, or bumping into people, such as pushing and bumping, all of them may induce the onset of illness..."
It is definitely impossible for the old lady to suffer from hard work, but if it is the latter two situations, it is very suspicious.
Huo Weilou looked outside the door: "Let Zheng Wenyan in."
Bo Ruoyou tidied up the corpse considerately, soon Zheng Wenyan and Zheng Wenan entered the room, before they had time to take a look at the old lady's body, they heard Huo Weilou ask, "Tell me about the old lady's passing and passing away."
Zheng Wenyan didn't know the results of the autopsy yet. Hearing Huo Weilou's question, he hurriedly said: "On Chinese New Year's Eve, my mother insists on keeping the year old. She believes in Buddhism, and sometimes she spends all night copying scriptures in the Buddhist hall, so after a little persuasion, she never I thought it was just an ordinary night, but I didn't expect that she was found dead in the Buddhist hall early the next morning."
"The night before was New Year's Eve, and my mother didn't let the servants serve her when she was in the Buddhist hall, so she was the only one in the Buddhist hall that night. It was only the second day when the maid opened the door of the Buddhist hall that I found out that something happened to my mother. Lying neatly in front of the altar, the whole person seemed to be asleep, but when he walked up to him, he realized that he had already passed away and his body was cold... "
Bo Ruoyou's expression suddenly became a little unbearable, Huo Weilou seemed to be able to see all directions, and looked over in the next moment, "How is it?"
Bo Ruo said in a deep voice: "Master Hou, my lord, this hidden disease attacks very quickly, and the onset is swift and violent. At that time, people will have abdominal pains like colic, and the pain is unbearable. If the old lady has such symptoms, it will take two cups of tea to get the pain." Will die, when there is no one outside the room at night, the old lady will be tortured to death."
An old man was tortured to death and no one knew about it, it is really sympathetic.
However, Bo Ruoyou hadn't finished speaking yet, "It's a heart-wrenching pain, and people have to struggle and call for help, but the next morning, the old lady was lying on the ground in neat clothes... If what the third master said is true, then, In the Buddhist hall that night, there must be a second person."
At this point, Bo Ruoyou's voice turned cold.
"That person, seeing the old lady in pain, not only did not save the old lady, but might even stop the old lady from calling for help. After the old lady died, she even helped her arrange her clothes, making it look like she was falling asleep."
The quiet needle drop could be heard in the room, Huo Weilou looked at Bo Ruoyou, his eyes warmed up for the first time.