Bo Ruoyou started to have a fever when she returned to the city. After Ming Guilan asked for her pulse, she only said that she was attacked by a cold evil after being frightened.
Ming Guilan was waiting outside, Huo Weilou came into the inner room with a medicine bowl, Bo Ruoyou's cheeks were abnormally red, but her lips were a little purple, she fell asleep for a while in the afternoon of.
Huo Weilou helped her up, fed her the medicine himself, and after drinking the medicine, he used some soup, and then he regained some vitality.
"You didn't move while you were drinking a cup of tea in the house. I couldn't help but go in and see you, and saw you lying on the ground, as if you were in a nightmare again." Huo Weilou's pupils were dark, and his brows were unconsciously wrinkled.
Bo Ruoyou only felt that she was in a moment of confusion, but she didn't know that she had been in the house for so long. She raised her hand to caress the center of Huo Weilou's eyebrows, and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't worry, Lord Hou, I'm fine now. Drink for two days." The medicine will heal."
She glanced outside, "Where is Mr. Ming?"
Huo Weilou showed suspicion, Bo Ruoyou said: "Master Hou, I remembered a scene in a trance at that time, according to my thinking, it should be true."
"Is the murderer injured?"
"Yes, I was only five years old at the time. If I was chased by a grown man, I would not be able to escape no matter what." She slowly raised her right hand and moved her weak fingers, "Unless I got hurt He, even though I am young, if he is defenseless and I happen to touch a sharp weapon, I can still make him see blood."
Huo Weilou then asked: "Where is the murderer's injury, may I remember?"
Bo Ruoyou groaned for a moment, "I think I'm not tall, and I might trip and fall to the ground. The murderer has to squat down, and the injuries... most likely will be on the murderer's left arm, shoulder, or chest."
Listening to her description, Huo Weilou suddenly thought of something, his eyes suddenly sharpened, "The left arm, shoulder and chest..."
He looked at Bo Ruoyou, "This is exactly where Uncle Zhongyi was injured."
Bo Ruoyou's head was in a daze, and she didn't think of it at first, but when Huo Weilou said this, she also jumped up, "Yes, Uncle Zhongyi's injury—"
Uncle Zhongyi was injured in alchemy. After hearing the report from the embroidered clothes envoy, it seemed like an accident. But it happened at the very moment when they found out the three suspects. Was it an accident
"Master Hou said, if he knows that we have found the three of them, and he is afraid that I will remember the old things, so he makes this accident and burns himself, so that he can cover up the old scars? If so, then the scars left by that year will indeed be covered up. Erase!"
Bo Ruoyou frowned, this was a scene she could easily recall, if Uncle Zhongyi really used this method to get rid of the scars, what should he do
She propped herself up anxiously and sat up, "Severe burns will cause skin and flesh to fester, and no matter how deep the old scars are, they will be hidden—"
"Don't worry." Huo Weilou took the pillow and let her lean on it, "The more anxious the murderer is, the more flaws he will reveal. He took such a risk to cause such an accident, but it attracted our attention. Even if the scars are gone, just use some If you investigate deeply, you will definitely find clues.”
Bo Ruoyou could hear it, "What will Master Hou do?"
Huo Weilou pondered for a while, "Since you remember the injury, I'll have someone investigate Cao Yan and Wei Huan first. If these two are excluded, Feng Qin's suspicion will become even greater. He has been cultivating outside the city for the past few years. In the eyes of everyone, it is nothing but ordinary, but killing people to take blood and setting up altars, these actions are absolutely impossible to be normal, but everyone has never paid attention to it."
Bo Ruoyou endured the headache and thoughts raced through his mind, "But if he is the murderer, what is his motive? He has been abstinent in his life, he came from a family, but he has no love for official career, and he has worked hard to cultivate Taoism these years, and it seems that he has no desires. "
Huo Weilou narrowed his eyes and pondered, and soon, he said in a cool voice: "He really devoted himself to cultivating Taoism, it seems that after the death of Princess Anyang, he also gave up his official career in the imperial court for Princess Anyang."
Suddenly, he said coldly: "Not only that, when his eldest son Feng Yu died, he was only five years old."
Bo Ruoyou's eyes trembled, "The children who were victimized were only a few years old. The technique of death can not only seek immortality, but also bring people back to life. Could it be that he did it for his dead wife and children?" ?”
"Anyone in Beijing who knows Uncle Loyalty knows that he has a deep affection for Princess Anyang, and when he lost his wife and children, it is indeed possible that he had a demon in his heart and went astray. Here, I will order the Chief Envoy to investigate. "
After finishing speaking, he asked again, "Do you want to see Guilan?"
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "I have a question."
Huo Weilou put on a robe for her, stood up and let Ming Guilan enter the inner room, Bo Ruoyou saw him and asked: "Is the low cabinet you put in that room the same as what you saw in the ruined temple back then?"
Ming Guilan nodded, "It's almost the same. For this reason, I went to Xiangguo Temple. In their Buddhist hall, the low cabinets for placing incense candles and scriptures are also of the same height."
Bo Ruoyou frowned, Huo Weilou asked, "Is there something weird about the cabinet?"
"Two people can't hide in the closet." Bo Ruoyou's heartstrings tensed unconsciously when he thought of the cramped and dark place in the closet, "The closet is divided into upper and lower levels, and the lower level can barely hide one person The upper floor is shorter, and it is impossible to hide in. If my brother and I hid together, it would have been absolutely impossible."
Ming Guilan also said: "Before I found the low cabinet, I thought that if the cabinet was not divided, it would be nothing to hide two people, but in Buddhist temples, such impractical cabinets will not be placed."
Bo Ruoyou coughed twice, "Every time I imitate my younger brother's behavior unconsciously, I always hide in. I guess my younger brother did hide in that night, and when I'm with him, if only If you can hide from one person... it is only possible for him to hide."
But if only one person can hide in the closet, where should she go
Bo Ruoyou couldn't figure it out, but said: "Li Shen's confession doesn't make sense, and he didn't mention being stabbed. Presumably, he didn't have any injuries on his body. If he mentioned it, it would be exposed."
She still couldn't remember the whole picture of that night, but for Huo Weilou, this was enough.
The night fell slowly, the broken snow during the day turned into heavy snow, and the whole capital city was completely white, Ming Guilan asked Bo Ruoyou for pulse and left the house, Huo Weilou summoned Lu Ke and Sun Zhao, they don't know what happened today, they only heard from Huo Weilou that the murderer was injured.
Lu Ke asked: "What do you mean by Lord Hou, first try to find out about Wei Huan and Cao Yan?"
Huo Weilou nodded, "It shouldn't be difficult."
Lu Ke should be right, and Huo Weilou looked at Sun Zhao again, "Did you find the stable woman that the yamen was looking for?"
Sun Zhao shook his head with a bitter face, "I haven't found it yet, and it's very likely that Mrs. Wen is no longer in this world."
Huo Weilou's phoenix eyes narrowed, "In addition to checking whether the two people are injured, I will also focus on checking Uncle Zhongyi's Biezhuang outside the city to see if he has renovated the house over the years. In addition, send someone to inquire about his past affairs with Princess Anyang, and see if he has any female relatives around him these years."
Feng Qin doesn't need to continue, but he is a big man, and he will probably have concubines by his side. Huo Weilou wants to know how much Feng Qin misses Princess Anyang all these years.
Both Sun Zhao and Lu Ke didn't know why he asked Feng Qin and Princess Anyang, but the two of them didn't dare to ask more questions, and soon they took orders to leave the house. Huo Weilou got up and went back to the inner room, making arrangements with Bo Ruoyou, she Then feel at ease.
The night was getting dark, Huo Weilou said: "Stay here tonight, so as not to cause trouble on the road, I will send someone to tell Mr. Cheng."
The fever on Bo Ruoyou's forehead did not subside, and she was afraid that this appearance would frighten Cheng Yunzhi, so she agreed. Now that she is resting in Huo Wei's building, it reminds her that she was also resting here when she was taken away and fell ill. At that time, she didn't know Huo Weilou's thoughts, she just felt quite panic.
"I've occupied Master Hou's bed, and I'm going to trouble Master Hou to go to the study."
Huo Weilou touched her forehead and said helplessly, "I can't rest here?"
Bo Ruoyou blushed, Huo Weilou pointed to the long couch under the window in the distance, "You are sick, I will not disturb you, you were shocked today, I'm afraid something will happen again tonight."
Today, she was not disturbed by the stimulation, nor did she recall what happened that night in horror. Bo Ruoyou said in her heart that it is difficult to get rid of the demons for many years, and she was afraid of getting sick in her sleep, but she never expected that there would be something wrong that night Huo Weilou's guarding made her sleep soundly all night.
After noon on the second day, Lu Ke entered the Hou's Mansion exhausted.
Bo Ruoyou was able to get up, and listened to Lu Ke's report in the study with Huo Weilou.
"Last night, my subordinates learned from the investigation of the brothel and painting boat that Cao Yan and Wei Huan had been to, that the two are as rich as gold and jade, and there is no injury on their bodies."
Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou looked at each other, and Lu Ke continued: "The time is too short, and there are not many old things related to Princess Anyang. I only know that Uncle Zhongyi went to Huai'an when he was still the eldest son. At that time, I reunited with the Anyang princess who had grown up, and he stayed in Prince Zhong's mansion for a few days, probably because of this friendship was born."
"The two of them were quite harmonious after they got married. The servants who left from Uncle Zhongyi's mansion said that in the few years after marriage, the two of them were inseparable. Because Princess Anyang suffered a loss after giving birth to the first son, Uncle Zhongyi returned I use the medicine myself, and I don’t want to make the Princess Anyang happy again, so the second son of the Bo’s mansion is five years younger than the eldest son.”
"Princess Anyang's body is weak. After she was pregnant with the second son, her body was not as good as before, and her mood was changeable, and she was quite irritable. During that time, Uncle Zhongyi changed many servants, and Uncle Zhongyi was very considerate to her. , and loved him very much, taking care of everything personally, and even forbidding the eldest son to bother his mother. After Anyang passed away, Uncle Zhongyi did not leave the house for three months. At that time, he dismissed a large number of servants. A day of innocence has begun."
Lu Ke said this in one breath, and he felt a little bit embarrassed, "I have inquired about the current servants of Uncle Zhongyi's mansion and found out that Uncle Zhongyi has no female relatives around him these years, not only no concubine, but even a maidservant. Usually, he is served by a servant , and in the other villas outside the city, there are only a few rough envoys to take care of them."
There are only a few rough servants to take care of...
Although it shows that Bo Zhongyi's practice of Taoism is difficult, it also shows that there are few people in Zhuangzi, and it is easy to deceive people's eyes and ears.
"However, it's a little weird. Uncle Zhongyi may be afraid of being emotionally affected by the scene. Over the years, he rarely went to the tombs of Anyang Princess and the Eldest Prince to pay homage. Every time during the Ching Ming Festival, he only asked the Second Young Master to pay homage."
Bo Ruoyou frowned in puzzlement, "Aren't you going to sacrifice?"
Lu Ke nodded, "It was learned from the mouth of the uncle's family."
Bo Ruoyou suddenly asked: "When did Anyang Princess and Eldest Prince pass away?"
"The twelfth lunar month of the fourteenth year of Jianhe."
Bo Ruoyou hurriedly went to look at Huo Weilou, Huo Weilou's eyes were also dim, "There are too many coincidences, and the murderers mostly committed crimes in winter, as if commemorating their death days."
At this time, Luke said again: "As for the villa outside his city, first of all, the location is very secluded, and Uncle Zhongyi likes to be quiet, and in these years, the Zhuangzi has hardly been renovated, and Uncle Zhongyi rarely invites people to visit the Zhuangzi. On the contrary, there are servants who often buy medicine ores, the only strange thing is that Uncle Zhongyi is a person who likes coolness very much."
Huo Weilou raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"
Lu Ke said: "Because there are few people in his Zhuangzi, we didn't dare to scare the snake with the most confidant. We only found two servants who had done shopping in the Zhuangzi. They both said that Uncle Zhongyi went to Zhuangzi every summer. When they go to enjoy the cool weather, they will be asked to buy a lot of ice and send it to the Zhuangzi, and the amount of ice used is almost the amount used by several counties in the city."
Huo Weilou thought for a moment, "He likes alchemy, the alchemy room must be stuffy, and it's normal to use a lot of ice."
Bo Ruoyou said: "The dan room is hot all year round, so can he use ice in spring and autumn?"
Lu Ke nodded, "It's also used, but less than in summer. Every year in winter, he will send people to collect ice and send it to the village—"
Huo Weilou suddenly asked: "Did Nabo Mansion ever use a lot of ice?"
Lu Ke hesitated, seeing his expression, Huo Weilou knew that there was no detailed investigation here, so he told him, "Go and investigate more carefully, especially the difference between whether he is in the mansion or not, and it doesn't have to be too long. Just check this year and last year, the time is not that long, and you can check it clearly."
Lu Ke should be, Huo Weilou frowned and said: "Although there are doubts, they are not necessarily important clues. What can I do with a lot of ice?"
Bo Ruoyou pondered for a while without saying a word. At this moment, a look of horror appeared in her eyes, "Using a lot of ice, I only thought of a somewhat frightening possibility—"