"Zheng Yunni is gone?"
The embroiderer nodded, then turned to look at Merlin.
Huo Weilou looked narrowly, and sure enough, he saw a servant girl standing outside anxiously.
Huo Weilou immediately said: "Call Zheng Wen'an and Zheng Wenrong."
The embroidered envoy was ordered to leave. At this time, He Cheng and other embroidered envoys also came up from the bottom of the well. The embroidered envoy who was in charge of searching for other forks said: "Master Hou, the other forks lead to the southwest and northwest of the mansion. The lotus pond, which leads to the outside of the mansion due north, has been blocked by silt, and no more human traces have been found in these places."
Huo Weilou nodded, "Collect all the things in the dark room under the ancestral hall."
At this time, Bo Ruoyou stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, it is impossible for Miss Zheng to disappear for no reason."
When the murderer killed Zheng Wenyan and Zheng Wenchen twice before, they lured them away from their permanent residence before attacking them. Now that Zheng Yunni suddenly disappeared, Bo Ruoyou was very worried, but Huo Weilou looked calm, and he ordered A few embroidered clothes envoys stayed behind and led the others towards the outside of the Merlin.
The maidservant beside Zheng Yunni was named Huayi, when she saw Huo Weilou striding forward with someone, she immediately knelt down on the ground, "I pay my respects to Lord Hou."
Huo Weilou looked down at her condescendingly, "When did Zheng Yunni disappear?"
Huayi was about to cry, and said with red eyes: "Just two hours ago, the eldest lady said that she wanted to go out by herself and not allow the servants to follow, so the servants stayed in the yard. Later, the eldest lady did not come back after dark. , The servants came out to look for it, but when they went out and asked the guards along the way, they said that they hadn't seen the eldest lady, and the eldest lady disappeared not long after leaving the courtyard... "
Huayi wiped away tears, looking at the dark forest all around, her eyes filled with horror.
"Did she have any abnormalities before she left?"
Huayi shook her head, "No, nothing unusual..."
Although Huayi said so, her eyes drooped, and Huo Weilou's voice turned cold, "Now that the murderer is hiding in the mansion, your young lady is very likely to be in danger. If you hide something, do you know what the consequences will be?"
Huo Weilou was already imposing, but now his voice was cold, Huayi felt that his gaze was like a knife hanging above his head.
Her shoulders trembled slightly, and the corners of Huayi's lips twitched and she raised her head, "Miss... Miss has been very bad-tempered these past few days. After the third master died, Miss said that the murderer was coming to kill her next. For two nights, the servants and servants were allowed to spend the night with her in the inner room. This afternoon, when the eldest lady learned from the servants that Lord Hou had brought people to dig the well, her complexion suddenly changed. She stayed in the room very anxiously. After a while, he said that he would go out to see the eldest lady, but after going... this time, he never came back. "
He left after hearing that they had come to dig the well.
Bo Ruoyou frowned, Zheng Yunni actually knew about the underground dark room
Huayi shrunk her shoulders and her face was full of fear. At this time, Zheng Wen'an and Zheng Wenrong came in a hurry from a distance. They walked up to Huo Weilou and bowed their hands first to salute. Zheng Wenrong only looked solemn, but Zheng Wenan looked over Huo Weilou's shoulder. She moved behind him, followed by a slight change in her expression.
Zheng Wen'an said: "Master Hou, what orders does Master Hou have?"
Zheng Wen'an lowered his head, his tone was a little nervous, Huo Weilou looked at him, "Zheng Yunni is gone."
Zheng Wen'an suddenly raised his head, a trace of shock appeared on his usually gentle face, "How could Yun Ni disappear... Could it be... Please Lord Hou save Yun Ni, it must be... the murderer must kill her!"
Zheng Wenrong was also a little anxious, "How can Yun Ni disappear when she is so good..."
"Why did the murderer kill her?" Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Wen'an with cold eyes.
Zheng Wen'an's back was stiff, and the hand that fell on his side was clenched and opened, opened and clenched into a fist, and finally said: "The murderer... the murderer has enmity with the people in our house, Yun Ni is the young lady, so she will naturally become the target of the murderer. "
A cold look appeared in Huo Weilou's eyes, Bo Ruoyou also frowned, Eunuch Fu sighed, but his eyes became indifferent.
The corners of Huo Weilou's lips curved into a cold arc, "At this point, you still refuse to say that the reason why you think Zheng Yunni will be murdered by the murderer is because... Zheng Yunni's birthday is not the seventh day of February at all, but the fifth day of February. "
Zheng Wen'an's eyes trembled fiercely, "Master Hou...how can Master Hou say this, Yun Ni's birthday was sent to Beijing early in the morning, no... there can be no fake..."
Zheng Wenrong was a little puzzled, looked at Zheng Wen'an, then looked at Huo Weilou, but he didn't ask any questions.
However, before Huo Weilou could finish his sentence, he said word by word: "The fifth day of February in the fifteenth year of Jianhe was half past Yin, which is a cloudy year."
Zheng Wenrong's complexion changed, but Huo Weilou continued, "And Zheng Yunni's birthday is not only fake, she also has a twin sister."
These words made Zheng Wenrong and Zheng Wen'an froze like thunder.
Zheng Wenrong was shocked, while Zheng Wenan was terrified.
Huo Weilou's words were as cold as iron, Zheng Wen'an couldn't help but raise his head at this moment, no matter how hard he tried to hide it, his eyes were flustered, the corners of his lips were trembling, but he couldn't say a whole sentence, "Why...how? meeting… "
Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Wen'an's expression became more and more cold, "Sixteen years ago, because of the twin daughters, you changed all the servants of the Hou's Mansion. When this case happened, we knew that the murderer left behind the words 'yinnianyinshi' Afterwards, you will know that the murderer must be an insider of what happened back then. After discussing with Nanny Yu, you decided to destroy the dark room under the ancestral hall so that we can't find out, because the evidence in it is not a piece of paper. A piece of clothing, but a whole house where the living people were imprisoned, you have no time to destroy all traces, so you have to burn the ancestral hall as well."
The blood on Zheng Wenan's face faded instantly, "Master Hou, there is no proof..."
"You want evidence?" Huo Weilou said without any emotion, the more so, the more frightening he was, "The ancestral hall was burned, and most of the dark room under it collapsed, but you didn't expect that the dark room is the same as what was left many years ago. The underground canal is connected, not only did the people you hid die, but they escaped by themselves, and it was her who came to avenge you cold-blooded relatives."
Zheng Wen'an suddenly raised his eyes to look at Huo Weilou, his eyes were full of shock and fear, as if his worst guess had finally been proved and he couldn't bear it, as soon as his knees softened, he took two steps back and was about to fall.
Zheng Wenrong quickly supported him, "Fifth Brother, what's going on?"
Zheng Wen'an swallowed with difficulty, his eyes rolled rapidly, but he still couldn't say a word, cold sweat fell from his forehead, which made him feel exhausted, "Don't ask me, I don't know... I do not know anything… "
Huo Weilou glanced at Zheng Wenrong, "You once said that twins are inherently unlucky, and if they were born in a cloudy year, it would be even more of a disaster. Your mother, your brothers, in order to preserve the glory and wealth of the Marquis Mansion, secretly hid Alone in the underground darkroom, she has been living in the dark every day for these years, she is more miserable than you."
Zheng Wenrong is a twin. He was sent away since he was a child, and he has never enjoyed half of the wealth of a noble son. He has also lamented the injustice of fate, but he never thought that the child born by the eldest lady sixteen years ago would be the same. A pair of twins, and in order to preserve their marriage with His Highness the Second Highness, the Hou Mansion chose to hide one of them in an underground darkroom, which lasted for sixteen years.
Thinking of the madam's insanity for no reason back then, Zheng Wenrong's suspicions over the years were also resolved, his eyes were full of turmoil, and then he turned his eyes to look at Zheng Wen'an's face, even though he was still stubborn, Zheng Wenrong could see that what Huo Weilou said was true , he gritted his teeth with difficulty, "Now, where is she... that child?"
Huo Weilou said: "There is no one in the ground, I think she is still hiding in the mansion now, since she was discovered here, she must have been shocked, but at this time, Zheng Yunni, who knew we came to dig the well, left the yard by herself and disappeared." Looking at the two brothers, "You say, where did she go? What is she going to do?"
Zheng Wen'an immediately said: "This matter has nothing to do with Yun Ni, she doesn't know anything."
As Zheng Wen'an said, his eyes were flushed, and he didn't know if it was because of the guilt in his heart when he recalled the past, or the pain in his heart when he thought of the glory of the Hou Mansion, "Only our elders knew what happened back then, she didn't know anything, the murderer must have wanted to kill her …”
At this point, Zheng Wen'an finally stopped being stubborn, and almost acquiesced in what Huo Weilou said just now, "Please send someone to search immediately, don't let her be killed too. This matter has nothing to do with her, and I... I don't want to see it either." There are no more deaths in the mansion."
Zheng Wen'an's voice was low and hoarse, and his expression was mournful, as if he was about to cry in the next moment. Seeing that he really didn't know what was going on, Huo Weilou frowned, "Send someone to search the place of the idiot, and the idiot also disappeared in the afternoon. Follow up, Zheng Yunni..."
Huo Weilou was instructing the embroiderer, but he caught sight of the meaning of the words that had been kneeling on the ground. After he said that the idiot was gone, he saw the obvious change in the expression of the painting, and Huo Weilou looked at the painting. "Do you know something?"
Huayi was shaking all over, the corners of her lips twitched a few times, but she seemed to be hiding a huge secret and dared not speak it out, Zheng Wenrong said anxiously: "What do you know? Do you want to see something happen to your young lady?"
Huayi's tears fell immediately, and she cried, "Servant... this servant thinks that if someone wants to harm the eldest lady, it may be a fool... it is a fool who wants to take revenge on the eldest lady..."
The silly girl wants to take revenge on the eldest lady
Zheng Wenrong was surprised and said: "Why is it a silly girl? The silly girl is a picked up child. Although she got the pity of the sister-in-law by accident, she is not the one who was hidden..."
Bo Ruoyou frowned when she heard the words. The old lady had investigated Shagu's life experience. If Shagu was a child back then, why would she stay in the mansion? Moreover, her leg injury is real, so it is impossible to commit murder, and the reason why the eldest lady picked her up was because she remembered that she had a pair of daughters in her heart, and treated her as another child.
There is also a silly girl who fell into the well, but survived miraculously, and the traces on the plum tree beside the well also show that people often use ropes to go up and down, and the ropes need to be tied to the tree. of? And if a person goes down the well, who will take away the rope tied to the tree? After thinking about it, only Sha Gu has this possibility. She used the excuse of helping the eldest lady to pick plums, and she would not be suspected of going in and out of the plum forest from time to time. What's more, she was also the one who attracted the attention of the embroidered clothes last night, so as to help the murderer escape. .
Huayi cried and shook her head: "No... it's because... because the idiot fell into the dry well two years ago, it's... the eldest lady pushed the idiot down—"
As soon as this remark came out, everyone's expressions changed. Huayi was forced to tell the master's secret. She was terrified and knelt down on the ground and said, "Your servant is not lying. I don't know why the silly girl is loved by the eldest lady. The eldest lady doesn't like it in her heart." , that time... that time when the silly girl came to Mei Lin to pick plums, the eldest lady became cruel and pushed her down, and the servant girl followed the lady at that time, this matter... only the servant girl and the lady know about it."
After saying this in one breath, Huayiren was already paralyzed on the ground in fear. After saying this, it is impossible for her to be left by the young lady of the Hou Mansion to serve her again.
Bo Ruoyou felt a chill in her heart, the silly girl was ugly and silly, except for the occasional love of the eldest lady in the house, she almost struggled to survive. No matter how many benefits the aunt brings, it may also bring disasters to her. Not only the servants bullied her because of this, but even the high-ranking young lady of the Hou Mansion even wanted to kill her.
Chuntao only said that the idiot fell into the dry well before, and Bo Ruoyou took it for granted that it was the idiot's clumsiness, but she never thought that she was also murdered, and Zheng Yunni, just because the lady cared for the idiot, was she going to kill her?
"You... What nonsense are you talking about? How could Yun Ni do anything to a lowly maid?"
At this time, Zheng Wen'an was still protecting Zheng Yunni. Zheng Yunni was going to marry the Second Highness's person, and she had been admired by many stars since she was a child. in the end.
Huayi cried and shook her head, "The servant did not lie, the servant also wanted to save the eldest lady. When the accident happened, the silly girl saw the eldest lady and was rescued later. The eldest lady thought she wanted to identify her, but she seemed to have forgotten the matter. The eldest lady was relieved, but I don't know if she really forgot, if she suddenly felt revenge, it is not impossible."
"Missy has a noble status. If anyone is going to harm Missy, the slaves can only think of Sha Gu, or...or the murderer..."
Bo Ruoyou frowned slightly. The idiot didn't forget, but she didn't dare. She has a low status, how dare she point out the eldest lady as the murderer? Even if she pointed it out, she would be the one who suffered in the end.
The idiot not only knows who the murderer is, but also has such a grievance with Zheng Yunni, which is indeed quite dangerous. Huo Weilou beckoned He Cheng to come forward, "withdraw the servants from the ancestral hall, and search outside Zheng Yunni's idiot's residence. Don't let it go, especially the corners that are inaccessible."
He Cheng responded repeatedly, and now the truth of the case is gradually surfacing, the old things of the Hou Mansion have been exposed, and He Cheng is also quite confused, but Huo Weilou sits here, so he should be a good pawn.
Bo Ruoyou saw that He Cheng had ordered the yamen's servant, so he went up to Huo Weilou and said, "Master, the girl also wants to visit the silly aunt's place again."
She intended to go with the yamen by herself, but Huo Weilou glanced at her and said, "Go with me."
No need to ask any more questions at this time, Zheng Yunni left the yard by herself, and the silly girl disappeared, and the murderer who had a rough life but a ruthless heart was hiding somewhere in the mansion. One person died.
Since Huo Weilou wanted to go in person, Bo Ruoyou followed, he ordered the Embroidered Clothes Envoy to curb the dry well, and then walked to the lower courtyard, Zheng Wenrong and Zheng Wen'an also followed after seeing this.
The sudden change caused all the government servants and embroidered envoys of the Hou's mansion to move, and searched everywhere under martial law.
The night was cold, and the sky was still clear during the day, but not a single star could be seen at this moment. The embroidered clothes envoys walked ahead with their torches, illuminating the lights within a few feet around them like daylight, but the darkness farther away, But haunting shadows loomed about, as if hiding something.
All the way to the Lower People's Court, Bo Ruoyou saw the wing room that she had just visited last night, the embroidered clothes envoy stepped forward and opened the door, but there was no one inside the door, Huo Weilou went in first, glanced around, the bed, tables and chairs in the room were unobstructed, There really isn't anything out of the ordinary.
Bo Ruoyou followed in, her eyes were still on the bed, and the sachet with rough needlework was still placed on the side of the bedside pillow, and other than that, there was almost nothing that seemed to belong to the silly girl in the room. , Frowning slightly, Bo Ruoyou saw a slightly dilapidated low cabinet on the left side of the bed.
This is the only cabinet in the house. There is a gap above the cabinet door. I don't know what is in it. Last night, the idiot was not suspected, but tonight is very different. Bao Ruoyou stepped forward and opened the cabinet door.
As soon as the cabinet door was opened, the light in Bo Ruoyou's eyes changed slightly. There were a few old clothes in the cabinet, and on the top shelf, there was a Moon Rabbit Lantern that was placed in the underground dark room just now , exactly the same lanterns, one for the silly girl, one for the underground dark room, Bo Ruoyou pursed her lips, a complicated and unspeakable meaning filled her heart.
She became more and more convinced that Sha Gu had been rescued underground.
People who live underground all year round have naturally never seen these lamps. Even the most common moon rabbit lamps that children would like are treasures to her.
Seeing that Bo Ruoyou was squatting in front of the cabinet without moving, Huo Weilou also walked over. When he saw the moon rabbit lamp, his eyes also changed slightly. But she thought that Bo Ruoyou was going to feel sorry for a few moments, but she quickly calmed down, took out the moon rabbit lamp, and then looked through the old clothes under it.
There were only seven or eight pieces of clothes, and they were all here in spring, summer, autumn and winter. After looking through them briefly, Bo Ruoyou didn't find anything unusual. Just when she was about to stand up, her eyes changed slightly, and she saw a blue and plain coat.
This plain jacket is uniformly worn by the servants of the Hou Mansion. Chuntao has been wearing this kind of winter jacket for the past few days, and on the day she first met Shagu, Shagu also wore this winter jacket, but when she saw Shagu again after that, she What he was wearing was an indigo winter jacket.
There was a strange feeling in Bo Ruoyou's heart, she subconsciously rummaged through the winter jacket, but found nothing, but suddenly, she smelled a faint smell of dampness...
A flash of lightning flashed in his mind, and Bo Ruoyou froze for a moment.
The smell is very faint, but she just came out of the underground drain just now, and she is very familiar with this question. She was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and walked to the back window of the silly girl's wing, she pushed the back window open.
The rear window was opened, and outside was a small open space piled up with sundries. The snow was half-melted, and it was slightly damp and cold, but there was no pungent muddy smell.
So where did the muddy smell she smelled when she came yesterday come from
Bo Ruoyou's heart trembled slightly, and her eyes wandered around unconsciously. Suddenly, her eyes slid down and landed on the earthen steps next to the bottom of the wall under the rear window. His hands and feet were cold.
Because of the eaves cover, the steps above are still dry. At this moment, there is a pair of footprints printed on it with mud. The footprints are about the same size as the ones she carefully compared in the plum forest behind Zheng Wenyan's study yard. Looking at these footprints, Bo Ruo You can even imagine that when she entered the room last night, someone was leaning against the window sill, standing outside the rear window.
Bo Ruoyou felt the hairs on her arms stand up.
And soon, she suddenly thought of a possibility that made her feel even more creepy.
Chuntao said that silly girls are evil too.
The details of meeting Sha Gu for the first time flooded into her mind again. For a moment, Bo Ruoyou felt that her throat had been strangled by an invisible big hand, and she couldn't even breathe freely.
At this moment, footsteps sounded outside the door, but it was an embroidered clothes envoy who was in charge of searching outside and quickly stepped into the courtyard door.
"Master Hou, the eldest lady has appeared! She went to the eldest lady, and she said that she is going to take the eldest lady to zhemei."
Bo Ruoyou came back to her senses abruptly, and when she reached the door, Huo Weilou said in a deep voice, "Zhemei? Did she explain where she went just now?"
The embroiderer shook his head, "No, the subordinates didn't see Miss Zheng just now. It was the servants around the lady who came to report back after knowing that she was looking for her everywhere. Right now, the lady has been taken out by the lady. The waiter The maidservants wanted to follow, but the eldest lady didn't let everyone follow."
Well done, Zheng Yunni took the eldest lady to the plum forest to pick plums alone
When Zheng Wen'an heard that Zheng Yunni had appeared, he felt relieved, "Yunni is very filial to my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law likes plum blossoms. There is nothing wrong with her taking her sister-in-law to pick plum blossoms."
Huo Weilou said: "Send someone to Meilin to have a look, so that the two of them can't leave the residence without authorization."
The embroidered envoy left in response, Huo Weilou turned around and saw that Bo Ruoyou's complexion was a little pale, his brows were slightly frowned, "What did you find?"
The corners of Bo Ruoyou's lips were slightly pursed, as if she didn't know what to say, but when she met Huo Weilou's dark eyes, her startled heart was slightly relieved, so Bo Ruoyou said: "Last night, I'm afraid it wasn't Min Min It's the first time the woman sees the murderer."
Huo Weilou raised his brows immediately, and Bo Ruoyou said in a difficult voice: "As early as the day when Mr. Zheng was killed, the daughter of the people may have seen it." She glanced at Eunuch Fu standing outside, and said : "Eunuch Fu also saw it."
When Eunuch Fu heard this, he immediately took a step forward, stood at the door and asked, "Did our family see it too?"
Both Huo Weilou and Eunuch Fu looked at Bo Ruoyou, and Bo Ruoyou said: "Ministers have been unable to figure it out before, although the silly girl's eyebrows and eyes are three points similar to the eldest lady, but the scars on her face are so big, no matter who It is also impossible to link her with the appearance of the eldest lady, and she should not be taken back to the mansion by the eldest lady and loved as a daughter."
Not only did Bo Ruoyou fail to understand this question, but the others were also puzzled.
Bo Ruoyou paused, "But what if, in the heart of the eldest lady, there should be scars on the other daughter's face?"
Huo Weilou's expression suddenly changed, he turned and looked at Zheng Wen'an: "When the eldest lady gave birth to twin daughters, you decided to hide one of them. When hiding, did you specifically destroy the child's face?"
As soon as this remark came out, even Eunuch Fu couldn't bear it.
How could these people have the heart to ruin the face of a newborn baby
But Zheng Wen'an shook his head, "No...we don't have one. There are more than one pair of twins in our family. In the generation of our great-grandfather, there were also twins. In the past, they were all sent away, but when we came to Yun Ni, we dare not Send them away... When they grow up in the future, if they are found to be exactly the same, it will be a crime of deceiving the king, so we want to hide the children."
"When the sister-in-law was pregnant, she made a baby marriage with the imperial concubine in Beijing. Later, when she went south to Qingzhou, the imperial concubine also sent people to visit her from time to time. Knowing that the elder sister-in-law was about to give birth, she even sent a nanny to take care of the elder sister-in-law. It's coming, there is no other way, so we hid the child in the ancestral hall, we didn't ruin the child's face... "
The more Zheng Wen'an spoke, the lower his voice was, and he obviously felt it was a bit difficult to say, but if they hadn't ruined the child's face, where should the scar that Bo Ruoyou mentioned come from
Huo Weilou looked at Bo Ruoyou, and Bo Ruoyou shook his head, "The girl hasn't figured this out yet, it's just..."
Before Bo Ruoyou finished speaking, He Cheng strode in with two yamen servants, "Master Hou, I found the idiot! The idiot is hiding in the south kitchen, and she wants to steal it..."
Before He Cheng finished speaking, another embroiderer came in from outside.
"Master Hou, the eldest lady and the eldest lady did not go to Merlin. The brothers guarding Meilin said that they had never seen the eldest lady and the eldest lady go. In addition, the two yamen servants in the east saw the silly girl just now, and went up to question him. The silly girl said that she I also went to find the eldest lady and the eldest lady... "
After the embroiderer finished speaking, he suddenly noticed that everyone's expressions had changed. He was a little dazed, but He Cheng couldn't help but said: "Where did you say you saw the idiot? My yamen found the idiot in the south, idiot The aunt was stealing food in the kitchen, but now she has been detained, and the person is being detained in the front yard, how can you see the silly aunt in the east?"
The embroidered clothes envoy was also surprised when he heard the words, "There are also two government officials from the east..."
Everyone was stunned, how could there be two idiots at the same time? !
"Lord Hou, my lord, because there are indeed two idiots."
Bo Ruoyou opened her mouth suddenly, and Huo Weilou looked back at her, and Bo Ruoyou said, "That's what the girl from Shicai meant. The person hiding underground is also a woman with burn scars on her face like a fool. Similar, because of the scars on the face, it is enough to confuse the fake with the real." She looked at Eunuch Fu, "Eunuch, the idiot we saw for the first time is probably not a real idiot, but a murderer hidden underground."
Eunuch Fu's expression changed a little at this time, "At that time... At that time, she was delivering sacrifices with other people, and she was helping the old lady in the mourning hall that day, so she was able to steal the magic pestle to make a utensil?!"
Bo Ruoyou nodded, and Eunuch Fu covered his mouth, "Oh my God, our family actually met the murderer so early..."
Huo Weilou's eyes were stern, and he didn't understand Fu Gonggong's bewildered fear, and turned to look at the embroiderer, "Where is the idiot looking for the eldest lady and the eldest lady now?"
An idiot was stealing food in the south, and an idiot went to find the eldest lady and Zheng Yunni. The real idiot was afraid that Zheng Yunni would be too late, so how could she go to her, not to mention that the murderer would not stop killing others. Of course, the one on the east side is the fake idiot.
The embroidered clothes envoy said: "It was just now that it was on the fork in the direction of Yaoyue Pavilion in the east, and it is probably heading towards Da Furen's courtyard at this moment."
Huo Weilou immediately walked out, "The murderer has appeared, order the government officials in other directions to withdraw to the east, and the murderer must be caught."
Seeing him leave, Bo Ruoyou immediately followed him quickly. Huo Weilou walked so fast that she almost trotted out of the courtyard. Huo Weilou immediately walked towards the direction of the Da Furen's courtyard. The murderer knew the terrain inside the mansion well, so he naturally knew it too. Where there are guards, it is not very difficult for her to avoid the sight of all the servants, but now it is covered by the night, if she escapes tonight, I don't know how long it will take, Huo Weilou's expression is serious, and his hands are conscious Brushed the short dagger at the waist.
His footsteps were so fast that no one else dared to be slighted, even the Zheng Wenrong brothers followed in fear, but seeing that the lady's courtyard was getting closer and closer, Huo Weilou suddenly stopped, his phoenix eyes were cold and serious, and he first glanced into the distance Da Furen's courtyard, and then looked in the direction of Yaoyue Pavilion.
Taking the fork where Shagu was discovered as the central axis, Da Furen's courtyard is to the east, while Yaoyue Pavilion is to the northwest. Between Yaoyue Pavilion and Da Furen's courtyard, the most convenient way to escape is the path leading to the bamboo forest in the east.
Huo Weilou looked towards the direction of the bamboo forest from the side of his tall figure.
In the black-like night, the entire northeast corner of the Hou Mansion was shrouded in darkness. Except for the plum grove, which was guarded, the large bamboo grove and the vacant lotus pond were unguarded at the moment, and the bamboo grove was adjacent to the plum grove, which was the most dangerous The safest place is the safest place, hiding in the dense bamboo forest is the best.
"Go to Da Furen's yard and have a look, others are coming to the bamboo forest."
After Huo Weilou made up his mind, an embroiderer listened to the order and left, while the others all followed Huo Weilou to the east.
Looking at the direction to go, Bo Ruoyou felt an inexplicable sense of doom in her heart, and it was the bamboo forest in the east again... Thinking of the two unlit moon rabbit lanterns, Bo Ruoyou felt even more desolate, and the murderer chased after her. Looking at Zheng Yunni and the eldest lady, does she hate her mother's inability to defend her, and is also dissatisfied with Zheng Yunni, who is also a sister but is so different from her, so she wants to attack them
A gust of cold wind suddenly blows up the ground, Huo Weilou's robe flying in front of him, the golden dark lines appearing and disappearing on the hem of the robe, under the flickering torches and night lights, his broad back looks more and more menacing People, no one knows what Huo Weilou thinks, and he never explained why he came here in this direction, but Bo Ruoyou never thought about the right or wrong of coming here, as if she trusted Wu Zhaohou from the beginning.
Bo Ruoyou is very familiar with the east road, but just after turning a corner, Huo Weilou suddenly stopped in front of him, and Bo Ruoyou missed the momentum, and almost hit the back of Huo Weilou, who was taller than her A lot, she didn't understand why Huo Weilou stopped for a while, but when she looked over Huo Weilou's shoulder to the east sky, she saw a thick smoke rising from the east sky under the east sky——
"Firefighting."
Before Bo Ruoyou could react, she heard the word Huo Weilou falling and sinking.
He stepped forward and rushed forward, and the embroidered clothes behind him moved even more. When Huo Weilou took a few steps forward and Bao Ruoyou's sight was no longer blocked, she saw a scene that shocked her.
In the bamboo forest to the east, a big fire was ignited for some unknown reason. The fire swept up the dead leaves and weeds. In addition, more than half of the snow had melted. At this moment, most of the bamboo forest was turned into a sea of flames by the wind.
fire! It caught fire again!
Huo Weilou had already rushed to the forest of fire, and Eunuch Fu and He Cheng also panicked. He Cheng immediately ordered the government servants to put out the fire, and then looked at Zheng Wenrong and Zheng Wen'an, "Don't call the servants in the mansion, if the fire spreads, Come on, it’s not like an ancestral hall…”
The ancestral hall is almost isolated from the front yard, and there are no other buildings around except for the century-old pines and cypresses. But this bamboo forest is different. The bamboo forest is close to the front yard. As the fire spread to the entire Hou Mansion, both Zheng Wenrong and Zheng Wen'an's expressions changed drastically. Zheng Wenrong was calmer than Zheng Wen'an, and immediately turned around to call the people in the mansion, but Zheng Wen'an stared blankly at the fire and did not react.
Bo Ruoyou followed He Cheng and the others to the fire forest. As soon as they got closer, they saw all the embroidered envoys in the plum forest gathered outside the bamboo forest. Coupled with the fact that there is no water in the lotus pond in the culvert, how to save this fire is really a difficult problem.
But Huo Weilou said in a deep voice: "First dig out the trees on the east and west sides, and separate them with a belt of sand, and order the servants in the mansion to fetch water and put out the fire from the upper wind." Huo Weilou raised his eyes and looked at the sky, "Fortunately Today is the west wind."
If the direction of the wind changes and the fire is brought into the mansion, it will be more difficult to contain it. Bo Ruoyou looks at the raging bamboo forest, but wonders how the fire started. Although there are many dead leaves in the bamboo forest, it is white today. Most of the snow has melted during the day, and most of the dead leaves are wet. Even if there are sparks falling on it, they may not be able to ignite, but right now, there is such a big fire in the forest.
As soon as Bo Ruoyou's thoughts came to an end, a figure suddenly appeared in the forest of fire. She was surprised, but found that the person who ran out of the forest was Zheng Yunni! At this moment, the expressions of all the people standing outside the forest changed drastically.
"Yun Ni?!" Zheng Wen'an was the first to step forward and screamed.
Zheng Yunni took the eldest lady to zhemei, but disappeared halfway without going to Meilin, but at this time, she ran out of the fire scene, not to mention Zheng Wen'an, even Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but want to exclaim.
Zheng Yunni almost ran out of the bamboo forest with sparks all over her body. Her face was covered with black ashes, her dress was scorched with holes of various sizes, and her hair was burnt to a few strands. He raised his head, tears streaming down his face, "Uncle Wu, hurry up and save mother, that man... that man is going to burn me and mother to death, and mother was left inside to save me!"
Her voice was hoarse, her face was terrified, she was trembling when she spoke, and she looked frightened and miserable. I felt pity for her. Zheng Wen'an looked at the fire scene in shock, "What? Sister-in-law is inside?"
Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Yunni condescendingly, and raised his hands to the two embroiderers beside him. The two immediately followed the road that Zheng Yunni ran out just now and entered the fire scene. Zheng Yunni was still collapsed on the ground, crying, "Yes... mother inside… "
She turned around and looked at the forest with tears streaming down her face, "Mother is still inside, please save mother..."
Zheng Wen'an looked distressed, and stepped forward to support her, "Yun Ni, what's going on? Why did you come here?"
Zheng Yunni cried and said, "I came to take my mother to Zhe Mei, but halfway there, there was a flash of fire in the forest, and my mother was attracted, so she ran here. I couldn't hold her by myself, so I had to follow her." After chasing it in, as soon as I entered the forest, I smelled a strange smell in the forest. At this moment, that person appeared... "
"Which person?" Zheng Wenan asked anxiously.
Zheng Yunni's voice was trembling, "It's... it's the ghost of grandma... That person was wearing grandma's robe, and her eyes were fixed on us. She said she had been waiting for us for a long time, and she hadn't finished speaking yet. She threw the fire bag on the ground, and only then did I realize that the surrounding woods were full of tung oil..."
Zheng Yunni was crying heartbreakingly. Although she was supported by Zheng Wen'an, she still couldn't stand up. She was holding Zheng Wen'an's arm tightly. Looking at Huo Weilou, "Master Hou, please save my mother, my mother is sick, she...how can she escape..."
Zheng Yunni's tears were like bursting into tears, and every word she said was heartbroken. She was originally beautiful, but she fell to the ground at this moment, her beautiful eyes were red from crying, and with the stains on her face, she looked even weaker and pitiful , Thinking of how dangerously she escaped from the forest of fire just now, but her biological mother was still in the forest of fire in order to save her, and He Cheng's already moved face turned slightly sore.
"Miss, the embroiderer has entered the fire, don't be afraid, the lady will be rescued."
Zheng Wenrong brought the servants in charge of the mansion and hurried over with buckets, seeing Zheng Yunni fell on the ground, describing it as if she was fleeing, she was shocked, when Zheng Wenan said that the murderer was going to burn her and the eldest lady to death, Zheng Wenrong broke out in a cold sweat Come.
The people Zheng Yunni was crying were stupefied, she was afraid that she would not be able to save the eldest lady, so she climbed two steps and grabbed Huo Weilou's robe hem, "Master Hou, please send more people to rescue mother , mother is all to save me, save her, save her..."
The hoarse voice was heartbreaking, and the desperate pleading was written on the face that was struggling to raise its head.
Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Yunni, and suddenly squatted down with one knee on the ground.
The distance was shortened in an instant, as if a high-ranking demon king had shown mercy to this human tragedy. Everyone watched this scene without any surprises. Who wouldn't be moved by such a weeping beauty who wholeheartedly saved her mother
"A woman's tears can't move this Marquis."
Huo Weilou's voice was indifferent but tinged with coldness, and what he said next changed everyone's expressions even more.
"Your mother didn't escape because she saved you. It was you who kept her inside."