Zheng Yunni's sad expression froze, "Master Hou... what are you talking about?"
Everyone looked at Huo Weilou, they were all surprised, Zheng Yunni was crying so miserably, begging him to save her mother over and over again, how did he see that she left the eldest lady in the fire scene
The eldest lady is her biological mother.
Zheng Wen'an was beside Zheng Yunni, he frowned and asked, "What do you mean by that, Lord Hou?"
Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Yunni coldly, and then glanced at the back of Zheng Yunni's hand. Because Zheng Yunni was pleading with Huo Weilou, one hand was holding the hem of his robe, and it was the back of this hand that had several A glaring scar, red and swollen and bleeding, but not yet scabbed, anyone can tell that it was injured a moment ago.
Zheng Yunni looked at her hand following Huo Weilou's gaze, her complexion changed suddenly, she immediately retracted her hand, she continued to cry: "This scar was scratched by a bamboo branch when I ran out just now, I don't know What is the meaning of what Hou Ye said, I only ask Hou Ye to save my mother... "
Huo Weilou stood up and said without turning his head, "Bo Ruoyou, come here."
Bo Ruoyou was standing not far behind Huo Weilou. Hearing this, she immediately walked up. Huo Weilou stared down at Zheng Yunni, "Extend your hand."
Zheng Yunni's pear blossoms were crying with rain, but Huo Weilou didn't seem to have seen it, her voice was cold and forceful, Zheng Yunni sobbed twice, and finally stretched out her hand tremblingly.
Bo Ruoyou checked Zheng Yunni's hand by the light of the fire, and quickly said in a solemn voice: "Missy's hand was scratched, and there are three wounds on the back of the hand with blood, and another wound on the palm, it's just red and swollen. Missy is injured on her right hand, the person who hurt her should have grasped it with her left hand, because the little finger is weak, no scars have been left on the back of Missy's hand."
Bo Ruoyou's voice was clear and clear without hesitation, and her words were even more meticulous. She even used her left hand to make gestures on the back of Zheng Yunni's hand. For a while, everyone could even imagine how the two of them were tugging at that time.
Zheng Yunni let out a sob and said immediately: "I remember wrongly, this scar was left by my mother, my mother was going to run into the forest to chase the fire, when my daughter pulled her out, my mother scratched my daughter's hand …”
Bo Ruoyou stared, "Miss is lying again, if you pull Da Madam, it will be Da Madam holding Da Madam's hand, the scar should be left on the back of Da Madam's hand, and Da Madam's fingernails will also be stained Madame's blood."
Scars are left on the back of the hand only after being caught but trying to break free. This kind of situation happens from time to time. When Bo Ruoyou said this, everyone came back to their senses. Zheng Wen'an couldn't help but said: "Yun Ni, What happened?"
Zheng Yunni put her hands at the corners of her eyes and wiped her tears. She was seen through one after another, but she was not in a hurry. Seeing Zheng Wen'an's question, she looked at Zheng Wen'an sadly, "Okay... Now that I have been spotted, then I don't have to." No matter how much I hide it, I still want to ask Uncle Wu, who is the murderer? Why does my mother not only not feel scared when she sees her, but treats her like an old friend? She went after the murderer, and didn't even care about the fire around her. Not only did she want to follow the murderer, she even pulled me, I... If I don't break free, I will be burned to death... "
Zheng Yunni cried and said, "I didn't intend to keep my mother, but she didn't leave on her own. If I really stayed, wouldn't I be burned to death alive? Uncle Wu, who is the murderer? Could it be that mother and the murderer have nothing to do with each other?" Can't see the relationship between people?"
Zheng Yunni changed her words after all, but Zheng Wen'an didn't know how to answer her question. He looked up at Huo Weilou, and said in a difficult voice, "Master, Yunni doesn't know what happened back then..."
When Zheng Yunni heard this, her tearful eyes became even more suspicious, "Fifth Uncle, what happened back then? I knew it wasn't right by looking at the situation, so I wanted to hide something, Fifth Uncle, don't tell me... everyone knows, Is it just me who doesn't know?"
Zheng Wen'an didn't dare to look into Zheng Yunni's questioning eyes for a while, so he lowered his eyes and sighed.
When Zheng Yunni was crying, besides looking at her hands, Bo Ruoyou was also carefully looking at other parts of her. She was wearing a bright red dress today. The more Ruoyou looked, the darker the eyes became, the fire in the forest spread all the way to the east, and people who have lived in darkness for a long time, would they use the method of setting fire to harm others
Huo Weilou ignored Zheng Yunni's question, he just looked at Zheng Yunni, "You said there was tung oil sprinkled in the forest?"
Zheng Yunni nodded twitchingly, "Yes, the minister smells something wrong, but when I react, it's too late..."
If there is tung oil, it is reasonable to have such a fire.
Huo Weilou asked Zheng Wen'an: "Where is tung oil stored in the mansion?"
Zheng Wen'an was stunned, "In the treasury in the southeast..."
Zheng Yunni immediately said: "It must be... the murderer must have stolen the key to the treasury again. She can steal mandala, but what is stealing tung oil now?"
It is true that the murderer would use mandala as a drug every time he commits a murder, and she came and went without a trace in the mansion, and then sneaked into the mansion treasury to steal tung oil. Go, where did the murderer flee to?"
Zheng Yunni pointed to the east, "Going over there—"
At this moment, the west wind is blowing, and the fire is rushing all the way to the east. Since the murderer set the fire and committed the crime, he didn't judge the wind, but went to a more dangerous place? Huo Weilou frowned slightly, and was about to speak, but Bo Ruoyou stood up and said, "Master Hou, please take a step to speak."
Huo Weilou raised his eyebrows slightly, then turned and walked aside, Bo Ruoyou followed, stood beside Huo Weilou and spoke in a low voice.
In the distance, everyone saw Bo Ruoyou talking all the time, Huo Weilou listened intently, but didn't answer, only occasionally nodded in agreement, soon, Huo Weilou turned around and called a few embroidered clothesmen to come to him, He ordered a few words, and some of them immediately went to the southeast, while the remaining one turned and left.
After this person left, Bo Ruoyou was still whispering to Huo Weilou, but the wind was howling, the fire was fierce, and they were far away. No one knew what they were talking about. Followed by a Yacha.
Huo Weilou frowned and asked the clerk a few words, only to see the yamen respectfully nodding his head to answer, Huo Weilou nodded after listening, and then let the yamen leave.
Huo Weilou said something to Bo Ruoyou again, Bo Ruoyou shook his head.
Huo Weilou seemed to sigh, and then came over with Bo Ruoyou, waited in front of everyone, and said: "Since the fire was lit with tung oil, the murderer must have gone to the treasury to steal tung oil, the Marquis has already sent people to the mansion Search the library to see if you can find any clues."
As he said that, Huo Weilou looked up at the scene of the fire, "The most urgent thing right now is to save people first."
The fire was getting bigger and bigger, the two embroidered envoys who entered the fire just now were in good shape, but they didn't come out at this moment, Huo Weilou frowned, and the others held their hearts high, for fear that the two embroidered envoys would also be ruined in.
Zheng Yunni's tears were still wet, but her face was still full of grief. While looking at the fire scene, she subconsciously looked at Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou, as if trying to figure out what the two had just said. After returning to the crowd, Huo Weilou Wei Lou looked calm, but Bo Ruoyou's eyes were somewhat pensive, as if he was doubting something.
Suddenly, Huo Weilou looked at her.
Zheng Yunni's eyes trembled slightly, but she pretended to be calm and did not look away. Huo Weilou asked, "Did you see the murderer clearly?"
Zheng Yunni immediately said, "Of course I can see clearly, she is thin and short, wearing her grandmother's robe, she looks very eerie and terrifying, when she saw that the courtier and mother were being tricked, she let out a smirk, saying that she had waited for us for a long time, Then the fire was lit..."
Zheng Yunni's detailed description made it sound believable. Huo Weilou asked again: "Where did you go this afternoon? The murderer has set up a plan and is waiting for you. Perhaps, she has already followed you at that time."
Zheng Yunni said calmly: "My daughter went to the Buddhist hall in the afternoon."
For a moment, the eyes of several people around fell on Zheng Yunni, and Zheng Yunni said: "After my grandmother died, the Buddhist hall was closed, but then my second uncle and third uncle were murdered. I was very scared, and I wanted to go to the Buddhist temple yesterday. I went to the Buddhist hall to pray, but I didn’t dare to wander around, and this afternoon, I went to the Buddhist hall to read a scroll.”
The Buddhist hall was secluded. After the government searched, no one went to the Buddhist hall for many days, which meant that although no one could testify to Zheng Yunni, no one could say that she was lying.
But Huo Weilou frowned slightly when he heard this, as if he found something suspicious, "You said that the murderer saw you and said a word, and she spoke neatly? What kind of voice did she say?"
Zheng Yunni said with lingering fear: "She said it viciously, all in one go, the voice... the voice is the voice of a woman..."
"Apart from this sentence, is there anything else?"
Zheng Yunni nodded, "She seems to have a deep hatred for us, as if she was just waiting for this moment. I don't know who she is, but it seems that she is not too old..."
Huo Weilou asked again: "Does she have a scar on her face?"
Counting it, Zheng Yunni was the first person to meet the murderer so close and escape from her hands. Zheng Yunni nodded, her expression even more frightened, "Yes...some...that face is terrifying, just... just It looks like a silly girl's face, just looking at it makes people feel that she is a cruel person."
The conclusion of this statement almost confirmed the inference that Bo Ruoyou said earlier that there were two idiots in the mansion.
But Huo Weilou said: "You are lying again."
Zheng Yunni was taken aback, and the expressions of the others also changed slightly, Huo Weilou said: "Talk too much and make mistakes, but you have thought about how to answer, so you are not flustered, but I have seen countless repeat offenders, and you are telling the truth alone , or to tell a lie, Ben Hou can tell at a glance, since you left the scene of the fire, you have been pretending, if it is true as you said later, it was your mother who took the initiative to chase the murderer, you don’t need to tell the details, and ask Ben Hou to save people first. Yes, but you always emphasized that she was left behind to save you."
"At the moment of life and death, you have just escaped from birth, and you are devoted to saving your mother, but you have thought of many reasons to prevaricate us. The only explanation is that you are lying. You have many reasons to find, but you used this excuse , it’s nothing more than to show that you mother and daughter love each other deeply, you feel ashamed and blamed, and you are eager to save your mother.”
Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Yunni with sharp eyes and piercing eyes, "He appeared eager to save his mother, but also cried miserably, in order to win sympathy, so that people will treat you as a victim, believe your words, and not suspect you. "
The tears in the corners of Zheng Yunni's eyes were still wet, but when she heard this, the tears fell down again, "Master Hou... Master Hou is actually suspecting that the minister is not successful? Could it be that the minister is really running for her life alone, leaving the mother in the sea of fire?"
Zheng Yunni's innocent face and teary eyes made it hard to imagine that she was acting.
Huo Weilou narrowed his eyes, "It's not only here that you lied, your first lie was seen through by the assassin, and you quickly found the second one. You also said that the murderer said something to you viciously, but Just now Benhou asked the yacha who had just met the murderer, and the yacha said that when he ran into the murderer tonight, the murderer suffered from aphasia and stuttering, and it was difficult for him to finish a sentence at all."
Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Yunni coldly, "Since she can't speak a complete sentence, how can you hear it in one go? The only possibility is that you are lying, you deliberately described the murderer as vicious and seeking revenge, and so It just happened to go along with everyone's speculation about the murderer, and for a while, no one questioned you, but your fault is that you have never heard the murderer speak."
Zheng Yunni was stunned suddenly, she looked at Huo Weilou a few feet away, she forgot to cry for a while, behind her was clearly a blazing fire scene, but she couldn't feel the slightest scorching, everything in the world suddenly became quiet, she seemed to be Standing in the ice cave in the cold sky of Lajiu, "I... I heard wrong... I was terrified at the time. I only saw her fierce face, but I didn't hear it very clearly. Yes, Master Hou was right. She did speak intermittently, but her face was extremely hideous."
Zheng Yunni's expression was terrified, but at this moment, she still insisted that she just heard it wrong.
He Cheng and the others trusted Huo Weilou, so they naturally understood that his doubts were more convincing, but Zheng Wen'an and Zheng Wenrong looked at Huo Weilou, then at Zheng Yunni, and they didn't know who to trust for a while.
At this time, Zheng Yunni cried again, "Master Hou said I lied, but why did I lie? It's so good, why did I come here? I escaped from the fire, and I almost lost my life..."
Huo Weilou stared, "Because, you were the one who started the fire."
"It wasn't the murderer who brought you here, but you who brought the murderer here."
Zheng Yunni's hand on her cheek froze, and her expression froze slightly, but she smiled sadly, "What are you talking about, Master Hou? The murderer is so vicious, I can't avoid it, how could I lure her here?"
Huo Weilou glanced at Bo Ruoyou, and Bo Ruoyou stepped forward and said, "Because you don't want her to fall into Lord Hou's hands. You know that Lord Hou dug the well this afternoon, and you know that the murderer may not be able to hide, so you I would rather kill the murderer myself than fall into the hands of Lord Hou."
Facing Bo Ruoyou, Zheng Yunni's eyes immediately became stern, "What are you talking about? I am the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion, and the murderer is just a sinner who cannot be seen. She has committed a heinous crime. How could I take such a big risk?" To harm her? You say I set the fire, where is the evidence?"
She asked this question with confidence, and at this moment, several embroiderers who had just left came back together.
One of them held an object in his hand, walked to Huo Weilou and said something in a low voice, then handed the object to Huo Weilou, at that moment, everyone saw clearly that it was a white jade earring.
Huo Weilou looked at the palm earrings, then at Zheng Yunni, frowning, "You said you went to the Buddhist hall in the afternoon, but why did your earrings show up in the southwest treasury?"
Zheng Yunni's complexion changed drastically, her temple hair was messed up, black hair was hanging around her ears at the moment, and others couldn't see whether the earrings were still there, but she hurriedly touched her ears, and after touching her ears, she found that the earrings on her left ear were unknown. When is it gone.
If she still gritted her teeth and refused to admit all these things before, the earrings at this moment are the ironclad evidence that she has been to the treasury, and there is no room for her to deny it.
"I... I..." Zheng Yunni's eyes were red, and she murmured, while rolling her eyes in a panic, suddenly, she looked up as if she was going all out: "Yes, that's right, I set the fire, but I just disliked it." You are ineffective. My third uncle has been dead for two days, but you still can’t catch the murderer. If you can’t, I will personally avenge my grandmother, my second uncle and third uncle. I know the murderer must be looking for the next one. The target, so I specially lured her to come, and then burned her to death, she killed my grandmother, and my second uncle and third uncle, so why should I ask her to pay for her life?"
Zheng Wen'an and Zheng Wenrong were shocked when they heard this, they never thought that Zheng Yunni would have such courage at such a young age, dare to take the risk to seek revenge from the murderer, Zheng Wen'an's eyes were also red, "Yun Ni, why do you take such a risk..."
Huo Weilou frowned slightly when he heard Zheng Yunni's righteous words. He was only sure that Zheng Yunni was acting, and he was suspected of setting fire by Bo Ruoyou's words. Now that she admitted that the fire was really set by her, he felt There is something strange.
How could it be possible for Zheng Yunni to put herself in danger just to avenge her grandmother and uncles with such mental means.
At this moment, he heard Bo Ruoyou's voice.
"You want the murderer's life, not to avenge your grandmother and the others."
Bo Ruoyou opened her mouth again, she looked at Zheng Yunni with gloomy eyes, there was even a hint of embarrassment and pity in her eyes, Zheng Yunni turned to look at Bo Ruoyou, she smiled coldly with tears on her face, "It's you again ... What did you guess again? You are just a small job, and I let you examine my injuries, what else do you want to say?"
Zheng Yunni was half crying and half laughing, with three points of madness and three points of bewilderment between her eyebrows and eyes, "I didn't want to avenge my grandmother? Then what am I doing for it? She disturbed our Hou Mansion and killed three people. Doesn't she deserve to die?"
Zheng Wen'an seemed to agree with this very much, and he sighed deeply: "If I knew this, I shouldn't have kept her in the first place."
After the words were settled, Zheng Yunni's face became strangely stiff for a moment.
Bo Ruoyou looked at her, "Did you hear that? This is what they thought. If you hadn't been left behind, how would all this have happened today..."
Bo Ruoyou's words were sad, but she was very calm and determined. Everyone looked at Bo Ruoyou, but their eyes were astonished, as if she was also crazy.
Zheng Wen'an opened his mouth, "I... I'm talking about that child..."
The eloquent Zheng Yunni seemed to be petrified at the moment, her eyelids twitched violently, she didn't know what expression to put on her face for a while, she managed to pull out a smile, but it was stiff and weird, uglier than crying.
"You... what are you talking about..."
Bo Ruoyou looked at her with eyes full of pity, "I didn't believe it at first, but you put all your eggs in one basket today, and the reason and excuse you made up just now happened to be right, so I finally figured it out."
The corner of Zheng Yunni's mouth twitched, as if she wanted to say something to stop Bo Ruoyou from continuing, but her strength seemed to be taken away, and she didn't know how to save the current situation, and Bo Ruoyou would not give her another chance to quibble and cover up.
"You clearly don't know the past, but when you made up an excuse, you said that the murderer said that to you, because you know that the murderer has hated everyone in the Hou Mansion for many years. You brought your mother with you today. Because you know that the murderer has the most direct relationship with your mother, you and your mother will definitely be able to attract the murderer, and you said that your mother is chasing the murderer because you know the identity of the murderer at all— "
Zheng Wen'an's complexion changed a few times, "No...impossible...it's impossible for Yun Ni to know about that..."
Bo Ruoyou's voice turned cold, and her slender figure reflected the monstrous flames, and she was a bit awe-inspiring, "If she is the real Zheng Yunni, of course she doesn't know what happened back then, but if she is the one who was loved by you since childhood." What about the child hiding in the dark room?"
"She experienced it personally, and no one knows what happened back then better than her."
Everyone was so shocked that they couldn't speak. At this moment, Zheng Yunni, who had been sitting on the ground, suddenly got up with strength from nowhere, and pulled out the hairpin from her bun and threw herself at Bo Ruoyou. Come-
Suddenly, no one could have imagined that Zheng Yunni would dare to violently hurt others in front of everyone. Bo Ruoyou was not far away, and everyone was shocked by Bo Ruoyou's words just now, including Zheng Yunni, who was the closest to Zheng Yunni. Wen An couldn't stop Zheng Yunni.
Only Bo Ruoyou's complexion changed, and she hurriedly backed away, but Zheng Yunni suddenly rushed like crazy, Bo Ruoyou stumbled on a dead branch, and almost couldn't dodge, between the lightning and flint, a figure blocked her In front of—
Huo Weilou squeezed Zheng Yunni's wrist, only heard a cracking sound, and pushed her back again, the next moment Zheng Yunni fell to the ground in pain, her body curled up, and cold sweat flooded her face instantly.
The hairpin was out of her hand, and her black hair was dancing with the wind. Zheng Yunni slowed down, and when she raised her head, her face was full of madness. She grinned in pain, but still said to Bo Ruoyou word by word: "Shut up... I'm not... I It's not the one that was hidden..."
Huo Weilou turned around and looked at Bo Ruoyou, seeing that Bo Ruoyou had collected himself and was not frightened, Huo Weilou asked, "How do you know that she is the one who was hidden back then?"
Bo Ruoyou was rescued by Huo Weilou again, she looked at him with three points of gratitude, and said, "The real Miss Zheng has a strong aura when she was four years old. When she was six years old, she got hysteria, but she couldn't even speak. At first, the girl heard about it, but she only felt that the disease hurt others, but later she learned that the reason why she suffered from hysteria was that she was lost all night in the winter. "
"Although the Hou's Mansion is big, at that time the Eldest Miss was lost, and the Marquis of Anqing must have tried his best to search for it. Even so, he still found nothing. I didn't know why back then, but now I know that there is an underground drain under the Hou's Mansion, so I naturally figured it out. "
Huo Weilou frowned, "She entered the underground drain? Did she enter from that well? But the mouth of the well is not shallow, so how did she get out?"
Bo Ruoyou said cautiously: "Minnv didn't understand at first, but later a lotus pond was filled up, and the minnv guessed that back then there was an underground canal under the rocks in the lotus pond, and it wasn't common to see anything, but it happened to be real The eldest lady found out, she went into the culvert, and met another lady who was hidden, and the person who was hidden locked the real lady inside, and walked out by herself."
Bo Ruoyou looked at Zheng Yunni, "So when she just came out, she couldn't speak or recognize people, as if she was suffering from hysteria. She was supposed to be raised underground, and no one taught her to speak. She is afraid of light and likes to get into the cabinet , These are also because she consciously lives in darkness, she is used to darkness, so she is naturally afraid of light."
From time to time there was a sound of gasping around, Huo Weilou heard Bo Ruoyou's words, his eyes dimmed, Zheng Wen'an and Zheng Wenrong couldn't believe it at first, but I don't know if they remembered all the things back then, and fell into shock for a while In doubt.
And Zheng Yunni listened to Bo Ruoyou's words, her expression seemed to be crying but not smiling, her eyes were weird and nervous, as if she was about to go completely crazy in the next moment, "It's really easy to guess, but... what evidence do you have?"
Bo Ruoyou only looked at Huo Weilou, "Master Hou, when we went to the underground dark room, we found a poem with handwriting very similar to the murderer's. Not to mention how superior they are, but they still look good, they don't even teach the hidden child how to speak, how can they teach her to write poetry?"
Huo Weilou said: "Unless the real eldest lady is replaced, because she was enlightened at the age of four and has extremely high talent."
Zheng Yunni suddenly sneered, "What kind of evidence is this? I am Zheng Yunni. I don't know what kind of dark room is. I will marry the Second Highness next month. How dare you treat me like this?"
Eunuch Fu was stunned for a long time and didn't have a chance to speak. At this moment, he snorted and said: "Miss... ah no, false eldest lady, it is a crime of deceiving the emperor just by giving a false birth date in your family, let alone you are a fake Yes, you still want to marry the Second Highness, but you are really dreaming of Spring and Autumn..."
When Zheng Yunni heard this, her expression became even crazier, but at this moment, He Cheng, who was standing facing the fire scene, exclaimed and pointed to the fire scene, "Master Hou, we saved someone—"
Everyone turned around and looked around, only to see in the flames and smoke, two embroidered envoys who sneaked into the fire just now rushed out of the forest with one person in their arms. The eldest lady whose clothes were all scorched on the back, and the backward embroiderer held a scar-faced woman in an ordinary skirt in her arms.
She was as skinny as a stick, her face was unnaturally white, and the scar on her left face was purple-black. At first glance, she was almost identical to Sha Gu, but when the night wind blew her hair and blocked her left face, everyone was shocked. It can be seen at a glance that she and Zheng Yunni are 80% similar in bone appearance—
Seeing that the sister who killed three people in a row was rescued, Zheng Yunni had a strange and annoyed smile on her already crazy face. scar.
Bo Ruoyou's heart skipped a beat, "Did you ever go back to the dark room? You burned the scar on her face?!"