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Chapter 204 Ten Flowers 18

Bo Ruoyou started to have a fever when he returned to the city. After Ming Guilan asked for a pulse, he only thought that she was frightened and was invaded by cold evil. He prescribed a prescription and boiled the medicine. It was already dusk.

Ming Guilan was waiting outside, and Huo Weilou entered the inner room with a bowl of medicine. Bo Ruoyou's cheeks were flushed with abnormal redness, but her lips were a little purple. She fell asleep for a moment in the afternoon, and was drowsy at this time.

Huo Weilou helped her up and fed her medicine himself. After drinking the medicine, he used some soup again, and then he recovered a little bit of anger.

"You didn't even move a cup of tea in the house. I couldn't feel at ease going in and saw you lying on the ground, as if you were nightmares again." Huo Weilou's pupils were dark, and his eyebrows were furrowing unconsciously.

Bo Ruoyou felt that she had been in a mess for a moment, but she didn't know that she had been in the house for so long. She raised her hand and stroked Huo Weilou's eyebrows, and said hoarsely: "Haven and Marquis, I'm not seriously injured now, I'll be cured after taking medicine for two days."

She glanced out, "Where is Mr. Ming?"

Huo Wei showed suspicion on the floor, and Bo Ruoyou said, "Marty, I remembered a scene in a daze. According to what I thought, it should be true."

"The murderer is injured?"

"Yes, I was only five years old at that time. If I were chased by an adult man, I would never escape no matter what." She slowly raised her right hand and moved her five fingers that were somewhat weak. "Unless I hurt him, although I was young, if he was not prepared and I happened to have a sharp weapon, it would be possible for him to see blood."

Huo Weilou asked: "Where is the murderer's injury? Maybe remember?"

Bo Ruoyou pondered for a moment, "I think I'm not tall and may trip to the ground. The murderer must squat down and be injured... Most of them will be on the left side of the murderer's arm, shoulder, or chest."

Huo Weilou listened to her description, and didn't know what he thought of, his eyes suddenly became sharp, "the left arm, shoulder, chest..."

He looked at Bo Ruoyou, "This is the place where Zhongyi Bo was injured this time."

Bo Ruoyou's head was dizzy, and she didn't remember it at first. After Huo Weilou said this, she suddenly shuddered, "Yes, Zhongyi Bo's injury--"

Zhongyi Bo was injured in refining alchemy. After hearing the report of the embroidered clothes, it really looked like an accident. However, this incident happened when they found out that the suspects from the three families were found. It was already strange. Now I know that the murderer was injured back then, so is this really an accident?

"Mr. Marquis said that if he knew that we had found out that the three of them were afraid that I would remember the old things, so he caused this accident to burn himself, so he could cover up the old scars? If so, the scars left back then would indeed be erased!"

Bo Ruoyou frowned. This was a scene she had finally remembered. If Bo Zhongyi really used this method to eliminate the scars, what should he do?

She hurriedly sat up, "Severe burns will cause the flesh to ulcerate, and even the old scars will be hidden-"

"Don't worry." Huo Weilou took the pillow and asked her to lean on it. "The more anxious the murderer is, the more flaws he will reveal. His risk of causing such an accident will attract our attention. Even if the scars are gone, as long as he uses some means to investigate, he will definitely find clues."

Bo Ruoyou heard the taste, "How should the Marquis do it?"

Huo Weilou pondered for a moment, "Since you remembered the injury, I will ask someone to investigate Cao Yan and Wei Huan first. If these two people eliminated, Feng Qin's suspicion became even greater. He has been practicing Taoism outside the city in the past few years, and it seems ordinary to everyone. He can kill people and get blood and set up an altar. These actions will never be completely different, but everyone has not taken them seriously."

Bo Ruoyou endured the headache and thoughts flew in his mind, "But if the murderer was him, what about his motive? He has been pure in his heart and has no desires in his life, but has never been interested in his career. He has been practicing Taoism hard over the years, and seems to have no desires or demands."

Huo Weilou looked narrow and pondered. Soon, his voice was slightly cool: "He really devoted himself to practicing Taoism. It seemed that after Princess Anyang passed away, he also gave up his career in the court for Princess Anyang."

Suddenly, he said in a cold voice: "Not only that, his eldest son Feng Yu died young, he was only five years old."

Bo Ruoyou's eyes trembled, "The victims are only a few years old. In addition to seeking immortality, the art of death can also bring people back from the dead. Is he for his dead wife and children?"

"Everyone who knows Zhongyi in the capital knows that he has a deep affection for Princess Anyang, and he may have lost his wife and children back then, and he may have been obstructed and gone wrong. I will ask the Zhishi to investigate here."

After saying that, he asked again, "Do you want to see Gui Lan?"

Bo Ruoyou nodded, "I have a question."

Huo Weilou put on her outer robe and stood up to let Ming Guilan enter the inner room. When Bo Ruoyou saw him, he asked, "Is the short cabinet that the young master put in that room the same as what he saw in the dilapidated temple?"

Ming Guilan nodded, "Almost the same, I also went to Xiangguo Temple for this reason. In their Buddhist temple, there was a low cabinet where the incense and candle scriptures were placed, which was that tall and short."

Bo Ruoyou frowned, and Huo Weilou asked, "Is there something strange about the cabinet?"

"There are two people in the cabinet." Bo Ruoyou thought of the crampedness and darkness in the cabinet, and his heart tensed unconsciously. "The cabinet is divided into two upper and lower layers. The lower layer can barely hide in one person. The upper layer is shorter and cannot be hidden in. If it were my brother and I hiding in together, it would be 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 from two people, but there would be no such impractical cabinets in the Buddhist temple."

Bo Ruoyou coughed twice, "Every time I learn my younger brother's behavior ignorantly, I always hide in. I guess that night, my younger brother did hide in. If I were with him, if I could only hide one person... it would be him who could hide."

But if there is only one person hidden in the cabinet, where should she go?

Bo Ruoyou couldn't think of it, but said, "Li Shen's confession made no sense, and he didn't mention being stabbed. I think there were no scars on his body. If he lifted it, it would be exposed."

She still couldn't remember the whole picture of that night, but for Huo Weilou, that was enough.

The night slowly fell, and the broken snow in the day turned into heavy snow. The entire capital was covered with the sky and the moon. Ming Guilan asked Bo Ruoyou for his vein and said goodbye to leave the mansion. Huo Weilou summoned Lu Ke and Sun Zhao. They didn't know what happened today, but they heard Huo Weilou told the murderer that he was injured.

Lu Ke asked, "What the Marquis means, let me first find a way to explore Wei Huan and Cao Yan?"

Huo Weilou nodded, "This should not be difficult."

Lu Ke expected that Huo Weilou looked at Sun Zhao again, "Can you find the stable wife you are looking for in the yamen?"

Sun Zhao shook his head with a bitter face, "I haven't found it yet, and that Wen Po is very likely to be no longer in the world."

Huo Weilou's phoenix eyes were slightly narrow, "In addition to checking whether the two were injured, he focused on checking Zhongyi Bo's good life in Biezhuang outside the city to see if he had renovated the house over the years, and if there were any other abnormal behaviors, he would report it together. In addition, he would send someone to investigate the old things about him and Princess Anyang to see if there were any female relatives around him over the years."

Feng Qin may not be free, but as a big man, he will most likely have concubines around him. Huo Weilou wants to know how much Feng Qin has been thinking about Princess Anyang over the years.

Sun Zhao and Lu Ke didn't know why he investigated Feng Qin and Princess Anyang, but they didn't dare to ask too much. They quickly took the order to leave the mansion. Huo Weilou stood up and returned to the inner room. She arranged with Bo Ruoyou Daoming, so she felt relieved.

It was already dark, and Huo Wei said, "Stay tonight so as not to make trouble on the road. I will send someone to say something to Mr. Cheng."

The heat on Bo Ruoyou's forehead had not subsided, and she was afraid that this look would scare Cheng Yunzhi, so she responded. She was now resting in Huo Wei's building, which reminded her of being kidnapped and sick that day, and she was also resting here. At that time, she didn't know Huo Wei's building was thinking, and she felt quite frightened.

"I took the Marquis' bed and asked the Marquis to stop and go to the study."

Huo Weilou touched her forehead and said helplessly: "Can't I rest here?"

Bo Ruoyou looked embarrassed, Huo Weilou pointed to the long bed under the window in the distance, "You are sick, I will not disturb you. You were shocked today, but I am afraid that something will happen again in the evening."

Today, she was not stimulated and was in a state of chaos, nor did she fear that she would be afraid of the situation that night. Bo Ruoyou thought that many years of devil obstacles were difficult to get rid of, and she was also afraid that the disease would occur in her sleep, but she did not expect that Huo Weilou was guarding this night, which made her sleep well all night.

After noon the next day, Lu Ke entered the Hou's Mansion with exhaustion.

Bo Ruoyou was able to get up and listened to Lu Ke’s report in the study with Huo Weilou.

"Last night, my subordinates found out from the brothel pleasure boat where Cao Yan and Wei Huan had visited that they were not injured."

Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou looked at each other, and Lu Ke continued: "The time is too short. I have not found much old things about Princess Anyang. I only know that when Bo Zhongyi was the prince, he had been to Huai'an when he was the prince. At that time, he met Princess Anyang who grew up. He had lived in Prince Zhong's mansion for a few days, and probably had friendship."

"They were quite harmonious after marriage. The servant who left Zhongyi Bo's Mansion said that in the years after marriage, they were inseparable. Because Princess Anyang gave birth to the first prince, she suffered some losses. Bo's Zhongyi also took medicine himself and did not want to make Princess Anyang happy anymore. Therefore, the second prince of Prince's Mansion was five years younger than the eldest prince."

"Prince Anyang is weak. After being pregnant with the second son, his health was not as good as before. He was in a changeable mood and was quite angry. It was also during that time that many servants of the Zhongyi Bo Mansion had changed. Zhongyi Bo was quite considerate and favored her. He took care of everything himself. He even refused to let the eldest son bother her. After Anyang passed away, Zhongyi Bo did not leave the house for three months, and he also sent off a large number of servants at that time, and truly lived a life of pure heart and few desires."

Lu Ke said this in one breath, and he was also a little sighing, "I asked the servants of Zhongyi Bo's mansion and learned that Zhongyi Bo has no female relatives around him over the years. Not only does he have no concubines, but he doesn't even have a maid. He is usually a servant. In other villages outside the city, there are only a few servants to take care of him."

Only a few servants took care of them...

Although it shows that Zhongyi Bo practices Taoism with utmost suffering, it also shows that there are few people in Zhuangzi, which is easy to hide people's eyes and ears.

"But it's a bit strange. Bo Zhongyi may be afraid of being in love with the scene. He rarely went to the tombs of Princess Anyang and the eldest prince in recent years to worship. Every Qingming Festival, he just asked the second prince to worship."

Bo Ruoyou frowned and puzzled, "Don't you go to pay tribute?"

Lu Ke nodded, "It was learned from the people in the Bo Mansion."

Bo Ruoyou suddenly asked: "When did Princess Anyang and the eldest son die?"

“Under construction and the twelfth lunar month of the fourteenth year.”

Bo Ruoyou hurried to see Huo Weilou, and Huo Weilou's eyes were also dark and hard to see. "There are too many coincidences. The murderers committed the crime in winter, which was like a commemoration of their death day."

At this time, Lu Ke said again: "As for the other villages outside his city, the location is very remote, and Zhongyi Bo is also very quiet. In recent years, the village has hardly been renovated, and Zhongyi Bo rarely invites people to visit the village. However, there are servants who buy medicinal materials and ores there often. The only strange thing is that Zhongyi Bo is a person who likes coolness very much."

Huo Weilou raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

Lu Ke said: "Because he has few people in the village, we dare not alert the snakes of the most confidant. We only found two servants who had been out to buy at the village. Both of them said that when Bo Zhongyi went to the village to cool off every summer, they would buy a lot of ice and send it to the village. The amount of ice was almost the amount of several Bo Mansions in the city."

Huo Weilou thought for a moment, "He likes to refine alchemy, and the alchemy room must be stuffy, and it is common to use a lot of ice."

Bo Ruoyou said: "The alchemy room is stuffy all year round, so how can he use ice in spring and autumn?"

Lu Ke nodded, "It's also used, but it's less than in summer. Every winter, he will send someone to pick ice and send it to the farm--"

Huo Weilou suddenly asked: "Have you ever used a lot of ice in the mansion?"

Lu Ke hesitated. Huo Weilou saw his expression and knew that there had not been any detailed investigation here. He ordered him, "Go and check it out more thoroughly, especially to check the difference between him and not in the mansion. There is no need to check the past for too long. Just check this year and last year. The time is not so long. I think I can check it clearly."

Lu Ke expected, Huo Weilou frowned and said, "Although there are doubts, it may not be an important clue. What can I do with a lot of ice?"
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