The water surface is rippling, and the yellow-scented plums sinking to the bottom of the water only have flowers and no branches. So no one will break the yellow-scented plums and throw them into the water one by one. The buds are all in full bloom, as if the flowering period is about to end and are blown by the wind.

Chuntao also saw the things under the water clearly and said in surprise: "There are plum blossoms in the water..."

Bo Ruoyou looked at the lotus pond in front of him, and then looked at the north plum forest, "This lotus pond is dry all year round?"

Chuntao thought for a while, "Not that, every spring and summer, it rains a lot, and some water can accumulate in the lotus pond. However, it is dry again in autumn and winter. Gardeners will throw some lotus seeds in the spring rain season. They will bloom in summer with good luck. If they are not lucky, they will be empty. No one comes here, so it is not unpredictable."

Bo Ruoyou didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly asked: "How did he build a canal when the Huanhua Creek was lured in the mansion?"

When the prince of the previous dynasty was there, there were three inner lakes in the mansion, which could gather water into a lake, so it could not be a simple diversion of water. Most of them were built with a crypt. However, Chuntao said in a daze: "This... I don't understand. I only heard that many craftsmen were used at that time, and the momentum was huge."

Bo Ruoyou looked into the lotus pond again, and suddenly turned toward Meilin. Meilin had only been here the night before, but she just stood outside and looked. This time, Bo Ruoyou walked straight into the forest.

The rest of the mansion is filled with wintersweet, but here is Huang Xiangmei. There is a large bamboo forest between the plum forest and the lotus pond. She has not seen bamboo leaves in the lotus pond, but she found Huang Xiangmei. Why is this?

The plum forest felt the fragrance at night. During the day, I saw a large area of ​​yellow plum blossoms blooming, and the scenery was even more pleasant. Now it is halfway through the first month, and the weather is getting warmer. Petals are indeed falling under the plum trees, and the first plum blossoms blooming have begun to wither.

The embroidered clothes envoy came to the forest to investigate last night. At this moment, you can see the traces on the ground are a little confused. The embroidered clothes envoy said that there are traces of people left in this plum forest, and the murderer has lingered in this forest.

Bo Ruoyou's heart moved and walked deeper into the plum forest. The plum forest was not as dense as the bamboo forest and was not easy to hide. Bo Ruoyou walked and stopped, but it was covered with some fragrance of plum blossoms on her body. Just when she couldn't figure out her thoughts, she saw the dry well in the distance.

The embroidered clothes made the dry well that I had lifted last night.

The dry well has been abandoned for many years, and the well platform has long collapsed. It is covered with moss and weeds. If you just take a look, you may not be able to see that it is a well. But what attracted Bo Ruoyou's attention was two plum trees beside the well. The branches of the two plum trees stretched horizontally. If petals fell, they could fall into the well. Bo Ruoyou quickly walked towards the dry well.

The well platform had long collapsed, and the wellhead the size of a bucket was still intact. Standing at the wellhead, looking down, it was pitch black inside and could not see anything clearly. Not only that, there was also a smell of damp mud floating out of the well. Bo Ruoyou felt that the smell was a little familiar.

Chuntao stood aside and was puzzled, "Girl, these wells in the forest are mostly dug for watering the garden, not for eating water and cooking, and the wells here have long been abandoned."

Bo Ruoyou nodded. The snow next to the well platform had melted. The snow water seeped into the darkness below it along the well wall. Bo Ruoyou leaned into it, but still couldn't see anything. She was a little anxious and supported her hand on the collapsed well platform that was not as high as the knees. She leaned down and looked down. The more she leaned forward, the more the force pressed on the well platform, suddenly, a brick and stone suddenly loosened, and she immediately fell forward...

"girl!"

Chuntao shouted in fear and grabbed Bo Ruoyou's arm. Bo Ruoyou himself was also startled and quickly supported himself to take a step back. Chuntao's face was slightly pale, "Be careful, if it falls down, it will be the lightest, and you will break your leg!"

Bo Ruoyou felt familiar as if he heard this, so he heard Chuntao say, "I heard that Sha Gu fell from this well back then."

Bo Ruoyou's heart skipped a beat and asked with a tight look: "Silly Gu fell into the dry well when she fell into this well?"

Chuntao nodded, "Yes, so this place is very dangerous."

Bo Ruoyou's voice became more and more anxious, "Did you say she fell down for several days?"

Chuntao nodded, "Yes, I heard that there will be three or four days."

"How was she discovered?"

Chuntao thought for a while, "It seems like a servant is doing something in the forest. When he heard something happening in the well, everyone knew that Sha Gu was gone and thought she had run away. Then the servant called someone, but the well entrance was narrow and ordinary men couldn't get out, so he had to put down the rope and let Sha Gu tie him up, and then the others pulled her out together."

Thunder sounded like a sound of thunder in his ears, and a heart beat like a drumbeat. Bo Ruoyou looked at the dark and faint wellhead and suddenly a terrifying thought came to his heart. Chuntao didn't know what she was thinking, but she saw her face turned pale and her eyes looked terrified, as if she had thought of something terrible, and she couldn't help but become scared.

"Miss, what's wrong? Did I say the wrong thing?"

Bo Ruoyou did not answer. She shook her head and suddenly turned slowly, searching everywhere. She was sure that there must be traces around the well platform, but she didn't know where the traces were. She looked around aimlessly for a few times. Suddenly, her eyes were fixed on a plum tree on the east side of the well platform.

The plum tree has been around for a long time, and the plum trees are thinner and thicker than the bowl. I don’t know if the plum trees at the well are close to the water, but they are thicker than elsewhere. On the plum tree in the east, where a person hugged each other, Bo Ruoyou found several light traces. She frowned and walked around the plum tree.

The bark of the plum tree is thick and dark brown, with cracks. Just in the place where the waist is high, there are several circles of light traces of being polished. The traces are uneven. One side close to the well platform is shallow and the other side is deep. The expression of Bo Ruoyou changed a few times. When he looked at the wellhead, he felt a little afraid in his eyes, as if there was a man-eating monster hidden under the well.

The breeze drifted out with the smell of mud in the well. The branches of the plum tree were moved by the wind, and a few petals drifted down. The petals swayed into the well, falling silently into the darkness.

Bo Ruoyou suddenly turned around and left, Chuntao hurriedly followed, "Where are the girl going?"

Bo Ruoyou was going to the direction of the ancestral hall, but when Chuntao asked, she turned around and came to the front yard.

Bo Ruoyou's pace was fast, and Chuntao even had to trot all the way to keep up, "Girl, what's wrong?"

Bo Ruoyou shook her head and didn't answer. Her gentle and charming body faded, and she was a little arrogant. Chuntao was already quite close to her because of her gentleness and kindness. Seeing her expression, she was shocked for a moment and did not dare to say more.

Bo Ruoyou arrived at the study where Zheng Wenyan was killed.

Because it was the place where the crime occurred, there was a guard at the door. When Bo Ruoyou came, the Yaiyou did not stop him. Bo Ruoyou went straight into the study. She walked under the air window earlier, brought a stool and stood up.

She was not tall and it was difficult to see the whole picture clearly. Bo Ruoyou glanced at the tea table beside her. She came down neatly, and asked Chuntao to help, drag the tea table over, and then stood on the table on the chair, which made Chuntao stunned.

Bo Ruoyou, who stood on the table, finally saw the whole view of the air window.

Bo Ruoyou looked at it and then got off the table, put the table and chairs back in place, left the study gate and headed towards the ancestral hall. She wanted to find Huo Weilou.

...

Huo Weilou left the front yard and went to the fireplace of the ancestral hall. Eunuch Fu followed Huo Weilou and inexplicably felt that Huo Weilou was in a good mood today. He leaned forward and said, "Marty, the second prince's marriage is about to go wrong, you seem to be very happy."

Huo Weilou frowned, "What do you mean?"

Eunuch Fu sighed, "The Second Highness is three years younger than you. Not only did he make a marriage for a baby early in the morning, but he was also given a marriage by the emperor last year. This case is over. If there is no major change, he will get married in March. I see that you don't say anything, but I am actually quite jealous in my heart."

Huo Weilou: "..."

Eunuch Fu sighed, lowered his voice and muttered, "The Lord wants to give you a marriage multiple times, but you blocked it again and again. You are not young anymore. There is no one around you. You don't know how to spread you outside..."

Huo Weilou could not bear it anymore and paused slightly, but before he turned around, Eunuch Fu began to slap himself in the mouth, "Oh, look at my old man's mouth, I know nonsense. The marquis serves the country and the people, what is marriage? If I ask me, I will say that there is no woman in the world who matches the marquis."

Huo Weilou glanced at Eunuch Fu and continued to walk forward. Eunuch Fu laughed and followed, "I'll just say a few jokes. I think the Marquis is in a good mood today, maybe I can solve this case today."

Huo Weilou raised his eyebrows. He was in a good mood? When did he feel better?

Eunuch Fu has been taking care of Huo Weilou for many years, but he didn't know what he was thinking, so he said, "I saw it when I just entered the house. Miss Bo seems to be a little nervous. Alas, it's been so few days, and Miss Bo is still afraid of you."

Afraid of him?

Huo Weilou sneered, she was not afraid of him.

In an instant, Huo Weilou remembered Bo Ruoyou's appearance again, and she felt that her careful investigation of the case was to repay him.

Huo Weilou laughed in his heart. If everyone thought like her, why would he use thunderous means in the officialdom and only show kindness to civil and military officials? He is really childish and naive.

Although he thought so in his heart, Huo Weilou himself did not realize that his eyebrows and eyes were softer.

Eunuch Fu said again: "It's a pity to say that Miss Bo is a woman, but she plans to be a coroner for the rest of her life. If this continues, getting married will be a difficult problem..."

Coroner has a low status and often has a companionship with dead people. Who would like to marry such a girl in ordinary families?

Huo Weilou’s focus is on the previous sentence: “When did she say she would do coroner for the rest of her life?”

Eunuch Fu said, "Just on the day when Zheng San Master had an accident, the old slave accompanied her to examine the second master's body. He asked casually on the way. She said that she did not believe in Buddhism or did not believe in the teachings. Since she had the art of coronation, she only believed in the sword in her hand. If the case was solved, she would continue to be coronation in the future."

Huo Weilou's heart was filled with questions again.

He had met generals who had fought for decades and good officials who benefited the people. They were either loyal and courageous, or selfless, but no matter how righteous they were, they had what they wanted. They were as little as a woman, smart and beautiful as a woman, but chose the most difficult business. If she had nothing to ask for, she would be really a sage.

"But you said something else?"

Huo Weilou asked again, and Eunuch Fu shook his head, "No, I thought, we will go to Luozhou in a few days, so I didn't ask too much, but I was worried about her, and she didn't know if she had thought about it."

It is so difficult for women in the world to find a good husband if she insists on being a coroner.

Huo Weilou didn't know what he was thinking, so he didn't say anything for a moment, and soon the ancestral hall arrived.

The snow was growing, and the fire in the ancestral hall was already muddy. The yamen and the guards in the mansion were all busy. Several embroidered clothes envoys were inspecting the incident. Seeing Huo Weilou coming, the embroidered clothes envoys guarding here came to greet him.

Huo Weilou asked: "How?"

The embroidered clothes made a deep voice: "It's very slow, and a lot of wood was burned to death, and the other books and silks turned into smoke and dust. It's very difficult to find clues."

Huo Weilou walked closer, and the outermost wooden beams and other objects had been moved away. At this moment, only a few charred walls stood. Suddenly, Huo Weilou's brows moved slightly. He looked at the original position behind the main hall, "Did you smash the wall?"

The broken wall that had not collapsed must have been smashed, but the embroidered clothes made a sound, "Not yet, I'm still cleaning up the debris."

Huo Weilou's phoenix eyes were slightly narrow. When building a house, the holes on the wall needed to be reserved for the wooden rafters and beams. However, at this time, the holes on the wall were obviously lower than elsewhere. Huo Weilou immediately walked quickly to the broken wall. When he arrived, although the wall had been burned to black, it became clearer and clearer, and it was indeed different from other places.

There was still a lot of rubble and wood under the wall. Before the cleaning, Huo Wei's corridor said, "Clean this place first. There seems to be a collapse under the wall. See if there is anything buried."

This mansion has been built for many years, and the location of the ancestral hall is the top priority, so it is impossible to collapse for no reason. Thinking of the embroidered clothes, the embroidered man once inferred that there was a dark room in the ancestral hall, Huo Weilou's expression became solemn for a moment.

Seeing this, He Cheng said, "I'm afraid it will take a day and a night to clean it up here, and I have to wait again."

"Maybe you don't have to wait that long."

The sudden sound made Huo Weilou and others turn around, and then saw Bo Ruoyou coming quickly. Because he ran too fast and was breathing a little, she was blessed. "Marty, lord, the common woman has noticed it."

Huo Weilou stared at him, "What did you find?"

Bo Ruoyou swallowed for a moment and then said, "There are most likely dark rooms under the ancestral hall. Not only that, the dark rooms may be connected to the culvert left by the mansion in the early years. Miss Zheng was lost and the silly girl was rescued, which may be related to this culvert."

He Cheng frowned: "The culvert? How come it is above the culvert?"

Bo Ruoyou's lips were slightly pursed, "Because... the female speculated that the murderer of the old lady, Zheng Erye, and Zheng Sanye are now hiding in that hiding channel."

The murderer is hiding in the hibernation?!

Now that the incident has many doubts, the identity of the murderer has not been confirmed. However, Bo Ruoyou said the place where the murderer was hiding. Where did this start?

Huo Weilou stared at him, and Eunuch Fu couldn't help but say, "Miss Bo, is there any evidence?"

Bo Ruoyou nodded, "If you have evidence, please follow the girl in the north, right in the plum forest."

Meilin had just searched last night and found nothing, but at this moment, Bo Ruoyou said that there was evidence in the Meilin. Huo Weilou looked solemn, but he did not question it. He first ordered the embroidered clothes to continue to clean up the collapsed land, and then followed Bo Ruoyou to Meilin. They went directly from the ancestral hall to Meilin. The place they passed by was a small path with pine and cypress trees. There was an abandoned thatched hut outside the path, and the plum forest was east of the thatched hut.

Bo Ruoyou walked and said, "The young girl discovered that there was flowing water in the lotus pond east of the bamboo forest. In the flowing water, there were withered yellow-scented plum petals, and there were a large number of them. Therefore, the young girl felt strange. Later, the young girl arrived at the plum forest and found that there was a dry well in the plum tree in the plum forest. There were plum trees next to the dry well, and the petals could fall into the dry well."

He Chengdao: "That well was checked last night and was abandoned for many years..."

"What the lord said is good, thanks to the good day today."
To be continued...