The Delicate Lady Coroner Chapter 26: One inch of gold 26

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Chapter 26 An Inch of Gold 26

Zheng Yunni's sad expression froze, "Master Hou...what are you talking about?"

Everyone was surprised when they looked at Huo Weilou. Zheng Yunni was crying so miserably and begging him to save his mother. How did he know that she had left the eldest lady in the fire scene?

The eldest lady is her biological mother.

Zheng Wen'an was beside Zheng Yunni. Hearing this, he frowned and said, "What do you mean by these words?"

Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Yunni with cold eyes, and then glanced at the back of Zheng Yunni's hand. Zheng Yunni was begging Huo Weilou, and one hand was holding the hem of his robe, and it was the back of this hand that, at this moment, There were several dazzling wounds. The scars were red, swollen and bleeding, but they were not scabbed. Anyone could tell that they were injured a moment ago.

Zheng Yunni followed Huo Weilou's gaze and looked at her hand. Her expression suddenly changed and she immediately retracted her hand. She continued to cry: "This scar was scratched by a bamboo branch when I ran out just now. My daughter doesn’t know what the Marquis means, but she only asks the Marquis to save her mother..."

Huo Weilou stood up and said without looking back: "Bo Ruoyou, come here."

Bo Ruoyou was standing not far behind Huo Weilou. He walked up immediately after hearing the words. Huo Weilou stared at Zheng Yunni condescendingly and said, "Stretch out your hand."

Zheng Yunni cried so hard that the pear blossoms were raining, but Huo Weilou seemed to have never seen him. His voice was cold and strong. Zheng Yunni sobbed twice, and finally stretched out his hand tremblingly.

Bao Ruoyou used the firelight to examine Zheng Yunni's hand, and soon said in a solemn voice: "The eldest lady's hand was scratched. Three scars on the back of her hand were bloody, and another scar was on the palm. It's just redness and swelling. The eldest lady's injury was on her right hand. The person who hurt her must have used a grasping posture, and it was with his left hand. Because the little finger was weak, there was no scar on the back of the eldest lady's hand."

Bo Ruoyou's voice was crisp and without hesitation, his words were even more detailed, and he used his left hand to make gestures on the back of Zheng Yunni's hand. For a moment, everyone could even imagine how the two of them were pulling at each other.

Zheng Yunni sobbed and said immediately: "My daughter remembered it wrong. 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 me. Women’s hands..."

Bao Ruoyou stared, "The eldest lady is lying again. If you pull the eldest lady, it is the eldest lady holding the eldest lady's hand. The scar should be left on the back of the eldest lady's hand, and there will be scars on the eldest lady's nails. Stained with the blood of the First Lady."

Only when someone is caught but tries to break away, there will be scars on the back of the hand. Such situations usually happen. As soon as Bo Ruoyou said these words, everyone came to their senses. Zheng Wen'an couldn't help but said: " Yun Ni, what happened?"

Zheng Yunni's hand stopped at the corner of her eyes, wiping her tears. She was discovered one after another, but she was not in a hurry. When Zheng Wen'an asked, she looked at Zheng Wen'an sadly, "Okay... now that I have been seen out, Then I don’t have to hide it anymore. I also want to ask my fifth uncle who the murderer is and why my mother not only doesn’t feel scared when she sees her, but treats her as an old friend. The murderer clearly wants to set fire to us, but my mother But she actually wanted to chase the murderer, not even caring about the fire around her. Not only did she want to follow the murderer, she even wanted to pull me. I...if I didn't break free, I would be burned to death..."

Zheng Yunni cried, "I didn't mean to keep my mother, but she didn't leave on her own. If I really stayed, would I be burned alive? Uncle Wu, who is the murderer? Could it be my mother and that person?" What is the shady connection of the murderer?"

Zheng Yunni finally changed his words, but Zheng Wen'an didn't know how to answer her question. He raised his eyes and looked at Huo Weilou, and said in a difficult voice, "Master Hou, Yun Ni doesn't know what happened back then..."

When Zheng Yunni heard this, his tearful eyes became more suspicious, "Fifth Uncle, what happened back then? I knew something was wrong when I saw the situation, so I wanted to hide something, Fifth Uncle, could it be... Could it be that everyone Everyone knows it, am I the only one who doesn’t know?"

Zheng Wen'an didn't dare to look into Zheng Yunni's questioning eyes for a moment, so he could only lower his eyes and sigh.

When Zheng Yunni was crying, Bo Ruoyou was not only looking at her hands, but also looking at her elsewhere. She was wearing a bright red dress today. At the moment, the skirt was covered with mud, and she herself had hair on her temples. Scattered, the more Bo Ruoyou looked at it, the darker his eyes became. The fire in the forest spread all the way to the east. But would a person who has lived in the darkness for many years use arson to harm others?

Huo Weilou ignored Zheng Yunni's question. He only looked at Zheng Yunni and said, "You said there was tung oil sprinkled in the forest?"

Zheng Yunni nodded twitchingly, "Yes, my daughter smelled something wrong, but by the time she realized it, it was already too late..."

If there is tung oil, it is reasonable to create such a fire.

Huo Weilou asked Zheng Wen'an: "Where is the tung oil in the house?"

Zheng Wen'an was stunned, "In the treasury in the southeast..."

Zheng Yunni immediately said: "The murderer must have stolen the key to the treasury again. She can steal the mandala, but what does stealing tung oil mean now?"

It is true that the murderer always used datura as a drug when committing crimes, and she came and went without a trace in the mansion. It was not unbelievable that she would sneak into the mansion to steal tung oil. However, Huo Weilou stared at her, "You said the eldest lady is after you?" Follow the murderer, where did the murderer escape to?"

Zheng Yunni pointed to the east, "Going over there——"

At this moment, the west wind is blowing, and the fire is jumping eastward. Since the murderer set the fire and committed murder, he did not judge the wind and instead went to a more dangerous place? Huo Weilou frowned slightly and was about to speak when 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 next to Huo Weilou and spoke in a low voice.

In the distance, everyone could only see what Bo Ruoyou was saying. Huo Weilou listened attentively, but did not reply. He only occasionally nodded in response. Soon, Huo Weilou turned around and called a few embroiderers. In front of him, he gave a few instructions, and several people immediately went to the southeast, while the remaining one turned around 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. After waiting for a long time, the embroidered clothes messenger walked away. When I came back, I was followed by a government official.

Huo Weilou frowned and asked the yamen official a few words. He saw the yamen official nod respectfully and answered. After hearing this, Huo Weilou nodded and then asked the yamen official to leave.

Huo Weilou said something to Bo Ruoyou again, and Bo Ruoyou shook his head.

Huo Weilou seemed to sigh, and then walked over with Bo Ruoyou. When everyone was in front of them, he said: "Since tung oil was used to light the fire, the murderer must have stolen tung oil from the treasury. I have sent People searched the treasury to see if they could find any clues."

As he spoke, Huo Weilou raised his eyes and looked at the fire scene, "The most urgent task now is to save people first."

The fire is getting bigger and bigger. The two embroidered clothes who have just entered the fire scene have a neat figure, but they have not come out at this moment. Huo Weilou frowns, and the others also hold their hearts high, for fear that the two embroidered clothes will The envoy was also buried in it.

Zheng Yunni's tears were not dry, but she still had a look of grief on her face. While looking at the fire scene, she subconsciously looked at Bao Ruoyou and Huo Weilou, as if trying to figure out what the two had just said, and returned to the crowd. Afterwards, Huo Weilou looked calm, but Bo Ruoyou's eyes were a bit thoughtful, as if he was doubting something.

Suddenly, Huo Weilou looked at her.

Zheng Yunni's eyes trembled slightly, but he pretended to be calm and did not look away. Huo Weilou asked: "Can we see the murderer clearly now?"

Zheng Yunni immediately said, "Of course I saw her clearly. She was thin and short. She was wearing her grandmother's robe and looked very eerie. When she saw that the courtier and her mother had fallen into the trap, she gave a ferocious laugh and said, "Wait a minute." We took a long time, and then lit a fire..."

Zheng Yunni's description was detailed and it sounded easy to believe. Huo Weilou asked again: "Where did you go in the afternoon? The murderer has laid out a plan and is waiting for you. Perhaps, she had 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 the people around him fell on Zheng Yunni. Zheng Yunni said: "After my grandmother died, the Buddhist temple was closed. But then my second uncle and third uncle were murdered. I was very frightened. I thought that yesterday I went to the Buddhist hall to pray, but I didn’t dare to wander around. This afternoon, I went to the Buddhist hall to read a sutra.”

The Buddhist hall is quiet and no one has been there for many days after the official search. This means that although no one can testify against Zheng Yunni, no one can say that she is lying.

But when Huo Weilou heard this, he frowned slightly, as if he had found something suspicious, "You said that the murderer said something when he saw you. Did she speak eloquently? What voice did she use to say it?"

Zheng Yunni said with lingering fear: "She said it viciously, in one breath, and the voice... the voice was a woman's voice..."

"Apart from this sentence, is there anything else to say?"

Zheng Yunni nodded, "She seems to have a deep hatred for us, as if she is just waiting for this moment. I don't know who she is, but she doesn't look too old..."

Huo Weilou asked again: "Does she have scars on her face?"

All in all, Zheng Yunni was the first person to have met the murderer so close and escaped from her hands. Zheng Yunni nodded, with an even more frightened expression, "Yes...some...that face is extremely scary." Yes, just...just like the face of a silly girl, looking at it makes people think that she is a cruel person."

After these words were finalized, it almost confirmed Bo Ruoyou's earlier conclusion that there were two silly girls in the house.

However, Huo Weilou said: "You are lying again."

Zheng Yunni was stunned, and the expressions of the others also changed slightly. Huo Weilou said: "You talk too much and make many mistakes, but you have thought about how to answer, so you are not in a panic. But I have seen countless repeat offenders, and I am alone here. Telling the truth or telling lies, I can tell at a glance. You have been acting coy since you left the fire scene. If it is as you said later, it was your mother who took the initiative to pursue the murderer, you don’t need to tell the details and ask me first. Just save people, but you always insist that she was left behind to save you."

"At the moment of life and death, you had just escaped and you were bent on saving your mother, but you thought of many reasons to frustrate us. The only explanation is that you are lying. You had many reasons to find, but you used You made this excuse just to show that you have a deep love for mother and daughter, that you feel guilty and eager to save your mother."

Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Yunni with a sharp look on his face, which was heart-wrenching, "You appear to be eager to save your mother, but you are also crying miserably to win sympathy, so that people will regard you as the victim and believe your words, so that they will not I doubt you."

The tears in the corners of Zheng Yunni's eyes were not yet dry. When he heard this, the tears fell again, "Master Marquis...Master Hou is actually doubting my daughter? Could it be that I suspect that my daughter is really running away alone, leaving her mother to stay?" In the sea of ​​fire?"

Zheng Yunni's innocent face and tearful eyes made it impossible to imagine that she was acting.

Huo Weilou narrowed his eyes, "That's not the only reason you lied. Your first lie was discovered by the gangster, so you quickly found your second excuse. You also said that the murderer said something vicious to you. But just now I asked the yamen who had just seen the murderer. The yamen said that when he met the murderer tonight, the murderer suffered from aphasia and stuttering and could not finish a complete sentence at all."

Huo Weilou looked at Zheng Yunni coldly, "Since she couldn't speak complete words, how could you hear her words in one coherent sentence? The only possibility is that you are lying. You deliberately described the murderer as vicious and seeking revenge. , and this just echoes everyone’s speculation about the murderer. For a moment, no one questions you, but your mistake is that you have never heard the murderer speak."

Zheng Yunni was suddenly stunned. She looked at the Huo Wei Tower a few feet away, forgetting to cry for a moment. Behind her was clearly a raging fire, but she could not feel the slightest bit of burning. Everything in the world suddenly became silent. , she seemed to be in an ice cave in the cold weather of December 9, "I... I heard wrong... I was so scared at the time. I only saw her fierce face, but I didn't hear it very clearly, yes, Hou I was right, she did have broken sentences, but her expression was extremely ferocious."

Zheng Yunni looked miserable, but even at this moment, he still insisted that he just heard wrongly.

He Cheng and others trusted Huo Weilou and naturally understood that his doubts were more convincing. However, Zheng Wen'an and Zheng Wenrong looked at Huo Weilou and then at Zheng Yunni, and they didn't know who to believe for a moment.

At this time, Zheng Yunni cried again, "The Marquis 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 this fire."

"It was not the murderer who brought you here, but you who brought the murderer here."

Zheng Yunni's hand beside her cheek froze, and her expression froze slightly, but she smiled sadly, "What are you talking about, Lord Marquis? The murderer is so vicious, and I can't avoid him, how could I attract her here?"

Huo Weilou glanced at Bo Ruoyou, and Bo Ruoyou stepped forward and said, "Because you don't want her to fall into the hands of the Marquis. In the afternoon, the Marquis will dig a well. You know that the Marquis has made a major discovery, and the murderer may not be able to hide it." , so you would rather kill the murderer yourself than let the murderer fall into the hands of the Marquis."

Facing Bao Ruoyou, Zheng Yunni's eyes immediately turned stern, "What did you say? I am the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion, and the murderer is just a shameless sinner. Her guilt is heinous, how could I risk it?" Such a big risk to harm her? You say I set the fire, where is the evidence?"

She asked this question with confidence. At this moment, several embroidery envoys who had just left came back together.

One of them held something in his hand, walked to Huo Weilou and whispered something, and then handed the thing to Huo Weilou. At that moment, everyone saw clearly that it was a white jade earring. .

Huo Weilou looked at the earrings in his palm, then at Zheng Yunni, with a frown on his face, "You said you went to the Buddhist temple in the afternoon, but how could your earrings appear in the southwest treasury?"

Zheng Yunni's complexion changed drastically, her temples were messy, and there were strands of black hair around her ears. Others couldn't see for a moment whether the earrings were still there, but she hurriedly touched her ears. When she touched her, she found that there was something on her left ear. The earrings disappeared at some point.

If she could have gritted her teeth and refused to admit all the things before, now the earrings were ironclad evidence that she had been to the treasury, and she could not deny it.

"I...I..." Zheng Yunni's eyes were red, and she murmured while rolling her eyes in a panic. Suddenly, she raised her head as if she was risking her life: "Yes, that's right, I was the one who set the fire. But I just think you are not doing your job well. My third uncle has been dead for two days, but you still can’t catch the murderer. If you can’t catch it, I will come to personally avenge my grandmother, second uncle and third uncle. I know the murderer. She must be looking for the next target, so I specially lured her here, and then burned her to death. She killed my grandmother, my second uncle and my third uncle. What's wrong with me asking her to pay for it with her life?"

Zheng Wen'an and Zheng Wenrong were shocked when they heard this. They never expected that Zheng Yunni would be so courageous at such a young age and dare to take the risk to seek revenge on the murderer. Zheng Wen'an also turned red, "Yunni, why are you like this?" Adventure..."

Huo Weilou frowned as he listened to Zheng Yunni's righteous and awe-inspiring words. He was only sure that Zheng Yunni was acting, and based on Bo Ruoyou's words, he believed that she was suspected of setting the fire. Now that she admitted that she was the one who set the fire, he But I felt something was strange.

How could Zheng Yunni, with such mental tricks, risk his life just to avenge his grandmother and uncles?

At this moment, he heard Bo Ruoyou's voice.

"You want the murderer's life not to avenge your grandmother and others."

Bao Ruoyou spoke again. She looked at Zheng Yunni with dark eyes, and there was a hint of sadness and pity in her eyes. Zheng Yunni turned to look at Bo Ruoyou, and smiled coldly with tears on her face, " It's you again...what did you guess again? You are just a little coward. You have examined my injuries. What else do you want to say?"

Zheng Yunni was half-crying and half-laughing, with a look that was one part mad and one part dazed, "I'm not avenging my grandmother? Then what am I doing for? She made our house uneasy and killed three people. Shouldn't she die?" ?"

Zheng Wen'an seemed to agree with this very much, and he sighed deeply: "If I had known this, I shouldn't have kept her in the first place."

After saying this, Zheng Yunni's face looked strangely stiff for a moment.

Bao Ruoyou looked at her, "Did you hear that? This is what they were thinking. If they hadn't kept you, how would all of this have happened today..."

Bao Ruoyou spoke with sadness and was very calm and determined. Everyone looked at Bao Ruoyou, but their eyes were shocked, as if she was also crazy.

Zheng Wen'an opened his mouth, "I...I'm talking about that child..."

The sharp-tongued Zheng Yunni seemed to be petrified at this moment. Her eyelids twitched fiercely, and she didn't know what expression to put on her face. She finally managed to pull out a smile, but it was stiff and weird, worse than crying. Ugly.

"You...what are you talking about..."

Bao Ruoyou looked at her with pity in his eyes, "I didn't dare to believe it, but you were so desperate today, and the reasons and excuses you just made up happened to match, and I finally figured it out."

The corner of Zheng Yunni's mouth twitched, as if she wanted to say something to stop Bao Ruoyou from continuing, but her strength seemed to have been taken away from her, and she didn't know how to save the current situation, and Bao Ruoyou would not let her cover up with any more sophistry. Opportunity.

"You clearly don't know what happened in the past, but when you made up an excuse, you said that the murderer said that to you, because you knew that the murderer had hated everyone in the Hou family for many years. Today you took your mother with you Get up because you know that the murderer has the most direct connection with your mother. You and your mother can definitely attract the murderer. And you said that your mother chased the murderer because you know the murderer at all. Identity——"

Zheng Wen'an's expression changed, "No...impossible...Yun Ni can't know that..."

Bo Ruoyou's voice was cold, and her delicate figure reflected the monstrous firelight, and she actually looked a little awe-inspiring, "If she is really Zheng Yunni, of course she doesn't know what happened back then, but if she is the one who was Where are you children who have been hiding in dark rooms since childhood?"

"She experienced it firsthand, and no one knows what happened back then better than she does."

Everyone was shocked and speechless. At this moment, Zheng Yunni, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly got up the strength from nowhere, pulled out the hairpin from his bun and gave it to Bo Ruoyou pounces.

Unexpectedly, no one could have imagined that Zheng Yunni would dare to hurt someone in front of everyone. Bo Ruoyou was standing not far away. Everyone was shocked by Bo Ruoyou's few words, including Zheng Yunni who was far away from him. Zheng Wen'an recently failed to stop Zheng Yunni.

Only Bao Ruoyou's expression changed and he hurriedly stepped back, but Zheng Yunni suddenly rushed towards him like crazy. Bao Ruoyou was tripped by a dead branch at his feet and almost couldn't avoid it. A figure blocked the way between the lightning and flint. In front of her.

Huo Weilou pinched Zheng Yunni's wrist, heard a cracking sound, and slapped her back. The next moment, Zheng Yunni fell to the ground in pain, her body curled up, and she was covered in cold sweat. Face.

The hairpin fell out of her hand, and her dark hair danced in 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'm not the one who was hidden..."

Huo Weilou turned around and looked at Bo Ruoyou. He saw that Bo Ruoyou had calmed down and was not frightened. Huo Weilou asked, "How did you know she was the one who was hidden back then?"

Bao Ruoyou was rescued by Huo Weilou again. Looking at him, his eyes were full of gratitude. Hearing this, he said: "The real Miss Zheng has amazing aura at the age of four and is extremely talented in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting." Gao, but she suffered from hysteria when she was six years old, but she couldn't even speak. At first, when the peasant girl heard about it, she only felt that the disease was painful and harmful, but later she learned that the reason why she suffered from hysteria was because she got lost that winter. All night long."

"Although the Hou Mansion is large, the eldest lady was lost at that time, and the Marquis of Anqing should have done 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 culvert underground in the Hou Mansion, so I naturally thought... Got it."

Huo Weilou frowned, "She entered the culvert? From which well? But the wellhead is not shallow, so how did she get out?"

Bo Ruoyou said cautiously: "The folk girl was puzzled at first, but later a lotus pond was filled in. The folk girl guessed that there was an culvert under the rocks in the lotus pond at that time. Normally nothing could be seen, but She happened to be discovered by the real eldest lady. She entered the culvert and met another young lady who was being hidden. The person who was hiding locked the real eldest lady inside and walked out on her own."

Bao Ruoyou looked at Zheng Yunni, "So when she came out, she couldn't speak or recognize people. She seemed to be suffering from hysteria. She must have been raised underground and no one taught her how to speak. She was afraid of light and liked to go into hiding. Entering the cabinet is also because she has been living in darkness since she was conscious. She is used to darkness and is naturally afraid of light."

There were gasps of cold air from time to time. Huo Weilou's eyes were dark and unclear when he heard Bo Ruoyou's words. The two brothers Zheng Wen'an and Zheng Wenrong were in disbelief, but they didn't know if they remembered what happened back then. Fell into shock and hesitation.

When Zheng Yunni heard what Bo Ruoyou said, she looked like she was crying but not laughing, her eyes were weird and nervous, as if she was going to go completely crazy the next moment, "You are really good at guessing, but... what evidence do you have?"

Bo Ruoyou only looked at Huo Weilou, "Master Hou, when we went to the underground chamber, we found a poem with handwriting very similar to that of the murderer. It was a seven-character poem from the previous dynasty, and the handwriting was also written by Master Hou. I've seen it, not to mention how good it is, but it's also decent. They don't even teach the hidden child how to speak, so how can they teach her poetry and writing?"

Huo Weilou said: "Unless the real eldest lady is brought in, 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 anything about the culverts and dark rooms. I will be getting married to His Highness next month. How dare you treat me like this?"

Eunuch Fu was shocked for a long time and did not have a chance to speak. At this moment, he laughed and said: "Miss... ah no, fake eldest lady, your family is deceiving the emperor just by reporting a false birth date, not to mention You are still a fake. You still want to marry His Highness, but you are really dreaming..."

When Zheng Yunni heard this, his expression became even more crazy, but at this moment, He Cheng, who was standing facing the fire scene, exclaimed and pointed into the fire scene, "Master Hou, we have saved someone-"

Everyone turned around and looked around, and saw in the fire and smoke, two embroidered clothes envoys who had just sneaked into the fire scene, each holding a person in his arms, rushed out of the forest. The embroidered clothes envoy walking in front was the first to come out. In his arms was the lady whose entire back was burnt, while in the arms of the backward embroiderer was a scarred woman wearing an ordinary coat and skirt.

She was as skinny as a stick, her face was unnaturally white, and the scar on the left side of her face was purple and black. At first glance, she looked almost exactly the same as Sha Gu, but when the night wind blew her hair, the left side of her face turned into a purple-black scar. Blocking it, everyone could see at a glance that she and Zheng Yunni were very similar in appearance.

Seeing that the sister who had killed three people in a row was rescued, Zheng Yunni's already crazy face showed a strange and hateful smile. The scar on the woman's face.

Bo Ruoyou's heart skipped a beat, "Did you go back to the darkroom later? Did you burn the scar on her face?"