Chapter 120 Six Flowers Flying 16
"Xiao Bo, what's wrong? Could it be that this shop is so weird?"
Seeing Wu Xiang looking at him in confusion, Bo Ruoyou asked without answering, "Is this shop still open now?"
Wu Xiang nodded with a sigh, "When they are open, their shop is following the same thing. After this investigation, the shopkeeper handed over all the remaining gold paste and allocated them everywhere. The Marquis said earlier that this time, there is a lenient thing in this behavior. If it is just sold out and the evidence is clear, there is no need to kill them all, so as not to make the merchants afraid."
Bo Ruoyou nodded thoughtfully, "Does the captain still remember the case of riding a horse in the downtown area that day?"
Wu Xiang nodded naturally, and Bo Ruoyou continued: "The headmaster said that after the young master of the Wei family arrived at the yamen, his words and deeds were a little abnormal."
Wu Xiang recalled carefully and then frowned, "That's right, he didn't look obvious, but when he was questioned in prison, his words were quite unresponsive." As he said that, Wu Xiang raised his sword eyebrows slightly, "Do you suspect that the young master of the Wei family is also using that golden ointment?"
Bo Ruoyou nodded: "They are the second sons of the Zhongyi Bo family."
The golden ointment in Huo Qinghong's hand was given by Feng Ye. In comparison, Feng Ye is more likely to give the golden ointment to Wei Yan.
Wu Xiang waved his hand, "No, no, the second son of Zhongyi Bo's family came to the yamen the night before and came to apologize to the marquis. That night, the marquis asked him to use the people who had met with him one by one, but there was no prince of the Wei family among them."
Bo Ruoyou frowned, which surprised her a little.
Feng Ye is the son of Princess Anyang, and Wei Shu married the daughter of the Xu family in his early years. The two families were related to each other. After the accident that day, Feng Ye obviously wanted to protect Wei Yan. Their relationship was probably still above Feng Ye and Huo Qinghong. Since that is the case, how could Feng Ye not give it to Wei Yan after getting such a good thing as golden ointment?
Bo Ruoyou subconsciously felt that Feng Ye was lying, so he couldn't help but ask Wu Xiang again, "Where can the second young master tell me about the golden ointment that I got?"
Wu Xiang thought for a moment, "I said... I saw it in the Cao family's property under the name of Changning Hou. Then I felt that this thing was very mysterious, so I took it home and used it several times."
"He is not addicted to illness?"
Wu Xiang nodded, "He used it several times in more than a month. Later, after accompanying his father out of the city for a few days, he delayed it. He said that he did not use this thing, so he was very sleepy and tired, and he was easily angry, but he didn't count it."
At this point, Wu Xiang sighed, "All these people have been investigated these days. After three or two times, they are not considered addicted. But at that time, their bodies were already poisoned. If they don't use this object, they will feel sleepy and unhappy. After a while, they use it more and more, and they rely on this object, and sometimes they will be addicted to it and it will be difficult to detect it."
Seeing Bo Ruoyou's face full of contemplation, Wu Xiang reacted for a moment and said, "Did you ask about the condition caused by the golden ointment in the city? Are you doing this for the case of Lord Song, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue?"
Seeing that he had guessed, Bo Ruoyou nodded and responded. Wu Xiang looked around and whispered: "This matter was very well covered at the beginning. It was only a few days before the incident was leaked, so Lord Song was really poisoned?"
Song Yu has been killed for several days. How can he guard against the enemy? The fourth-rank magistrate was killed and could not hide it. Bo Ruoyou responded, glanced at the sky outside, and asked Wu Xiang again, "Will the Marquis return to the yamen today?"
Wu Xiang shook his head slightly, "I'm afraid it won't be. Chengnan temporarily set up a tent for the patients. The garrison relied on patrol camps, and the use of the camp was arranged by the yamen. The shops selling gold paste and the new patients found every day were also sent to the yamen chief. The marquis was determined to come to discuss with the adults how to arrange their errands tomorrow. However, today the imperial physicians of the Imperial Hospital will consult in the camp, but I am afraid that the marquis will send the official documents to the marquis' mansion and will not come here specifically."
It was almost dusk, and Bo Ruoyou stopped waiting after hearing this. She had a guess in her heart. She wanted to prove it herself, so she said goodbye and left the yamen and ordered Zhou Liang to drive to the Wei family's tea shop.
Bo Ruoyou's idea is very simple. Golden ointment is made of beautiful women laughing, but there is no beauty laughing in the city. If there is another possibility, Song Yu might have gone to a place where there is golden ointment.
On that day, Wei Yan had red mud on his feet. Later, Bo Ruoyou asked about the process of Yunzhi. He knew that the red mud was not ironclad. In addition, the direct envoy found that Wei Shu had not seen guests in the mansion that day, so she once dispelled her suspicion of the Wei family. However, when she contacted Wei Yan's strangeness in prison that day and Feng Ye's behavior of giving gold ointment to Huo Qinghong, she couldn't help but have arisen again.
What's even more strange is that Feng Ye would not give Wei Yan golden ointment.
Song Yu came out of the Three Qingshu that day. Even if he hadn't seen Wei Shu, would he have met other Wei family members?
After all, the corruption case of the Ministry of Revenue caused the turmoil in the court. Bo Jingqian, the Ministry of Revenue's official, and his boss, had to have a private relationship with his superiors. Then Wei Shu, the Minister of Revenue, could not easily have private relationship with Song Yu, so as not to arouse doubts.
The carriage was basking in the afterglow of the sunset. Bo Ruoyou sat in the carriage and thought carefully. From leaving Sanqing Temple to returning to the mansion at dusk, it took two hours, but Sanqing Temple was extremely remote. Song Yu did not bring any servants or mounts, and he only relied on his feet to go somewhere, and then he had to return to the mansion located in the east of the city. So the range he could go to that day was actually very limited.
Bo Ruoyou carefully calculated the account, but it only reached the imperial city in the north, the Pingningfang in the east of the city, and the Xicheng in the west. If he had not gone to the west, he was only in the east of the city, he would have been extremely free in time. If he met someone, the two could have talked for half an hour. The direct envoy had also investigated this way before, but he only followed the clues of the beauty laughing, and it was difficult to get anything in the end. Now, following the traces of the golden ointment, I don’t know if I can get something.
The Wei family's tea shop is on Guang'an Street north of the East City. Bo Ruoyou runs through half of the east of the city from Sanqingguan to the southeast of the city, so he has a better understanding of the scattered pattern of the city east of the city.
This time, gold paste was circulated in the city. Because most of the east of the city were housed by powerful people, there were many folk shops north of the east city and few business shops. In comparison, gold paste rose more in the west of the city where brothels and wine shops were everywhere and the banks of Weiyang Lake. In the east of the city, except for many shops selling gold paste in the east city, few business shops in the north and south of the people were affected by this.
In this comparison, the Wei family tea shop is a bit abrupt, and the distance to Sanqing Temple here is not too far, and the distance to Song Yu's mansion is also moderate.
Wei Yan, who sold gold cream, used gold cream to be unconscious and then injured Wei Yan, who rode a horse in the downtown area, and the people Song Yu had met before his death, had industries selling gold cream...
Golden cream...Golden cream...
Although a seed leads to the beauty's laughter, the golden ointment is the final answer. So where did Song Yu get poisoned that day? Will the person he sees be the rest of the Wei family? At that time, because it was not ironclad, there was no need to trace where Wei Yan went that day and how did he get red mud on his feet, but now he is suspected that he used golden ointment, but Bo Ruoyou especially wants to know where he went that day.
When night begins, Bo Ruoyou stopped outside the Wei family teahouse. Guang'an Street is a famous Fugui Street in the east of the city. Although it is not as lively as the East City, it is not as noisy and noisy. The wineries and teahouses along the street are all tall and magnificent. As the saying goes, spend a lot of money here, ordinary people dare not step on it. Bo Ruoyou lifts the curtains and looks at the door of the teahouse. He sees the lights inside, and the lights are bright. People entering and leaving are all nobles in brocade clothes and nobles, and there are many servants. The heavy curtains in the teahouse are swaying, which are very private. Although there is the sound of silk and bamboo surrounds the beams, the laughter and noisy of ordinary teahouses are rarely seen. Just looking outside gives people a sense of nobleness and elegance.
Did Song Yu come here that day? Why did Feng Ye mention Wei Yan's use of gold ointment? Is the Wei family related to the gold ointment? Is the reason why Song Yu didn't kill poisoning was because of the corruption of the Ministry of Revenue, or is there also the gold ointment?
There were many questions, and it seemed that there were little connections, but there were many ties. Bo Ruoyou was confused for a while, and she had no identity as a yamen to ask, so it was even more inappropriate to go straight up to ask. She pondered for a while, and planned to inform Huo Weilou of this thought. She knocked on the car door and ordered Zhou Liang to go to Wuzhaohou Mansion.
The carriage slowly moved along the long street, and the lights reflected into the carriage. The bizarre colors also attracted Bo Ruoyou to look out. When she saw it, she suddenly saw a restaurant opposite the teahouse. Among the wine flags waving on the eaves, there was a four-character "Yunzhou Shaojiu" written on it. Bo Ruoyou felt that the word "Yunzhou" was familiar.
After thinking about it carefully, Bo Ruoyou suddenly remembered that Song Yu's clan was in Yunzhou!
Shortly after the corruption in Weicang, Qinshui County was exposed, Song Yu sent his wife and children back to the Yunzhou tribe. He was so alert that he seemed to have expected that he was full of dangers. It was only the end of February.
But Bo Ruoyou suddenly realized that at the end of February, the golden dog had been flowing into the capital for more than two months, but there had not been too much trouble yet, and no one found that this thing was poisonous.
Bo Ruoyou's heart moved slightly, and suddenly raised his hand and knocked on the wall of the car, "Uncle Liang, stop."
Zhou Liang parked the carriage on the street. Bo Ruoyou got off the carriage and went straight into the restaurant named Yunjianke. As soon as she entered the door, a servant came up to him. Seeing that she was coming alone with the servant, the servant was a little surprised, "Miss, do you have to wait for someone first?"
Bo Ruoyou shook his head, "No, I'm the only one."
The store is elegantly decorated and quite interesting. Bo Ruoyou chose a place to sit by the window, and the servant hesitated and said, "What should I use for girls? Our store is famous for Yunzhou wine, so girls don't want a bar?"
"I want your Yunzhou soju wine." Bo Ruoyou did not hesitate and ordered a few more side dishes, and then asked Zhou Liang to sit down.
Almost all of her wine and dishes were ordered by Zhou Liang. Zhou Liang grabbed his head and sat down. When the servant served the dishes, Bo Ruoyou asked, "I see that the wine sold in your store is from Yunzhou, and there are also many Yunzhou dishes. Is the owner from Yunzhou?"
The servant smiled and said, "I guessed that our boss is from Yunzhou. Not only that, the guys in our store also have a lot of people from Yunzhou, and the villains are the most authentic food in the entire capital, and many people from Yunzhou who moved to the capital are regular customers in our store. Girl, are you from Yunzhou?"
Yunzhou is north of the capital. The soju is the most spicy, and the dishes are also salty and strong in aroma. It is very distinctive. The capital brings guests from all over the world and there are countless restaurants of various kinds. This Yunzhou wine and food is also unique.
Bo Ruoyou smiled and didn't answer this. She suddenly felt that this time was very right. She almost had a premonition that Song Yu must have come to the store. "They come to your store are all distinguished guests, and most of them are from Yunzhou. Do you recognize Lord Song, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue? He is from Yunzhou."
The servant's eyes were slightly brighter, "Miss, do you recognize Lord Song?"
Bo Ruoyou nodded with a smile, and the servant was opened, "Mr. Song is indeed a regular customer in our store. Because he has come a lot and is familiar with our shopkeepers. Every time he arrives, he always has to deliver some to Mr. Song's mansion. However, he has not seen Mr. Song come for several days. I think it is because of the busy affairs of the court. Now, all the lords in the court have not come from Yunzhou. Lord. Song is ranked in the fourth rank at a young age, and he is just around the corner to be named a marquis and ministers in the future."
The servant looked proud, and Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Song Yu had a bright future. If he had not been poisoned this time, he would have had a place for the six officials in the future.
She looked slightly upright, "Mr. Song hasn't been here for several days? I wonder when he last came?"
The servant hesitated for a moment, turned around and walked to the door and called another person, first saying that Bo Ruoyou and Song Yu met, and then told him what Bo Ruoyou asked. The other person recalled for a moment, "It was seven days ago, and Lord Song was unwell that day, and later made a joke."
The servant said it relaxed, but Bo Ruoyou sat upright, "Don't feel well?"
The servant nodded confidently, "Remember clearly that he was a villain who was also a villain during the day. When he entered the door, Lord Song looked a little uncomfortable. And Lord Song made a joke when he left, which made the villain particularly impressed."
"What joke?"
The servant smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's not a joke. It's just that Lord Song forgot to bring the money that day. After asking for the food and food, although he didn't use it, when he left and checked the bill, he found that he had not brought his wallet. He was a little embarrassed. So he pulled off his jade pendant and gave it to our shopkeeper, saying that he would be temporarily detained and redeem it when he came back within ten days. The shopkeeper didn't dare to ask for it, but Lord Song said it was a perfect fit. The jade pendant was very good. It looked like it was the thing that Lord Song loved. Our shopkeeper was still thinking about it and said that Lord Song wouldn't really wait until ten days to get the jade pendant."
Bo Ruoyou never expected that there would be this section. She wanted to speak but stopped. She didn't say that Song Yu could no longer come.
He was poisoned by others and she had no reason to tell these tasks. She asked hurriedly: "Did he come after noon that day? How long did he stay here? Have you ever seen a friend?"
Seeing Bo Ruoyou's expression was nervous and asking in detail, the two of them looked at each other and became a little suspicious. Bo Ruoyou hurriedly told the position of Song Yu's mansion and smiled and said, "Don't worry, my wife and I are close friends."
After saying this, the two servants said that Bo Ruoyou was asking Mrs. Song. He understood it for a moment. The man said, "It was not after Wu Shi. Our store opened at noon. When Lord Song came, we had been opening for a while. But there were no customers in the store. It must be around Shen Shi. He came from the teahouse opposite. He looked not very good when he came. He asked for the wine and food he liked to eat, but he didn't use a single chopstick. We all felt strange that day and only thought he was unwell."
"He was alone and didn't even bring his entourage. He sat here for a while. The sun was about to set before he got up and left."
I came from the teahouse opposite, and my face was not good-looking, so the sun set.
Bo Ruoyou's heart pounded, "How come he doesn't look good?"
"Some are blue and white, and their waists are also a little hunched, as if they are discomfort, so they have not touched wine."
After the servant finished answering, Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but turn around and look at the teahouse opposite. Her heart was turbulent, and she wanted to find Huo Weilou immediately, but she suppressed her temper, "Is there anything else other than these?"
The two servants looked at each other again, and one of them said, "Mr. Song seemed to have something to worry about. He poured himself a glass of wine. He sat alone in the private room and was a little stunned. The glass of wine was full when he left, and the villains still felt strange. However, Mr. Song was a senior official in the court, and some worries were ordinary."
"Then he looks like he is waiting for someone?"
"No, when Lord Song came, he said he was the only one, and he only had a set of cups."
Bo Ruoyou thought for a moment, no longer asked anything else, but only asked Zhou Liang to eat. However, Zhou Liang was in the south for many years and could not stand the spicyness of the wine, so he only used the meal and took the wine home.
While waiting, Bo Ruoyou asked Song Yu where he was sitting that day. The servant pointed to the second floor, "Sitting on the second floor is the same as you, and he is also leaning against the street window."
Bo Ruoyou frowned. Song Yu sat in the hall for almost an hour that day, but he was unwell, so why didn't he go to see a doctor? He clearly invited the customer to the mansion, but why did he stay alone in this store for so long?
Thinking of Song Yu sitting by the window that day, thinking about something about the filled wine cup, Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but feel a little heaviness and desolation. When he came from the teahouse opposite, his face was inappropriate when he entered the teahouse here. He must have been poisoned in the teahouse opposite. With just these two testimony, he could interrogate the people in the teahouse opposite?
Bo Ruoyou quickly took Zhou Liang away and got on the carriage. Bo Ruoyou ordered Zhou Liang to go straight to Wu Zhaohou's mansion.
The carriage was racing all the way, and the small jar of Yunzhou soju was placed beside Bo Ruoyou, and the faint smell of wine surrounded the carriage. Even if Bo Ruoyou didn't drink, he felt that the wine smelled strong and mellow, but Song Yu did not drink it.
Was he intimidated or made things difficult in the teahouse opposite? Then he felt depressed in his heart and often went to the restaurant he often went to, but he was already poisoned and was unwell. He hadn't touched Yunzhou soju just now?
Bo Ruoyou was a little confused, but at least she accidentally found the place where Song Yu had been to that day. As for what Song Yu encountered in that teahouse, whom he saw, and who poisoned him, it was beyond her ability.
It was dark at night. When the carriage arrived in front of the Marquis' Mansion, she saw that there were also bright lights in the Marquis' Mansion. Bo Ruoyou was worried that Huo Weilou had not returned to the mansion, but when she asked the gatekeeper, she realized that Huo Weilou had returned. She felt relieved and hurried into the mansion.
The talent arrived at the gate of the main courtyard. Huo Weilou, who had received the letter, had already come out. When he saw Bo Ruoyou coming so late, there was a little worry in his eyes, "Why are you coming so late?" He said and walked forward. As soon as he walked to Bo Ruoyou, his breath moved slightly, "Are you drinking?"
Bo Ruoyou was stunned and shook his head quickly, "No, Marquis, I discovered the place where Lord Song went after leaving Sanqing Temple that day."
Huo Weilou was surprised to hear that while asking her to enter the door, he said that when he entered the hall, Bo Ruoyou couldn't wait to tell her what she thought. He heard that she went to Sanqing Temple alone today and went to the east of the city to find a shop selling gold paste. His eyebrows were slightly frowning.
When she sat down, Huo Weilou poured her a cup of hot tea. Bo Ruoyou held it in his palm and said, "There are many shops in the east of the city, so I thought it would be better to go to the yamen to see it. The situation of the yamen selling gold ointment in the Tongzong city these days. It is always easier to see the name of the Tongzong government than I found. Fortunately, Captain Wu is here, and he showed it to me."
"I walked around the east of the city. I knew where those shops were. So I quickly saw the Wei family tea shop on Guang'an Street. After asking, I found out that it was actually from the relatives of Shangshu Wei."
"There is another thing that the Marquis still doesn't know. Wei Yan rode on the street and arrived at the yamen cell. When Captain Wu mentioned it that day, we thought he had some hidden illness or had drunk alcohol. But now looking back, I think Wei Yan probably used gold paste that day, and his aftermath was still there, so he rode on the horse in the downtown market and couldn't react in time, and he stepped on the person to death."
Huo Weilou frowned sharply, "Feng Ye was also here on the same day, but later I asked Feng Ye, but he did not mention Wei Yan's use of golden ointment."
"This is exactly what I was most confused about when I went to the yamen today. The more I thought about it, the more I became, the more wrong I thought, so I might as well go to Guang'an Street to see it. When I arrived at the place, I did not enter the teahouse. I was afraid of going to inquire about it at will, so when I left, I found a Yunzhou restaurant opposite the teahouse-"
"Yunzhou?" Huo Weilou stared.
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "Yes, it's Yunzhou. I thought about what the Marquis said, Lord Song was from Yunzhou, so I thought of taking the chance to go in and take a look. When I went in, I realized that the Yunzhou wine and food in the restaurant were a masterpiece in the capital. I pretended to be a close friend with Lord Song. After asking, I realized that Lord Song had indeed been to the restaurant that day! Not only that, before going to the restaurant, Lord Song came out of the Wei family's teahouse. When he arrived at the restaurant, he was already uncomfortable and the food he ordered had not moved at all. I guess he had been poisoned at that time, so there is enough reason to go to the Wei family's teahouse for investigation."
Bo Ruoyou finished speaking in one breath, and was a little breathing, but his eyes were as bright as jade. Huo Weilou felt pity and appreciation.
Bo Ruoyou slowed down for a moment and said, "Please send someone to the teahouse to ask for someone immediately. If you are lucky, you might be able to ask who Lord Song met and how he was murdered by poisoning."
Huo Weilou got up and went out to give orders. Soon a servant from the Marquis's house went to order to mobilize people. When he came back, he saw Bo Ruoyou holding hot tea and drinking in small sips. Huo Weilou walked to her and looked at her with a deep look. Thinking that she had run so many times by herself today, she felt even more caring.
The attendant returned soon, and the staff was ready. Bo Ruoyou quickly put down the teacup, "Master may let me go with you?"
Chapter completed!