Wu Xiang and Liu Yan left, but Bo Ruoyou still wanted to stay in Liu Yao's boudoir for a while.

Liu Yao was pregnant because she was last year. Later, she was found out that she was pregnant. After giving birth, she was sent to Shuiyue Temple. After so long, it was really difficult to find the direct token or evidence. But Bo Ruoyou didn't want to give up easily. Looking at the dusty room, she thought that Liu Yao would never come back, and she wanted to know what kind of person Liu Yao was.

Liu Yao rarely appears in the mansion on weekdays. This courtyard is her world. She spent most of her life in the past nineteen years. She spent most of her life. She practiced calligraphy, read books and played chess, and became a female red girl. These three things she often used to spend time. Bo Ruoyou found several embroidery pieces on her bedroom bed. The patterns of these embroidery pieces were complex and bright, with fine and neat stitches, and the birds, beasts and flowers were all lifelike. Even the embroidered girl in the outer shop was not as good as her embroidery.

Bo Ruoyou went to see her chessboard again. The black and white chess pieces were as gentle as jade, with the best texture, and the wood grain at the corners of the chessboard had the warm old aura left by the owners who had been playing with them all year round. You can imagine that Liu Yao was enjoying playing chess here when she was not allowed to go out.

She went to see Liu Yao's bookcase again.

The posts she copied were neatly placed on the cabinet, including beautiful small regular script and open-minded running script. The more than a hundred books on the side were even more eye-catching. They all said that the words were like the person, and Bo Ruoyou also believed that literature could nourish people. A person's reading habits greatly demonstrated her preferences and connotations.

Bo Ruoyouzai carefully read the book that Liu Yao had read. Inexplicably, he felt that what Liu Yao liked would definitely not be a rough servant. But if Liu Yao really had an inconsistency with her cousin, who would it be?

Bo Ruoyou squatted on the ground, looking at the maid left by Liu Yan, and looked at the relics of Liu Yao brought back from Shuiyue Temple.

She checked these things when she was in Shuiyue Temple, but at that time, it was mostly to find clues and did not look carefully. Now, looking at these small things in the house where Liu Yao lived for more than ten years was a different state of mind.

Liu Yao's life in Shuiyue Temple was very lonely and miserable, but Bo Ruoyou still found her words that came to the end of February. She wrote a travel notes of the previous dynasty's calligraphy saint. There were more than ten chapters in the whole text, each one with a date and signature. From the beginning to the end of the writing, it took almost a month to write. Later, she only wrote poems in silence, and occasionally she also wrote one or two poems. There were many sad and sad thoughts in her words. As Liu Yan said, she really had the idea of ​​being tired of the world, but she did not hurt herself in the end.

Bo Ruoyou found that the more you went back in the past two months, the sharper and more chaotic Liu Yao's handwriting became. She seemed to think that Liu Yao was imprisoned in a temple, and was anxiously waiting for two months that no one came to pick her up.

But it was only two months, and how should she spend the next four months? No wonder she started to mess around behind.

Looking back, Bo Ruoyou actually found two stacks of identical manuscripts, which were still the same travel notes. When he saw the second manuscript, Bo Ruoyou was a little surprised.

Her handwriting has returned to its beautiful and gentle style. It was written in early April, which is very different from the pen of the poem written in the end of March, just as if she suddenly thought it openly, and the resentment and panic in her heart suddenly dissipated.

She hurriedly went to find May's manuscript in a bunch of miscellaneous items. After a long time, she found the excerpts on two pages of the storybook. The signature was at the end of May. At this time, Liu Yao's mood was obviously confused again. The excerpts were all the words of the male and female protagonists in the play. However, the handwriting had changed from small regular script to running regular script, and the pen tip began to be sloppy.

Bo Ruoyou was surprised in his heart and went to look at the third manuscript. This was written in half of June. Strangely, her manuscripts at this moment became elegant and beautiful again, with strokes and strokes, heavy pen strength and soft pen tip. When she wrote in a beautiful place, she seemed to be full of tenderness. Bo Ruoyou moved slightly in her heart and searched again. This time, she dug out the manuscripts from the end of June to the entire July.

After writing the travel notes, Liu Yao had not started writing again for five or six days. Either the manuscript was discarded by her during the period. When it was halfway through July, Liu Yao's mood suddenly became unprecedentedly anxious. In addition to copying the poems according to her favorites, she also wrote two lyrics, her words were so sad and desolate, sighing that the spring was fleeting, and the autumn was approaching, and she was also compared to the wild weeds, which were as low and weak as dust. When the last wild fire was burned out, she would disappear in this world.

Holding the slightly cool paper, Bo Ruoyou felt a chill and climbed up his back.

At first she was sent to Shuiyue Temple, but she was afraid that she still had hope, but later she was locked up for a long time, so she naturally became more and more frightened. Bo Ruoyou went to read the plays and scripts at her hand again. She seemed to have read a lot of these. The corners of the pages had been turned upside down, and the pages were mostly stories of talented men and beautiful women. Bo Ruoyou looked through a few books and found that they all had a beautiful ending. She thought she was locked in Shuiyue Temple, but she didn't know if she was comforting herself with the beautiful ending in the book.

It is said that Liu Yao is taciturn, timid, timid, but she has experienced unmarried children, forced by her family, and kicked out of the mansion, and never said the name of the man. It shows that she is not really weak and useless. She likes to read books and learn calligraphy, and has a relationship with others but has no clues. She enjoys herself in this small courtyard, and can be considered a contented and cautious person.

She said suicide, but did not commit any self-destruction. Although she was out of temper, she still wanted to return to her home. However, the manuscript she wrote still showed her capricious fear and despair during these days.

Even though she was used to being ignored in the Liu Mansion and not being discharged from the hospital, the temple was a strange place and quite miserable. At that time, she left the Liu Mansion and the person with affair, and she must have suffered in all kinds of trouble...

It would make sense if she was depressed after being imprisoned for two months and then she thought about it herself, but the second time she suppressed the fear and restlessness in her heart, which was a little strange.

She had been imprisoned for four months at that time. If she had no external force, how could she comfort herself?

Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but stand up straight, glanced at the warm pavilion again, and turned to find Wu Xiang.

Following the maid to the flower hall, Wu Xiang was asking questions to the servants with a few yamen. Bo Ruoyou walked up to whisper to Wu Xiang. Wu Xiang thought for a moment and nodded in response, then turned around and continued to investigate.

Liu Yan sat aside and waited, with a little stunned face. Seeing Wu Xiang busy, Bo Ruoyou walked to Liu Yan, "Has the third young master played chess with Miss Seven?"

Liu Yan was slightly surprised, "No, is this related to the case?"

Bo Ruoyou shook his head, "Just ask casually. The third young master doesn't know what post the seventh girl likes to copy?"

Liu Yan was still hesitant and could not speak. Obviously, Bo Ruoyou asked again, "In the past six months, can the third young master visit the seventh girl?"

Liu Yan looked embarrassed, "I have been there once, and I have been there once in early April this year."

Bo Ruoyou's eyebrows hopped, "Only this is the only time?"

Liu Yan nodded and was just asked by the yamen. But when Bo Ruoyou asked, Liu Yan felt guilty. At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from outside the flower hall. Bo Ruoyou turned around and saw the fifth young master Liu Xi walking in.

When Liu Yan saw Liu Xi coming, he said, "The fifth brother has gone to see the seventh sister more often. Miss Bo can ask the fifth brother."

Liu Xi frowned slightly and came forward to look at Bo Ruoyou in confusion, "I'll see if there is anything that can be helped."

Bo Ruoyou asked, "When did the fifth young master go to see Miss Seven?"

Liu Xi said with a slightly deep expression: "I have visited her several times, but it is not very pleasant every time. She was sent away in February and I have been there in March. What am I going to do? You all know. I want to ask who harmed her. Her situation is impossible to say that a new marriage is impossible. Unless the person who harmed her is found, they will either marry the two or we can hold the person responsible. Otherwise, if she drags on like this, she will be locked in the temple for a year or two, and then it will be her who will be delayed."

"This is when I went to see her in mid-March, and then I went there again in early April. When I went there, I saw that she was in poor spirits, so I never asked her. After this time, I was busy buying a house, so I went to visit her again until the end of May. At that time, she was so thin that she was not very careful. For this reason, I scolded them. The last time I saw her was in the middle of last month, and she still didn't say anything."

Liu Xi's eyes showed a pain: "I had a fight with her and left. On the fifth day of the eighth month, the people in the temple said that she would not eat anymore, so I thought about visiting her. But on the second day, the third uncle suddenly said he wanted to see her, so I suppressed my mind. She must be even more afraid of going with her third uncle, which was impossible to say. Then the second day, the second brother was going to go again. I wanted to go with my second brother, but when I thought that I had parted with her, I thought that my second brother might be able to comfort her. Because it was really good for my second brother to take her when I was a child, but when the third brother came back that day, he said that no one had seen anyone, so I wanted to go by myself."

Bo Ruoyou's beautiful eyes were slightly deeper, and the knuckles that were gathered in her sleeves were slightly moved, as if they were calculating. After a moment, the condensation on her face became heavier and asked the two people in front of her, "Are there any young man or elder who has visited her at the end of April, March and June?"

Liu Xi and Liu Yan looked at each other, and both shook their heads. Liu Xi said, "The elders have almost never been there. They are all our brothers. I have been there the most."

Bo Ruoyou nodded, "Does the fifth young master know why Miss Seven likes "Shan Hai Ji Lu"?"

"Shan Hai Collection" is a travel notation that Liu Yao copied three times. After hearing this question, Liu Xi said without hesitation: "Because she doesn't want to be in the mansion, she wants to go outside to take a look." As he said that, his eyes were slightly dark, "I kept telling her that there was a chance, but I didn't expect..."

Bo Ruoyou pursed her lips. No wonder Liu Yao liked copying this book so much when she was locked up in the temple. The world was vast and the earth was wide, but she was like a bird with broken wings. The tighter she was locked up, the more she wanted to escape, but she eventually died in the temple.

Bo Ruoyou didn't ask any more questions. At this time, Wu Xiang and the yamen also asked the servants in the mansion. It seemed that they had not obtained much, and their faces were faint. At this moment, the golden crow had already sunk. Wu Xiang did not make much embarrassed for everyone in the Liu mansion and directly offered to say goodbye.

Liu Xi also wanted to ask the yamen for doubts and rest assured, but Wu Xiang did not explain in detail, so Liu Yan personally sent them out of the mansion.

On the way to leave Liu's mansion, Wu Xiang was outside Bo Ruoyou's carriage and asked in a low voice: "Why did you ask me just now if anyone has visited Miss Seven in April and June?"

Bo Ruoyou told the manuscript he found in the Warehouse and said in a calm voice: "Liu Yao likes to copy silent poems. When she was in the Liu Mansion, she could also play chess and be a girl's red girl, but when she arrived at the temple, she only had this thing to do. Therefore, I think Liu Yao's mood can be seen from her manuscripts."

"When she was imprisoned for two months, her mood was obviously much more flustered and impatient, but in early April, the pen suddenly changed back to its original appearance. The same thing happened in early June. She was so capricious. I don't think she was comforting herself, or because of anything else, I tend to be someone comforting her at that time."

A glimmer of light flashed in Wu Xiang's eyes, "Is it the one who has an affair with her?"

Bo Ruoyou nodded, "She protected that person very well, especially the poems that later were quite disgusted with the world, but she still didn't say who that person was. If she even had the idea of ​​suicide but still hid it, I felt that she really wanted to protect that person. Otherwise, why not just say it and fight to the death?"

Anyway, there is nothing worse than death.

Wu Xiang nodded, "So that's it. But we asked the servants in the mansion that some of the personal servants might have concealed it, but the managers and the gatekeepers said that there was no falsehood. According to them, several masters had never visited Shuiyue Temple for the past six months, and Shuiyue Temple's flesh-like business also came to each household to do things under the name of entering the mansion to pray for blessings. After you told me, I asked a little more broadly, asking if they had ever left the city. This was a question. The mansion really believed in Buddhism, but it was the Buddha of Xiangguo Temple."

Wu Xiang mocked, "Their family has to go to Xiangguo Temple to offer sacrifices every month, sometimes they go together, and sometimes they send someone to. In the past six months, almost everyone has left the city."

Xiangguo Temple is on the Nanshan Mountain outside the city, not far from Tingshan Mountain. But if everyone goes together, they can witness each other. If they go alone, they will bring some followers, such as the fourth young master who went out of the city to burn incense on the sixth day of the day.

Bo Ruoyou pondered and said, "The captain can ask for a detailed investigation. If there are any people who go out of the city to Xiangguo Temple and have no evidence after they have experienced it. Then ask the masters and grandpas in the temple, most of them know best who has been there and who has not gone there and when they have gone there."

Wu Xiang nodded, feeling that Bo Ruoyou had found this time and almost touched the context of the case. He felt that it was more and more correct to bring her with him. "Okay, I will try it overnight tonight and I will tell you tomorrow morning."

After a little pause, Wu Xiang said, "But there is another thing that is still unknown."

Bo Ruoyou also frowned, "That secret room has not been cracked yet."

Wu Xiang said in a deep voice: "No matter who murdered Liu Yao, Liu Yao was indeed dead in the secret room, and there were blood stains that were wiped off from behind the door. Yesterday, you and I checked carefully. If there was any mechanism, the room was very simple and I really didn't think of it."

The more simple the place, the more difficult it is to arrange confusing tricks. The doors and windows in the temple are locked, and the simplest and most solid inner bolts are used, and there is no other way. Wu Xiang thought about it over and over again, but he really didn't understand how the murderer did it.

Bo Ruoyou also said, "I didn't expect that the doors and windows are all tightly tied. If you use ropes and thin wires, it is impossible. The only place where you can accommodate the in and out of the bowls and chopsticks is in the back window of the warm-up pavilion, which is dozens of feet away from her. Her way of death is to be held captive and hit the pillar. If the murderer is outside the house, he cannot commit the murder."

Bo Ruoyou thought to the Qimen Dunjia, but she was not good at this. She felt her thoughts were suffocated and had no clue at all. Wu Xiang sighed, "Forget it, I'll go and interrogate the people in the temple again. Maybe there are any clues left behind. The murderer is not a ghost, and it is impossible that there is no flaw."

Bo Ruoyou responded and saw that it was getting late, so he said goodbye to Wu Xiang and returned home.

After returning home, Bo Ruoyou couldn't help asking about Huo Qinghong's condition. Cheng Yunzhi said: "It has improved a lot. He has been in the Marquis' Mansion in the past two days and wants to go back to the Duke's Mansion. Eunuch Fu discussed with me. If the needle is applied in the future, it would be fine if he goes back to the Duke's Mansion once every seven days, but he is not at ease. In the Marquis' Mansion, the prince is still a little afraid."

Bo Ruoyou thought for a while, "Look at him. He has been in the Marquis' Mansion for half a year, but I'm afraid he's really exhausted."

Cheng Yunzhi pulled his lips, "Eunuch Fu wanted to find some fresh things for him to come to the mansion to relieve the problem, but he didn't dare. It seemed that he really wanted to change his temperament this time."

Thinking of Huo Qinghong's absurdity, Bo Ruoyou also felt that it would be great if he could change his temperament. Cheng Yunzhi asked about the case again. When Bo Ruoyou talked about the Liu family, Cheng Yunzhi couldn't help but change his expression, "There is no other possibility?"

Bo Ruoyou shook his head, "It seems that the possibility is extremely small now."

Cheng Yunzhi sighed, "If this is true, it will be a bad fate."

Bo Ruoyou responded and told the unsolved secret room. After hearing what she said, Cheng Yunzhi thought for a while but gained nothing, he comforted him, "Maybe it's not that complicated, so there is no need to think hard all the time."

Bo Ruoyou responded, and the father and daughter had dinner, and Bo Ruoyou took a break early.

The next morning, Bo Ruoyou and Cheng Yunzhi explained, intending to go to the yamen first and then accompany him to the marquis' mansion. Cheng Yunzhi responded, Bo Ruoyou went out and when he arrived at the yamen, Wu Xiang had indeed finished interrogating it. But he looked at the confession and thought about it all night, but he still didn't understand it.

Seeing Bo Ruoyou coming, he seemed to have seen a savior.

"Look, I asked them, and what Liu Yan said was exactly the same as what they said. In addition to them, the second and fourth sons also went to see each other, and they went together in early April. In addition, they were not in the temple for two days at the end of March, early April, and at the end of May and early June. If anyone went to visit at that time, they would not know."

"Compared with the evidence obtained in the Liu Mansion, at the end of March, the third master and his son went out of the city to Xiangguo Temple together. At the end of April and at the end of May, the second master and his son and the fifth master went together. Only the fourth master went out of the city alone on the sixth day of this month, and that time was still a witness. As for the house in the south of the city, I also sent someone to investigate."

"The house was purchased by the fifth young master from a Jiangnan merchant. The idea was to go to the yamen to pass the documents in mid-April. After that, he hired craftsmen to repair the courtyard. However, it was strange that his yard had three in total. He specially hired craftsmen to dress up a virgin boudoir, which was not like the place where he said the elegant gathering and writing was held.

Bo Ruoyou breathed lightly, "Women's boudoir? Do you want to hide a beautiful woman in a golden house?"

Wu Xiang was also a little puzzled, "In their mansion, only the second son has made a marriage. If the fifth son wants to hide a spoiled girl in the golden house, he wants to be a outdoor room. It's not like, he wants to bring his sister into the mansion, right?"

Bo Ruoyou frowned and couldn't help but ask again: "Masters, do you say, who likes the flesh and flesh business in this temple?"

Wu Xiang's face showed a disgust, "The Liu family is the second master."

"He's the only one?" Bo Ruoyou was a little surprised.

Wu Xiang nodded, "I also said that this second master has many quirks. Because of this, he was scolded by the Liu family. Since then, he did not dare to leave people at home to enjoy themselves, but sent them to the outside house."

Bo Ruoyou felt a chill in his heart when he thought of the second master's appearance, but Wu Xiang suddenly had a thought, "You said, Liu Yao has some strange injuries?"

Bo Ruoyou's heart skipped a beat, and then he thought carefully, "But... others have all the testimonies, and it doesn't seem to be like it."

Wu Xiang's eyes turned, "They said that the second master valued one of the nuns very much, but that person stayed in the nun. I planned to bring the remaining two back to the capital for investigation, and it would be best not to miss any clues."

Bo Ruoyou responded and saw Wu Xiang go to get someone, he said goodbye and went back to the mansion to accompany Cheng Yunzhi to visit the Wu Zhaohou Mansion. She was in the future yesterday, and today, as soon as she entered the mansion, she had a lot of care. When she heard that a strange case had occurred in the capital, she felt sorry for her hard work.

Cheng Yunzhi went to see Huo Qinghong first. When he entered the yard, he saw a cage hanging outside the window, and there was a bird full of sports feathers living inside. The chirping sound was crisp. When he saw a stranger, he flapped his wings in the cage. Eunuch Fu said justice: "The prince is bored and wants to go back to the Duke's mansion. I said I would find him some other fun. He didn't want to, so he suddenly said that he wanted a bird, which was just sent this morning."

When Bo Ruoyou saw it, he thought that it was better to tease birds than to go to the fireworks land.

Cheng Yunzhi went to ask Huo Qinghong's meridians, and Bo Ruoyou stood under the corridor and looked at the bird. Not long after seeing it, a servant from the Marquis's Mansion suddenly came hurriedly from outside, following Ning Xiao, who had not seen for a long time, after him.

Ning Xiao was already a cold face, but when he saw him today, he felt an extremely anxious look on his eyebrows. He seemed to have never thought that Bo Ruoyou was here, so he was stunned for a moment before he saluted and wanted to see Eunuch Fu again.

Soon, the smile on his face faded when he saw Ning Xiao's expression. Ning Xiao glanced at Bo Ruoyou, "Master, please take a step to speak."

It’s nothing to hide business from Bo Ruoyou, but Ning Xiao’s last glance made Bo Ruoyou feel particularly uneasy. She almost immediately confirmed that Ning Xiao’s report was related to Huo Weilou. Not only that, it was not a good thing.

When the two left the guest yard, her heart suddenly raised up and waited for half a cup of tea before Eunuch Fu came back quickly. Facing Bo Ruoyou's gaze, Eunuch Fu wanted to force himself to smile, but he held the corner of his mouth, and laughed even worse than crying.

Bo Ruoyou couldn't help it anymore and stepped forward and asked, "Dad father-in-law, has something happened to the marquis?"

Eunuch Fu gritted his teeth, and was forced to tell the truth by being anxious in her eyes. "Three days ago, the Marquis was attacked in the southwest village, and now his whereabouts are unknown."
Chapter completed!