Chapter 208 Ten Flowers 22
It was only halfway through Shen time that news came out in the palace that the servants sent back reported: "County lord, father-in-law, and marquis have been temporarily left in the palace. Zhongyi Bo said that it was because he was reluctant to part with Princess Anyang and Feng Yu that his body was left by his side. Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager were quite moved. Just now, Your Majesty sent someone to Bo Zhongyi Bo's ancestral tomb, and planned to move Princess Anyang and Feng Yu's bodies to the ancestral tonight. Bo Zhongyi Bo has already responded."
Bo Ruoyou and Fu'an looked at each other, and she said in surprise: "So Zhongyi Bo is not suspected?"
"I don't know this yet, but I only know that the Empress Dowager went to see His Majesty after the afternoon. Later, she didn't know what she said, so she sent someone to Zhongyi Bo's ancestral tomb. She wanted to move into the body and dig the ancestral tomb. Most of them were afraid that Zhongyi Bo's people would attract attention when they moved. The people in the palace went quietly, without knowing it."
Bo Ruoyou frowned, "Is there any movement in the Zhongyi Bo Mansion?"
The attendant shook his head, "No, everything is as usual."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, and when the attendant stepped down, she was confused. Fu'an comforted her and said, "Don't be anxious. When the marquis comes back, he has a ghost in his heart. As long as he continues to investigate, he can always find out the evidence of his crime."
Bo Ruoyou felt a little anxious, "Zhongyi Bo burned himself and wiped away the scars, and even if I came forward to testify, it would be useless. He burned the alchemy room, mostly because he wanted to bury the underground palace. As for the gold and silver in the alchemy furnace, it was mostly evidence of smelting the crime. If he burned the Buddha treasure, then he would be helpless."
Fu'an's eyes were also full of slight slightness, "What should I do?"
Bo Ruoyou carefully calculated, "He eliminated the scars and destroyed the Buddha treasure. The scene of the murder of several children cannot be determined whether it is in the village. Even if it is there, it will probably not leave any traces after many years..."
Eunuch Fu said justice: "He buried the underground palace, but he still kept the bodies of Princess Anyang and Feng Yu. However, this is not a serious crime compared to murder."
"He committed the crime in order to make Princess Anyang and Feng Yu come back to life. Naturally, he would not destroy the body. Now he only needs to admit that he did not buried Princess Anyang and Feng Yu in the ancestral tomb back then. His Majesty and the Queen Mother feel that he has deep affection for Princess Anyang. As long as he has not done anything that harms the sky, he will not blame him."
Bo Ruoyou pondered for a moment: "Li Shen believed in the cult and had already murdered Wen Jin. If he could find evidence that he and Zhongyi Bo had known each other for a long time, then Zhongyi Bo would be more suspicious."
Zhongyi Bo often appears in the eyes of the world as he is indifferent to fame and fortune. If he is involved with the murderer who believes in cults, it will naturally become more suspicious. Bo Ruoyou looked at the door anxiously, but he still did not see Huo Weilou. "Since he is going to move the body away, then I think Lord Sun and Lu Ke will not be able to investigate soon."
Bo Ruoyou had never expected that it would be wrong. After only two cups of tea, she had not waited for Huo Weilou to come back, but instead waited for Sun Zhao and Lu Ke. They were busy all night, and now they were covered with carbon ash stained in the fire, and two bamboo baskets were surrounded by them. The frame was covered with black charcoal. When they looked closely, they were a little gold and silver.
Lu Ke pointed to the "charcoal block" in the frame and said, "County Lord, these are taken out of the alchemy furnace. Bo Zhongyi didn't know what it melted, so we couldn't tell for a while. The palace sent someone to the village to upload the message, so we had to come back first and bring these things back together to see if we could find anything."
Bo Ruoyou said with great difficulty, and Eunuch Fu hurriedly ordered people to bring hot water and meals. Everyone washed up a little, and then started looking for clues in the pile of gold and silver. Bo Ruoyou discussed with Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang, "Feiyun Temple went to investigate thoroughly that day. In which year did Bo Zhongyi start to worship incense in Feiyun Temple?"
This was something that Wu Xiang had visited, so he naturally remembered clearly, "For many years, at least twenty years, because Lao Zhongyi Bo had the habit of believing in Taoism, several Taoist temples outside the city were worshipped by their ancestors from time to time. When it came to Zhongyi Bo's generation, he first followed his father to visit the Taoist temple. Later, Lao Zhongyi Bo passed away, and he was quite kind and never stingy with incense, oil and money."
Most of the aristocratic families in the capital have the habit of believing in Buddhism, which is quite common. But I think that Zhongyi Bo might have had the opportunity to meet Li Shen for a long time, and she always felt strange in her heart. Li Shen was pushed to take the blame, so did he tell Zhongyi Bo or Zhongyi Bo to tell him?
Wang Qingfu was a Jinshi in Jianhe for the twelve years. If it were Feng Qin who really helped him...
wrong……
Bo Ruoyou frowned suddenly. Princess Anyang and Feng Yu had not passed away in the twelfth year of Jianhe. At this time, why did Feng Qin help a Wang Qingfu who had nothing to do with it?
The old questions have not been solved yet, and the new mystery has blocked the road ahead like a fog. Bo Ruoyou feels a little nervous. At this moment, the servant outside quickly came to report, "The Marquis is back!"
Everyone was excited and all went out to meet. Soon, they saw Huo Weilou strode with a cold face, followed by Ning Xiao, who was also solemn in his face.
Seeing Lu Ke, Sun Zhao and others returning, Huo Weilou was not surprised. He stepped forward and met Bo Ruoyou for a moment, and asked about the search results outside the city. Lu Ke followed them into the house. "No key clue was found. Princess Anyang and Feng Yu's corpses were found, but there was no obvious wound or deformation. Because they were not the victims of this case, their identities were precious, and their subordinates dared not disrespect. Later, they searched the entire underground palace and found nothing. When the people in the palace arrived at the village to upload a message, their subordinates brought back the things they took out of the alchemy furnace to see if they could find anything."
Huo Weilou nodded and said as soon as he untied his cloak, "The news from Huai'an has arrived, there are some new doubts, please listen."
The word Huai'an attracted Bo Ruoyou's attention. Ning Xiao stepped forward and said, "Our people found Zhao Qianshan and asked about Wang Qingfu's admission to the government. After almost twenty years, he still remembered that according to him, it was Feng Qin who found him and asked his subordinates to show mercy to let Wang Qingfu go. At that time, Zhao Qianshan was just the head of the Ministry of Personnel and did not dare to act rashly, but Feng Qin was the son-in-law of Prince Zhong. In the early years, Prince Zhong was very helpful to them, Huai'an students, so he was willing to take risks."
"And, he said that the reason why he was willing to take risks was because Feng Qin told him that Wang Qingfu was born into an official clan and was quite famous in Qiangzhou. He was only implicated and ended up miserably. He also said that Wang Qingfu was indifferent and was not a person who pursued fame and fortune. Even if he joined the six ministries, he would go to the Qinggui Yamen and would never attract people to investigate. At that time, he didn't know what the Qinggui Yamen was, but he didn't expect that Wang Qingfu would first enter the Ministry of Rites and went to Taichang Temple soon. He was relieved."
If Wang Qingfu showed his sharpness, it would naturally arouse people's jealousy. If he wanted to impeach him from a criminal clan, it would probably have a great influence on his career. Zhao Qianshan would not be able to escape the relationship at that time, but he would be much more secure when he went to a yamen like Taichang Temple.
Bo Ruoyou couldn't help asking when he heard this: "Marty, what did you say in the palace? Do you really doubt Bo Zhongyi?"
Huo Weilou said in a stern voice: "If your Majesty says that if there is no evidence, peace will be the most important thing."
There is indeed no direct evidence at the moment, but Bo Ruoyou's doubts a moment ago seemed to have an answer, "Marty, Bo Zhongyi came to Zhao Qianshan in the twelve years of Jianhe, which shows that he was willing to support Wang Qingfu at that time, and he also wanted Wang Qingfu to go to a leisurely place according to his wishes. What's more, he thought about letting Wang Qingfu go to Taichang Temple at that time."
"I thought so when I heard Zhao Qianshan's words." Huo Weilou frowned, "It was the 12th year of Jianhe. Princess Anyang and Bo Qinse were harmonious. Feng Yu had not yet died of illness. The family was harmonious. Feng Qin had already given up his career and seemed to be living a life of idle clouds and wild cranes, but he secretly helped Wang Qingfu."
Bo Ruoyou's heartbeats quickly, "Wang Qingfu was implicated and his career should have been bumpy, but later he stayed in the capital to become an official, and Bo Zhongyi was his great benefactor. If Bo Zhongyi had repaid his support at that time, and then asked him to use his position to help him make profits..."
Huo Weilou made the final decision, "It is very likely that he will start to get involved in the cult before Princess Anyang and Feng Yu die."
Before Anyang and Feng Yu died, they were involved in cults. Later, their beloved wife and eldest son died of illness within a short period of time. They could not withstand such blows. Naturally, they became ill and had the idea of committing crimes.
But Bo Ruoyou felt a little twisted, "But Anyang and Feng Yu had not passed away at that time. If he had just read some evil doctrines and had evil thoughts, would he think of a way to put people in the court? Taichang Temple is in charge of the etiquette and sacrifice of the Tianjia ancestral temple. At that time, what he asked was not to make Anyang's mother and son come back to life. He should not make such arrangements."
Huo Weilou fell silent. Even if he had evil thoughts, he would not have taken risks for these evil thoughts from the beginning. How could Feng Qin be so far-sighted at that time?
Unless then, he had a difficult goal and planned how to use Wang Qingfu.
"Maybe Feng Qinxin's technique of death is not for others, but for himself."
Huo Weilou's voice was heavy, and this statement coincided with Bo Ruoyou's guess. Her back felt a little cold, but she felt the fog dissipated. "Just just now, Captain Wu also said that Zhongyi Bo worshipped incense at several Taoist temples outside the city very early, so he was very likely to have known Li Shen very early, but he has not been revealed for many years."
Overturning Feng Qin's speculation that Anyang and Feng Yu fell into evil ways, Bo Ruoyou's heart was lost for a moment, "But if it weren't for the purpose of resurrection of Anyang and Feng Yu, why didn't he let Anyang and Feng Yu be buried well?"
Huo Weilou looked out the window. The dusk had arrived and dark clouds were lying on the city. Thinking of Feng Qin's hypocritical appearance in Zhaoyang Hall today, he said coldly: "If they are not allowed to be buried, they will be excused today."
Huo Weilou's words made Bo Ruoyou feel cold in his heart. Feng Qin was obsessed with practicing Taoism, and had a demonic obstacle. He needed someone in the court, or had really made up the Buddha treasure and could spend several years supporting Wang Qingfu. He committed crimes for many years, and perhaps he had already guessed that the day he would be discovered, he would actually use the body of his wife and children as a guise?!
If Feng Qin really had such a thought, how cunning would this person be? When Princess Anyang was happy to marry Feng Qin, she might have thought that the person who shared the same bed and had such a heart?
"Can he really have such a thought?"
People's hearts are unpredictable. Bo Ruoyou has seen many vicious and cruel people, but it is probably because Feng Qin treats Princess Anyang with deep affection and preconceived ideas. She doesn't want Feng Qin to have this heart at the moment.
Huo Weilou didn't know her mind. Thinking of Feng Qin's words and deeds at the village outside the city last night, he became more and more sure that this person was extremely cunning. "Just relying on his ability to come to the Marquis' Mansion in person that day and tell us the art of death, this person's mind is very accessible. Whenever he had any fear at the beginning, he would also think of ways to ask us to find someone else, but he came to the door by himself."
Not only did Bo Ruoyou feel chills, but Lu Ke and Ning Xiao were both despised. Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang looked at each other. They had dealt with Bo Zhongyi. They used to think that others were fairy-like and indifferent to fame and fortune, but now they felt afraid.
Sun Zhao sighed, "Although I haven't found a direct clue on the village this time, as long as I continue to investigate, there is no hope."
Huo Wei said, "Tonight, the bodies of the princess and Feng Yu will be buried. If Zhongyi Bo is injured, he will stay in the city to recuperate. Two days later, the monks from Xiangguo Temple will be invited to perform rituals for them. The Empress Dowager and Your Majesty have never punished Zhongyi Bo, but they also feel that his obsession is too profound and contrary to morality, so they will not let him continue to practice Taoism."
If you murder so many children, can you be considered a punishment if you don’t practice Taoism?
Bo Ruoyou suddenly realized Feng Qin's cleverness and knew that the government might re-examine Gui Lan's case, so he first proposed a scapegoat with a compound condition. If he really surrendered, he would always rest assured. If he had not succeeded, he might not have found him. Even if he found the underground palace, it would be just a harmless mistake because he was too deeply in love.
With this guise and erasing the ironclad evidence, he will never be the murderer.
The sky became dark outside the window, and the room became a little darker. At this moment, Bo Ruoyou's mood was as dark as the sky light.
"I still have to find Wenpo from that year. Yuan Jie is far away in the northwest, and the news has not been returned. If it can be confirmed that Yue Mingquan's promotion in Zhenxi Army is also related to Feng Qin, it can at least prove that the two people he helped happened to be related to the case of the lost Buddhist treasure of the Famen Temple. Your Majesty is not a fool, so he naturally understands that there are many mysteries."
Huo Weilou said this to everyone, but his eyes fell on Bo Ruoyou. "Zhongyi Bo now knows that we suspect him, but he thinks that he will be properly handled and everything will be fine, and he will lose his guard."
After saying that, he looked at Lu Ke, "It's too late. Let's go and screen the gold and silver things I brought back first. Sun Zhao will take the people from the yamen back and rest."
As soon as he finished speaking, the attendant was in the heretic: "Marty, the Mingyuan is here and the Ming Prince."
The victim of the first case that year was Ming Guilan. Last night, the embroidered clothes sent to Zhongyi Bobe Village, and today it alarmed the empress dowager. After so long, most of the aristocratic families also had some circulating. It is not surprising that the Ming family father and son came to hear the news.
Huo Weilou ordered his servants to invite their father and son to enter. The two of them walked along the way and saw that the marquis's office and the embroidered envoy were exhausted. They knew that they had really made a big move last night. When they arrived at the main hall, they saw Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang were there again, and their eyes were filled with hope.
After sitting down, Huo Weilou told the truth. When he heard that he had not taken the murderer, Ming Guilan and his son were both disappointed.
Ming Zhonghuai sighed, "The officials should have thought that it would not be so easy, but do they really think it is Feng Qin?"
Huo Weilou naturally would not explain in detail, but would not deny it, "There is no key evidence yet."
Ming Zhonghuai was so clear, and Huo Weilou had always had a word of words. He almost convicted Feng Qin of his answer. His eyes were slightly shaken, and he slowed down for a moment before accepting the answer. Then he fell into a certain memory, "It was him. Before, Guilan helped the Marquis and the County Lord set up a house outside the city. I heard what he said, saying that it was done by close families in the city. I didn't believe it, but I didn't expect that there were really many people who came and went."
Huo Weilou felt a little moved when he heard this, "Gui Lan said that you had some contact with Bo Mansion in the early years. Do you know that Princess Anyang had a bloody death after giving birth? You also went to the Princess' funeral at that time? Is there something unusual about Feng Qin?"
Ming Zhonghuai didn't know why Huo Weilou asked Princess Anyang, but now he knew that Feng Qin was the murderer who had killed his son for the rest of his life. He naturally recalled it with all his heart. He was accustomed to the doctor since he was a child and had a deep memory of the matters related to the disease. "I know this. When Princess Anyang gave birth to the second son, she was very hard and gave birth to a difficult time. She did have a bloody collapse at that time. The palace was alarmed. The empress dowager sent the imperial physician to save her life. It was said that she had been rescued. However, after the imperial physician left, the princess still did not hold on. Later, the funeral officer went naturally."
Ming Zhonghuai narrowed his eyes and said that he was a doctor. When he talked about the patient's jealous death, he should have compassion. But when he thought of Feng Qin's evil, he felt that this might be Feng Qin's retribution. "The couple had a good reputation at that time. Princess Anyang passed away after giving birth. Feng Qin was quite sad. He seemed to have lost his soul. Not only did he ignore the newborn young son, but he was the eldest son who had been infected with the epidemic, but he only let his servants take care of him. It was for this reason that the eldest son of the Feng family died of illness due to improper care."
"When the eldest son passed away, the first seventh prince of Anyang County had not passed yet, so naturally it was another blow to Feng Qin. He buried his eldest son in a slump and refused to recover. He closed his door to thank the guests for three months. After three months, he became a person-like begging for the truth."
At this point, Ming Zhonghuai looked at Ming Guilan, and his pupils were still unwilling to accept it. "When the two palaces were moved, it was because when Princess Anyang was the eldest son of Prince Huai, it was quite difficult for me to be weak. At that time, my father was meticulous in recuperation for the princess, so the princess gave birth to the child smoothly. The child's birthday was quite auspicious. He was smart and clever at a young age. He was quite famous in the capital, but he didn't think that if he was too tough, he would be injured. It was a fate of premature death."
Ming Zhonghuai couldn't help but go to see Ming Guilan's legs. "At that time, Feng Qin was quite grateful to his father. Although the Ming family was not a marquis, they were also a doctor for generations. The two families were not considered to be attached to each other. Later, the two years before Feng Qin was determined to seek Taoism, he had less contact with the surrounding families, so he moved less with our family. But I didn't expect that he would actually put his ideas on Guilan."
Thinking that the young master of the Bo family was also harmed by him, Ming Zhonghuai looked at Bo Ruoyou with a little sympathy, but those who knew the case were a little strange.
Everyone thinks that Feng Qin is determined to seek Taoism after his wife and eldest son died suddenly. However, all signs show that he is very likely to have thought before this, and his support for Wang Qingfu is not about making plans to resurrect Anyang.
Bo Ruoyou carefully distinguished whether Feng Qin's transformation after his death in Anyang and Feng Yu was true or not, but suddenly, she looked at Ming Zhonghuai with a strange look, "Mingyuan just said that the birth date of the eldest son of the Feng family is very auspicious?"
Ming Zhonghuai nodded, "The eldest son of the Feng family is the same age as the Marquis. He was worried about giving birth at that time, so he invited my father to take charge of the mansion. Therefore, my father knew the eldest son's birthday. His birthday was an extremely rare three-yang number in that year. It is said that people with this birthday are born with more blessings than others--"
Before Ming Zhonghuai finished speaking, Bo Ruoyou's expression changed, "The number of three yangs?"
Without waiting for Ming Zhonghuai to nod, she looked at Huo Weilou. Huo Weilou also straightened his back immediately, "Isn't you really remember it wrong? Is it the number of three yangs?"
Ming Zhonghuai not only nodded at this moment, but also sighed bitterly: "I can't remember it wrong, because Gui Lan's birth date and horoscope was also said in the same way, but there was no unnecessary blessing, it was just the words of a sorcerer."
Bo Ruoyou's fingers gathered in his sleeve were tightly tucked together, which was the number of three yangs. Although such birth dates are rare, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the capital, and there are also many babies born on the same day every year. The murderers in this case all chose those who have auspicious birthdays. This is true for Ming Guilan, Bo Lanzhou, and the other children who were killed, except Wen Jin.
However, it was the first time Bo Ruoyou knew that Feng Qin's eldest son Feng Yu was the same as this birthday. Her voice suddenly became a little harder. "Just now, the college said that the eldest son of the Feng family was infected with the epidemic and the servants were not taking care of him properly before they died of illness?"
"Yes, there was a famine that year. In winter, many victims were wandering outside the city, and there was a plague. The plagues were like typhoid fever, but they were extremely difficult to cure. A servant of the Bo Mansion went out of the city to visit the house and accidentally got them back. The other adults of the Bo Mansion were fine, but they were infected with the eldest son. They couldn't cure them for one month."
"Fever, sore throat, and water not intake, coughing will cause bleeding, which is quite tormenting. At that time, the imperial physician came to the palace to diagnose the disease. Others were busy with the princess' funeral. Some people were afraid that they would be infected, so they naturally neglected to take care of them. They should have hired the imperial physician as soon as they had a fever, but the servant neglected it. Later, the child was so hot that the blood stained his clothes red, and finally he died of breath."
Huo Weilou understood why Bo Ruoyou asked this, and countless questions emerged in his heart, "When Feng Yu died of illness at that time, did anyone see it with his own eyes?"
"It's just two people who are responsible for taking care of the children, one is a wet nurse and the other is a maid. Feng Qin was furious at the time and beat the two of them to death before he was escorted to the government. The young one was not a slave, but a person who bought a death contract outside. For this reason, the family members came to him and almost made trouble for the government. Later, they were suppressed. Few people in the palace knew about the specific situation, and the officials didn't know about them. These were also heard intermittently later."
Huo Weilou's phoenix eyes sank, "Have you seen the body of that child?"
"No." Ming Zhonghuai said: "The princess has not passed the first seven days, so it is impossible to hold a funeral for the children. She did a ritual in the courtyard and then buried next to the princess's new tomb."
The second slave was killed by a stick, and more than ten years have passed. If you go to the mansion to find the old man in this case, you will be afraid that you will not be able to ask anything. But Feng Yu's death sounded strange, so a terrible guess appeared in Huo Weilou and Bo Ruoyou's hearts. They looked out the window and the night was already falling. At this time, the other villages outside the city must have been preparing to remove the bodies of Anyang and Feng Yu.
Bo Ruoyou kept calculating the possibility of guessing it was true. The more he thought about it, the colder he felt in his heart. At this time, Huo Weilou had already made a quick decision and stood up, "This child may not have died of illness."
He turned his eyes to Bo Ruoyou, "It's still time to set out to stop him. If someone is buried, it will be impossible to open a museum and dig a grave."
No matter how hard Bo Ruoyou couldn't bear to believe it, he also decided to do it because of Huo Weilou's decision, "Okay, I want to get the autopsy box first."
Huo Weilou ordered his servants to take them, and ordered Lu Ke to immediately take his order to the Biezhuang outside the city to stop the person who moved the corpse. Ming Zhonghuai and Ming Guilan did not react to the incident during this moment, and Sun Zhao was shocked, "Does the Marquis suspect that Feng Yu was killed? But... but he is Feng Qin's parent-child, and we have no evidence at the moment, so it may be verified?"
Huo Weilou's pupils turned cold, "He is the prince of the Bo Mansion, so he cannot test it, but if he is the person who was killed in this case, then he can test it!"
Chapter completed!