Attack Jade (攻玉) - Chapter 85

[Chapter 55]

Lin Chengyou: “Is this worth telling me too?”

Jue Sheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, and when he was about to talk to Lin Chengyou in detail, Jiantian and Jianxi broke in, and the two of them were unhappy: “Little prince, I can’t. As soon as you have a case in Dali Temple, come to our Dongming Temple, you can’t let the old Taoists stop for a few days.”

When they saw the corpse in the room, the voice stopped abruptly, and they looked at the corpse of Mrs. Said: “This—this is?”

Lin Chengyou got up and said, “From the fifth day of March until now, three pregnant women have been victimized. This junior feels that there are many uncertainties in this case, so he has to ask the two seniors to invite them. Come.”

Jian Tian and Jian Xi were shocked: “Three pregnant women were victims?”

Someone came from the aisle outside, this time it was Yan Sizhi and a group of yamen from Dali Temple, who re-examined the corpse and brought the yamen with him They carried the corpse out, while Yan Sizhi stayed in the house to investigate carefully. Lin Chengyou asked Juesheng and Qizhi to take the two Taoist priests to the next wine shop, and questioned the people at the crime scene one by one.

Juesheng and Qizhi found a table in the next restaurant, and asked Teng Yuyi, the master and servant, and Jiantian Jianxi to sit down.

The people waiting in the restaurant called one after another to ask questions, and in less than a cup of tea, Teng Yuyi and the others were the only table left in the restaurant.

Teng Yuyi took a sip of wine to suppress his shock, and then raised his eyes to look at Jiantian and Jianxi: “Two Venerables, stay safe.”

Only then did Jiantian and Jianxi recognize that the yellow-faced boy was Teng Yuyi, and couldn’t help but be stunned: ” Wang Gongzi, why did you paint your face like this?”

Surprise turned into surprise, the two did not have the patience to listen to Teng Yuyi’s explanation, after all, everyone’s mind was on the conspiracy just now.

“The murderer is the person in the room? The prince caught him so quickly? Why is the prince in the room? What the hell is going on?”

Abstinence from saints and wisdom gave a rough overview of what happened today.

Seeing Tian was puzzled: “According to this, the prince caught the murderer named Zhuang Mu on the spot, but even so he couldn’t find the fetus?”

Teng Yuyi snorted: “The murderer also tore off a piece of the skirt of the victimized woman. It was intended to be used to wrap the fetus, but the piece of cloth has been in the hands of the murderer, but the fetus has nowhere to go.” Jianxi said in horror

, “How many months is this woman pregnant?”

Teng Yuyi recalled seeing Mrs. Rong Anbo on the second floor. The situation was measured according to the situation: “The woman’s belly is probably this big.”

Seeing the sky: “The belly is so big, and at least it has been six or seven months. In such a short period of time, the murderer can make such a big belly. Where is the fetus hidden?”

Teng Yuyi looked at the yamen who came and went outside the store, yes, with so many people looking for it together, it should have been found long ago.

There was a sudden cry from outside, and there seemed to be a lot of people coming to the spice shop next door.

Juesheng and Qizhi ran out to have a look, and came back and said, “The people from Rong Anbo’s mansion are here.”

Teng Yuyi was curious and walked outside to take a look. Lang Jun, as soon as he came, he surrounded the corpse covered with white cloth and wept.

The yazuo and the yamen were unable to pass the crowd carrying the corpse of the prince’s wife, so they were blocked at the entrance of the spice shop.

Among the crowd, a man in his thirties stood out. The man was undressed and green, with a handsome face. He was half-squatting in front of the corpse, his eyes full of grief.

Teng Yuyi thought to himself, this should be the prince Rong Anbo.

If I heard someone comfort the man: “Your Highness, please mourn.”

Prince Rong Anbo remained motionless, Jue Sheng and Qi Zhi sighed. The mother and son said that their lives were gone, and it would be futile for others to say more comforting words.

After a while, Yan Sizhi came out of the store, separated the crowd, leaned over and said a few words to Prince Rong Anbo. Prince Rong Anbo finally responded, nodded dumbly, got up and followed Yan Sizhi into the spice shop. , As soon as he left, the group of servants also stepped aside.

When the door was scattered, Teng Yuyi had no choice but to go back to the store. Jue Sheng Qizhi pulled a few familiar yamen to ask a few questions, and came back and said, “The fetus has not been found.”

Jianxi was surprised: “How is it possible?! So The fetus of the big month, how can you hide it.”

Seeing Tian suddenly said: “I know, will the murderer put the fetus on the spot——”

His old face wrinkled, as if he felt a little disgusted, and suddenly he refused to continue. .

Seeing Xi immediately understood what the senior brother wanted to say, and nodded with a stern face: “That’s right, if you eat it on the spot, you will not be able to find it. No, the old man has to remind the prince.”

Teng Yuyi stopped him: “Lin Chengyou When he brought Zhuang Mu over, Zhuang Mu was stuffed with a lot of cloth in his mouth. Presumably, Lin Chengyou checked his mouth as soon as he caught him. If Zhuang Mu was in a hurry and really took the fetus – Lin Chengyou would find out on the spot that he couldn’t do anything wrong. Look around after the incident.”

Jianxi breathed a sigh of relief, “That’s right.”

Teng Yuyi was taken aback for a while, and couldn’t help asking, “Have the two priests ever seen this kind of monster murder before?”

“I didn’t see it myself. I’ve seen it, but I’ve seen it in the phantom records in the Guanli. This kind of thing is not too much, because for the fairies in the world, if they want to improve their skills, the effect of an unformed fetus is far less than that of a young and strong man. It’s better to hunt and kill young people who can be seen everywhere, but to Yin Sha Gui Sha, this kind of thing is not easy to say-”

“Oh, how do you say this?”

“The fetus is in the foot . In the realm of the sun, one foot is still in the underworld. Before the sun can see the sun, they can only rely on the umbilical cord to obtain nourishment from the mother’s body. Whether they can successfully reincarnate as human beings depends on their fortune. They are raised in chaos. At the moment of giving birth, there is an obsession with reincarnation. If it is interrupted in the middle, resentment will arise spontaneously, and the fetus with a strong desire to surrender will even turn into resentment on the spot. There is a collective name for the resentful infant spirits, called ‘Yueshuo Tongjun’, because they died tragically in their wombs because they were not enough months, just like the crescent moon in the first year of the new year, they will never wait for the day when the moon is full.”

“Tongjun Yueshuo?” Teng Yuyi listened carefully.

“Yes.” Jian Tian stroked his long beard, “Apart from Yueshuo Tongjun, these women who died in vain are also very troublesome. For women who are about to become mothers, even if it’s just a meat child they haven’t met, they will let them spontaneously She has a strong desire to protect her. Anyone who dares to hurt her child will kill her. Pindao doesn’t know the details of these cases. If you see your child being stolen when you are about to die, you will know how deep the fear and resentment will be, you will know when you think about it.”

Teng Yuyi’s face suddenly became ugly: “I think they should be alive when they are alive. The fetus was taken.”

The eyes of the four people on the table swept over: “How does the prince know?”

“I heard what the prince said.” Teng Yuyi calmed down.

She also met Juesheng and Jizhi today and learned that the female ghost who broke into her courtyard last night was the second victim. She remembered that the female ghost was full of “give it back to me” at that time, and she looked sad and unwilling. , most likely to find their lost fetus.

But if you say this, you have to say everything from the beginning to the end of last night, then Lin Chengyou is forced to come to exorcise the trouble, and then stay in Teng Mansion for most of the night.

She is candid, but after all, Grandpa was not in the mansion last night, Jiantian and Jianxi always love to talk, and it will be bad if there are any rumors.

Fortunately, Jianxi didn’t think too much about it, but said in amazement: “If the murderer took the pregnancy before the pregnant woman died, the case would be complicated. In this case, the dead woman is full of obsessions, and it will soon melt. The ghost is looking for his fetus, but the fetus has already been lost, so how can he find it? The more he can’t find it, the more resentment the female ghost has. As the so-called mother and son are connected, Yueshuo Tongjun feels the resentment of his mother, and his spiritual power will also increase. In order to strengthen, what will happen in the end, it is hard to say, no wonder the prince is in a hurry to find us, he saw that things were very unusual, and asked Dongmingguan to help find the whereabouts of the three fetuses as soon as possible.”

Jue Jue Sheng He Qizhi couldn’t sit still, thinking about helping his senior brother in the past, Lin Chengyou and Yan Sizhi came in with voices coming from outside the door.

Yan Sizhi walked and said, “The customers from the dozen shops here have basically finished interrogation, and there are still about ten people in the Mozhai opposite—”

Seeing Tian and the others, their heartstrings were tense, and they were busy asking if the fetus was found. However, Lin Chengyou lifted his robe and sat down on the opposite side, took out two balls of things from his arms, and pushed one of them in front of Teng Yuyi: “Wang Gongzi smell this first.”

It was a piece of sandalwood-colored spice. Teng Yuyi took it in her hands in confusion, and frowned as soon as she smelled it.

Lin Chengyou stared at Teng Yuyi: “Do you smell it?”

“Tianshui Shiluo?” Teng Yuyi likes to study spices since she was a child. Although this kind of spices is not common, she played with these things as early as in Yangzhou.

Lin Chengyou: “Did you smell this fragrance when you broke into the quiet room just now?”

Teng Yuyi smelled the spices carefully. She was very sensitive to the smell. Although the room was full of blood at that time, Tianshui Shiluo had a A unique chili oil smell, which is easy for anyone who has come into contact with it. She smelled it as soon as she entered the quiet room, but she didn’t pay attention when she was nervous. Now that she has calmed down, she can easily recall it.

She nodded, “Yes.”

Yan Sizhi couldn’t help but ask, “Can you be sure, Mr. Wang? This is very important evidence.”

Teng Yuyi turned her eyes and looked at Yan Sizhi.

Lin Chengyou smiled: “She won’t remember it wrong.”

Yan Sizhi was stunned.

“Young Master Wang has a lot of research on spices and his memory is very good.” Lin Chengyou picked up the piece of spice and played with it, “Since the Young Master has smelled it, this matter is easy to handle, change to someone who has never smelled this kind of spices, even if If you smell it, you won’t pay attention, and the smoke of the spice will dissipate at the touch of a touch. It is difficult to find out after the incident. The murderer never imagined that someone would dare to break in at the scene. From your son’s testimony, at least we know that the maid and the madam are two different drugs.” Jiantian and

Jianxi hurriedly asked, “Prince, what’s the difference between these two drugs?”

“One is the common incense ‘Smell the wind’, which can make people fall asleep instantly, and the other is the magical medicine ‘Zui Lixiang’ compounded by Tianshui Shiluo, which can numb a person’s limbs and throat, and be fascinated The person can’t move, the throat can’t shout, but the consciousness is always awake.”

Teng Yuyi felt a chill on his back: “Is the prince saying that when Mrs. Rong Anbo was killed, the person was awake?”

Lin Chengyou hummed and put down the spices. At that time, his face became solemn.

Jue Sheng and Qi Zhi were shocked: “Isn’t that just watching myself get a caesarean section? Just now, the two priests talked about ‘Yue Shuo Tong Jun’, and the murderer deliberately used ‘Zui Li Xiang’ for Mrs. Rong Anbo Shizi. Could it be related to this?”

Lin Chengyou was surprised: “The two seniors have already mentioned Yueshuo Tongjun? Well, then I will make a long story short. The murderers used two kinds of spices, nothing more than to paralyze the government. There is no trace of ‘drunk incense’, but ‘smell the wind’ is still lingering. As long as the servants wake up and describe it, it is easy to find out that this kind of incense has been used on the scene. When the two are combined, the government will logically think that the prince The wife was also stunned by the same drug, but in fact, the murderer used ‘Dui Lixiang’ for the Crown Prince Rong Anbo. As for why the murderer did this, it was to push the victim’s grievance to the extreme. I guess In the previous two cases, the murderer also used the same technique.”

Teng Yuyi nodded in surprise: “No wonder when I went to check, the door of the quiet room was closed from the inside, I think the murderer was afraid that the fragrance in the aisle would drift into the room, so that Mrs. Rong Anbo can’t keep her head clear.”

Lin Chengyou: “No, the murderer didn’t close the door because he was afraid that the fragrance would drift into the corridor, because although ‘Zui Lixiang’ can only be ignited and used, ‘Smell the wind’ does not It can be put into the tea, Yan Sizhi and I have already checked it, and there are traces of ‘smell the wind’ on the edge of the tea cups that the servants drank, and in order to confuse the government, the murderer even put the cup of Mrs. Rong Anbo in the room. It was also deliberately smeared.”

“This, this—” Jue Sheng scratched his head, “The murderer thought too well. But brother, isn’t the murderer afraid that others will come into the aisle when he commits the murder, and passers-by will see These maids are dozing off, and they will inevitably be suspicious.”

Lin Chengyou: “It may be possible on weekdays, but not today. Every time this lady of the prince comes back to the spice shop to buy things, she will rest in the quiet room. During the rest period, the servants and maids are kept outside the door, and the shopkeepers are not allowed to disturb the past. Just now I I have asked these maids, since Mrs. Shizi was pregnant, they are often called up at night to bring tea and water. Because they are too tired, when they go out during the day, they will nap whenever they can find a chance. I know that the murderer dared to do it in the spice shop, which means that he has already grasped the temperament of Mrs. Rong Anbo. When he was confident that he would do it himself, no one would come. In fact, if Xiaoyajian suddenly warned him, the prince would not have passed. Check it out .”

Teng Yuyi paused: “Before I entered the house, I asked the maid outside what happened, the murderer should have heard my voice in the house at the time…”

Jianxi was surprised: “Then why didn’t the murderer escape in time?”

Lin Chengyou Said: “Isn’t it simple, he must have something very important to do at the time. Young Master Wang, think about it again, when you saw the murderer, where was he hiding in the room? He was standing there. Still lying down, or lying on the ground? What can I hold in my hand when I jumped out of the window to escape?”

Teng Yu thought for a while: “The murderer seems to have been hiding under the window. When I found someone in the room, he immediately got up and jumped up. When I went out the window, I only saw that he was wearing short brown, but I didn’t see his face. But when the murderer jumped out of the window to escape, he used his right arm to support the window sill, and his left arm was folded in front of his chest all the way. It’s like he’s holding something.”

Lin Chengyou pondered: “But when I caught Zhuang Mu in the back alley of the spice shop, he didn’t have anything in his hand… In such a short time, he neither had the chance to connect with his accomplices, nor I can’t swallow the fetus under my nose, where did the fetus go?”

He looked at Teng Yuyi thoughtfully.

Teng Yuyi naturally knew what he wanted to ask, so she quickly put down the tea cup and said, “Because I didn’t see the murderer’s face, I couldn’t guarantee that it was the same person, but in the quiet room just now, I took a closer look at Zhuang Mu several times. Over and over, I’m pretty sure the killer looks a lot like him, and they both wear tan.”

Jiantian and Jianxi said, “It is rare for an adult man to be as short and thin as Zhuang Mu, and he wears the same clothes, so the chance of admitting his mistake should not be high. Besides, if this case has nothing to do with Zhuang Mu, he Why did it happen at the place where the incident happened?”

Yan Sizhi said: “The clothes can be changed, and it’s not hard to find people with similar body shapes-”

Teng Yuyi was suddenly startled, she finally knew what she had missed.

Lin Chengyou’s eyes moved slightly: “Did you remember something?”

“Although I only glanced at the murderer jumping out of the window, but because the murderer’s left arm was folded too high, the bottom of the left elbow was also exposed, and the room was very crowded. It was dark, but the sun was shining brightly outside, and when I jumped out of the window, I saw a big hole in his clothes, and the hole was probably… this big.” She measured in front of Lin Chengyou with her thumb and index finger.

Lin Chengyou was startled, then suddenly got up: “Yan Sizhi, let’s go.”

Yan Sizhi was quite excited: “Now we should know whether the murderer is Zhuang Mu.”

The people in the store were dismissed by Lin Chengyou long ago, and the two As soon as the people left, there was only one table left with big eyes and small eyes.

Fortunately, Lin Chengyou and Yan Sizhi came back soon, and when they saw Xi, they hurriedly asked, “How is it?”

Lin Chengyou sat down with his robe up, “Zhuang Mu’s clothes have no holes.”

Teng Yuyi’s ear exploded, which meant— —

“The murderer Wang Gongzi saw in the room was someone else.”

Jiantian and Jianxi were shocked for a moment, and hurriedly said: “If the murderer is not Zhuang Mu, why is he wearing bloody clothes? So much blood Where did you get it temporarily?”

Lin Chengyou said, “When I saw Zhuang Mu in the alley, he didn’t look right. He looked surprised at the skirt of Mrs. Rong Anbo’s skirt in his hand. Now that I think about it, he must have been plotted, someone tried to lead him to the back alley, and used some method to lure him to make himself bloody. As soon as I saw what he looked like, I thought he was the murderer.”

Qizhi asked curiously: “Then why did the senior brother suspect that he is not the murderer after that?”

Lin Chengyou knocked on the head of Qizhi: “You haven’t practiced for a few days, and I see that you are stupid again. Just because you can’t find the fetus at the scene, you can’t find the fetus. Enough senior brother to be suspicious, so many people couldn’t find it, which means that Zhuang Mu either gave the fetus to someone else early in the morning, or hid the fetus somewhere else. Whatever the reason, it means that he had a chance to escape at that time. He left the alley, but he stayed where he was, waiting to be caught. I guess he was just a culprit. The real murderer had long since fled with the fetus, and the testimony of the prince just proved my guess.”

Jian Tianhe Jian Xi Yi patted his thigh: “That’s not right, even if the framing is successful this time, as long as the murderer commits another crime, the government will still know that the real murderer is someone else. A fetus, maybe he will kill again.”

Lin Chengyou looked at the tea cup in his hand, thought for a while, and said, “The murderer did not only frame Zhuang Mu once.”

Everyone was shocked.

“Don’t forget, when the last victim, Shu Liniang, had an accident, Shu Liniang’s neighbor had seen Zhuang Mu in Chun’an Lane. If we hadn’t found this clue, we wouldn’t have found Xi Shi in advance today, and happened to bump into Zhuang Mu’ “Murder”, all of this happened so coincidentally, as if someone had deliberately arranged it. I checked Zhuang Mu, his origin is unknown, and his hands may not be clean. The two plantings were done perfectly, even if he knew he was being plotted, he couldn’t Debate.”

Teng Yuyi was stunned: “Sir, when did the Tongzhou case happen?”

Lin Chengyou paused: “The fifth day of the third lunar month.”

“I remember, when I asked Cheng Bo to check Zhuang Mu, Cheng Bo’s People found out that Zhuang Mu was probably not in Chang’an for nearly a month, if this incident was also arranged in advance by the real murderer, it means that the murderer planned to blame Zhuang Mu as early as the first case.”

Lin Chengyou’s expression changed slightly.

After pondering for a while, he smiled and said, “It’s very deliberate. When the first Bai family in the same state was killed, Zhuang Mu was not in Chang’an for some reason. When the case of Zhuang Shu Liniang happened, someone saw Zhuang Mu appearing in Chun’an Lane, which happened to lead us to the West Market. In the third case of Mrs. Rong Anbo’s wife, Zhuang Mu was at the scene again. If it weren’t for Wang Gongzi He happened to break into the quiet room, and the immortals couldn’t clear his name. But what the truth is, we have to look down to find out.”

Everyone looked at each other, and they were so shocked that they were speechless.

Teng Yuyi was stunned for a long time, and said doubtfully, “But as far as I know, Zhuang Mu is just a scumbag. Why did the murderer plan to deal with him like this?”

Lin Chengyou turned to look at Teng Yuyi, and suddenly said, “Young Master Wang, take a step to speak.”

Teng Yuyi He vaguely guessed what Lin Chengyou was going to ask her, and was busy figuring out how to answer in his stomach.

The two walked aside, Lin Chengyou looked back, making sure no one could hear them, and said, “I was about to ask you, why did you come to the West Market to follow Zhuang Mu today?

Teng Yuyi said sternly: “Actually this afternoon When the accident happened, I wanted to tell the prince. I asked He Mingsheng where the silver silk came from that night in Caifeng Tower. He Mingsheng said that it was given to him by a pooch named Zhuang Mu in the west city. I wanted to know the origin of the silver wire, and I wanted to get one for self-defense, so I went to the West Market today to follow Zhuang Mu. ”

Lin Chengyou listened patiently: “Is it for this?” ”

Of course, the silver wire is light and thin. I have never seen a concealed weapon that is lighter than this one. I asked Shao Zhuangmu to follow him, just wanting to know where to get it.” By the way, the source of He Mingsheng’s sorcery is strange. Since his silver thread was obtained from Zhuang Mu’s hands, maybe Zhuang Mu’s sorcery is also from the same one. The prince can check it out.

Lin Chengyou smiled and nodded: “Okay, I know about it. ” ”

Teng Yuyi breathed a sigh of relief, but Lin Chengyou glanced at the guards in the Teng Mansion outside the store, and the conversation changed abruptly: “I counted it for you, you brought eight guards out of the mansion in addition to Duanfu today, what are you doing like this? The big battle, just to find a pimp to find out the origin of the silver thread?”

Teng Yuyi’s heart skipped a beat: “The silver thread can kill people, but I don’t know the details of the prank, so be careful?”

Lin Chengyou smiled: ” If you were so cautious, why did you go to the spice shop by yourself? You didn’t bring any guards around, so you almost lost your life, and you painted your face like this, are you afraid that someone will recognize you?”

Teng Yuyi whispered: “I saw an old friend in the spice shop, and I wanted to go over and confirm it temporarily. Shizi, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the case.”

Lin Chengyou: “Okay, then I’ll ask about the case. Specter will go to you. You said that Lu Zhaoan brought it in, but my subordinates reported that Lu Zhaoan was in the house last night, a Specter who was concocted by people. You don’t think it’s too much to go to you instead of the murderer. Is it a coincidence?”

This incident just hit Teng Yuyi’s heart, she simply turned the defense and asked with a smile: “So the prince is suspicious of me?”

Lin Chengyou smiled and said: “If someone else investigates the case, I have long suspected you. Don’t forget, Mrs. Rong Anbo was killed today, and you were the first person at the scene.”

Teng Yuyi snorted: “If the prince suspects me, you can start investigating me.”

Lin Chengyou thought, I can I never suspected that you were harming others, but Teng Yuyi, don’t you think you have too many secrets?

He coughed and said, “Why did Zhe Xie and those Specter go to you? You know why.”

His voice was so low that only the two of them could hear him, but Teng Yuyi felt so guilty, but smiled: “Of course I don’t know. , anyway, I have told the prince what I know, and the prince loves to believe it or not.”

After speaking, she turned around and left, in order to cooperate with the investigation, she took the initiative to tell him the whole story, only because she was afraid of involving the one who borrowed her life for her. People, hide the matter of borrowing one’s life and re-living.

It’s almost a matter of telling everything, what else do you want from her?

She can’t always say: I should have died a long time ago, only because someone uses sorcery to live by life.

After hearing this, Lin Chengyou might regard her as a monster. Just thinking about the scene where he forced her to return her life, she shuddered. If she were to use talismans and formations to deal with her, wouldn’t she make her look like a monster. In addition to this, she was more worried about the person who borrowed her life with sorcery.

Lin Chengyou looked at Teng Yuyi’s back from behind, and after only asking a few questions, she was so blown away that the so-called “guilty of heart” was literally portrayed by Teng Yuyi.

But if he didn’t question her properly, he wouldn’t be able to pass his own test in the first place, and it was suspicious enough that Shu Liniang’s ghost went to her.

Moreover, Zhuang Mu was stalked by her front foot, and Zhuang Mu had an accident on the back foot. Although she took the initiative to tell the relationship between Zhuang Mu and the silver thread, he vaguely felt that these things were not that simple.

I remember when he first dealt with Teng Yuyi, her hidden weapons were an eye-opener. A pampered lady, she seemed to be afraid of being killed at all times. The recent series of changes made people even more interested in her. Curious about the secrets of the body.

Of course, he wasn’t interested in her at all, but wasn’t this already involved in two cases? I wanted to take the opportunity to let her tell the truth, but when I asked, I became angry.

He thought to himself, “Okay, you’re hiding it from you. Anyway, I’m just trying to find out the truth. As long as this case continues to be investigated, I’ll always be able to figure out the reason.

One of them was guilty and the other was full of doubts. When they returned to the table, their faces were a little strange.

Jue Sage and Abandoned Wisdom thought about it, Senior Brother and Madam Teng were still peaceful at the table, why did they just say a few words, and they became awkward again.

[End of This Chapter]