Bai Zeqing followed the instructions to calm down, and sure enough, he could hear the voices in the side room.
At this time, the judge was reporting on the case.
Hearing the results of the post-mortem examination by the general judge, Bai Zeqing wondered: "Could this be... possible? There are many lovely wives and concubines in the house of Master Fu Zun. He just redeemed the new oiran of Panyue Tower a few years ago, and he is living a small life."
How nourishing, what reason is there to commit suicide? Why should you come to Tingquan Temple and hang yourself from the beam? It’s unreasonable!”
The Taoist priest said calmly: "No."
"Huh?" When his guess was answered in the affirmative, Bai Zeqing hurriedly tugged at the Taoist priest's robe, quietly took two steps closer, and said, "Right, right? Master has seen something fishy?"
"It's not someone who just died."
"Huh? Master, you don't need to do an autopsy to know?"
"There is no living soul." The Taoist priest had just discovered this on the Meishan Mountain, so he came closer and wanted to investigate more carefully.
"Born...born soul?"
The Taoist priest's voice was deep: "The souls of those who have just died are still alive. There is no living soul around the corpse of this prefect or even in the entire Tingquan Temple."
It can be seen that this person must not have just died.
It was so cold in broad daylight! Bai Zeqing couldn't help but wince and looked around cautiously.
At this time, her eyes were still open, so naturally she couldn't see anything. But it didn't stop her from feeling the sinister wind, so she quietly took two more steps toward the Taoist priest.
Bai Zeqing thought: No matter how accustomed to the Taoist priest's way of speaking, he still couldn't help but feel his shirt getting cold and his hairs standing on end.
She stood almost close to the Taoist priest, the scent of osmanthus lingering on the tip of her nose, and she suddenly felt a sense of security, and her mind began to spin again.
"If it's not someone who just died, then it's more likely that he didn't commit suicide! That makes sense."
"Then the question is, who killed the prefect of Yuanzhou and why?"
"No matter why, at least now the case cannot be settled by suicide."
What's wrong? The Taoist priest frowned slightly as he listened to Bai Zeqing's long words, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
Bai Zeqing took action while talking to himself.
She didn't have time to find paper and pen, so she deftly pulled off a strip of cloth from the corner of her skirt, quickly pulled out a handful of camphor leaves, wrapped them into a tight ball, and wrote six words with the juice: "Not a new death, not suicide."
Then he wrapped a stone in a piece of cloth and threw it in the direction of Mr. Huo under the pine tree.
Fortunately, she had been riding horses and shooting arrows with Su Qi since she was a child, so she still had a good shot.
I saw the stone hitting Mr. Huo's head directly with the sound of breaking through the air.
"Oops! Don't break it!" Bai Zeqing secretly shouted. In the past years, she had heard from her eldest sister and brother-in-law that the second master's health was not very good.
Mr. Huo was talking to Judge Liu next to him, seemingly unaware of the approaching danger.
The maid who was standing quietly next to her suddenly raised her hand, swung the folding fan in her hand, and hit the stone with a "ding" sound.
Then she heard a "huh" sound, and the folding fan opened with a "squeak", and she cleverly pocketed the stone that was about to be blown away on the fan.
All this happened within a moment. When Bai Zeqing was dumbfounded by the maid's skill, the maid already held the folding fan in both hands and handed it to Mr. Huo.
Mr. Huo looked back at this moment, and at this glance, he could see that the cloth was written with the juice of leaves. He immediately looked in the direction of Bai Zeqing, and saw a medicinal garden. The breeze was blowing gently, and the vegetation was not moving.
Strange.
He frowned and raised his chin. The maid immediately put away the folding fan, unfolded the cloth, and held it in front of Mr. Huo with both hands.
Mr. Huo gave the piece of cloth to Liu Yuan with a slight glance, and after whispering a few words, he handed the cloth to Liu Yuan.
Watching Judge Liu enter the side room, Mr. Huo covered his mouth and coughed twice before slowly saying: "You are smart."
The maid smiled sweetly and asked sweetly: "Second Master, can you please go take a look?"
Mr. Huo waved his hand and said with a smile: "No need, it will be delivered to your door. Why bother." After saying this, he raised his hand and the maid quickly held it. Mr. Huo said: "Let's go."
"There is no conclusion yet, Second Master, should we leave now?"
"It's no longer fun to watch, let's go back." Mr. Huo walked slowly and waved again. The butler immediately stepped forward to obey the order.
Mr. Huo said, "You go ahead and make preparations. We have distinguished guests today." He paused and said, "Let the stewards from several grain stores come over."
When Judge Liu came out again, Mr. Huo and his party were no longer there. He looked around and murmured: "Hey, this guy..."
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Bai Zeqing felt relieved after watching Liu Yuanxuan enter the wing to report.
The Taoist priest quietly watched Bai Zeqing do this and asked, "Do you know me?"
Bai Zeqing looked at Mr. Huo who was slowly walking down the mountain with the help of his maid, nodded and said, "Well, he is from the eldest sister's husband's family."
It's just acquaintance, unfamiliarity, and just luck. There is no other way. Bai Zeqing added another sentence in his heart.
Bai Zeqing's character is too out-of-the-box. The eldest sister Bai Zeyi is the daughter of the eldest lady Li. She has always been virtuous and virtuous. Whenever she sees her doing something inappropriate, she will always give a serious lecture for a long time, which makes Bai Zeqing see her eldest sister every time.
His shadow stayed far away.
Thinking about how she crawled under the feet of her eldest sister when she crawled into the yard from the dog hole, and was then punished to stay at home and write with her second brother for a whole month, her hands felt sore just thinking about it now.
From then on, she had to finish her homework every day before going out. In Bai Zeqing's heart, her eldest sister was stricter than her father, mother and wife combined.
Therefore, after the eldest sister got married, she would definitely not go to the eldest sister's house unless necessary. Therefore, she had only met Mr. Huo a few times during the Chinese New Year and was not familiar with him.
The Taoist priest asked casually and nodded without comment.
He was thinking about other things - he was not sure, this case involved souls, did this matter fall under the jurisdiction of the Tianyu Division? After all, he didn't pay much attention to secular affairs. But his perception told him that this matter was not
It's not simple. If we don't find out the truth, there may be future troubles.
He looked at the girl next to him who was also frowning and thinking, and suddenly had an idea, and said: "In this way, as my Taoist boy, you will stay here to find out the truth."
"Me?" Bai Zeqing looked at Wang Chi who was talking to Shi Yu, then looked at the black-armored cavalry outside, and swallowed.
She wanted to say that she couldn't do it. But she also vaguely felt that this matter might be related to the incident in Ningzhou? The refugees were all from the three prefectures of Xisha. There might be very few refugees left in Ningzhou, but she felt that she could not ignore it.
.
"Master, if I can find out at this time, can you teach me the puppet and puppet spirit technique?"
"I won't teach you!" the Taoist priest decisively refused. Then he threw a token, a brocade bag and two books to her.
Before Bai Zeqing could be disappointed, he was slapped in the face.
What is this?
"Collection of Yanshu"?
After seeing clearly the three big words on the first book, she quickly turned to the second book: "Puppetry"!
Her eyes widened and her mind was still a little confused, then she heard three words from the Taoist priest: "Learn by yourself."
Bai Zeqing: "???"
Well, the Taoist priest has started selling books...
