Sun Runan helped Mrs. Sun Er up, and then immediately bowed to thank the person who saved them.
Sun Runan said: "Fortunately, brother took action in time, otherwise I might have died. What do you call me, brother?"
Yongye said: "My young master's surname is Song."
"Song Gongzi." Sun Runan saluted again.
Song Chengxuan said calmly: "Why don't you bring a few more people into the hall?"
Sun Runan hesitated slightly and turned to look outside the hall. His mother did not ask the steward mother to follow him today.
Mrs. Sun Er said without hesitation: "I was just praying sincerely. I never thought there would be a murderer in the hall of Empress Xuannu."
While they were talking, the mother who was in charge of the Sun family ran in and looked at everyone in surprise: "What's going on? How are you, madam?"
Sun Runan was about to step forward to talk to Song Chengxuan again, but Song Chengxuan walked out of the hall.
A bad person appeared in the Taoist temple. The Taoist priests rushed over to check. Master Zhang hurried forward with the temple owner. Song Chengxuan told the temple owner: "If something happens in the temple, I have sent someone to report it to the government office. The people from the government office will come immediately."
Come and take charge of the overall situation. Before that, you must carefully count all the people in the Taoist temple, and no one can leave the Taoist temple."
The master of the temple hurriedly agreed and ordered the disciples around him: "Did you hear that? Go and get it done quickly, make it clear to the kind people who come to offer incense, and ask them to rest first."
Several Taoist priests responded and immediately went to do it.
Song Chengxuan looked toward the back door of the Taoist temple. Just now, Xu Qinghuan saw that Yong Ye had climbed to the top of the Xuannv Hall and was waiting for an opportunity, so she took the people away.
Although there were no words between them, they could guess each other's thoughts.
Since he is here, it will be difficult for the murderer in the main hall to escape. The most important thing she should do at this time is to check the situation around the Taoist temple, so that she can have a clear view of any unusual movements.
But now that the murderer has been caught, but she hasn't come back yet, something must have happened.
The owner of the temple looked at Song Chengxuan and said: "The Taoist temple has never been in such a situation for many years. Fortunately, a few good people took action to restrain the murderer..."
However, Song Chengxuan seemed not to have heard what the viewer was saying. When he saw the murderer in the hall of Empress Xuannu, he already knew that this person was not Tan Er.
The Tan family is a businessman, and no matter how hard Tan Er works, he will never do too much strenuous work, so that the palms of his hands are covered with calluses, and the man's age does not match Tan Er's.
Judging from the man's actions in the hall, he did not seem to be a thoughtful person. On the contrary, after being captured, the man knew that he could not escape, but he still struggled like a trapped animal. Although his eyes were fierce, he was also very innocent, which was the same as killing Sun.
The characteristics displayed by the two masters are also different.
The person who was caught just now should usually be a pawn acting under orders. In this case, where is the person who drove him? Could he be hiding around the Taoist temple?
Brother and sister Xu Qing'an and Xu Qinghuan don't have many people. If they happen to meet the murderer...
Song Chengxuan thought of this and walked quickly outside the Taoist temple.
Yong Ye couldn't help but hesitate for a moment when he saw this. This situation happened again... He seemed to be unsure of what the young master was thinking. What should he do? After a moment of trance, Song Chengxuan's figure had disappeared, and Yong Ye did not dare to look back.
He hesitated and immediately chased after him.
After leaving the back door of the Taoist temple, there is a dense forest. It is almost early summer, and the vegetation is gradually luxuriant. It is not difficult to hide in it.
Suddenly a voice came from the forest and shouted: "Miss, be careful."
Song Chengxuan frowned, moved and disappeared into the forest.
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Blood spattered on the tree trunk and soaked into the blue Taoist robe. A man dressed as a Taoist priest lay on the ground, his eyes wide open, the expression on his face stayed at the last moment, and his slightly opened lips seemed to be shouting, but in the end he failed to speak.
sound.
The dagger penetrated his chest and took his life in the blink of an eye, which shows how cruel and decisive the person who did it was.
The murderer hid the Taoist priest's body in a shallow pit and only used some fallen leaves and branches to cover it. It can be seen that this happened by chance, and the murderer left in a hurry, so he could only make such a simple arrangement.
Just then, Fengchu stepped forward to help Xu Qing'an drag the branches on the Taoist priest's body, and accidentally hooked the Taoist priest's arm. Meng Lingyun was startled, thinking that the Taoist priest was still alive, and immediately stepped forward to protect Xu Qinghuan.
Feng Chu glanced at Meng Lingyun with disgust, and Meng Lingyun immediately blushed and lowered her head.
Xu Qing'an returned the half-drawn sword and was about to speak when he felt a gust of wind passing by him. When he saw clearly, Song Chengxuan was already standing in front of him.
"Song...Chengxuan."
Xu Qinghuan was carefully searching for traces that the murderer might have left around him, when he suddenly heard Xu Qingan talking, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised. Song Chengxuan rushed over so quickly?
She thought that there were still many things to deal with in the Taoist temple, and it would take some time anyway. Even if Song Chengxuan didn't like to talk anymore, he still had to give some instructions to the temple owner.
Thinking of this, she raised her head and saw that Song Chengxuan was standing there not far away, but the guard who had been following him was not there.
Is it because there is any trouble in the Taoist temple? He even left the people around him there.
Xu Qinghuan asked: "Did Mr. Song catch the murderer?" This was what she was most concerned about at the moment, although she felt that Song Chengxuan would not let the murderer escape carelessly.
After speaking, she met his two deep eyes.
Obviously her question made him unhappy.
That means catching people.
"Is the person alive?" Xu Qinghuan asked again.
Finally, Song Chengxuan said calmly: "Who are you referring to?"
If he wasn't the murderer, could it be someone else who died?
Xu Qinghuan frowned: "Is it possible that Sun Runan is dead?"
Song Chengxuan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why wasn't Mrs. Sun Er the one who died?"
Xu Qinghuan said: "There is one thing that makes me feel very strange. The murderer wanted to kill Mrs. Sun Er, but why he didn't do it. The main hall should be the best place to commit the murder. Why did he take Mrs. Sun Er hostage to the Taoist temple outside the temple?
There are so many Taoist priests and servants of the Zhang family, how will he escape if he is discovered?"
Xu Qingan said: "Maybe he wants to take Mrs. Sun Er away and torture her slowly."
Xu Qinghuan shook his head: "He can do this when no one knows about it, but Sun Runan has witnessed what he did, how could he be allowed to take Mrs. Sun away with her? Even if the murderer threatens Mrs. Sun's life, Sun Runan is not a fool. He
Don't you know that Mrs. Sun's second wife will definitely die if she is taken away like this?
In view of the several cases the murderer had committed before, if he could get to Mrs. Sun's side, he should kill Mrs. Sun's second wife without thinking."
This may be the reason why Song Chengxuan never asked Yong Ye to rescue Mrs. Sun Er. This man also felt that the murderer's actions were unreasonable.
Song Chengxuan was really brave. He watched all this quietly. If he guessed wrong, Mrs. Sun Er would be killed immediately. But if he guessed correctly, they would know the murderer's true intention.
Song Chengxuan said: "The murderer almost killed Sun Run'an." If he had not taken action to save others, Sun Run'an would have died.
Xu Qinghuan looked at the body of the Taoist priest on the ground in trance. From the beginning, they felt that the next person the murderer planned to kill was Mrs. Sun Er. The inference they made seemed to be very common sense.
This time, the murderer seems to be targeting Mrs. Sun Er, but something will go wrong in the process.
In other words, if they had not intervened, the person who died tragically would have been Sun Runan. Anyone would think that Sun Runan died tragically to save his mother. The target of the murderer from the beginning to the end was Mrs. Sun Er.
But just now they saw with their own eyes that the murderer clearly had the opportunity to kill Mrs. Sun Er but did not do it. On the contrary, Sun Runan almost lost his life.
How could the murderer make such a mistake? This is very different from the meticulous methods used in previous cases.
Did the murderer go to great lengths just to get such an "accident"?
What if this wasn't an accident?
The person the murderer wanted to kill was Sun Runan from the beginning to the end, so their previous inferences were all wrong. Someone deliberately created such an illusion to confuse everyone.