The Delicate Lady Coroner

"How did the dead bird die?" Bo Ruoyou asked in a deep voice.

Sun Zhao looked weird. "The people who stayed in the Yamen said that a smashed **** was found by the lake in the park. The **** was the size of a palm, and it was smashed into flesh and blood--"

Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou looked at each other. One of the deceased fourteen years ago was tortured to death by crushing bones in his lower body.

Sun Zhao said: "Liu Qing and Chen Mo were kept in jail for many days. Originally, both of them were suspects. But the last time Ye Fei died, they almost cleared their suspicions. Later, they were brought back for the sake of Protect them, but they are unwilling, clamoring to go out."

Huo Wei said: "The dead bird in the garden has to be checked."

Sun Zhao answered, and Bo Ruoyou asked again, "Wu catching head is back?"

"Settle down those corpses in Yizhuang." Sun Zhao replied.

Bo Ruo pondered for a moment, "Those tombs are deserted, and Master Qian has not returned to the village for many years. The previous worship was also a few months ago. Most of the things Master Qian did not know when we went to dig the graves and dig out the bones."

Sun Zhao looked at her suspiciously, but Huo Weilou understood what she meant, "The murderer did not know that we had already understood what happened to the Zhao family. Let the murderer act."

Speaking of this, Huo Wei said in the corridor: "Take Benhou to see the two Liu Qing."

Sun Zhao looked at him, and he quickly ordered people to go to jail to prepare. At this moment, Wu Xiang returned from the outside with an escort. When he saw Huo Weilou and Bo Ruoyou, he immediately came forward to salute. He didn't know about Bo until he returned to the city today. Ruoyou was canonized as the county lord.

Wu Xiang was very happy, cheerful, sleepless all night and seldom sleepy, or Bo Ruoyou couldn't stand it, so he had to rest for a while, but Liu Qing and Chen Mo had to be interrogated. How could Wu Xiang rest.

Bo Ruoyou sighed helplessly, knowing that the corpse had been placed in Yizhuang, she didn't worry after thinking about it, she also wanted to know how Liu and Qing were sophistry.

Not long after, Liu Qing and Chen Mo were taken into the back hall.

Huo Weilou was sitting in the main seat, not angry and prestigious. Sun Zhao sat on the left side with a solemn expression. Wu Xiang stood beside Sun Zhao with a saber in his hand. In the corridor separated by a wall, Ruoyou held his breath and listened. The movement outside.

Liu and Qing had never seen such a battle, but they knew who Huo Weilou and Sun Zhao were. They thought that even Wu Zhaohou had also come. After they knelt down, they shrank their shoulders and did not dare to raise their heads.

Huo Weilou looked at these two people. He remembered that when he went to the Aviary Park on the first day, people were cleared. But when they searched the inner courtyard, there were many people around Xun’s yard. These two people were there. in.

At that time, everyone looked terrified, and Liu Qing couldn't avoid being vulgar, so no one had doubts about him at that time.

Liu Qingnian had a delicate face and a slender figure after double ten. He was very good at maintenance on weekdays, but he was kept in prison for a few days. At this moment, the folds of his clothes were scattered and he was rather embarrassed, as did Chen Mo on the side.

Huo Weilou picked up the tea cup, and his eyes fell on the tea soup floating with Wei Mo, "You learned Zhao Yue's favorite bird opera from the class leader of Zhao's class?"

Liu Qingren was trembling, and his voice was trembling, "Yes... Later I went to other theaters and learned something..."

Huo Weilou raised his eyes, his eyes were cold, as if a cold sharp knife hung on the two people's face door, "Then you can't even remember when Zhao Jiaban left the theater group? Not to mention Zhao Jiaban. It's a scattered class, but everyone is dead. Do you know about this?"

Liu Qing swallowed with difficulty, "We...we left Zhao's class very early and went to discuss life elsewhere, and then returned to the capital again, and heard that Zhao's class was gone. By then, three or four years had passed. So we said that Zhao’s family broke up many years ago, and we...we don’t know what happened that year."

There was a lot of cold sweat on Liu Qing's forehead. After speaking, he couldn't help but lifted his eyes to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Huo Weilou looked at the two of them and suddenly asked, "Do you want to go back to the Hundred Bird Park?"

Liu Qing tilted his head and glanced at Chen Mo. Chen Mo was as nervous as him. The two of them met quickly. Liu Qing lay on the ground and said: "The little people have never made any mistakes. The death of a person really has nothing to do with the little people. The little people will have to ask for a living in the future. If someone knows that they have been in the yamen jail, it will be difficult to find a job in the future."

Huo Weilou closed the lid of the tea cup, and there was an abrupt noise in an instant. Liu Qing was taken aback, but soon, Huo Weilou said softly, "Since this is the case, I will make you go back."

Liu Qing suddenly raised his eyes, seemingly unbelievable. Both Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang looked at Huo Wei Tower, not knowing what he was planning.

Liu Qing came back to his senses for a moment, and hurriedly thanked him, Chen Mo couldn't help but kowtow.

Huo Wei said: "It's just that the murderer hasn't been caught yet. You go back, but there is a worry about your life."

Liu Qing gritted her teeth, her face was determined, "The little people must be careful, and I believe that the yamen will find the murderer soon -"

Huo Weilou nodded and said eloquently: "Now I will let you go back to the Hundred Bird Park and retreat."

Liu Qing's expression was slightly relaxed. Although Sun Zhao was puzzled, he still called the yaman to send them out. When the two of them left, Huo Weilou called the embroiderer who followed him outside the door, "Come on."

The embroidered clothes envoy left, and Sun Zhao looked at Huo Wei's corridor and said, "Master Hou, do you really put it back? The murderer is not so easy to deal with. Last time we accidentally caught the murderer's scheme, and Ye Fei died. This yamen jail is their best umbrella. Once they return to the Aviary Park, they will be more ill-fortuned."

Huo Weilou said, "Who said they were going back to the Hundred Bird Park?"

Sun Zhao frowned, and Wu Xiang thought for a while, then suddenly squeezed his fist, "Oops, if they conceal something, or the things that happened back then are really related to them, do they want to escape?"

"Are you going to escape? I'll know later."

Huo Weilou was calm and relaxed, and was not in a hurry. After waiting for less than half an hour, the Embroiderer escorted Liu Qing and Chen Mo back together.

The two were still as embarrassed as before. The difference was that they had more injuries on their bodies. They were embroidered with clothes. They said, "They left the yamen, and first went to the Hundred Bird Park, but they walked out of two. After the main street, he suddenly turned around. First, he went to the bank on Guang'an Street in Dongshi. After leaving the bank, he went straight to the south of the city. The subordinates came forward to take the people when they saw that they were going out of the city. Staying, these two people are so dexterous, they even have to fight stubbornly, and were injured when they were arrested."

Naturally, they went to the bank to withdraw money, and to escape from the city. They said that they would return to the Hundred Bird Park. However, after leaving the Yamen, they made such plans. It can be seen that they dare not return to the Hundred Bird Park. Knowing that the murderer's target is still them, and they even dare not stay in the yamen because they conceal more important things.

Huo Weilou did not unexpectedly say: "Take it back to the prison, and Benhou will go to the trial in person--"

He stood up and looked at Bo Ruoyou who was already in the hall, "You are waiting for me outside."

Bo Ruoyou nodded, and Huo Weilou took Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang to the yamen's torture cell.

The cell was dim and dark, with tables and chairs on the north wall, and torture instruments hung on the wall directly opposite. Chen Mo was taken away, Liu Qing was kneeling on the ground in custody, and the moment Huo Wei Building appeared, the others were already shaking. Sift the chaff.

Huo Weilou looked at Liu Qing like this, with ridicule flashing in his eyes. He had seen the most vicious and dangerous but the most calm and unbreakable person in the world. This Liu Qing was really nothing.

When he was seated, he saw dozens of taels of silver patterns on the table, and Huo Weilou asked in a slow voice, "Didn't you let you go back to the Hundred Bird Park? Why are you going out of the city?"

At this point, Liu Qing knew that he would never be able to coax him, his face was sweating like rain, his blood faded, but he kept biting his posterior molars without saying a word.

Huo Weilou said faintly: "Let Benhou come to help you stroke it. You did leave the Zhao family class first, but Zhao family class was in the capital, so you should stay in the capital to discuss life. I came back later, Benhou guessed, before you left the capital, you must have customized something, and you were afraid to flee."

What Liu Qing said must not be all falsehoods. If true and false are mixed together, there is always a reason for sophistry.

His voice settled, Liu Qing still kept his eyes down, Huo Weilou lost his patience, and nodded to the two embroidered ambassadors, only to see that the two stretched Liu Qing’s well-maintained hands. Then he folds around his arms, and Liu Qing erupts with a terrible cry in the crisp sound of broken bones.

He was limp to the ground with pain, with golden light flashing in front of him, and before breathing out, the next wave of pain came again, he only felt that the bones of his hands were broken every inch, and for a moment, he thought of the scene many years ago.

"I... I said..."

Before both Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang could see how the two embroidered ambassadors moved, they saw Liu Qing's painful face, and they both felt a little hairy in their hearts. They were refreshed when they heard Liu Qing was about to speak.

Huo Weilou's gaze shifted to Liu Qing's face. Liu Qing was curled up on the ground, with one cheek pressed against the wet ground, his arms slumped weakly. He was so painful that he was sweating and tears flowing. At this moment, he looked at Huo Weilou imploringly, intermittently. Spoke up.

"That was fourteen years ago..."

"Master's theatrical troupe can't make a living, so he doesn't want to continue adopting us. He has no children. He only chose the five most beloved and most filial of the weekdays to stay with him. The rest of the people have to leave the theatrical troupe to seek a living by themselves."

"You don't understand our hatred. Even if he treats us badly on weekdays, he drove us away at that time. We went to another class leader to make a living, but when that person was happy, he only allowed us to please the nobles. , I’m upset, so I’m going to kill us. We never have a good day..."

Wu Xiang couldn't help it anymore, "So you don't hate the class leader who punishes you, but instead hate your master, so you ran back to kill people?"

Liu Qingse flinched, and took another two breaths before continuing to speak. His tone was a little faint and hesitant, as if he could not remember clearly, "I forgot who mentioned it first, but we are all These children, he abandons us in that way, he created karma, and those are his retribution—"

Huo Weilou frowned. Liu Qing didn't know what he thought of. The fear on the face faded a bit, "Yes, it is his retribution, we just want him to get the retribution he deserves."

Wu Xiang shuddered at hearing, "You were only half-old children at the time, how did you kill so many people?"

Because of the pain, Liu Qing's eyes were bloodshot. He turned to look at Wu Xiang with scarlet and scarlet eyes. "Don't underestimate any children. At that time, we were not afraid of anything. They also underestimated us like you. Little followed the troupe, learned to play tricks, learned to sing, and learned how to juggle. We had suffered too much, and we had seen too many side-by-side things... We found the stone medicine for poisoning mice, first poured them out, and then The hand that just moved--"

Reminiscent of the scene fourteen years ago, Liu Qing’s eyes flashed with fear and pleasure, “We found too few stone medicines, which are not poisonous to death. That’s right, so we followed that scripture. Punish them one by one."

Wu Xiang couldn't help taking a step forward, "What scripture? You said that punishment would drown them, hang them, or burn them to death?"

Liu Qing’s eyes disappeared for a moment, and only after a while did he realize what Wu Xiang was asking, "Yes, this is what they should have. As for the scriptures, I can’t remember them clearly. Anyway, if I recite it, it is a scripture that can be blessed by the Bodhisattva. Arts……"

Wu Xiang heard it very strangely, "You have already left the theater at that time, do you believe in Buddhism? Why do you have this scripture?"

"No... we don’t believe in Buddha, we don’t believe in anything. At that time, we believed in whoever gave us food. At that time, we had already escaped from the lord behind, and fled to the pier outside the city. We wanted to find it. Work, but others saw that we were too young and didn’t need us at all. Later, we recognized a person who rewarded us with food. He is the reincarnated Bodhisattva, who reads the Bodhisattva Sutra to us..."

Wu Xiang heard it inexplicably, "So you admit that you want revenge, so you go back and kill them? When you left, there was a fire and the corpses were destroyed?"

The fear on Liu Qing's face suddenly aggravated, as if only then realized the consequences of his mistakes. "We didn't mean it. Even the Bodhisattva Sutra says that people will go to **** if they suffer karma. We... We are just too young, we don’t understand at all, and we are afraid of killing people later, and we regret it..."

He lowered his gaze, buried his head on his chest, and cried tremblingly, "We went outside to discuss life for a few years, and then heard that the matter did not make a big deal, so we went back to the capital. The Minxiang Alley has been completely renewed. Know, no one will find out what we did that night—"

Wu Xiang knew the whole case best. He said anxiously: "What about the dead this time? You know what happened back then. Didn't you expect someone to come back for revenge?"

The corners of Liu Qing's lips twitched a few times, and the fear in his eyes was even worse. "When Jiang Xing died, we did not expect that when Yu Xun died, we were afraid until...until Ye Fei died, Ye Fei's method of death was exactly the same as before. , It’s just, it’s just that we didn’t use coffin nails back then, we used the iron arrows of theatrical troupe to do juggling..."

Wu Xiang was still a little puzzled: "How many of your masters were killed alive by you at the beginning, but there were others in the yard. When you set the fire, did the living see them?"

Liu Qing cried and said: "No...no, everyone was poured by our medicine...Later we asked if five or six were dead, some were injured, and the theater team was completely dispersed. We haven’t tracked it down again, and we thought, if someone saw it, why didn’t we report it to the official?"

Realizing that someone really knew what they did, and he came back to treat his body in the same way as he did, he couldn't help but tremble, "It must be the person who was alive at that time, and the person who was alive came back. NS……"

Wu Xiang gritted his teeth and said, "So you don't know who is still alive?"

Liu Qing’s expression has already given the answer. Wu Xiang looked at Liu Qing strangely, seeing the delicate skin and tender meat he maintains now, if he puts on a silk shirt and sings and sings, he will have a clear rhyme. Who would have thought that these people could get together when they were less than ten years old, but they would be so cruel and torture others?

He turned around and looked at Huo Weilou, "Master Hou, things must have been like this back then, what should we do now?"

Huo Weilou seemed to be thinking about something else. He stared at Liu Qing and said, "What is the name of the Bodhisattva scripture you are talking about? Is it a thing of the Buddhist family? And the person who gave you food and let you read the Bodhisattva scriptures, and Who is it?"

Liu Qing shook his head painfully, "Those who don't know the name, don't have a name, only know that the Bodhisattva can save us through the sufferings of people, and that the living Bodhisattva has given us money, otherwise, none of the five of us will survive."

When Sun Zhao heard Huo Weilou's question about this, he turned and said in a low voice: "Can you send someone to check?"

Huo Weilou nodded slightly, and then asked Liu Qing, "Does that person know what happened to you? Did he say that you can go back and kill people?"

Liu Qing’s expression became grotesque. He seemed to be thinking about how to explain the best. Soon, he said: "He knows, he knows our experience, he... seems to have said that we should act according to the scripture. Later, we never saw him again, and we forgot what he said at the time. Over the years, we were also very scared..."

Sun Zhao's heart grew fuzzy, and he understood Huo Weilou's intentions at this moment. "Holy Lord is worried about the rise of a cult?"

Buddhism and Taoism prevailed in the Great Zhou, but there were many sects among the people. If it doesn’t cause trouble, the government won’t control it. But once it causes trouble, or advocates the people to oppose the government’s imperial power, it will probably not end well. Huo In the past few years when Dangerous Building was in power, he had dealt with several cult-related incidents, but he did not expect that this old case also seemed to be related to cults.

Although Liu Qing called Bodhisattva, it is not only Buddhism that has Bodhisattva, and this Bodhisattva Sutra actually teaches the heart of killing in life, and it does not seem to be like a Buddhist thing. When the incident happened, all five children were young and it was indeed easy to suffer. People are bewitched, but they are tempted to think, which is very different from being really cruel and cruel to kill.

Huo Weilou didn't realize that these five people were only instigated by others, and only with Liu Qing's words, he could not tell whether this "living Bodhisattva" really existed. On the contrary, their killing was a nailed matter, and the methods were even more cruel and outrageous. Its fierceness is really more terrifying than many adults, and how can it afford to be innocent.

Huo Weilou temporarily suppressed the idea of ​​a cult, "Go to interrogate Chen Mo again to see if what he said is true or false. Now that this old case has been dug out, it needs to be carefully examined. The case was investigated more than ten years ago, and now there will be no such scourges. Now that the cause of the incident is known, the murderer of the Hundred Bird Park case can almost be determined."

Sun Zhao hurriedly responded. Liu Qing and Chen Mo had done evil more than ten years ago. They have struggled to live in these years, and there is no ferociousness in them. It is not difficult to interrogate these two people, but there is no evidence before. Improper use of torture is now very different.

Huo Weilou glanced at the skylight outside the transom, thinking that Bo Ruoyou had been waiting for a long time, then stood up and said: "You can do the interrogation. Let Wu Xiang follow Benhou to the Hundred Bird Park and see the death. bird."

After Huo Weilou's confession, he left the cell and arrived in the back hall not long before Bo Ruoyou hurriedly greeted him when he saw him appear.

"Master Hou, how?"

Huo Wei said in the corridor: "It's all recruited."

Seeing his solemn expression, Bo Ruoyou had to answer again, the worst inference in his heart has become true, "So they really did the murder back then?"

Huo Weilou nodded and said, "Go to the Bird Park to see the dead bird, said on the way."

He acted swiftly and decisively, Bo Ruoyou followed him out, and when he got into the carriage, Huo Weilou just told me what he had gained in the cell. Although Bo Ruoyou had guessed after the autopsy, he still couldn't think of a few children. Can do such a cruel thing.

Bo Ruoyou couldn't help saying: "Usually and half-old children are afraid of blood, but they can do it so harshly. What living bodhisattvas said in his mouth, Hou Ye can be trusted?"

"Naturally can't listen to what his family said." Huo Weilou held her slightly cold hand, "When the murderer is found, the whole story will be known."

Bo Ruoyou also knew the truth, and sighed: "I didn't expect it to be such a result. Hou Ye Shicai entered the cell. I also thought maybe they just knew the truth about what happened back then and concealed it for others."

Huo Weilou squeezed in her palm to soothe her. Bo Ruoyou's initial shock dissipated, but she accepted this situation. She had seen many cases, and she told Wu Xiang last night that he should not be preconceived. Since turning his mind to the murderer hidden in the Aviary Park.

To Bo Ruoyou, every time a dead bird appeared was a clue. Before the carriage reached the Aviary Park, they entered the gate of the mansion and went straight to the lake where the dead bird was found.

The yaman who stayed in the Hundred Bird Park waited for Wu Xiang for a long time, but he did not expect Wu Zhaohou to come personally. At the moment, he did not dare to take everyone to the place where the dead bird's body was found. There is vegetation by the lake, and the place where the corpse appeared is not obvious. It was a wild cat in the garden, smelling blood and leaning forward. When I first saw the corpse, I thought it was the wild cat who caught the **** and killed the queer. , But when I approached, I realized that it was not so."

Everyone walked to the edge of Yuehu Lake and found that the land of the dead bird was opposite to the rockery where Ye Fei died. The dead bird's corpse was put in a bird cage by the yaman. At this moment, it looked like a bird died very ordinary. NS.

But looking closer, Bo Ruoyou could see the **** sparrow body clearly.

And it's still a blood sparrow.

She quickly retracted her gaze and looked around Moon Lake. The shadows of the trees in the woods on the other side of the lake flickered, as if someone was peeking through them, but when she looked closely, there was no one.

There was a bit of chill in Bo Ruoyou's heart. She knew that even if the murderer did not appear in her vision, he must know that the people of the government would find this corpse. His behavior was almost a provocation.

She pondered for a moment, and said softly, "Master Hou, since the murderer is so arrogant and arrogant, can we take the initiative to lead him out?"