Xu Miaoyi is the second time to experience someone jumping off the building and dying in front of her, the first time was last year when Guo Yangtian betrayed Mingjiao and trapped, Mingjiao colleagues jumped off the building to warn her with their lives, and she was able to escape. And this time it's Miss Luan, a crazy genius painter.

Watching the hot blood flow quietly from Miss Luan's skull, a thin layer of bright red viscosity floated on the bluestone pavement, forming a disorderly shape, and then static, condensed, and drew the end of life.

Xu Zengshou was so frightened that he screamed and almost fell off his horse. Zhu Di ordered people to block the five-story tower, and after searching and checking layer by layer, Xu Miaoyi walked into Miss Luan's studio, the sky was already bright, and the morning sun shone through the window, and the dust flying in the air could be clearly seen.

She approached the window where Miss Luan jumped step by step, her hands floated on the windowsill, stunned, and then pressed down firmly, learning from Miss Luan before jumping off the building, lying on the windowsill, leaning out of her upper body.

The wood of the windowsill is very smooth, and if someone is forced to push it down, there should be traces of fingernails left on the wood of the windowsill or peeling pieces of paint from the struggle to grasp it. Looking at Miss Luan's fingers just now, the nails were very clean, there were no foreign objects and broken nails, and Miss Luan didn't do any struggle.

Zhu Di came in and said: "The towers have been searched, and no suspicious people have been found. ”

Xu Miaoyi rubbed against the flat windowsill and muttered, "Miss Luan should have jumped off voluntarily, why did she do this?" ”

The mother-in-law was brought up to ask and said in shock: "This ...... Miss Luan is a madman, like a child, who doesn't know how to protect herself. I don't know what the danger is, there are a few times to see the lotus flowers in the pond and the goldfish released are good-looking, and I don't take off my shoes and socks, so I wade into the water to pick flowers and touch the fish, and almost drowned, so as long as I go out, we will follow her, and I am afraid that something will happen. ”

Xu Miaoyi shook her head, "I've seen a lot of crazy people, martial madmen hurt themselves, and they also fist and kick others. But Miss Luan is crazy, she doesn't hurt people, she doesn't masochist, wading in the water to pick lotus is because she is attracted by the beauty of the fish playing lotus in the water, and jumping off the building is completely different from wading in the water, she chose to jump off the building, she must have been stimulated or encouraged by something before she died - has she been drinking medicine recently? ”

The mother-in-law said: "I asked Dr. Yao to prescribe medicine as you said last time, I took a few stickers, and it was much quieter than usual, and sometimes I could talk to me normally, and I wrote a letter to her younger brother who was studying in Hangzhou, but I didn't expect it to be ...... suddenly Alas, it's all my wife's fault that I didn't look at Miss. ”

Correspondence? Xu Miaoyi and Zhu Di glanced at each other: Could it be that Miss Luan sobered up a little after taking the medicine, remembered the past, and wrote a letter to her younger brother Luan Balang?

Xu Miaoyi hurriedly asked, "Do you remember what was written in the letter?" ”

The mother-in-law said, "I can't read." ”

Zhu Di ordered his men to track down the whereabouts of the letter. Xu Miaoyi took the recipe and the residue to see, sour jujube kernels, cypress seed kernels, calamus, Chen Danxing, yellow lotus, tortoiseshell, cinnabar, Tianzhu yellow, Huaimai, antelope horn...... They are all calming drugs that are facing Miss Luan's symptoms. So Miss Luan has obviously quieted down in the past few days, not because of the medicine.

Xu Miaoyi looked at Miss Luan's recent paintings, all of which were Buddha statues and Guanyin statues, and her mother-in-law was red-eyed, sobbing and pointed to the boy next to the lotus platform of Guanyin and said: "When Miss Luan painted this white fat boy, she smiled and told me that this was what her brother looked like when he was a child. ”

Xu Miaoyi looked at the good fortune boy in the painting, the boy shaved his head, only left a small poke of hair in the top of the heart, tied up with a red ribbon, the fat big-headed doll, very cute, estimated age, when Luan Feng and his wife were killed, Luan Balang was probably this age.

Standing next to the good wealth boy was the daughter of the dragon king, who was a little taller, and the good wealth boy smiled and patted the little fat hand, as if she was coquettish in front of the dragon girl.

Xu Miaoyi felt that the contours of the dragon girl's face were very familiar, and she leaned over to take a closer look: Isn't this what Miss Luan looked like when she was a girl? It turned out that Miss Luan included herself and her younger brother in the painting, and became the golden boy and jade girl under Guanyin's seat.

The dragon girl looked down at the coquettish boy, Miss Luan's brushstrokes were extremely expressive, and the dragon girl's expression and eyes full of pity and love jumped on the page, lifelike. The dragon girl's index finger slanted out to the upper left, as if pointing at something, Xu Miaoyi looked in the direction that the dragon girl was pointing, and it happened to be the porcelain vase held by Guanyin sitting on the lotus platform, and the porcelain vase was inserted with willow branches.

Xu Miaoyi felt a little strange, because in the sculptures and portraits of Guanyin, Guanyin was holding a mutton fat jade vase in his hand, and in this portrait was a blue and white porcelain vase with entwined lotus flowers.

Blue and white rose in the Yuan Dynasty, by the Yuan Dynasty nobles like, its simple and elegant pattern, in the Ming Dynasty also by the literati and scholars, Guanyin Dashi porcelain vase into the current fashion secularization, so it does not appear abrupt.

- It's just that this portrait contains too many meanings, so Xu Miaoyi paid more attention to this porcelain vase, she looked around, and found that there was a blue and white porcelain vase with lotus flowers on the desk in the studio exactly like the portrait!

This is a garlic bottle with a thin neck and a big belly, the body of the bottle is the size of a melon, and the mouth of the bottle is narrow only the thickness of a thumb. Xu Miaoyi picked up the lotus garlic bottle and shook it, put it in front of her eyes to take a closer look, and saw a light thing flashing inside.

Xu Miaoyi poked into the mouth of the bottle with tweezers, and carefully pinched out the thing, this is a thin light yarn like a cicada's wings, and the white gauze depicts a portrait of a middle-aged man with simple lines, Miss Luan's pen is extremely accurate, the distance between this person's eyes is farther than ordinary people, slender single eyelids, and thick and thick eyebrows.

The man looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Zhu Di came over and looked at it and said, "Do you remember the portrait painted by Luan Balang of the person who instigated him to take people to Luan Feng's ancestral hall to catch tomb robbers?" ”

Xu Miaoyi suddenly remembered, "Yes, it's the same person!" ”

Zhu Di pointed to the portrait and said: "This person specifically targeted the Luan family sisters and brothers, and after instigating Luan Balang's murder failed, he rushed to Suzhou to find Miss Luan, I am afraid that Miss Luan really remembered something, he must have used some trick to force Miss Luan to walk out of the room alone in the middle of the night and jump off the building in the tower, just to kill it." ”

Thinking of the moment when Miss Luan jumped to death in front of her, Xu Miaoyi closed her eyes painfully and said: "Miss Luan had a sober moment, she painted a portrait of this person, hid it in a bottle, and hinted at it in the statue of Guanyin, which shows her vigilance, I am afraid that there is nothing substantial in the letter to her brother, which is used to paralyze this person." Even if he was intercepted by this person halfway, he could see something. ”

"Who the hell is it? Not even a crazy woman who refuses to let go? ”

Zhu Di said: "The most reliable person is always the dead, although Miss Luan is crazy, but she led you and Zhu Shouqian to the Luanfeng Ancestral Hall in Jinhua with a painting, and dug up the grave for autopsy." In order to stop this variable, the people behind the scenes moved to kill and cut down the roots. ”

In the hot summer, Xu Miaoyi felt an invisible chill, "They are chasing me and my cousin's traces, it turns out that when we left Beijing, we were already being watched, hindering us from investigating my grandfather's old case." Who are they and what is their purpose? Are they the same group as Zhou Kui and Mrs. Zhou, who assassinated my mother? What exactly are they afraid of? Must we be prevented from investigating? ”

There are many doubts. Xu Miaoyi strengthened her determination to face the difficulties, "I think all the answers should be in my grandfather's rebellion case, and after finding out the case, the truth will be revealed." ”

Zhu Di reminded: "But the purpose of your coming out this time is to find out the haunted mystery of the Xie family's old house, not your grandfather's case ten years ago, when Xie Zaixing's case was closed, you have to re-investigate, how easy it is to say, your father will not agree, even my father ......"

Zhu Di paused and said: "The iron case convicted by the imperial court is not something you can investigate if you want to. ”

Xu Miaoyi said angrily: "If the evidence of this case is really ironclad, then why are there still people secretly blocking and covering it up ten years later?" There must be something ulterior about the case, which is why we have encountered so many obstacles. What if it was really the imperial court investigation that was wrong? Doesn't the imperial court want to find the real culprit? ”

Zhu Di said: "It is completely different from you investigating the case privately and reporting this matter to the imperial court, and my father sent someone to re-investigate the case." Judging from the situation of forcing Miss Luan to death, the real murderer behind the scenes is extremely vicious, you and Zhu Shouqian can't resist, and if you can't investigate the case, you will be in deep danger, I won't watch you get into danger. ”

Xu Miaoyi's eyes were cold, "Do I want to tie me up back to Nanjing?" ”

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment and said: "I will accompany you to the Xie family's old house in Shaoxing, there was a homicide case in Hanshan Temple, and the previous cases of the mysterious death of the Xie family's old house are related to the Xie Zaixing case ten years ago, my father will definitely pay attention to this matter, he will send someone to investigate, and he will definitely give you and Zhu Shouqian an answer." But before that, you must not be impulsive and rash, and provoke your father's anger, just-"

Xu Miaoyi interrupted and asked, "What if the emperor did something wrong back then?" Will he admit it? ”

Zhu Di's face sank, he clenched his fists, and said, "Miaoyi, you have trespassed." ”

Xu Miaoyi smiled coldly and said: "Half of the Xie family's blood in my body, I saw my mother die tragically in front of me, for you, it is just an old case, and for me, it is a lifelong bond." You're going to shy away from it, aren't you? For the elders, for the venerable, for the parents, you are the prince, just with these three points, the contradiction between you and me is irreconcilable, so give up the unrealistic idea of marrying me as Princess Yan. ”

Xu Miaoyi turned around and walked towards the door.

"Miaoyi!" Zhu Di shouted loudly: "You just said that you saw your mother die tragically in front of you, so in fact, you have been pretending to have amnesia all along, and deliberately did not give in to your father, because you doubted your father, and even suspected my father?" ”

Yes! On the spur of the moment, I said that I leaked my mouth! Xu Miaoyi said secretly: But if you cover it up any longer, it doesn't make much sense, just expose it, anyway, the Tao is not the same, after a short period of good feelings and heartbeats, they will eventually become strangers.

Xu Miaoyi paused, did not look back, walked out of the studio, went down the stairs, Zhu Di watched Xu Miaoyi's figure disappear under the heavy eaves of Hanshan Temple, before he just guessed that Miaoyi was pretending to have amnesia, this time he got her acquiescence unexpectedly, but his heart was extremely lost.

Introverted, he easily mustered up the courage to confess, and even put down a qiē to pursue the person he loved, hoping that she could respond to his love and agree to his marriage proposal, from silent crush, to confession of his heart, to active pursuit, every step was so difficult, so unhesitating, just when he thought that a qiē was very smooth, but he couldn't prevent a heavy blow.

He seemed to be able to see that the flame of love in his heart was like a candle in the wind, precarious, as if it could be blown out at any time......