093 Murder at Lanruo Temple (Part I)
Ai Yue tilted her head and thought for a while: "This is not an ordinary bean, if you like it, I can give you a handful, but you have to treat them well and worship them well." β
"Offerings?" Di Renjie asked curiously.
"Well, you can use the power of faith, it's very simple." Ai Yue said seriously, "They can do a lot of things, and it is even more useful to help you find clues." β
"Thank you Ai Yue Fairy for that......" Di Renjie said happily.
After a while, I saw the little man come back with an old crested hairpin. Di Renjie and Yuan Fang glanced at each other, Yuan Fang picked up the crested hairpin, looked at it and said: "It is a popular style ten years ago, looking at the old Cheng dΓΉ of the hairpin, it is also in line with the judgment just now." β
"Gao Laozhuang is not far from Lanruo Temple, and it is not unusual to find a crested hairpin with the smell of a Xiaoping girl here...... Yuan Fang, what do you think? Di Renjie groaned.
Yuan Fang looked at the crested hairpin in his hand again, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became: "My lord, my subordinates think that this crested hairpin is very similar to the one that Xiaoping girl is carrying on her head, and the subordinates boldly speculate that the two are actually a pair." β
Di Renjie took the crested hairpin and looked at it, looked at the senior staff on the side with sharp eyes, and said slowly: "Although Yuan Fang's speculation is bold, it is also reasonable. Ten years ago, a pair of crested hairpins were on the head of Miss Xiaoping and on your mansion outside the high-ranking office...... What do you think about this? β
Gao Yuanwai was stunned for a moment, and said confusedly: "Little Lao'er doesn't know what you mean by your guest, ten years...... What the hell is going on? β
As soon as she heard that ten years ago, Mrs. Gao's face turned pale, her hands trembled and she wrenched the Buddhist beads, and her lips opened and closed, as if she was chanting scriptures......
"Mrs. Gao, are you chanting? Looking at the mouth shape, is it a past life? Di Renjie said sharply, "Could it be that there was something hidden ten years ago?" What have you done that hurts nature and reason? β
Mrs. Gao did not answer, but her face turned even paler.
Gao Yuanwai also understood at this time, he looked at the gossip in the eyes of the surrounding families, and said with a wry smile: "The wrong thing that Xiao Lao'er did in his life was probably ten years ago, and this matter is not a secret...... My lord, can you take a step to speak, the little old man's wife is innocent, let her avoid it......"
Di Renjie shook his head and said, "This official thinks that this matter has a lot to do with your wife...... The official has also heard a little about the wrong thing you said ten years ago, so he found it from Lanruo Temple. Ten years ago, on a winter night, you dismissed several concubines, one of whom was named 'Xiaoping', who died on that winter night. β
Gao Yuanwai nodded and admitted: "That incident has always been a nightmare in my heart, and I have been fasting and reciting Buddha for ten years, and I have been repenting of this incident...... Xiaoping is the concubine I bought back with money, and she is also a slave, so it was just a matter of compensating her family for money at that time, which brought me uneasiness for ten years...... Hey, just now the Bodhisattva also said that ten years of repentance can already atone for sins, isn't there still a shortcoming? β
Di Renjie said noncommittally: "The official doesn't know if it's enough, but the official does know that the sky net is restored, and it is negligent but not leaky...... According to the law of our court, whoever conspires to kill his servant will pay for his life, do you know? β
"Conspiracy framed? How could little old man ...... Adult, the little old man was wronged, the little old man didn't expect to freeze people to death, the little old man ......" the senior officer said in a panic.
Di Renjie snorted coldly: "Do you know that Miss Xiaoping was already pregnant at that time?" Kicking a frail pregnant woman out of the house on a winter night, isn't that premeditated murder? β
"Xiaoping is pregnant? Impossible...... Adult, wronged, how much the little old man longs for a son, but after marrying so many concubines, there is no one who can add to the little old man, and the little old man is bitter...... If Xiaoping is really pregnant, Xiao Lao'er must be holding her like a jewel, how can she be driven out? "The senior officials even shouted wronged.
"You have married so many concubines, but you don't see good news, don't you doubt it?" Yuan Fang was still a teenager at this time, so naturally he had something to say, and he couldn't help but say at this time.
Gao Yuanwai said embarrassedly: "Of course I doubt it...... I just secretly looked at several doctors, and they all said...... That's why I resigned myself to my fate......"
"What are you talking about, why didn't I understand?" Yuan Fang said inexplicably, "I mean, don't you suspect that your wife gave your concubines some medicine so that they can't give birth?" β
"This ...... Xiao Lao'er's wife is a rare virtuous person, this kind of thing, it's impossible, right? Gao Yuanwai said in disbelief, "Even if the concubine has a child, she is raised by her wife, and the lady has never had a son, how can she do such a thing?" β
"What's so strange about that? You gave up, but your lady didn't give up, didn't she? Otherwise, what is it that worships the Buddha every day? Yuan Fang rolled her eyes and said bluntly, "Don't you want a son yet?!" β
Seeing that what Yuan Fang said was too explicit, Di Renjie had to cough a few times to interrupt Yuan Fang's words: "Although what Yuan Fang said is a bit straightforward, there is still a basis, except for the high-ranking officials, the official ......."
"Nonsense, how can you have a basis? You are lying, you ......" Mrs. Gao stopped chanting and said coldly, "If you can't produce evidence today, I will crash to death on this pillar to accompany the Buddha, so as not to be ruined by your gang, and there is no point in living......"
"Mrs. Gao, you are not even afraid of death, why are you afraid to admit the mistakes you made back then?" Di Renjie said helplessly, "Do you know what kind of life the Xiaoping girl you killed back then has been a bad soul all these years?" β
"Wronged soul, how can that kind of thing exist...... You are talking nonsense, Xiaoping has been dead for so many years, how can her soul still stay in the world, I recite the Sutra of Past Life to her every day, and surpass her...... "Since the Bodhisattva really exists, then the soul may also really exist."
"In the case ten years ago, the official didn't have to arrest you, he just wanted to give justice to Miss Xiaoping, who died unjustly...... In addition to the senior staff, Miss Xiaoping once said that when she was pregnant, she once sewed a sachet for you, and the sachet contained a letter she wrote to you...... At that time, she had already noticed that Mrs. Gao was alert to her pregnancy, and she had to find a way to get shelter from you, so she hid a letter in the sachet that was made, and that letter, can you see it? Di Renjie asked.
"Sachet, I've never seen what's in a sachet...... This, can you say ......" said the senior member sadly, "It's all my fault, I shouldn't be so careless......"