Chapter 154: The Mystery of the Elixir
The villa has been haunted for a long time, so the person who pretends to be a ghost must be in the villa. Xu Chu no longer bothered with the doubts of Xinzhou, after all, he couldn't reason too much just by relying on Lao Laozhu.
She and Xiao Qinglang now guessed that Xinzhou, but it was also because of Xiao Qinglang's sentence that a hundred leaves, Pili can sharpen the armor, use it for a long time, and spend the night stained with acid slurry, and make more crossbow arrows.
Aside from that, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that directly implicates NSW.
If the reason why Jin Manshan is trapped here and cannot be moved out is really this, then it makes sense.
She brushed it aside, and the tip of her pen moved slightly, tracing a coherent suspicion on the paper.
"Where did the paper people come from, how did they intimidate people without leaving a trace, and what was the purpose?"
"And how Xie Niang was killed in front of everyone, how did the murderer do it and let her die in her own flying dance?"
"How did the paper piercing man appear at the scene of the dead? What does it have to do with the murder, is someone planning it, or is the murderer the one who pretends to be a ghost? Or maybe someone conspired with him! ”
"There is also the rockery of the Splendid Garden, the unburned incense ash paper money and charms have not rotted, and the Splendid Garden has not been opened before, indicating that the incense ash paper money has just been burned. Most likely, it was last night, who burned it, and why? Could it be related to Xie Niang who left the room in the middle of the night, or what Xie Niang saw, so she was designed to kill her! ”
Speaking of this, Xu Chu paused for a moment, his eyes fell on Xiao Qinglang, and said slowly: "Last night, Xie Niang went out in the middle of the night, and Yu Niang and the others in the same room didn't hear the sound, and they didn't even notice when she went back. Although it is possible to fall asleep because of tiredness, you must know that the sound of Mingzhu screaming in fright at that time was heard even by Jin Fu across the garden, and then when the people searched the bamboo forest, they deliberately made many noises to strengthen their courage, but they insisted that they didn't hear it when it was so noisy...... This is unlikely. ”
Xiao Qinglang hummed and nodded in agreement.
"Sister Chu is saying that the rest of Yu Niang and the others lied?" Xiao Mingzhu frowned and tilted his head and asked, "But why did they do this?" They are sisters like Xie Niang, they should be the most suspicious people, but once they lie, isn't they suspicious? ”
Xu Chu shook his head, "Mingzhu, the most taboo is preconceived when pushing the case, followed by emotionality. You and I have not seen the statement that they are like sisters, and in the final analysis, it is just an outsider's rumor. ”
Xiao Mingzhu saw what she said solemnly, and thought about some of the case files of the three law divisions that she had secretly followed the third uncle to read before, and the relatives could still face each other with swords, not to mention those who were not related by blood. So, she nodded her head with concern.
Xu Chu saw Xiao Mingzhu pouting, and immediately smiled again, "Actually, this matter is not just a possibility for them to lie. ”
"One, Yu Niang and the others hid the truth about Xie Niang's death from us, or they had some secrets and were afraid of being involved in the haunting, and then lied. The second is that they didn't lie, but really fell asleep for some reason. Xu Chu analyzed clearly, "The former, even if they don't collude with the people in the villa, they must know the inside." ”
"And what about the latter?"
"If the latter is the case, it will depend on Aunt Chu. If you want to make a room full of people sleep and not wake up from the outside world, isn't the easiest thing to do? Xu Chu clicked on the codex and said word by word, "If Xie Niang has a secret, and in order to prevent Yu Niang and others from knowing, he then drugged the sisters in the same room, and then quietly went out, it is not impossible." ”
"In addition, in addition, why is the tranquilizing pill that Xie Niang has to take every day put away in that bag containing the clothes she has changed?"
"Hey, maybe it's just a random place? Anyway, it's her own clothes, and she can take them out when she uses them. Xiao Mingzhu said casually.
Xu Chu shook his head and took the medicine bottle to him, "If it's Mingzhu, will you wrap the commonly used rouge gouache in your baggage?" Or replace the burden of dirty clothes. ”
"Naturally not, rouge gouache needs to be used every day, of course, it is placed on the dresser within reach." She replied subconsciously, and suddenly realized when the words fell, "So this medicine bottle should appear in a place where Xie Niang is very convenient to access." ”
"Logically speaking, she changed her clothes last night and took tranquilizers to rest, or she stayed awake all night and only changed her clothes. But in either case, the bottle shouldn't be wrapped up in dirty laundry. ”
Xu Chu wrote down the suspicious points, and unconsciously bit the pen shaft, which made Xiao Qinglang smile indulgently. I didn't realize earlier that she had so many little habits.
Xiao Mingzhu didn't have such a delicate mind, and when she saw that a few people were silent again, she simply pondered with a sad face on the paper full of questions. It's just that Hua Wu's heart is big, just sit on the side, sighing from time to time, he doesn't have that brain, and he doesn't rely on burning his brains to eat......
Xiao Qinglang nodded lightly, and seeing that she was not adding, he waved his hand and asked Wei Guang to invite Aunt Chu over. In the waiting interval, he deliberately took out the circled Siyan dossier.
"This girl...... He is not an official slave, and the government has not found any relevant records. Wei Yan checked the situation of the red makeup building that night, and only knew that this woman was famous for her singing voice, but she had no other communication in the day, and even the number of times she went out of the red makeup house to buy personal products was only a handful. Xiao Qinglang straightened his cuffs, crossed his legs and pushed the tea cup in front of him slightly like flowing water, and then leaned back on the back of the chair quietly. The posture is comfortable and elegant, even if it is just casual but it does not make people feel unreasonable, but it is self-contained. When she was young, she was thrown in front of the Taoist temple, and was later adopted by the Taoist temple to do some chores. It's a pity that the Taoist is not a good person, let alone a person who really cultivates his self-cultivation, and he often goes to the bottom of the mountain to have fun. When her posture showed a little, the evil way regarded her as a child several times, and it was not until one day that the Dan furnace exploded during the long alchemy and lost her life, and she was rescued by the villagers who went up the mountain to extinguish the fire. After leaving the cave, she was single and penniless, so she could only beg human teeth to voluntarily sell herself. At that time, there happened to be a shortage of handmaidens in the red makeup building, and Ren Yazi sent her to the red makeup building in order to sell her at a good price. ”
In fact, before she entered the red makeup building, the youngest of the four Yan was not good at singing, but at painting. It's a pity that she was terminally ill at that time, and she didn't show up in front of people for a long time, which made many people forget about her. And Su Niang took advantage of the opportunity that someone spent a lot of money to set up a flower viewing banquet in the red makeup building, but Siyan could not appear at the same time and was embarrassed by others, showing her singing voice. It is said that as soon as she opened her mouth, she amazed everyone, as if she appeared as if it was just right, and the real Siyan girl died of illness a few days later. Since then, she has never shown herself, and she has become one of the four masters of the red makeup building. ”
Xu Chu put down the codex and asked, "Childe also thinks that there is something wrong with that girl?" ”
Xiao Qinglang flipped out the page about Taoism in the file of Su Niang, skimmed through the ten lines at a glance, and then pointed to a few words on it, and said slowly, "I don't know if she has a problem, but I know that she didn't tell the truth." ”
At this time, his voice was always cold and light, perhaps a little hoarse after not resting all day.
In fact, Jin Manshan had gone to the Taoist temple where she lived several times in order to seek the elixir. Therefore, she has been cleaning and making groceries in the Taoist temple, and it is very unlikely that she has never met Jin Manshan. ”
"Desire elixir?" This question is not Xu Chu's voice, but Xiao Mingzhu, who has been pondering all the time.
Xiao Qinglang saw her look curiously, was silent for a moment, and then said: "Jin Manshan was also a person who was used to living a life of drunkenness and gold when he was young, and the consequence of being a flute every night was naturally that his body collapsed in advance in his thirties. Therefore, instead of seeking stimulation and rushing to the doctor, he could only hope for the miracle medicine of the Taoist temple......"
"And that desire elixir is actually a very cautious five-stone powder used by the doctor. It was precisely because he found solace in the elixir with five stone scatters that he was once commensurate with the evil brother and was extremely happy. Xiao Qinglang nodded on the table, although the dossier did not record the ingredients of the desire elixir, it did not prevent him from speculating on the utility. But in fact, this is not impossible, Taoist alchemy often uses Wushisan, especially some Taoists who want to take shortcuts to earn a lot of gold, and they have no scruples about refining Wushisan's elixir for profit.
When Xu Chu heard this, he suddenly said: "If Yu Niang hates the evil way in her heart, she will naturally notice the Jinman Mountain who is friendly with the evil way and spends a lot of money to rest the Taoist temple several times. So she said that she hadn't seen Jin Manshan, which didn't make sense. ”
After she finished speaking, her eyes followed the place Xiao Qinglang pointed to, and sure enough, she saw that it was recorded in detail that Jin Manshan had entered and left the Taoist temple many times. Even the alchemy furnace used in the explosion in the Taoist temple was purchased and donated by him with a lot of money.
Xu Chu was stunned for a moment, and then blinked and looked at Xiao Qinglang, "Childe finished reading all this stack of files last night?" ”
"No, I didn't." The words were concise and to the point, but it was not difficult to hear the disapproval and shallow smile in his tone.
In the past few days of the Chinese New Year, there was a lot of backlog of official documents in the Three Law Divisions, how could he have so much free time to finish reading so many files that may not be important? In fact, if it weren't for the fact that he was showing his face in front of people, he wouldn't even look through the files and life stories of Boss Zhang.
Xu Chu raised his eyebrows, looked Xiao Qinglang up and down, and then questioned: "But if you haven't read it, how can Gongzi point out the flaws in the file so accurately?" ”
Xiao Qinglang saw her digging into the bottom of the matter, and couldn't help but chuckle: "I have a glance and ten lines since I was a child, and I can never forget it." What's more, I can see at night, so when you just look through it, it's the first time I've looked at these files. ”