Duan Changge didn't answer Bai Hanyan's question, but just turned his head to look at her, his dark eyes full of a hint of vigilance, a little affectionate.

Bai Hanyan didn't continue to ask, she believed Duan Changge, since he didn't want her to know, he naturally had his reasons.

There was a wind blowing, blowing her hair, Duan Changge sighed lowly, stretched out his hand to cover her behind her ears, Bai Hanyan snuggled into his arms, and sighed silently in his heart, some things are going to be revealed sooner or later, she faintly felt that the truth was getting closer and closer to her, and it could not be covered up by deliberately hiding it.

Before the two of them went to the Eighth Lady's dormitory, they deliberately went around to the remote pavilion and took a look at the water bell that Mo Yun said.

There was silence in the pavilion, only the sound of dripping water from the water clock was heard, it represented the passage of time, even if you tried to reach out and try to grasp it, you could not grasp anything, leaving a pale dream.

Bai Hanyan approached the water clock, leaned over and observed it carefully for a while, but did not find anything unusual about the water clock, looked back at Duan Changge, and there was a flash of doubt in his eyes: "There is nothing wrong with this water clock now, even if it really has a problem, I'm afraid there is no trace of it now." ”

Duan Changge approached, raised his eyes and looked at the flowing water leaked from the water clock, time flowed away drop by drop, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and suddenly, the star's eyes opened, and he was extremely cold: "Qiao Chu's suspicion will not be without reason, if there is really a problem with this bell, then on the night of Grandma Jiu's death, someone deliberately adjusted the time, thus misleading the time, but what is the purpose of his doing this, what exactly does he want to mislead Qiao Chu?" ”

Bai Hanyan pondered his words with deep eyes, and after a while, she said: "Mo Yun said that on the day of the accident of Grandma Jiu, Qiao Chu was going to find Grandma Jiu for a showdown and let Grandma Jiu fulfill the agreement with his mother that year, but he didn't make a mistake that night, and after that, Grandma Jiu was killed, and Chang Fengxuan and Mo Yun also examined the body, Grandma Jiu was stabbed to death by an icicle-like sharp weapon on the top of her head, it was Wang Xin who took over the case, he thought that this kind of martial arts, Qiao Chu was the only one at the scene at that time, so there is no doubt that he was the murderer. ”

Duan Changge chuckled and said: "People who know this kind of martial arts, but she is not the only one, most of the Qiluo clan's kung fu is in the same vein, and they will be more or less similar, but I am afraid that all these situations are set up for him Qiao Chu." ”

Bai Hanyan immediately comprehended the deep meaning of his words, and said in a condensed voice: "Do you suspect that someone within the Qiluo clan did it, isn't it, someone from the Qiluo clan doesn't want him to fulfill the agreement, or is it that person?" ”

Duan Changge didn't answer her words, but turned his head to look at her, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Hanyan, do you remember who Qiao Chu came to this pavilion with in the first place, and who deliberately made him think that the time at that time was the time when the water clock appeared?" ”

Bai Hanyan's face was stunned, and he pursed his lips and said, "You mean...... Cold? ”

Then, she hurriedly shook her head and denied: "No, it won't be her, Sui Han is the daughter of Grandma Jiu, she has no reason to kill her mother, let alone ......"

Duan Changge looked at her gently, Bai Hanyan gradually lowered his eyebrows under his gaze, bit his lip and didn't continue, Duan Changge sighed, walked to her side, stretched out his hand to wrap his hand around her shoulder, and finished the unsaid words for her: "What's more, you also believe in her from the heart, right?" ”

Bai Hanyan raised her eyes to look at him, a pair of crystal bright eyes were faintly shining, she shook her head and said, "Changge, I believe in my father more." ”

Duan Changge quietly looked at her little pink face, suddenly wrapped up his arms and hugged her into his arms, and muttered: "Han Yan, sometimes, people's mood will change, you need to be careful to know people and distinguish people, and you can't be too emotional in everything." ”

Bai Hanyan leaned on his arms, pursed his red lips and said nothing, his eyes crossed his shoulders and fell on the saliva clock in a daze, emotional, think about it, probably because she never doubted Sui Han in her heart, after all, she is also a woman who loves and cannot be pitied.

Bai Hanyan thought that people with deep affection should not be too bad.

"Don't worry, Changge, I will find out, no matter what the reason, the truth hidden in the dirt, I have the right to dig it out and give justice to the deceased."

Duan Changge slowly straightened up, looked at the woman with a sparkle in his eyes, and laughed lowly: "Yes, this time, there are some female pushers who are not afraid of the sky and the earth when they are in Guiyang Mansion, what they should look like." ”

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When the two of them arrived at the eighth lady's dormitory, the night was already full.

A few dog barks sounded in the imperial city out of nowhere, it was really a little rare, after the moon in the sky was hidden in the clouds, the lights of the world gradually rose, and the white fog of a dream between heaven and earth was filled, the night was getting thicker and thicker, and the darkness covered everything.

Bai Hanyan and Duan Changge came to the outside of the Eighth Lady's dormitory, and before they could speak, the ghost-faced guard of the guard made a gesture of invitation to the two of them, and said respectfully, "The Eighth Lady has been waiting inside for a long time?" ”

Bai Hanyan was slightly startled, turned his head to look at Duan Changge, and said in a low voice, "It turns out that the Eighth Lady knows that we are coming?" ”

Duan Changge's dark eyes turned, and a touch of darkness was like an indissolvable night, he looked all the way towards the door of the dormitory, hooked his lips slightly, and said, "This will be more interesting." ”

There is a pool of water on the left side of the courtyard of the dormitory, there is a water pavilion on it, there are strange stones next to the pond water, there are apricot blossoms are blooming well again, the falling flowers are dotted, elegant and quiet, there are quite ten miles of apricot blossoms covering the thatched house, the weather of the nine curves of blue water around the people, it is extraordinarily sultry in the night.

The eighth lady sat on the water pavilion, a few red lanterns were hung high on the lintel of the pavilion on her head, the faint yellow light was swaying in the cold wind, a pond of lotus leaves, a pond of wind, blowing the eighth lady's already gray hair, but a little desolate.

Bai Hanyan and Duan Changge approached the side of the Water Pavilion, and saw that she was still looking at the pool in a daze, and she hadn't changed her posture for a long time.

Bai Hanyan still smiled treacherously at her when she was in prison, as if she was a ghost from hell, lowered her eyebrows, she leaned down slightly, her voice was neither high nor low, and said loudly: "Bai Hanyan has seen the eighth lady." ”

The eighth lady's body did not move, her eyes did not move, and the old voice came to the ears of the two with the evening breeze faintly, and she said, "You are finally here, I have been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Bai Hanyan straightened up, looked sideways at Duan Changge, this old woman's appearance seemed to have changed a lot from when she met her in the dungeon, her appearance had not changed, but the anger on her body seemed to be much less.

"The Eighth Lady has come here to wait for the two of us, but I have something to tell you." Duan Changge took a step forward, his expression was scattered, and he asked with a smile.

Hearing this, the eighth lady slowly turned around and looked at the two of them, but the cloudy eyes did not have the anger of the past, but she looked sad and painful, and suddenly she smiled sadly, and said faintly: "You are also a disciple of Wuyanzi?" ”

Duan Changge was slightly stunned, he didn't expect her to ask such a question, squinted his eyes, and said, "Exactly." ”

The Eighth Lady retracted her gaze, and her face was a little sad under the eyes of the two of them, and she continued: "Sometimes people will always become, even if they are under their own eyelids every day, you still can't guess him, and you don't understand whether he wants to kill you under his smile. ”

The Eighth Lady's words made Bai Hanyan and Duan Changge frown, and then she said, "Do you know where this pool of water leads all the way?" ”

Bai Hanyan frowned, but still raised his eyes to look at the pond water, sparkling, the water color was quiet, and the bottom was not visible, and this pond was connected to the wall of the dormitory at one end, and the wall was clearly erected from the surface of the pool, and it was supported by several iron pillars deep into the pool water, and the water flowed away from under the wall, and the other end meandered to where it could not be seen clearly.

"I don't know." Bai Hanyan replied truthfully.

The eighth lady didn't ask, twenty slowly got up, her rickety body seemed to be overwhelmed under the night lights, the breeze blew her sideburns gray hair, the anger dissipated, and the white cold smoke looked at her, at this time she was completely an old man who was too old and old.

"You come here and ask whatever you want."

Bai Hanyan glanced at Duan Changge, who nodded slightly to her, Bai Hanyan raised his eyes to look at the old woman in the Water Pavilion, and asked in a deep voice, "Eighth Lady, have you ever been to Pu Luo's dormitory on the night he died?" ”

The eighth lady seemed to know that she would have such a question, and slowly walked down from the water pavilion with her legs raised, her sparse white hair was swept up by the wind, slightly covering her eyebrows and eyes, and her whole body was full of death, but her quiet eyes were shining brightly in the night, and how abrupt it looked on her face full of ravines.

"That's what you're asking." The Eighth Lady smiled suddenly, turned her head with those crystal eyes, stared at the white cold smoke, and said in a low voice: "That night, I did see him. ”

"It's good if you admit it." Bai Hanyan took a step forward, stared at her tightly, and asked, "So, what did you say when you met him?" ”

The eighth lady rolled her eyes, and her eyes were already cold: "Do you have to tell an outsider, girl, you better inquire less about the affairs of the Qiluo clan, otherwise you will be the next to die!" ”

"How the hell did Puluo die, you know?" Bai Hanyan caught a trace of deep meaning from her words, and her intuition told her that there must be something wrong with this eighth lady, she sank her eyebrows and said, "Didn't you kill him and blame Qiao Chu?" ”

"Blame?" The eighth lady's lips were slightly raised, revealing a touch of mockery: "If I kill him, I don't need to blame him at all, Qiao Chu, he should have a catastrophe in his life." ”

The eighth lady paused, suddenly raised her sleeves, the wide and empty cuffs fluttered in the night wind, and suddenly the fingers like a dead tree burst out of the sleeves, and grabbed Bai Hanyan's wrist with a handful, she approached her and said, "You want to know the truth so much, do you want to overturn the case for Qiao Chu, or do you want to know your father's past, or do you want to know about the things of that year?" ”

"I want to do both."

Bai Hanyan did not hesitate to answer her words, Qingming's gaze went straight to her, the eighth lady's treacherous eyes were unpredictable, Duan Changge's dark eyes on the side shrank, suddenly stepped forward, pulled Bai Hanyan back, protected him, looked at the eighth lady coldly, and lowered his voice: "You went to Puluo, for Qiao Chu's mother's business, or rather, for that person?" ”