After dinner, several people habitually gathered in Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo's room.

Mu Yuanjing's fingers tapped on the tabletop, making a slight 'click, click' sound.

"What was found on the corpse?"

Fang Mubei replied: "Back to the prince, after careful inspection, the subordinates did not find fatal injuries on the corpse, most of them were scars of torture, and these wounds were new and old. ”

He paused, then continued, "The subordinates believe that the fatal wound that caused the death of the deceased should be in the head. ”

Wei Xu twisted his eyebrows and asked, "That's why the murderer took the deceased's head?" ”

Fang Mubei nodded.

Wei Xu then asked, "How to explain the scars on the deceased's body who were tortured and beaten?" ”

Fang Mubei didn't say anything.

Mu Yuanjing said: "Is there a clue about the murderer on the corpse?" ”

"Subordinates found human dander in the deceased's fingernails."

"On the murderer?"

Fang Mubei hesitated for a moment, "This subordinate doesn't dare to conclude, but the subordinate can be sure that the owner of the dander must be the last person the deceased came into contact with before his death." ”

Mu Yuanjing recalled the scene when he met the Qiao couple not long ago, and a detail that was so small that it was not easy to notice was remembered by him.

He looked at Fang Mubei and asked with a chill in his eyes, "Are there three fingers with dander in the nails?" ”

Fang Mubei was a little surprised, "That's right, they are the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of the right hand, how can the prince know?" ”

A sneer appeared at the corner of Mu Yuanjing's mouth, "Not long ago, this king saw that scar. ”

Wei Xu thought about it and figured out the key, his eyes widened, "Does the prince mean the Qiao family and his wife?" ”

I only heard his voice and said calmly: "Today, this king asked the Qiao family and his wife, when Qiao Chunsheng helped Qiao Lin to get up, this king saw a scratch on Qiao Chunsheng's wrist, no more, no less, just three, and the wound was fresh and narrow. ”

Su Qingmo couldn't believe the meaning of Mu Yuanjing's words, "What does the prince mean... It is possible that Amu's father killed Amu... Murderer? ”

Mu Yuanjing had no choice but to continue: "It's still uncertain, Wei Xu, send the hidden guard to find out the address of Qiao Chunsheng's eldest brother's house, and let people confirm whether the other child was really taken away by Qiao Chunsheng's eldest brother, if the other child is indeed at Qiao Chunsheng's eldest brother's house, send someone to take them over." ”

After instructing Wei Xu, Mu Yuanjing looked at Pei Lin, who had never made a sound, "This king has something to ask you." ”

Pei Lin's face did not fluctuate, "It just so happens that there is something I want to verify with the prince." ”

Mu Yuanjing dismissed everyone in the house according to Pei Lin's wishes, and Su Qingmo didn't want to leave.

Pei Lin smiled and said, "Want to stay? ”

Su Qingmo hesitated, but nodded.

Pei Lin put away his smile, "Qingmo, there are some things you shouldn't listen to." ”

She froze in place, holding on and not moving.

Seeing this, Mu Yuanjing coaxed: "You go to Qingzhu's room to sit for a while, and then pick you up after I finish talking with your cousin, okay?" ”

Su Qingmo pursed his lips and finally left the room.

After the people left, Pei Lin had a subtle sneer in his eyes, "I didn't expect Qingmo to become so obedient to the prince after only being married to the prince for a few months." ”

"If you have something to say, you might as well say it."

Pei Lin smiled, with some cynicism, "If my uncle and aunt knew Qingmo's current physical condition, would the prince still be so calm?" ”

"What do you mean?"

Pei Lin smiled and said word by word: "Red, face, wither, bone." ”

Mu Yuanjing's expression finally changed, and his eyebrows twisted slightly, "Do you know this poison? ”

"Not only do I know about this poison, but I also know that the only elixir in the world that can cure this poison was eaten by Qingmo."

Pei Lin looked at Mu Yuanjing, his eyes sharpened, "It stands to reason that Qingmo's body will also recover after taking the antidote, but I look at it now, and all kinds of symptoms prove one thing to me." ”

Mu Yuanjing didn't say anything, Pei Lin affirmed: "You took her heart's blood." ”

Mu Yuanjing lowered his eyelashes, and Ren Peilin continued: "I heard that the emperor invited famous doctors all over the world for the prince five years ago, just to solve the poison in the prince's body, but what I didn't expect was that the poison in the prince was also a red face and dry bones, is what I said in the next is right?" ”

Mu Yuanjing replied softly, "You're right. ”

Pei Lin suddenly stood up, gritted his teeth and asked, "Does the prince know that doing this will damage Qingmo's lifespan and body?" ”

Pei Lin was about to speak again when the door was suddenly pushed open. Su Qingmo stood at the door and saw that the atmosphere between the two was tense.

"Cousin..."

Pei Lin asked angrily, "Did you hear what you said just now?" ”

Su Qingmo pursed his lips and nodded.

"Do you think your cousin did something wrong?"

Mu Yuanjing on the side couldn't be silent any longer, he took a few steps forward and walked in front of Su Qingmo, "Why didn't you go to find Qingzhu?" Worried about me? ”

Without waiting for Su Qingmo's answer, Mu Yuanjing turned around and looked straight at Pei Lin, "Pei Gongzi is right, the poison in this king's body was solved with Qingmo's heart blood, and fourteen drops of heart blood solved the red face and dry bones that tortured this king for nearly five years. ”

Hearing this, Pei Lin's face suddenly turned cold, "My cousin's heart is bloody, and the prince is at ease." ”

"This king doesn't feel at ease, it's just that this king has already made a decision in his heart, Qingmo will love her for one day in the first day, and there will be no second mistress in the palace."

Pei Lin clenched his grip, "If my cousin is gone, the prince's words will not be counted?" ”

"If she is gone, this king will not live alone."

In fact, when she learned that her heart's blood could be detoxified, Mu Yuanjing once asked Dr. Li privately, not to mention how many lives she would lose, just when she took her heart's blood, she would face a great risk, and a poor grasp of proportion would very likely cause the person who was taken from her heart's blood to lose his life.

Su Qingmo is a woman, Doctor Li is inconvenient to operate, Mu Yuanjing had a proposal to ask the female medical officer in the palace to operate, but Su Qingmo refused, she didn't want too many people to know the truth about Mu Yuanjing's detoxification, and in the end she could only do it herself.

At that moment, Mu Yuanjing made a decision.

He was with her when she lived, and if one day she was gone, he would never let her go alone.

Pei Linyin's face changed slightly because of Mu Yuanjing's words, and confirmed: "Can the prince's words be serious? ”

"This king never breaks his word."

Mu Yuanjing's words fell on Su Qingmo's heart word by word, she was stunned in disbelief, Mu Yuanjing looked at her and asked with a smile, "Do you believe me?" ”

Su Qingmo nodded subconsciously.

Pei Lin said with some hatred: "Tsk, come out, okay, you have heard everything you want to hear, the prince and I still have something to say, you go out quickly." ”

Mu Yuanjing smiled: "It's okay for Qingmo to stay. ”

Pei Lin looked at Mu Yuanjing, "The prince just said that he has something to ask for help?" ”

Getting back to the point, Mu Yuanjing said with a straight face: "This king plans to let you go to the deceased's house tonight. ”

Pei Lin was puzzled, "What do you mean?" ”

Su Qingmo thought of a possibility, "The prince thinks that Amu's ghost may have stayed at home?" ”

Mu Yuanjing acquiesced to Su Qingmo's words.

This is not a big deal, Pei Lin naturally has no reason to disagree, since he agreed to help, Pei Lin did not delay at the moment and began to pack up the utensils that might be used, after the utensils were counted, when the time was close to the hour, Pei Lin began to leave, who knew that he was about to go out of the window when he saw a group of people standing in the open space on the first floor under the window.

Pei Lin's right foot stepped on the windowsill, "What are you waiting for here?" Qingmo, what do you want to do? The body has not recovered, and it is not allowed to mess around. ”

Su Qingmo was uncompromising, "The road ahead is unknown, it's okay to help you with me, isn't it?" ”

Pei Lin didn't want to say more to her, "The prince agreed?" ”

Mu Yuanjing only said softly: "This king will take care of her." ”

Wei Xu didn't wait for Pei Lin to refuse, and said firmly: "I will be where the prince is, I have to protect the prince's safety." ”

Pei Lin looked at Yun Liang, the little guy who was about to speak, and said, "What are you doing with it?" ”

Yun Liang smiled bitterly and stretched out his hand, "Young Master, the slave is here to deliver something to you." ”

Only then did Pei Lin see a palm-sized golden compass in Yun Liang's hand.

Su Qingmo's eyes lit up, "The master gave you the Hundred Ghost Compass?" ”

Pei Lin let out a light 'um' and took the compass.

Wei Xu said curiously: "Princess, the Hundred Ghost Compass you said is very powerful?" ”

Su Qingmo replied: "Naturally, the Hundred Ghost Compass is my master's treasure, and he easily refuses to show it." ”

Pei Lin then spoke: "The Hundred Ghost Compass is made by me and Qingmo's ancestor who used the powerful ghosts as fuel and refined them in the Ding furnace for a hundred days, so it is called the Hundred Ghost Compass." ”

Pei Lin flipped through the palm-sized compass and continued: "It can force the ghost to act regardless of its will, and it can also absorb the resentment of the ghost, and the most important thing is... It can contain spirits. ”

Su Qingmo explained lightly: "Some objects will have abnormalities after a long time, and ordinary methods cannot subdue them, only this compass. ”

After a cup of tea, the four of them stopped in front of the gate of Qiao's house, which had come a few days ago, and quietly in the alley under the night, the cold wind blew through the mouth of the alley, rolling up the gravel on the ground, and making a 'woo' sound.

Wei Xu shuddered unconsciously and whispered, "Why do you always feel that someone is watching us." ”

The feeling of being stared at Su Qingmo also felt it, he looked at Mu Yuanjing, and the other party gave her a reassuring expression.

Pei Lin took out a rouge box from his bag, and when he opened it, he found that it contained not rouge but a crimson powder.

He dipped some powder with his thumb and drew it horizontally in the middle of his forehead, then he took out a porcelain vase, poured out four glass-colored jade beads the size of soybeans from it, took one of them into his mouth, and divided the other three among the three people, "Holding the beads in his mouth." ”

Su Qingmo explained to the two: "This is a ghost avoidance bead, and its function is to make it impossible for ghosts with resentment to see us. ”

Mu Yuanjing and Wei Xu put the small beads into their mouths when they heard this.

After Su Qingmo also took the ghost avoidance bead, Pei Lin turned his head to look at the Qiao family with the door closed.

A moment later, Pei Lin said in a voice with some excitement, "But in a few days, what happened to this Qiao family has attracted so much filth. ”

Pei Lin's words aroused Su Qingmo's curiosity, but she was not like Pei Lin who had already opened her eyes, if she wanted to see what Pei Lin saw, she had to drip Lao Niu's tears in her eyes.

Su Qingmo's hand subconsciously touched his side, and after touching nothing, he finally realized that she didn't come out with the bag.

Her eyes rolled, and she stopped when she saw the bright white bracelet on her wrist, and was about to take it off, but Pei Lin stopped her movements.

He took out a vial from his bag and handed it to Su Qingmo, warning: "If I see you trying to take off this bracelet in the future, I will tell my uncle and aunt about the good things you have done." ”

Pei Lin asked the three of them to drop Lao Niu's tears into their eyes.

As Lao Niu's tears entered his eyes, the world in front of him gradually changed into a different picture.

The four of them walked back and forth around them, their faces faceless, and their entire bodies were dark black as if they could devour people.

Su Qingmo looked at Pei Lin, "This is..."

Pei Lin nodded with a solemn expression, "That's right, the lonely souls and wild ghosts around here have all been lured." ”

Not to mention Su Qingmo, even Pei Lin couldn't figure out why such an ordinary alley in feng shui would attract so many things, but fortunately, they were just lonely ghosts without resentment, and there was no danger.

Pei Lin carefully looked for the surroundings and found that there was no trace of using the soul charm charm, just in case, he took out a red rope with the thickness of his little finger.

Su Qingmo explained to Mu Yuanjing in time: "The red rope in my cousin's hand must be soaked in the blood of a black dog for ten days before it can be used. ”

Su Qingmo was whispering here, Pei Lin over there had already walked lightly to the gate of Qiao's house, he tied one end of the red rope to the left side of the gate, and the other end to the right side of the gate, the red rope was tightened, the height was just up to his waist, and after tying it, he beckoned to the three people waiting on the side.

Wei Xu followed behind Pei Lin, Mu Yuanjing hugged Su Qingmo, and the four of them easily climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard of Qiao's house.

The yard is not big, it was cleaned and there was nothing extra to clutter.

Mu Yuanjing and Wei Xu, who were holding Su Qingmo, hid in an inconspicuous shadow in the courtyard under Pei Lin's guidance, Pei Lin arranged the rune realm around the four of them, and then took out a shaking bell from the bag, the body of the shaking bell was pitch black, and the bell tongue was indeed red.

Pei Lin held the wooden pole of the bell, shook it gently, and a crisp and faint bell rang out, Pei Lin continued to shake regularly, and after a while, something appeared in the middle of the courtyard.

A small figure curled up and squatted in the middle of the courtyard, letting out a whimpering cry, and the sound was sent into his ears by the cold wind, making Wei Xu, who was in the rune realm, tremble unconsciously.

Several people in the rune realm did not move, and the infiltrating cries in the courtyard still did not stop.

Su Qingmo looked at the figure not far away, suddenly felt a little familiar, and hesitated: "I seem to have seen her." ”

Mu Yuanjing looked at her, "In Qingshui Town?" ”

She nodded thoughtfully, carefully thinking back to the people who had been photographed since she came to Qingshui Town, and suddenly a figure flashed into her mind.

Su Qingmo held his breath and whispered a name, "Little flower? ”

Su Qingmo's voice was very small, so small that Mu Yuanjing next to him almost didn't hear it, but after the word 'little flower' blurted out, the little figure in the courtyard suddenly stopped crying.

The figure squatting on the ground slowly stood up, and then slowly looked up at Su Qingmo.

The moment he saw the other party's face, Su Qingmo gritted his teeth hard, and looked at the unrecognizable little girl in front of him without blinking.

It is indeed a small flower, but it is very different from the small flower that Su Qingmo saw a few days ago.

Xiaohua's body was still wearing the clothes that Su Qingmo had seen before, and she stood quietly in the courtyard with a thin and thin body, as if the wind could blow it down.

Su Qingmo noticed that her face was covered with scars, the corners of her mouth were bleeding, her forehead was also broken, blood was flowing down her swollen face, only one of the budding heads was still intact, and the other was scattered and draped on her head, and a very small part of the scattered hair covered her face, making it impossible to see her expression clearly.

Su Qingmo spit out the ghost avoidance bead in her mouth, as if she was uncontrollable, she walked out of the rune realm and squatted down in front of Xiaohua, she gasped a few times vigorously to try to calm the fluctuations in her heart.

Su Qingmo brushed away a strand of hair that Xiaohua covered her face, and then stroked her eyes that were squeezed out of shape because of her swollen face, "Xiaohua, do you remember me?" ”

Xiaohua's bloodstained little hand slowly lifted and gently touched Su Qingmo's cheek.

Just when Su Qingmo thought that Xiaohua recognized her, the nails on Xiaohua's hands suddenly became longer, and they quickly stabbed Su Qingmo's eyes.