Chapter Ninety-Five: Nightmares
After a short period of thought, Ling Lan asked Ye Feng to call Cui Ying back, and the two maids stood together again.
Ling Lan asked them to recall at the same time what had happened a week or so before Li Wen's accident, and Cui Ping and Cui Ying racked their brains to recall, and the room became quiet.
After a while, Cui Ying spoke first: "It seems that there is nothing special, Lord Li is busy with official business as usual, leaving early and returning late, I haven't heard what happened." ”
As soon as her voice fell, Cuiping nodded again and again: "That's right, the slave maid can't remember anything unusual." ”
Normally, if something unusual happens during this time period, it will not be forgotten, but Li Wen will not have nightmares for no reason, resulting in mental disorders.
Thoughts flashed through Ling Lan and she said in a low voice: "In this case, you will start from the morning ten days ago, and tell everything in detail. ”
As Ling Lan expected, ten days is not a long time, after a short memory, Cui Ying said slowly, during which Cui Ping added a few words from time to time, talking about the big and small things that happened in the past ten days.
It can be heard that Li Wen is very busy, with little free time, and there is nothing worth noting.
Listening silently, Ling Lan raised her eyes slightly when Cui Ping talked about the flower appreciation conference.
At this time, Cui Ping was still whispering: "The slave maid remembered that the adult was going out that morning, but it was the lady who suddenly appeared to block his way, and offered to let him accompany him to the flower viewing meeting to watch the flowers blooming, and the two talked in a low voice for a while and asked the slave and maid to prepare the car, and then went to the flower market. ”
"That's the case, the slave maid also remembered, that day the lady and the lord did not come back until the afternoon, and they were very happy to see the lady, and brought back a particularly beautiful blue peony flower." Cui Ying added.
Ling Lan, who was hearing her thoughts, woke up like a dream, her eyes widened and she asked uncertainly, "You said blue peony?" ”
Cui Ying didn't know what was wrong, and nodded truthfully: "That's right, I remember it clearly, because that flower is so beautiful, the slave has never seen such a beautiful flower." ”
Something vaguely flashed through Ling Lan's mind, and it seemed to have some kind of overlap with her previous thoughts.
"And after that?" She murmured.
Cui Ying was puzzled, not knowing what happened after that.
Seeing this, Mo Ziyu stood up and approached slowly, and said in a low tone: "Where is the pot of blue peony flowers?" ”
The invisible pressure made Cui Ying nervous, and fine cold sweat gushed out from her palms.
"Withered, withered, buried, buried in the flower beds."
"I'm asking, where do you put that pot of flowers when you bring it back?" Ling Lan finally got up in spirit.
Seeing that Cuiying was not in a state, Cuiping hurriedly stepped forward.
"Madame said that the adults also liked that pot of flowers, so they put it in this position in the hall." As she spoke, she raised her hand to the cabinet not far away.
Looking down her fingertips, there was a row of display cases with porcelain ornaments on them but no flowers in sight.
"When did you throw it away?"
Cui Ping: "After the adult's accident, the flower withered, and the lady was even more sad when she saw it, so she threw it away." ”
"This morning?" Ling Lan counted the time.
Emerald quickly nodded, indicating that it was right.
At this time, Mo Ziyu looked at Ye Feng: "Follow the past and dig it out." ”
"Yes, sir."
Cuiying took the opportunity to lead the way, Ye Feng left, and Cuiping continued to tell about the events after the flower-viewing conference...
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Twilight falls, the Ministry of Punishment.
Since Mrs. Li did not agree to the dissection, she could only analyze it according to the existing clues.
Recalling that before leaving Li Wen's mansion, when she asked for the dissection of the corpse, Mrs. Li's reaction was extremely strong, saying that the deceased was the eldest and the parents who had suffered from the body must not be disrespectful to the corpse, let alone suffer such painful torture after his death.
At that time, Ling Lan was just asking tentatively, and in the face of Mrs. Li's hoarse rebuttal, she didn't explain half a sentence, and what she said was nonsense, basically playing the piano to the cow.
In the silence, she looked at Mo Ziyu, the man was still observing the broken blue peony flower on the table, in fact, if she didn't know, she couldn't tell that it was a peony, and the result of digging it out of the soil could be imagined.
"Although I can't be sure, according to the investigation, there is only one place in the flower market that has a blue peony, and that is where you stopped and observed." Mo Ziyu suddenly spoke.
On the day of the flower viewing conference, she confirmed that she had really and carefully admired the unique blue peony, which was thrillingly beautiful, and the same as that in An Chong's flower garden, although she only cared about looking at the flowers and didn't notice the owner of the flowers, but it should be An Chong's right.
Thoughts flashed through her and she whispered: "I can't see the problem from this bouquet of flowers, but if this is really the blue peony in An Chong's flower garden, it is difficult to say that there is no problem." ”
The two of them knew this problem, the flowerbed was full of demonic aura, and even Mo Ziyu could be knocked unconscious, and he was weak for a short time after waking up, which showed that it was powerful.
Suddenly, Ling Lan thought of something: "At that time, although you were confused outside the flower garden, you went straight to the middle of the flower garden, because you don't remember what happened and can't be sure, but your behavior can't be explained without external interference, unless, what you saw or heard at that time?" ”
"What?" Mo Ziyu didn't understand.
Once there was inspiration, the next thing was a spring of thought, Ling Lan suddenly got up and took a few steps: "That's right, that flower garden may not only make people lose their minds, dizziness, etc., but also make people hallucinate or auditory hallucinations. ”
She herself felt incredible when she said this, but it was not impossible to think of the strange and pungent rich floral fragrance.
Neither of them spoke for a while, but felt that the situation was more complicated than they had imagined.
After a while, Mo Ziyu walked outside and gave a few orders, but Ling Lan didn't pay attention, she was completely immersed in sorting out the case.
When night fell, Mo Ziyu was summoned into the palace, and Ling Lan thought of tomorrow's busyness, so she washed up early and rested.
I don't know how long it has been, but she fell into a half-asleep and half-awake, and in a trance she saw something approaching, and pounced on her with surprising speed.
Awakened almost instantly, she sat up and gasped, the feeling of sleepiness disappeared without a trace, only palpitations.
It wasn't until her breathing stabilized that she realized she had a nightmare before she lay down again, but she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep...
This night, Ling Lan slept very late, and her dreams were not stable, and the nightmares made her very painful, so that she woke up early in the morning and stared at the roof of the shed.
Mo Ziyu, who was just opposite her at breakfast, also had dark circles under her eyes, and she didn't seem to be resting well.
"Isn't it unappetizing?" The man asked softly at her gaze.
"No, I want to be sure of one thing, didn't you sleep well last night?"
Mo Ziyu nodded without raising his head: "I slept very late, I woke up just after falling asleep, and then I had insomnia until dawn." ”
Ling Lan's heartbeat sped up a little: "Is it because of a nightmare that woke up?" ”
Finally hearing that her words were not quite right, Mo Ziyu drank the porridge in the bowl, put down the porcelain bowl silently and raised his eyes to look over: "Are you too?" ”