thirty-six

In the ice cellar of Qiongyu Pavilion, the figures of two people flashed faintly. Wu Xiao stood in front of the ice coffin, not making a sound at all, quiet as if no one existed, until there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, he turned around.

Wu Xiao raised his eyes and saw Yazhi, and another person appeared behind him, this person was wearing a hood and was petite. Wu Xiao didn't think so, probably Yazhi found an experienced stable woman from elsewhere. When this person stepped forward and took off his cloak, Wu Xiao really saw this person's appearance clearly.

"Girl...... It's you......" Wu Xiao was a little surprised, he didn't dare to look directly at the man and shifted his gaze: "Are those two little guys okay?"

The person who was led into the door by Yazhi was the little granddaughter of the owner of the Qinghui Medical Center, Nangong Yulu. She straightened her clothes and replied expressionlessly, "Okay? What do you mean by good?"

Wu Xiao heard her say this, and hurriedly continued her words: "Girl...... When I finish what I do, I will come to the door and apologize... The girl doesn't care about her previous suspicions......"

"Oh, I don't have to. I'm just here to help my cousin, not you. Nangong Yulu said that, and looked at the corpse in the ice coffin.

Wu Xiao didn't know what to do for a while, he raised his eyes and glanced at Yazhi, who stood quietly aside, looking at him with a smile on his face, reassuring him.

"The corpse has been decomposing for a while, and there may be no useful clues. You may take out your limbs to check it, are you sure you want to continue?" Nangong Yulu said.

"Yes. You go ahead. Wu Xiao said indifferently: "Girl, aren't you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid, I've been used to it for a long time when I travel with my grandfather. ”

Nangong Yulu examined it carefully, and then she took out the clothes and jewelry on the corpse and placed them on the ground. Wu Xiao was helping on the side, while Yazhi just stood quietly in front of the ice coffin and didn't know what she was thinking.

The body had no wounds or fractures other than a stab wound to the chest. Then Nangong Yulu took out a piece of fingernails on the corpse and two or three moldy plants in the clothes. There is nothing suspicious about anything other than these things.

"Lord Wu Xiao, come and see, do you feel anything abnormal?" Nangong Yulu was busy for a while, and finally sat down.

Wu Xiao squatted on the ground and looked at both sides carefully, and suddenly said nervously: "There is one less purse, my mother has a purse embroidered with pear blossoms, which is worn close to the body and has never left her body." ”

"Are you sure?" said Nangong Yulu.

Wu Xiao looked at the side again: "I'm sure." Then he turned his head to look at Ya Zhen, who was silent. Yazhi was crouching and studying the nail and the plant it was carrying.

"It seems that King Chung did not lie to you. Yazhi got up and said this quietly.

"What are you talking about?" Wu Xiao was a little puzzled, his heart couldn't be calmer anymore, and emotions filled his entire body.

"There is mud on these nails, and these plants are elongated and smelly, which can be determined to be aquatic plants. Your mother did fall into the water as King Chung said, but the real cause of death was a wound in the chest. Judging by the appearance of the wound, it looks very much like your scimitar. Yazhi walked in front of Wu Xiao.

"This ...... Unlikely. ”

Yazhi continued: "Among these pieces of jewelry, there is also a hairpin missing. He stretched out his finger and pointed to the three identical hairpins on the ground: "The jewelry of the artists of Qiongyu Pavilion is all from the hands of the skillful Liu. A few days ago, I asked him for craftsmanship, and as far as I learned, Shopkeeper Liu believed in the principle that good things come in pairs, so his hairpins were sold by count. Because this hairpin has the same shape, it is easy to mistake it for a set of three, in fact, if you look carefully, this hairpin is divided into left and right directions. The one that is missing is the one on the right. ”

Wu Xiao took a closer look, as Ya Zhi said: "Can ...... Wen Shiyuan: I'm the only one who can use a scimitar......"

"If what King Chung said is half credible, then the whole thing is that your mother stole King Chung's tiger talisman and then fled into the water, during which her purse was lost, and when she came ashore, she thought she had escaped but failed to escape from King Chung's hand, and was killed and dumped. Yazhi slowly walked to Nangong Yulu's side and sat down.

Or maybe the purse was not lost at all, but was snatched away after death. Nangong Yulu added.

"It seems that this purse is a key point, so what does it have to do with this missing hairpin?"

"It can be used for defense. Nangong Yulu pulled out her hairpin and gently poked it on Wu Xiao's arm: "It's like this." ”

Yazhi didn't just frown, he thought deeply about it. If King Zhong took the purse, there was no need for King Zhong to forcibly keep Wu Xiao. I'm afraid that the tiger charm is missing, and Wu Xiao is detained to do things, and Wu Xiao is implicated in this matter. He was no longer of use after that. King Zhong handed over Wu Xiao to the government to hand over the errand, then he would definitely find a new person to do things for him. King Zhong used Wu Xiao to invite himself, I'm afraid it was as his second pawn.

"So you went around in a circle and died under my knife?" Wu Xiao didn't pay attention to Nangong Yulu's movements, just stared at Yazhi. This is a kind of seriousness that he has never had, his expression is resolute and angry, Yazhi also looked at him with serious eyes, Yazhi understood this emotion in his heart, he had to listen to stop thinking, and said to him sentence by sentence: "This is killing people with a knife, don't you understand?"

Nangong Yulu didn't dare to move Wu Xiao on the side, she may have been affected by Wu Xiao's emotions, she sat quietly on the side, she rubbed her hands and said nothing.

Yazhi saw Nangong Yulu's action of rubbing his hands, and said to Wu Xiao: "I know your mood, it's too cold here, let's talk in another place." ”

After disposing of Wu Yue's body, they came to Wu Xiao's room. The room was very well furnished, the items were placed very neatly, and Wu Xiao took the lead in making tea for everyone. Yazhi sat quietly, but Nangong Yulu was more curious about Qiongyu Pavilion, so he walked around the house. There is a simple guqin in the house, and the body of the piano is painted with lacquer, and a pear blossom is painted. The headstock is tied with a tassel, and a round piece of mutton fat jade is strung on the tassel.

"That's my mother's favorite piano, called 'Guli Qin'. It is older than me, and it was a piano given to my mother by Wen Shiyuan back then. Wu Xiao looked at Nangong Yulu who was curious about the piano, so he said to listen to her: "I know that Nangong girl likes music, you can try the timbre of this piano." ”

"This ......" Nangong Yulu hesitated a little.

"I owe the girl so much, you don't have to be polite. Wu Xiao said softly.

With Wu Xiao's permission, Nangong Yulu carefully touched the piano. Then the music sounded faintly.

Wu Xiao had no other thoughts, and slowly untied the ribbon covering his eyes, where he finally didn't have to do any cover-up, and his heart relaxed.

Yazhi picked up a cup of tea and drank: "How many people still know about your revenge plan?"

"Except for you and Miss Nangong today, no one knows. Wu Xiao's eyes were distracted.

"Are you sure? Where were you on the day your mother died?"

"I'm sure...... Wait...... There was one more person who knew about it, and I felt it couldn't be him. Wu Xiao was completely confused.

"It seems that you trust this person very much, and people are not only one-sided, you can pretend to be a scholar in white in the prefect's mansion, so why does he pretend to be a person you trust in front of you?"

"No way, he has no reason...... And the timeline doesn't match!" Wu Xiao's gaze moved to Nangong Yulu, he didn't want to say anything more, and couldn't help but be stunned.

"Perhaps, I'm just guessing. Seeing that he didn't want to talk about that person, Yazhi didn't say anything to him, just quietly sipping tea and listening to the music.

Hearing that there was no sound of talking in the house, a figure quietly moved twice, and suddenly heard a voice from inside the house, "Friends outside are looking for music, you might as well come in and listen to it." The figure seemed to be frightened and fled in a panic.

Yazhi saw that the person ran away, and he didn't chase him out, but just snorted coldly. It seems that there is someone's eyeliner in this Qiongyu Pavilion, staring at him all the time.

Wu Xiao was already stunned in place, and the appearance of Nangong Yulu caressing the qin was reflected in his golden eyes, and a tear suddenly flowed out and fell on his fingers.