The Delicate Lady Coroner

Both Ming Guilan and Father Fu were accustomed to seeing Huo Qinghong’s pranks, but they didn’t expect that they would fall into the hands of Bo Ruoyou this time. They both laughed very shamelessly. Huo Qinghong was even more embarrassed for a while, “You… You know? You knew it when you were seven?”

Bo Ruoyou glanced at the extinguished joss sticks in the house, “Shi Zishi just lit the scented candles, first wrote the words with wax in his palm, and then when he held the paper ashes, there was residual temperature on the ashes, which made the wax stained with ashes. , So, words appeared on the hand, is Minnu right?”

Huo Qinghong’s lips twitched, “You…how do you even know this?”

Bo Ruoyou felt a little funny for a while, and the corners of his lips could not help but bend. “The world uses wax, but if you are a juggling team, most of them will write with honey in the palm of the palm. That way, you don’t have to worry about the condensation of wax. Not dusty.”

Huo Qinghong smacked, “How do you know?”

Bo Ruoyou smiled, but Wu Yu couldn’t help but smile and said, “Girl Bo can not only do an autopsy, but also know tricks?”

Bo Ruoyou shook his head, “I only know some fur.”

Huo Qinghong snorted softly, seeming to think of other funny things again, and asked Wu Yu, “Is the one that used to be played in the palace before is called’Burning clothes to send guests off’?”

Wu Yu smiled and nodded, “The son never remembered it wrong, it is indeed a show off.”

Huo Qinghong turned to look at Bo Ruoyou, “Do you know the truth?”

Bo Ruoyou shook his head blankly, and Huo Qinghong raised his brows, “I’ll just say, you can’t know everything!”

Bo Ruoyou hesitated and said, “The son knows?”

Huo Qinghong’s expression changed a little embarrassed, “I… I don’t know…”

Huo Qinghong turned to look at Wu Yu, seeming to want him to come to the rescue, Wu Yu smiled bitterly, “I don’t know if you are my son, although the Ministry of Ritual invites some jugglers into the palace every year to add some fun to your majesty and the harem ladies. I don’t know the truth.”

After Wu Yu finished speaking, she didn’t know what she thought of, and then turned to look at Wang Qingfu, “Brother Wang, you should know.”

Wang Qingfu smiled when he heard the words, “In fact, he put a piece of camphor in the clothes, and then set fire to the clothes. Although the fire burned, it only took a moment to burn the clothes. However, you can’t let the camphor burn for too long. The amount should be appropriate, otherwise, the clothes will really burn and the flaws will be exposed.”

Huo Qinghong was surprised, “Master Wang actually knew.”

Wu Yu said: “Brother Wang came from Qiangzhou. Qiangzhou is the hometown of tricks. It is rumored that everyone in Qiangzhou can tricks.”

Wang Qingfu said, “It’s not such an exaggeration. It’s just that there are so many juggling artists in Qiangzhou. Most of the juggling juggling performed by them is blindfolded. If you understand the truth, you don’t feel the mystery anymore.”

Huo Qinghong nodded frequently. He didn’t know what he thought of and wanted to ask again, but he saw Lu Ke walk out from the right compartment, “General Yue finished the question, Lord Wang, please go in—”

As expected, Yue Mingquan came out from behind him, and he didn’t know what was being asked, his expression was not very good.

Wang Qingfu walked in at the door, and Yue Mingquan sighed uncomfortably when he left the door and stood still, “Now we are all suspects. Lord Hou also said that ten years ago, it was the same person who murdered Jingkong and Master Feng. This is too horrible. “

Yue Ming is a rough person with a strong temperament. He dared not speak in front of Huo Weilou. He couldn’t help it when he went out. Wu Yu said, “Don’t believe it, General Yue, this was verified by Bo Yao.”

Yue Mingquan glanced at Bo Ruoyou, then at the skeleton in the clear space, “Bo Yao is indeed a powerful method of autopsy. I only hope that Master Hou can find out the truth as soon as possible, so that we can rest assured.”

When Bo Ruoyou heard the words, he felt a little weird, but he couldn’t tell.

In the right compartment, Huo Weilou asked Wang Qingfu, “The night Feng Lun died, you and Wu Yu went back to the yard together. What will happen after that?”

Wang Qingfu said, “The next official was watching Brother Wu enter the yard. Later, the lights in his yard were turned off after a short while. He wanted to come to rest. The next official is used to going to bed late, but he has been reading. Rest.”

“There is nothing unusual here?”

Wang Qingfu frowned slightly, “I can’t tell you the abnormality. After half an hour of sleep, Brother Wu was about to take a break, and he vaguely saw the lights in the yard on his side. I never thought about it.”

It was raining one more day, and Feng Lun was killed between one shift and the second shift. If Wang Qingfu saw that it was Wu Yu who had killed Feng Lun and returned, it was not impossible, and the night was already dark. Most of his body was stained with blood, and he was bound to light up to clean it up. Huo Weilou frowned slightly, “You said Wu Yu does laundry frequently?”

Wang Qingfu smiled bitterly, “Yes, I don’t usually think that it’s really embarrassing for the officials to come out this time.”

“The day after Feng Lun was killed, did he have to do laundry?”

Huo Weilou asked directly, Wang Qingfu’s face changed slightly, and he hesitated for a moment before he said: “It’s…washed…but Brother Wu is a Xijie, this doesn’t seem to be a big deal.”

Wang Qingfu had a good relationship with Wu Yu, and naturally wanted to excuse Wu Yu, but Huo Weilou had his own judgment, and then asked, “Among you, who was the closest to Jingkong?”

Wang Qingfu said: “When it is Feng Lao, Feng Lao is an official in Luozhou, and he himself worships Buddha. It seems that he often comes to the temple to let Master Jingkong teach the Dharma. In contrast, although General Yue is also in Luozhou, he is a military commander. He is so murderous, he is quite alienated from Master Jingkong.”

“Are he and Wu Yu familiar?”

Wang Qingfu recalled carefully, “When the next official came, Brother Wu had been here for a few days. Master Jingkong treated people kindly, and he was a match for him.” After a pause, Wang Qingfu said: “It should be said that he was very congenial, because Brother Wu was here. When he was in Beijing, he often went to Xiangguo Temple to offer incense, and he was considered to have studied Buddhism quite a bit, so he could not harm Master Jingkong.”

If the Buddhist scriptures were not discovered by Kung Kong, then naturally they would fall in love with each other, but in the face of the crime of stealing relics, what does this fall in love with?

Huo Weilou didn’t elaborate, and then asked: “Feng Lun has been close to Wu Yu in Beijing in the past few years?”

Asking this way, Wang Qingfu frowned and said: “In recent years, Brother Wu has not made many friends in Beijing, so he is considered one of the officials, and Feng Lao… doesn’t seem to move very much.”

Feng Lun was promoted from Luozhou to the capital. It stands to reason that he also likes Buddhism. He would be close to Wu Yu, who had also worked with the Buddha in the same way. But the two of them didn’t move much. Could it be that he didn’t want to attract attention?

Huo Weilou asked Wang Qingfu a few more words to withdraw. Soon, Wu Yu walked in.

Huo Weilou still asked the question about whom Jingkong had good relations with. Wu Yu said: “I am the most familiar with Master Feng. Master Feng is the official of the parents of Luozhou. He often comes to the temple to give lectures with Master Jingkong. In addition, Among the remaining three of us, it was a bit congenial to the Xiaguanhui, and the Xiaguan also believed in Buddhism, so I was very happy to come to the relic ceremony at that time, and I also asked Master Jingkong a few questions.”

This remark was consistent with what Wang Qingfu said, and Huo Weilou asked again, “Have you ever seen him before the accident?”

Wu Yu sighed and shook her head again, “No, the next official still remembers that the day before, we separately searched everywhere in the monastery. General Yue and Master Feng were responsible for interrogating the monks, and the next official and Wang brother were responsible for searching the monastery houses. On the day, when I was overwhelmed, I went back to the monastery and rested immediately. I didn’t care about the other things. At that time, when the matter was big, your Majesty walked on the front foot. We felt that we were going to lose our heads and put on the black yarn on the back feet. .”

In this question, Huo Weilou asked the three of them, and the three of them answered almost exactly the same. No matter who the murderer is, they have already raised their vigilance at this moment. If you speak too much, everyone knows the truth.

“After Feng Lun was promoted to the capital, who would walk with you more?”

Wu Yu thought for a while, “Let’s move less. We are in different yamen. Feng Jiongji is also older. Xiaguan and Brother Wang have met ten years ago. Over the years, the only ones who have been walking with him have been a lot.”

Wu Yu looked at nothing to hide, but there was no flaw. Huo Weilou thought a little, “If you say that among the three of you, Feng Lun’s murderer is harmful, who do you think is most likely?”

Wu Yu’s face changed slightly, “This… the next official can’t guess it.”

He looked embarrassed, as if he really couldn’t guess. Huo Weilou didn’t make it difficult for him and waved his hand to make him retreat. Lu Ke and Lin Huai were included. After asking the three of them, Huo Weilou asked, “How are you doing? Look?”

Lin Huai said: “The first person Jingkong looked for must be the most suspicious. Now it seems that he was the closest to Master Wu and Master Feng. Most of them were looking for him first. Some skills, another powerful weapon, now that the two of them are reunited, Master Wu can’t rest assured of Master Feng, or for other reasons, they hurt the killer.”

Lu Ke also said: “On the night that Master Feng was killed, although Master Wang testified for Master Wu, the lights in the temple were turned off. The laundry is quite diligent, and it is not difficult to annihilate the evidence.”

There were two murderers who killed Jingkong, one with good martial arts, combined with fists and feet, and the other with a sharp weapon. If Jingkong was the first person to look for back then, it was really Wu Yu and Feng Lun, it would be an excellent explanation.

However, Huo Weilou stared at him, “If Jingkong first looked for Wang Qingfu and Yue Mingquan?”

Lin Huai frowned, “Master Wang… Master Wang is not familiar with Master Jingkong, and he is not the parent official of Luozhou at that time. General Yue is a warrior, and he is quite murderous. Master Jingkong will probably not look for him first when looking for someone to trust. “

These questions have been mentioned before, and now the more I understand the details of the year, the more I feel that the previous inferences are true, but Huo Weilou feels that such inferences are too natural, as if there was something he missed, but he couldn’t remember missing it. what.

“Let the three of them go back and rest first. From this moment on, they will all be forbidden in the monastery.”

After Huo Weilou gave instructions, Luke went out and ordered the three of them to go back and rest. When Huo Weilou came out again, the sun was already westward, Ming Guilan and Huo Qinghong disappeared, and Bo Ruoyou squatted beside the Buddha statue. Look carefully at the neck of the Buddha statue.

“What are you looking at?” Huo Weilou asked as he walked behind Bo Ruoyou.

The statue of the Venerable Buddha was still put down, and Bo Ruoyou was scrubbing the position of the neck of the Buddha statue at this moment. “The girl found that this Buddha statue could not see anything from a distance. The bumpy ones are different from other places.”

Huo Weilou twisted his eyebrows, and came forward, and stretched out his hand, really.

Bo Ruo faintly said: “There seemed to be something wrong with the welding here, and then it was polished. If it weren’t for the thick gold paint, I’m afraid this Buddha statue would be destroyed.”

“It’s strange that the corpse in the Buddha statue has not been discovered. The craftsman who sculpted the Buddha must know something.”

It’s a pity that the craftsman is far away in Jizhou, and I don’t know when I can find it.

The murderer is difficult to determine, and the situation of the relic’s disappearance has not been solved. Huo Weilou thought about it, but still felt that the stolen part of the relic was quite weird. Soon, Huo Weilou ordered the people to spread the word and feel it.

The two of them came very quickly. As soon as they entered the yard, they saw the bones in the clear space changed color, and they were shocked. Bo Ruoyou had to explain Shicai’s autopsy by steaming the body, and got some clues.

Seeing the two coming, Huo Weilou brought everyone to the monastery and opened the drawing with the big ceremony stage. Father Fu talked about the details of the day, “If the strangest thing is said, it is naturally when it rains. But everyone was hiding in the main hall, only more than ten feet away, and the surroundings were heavily guarded, the relics disappeared without reason.”

Grandpa Fu pointed to the drawing, “It’s just so far away. At that time, the Imperial Guards were all here, and in the corridors on both sides…”

Bo Ruoyou listened to Father Fu’s words carefully, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, “The father-in-law said, at that time the host found a big umbrella to cover the copper box. The father-in-law may talk about what it is like. umbrella?”

Fu Gong said, “The umbrella is so huge that it almost covers the lotus pedestal below.”

Grandpa Fu lined his hands and said: “The handle of the umbrella is not very long, it is almost covered on the copper box. The edge covers the edge of the lotus table. The rain flows down the umbrella surface, and the lotus table and the treasure letter are not wetted.”

Lei Fan also said: “The umbrella was actually prepared long ago. For the ceremony in the temple, it must be prepared through ups and downs.”

Bo Ruoyou’s eyes were certain, “So, in everyone’s sight, can’t you see the copper box?”

Father Fu and Fan Qi nodded together, Bo Ruoyou’s eyes flashed with a gleam, and he looked at Huo Wei’s corridor: “Master Hou, do people who steal the relics use any tricks?”

Huo Weilou raised his eyebrows and said thinly, “The son of the world played a trick today. Later Lord Wang said that the tricks are all blind tricks. Therefore, the girl thought, when the umbrella was covered, everyone looked at the umbrella and felt that it was not moving. The next treasure letter is still there, can it? After covering the umbrella, the treasure letter is gone. When the umbrella is taken away, although the treasure letter is there, but the relic inside is gone, it’s just like a trick… “

“What’s the trick?!”

As soon as Bo Ruo’s quiet words fell, Huo Qinghong’s voice rang out again, he floated in in a red shirt with big thorns and looked curious, “What trick?”

Fu Gonggong laughed, “Don’t worry, I’m talking about the case of the relics stolen back then.”

Huo Qinghong was half-lost on his face. At this time, Huo Weilou asked, “How high was the lotus platform with the copper box at that time?”

Although the lotus platform is drawn on the drawing, it is only a rough outline. Asking this question, Fu Gong said, “Half-person height, the bottom is a lotus column, and the top is a blooming Buddha lotus. The treasure letter is placed on the Buddha lotus. Above the lotus core, it is said that this thing was prepared in the temple early in the morning, and some effort has been taken.”

Huo Weilou asked again, “How thick is the lotus column?”

Father Fu raised his hand and compared, “Also, it’s as thick as a person hugging each other.”

Seeing Huo Weilou asked about this object, Fan Fan hurriedly said, “This object is made of wood and was specially prepared for the ceremony. Many objects were carved three months in advance, embroidered embroidery, and objects used in the ceremony. They are all new.”

Lin Huai was in the audience and asked at this moment: “Does Hou Ye suspect that there is a mechanism in this thing?”

Huo Weilou nodded, “It takes only a moment to cover the umbrella, but if there are institutions in it, and there can be Tibetans in the institutions, that moment is enough to make him steal the relics, and the thief bought the Buddhist scriptures, and the key shape is known. It can also come in handy at the moment.”

Father Fu hesitated and said, “But the lotus pillar doesn’t look very big…”

Huo Qinghong looked left and right, and couldn’t help but whispered: “Actually, you can Tibetans even if you are not a big man. Many of those who play tricks can do things like cartilage, especially a kind of trick. One person gets into the box. Stabbing with a sword but not dying, seems to be a person who is extremely capable of shrinking and changing his body.”

Huo Weilou turned his eyes to look at Huo Qinghong. When Huo Qinghong had said something wrong, he covered his mouth and took two steps back. However, Huo Weilou said: “Your inexperience is finally used for half. .”

Huo Qinghong was astonished, and then he was overjoyed, and Huo Weilou asked Fan, “Is the item prepared for the ceremony at the beginning?”

Li Fan nodded, “It is true, but like the Buddha sculpture, the monk in charge is responsible for this matter, and there are still many outsiders underneath the craftsman.”

“Then do you remember how this lotus stand was prepared?”

Leifan shook his head helplessly, “This little monk doesn’t know it.”

Huo Weilou looked at Jue and Shao Jue also shook his head, “At that time, the temple began to prepare this early in the morning, and the people from the Ministry of Rites had to be checked after they arrived. Master Feng was also watching over them. Most of the artisans were local woodworkers in Luozhou, who were in charge of this matter at the time. The monk in charge…seems to be Brother Hui.”

Liaohui was the monk who led the way to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Cliff that day. Huo Weilou asked him to summon him. Just when he asked about the lotus platform, Liaohui said: “The lotus platform is made by woodworking in the city. After Zhu Qi came to the Ministry of Rites to verify that it was correct, they were put into the warehouse together and supervised by a special person.”

Huo Weilou stared at him, “Who is the caretaker?”

Liehui said: “At that time, places such as the warehouse were all under the supervision of the Luozhou government’s yamen and the Luozhou garrison. The little monk can’t remember exactly who was in charge here.”

The day before the Hui was still calm, and now that he saw Huo Weilou, he was quite nervous and fearful. Jingming and Leqing have now been taken care of. As Jingming’s apprentice, he is naturally at risk.

“What happened to the lotus platform later?”

Laihui hurriedly said: “First it was placed in the warehouse, and then moved to the Buddhist temple to enshrine the Buddha’s treasures. In the previous two years, a batch of decayed utensils were replaced in the temple, and the lotus platform was replaced.”

Huo Weilou pondered for a moment to make Hui retreat, “It seems that it was normal later, but if there are Tibetans in this thing, the guards must not be aware of it. At that time, it was Feng Lun’s person or Yue Mingquan’s person who was in charge of the guard. It’s not known for the time being, and if the thief wanted to use this method early in the morning, how would he know that it would rain that day? How to steal the relic of the key?”

Lin Huai said: “The rain is an unknown number. Unless they have made other preparations, even if it doesn’t rain, other troubles will occur. When the time comes, they will always find opportunities to do something.”

Huo Weilou looked at Lu Ke, “How is Jingming and Qingming in these two days? Can you say anything else?”

Lu Ke shook his head, “No, the two masters and apprentices read the scriptures for a day and night, it really seems to be regretting.”

Liao Fan Hejue stood aside, still a little uncomfortable hearing this, Huo Weilou’s eyes were uncertain, and after a while, he suddenly asked Fan, “What kind of temper is your master? How strict was his rule at the time?”

After hearing this, I only felt that Huo Weilou thought that the clear space had not been exposed in front of people at the first time, and immediately said: “Although the master is compassionate, he is not a compassionate and unprincipled person. He treats our brothers Several people are extremely demanding in their schoolwork, but they are very kind to us outside of their schoolwork. They are also patient with the monks and ordinary monks in the temple, and have never presided over the air, unless someone makes a mistake, if it is unintentional Loss is mostly admonition, and if it is done intentionally, it is a small mistake. In the Master’s view, it is also a bad idea and must be punished.”

“At the beginning, Master did not immediately expose Brother Qing. Although it was benevolent, it was also because the matter was serious at that time. He did not dare to take it lightly. If…if Master had never had an accident, Brother Qing would probably be severely punished. It’s just that he was harmed by others, and there is no such opportunity.”

As Leo Fan said, grief reappeared on his face, Huo Weilou pondered for a moment, and only frowned after the two of Fan were ordered to retreat, “We were wrong before.”

Both Lin Huai and Father Fu looked over, seemingly puzzled, but Bo Ruoyou was thinking about something.

Huo Wei said in the corridor: “Kingkong does not necessarily go to Feng Lun and Wu Yu.”

“It now appears that the several court officials at that time were all high-ranking officials, and to Famen Temple, everyone was an outsider. Jingkong’s first reaction was to find someone he knew and trusted, but Jingkong was not close to anyone. So I went to find someone whose temperament was a matter of fact. He was a very black and white person. Besides, Feng Lun and Wu Yu at the time were not worthy of his trust.”

Lin Huai and Father Fu were even more puzzled. Huo Wei said, “Of the four of them, only Feng Lun and Wu Yu believe in Buddhism, and the person who bought the Buddhist scriptures privately, and the person who stole the relics, can do this. They must be someone who knows Buddhism quite well. Both of them have lectured on Jingkong, and maybe even talked about the five-fold treasure letter and the relic. Later, if something happened, if you think from the perspective of Jingkong, you can only believe in Buddhism. Those who worship the Buddha will steal the relics from the Buddhist scriptures, so would he still dare to find Feng Lun and Wu Yu?”

Lin Huai said, “But at that time Jingkong had already begun to doubt them?”

“The person who buys the Buddhist scriptures privately is either rich or expensive, and the ceremony was prepared for a few months, with layers of defense inside and outside, but the relic was still lost. Whoever thinks, knows something must have gone wrong, but several chief officials But they didn’t notice it. Besides, they had been investigating for a few days at that time, Jingkong may have his own suspicion, and it is extremely possible to ask the person who seems the most unrelated.”

After Huo Weilou finished speaking, Lin Huai suddenly felt like hesitated, but he was hesitant again, “So, in this way, they are still quite suspicious. When Shicai Houye asked the three of them, they didn’t see any flaws. It’s just that Mr. Wang is quite protective of Mr. Wu in his words, and when he talks about General Yue, he is somewhat targeted.”

Fu Gong justified: “He had a good relationship with them, and General Yue had nothing to do with them in the army these years. On that day, Master Wu invited General Yue to see the pagoda, and General Yue also bluntly refused.”

Bo Ruoyou suddenly raised his head, “Father-in-law, did Master Wu invite General Yue to see the pagoda?”

Father Fu nodded, “Yes, we were standing by the side at the time, watching General Yue glance at the sky lightly, and then rejected Lord Wu. He didn’t seem to want to befriend him either.”

Bo Ruoyou didn’t know what he thought of, and his eyes suddenly lit up, “Master Hou, Minnu may have guessed who the murderer is.”