Grudge Breaker

Chapter 324: Fang Shenghehe (Part )
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It was four days later that Song Weichen woke up again. During these four days, Mo Tingfeng stayed by his bedside all the time, so naturally he was unable to go to the extreme north of Chenghuangquan to search for the corpse formation and track down Ruan Mianmian's whereabouts as promised.

Fortunately, Ruan's mother kept her promise. She neither acted on her own nor forced Mo Tingfeng to look for someone because of time constraints. She just stayed in Ruan Mianmian's boudoir for twelve hours a day - the center of the "Five Elements Formation", carefully observing and recording the changes in the house. This was the "task" assigned to her by Mo Tingfeng.

In fact, Mo Tingfeng did not delay the case because of Song Weichen's illness.

On the contrary, he had people spread rumors that the two commanders of the Sichen Mansion's Tianluodiwang were seriously injured and the White Robe Venerable was critically ill.
On the other hand, Mo Tingfeng recalled Meng Mengda, who was patrolling in Santuochuan under Uncle Fei, and even let him live in Tingfeng Mansion. But four days passed, and he did not summon Meng Mengda, and immediately ordered him to return to Santuochuan after Song Weichen woke up. I don't know what the gourd is selling.
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As soon as Song Weichen woke up, he saw files spread all over the floor and table in Wuqingju. Mo Tingfeng was standing beside a silk map made from a modified screen and covered with clues, deep in thought. He had a tall and straight back, and looked dignified, with the air of a natural king.

She didn't call him, but he turned around and looked at her almost the next moment she woke up, with tenderness in his eyes.

He walked back to the bed in two or three steps, carefully helped Song Weichen up and sat her on the edge of the bed, then took the lotus seed, angelica and astragalus soup that had been warmed with weak charcoal on the table and fed it to her.

"Does it still hurt?"

Song Weichen smiled and shook his head. The most painful night had already passed. Compared with what he had experienced in the Lord's Mansion, the pain now was not worth mentioning at all.

"You've been..."

I wanted to ask him if he had returned to the Lord's Mansion, but I didn't know how to start.

"I have always been by your side and have never gone anywhere."

Mo Tingfeng carefully fed a spoonful of soup to his lips and met her gaze seriously.

"Although I haven't been to the Territory Lord's Mansion, it's not difficult to guess that there is something fishy about this arranged marriage. I will find out and set the record straight."

"Weiwei, in all my lives, you will always be my wife. As long as the world lasts, the mountains and rivers will never change."

Song Weichen couldn't help but feel sad when he heard this, and he lowered his head to drink soup to hide it.

Although she had been in a coma for four days, she could occasionally sense the surrounding situation because she had half of Mo Tingfeng's consciousness in her body.

So she knew that Zhuang Yuheng had been here, and she also vaguely heard fragments of their conversations - if the mark of her previous life could not be solved, even if she had enough Yellow Spring Sun Grass to prolong her life, she would only be able to live for a year and a half at most.

She couldn't ask Mo Tingfeng to sacrifice his whole life for such a short period of time.

What Qin Xueying said was actually correct, he deserved a better life.

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"Boss Mo, are you sorting out the case? Have you made any progress in the past few days?"

Song Weichen deliberately changed the subject, pushed away the soup that was fed to him, pulled himself together and got out of bed to look at the case's deductions that covered the entire screen.

Knowing that he couldn't persuade her, Mo Tingfeng stopped trying to persuade her. The case was urgent, so he had no choice but to secretly send a message to someone and ask him to bring people over for a "meeting".

In the past few days, Mo Tingfeng circled all the places where murders occurred after the discovery of the mask of the King of Shita on the silk map of the case, including the Venerable Mansion where the bodies of Xiao'an and Dujuan were found, the Hidden Mist Village where the charred bodies of three sorcerers were found, and the Sanzu River Cave where Lu Chi's body was found - judging from the distance and direction, it is clearly an isosceles triangle.

In addition, the locations where the blood of the 獙獙 was found were also marked out: Sikong Mansion, Wuyin Village, Sichen Mansion, Jingzhu Mansion, Ruan Mansion, Sanzu River... These locations not only overlap with the areas where murders occurred, but also overlap with the places where the traces of the necromancer were found.

This is certainly not a coincidence.

Song Weichen frowned and stared at the case map for a long time without saying a word. Even though she didn't understand the formation mechanism, she could feel that the locations where these cases occurred were full of strangeness, and there seemed to be some kind of pattern - she must find the commonality behind them as soon as possible, otherwise more people will die.

"Knock knock."

"Weiwei is awake?"

Zhuang Yuheng's voice sounded outside the door, and Song Weichen felt warm in his heart. Could it be that he had been there all along?

There was a forbidden spell cast by Mo Tingfeng on the door of Wuqingju. After the ban was lifted, Zhuang Yuheng was the first to walk in quickly and went straight to Song Weichen. Needless to say, he took his pulse. Ding Heran and Ye Wujiu followed closely behind.

After they entered the house, Mo Tingfeng once again cast a spell to cover Wuqingju in a sound barrier, apparently to prevent "house thieves".

"I pay my respects to you, Your Majesty!"

Ding Heran and Ye Wujiu bowed deeply to Mo Tingfeng. "How are you recovering?"

"Thanks to Lord Yuheng's care, I am now fully recovered. Wujiu's arm has also recovered 80% and will be well again in three or four days. Thank you for your concern!"

It was not until this time that Song Weichen realized that many things had happened on the night of the banquet. It turned out that Zhuang Yuheng's true body had been staying in Si Chen Mansion in the past few days. Not only did he come to take care of her from time to time, but he also had to treat the injured Ding Heran and Ye Wujiu. However, all this was done in secret and no one in the mansion noticed.

In the eyes of people who do not know the truth, "Zhuang Yuheng" has been running around looking for Ruan Mianmian these days, while Ding Ye and the other two who were seriously injured and unconscious have been lying in the Si Chen Mansion Medical Clinic, without any medicine or cure, and all the doctors are helpless - those are the illusion dolls made by Mo Tingfeng using paper dolls mixed with their own heart blood, and no one can tell whether they are fake.

Although Mo Tingfeng did not use his phantom body, he did stay in Wuqingju all day these days to take care of the critically ill Baipao. Meng Mengda was the best witness - no one knew that Wuqingju was now a mini version of the Sichen Palace's meeting hall.

He intentionally exposed a flaw to make the outside world think that the combat effectiveness of Sichen Mansion was damaged, and that the dignified Lord of Sichen actually neglected his official duties for personal friendship.
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"Tingfeng, what have you found out these days?"

Zhuang Yuheng finished examining Song Weichen and knew that her condition was temporarily under control. Mo Tingfeng must have made some arrangements by calling several people over, so the most important thing to do was to discuss the matter now.

"Do you recognize this?"

As Mo Tingfeng spoke, he picked up the ink pen and connected the places where the accidents occurred on the silk map of the case with lines. Then he changed to a red pen and outlined two of the places in red.

"this……?"

Although Ye Wujiu was familiar with various formations, he looked confused at this moment.

"This... this is not a magic circle."

Except for Mo Tingfeng, everyone else's faces showed varying degrees of confusion.

However, Song Weichen always felt that this pattern was somewhat familiar. Where had he seen it before?
She frowned and thought about it again and again, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind: in the museum!

"Wait, I've seen it!"

"Isn't this a traditional auspicious pattern? It can be found on many porcelains and clothes. I once saw an exhibition of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and there was an ancient artifact that looked like this."

Mo Tingfeng nodded and did not deny Song Weichen's statement.

"Weiwei is right. This is indeed an auspicious pattern."

"This is called the square pattern, and it was first seen in the hair ornaments of the Queen Mother of the West."

"The ancients believed that snakes and dragons had the same origin. In order to express their worship of snakes, they took the water chestnut shapes on both sides of the seven-step snake's back to evolve this pattern, which means the harmony of yin and yang, and perfection."

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Mo Tingfeng's explanation made Zhuang Yuheng look confused.

"Tingfeng, you've confused me. What does Fang Shengwen have to do with these cases and Mianmian's disappearance?"

"It matters a lot."

Mo Tingfeng waved his sleeves, and the case map changed. The specific details were hidden, leaving only a few crime scenes linked by Fang Shengwen on the silk map.

"In ancient times, alchemists used this pattern to create a method of harmony. They would mix the hands and feet of brothers or loved ones who wanted to live and work together, as well as their blood, hair, nails, etc., and burn them into powder at a special time, and then seal them into eight wax pills."

"Then use the places where the relevant people live as boundaries to determine the east-west boundaries of the square pattern, and then bury these wax balls into the eight boundary points of the square pattern. After 49 days, this method will be successful."

"Those who are subjected to this method will share the same fate in life and death. In the old days, it was common for brothers of different surnames to swear brotherhood, so that they would not dare to disobey."

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Because Song Weichen was there, Mo Tingfeng tried to explain in detail, but it seemed... the effect was minimal.

She blinked her big eyes, looked at the silk picture and then at Mo Tingfeng, and raised her hand timidly.
"Question, Mr. Mo, could it be that Xiao An, Du Juan, and Lu Chi used the Fang Sheng He He method you mentioned to become sworn brothers and sisters? And then one of them betrayed, so all six of them died?"

"This... this doesn't make sense even if you use your toes to think about it?"