As a medical concubine

Chapter 224 So It Was Like This (2)
Liao Zicheng looked around.

"What are you looking for?" Hua Zhu asked suspiciously.

"The son-in-law said that he broke the sorceress's lantern and threw it in a trash can." After Liao Zicheng finished speaking thoughtfully, he looked around behind a few bonsai and found the broken lantern in a trash can.Smelling the handle of the lantern, Liao Zicheng said, "Both Yingluo and Ranqianhua are used to using rosin, and this has a pine scent. Yingluo has indeed taken it."

After losing the lantern, Liao Zicheng looked carefully at the door again and said, "There are marks of being cut by weapons, and there are bits of fingernails. Yingluo's left index finger was scratched here. She was frightened and was eager to open the door to escape. .”

Thinking of a girl younger than her being trapped in a dark dark room, screaming and screaming every day, Hua Zhu felt very uncomfortable, sighed, and said: "Everything is consistent with the confession of the son-in-law. It seems that the son-in-law is not lying."

Liao Zicheng pushed the door open and blocked it with a brick to prevent it from closing suddenly.

Huazhu wanted to follow in, but he raised his hand to stop him.

Liao Zicheng walked into the house cautiously, followed the footsteps of Yingluo and the son-in-law, following the footprints in the dust, and then his eyes turned cold: "I can be sure that there was no third person here last night."

Huazhu raised her eyebrows: "No third person came, that is to say, only the son-in-law and Yingluo came. Could it be the son-in-law who attacked Yingluo?"

Liao Zicheng knelt down, pointed to the dust and a few marks inside the door and said, "No, the son-in-law was outside the door at that time. Look at the marks here. Yingluo was kneeling on the ground and scratching the door with her hands. The son-in-law walked in, and the footprints The marks on her knees are half covered. So, the son-in-law must have come in after Yingluo was attacked."

Huazhu bulged her cheeks, frowned and said, "How about... let's go in and feel it, and see if there are any evil spirits?"

"I'll go in, you wait for me outside. Open the door for me when you hear the knock on the door."

"Don't be so troublesome." Huazhu smiled, tore off a long piece of cloth from the hem of her skirt, and put it under the door, "We can pull it later, and the door will open."

Liao Zicheng's eyes moved slightly, and he opened his mouth, hesitant to speak.

A threshold, with Huazhu outside, bathed in light.He was inside, shrouded in darkness.

He suddenly grabbed her arm, stopped her from crossing the threshold, and there was an indescribable meaning in his deep eyes: "Nianhuazhu, you won't be able to get out!"

Huazhu smiled indifferently: "Then why do you want to go in? You are not afraid, nor am I."

After saying this, Hua Zhu stepped across the threshold resolutely, and the door behind her slowly closed, and the light falling on her head gradually decreased until finally it disappeared completely.

Bang!
Hua Zhu was so startled that her heart trembled, and the hairs all over her body stood up where she couldn't see her fingers: "Liao Zicheng!"

"I'm here." A soft, low-pitched, reassuring voice.

Hua Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, and raised her hand, wanting to touch him.

But he held her bright wrist one step ahead of her, and his big palm slid down, interlocking tightly with her slender fingers.

Hua Zhu thought, no matter where she is, no matter what difficulties she faces, as long as she has this man by her side, she will not be afraid.

The two stayed inside for a long time without finding anything unusual.

"Could it really be an evil spirit?" After coming out, Hua Zhu asked Liao Zicheng with a puzzled face.

This time, even Liao Zicheng couldn't answer, even if Leng Rou disappeared, Wang Heng disappeared, and the prince disappeared, he had never shown such a serious look.It can be said that when he arrived at the scene of Leng Rou's disappearance for the first time, he saw the clue.However, he thought over and over again about Yingluo's attack, but he couldn't give a reasonable explanation.

Huazhu bit her lip and said, "Except for the evil spirit, I really can't think of anyone who can sneak attack Yingluo without leaving footprints."

Liao Zicheng asked as he walked, "Do you still remember what the sorceress said when she warned us to stay away from the small dark room?"

Huazhu nodded: "Remember. She said that you can go anywhere, but don't enter the small dark room. It's fine if you don't do anything wrong, but if anyone does something wrong, you will be killed by the evil spirit. Could it be... What has Yingluo done to your heart?"

Liao Zicheng stared: "The definition of wrongdoing is very vague. Tricking, stealing, insulting, slandering, lying... are all bad things. Each of us has done something to some extent."

Huazhu's pupils twitched: "Maybe... Yingluo has done more sinful things? You see, she kept shouting 'I'll kill you, I'll kill you' all day long, and those prisoners who died in her hands came back to find Enmity?"

"Write down this clue first, and find out if Yingluo has any enemies." After speaking, Liao Zicheng took Huazhu around again, trying to find the scene of Yingluo's first murder, but returned in vain.

At sunset, the cable bridge was still unfinished, Qibao and Liufeng hired a large boat nearby.

The boatman was an old man in his fifties. He was blind in one eye, but he was in good health. He paddled across the river bank tens of meters away by himself without waiting for his breath.

"Old man Chen, are you here to help people cross the river?" Qibao asked with a smile.

The person called Uncle Chen was Chen Dagui who Hua Zhu had visited before. With a bitter smile, he slowly leaned the boat to the shore: "Crossing the river? There are not many people living here. How can there be any money for crossing the river? Not everyone can do it." Such a big deal like the two young masters! It was because the cable bridge was washed away that I made a fortune. Before, I went fishing in the river when I had no money to spend, and sold it in the market, and I could sell a lot .The river is so fast that those who are afraid of death dare not come to fish, which makes it easier for me. I catch a lot every time!"

Qibao thought in his heart that even a piece of silver can become a windfall, and the life of ordinary people is really miserable.

When the boat docked, Qibao smiled and said to Chen Dagui: "Old man, wait a minute, my son will have to cross the river later, and I will give you another ingot of silver later!"

Chen Dagui nodded overjoyed: "Master is really a living Bodhisattva! Ever since I lost my old job, I haven't made so much money for a long time."

"What is the old man's old job?" Qibao jumped ashore and asked back.

Chen Dagui sighed: "Oh, it's embarrassing if you don't say anything. You lost to a woman!"

Qibao didn't ask any more questions, and together with Liufeng rushed to the small courtyard of the female Taoist priest.

(End of this chapter)