Chapter 3 third chapter

After Yan Yuan left, Duke Di carefully observed the movements of the robbers in the cave.He found that the robbers were pulling the cloud car, and he estimated that the robbers would not attack easily before dawn.At this time, Duke Di was interested in the mystery of Miss Meiyu's death.He felt that Old Min wanted him to stay overnight in Mei Yu's room. It seemed that Mei Yu's death was tied to a complicated case.Doesn't the arrival of the White Tiger Star and the birth of the White Tiger Spirit just mentioned by Mr. Min just mean the riot of the Flying Tigers and the sudden death of Miss Mei Yu?The old man was stunned by himself, swallowing and swallowing, which further showed the strangeness of the inside story.Di Gong decided to investigate it himself, first of all, to get to the bottom of Mei Yu's death.

It was already midnight when Director Yan came to replace Duke Di on the garrison tower. Just after the storm, one or two sparse stars appeared outside the garrison tower.After exchanging greetings, Di Gong took the ever-burning lamp and went down the garrison building. Duke Di quietly returned to the room on the third floor. He gently opened the folding door, and a silver-white moonlight poured into the room.Duke Dee went to the terrace to admire the moonlight for a while.He found a bamboo three-tier flower stand in a corner of the terrace, with several empty flower pots on it, and the top one was almost touching the wide eaves.From the lintel of the folding door to the eaves, a three-foot-square ceiling is laid.Each ceiling is carved with a pattern of two dragons soaring into the clouds.These fine carvings prove that the house is at least two hundred years old, because later architects no longer have such skills and are unwilling to make such efforts.

The black clouds are like ink, and the cold wind is like a knife.Duke Dee left the door open, so that he could hear the alarm gong very clearly.He was about to go to bed, but his eyes caught a glimpse of the Guqin in the corner of the room.At this moment, he didn't feel sleepy at all, and he thought it would be better to take the opportunity to go down to earth, so as to refresh his energy.And with such a beautiful moonlight outside the window, didn't the ancients often say that playing the piano must be played on a bright moon night?When Di Gong was young, he loved playing the guqin. I heard that this instrument was deeply loved by the sage Confucius. "Music education" was an important part of Confucius' political thought and educational content.But Duke Dee hadn't touched the strings for many years, and he was curious to see if he still remembered those complicated fingerings.

Duke Dee rubbed his cold fingers, and plucked the seven strings first with his thumb.The sound of the piano is particularly deep, echoing in the silent room.The five notes of Gongshang are roughly correct, which means that Mei Yu was still playing this piano not long before her death.Di Gong tried his best to recall his favorite music scores, but none of them could be completely recited.He shook his head, opened a drawer a few times, and saw that there were several volumes of ancient music scores in it, but fingering was too difficult.Fugong dare not fiddle with it.There is a title in Qingang, and Di Gong couldn't help but nodded deeply.This is completely conceivable, Meiyu has a special feeling for Meihua.

In the bottom of the drawer, Di Gong found a piano score titled "Autumn in the Heart".Di Gong has never heard the name of this piece of music, but the score is simple and easy to play, and the lyrics are accompanied by teeny lowercase letters next to the score. There are many changes in the lyrics. Obviously, this is a piece of music composed by Mei Yu herself. .Its lyrics cloud: precarious yellow leaves, Lonely late autumn. dead like this What are you begging for? a little lovesick Heart between eyebrows. Swan goose whispering, floating long. Rivers and mountains Warring States House,

The bird flying south The fox died on the first mound. Di Gong played it slowly according to the score, and sang softly along with it.The rhythm of this piece is bright, the tone is subtle, and it is easy to remember. The meaning of the words is sad, weeping, and touching.Di Gong played it twice and recited it all.He shook his hands happily, and retracted the wide sleeves of the leather robe to his elbows. He looked up at the bright moonlight outside the window, and prepared to play it again seriously. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a slim woman standing in the corner by the folding door, and he was startled in his heart, and he couldn't help being shocked.The shadow lingered for a while, sighed slightly, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Di Gong sat there blankly, stroking the guqin with his hand, an inexplicable nervousness made his mouth dry and upset.He stood up slowly and walked towards the folding door. There was no one in the room at all.There was a bleak moonlight on the terrace outside the folding door, and the surrounding was deadly silence. Di Gong rubbed his eyes with his hands, thinking that the dead Mei Yu might be showing her spirit.He calmed down, walked to the terrace, and took a few deep breaths of fresh and moist air.During his long career, he encountered ghosts appearing many times, but they were all proved to be natural phenomena or the illusion of the owner's behavior.These experiences made him unwilling to easily believe in the existence of ghosts and gods.But what about the ghost of the dead girl before him?Is it an illusion again?At this moment, his mind is very clear!

After thinking hard, Duke Di walked back into the room, and closed the folding door casually.He lit the eternal lamp, and after thinking about it in his mind, he suddenly believed that the appearance of Mei Yu's ghost might be to appeal to him from the underworld. in the world.He made up his mind to lift the lantern and went downstairs, and found the Buddhist hall behind the hall on the ground floor. The door of the Buddhist hall was not locked, and as soon as Di Gong opened the door and entered, he could smell a strong smell of sandalwood.He closed the door gently, and raised the ever-burning lamp high.On the back wall of the Buddhist hall is a tall confession case with red lacquer, and in front of the confession is a clean futon.Behind the confession is an exquisite and small shrine, in which there is a gold-plated statue of the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Avalokitesvara.An incense burner made of silver was placed on the confession case. There was half a furnace of incense ash in the incense burner, and the green smoke of four burning incense curled up.

Duke Di looked at the four burning incense sticks, and suddenly took one out of a large handful of unused incense sticks beside the incense burner to compare its length with the burning incense sticks in the incense burner.He found that the lit incense had only been burned for a short period, which meant that someone had come to the Buddhist hall to offer incense just now. In the middle of the Buddhist hall is an unpainted coffin, which rests on two benches.This is undoubtedly Miss Mei Yu's coffin.On this side of the Buddhist hall hangs an antique brocade curtain, on which is embroidered the scene of Shi Su's ascension to heaven; Shi Ji is lying sideways on the couch, surrounded by his disciples and Bodhisattvas from three thousand worlds, silently mourning .

Mr. Di put the ever-burning lamp on the confession case, and was about to take a closer look at the coffin when he suddenly felt a figure flash past behind him.Duke Di raised the curtain vigilantly and took a look. There was only a solid wall behind the curtain, and no one was hiding.He turned around and carefully observed the coffin by the light of the lamp.The coffin was about six feet long and two feet high. It seemed that the body could be inspected without being brought out.He was satisfied to find that the coffin lid was not nailed, but was just pasted tightly around the coffin lid with a long strip of wide oiled paper for a week.He pushed hard, and found that the coffin lid was quite heavy, and it was not easy for one person to open it.

Di Gong took off the leather robe, folded it and put it on the futon, and began to gently peel off the oiled paper with his fingernails. ’ There was a sudden human sigh in the sound of tearing paper, and Mr. Di was startled.He was stunned, held his breath and turned his ears to listen again. There was only the "thumping" sound of his own heart beating, or the sound of the wind blowing the curtain.He bent down and began to peel off the oiled paper under the coffin lid, when a long black shadow appeared on the coffin lid.Di Gong hurriedly turned his head and saw Liao Long standing behind him. "Master, let Miss's soul rest in peace!" Liao Long said calmly in a hoarse voice. Duke Di was still in shock, and couldn't help but get annoyed: "This is a dirty trick! I want to examine Miss Mei Yu's body, why are you here, Liao Guanshi?" "Master, I... I came here to burn incense for Miss, and hope that her soul will be exalted as soon as possible." "Then why did you hide? Where did you hide just now?" Liao Long pulled back the brocade curtain, pointed to a small door in the corner and said, "I hid there. There used to be a small door, but now it is blocked. The master is right, there is no need for me to hide. No To tell you the truth, I love Miss Ai very much in my heart." "Does Miss love you too?" "I never dared to reveal this in front of the lady. Our family has long since fallen. I am dependent on others, and I am half a slave. How dare I expect the lady to like me. Besides, the group already has a family and is preparing for a marriage." "Do you think there is anything strange about Miss's death?" "She often suffers from heart attacks, so don't be emotional. The Flying Tigers may have frightened her when they came to the manor to extort gold." "Did Guanshi Liao see Miss's body with his own eyes?" Duke Di asked again. "I'm very sad, and I can't bear to watch. Master, you know that when I heard that the lady died, I was so frightened that I fainted. It was the old servant couple who cleaned up the lady's body." "Okay, come and help me remove this coffin lid now!" Mr. Di lifted the last section of the oiled paper, pulled it hard, and the oiled paper was completely torn off. "You hold that end, we put it on the ground!" They raised the coffin lid. "Ah!" Liao Long exclaimed, "This—this is an aster!" "Shut up!" Fugong ordered.He bent down to look at the woman lying in the coffin.The woman's face was very handsome, but her skin was a little thicker and darker.The light blue eyelids are tightly closed under the two long eyebrows, and there are two sweet wine dimples next to a small mouth, which is not similar to Mei Yu in the portrait. "Let's put this cover on the ground gently!" Di Gong said to Liao Long who was in a daze. The two lowered the coffin lid.Duke Dee put the ever-burning lamp in a corner of the coffin, and he noticed that there were several pale red plum blossoms embroidered on the white silk dress that Aster was wearing.The belt of the long dress tied a beautiful bow under her full breasts. "This dress belongs to Meiyu!" said Duke Di. "Master's judgment is yes, but the dead man is clearly Aster." Liao Long replied. "I'm going to examine Cui Ju's body now. Go and watch for me at the entrance of the Buddhist hall. Someone will send me a message. Please don't light candles. It seems that no one here can know about this for the time being." Liao Long obeyed the order and left the Buddhist hall, trembling and standing at the entrance of the Buddhist hall. It took Di Gonghua a lot of effort to untie the bow on the belt of the long skirt.He pulled out his belt and hung it on the edge of the coffin, and raised the corpse a little more, the corpse was really heavy.The arms of the corpse were already stiff, no underwear was worn under the long skirt, and there were no traces of violence on the skin.Di Gong found out that she was four months pregnant.He turned the body over and saw a black plaster the size of a copper coin sticking to his left shoulder.He carefully peeled off the plaster, and saw a small wound exposed in a circle of discolored and rotten flesh.Di Gong probed the depth of the wound with a silver-haired needle, and immediately understood that this small wound was the deadly point of the deceased. The murder weapon was a sharp and long dagger, and the tip of the dagger pierced the deceased's heart. Duke Di put the corpse down on his back again, and then tied the long skirt.He wanted to tie the belt into the original bow, but he couldn't tie it anyway.He had to hastily tie the two ends of the long belt and tie a simple knot.Then Di Gong called Liao Long to come in. Liao Long was shocked and frightened, and he was cold at the door, his face was as pale as a dead man.The two put the lid on the coffin again. "Go back to your room and sleep, I'll try to find Meiyu." Duke Di ordered.