Chapter 42 Chapter Sixteen
Ma Rong returned to the Red Pavilion and told Di Gong all about what happened just now.Finally, he said: "I have found Ling Xiangu's residence, but she is not in the house. It may be useless to rush there now."
Di Gong was silent for a moment and then said: "She is entangled, it is impossible to leave very far. Besides, no one knows her hut except the two shrimps and crabs."
Ma Rong said: "I heard from Xiao Xia that there was a light in the hut early this morning, and it is suspected to be a stranger. Could it be that Ling Xiangu was wrapped up by that guest."
Duke Di twirled his beard sadly, and suddenly asked: "Ma Rong, are you sure that those gangsters are just taking revenge on the big crab, and have nothing to do with you?"
"It's undeniable. Master, how did those gangsters know where I was going? Besides, the crab head killed three of their brothers, so I am lying in ambush in the forest, intending to intercept and kill them to avenge my long-cherished revenge."
Di Gongdao: "Shrimps and crabs don't go back to their nests in the afternoon on weekdays. Those gangsters don't know the habits of shrimps and crabs."
"God knows what kind of enmity there is between them. It's just that they almost captured me. However, these two people have extraordinary skills. The little shrimp has such a means, and the big crab can't even imagine it."
Di Gong sighed and said: "So I only planned to stay here for one day, so I said it lightly. Ma Rong, go to have fun tonight by yourself, and come to see me here after breakfast tomorrow."
After Ma Rong left, Di Gong was alone in the red pavilion, meditating, without a clue for half a day.Feeling thunder in his stomach again, he changed into a plain Ge gown and a black hat all night, and went out on the street.
After walking a dozen or so steps, he arrived at the door of the Peach Blossom Inn. Then he thought, why not invite Jia Xiucai to have dinner with him at this moment.It's also good to listen carefully to Li Lian's plot to instigate him to tamper with Feng Dainian. ——When I made up my mind, I folded into the Peach Blossom Inn.When I asked at the counter, I knew that Jia Yubo hadn't spoken yet when he left the store in the afternoon.
Di Gong had no choice but to turn around.Go to the street to find a restaurant.People on the street came out one after another to place memorial tablets and offer incense.Many paper people, paper horses, cartons, and paper sedan chairs are arranged in sequence. ——Di Gong pinched his fingers and counted, tonight is the twenty-ninth day, and these necromancers will be displayed until the thirty-first day tomorrow and incinerated according to the rules.After the ghosts from every household are gone, the ghost sacrifice is considered to be over, and the gates of the underworld are closed again.
Di Gong watched all the way, and suddenly saw a big restaurant in front of the street.Bu Zhao'er was embroidered with the words "Tongqinglou", and it was not crowded.Then go upstairs.Upstairs, there are already five or seven tables drinking, but it's not too noisy.So I found an empty seat by the window, ordered a few dishes and a dime of thin wine, and ate alone.
As he ate and ate, he couldn't help but think of difficult and difficult cases.Judging from the testimonials at present, it seems that the person who killed the martyrs 20 years ago and the person who killed Qiuyue today seem to be the same person, and this person must be over fifty years old.What is puzzling is that when he was deeply in love with Fei Cui back then, and killed Tao Kuang in a fight, how could he have anything to do with Qiu Yue today?Furthermore, could this person have found out Ling Xiangu's secret and preemptively killed her.Isn't Ling Xiangu's disappearance related to the interception of the shrimp and crab?Also, the cause of Li Lian's death has been ascertained, but his real relationship with Qiuyue has not been clarified, and this is undoubtedly the key to finding out that Qiuyue was murdered. ——Now Li Lian and Qiuyue are dead, and the ghosts are still lingering outside the gate of the underworld, anxiously waiting for me to secure the seal for them.
Unconsciously, Di Gong started talking to himself in a daze, and the diners at the next table all turned their heads to look at him.Di Gong was so engrossed in it that he didn't notice it. ——Thinking about it, he suddenly stood up, called the waiter Hui Zhang, and hurried downstairs alone.
He went back to the Peach Blossom Inn, followed by a small road at the back door of the inn leading to Qiuyue's mansion.
The path is paved with fine, well-sized pebbles.On both sides are simple and vigorous ginkgo trees, with clusters of low roses and cloves in between, covered with green shade all the way, very beautiful.There is a small lotus pond in front of Qiuyue House, which is full of white water lilies.The moonlight shines through, making it extremely quiet.An old bridge spans across it, leading to the wooden gate in the front yard of the mansion.
Duke Di pushed open the wooden gate, and saw a small garden with green grass.There is a stone table on the left side of the door, and a huge porcelain basin is placed on the stone table.Inside the porcelain basin is a panoramic sample of the mansion, which is exquisitely carved and carefully stacked.There are also mansions, gardens, paths, and ponds, just like the real scenery. ——Di Gong couldn't help lingering and admiring for a long time.Stepping up the white jade steps of the mansion, he saw the official seal signed by Chief Feng Li crossed on the door.Di Gong looked closely around the window sill, and suddenly saw a gap in a wooden window panel.He jumped onto the window sill, kicked open the window frame, and entered the room.
He took out the flint and lit the stump of candle he had brought with him.Looking around, it looks like a maid's room.So he opened the door and went out again, and found the most gorgeous living room in the center.A silver candlestick on the table was lit.Naijian Qiuyue's bedroom is on the left side of the living room.
Opening Qiuyue's bedroom, there was a strong smell of perfume.There is a small round table in the middle and four round stools on all sides.Against the east wall is a big bed carved in peach wood, hung with a purple brocade curtain.The pillows and quilts on the bed are neat and the aroma is stronger.
In front of the bed is a dressing table with a round mirror. On the table are lead vermilion powder, lip balm, and a dozen large and small bottles.There are three drawers on the left and right under the table.The three drawers on the left are unlocked, full of silk handkerchiefs, embroidered bags, and sweat towels.Only the bottom drawer on the right has a small brass lock.The first drawer on the top is jewelry such as hairpins, bracelets, hairpins, earrings and pendants, and the second drawer contains a box of unused top-grade rose lipstick and the original bottle of untouched essence and perfume.
Di Gong smashed the brass lock of the third drawer with all his strength, and when he opened it, there were letters, pieces of paper, envelopes, poems and so on.Can't help but be overjoyed.Then he dumped all the contents in the drawer on the round table and looked at each one slowly. ——Probably the intimacy words and phrases in the field of love, the inexhaustible love and affection, and the vows of eternal love.
On the day of Li Lian's death, he gave Qiuyue a bottle of perfume.Packed in an envelope.Qiuyue once said that she didn't even open the envelope, just put it in the drawer. ——Di Gong came here tonight to find this bottle of perfume called Yexianglu, and even more so, to find the envelope that contains the perfume.He was convinced that there was nothing but perfume in the envelope.There will never be nothing else, but it is the key evidence to solve the relationship between Li Lian and Qiuyue, that is, to solve the murder of Qiuyue.
Sure enough, there was an envelope that had never been opened, with the words "Miss Qiuyue's make-up Ci Yuqi" written on the cover.Touch it with your hand.There is a shoulder-level hard object inside.
Di Gong was overjoyed, and opened the lacquer with candlelight, took it apart and poured it out, and there was a pipa-shaped perfume porcelain bottle inside, exquisite and delicate.A page of plain paper and a small envelope are wrapped outside the bottle.Gong regular script said on the plain paper:
Yangtuo Qiuyue Group transferred a letter from the family.
It's a mere thing, fortunately.
Look at the small envelope again, it has not been sealed.On the cover is the words "Jinhua Baisha Mountain Li Jingwei Master Junqi".Di Gong was taken aback, quickly blew open the seal, and took out a page of plain notes.Likewise Gong Kai wrote:
The unfilial son sincerely and fearfully bows to his father and lord, and asks for his peace.
Ci cloud:
Men are the gates,
Falling to the ground to give birth to a god.
Great ambitions.
Looking far and wide.
Suddenly the color changes,
Suffering together.
Swallowing suspicious teeth,
Dare to shine on vermilion lips.
Weeping and lamenting fate,
It's hard to be humble.
Escape to the deep room every day,
Hide your head and be ashamed to see others.
Moving like summer insects,
Sincerely Yang Yangchun.
There are no plurals of kneeling,
A must exceed Shenchen.
Gai Dianhua's predecessors' speeches are also incomplete, so we can meet them in the next life?
If you have not done your final work, you can ask someone Wen about the rest.Bye bye
Last word.July twenty-fifth.
Di Gong tightened his eyebrows, and vaguely felt that there was an unspeakable pain in Li Lian's poem, as if he suddenly encountered a terrible calamity, and his anxiety was inexplicable, and he had no choice but to beg for death. ——He had low self-esteem before Qiuyue?Here, "humbleness is hard to tell", "hidden head is ashamed to see others", it seems to be convincing, but this kind of inferiority is born only when facing Qiuyue? ——"The final commandment is not enough, you can ask someone Wen about the rest." Could it be that his conspiracy with Wen Wenyuan was the "command" of his father Li Jingwei? ——The more Di Gong thought about it, the more confused he became. He really didn't know what kind of medicine was buried in Li Lian's gourd, and he didn't understand what troubled Li Lian so much that he was in so much pain that he wanted to die.
"No! Li Lian did commit suicide! When Li Lian handed over this letter to Qiuyue, he had decided to commit suicide, and there was no possibility of repentance. But, but..."
Duke Di slammed his fist on the table, and the silver candlestick shook a few times and nearly fell.
"Could it be that Li Lian would molest Feng Yuhuan with a hippie face before committing suicide?! Judging from the poem letter and love words, Li Lian committed suicide with great doubt, fear and pain. This letter and poem Qiuyue didn't read it, let alone forged it. The Gongkai handwriting, especially the literary style of the poem, is by no means something that someone like Qiuyue can invent. Besides, the meaning is weird, and I couldn't understand it for a while."
Di Gong sat down again and thought carefully. ——Qiuyue would never have imagined that Li Lian would be so perverse. At that time, all her thoughts were on Luo Yingyuan, so she casually stuffed this envelope into the drawer.How many important things have been missed!As early as I discovered it at this moment, it would be considered a coincidence, otherwise this bizarre lawsuit would be turned upside down.
Why did Feng Dainian and his daughter have to bear the crime of murder and transfer of corpses?This is something he never thought of.Because of the verisimilitude of the fabrication, he was convinced at the time. ——What kind of scheme is hidden behind this strange and unnatural behavior?He memorized the words of Feng Dainian's father and daughter one by one, and tried to reflect the appearance and expression at the time of speaking.Wen Wenyuan's confession, Ling Xiangu's testimony, Ma Rong's hearing, and the clues of the two friends Xie Xia, he sorted it out one by one, and vaguely came up with a general idea, which seemed to find a common explanation. ——The secret of the Red Pavilion is too scary.
After leaving Qiuyue's mansion, Mr. Di followed the small path in the garden to the Red Pavilion.That is to say, the shopkeeper of Yongle Inn took his famous post and quickly sent Feng Dainian and his daughter to Honggezi for questioning.
He took a close look inside and out of the red pavilion, jumped out of the balcony and searched in the depths of the bushes, and then returned to the room.Immediately, all the doors and windows of the Red Pavilion were closed tightly.He understands that the room will be extremely hot and stuffy immediately, but he must not take any more risks and be negligent in the slightest.His opponent is a vicious and unscrupulous criminal!
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