The moonlight fell on Qi Yuansheng's face, which was as beautiful as a woman's, dyeing his complexion as white as frost and snow.
"How did you know Xiu'er——" He paused and then said, "Sure enough, he is here too."
The sound of unhurried footsteps came from behind. Lin Suian's head moved. From the corner of his eye, he saw petal-like clothes flying in the night wind. Hua Yitang stepped forward and stood side by side with her, holding three items in his hand. Scroll book.
"On the third day of the first lunar month of the first year of Xuanfeng, the father and son of the Qi family reported to the official that their daughter Qi Yuan was lost in the market. She was eight years old. The bad guys searched for a month and couldn't find it. The case was closed." Hua Yitang held up the first scroll, "Qi Yuan" Sheng's wife died young, leaving behind a son and a daughter. The family was poor and made a living by copying books. After Xiu'er went missing, Qi Sheng dragged his illness to find his daughter and died in depression. The sons of the Qi family disappeared."
Qi Yuansheng's lips curled up slightly, as if encouraging Hua Yitang to continue speaking.
Hua Yitang held up the second scroll, "I found this in Dong Chao's tomb collection. The content is unremarkable. It's all about miscellaneous scenery. The author's name is not written, but the handwriting is excellent. There are annotations by Chen Zhu, who calls the author his teacher."
Qi Yuansheng's eyes moved slightly, but he still didn't speak.
Hua Yitang held up the two scrolls at the same time, "There is Qi Sheng's signature on the closing document, which is exactly the same as the handwriting on the miscellaneous records. I remember that when Chen Zhu was young, he studied calligraphy with a scholar. Chen Zhu was Qi Sheng's student."
Qi Yuansheng sighed quietly.
Hua Yitang raised the third scroll, "This scroll was found in the Juan Yufang teahouse where Chen Zhu often went." He unfolded it with a clatter and showed it to Qi Yuansheng, "It contains the content of the Ten Tortures. The handwriting in the book is exactly the same as Chen Zhu’s.”
Lin Sui'an was shocked and quickly glanced at it. Sure enough, this scroll was the scroll she saw in the memories of Chen Zhu and Dong Chao. It turned out that it was written by Chen Zhu.
"The crooked poem about Feng was also spread in tea shops." Hua Yitang said, "Qi Yuansheng, you asked Chen Zhu to do this!"
Qi Yuansheng raised his head slightly, his eyebrows bathed in the moonlight, "What else?"
"You lay dormant for four years and planned carefully. You first drew Feng's attention to me with crooked poems, and used me as a shield to kill Yan He and Jiang Hongwen one after another. One was for revenge, and the other was to file me as a serial murder case. Entering the game, intensifying the conflict between the Hua family and the Feng family, using Hua family to verify the evidence of the scientific examination fraud case, overthrowing the Feng family in one fell swoop, and then taking advantage of the Hua family's taking over the Feng family's territory, to bring out the white animal case that Feng family had hidden for many years. The meticulousness and thoroughness of the plan are truly astonishing.”
Qi Yuansheng: "Oh? Why did I do this?"
Hua Yitang took out the fourth scroll of book from his arms, "This is the evidence that you changed your household registration status before joining the Yamen of Yangdu Prefecture, and that you used your status as a clerk to clear Dong Chao's identity and buy the tomb store. and the evidence of the deserted houses around it. Your original name is Qi Yong, Qi Sheng is your father, and Qi Yuan is your sister. You did all this to avenge your sister and father. "
Qi Yuansheng nodded: "Hua Yitang, you are indeed smart, smarter than I thought. If you hadn't found out about me too quickly, I wouldn't have had to risk everything to activate Dong Chao, and Dong Chao wouldn't have died."
"What about Chen Zhu?!" Hua Yitang said sternly, "He has been helping you, why do you want to kill him?!"
"Because he is so naive that he actually wants to avoid bloodshed and death. With just a broken poem and a copied scroll of the Ten Tortures, he can intimidate the Feng family and almost ruin our plan." Qi Yuansheng sighed, "He has been around you for too long and has been infected by your innocence."
Lin Sui'an couldn't help but glance at Hua Yitang, but saw that the veins in his neck were popping out, and he was obviously suppressing his anger.
"Since you are so smart, I have a question for you, why should I kill Zhou Changping?" Qi Yuansheng said.
Hua Yitang took a breath, "Prefect Zhou has been controlled by the Feng family. He wants to get rid of the Feng family, which happens to be used by you. You also conspired with him to silence Dong Chao during the chaos, right?"
"He didn't know that Dong Chao was mine, and he didn't know what I really wanted to do." Qi Yuansheng shook his head, "He killed Dong Chao just to claim credit from the Feng family and the Hua family. Sometimes, you can't predict it at all. What kind of stupid things would such a villain do?" Qi Yuansheng paused, "But that's not why I killed him."
Hua Yitang closed his eyes, "The first case of a missing girl was in the twelfth year of Xuanqi, and Qi Yuan disappeared two years later. Before that, eighty-six young girls had disappeared, and the records in the files are - "
"...The bad guy can't be found for a month, so the case is closed." Lin Sui'an murmured.
Hua Yitang's eyes glowed red, "Zhou Changping is the governor of Yangdu and is responsible for the safety of the 600,000 people of Yangdu. However, he is dead | in position | plain | and is mediocre and incompetent. This is the source of all evil. Even death cannot atone for his sins.”
"The government has no conduct, no virtue, no achievements, and the people cannot redress their grievances, their anger, and their sorrows. The ants are forced into a desperate situation and can only fight hard. Like me, like Dong Chao, we can only exchange blood for blood and life for life. ." Qi Yuansheng showed a desolate smile and looked at the bright Yangdu City at the foot of the mountain, "I have no choice."
"That's not right!" Hua Yitang's eyes were red and he said firmly, "There must be other choices."
Qi Yuansheng turned around and looked at Lin Sui'an from a distance, "Ms. Lin, you haven't told me yet, how do you know that her nickname is Xiu'er?"
The night wind blew the sleeves of Qi Yuansheng's robe wildly dancing, like a huge white butterfly about to spread its wings and fly high.
He was too close to the cliff.
Lin Sui'an's heart was beating wildly and he moved forward quietly, "I saw her in my dream. She was holding a bowl of rice cakes and said she wanted to give it to her brother. She also said that she liked to see her brother laugh the most. "
Qi Yuansheng's eyes were dazed, and he laughed softly. His smile was just like Xiu'er remembered, as beautiful as a painting.
"I can't remember clearly," he said, "Maybe what you said is true."
The wind suddenly became stronger, Qi Yuansheng flew up with a roar, and fell towards the cliff. Soon after, Lin Sui'an rushed out of the cliff with a single step, leaped down, and grabbed Qi Yuansheng's arm with his left hand. Qian Jing's right hand, sheathed, was stabbed into the cliff, but she forgot about the bone fractures in her right hand, which could not support the weight of the two of them. She only managed to hold on for a moment, and her right hand began to slip away from the handle of the knife. Suddenly, a The thick hemp rope was swung down and tied around Lin Sui'an's waist. Lin Sui'an looked up and was surprised to see Ling Zhiyan and Hua Yitang both pulling the hemp rope. Their handsome faces were suffocating because they were using too much force. Got to be red.
Hua Yitang: "Ling Liulang, you're too late!"
Ling Zhiyan: "Hanashiro, could you please stop being so roundabout next time when you leave a message?"
"I even drew a map, are you blind?"
"You didn't tell the time clearly!"
"Of course we're leaving immediately!"
"Shut up and hurry up!" Lin Sui'an roared.
The two young men from aristocratic families immediately pulled the rope. Lin Sui'an was sweating profusely in pain and his whole body collapsed. The most annoying thing was that Qi Yuansheng below actually laughed out loud.
"Lin Sui'an, you are such a strange person. Why can you guess what I want to do every time? It was like this when I was looking for the source of the Ten Tortures, and it is still like this now."
Because the plot of jumping off a cliff is too cliche!
Lin Sui'an gritted his teeth: "Your enemy Feng Yuyi is still alive. Are you willing to die like this?"
Qi Yuansheng raised his face and smiled wider, "Of course I will not forget him."
"Then follow me back! We will definitely give you justice!"
Qi Yuansheng shook his head, struggled to reach up with his other hand, and opened Lin Sui'an's fingers one by one.
Lin Sui'an: "!!"
"I don't believe you." Qi Yuansheng's voice and smiling face fell into the thick night fog, leaving only a desolate white snow.
Facing the furious Doctor Yue, Lin Sui'an discovered for the first time that when a beauty gets angry, not only is it not pleasing to the eye, but it is also a bit scary.
"Are you deaf or a fool? Can't you remember what I said?!" Dr. Yue roughly changed the splint on Lin Sui'an's right arm. The pain made Lin Sui'an grit his teeth and crack his mouth. "I'll say it again, your arm is a You must not use force during the month! If you do this again, your arm will be useless!"
Lin Sui'an: "Doctor Yue, you have been saying this for three days."
"Did I said wrong thing?!"
"Yes, yes, I will definitely follow the doctor's advice next time!" Lin Sui'an was furious.
"Sooner or later, my Yue Luo brand will be destroyed in your hands." Doctor Yue sighed heavily, holding Lin Sui'an's left hand and looking at it, "Is the right hand still like that?"
"yes."
Doctor Yue clicked his tongue and turned to write the prescription, "I'll prescribe you some decoction to clear your mind and dispel fire. Try it first."
"Thank you, Doctor Yue." Lin Sui'an looked down at his slightly trembling left hand. He had been in this Parkinson's state since he came back from Poppy Mountain three days ago. He couldn't use any force at all - the touch and body temperature of Qi Yuansheng's palm seemed to Still staying up there - Lin Sui'an sighed inwardly, after all, he still couldn't save him.
"I'm going to take a look at Hanashiro," Dr. Yue said as he picked up the medical kit, "Are you coming with me?"
Lin Sui'an nodded and stood up: "Okay."
The garden where Hua Yitang lives is located in the southeast of the flower house. It is just two cups of tea away from Lin Sui'an's residence. These are the two closest gardens in the flower house. Enter the main entrance of the garden and continue along the corridor. Walking through the lotus pond, boating lake, Hongqiao group, maple forest, listening platform and other scenic spots, we finally arrived at "Tiandanju" where Hua Yitang lived, which took almost two quarters of an hour. When Lin Sui'an came here for the first time, he had the illusion of going to a park. To put it bluntly, he didn't even have the strength to walk back to his room to sleep until he was full.
The front door of Tiandanju is still the same as before. Mu Xia led a group of maids and attendants waiting outside the door. As far as the eye can see, they are full of heads, holding exquisite and gorgeous snacks, fragrant meals, cooked tea, ice-cold cold drinks, and ten Several grasshopper pots, seven or eight canary cages, five or six tanks of golden carp, and today there were actually two more fighting cocks. All in all, there is everything you need to eat, drink, play and be entertained. There is nothing you can’t imagine and nothing you can’t give away.
Doctor Yue rolled his eyes and walked through the crowd. Lin Sui'an exclaimed, "Good guy, this pattern is really updated every day, and it is always new. It fully demonstrates how extravagant and arrogant the upper class of the evil feudal society is."
Mu Xia sighed heavily when she saw the two of them.
Doctor Yue: "How are you today?"
Mu Xia: "From now until now, I have only sent in two cages of steamed cakes, half a pot of tea, two plates of cut squid, three bowls of chicken soup, and Shuangxue Drink has come out intact, without touching a mouthful."
Lin Sui'an glanced at the sky. It was just past midnight. Hua Yitang had eaten so much. Wasn't he afraid of accumulating food?
Doctor Yue: "It's true that I ate too little."
Lin Sui'an almost ducked.
Mu Xia: "I brought all the playthings that Shiro likes, but Shiro refused to even take a look at them, and wouldn't let us enter the house to serve him. Shiro hadn't bathed in three days, and he didn't even wear a sachet. What can we do!"
Hua Yitang loves stinky beauty so much that he doesn’t even use the sachet?
"The situation is indeed serious." Lin Sui'an said seriously.
Doctor Yue stood outside the door, listened to the sounds in the room, and shook his head, "I can't cure it. Let's find another expert."
Mu Xia's face wrinkled into orange peel, "Ms. Lin, what happened to you at Poppy Mountain that day? Why did Shiro become like this when he came back? He hasn't been like this for a long time -" Mu Xia paused, " Madam Lin, do you have any idea?"
Lin Sui'an looked at her slightly trembling left hand and sighed: The cause of her disease and Hua Yitang's were probably the same.
Lin Sui'an signaled everyone to take two steps back. In the midst of everyone's doubtful eyes, he kicked open the door of Hua Yitang's room, walked straight in, and kicked the door shut with his feet amidst the gasps of cold air. .
This room was astonishingly large, with the outer room alone covering an area of 500 square meters. The east and west rows of windows were tightly closed, and the sunlight was cut into tiny pieces by the carved window lattice and fell to the ground, all alone.
Hua Yitang sat in front of the six-sided landscape screen, barefoot and wearing only a thin round-neck gown. He didn't even wear a hairpin, only a thick hair tie. His body was hunched and his neck was crooked as he looked. There are three scrolls of books spread out on the table.
Lin Sui'an took off her shoes, grabbed a cushion and patted it, and sat opposite Hua Yitang. She was very familiar with the scroll. It was the content shown to Qi Yuansheng on the Poppy Mountain. The other volume was the content of the Ten Tortures copied by Chen Zhu. One volume is Qi Yuan's closed case file, and the other volume is the miscellaneous records of scenery written by Qi's father.
Hua Yitang still held a scroll book in his hand and dug his fingernails on the rope that tied the scroll book.
Lin Sui'an took a breath and wanted to say something, but she was a shy person and was not good at chatting. She searched hard and couldn't find the right words, so she could only end with a sigh.
Hua Yitang's eyelashes trembled slightly. He held the scroll with both hands and put it on the table. After a long time, he said, "I didn't find any evidence that Qi Yuansheng changed the household registration status for himself and Dong Chao." He untied the scroll and pulled it. Opening, the scroll book was completely blank, "Qi Yuansheng did it perfectly, leaving no traces. The evidence I mentioned was all a lie to him."
Lin Sui'an's eyes widened.
"If I hadn't deceived him, if I hadn't pushed him so hard, he wouldn't have chosen a dead end."
Lin Sui'an was silent for a moment, then placed his trembling left hand in front of Hua Yitang's eyes. Hua Yitang suddenly raised his eyes, "What's wrong with your hand?"
"I have been shaking and unable to exert force," Lin Sui'an tried to clench his fists, but failed, "because a living and beating life disappeared from this hand."
"I don't blame you! I saw it. It was Qi Yuansheng who opened your fingers himself!" Hua Yitang's voice couldn't help but choke.
Lin Sui'an opened his five fingers widely, as if to comfort Hua Yitang, and also seemed to be telling himself, "He is so smart, he can overthrow the arrogant Feng family, and he can take full advantage of Hua family, how could he be... Did you deceive him with just one or two words?" Lin Sui'an curled his fingers again. This time, he finally tightened his grip and stopped trembling, "Actually, he has already settled his ending."
Hua Yitang stared at Lin Sui'an's hand, his eyelashes trembling slightly.
Lin Sui'an: "Qi Yuansheng's experience was so tragic that it makes people feel sympathy and anger, but he also had the blood of innocent people on his hands."
Hua Yitang sighed quietly: "...Chen Zhu..."
"The death of Yan He and Jiang Hongwen is not a pity, but the moment Qi Yuansheng raised his knife to kill Chen Zhu, he became a murderer like Feng." Lin Sui'an whispered, "This is the most important thing. grievable."
The house became quiet, the windows clicked, and the wind picked up outside.
Hua Yitang stood up, walked barefoot to the window, and opened the window. The golden leaves were lifted up by the wind, swirled and fell into his palm. Before he could catch them, they flew away again.
Hua Yitang looked up at the branches and leaves for a long time, then turned his head, his eyes as bright as stars.
"What do you want to eat? I'll treat you."
Lin Sui'an lay on the soft cushion: "No need. I just had breakfast and I'm afraid of accumulating food.":,,
