Lin Sui'an's guess unfortunately came true.
After Su Feizhang's death, all clues pointing to the Su family in Suizhou were broken. Judging from the existing clues, everything was done by Su Feizhang alone. Of course, the Su family was not without influence. The reputation of the Su family in Suizhou plummeted. The Su family The disciples dare not even go out for fear of being thrown rotten vegetable leaves.
A few days later, news came from Jingmen that the Su family had secretly transferred the family property to Andu.
The strange thing is that this work was not started after Su Feizhang's death, but had been secretly advanced for several months. I heard that a business master secretly assisted in the operation and established a firm foothold in the Andu business community. According to this progress, the Su family will make a comeback. It's just a matter of time.
When Hua Yitang heard the news, he was very disdainful, "The competition in the business world is even more fierce than on the battlefield. A very smart person like my brother can only occupy a place by working hard and sleeping hard. Just because of the Su family's gang He’s eating shit’s head, and he’s just helping people count the money if he’s sold.”
Unfortunately, no matter how sarcastic and sarcastic Hua Yitang is behind his back, it is a foregone conclusion that the Su family will land safely.
On the second day after Su Feizhang's death, Jiang Wende returned to Dongdu with all the files on the Su case. Based on the distance and the case handling process, it would take at least a month before there would be a reply.
Naturally, Ling Zhiyan couldn't stay idle. She spent every day in the case hall checking files. Even Hua Yitang was embarrassed to lie down, so she went to Duan Hongning's and Minina's private residences to review the case.
Lin Sui'an had some time to spare. Fang Ke forced him to stuff a bunch of Shiquan Dabu Pills and Mu Xia Ri Wang | Octopus Soup. Not only did he recover from his injuries, but he also gained five kilograms. If he continues like this, the "Lord of Thousand Purities" will sooner or later become the "Lord of Thousand Jins". Lin Sui'an was miserable and sneaked out of Hua's 99th House on a sunny day.
She wanted to see Mrs. Xueqiu, but unexpectedly she met Hua Yitang halfway, and then ran into Ling Zhiyan at the door of Qiuyue Teahouse. It turned out that the three of them wanted to go together.
Qiuyue Teahouse is open for business as usual, with a warm scene. Mrs. Xueqiu was very happy to see the three of them, and welcomed them into the tea room of the back house. As soon as she entered, Lin Sui'an saw the screen in the tea room, which was embroidered with a cluster of bright red begonia flowers, which was bright and fresh.
Lady Xueqiu personally made tea for the three of them, using the Hua's white porcelain sent by Hua Yimeng. Times have changed, but the fragrance of tea remains the same, but things have changed.
The four of them sipped tea quietly and enjoyed the rare quiet time. Finally, the conscientious Lord Ling Sizhi broke the tranquility.
"Ling looked through the household registration change records of the past ten years and found a deregistration record three years ago. The deregistered person was named Yue Shisanniang. She deregistered from a prostitute and became a good citizen. Helped Yue Shisanniang to deregister. The person is the former head of the Liu family in Xicheng, Liu Qingxi’s father Liu Mulian. This Liu Mulian was a romantic talent when he was young, good at calligraphy, and had been friends with Duan Hongning and Minina for many years. "
Madam Xueqiu put down the tea cup and added a ladle of boiling water to the teapot, "Ling Si thought it right, I am Yue Shisanniang."
Hua Yitang: "How long have Madam Xueqiu known Duan Hongning and Minina?"
"We met each other when we were young, and we lived together in the band for eight years," Xue Qiu said. "When I was young, my face was disfigured and I was bullied in the band. If they hadn't tried their best to help me get out of my citizenship, I wouldn't be alive today."
Sure enough, Xueqiu was the last person in Duan Hongning's memory. Lin Sui An said.
Hua Yitang: "There were rumors in Hongxiangfang that on the fifteenth day of every month, Duan Hongning would dress up carefully and go out to meet her lover. Now that I think about it, Duan Hongning went to see not her lover, but Minina and you."
Xue Qiu smiled and said, "Everyone in the world thinks that a woman who dresses up carefully is bound to find the man she likes. But they don't know that in the hearts of many women, those mean men are not worthy at all."
Hua Yitang choked obviously, and Ling Zhiyan coughed dryly, "At the gathering on the fifteenth day of every month, besides the three of you, there is one other person, the masked pipa girl fifteenth mother next to Minina - that is, Lian Xiaoshuang. Is it right?"
Xue Qiu poured tea for everyone one by one, put down the teapot, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, raised her head, and said, "Yes."
Ling Zhiyan nodded, took out two things, and laid them flat on the tea table. One was the rubbing of the embroidery at the scene of Lian Xiaoshuang's crime, and the other was half of the Begonia embroidered silk handkerchief found on Qu Hui. "Lian Xiaoshuang" After Shuang's death, we found a screen in her embroidery room. Half of the begonia flowers on the screen were embroidered by Lian Xiaoshuang, and the other half were stitched by others. We made rubbings of the embroidery, "Ling Zhiyan will embroider The handkerchief and the rubbings were put together. "Qu Hui's embroidered handkerchief and rubbings can be put together into the same piece of embroidery. After testing, it was found that the embroidery thread on the handkerchief was the murder weapon that killed Lian Xiaoshuang."
Xueqiu lowered her eyelids and listened quietly, her expression calm.
"Qu Hui's confession stated that before she committed the murder, she saw that Lian Xiaoshuang had finished embroidering the entire screen, and then strangled Lian Xiaoshuang to death with embroidery thread. The time of Qu Hui's murder was around the time of Xu, and witnesses said that Qu Hui had already finished the three-quarter When we got home, based on the journey time, Qu Hui had no time to dismantle the screen and re-embroider the pattern."
"Moreover, Qu Hui spent many days recuperating from her injuries in the Huazhai. Her maids were responsible for applying medicine and scrubbing. No embroidered handkerchief was found on her body. Qu Hui only obtained this embroidered handkerchief after she left the Huazhai."
"Qu Hui and Wu Zhengli have a close relationship. Apart from their natal family, they have only been to one place, which is Qiuyue Teahouse——"
Xue Qiu raised her eyelids and said, "Yes, I gave that handkerchief to Qu Hui."
Hua Yitang: "Pi Xi's confession said that he saw Duan Hongning disposing of Lian Xiaoshuang's body. So it was Duan Hongning who removed the crabapple flowers on the screen and re-embroidered them again. In other words, this handkerchief The son was actually given to you by Duan Hongning."
Xueqiu: "Yes."
"We found fragments of Qingzhou embroidery under the embroidery on the screen, and based on this clue, we found out the crime of Wu's cloth shop. This is the information Lian Xiaoshuang left us. So, is there something hidden under the other half of the embroidery? What message, if any, and to whom was it left?”
Hua Yitang stood up and walked slowly in the tea room, "Hua went to Minina and Duan Hongning's house. They both had a crabapple screen. The most beautiful crabapple flower in the center of the screen was stitched differently from other places. By comparison, Minina and Duan Hongning embroidered it themselves."
Hua Yitang stopped in front of the crabapple screen in the tea room, "So, Hua guessed that maybe this crabapple screen is a way for you to transmit information to each other."
Xueqiu smiled, her pearly white skin glowing brightly, and her eyes were slightly red, "This is Xiaoshuang's favorite game. She always likes to embroider her favorite poems under the crabapple flowers, waiting for us to find them. We found them. , she will be very happy. When she finds the person she likes, she will also embroider that person’s name under the begonia flowers..."
Hua Yitang's eyes lingered on the Begonia screen for a moment, then he walked back to the tea table, sat down again, and said softly, "Hua's name also has the word 'Tang' in it, so he must be related to the Begonia flower. If Madam Xueqiu is willing, she might as well go with her Let me tell you the story of Begonia Flower."
Xueqiu poured another spoonful of boiling water into the teapot and wiped her hands with a handkerchief. This time she did not let go of the handkerchief, but held it tightly. The smile on her face seemed to fall into a dream she never wanted to wake up from.
"Xiao Shuang is the youngest among the four of us. She loves to laugh and embroider. She likes to put the embroidered crabapple flowers in the yard to bask in the sun. She said that in this way the embroidery will have the same fragrance as real crabapple flowers. .”
"She is our sister, the person we cherish most and the person we want to protect the most. We have been planning it since ten years ago and hope that one day we can help her get out of her humble status and let her live freely in the world. in the sun--"
Speaking of this, Xueqiu's smile gradually disappeared, "If it weren't for saving me, Xiaoshuang would have been the first to deregister, just a little bit, just a little bit..."
Xue Qiu's words were very vague, but Lin Sui'an and the three of them were in a tacit understanding and did not ask any further questions.
Xueqiu paused for a long time, then slowly said, "Later, Xiaoshuang met that man. He was a great hero in Yidu City and a promising soldier who joined the army. He fell in love with Xiaoshuang... He said that he could help Xiaoshuang get rid of his citizenship and marry Xiaoshuang. We don’t believe that Shuang is the legal wife...of course we don’t believe it...but Xiaoshuang believes in him, Xiaoshuang said...that person is worth it..."
"Xiao Shuang left with him, and you all know what happened next."
The three of them were silent.
"But what you don't know is that Xiaoshuang was forced to attend a banquet while being imprisoned by Wu Zhengli." Xueqiu looked straight at her, "That banquet was the Su family's White Sacrifice Banquet!"
The hair on Lin Sui'an's back suddenly stood up, and the expressions of Hua Yitang and Ling Zhiyan changed.
Xue Qiu smiled sadly, "It seems I don't need to explain what the White Sacrifice Banquet is."
Lin Sui'an grabbed Qian Jing and forced himself to suppress the boiling blood. Hua Yitang gently held Lin Sui'an's wrist.
Lingzhiyan looked back at Xueqiu and motioned for her to continue.
"During this White Sacrifice Banquet, Xiaoshuang discovered a secret." Xueqiu's voice was as calm as a pool of stagnant water, "Wu Zhengqing is the Peach Blossom Killer."
What? !
Lin Sui'an almost screamed, but when he thought about it, he realized something was wrong.
Ling Zhiyan had sorted out the time of the Peach Blossom Demon's murders before. Wu Zhengqing was the head catcher at the time. He was busy hunting down the murderers with the detectives day and night. He ate and lived with the detectives. He had no time to commit the crime, and no motive for the crime - so many consecutive Why did Xiaoshuang mistakenly think that Wu Zhengqing was the Peach Blossom Demon? Lin Sui'an heard a "ding" in his head, could it be——
Ling Zhiyan: "There are a total of seventeen cases of Peach Blossom Demon serial murders in the five-year period. The first discoverers of fifteen of them were passers-by and they were all different people. Only the first discoverers of two cases were the same beggar. "
Hua Yitang: "The deceased in the seventh and ninth cases were two girls under ten years old. Their peach blossom marks were different from those of the other deceased. Now it seems that they should be abandoned corpses."
Xue Qiu: "The children of those aristocratic families killed the white animals and threw away the bodies hastily. At that time, the Peach Blossom Demon appeared out of nowhere. Wu Zhengqing conveniently placed the two corpses on the Peach Blossom Demon's head. Not only did he not know the ghost, Unconsciously, because he did this beautifully, he helped Wu hold Su's lap. After that, all the bodies of the white animals were handed over to Wu for disposal. With this credit, Wu grabbed Qingzhou embroidery. business."
grass! Lin Sui'an cursed in his heart.
"Did Lian Xiaoshuang find these?" Hua Yitang asked.
Xueqiu: "Wu Zhengqing told Xiaoshuang himself."
Ling Zhiyan was stunned, "Wu Zhengqing actually told everything about such a secret matter?"
"Xiaoshuang was already pregnant with Wu Zhengqing's child at that time."
Lin Sui'an suddenly had a terrible idea. Lian Xiaoshuang was born in Lefang, so she naturally knew how to prevent pregnancy, but she was willing to get pregnant with Wu Zhengqing's child. "Could it be that Lian Xiaoshuang became pregnant because-"
Xueqiu sneered, "Men think that as long as they have children, a woman will be devoted to him until death. How ridiculous!"
There was dead silence in the house.
Xue Qiu was quiet for a while, and then said, "That day was another full-moon night. Xiaoshuang rarely came out to meet with us. She was very interested. When we chatted late at night, Xiaoshuang suddenly said that she had thought of a way to catch the Peach Blossom Demon. .”
The three of them stared at Xueqiu, feeling that the next words were the key.
"Xiao Shuang said that as long as she is killed by the Peach Blossom Demon, the Peach Blossom Demon case can be reopened. Wu Zhengqing is the biggest suspect. If you follow Wu Zhengqing, you can find the Wu family and the Su family."
"While she was talking, she actually laid out her plan in a serious manner, saying that suicide was not possible because the work could detect the cause of death, and there must be a five-petal peach blossom mark on the legs of the corpse - Xiao Shuang also said with a smile that these were the details of the file that Wu Zhengqing told her complacently after he was drunk."
"At that time, we all thought Xiaoshuang was joking. Because Xiaoshuang only said it once and never mentioned it again -"
"Until that day, Xiaoshuang sent a message asking Jiuniang to meet her at home around Hai hour, and also told Jiuniang to drive there alone..."
The afternoon sun fell on the tea cup, shining golden like a handful of colored glass. A tear fell from Xueqiu's face, and the colored glass broke.
She took out a small wooden box from under the tea table, opened it, took out a small folded piece of paper, only the size of two knuckles, and pushed it in front of the three of them.
"You are right in your guess. Xiaoshuang's last words are indeed hidden under the half of the crabapple flowers."
Hua Yitang carefully peeled it open, and the entire piece of paper was about the size of two palms when it was completely spread out. The paper was so thin that it was almost transparent. The writing on it was small and dense, but it was graceful and lively, and even revealed some joy.
[Jiuniang, when I read the letter, I must be dead. I know you will remember my words and you will understand why I did this.
There is a wind stove behind the door, with coals in the stove, and a peach blossom hairpin hidden under the embroidery frame.
The peach blossom iron must be placed at the root of the right thigh.
There was a big wooden box outside the back window. My body was thrown in through the back window. When it was over, my body was transported to the back door.
The back door leads directly to the back alley. There is a slope along the alley and out of the gate. Below the slope is a sewer. There are wooden stakes and hemp ropes beside the sewer. You can tie the wooden box to the sewer and leave. 】
[Tomorrow afternoon, my body will appear in Huanhua Creek. Huanhua Creek is only half a block away from Zhang Yi Tower. Tomorrow the Hua family will have a banquet at Zhang Yi Tower to invite the new Yidu justice to join the army. I heard that this person was born in the Hua family of Yangdu and has a prominent family background. He is independent and has solved countless strange cases. If he is this person, he may be able to give Suizhou a run for his money. I'm willing to take a gamble. 】
[I heard that there is Mrs. Lin next to Hua Canjun, who has unparalleled martial arts skills and a warm heart. If you have a chance, please meet her for me. 】
[Don’t rush to seek revenge on Wu Zhengqing. Only by keeping him can you bring out the sins of the family. 】
[The person who killed me was just a poor person who was designed by me. Don’t blame him. 】
[The child in my belly has taken the first step to avoid suffering with me. 】
[Don't be sad, if I can save those children with my dying body, it will be worth it. 】
[While chatting about this, I suddenly remembered that I wonder if Jiuniang still remembers my favorite poem embroidered under the begonia flowers...]
The last words were blurred by tears, making it difficult to see clearly. In the scent of tea, Lin Sui'an heard Hua Yitang read out word by word:
"Pounding a musk deer makes it into dust and its fragrance will never be extinguished; twisting a lotus into a piece of silk is difficult to cut off - Xiaoshuang's last work.":,,
