Chapter 124 Six Flowers Flying 20
Huo Weilou's eyes darkened, "Suicide?"
Bo Ruoyou thought for a moment with a serious expression, "Mr. Song sent his wife and children away after the incident in Weicang, Qinshui County, and told him that if his life could be kept, he would go back to his hometown to see them. If he could not keep it, he would never return to Beijing, which means that he had already noticed the danger at that time. If the corruption of the Ministry of Revenue was really related to him, would his sins die?"
"Maybe, this time, the corruption of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in Weicang in Qinshui County, and the officials accepted bribes, was a serious crime. It just depends on whether he was instructed by someone or he was the main culprit."
Bo Ruoyou said again: "He doesn't regard him as the main culprit. If he is poisoned, then the person behind the scenes will be the main culprit."
Huo Wei expressed his agreement, and the previous direct envoy also used this to verify it. She continued: "If he committed suicide, then he would feel a little guilty of sacrificing himself, because he did not commit suicide by fearing the crime."
Huo Weilou instantly understood her speculation, "Before he died, he invited Changning Hou and Li Yuan to the mansion, and went to the Wei family tea shop, and left jade pendants in the Yunzhou restaurant. In order to leave clues, the court found these people?"
Not to mention that the court has not convicted him, even if he has convicted him, he still has time to struggle. Even if he is afraid of his crime, he should be afraid of his crime in prison. Either he will take poison in the mansion and leave evidence of suicide. But he pretended to be a murderer. The clues of corruption in the Ministry of Revenue seem to be broken here, but the people involved by him that day have become suspicious.
Hou Changning and Li Yuan were imprisoned in the heavenly prison that day, and Bo Jingqian was not spared. Then, the beauty laughed, and the beauty laughed small seeds. I am afraid that Song Yu himself would not have thought of this section. The clue that he buried in the Wei family was the jade pendant.
If the Wei family was not found on Li Yuan and Changning Hou, the jade pendant would appear ten days later, proving that he had visited the Wei family's tea shop that day. This seemingly unintentional clue would point the finger at the Wei family.
"I remember my adoptive father said that Secretary Wei was very powerful. When the empress's mother was involved in a palace murder, he relied on his own to protect the entire Xu family. Everyone in the world was afraid of death. The reason why Lord Song could commit suicide by using such a method must be because of his fear in his heart. This fear made him dare not say anything clearly, and even if he knew nothing, he knew that he had not lived for too long, so he chose this method."
When it comes to the nature of these powerful ministers, there is nothing better than Huo Weilou. He nodded and said, "That's true. Wei Shu has been trying to protect the eldest prince over the years. If it weren't for this, Your Majesty would have made the Second Highness the Prince a long time ago."
Bo Ruoyou would not ask too much about these things, but only thought about the joints. "Through this analysis, the reason for Lord Song's suicide makes sense, but there is still a lack of evidence... arsenic, he used this poison, I thought he had learned before that he always had to carry poison that day..."
Huo Weilou's eyes looked slightly sour, he got up and went out to instruct the outside attendants, "Call Ning Xiao."
After giving the order, he came back, "He changed his court clothes and left that day. I prefer the arsenic he bought temporarily that day. In this way, even his closest servants didn't know how he was poisoned. Now that he knows where he went that day, he just needs to carefully investigate the pharmacy clinic on the way. It is not difficult to find a place to buy medicine."
Arsenic is a highly toxic, and it is not necessarily available in ordinary medicine shops. If someone buys it in the medicine shop, it will leave some impressions. But Bo Ruoyou didn't expect that after checking it for many days, he would finally come to this conclusion, "Then is the person he is afraid of, really Secretary Wei?"
Huo Weilou sat beside her again, "It is not impossible. The Ministry of Revenue is Wei Shu, who is the decision of the Ministry of Revenue. This time, he cannot escape the corruption of the Ministry of Revenue, but he just can't find evidence. But now, especially Wei Quan is involved in it. After exploring it, he can always find Wei Shu. It's just that he had never thought that Song Yu committed suicide."
Bo Ruoyou thought of Song Yu sending his wife and children away, and most of the servants were dismissed. When he went to Yunjian that day, he ordered a table of wine and food but did not move at all. At that time, he was already poisonous, but he endured the pain and waited. What was he thinking about when he sat in the private room for the half hour? The spicy wine in Yunzhou reminded him of his wife and children and his hometown thousands of miles apart?
Bo Ruoyou asked Huo Weilou, "Did Lord Song be a good official in the past?"
Huo Weilou's eyes were dark, "He entered the second-tier official at the time, and later went to Luozhou for ten years to work as a local official, built canals, wharfs, reclaimed mulberry fields and waterway freight, making Luozhou silk as famous as the two lakes. It took less than ten years south of Luozhou to change dramatically. In ten years, most of his performance exams were excellent, and then he entered the capital. He first worked in the Ministry of Personnel for two years and became the Minister of Revenue. If this question was to ask the people of Luozhou, they would definitely praise him."
Only the people will judge the officials based on good or bad. Standing at Huo Wei Tower, they will definitely not judge a person so clearly. Bo Ruoyou sighed a little, "It is enough to get praise from the people."
Huo Weilou held her hand, "Many people devoted themselves to the officialdom. At first, they were all from Chicheng, and they could see the people in their eyes, but later they stood high and saw more and more, and they were getting farther and farther away from the people, so they could not see them."
Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but think of He Cheng who was still in Qingzhou. Local officials could always see the suffering of the people. She secretly hoped that she would have no mistake in speculation. No matter how serious Song Yu committed, at least his past achievements were true, and he would still be a bit brave and brave enough to expose others with his power.
Ning Xiao came very quickly. When he heard that Song Yu might have committed suicide in order to expose the corruption of the Ministry of Revenue, he was also a little surprised. He frowned and looked at Bo Ruoyou. He knew that this thought was probably probably guessed by Bo Ruoyou. He felt a little unbelievable in his heart, so he immediately took the order to lead someone to investigate.
When he left, Bo Ruoyou looked at his back and said, "Deputy Commander Ning doesn't seem to believe it, and he must have guessed that I came over to tell the Marquis." She said hesitantly, "Deputy Commander Ning must know that the Marquis told me about the corruption of the Ministry of Revenue. Will he feel inappropriate?"
Ning Xiao has followed Huo Weilou for many years, and she could see that Ning Xiao must have respect for Huo Weilou. This point can be imagined only by looking at Ning Xiao’s words and deeds. Only when he is convinced and respected someone, he will imitate him intentionally or unintentionally. Over time, he will become more and more consistent.
Bo Ruoyou used to face Ning Xiao. Although she felt that this person was showing his sharpness and sometimes he seemed more cruel than Huo Weilou, she never felt afraid of him. But now she felt guilty in her heart. After all, her mind has changed now and she has lost the confidence she used to be.
"Why does he feel inappropriate?" Huo Weilou was puzzled at first, and then understood a little. His eyes were slightly darker, "Do you know that in addition to staring at the words and deeds of civil and military officials, he should also pay attention to their wives?"
Bo Ruoyou didn't react for a moment, and Huo Wei said, "No matter how confidential the court officials are, they will probably not be able to help but talk to their wife when they return home. What's so strange about this? What's more, this time is for the purpose of tolerance."
Bo Ruoyou's face suddenly turned red. He actually compared her to the wife of the court officials, but she was not his wife at the moment. She whispered: "But I am not..."
"No, sooner or later, they will be yes. If they can't even see this, they will have followed me for many years in vain." As he said that, Huo Weilou's eyes were slightly darker, and he looked at her up and down for a moment, not knowing what he was planning.
Bo Ruoyou felt a little scared in his heart. Seeing that it was getting late, he wanted to say goodbye and return home. He also knew that he had not returned to the house last night, so he couldn't help but persuade him to stop. Huo Weilou's eyes changed again, and he wanted to speak for a few moments, and he was so angry that he asked to send her home.
Bo Ruoyou left with Jinbo in his arms, and I don’t know why he was suddenly unhappy.
Huo Weilou stood under the corridor and watched her walk out of the yard. He asked about Huo Qinghong's situation and then went back to the bedroom. He was indeed a little sleepy, but after lying down, a thin shadow floated in his mind. At noon, the sun rose up, and it was the hottest time. He had just picked up the brocade box and smelled the sweet smell again. He always felt that the qi and blood were unstable.
Huo Weilou closed his eyes and really didn't want to take a cold shower again, so he stretched his hands down under the cover of the brocade quilt. He half-closed his eyes unbearably. There were only waves of rustling robe rubbing in the room. After a full cup of tea, he heard his suppressed panting, and a thin layer of sweat spread on his face. He calmly looked down for a moment, but he still got up and went to the bathroom.
After Bo Ruoyou returned home, he saw Cheng Yunzhi wrote a few more prescriptions. She presented the brocade box. It was the first time Cheng Yunzhi saw this thing. While he was looking at the golden ointment, he listened to Bo Ruoyou's incident in the disease camp in the south of the city.
It is logical that he would have to go and see the patients, but his identity is inconvenient, so he listened very carefully. After listening, he pondered for a moment, "It seems that once the poison is deeply poisoned, no matter how powerful the will is, he cannot control himself."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "That is, the prescriptions prescribed by the Imperial Hospital are mostly warm and tonic. Because of the addiction to illness, it is difficult to see from the pulse. The poison is only a moment, and no one knows why the addiction is obtained. Today I told the adoptive father this method. The adoptive father thinks that the adoptive father's method may lead to a surprise victory."
Cheng Yunzhi raised his eyebrows, "Aren't you going to the yamen?"
Bo Ruoyou coughed lightly, "Because I still want to ask about Lord Song's case..."
Cheng Yunyi's face looked like a girl with a big face. Bo Ruoyou hurriedly told Song Yu's case. When he said that he suspected that Song Yu had committed suicide, Cheng Yunzhi also expressed his emotion, "The name of silk in Luozhou has indeed risen for more than ten years. Later, after a group of local officials in Luozhou changed, they have now declined."
At this point, Cheng Yunzhi's words became cold, "There are swords everywhere in the temple, and there are no blood in the blood. Song Yuruo really committed suicide. After committing suicide, he implicated so many people, which is considered to be his pursuit of kindness and gaining kindness. But if he was just involved in corruption and was poisoned, it would be his fate. Let's see if he can find evidence."
Bo Ruoyou looked at the pharmacopoeia, and he accompanied Cheng Yunzhi to read the pharmacopoeia. The yamen were also busy with the trouble of golden ointment in the past two days. Bo Ruoyou had never gone to Yingmao. When it was evening, he accompanied Cheng Yunzhi to visit Huang Lin. At this moment, Huang Lin was much more awake. Seeing that Cheng Yunzhi was troubled and made his parents sad and tired, he also looked guilty. Although he couldn't drink the soup, he still forced himself to swallow half a bowl.
The father and daughter stayed until the second update to return home. Cheng Yunzhi wanted to wait to see if Huang Lin would get a poisonous attack, but he had not waited. He also hoped that the interval between Huang Lin's poisonous attacks would get longer and longer, so he went home to rest first, and asked the Huang family to call him at any time.
After Bo Ruoyou stopped, he was a little concerned about Song Yu's case. When he slept until the fifth day of the night, the door of the Bo family suddenly was knocked. The Huang family servants came in panic and said that Huang Lin's poison had occurred!
Bo Ruoyou and Cheng Yunzhi quickly dressed and went to the Huang family. When they entered the inner room, they saw Huang Lin struggling on the bed again. His hands and feet were tied, making a piece of blue and purple bruises. Cheng Yunzhi quickly lit the incense pills prepared in the daytime, and then placed them beside Huang Lin. The smoke came out. Huang Lin had never smelled the smell of golden ointment at first, but soon, the twitching on his body was relieved a little, and the tears at the corners of his eyes were also suppressed.
Although it was impossible to cure the root cause, this thing still gave him a little comfort. He gathered next to the incense burner with the incense pills, took a crazy breath of almost obsession, took a few breaths, and relaxed his face. When the pain surged up, he took a few more breaths. He went back and forth several times. The strength of his struggle on his body was weaker and his consciousness had not completely collapsed.
After dawn, he was finally overwhelmed with drug addiction. The first two times were so frightened, but after he was overwhelmed with it, he was still awake and had not fainted. Cheng Yunzhi hurriedly asked for his pulse, and from the perspective of the pulse, it was much gentler than the previous two times.
Cheng Yunzhi breathed out, "It seems to be a little effective. I only added some golden ointment here, and the rest were sandalwood spices and a few herbs. The damage to him has been minimized. Today, I must use medicinal food and must not be careless."
Cheng Yunzhi pondered for a moment, and in addition to asking about his pulse, he also stepped forward and touched the acupoint on Huang Lin's shoulders and back to his head. When he returned home, he said, "When the poison is blown, the patients are all crazy, which gives me a feeling of injury to the meridians on my head. Therefore, I wondered whether I could use acupuncture and medicine to take effect faster."
Bo Ruoyou knew that some hand and foot paralysis and madness could be treated with acupuncture. However, he had not thought about this detoxification. He couldn't help but admire Cheng Yunzhi's previous family background, which was not comparable to her. She naturally encouraged Cheng Yunzhi. After entering the house, Cheng Yunzhi went straight to the study and started to study. Bo Ruoyou saw it in his eyes, felt very relieved, and then started to take action.
At noon, the door of the Cheng family was knocked again. Zhou Liang thought it was the Huang family, but when he opened the door, he saw that it was the attendant of the Marquis' Mansion, who came to tell Bo Ruoyou. Bo Ruoyou arrived at the door and the attendant said, "Girl, the Marquis ordered the villain to bring you a message. Lord Song has found the place to buy medicine. It is indeed the same as you expected. Marquis asks you not to worry about this case. If you have time, you can go to the Marquis' Mansion and will explain the details to you at that time."
After Bo Ruoyou responded, the servant turned around and left. She thought about it and realized that the case was actually suicide, and the murder case was solved. She was not in a hurry to go to the Marquis' Mansion to inquire, so she went back to the study to help Cheng Yunzhi.
After the result was told Cheng Yunzhi, Cheng Yunzhi was also a little sighing, "I just don't know what the inside story is."
Bo Ruoyou thought that Huo Weilou was afraid that he was interrogating Wei Quan at this moment, and he didn't know if it would be successful. The father and daughter talked about the ups and downs of the officials of the Suizi, and then put their minds on detoxification.
The murder case has been resolved, and the most important thing now is to relieve the poison of the golden ointment. Not only Huang Lin is anxious, but Huo Qinghong is anxious. At present, more than a thousand patients in the capital are looking forward to it. Zhou Liang goes out every day and hears many rumors of the family being broken and his wife and children being separated. The culprit is golden ointment. Although Cheng Yun’s face is not obvious, it is becoming more and more urgent. He prescribes many prescriptions and has prepared many incense pills, and wants to find other herbs to replace the golden ointment. In just two days, the entire Cheng family yard was filled with the medicinal materials purchased by Zhou Liangxin. If he didn’t know, he thought the Cheng family was going to do the medicinal materials business.
During these two days, Cheng Yunzhi was also testing the acupuncture method for Huang Lin. There was no effect on whether he had relieved the drug addiction. However, the complications such as headache and physical weakness caused by the poison have been relieved a lot. Apart from the poison, he was still quite uncomfortable when the poison was discharged, and he could use medicine for eating in the rest of the time, and his energy and spirit have also recovered a little. Cheng Yunzhi felt that the method was right.
Seeing that Huang Lin had recovered a little bit of energy so obviously, Bo Ruoyou remembered Huo Qinghong. On the evening of that day, she expressed her thoughts and wanted to ask Cheng Yunzhi to see Huo Qinghong. Cheng Yunzhi never treated others for years, and this time he was also a neighbor's family, so the addiction to illness was under his nose.
She was a little nervous. After hesitating, Cheng Yunzhi sighed and said, "I know that the prince of the Huo family has also been infected with this poison. Not to mention your current thoughts, it is only because Wu Zhaohou has saved you several times. This is also true. But now I have not yet determined the effectiveness of this method, and it is not easy to come to the door rashly, especially since he is noble, he may have obtained the method of understanding the poison?"
Zhou Liang went out these two days, but he had not heard of the way to get rid of the poison in the south of the city. Therefore, Bo Ruoyou guessed that the Marquis' Mansion was mostly clueless, but she wanted to treat Huo Qinghong. She also felt that it was better to be thorough. "Then my daughter went to the Marquis' Mansion tomorrow and asked clearly before telling her adoptive father. If our adoptive father needs to go see it. If there is a method to get rid of the poison, we will do our best."
Cheng Yunzhi smiled and replied. The father and daughter returned to their rooms to rest. The next day they had breakfast. Bo Ruoyou took a carriage to the Hou Mansion. She calculated that she had not seen Huo Weilou for three days. When she arrived at the Hou Mansion, she was delighted when she heard that Huo Weilou was in the mansion. However, before she could walk to the main courtyard, she saw two servants hurried to the guest courtyard with medicine.
That was the direction where Huo Qinghong lived now. Bo Ruoyou frowned and hurriedly followed him to the living yard. As soon as he reached the gate, he heard a loud noise in the house. At first glance, Huo Weilou stood sideways in the main hall, his body as carved stones, but his eyes were looking at the warm pavilion.
"Brother, kill me!" Huo Qinghong's roar in pain began.
"I don't deserve to be your brother--"
"Uncle was born as the prince of the Duke's Mansion. He was already a nobleman than my father. Later, he married the eldest princess... He was even more noble. You have been a model for the younger generation since childhood... I will compare with you in everything I do, and I can't compare with you. My father also told me that you are destined to be in power. For a Huo family, it is impossible for both of them to value power. He would make me a wealthy young master. I... Then I thought that nothing could be compared. I was willing to be a playboy. Since I was a child, no one knew about it, and I was unwilling to do it..."
"Now I'm becoming like I'm worse than death..."
"You kill me, I really can't stand it..."
The servants looked at their noses and their hearts and didn't dare to show their breath. Bo Ruoyou was also a little shocked when he heard it. Soon, the voice of the father-in-law Fu came out and he coaxed him with a prayer: "Criminal, don't say anything more. The marquis is all for your own good. Just drink the medicine obediently, and it's good if you drink the medicine..."
"Either give it to me or kill me, don't torture me like this anymore. I'm really uncomfortable. Brother, why can't you be soft-hearted to me? You never be soft-hearted to anyone. You are like my aunt. Back then, my uncle was forced to death..."
"Criminal!" Eunuch Fu shouted anxiously, "Don't say the prince, you can't say such things..."
"I can say, I can say anything. Anyway, I can't live long. I'm tortured to death like this. How can I still be the prince of the Duke's Mansion? I want to say, I want to say all the things I have been holding on for years..."
Huo Qinghong was exhausted, but he still shouted hoarsely without hesitation. Eunuch Fu was there and Ming Guilan was yelling in a low voice, but Huo Qinghong continued to shout at the top of his voice as if he was deliberately trying to say, "I knew you would not be soft-hearted when I begged you. You don't even care about your biological mother. You are in charge of power, but look at yourself, you are even more pitiful than me, a useless person. You are not well-off for your family of four--"
Something broke. Bo Ruoyou heard Eunuch Fu scold Huo Qinghong in an unprecedented sharp voice. However, Huo Qinghong laughed hoarsely and began to say heart-killing words intermittently, but his voice was already broken, and even words were hard to become a sentence. Eunuch Fu scolded something with anger.
There was a strange sound in his ears, but Bo Ruoyou looked at Huo Weilou, but he felt that he was filled with cold silence. The servants in the yard all lowered their heads, as if they had become stone statues. Bo Ruoyou's heart was tense, and his mind was still moving, and he had already taken steps. She was a little anxious, but she was about to step into the threshold. Huo Weilou turned his head to look when he heard the sound.
The moment when the eyes met, Bo Ruoyou saw a deep and invisible space in Huo Weilou's eyes, as if all the imminent lights were swallowed by the abyss, and he himself was almost immersed in the cold darkness. When Bo Ruoyou walked up to him, he felt a little more energetic in his eyes. He turned around and said, "Why are you here?"
He didn't know how long he had been standing here, nor how long he had heard Huo Qinghong's nonsense. As soon as he opened his mouth, he had a hoarse voice that had not made a sound for a long time. Bo Ruoyou looked at the warm pavilion, "Honor Marquis told me to pass by that day, did the marquis forget?"
Huo Weilou recalled it and remembered that day when he ordered someone to tell her Song Yu's case, he nodded and stepped out of the door, "Come with me."
Bo Ruoyou hurriedly followed, his steps were neither too fast nor too slow, and he was also very steady. His back was straight, like a cold blade wrapped in a scabbard. But even through the scabbard, it gave people the feeling that they were not close to each other. Bo Ruoyou quickly followed and followed him into the study.
When he arrived at the study, he turned around and pointed to the low couch under the window to let Bo Ruoyou sit down. Seeing that she had not moved, he didn't say much, but said as usual: "Song Yu did buy medicine that day, and he didn't have money. When he bought the medicine, he gave the store ten taels of silver on his body, but only a small bag of arsenic. Because of this, the shopkeeper who sold the medicine had a deep impression of him. The medicine shop was in the alley east of Sanqingguan, which was very remote. It took some effort that day and it was not until midnight to find it..."
He thought she was really here to ask about the case, and he never stopped as soon as he opened his mouth. His eyes were dim and difficult to see. If he didn't look closely, it would be almost no different from him on weekdays. But if he heard it carefully, he could only notice that his usual sober tone was filled with a bit of heart-wrenching hardship.
"Song Yu bought the medicine that day and met the time he went to the tea shop according to the procedure. The doctor in the store said that it took more than three hours to kill the arsenic, and it also closed with the time when Song Yu died of poison that day..."
Chapter completed!