"How did the dead bird die?" Bo Ruo asked in a deep voice.

Sun Zhao's expression became strange, "The person who stayed in the yamen said that he found a bird that was smashed to death by the lake in the garden. The bird's size was a palm-smacked person, and it was smashed to bloody and bloody-"

Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou looked at each other. One of the dead fourteen years ago was that the lower body was killed by a broken bone.

Sun Zhao said again: "Liu Qing and Chen Mo were imprisoned for many days. Originally, they were suspected people, but last time Ye Fei died, they almost cleared their suspicion. Later, they brought them back to protect them, but they were unwilling to make a fuss and wanted to go out."

Huo Wei said: "The dead birds in the garden have to send someone to check it."

Sun Zhao responded, and Bo Ruoyou asked again, "Captain Wu is back?"

"Place those corpses in the charity village." Sun Zhao replied.

Bo Ruoyou pondered for a moment, "Those graves are deserted, and Master Qian has not returned to the village for many years. The previous worship was a few months ago. Master Qian probably didn't know about us going to dig the grave and dig out the bones."

Sun Zhao looked at her suspiciously, but Huo Weilou understood what she meant, "The murderer doesn't know that we have learned about the Zhao family's affairs back then. This dead bird is saying that the murderer intends to kill people with the same method, and perhaps use this place to let the murderer appear."

Speaking of this, Huo Wei said, "Take me to meet Liu Qing and the others."

Sun Zhao looked solemn and hurriedly ordered people to go to the prison to prepare. At this moment, Wu Xiang returned from outside with the Yamen Pass. When he saw Huo Weilou and Bo Ruoyou, he immediately came forward to salute. It was only when he returned to the city today that he learned about Bo Ruoyou being enthroned by the county lord.

Wu Xiang was very happy and happy. He was rarely sleepy even though he had not been asleep all night. Bo Ruoyou couldn't stand it and asked him to rest for a while. However, he had to interrogate Liu Qing and Chen Mo, so how could Wu Xiang rest?

Bo Ruoyou sighed helplessly, knowing that the corpse had been placed in the charity village, she was not in a hurry after thinking about it, and she also wanted to know how Liu Qing and the other two were quibbling.

Not long after, Liu Qing and Chen Mo were taken into the back hall.

Huo Weilou sat in the main seat, not angry, but Sun Zhao was in the first position on the left, with a solemn expression. Wu Xiang stood beside Sun Zhao with his sword in his hand, in the corridor separated by a wall, Bo Ruoyou held his breath and listened to the movement outside.

Liu Qing and the other two had never seen such a situation, but they recognized who Huo Weilou and Sun Zhao were. Thinking that even Wu Zhaohou came, they knelt on the ground and shrank their shoulders and did not dare to raise their heads.

Huo Weilou looked at the two of them. He remembered that when he went to the Hundred Birds Garden on the first day, the people were cleared at that time, but when he went to search for the inner garden, many people surrounded Xun's yard, and these two people were among them.

At that time, everyone was frightened, and Liu Qing could not avoid the vulgarity, so no one doubted him at that time.

Liu Qingnian is over 10 years old. He has a pretty face and a slender figure. He is usually very good at maintaining his body, but he was imprisoned in prison for a few days. At this moment, his clothes are wrinkled and his temples are scattered, and he looks a little embarrassed. Chen Mo next to him is also like this.

Huo Weilou picked up the teacup and his eyes fell on the slightly foamy tea soup, "You guys liked by Zhao Yue all learned the bird show from the head teacher of the Zhao family class?"

Liu Qingren was trembling, and his voice was trembling, "It's... Later, I went to other theaters and learned some..."

Huo Weilou raised his eyes, his eyes cold, as if a sharp knife hangs in the face of the two of them, "Then you can't even remember when the Zhao family troupe has left? Besides, the Zhao family troupe is not a distant class, but everyone is dead. Do you know this?"

Liu Qing swallowed with difficulty, "We... we left the Zhao family class very early and went to find a living elsewhere. Later, we went back to the capital. When we heard that the Zhao family class was gone, it had been three or four years at that time, so we said that the Zhao family class had dispersed many years ago, and we... we didn't know what happened that year."

A large area of ​​cold sweat appeared on Liu Qing's forehead. After saying this, he couldn't help but raise his eyes to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Huo Weilou looked at the two of them and suddenly asked, "Do you want to go back to the Hundred Bird Garden?"

Liu Qing turned his head and looked at Chen Mo. Chen Mo was as nervous as him. The two of them had a quick look at each other. Liu Qing lay on the ground and said, "The villain has never made any mistakes, so it is hard to stay in prison all the time. The death of other people really has nothing to do with the villain. The villain still has to make a living in the future. If someone knows that he has been to the yamen prison, it will be difficult to find a job in the future."

Huo Weilou closed the lid of the teacup and instantly rang out a sudden sound. Liu Qing was startled, but soon, Huo Weilou said gently: "Since that's the case, I'll let you go back."

Liu Qing suddenly raised his eyes, as if he couldn't believe it. Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang both looked at Huo Weilou, not knowing what he was going to do.

Liu Qing came to his senses for a moment and hurriedly thanked him, and Chen Mo kept kowtowing.

Huo Weilou said, "But the murderer has not been caught yet. If you go back, you are worried about your life."

Liu Qing gritted his teeth and showed a determined look on his face, "The villain must be careful, and I believe that the yamen will find the murderer soon--"

Huo Weilou nodded and said with ease: "Let you go back to the Hundred Birds Garden now and leave."

Liu Qing looked slightly loose. Although Sun Zhao was puzzled, he still called the Yamashiro to send them out. When the two left, Huo Weilou called his embroidered clothes envoy outside the door, "Follow up."

The embroidered envoy left, and Sun Zhao looked at Huo Wei Lou and said, "Mr. Marquis, are you really putting it back? The murderer is not that easy to deal with. Last time we accidentally caught the murderer's plan, and Ye Fei died. This time, this yamen prison is their best protective umbrella. Once they return to the Hundred Bird Garden, there will be a lot of danger."

Huo Weilou said, "Who said they were going back to the Hundred Birds Garden?"

Sun Zhao frowned, Wu Xiang thought for a while, and suddenly clenched his fists, "Oh, if they had concealed something, or if the matter back then was really related to them, would they not be able to escape?"

"I'll know if you want to escape later."

Huo Weilou was calm and unhurried. After waiting for less than half an hour, the embroidered clothes envoy brought Liu Qing and Chen Mo back together.

The two were still as embarrassed as before. The difference was that they had some injuries on their bodies. The embroidered clothes envoy came to report, "They left the yamen and first went toward the Hundred Bird Garden. However, after walking out of the two streets, they suddenly turned around and went to the money house on Guang'an Street in East City. After they came out of the money house, they went straight to the south of the city. The subordinates saw that they were about to leave the city and came forward to take the people. The two of them were quite skillful and had to resist stubbornly. They were injured when they captured them."

Of course, they went to the money house to get money, and they left the city to escape. They said they wanted to go back to the Hundred Birds Garden, but after leaving the yamen, they made such a plan. From this, they did not dare to go back to the Hundred Birds Garden because they knew that the target of the murderer was still them, and they did not dare to stay in the yamen because they concealed more important things.

Huo Weilou said without surprise: "Take it back to prison, and I will go to the trial personally-"

He stood up and looked at Bo Ruoyou who had arrived in the hall, "You are waiting for me outside."

Bo Ruoyou nodded and responded, Huo Weilou took Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang to the prison cell where the yamen was tortured.

The cell was dim and dull, with tables and chairs placed beside the north wall, and the wall facing the opposite one was full of torture instruments. Chen Mo was taken away, Liu Qing was escorted to kneel on the ground. As soon as Huo Weilou appeared, others had shook into sieves.

Huo Weilou looked at Liu Qing like this, and his eyes flashed with mockery. He had seen the most vicious, dangerous but most calm and difficult-to-break person in the world. This Liu Qing was nothing.

When he sat down, he saw dozens of taels of silver on the table. Huo Weilou asked slowly: "Didn't you ask you to go back to the Hundred Bird Garden? Why do you want to go out of the city?"

At this point, Liu Qing knew that he could no longer deceive him. He was sweating like rain on his face, and his blood was gone, but he kept biting his back teeth and silent.

Huo Weilou said lightly: "Let me come to help you sort it out. You did leave the Zhao family first, but the Zhao family is in the capital, so you should stay in the capital to make a living. But you said you would not come back a few years later. I guess what you must have done before you left the capital, and you were afraid of escaping."

What Liu Qing said must not be all falsehoods. If true or falsehood is mixed together, there will always be a reason for quibbling.

He finished speaking, Liu Qing still lowered his eyes and said nothing. Huo Weilou lost his patience and nodded to the two embroidered clothes. The two of them stretched Liu Qing's excellent hands, and then folded them around his arms. As the crisp sound of the broken bones, Liu Qing burst into a tragic cry of pain.

He collapsed to the ground in pain, with golden light flashing in front of him. Before he could breathe, the next wave of pain came again. He felt that the bones of his hands were broken inch by inch. In an instant, he thought of the scene many years ago.

"I...I said..."

Before Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang could see how the two embroidered clothes were moving, they saw that Liu Qing was so painful that no one looked. Both of them felt a little scared in their hearts. When they heard that Liu Qing was about to speak, they were refreshed.

Huo Weilou's eyes moved to Liu Qing's face. Liu Qing curled up on the ground, his cheeks against the wet ground, and his arms drooped weakly. He was so painful that he was sweating and tears flowed. At this moment, he looked at Huo Weilou with a pleading look and spoke intermittently.

"That was fourteen years ago..."

"My master's opera troupe cannot make ends meet and is unwilling to continue adopting us. He has no children and only chose five of the most obedient and filial people who are usually staying with him. The rest of them have to leave the opera troupe to make a living by themselves."

"You don't understand our hatred. He can't treat us well on weekdays. He still drove us away at that time. We defected to other headmasters for our livelihood. But when that man was happy, he only let us serve the nobles for fun. If he was unhappy, he would beat us to death. We would not have a good life..."

Wu Xiang couldn't help it, "So you don't hate the head master who punished you, but instead hate your master, so you ran back and killed someone?"

Liu Qing shrank for a moment, took a few more breaths before continuing to speak. His tone was a little light and hesitant, as if he couldn't remember it clearly, "I forgot who mentioned it first. We are just children. If he abandoned us like that, he created karma himself. Those are his retribution--"

Huo Weilou frowned when he heard this. Liu Qing didn't know what he thought of, but his fear was a little bit weakened, "Yes, it's his retribution. We just want him to have the retribution he deserves."

Wu Xiang was shuddered, "You were just half-aged children at that time. How did you kill so many people?"

Liu Qing's eyes were covered with blood due to the pain. He turned his eyes to Wu Xiang, his eyes were scarlet and scarlet, "Don't underestimate any child. At that time, we were not afraid of anything. They also underestimated us like you. We have followed the opera troupe since we were young, learning magic tricks, singing operas, and juggling skills. We have suffered too much and seen too many things that are apart... We found the poisonous rat's stone medicine, first poured them, and then we used the hand-"

Perhaps recalling the scene fourteen years ago, a glimmer of fear and pleasure flashed in Liu Qing's eyes, "We found too few stone medicines, and they can't kill people. It's just right, so we punished them one by one according to the method in the scriptures."

Wu Xiang couldn't help but step forward, "What scripture? The punishment you mentioned drowned, hanged, and burned them to death?"

Liu Qing's pupils bleed for a moment, and after a while, he realized what Wu Xiang was asking, "Yes, this is the retribution they should have. As for the scriptures, I can't remember them clearly. Anyway, if you think about them, it is a scripture that can be blessed by the Bodhisattva..."

Wu Xiang heard it very strangely, "You have left the opera troupe at that time. Do you believe in Buddhism? Why do you have this scripture?"

"No... we don't believe in Buddhism, we don't believe in anything. At that time, whoever gave us food would believe in anyone. At that time, we had already escaped from the master behind and fled to the dock outside the city. We were originally trying to find a job, but others saw that we were too young and didn't need us at all. Later, we recognized a person, and that person gave us food. He was a Bodhisattva of the Rebirth, and he recited the Bodhisattva Sutra for us..."

Wu Xiang was puzzled, "So you admit that you wanted to take revenge, so you went back to kill them? Before leaving, they set a fire and destroyed the corpse and traces?"

The fear on Liu Qing's face suddenly worsened, as if he realized what the mistake he made would bring to him. "We didn't mean it. Even the Bodhisattva Sutra says that people will go to hell if they suffer karma. We... we are just too young and we don't understand at all. Later, we knew we were afraid when we killed people. We regret it very much..."

He lowered his eyes, buried his head in his chest, and cried tremblingly, "We went outside to have a few years of life. Later, when we heard that the matter was not serious, we returned to the capital. The alley has been completely renewed. We know that no one will find out what we did that night-"

Wu Xiang knew the whole case best, and he said anxiously: "What about the dead this time? Do you know what happened back then? Didn't you expect someone to come back to take revenge?"

Liu Qing's lips twitched a few times, and the fear in his eyes became even more serious. "When Jiang Xing died, we were afraid when Yu Xun died, until... until Ye Fei died. Ye Fei's way of death was exactly the same as before, but we didn't use coffin nails, but we used iron arrows for the troupe to perform juggling performances..."

Wu Xiang was still a little puzzled: "Your master and others were killed by you at the beginning, but there were others in the yard. Did you see them when you set fire?"

Liu Qing cried and said, "No... No, everyone was poured out by our medicine... Later we asked, saying that five or six died, some were injured, and the opera troupe was completely disbanded, so we never followed up. We thought, if someone saw it, why didn't they report to the official?"

Realizing that someone knew what they did and came back to treat the other person according to his own way, he couldn't help but tremble, "It must be the living person at that time, the living person came back..."

Wu Xiang gritted his teeth and said, "So you don't know who is still alive?"

Liu Qing's expression had already given the answer. Wu Xiang looked at Liu Qing incredibly, looking at the tender skin he was caring for now. If he wore a silk shirt and sang and chanted, he would have a clear and clear rhyme. But who would have thought that these people would have been able to get together when they were less than ten years old, but they would have cruelly tortured others.

He turned around and looked at Huo Weilou, "Marty, I guess this is what happened back then. What should I do now?"

Huo Weilou seemed to be thinking about something else. He stared at Liu Qing and said, "What is the name of the Bodhisattva Sutra you are talking about? Is it a Buddhist thing? And who is the person who gives you food and lets you read the Bodhisattva Sutra?"

Liu Qing shook his head in pain, "I don't know the name, but I don't know that the Bodhisattva can save us from suffering and trouble. The Bodhisattva in the world gave us money, otherwise, none of us will survive."

When Sun Zhao heard Huo Weilou ask about this, he turned around and whispered: "Can you send someone to check it?"

Huo Weilou nodded slightly and asked Liu Qing again, "Does that person know what happened to you? Did he say you can go back and kill someone?"

Liu Qing's expression became weird. He seemed to be thinking about how to explain it best. Soon, he said, "He knew that he knew our experience, and he... seemed to say that we should act according to the scriptures. Later, we never saw him again, and forgot what he said at that time. We have been very scared over the years..."

Sun Zhao felt a little nervous when he heard this. At this time, he understood Huo Weilou's intention, "Is the Marquis worried about the rise of a cult?"

Buddhism and Taoism were prevalent in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but there were many sects among the people. If they did not cause trouble, the government would not control it. However, once something happened, or if the people were encouraged to oppose the imperial power of the government, it would probably not have a good ending. In the past few years when Huo Weilou was in power, he had dealt with several cult-related incidents, but he did not expect that this old case also seemed to have something to do with the cult.

Although Liu Qing called him a Bodhisattva, it was not only Buddhism that had Bodhisattvas. This Bodhisattva Sutra actually taught the heart of killing in life, and it didn't seem like a Buddhist thing. At that time, the five children were all young and were easily bewitched by others, but they were tempted to think about it, which was very different from being really cruel and ruthless to kill people.

Huo Weilou didn't realize that these five people were just instigated, and with only Liu Qing's words, it was impossible to determine whether there was really this "residual Bodhisattva". On the contrary, their killing was a foregone conclusion, and their methods were even more cruel and outrageous. Their ruthlessness was really even more terrifying than many adults, so how could they afford the word "innocence".

Huo Weilou will temporarily suppress the idea of ​​whether there is any cult. "Go to interrogate Chen Mo and see how true and false what he said is. Now this old case has been dug out, but it also needs to be carefully examined. If the case was investigated clearly more than ten years ago, there would be no such disasters now. Now that the reason for that year is known, the murderer of this Hundred Bird Garden case can almost be determined."

Sun Zhao quickly responded. It was more than ten years ago that Liu Qing and Chen Mo had committed evil. They had been struggling to make a living over the years, and there was no ferocity on them. It was not difficult to interrogate these two people, but there was no evidence before and it was not to be tortured, but now it is very different.
To be continued...