MTL - Cannon Fodder Counterattack Investigation System-Chapter 110

The immaculate white handkerchief was embroidered with strings of wisteria flowers, simple and elegant. When giving this handkerchief to Han Ziyi that day, Zhou Ziruo once said with a smile that there is a word "purple" in her name, which fits this handkerchief just right.

How could he not recognize, what is this?

The last time I saw this handkerchief, it was held in the palm of Han Ziyi's already stiff hand. He never dreamed that it would appear in another place so soon!

Zhou Ziruo covered his face in confusion, "How could this happen?"

"The people in Yaohua Palace have already gone far away, I'm afraid it's not so easy to determine whether the handkerchief is still in Miss Han's corpse." Lu Lixiao said.

Zhou Ziruo looked over, "Do you think Miss Han's body is still in the coffin?"

"You mean, she has been made into a puppet?" Lu Lixiao also looked at him.

Zhou Ziruo stood up abruptly, "It's not a puppet! If it was a puppet, why would she put the handkerchief away on her body? She is conscious! I mean, at least she knows who she is and who gave the handkerchief to her." of…"

"Ziruo," Lu Lixiao interrupted him, "You want to say that Han Ziyi admires you, so you specially put away the handkerchief you gave her, but when you attacked Gu Erye, Gu Erye accidentally tore off a piece of it. , became the evidence of her murder?"

Zhou Ziruo opened his mouth, but when he got to his mouth, he found that there was nothing to say. Although it was unbelievable, he really thought so.

Lu Lixiao said to him clearly: "Bringing the dead back to life does not exist."

"I know, but..." Zhou Ziruo didn't know how to describe his feelings. Even if a dead person could move or even kill someone because of certain spells, she would definitely not have intelligence or consciousness of her own! Otherwise... wouldn't that be the same as being alive?

Is his feeling really wrong? Han Ziyi was made into a puppet? Or the murderer who killed Gu Er took the handkerchief from Han Ziyi's hand?

Zhou Ziruo sat down on the stool dejectedly.

Lu Lixiao asked him: "How do you know where Gu Erye's body is tonight? Why do you go out alone in the middle of the night?"

"...The white-clothed female ghost in Shahu Castle entered my dream, I sleepwalked and followed her out, and found Gu Erye's body..."

"It's meaningless for this handkerchief to fall into other people's hands. Presumably the female ghost specially let you find the corpse earlier, in order to convey the murderer's message through this handkerchief."

They had already discussed the information pointed to by the handkerchief, but there was no result. Zhou Ziruo shook his head and said, "Why did the murderer kill Gu Erye?"

Lu Lixiao said: "I'm afraid it needs to be deduced from what Gu Er is going to do tonight. I took a quick look just now and found that there were no signs of fighting at the body, and it was definitely not the scene of the crime. It is impossible to hide the corpse from all the night guards, so the place where the corpse is dumped must not be far from the real crime place, and Fenghe Garden happens to be very close. Gu Er went to Fenghe Garden so late, and then Combined with his current situation, you can imagine what kind of idea he has!"

"Idea..." Zhou Ziruo suddenly realized, "He wants to kill Mrs. Gu! □□!"

It is said that a large number of elites are sent to protect Fenghe Yuan strictly for the safety of the old lady, but in fact those elites are all from Gu Er. If Gu Er kills the old lady tonight, no one will even be there tomorrow. I know that he has appeared in Fenghe Garden before!

"This is really...wolf ambition! It's so vicious!" Zhou Ziruo shook his head, "Gu Er failed to kill Mrs. Gu, but instead stole the chicken and got rice and was killed by the murderer... What is going on in Fenghe Garden tonight? The situation, presumably only Mrs. Gu has seen it, but Mrs. Gu is out of her mind, and I don't know what to ask from her..."

"Bang bang bang" knocked on the door quickly, Zhou Ziruo and Lu Lixiao looked at each other, and heard Mu Qijun who lived in the next guest room open the door and yawned in response: "Who is it..."

"There are thieves breaking into the house. To ensure the safety of all guests, we are here to search for the thieves!"

The door of Leng Mo's room was also opened, Lu Lixiao took a look at Zhou Ziruo who was only wearing a jacket, pushed the door and stepped out, "Go and have a look."

Mu Qijun and Leng Mo had already arrived in the yard, and as soon as Mu Qijun opened the gate of Zhizhu Garden, he was almost blinded by the glaring fire outside, and then he came to his senses.

The person who took the lead was a steward of the Gu family, who slapped the door loudly just now, but now that the door opened, he didn't rush in to search, but frowned and lingered on the four people standing inside the door with probing eyes.

Zhou Ziruo squinted his eyes, and realized the profound meaning from this unreasonable behavior.

It seems that searching for thieves is just an excuse. The purpose of the Gu family is to investigate the outsiders living in the Gu mansion. Whoever is not in the residence at the moment, who is not awake from sleep!

This means that the Gu family has evidence to suspect that Gu Erye's death was caused by people in the government!

Zhou Ziruo didn't wear a coat when he was sleepwalking, although there was some dew from the night's cool on his body, it was not conspicuous, and he looked no different than he just got out of bed. Lu Lixiao was neatly dressed, but it was not surprising that he maintained this calmness at all times. Mu Qijun and Leng Mo really just woke up.

The steward couldn't see anything unusual from the four of them, but suddenly he heard Lu Lixiao politely smile and said, "Isn't your residence looking for thieves?"

"Excuse me, little ones, let's go!"

The news of Gu Erye's death was only made public in the early morning of the next day. Regarding this, the Gu family only said that a thief broke into the house last night. Gu Qinghuan was treated as a suspect and smeared the Gu family by the way.

Strange things happened one after another on Mount Zhuri, and everyone easily accepted this statement. Even Zhou Ziruo and Lu Lixiao, if they hadn't found Gu Er's body first last night, they probably wouldn't have doubted the words given by the Gu family.

The members of the Gu family are not stupid, if Lu Lixiao could deduce Gu Er's plan before his death, so could they. But in the final analysis, it is all family conflicts, which is not enough for outsiders.

Because of Gu Er's death, Feng Heyuan was protected even more tightly. Several legitimate elders of the Gu family supervised this matter together, ensuring the safety of Mrs. Gu, but at the same time faintly achieved the effect of mutual containment. The violence within the Gu family is secretly unfolding. At this time, no one wants the old lady Gu to die suddenly at the hands of a competitor. Instead, the old lady Gu has become the safest one.

The meeting between Lu Lixiao and Mrs. Gu was cancelled. An old man from Gu Er's uncle came to Gu Er's family, and personally delivered the fake Xuanming Pearl to Zhizhuyuan. He praised Lu Lixiao very affectionately, and greeted The elders of Qingyang Mountain finally urged them to leave quickly by the way.

Naturally, Lu Lixiao would not leave easily, he just pretended not to understand the meaning of the words and continued to be a guest in a stern manner.

While Lu Lixiao was dealing with the old fox of the Gu family, Zhou Ziruo came to Gu Er's mourning hall.

The mourning hall was set up urgently today, and it will be open for people to worship in the afternoon, and the guests from all the immortal families have not finished, and it is already night time when everyone goes to burn incense.

The mourning hall, where people come and go, finally quiets down.

When Gu Er's wife saw Gu Er's body, she was so heartbroken that she couldn't get out of bed at all, so when Zhou Ziruo arrived, she only saw Gu Qingyan leading a few servants who served Gu Er, kneeling beside the coffin in linen and filial piety.

Such a big Gu family, although the current population is not as prosperous as in the past, there are still so many people anyway. Everyone is relatives by blood, but Gu Er died less than twelve hours ago, only the people in his room remained in his mourning hall.

This scene made Zhou Ziruo sigh.

People live in this world for only a few decades, and they are busy and hardworking, isn't it just to make themselves and their loved ones live more comfortably? The Gu family can live without worrying about food and clothing for several generations, but they are not as happy as an ordinary peasant family.

Zhou Ziruo paid homage to Gu Er, came to Gu Qingyan with kindness, and said to him: "My condolences."

Gu Qingyan knelt straight on the ground, bowed his upper body in return.

The other party was kneeling and standing by himself... If Zhou Zi didn't understand ancient etiquette, he thought he might look rude, so he considered kneeling down and nodding himself. At this time, the servant guarding the mourning hall said: "Master, you have already knelt down!" It's been a whole day, no grain of rice has been eaten, no water has been touched, your filial master understands! Leave this to us first, you go and eat something!" After finishing speaking, he cast his eyes on Zhou Ziruo for help.

Seeing that Zhou Ziruo and Gu Qingyan were almost the same age, people thought they were friends. Zhou Ziruo didn't explain to him, and persuaded Gu Qingyan: "Let's go, I'm going back to Zhizhu Garden, let's take a walk along the way."

Gu Qingyan looked at his father's coffin hesitantly, and took off the filial piety hat he was wearing. As expected, he has practiced martial arts since he was a child. After kneeling for so long, he suddenly stood up without seeing him feeling dizzy and stiff.

The two came out of the mourning hall, and the atmosphere was very quiet.

Zhou Ziruo was very embarrassed, so he said something: "It's a day for a man and a child, you also want to open up, don't be too sad... You still have a mother to take care of!"

Gu Qingyan was silent for a while before opening his mouth in a low voice: "The day before yesterday, I unscrupulously bumped into my father and made him angry, but just less than a day later, he... Until now, I still don't quite believe this is true. At the moment of his death, I was still an unworthy son in his heart!"

Although Zhou Ziruo felt that this time should not be done, he couldn't help paying attention to the quarrel between the Gu family and his son, "Did you quarrel the day before yesterday?"

"Father wanted me to sneak attack my opponent to win the big competition, but I refused him." Gu Qingyan didn't pay attention to Zhou Ziruo's exploring eyes at all, and was immersed in sadness and guilt, "Although until now I don't think what he did is That's right, but I clearly could have told him my thoughts in a gentler way, yet I argued fiercely with him and said a lot of exaggerated things... He must be angry with me..."

I see.

Gu Er took the risk to murder Mrs. Gu, because he felt a crisis because of disagreement with his son, so he jumped the wall in a hurry.

"When I was young, my father was always very strict with me. I was never allowed to miss half a day of class even when I was suffering from cold and fever. My father was always a strict father when I was growing up, but this strict father was always obedient to my brother, who wanted to play. I just play and do whatever I want... At that time, I was very angry with my father. I was his biological son, but why did he treat my elder brother so much better than me? It wasn't until I grew up that I realized that my father treated me so much better. The so-called 'good' of the big hall brother is definitely not what I need! Father...maybe he is not a good person in the true sense, but everything he does is for me."

Zhou Ziruo discovered for the first time that Gu Qingyan usually looks silent, but his heart is clear. It can be said that Gu Qinghuan's whole life was ruined by Gu's second hand. The reason why Gu Qingyan wanted to save Gu Qinghuan was probably because he felt guilty towards him.

To be honest, Zhou Ziruo has no sympathy for Gu Er, and Gu Eryou is now to blame for his fate, but Gu Qingyan is Gu Er's only son after all, and he is not good at expressing his true opinions, so he wanted to make a joke and bring the topic to the fore. open.

Instead of using his brains, Gu Qingyan took the initiative to say something irrelevant: "The moon is red tonight."

"Ah?" Zhou Ziruo looked up, and sure enough, the moon was much redder than usual.

It is said that this phenomenon is caused by the wavelength, but it is not particularly rare, and it has been encountered several times in the 21st century.

Gu Qingyan murmured: "Red moon, full moon... Heng'e..."

After he mentioned Zhou Ziruo, he realized that today is the fourteenth day of this month. Fifteen is approaching, and the moon looks almost like a china plate.

"Hang'e?...Oh, it's Chang'e, right?"

"Chang'e?" Gu Qingyan was puzzled.

It is estimated that this world has never experienced the Han Dynasty, so Chang'e did not change its name to Chang'e. Zhou Ziruo waved his hand, "It's the Heng'e you mentioned, the one who stole her husband's elixir and went to the moon..."

"Stealing her husband's elixir?" Gu Qingyan disapproved when he heard the words, "When did Heng'e steal Houyi's elixir before flying to the moon? She voluntarily flew up on the night of the blood moon in order to revive the dead Houyi. Dedicate your soul to guard the moon palace for the Queen Mother of the West forever, completely free from reincarnation, and there will be no afterlife!"

There are several versions of the story about Chang'e's flight to the moon. Zhou Ziruo used to look it up to prepare for elective homework when he was in college, but he had never heard of this kind of story. However, the history of this world is fundamentally different from that of theirs. Myths and stories are all legends left by the ancients, so it is not surprising that there are different legends.

At the fork in the road, Zhou Ziruo planned to say goodbye. Gu Qingyan had a bit of reluctance in his eyes, but he didn't say much, he clasped his fists and said goodbye, then turned and left.

Zhou Ziruo walked towards the Zhizhu Garden, and within a few steps, he met Lu Lixiao who was coming towards him.

He stepped forward quickly: "The old man of the Gu family is gone?"

"Let's go." Lu Lixiao took out a shiny black bead and threw it to him to play with.

Zhou Ziruo's demon instinct felt that there was aura overflowing from the beads, but since the Mingzhu is a magic weapon related to the underworld, there should be yin energy on it instead of aura. Apparently the Gu family bullied them because they didn't know the details of Xuanmingzhu, so they just found a little magic weapon to fool them.

"This is also a rare spiritual object, you can keep it. Learn to absorb spiritual energy in the future, this object can also help you practice." Lu Lixiao said.

Zhou Ziruo asked: "Are you going to the mourning hall to pay homage to Gu Erye?"

Lu Lixiao nodded lightly, "Originally, but since you've finished worshiping, I'll go tomorrow."

"The Gu family seems to have decided that the murderer is not an outsider. The guests will basically leave tomorrow. If the murderer is among them, won't he be completely free?" Zhou Ziruo worried.

Lu Lixiao naturally understood this, "If the guests want to leave, there is no way to stop them unless there is a special reason. If the murderer has a plan, even if he leaves on the surface, he will come back secretly. But... the murderer is not an outsider, not Representatives must be among the guests!"

"You mean... the murderer has been at the Gu family?" Zhou Ziruo lowered his voice.

Lu Lixiao nodded slowly.

"Who do you suspect?"

Lu Lixiao frowned slightly, "Currently there is too little evidence pointing to the identity of the murderer, so it can't be called suspicion, but someone has a secret hidden in him."

"Who is it..." Zhou Ziruo hadn't finished asking when suddenly there was an earth-shattering piercing sound of gongs and drums in the quiet air all around!

"What happened…"

A large area of ​​flames gathered in the long corridor in the distance, moving quickly, Lu Lixiao looked there for a moment, and suddenly thought of something, "Not good!"

He pulled Zhou Ziruofei and rushed over, stopped a flustered maid and asked, "Where is this going? What happened to the house?"

The maidservant replied in disbelief: "It's not good... Jiuye's yard is flooded!"

The author has something to say: Yesterday when I repaired the computer, I obviously only broke the fan, but they formatted the hard disk for me. . .

Then after reinstalling the system and coming back, I lost the outline saved in the cloud. . .

It took a lot of work to get the outline back. . .

Then yesterday passed. . .

Correct the typo tomorrow. . .