Jade Without Fragrance

   Chapter 316 List

Mei Hua choked up and talked about that day: "After we found out that our sweetheart is the same person, we all felt that he was happy with us, and we quarreled with each other. I said that Brother Jing and I played together when we were young. Is it because you had a good life? Some, he will like you? Yan'er said that I was born beautiful..."

  Lin Hao nodded slightly at the thought of the little novice.

   "Afterwards, I got angry and left first. I didn't expect Yan'er to be—" Meihua's eyes turned red, and she no longer concealed her remorse, "I shouldn't have asked Yaner to go to Tianyuan Temple..."

   She hasn't been calm for a moment these past few days, and has been praying that all this is a dream. The nightmare woke up, Yan'er was still alive, and they were still good friends who occasionally bickered.

   The erected atrium collapsed with the confession, and Mei Hua covered her mouth and cried bitterly.

   "What's the name of Brother Jing you said, and where does he live?"

  Plum Blossom stopped crying, and there was a look of vigilance in her eyes.

   "Don't think too much, it's just a normal investigation, we won't wrong innocent people."

Mei Hua bit her lip and hesitated for a moment, then said reluctantly: "His name is Zhang Jing, and he lives in the same hutong as my family. I left Tianyuan Temple that day and went to find him. He was not at home, and their family received a letter saying that he was My aunt is gone, and the family left the city for a funeral, and Yan'er's affairs have nothing to do with him..."

   The girl's tone became excited.

   "If that's the case, you don't have to worry anymore." Lin Hao comforted in a warm voice.

   Meihua grabbed the white silk skirt uneasy: "Then... will you call him to question him?"

   Everyone knew that she had a good relationship with Brother Jing. If they saw Brother Jing being questioned by the government, wouldn’t they have guessed that she was with Yan’er that day.

  Lin Hao knew Plum Blossom's worries, and she reassured her with one sentence: "You can find out when you go to a funeral, you don't need to ask people to ask questions."

  Plum blossoms breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Lin Hao's tone changed: "But if there are no new clues, we can only investigate deeply around the few of you who often play with Yan'er. Meihua, think about it carefully, you didn't meet any special people in Tianyuan Temple. Or did something special happen?"

   "Special people——" Mei Hua pondered and shook his head, "No. There were quite a lot of people offering incense that day, nothing special——"

   She paused, her tone uncertain: "After quarreling with Yan'er, I left first, because I was angry and left in a hurry. I accidentally bumped into someone, is this special?"

   Lin Hao's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Is that person a man or a woman?"

   "It's a woman."

   "Remember what she looks like?"

   Mei Hua quickly shook his head: "I can't see her appearance, she wears a hood."

   "What about age, body shape, clothing?"

   "I feel like she's two or three years older than me. She's very thin, although she doesn't follow the maid, she doesn't look like an ordinary person..."

   "You bumped into her, didn't she say anything?"

   "No, but she should be quite angry." Mei Hua tried to recall, "The veil on her hood shook a little, and I saw her mouth tightening—"

  Plum Blossom stopped suddenly, looking tangled.

   "What's the matter? Did you think of something?" Lin Hao asked patiently.

   "I don't know if I read it wrong or it's true—" Mei Hua hesitated.

  Lin Hao patted her hand: "Don't be afraid, I will go to verify it later, you just need to say what you noticed."

   "There seems to be a scar on her face..."

   "Scar?" Something flashed in Lin Hao's mind, because it was too fast and too sudden to catch the aura, "What kind of scar? Left face or right face?"

   "The left face... No, it seems to be the right face!" Mei Hua shook her head, "I can't remember, maybe I saw it wrong..."

   is just a random glance, if she hadn't just racked her brains to recall, she couldn't even remember such details.

Scar, a wealthy young woman, Tianyuan Temple, a beautiful girl without a head... Lin Haozai read these words in his heart, the flash of aura turned into lightning, splitting the chaos in his mind, and a person emerged. Come.

   Mei Hua watched Lin Hao's expression change, and called out nervously, "Sister?"

  Lin Hao returned to his senses, suppressed his turbulent emotions, and gave Plum Blossom a soothing smile: "You can go out later."

  Plum Blossom nodded obediently, and sat for a while before walking to the courtyard under the reminder of Lin Hao.

  Lin Hao kept calm and chatted with the last girl again.

   The five girls entered at the same time, and their expressions when they came out were similar. Whether it was Liu Zhaotou or Yan Erniang, they could not tell which one was related to Yaner.

  Qi Shuo asked Liu Zhaotou to send a few girls home, and together with Lin Hao, said goodbye to the woman.

   "Sir, they, do they know what happened to Yan'er that day?"

   "Don't worry, sister-in-law, the murderer of Yan'er will definitely be found."

   As soon as he left Yan'er's house, Lin Hao whispered, "Go to Tianyuan Temple."

   She asked Qi Shuo to get into the carriage, and told the question on the way.

   "I heard Meihua say that the woman she hit seemed to have scars on her face, and I suddenly thought of a person."

   "Who did you think of?"

  Lin Hao shook his head slightly: "I'm afraid that it will affect our judgment after I say it, so let's go to Tianyuan Temple to verify it first."

   "Actually, I also thought of a person."

"Who?"

   "Tang Er girl who was disfigured more than a year ago at Qinglu Temple outside the city."

   The second girl in Tang Qishuo's mouth was Tang Wei, the second girl in the Marquis of Wuning. Her elder sister Tang Qiang died at the hands of the abolished prince, so Emperor Tai'an did not investigate the assassination of the prince in the Marquis of Wuning.

  The original splendid Hou Mansion gradually lost its presence in the wealthy circle of the capital.

   "Looks like we thought of going together."

  Qi Shuo smiled and hugged her: "Many times intuition is a judgment after combining various information, not nonsense."

   While talking, Tianyuan Temple arrived, and the two went directly to the abbot and asked the list of guests who came to add sesame oil money on the day Yaner disappeared.

  Like the kind of pilgrims who have added a lot of sesame oil money, there are monks who specially record them. Buddhists say that it is a place of tranquility, but in some aspects it is not exempt from the commonplace.

   Sure enough, the two saw the name of Mrs. Wuning Hou from the list.

   "Is the list from more than a year ago still saved?" Qi Shuo asked.

  This kind of thing happened twice in Tianyuan Temple, and the impact was not small. The abbot also wanted to catch the murderer as soon as possible, so he cooperated with the monk to submit the account book: "This kind of account book will be kept for at least five years, and the two donors will look at it slowly."

  The two got together and started looking at the account book two years ago, and soon found the name of Mrs. Wuning Hou in the booklet, more than a month before the first headless female body was found.

   Looking at it, Mrs. Wuninghou will visit Tianyuan Temple in about three months, and then there are some festivals. It is estimated that the daughter had an accident at Qinglu Temple, and the position of burning incense and worshipping Buddha was transferred.

   "Thank you abbot."

   Walking out of Tianyuan Temple, Lin Hao glanced into the distance: "Although the Marquis of Wuning's mansion is in decline, if you go directly to the door to check it, I'm afraid it will only startle the snake."

   If Tang Wei was responsible for Wen Qing's disappearance, then she might be the key to solving the case.

   (end of this chapter)