Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

The knife in her hand moved an inch closer to Zhou Langyi's neck. "It's all because of you! You forced her to death!"

Zhou Langyi's neck was cut a little deeper, and blood beads rolled on the ground along the blade. However, he seemed to have lost his soul, and half begged: "Lu Xun, you, you don't get angry, be careful of the baby in your belly!"

"And, and I didn't ask that Wang to do that back then. I just, I just found out that he was your landlord. I just asked him to keep an eye on Lu Qin and find a chance to drive you out of the capital if necessary. I never thought that he would do such a dirty thing to your sister... I really didn't!"

"So what!" Lu Xun roared, "My sister died because of you too!"

Zhou Yun subconsciously reached for the dagger at his waist, but when he remembered what Shi Xun had just sent to tell him, he frowned again. Want to keep her alive?

But Lu Xun had a hostage in his hand. It was not difficult to kill Lu Xun without harming the hostage, but it was not easy to save Lu Xun's life.

"Then why don't you choose to report to the police?"

"Report to the authorities?" Lu Xun sneered. "I once had such a stupid idea, but when I took the complaint to the Censorate, I found out that the official had been in cahoots with the dean of the academy! He took out the document I signed and sealed, and I realized that it was not a receipt for claiming the pension, but a settlement agreement!"

"It is a reconciliation agreement between Lu Qin's family and Zhou Muqi, the murderer! In other words, my sister did not commit suicide by jumping into the well, but was pushed into the well by Zhou Muqi!" Lu Xun chuckled, "I was too stupid to trust them! What academy, what Jingzhao Prefecture governor, they are all villains who are trying to curry favor with the powerful! They are just using my sister's body as a stepping stone!"

Zhou Langyi had his hands hanging on his belly, his expression stiff, not sure if he was confessing.

Jiang Yun winked at the top of the wall, and the archer lying on the wall nodded slightly. The arrow passed through the gap in the treetops and landed directly on Lu Xun's left shoulder. However, Lu Xun was very alert and quickly avoided the blind spot. The archer missed the best opportunity and could only let go of the crossbow and look for another opportunity.

Lu Xun frowned and deliberately delayed, "Then you also found the Song family's parents?"

Lu Xun didn't say anything, but Song's mother, who had been keeping her head down, suddenly shouted, "It has nothing to do with Lu Xun, we are just doing this for Song Shu!"

The daughter ran while holding the kite, smiling as if it was yesterday. Song's father had tears in his eyes, and Song's mother burst into tears, pounding her chest with one hand and saying, "My poor Shu'er, she was also a bright and cheerful child like the scorching sun! Since she was a child, she took Feng Jia, the female deputy chancellor of the Dali Temple, as her role model and wanted to take the civil service exam to enter the Dali Temple. Although we were poor, we also wanted to fulfill our daughter's dream, so we used all our family's strength to send her to the most famous private school in the capital, Gu's Private School. Who knew that less than a year later, we heard the tragic news that our daughter committed suicide!"

"But my Shu'er wrote me a letter last month, saying that the academy was going to be closed and she wanted to go home to see her mother. My husband and I were busy and happy for a month, but what we got was a coffin!" Mother Song kept beating her chest, "How can we old couple believe it! So we came to the capital a year ago, and have been looking for the real cause of my daughter's death! Later we found out that more than a dozen children died in the Gu family's private school within three years, and all of them were determined by the government to be suicide! They were all children from poor families, and they were all related to Miss Zhou Muqi from the Zhou family!"

Everyone finally figured out the secret. If it was just one or two cases, that would be fine, but there were more than a dozen in three years. Isn't it obvious that there is something fishy?

This is no longer the Gu family private school that is respected in Beijing, it is simply a man-eating den of evil!

Among the people present, some had children studying in Gu's private school. They were shocked when they heard this and thought about having a good talk with their children when they got home to see if they had encountered the same thing. Some were glad that they were from a family of officials, so even if the other party was the Zhou family, they could not use their power to do anything to their children.

Jiang Yun couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart: "What about the parents of other people?"

Mother Song wiped her tears and lamented, "Some families accepted the pension from Dean Gu and chose to turn a blind eye, while some families filed complaints to Jingzhao Prefecture every month. But in the end, they were suppressed by the government and the Zhou family, and lost their livelihoods. They had to return to their hometowns empty-handed. In the end, only Xiaoxun and I persisted..."

"Then you can't kill anyone!" Jiang Yun said hatefully.

"Sir, what can you teach us?" Song's mother cried, "God is so unfair to us poor people! No one can redress our grievances, and there is no place for us to complain. Are poor people not human beings? Do children of poor people deserve to be bullied by you dignitaries?"

"Even though I am an old woman with no education, I have heard that the people are more important than the king! You Confucian scholars who follow the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, do you still remember what oaths and wishes you made in front of the school? You have forced us ordinary people into a desperate situation, but you turn around and blame us. Why don't you report it to the authorities? Why don't you cry out for justice?"

Song's mother cried more and more bitterly, and everyone was moved. Some of the officials in the official uniforms of the Dali Dynasty were scolded so much that their faces turned red and they looked ashamed, while others bowed their heads in deep thought, looking solemn.

Jiang Yun was speechless.

Lu Xun lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking, his eyes were full of sorrow, and then he suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "You are the last one, Zhou Langyi, give me your life!"

As he spoke, the blood-stained dagger was suddenly raised, and in the next second it was about to pierce Zhou Langyi's fragile neck. At this very second, Lu Xun revealed an extremely obvious flaw.

"Hurry!" Jiang Yun shouted.

The archer on the wall understood and aimed his arrow at Lu Xun's left shoulder. He silently prayed to himself that he should leave him alive. He pulled the bow and was about to let go, but the arrow of the man next to him was faster than his.

The arrow, with the sound of breaking through the air, passed through the gap in the treetops and pierced Zhou Langyi's left chest. It then shot out from behind Lu Xun and pierced into the wall. The huge force even drilled a hole in the wall.

"Pah, pah, pah, pah."

Countless drops of blood fell from Zhou Langyi's chest. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but no sound came out. Blood blocked his throat and kept oozing out. His tall body collapsed to the ground like a limp noodle.

The Lu Xun standing behind her was also shot through the lung by an arrow. A huge pain exploded at a certain point in her heart. She took two steps back dejectedly. At the moment when she was about to fall to the ground, someone held her back steadily, and she fell into someone's arms.

The Dali Temple archer who was lying on the wall was extremely surprised. However, before he could react, a cold dagger cut his throat so easily.

The accident came without any warning.

Then came the second arrow, and the third arrow. Dozens of arrows came down from all directions like a dense net. Some fell to the ground, and some pierced through the body. More than a dozen maids, servants, high-ranking officials, and noble ladies fell to the ground one after another. Some were even hit by several arrows and turned into hedgehogs.

"There's an assassin!" Shi Xun drew his sword and shouted.

The Dali Temple runners drew their swords and cut off the flying arrows while escorting the remaining people away.

Feng Jia held Lu Xun's body, which was gradually losing temperature, and turned to look in the direction where the arrow came from, but only saw a few afterimages fleeing quickly.

"Help! Kill someone!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and that shout was like turning on a switch, or like a hand that broke the string in the hearts of the people who were already nervous. They ran for their lives, screaming incessantly. Those who did not have time to escape and were tripped became footrests for the waves of people behind them, and the surroundings became a mess.

"Lu Xun! Look at me, you can't die!" Feng Jia desperately pressed Lu Xun's chest with one hand, trying to press back the blood that was gushing out of her body, while searching everywhere, "Doctor! Hurry up and get a doctor!"

"Hairpin..." Lu Xun's breath was weak.

Hairpin, hairpin! Feng Jia immediately picked up the pear blossom hairpin that was thrown on the ground not far away and held it in Lu Xun's hand, "Here, the hairpin is here!"

Lu Xun touched the hairpin and felt comforted. This was Lu Qin's hairpin, a gift from her sister.

The sticky blood on her hands stuck to the hairpin. Lu Xun frowned and tried hard to wipe off the blood bit by bit with her clean sleeve, but the more she wiped, the more blood there was. She then realized that her hands and body were all covered in blood. There was even so much blood that her clothes could not absorb it. It overflowed from her chest and flowed onto the ground, forming a small pool of blood.

"Who are they? Why did they kill you?" Feng Jia was talking about the assassin who had just shot the arrow. She knew that Lu Xun would definitely understand.

Lu Xun glanced at Feng Jia, as if trying to identify who she was. After a while, she smiled and said, "Because I betrayed the organization."

"They, they're afraid that I'll reveal their secrets."