Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

Next door is Zhao Qing's room.

Feng Jiaxin thought something was wrong, grabbed her coat and ran out quickly.

A lot of people had gathered outside Zhao Qing's door. They were probably woken up by the screams like Feng Jia, and came here following the sound. They were all sleepy-eyed, and some were only wearing thin clothes.

A little maid knocked on the door vigorously: "Miss! I am Zi Yi! Are you okay, Miss?"

"Open the door quickly!" someone in the crowd said anxiously.

Sweat covered Zi Yi's forehead. Upon hearing this, she pushed the door hard but it didn't budge. "The girl locked the door! Girl! Say something!"

Perhaps he was too anxious, Zi Yi decided to go all out and kicked the door hard, causing it to collapse with a loud bang.

In the room, Zhao Qing fell to the ground with her head tilted to one side.

"Ahhh! Someone's dead!" someone shouted, covering his eyes.

Feng Jia was shocked. She pushed through the crowd, rushed to Zhao Qing, and touched her neck with her hand.

Fortunately.

She said to Zi Yi, who was crying and holding Zhao Qing's body, "Don't worry, your girl just fainted."

"Buddha bless you! Fortunately, I just fainted!" Zi Yi wiped away her tears.

Before he finished speaking, there was another scream, this time from inside the house. Feng Jia looked over and saw a woman in a green shirt, pointing at something with one trembling hand, and shouting with a pale face, "Ghost! Ghost!"

There is a new Buddha statue in the room.

Feng Jiaxin was startled. She had seen this Buddha statue before. It was the one that the little monk in the yard introduced to her yesterday. It was the one that depicted the four tests that Sakyamuni experienced in the human world.

The Buddhist picked up a flower and smiled.

But compared to yesterday, the Buddha statue was now covered with oil paint, and red paint was flowing out from the corners of the Buddha's mouth and eyes. Those empty eyes seemed to be alive, weird and scary.

Feng Jia frowned. Zhao Qing must have been frightened by this thing.

【Ding】

[Case has been triggered, case name: Buddha’s punishment]

【The case has been unlocked.】

[The unconscious Zhao Qing is the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Revenue. You discovered a mysterious stone statue in Zhao Qing's room, with hideous tears and blood flowing from it. Where did the statue come from? Who made it? Is it a punishment from the Buddha, or does someone have other purposes?]

[Main mission: Solve the case, current progress 0%]

[Survival time: 5 days]

[Complete the task within five days to get a reward, otherwise you will die. ]

[The countdown begins... Please solve the case as soon as possible! ]

A case was actually triggered, and it was a survival mission. The last countdown was when she was wrongly accused of being a suspect in Shicheng.

But the previous survival time was only three hours, but now it is five days? Does it mean that this time the difficulty is much greater than the last time? Or is the reward for solving the case much more generous than before?

Just as he was thinking about it, a majestic female voice came from outside, and everyone consciously made way for her.

Princess Nancheng walked in with her pregnant belly bulging, supported by the nanny beside her. Behind her was a large group of people, led by the old lady Musk from the Xie Mansion, Mrs. Meng and others.

Princess Nancheng glanced at the fainted Zhao Qing, then glanced at the strange Buddha statue. Surprise flashed across her face, and she quickly frowned and looked at everyone: "What on earth happened!"

The noble ladies in the crowd huddled together, trembling in fear, and said, "This is... the punishment sent down by the Buddha!"

"What Buddha's punishment!" Princess Nancheng frowned even more tightly.

"Princess! The Buddha is really angry! That Zhao Qing must have done something to anger the Bodhisattva! The Bodhisattva attached himself to this strange stone statue to warn her! Otherwise it doesn't make sense! This house is bolted from the inside out! Apart from the Buddha, who else could carry the statue through the wall?"

Hearing this, everyone trembled even more violently.

Someone else stammered, "It has been rumored that the real Buddha appeared in this Cheng'en Temple! Otherwise, why would the thousand-year-old tree in front of the White Pagoda come back to life? Now there is also this stone statue..."

The man put his hands together and said to the air in fear and trepidation: "Buddha bless you! That Zhao Qing didn't mean to offend you! Please don't be angry!"

Someone else exclaimed, "I know why it was Zhao Qing! Yesterday the abbot said that we cannot eat outside food after dark! But this Zhao Qing actually shared the sweet-scented osmanthus cake she brought from the mansion with us! It was Zhao Qing who disobeyed the sect rules! That's why the Buddha is angry!"

"Ahhh! What should I do? I also ate the sweet-scented osmanthus cake that Zhao Qing gave me! Will it be my turn next?"

"I ate it too! What should I do?"

Some who had nothing to eat gloated: "I tell you! Buddha will punish everyone who is greedy!"

"Enough!" Princess Nancheng frowned. She didn't believe a word of the real Buddha appearing and the divine punishment. If the Queen Mother hadn't ordered her to come to Cheng'en Temple to pray for the safety of her unborn child, she would never have entered this old temple!

The Princess of Nancheng said, "Bizhu, go and ask the abbot to come over! Nanny, go and call up the guards and the imperial physicians at the foot of the mountain! Everyone else, don't leave this room! I want to see who dares to play tricks under my nose!"

"Before the matter is thoroughly investigated, whoever dares to spread rumors and mislead the public will be ripped out of her tongue!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent and no one dared to say anything more.

Princess Nancheng was helped to rest at a low table nearby. Everyone gathered around her to ask about her well-being. Feng Jia took this opportunity to look around the entire room.

The room was not big, and its layout was basically the same as her Zen room, with simple furnishings, just a low table, a few stools, a bunk bed, and an incense burner, from which wisps of green smoke were rising.

Feng Jia's gaze fell on the little maid Zi Yi again. According to her, the room was locked from the inside by Zhao Qing, which means it was a secret room.

Like Princess Nancheng, she does not believe in ghosts or gods, so there are currently three suspicious points in this case.

First, how did the Buddha statue get in?

Second, they came in almost immediately after hearing the noise, so how did the murderer escape so quickly?

Third, why choose her?

Feng Jia looked at Zhao Qing who was lying unconscious on the ground with a frown on his face.

Feng Jia walked to the window and tried to pull it. There was only one window in the house, but as expected, it was locked from the inside.

She looked around again. Could it be that this room had another secret passage besides the window and door?

Because if this is really a secret room, then the first and second doubts cannot be true at the same time, unless, as they said, the Buddha statue really came in through the wall by itself.

wall?

Feng Jia walked over slowly, touching the low gray wall of the Zen room, trying to find the switch of another exit, but found nothing as the wall was solid.

Feng Jia looked up at the roof. This Zen temple was a bungalow with a stone roof, so it was impossible to get in from above.

Then there is only one possibility.

Feng Jia's gaze sank slightly and fell on Zi Yi, who was squatting beside Zhao Qing with a worried look on his face.

She lied.