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Unable to sleep all night, Lu Li got up early in the morning and went to Zhao Zhu's room. Zhao Zhu was still not there. The note on the table was the same as last night, neatly folded and unread.

Lu Li pursed his lips in disappointment, exited the room and closed the door.

It was just dawn, and Shen Wansha next door hadn't woken up yet, so Lu Li decided to go to the fasting room for dinner alone, and brought back breakfast for Shen Wansha by the way.I've been too busy recently, and Shen Wansha and Zhao Zhu have been taking care of him. Occasionally, when he can do his best, he also wants to repay him. It's just that he hasn't studied the way, so the breakfast probably won't be too fancy...

Unexpectedly, on the way to eat in the fasting room, I met Meng Qian.

Meng Qian pulled Lu Li to a slightly remote corner, looked around for no one, then cleared his throat a little, and thanked Lu Li in a low voice, "Meng Qian thanked Mr. Lu here."

The thanks came suddenly, Lu Li looked surprised, "Thank me?"

Meng Qian held back, blushing a little, "It is said that family ugliness should not be publicized... Mr. Lu probably knows about my family."

"If you're talking about your stepmother..."

"Ahem, that's right." Meng Qian looked a little embarrassed, "My father's step-wife is not a good person, but my father's ears are soft, and he is so dizzy after being coaxed. The maid, Pomegranate, is my daughter-in-law from that step-wife. I found it from my hometown, and I know some inside information... I don't want to talk about the inside information. In short, I don't allow that stepmother to continue to dominate my Meng family. My father is soft-hearted. I have to find enough evidence to bring her down. Pomegranate It's very important to me. Don't make any mistakes at this critical time. If you didn't test your bones to prove that this case has nothing to do with my master and servant, we may not be able to withstand the pressure of Wang Yu. If the news leaks, then the second wife will seize this opportunity to use it. The plan is even worse..."

"My lord, accept my gift." Meng Qian bowed his hands and bowed, but Lu Li hurriedly stopped him, "I'm not interested in inquiring about other people's privacy. You don't have to do that, Mr. Meng. It's just that people's hearts are separated from each other, and you must polish them when you employ someone." Eyes, don't tire yourself out with trifles."

Meng Qian smiled, "Pomegranate's temper is a bit irritable, but I know all about her mental nature, but thank you for reminding me, I will pay attention."

The two exchanged pleasantries, and Meng Qian said hesitantly, "Actually, I know a little more about this case..."

Lu Li's face was serious, "Young Master Meng, please speak frankly."

"Because pomegranates are very important to me, even when Yu Shi and I go to do things for my mother, we can't be too relieved. She was molested by the five apprentices next door." Meng Qian lowered his eyes slightly, and said cautiously, "That night I A little restless, Yu Shi went back for me to confirm the safety of the pomegranate. The pomegranate was fine, but the next door was very lively, as if drinking. Yu Shi knew that I hated them too, so he wanted to go over to see if there was any loophole for them. lesson."

"After Yu Shi left, he found someone at the foot of the west wall. He seemed to be observing the movement of the five people, and seemed to be waiting for something... Yu Shi didn't want to cause trouble, so he quietly turned back." Meng Qian approached and whispered to Lu Li, "That ring Monk Fa doesn't seem to be the murderer either, when Yu Shi came out, he saw him enter Mrs. Huang's yard..."

After hearing this, Lu Li suddenly realized, "So it's not good for you to talk to Mr. Huang..."

Meng Qian smiled a little awkwardly, "If you go and tell Mr. Huang, I have no objection. It is the truth anyway. Of course it would be better if you don't say it. Let me tell you, one is to believe you, and the other is that I think you are very powerful. You can find the murderer by peeling it off."

"Thank you for the compliment..." After Lu Li hinted that he would not make small reports indiscriminately, he asked Yu Shi, "Why didn't he follow you?"

"I asked him to pick up the meal, and I came here to block you." Meng Qian was a little embarrassed, "I didn't see you yesterday, Mr. Shen said that you might pass by this morning, so..."

Lu Li waved his hand to show that he didn't care, "Did Yu Shi say who he saw in the Five People's Court that night?"

"He said it was too dark to see clearly, but the man is not tall and a little thin."

Lu Li thought for a moment, "I see, Mr. Meng, if you have something to do, please go and do it."

Meng Qian bowed his hands and said goodbye to him, "If there is a chance in the future, Meng Qian will thank you son for this kindness."

Lu Li smiled, "It's really nothing, Mr. Meng is serious."

The two saluted each other, and left at two ends. Lu Li was thinking about the news he had just heard, but he didn't pay attention when passing the corner, and almost bumped into the opposite person head-on.

"Hong...but?" The young monk who found the body one after the other with Shen Wansha seemed to have this name?

"Amitabha...it's the little monk. I'm sorry, I walked too fast and didn't see the benefactor..." Hongran folded his palms together and saluted Lu Li. His face turned red in a hurry, his expression was a little embarrassed and shy, because he hastily held his body back, his feet had deep marks, obviously he was in a hurry.

Thinking of the past, Lu Li couldn't help laughing, "Little master got up late again?"

Hongran scratched the back of his head, "It's really...it's cold in winter, I can't hold it back, my uncle said he has trained me several times..." Regret was all over his face.

"I remember you were on duty cleaning the front hall?" Lu Li moved out of the way, "It will be too late if you don't go..."

Hong Ran hurriedly thanked Lu Li, and trotted away.

Lu Li shook his head and smiled, turned around and continued walking towards the Zhaitang.

Lu Li met Zhang Yong while eating in the Zhaitang, thinking that he didn't need to trouble himself, so he told Zhang Yong the latest case clues he got, and asked him to relay Huang County Magistrate, and then returned to the yard with the lunch box.

He still went to Zhao Zhu's room to check, but he hadn't come back yet.Sighing, he went to Shen Wansha's room to wake him up for breakfast, told him about yesterday's experience, and gave him the pure golden camellia flower he gave him.

Shen Wansha's aesthetics is indeed very different from his. The moment he saw the golden camellia clearly, sparks burst out in Shen Wansha's eyes, and he couldn't hide his appreciation and praise, "It's so beautiful!"

Lu Lituo looked at him under his chin, his eyes were full of incomprehension, "Like it?"

"I like it!" Shen Wansha nodded again and again, "I like it very much!"

"As long as you like it..."

Lu Li sighed again, and followed Shen Wansha to wash and eat breakfast, and told about what had happened in the cemetery.

Shen Wansha was stunned when he heard this, and he regretted punching his palm, "It's so exciting! Why didn't you take me with you!"

"You walked too fast, I didn't have time to stop you." Lu Li took a sip of water to moisten his lips.

"Speaking of how I managed to escape...I don't even know!" Shen Wansha frowned, "But this person is so bad that he wants to kill you and brother Zhao! Even if he gave such a beautiful camellia, we can't forgive him." he!"

Lu Li: ...

Thinking of Zhao Zhu and Shen Wansha, his brows frowned even deeper, "I haven't seen Big Brother Zhao since yesterday... Your relationship should be better if you live and die together, why did you seem to be angry when you came back, and Big Brother Zhao never showed up again?" ...Did you quarrel?" He asked a little cautiously in the last sentence.

"It's really... I can't hide anything." Lu Li narrated the last paragraph of yesterday in a somewhat melancholy manner, and asked with a frown, "Do you think he is angry? What's wrong with the birthmark of the elders? It's worth being so angry. And leave me in the wilderness?"

He rubbed his hair with some annoyance, "I know I was wrong, and I wanted to admit it last night, but he didn't know where he went to get angry, and he didn't see anyone."

The light was too dark at night, and Lu Li was not sure what the birthmark looked like, but only said that it was a thumb-sized dark birthmark on the lower part of the throat.Shen Wansha hadn't noticed the birthmark on Zhao Zhu's throat, and he couldn't feel anything wrong just by listening to the description. Following the performance analysis, he could only conclude that Brother Zhao cared about the birthmark very much.

But he thinks there is nothing difficult to understand, "It's like I like to wear glittering clothes. Others think it's not good and too ostentatious, but I like it very much. You let me wear those plain clothes, and I feel very wronged. Everyone Everyone has their own paranoid likes and dislikes, maybe Big Brother Zhao just doesn't like people mentioning his birthmark, you can see that he is usually so arrogant, he must not be able to stand strange eyes."

He gave Lu Li some advice, "But it's not a big deal. No matter how angry you are, it should be gone now. Why don't you say something else to distract him when he appears, and then coax him overtly and secretly?" After a lot of bouncing, I finally admit my mistake and apologize. The mouth is sweet, the posture is low, and the smile is bright, it should be fine..."

Shen Wansha provided Lu Li with various ways of coaxing people. The two talked for a long time, seeing that it was getting late, and then went to work in the morgue.

Lu Li continued the bone test, and Shen Wansha helped him write the bone test form.

After being busy all afternoon, Shen Wansha went out for a walk on the pretext of a sore back and back pain, while Lu Li continued to immerse himself in the bone examination.

When the set of bones in his hand was ready for examination, Lu Li straightened up and beat his waist, ready to breathe a sigh of relief, when he saw Zhao Zhu standing against the door frame.

I don't know why this person came here, and how long he stood there.

Lu Li ran over in surprise, "Where did you go? I've been looking for you for a long time!"

Zhao Zhu's anger had dissipated a lot after walking outside all night, and when he came back and saw the note on the table, he was completely relieved.

This birthmark didn't last for a few days, it was with him since he was born, only he knew what he had gone through for this, and he was already used to the trembling behavior of various characters in front of him, so he shouldn't care at all, he lost his composure last night.

He didn't answer, Lu Li thought about Shen Wansha's words, and didn't ask, "Are you hungry?"

Zhao Zhu shook his head.

"That's good..." Lu Li burst into a bright smile, showing his small canine teeth, trying to make his expression natural and lively, and found a topic, "Then what, I suddenly remembered that when we went to the ancient tomb together yesterday, there seemed to be a mountain The shape is very familiar, it is the one with a circle of snow on the top of the mountain, do you remember?"

Zhao Zhu's eyes were deep, and he nodded slightly.

"I always feel like I've seen it somewhere before, but it's my first time here in Shanyang County, haha, haha..." Lu Li spoke without thinking, and he didn't know what he said after he finished speaking, his face full of regret .

His careful appearance of making a small fu low successfully pleases Zhao Zhu, it's too obvious to please!

The corners of Zhao Zhu's lips curled up, "That's the mountain in Guan County. You live in Guan County, so you should have seen it."

As soon as he reminded him, Lu Li's eyes widened, "It really is!" Thinking about the appearance of that mountain, it must be the one not far from Liu's house, "Is it the one where I met you!"

The astonishment on his face showed no signs of faking, Zhao Zhu ruled out the possibility that he deliberately brought up the topic to make him miss and thank him, "Mmm."

"I didn't expect the two counties to be so close..." A road map appeared in Lu Li's mind, "Then when we came here, we actually walked around the bottom of the mountains..."

He was immersed in the topic for a while, but he didn't hear any reply. He looked up at Zhao Zhu's serious face, and thought he was wrong.

He forgot to coax people!

But he really doesn't know how to coax people, and Zhao Zhu doesn't look like a coaxer...

After being in a dilemma for a while, Lu Li clenched his fists and decided that it would be better to tell the truth, "Well...anyone can get a birthmark, it's a pity to have it on a girl's face, but the birthmark is just an abnormal manifestation of the skin. It doesn't matter. Birthmarks on a girl's face may affect her beauty, but not her character. You are a man, why are you afraid of beauty and ugliness?"

"You won't become unattractive because you have it, and you won't become popular because you don't have it. You are you. Whether you have a birthmark or not is up to you. It doesn't matter at all. You don’t need to care about it at all!” He gradually became more confident and looked straight into Zhao Zhu’s eyes, “I just saw it for the first time yesterday and touched it curiously, if you feel offended, I apologize to you, it’s my fault Oh, I'm sorry, it's nothing if you hit me or scold me twice, but it's not right for such a thing to be so angry that he runs away from home for half a day without seeing anyone, the neighborhood is so chaotic, what if something happens!"

The sun was shining on the boy's face, his jade-like skin seemed to be shining, and the seriousness in his clear eyes was almost overflowing.

Zhao Zhu's eyes drooped slightly, and his voice was slightly lowered, "You don't think this...thing is a thing?"

"Of course!" Lu Li's answer was resounding, but it was just a birthmark, so what a big deal!

"Its existence won't affect me for half a point?"

"Must!" If you want to be affected, it is because you are stingy, have no stomach, and don't look like a man!

"Aren't you... afraid?"

Lu Li had an unbelievable and strange expression on his face, "Why are you afraid?" It's just a small birthmark, didn't the ancients see it like this?

Zhao Zhu looked at Lu Li quietly, without speaking.

This young man...

You have to like yourself so much that you can ignore the Yan Wangyin who loves Wu Jiwu so much that everyone mentions it and turns pale?

There is only my own shadow in these black and white eyes, clear, clear, not forced, not concealed, full of worry.No matter how difficult the psychological construction is, he is really not afraid.

Such a pure and warm feeling from the bottom of my heart... Zhao Zhu thinks it is very rare.

Although the young man is sometimes bold and unrestrained and clingy, but when he likes someone too deeply, he can't help himself...

He decided to be a little more lenient towards Lu Li.

He is such a magnanimous prince.

Zhao Zhu gave Lu Li a meaningful look, and walked past him into the room.

Lu Li felt that the atmosphere became lighter in an instant, and the ominous aura that wanted to kill someone disappeared from Zhao Zhu's body.Although he didn't know why, he was still very happy. He leaned over and carefully confirmed, "You're not angry anymore, are you?"

Zhao Zhu snorted lightly, "How could I be angry about such a trivial matter?"

Go to hell!You've obviously been angry, but don't take it seriously when the anger subsides!

Lu Li rolled his eyes inwardly, continued to coax Zhao Zhu with a bright smile on his face, and held Zhao Zhu's hand eagerly, "It's great of you not to be angry!"

Zhao Zhu pushed his hand away coldly, "Be more reserved."

Lu Li looked at his hands that were frozen in mid-air, and was stunned.He's a man, why should he be reserved!

But it's good that Zhao Zhu doesn't get angry.Lu Li found that chatting with Zhao Zhu about the case was very helpful for thinking, and there were often unexpected gains. Now that we have reconciled, let's get down to business, and pulled Zhao Zhu to sit down, "Let me tell you, I am going to the fasting room this morning. I met Meng Qian on the road, and he told me..."

After finishing speaking, he held his chin and thought, "Not all the clues point to the unknown, and the confession and interrogation by the magistrate Huang has not yielded results. The temple is full of Zhishang, who is the murderer..."

"Magistrate Huang's confession has been collected." The old god Zhao Zhu held the teacup on the ground and said, "Everything is in line. It is an old monk named Jie Chen."