deadly mantra

Chapter 529
Zheng Hongyan's dark eyes were deep, looking at the direction she left for a long time, and suddenly he smiled.

Li Haiyang heard the laughter and asked while panting:

"Teacher, what are you laughing at? It's been a long time since I carried this thing out, and I can't ride a horse. I'm almost exhausted."

Li Haiyang carried the tools for climbing over the city wall - ropes and iron hooks - on his shoulders.

Zheng Hongyan raised a hand and put it on Li Haiyang's shoulder:
"Ocean, the world has changed."

Li Haiyang was stunned for a moment and couldn't answer:

"……what?"

Zheng Hongyan’s words were serious:
"Thank you for your hard work. Also, throw away the things."

Li Haiyang:
"Huh?? Then, mentor...how do we get out of the city? Aren't we going to Ji Mansion's cemetery on the outskirts of the city?"

Zheng Hongyan put his left hand behind his back and walked forward, saying:

"She's right. We two have tough old bones and it's okay to use our brains. If we fall from the wall, no matter where we fall, we will be injured for a hundred days, which will definitely delay the investigation of the case."

A hundred questions flashed through Li Haiyang's mind. He threw the rope to the side of the road, ran up quickly, and said breathlessly:
"Teacher... Huh, you haven't said anything yet, what happened just now?"

Zheng Hongyan turned to stare at him, with a faint smile in his eyes:

"Master Feng said that the girl who came to Ji Mansion with him today is named Ji Fanyin and lives in Qingyi Garden at Yunshangduan."

Li Haiyang:
"Uh... yes."

Zheng Hongyan said again:
"She is not willing to enter the Ji Mansion today. It was Master Feng who bought a book in exchange for it, so she came reluctantly."

a book?

What kind of book can attract the person who lacks everything?
Li Haiyang was puzzled:
"Expensive books?"

Zheng Hongyan shook his head:

"I don't know if it's famous or not, Mr. Feng just said that the book is in line with someone's preferences."

"...Someone..." Suddenly, Li Haiyang realized: "I see. I heard Bao Simu say long ago that Ji Fanyin is very good at catering to his interests and has collected many books that Mr. Shui Qingchen likes."

Zheng Hongyan raised his thick eyebrows slightly, was silent for a while, and said thoughtfully:

"She really knows how to get her way."

From what she knew, if she had any ill intentions, she would not confess his words frankly tonight.

As for her purpose.

He doesn't care.As long as it doesn't hinder him from doing his job.

Speechless all the way.

When he was approaching the gate of the city, Li Haiyang asked the question that was troubling in his heart:
"If we can successfully open the coffin and conduct an autopsy, it proves that the speculation during the day is true. That person... really hanged himself to death. Master, can you... accept it?"

Zheng Hongyan stopped, and the light in his eyes sank little by little:

"For the past 15 years, I have desperately wanted to find out the cause of her death. But today, in the attic of the abandoned courtyard, I saw the strangle marks on the beams covered with dust. The answer I can most accept is that she hanged herself. die."

Li Haiyang's heart trembled and he instantly became extremely nervous:

"Then...what is it that you can't accept?"

Zheng Hongyan slowly raised his head:
"She was persecuted not just once."

Li Haiyang's back stiffened, and a chill hit his heart from the soles of his feet.

The two of them maintained silence in a tacit agreement.

Go out of the city, get on the carriage, dig the grave, and open the coffin.

A heavy and depressing atmosphere always hung over the two of them.

And the most frustrating thing is...

In the coffin, there was only an old piece of clothing and no bones.

Li Haiyang looked worried:
"Teacher..."

Zheng Hongyan's breathing was trembling:
"...I swear...I will never forgive you until my death..."

He did not say whom he would forgive.

Li Haiyang knew very well who his mentor was referring to.

It was Bao Yide, the leader of the alliance who was Miss Ji Miaozhu's fiancé but turned a blind eye to the cause of Miss Miaozhu's death.

It was Ms. Ji Miaozhu's parents who had concealed the true cause of Ms. Miaozhu's death for 15 years.

Li Haiyang felt extremely heavy:
"Teacher, what should we do next?"

Zheng Hongyan closed his eyes deeply, and when he opened them again, his eyes were scarlet:
"Enter the palace!"

After a pause, he changed his words:
"Go to Qingyi Garden."

(End of this chapter)