Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 157 Death without evidence
Uncle Jiu briefly recounted his experiences over the past few days.

Originally, he and Xiao Wang had agreed that if Xiao Wang and the other two did not return after one day, he would go into the mountains to look for them. However, three days passed and there was still no sign of Xiao Wang and the other two.

Uncle Jiu was anxious. He braved the wind and snow to go into the mountains, but because the mountain road was frozen by ice and snow, every step he took was extremely difficult. He was trapped in the mountains last night and almost froze to death.

Fortunately, the snow suddenly stopped this morning, and he took the opportunity to speed up his journey, and finally arrived at Mengdie Villa in the evening.

Uncle Jiu's hands and feet were frozen, especially his feet, which he could hardly move.

Chaolu quickly checked him and said, "It's not a big problem. I'll give you acupuncture first to clear your frozen tendons and veins, and then give you a medicinal bath to drive away the cold in your body."

"Thank you, Second Lady."

Chaolu first wrote a prescription and gave it to Huaiyan, asking him to go to the warehouse to get the medicine and then ask the kitchen to boil a pot of hot water.

After Huaiyan left, Chaolu asked Uncle Jiu to put his legs and feet on a stool and started to give him acupuncture.

Unexpectedly, the next moment everyone heard Huai Yan's cry.

"Why is there a dead person lying here?!"

Uncle Jiu then remembered and explained immediately.

"I found a man near Mengdie Villa. He looked dead. Although I didn't know who he was, I didn't want to leave him alone in the wild, so I carried him into the villa, thinking I would leave him here first and ask the authorities to investigate his identity and cause of death after the snow stopped. Before entering the door just now, I put him in the yard, and then I was so busy talking to you that I almost forgot about it."

Yan Ciwan, Xiao Wang and Du Lingzhou walked out quickly.

In the snow in the courtyard, there lay a man who had been frozen stiff.

Huai Yan was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice: "Why does this person look a little familiar?"

The three of them got closer and took a look. Wasn’t this person the missing Feng Wu?

No, to be exact it should be Feng Wulang!

His back was hunched, his arms were crossed over his chest, his face was blue, his legs were twisted abnormally, and his whole body was frozen stiff.

Xiao Wang reached out and felt his pulse, and said, "He has been dead for at least two hours."

Yan Ciwan asked: "Can the cause of death be determined?"

It seemed that Feng Wulang had frozen to death, but to be on the safe side, Xiao Wang decided to move the body into the house for a careful examination, he said to Du Lingzhou.

"Come here and help me."

Du Lingzhou crossed his arms over his chest: "Why should I help you?!"

Anyway, the identity of the murderer has basically been confirmed to be Ling Niang, so he doesn't need to bother looking for any clues anymore.

"You refused because you knew you were too weak to move Feng Wulang's body and you were afraid that you would be embarrassed in front of us, right?"

Du Lingzhou immediately got furious: "Who said I can't move it? I'm very strong. It's just a corpse. I can lift it with one hand!"

After saying that, he strode forward, carried Feng Wulang on his shoulder, and then deliberately gave Xiao Wang a provocative smile.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Xiao Wang smiled slightly, then walked to the door of the west wing, pushed it open, and said to Du Lingzhou.

"You'd be really amazing if you could bring the body into the house."

Du Lingzhou immediately carried the corpse and ran into the west wing at great speed.

Then Yan Ciwan followed in and saw Du Lingzhou throw the body to the ground.

"You should be convinced now, right?" Du Lingzhou put his hands on his hips and showed off. Xiao Wang praised him generously, "Great, great."

Du Lingzhou held his head high and his chest puffed out, his tail almost reaching the sky.

Xiao Wang planned to strip Feng Wulang of his clothes so that he could see if there were any injuries on the body. He said to Yan Ciwan, "Leave this to us. Go see if Chao Erniang needs any help."

Yan Ciwan nodded and said, "Okay."

She walked out of the west wing and returned to the main room. At this moment Chaolu was still giving acupuncture to Uncle Jiu.

Uncle Jiu asked, "Do you know the man who died?"

"His name is Feng Wulang, and he is a notorious bandit."

Then Yan Ciwan roughly recounted what had happened in the villa in the past few days.

After Uncle Jiu heard this, he was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Who was the person who ordered Chu Wangshan and his gang to massacre the entire Lingdie Temple 20 years ago?"

"I can only ask Chu Wangshan about this."

Uncle Jiu lowered his eyes and said, "But he is already dead. There is no evidence to prove this."

Yan Ciwan thought his reaction was a bit strange, so she asked, "Do you also know what happened in Lingdie Temple 20 years ago?"

"At that time, I was still a knight-errant. Relying on my martial arts skills, I went around doing justice and fighting for the weak. I had heard about the deeds of Prince Renxian and knew that he had spared no effort to save the people of Luzhou. Afterwards, he paid for the construction of the Lingdie Temple and the Monument to help the innocent people who unfortunately died in the epidemic to rest in peace."

Yan Ciwan said slowly: "Even a wandering knight like you knows that Lingdie Temple was built with funds from Prince Renxian, which means that the relationship between Lingdie Temple and Prince Renxian is well known. How could Prince Renxian let someone from Lingdie Temple assassinate Emperor Wen? This is unreasonable."

Uncle Jiu raised his eyes to look at her, his gaze became extremely deep: "You also think that someone is framing Prince Renxian."

Yan Ciwan keenly caught the key words: "Also?"

Uncle Jiu retracted his gaze, lowered his eyes to look at the brazier beside him, and whispered: "I heard that Prince Renxian is a kind and generous person. The people have a lot of praise for him and think that he will definitely be a wise ruler in the future. Not only me, but many people think that he is not the kind of person who would kill his father and the king in order to fight for the throne."

"But afterwards, Emperor Wen still ordered that Crown Prince Renxian be placed under house arrest in the Crown Prince's Mansion. This shows that Emperor Wen also suspected Crown Prince Renxian."

After Yan Ciwan finished saying this, he noticed that Uncle Jiu frowned and the corners of his mouth slightly drooped, which was an expression of depression.

Obviously, he did not agree with her opinion.

But he did not refute, but fell into a long silence.

Huaiyan came back with the medicinal herbs, and not long after, Aping brought hot water.

Chaolu boiled the herbs and added hot water, then let Uncle Jiu take a medicinal bath.

At this time, Xiao Wang had finished the autopsy. He said, "Feng Wulang was indeed frozen to death, but before he died, he suffered a heavy blow to the back of his head with a blunt object, and his leg bones were also broken. He must have crawled a long way in the snow with his hands, and finally ran out of strength and passed out."

Yan Ciwan frowned and thought: "Feng Wulang is quite good at martial arts. Apart from me, no one in the villa should be his opponent. Who can seriously injure him?"

When Du Lingzhou heard this, he immediately became dissatisfied.

"Who said that? My martial arts skills are even better than Feng Wulang's. No one in the whole villa can beat me!"

Yan Ciwan would not argue with such a fool about such trivial matters. She cared for the mentally retarded child and coaxed him softly, "Well, you are the best."

Du Lingzhou was very proud: "You have good taste!"

(End of this chapter)