"It's Young Master Guo. There are still some suspicious circumstances surrounding your wife's death. We'd like to conduct another examination to ensure justice is served." A sudden voice startled Fang Duobing. It was already inappropriate to come and examine the body without informing the family.
Now, they've been caught red-handed before they've even started.
Guo Huo naturally did not want anyone to disturb his deceased wife's peace. They had already gone through all the necessary procedures. "We have already done all the necessary checks. The deceased is gone, so please do not disturb her peace any further."
"Young Master Guo, to tell you the truth, your wife appeared to me in a dream a few days ago, crying out her grievances and unable to find peace. That's why we came to Cailian Manor." Li Lianhua's fabricated lie startled Fang Duobing, who was standing nearby.
I'm stunned! What kind of operation is this? Li Lianhua's words are indeed deceitful. It's likely that most of what he said before was a lie.
"A dream message?" Guo Huo naturally didn't believe in such things. Besides, his deceased wife didn't know the detectives from Baichuan Academy, so how could she possibly send him a dream message for no reason? But if his deceased wife really didn't accidentally fall into the lotus pond, then someone must have done it on purpose.
Seeing that Guo Huo did not believe her, Li Lianhua pinched Fang Duobing's hand to signal him. Fang Duobing, who was in pain, had no choice but to continue making up lies based on Li Lianhua's words, "Young Master Guo may not know, but this is the famous Lotus Pavilion Master in the martial arts world, known as Doctor Li. He has the ability to communicate with spirits, and his dreams are very accurate."
Li Lianxin stood behind, watching the two of them spout lies without batting an eye. They were truly master and apprentice, just like each other.
Guo Huo thought for a moment, realizing he didn't have the authority to make that decision, and said to them, "If things are as you say, please allow me to inform my father first and obtain his consent before you can investigate."
Li Lianhua noticed that Guo Huo's shoulders twitched slightly and his expression became unnatural when he mentioned his father. Guo Huo clearly did not notice these small movements. "Young Master Guo seems to be very afraid of Master Guo."
"Obeying one's father's orders is a matter of course," Guo Huo said with a stiff smile, offering this reason.
Fang Duobing wasn't blind; he clearly saw Guo Huo's unease. Indeed, one can't judge a book by its cover. If what the martial arts world said was true, why was Guo Huo so afraid of his father?
In any case, Fang Duobing couldn't understand it. "Young Master Guo, now that the coffin has been opened and the offense has been committed, I will apologize to Master Guo later. If anyone is blamed, I will bear all the responsibility."
Guo Huo stopped speaking, and Li Lianhua continued to examine the corpse. Having studied medicine, she could clearly feel the injuries on the corpse. "This corpse has more than just superficial injuries. Her hand is broken, and her neck is also severely damaged."
Upon hearing this, Guo Huo immediately chimed in to defend himself, "We didn't lay a hand on her! The officials who came earlier already examined her and said that the bride fell into the water and was injured while struggling."
They didn't say whether it was a person hitting him or something else, but it's probably not that simple that Young Master Guo is so eager to clear his name.
"It's true that she wasn't beaten, but what happened to Young Master Guo's bride before she died?"
Upon hearing Li Lianhua's question, Guo Huo recalled for a moment, "Nothing special happened. After dinner that night, Su Su went back to her room alone and said she wanted to try on her wedding dress again. I don't know what happened after that."
"After the bride returned to her room, did no one know what happened? And didn't the bride have a personal maid?"
Guo Huo shook his head. "The wedding shoes that Su Su's mother made by hand are lost. Her personal maid rushed back to her parents' home a few days ago to retrieve them. Actually, our Guo family's ancestral wedding dress comes with wedding shoes."
However, according to local custom, it's considered unlucky for a bride not to wear wedding shoes made by her mother. She also wasn't used to being served, so she didn't have any other maids serve her. But everyone knew what would happen next.
"Then how was this body discovered?" Li Lianhua continued to ask.
"The servants found them under the bridge in the village. The bodies of my father's two second wives were also found there. Perhaps the pond there was deep and the grass on the bank was slippery, which is why they accidentally slipped and fell."
His answers puzzled Fang Duobing. It was strange that the bride would go to the pool late at night with nothing better to do. Wasn't he just looking for trouble?
He had read all the files; all three brides were found dead in the same place. "That's quite a coincidence," he said. "The bodies were all found in the same place, but the files record the manner of the brides' deaths..."
The same applies to the one in the coffin, except that the Weiyuan Escort Agency is located by the sea. Doesn't the agency's daughter know how to swim?
"Right, if she was a good swimmer, how could she have drowned?" He hadn't thought of that. Of course, the investigators were completely focused on the wedding dress and hadn't noticed anything else.
"The maid said the bride drank some wine that night."
This is even stranger. A bride drinks late at night and then tries on her wedding dress. Are these people all mentally challenged? They don't even notice such an obvious problem. They only realize it when someone points it out to them.
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