Luo Yunyan was feeling uneasy in front of the water tank when she heard a noisy and arguing sound coming from the direction of the main temple of Yunlan Temple.
When she arrived in front of the temple, she stood under the big banyan tree again, feeling somewhat sentimental. She saw a long stone bench where the wife of Marquis Yongding and her two children were sitting.
However, in the dream there were three round stone benches, but now there is only one long stone bench.
There was an argument in front of the temple, and someone seemed to be trying to mediate. After a while, a person in charge came, and without knowing what to say, the crowd gradually dispersed.
Luo Yunyan was just about to go back to her room and lie down when she saw Yongding Hou standing not far away. Looking at the banyan tree, the tall and thin old man seemed particularly lonely.
There must be something hateful about a pitiful person.
Thinking of what the cleaning lady said, Luo Yunyan turned and left.
Unexpectedly, the Marquis of Yongding suddenly said, "Miss Luo."
Luo Yunyan turned around and looked at him with some confusion. Yongding Hou said, "Miss Luo, can you help me solve this problem?"
Seeing Luo Yunyan still looking puzzled, he hurriedly said, "Miss Luo and Tianyuan Temple broke the soul-sucking formation. Some colleagues who went there saw her fearless demeanor through Yuhui, and I heard the illusions they described about Yunlan Temple, and I am very worried."
After saying that, he added: "Sorry to bother Miss Luo."
Luo Yunyan bowed and said, "Greetings, Marquis Yongding." After a moment's thought, she said, "What I know and see is the same as what your colleagues saw in Yuhui. How can I help Marquis Yongding resolve his doubts?"
He added, "Since it is an illusion, it is illusory. Why should Marquis Yongding worry about it? Why not just forget it?"
Dingyuan Hou asked, "What if I can't forget it?"
Luo Yunyan said: "The person is already dead, whether it is more than 20 years or more than 10 years, it has all passed."
Upon hearing this, the Marquis of Yongding suddenly became agitated: "Two pairs of mothers and sons died in my mansion. Many people say that some deserved to die, and some didn't.
My eldest son sacrificed himself to stop a frightened horse and saved his younger siblings, but was trampled to death by the horse. His mother died of excessive grief.
Tell me, who deserves to die and who doesn't?"
Luo Yunyan began to doubt: Could it be that the ones who surrounded the water tank and wanted to kill me were not the concubine and her son?
He could only say, "The one whom the Marquis of Yongding believed deserved death has been dead for more than ten years."
Upon hearing this, the Marquis of Yongding stumbled a few times and sat down dejectedly on the stone bench. Luo Yunyan saw his face turning pale and blue, and she felt bad. She couldn't let a few words anger this old man to such an extent.
So he quickly stepped forward, stood beside him, held Dingyuan Hou's left hand pulse point with one hand, and gently placed the other hand on his back, injecting a small amount of lightning power.
The Marquis of Yongding knew something was wrong when he began to stagger. Even after he sat down, he could still feel his heart pounding. His mind was already hazy, and at that moment, the people and scenes before him seemed to be ethereal, as if they were suddenly far away from him, and all the sounds around him disappeared.
And this Miss Luo used some kind of magic to help him. Marquis Yongding felt as if she had done something to him, and he immediately felt much better.
Now he gradually calmed down, steadying his mind, and said to Luo Yunyan: "Miss Luo, could you sit down and chat for a while?"
Luo Yunyan didn't want to sit down, but she was worried that the old marquis would have a heart attack or something like that because of her. She had no choice but to sit down and said, "My lord, please speak. But please place your hand on the stone table and I'll take your pulse."
Yongding Hou nodded, placed his hand on the stone table, and let Luo Yunyan feel his pulse while he spoke slowly, "In your opinion, young lady, who should die and who shouldn't die?"
Luo Yunyan thought, is he going to express his stance? Then she asked, "My Lord, is he upset because of some gossip?
I think you, Marquis Yongding, also know that in the minds of most people, your wife and youngest son should not have died.
Your eldest son's sacrifice to save others was undoubtedly a heroic act, and it's also regrettable that his mother died of grief. But after all, there were reasons for everything, and no one else was at fault.
However, the situation that the mother and son encountered afterwards was an unprovoked disaster and misfortune."
Marquis Yongding said, "Are others not at fault in this? I'm afraid there are reasons I don't know, and outsiders will never understand. Before my concubine died, she was terrified of my wife. Before my eldest son died, he vomited blood from his mouth and said it had nothing to do with my mother, but was just an accident."
Luo Yunyan said, "My Lord, are you taking your anger out on me? Madam has been praying to the Buddha for ten years, and even a mother and child have died. You should be relieved now, so why are you still so persistent?"
Marquis Yongding said, "I didn't mean for them to die, but wrongdoing must be punished. Now everyone says I'm wrong, sympathizing with one pair while slandering the other."
Luo Yunyan said, "If you want to prove the innocence of your concubine and eldest son, why not report the case to the authorities for investigation?"
He added, “In the illusion I encountered, your concubine and eldest son were the murderers. They were not only planning to kill people, but also wanted to kill me and another nun.
Your concubine held me in the water, and your eldest son was a vicious beast, his eyes full of cruelty. It might be hard for me to have a good impression of them. But in your heart, they are heroes and innocent people implicated.
Marquis Yongding asked, "How did Miss Luo know that the people in the illusion were my concubine and eldest son?"
Luo Yunyan said, "Although I don't know them, as you said before, many people saw the figures and appearances of the three murderers through Yuhui, and some of them know them."
Yongding Hou said: "How can we count what happened in the illusion?"
Luo Yunyan said, "It doesn't count. I asked you not to be so persistent, but you didn't want to. You came to me to discuss it, but I only know about things in the illusion."
He added, “The Marquis’s behavior towards his wife and his two legitimate children has diminished the public’s admiration and pity for his illegitimate son and his concubines.
If the Marquis suspected that the Madam had murdered the concubine and her child, why didn't he investigate it back then?"
Yongding Hou said, "I checked it out, and checked it out very carefully."
After hearing this, Luo Yunyan let go of the pulse and said, "You checked and didn't find any evidence of your wife committing any crime, but you still have groundless suspicions, right?
My Lord, you are so persistent in this matter, just to prove that you are right. No one can resolve this knot in your heart. Yun Yan will take her leave.
After saying this, he bowed and walked away.
He suddenly stopped, turned around and said to the Marquis of Yongding, "Although things in illusions cannot be counted, but in the illusion, your concubine once conspired with a man to murder your wife and two children.
Since the appearances of your wife and eldest son have been recognized, the figures and appearances of the people in the illusion are probably based on real people and can be counted.
"My Lord, why don't you find a detective photographer and ask your colleagues to describe the person and draw his portrait? If you can find this person, maybe you can learn something."
At this moment, the commotion in front of the Yunlan Temple resumed, as if the people who had just been arguing had returned. Someone could be heard shouting faintly, "...The body has just been discovered..."
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