The cold wind howled and the snow fell heavily for a day and a night.

The next day, the whole Chang'an City was silver-white, and all the simple or elegant buildings were covered with a layer of white, and it seemed to be clouds in the sky from a distance.

Yesterday's matter, Hua Lang has no answer, but now he is not in a hurry to answer, even if he really wants to leave Chang'an City, it will not be in this harsh winter season, at least wait until the spring of next year, right?

The snow was so thick that it almost reached the calf, and it was the heaviest snow in Chang'an City in recent years.

However, although the snow is heavy, except for some people who are cold, many people are still very happy about this snow, after all, Ruixue is a good year, and when the spring of next year begins, the crops of the people here are only afraid that they will grow very well.

Hua Lang, Wen Meng and the others were about to sweep the snow at home, and then build a snowman to play, and just when they just started to sweep the snow in the courtyard, a knock on the door suddenly came, Hua Lang opened the door, and saw that it was a servant, the official looked panicked, and said: "Dude, something is wrong, someone has frozen to death." ”

Hua Lang frowned slightly, but he was not very surprised, after all, in such a cold winter, it is not uncommon for someone to freeze to death, the gap between the rich and the poor in ancient times is very large, a poor person can't even eat enough, and his clothes can't be warm, it is inevitable that he will be frozen to death, but in the face of this kind of thing, even if Hua Lang helps as much as possible, they can't help.

It's just that at this time, Wen Meng's words suddenly reminded Hua Lang.

Wen Meng looked at the official and said, "How could people freeze to death, didn't we set up a fund, didn't we send cotton clothes and quilts to those people during the winter?" ”

When he heard this, Hua Lang was suddenly startled, he almost forgot about this matter, maybe he was so busy with other things in the past few days that he even forgot about the fund; When winter came, Hua Lang specially instructed those poor people to distribute cotton clothes and quilts, and he believed that those people would not dare to be greedy from them, so how could there still be people who froze to death?

The official looked a little strange, he glanced at Wen Meng, and then hurriedly said: "Madam, those cotton clothes and quilts were all sent, but this has nothing to do with the murder I am talking about now." ”

"Homicide?" Hua Lang was a little surprised, he froze to death, although he died, it couldn't be considered a murder, right?

The official nodded: "The one who was frozen to death was the shopkeeper of Lu Fulu of the Fulai Inn in the east of the city, his Fulai Inn was very prosperous, he was very rich, how could he be frozen to death, but now he was really frozen to death, so Lord Li suspected that he was killed, so he specially invited the playboy to the Fulai Inn for a trip." ”

After the words of the servant, Hua Lang was suddenly shocked, although Lu Fu is not a rich person in Chang'an City, but his family assets are not very expensive, if people like him can freeze to death, I am afraid that there are not many people in the entire Chang'an City who will be frozen to death.

In other words, Lu Fu's death is indeed very strange.

"Let's go, let's go to the Fulai Inn."

A group of people stepped on the thick snow to the Fulai Inn, because today is the morning, plus Lu Fu died, so the Fulai Inn is empty, Hua Lang and others walked through the inn into the backyard, only to see that the backyard of the Fulai Inn is bigger than everyone imagined, the backyard is almost similar to the mansion of the big family, there are pavilions, and the small bridge flows, of course, the water in the small bridge at this time is not flowing, all formed a thick ice.

The backyard is divided into several small pieces by several walls, but each courtyard is connected, Hua Lang took a look, and found that there are three small courtyards in the backyard, and the three small courtyards form a combined circle, sharing a large courtyard with the Fulai Inn, the pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, are in that common courtyard.

At this time, there were bursts of sad voices in this courtyard, everyone looked over, only to see a pavilion, there was a person lying on the table motionless, the pavilion was guarded by the officials, there were a few women outside the officials crying, looking at their appearance, crying very sadly, and the person in the pavilion should have something to do with it.

Li Jingan was outside the pavilion, and when he saw Hua Lang coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Dude, I have already examined the body, and it was frozen to death." ”

Li Jing'an and Hua Lang have known each other for two years, and in these two years, Hua Lang has taught him the way of autopsy, so Hua Lang has no doubts about Li Jing'an's autopsy results, but although Li Jing'an concluded that the deceased was frozen to death, he still thinks that the deceased was murdered, so this matter is strange, so Hua Lang still has to examine the body to see if he can see other useful clues.

Through the examination, Hua Lang found that the deceased's face was yellow, his teeth were hard, his body was stiff, and when he was washed with wine vinegar and little heat, his cheeks were red, and his face was like a hibiscus color, which was indeed evidence of freezing to death, but there was one thing that was very strange, that is, since the deceased was frozen to death, why were his hands flat on the table, it stands to reason that the deceased was frozen to death, and his hands should be wrapped around his chest, which was the instinctive reaction of the deceased before he was frozen to death.

However, the deceased did not do this, and there is only one reason why this is the case, that is, the deceased froze to death, but the deceased was unconscious before he froze to death, or rather, he was knocked unconscious.

The murderer probably knew that the night of the heavy snow was very cold, so he did not kill the deceased with his own hands, but stunned the deceased, and then the deceased could not move, so he naturally froze to death.

It's just that in the backyard of this Fulai Inn, how could Lu Fu, the shopkeeper of the Fulai Inn, be stunned and frozen to death like this?

Looking at the people who cried just now, there are a few who should have a very close relationship with Lu Fu, Lu Fu took the pavilion and never returned to the house all night, aren't these people strange, isn't there anyone who came out to see?

Things are really weird to the extreme, Hua Lang said the results of his own test, and after finishing speaking, Li Jingan immediately continued: "In this way, this Lu Fu was really murdered." ”

This is indeed the case, but who poisoned Lu Fu, Hua Lang glanced at the crying people, and finally asked, "Who are you all dead?" ”

This question is not difficult to answer, so soon Hua Lang learned about the relationship between these people and Lu Fu, one of them is a slightly older woman, who should be forty years old, is Lu Fu's original wife Zhao Ying, and the other is a bewitching woman in her thirties, who is Lu Fu's concubine pearl, and as for the other young woman in her twenties, it is Zhao Ying's sister Zhao Yu, and this Zhao Yu is the only woman who did not cry among these people, and she doesn't seem to be ready to hide her gloating.