Ning Wen said: "This Taoist Master He travels all over the world and his whereabouts are uncertain. I met him by chance. When he learned that I was worried about Niannian marrying into the Huang Mansion for half a year and was not pregnant, he came to see when I could get pregnant for Niannian. Have children." Qi Yuning said, "Did Taoist Master He say anything?" Shen Nian said: "Taoist He just told me not to be anxious. He said that I am destined to have two sons and two daughters, which means that I am destined to have a family full of children and grandchildren. Even Taoist He is not allowed to come." Shen Nian lowered his eyes and said, "Han'er is enough for me in this life." Qi Yuning said: "That's not necessarily the case. Huang Rui was so unkind to you before he was alive. After you got pregnant, he found a brothel girl to enter. You don't need to stay a widow for such a heartless man for three years and marry another one." A good husband can also have children, and a house full of children and grandchildren.” Ning Wen glanced at Qi Yuning and sighed softly. Shen Nian pursed her lips and said, "I won't marry another person. I just want to protect my Han'er and let him grow up well. There are few men in this world who live up to their hearts. I'm unlucky and have met a man who does not live up to my heart." Lang, I don’t dare to look for him anymore…” Qi Yuning said: "What you said makes sense." After Qi Yuning returned to Lu Ze's room, Lu Yun had just returned. He coughed several times as soon as he entered, and said coquettishly to Lu Ze, "Brother, I'm sick. I want to go back to Beicheng."
Lu Ze looked at the coquettish Lu Yun with disgust and said, "How old are you and still pretending to be sick and coquettish? What news did you hear yesterday?" Lu Yun sniffed and said, "Man Niang was once an official in her family. She was sold into a brothel because of something wrong with her family. Man Niang is a rare beauty in Longzhou City, so the old madam trained her carefully. , and waited until she was seventeen before she was allowed to come out to receive guests. The first day she came out to receive guests caused a sensation, but Huang Rui bought her for the first night with a thousand taels of silver. After the spring night, she was taken into the Huang Mansion by Huang Rui and became a concubine, flying up the branches. Became a phoenix. " Qi Yuning said: "The family is an official? What kind of official?" Lu Yun said: "He is a high official, from the Bai family of Longzhou Zhizhou." Qi Yuning asked: "Bai Ting?" Lu Ze said: "If it is the Bai family who knows Longzhou, then it is Bai Ting." Qi Yuning said: "He is the number one scholar, did he commit the crime because he offended the Qin family?" Lu Ze nodded lightly and said, "Well, I didn't expect Man Niang to be the daughter of the Bai family." Qi Yuning said: "No wonder she plays the piano so well. I thought that this kind of piano skill cannot be taught in a brothel." Lu Yun said: "That's all I found out about Man Niang. I asked eight girls last night, but they didn't know much. However, there was a little maid named A Ni who said a lot of bad things about Man Niang, saying that Man Niang was not a virgin when she followed Huang Rui. The night Huang Rui and Man Niang made love in the brothel, Man Niang didn't even have virgin blood. …” Qi Yuning frowned slightly after hearing this. Lu Ze stood up and said, "Let's go to Man Niang's place and have a look." Lu Ze and Qi Yuning went to Manniang's side. When Man Niang saw Lu Ze and Qi Yuning coming, she went to the door to greet them and said, "Master." Lu Ze saw Man Niang blocking her outside the room and said, "The poor monk is passing by here and wants to ask for a cup of tea." Man Niang ordered her maid to serve tea to Lu Ze. Lu Ze said, "It's a gloomy day today, and it looks like it's going to rain heavily. Can I go sit in the Lord Bai's room?"
Manniang frowned and said, "Master, wait a moment." After giving some instructions to the maid next to her, Manniang said, "Master, please come in." After Lu Ze and Qi Yuning entered, Manniang took the tea offered by the maid and said, "Master, please have some tea." Lu Ze sat down and took the tea cup. He smelled the rich sweet fragrance in Man Niang's room, looked at the wooden box with incense blocks next to the incense burner, then walked to the window and looked at the medicine furnace and medicine residue outside the window. Said: "The donor is sick?" Man Niang said: "After my husband left, I didn't think about food and drink. I was a little sick." Qi Yuning looked at the medicines outside and said: "Astragalus, Atractylodes, ramie root, skullcap, wolfberry, perilla and dodder..." Man Niang held her belly, but she didn't expect that the maid next to the monk could recognize the dregs of the medicine. After listening to the medicine Qi Yuning mentioned, Lu Ze knew that it was a common miscarriage. He looked at Man Niang and said, "Since you have a child? Why didn't you tell me about it?" Man Niang said, "I don't dare. My husband is gone. I'm afraid that if I tell you that I have a child, the Huang family won't be able to tolerate me." Lu Ze said: "It's a good thing that you have a child. How can the Huang family not tolerate you?" Man Niang said: "I...I..." Qi Yuning stared at Man Niang and said, "Do you know what kind of fragrance you are using? It is the fragrance of aphrodisiac. Once you become addicted, your child will not live long, and the child in your belly will also be addicted to drugs after he is born. How dare you use aphrodisiac when you’re pregnant with a baby?!” Lu Ze poured the tea in his hand onto the incense burner and said with great certainty, "Huang Rui died in your room." Man Niang shook her head and said: "My husband died at the young lady's side, and it has nothing to do with me!" Qi Yuning looked at Man Niang and said, "You still want to quibble? As long as your room is close to Shen Nian's room, it will be close to transporting Huang Rui's body there." Man Niang said: "Where is the evidence? What evidence do you have?" Lu Ze took out the afron incense block next to the incense burner, "The nail mark on this afron incense block is consistent with the afron incense hidden in the nails of Huang Rui's corpse!" Qi Yuning ordered the maid next to Man Niang: "Go and find your Huang Jiedushi!" The little maid next to Manniang trembled and walked forward. Manniang frowned and went to the bed, took out a dagger and stabbed Lu Ze. When Lu Ze saw the dagger, he wrapped the dagger with the Buddhist beads in his hand. He stepped forward and clasped Man Niang's wrist. With a forceful release, Man Niang's hand dislocated and fell down. Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "I didn't expect the master to have this trick." Lu Ze raised his eyes and looked at Qi Yuning and said, "When I was investigating cases in Dali Temple, I encountered such a desperate murderer not once or twice." The little maid next to Man Niang walked to the door and realized why she had heard that maid go to find the Jiedushi. When she was about to go back, Qi Yuning had already come out, "Didn't I tell you to go find Huang Jiedushi? Go quickly!" When the little maid heard Qi Yuning's order, she felt it was even more terrifying than Mrs. Qin's. She didn't dare to disobey him and went to find Ambassador Huang Jiedu. Qi Yuning went to Shen Nian's room to find Shen Nian, Ning Wen and Mr. Shen, who went to Man Niang's room together. In Man Niang's house, after everyone arrived, Huang Tao asked Lu Ze, "Master, have you found the real murderer?" Lu Ze clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, your son's death is inseparable from Bai Manniang's death. Huang Rui's fingernails have small fragments of the afron incense, and there are nail marks among the afron incense pieces in Bai Man's room. I think that before Huang Rui died, he held the opium incense block so tightly that his fingernails were filled with crumbs. Because the opium incense block was expensive, even if it was taken from the corpse, Bai Manniang I don’t want to throw it away, I keep it for what I can use…”
Shen Nian was supported by Ning Wen. She burst into tears and said sternly to Man Niang: "Man Niang, Huang Rui is so good to you! He even wanted to make peace with me just to marry you! Why did you kill him?!"