Jiuru stretched out his hand to help him, and uncomfortably withdrew his hand from his waist.

He secretly thought in his heart that he was worried about too much Jiuru's sexual affairs, and the old ghost also thought that he could not choose to eat in the spring, and he couldn't help but look a little good when he thought of this.

Qiu Ru's face was also a little embarrassed, although she was only a female official, and she was not young, but after reading Buddhist scriptures in the Buddhist hall for a few years, she lowered her head and walked with her head bored after a few words.

"You lost a female officer a few days ago, didn't you?"

Qiu Ru said: "Gather Fang." ”

"What's so special about her identity. ”

Qiu Ruwei was a little surprised: "How did Gongzi know that Ji Fang's identity is special?" She immediately remembered that Zhao Ran came with Shi Wantong, the commander of Jinyi Wei, and said with relief, "Ji Fang is different from us, Ji Fang was originally a female official in front of the Queen Mother, and she was the personal person next to the Queen Mother." ”

Wantong deliberately covered up the meaning of the Empress Dowager Zhou, and sent a female official to her niece's side, spreading the word that the Empress Dowager Zhou would inevitably be suspected of bullying her niece, and if any ugly things were found, it would make the Empress Dowager Zhou lose face.

Gathering ...... Zhaoran thought to himself that the name of the female official Empress Dowager Zhou was simply knocking on Gu'an in person.

He opened his mouth and asked, "What about the person?"

Qiu Ru said lightly: "There are female officials on the left and right, but with her, if we have something, it is easier to talk to Mrs. Jinghui." ”

"Master Jinghui is the county lord's person?"

Qiu Ru was asked by Zhao Ran like this, and her tone was a little sluggish: "Master Jinghui is a person from the old mansion of the county lord, but that is all in the past, and now everyone is a layman practicing in Fayan Temple." ”

"On the day of her disappearance, did anyone in the temple come to donate trees?"

"No one came to donate trees that day. Qiu Ru said, "I remember very clearly, the day before yesterday was the New Moon, and the county lord instructed us to prepare some food for almsgiving. Everyone was busy all day, and they were a little tired at night, and if it wasn't for the county lord to ask, we didn't know that Ji Fang, who was on duty last night, suddenly disappeared. ”

"How many rats did you have in the temple in the past?"

"There is a mountain behind the Fayan Temple, and there are many rats on weekdays, but there has never been such a thing. Qiu Ru seemed to have palpitations when she said it.

"Who is in charge of your ledger on weekdays?"

"Guiqiu Rongguan, at the end of the month, I will let her present it, and then give one to Master Jinghui and one to the Zongren Mansion. ”

"You made the account with Qiu Rong?"

"It's mainly Qiu Rong's doing, I'm just forwarding it. ”

"In your opinion, who did Qiu Rong kill by the murder ring?"

Qiu Ru hesitated for a moment before saying, "This ...... It's hard to say. There are not many people in Fayan Temple, and everyone depends on each other, so I really can't think of a reason why Qiu Rong wants to kill Fang. ”

She spoke in a low tone, as if a little gloomy.

Zhaoran asked a few more questions, and Qiu Ru spoke: "Childe, we have arrived at the place where we live." ”

The door "squeaked" open, Zhao Ran groped his way across the threshold, just stepped into the door and the soles of his feet seemed to step on something, he bent down to pick up some scraps of paper, a smell mixed with blood in the room can not be said to be disgusting, Zhao Ran sniffed and covered his nose and came out.

Qiu Ru didn't dare to go in, waited outside the door, and when she saw Zhaoran go in for a while and came out, she couldn't help asking, "Childe...... That's the end of it?"

"Almost. Before Zhao Ran slapped his nose with his hand, he used to think that the sandalwood fragrance on Jiuru's body was not good, but now that he smells it again, he thinks it is actually good.

"Qiu Rong lives alone?" asked Zhaoran.

"She had to take care of the ledgers, and sometimes she had money in the house, so she lived alone. Qiu Ru said, "In addition to her, there is also Master Jinghui who wants to realize Zen at night, so she also lives alone, and the other female officials are two people in a room." ”

Obviously, she didn't dare to look at it more, so she walked over and closed the door.

When she turned around, Zhao Ran said, "Can I ask you to do something?"

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The cold night is pitched, if Zhaoran walks alone, even if he knows that he is not dead, he will still be a little apprehensive in his heart, but walking beside Jiuru, there is no such uneasiness.

Zhao Ran probably felt that he knew that even if he really encountered a murderous thing, he might not be able to be more fierce than Jiuru, and he thought about it, wouldn't that be equal to Jiuru, that is, the most murderous thing?

He couldn't help laughing out loud when he thought about it, but Fang Cai Jiuru was silent, and at this moment Fang said, "What are you laughing at?"

Jiuru didn't say a word for most of the night, and suddenly opened his mouth and was startled: "Jiuru ...... That uncle, you finally spoke. ”

"My words are the decree of the law, how can I talk as much as you. ”

Jiuru not only replied, but also choked him back, he was so popular, Zhaoran was startled again, and then understood, about the old skin Jiuru respected him as an elder, so his words and deeds were polite, and now he is a generation shorter than him, of course, he doesn't have to be too scrupulous.

Zhao Ran was not only annoyed, but simply surprised and delighted, so he leaned over and said, "Uncle Jiuru, when will I invite you to eat barbecue?"

"Have you always been like this?" asked Jiuru.

"Why?"

"Nosy, love to expose people's shortcomings, love to destroy people's cultivation?"

Zhao Ran sighed in his heart, thinking to himself that I was for the sake of you Jiuru, and I was too lazy to bother with him, so he said: "What is cultivation used for? Cultivating a good fortune in the next life, eating well, and drinking well, then why cultivate the next life, in this life, there is something to eat, and there is something to drink." ”

"Do you like three wives and four concubines very much?"

Zhao Ran spread his hands and said: "Who doesn't like a beautiful wife and concubine?"

Jiuru was silent, and Zhaoran's heart finally turned to the point, but he couldn't waste it, so he leaned over and said: "Uncle Jiuru, you are so young and beautiful, if you are willing to give up your body, let alone three wives and four concubines, even the seventy-two courtyards of this palace may not be able to accommodate the women who want to marry you in the world." ”

"I'm not interested. ”

Zhao Ran was not discouraged when he was rejected: "Uncle Jiuru, I heard that the monks in Buddhism see that color is empty, you have never seen it, how do you know that you can also see color is empty, and you are more related to the Buddha?"

Jiuru said: "Then let's see." After he finished speaking, he picked up Zhaoran's back collar and rose up, and the cold wind blew Zhaoran's face "whoosh", but his heart blossomed, like playing a small drum: "Hooked, hooked, hooked!"

No matter how boundless the Buddha's mana is, he is also a young life, and no matter how weak his mana is, he is also an old ghost, look, this is a little excited, Jiuru will take the bait.

Although Jiuru was focused, he crossed it a few times, and returned to the previous hall accurately.

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When Zhaoran returned to the main hall, Wantong asked, "What do you smell?"

Zhao Ran said: "I still have some things for these female officials to do." ”

Wantong waved his hand and asked the guards to bring the female officers to Zhao Ran, and Zhao Ran spoke: "I want you to go to see Qiu Rong's death in turn, and then come back to sue me." ”

Jinghui couldn't help but say, "They are already frightened, where can they be frightened again?"

Wantong sneered: "Then why don't you let us see?"

Jing Hui was speechless, and said clearly: "Qiu Rong gets along with you day and night, like sisters, don't you want to know how she died?"

The female officers looked at each other for a moment, and one of them replied, "Your Excellency is right, we, we will go and see it for your Excellency." ”

After a while, a cry sounded outside the hall, and he said, "Let them come in one by one!"

The first female officer came in and asked, "What's your name?"

"The maid's name is Qiu Sheng. ”

"What do you see inside the house?"

Qiu Sheng sobbed quietly again: "Qiu Rong, Qiu Rong, she died so miserably. ”

Zhao Ran said: "Can you be sure that she is Qiu Rong." ”

Qiu Sheng calmed down and replied: "It's indeed Qiu Rong, although Qiu Rong's face was bitten by a rat and bloody, but the other half of his face is still intact, we get along day and night, just look at the back to know who is who, not to mention seeing half of the face." ”

"Where were you when Qiu Rong died?"

"Except for Qiu Rong, all of us were doing evening classes in the main hall at that time. ”

Zhaoran said: "Take her out." ”

Wantong looked at Qiu Sheng's back and couldn't help but say, "You don't ask a few more words." ”

Zhao Ran seemed to remember something, turned his head and said, "I still have one more thing to ask Lord Wan to do." He whispered a few words in Vantone's ear.

Wantong glanced at him in a slightly surprised look, walked to the door and whispered a few words to the guard.

Only then did Zhao Ran open his mouth and ask the second person: "What's your name?"

"Maid, the maid's name is Qiu Ju. ”

"How's the house going?"

Qiu Rong huddled in the corner, she, she must have been scared at the time. Qiu Ju sobbed silently.

"Isn't Qiu Rong bold?"

"Qiu Rong is the least courageous, usually she doesn't even dare to go up the back mountain, we often joke that she is because she is timid, so she made our account. Qiu Ju said this, hid her face and cried loudly.

Jinghui has been turning Buddha beads beside her, and her hands can't help but tremble at this moment.

At this time, a woman's scream suddenly came from outside the hall, Wantong got up with "Teng", and Zhao Ran hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm asking the female official Qiuru to scream." ”

After he finished speaking, his face showed a puzzled expression: "Even if she is so timid, why don't you shout for help?"

"She must be afraid that she will affect us......" Qiu Ju finally broke down and hid her face and cried.

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Zhaoran asked around and asked the same question repeatedly, Jinghui finally couldn't help but speak again: "I don't know what else the donor wants to ask?"

"Then don't ask. Zhao Ran spread his hands, "Actually, I'm hungry too, let's get something delicious." ”

Jing Hui was angry, endured it and said, "Qiu Sheng is going to prepare some candied fruits." ”

"Another good pot of tea!" said Zhaoran.

Jinghui gritted her teeth and said, "Make him a pot of tea." ”

When the refreshments arrived, Jing Hui said coldly: "Donor, although all beings are equal in front of the Buddha, but there is still the emperor and the queen of heaven in the mortal world, and the people of Li are below, if you think that the people of our Fayan Temple can bully ...... at will."

Zhaoran said: "Who wants to bully you, I'm waiting for evidence?"

"What, what evidence?"

Zhaoran raised his hand and poured himself a cup of tea: "Evidence of Qiu Rong's vain death." ”

Suddenly, the voice in the hall was silent, and after a while, Hui Hui said: "The donor can really redress Qiu Rong's grievances." ”

Zhaoran blew a mouthful of tea foam on the water: "It is incumbent!"

Jing Hui bowed slightly and said: "Then Jing Hui thanked the donor first, and the donor should be rewarded for his kindness in the future." ”

"No, I believe in what is in front of me more than in karma. Zhao Ranna casually pointed in the direction of the Buddha statue, "So I definitely don't cultivate the past Buddha, I want to cultivate the present life." ”

Jinghui was silent for a while before saying, "How can the donor verify the present?"

She said lightly: "If the donor can't verify the present, how can he know that he is not in the past or in the future?"

This is extremely paradoxical, as if asking an unreasonable question, but it can't be refuted, and Zhao Ran is stunned.

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As they spoke, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and it was rare for Wantong to see someone who came and actually got up and said, "Your Royal Highness the Princess." ”

Zhaoran frowned, and then heard Jiashan's voice: "The county lord is a person who has been reasoning about the Buddha for many years and does not ask about the world, and the master of the horse is afraid that Lord Wan will find it inconvenient to judge the case here, so he asked the palace to come over and mediate from it." ”

As soon as these words came out, Jing Hui's face turned slightly pale, and she said, "The poor Nidai county lord has thanked the princess for her kindness." ”

Over there, Jiashan entered the Buddhist hall, and the female officials moved in a few dwarfs, and Wang Zeng chose the place to sit, and each person had a set of refreshments on the table, but except for Zhaoran, no one would really eat and drink in the Buddhist hall.

Even the arrogant Wantong was no exception, and he took the time to put incense on the past Buddha.

As soon as Wang Zeng sat down, Zhaoran ordered dried tofu and fried peanuts again, Jinghui also instructed the female officials to do the same, and after the things came up, he fumbled and took the dried tofu and rolled the peanuts and handed them to Jiuru who was sitting next to him: "Uncle, you taste it, this dried tofu rolled peanuts can chew the taste of meat." ”

The room was silent, Wantong's fat face twitched, and Jiuru calmly took it and put it in his mouth.

Jiu Ruoran is very good at seducing in this regard, and Zhao Ran was grinning in his heart, and suddenly heard someone in his ear: "You also have a grudge against Wang Zeng?"

A mouthful of tea in Zhaoran's mouth almost squirted out, although he was blindfolded, he couldn't help but turn his head, and then listened again: "Don't shake your head, I'm talking to you." ”

It's Jiuru, and the sound is transmitted into the secret!

Zhaoran "tsk" in his heart, he is really a master.

Jiuru can transmit the sound, but Zhaoran can't transmit it back, this is a one-line connection, and Zhaoran is happy to pretend to be deaf and dumb, that is, Jiuru understands that he just made a play for Wang Zeng, and he is willing to continue the play, so he must still be willing to be a backer for him.

Zhao Ran felt that he and Wantong had a common language all of a sudden, and they all hugged the thick thighs, which was a bit of the pleasure of being a villain.

It's just that Jiuru is too silent, he forgot that Jiuru is actually very smart, it seems that he still has to be careful in the future, and he beat himself in his heart.

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They sat for a while, and there was a commotion outside, and even a woman's scream, and they got up and said, "Here comes the evidence." ”

Two brocade guards opened the door of the main hall, a gust of cold wind blew and made the people inside shiver, in front of the main hall, several brocade guards dragged two large nets with fine holes, and the nets were crowded with rats as big as kittens.

Wang Zeng gasped, Wan Tongrao was ruthless on weekdays, and at this moment, he couldn't help but fight, and said: "These are all caught by that method in the back mountain." ”

"Lord Hui, exactly, we contacted the major restaurants overnight, got a total of 50 pairs of live crabs, and took their chelae to burn cigarettes in the fishing nets that were laid out in advance, and we caught so many in one net. ”

Zhaoran said: "It is recorded in Shi Zhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" that the crab is born in the water of Yifang Luo Chize. Take no time. Its yellow can turn paint into water, and its chelated smoke can collect rats. But the mountain rats are so big that they must have been kept by someone, who collects them with chelicerae smoke and feeds them. ”

"It's so terrifying, who would do that?" Wang Zeng frowned.

Zhao Ran said: "I have a son and nephew who is very fond of eating mice, and if he is told to see this net of rats, he will definitely howl with joy, and people will not feel terrible when they see the food they love to eat." But with so many mice, there are not a few people who need money, and this crab alone is probably expensive, and now how much does a crab cost?"

Jin Yiwei stepped forward and replied: "One is five taels." ”

"Five taels...... It can be seen that raising rats is not cheaper than raising people. Zhao Ran said, "Where does this money come from, it can only be embezzled from the good money of Fayan Temple." It was Qiu Rong who was in charge of the money, but she was timid, so the person who went up the mountain to feed the rats was not her, Ji Fang was missing, she was the person of the Empress Dowager Zhou, Jin Yiwei naturally wanted to investigate, and sooner or later it would be found that there was a problem with the account book in the temple, so they thought of a way to use the method of collecting rats to destroy the account book. ”

His voice spread far away in the dark night, very clear and a little cold: "But this matter can only be done by Qiu Rong, why? Qiu Rong lit a cigarette smoke, the rats won't all arrive at once, why didn't she run away when she saw the first one? Because she wanted to make sure that the books that had smoked the smell of meat would be destroyed by the rats, she was very timid, and when there were more rats, she couldn't escape, her body was stained with the smell of meat, and the rats began to attack her, but she still didn't scream, why? Because she has not seen the arrows, the rat plague destroys the account book, which requires a powerful witness, this witness is of course the Buddha, the best time has not yet come, and someone will come, and the work will be wasted, so she endured until she was bitten to death. ”

Zhao Ran was silent for a moment and then said: "I'm afraid Qiu Rong won't know until he dies that those rats haven't been fed for several days, so the hungry rats who are used to eating when they smell smoke will eat together." But it doesn't matter, the rat group destroys the temple and wants the Buddha to be a witness, and the timing needs to be well mastered, otherwise the rat group may disperse later, so as I said earlier, this person will definitely try his best to grasp this opportunity, whoever holds the arrow is the murderer!"

The female officials slowly turned their heads to look at Jing Hui, Jing Hui's face was full of tears, the hand holding the Buddha beads kept trembling, and it took a long time to speak: "Gongzi only said one thing wrong, I didn't mean not to feed the mountain mice, but after the disappearance of Ji Fang, my heart was too chaotic, and I was afraid that Jin Yiwei would see the flaws, so I only fed it for a few days." ”

Wantong waved his hand: "Take it." ”

Jing Hui hurriedly said, "My lord, please let me say goodbye to the county lord." ”

Before Wantong could speak, Zhao Ran had already spoken: "Let her say goodbye." ”

Wantong frowned, Jiuru turned his head and said, "Just let her say goodbye." ”

Wantong waved his hand and let the Jinyi guard escort Jinghui into the main hall.

Jing Hui wiped her tears, walked to the door of the inner hall, knelt down, and said in a calm tone: "County Lord, Jing Hui and the County Lord have ended their fate in this life, so I will say goodbye." ”

She hadn't gone far before she heard a beast-like wail from the inner hall, Jinghui's footsteps paused, but she still walked out with her feet held high, and when she walked past Zhaoran, she suddenly reached out and grabbed his wrist.

Jin Yiwei shouted: "Let go!"

But even if they punched and kicked, Jinghui just refused to let go, and said through the veil: "I promise you." ”

Jing Hui slowly let go of his wrist, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding but he smiled.

When he left, Wan Tong asked, "What did you promise her?"

Zhaoran looked at him and said, "I promised her that this matter would end here." ”

Wan Tong looked at him, waved his fat hand and said, "Is there any other flower head in this matter, naturally it will end here." ”

Zhao Ran bowed down and said, "Thank you, sir." ”

Wan Tong went out of the door and got on the horse, turned his head and said, "Boy, do you have any ideas to come over and talk to this official?"

Zhaoran shook his head again and again, and Wantong's face changed color and said, "Why, this official is not worthy of you to follow." ”

"Of course you can afford it, but being a Jinyiwei is too uncomfortable, too nerve-wracking, and too difficult to be a person. ”

Wantong laughed so much that his fat body was trembling, and the horse roared away with a group of brocade guards.

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When Jiashan came, she drove by car, so she came in a carriage with Wang Zeng, and she got into the car and whispered: "Do you say that this Jinghui raised so many rats really to eat?"

Wang Zeng had been closing his eyes and saying: "If there are many mice, the snake will naturally be safe, probably because he believes in some evil law to transport it." ”

Jiashan was slightly taken aback and blurted out: "Gu'an Xiao snake." ”

After she finished saying this, the two of them were silent, and after a long time, Jiashan said again: "Where did Ji Fang go?"

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There were a few brocade guards in the temple to collect the corpses, Qiu Rong's corpse was carried out, Zhaoran took off the handkerchief on his eyes, walked over and squatted beside her, Qiu Ru's face was half ruined, but it could be vaguely seen that she was a little younger, her cheeks were round, and her eyes were slightly open, as if she could still see her delicate expression when she was alive from above.

Zhao Ran thought to himself, it's a pity, otherwise this skin would be worth wearing.