Volume 1 The First Entry into the Troubled Times Chapter 11 The Demon Qingshui County (2)
Qianqiu, who was standing not far away, looked at the lady of the county order, and smiled even more happily: "It's so fat, hahaha!"
The woman drank the prefectural ordinance and rushed to him.
Li Xianling knew that it was too late, thought for a moment, then straightened his back, coughed a few times, and shouted solemnly: "Bold!
"Ouch, you've grown your skills!Lord Li, why can't you call your name directly?"
The woman was not afraid, but asked in a strange way.
"I have studied hard for ten years, and finally been appointed as an official of one of my parents, and I have been an official for decades, although my body is as dim as a star, but my heart is as clear as a mirror, how can you call it such a name!" Master Li replied righteously.
"Master Li, your name can't be called directly, I don't know if your body can be cut directly, concubine?" the woman gritted her teeth and fiercely, "The surname is Li, although you are married to the second room, she is also a well-informed lady, I don't care about you." But now you actually want to bring the fireworks woman home? I don't know the shame! I read all the books of the sages and sages into the belly of a dog! If I don't cut you, it will be hard to eliminate the hatred in my heart! The old lady can't afford to lose this person, and her life is over!" After the woman finished speaking, she raised her kitchen knife and was about to cut it.
"No, madam!" A stone flew out of the ya, knocked out the kitchen knife in the woman's hand, and then drove out a person, neatly blocking in front of Li Xianlingβit was Cen Zhutou.
"Xiaocui is not a fireworks woman, she was framed, and the official is just helping her!"
"Madam, my subordinates will find out if what the Lord said is true, and it won't be too late for you to pursue it when the time comes!" Cen Rong replied.
"Okay! Today, Cen Zhutou pleads for you, the old lady will let you go for the time being, if you find out that what you said is true, I will spare you. If there is even the slightest falsehood, I will tell my father, and when the time comes, you will not be able to eat and walk around, and finally let you go home and farm!"
When the woman walked in, Li Xianling stood up disdainfully, pouted and said, "I'm afraid you won't make it." β
Cen Rong looked at Li Xianling, who was hard-mouthed in front of him, and couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to say, "My lord, then my subordinates will go to explore Xiaocui's foundation." β
"Go, go, go! Xiaocui has just come to Qingshui County, what bad things can she do? Really!" Li Xianling looked confident.
"My lord, there are outsiders who have settled in Qingshui County, and Master Shao has never told me about this. Cen Rong reminded suspiciously.
Li Xianling said: "I don't know very well, Master Shao is also very busy these days, maybe he accidentally missed it." Cen Zhutou, you go check it out. I've been feeling unwell lately, and I need to bother you a little more about this, so I'll go and rest first. β
Qianqiu, who was not far away, heard all the conversations and observed this Li County Commander. At this moment, the knife touched his hand with his head and raised his head towards Li Xianling.
"You found the knife! There seems to be a demonic aura on the county order, but the feeling is not very strong, I guess it has something to do with the little cui he said!" Qianqiu said to herself.
"Brother Qian, I met again by such a coincidence. While Qianqiu was thinking about himself, Cen Rong saw him biting his nails on the side of the road, so he walked over.
Qianqiu nodded: "I just came out of the Dong Mansion to breathe, Cen Zhutou, what realm have you cultivated?" he asked with a smile.
"Don't dare, don't dare, I'm cultivating because there are some broken cultivation books in my family since I was a child, and I've practiced at will, and I've been wandering around junior magicians for several years, and I should have achieved this in my life. However, I see that Brother Qian is young, and there are spirit beasts with him, so presumably your cultivation must be very good. I don't know where I learned from?"
"I practiced it myself, it's just nonsense, Cen Zhutou has an overreputation. Qianqiu waved his hand casually, "By the way, Cen Zhutou is going to find that Lord Li's friend?"
"Exactly, although Mrs. Li is lenient about taking concubines, she attaches great importance to the identity of concubines, and she does not help adults settle down as subordinates, for fear that there will be no more peaceful children in the yamen. Cen Rong was a little helpless and said stupidly.
Qianqiu looked at Cen Zhutou in front of him and looked at the yamen: "I think that although Mrs. Li's words are vulgar, she is reasonable, and she can be regarded as a heroine among women, but what adults do is not very authentic." β
Cen Rong nodded, with a deep sense of agreement, and said, "The hero sees the same thing. β
"Do you know that there is a demon in Qingshui County who is causing trouble?" Qianqiu suddenly thought of the demonic aura on Li County's body just now, so he mentioned it.
Cen Rong raised his head: "Brother Qian, how can you say this? Although there are often strange things in Qingshui County, I haven't found any traces of monsters. Recently, there have been a series of girls missing.,It's like it's man-made.,But some places are a little strange.,I've thought about the possibility of monsters.,But I haven't been able to find a clue.γ β
"Can you tell me more about it, maybe I can help you solve this case. Qianqiu looked at Cen Zhutou and said.
Cen Zhutou nodded: "Brother Qian, where are you, I can't ask for your help." β
"Okay, how long has it been since the first case happened, how many girls have gone missing, and where did it happen?"
"Seven days, counting Nana who has returned so far, I'm afraid there are four. The first to report the case to Yamen was the tailor Hu Qizhen, whose daughter was the first to go missing. There is also the daughter of the butcher's shopkeeper and the daughter of the blacksmith Dayong. Cen Rong told Qianqiu some facts about the case, if he could solve the case with Qianqiu's help, he wouldn't have to worry about having no helper if he really met a monster.
"You go to find Xiaocui, can you take me? I want to go and see it too, the monster thing is probably related to her. Entrusted by others, I will leave Qingshui County after clearing the demons. Chiaki spoke loudly.
"Brother Qian, I can't ask for your help, you can't solve this case! Let's go!" Cen Rong was overjoyed and said happily.
While talking, the two came to the Aromatic Pavilion, and the distance from the county government to the Aromatic Pavilion was not far.
"This is the Aroma Pavilion. Xiaocui's full name is Liu Xiaocui, although she has not been here for a long time, she is said to be the top girl of the Aromatic Pavilion. β
Qianqiu smiled and said: "It didn't take long for me to become the top brand when I first arrived in a place, presumably this girl must be a flower and a moon!"
Cen Rong squinted his eyes and glanced at Qianqiu: "Brother Qian knows this way so well, could it be ......"
Qianqiu hurriedly waved his hand, indicating that he didn't know very well: "I don't understand, I really don't understand! I haven't been there!"
Cen Rong looked at Qianqiu, who was anxious, raised his eyebrows, and smiled again.
Entering the gate of the Aromatic Pavilion, the old lady who was sitting and resting on the side hurriedly greeted her: "Yo! Good spirit little brother! I see that you are not a local, is it the first time to come? The girls are still resting, and the little brother has a sip of tea first?"
At this time, the old mother saw Cen Zhutou behind her, her face changed, and she became a little nervous from courtesy: "Cen Zhutou, you are a daughter, it's not appropriate to come here, right?"
"Nonsense, this head catcher is here to investigate the case!" Cen Zhutou slapped the official knife on the table, and made a few marks on the table.
"Yo! Cen Zhutou, I didn't recruit you today, what are you doing!" the old mother glanced at the ash table distressedly.
Cen Rong made a blank face and said majestically: "Call Liu Xiaocui out, I have something to ask her." β
When the old mother heard this, although she was a little displeased, she still agreed, and hurriedly turned the front hall and entered the back room.
After a while, a pungent fragrance smoked into the front hall, and a delicate voice came from the back room: "Who? Look for me so early, don't you know if this girl won't work in the afternoon?" After a while, a delicate and extraordinary woman dressed in a bright flower dress came out with her waist twisted.
Qianqiu looked at it, although the woman in front of her was charming, she couldn't stand a closer look, although there were many gorgeous headdresses, they were very miscellaneous and had no sense of beauty, and they were not as good as the small gold lock hanging around her neck. He also thought that Xiao Cui was so good-looking, this closer look, compared to the county lord, it was simply a cellar with eighteen layers of hell underground, and the other was the dome of the nine heavens in the sky.
I haven't seen her for a long time, and I don't know how she's doing.
Seeing the young woman in front of her, Qianqiu couldn't help but think of the lovely demon clan lord two years ago.
"Eh, it turned out to be Cen Zhutou, what are you looking for me?" Liu Xiaocui seemed to be the famous Cen Zhutou in Qingshui Town, and he was much more restrained.
"Liu Xiaocui, I don't have anything to do with you, I just ask you about the situation of outsiders. Cen Ronggu sat down and poured a cup of tea and said to Liu Xiaocui.
Liu Xiaocui sat down, looked at Qianqiu standing behind him, and then looked at Cen Zhutou: "Cen Zhutou, I have registered with the county government." β
"Don't count, I'll answer you. Where did you come from, when did you come to Qingshui County, and why did you come here?"
"Alas, ask again. As for my family, in Hujia Village, northwest of the Sacred Mountain, in Qingshui County, which I came to in January, I was sold here by my uncle. Liu Xiaocui became impatient as she spoke.
"Is what she said true?" Cen Rong looked at the old mother who accompanied her.
"Yes, it was her uncle who sold her here a month ago. Her uncle is really not a thing, such a handsome girl said that she would sell it, but this girl refused, crying and making trouble, so he beat her in front of everyone. I couldn't bear to look at it, so I bought it. The old mother shook the incense fan and said slowly.
"I heard that the county magistrate is going to redeem her?" Cen Rong continued to ask.
"I guessed what the county magistrate had in his idea, but he did mention it to me, and when I went to the county office the next day to ask for clarification, didn't those brothers of yours beat me out?" the old mother replied disdainfully.
"Liu Xiaocui, what do you usually do?" Cen Rong let go of the old mother and asked Liu Xiaocui again.
"I usually go to bed in the morning, and in the afternoon I go out into the street when it doesn't rain, and then I get dressed up, you know. Liu Xiaocui's smile trembled.
Cen Rong and Qianqiu couldn't help but feel sick.
After asking a few more questions, the two of them came out of the Aromatic Pavilion.
Cen Rong looked at Qianqiu: "Brother Qian, have you found anything after asking so much?"
Qianqiu thought for a while and said, "This Xiaocui is a monster, but it's not a monster who kidnapped Dong Na. β
"Monster?" Cen Rong was taken aback, she was shocked by these words, she also tried to probe it just now, Xiaocui didn't have any demonic energy.
"First, she smells very strong of perfume, one is the girl's grooming habits, and the other is to cover up her fox smell. Second, she said that she was from Hujia Village, but why did she have the surname Liu? There must be a problem. Third, the northwest of Mount Kinabalu is a gathering place for foxes, and a large number of fox spirit animals have gathered, and it may also be fox spirits. Fourth, if she is an ordinary woman from a good family, I think that in less than a month, she can integrate into the identity of a fireworks woman so quickly, either because of talent, or by intention, maybe it is both. Finally, and most importantly, I could tell she was a fox. Chiaki finally played a trick.
Cen Rong listened seriously at first, but was choked by Qianqiu's last sentence: "Then why are you talking so much?"
Qianqiu smiled: "I'll tell you, when the time comes to arrest someone, there will be a reason." β
"Then I'll go catch this vixen now. Cen Rong said with a knife.
"Cen catches the head, don't worry, the monster who caught Dong Na that day was not her, the smell is wrong, don't catch her now, it's easy to startle the snake." β
"Okay!"
"Let's go to the tailor Hu Qizhen's house to have a look, maybe there is a new discovery, Cen catches the head, please lead the way in front of the head." β