Ling Yue woke up from a nightmare, and for some reason it felt like someone was clutching his heart, and it was uncomfortable. He had to keep pinching himself, using pain to tell himself that he had now returned to reality, and it was all fake just now... After about another stick of incense, the man finally calmed down, he got up and changed the handkerchief on Changying's forehead, and sat on the edge of the bed and no longer felt sleepy.

It wasn't until the chickens started to report morning that Ling Yue withdrew his gaze that he didn't know where to stare at, slowly got up and went to the courtyard to make a fire and open the stove, looking at the rice tumbling in the boiling water, he couldn't help but be stunned again. Although the dream last night was fake, he didn't know why it made his heart palpitate, and this case, he was really worried that if this case was not solved, would the nightmare become true...

"Brother Ling..."Changying burned all night, only feeling that someone around him was taking care of him all the time, and when the rooster crowed, he was actually already awake, but his hands, feet and eyelids were much heavier than in the past, and it took him a long time to struggle to get up. As soon as he went out, he saw Ling Yue stirring his own pot as if he had lost his soul, and the water in which the porridge was cooking was spraying out, so he quickly called him back to his senses.

"Eh, ancestor, why are you up, go back and lie down!" Ling Yue saw that Changying had woken up, so he hurriedly suppressed his thoughts, first helped the person back to sit on the bed, and then wrapped the child tightly with a quilt, and reached out to probe his forehead: "How is it, is it still uncomfortable?"

I saw Changying sniff and shake his head, and said softly, "I'm hungry." ”

As soon as Ling Yue heard this, a stone in his heart could be regarded as falling to the ground, this old man often said that a sick person will recover as long as he has an appetite, since Changying feels hungry, it is half better, he hurriedly went to the stove to fill a bowl of rice porridge and came out, sat back on the side of the bed, and carefully blew the hot porridge: "It's hot, you eat slowly." ”

Changying took a small sip of porridge, Ling Yue was afraid that he would eat monotonous and sprinkled some white sugar into it to taste. Seeing that he drank the porridge cleanly and obediently, Ling Yue said while helping him lie down: "I'll go out with the fifth master to find clues later, don't follow you today, rest well, remember to eat the medicine simmering on the pot." He hid the fact that he was going to see his grandmother in prison, for fear that the child would come with him.

Changying couldn't help but feel a little distressed when he saw that Ling Yue's eyes were blue and black, and he also knew that his top priority was to recover from his illness first, so he nodded and agreed: "Brother Ling, thank you." ”

Ling Yue smiled and rubbed Changying's head: "What's the politeness, hurry up and recover from your illness, don't let grandma worry." ”

A knock on the door outside the courtyard sounded at this time, and Ling Yue went out of the courtyard and opened the door, only to see Huang Wuye with Gu Da and a swaying Lin Gao already waiting outside the door.

Huang Wuye didn't talk nonsense, and said straight to the point Chong Lingyue: "Let's go, Gu Da will leave you and let him watch the child." As he spoke, he turned sideways without a trace, blocking Lin Gao's view of the courtyard.

Ling Yue looked back at Changying, who was hiding in the door of the house with only his head exposed, and said with some worry: "This kid is afraid of life... If he is uncomfortable, he may not tell you clearly, and he will bother Brother Gu. ”

"Ling Gongzi is polite," Gu Da bowed his head and stood aside respectfully.

"Let's go, stop talking nonsense. Huang Wuye raised his voice, pulled Ling Yue away with an impatient face, and saw that he couldn't stop looking back on the road: "Eh, you can rest assured, our ancient great ability to be literate and martial, we can go up to the hall and get down to the kitchen, and we promise to return you a lively child at night." ”

Ling Yue hooked the corners of his mouth and shook his head helplessly, and followed Huang Wuye intently towards the city prison. However, he didn't find Gu Er's figure around, and he couldn't help but be a little puzzled: "What about Gu Erge..."

"I asked him to track down the White Ape Demon. ”

Ling Yue suddenly thought of what Huang Wuye said before that he came to Qiu Ling City to catch that bounty demon, but now he was dragged by himself to check on his grandmother's affairs, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy: "That... I'm not going to delay you chasing the demon list, am I?"

Who knew that this Huang Wuye waved his hand indifferently: "Master, do I need those money..."

Ling Yue's eyes widened when he heard this, you are not short of those few dollars, and you even robbed the Demon Race Arena in broad daylight!

However, before Ling Yue could express this ridiculous emotion, Lin Gao on the side probed his head and asked, "Two big brothers, you also know that I came here mainly to catch that white ape demon, if we are sure that this case was not done by the white ape demon, I won't get involved..."

When Huang Wuye heard what he said, he said very angrily: "You are a suspect now, and you are still catching demons?! It's interesting enough that I didn't lock you up in prison, follow honestly." ”

Lin Gao also knew in his heart that he had fallen to the scene of someone's murder yesterday, but he couldn't prove his innocence... And these five masters are so arrogant, don't really let him be unsatisfactory and throw himself into that prison again, but the gains outweigh the losses...

Several people walked all the way to the Chengsi prison, and happened to meet Master Qin at the door of the prison. Master Qin looked at these people with a headache, he didn't expect to meet them again, it seems that his plan will not be implemented now...

If you want to talk about why these people make Master Qin a headache, the reason has to start from the official system of this host country. The officials at all levels in the country implement a recommendation system, and the petty officials who have just joined the WTO must be recommended by their own superiors in order to climb up step by step. And this Qin master book was recommended by a relative who had a good relationship with Lord Lian at the beginning, so he could come to this city secretary to do the position of the master book, and then he worked hard for so many years, although he left a lot of good impressions on Lord Lian, but Lord Lian never mentioned the promotion to himself. However, the emperor lived up to his painstaking efforts, and Lord Lian finally told Master Qin a few days ago that Lord Xiao of Zhushan County was looking for a deputy, and he planned to hold a banquet in Qiuling City today to invite this Lord Xiao and introduce himself to the other party. The road to promotion that has been hard for so many years is about to be passed, which makes Master Qin excited, but who knows that at this time, there is a clueless case, if Lord Xiao asks at that time, it will be really difficult to explain.

However, this Huang Wuye's words yesterday gave him a way out, he could have said that this old woman was a demon, and he killed Zhang Fu with resentment, and even Master Yuan himself took care of it yesterday. Master Qin originally planned to go into prison by herself to lure the old woman to admit the demon, even if she didn't admit it, she could get rid of her first with Master Yuan, and then report back that the old woman was demonic and wronged the two of them in prison, anyway, there was no proof of death, and the matter would be settled...

In this way, he can win a reputation for solving strange cases in two days, and today he can boast in front of Lord Xiao, as for the life of the old woman, how can most of the people who have been cut into the ground compare with their own careers...

But people are not as good as heaven, and they will come to the prison to ask the old woman, but the sudden appearance of Huang Wuye's gang has to find a way to break them away... Master Qin was thinking about it, and Huang Wuye, Ling Yue, and Lin Gao had already walked in front of him.

"Yo, this is not Master Qin's book, why did you also come to the prison to investigate the case?" asked Huang Wuye.

"There is something I want to ask the old lady again. Master Qin squinted his eyes and quickly thought about how to deal with it, but who knew that this Huang Wuye didn't give him a chance to react at all, and only listened to him say anti-guest-oriented: "Let's go together, and the province will disturb the old lady's rest." This man took Ling Yue and Lin Gao into the prison door by himself, and the cell leader saw that he signaled the waist card of the Heavenly Law Department, so he did not stop him.

Master Qin had to bite his back molars and follow.

Ling Yue couldn't help but be a little worried when he saw the environment here, and walked quickly to the place where his grandmother was closed, and saw that his grandmother was sitting on the ground against the wall and staring at the small window on the wall, the whole person couldn't see her expression in the shadows, and there was no trace of punishment on her body except that she was dirty.

"Grandma..."

As soon as Grandma Shi heard Ling Yue's voice, she hurriedly lifted her spirits, trembled and walked to the edge of the cell door: "Xiao Ling, what are you doing here..."

"I can't help but come and see you. Ling Yue held his grandmother's hand, and the coldness of his palm made his heart feel pantothenic.

"You don't have to worry, ah, Lord Nalian is very good to me, and when he finds out, he will let me go." Grandma Shi saw that there was no grandson behind Ling Yue, and couldn't help but be a little worried: "What about Changying, why didn't this child come?"

"Chang Ying, he... Yesterday I was tired, and when we went out, the child was very sleepy, so we let him continue to sleep. Ling Yue thought about it, but he was still afraid that his grandmother would worry, so he lied.

Grandma Shi also guessed a rough idea in her heart, and said slowly: "Hey... Changying, this child has no father and mother when he is young, and he usually holds back what he has on his mind, and I am inevitably frightened by being put in prison all of a sudden. Xiao Ling, you help grandma take care of him more, in case grandma can't get out of this prison door..."

Ling Yue listened to his grandmother's words becoming more and more wrong, and hurriedly stopped her words: "Grandma, what do you say, we will definitely return your innocence, yesterday we went to Zhang's mansion..."

Master Qin was very irritated when he saw the scene of the warmth of the two ancestors and grandchildren, and without waiting for Ling Yue to finish speaking, he interrupted: "This is a prison, not a place for you to chat!"

Ling Yue couldn't help but be irritable for a while, but he also knew that there was an official master present, and he couldn't break the rules, so he had to pat his grandmother soothingly, got up and stood aside and stopped talking, only to hear the Qin master ask: "Shi, we still have something to ask you about this case." Yesterday you said that you don't know who this old man has a grudge with, so do you know who this old man has a close relationship with on weekdays?"

Grandma Shi had no choice but to sort out her emotions, frowning slightly and recalling: "This... The old man often goes out of the city to hunt with the old man Cen in the next house, and he has a party or something on weekdays, and the day before I was kicked out of the house, he also called a lot of people to come to the house to gather, saying that it was to celebrate that he had hunted a rare white ape... As for the matter outside Zhang's house... The old body is even more unclear. ”

"White Ape?" Ling Yue couldn't help but glance at Huang Wuye: "Who is this white ape?"

Grandma Shi was a little curious why Ling Yue was interested in this white ape, but she still said what she knew: "The master came back from the mountain a few days ago from a snow-white ape, the ape is not big, it is not knee-high, and a pair of big eyes and watery eyes are a little pitiful... But the old man doesn't care about this, I heard that he killed the little cub that the female ape caught... The old man was very happy in those days, and he wanted to show off when he met people, and I heard that he could sell it for a good price..."Grandma Shi lowered her head with some guilt when she said this: "Hey, if it weren't for me, the white ape wouldn't have run..."

"This white ape ran out because you forgot to close the door of that circle?" Ling Yue saw that his grandmother nodded, and suddenly remembered the question he and Huang Wuye had yesterday: "What about the other prey in that circle, why didn't we go to see one yesterday, it is said that even if the prey went out and ran, it would be reasonable to run one or two and no one would see it, but why is there no one left?"

"There are only two in that circle, one is the newly hunted white ape, and the other is also a red fox that has been acquired recently, and the animals that the master hunts on weekdays are basically sold every few days..."

Lin Gao stood aside and didn't speak, but he didn't have the calmness of Ling Yue and Huang Wuye, as soon as he heard his grandmother talk about the banquet and the white ape that day, he was curious and asked directly: "Grandma, can there be something unusual at the party?

Grandma Shi looked at Lin Gao, the child was dressed in white and shrunk quietly to the side just now, but she didn't pay much attention to it, and after looking at it, she found that he was born very standardly, but the beauty of birth is the beauty of life, and the words he said did not make Grandma Shi happy.

You must know that Grandma Shi's son and daughter-in-law were killed by evil demons back then, and they already hated demons, and when they heard that this young man had involved his master with the demon, he couldn't help but change his face: "You don't talk nonsense, the master loves to hunt with Master Cen on weekdays, but it has nothing to do with those demons... The old man is a very good man. But if you say that day's banquet...", he seemed to be a little angry: "It's not his son, that day the master invited many masters in our Qiuling City to come to the house as guests, and also invited the acrobatic troupe called the Tianxiang class to cheer up the banquet, it was originally very lively, but who knew that the young master saw that one of the girls was beautiful, so he did something to her... That day, the people in the Xiang class did not give up, and in the end, the master gave them a lot of money to let them go..."

"Tianxiang class!! Tianxiang class has come to Qiuling City?" Lin Gao didn't know why, when he heard the word Tianxiang class, his whole person became excited, and his voice was a few points higher than usual.

Huang Wuye, who was on the side, rubbed his shocked ears, and slapped the culprit on the head: "Speak well!"

Lin Gao shrank his head, smiled, and saw everyone looking at him with a blank face, and hurriedly said: "This Tianxiang class is famous far and wide, you don't even know it, it's really lonely!" said like a few family treasures: "This Tianxiang class is a vaudeville troupe, the repertoire is very strange, I heard that some still use the technology of the Westerners, and ah, the girls in the troupe are all good-looking, tsk." A little starlight flashed in his eyes, and his face was yearning.

"This son is really used to being a woman on weekdays, and I often see him in the demon field with a different prostitute... It seems that yesterday Boss Zhu..."When Ling Yue heard that Young Master Zhang couldn't help but think of seeing this person in the Demon Race Arena many times before, he spent a lot of money with a drunken body, and he connected the relationship between him and Boss Zhu in his heart, and regardless of Lin Gao staring at him with a pair of big eyes next to him and asking himself what the Demon Race Field was, he looked directly at Huang Wuye, although he didn't say this explicitly, but the Fifth Master nodded in his chest.

At this time, Ling Yue couldn't help but have a question in his heart, he had always thought that it was Master Zhang's reason that caused the destruction of this Zhang Mansion, but today's investigation shows that compared to the usual honest Master Zhang, his bastard son who eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles all in one seems to be more hated... And this Tianxiang class that suddenly appeared... Could it be that the previous direction was wrong?

Seeing that they couldn't ask for any more useful clues, they comforted the grandmother that if they waited a few more days, they would definitely clear her innocence. However, no one noticed the gloomy face of Master Qin on the side.

A few people got out of the prison, Ling Yue eased his eyes that were flickered by the sudden sunlight, and only heard Huang Wuye say: "Let's go, let's go to Tianxiang Class to have a look, they live in your inn, that is, they are robbing the room with the master..."

As soon as Lin Gao heard that he was going to the Tianxiang class, the whole person instantly became excited, his little face was dyed a little red, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily hooked, with a proper fan expression, and he didn't forget to say a few words for this Tianxiang class: "Eh, don't doubt the Tianxiang class, they will never kill anyone! Hey! Did you hear it!" But no one paid attention to him.

Master Qin looked at the "Cheng Biting Jin" around him, and couldn't help but be irritable, but he still quietly followed them to the door of the inn, after all, his previous plan was not easy to realize because of the mixing of these people, and he still had to find another way to find another way while Lord Xiao had not yet arrived in Qiuling City...

A few people came to the door of the inn with their own hearts, the inn is elegantly repaired, the exterior wall made of hundreds of bamboos looks very verdant and elegant, and the guests in the door are drinking hot tea and chatting. As soon as these people entered the door, Lin Gao asked Xiao Er excitedly: "Eh, brother, I will ask you about the people in the Xiang class that day." ”

Xu is that there are many people who come here to investigate, and the shopkeeper doesn't raise his eyes: "Not there..."

"Eh, you little second is so rude, we have all inquired clearly, this Tianxiang class lives in your place!

Master Qin was a happy person, and he didn't wait for the little second to reply, he directly pushed Lin Gao away, and showed his waist card: "The city division is handling the case, where is the Tianxiang class?"

Xiao Er looked at the person who came squarely, and when he saw Master Qin's legs, he couldn't help but start trembling: "Lord Qin... The little one has eyes and doesn't know Tarzan, and it's offended ... That day, the Xiang class was on the second floor of the "full", "beautiful" and "beautiful" word room, and I didn't go out today, so I took the adults up. ”

"Full of beauty"? How could this innkeeper choose such a pretentious and cheesy name for the guest room, Ling Yue couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart. Just go up to the second floor, 16 guest rooms, the door is open, there is a single word number hanging on the door, Ling Yue looked at the word card but solved his doubts just now, it turned out that these 16 cards are connected together is "the gold and jade are full of rich oil, and the beautiful scenery of the good day is three thousand", Ling Yue almost didn't come up in one breath after reading it, this "couplet" like the room number really responded to the innkeeper's beautiful long-cherished wish, he should give him a horizontal criticism: "Stinky shameless!"

The shopkeeper knocked on the door of the guest room with the word "full" diligently: "Tanuki girl, there are customers looking for you." ”

I only heard a lazy and long voice from inside, but it was very clean and good: "Don't see, boom away." ”

"Tanuki Girl, this... It's from the Joshifu..."

Light footsteps rang out from inside the room, and the door opened.

The girl in front of her was wearing a slightly simple light goose yellow skirt, embroidered with a tiger stripe on the edge of the fabric with white silk thread, extending from the skirt to the waist, an orange corset tightened the thin waist, pinned to the waist with a thin rattan whip, although the figure was a little thin but the gestures were full of capable and heroic, wearing a transparent white silk shirt, the head was not like the woman in the city with a headband, just a silver hairpin casually rolled a bun, a beautiful melon seed face, with that eccentric expression is very similar to the cat on the side of the road, Ling Yuexin said that this girl is really a beauty。

"City Division's Mansion?" the woman who was called Tanuki looked at the four people standing in the corridor, and said to Master Qin, who was the only one wearing an official uniform, "I don't know what the official has to do. ”

Qin Zhushu gave a slight salute: "Xiaguan Qiuling City Division Master, the night before yesterday, all fifteen members of Zhang's Mansion were killed in one night, and the Chengsi Mansion is investigating the case, I heard that the girl's Tianxiang class had a conflict with her son-in-law in Zhang's Mansion a few days ago, I don't know if the girl can tell us the scene of the day." ”

Tanuki Yan raised the good-looking willow eyebrows: "Come in and talk about it." Then he turned and went back to his room, and sat down on the edge of the wooden table.

"This girl, dare to ask the honorable name. Master Qin took two steps forward, stood aside and asked very formally.

"Tanuki smoke, it's the head of this Tianxiang class, well, our Tianxiang class is a vaudeville troupe, it's fun to juggle or something. ”

Lin Gao finally broke free at this time, Huang Wuye pressed his hand from the moment he saw Tanuki Yan just now, took two steps at the same time, and rushed to Tanuki Yan's side: "Tanuki girl, I like you, just your show, it's really amazing!" As he spoke, he stretched out a pair of trembling hands and tugged at Tanuki Yan's sleeves, and the peach blossom eyes were still vaguely filled with tears, and it seemed that he was excited and tight.

However, before this Lin Gao could make any response to him, he was suddenly thrown to the ground with a strong force.

A deep male voice roared, "Don't touch her!"