Chapter 43: Murderous Nursery Rhymes (7)

Bai Shui hurried to the county office, and the county magistrate over there, Lord Xu, had just sent away the criminal officer who had come to inspect, and now he saw the head catcher beside him turn back, and his hanging heart had not been put down, so he hung up again.

Bai Shui didn't talk nonsense, he flashed his waist card and said directly, "My lord has an order, I order you to immediately take the official to a place with me, and also, bring the file of the two years of reporting in that place." ”

Lord Xu asked, "I don't know where Bai Zhutou is talking about?" ”

"Your Banyan Village."

Lord Xu suddenly felt like a fly, "That, there?" It's a dangerous place. ”

Bai Shui was not as patient as Su Yunkai, and glanced at him coldly, "Then I'll go back and tell the Lord that Lord Xu is afraid of evil and is unwilling to perform official duties." ”

Lord Xu had never seen such a person who couldn't speak in the scene, so he hurriedly smiled, "Bai Zhutou waits, Xia Guan will go and prepare the file." ”

Before leaving, Bai Shui said, "Is it really dangerous there?" ”

Lord Xu paused and said, "No, since the girl named Ah Wan died under the banyan tree half a year ago, there have been three deaths there...... It's still scary. Bai Zhutou heard the nursery rhyme of the ghost sister there, and I don't know who made up the lyrics, so a good tune became like that. ”

Bai Shui rolled his eyes, "Lord Xu means that the song was originally there, but the words were changed?" ”

"Not really. That song is from the area of Yuanzhou. ”

"How do you know? Yuanzhou is not close to this. ”

Master Xu said with a smile, "My hometown is from Yuanzhou, and that song is our Yuanzhou song, I have listened to it since I was a child, but I am afraid that I will not be able to listen to it in the future, and I will think about it." ”

Bai Shui lowered his eyes, wondering why Yuan Zhou's little song would become a nursery rhyme of the ghost sister and be sung in Rongshu Village?

Could it be that the person who made up this ballad is also from Yuanzhou? Or have you been to Yuanzhou? So who will be from Yuanzhou, or who has been to Yuanzhou?

She suddenly realized that the words of the nursery rhyme were really very interesting, otherwise why would she have to set a catchy song shell to make up such weird words?

At this time, the county had already gathered more than 30 officials, and Bai Shui immediately got on his horse and led them to Rongshu Village.

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Today, the sun is clear, and the sun is shining on the village early in the morning, shining warmly.

Mingyue washed her face by the well, and before she could wipe it clean, she saw the door being pushed open, and Qin Fang walked in like an eggplant wilted by hail. Mingyue called out to him and asked, "Little monkey, why do you look like you're not in good spirits?" ”

Qin Fang was about to answer, when he saw another door open, and when he saw the person who came out, he pointed and said, "He is not in good spirits than me." ”

Mingyue turned around and looked, and sure enough, she saw Su Yunkai with swollen eyes, and her face was haggard, "Brother Su, didn't you sleep well last night?" ”

Su Yunkai only went back to her house in the early morning, her movements were quiet, of course she didn't know, and said with a smile, "Well, I didn't sleep well." By the way, Qin Fang, I heard the horse barking in the morning, did Bai Shui go to the county office? ”

"Probably, I just saw a back, I didn't see the front, but I shouldn't be mistaken."

Mingyue said curiously, "You don't even know that Brother Bai is leaving, so you should sleep well, but why don't you look like you haven't slept well?" ”

"She didn't go back to sleep last night."

Qin Fang squatted by the well, and was about to wash the water she had just brought up. Before he could reach in, he was taken away, and when he got up, he suddenly had a seizure, but when he saw that it was his brother-in-law, he immediately withered. Su Yunkai said, "Fetch water by yourself." ”

After speaking, he put the bucket back in front of Mingyue, which made Mingyue embarrassed, "It's okay, I'm done washing." ”

Qin Fang snorted, "Look, Mingyue is finished." ”

Before he could put his hand in again, he was picked up by Su Yunkai again, and smiled gently, "Oh, then I'll wash it, and you can fetch your own water." ”

"......" Qin Fang got up angrily, "Brother-in-law! He leaned over and looked at the two of them, curled the corners of his lips and said, "How can there be a taste of a husband singing with a wife?" ”

Mingyue raised her eyes, as if she hadn't heard it, and Su Yunkai didn't hear it, Qin Fang was bored again, and squatted aside boredly waiting for the well water. He saw that there were only four children playing inside, and said, "An Dexing really went outside to play with Zhu Ankang." ”

Su Yunkai asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"An Dexing didn't come back last night, and I didn't wish you well, right?"

Su Yunkai thought about the last time he saw the two of them, that is, when he was fenced under the banyan tree yesterday afternoon, when the villagers went to look for Mingyue, they didn't see them, yes, even Sun He didn't see them. But it's not surprising to hear that the three of them have always been together.

After breakfast, Bai Shui also came back with the people from the county office. Su Yunkai asked him a few words, and then took the file to read.

The villagers were not surprised to see that the official errand came to the village, and there was an accident every three or five times in the past six months, and even the officials were familiar with it. But I was still quite surprised to see Lord Xu following behind the son surnamed Su, and I heard him shouting Lord Adult, but he was still on the peak.

At noon, Zhu Ankang, Andexing and Sun He just entered the entrance of the village, they saw the officials standing there, and they had seen them several times, and this time they greeted them as always, but the strange thing was that the officials did not squint, as if they did not see them. When he saw a villager who was about to leave the village, he asked why, and the man replied, "There is an official here, and I am afraid that the lord will see them gag." Hey, you smell of alcohol again, you're out drinking again? I didn't see anyone last night, so I'm coming back now. ”

An Dexing said with a smile, "Of course, you have to drink flower wine for one night...... Hey? By the way, isn't the biggest official in our poor countryside the county magistrate Xu? ”

The villagers smiled, "That official, it's in Zhu's house." ”

Sun He suddenly reacted, "That Young Master Su? ”

Seeing him smiling faintly, the three of them were even more affirmative, looked at each other a few times, and looked in the direction of the Zhu family. Far away in the heart of the village, only the gray tiles of the roof can be seen, and the whole picture cannot be seen. Almost in a moment, An Dexing said with a smile, "Fourth brother, it's still quite useful to read more books." ”

Sun He glanced at him, then at the officials in the distance, and finally at the fence under the banyan tree, which was impermeable to the wind and was more than seven feet high, and did not say anything, "Let's go." ”

The three of them didn't say anything all the way, and when they arrived near Zhu's house, they saw that the adults were waiting outside the door, and then looked at the courtyard, there were still a lot of people, but it was not the officials who were standing, but some ordinary villagers. An Dexing was curious, "Lord Xu, what is the origin of Master Su?" What are you looking up now? ”

Lord Xu said, "It's a big deal, the criminal officer of the Daimyo Mansion Road. ”

Zhu Ankang asked, "What are you investigating?" ”

"I don't know, I heard that someone poisoned the adult without knowing the sky, and some people said that someone wanted to poison the girl next to him, so I brought the case case over, and I didn't know anything and waited here."

An Dexing smiled, "What kind of case is it, is it about the ghost sister in our village?" ”

"I don't know." Lord Xu said and saw Sun He again, he was really a stuffy gourd, if he didn't see him, he would treat him as if he didn't see himself, his character and learning were good, but this kind of temperament was not suitable for being an official. Right...... He suddenly remembered that when Su Yunkai came to the county government to inspect, didn't Sun He also happen to come to the yamen with his classmates, it stands to reason that he should have seen Su Yunkai, as if he didn't know him......

A slight suspicion passed through his heart, and he didn't think much about it, so he continued to sit in his chair and wait for news inside. I hope nothing will happen to this official and send this official away as soon as possible.

In the courtyard, Su Yunkai was still talking to the villagers, Bai Shui was assisting, Mingyue and Qin Fang stood aside and listened for a long time, and they also summed up something - this question is all about the ghost sister's nursery rhyme after it came out, that is, the person who is said to have died unexpectedly and fell ill one after another.

"You said your husband fell ill because he walked twice under the banyan tree?"

"Yes, the tree was so wicked that they said he didn't believe it, and joked with a hippie smile that if it dared to harm him, he would cut it down, and within two days he fell ill."

“……”

“……”

"Which doctor did you go to see when you were sick?"

"I lived alone, and my children were working in the city, and I was so sick that I didn't know anything, and I slept one night, and I was cured. At that time, I thought that it must have been my disrespect to the banyan tree and offended it that caused me to suffer. That night, I thought of the banyan tree in my heart, apologized to it, and said that I would burn incense for it when I was cured. The result turned out to be really good, my lord, don't you say it's strange? ”

Su Yunkai asked five or six people one after another, and without exception, they would explain the matter to a god, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he would really want to worship the banyan tree. After he asked the villagers, he didn't let them leave the courtyard, turned around and handed a stack of singing newspapers to Mingyue, "These are the autopsy reports of the three people who died unexpectedly in the past six months, you see if there is anything suspicious, if you think there is, let Lord Xu and the village chief take you to see it." ”

Mingyue took the newspaper and sat aside to read it. Even a single hair will not be spared in any complete singing newspaper, and this singing newspaper is obviously well written, and it seems that the local editor is also an extremely responsible person. She looked at it carefully three times, but she didn't see anything unusual, and it matched the case file that the official interrogated at the beginning. Seeing that he had stopped, he asked, "Have you seen the case files of these three men?" ”

Su Yunkai nodded, "I've seen it, the case was handled very well, and the file was remembered in detail, and there were no doubts." ”

"Well, these three copies are also singing, there is no doubt." Mingyue said, "That means that these three people did die in an accident, and they have nothing to do with the ghost sister of Banyan Village?" ”

Su Yunkai lowered his eyebrows slightly, "Not only do the three people who died unexpectedly have nothing to do with nursery rhymes, but even the people who fell ill one after another have nothing to do with it." But the sick people, like me, have something to do with the banyan tree. ”

Mingyue couldn't understand it, and after thinking about it, she still didn't understand, "Isn't the ghost sister's nursery rhyme the same as the banyan tree?" Why has it not related to nursery rhymes, but it is related to banyan trees? ”

Su Yun smiled, finally got up from the stool he had been sitting on for a long time, and said, "Let's go, go dig treasure under the banyan tree." ”

Mingyue blinked, and couldn't figure it out, it can be seen that he went over, and felt that there would be a follow-up to these cases, so he hurriedly followed him out and went to the hundreds of years old banyan tree.