Chapter 47: Murderous Nursery Rhymes (11)

In the dead of night, Qin Fang hadn't gone back yet, and he didn't plan to go to Anjia, so he fell on his bed while Su Yunkai wasn't paying attention, sticking to the bed like a dough and not coming down.

By the time Su Yunkai found out, he was already asleep. Mingyue put down the mosquito net in the past, there are many mosquitoes here, and people can be removed in the middle of the night if they don't put mosquito nets. Seeing that the coachman hadn't come in for a long time, she asked, "Where is Uncle Chang?" ”

"He said that he was afraid of disturbing my office, so he said in the evening that he would go to squeeze in with the officials for one night, and he set up a lot of tents anyway." Su Yunkai said again, "Didn't he eat dinner with you?" ”

"No, I thought he was going to eat with Lord Xu and them." Mingyue looked outside, it was all over, and there was no sound outside. The evening breeze in early summer is getting cooler and cooler, and you still need to cover it with a thin quilt in the middle of the night, "I'll ask Lord Xu if they have seen Uncle Chang." ”

Su Yunkai got up and said, "It's late, I'll go." ”

Mingyue smiled, "Don't fight, let's go together." ”

Su Yunkai also smiled, went to get the lantern, and went with her to find someone.

Changde is the chauffeur of the Daimyo's mansion, and he walked all the way on this inspection. Xu is used to serving the master of the official family, so with the mind that more things are better than less, he always treats Su Yunkai and them with respect and is very alienated. On the road, I just caught up with the car, and I didn't talk much, so the feelings were also very shallow. But after all, this is a strange village, and the two of them are not at ease if they are not sure if he is with others.

If you take the Zhu family to divide the direction, the tent of the county government is on the left hand, and the people of the dart bureau are on the right, and the two of them go out to the left. This is the first time the two of them have walked this road, and the road is flat, but there are many forks in the road, and they have to turn back after turning a few wrong paths. Fortunately, the two of them walked together, whispered and ridiculed all the way, and they were not impatient when they took the wrong road.

The village road was narrow, Mingyue walked in front, the lantern was lit by Su Yunkai behind, and the light happened to be under her feet, illuminating the ground brightly. Seeing that she was about to get to the tent, Mingyue also walked a few steps faster, thinking that she would go back quickly so that he could sleep a little longer.

Whoever wants to suddenly step on the air under his feet, the whole person rushes forward. Su Yun opened his eyes quickly, grabbed her with one hand, the lantern rolled down to the side, the lamp oil overflowed, and the fire quickly burned the lantern into a fireball. The firelight shone in all directions, and the bright moon's pale face instantly turned ruddy. When she found that she was almost in Su Yunkai's arms, her cheeks really turned crimson, "I'm fine, I stepped on the air." ”

Su Yunkai helped her steady, and looked at her with the weaker and weaker firelight, "Is it really okay?" ”

"Hmm."

When Su Yunkai saw her leaving, he suddenly remembered that he was in too much of a hurry, as if he was not fishing for the waist, and it was very soft...... He pinned his hand behind him, embarrassed and speechless, and found a topic and said, "Be careful when you walk at night." ”

The momentary "chest attack" was covered up by Mingyue's panic in an instant, and he didn't notice it at all, which would be much calmer than him. Hearing him say this, he wiped the grass on the ground with his heel, "It's not that I'm careless, it's that the grass grows so well that it completely hides the puddle." ”

Su Yunkai also looked there, and sure enough, even if the lantern fire was still there, the green grass was verdant and green, and the growth was gratifying, and only by removing the green grass could he see the puddle. The road can only be passed by one person, even if it is daytime, people who have not walked this road will be "pitted" once.

Mingyue patted her dress and stood up, turning her ankle, "It's okay." ”

Su Yunkai saw that she was indeed not in pain, and said, "Now that the lantern is gone, I can only walk by the moonlight, I will go ahead, and you will follow." After that, he thought for a moment and reached out to her, "Hold on." ”

Mingyue looked at the hand stretched out under the moon, and only grabbed a corner of his sleeve and held it.

The person in front walked very slowly, and Mingyue almost stepped on his footprints, walking steadily and steadily with every step.

From time to time, when you raise your eyes, you can see his long back.

It's like the back he left when he beat away the vicious dog when he was a child, grabbed her hand and led her to run.

At that time, my eyes were hazy with tears, and I couldn't see the little boy clearly. Now there is no light and no fire, only a little light moonlight, I still can't see clearly, but the feeling of steadfastness is the same as always.

There was still a little light outside the tent, flickering in the wind, barely in the kerosene. Su Yunkai leaned over and picked up the stones on the ground and threw them into the distance, the stones slammed into a sound, knocking out a not small movement in the quiet night, but no one got up. He repeated it again, but no one came out. He still had to do it a third time, and when he saw Mingyue looking at him, he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Mingyue shook her head and sighed, "Sven people......" She cleared her throat and coughed hard.

Someone in the account immediately sat up in shock, and after a while, someone opened the curtain to see, and did not forget to hold a knife in his hand, and when he came out, he saw that it was Su Yunkai and Mingyue, so he wanted to say goodbye, but was stopped by Su Yunkai in a low voice, and asked, "Do you see the coachman with me?" ”

The official was sleepy-eyed and confused, and after thinking for a while, he said, "No." ”

"He didn't have dinner with you, and he didn't sleep here?"

"I don't know if I ate together, but I definitely didn't sleep together, except for the three people you called away, five people in each of our four tents, all of them were in a yamen, and outsiders definitely knew."

Su Yunkai suddenly felt uneasy, and Mingyue was also uneasy. It's strange that a person has been missing since the evening and hasn't come back until midnight.

The official also sensed that something was wrong, "But the person is gone?" We also said it at the beginning...... This place is very wicked, you don't believe it...... my lord."

Su Yunkai reprimanded, "People in the yamen, how can they say such things." Go and call them up, and go and find them together. ”

The official hurriedly turned around and went back to the account to wake people up, and there were complaints for a while, but when he heard that it was Lord Su who shouted, no one dared to say anything more, so he hurriedly got up.

Su Yunkai took the lantern outside the tent and went out with Mingyue to look for it first, and when he was halfway there, he saw a figure walking in the distance, the person did not carry a lantern, but a vague shadow. The two of them stopped suddenly, and when they got to the front, they saw that it was Yang An.

Xu ran all the way, Yang An was still out of breath, and said, "What happened to my lord?" ”

Su Yunkai frowned, "Why did you come here?" ”

"I was just about to go to bed when I saw the lights come on. My dad said something might have happened and asked me to come and see, and the others were still dressing, a step slow, and they would come later. ”

"Young Master Yang hasn't gone to bed at this hour?"

Yang An smiled, "My wife just gave birth to a baby last month, the adults did not have a family, I don't know that the child fell asleep for twelve hours, woke up and slept, I waited for him to sleep at night before I could go to the side room to sleep, he didn't sleep and I don't want to sleep, I didn't want to sleep after a long time, I was sleepy just now, and I was about to lie down when I saw the light on here." ”

Su Yunkai suddenly said, "Young Master Yang is a person who cares about the family. ”

Yang An smiled and didn't say much. On the way he came, there were also voices of people from the dart bureau coming one after another, Su Yunkai didn't ask any more, just said, "My coachman is gone, since a few people are here, then there will be Lao to look for them together." ”

"It's a matter of effort, we've been running around all year round, so I'm going to tell them and let them find someone."

After saying that, he turned back and called out to the people in the dart game, telling them not to come, and to find someone together.

Mingyue said, "He is really a warm-hearted person, so it is precisely because of this that when the thieves snatched the vase, he was the only one who was injured, the protection was too urgent, if he ignored and did not resist like other dart masters, he would not be injured." ”

Su Yunkai nodded his head in agreement. The two walked for a while, Mingyue was vigilant, saw the green grass puddle, and stepped over lightly, no longer seeing its way. When Su Yunkai strode past, he took a few steps thoughtfully, looked back there, and looked at Mingyue's shoes again, because he stepped on a strong foot, his shoes were already wet.

The shoes that had become a little torn because he asked Lang Zhong to sprint are even more worn out now.

"Ahh

An exclamation blocked his thoughts, Su Yunkai raised his head and looked in the direction where the sound came from, and the officials who followed also stopped in unison, and heard the sound coming from the entrance of the village.

It was a man's voice, but it was so poignant that it spread through half the village. Su Yunkai hurried over there, and he could still hear babbling screams. There were already villagers who came to take a look at the place closer to the entrance of the village, and when Su Yunkai arrived there, he saw a man with a pale face trembling on the ground, and he was full of alcohol, probably a person who came back from drinking outside in the middle of the night. As soon as he saw the servant with the knife, he almost pounced, his legs still trembling, "Great, great, dead, dead!" ”

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and there was a man hanging upside down on the lush and gloomy banyan tree.

Su Yunkai was stunned, Xu was because the wound was on his neck, and the blood flowed all over his face, and it was really terrifying to look at under the dim light of everyone.

At this time, someone had already brought a high lantern, and it was bright in all directions, and the timid looked at it and hurriedly covered his eyes, not daring to look more.

Mingyue didn't take half a step back, but when she saw the person clearly, she stepped back in shock, "Uncle Chang." ”

The long rope was around the head, and it hung down, covering half of his face. As soon as she said that, some people took a closer look again, and they all recognized that this person was Su Yunkai's entourage. For a while, the villagers exploded, and what they said was that the official family had offended the evil and had been punished.

"The adult said that the ghost sister didn't kill anyone, and now the adult still doesn't stop?"

Su Yunkai was about to step forward to look at the corpse, but someone had already stood up to stop him, and said excitedly, "Investigate the case, there is no one who offends the old banyan tree like an adult, you stripped its clothes, and hollowed out this hole, and said that there is a treasure hidden, but there is nothing." Led so many people into the village, it made the chickens and dogs restless, adults stop it, you are not afraid of death, we are afraid! ”

Su Yunkai was surprised, "There was a murder here, you don't want to track down the murderer, but spread rumors and superstitions." ”

"Adults are passers-by, of course we are not afraid of any retribution for Banyan Village, but we are afraid, we are afraid."

The fear in the hearts of the villagers has outweighed the fear of the government, someone takes the lead, naturally someone follows, and the nursery rhyme incident is indeed too much impact, this agitation, someone came to stop him, and he was not allowed to go forward. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lord Xu called the official to step forward to protect him, and then he blocked Diao Min.

Su Yun was happy and angry, a fresh human life was no match for a ghost sister, what made people feel frightened was clearly an ignorant and arrogant villager!

Mingyue knew that the corpse would change every hour in this summer season, and now she had to "rescue" Changde's corpse from the tree as soon as possible, so as to find the hour of his death more accurately, and maybe find the murderer faster, but those villagers didn't let them go over at all, and surrounded the banyan tree.

"Stop!" With a loud shout, Zhu Changrong put aside the officials, walked to the human wall, and shouted, "Hindering the officials from doing things, you are so bold!" ”

The village chief came forward, his seniority was high, and everyone was weak for a while, Zhu Changrong took another step forward, glaring angrily, only then did someone give in, and the human wall suddenly dispersed, and Su Yunkai was able to enter through the gap.

It happened that a gust of evening wind blew, and the man on the tree started to move, and his bloody eyes stared at him, which was even more terrifying. As the nursery rhyme sings-

“…… Hanging upside down the tree can't go up and down, when the wind blows, shakes and shakes, and when the wind stops, she also stops. But don't stop, passers-by, because my sister is laughing and looking at you. ”