Chapter 20: Ten Years of White Bones (1)

"Secret marriage?" Mingyue repeated, and when she saw him nodding in confirmation, she didn't ask anymore and turned to look at Su Yunkai.

Su Yunkai had also heard of this kind of thing, and he was not surprised.

Underworld marriage, also known as marriage with yin, is a custom in which after the death of an unmarried person, the parents choose a suitable person for them to marry a yin parent. One of the sayings of kinship is that the ghost of the deceased is afraid that the dead person will have resentment and will not leave the house, which will make the living relatives uneasy. So let them be husband and wife, and be buried together. There is another reason that an unmarried woman cannot erect a monument after her death, for fear of becoming an ownerless soul, and she can't bear to be a father's mother, so she promises to marry someone else, so that the family will not be able to leave the lonely grave.

Su Yunkai looked up at the hillside, and the large and small tombstones stood on the slope, which was clearly a tomb mountain. If you look closely, the excavated tombstone is slightly different from the tombstone next to it, and if you compare it slightly, you can see that there are many similarities near and far, and the cemetery alone is larger than other ordinary tombs. He asked, "Is it very popular here?" ”

"In the past, we always had a famine, and there were many children who didn't grow up and didn't get married, and the parents were afraid that they would be lonely underground, so they matched in pairs. But in the past few years, life has been better, there are no natural disasters**, floods do not flood farmland, children can feed, this kind of thing is basically gone. As he spoke, he shouted for help, and the man passed.

Qin Fang waited for them in the car for a long time, and shouted from afar to tell them to come back quickly. The three of them walked back, and when they left, Bai Shui still felt panicked, "You can see the ghost fire when you pass from here at night." ”

As he spoke, he felt that he had stepped on something, and when he looked down, it turned out to be a stone slab. Look closely, it is a stone stele, the soil in front is soft, it may have just been dug up, and it is a place to pick up bones. She only felt that the soles of her feet were numb, and she hurriedly quickened her pace, leaving Su Yunkai and Mingyue behind.

Su Yunkai looked at it strangely, "It's also strange, the white catcher is not even afraid of the dead, but he is afraid of ghosts." ”

Mingyue said with a smile, "Most people are like this, what can be seen can predict danger and safety, so they are not afraid." The most scary thing is not knowing what will happen in the next moment. ”

Su Yunkai had a slight understanding, "That's why some people feel that they would rather offend a real villain than make friends with a hypocrite." ”

Compared to facing the enemy head-on, being suddenly stabbed in the back is the most terrible thing.

Seeing that her face was as usual, Su Yunkai lowered his head slightly and asked, "Aren't you afraid?" ”

"I'm still more afraid of real villains than ghosts. Grandpa said that if you don't do bad things, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. ”

Looking at her sworn appearance, Su Yunkai slowed down by half a step, leaned over and blew lightly on the back of her neck. Mingyue stiffened suddenly, covered her ears with a scream, and ran forward. After running for a while, he stopped, looked back at him, but saw him with a smile on his face, and then he understood, and turned back and punched him twice.

The soft fist hit the arm without pain or itching, Su Yunkai didn't twist his eyebrows, and touched her head. smiled and said, "In the future, when I go to the Criminal Division, I will encounter many cases, and I sometimes concentrate on handling cases and ignore others, if you say that you are not afraid, I may really be not afraid." So be afraid, be afraid, lest I have not returned to my senses and leave you there alone. ”

Mingyue raised her eyes and glanced at him quickly, then nodded.

When I arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, it was already February. Before the late spring, the rain came again, and the wheels of the carriage that had been rolled all the way were also stained with thick yellow mud, and the carriage was so wet that it looked a little shabby.

After entering the Daimyo's Mansion, Su Yunkai found that the people here were peaceful, the yamen was wide open, but no one entered, the big drum at the door was old but not dirty, and the plaque at the gate was not spotted. If you want to know whether the previous official did a good job, you can see it by looking at the details.

Bai Shui took the paperwork he handed him and went inside to report. After a while, someone came from inside, and led them into the inner government first.

Compared with the yamen in Nanle County, the government not only looks more magnificent on the outside, but also is more spacious on the inside. Entering the ya, it is the courtyard, an evergreen and invincible ancient pine is like a huge feather fan, lying in the courtyard. The nearby pavilion is empty on all sides, and the eaves are warped. There is a pair of calligraphy and painting on each line of ten steps on the half wall of the corridor, the handwriting is strong and chic, and the painting is slightly inferior to the word, but look at the seal, not everyone's hand.

The official saw that Su Yunkai was paying attention to the calligraphy and painting, and said, "This is the pen and ink left by the last adult, and it was also explained to us, if the adult doesn't like it, just take it down." If you don't think it's an eyesore, just take a few more looks. ”

Mingyue was curious, and also went to look at the calligraphy and paintings, most of them were eight characters, such as "honest and honest, love the people like a son", "The mirror is hanging high, impartial law enforcement", she said in a low voice, "It's gone, why are there so many calligraphy and paintings left?" ”

Su Yun smiled and tilted his head and whispered, "If that adult asks someone to bring it, it's a pun." The calligraphy and paintings are all proverbs, and if I don't care about them and throw them away, I just don't want to be a good official. If I am willing to keep them on the surface, but I don't want to be a good official in my heart, then I will be blocked every day when I enter and exit from here. ”

Mingyue smiled, "This adult is really well-intentioned. ”

Qin Fang interjected, "Sour, a sour smell of literati, really don't plan to do things for the people, just a few calligraphy and paintings can be useful?" Silly or not. ”

Mingyue said, "Transferred to leave here, and still cares about the people, how can you say that he is stupid." ”

"It's just stupid." Qin Fang was born in a place where he was an official and a nobleman when he was caught on the street, and he had never seen anything, so he was not happy to stay in Kaifeng. Out of sight is clean, or shadow puppetry, will act in the script he likes to read, and sing the stories he likes to hear.

Su Yunkai finished reading the calligraphy and paintings in the corridor, and instructed the officials to clean it as before, and there was no need to remove it.

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There are multiple divisions along the way, in addition to the criminal department, there is also a transfer department, which operates the financial endowment along the way; Promoted Chang Ping Division, responsible for warehousing, famine relief and relief matters along the way. Su Yunkai has just taken office, not only has to be busy with official business, but also has to take time to visit several other adults and meet the local gentry, so as not to cause chaos. has been busy for half a month, and even Mingyue rarely sees him.

Bai Shui was already walking around with Su Yunkai as a catcher, and Qin Fang was also a fun-loving person, and he felt inconvenient to take the girl with him, so he didn't ask Mingyue to play. In this way, she is the only one left.

But it's good to be idle, at least it means that there is good law and order here, and there are no murders. She used this free time to repair the flowers and plants in the lower yard, loosen the soil for them, and have the pond cleaned up, except for most of the silt, and planted lotus. Some green leaves dotted the pond, but she still felt that she was not angry enough, so she simply went to buy a dozen fish fry and put them inside.

Su Yunkai went out early and returned late every day, and ended his field duties early this day, came back at dusk, and when he passed through the corridor, he found that a lantern was hung on the beam of the house above his head three or four zhang apart, until the end. He asked curiously, "When was this hung up?" ”

The official replied, "Miss Mingyue hung it last night, probably because it was late at night when the adults came back in front of her, and they had to light the lamp in front of them to see the road." ”

The official doesn't know what the relationship between the two of them is, but it must be not shallow, otherwise how could they live in the inner ya, which is the family of the adult and the adult.

Su Yunkai looked at the lantern again, it was so high, he could already think of the situation where she was holding a long pole and hanging it on her head. At the end, I saw that the pond had business, and the green leaves were spread on the lotus pond, and I didn't know if it would be able to bloom this summer. The official said, "This is also planted by Miss Mingyue." ”

Asking questions all the way is nothing more than Mingyue's doing. The official finally smiled, "No wonder it is said that there must still be a woman in the family to be like a family, and it is more heartfelt." ”

This is not wrong, but for some reason, the person with a relaxed face stopped walking, and his brows were furrowed, "Miss Mingyue is the work of our government office, because she has no relatives in the Daimyo's mansion, and a girl's family is dangerous outside, so she lives in the yamen." In the future, this kind of talk should not be said nonsense and ruin people's innocence. ”

The official completely ignored the latter words, and said in surprise, "Servant? She's a young girl doing a job? ”

"Yes, yes."

The officials didn't have the heart to listen to the words behind them, and they didn't think about Mingyue's identity when they were eating and drinking together, but they never thought that it was the work of the Criminal Division.

As soon as Su Yun said this, he remembered one thing. He and Mingyue were at ease, but they were busy when they came to the Criminal Division, and they couldn't see each other once a day, so they forgot that Mingyue was a girl after all, and living with him always damaged his reputation. But let her go to live outside alone, and she is really not at ease. He twisted his eyebrows and walked, and suddenly saw Qin Fang appear from around the corner, thinking that he had a lot of ideas, so he called him to ask.

Qin Fang heard this, and said loudly, "It's not simple, brother-in-law, wouldn't it be good if you married Mingyue, and many people are right." ”

Su Yun paused, "Nonsense." ”

"Why am I messing around, I think brother-in-law, you are very good to Mingyue, and you are much more patient with me than with me. Also, I've known you for more than ten years, and the number of times you have smiled at me has not been more than a day since you smiled at Mingyue, tsk, unless you forget your righteousness. ”

When the words fell, someone on the other side asked around the corner, "Who forgets his righteousness when he sees it?" ”

The voice is crisp and pleasant, and there is only one person in the inner government who can have this tone.

Mingyue was just thinking about how to repair the ancient pine that occupied half of the yard, when she suddenly heard someone shouting, and when she listened carefully, only the last four words came into her ears.

She poked her head out, and saw only two wooden figures, frozen there as if she had made a big mistake. She said "oh oh" twice and said to Qin Fang, "Which girl are you going to hook up with again, aren't you?" ”

Qin Fang pulled the corners of his mouth, and could only admit it, he was really wronged~

When he left, he looked back at the two of them, he didn't know what he was talking about, his expression was relaxed and sometimes smiling, he still felt that his brother-in-law and Mingyue were a good match. As he walked, he suddenly saw someone running in front of him, and a big knife dangled around, and at a glance he felt that the figure of the person with the saber looked too petite against the backdrop of the knife. But after seeing his face clearly, he felt that the knife was no match for the domineering of the person with the saber.

Seeing Bai Shui running in front of him, he stretched out his hand to say hello, who wanted Bai Shui to push him away with a palm as soon as he arrived next to him, almost fanning him out of the low railing. He jumped up and was furious, "White water! ”

Bai Shui ignored him, ran to Su Yunkai, and gasped, "In the pine forest ten miles away from the Yamen, a white skeleton was found. ”