Chapter 27—Ten Years of White Bones (8)

His voice fell for a long time before someone came to open the door.

There was no light in the house, and as soon as the door was opened, the lantern light from the corridor shone into the room and hit Bai Shui's pale face.

She looked up at him slightly, and when she saw that he was also looking at herself, she couldn't help clenching her fists, full of unwillingness, "What are you going to say?" ”

Qin Fang took a step forward and closed the door, and now there was only the light faintly penetrating the window paper, so dark that he couldn't even see the other party's face clearly, he could only see his eyes, "I want to know, why do you want to catch fast, obviously this is not a good errand, and I heard Mingyue say that you were in the yamen many years ago?" ”

Bai Shui was surprised that he didn't go directly to publicize it and came to ask him why, obviously she bullied him a lot along the way, she didn't like him to put a good family background and not be motivated, and made his family worry about running around, eating, drinking and having fun, he was proficient in everything, but he refused to do things. I thought he was a pure gentleman, but now it seems to be about to change. She had a vague hope in her heart, "My brother is missing, I want to find him, but no one will listen to a powerless girl." So I could only go to the yamen to do some work, and I was appreciated and promoted to catch fast. ”

Qin Fang didn't expect that it was for this reason, looking for the missing brother? She took such a big risk to find her relatives in a girl's family.

He gestured a little at her size, when she was a little older.

Isn't she afraid?

"I beg you, don't tell anyone else about it. You can do whatever you want me to do, just let me stay here. I want to find my brother...... Go to Kaifeng to find him. ”

Bai Shui's tone was low, as if he was about to cry. This made Qin Fang very, very uncomfortable, but he had never comforted anyone at all, who had only been comforted by others. After thinking about it, she pinched her face, "Don't beg me, I won't sue anyone else." I don't want you to do anything, I know a lot of people over there in Kaifeng, I'll help you inquire. ”

Bai Shui was stunned, this was not the Qin Fang she had met in the past month, not the little marquis.

Qin Fang was uncomfortable with her, his heart was soft and soft because of his tears, and he couldn't do anything if he wanted to take the opportunity to bully him. He pinched her face again, "I'm leaving." After walking two steps, he said, "Oh, remember to come out to eat later, look at your thin arms and legs, and even more thin if you don't eat." ”

With that, he went out, closed the door, and leaned against it like a gecko and exhaled a few breaths.

White water is female, female!

She shed tears, shed tears!

He also said that he can do anything, he can do it!

No, he didn't want to do anything, why did he keep echoing this sentence in his head. Phew, dirty.

He shook his head vigorously, ready to take a cold shower to cool down.

No, what is he going to calm down?

Distressed, he walked while holding his head, dirty!

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Early in the morning, Mingyue got up and used breakfast, and found that Qin Fang and Bai Shui, who usually had breakfast together, did not appear. Su Yunkai saw that she was looking for someone, handed over the chopsticks and said, "Bai Zhutou said that he was uncomfortable and didn't want to eat, so I asked someone to send it over early." ”

"What about Qin Fang?"

"He said that he was tired of eating the food cooked by the cook, and he had to go out to eat this month, and he didn't plan to come back, so he was going to go shopping."

Mingyue sandwiched a piece of jujube mud cake, and said suspiciously, "It's weird." ”

Su Yunkai also repeated, "Strange. ”

Usually, even if there is no Qin Fang's noise, there is cold white water, and it is nothing for three people to eat at a table. There will only be two people facing each other, and Su Yunkai always feels that he is sitting in the wrong position. As soon as you look up, you can see the bright moon, and when you look down, you can see it in the afterglow, and if you are restless, it will not be heat stroke.

After breakfast, Su Yunkai said, "Just now, Yang Fugui, the village chief of Yangjia Village, brought a message, saying that the people in the village pooled the money to buy some incense paper and wanted to come to worship Yang Baijia. ”

Mingyue said, "But didn't there be a lot of people scolding him yesterday?" ”

"I heard that I learned that Yang Baijia was also killed, so I felt that I was wrong to blame a good person, so I asked the village chief to come to burn some paper money on incense, so that he could feel at ease under the Yellow Spring."

"The real peace of mind should be to find the murderer." Mingyue asked, "Still have no clue?" ”

"Well, it's been ten years since the murder, and it's difficult to find eyewitnesses back then, so fierce fighting, maybe someone has heard something, but it's been too long, and they may not remember it." Su Yunkai no longer has much hope for the witness, let alone ten years ago, even if it was half a year ago, it was not easy to remember the events of a certain night clearly.

The key to the yamen morgue was in Mingyue's hand, so she led people over. Out of the inner yamen, when I arrived at the front yamen, I saw Yang Fugui and Yang Qianli.

Yang Qianli held Yang Fugui, who was not very convenient for his legs and feet, and held a bamboo basket in the other, which was full of paper incense candles. Mingyue walked over quickly, "I've been waiting for a long time." ”

"It's early for us." Yang Fugui took out a small notebook from the bamboo basket and handed it to her, "This is what the adults asked for yesterday." ”

Mingyue took it and looked at it, and said unexpectedly, "So many?" Your Excellency just asked the village chief to write down the time and weather, right? ”

Yang Fugui was slightly apologetic, "I don't know which one is right, so I wrote them all down." It's been too long, and there doesn't seem to be anything special that day, so I can't remember it clearly. ”

Mingyue felt reasonable, so she accepted it, thinking that she would take it to Su Yun later, "I'm tired, then follow me to the morgue." ”

The morgue is still a little far away from the yamen, and because Yang Fugui has bad legs and feet, he is not used to this road, compared to the "walking like flying" in the village, he is like a snail crawling slowly, slowing down the distance, and it took about a moment to get there. Today, the morgue, which has only a small iron window, looks much brighter.

The white bones under the straw mat were no longer fleshy, and they were turned white by the sun, and the blue and black blood marks on the bones were even more obvious. Yang Fugui and Yang Qianli didn't understand this, and they didn't look at it, but Mingyue knew that it was left by the murderer's heavy blow, and she vaguely felt a little empathy, and her bones hurt when she saw it.

When the two saw the man who had become a white skeleton, although they did not cry, their faces were painful and they sighed heavily, so they stepped forward to burn paper money in front of the "bed", thinking that he was safe in the underworld.

The morgue has only a small window, and when the paper is burned, the incense candles are lit, and the fireworks fill the house. Mingyue, who was standing at the door, also choked a few times and poked her head outside for ventilation.

The people inside were also choked, and they were smoked out of tears without tears, and they came out not long after.

Mingyue waited for the room to dissipate before locking the door again. I called them to the side and smoked wormwood, firstly to ward off evil spirits, and secondly, because I was afraid that my clothes would smell something.

Yang Fugui glanced at him again, coughed a few times and said, "Girl, last night the people in our village got together to talk about something, the child of the hundred families has been wandering in the underworld for so long, and we are uneasy as elders, can you ask the girl to report to the adults and let us take him back for burial?" The kid in Baijia was timid, afraid that he would be bullied by other ghosts. ”

Yang Qianli also hurriedly said, "If the talent is gone, we don't dare to take it back, but now it's just a white bone, and it's no problem to bring it back to the village." ”

Mingyue said, "I understand your feelings about wanting him to be buried in peace, but the case has not been solved for a day, and if it is not closed, he must stay here." ”

"But Uncle Yang, he's like this......"

Mingyue wanted to tell them that even if it was a bone, there might be a clue hidden. But if the murderer is not found, then anyone can be the murderer, and he can't reveal too many things. In the same way, she also has to keep a distance from them, "Now it's just a grave, how can he be reassured, only by closing the case and bringing the murderer to justice, can he really feel at ease." ”

What else did Yang Qianli say, Yang Fugui sighed and stopped him, "The girl is right, only by finding the murderer, the hundred families will be reincarnated with peace of mind." ”

The elders stopped him, and he had no choice but to stop talking. If you want to come to the government and say no, then you can't, and you can't plead.

After sending away the Yang family's uncle and nephew, Mingyue went to find Su Yunkai. In order to avoid gossip from outsiders, she rarely spends time alone with Su Yunkai. This knocked on the door and went in, only to find that Su Yunkai was the only one in the house. Thinking of handing over the little notebook to him and leaving, he paused and went in.

Su Yunkai was sitting at the desk looking at the local historical files, and he didn't notice that someone came in, and he didn't look up until he found something in front of him. Seeing Mingyue paused, he took the ruler to press the file, "Yang Fugui and they are gone?" ”

"Well, they burned all the baskets of paper money, choked the house with smoke, smoked so much that they couldn't stand it, and soon came out. They also said that Yang Baijia was very timid and couldn't bear to let him continue to wander alone, and wanted to take him back for burial. Mingyue pointed to the small notebook, "That one was just sent by the village chief, saying that you asked him to write it yesterday, and let me give it to you." ”

Su Yunkai hurriedly took a look, and Mingyue said again, "Because the people in the village say it differently, the village chief simply wrote it down." ”

"Hmm." He answered, looking intently.

Mingyue had nothing to do, and thought that he might have something to ask later, so she sat down. Seeing that the ink on the inkstone on the table was gradually condensing, he reached out and took it to add water and grind. When the grinding was almost over, I heard him say, "Although they remember a lot of things here, but judging from the majority, Yang Baijia disappeared on June 16 ten years ago, and someone saw him at noon, and then he went out of the small bridge outside the village and never came back." ”

"What about the weather?"

"It's hot."

The bridge in the village that maintained the outside of the village became a desperate bridge for Yang Baijia that day. Mingyue sighed lightly and asked, "Didn't anyone in the village encounter anything unusual that day?" ”

Su Yunkai said, "I also asked people before, although the grove is not wide, there are roads to walk on the left and right, so people from Hejia Village and Yangjia Village, as well as passers-by who pass by nearby, will not go to the grove. Yang Baijia's bones were found in the hinterland of the woods, so it was even more difficult to see what was happening inside from the outside. So I didn't expect anyone to have a witness. ”

Mingyue was a little discouraged, "That's right, otherwise it wouldn't have been ten years before someone inadvertently discovered it." ”

"The case has just begun to be investigated, so there is no need to be discouraged." Su Yun closed the notebook, looked at her and asked, "Have you ever wondered why the murderer wanted to kill an idiot?" ”