Chapter 84: A branch comes from the south, and the chrysanthemum remains
Zhou Manyun's lips trembled, and he couldn't make a sound for a long time.
When he dreamed back at midnight and was tightly choked by the shadow of his previous life, Man Yun wanted to solve a lot of troubles in advance.
Zhou Manjie, who is still in Yinxia's belly, Zhou Bai, who kicked and beat Gao's family and vomited blood in his previous life, Gao Wei, who once sold his wife in Xiakou, and the buyer who has not and will never appear in his life again......
She has only lived for five years in this life, but the more than twenty years of her soul have gone through her past life are even more deeply rooted. Peeling back the shell of this happy and sunny bright girl now, the Man Yun contained in it still can't hide her fear of the future, just like the timid and pale woman in the past.
The idea of erasing all the sources of misfortune in advance crawled into her mind more than once.
"Master! I know it's not right to get a verdict before you are guilty, but sometimes I always think about it...... I don't think my grandmother would have drugged people based on likes and dislikes, but when I saw them, I thought, if they died, I would have been better off! Man Yun raised his hand to cover his face, covering his tears, and muttered: "In the middle of the night last night, I quietly walked to the door of Huanxiang Courtyard, let Yinzi climb in and bite the woman, and then called her out again......"
After a long journey, the silver rings that finally wrapped around her wrists were like rings, shining in the sun. But as long as you look closely, you can find that the silver that has been with Manyun for five years is very different from before.
Under the silver light and shadow, there are many strange dots and rings of various colors, all of which are the accumulation of various toxins. All the poisons that Man Yun has been eating, the silver has been preserved. As long as Man Yun wants to. Silver is a mobile poison source hidden in her body, and she can do whatever she wants. Releases a variety of different poisons.
From directly wiping out Yinxia's life, to making her poisoned and aborted. and then to poison the fetus...... Zhou Manyun tossed and deduced countless times in his mind over and over again.
"Zuihou, what did you use?", Xu Ne asked softly, his mind racing to think of a remedy. He knew that Zhou Xian was extremely partial to Man Yun, but if Man Yun really wanted to do something that hurt people's lives, it would not be easy to explain.
Zhou Manyun shook his head bitterly and said, "No!" zuihou, I didn't touch her! ”
"That's good!" , Xu Ne sighed happily. patted Man Yun on the shoulder and said, "If you want to poison and kill people, don't worry, Master will help you carry it." It's just that I don't want you to mistake yourself for fear of it, and if you think about it, you just use silver to erase your life, will you be happy? If you can't, why get your hands dirty......"
Ripples of tears came out of his eyes, and Man Yun took a step forward and tightly wrapped around Xu Ne's waist, buried his head in his arms, and cried bitterly......
In his previous life, before he died, he saw his own flesh and blood being covered by Manjie and falling to the ground after being killed. After she gave up last night, she kept gnawing on Zhou Manyun's heart all the time, and it hurt.
Reborn in the world, zaijian enemy. The most painful thing is if so. He clearly remembered what he had suffered, but the enemy was still just an ignorant embryo. Man Yun is a human being, a woman. Attack pregnant women and children, even if they are full of hatred. But she couldn't.
When his grandfather Zhou Xian told his grandchildren about the old file and old case he saw when he was working in the Criminal Department, he talked about an old case that happened in Anhua, Suzhou. The case sounds very simple. It's just that a Yizhou traveling merchant first arrived in Anhua, Suzhou, and took a young woman who had never left his hometown as a concubine, but was killed by this concubine after getting drunk in a new house.
Qi is Qiqi's confession of surrendering to her concubine, she pinched her rough voice in the court and claimed to be a 30-year-old Yizhou man, who had partnered with the victim of the case to do business two years ago, but was killed by her companions on the road and robbed of her wealth, and after her death, she was reborn to the daughter of a small family in Anhua, thousands of miles away. The originally vague memory gradually became clear after seeing the enemy of the previous life, so a plot was set up for the victim to take him as a concubine and take the opportunity to kill him.
After the woman finished her confession in court, she committed suicide by hitting a pillar in public, causing an uproar.
It is also thanks to the local county magistrate that he is more serious, and he really followed the clues of the woman's confession to find the bones and evidence of the old case two years ago thousands of miles away, and the investigation of her life is indeed the same as the woman's confession.
Several brothers of the Zhou family speculated about the woman's bizarre identities during private discussions, but they did not believe in the theory of rebirth, only when Zhou Xian was telling a story about the reincarnation of good and evil.
But Manyun, who was really reborn, believed it. She also thought about how good it would be if she could be reborn and meet her enemies like this, happy to be revenged, and die happily.
"On the other hand, the rebirth that has the ability but can't let go of revenge is probably the most aggrieved one after winning the favor of heaven!" Leaning on the side panel of the carriage back to Zhou's house, Zhou Manyun raised his white and flawless hands, looked at it again and again, and showed a wry smile.
The two maids who sat in the carriage, one big and one small, Qingying and Hongmei had the same expression, staring intently at the swaying curtain, ignoring the sad appearance of their own young lady beside them.
Serving the six girls of the Zhou Mansion is a very boring and idle errand. Zhou Manyun always likes to go alone, and from time to time he goes far away, and the Zhou family is also indulgent, as maids, the first thing they have to do is to be obedient, obediently guard the door, and obediently let Sister Yun do her own thing.
It was nearly noon, and the Zhou family's carriage approached the north gate of Huocheng and slowly followed the moving procession into the city.
"I encountered the Qingyuan trafficker team blocking the city gate again! Sister Qingying, please take care of the girl more. The coachman's muffled mutters were heard clearly into the carriage.
Zhou Manyun lifted a corner of the car curtain, and sure enough, except for a few dots of fresh clothes and angry horses, a tall or short figure in front of him was all ragged and did not look good.
Traffickers are also a new business in Qingyuan County in the past year, but the people who do this business and sell are basically not Qingyuan locals.
The Grand Canal, which connects several rivers in the territory of the Chen Dynasty, has been basically completed under the strong pressure of the last years of Yongde and the beginning of Taiye.
Because of the fall of Yanjing, Jiangbei, which had not yet recovered from the disaster two years ago, could not accept too many people, and many prefectures and counties closed their city gates for fear of the people stranded, so they began to steal the limelight of the government and began to promote the wealth of Jiangnan. The various ferry ports on the north bank of the river immediately started to buy and sell at a low cost. The first cargo brought by ships from the north to the south was people.
Compared with Huocheng, which is only on the edge of Fangxi, Qingyuan, the port of Jiangyun, is a big stronghold for unloading. There, the people who were sold were screened and graded. The merchants then took the brigade and traveled by land, and they came from city to city.
Everyone in Jiangnan uses their own generations of family children in the grange, and the people who are trafficked can enter the ordinary wealthy families to work as slaves and maids, and the young and handsome ones enter some Qinglou Chu Pavilion, and those who are not good in all aspects will be taken further south, Yiqing silver, Baoshan copper, and the charcoal kiln that has not seen the light of day in Mayi are all to be used.
Zhou Manyun lowered the curtain. He looked blankly at his knees. Seeing the Qingyuan caravan, she also remembered the old things all of a sudden, and Gao Wei, who was sure that she had come to Huocheng, was afraid that she would not leave easily. In his previous life, Gao Wei studied in Huocheng, under the patriarch of Xibei Zhou Mansion, Zhou Tong, but from time to time he visited Gao in Xinan's Xiao Zhou Mansion until Zhou Tong died three years later.
The biggest reason why Gao Wei stayed in Huocheng was that his hometown Qingyuan was more prosperous and more luxurious after being flooded with caravans of traffickers, and it was not suitable for him to study.
"It's time to be sold! Knowing that Qingyuan has this trend, he has to marry ......". Man Yun secretly teased the unlucky self in his previous life in his heart, and suddenly felt that he was a little ridiculous because of the arrival of Gao Wei and Zhou Manjie. Jiangbei refugees, bandits along the river, and later specialized in thieves and state officials...... From now on. There will be no shortage of difficulties to solve, and what is the little fetus that doesn't know what the future will be?
The walls of the carriage shook, and the carriage seemed to move two steps forward. It stopped suddenly, and there was a chaotic noise outside the car.
A faint breath of blood spread far into the carriage. Before Man Yun could speak, the man who was driving the car had already turned the reins lightly. He drove the carriage off the city gate avenue and turned around......
Qi Er, who drove the car, was also a soldier of the Du family in Jiangnan that year, although he had been away from the border for a few years, he was still very vigilant.
"There are murderers at the city gate, let's avoid them first and then go back!"
The prompt sound from the wind was less restrained, and Man Yun, who was more pleasant to hear, immediately responded in a loud voice: "It's good that Second Uncle Qi is in charge!" ”
The carriage came to a slow stop in front of a quiet grove, and Qi Er patiently explained to the three girls in the carriage what he had just seen.
"It's still far away, and I don't see it too seriously. It was as if a short man was wrapped up in one of the trafficked refugees and suddenly stabbed a merchant in the escort team...... Take advantage of the fire to rob and sell good as slaves, these black-hearted people should have been killed......"
Qingying and Hongmei heard that someone had died in the place where they had just stayed, and Ben was a little dizzy when he was turned by the carriage, and his face turned white in unison.
"The murderer escaped ......," Man Yun lowered his head and thought for a while, and said softly.
"Yes, I looked like I ran away. Let's hope that kid won't be caught back by those guys. Qi Er sighed, and with some itching, he wrapped the reins in his hand around the back of his hand again and again, as if he was trying to strangle people's necks.
Hongmei's eyes widened at the boss, and she asked in surprise, "If you are caught, they will kill him, right?" She suddenly sympathized with the murderer who had run away.
"...... won't be caught", Man Yun smiled lightly and patted Hongmei's cold little hand. This is not pure comfort, in her previous life, it was also at this time, there was also a bloody case at the gate of Huocheng, and several Qingyuan merchants who traded slaves searched outside the city for a few days, but they were killed a few more.
Because there was a murder and the murderer could not be found, the caravan of slave traders also specially bypassed Huocheng for half a year, and it was not until April next year that they started business in Huocheng again.
According to the idea of not standing under the dangerous wall, Man Yun simply took the two maids to a farmhouse on the edge of the woods to borrow a house to rest for a while, and only let Qi Er, who was already happy, go back to the city gate to inquire about the news.
After about a pillar of incense, Qi Er came back and invited the three girls to get into the car again, saying that the city gate had been cleaned and guarded.
Man Yun looked at the smile that jumped and flashed in Qi Er's eyes, and couldn't help but ask: "Second Uncle Qi has something new, let's hear about it." ”
Qi Er's face turned red all of a sudden, and he shook his hand in a panic.
The carriage turned back to the gates, but it was on guard. Following the small crack in the car curtain, Man Yun only saw a reddish water stain on the edge of the ground, which was the trace left by the corpse being dragged away to clean the ground.
It wasn't until the evening that Man Yun heard the truth of the case from Zhu's mother.
"Oops! Sister didn't see it with her own eyes, the perpetrator was a small man mixed in the crowd, and the dead one was standing on the big rock on the side of the road, so defenselessly poked into the fart ...... by a stick that didn't know how to file", Zhu's mother blushed as she spoke, and lay on the edge of the bed by herself.
"Mom will talk about it again!" , a few maids looked at Zhu's mother inexplicably, very anxious. After staying in Huocheng for five years, the maids around Man Yun have also changed, Xiaoman and the other big ones have all married, and Qingying is now the oldest, only fourteen years old.
Man Yun covered her mouth and smiled, in her previous life, she only knew that there were dead people, and it was not clear how she died, but she understood the meaning of Mother Zhu's words just now.
waved over Hongmei, and Man Yun only whispered two words in her ear. As Man Yun expected, the little girl shouted straight out, followed by laughter, and the people in the room turned on their backs.
"It's not ordinary refugees who kill people, it should be Lian Jiazi!" , Zhu's mother stopped laughing, and then explained to Man Yun seriously.
The sharp stick should have been disguised as a walking aid, and when the murder was made, the stick tip was from the bottom up, and the deceased's back court pierced straight into the abdomen and stabbed a pair, not only the technique was accurate enough, but also ruthless enough, and the opportunity to escape at the noisy city gate was obviously premeditated.
Man Yun nodded lightly and said, "No matter who it is, whether it's looking for revenge or trouble, or passing by, it has nothing to do with us!" ”
The Huocheng series of bloody cases that occurred from September to October of the third year of Taiye in the previous life also kicked off in this life...... (To be continued......)