Chapter Forty-Nine: Singing to Tea
"I don't know what interesting things Brother Yang encountered, he actually left Mrs. Zun behind, can you tell me about it?" Ning Zuer opened the folding fan and asked with a smile.
Yang Muyun wanted to do your, why do you have to mix with everything about me, and was about to ignore him, but after thinking about it, he leaned close to his ear and said, "You really want to hear it?" ”
Ning Zuer smiled silently with a folding fan.
"It's a long story, so let's find a place to sit down and talk slowly." Yang Muyun pretended to be mysterious.
"What about Madame?"
"I'll send her home first, Ning Gongzi will say a place, and I'll go later."
"Caizhi Zhai on Mafu Street is not far from Brother Yang's house. What does Brother Yang think? ”
"Good! We'll see you in half an hour. ”
Looking at the back of Ning Zu'er leaving, Yang Muyun took a sip, with a little white face, offering nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief.
He turned his head and looked at his wife with a strange look, and said, "How can you meet him anywhere?" Has he been beating you up? ”
Shiso is angry and funny, this man looks more jealous than a woman.
"Husband, Ning Gongzi is not what you think, there is a fair and fair relationship between me and him, what are you always doing suspiciously?"
Yang Muyun was silent. The two walked on the way home, and Shiso kept eating and laughing.
"Madam, don't laugh, if you laugh again, I'll be really angry." Yang Muyun straightened his face.
"Okay, I won't laugh anymore." Shisu's beautiful eyes were full of brilliance, and she suddenly felt that her man was very cute, "Do you know, you look very cute when you are jealous, but I didn't expect that men's hearts are sometimes as small as the eye of a needle." ”
"Madame......"
"Okay, I'll not say anything. By the way, husband, what kind of interesting thing did you encounter, you have to find a place to talk to Ning Gongzi. Shiso was also curious.
"You want to know?" Yang Muyun looked at his wife mysteriously.
"Hmm-" Shiso nodded solemnly.
"I won't tell you!" After Yang Muyun finished speaking, he turned his head and left.
"You-" Looking at her husband's back, Shisu said hatefully, "You're such a scoundrel." ”
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"Is this Caizhi Zhai?" Yang Muyun was a little disappointed when he saw the layout and furnishings of the store: "I thought it was a restaurant?" It turned out to be a teahouse. This Ning Zuer, it's so stingy to have a treat. He walked in slowly, and in a corner by the window inside, he saw Ning Zu'er in a royal blue soft silk robe.
As soon as Ning Zu'er saw him, his sword eyebrows furrowed, and he stood up: "Brother Yang, you are here." ”
"I didn't expect Ning Gongzi's curiosity to be so big, I thought you were just talking, you wouldn't really come!" Yang Muyun came to him, dusted off the hem of his shirt, and sat down.
"Where, what Brother Yang is interested in must be extraordinary." Ning Zu'er smiled: "Drink something?" Xiuning pineapple? Tiger Hill White Clouds? Or West Lake Longjing? ”
"I don't know much about this tea, Ning Gongzi is in charge!" Yang Muyun said and looked out the window.
"Boss, come to two pots of Longjing." Ning Zuer was no longer polite.
"Before we start talking about this topic, I want to take the liberty of asking Ning Gongzi, do you believe that there are ghosts and gods in this world?" Yang Muyun stared at him and asked.
"It's an interesting question, does it matter whether you believe it or not?" Ning Zuer asked rhetorically.
"Of course, Zi said: 'The righteousness of serving the people, respecting ghosts and gods and staying away, can be said to know.'" If Ning Gongzi doesn't show his attitude, how can we talk about this topic? ”
"When you say that, I'm even more interested in it. If I also worship ghosts and gods, then can we start talking? ”
"Clever, it's really fun to talk to someone as smart as Ning Gongzi!" Yang Muyun sighed. He took a sip of tea and began to narrate: "On the way back to Nandu from Luzhou, I saw a dried corpse in Wujiang Town, Hezhou, and there was a group of vultures entrenched above the dry corpse. ”
"Oh? It's kind of weird. ”
"I cut open this dried corpse with a knife and found that it was full of corpse worms......"
"Yes, corpse worms. But all the corpses in it are dead. Probably that's why the vultures didn't peck at the dried corpse. ”
"Who put this dried corpse there?"
"There are no signs of human trampling around this dry corpse, in other words, no one has placed the dried corpse."
"No one placed it, it's interesting, could it be that the dried corpse walked over by itself." Ning Zuer said strangely.
"Quite possibly."
"This is ridiculous, doesn't Brother Yang not believe in ghosts and gods?"
"After I returned to Nandu, I went to the case collection library to look through all the records of Jinyiwei since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and found two records that were very interesting. One is in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, a Jinyi Wei Baihu named Lu Xiang spying on the military situation in Yuxitong, Guangnan, Yunnan. On a full moon night, he and his men were attacked by a group of dried corpses, who were beaten with fire and slashed with knives and axes, but they could not knock them down. Later, oil was poured on the dried corpse and burned with fire to destroy the dried corpse. ”
Yang Muyun paused for a moment and continued: "The other is the fifth year of Yongle, when Annan was merged into my Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizong set up a thousand Jinyi Thousand Households there, and a Jinyi Wei Baihu named Ruan Shao recorded that there was a place called Penman next to Annan Qinghua Mansion, where people liked to raise corpse insects. On the night of the full moon, the barbarians cut their faces with knives and prayed to the heavens and the earth to let the corpses enter the corpses. After a while, the corpse stood up and could walk like a normal person, but not for a long time, and before the sun came out, the corpse would fall to the ground and never get up again. ”
"It's really difficult for Brother Yang, the archives in the case collection hall are so vast, it's not easy to find these two records!" Ning Zuer sighed.
"So it's entirely possible for a corpse to be able to walk."
"Then why can't it be that a person walks there and falls and becomes a dried corpse?"
"Do you think those vulture ants will wait for a freshly fallen corpse to slowly turn into a dried corpse?"
Ning Zu'er was silent for a while and asked, "Then have you found out where this dried corpse came from?" ”
"I accompanied my wife back to her original residence today, and when I passed by Hanfu Street, I saw a family surnamed Du asking a Maoshan Taoist priest to open the altar, because their only son fell to the ground three days ago, so I asked this Taoist priest to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts. I went in to take a look, Du Gongzi's eye sockets were deep, his skin was gray-black, shriveled and inelastic, except for his heart beating slightly, he was no different from a dead man. His condition reminded me of the dried corpse, so I took the risk of healing him with a local method. ”
"What local law?" Ning Zuer came to be interested.
"In a small closed room, put Du Gongzi naked into a large wooden barrel filled with hot water, and then around the wooden barrel, put four large braziers burning charcoal."
"Huh? With the current weather, the man must not have died of fever. ”
"Ordinary people will, people like him who have been deeply vicious will backfire, and this is called fighting poison with poison."
"Then he must be awake, right?"
"yes, and he vomited a whole bunch of stuff, and in there I found the exact same corpse worms as in the dried corpse."
"Corpse bugs?" Ning Zuer exclaimed.
"That's right, imagine what would happen if Du Gongzi died?"
"A walking corpse?"
"That's right! And I suspect that someone deliberately put corpse worms into human bodies to turn people into walking corpses. ”
"Who wants to do this, Brother Yang, do you have any clues here?"
"I asked Du Gongzi, and Du Gongzi said that he had a conflict with a group of strangely dressed people when he was drinking with his friends, and then he fell into evil when he came out."
"It must have been done by those strangely dressed people. Where did they come from, and did Brother Yang find out? ”
"According to Du Gongzi's friends, it may be a Wuyi person from Yunnan."
"On what day and where did they and the group of pendulum drink?"
"Three days ago, the drunken wind restaurant on Suzaku Street, what's wrong? Aren't you going to hand over this case to Ying Tianfu, but go and investigate it yourself? ”
"If you want to give it to Ying Tianfu, will you tell me so much detail?" Ning Zuer smiled slyly. "And if you hadn't felt like you're hurt and can't go around to investigate the case, you wouldn't have come here to tell me all this. Dare you say it? ”
Yang Muyun let out a long sigh helplessly: "Sometimes I wonder, why don't you become friends with such a smart person?" ”
"Maybe we didn't become friends!" Ning Zuer pursed her lips and smiled, showing a hint of cuteness on her handsome face.
"May I ask you a question?" Yang Muyun hesitated for a moment, "From the time I fainted from the wine toasted by my subordinates, I have been marrying Shisu in a daze. Did you plan all of this? ”
"Why do you have to ask so much about something?" Ning Zuer said leisurely.
"Why are you doing this? Have you never liked shiso? ”
Ning Zuer smiled charmingly at him, came to his side and whispered in his ear: "I'll tell you a secret, in fact, I like men, not women. As he spoke, he gently put his hand on his shoulder and said with affection, "Do you understand?" ”
"You, you take your hand away-" Yang Muyun's hairs stood on end when he heard this, goosebumps fell to the ground, and he quickly retracted his shoulders. "I still have something to do, so I'll go back first, you can drink slowly here!" After speaking, he got up and ran out like a desert, only to feel that his heels were weak when he ran.
Ning Zuer stood there and laughed loudly, so that Dr. Tea hurriedly came over and asked what was going on.
"It's okay,...... Ha...... Ha ha...... Don't you think some people have something really funny? Ning Zuer couldn't stop laughing.
"Hmm-" Dr. Tea didn't know why.
Yang Muyun ran away, looked back at the signboard of Caizhizhai, and felt that his scalp was a little numb. He really can't accept the way that men like men and women like women. That time when I was an undercover agent in Cuiwei Villa, I pretended to be a woman, but I was forced to be happy by a woman named Xiaoling, which made me sick for a long time.
"This person is really perverted, no wonder Shisu is reluctant to say why he is not with him." Yang Muyun dusted the shoulder that Ning Zu'er had touched just now.
When he came to the door, he heard a melodious sound of the piano coming from the courtyard.
"Strange, who's playing the piano in the yard?" Yang Muyun had doubts in his heart. The fresh and melodious sound of the piano is like spring water falling from the cliff, hitting the pebbles to make a clear sound, misting the water mist, making people feel a sense of coolness.
"Could it be that Miss Shiyin from the National Color Pavilion is here?" Yang Muyun opened the courtyard door with questions and walked in.
Under the green grape trellis, a white-clothed beauty is draped in cloud-like hair, her hands caress the strings, the breeze blows slightly through the jade-like cheeks, raising thousands of green silk and slowly falling, her Qianqian jade fingers dance back and forth on the strings, like a fairy in the sun, dancing a gorgeous dance. The bright notes trickled into a trickle under her delicate fingers, flowing beautifully to every corner of the courtyard.
In the courtyard, a beautiful girl in a carmine-colored tight-fitting dance dress dances to the beat of musical notes. She dances lightly, her body is as light as a swallow, her graceful figure is as soft as a cloud, her arms are dancing lightly, and lotus flowers are born under her feet, like butterflies flying among the flowers, which is dazzling. The sound of the piano became more and more urgent, her posture danced faster and faster with the sound of the piano, Ruyu's plain hands lingered tactfully, her skirt fluttered, a pair of watery eyes like smoke flowing, and the whole person was like a flower through the fog, hazy and ethereal. The beat of the piano slowed down, and her posture softened, her water sleeves fluttered, and she bent to her knees, her head tilted back, and her slender waist bent up like a rainbow. At the end of the song, everything was quiet, the girl got up and adjusted her breath slightly, raised her beautiful eyes, and looked at the beauty in white with a smile.
"Papapa-" Yang Muyun applauded: "Wonderful, really wonderful!" ”
"Master-" The girl turned her head, it was Su'er.
The white-clothed beauty slowly stood up, raised her beautiful eyes and smiled and said to Yang Muyun, "Husband, you're back." ”
"I didn't expect you to be able to play the piano, and you play so well, I thought it was Miss Shiyin here?" Yang Muyun's face was surprised.
"Master, you don't know, Miss plays the piano better than Miss Shiyin." Su'er interjected.
"Xu'er-" Zisu glared at her, "Why don't you go make tea, the master is tired." ”
"No, no, no-" Yang Muyun waved his hands: "I've had an afternoon of tea." "He has palpitations at the mention of tea." Just sit here and talk to me for a while. ”
"Master, how am I dancing?" Her big eyes blinked, like two black grapes.
"The stage is beautiful, the people are more beautiful, you dance better than the Butterfly Rain girl in the National Color Pavilion."
"Really?" Su'er's eyes overflowed with brilliance.
"Do you want me to send you to the National Color Pavilion to compare with Butterfly Rain?" Zi Su glanced at her playfully: "Don't go back to the house to change your clothes." ”
"Don't—" Su'er stumbled.
The corner of Yang Muyun's eyes swept her back.
"Su'er is only thirteen years old, so don't beat her up." Shisu snorted meaningfully: "Man! Always see one, love one. ”
Madame laughed. Yang Muyun's face was red.