Chen You nodded and patiently explained:

"You weren't in Luoshui City five days ago, so you can't be the murderer, that is to say, as long as you check the place and time where the crime occurred, and check the records of people entering and leaving the city and staying at the inn, you can find the suspect who has the most time to commit the crime."

"Then what if he didn't stay at an inn, but at the house of relatives and friends, wouldn't there be no record?" Ning Kawaii asked rhetorically.

"Not necessarily, this person has committed a lot of crimes and has been to so many places, even if there is no record of the inn's stay, there will definitely be a record of entering the city, but it will take some effort to investigate."

Tatsumi sighed slightly, but still felt hopeful.

"Don't worry, Lord Ben will support you." Ning Xiaoxiao raised her fist and hammered Hammer Chen's right shoulder, causing him to cough again.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem..."

"Yo, Chenyou, you've really been bad lately, you're so weak, you have to exercise a lot when you're sick, otherwise, when the time comes, you will catch the thief, and you will have to let the thief wait for you." Ning Xiaoxiao laughed.

"Ahem... When the official is well, I will let you know if the official wants to wait for a thief, cough cough..."

Chen, whose lips were white, held a bowl of porridge on his right, coughing up his spleen and weak blood, as if he was about to collapse.

"Lord Chen, you better drink the porridge quickly, so that you can replenish some strength." She whispered.

"Okay, thank you, Miss Ning."

Chen You took a sip of white porridge slightly, although it was tasteless, for some reason, he felt extremely sweet.

"Don't be so outsider, a Ning girl, just like my colleagues in the yamen, just call me Xiao Ning." Xiao Yu said enthusiastically.

"That's right, it's rare that after all, she is also half of your sister, you call it more than a child, spread it out, and others still think that the two beautiful men of the Criminal Department are not in harmony?"

"Hahaha, cough cough, what the hell is the double beautiful man of the Criminal Department, this official has never heard of it." Tatsuyo was amused.

"Of course, this is the line that Lord Ben just took, does it sound good?" Ning Xiaoxiao proudly pulled up her long hair and smiled so demonicly.

"It's better to have that time... Ahem..."

"Master Ben knows, it's better to investigate a few more cases, you say this every time, you, you're sick anyway, let yourself have a good rest, lest you become ill from overwork, and when the time comes, drink my sister's wedding wine with a cane."

As soon as the words fell, Ning Cute glanced at her eldest brother.

"Don't get involved in the marriage of this catch at every turn, it's clear that your father and mother are most worried about you, it seems that you are hugging left and right, holding the stars and hugging the moon, in fact, it is a 10,000-year-old bachelor, if you don't find me a sister-in-law, I will write back to the countryside, tell my father, and let them arrange a blind date for you!"

"Little sister? If you dare to do this, Lord Ben will put your portrait on the streets of the main city and recruit you a husband! Ning Xiaoxiao and her sister caught up.

"You... Ruthless enough! Ning Lovely was not to be outdone, "If you dare to post it, I will tell the lady in the market about your hugging left and right, so that the people in the entire main city will know that you are not attentive, and when the time comes, when your old friends are crowded in front of the gate of the Criminal Department, you will know that it is powerful, hahahaha..."

The two of them fought more and more, and Chen You, who was finally better, began to have a headache again.

"Okay, you two go out for the officer, and the officer decides to take a break, a good rest!" Tatsuyou, who had a bruised forehead, smiled stiffly and emphasized.

"Hmph, I quarreled with you, I was so angry that Lord Ben's crow's feet were gone, and the money to buy tonic was deducted from your salary, Ning is cute."

Ning Xiaoxiao took out the bronze mirror and said as she walked out of the door.

"Why, your manly husband, what's wrong with a few more wrinkles, you actually want Ben Zhu to pay for you to buy medicine, don't think about it!"

Ning Lovely patted his brother's back vigorously, and the voice hurt to hear.

Chen You gasped and sighed, how could he just like her?

Talented, clear-bones, open-minded, he doesn't have anything at all, if they are really together, can he really stay up to kick the sedan door?

The frightened Chen You closed his eyelids in a daze, and fell asleep with his forehead drowsy.

That night, he had a terrible nightmare, and he remembered the fire twelve years ago, a dream that had haunted him for years and that would pop up by chance.

In dreams everything is gray.

He was originally patrolling the streets, but gradually became a fourteen-year-old boy, returning to the day before the accident.

In the dream, his father, who had been strict, suddenly became gentle, and he and his mother kept telling him: run away and don't come back.

Then, the surroundings fell into a sea of fire, indescribably hot, and the pillar with the swastika under it became higher than the sky and wider than the mountain, blocking him from seeing the last side of his father, and then the swastika pressed against his chest, crushing him to the air.

Help, help, it's so hard...

Finally, at the moment when he was about to be squashed, he couldn't stand it anymore and cried out loudly in reality.

"Ahh

Ning Kawaii, who was originally lying on his chest, suddenly stood up, his eyes half-open, and raised his fist stupidly to guard.

"What's wrong? Is anyone coming to sneak attack? Or is it out of the water? ”

Chen You sat up sweating profusely, holding his forehead, panting vigorously, and suddenly, he saw a person standing next to the bed, and he was stunned.

"Miss Ning... Xiao Ning, why are you here? ”

"Catch fast?"

The sleepy little catcher scratched his thigh and yawned.

"Ahh I don't know, it seems that the eldest brother is afraid that you will have no one to take care of, so he asked Ben to stay here quickly. ”

"You just got out of a fight, and you reconciled so quickly?"

Chen You looked at her sleepy little appearance and couldn't help but smile.

"Whoever reconciled with him, if he hadn't said... Go and look at Lord Chenyou, otherwise Lord Ben is afraid that no one will know if he breaks his breath in his sleep, guard him, if he is about to die, shake him awake, if he dies, there will be no one to sort out the case file for him. ”

The little girl imitated her brother's demeanor with a thick voice.

"Your brother really doesn't have anything serious in his mouth."

Chen You held his forehead with a smile and a smile, seeing this, Ning Lovely couldn't help but care:

"What, do you still feel a pain in your head?"

"No, I drank some porridge, and it got better." He said with a tired expression, as if he hadn't recovered from the nightmare just now.

"Then why did you call it just now, did you have a nightmare?"

Ning Lovely sat at the square table and poured a glass of water for Chenyou, the man looked down at the light in the cup slightly and nodded.

"What kind of nightmare, let's listen to it, usually it's not scary to say the nightmare, my father said, replace the terrible thing with the thing you like, and the dream that comes out will be less terrifying."

Ning Cute smiled heartily, like the sun in the night, and her temperament was very warm.

"You want to hear it?"

The man tentatively asked.

"I want to hear it, how can you and I be friends, shouldn't you share your troubles with your friends?" Naturally, she poured herself a glass of water.

"Okay, I'll try it, the method you said."

Looking at those big clear eyes, Chen You lowered his eyes and smiled slightly.

"In a dream, I saw my father and mother before I died, and they kept telling me to leave, and at this time, you appeared, and you became tall and big, as if you were going to squeeze the whole official."

“……”

Ning Cute is a little blindsided, is he so terrible in Chen's right heart?

It gave him nightmares.

"You're so afraid of this catch, so afraid that you dream, you see that this catcher is hurting you and squeezing you?" The woman asked him aggrievedly.

"Didn't you say that let the official change the things he was afraid of for the things he liked?" Chen You said disappreciatively.

"Yes, but, I can't hear it quickly, where did you change, haven't you changed it yet?"

"Changed." He nodded affirmatively.

Silly girl, he has already changed.

"I don't understand, it's just that using your brain is not this girl's forte, Lord Chen, the reason why you have nightmares is because this case reminds you of the fire back then?" She deftly changed the subject.

Ning Lovely saw that Chen was a little silent, and hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"There is no malice in this catch, it's just that every time I ask my eldest brother, he says, let me ask you myself, and when you want to say it, you will naturally say it."

"This official knows that you have no malicious intent."

Chen You took a sip of tea, instructed Ning Lovely to light an oil lamp, and talked about the dusty past.

"The official was just over fourteen years old that year, my father was a very calm and strict person, he liked the official to behave in a proper manner and follow the steps, and I have always listened to him."

"No wonder you're so... Persistent. ”

"Don't you say that the official is stubborn?" Chen You smiled, and then said: "But I don't know why, fourteen-year-old me, suddenly dislike my father's arrangement, he wants the official to follow the literature, but the official wants to learn martial arts, so I had a big quarrel with him, my mother is different, she is very supportive of me, and took the initiative to let me go to the main city to relax." ”

Ning Kawaii covered her mouth, tried to resist the urge not to interrupt, and listened politely to what Chen You said under the flickering oil lamp.

"At that time, I was arrogant, the road was not smooth, and I had a fight with others, but as soon as I returned to my relative's house after the fight, the official messenger of the yamen informed me that something had happened at home."

Tatsuyo took a deep breath, his eyes moistened a little.

"There was a sudden fire in the house, and all the 137 people in the house were spared, all of them were burned alive, and when the official rode his horse and rushed home, the mansion had been burned to char, and the corpses were all unrecognizable."

"It's miserable, Tatsu-sama, are you okay?"

She raised her eyes to look at the strong Chenyou, and she suddenly wanted to cry.

"Don't worry, after many years, this official is no longer the impulsive yellow-haired boy he was back then, and now, this official only wants to know the truth of the year, and wants to know why the murderer killed my whole family."

"Don't worry, you'll be able to find the real culprit."

"That's what your brother said back then."

Hearing this, Ning Lovely was stunned.

"My brother?"

"That's right, it was at that time that I met the youngest Qing official in history, Ning Xiaoxiao, it's funny to say, he was serious back then, and he wasn't as good as he is now... Enchanting? ”

She was a little surprised, she thought that the two of them were just colleagues for more than ten years, but she didn't expect to have such a deep relationship.

"Does he have a job to investigate the Chen family's unjust case?"

"More than that, back then, the imperial court only assigned him to come and investigate my family's unjust case."

"He's the only one?" The woman exclaimed quietly.

Tatsuyo nodded affirmatively.

"This official also thinks it's very strange, my father was also an important minister of the court back then, and after the whole family was wiped out, he actually only sent a seventeen-year-old boy to investigate."

With that, he smiled playfully.

"Wouldn't it be because only my brother, a lazy ghost, came to investigate, and the unjust case that harmed your family became an unsolved case?" Ning Kawai guessed tremblingly.

"It's not your brother's problem, back then, we just found the 'swastika' remaining on the pillar, and now the saint stopped your brother and didn't let your brother continue to investigate, and the saint also summoned me into the palace to be the prince's companion.

"Why doesn't the Holy One let my brother continue to investigate?" She wondered.