Ah~

When Ouyang Kai was walking back down the alley by Murong Qianqian, the gate of a courtyard was blown open by the wind.

Ouyang Kai didn't feel anything, and continued to walk down the alley, but after taking a few steps, he felt that something was wrong.

At this time, everyone had already fallen asleep, how could the gate of the courtyard not be closed?

So Ouyang Kai turned around and walked towards the courtyard.

The door had been blown open, and looking inside from the door, Ouyang Kai found that the door of the room inside was also open.

The things on both sides of the courtyard were neatly arranged, and it seemed that someone should live here, but Ouyang Kai didn't feel that there were people in the house.

The most recent breath appeared, forehead, back, Murong Qianqian, in addition, the most recent breath was worn out of the courtyard behind, and it was from another family.

Where has the whole house gone?

With this question, Ouyang Kai walked into the courtyard with Murong Qianqian on his back.

This is the backyard, as soon as he entered the door, Ouyang Kai saw that the house that opened the door was the back kitchen, and the other room should be a firewood room or something.

There was still a stack of firewood piled up in the yard, and it looked like it had been falling for a long time.

Walking into the back kitchen, there were two pieces of burned firewood in front of the stove, which fell to the ground.

The pot was still covered with a lid, Ouyang Kai wanted to open the lid to take a look, and just wanted to put Murong Qianqian down, but found that she had fallen asleep on her back, making an even breathing sound.

Ouyang Kai didn't put her down, and after looking around the kitchen to see that there was nothing strange, he turned around and left the kitchen.

There was nothing in the firewood room, and after Ouyang Kai pushed the door open, he only saw a few piles of firewood, and there was nothing unusual around the firewood.

"That's not right!"

As soon as Ouyang Kai wanted to leave, he smelled an unusual smell and returned to the firewood room.

Carefully smelling the smell coming from the air, it should be said that it was an aroma, Ouyang Kai came to the front of a few bundles of firewood.

Ouyang Kai had already determined that the smell came from the firewood, which attracted his attention even more, ordinary firewood would not have a big smell at all, let alone this fragrance.

With a slight kick with his foot, he kicked aside the firewood on the top, and what he saw startled Ouyang Kai.

"It's really hard to find a place to step on iron shoes, heh!"

The corners of Ouyang Kai's mouth raised slightly, and he sighed in a rather joyful tone.

Hidden under the firewood was the trolley he was looking for, and Ouyang Kai was sure that this was the trolley used by the vendor.

There were a number of bottles on the cart, one or two of which had been touched by firewood, and the fragrance was coming from the perfume that had been spilled.

Ordinary people don't have that much money to buy so much perfume, and even if they do, they won't just be in the firewood room.

This whole courtyard is relatively large, it should be a big family, if it is a big family, then it is not even qualified to get involved in the perfume business.

The entire perfume business in Xiao Guo has been monopolized by the Xin family, and the price is not expensive, and other people's perfume business is simply a loss-making business.

Taking a step back, even if this family really does the perfume business, how can they hide the perfume in the firewood room, and the quantity is still so small.

If the goods are bought back, they don't have to be placed in the firewood room, and it is definitely safer to keep it in other places than in the firewood room, and the two bottles of perfume are the best proof.

The only explanation for the matter is that the perfume in this car is not from this family, but from outsiders.

In this way, Ouyang Kai had another question, why did no one stop someone from putting things in, could it be someone who knew from this family?

Looking at the dust in the firewood room, no one should have come in to get firewood for a while, but I just saw that there was not much firewood in the kitchen, and it stands to reason that someone should come to the firewood room to get firewood.

Where have all the people in this room gone?

This question came to Ouyang Kai's mind again.

After thinking for a while, without touching the things on the cart or touching the firewood again, Ouyang Kai directly exited the firewood room and closed the door.

In order to know where the people of this family went, Ouyang Kai walked to the front hall step by step.

The whole courtyard was actually not big, Ouyang Kai quickly arrived at the front hall, and what he saw was once again beyond his expectations.

With the moonlight that was spilling, Ouyang Kai found a pool of blood on the floor of the hall, which had completely dried up.

Seeing the bloodstains, Ouyang Kai said in his heart that something was wrong, something must have happened to this family.

On the edge of that puddle of blood, there was a line of dripping blood, and a line of dragging blood.

There must be a problem, Ouyang Kai followed the trailing bloodstains all the way and arrived at a room, there were still some trailing bloodstains on the ground, all of them walked towards this room, the door of the room was closed, and it was locked with a lock.

But this did not prevent Ouyang Kai from discovering the problem, the smell in the room had betrayed all this, it was the smell of decay, and Ouyang Kai already knew what was inside.

After thinking about it, it should be very disgusting inside, Ouyang Kai decided not to go in first, after all, he was still carrying a Murong Qianqian, in case she suddenly woke up after entering, she would definitely be scared.

And with a sleeping Murong Qianqian on his back, it was not easy to deal with anything, and he couldn't free up his hands at all.

So Ouyang Kai decided to go back first, tell Situ Jingping and Guo Wei about the situation here, and come here with them tomorrow.

When she returned to the Qianyuan Inn, Murong Qianqian still woke up, and it should have been a bit big when Ouyang Kai put her down.

"Brother Ouyang, are we back to the inn?"

Murong Qianqian asked half-awake and half-asleep, her eyes hazy.

"Well, I'm back, let's sleep well."

Ouyang Kai could see that Murong had lost weight in the past few days, and his whole person looked a little tired, so he asked her to rest.

After gently helping Murong Qianqian cover the quilt, Ouyang Kai was about to leave cautiously, he wanted to find Situ Jingping to tell him what he had just discovered.

As soon as he turned around, his hand was grabbed by Murong Qianqian.

"Brother Ouyang, I have something to ask you."

Murong Qianqian opened her eyes, sat up directly, and looked at Ouyang Kai with some concern.

"Well, just ask."

Ouyang Kai squatted down and held Murong Qianqian's hand, he liked these little hands very much, and he was reluctant to let go.

"It's so late, where is Brother Ouyang going?"

This room was Ouyang Kai's room, and Murong Qianqian could see that the position of the bed was different from the position of the bed in her room.

"I ......"

Ouyang Kai really can't answer this question, do you still have to tell Murong Qianqian that he is going to Situ Jingping to investigate the case, in fact, before the two of them went out, Situ Jingping and Guo Wei had already fallen asleep, and Murong Qianqian knew.

"I'm going to take a bath."

There was no way, Ouyang Kai could only make up an excuse to prevaricate Murong Qianqian.

"Brother Ouyang, you're lying."

As soon as Ouyang Kai's words came out, Murong Qianqian said with great certainty,

"Every time you lie, your hands are always unconsciously pinched."

Hearing this, Ouyang Kai froze in place, then slowly looked at his hands, holding Murong Qianqian's hands, and then quickly let go of his hand and put it behind his back.

It turned out that when he was lying, his hands would be pinched unconsciously, and Ouyang Kai only knew it now, and he was extremely afraid to think about it.

He now understands why when he was young, every time he lied, the master would always see through it and beat him.

If Murong Qianqian hadn't said it, he wouldn't have known that he would have such an inadvertent action when he was lying.

"It's late, it's time for Brother Ouyang to rest, he must not have slept in the prison these days."

Murong Qianqian took the initiative to reach out and hold Ouyang Kai's hand, and then moved back and pulled Ouyang Kai to the bed.

Ouyang Kai let Murong Qianqian fiddle with himself, he hadn't recovered from the embarrassment of being poked for lying.

Murong Qianqian reached out again to help Ouyang Kai widen his clothes, and then pushed Ouyang Kai down on the bed (cough, not backwards.) ）。

Ouyang Kai came back to his senses, took Murong Qianqian into his arms, and then covered the quilt.

"Brother Ouyang, don't, let me go."

Suddenly being held by Ouyang Kai like this, Murong Qianqian blushed a little, wanted to get rid of Ouyang Kai's hands, struggled for a while, and was not able to break away, so she gave up struggling.

"Brother Ouyang, was that yamen's prison really collapsed by you?"

Turning around in Ouyang Kai's arms, Murong Qianqian raised her head, looked at Ouyang Kai's face, and asked worriedly.

"Yes, I didn't control it when I broke through, and it collapsed."

In fact, it was not something he could control at that time, but in order to reassure Murong Qianqian, he lied again, but this time he learned wisely and took his hand away from Murong Qianqian's back.

"Then what should I do, the crime of destroying the Yamen prison is very big."

Murong Qianqian was even more worried, and her tone was very anxious.

Collapse the prison, this is not a trivial matter, the better ones are assigned to the frontier, but the bad ones are to be beheaded, Lord Situ and Lord Guo actually let him back, Murong Qianqian is not worried, it is strange.

"Just pay the money and let them rebuild, it's not a big deal."

Situ Jingping also helped himself say good things, Guo Wei didn't say anything, and it was only because Emperor Xiao would treat him for his crimes.

In addition, if he is cured of his own crimes, who will help him eradicate the five poisonous beasts? Ouyang Kai is now fearless and very calm.

"Compensation? How much money do you have to lose? ”

A big prison, how big it is Murong Qianqian doesn't know, but he must pay a lot of silver.

When the Baisheng Hall was expanded before, it only cost tens of thousands of taels of silver to build a small room as a medical study.

"It's just 100,000 taels of silver, don't worry."

Ouyang Kai hugged Murong Qianqian again and told him the money he planned to pay to the imperial court.

"One hundred thousand taels!"

After hearing the amount, Murong Qianqian was taken aback.