Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Murderous House
At dawn, the drizzle did not stop, and in the sound of the morning drums, Wang Yuan woke up leisurely, and Li Xin'er had long disappeared on the pillow beside him. Thinking back to last night, Wang Yuan lingered with a trace of sweetness in his heart, there seemed to be the sweet fragrance on Li Xin'er's smooth body on his palm, and the taste between her lips and tongue also remained between her lips and teeth, and her mood couldn't be better. Now that the relationship between the two has been confirmed, from today onwards, he can be regarded as a family person, and he can be regarded as having a root in Datang.
Wang Yuan got up and dressed, and walked through the empty hall to the porch, but after a night of spring rain, the whole courtyard seemed to be full of life, and there seemed to be raised buds on the branches of a dozen bare trees, with a faint green. In the drizzle, the cheerful chirping of birds can be heard from nowhere, and everything becomes full of life.
"I don't know when I sleep in spring...... Birds are heard everywhere...... The sound of wind and rain at night...... How much do you know about the flowers......" Wang Yuan shook his head and chanted Meng Haoran's poems, hating Meng Haoran for being born too early, otherwise if this poem could be carried over, wouldn't it become another masterpiece of his own.
"This brother, early in the morning, his face is not washed or rinsed, and his unkempt face is sour here, what is the reason?"
The crisp voice of words came from behind him, and Wang Yuan turned back in shock, only to see two young scribes standing behind him for a few steps, folding fans in their hands to cover their faces, and looking at him with smiling eyes.
Wang Yuan was taken aback, he didn't have time to take a closer look, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Dare to ask the two brothers, what is this ......?" ”
"Hee-hee-hee." The young scribe who was hiding his face with a folding fan in front suddenly laughed, Wang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, shouting, "Twelve Niang? ”
Twelve Niang put down the folding fan and showed her face, and said with a smile: "Master, I said that this nerd can't recognize it, and the sentence 'dare to ask this brother ......' is ridiculous." ”
The green-shirted scribe in the back also put down the folding fan to show his face, is it Gongsun Lan or who? Wang Yuan smiled: "It turned out to be you, this dress is quite good, but are you going to take the exam to get the champion?" ”
Gongsun Lan smiled and said: "When I went out to do errands today, there were many inconveniences in women's clothes, so I wore men's clothes, can I still see it?" ”
Wang Yuan said with a smile: "It's not just that you can see it, I'm afraid that you will be robbed by the women in Chang'an City to be Langjun when you walk on the street." ”
Gongsun Lan took a sip, but there was a smile on her face. Li Xin'er urged Wang Yuan to wash up quickly, and after Wang Yuan rinsed his face, he tied his hair in a bun for Wang Yuan, and went to Gongsun Lan's room to get a new blue brocade robe for Wang Yuan to wear. Suddenly, Wang Yuan also became radiant, and his fans became lovely.
"Erlang, you're really handsome." Li Xin'er looked at this Wang Yuandao stupidly.
Wang Yuan said with a smile: "This young lady is self-respecting, she has a master in the next name, don't have thoughts about me, I have a wife named Li Xin'er, you may have a chance in the next life." ”
Li Xin'er grinned, glanced at no one around, forcibly hugged Wang Yuan's neck and kissed her, "Miss Ben is going to live this life, what can you do?" ”
Wang Yuan smiled and said, "I was powerless to resist, so I had to make compromises." ”
Li Xin'er covered her mouth and smiled.
After breakfast, the three of them went out of the house together, and met Liu Xunzhi who seemed to be waiting here in the hall of the East Courtyard.
Wang Yuan was also polite to Liu Xun, and returned the salute respectfully, but saw Liu Xun pointing directly to the three servants on the side of the hall and said to Wang Yuan: "Erlang, these three are all guards in the house, and they have always been the people I called. ”
Wang Yuan smiled: "Thank you Mr. Liu for your trouble, but don't need to." ”
Liu Xun groaned in a deep voice: "Erlang, don't refuse people thousands of miles away, the old man is sincere, the street is not peaceful, and I am also for your good." You said that you want to go to the Great Ci'en Temple to worship the Buddha, but you know that there was an accident in Jinchangfang on the eve of it, so it is better to take someone to follow. Wang Yuan's heart moved, and asked, "What happened?" ”
Liu Xun said straightly: "On the day you left the house and didn't return the night before, there was a fire in the family yard next to the Great Ci'en Temple, and the house was burned to the ground, and the fire even burned hundreds of plum trees in the house. What is even more terrifying is that several bodies were found under Megan in the courtyard. The Jingzhao Mansion of the Criminal Department has sent someone to investigate this matter, and the people of Jinchangfang are also panicked, and there are rumors that the murderer is in Jinchangfang, so you can rest assured that you will follow someone with you. ”
Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan Li Xin'er glanced at each other, and they were a little surprised in their hearts, the six dead people were finally discovered, Wang Ji must have jumped like thunder, and if there is a move next, it is obviously thunderous, and there is no room for it.
But the follower still can't be brought, although he knows that he believes that Liu Xunzhi is a good intention, but Wang Yuan is here to see Yang Zhao, this matter must not be known to Li Shizhi, and he can only live up to Liu Xunzhi's kindness.
After leaving Li Shizhi's house, the three of them wore hats and clothes into the drizzle; There were not many pedestrians on the streets in the spring rain, and the three of them first went south and pretended to go in the direction of Jinchangfang, and when they were halfway there, they flashed into the south gate of Jing'an Fang, and secretly observed whether there were any suspicious people behind them. After making sure that no one was following, the three of them walked all the way to the northeast along the street in the south corner of Jing'an, which was equivalent to taking a diagonal line from the south gate of Jing'an Fang to the east gate.
This piece in the southeast of Jing'anfang is very strange, the houses next to several branch streets are very luxurious, but they are in line with the characteristics of Chang'an Dongchengfang Street, but soon after, the three of them saw a desolate clearing, a small hill full of pine trees in front of them, and there was a house on the large wasteland on the side of the mountain, but after approaching, they found that the wall was down, the house was slanted, and the grass grew in the yard, and it should have been uninhabited for a long time. Further northeast, the path that should have been there was also overgrown with wild grass, as if this place had been untouched for a long time.
The three of them were a little puzzled, Chang'an Dongcheng is expensive, and although Jing'an Fang is not the last square in the lot, it is always a square in Dongcheng. Who knew that there were also deserted and uninhabited houses and vacant lots. This wasteland is the size of a few large mansions, there are mountains and small ponds, and it is not very far from Nanfangmen.
The three of them had no time to think about it, in fact, they were able to cross over from a no-man's place and go out quietly from the east gate of Jing'an Fang, which could prevent their whereabouts from being leaked. However, after passing through the uninhabited wasteland, they arrived at the mouth of the nearest dilapidated alley to the north, and several people standing at the door chatting saw the three people walking through the long grass, and their faces were terrified and surprised.
Wang Yuan didn't know where to lead to the nearest Dongfang Gate, but instead stepped forward to ask for directions with a smile on his face, and several people scattered in a hurry, and each went home and closed the courtyard door crackling. The three monks were confused, and when they were confused, a white head poked out from above the courtyard wall next to them, and an old man with a deflated mouth trembled on the wall and asked: "Are the three people or ghosts?" Don't break in in broad daylight, there is a half-moon view of Zhao Xianchang's rune town, if it is Hu Lai, I want to teach you to scatter your soul. ”
Wang Yuan was stunned and said, "How can the old man speak?" Of course, we are human beings, and we took a shortcut from the Nanfang Gate. ”
The old man pointed and said: "Hugh has to lie to us, you are so handsome and you can't fool me and others, I know that you are ghosts in painted skins, go away quickly, otherwise I will ask for a charm." ”
Wang Yuan and the other three couldn't cry or laugh, the old man was very angry, retracted his head, and poked his head out again after a while, holding a half-foot-long yellow rune paper in his hand and glaring at the three of them. Wang Yuan approached and smiled: "Uncle, don't be busy, we are not ghosts, what's wrong with you?" ”
The old man was a little confused when he saw that the spell was useless, and saw that Wang Yuan and the other three acted normally, and indeed did not look like ghosts, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It turns out that you are not ghosts, but why did you come from Liu's house, you were scared to death early in the morning." ”
Wang Yuan smiled: "What Liu Zhai? We're just passing through. ”
The old man pointed to the pine mountain to the south and said, "Didn't you come from the courtyard at the foot of the pine mountain over there?" ”
"You mean the house? We passed by from somewhere, but we don't know whose house it was. ”
The old man said: "That's Liu's house, you three dare to pass by over there, and no one told you that no one should approach there?" ”
Wang Yuan smiled: "It's just a dilapidated house, how can my husband be so funny?" ”
"Broken house?" The old man shouted: "It is a murderous house, no one has dared to go from there for more than ten years, the haunting monsters are very fierce, the three of you can come over alive to count your luck, hurry home and ask the master to practice the dojo, so as not to be stained by filthy things." ”
Wang Yuan couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, I'll do it when I go back, but I don't know what happened in the murderous house?" ”
The old man said, "You don't know this? You're from outside, right? ”
Wang Yuan said: "Yes, you can see this." My husband has good eyesight. ”
The old man said: "What's there, only the people from other places dare to go from that side in a daze, but none of the neighbors in this fang dare to go from there." ”
Wang Yuan beckoned to the old man and said, "Tell me in detail, what's going on, I have dozens of dollars here to buy wine for you." ”
Gongsun Lan frowned and said, "Aren't we down to business?" Why waste time here? ”
Wang Yuan waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, it's too early for noon, I ask about this matter, I have my own plans." ”
Li Xin'er said: "What's the matter? ”
Wang Yuan said: "I'll talk about it later." The old man on the wall was very cautious, first pasted the yellow charm on the copper coin to observe for a while, and made sure that it was not a change of snakes, insects and poisonous scorpions.
Wang Yuan asked the reason, and the old man's mouth was leaking, but the words were clear, and he told Wang Yuan the story of this wasteland old mansion.