But why did she suddenly ask that? The pockmarked face is a little puzzling.

It's just that under the gaze of these two pairs of eyes around him, he really didn't dare to ask.

"Rumors of a haunting?" Before he could speak, Lord Qin on the other side had already spoken, he looked at the girl, nodded lightly and said, "Yes, there is!" After the bandits, the bandits came back again, and they were more fierce than before, and some people rumored that the ghosts of the bandits they had eliminated before were still gone, and they wanted Lord Qian to pay for their lives. ”

This kind of thing is naturally a great provocation for a governor of a prefecture, and even if Lord Qian came forward to stop this rumor, he shouted loudly in front of everyone: "Even if I live, I'm not afraid, but I'm afraid that he will die?" If the evil spirit really asks for his life, I will report to the Yin and Yang Division and ask someone to suppress the evil spirit! ”

The result after this incident is actually predictable, because the Yin and Yang Division did not come to Shanxi Road to suppress the evil spirits, so naturally it is not the theory that the evil spirits are asking for their lives, and the Lord Qian who let go of the words is still fine, which is enough to prove that it is not the theory of evil spirits.

So this rumor is self-defeating.

Qin Shu's tone was light when he spoke, but his eyes never left the girl in front of him from beginning to end.

Seeing that the girl was surprised at first, and then showed a somewhat thoughtful expression, he couldn't help but be a little puzzled when he faced the girl's expression: "How could Lord Qiao suddenly think of the words of ghosts and gods?" ”

The girl smiled, and did not reply to him immediately, but turned her head again and asked Ma Yan: "Your face is so ugly, do you think of something?" Although it is a rumor, it must not be groundless! ”

Of course, what she wanted to ask was not something that Lord Qin had already mentioned, but something else. The hemp face knows it.

"It was Li Gouzi who first came out of this." Ma Yan said.

He is in the business of guiding people, and every time he hears something curious and interesting, he has to inquire about it, and things like "evil spirits" that people who are afraid of hooking can't help but find out, which is naturally the first thing he wants to inquire about. In order to attract more merchants and make more saliva money.

And Li Gouzi is obviously not the focus, not to mention the two people around him, even he is not very interested.

"It's a fork dung, and he often goes to the outside of the city in the middle of the night to sell fork dung to farmers." Lest these two adults, who didn't seem to be born in poverty, don't understand what Li Gouzi does, Ma Mian specially explained, and then said, "This person stinks all day long, and others don't bother to pay attention to him, for fear of being smoked." ”

"It was Li Gouzi who first saw this, not those women who had nothing to do." Ma Yan said.

A woman who has nothing to do is a woman who can tell things with a mouth, but there must always be a source for such a bizarre thing, and the people who are most enthusiastic about it are not the people who first saw it.

"I just pulled a few more businessmen for a few talks, so I went to find Li Gouzi in person." Ma Yan said, couldn't help but pout, and glanced at Qiao Ran, "Master Qiao, you really asked the right person." Li Gouzi was kicked by a cow two years ago, and when he was sent to the hospital, he was no longer able to do it, and he left that night. So now no one knows this matter better than me. ”

When it comes to things that only he knows, Ma Yan couldn't help but be proud.

The girl smiled "oh", there was no surprise on her face, and there was no other emotion, she just looked at him and said, "You go on!" ”

She was sure that Ma Yan knew what was going on because Li Zhao tried his best to send people to her, and Li Zhao should know a lot more than the people who came a few months earlier, disappeared mysteriously before the near Shanxi Road, and suddenly appeared after that.

At least, in her opinion, Li Zhao would not have disappeared for so long for no reason.

"On that day, a caravan happened to pass through Shanxi Road, and Li Gouzi was greedy for the horse dung in the caravan, for fear of being robbed, so he followed the caravan far away and quietly followed out of the city." What kind of business should you not rob in these years? Even forked dung is the same.

Hearing this, the girl raised her eyebrows and said, "Was that caravan also robbed by the bandits later?" ”

After all, the characteristic of the second group of bandits is that they either don't rob, or if they want to rob, they will even bring people and goods to rob them.

Ma Mian nodded and subconsciously swallowed his saliva: "Yes!" However, Li Gouzi was lucky, and he was afraid of being discovered, so he didn't get too close to the caravan, and happened to see that scene. ”

"I heard that the group of people are undoubtedly dressed as bandits, but their faces are as white as yellow paper in the candle shop, their eyes are black, and their mouths seem to be coated with blood, just like the paper people painted in the paper shop." Ma Yan said, "That Li Gouzi was frightened on the spot, and suddenly rolled into the grass on the side, and the person trembled with fear and couldn't even move for a while, his eyes were closed, and he didn't dare to look. But after waiting for a while, I didn't see anyone shouting in the group of merchants, so I thought it was strange and opened my eyes again, and then I watched as the group of paper-like people drove the group of merchants back to the mountain with people and goods. He said that the group of merchants was also strange, there were so many people in the caravan, there were always people who complained, and I could still hear the guards who followed the car complaining, and I didn't know what happened when he closed his eyes, thinking about it was only half a cup of tea, the people and horses in the caravan seemed to have lost their souls, and even the people and animals were very obedient, and they followed the group of paper people, and never saw them again. ”

"After he came back, he fell seriously ill, and when he got well and wanted to talk about it with others, Lord Qian had already drunk it in front of him and was not allowed to spread rumors." Ma Yan said, "Since then, Li Gouzi didn't dare to talk nonsense, and he never went out of the city at night." If it weren't for forking dung to make a living, why would he follow the old cow and be kicked and killed? ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional: I was afraid of meeting those "evil spirits" when I went out of the city at night, but I still gave my life without going out of the city, which is really embarrassing.

"That's not right." Someone spoke up.

"What's wrong?" Before I thought about who said this, Ma Yan instinctively blurted out, looked at the girl in front of him, patted his chest and said firmly, "This matter was told to me by Li Gouzi himself, how can it be fake?" ”

When the words fell, he saw that the girl turned her head and looked to the other side, and he came back to his senses, the "no" was a man's voice, so it was Lord Qin who spoke.

Lord Qin said it was wrong?

Ma Yan was a little stunned.

Qin Shu, who was sitting on the straw opposite, also fell his gaze back on him at this time, his brows were slightly twisted, and he seemed to be a little puzzled and dazed: "Why is what you said different from what I know?" ”

That's interesting. The girl looked at the two with a smile: sure enough, it was wise to let these two people be cellmates.

What the people know seems different from what the officials know!

"The haunting I know of is a rumor that someone has seen a bandit leader in the city, and it is still under the blue sky and white sun." Qin Shu said, "The head of the bandit leader is hung on the city gate, so his appearance can be said to be known to almost the whole city. It wasn't long before the bandit leader was seen reappearing in the city, and more than one person was seen, and that was the haunted thing I know of. ”

The girl snorted lightly when she heard this: "In this way, the only son of the bandit leader who slipped through the net looks like a bandit leader." ”

Qin Shu nodded: "Yes, after the incident, Master Qian and I guessed who the head of the bandit saw by the people was, so I am sure that this is not a haunting." ”

Since it is sure that it is not a haunting, it is natural that the rumors of such evil spirits asking for their lives cannot be allowed to make trouble, and this is why Lord Qian will scold him in front of everyone.

"How?" Ma Mian seemed to be taken aback when he heard it, and said strangely, "I finally heard about Li Gouzi, but what I heard from Li Gouzi is not this!" ”

The same haunting, but the two know not the same thing.

"That's right," the girl nodded, "Don't forget, Li Gouzi was scared of illness after he came back, and after the illness was cured and before it spread wildly, Lord Qian had already banned the spread of ghost rumors, which shows that the ghosts that the officials thought were not the same thing as the ones who were really frightened by evil ghosts." ”

"But whether it is an official or Li Gouzi, who has really seen this matter with his own eyes, he mistook this matter for the same thing, coupled with Lord Qian's thunderous means, no one dared to spread this matter again, and this misunderstanding has not been resolved." Qiao Ran couldn't help but pause when she said this.

I don't know how Li Zhao found such an important witness as Ma Yan, but this move really saved her a lot of effort. In all fairness, if Li Zhao hadn't had an accident, it might be impossible to say that the matter on Shanxi Road could really be solved in his hands.

In that case, she wouldn't have had the chance to take this trip to Shanxi.

Qin Shu twisted his eyebrows, probably the first time he found out that there was such a misunderstanding, if this was the case......

"Is there really a ghost?" Ma Mian exclaimed, and the whole person hurriedly shrank into the corner, "What Li Gouzi saw is real, is there really an evil spirit asking for his life?" ”

"It's not an evil spirit, it's not a ghost, it's a human." Qiao Ran glanced at him lightly and withdrew her gaze.

The sick officers and soldiers who were detained and guarded by Zhou Shilin are the best evidence.

With faces as white as yellow paper, blue and black circles under the eyes and bloody lips, aren't these the same officers and soldiers who are infected? It's amazing, but the answer isn't that hard.

Of course, it's not simple.

For example, how did this disease get contaminated, and how did the people who really did it unknowingly make so many people, no, not only people, obedient and obedient together with people and animals.

Li Gouzi only closed his eyes for a while, and there was no sound in between, but the people in the entire caravan, who were originally good, suddenly seemed to have lost their souls.

This illness came inexplicably, just like the first group of inexplicably sick officers and soldiers.

"How is that possible?" Ma Yan obviously couldn't explain Li Gouzi's matter with normal thoughts, and exclaimed, "If it's not a ghost, how can so many people lose their souls......"

Qiao Ran interrupted him: "Since it's a ghost, how can you not even notice that Li Gouzi is peeking on the side?" Aren't ghosts supposed to know everything? ”

The numb face listened silently for a while.

This explains...... There seems to be some truth to that, too.

"Xu is a fork of dung all day long, and the smell on his body is even disgusted when he sees a ghost." It's just that although he believed it in his heart, he couldn't help but refute it on his mouth.

After saying this, he saw that the girl smiled at him, without scolding or reprimanding or anything, but just smiled: "I found you quite interesting." ”

There are a lot of words in this numb face, and I want to come out of it, but this unintentional remark is really unintentional by the speaker, and intentional by the listener.

"In the past, the bandits on Shanxi Road robbed homes and houses, and did all kinds of evil, so they were called 'bandits'. But today's 'bandits' only haunt outside the city, and once they appear, they don't even have a single hair, so a group of people with strange whereabouts are called bandits but no one questions them, why do you say? ”

Are you asking him? Looking at the girl's gaze, the numb face suddenly had the illusion of being questioned by the elders when she was a child, and the person involuntarily straightened up, and then blurted out: "Because Shanxi Road is already rampant." ”

Isn't it a bandit who does evil on Shanxi Road? As long as something happens, nine times out of ten, you will naturally think that it is a bandit.

"Yes and no." The girl smiled, turned her head to look at Qin Shu with a solemn expression on the side, and then spoke, "It's because the people who attacked the bandits this time are all caravans from the past, without exception, yes or no?" ”

Qin Shu raised his eyes, and a hint of strange color flashed in his eyes: "How do you know?" ”

Although most of the officials in Shanxi Road have been arrested, the treasury of the Shanxi Road Government has also been taken over by Zhou Shilin. But even she opened and read the treasury files of the Shanxi Road Mansion, except for a few caravans related to the local government to request the Shanxi Road Mansion to assist in a thorough investigation and were able to enter the warehouse and write into the files, more news of the missing caravans was not recorded in the files.

But what she said was "no exceptions", especially when she was talking about "no exceptions", and she deliberately accentuated her tone, obviously very determined.

These, except for him and Master Qian, it is impossible to know, after all, it is a matter that has not been entered into the file, and it is impossible to find out. Master Qian is on the run now, and it is impossible for him to tell her about it. And he never mentioned it to the public, how did she know?

"Because judging from the files, the bandits on Shanxi Road have not done many cases over the years, sometimes only once or twice a year, such a thing of robbing homes and houses, to put it mildly, is that at the feet of the Son of Heaven, Chang'an City, which has good public security, is much more than this, but in recent years, the bandits on Shanxi Road have become more and more rampant, this cannot be passed on by Shanxi Road itself, it must be passed by passing merchants, it can be seen that most of the victims are caravans from all over the country." The girl said, paused, and said, "Also, obviously close at hand, an old man with a fork of dung is supposed to be just a matter of stretching out his hand, judging from the goose plucking where these people have passed, these people don't pick, as long as it is a person, they will take it away." Then why was the entire caravan taken away, but Li Gouzi was fine? ”

Of course, this can't be because the Li dog that Ma Yan said stinks and even dislikes ghosts.

Qin Shu said, "What did Master Qiao find?" ”

"It's hard to say." The girl shook her head.

Is it? Qin Shu was silent: He has never been to the capital, nor has he seen Dali Temple, but Dali Temple is famous, and I heard that the officials in it are all good at peeling off the cocoon, exploring strange cases, and gaining insight into people's hearts. This girl sent by His Majesty is still the youngest of them.

To stand out in Dali Temple, who is still so young, must not be an ordinary person, and even because of his young age and lack of qualifications, if he is not outstanding enough to ignore his age and qualifications, he will not be entrusted with important tasks by His Majesty at all.

At this moment, he had a hunch: she seemed to know something from his words to Ma Face.

Are the officials of Dali Temple so powerful?

And the girl's action of getting up also represents this small talk with him and the pockmarked face opposite, she did not return empty-handed, at least she had discovered something.

"I still have some things, I'll talk to you another day!" The girl who got up dusted off her robe, picked up the lantern in her hand, and turned around to leave, but when she left, she turned back and said: "If the Qin general guard can't eat enough, just say to the official, after all, you have enough to have strength!" ”

After that, he took the lantern and walked away.

I don't know if it's the lantern or the person missing, this time, the prison seems to be a lot darker, which makes people unaccustomed to it.

The pockmarked face shrunk in the corner scratched his hair, and couldn't help but say to Qin Shu: "Lord Qin, I didn't expect this Lord Qiao to be quite compassionate!" "It's just that it's not very good to like to catch people and yin and yang, but the rest seems to be pretty good.

After all, this prison meal was much better than his own food.

Qin Shu didn't hear such an emotion in his ears, but his eyes flashed slightly: What did she mean when she said that she had strength when she was full?

Is it something you want him to do? Looking at the chains in his hands, a suspect like him ...... Qin Shu shook his head.

Maybe he thought about it too much!