Qiao Ran's gaze froze for a moment on the white cloth wrapped in chicken legs, and then looked away casually.

Although it is said that Xue Huai lying in front of him is an old acquaintance, and he has just died, he is still more like a person compared to ordinary corpses, but if you don't look at these, this is also a corpse.

Wrapped in chicken thighs in shrouds, sealing is a good appetite!

"These people all fell into the water, those two were drowned, but Xue Huai died from the blow on the forehead." He munched on the chicken leg and muttered.

Qiao Ran sat on a chair next to him and listened to Feng Qi chatter about old things.

"This so-called fatal injury sometimes does so, a few years ago, someone in the capital fell off a horse playing polo, and he could still talk when he got up, but his face was ugly, and he thought he would be fine after two days of rest, but he couldn't stay home until he got home." Feng Qizuo bit the chicken leg and said, paused, and there was a look of regret in his expression, "If the corpse of the person who died playing polo every year can be asked for me to study it and then bury it, my autopsy level will definitely be greatly improved." ”

Qiao Ran glanced at him and ruthlessly punctured his illusions: "Feng Zuo, this kind of thing is not willing for everyone, even the person who dies is willing, and other people's family members may not be willing, so don't think about it." ”

Feng said: "I'll just talk about it, I think I know that those laypeople will not be willing." "What do those laymen know? He is a professional, and he will put it back after the inspection, but he will not have less arms and legs.

Qiao Ran's gaze also fell on the three corpses at this time, and the cause and order of death of these three people was actually very clear.

At this time, it seems that there is no progress in sitting here and facing these three corpses, if the carriage can be fished out...... It's hard to detect anything.

After sitting for a while, Qiao Ran got up and walked out.

In this case, it is better to check Xue Huai's person.

This is not the first time that Dali Temple has investigated Xue Huai, but the last time it was from the relationship between Xue Huai and Yu Shihuan and others, but this time it was to investigate Xue Huai.

Qiao Ran walked outside the house, stood under the eaves, and watched the heavy rain come out of her mind.

Xue Huai, a child of the Xue family who lived in the Huaiguo Mansion. Hobby Danqing, talent is ordinary and ordinary, some inferiority complex and high self-esteem.

There is nothing special about it from the outside, but he was implicated in two cases in a row, and this case was handled by her.

Qiao Ran pursed her lips and suddenly laughed, with a little unconscious self-deprecation in her expression: from a certain point of view, he really had a relationship with her.

However, it is obviously not a good thing to be related to someone like her who investigates cases.

Especially as a suspect and a victim, and it just so happens that Xue Huai occupies both identities.

……

By the time Shen Shi fell, the rain had already lightened a lot.

Tang Zhongyuan came to her and said, "Miss Qiao, go back!" I'm afraid I'll be late again today. ”

His position has risen recently, and his position has risen recently, so he naturally has a lot more things to do.

No one in the official mission has any objections to this, after all, Tang Zhongyuan's hard work and seriousness are seen by everyone.

Qiao Ran nodded, told him to "come back early" and walked into the rain curtain with an umbrella.

The Yamen of Dali Temple has been walking for less than half an hour according to her home, and she is not delicate enough to be escorted by someone on such a small road.

Although it was not the time of Shen, it was still a little dark due to the rain.

As far as the eye can see, there are open bamboo umbrellas, and people hide behind the rain curtains and bamboo umbrellas, and they can't really see the people coming from the opposite side.

Qiao Ran subconsciously grabbed the bamboo umbrella, the umbrella surface was slightly tilted, covering the view of the opposite side, and the pace of his feet also accelerated, and the rain cement slurry splashed up and appeared on the official robe.

She took a deep breath and looked through the slanted umbrella to the inky bamboo umbrella that was coming in front of her.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the inky bamboo umbrella gradually blended into the dark night.

I don't know when, there was suddenly a little more coolness around her, Qiao Ran lowered her eyes to look at her rain-soaked sleeves, and the sound of raindrops hitting the umbrella began to intensify.

I don't know when the rain is heavy again.

Her feet slowed down, her hand slowly reached into the sleeve robe, the tentacles were a little cool, and the dagger that fell into the palm of her hand made her heart feel a little calm.

Whenever she had a dagger in hand, she could calm down.

The ink-colored bamboo umbrella was getting closer and closer, and seeing that it was only ten steps away from her, she stopped and waited for the other party to approach.

Five-step, four-step, three-step......

"Miss Joe!" A familiar voice suddenly rang out.

Several people dressed in the official robes of officials appeared in the sight not far away, although the rain and fog were foggy, and they could not see it really, but they faintly saw the figures.

The voice was also familiar to her.

It's Li Zhao! How did he end up here? No matter which way you go back to the Li family's house from the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials, you shouldn't appear here! Countless thoughts instinctively flashed through my mind for a moment. Acquaintances are close at hand...... Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, the inky bamboo umbrella took another step closer to her.

Two steps, one step, a thick cold air surged from all directions.

She doesn't know martial arts, and she doesn't understand what the "murderous aura" in Zhang Xie and Pei Qingqing's mouths is, but at this moment, she has an instinctive intuition and senses the approaching danger.

The dagger in his hand was subconsciously grasped, and the phalanges holding the dagger gradually turned white.

At this moment, time seemed to stand still, she stretched out her hand, and faintly saw a cold light flashing under the ink-colored bamboo umbrella.

At this moment, a strong force crashed into herself, I don't know if she paid attention to the ink-colored bamboo umbrella used all her strength, and when she came back to her senses, she had already fallen to the ground, and the bamboo umbrella in her hand was thrown aside.

The pouring rain drenched her in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, her thoughts seemed to be stripped away in an instant, and she was like an outsider watching the ink-colored bamboo umbrella walk away step by step, and then turned around at the entrance of the alley in front of her, completely disappearing from her sight.

The man is gone.

Her gaze was pulled back, and she saw the person who had bumped into her hurrying up to her, then turned to reveal a familiar face.

It's Xie Chengze.

His face looked extremely pale in the thick night, he coughed slightly, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and he seemed to be a little uncomfortable.

Yes, he's still recuperating, but he's here.

At this moment, the expression on his face seemed to be incomparably magnified in an instant.

Her eyes were slightly stunned, her pupils dilated, and she seemed extremely stunned when she saw it.

"Miss Qiao, I accidentally bumped into you." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to her, and his palm left the umbrella, and in an instant it was soaked by the rain.

At this moment, Li Zhao, who had sent off his colleagues over there, ran over with an umbrella, and when he saw her, his eyes were full of joy and he also stretched out his hand.

"Miss Qiao, why did you fall?" He said hurriedly, a little more anxious in his happy expression, and then also stretched out his hand to her: "Get up!" ”

The roaring sound of rolling thunder suddenly sounded at this moment, and with the thunder, a white light tore through the night sky, illuminating the two people in front of them.

The expressions of the two were one joyful, the other stunned, and in the thunder light, they seemed to be wearing a layer of masks that were half-light and half-dark and could not be seen realistically.

The girls in front of them looked at them blankly, as if they were looking at them and looking away through them.

Li Zhao stomped his foot and reached out to pull her.

"Miss Qiao, you don't have to sit on the ground this day!" He didn't care about any gentleman when he said it, so he stepped forward to take the girl's hand.

The suddenly amplified voice pulled Qiao Ran's thoughts back, she was about to stretch out her hand, but a cramping pain in her stomach surged in an instant, the girl's face changed slightly, and she subconsciously reached out to touch her back, and she could see that a dark red palm was instantly washed clean by the rain.

Her menstrual affair is coming.

Qiao Ran, who realized this, was about to say something, but the person was already hugged into a warm embrace, and the next moment, he was picked up in the air.

A familiar scent of sandalwood poured into the nose.

Qiao Ran looked up at Zhang Xie who was holding her, he was wet all over his body, his rain-soaked hair was no longer neat as usual, and the broken hair on his sideburns hung down on one side in embarrassment.

She was stunned and said, "Why are you here?" ”

You don't have to take this road to return to Zhang's house from the Yin and Yang Division. I don't go here when I go back to Li's house from the ministry, as for Xie Chengze, shouldn't the person who is recuperating lie at home?

Why are all three of them here?

"It's raining, I'll pick you up." Zhang Xie lowered his head as he spoke.

He was a little embarrassed at this moment, but a smile flashed in his eyes when he looked at her, and then lowered his voice and whispered: "Go back and ask the red beans to boil some brown sugar water." ”

Qiao Ran grabbed the umbrella in her hand, and her face turned red. His eyes subconsciously turned to his sleeve, and he vaguely seemed to have seen a hint of dark red on his white official robe.

She hurriedly buried her head in his arms: she had never been so embarrassed in her life, but she couldn't come down at this time.

If you don't let him hug it, who else can you let it?

"Miss Qiao, I'll send you back!" Seeing that he was only one step away from being cut off, Li Zhao rolled his eyelids, snorted lightly, and looked at Zhang Xie with a look of dissatisfaction.

If you knew this, what kind of gentleman would you be? When it was time to wait, he should have picked up Miss Qiao and sent her home first.

At this moment, Xie Chengze on the side spoke: "I came out to buy medicine, but I didn't look at the road, and accidentally bumped into Miss Qiao, solve it, you can send Miss Qiao back quickly!" ”

Zhang Xie glanced at him, nodded, and bowed his head to the girl: "You come to hold an umbrella." ”

The girl blushed and grabbed the umbrella in her hand.

Zhang Xie stepped forward.

After standing in place for only a moment, Li Zhao followed, and said, "I just left in a hurry, my robe is wet, and it just so happens that Miss Qiao lives near here, why don't you borrow Miss Qiao's house and bake your clothes before leaving." ”

The girl smiled at him, nodded, and her eyes fell on Xie Chengze on the side: "Why don't we be together!" The rain is too heavy, and if Lord Xie's body catches a cold, I'm afraid it won't be good. ”

I didn't expect him to go with him, and Miss Qiao took the initiative to invite him.

Li Zhao squinted at Xie Chengze for a moment, and was about to withdraw his gaze.

Xie Chengze suddenly said at this time: "Lord Li, just now you can see Miss Qiao through the rain curtain and Miss Qiao's umbrella before you turn around the alley in front of you?" ”

Li Zhao, who was just now, suddenly shouted, and he obviously heard it too.

Li Zhao, who was holding an umbrella, also turned his head when he heard this, and raised his chin slightly towards him: "Lord Xie, is the Xie family so poor that you can appear in front of people wearing a robe with broken sleeves?" ”

Xie Chengze looked down at his sleeve, which seemed to have been cut by a sharp blade.

"Also, just like I shouldn't be here, you just want to buy medicine, and there is no one in the Xie family? Do you want a sick Xie family son to come out in person? Li Zhao snorted lightly, withdrew his gaze, and shouted "Miss Qiao" in his mouth and chased after him.

Xie Chengze closed his eyes and opened them again, and his footsteps followed the direction they left.

……

There haven't been so many guests at home for a long time, and Hongdou alone is not enough to deal with so many people, so, of course, Second Mrs. Fang and Fang Xiuting were called out to help entertain guests.

Second Mrs. Fang went back to the house to rest after serving tea, but Fang Xiuting ran to the kitchen and said that she wanted to help.

Hongdou glanced at her when she heard this, and saw Fang Xiuting looking in the direction of the room from time to time, and couldn't help sneering: "Which one are you looking at?" You're that Li Gongzi? ”

"I'm not just looking at Li Gongzi, I've seen all three of them." Fang Xiuting turned her head with a smile, and when she got acquainted, she was not so afraid of this arrogant girl. She smiled, "Isn't he your ex-uncle?" Why are you so unfamiliar with yelling? ”

Hongdou snorted: "Our young lady has a current uncle, what else do you want your ex-aunt to do?" ”

Her young lady is not a person who sees strange ideas.

Fang Xiuting sighed twice, shook her head, and retracted her gaze.

The young men who came to sit in the broom star's house were all young talents without exception, which was much better than what I saw in Jinling licking his face and following people's buttocks.

I knew this earlier, and I spent some money to squeeze my head into the circle of Jinling nobles, so I stayed here in the broom star and watched it.

Of course, the most memorable of this is the father of that little ghost surnamed Pei's girl, "fairy"! It's just a bit weird.

Look at this unsightly appearance! Hongdou shook his head and snorted: "Follow my young lady, don't talk about this son and that son in the future, it may not be impossible to see Your Majesty." ”

Miss is amazing!

As he spoke, the brown sugar water had already been boiled, and the boiled brown sugar water was poured into the bowl, and the red bean walked towards the house with the brown sugar water.

The girls in the room had already changed their clothes, dried their hair, and were half-lying on the bed talking to Pei Qingqing.

"How are you doing?" Pei Qingqing hugged Xiaobai and looked at her worriedly.

"It's fine, it's just that it suddenly hurts." Qiao Ran said.

Pei Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and then made a grimace at her, and said with a serious face: "Fortunately, you haven't forgotten who you are, and at that time, you can only let Zhang Xie take you back." ”

The two outside can't do it.

Miss Qiao is quite reliable, but what's going on with Zhang Jie? Since it was raining to take Miss Qiao home, how did she let Miss Qiao fall and run out of the water?

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that he went home with Miss Qiao, how did he bring those two home?

Pei Qingqing wrinkled her brows, looked at the three people drinking tea in the lobby, and couldn't help but worry about Zhang Jie.

Is Zhang Xie a fool? Later, he married Miss Qiao, and brought those wild men home with him? How can this work? Miss Joe is so likeable!