"No, Mr. Cui, he seems to be the same as usual."

"It's different." Cui'er, who was standing on the side, interjected: "Before Miss Ruxiang disappeared, Mr. Cui seemed to have a lot on his mind. I remember very clearly, just two days before Miss Rue disappeared, my wife had asked me to buy spices, and when I came out of the workshop, I met Mr. Cui, I asked him if he was looking for Miss Rue, but he asked me, is Miss Rue okay? I said, it's fine. He turned and walked away. Mr. Cui is a scholar and has always paid the most attention to the rules, but that day, he left absent-mindedly without finishing his words. I still remember that I looked back and saw Miss Rue Xiang standing in the workshop, and she looked at Mr. Cui with a strange gaze. ”

"In this way, Mr. Cui is not the leader of the Rongcheng incident, but just an internal response."

"Guilty?" The prefect's wife raised an eyebrow.

Mr. Cui knew that someone was going to attack Ruxiang Fang, and he also knew that Rue Xiang Girl would disappear from Rongcheng out of thin air like other girls, but he didn't know the specific time when the other party would do it. He wandered outside Ruxiang Fang because of the entanglement in his heart. On the one hand, he liked Miss Ruexiang, and put down the face of a scholar, and begged the prefect to go to Chen's house to ask for him, but Miss Rue Xiang personally rejected him. This made him angry and moved to cooperate with others. But there is no obvious boundary between liking and hating, love and hate, and the sentence he asked Miss Cui'er if Rue Xiang was good just illustrates the entanglement in his heart. ”

"I wonder if Miss Rue is okay now?" The prefect's wife sighed and looked at the table in front of her, but she had no appetite to continue eating.

Yan Suwen also lost her appetite, she looked at the plum blossom in the corner of the yard, and hoped from the bottom of her heart that the missing children and girls were still well.

Cui You'an is familiar with this prison in Rongcheng, but this time, he was escorted in as a prisoner.

The cell leader, who also knew Cui You'an, was overjoyed when he saw him, but after taking a closer look at his appearance, the smile froze on his lips.

Cui ...... Mr. Cui, what's going on? ”

"It's fine." Cui You'an looked into the depths of the prison, he didn't know if he could get out of here. Maybe you can, maybe you can't, and even if you can, it's time to be asked. Thinking of this, he closed his eyes, but his head was empty, there was nothing, and even the face of Rue that used to be dangling in his mind was gone.

According to the rules, prisoners entering the prison were to be searched, stripped of their outer clothes and changed into prison clothes.

The people in prison have the most eyesight and know how to change their faces. Even if you were still a celebrity in front of the prefect yesterday, as long as you enter this prison, you will be no different from an ordinary prisoner. No matter how deep the friendship in the past, from the moment you put on the prison clothes, it will disappear, and the past will go with the wind.

As soon as he entered the interrogation room, the cell boss glanced at the jailer next to him, and immediately two people came up, rudely stripped Cui Youan's coat, and followed him to search his body.

"I don't have anything on me!"

Although he felt deeply humiliated, Cui Youan understood in his heart that these were the rules in prison, and he tried his best to restrain his temper, and even persuaded himself to understand the current situation, otherwise he would be the one who suffered and suffered before he was questioned.

The jailer found a silver ticket and handed it to the cell boss. The cell boss glanced twice, intending to take it into his arms, but out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Gu Yunfei who was standing aside, slammed his spirit, and hurriedly handed over the silver ticket: "My lord, Cui Youan has nothing else on him, only this silver ticket." ”

"I heard that Cui You'an still has an old mother?"

"What I do has nothing to do with my mother." Hearing Gu Yunfei mention his own mother, Cui Youan's expression changed: "What I do, even if it is according to the laws of my dynasty, will not be connected, besides, my mother is old and does not know anything about these things I am doing outside. ”

"What is Mr. Cui excited about, I didn't say that what you did had anything to do with your old mother. It's just that I can't bear to think of your mother's old age, and you want a white-haired person to send a black-haired person. Although this silver ticket is also from the wrong way, it is more or less a consolation for leaving it to your mother. ”

"My money is clean." Cui You'an was anxious: "I, Cui You'an, have never received black-hearted money, this silver ticket is what I have accumulated over the years, and it was originally left to my mother." ”

"You have your mother in your heart, why do you do these things, isn't it good to be a good guest?"

"Doorman? Who can afford to be a doorman? Cui You'an blushed: "I am quite diligent when I ask myself, but every time I participate in scientific examinations, I always lose my name to Sun Shan." I thought it was because I couldn't learn at home, but I later learned that this was not a matter of learning at all. Later, the longer I was a doorman, the more I understood the darkness of this officialdom, and I broke off the idea of being an official. I also thought about An Ansheng being a doorman or a teacher, but - forget it, everything has been done, what's the use of saying this? ”

"Then let's talk about the things you did, Mr. Cui." Gu Yunfei didn't embarrass Cui You'an, and even asked the jailer to move a stool for him: "Where did all those missing children go?" ”

"I don't know."

"Okay, then tell me, where did those missing girls go?"

"I don't know."

"And what do you know?"

"I don't know anything!"

"Cui You'an, do you think I'm good-tempered?" Gu Yunfei had a cold face: "Where did my grandfather come from, you should know it in your heart." I'm by my side, it's not a day or two, I'm quite familiar with the methods of the Criminal Department, if you want to try, I'll accompany you to try. ”

"I really don't know." Cui You'an lowered his eyes: "I only helped them do one thing, and that is to cooperate with them to send out those spices in the Rue Xiang Workshop." The rest of the matter, I don't know, and I don't have the heart to figure it out. ”

"Where's Rue Girl?"

"Dead!" Cui Youan hugged his head: "It's really dead." ”

In the northern suburbs of Rongcheng, the snow at sunset a few days ago has not yet melted. Where there is no snow, there are clumps of wild grass exposed.

"Is this it?" Gu Yunfei pushed Cui You'an.

Cui Youan didn't say anything, raised his hand and pointed forward.

Gu Yunfei glanced left and right, and those people immediately stepped forward and dug up on the ground with shovels. The frozen ground was so hard that a shovel was cut down, and the shards of dirt and ice flew together, and in a short time the clothes of the officials were wet and dirty.

"Cui You'an, you like Miss Rue, right? If you like it, why would you bear to bury her in such a place? ”

Cui Youan still didn't speak.

"Slow down, slow down, if you shovel people's heads away for me, I'll screw off your heads."

According to Cui You'an, Ruexiang's death was an accident, and since it was an accident, it must have been rushed when disposing of the body. Although it was a wilderness and there were not many pedestrians coming and going, he definitely didn't have the heart to dig deep and bury it at that time, and most of the time he wrapped something and dug a deep pit.

Gu Yunfei had just finished shouting, when he heard an "ah" from one person, followed by the voices of several people next to him: "My lord, I found it, I found it." ”

"What did you find?"

"Chests, chests with spices."

"Boxes?" Gu Yunfei paced to the pit and took a look, and there was indeed a large wooden box in the pit, and there were a lot of spices scattered on the wooden box. The spices, buried, had mixed with the surrounding soil.

"Lift it out." Gu Yunfei pointed to the box: "Be careful." ”

"Yes!" Several officials worked together to lift the box out of the pit. The box was very heavy, and a few big men actually lifted out a head of sweat.

Gu Yunfei circled around the box twice, and found that the one holding the box was a secret lock, and it was estimated that it was something in Ruxiangfang.

"Pry open."

The box was filled with all kinds of spices, and as soon as I opened it, I felt that all kinds of fragrances were mixed together, and the smoke was a headache. Rue girl was curled up among the spices, and the corpse showed obvious signs of decay, and the smell of the corpse mixed with the smell of spices made it more and more unbearable. Gu Yunfei cursed Cui You'an, and at the same time took a cloth towel from his bosom to cover his mouth and nose and wrapped it, and then said to the officials who were already several meters away from the wooden box: "Carry it out, carry the people in the box out." ”

Gu Yunfei's words are orders, no matter how reluctant he is, he has to get started. Those officials are all rough people, and rough people don't have the habit of going out with cloth towels, so they can only pull their sleeves and cover their mouths and noses as much as possible.

Despite covering their mouths and noses, they were almost fainted by this special, complex smell. The men tried to hold their breath before they lifted the rue girl's body out of the wooden box.

"Go, take a closer look, is this your Rue girl?" Gu Yunfei pushed Cui You'an.

Cui Youan glanced at the box, pursed his lips, and refused to go over.

"This is someone you like. How? At this point, I don't even have the courage to look at it. Gu Yunfei exerted his strength and directly pushed Cui You'an in front of Miss Ruxiang's body. Cui You'an staggered, one didn't stand firm, fell down, and just pounced on the corpse of the Rue Xiang girl.

The stench directly penetrated Cui Youan's nostrils. When he opened his eyes, he saw a half-rotten face, a face that was even more terrible than what he had seen in his dreams. He screamed, got up from the Rue girl's corpse with his hands and feet, and then fell again, and crawled backwards a few steps in embarrassment.

"Cui You'an, are you scared?" Gu Yunfei covered his mouth and nose and walked up to him: "Don't you like Miss Ruxiang?" Then I will be a good person to the end, let these brothers work harder, and bury you and Miss Rue in that pit, what do you think? ”

"Nope! I don't want it! ”

"You don't want to? Is there anything in front of me that you said you don't want? Gu Yunfei grabbed his clothes and lifted him up from the ground: "Life is different, death is the same acupoint, Cui You'an, I will fulfill you, and it is also your blessing." You should be grateful to me. ”