An apricot-yellow full moon crept out of the mouth of the mountain and cast its reflection into the Wei River. There was a faint mist floating on the surface of the river, as if it was covered with a thin layer of moon-white sand. The fishermen's houses on both sides of the river, as well as the mountains and trees, are hidden in the night, like a thick ink painting, which makes people feel happy to see it.

Yan Suwen stood at the bow of the boat with a few pieces of ginger, wishing that he could have a pen in his hand now to paint the beautiful scenery on the other side. But if you think about it carefully, with her level of painting, don't try it.

"Are you feeling better?" Gu Changfeng wrapped her whole with a cloak: "If you still feel uncomfortable, I will let Yunfei land in front of you, and we should take the dry road." ”

"No, it's already a lot better, I guess I can get used to it after a little sleep."

"Really?"

"Seriously."

"Don't lie to me?"

"What's the good of lying to you, it's not me who is uncomfortable." Yan Suwen turned around and put the ginger in his hand under Gu Changfeng's nose: "I am also a doctor, and I still have some understanding of my physical condition." As for me, I don't have any other strengths, but I'm super adaptable. Well, this ginger smells good, and my husband should smell it too. ”

"I'm not dizzy."

"Knowing that you're not dizzy, it's just just letting you smell it." Yan Suwen turned around again, but leaned into Gu Changfeng's arms: "When I was a child, Grandma Guo's house next door had a vegetable garden, the kind that I took care of by myself. Grandma Guo grows vegetables very casually, that is, she will scatter a handful of vegetable seeds when she gets them. In autumn, many flowers bloom in the garden, including ginger flowers. I love the smell so much that I secretly pick one every day. ”

"Does Grandma Guo know?" Gu Changfeng hugged her tightly.

"You know, right? I didn't ask, and Grandma Guo didn't tell me. She is a very special old man, and every time I see her, my heart will be warm. Later, she left with a heavy snowfall, and when she left, many of the vegetables in the garden had not been confiscated. ”

"Feeling sad?"

"Sort of." Yan Suwen tugged at the corners of his mouth: "I'm not used to the people around me leaving, whether it's a short separation or an eternal separation, it's more or less uncomfortable." Even if you are not very familiar with people, as long as you think about it, you will not be able to see it in the future, and you will feel that this God is particularly cruel. ”

"I won't go before you." Gu Changfeng's arm tightened a little.

"What you say, don't talk and don't talk." Yan Suwen covered the back of his hand: "Yanqing, thank you." ”

"Don't call you husband anymore?"

"Call your words, seem more serious." Yan Suwen shrugged his shoulders slightly, but his eyes fell on the river, something that was floating towards the hull of the boat. "Look, husband, what is that?"

"Like a corpse." Gu Changfeng narrowed his eyes.

The Wei River seems to be calm, but in fact the water is turbulent, and there are often undercurrents under the river, so that people lose their lives in this river every year. When I boarded the ship during the day, I saw a few simple boats with white lanterns hanging from their bows. Yun Fei said that it was a corpse boat that specialized in salvaging corpses on the Wei River, and those corpse finders relied on this for a living.

I've heard these things before. It's just that I've heard it, but it's not the same thing as seeing it with my own eyes. Seeing the corpse flowing down the river and stopping near their big boat, there was still a vague feeling in my heart. The corpse was female, face down, with her hair in a loose bun spread out like algae on the surface of the river. The woman wears the clothes of Tuanhua brocade, whether it is the material or the style, it is not like the fishermen along the coast can have.

"Does she know that you are a prime minister, and you have grievances to be avenged, so she hovered around our big ship and refused to leave."

The female corpse was going down the river, but it just came to the vicinity of the big boat and began to stay, turning back and forth a few times, always floating within the visual range of the two, not far or close.

"It's windy at night, you go back to the houseboat to rest first, and I'll let Yunfei go and have a look."

"The dress of this female corpse does not look like that of a nearby fisherman, but like the wife or young lady of a rich and noble family. Since we got on the ship to the present, it has been more than a day, and it should still be within the scope of Yecheng. This man appeared on the surface of the river, and I am afraid that something is wrong. ”2020

"There are often river bandits on the Wei River, and they have ordered people to exterminate them before, but the bandit leader has never been caught. In the past two years, I have only cared about the city, and I am afraid that the bandit leader will come out to make waves again. If it were them, it would save you trouble. ”

"The husband seems to have murderous intent."

"There are some people whose lives cannot be spared. Although the river bandits are small, they are concerned about the livelihood of the people on both sides of the Wei River. Gu Changfeng let go of his hand, "You are pregnant, so don't mess with these bad luck." ”

"What if the body needs to be examined?"

"Call Shen Jiu over." Gu Changfeng glanced at the houseboat.

Yan Suwen took the medical case and read it, but his ears always paid attention to the movement outside. Errong knew what she was thinking, so he asked Youbai to put down what he was doing and go to the deck to listen to the news.

"Miss, it's a woman." With a white face, Youbai returned to the houseboat: "Doctor Shen asked General Gu Xiao to salvage the female corpse floating in the river." ”

"Is Dr. Shen looking at it?"

"No, Dr. Shen said there was nothing to see."

"What is there to see, how this person died, how old he was, what he probably did when he was alive, these are all things that need to be seen. The deceased is dead and can't speak, and the information she wants to tell us is all on her. Shen Jiu didn't look at it, how could he know who the deceased was? And how to help her find her family and let her settle down. ”

"Miss, don't worry, it's the slave who didn't make it clear." Youbai hurriedly walked over, helped Yan Su and asked her to sit down: "What Miss just asked, Doctor Shen has already told Xiangye." Doctor Shen said that the age of this female corpse is around twenty-five years old, and in our Great Wei, she is already the age of a woman, but the bun she combs is still a girl's. In Dawei, there are not many girls around the age of twenty-five who have never married. Perennial calluses were found on the fingers of the female corpse, which were left by practicing the lute. Combined with the other characteristics of the female corpse, Dr. Shen concluded that she was a boat girl, the kind of girl who begged for a living on the river all year round. Oh, Dr. Shen also said that this girl should be the kind of person who sells her art and does not sell herself, and she is a little arrogant. ”

"How did Shen Jiu see that the girl was a little arrogant?"

"Dr. Shen said that this girl had injuries on her body, and those injuries were left in places that were not easy for ordinary people to see. This begging for a living on the river is the same as in the city, there are girls, and there are those grandmothers who are in charge of the girls. Nine times out of ten, the girl's injuries were beaten by the mother who took care of her. Only these people know where to strike the hardest, and it is not easy for the girl to leave a scar. These methods of tossing people are all practiced by them over the years, even those people in the Criminal Division, I am afraid that the means are not as good as these grandmothers. ”

"What was the cause of the girl's death?"

"Drowned." Youbai said, and added: "Doctor Shen said that the female corpse had knife wounds, one in the back and one in the chest, which were not fatal injuries. The female corpse should have fallen into the water after being injured, and there was no way to get ashore by herself and drown alive, but there is no way to judge whether she jumped in by herself, was pushed down, or was thrown down. Oh, and Dr. Shen said that a girl like this who runs on the river all the year round must be known by someone, and it is not difficult to know that she is from that boat just by asking. ”

"Yes, the girls on this boat, unlike the girls on land, do not stay in one place and wait for the guests to come to the door, but walk around with the boat. But this cruise ship also has its own trajectory, and it will not get out of that circle when it comes and goes. You only need to find a few people who fish on the river all year round to ask a rough idea. ”

"Doctor Shen also said so, Xiangye has already arranged for General Gu Xiao to take someone to ask. On this river, there are also some moored fishing boats, which are leaning on the shore. General Gu Xiao is the best at asking people, I believe that if we can't wait for dawn, we will be able to know who this female corpse is. Alas, nine times out of ten, he is also a poor man. ”

"Xiangye is reliable, what makes me wonder is this Shen Jiu, how does he, an imperial doctor who doesn't go out of Beijing much, know these things on the river." Er Rong glanced at the deck: "It seems that this Shen Jiu is not as honest as he usually becomes." ”

"Shen Jiu is the son of a family, and it is not surprising that he knows this." Yan Suwen handed the medical case in his hand to Er Rong: "This person has a circle with others, and Shen Jiu's background is also destined for him to definitely walk in this circle." Where he doesn't go, there are other sons of the family who will go. What he doesn't know, naturally there will be other sons of the family who know. That's how the word "well-informed" came about. ”

"How could this prince know about these things on the river." Er Rong put the medical case away, took the bed and covered it on Yan Suwen's leg: "Miss will help him speak to cover up." ”

"It's not that I helped him cover it up, but when Xiangye mentioned this person to me before, he also said something else related to him by the way. Although this Shen family, like our Yan family, has been an imperial doctor for generations, their backgrounds are very different. The ancestor of the Yan family was a country doctor, but he had a good opportunity, and it happened that his medical skills were not bad, so he accidentally became the imperial doctor in the palace, specializing in treating the royal family and nobles. The Shen family is a scholarly family, and their ancestors have been officials for several generations. Being an imperial doctor almost started with Shen Jiu's father, that is, Shen Imperial Doctor. ”

"Probably because this Imperial Doctor Shen doesn't like to be other officials, so he likes to treat people."

"It's not." Yan Su asked and shook his head: "When Imperial Doctor Shen went to be the imperial doctor in the palace, he was already forty-three, and he became interested in medical skills when he was twenty-two years old. At that time, he had already passed two Jinshi and was waiting to become an official. ”

"Then why did he ......?"

"Why didn't you go to the office, did you?" Yan Suwen pinched Errong's nose and explained, "The reason for this is a bit complicated. ”