Chapter 52: He's Behind His Back
"The piece of land on the outskirts of the city was originally prepared by us last year and was intended to be used to build a sake brewery, but just an hour ago, the officials of Kyoto Prefecture surrounded the sake brewery, saying that it was buried in the backyard of the sake brewery!" Junshan bowed his head.
Fu Jiuqing's eyes were black and white, as if they were glowing with a cold light like a blade. It can be heard that Jun Shan's speed of speech is a little fast, and within an hour, the news has reached here from the wine shop outside the city, which shows the speed of the people, if it were not for the urgency of the situation......
"Dig it out?" His voice was cold, like the wind outside the window, and in the cold night, he rolled up the residual leaves on the ground and swept by, without mercy.
Jun Shan replied in a deep voice, "Yes!" ”
As soon as the Fu family moved back to Kyoto, something like this happened, obviously too much of a coincidence, although the brewery belonged to the Fu family, but it was located on the outskirts of the city, and even if the people in Kyoto Prefecture were suspicious, they would only interrogate the laborers in the brewery.
"Check it out!" Fu Jiuqing walked out.
Jin Yue was standing on the swing, pushed high by the frost branches, the night wind swished past her ears, blowing her sideburns flying, and when the ends of her hair were thrown on her face, there was some stinging pain, but it did not hinder her good mood.
Suddenly, seeing Fu Jiuqing wearing a big hat, he hurriedly walked out, Jin Yue immediately shouted, Fu Jiuqing ignored it, and strode out.
Frost Branch hurriedly held on to the swing and swayed it several times in a row before it stopped.
"Fu Jiuqing!" Jin Yue jumped off the swing and chased after her skirt.
"Young lady, slow down! Watch your step! Watch your step! "Frost Branch chases, the young lady is used to running fast, she has never been able to catch up, can only pray that the young lady not to run too fast.
Fortunately, Childe was not in good health, or he could hear the shouts behind him, so he deliberately slowed down.
"Fu Jiuqing, where are you going?" Jin Yue grabbed his sleeve and asked with a pant smile.
Fu Jiuqing stopped, the lanterns in the corridor were blown from side to side by the wind, and the dim light poured down, making the thin sweat on her forehead glow with a fine light.
Seeing that he didn't speak with a cold face, Jin Yue hurriedly withdrew his hand, knowing that he didn't like to be touched, probably because he was angry.
The power of the cuffs suddenly withdrew, Fu Jiuqing's face became a little colder, and he continued to walk forward without saying a word. Fortunately, Jin Yue has this indomitable good temperament, if you don't speak, she will follow you until you answer the question, anyway...... He didn't say anything, telling her not to follow anymore.
When he arrived at the carriage, the coachman had just put the pestle away, and before Fu Jiuqing could lift his legs, Jin Yue had already jumped past him and got into the carriage, so fast that everyone was stunned for a while.
Shuangzhi glanced at Junshan with a slight breath, and dragged the young lady out?
Fu Jiuqing didn't speak, and stepped into the carriage elegantly, as if nothing had happened.
"Out of town!" Junshan frowned, there was no one around the young lady to wait, so he asked someone to drive a green cloth carriage out, "You take this car, go together!" ”
"Hmm!" Frost Branch nodded, and quickly climbed into the carriage.
When I went out of the city in the middle of the night, I was naturally in a hurry.
Jin Yue slept in the carriage before, this will be very energetic, everywhere in Kyoto, she is very curious, she can walk as much as she can, see as much as she can, and naturally she will not let go of any opportunity.
"What's wrong?" Jin Yue crouched at the window, and when he said this, his eyes kept falling outside, and the carriage went out of the city along the bank of the moat, Kyoto City is different from Hengzhou, and the curfew is only an hour before and after the change of guards at the city gate.
Other times, don't go to the front door, just go to the side door. Jin Yue didn't hear Fu Jiuqing's answer, but felt that the back of her neck was cold, like a cold wind pouring down, and suddenly a basin of cold water was splashed on her back, and the hairs on her body stood up.
Turning quickly, her gaze met the cold gaze he cast.
The feather eyelashes immediately drooped, and Jin Yue blinked unconsciously, "If you can't ask, I won't ask." ”
"Come here!" His voice was slightly cold, he narrowed his gaze, glanced at the position beside him, and then indifferently turned away.
Jin Yue took a deep breath, and didn't know where she had provoked him, so she sat down next to him carefully.
She had a good time in the yard before, and ran after him for a while, and when she sat down, the warmth emanating from her body made Fu Jiuqing's lips tighten unconsciously, and her throat rolled a little.
"Is there something urgent?" Jin Yue asked with a wink.
Fu Jiuqing's eyes were deep, and his slender fingers gently pinched his eyebrows, "Why do you want to follow?" ”
Jin Yue thought about it, can't she be curious?
However, she was afraid that she would tell the truth, and according to Fu Jiuqing's strange temper, she was so unhappy that she threw her out of the car, and immediately said with a sincere face, "It's so cold at night, and you're not in good health, when you go out in the middle of the night, I naturally want to watch it, and I can help if there's anything." ”
Looking at someone's deliberate disguised sincerity, saying serious words in his mouth, but his eyes flashed like that, he should really give her a mirror and let her take care of herself, how tender this acting is!
However, Fu Jiuqing did not demolish him, but just reached out and played with her green silk as if punishing.
His slender fingertips, which were as long as jade, were wrapped around like inky green silk, which made her feel a slight pain, forcing her to get closer to him.
"It hurts......," she whispered, blinking at her.
Fu Jiuqing didn't look at her at all, directly ignored her weakness, and played with her hair casually, and then simply opened her hand, probed into her bun, and stirred it wantonly, pulling her hair roots hurt.
"What are you doing?"
Jin Yue finally couldn't help it, suppressed her voice, and shouted.
In this way, Fu Jiuqing let go, untied the straps on his body, threw it on the table casually, leaned on the side of the soft couch, put his arm on the wooden armrest of the soft couch, and stared at the lantern fire on the desk with gloomy eyes, "Something happened to the wine shop on the outskirts of the city, saying that the body was dug up in the backyard." ”
The car was extremely quiet, and the wind stirred the curtains and beat the hollowed-out windows, making a burst of shattering sounds.
Jin Yue's eyebrows condensed slightly, and she pursed her lips to look at Fu Jiuqing, he was facing her sideways, revealing a delicate side face with smooth lines, the light fell, and the outline was cold and resolute and extremely noble.
When they arrived at the winery on the outskirts of the city, the carriage was parked in a secluded place, and the inside and outside of the winery were guarded by people from the government.
Fu Zhengbai should also have gotten the news and was on his way here, but he happened to have something to discuss with the rich man in the city tonight, so he would come later than Fu Jiuqing.
"Five sons!" The servant at the door hurriedly saluted.
The officials of the government looked at each other, and someone quickly went in to report, and after a while, some officials led Fu Jiuqing and others inside.
As soon as he entered the door, Jin Yue took two breaths and whispered to the frost branch beside him, "Good fragrant wine!" ”
Frost Branch approached her in small steps, "Young lady, don't worry, the slave will tell you later." ”
Jin Yue nodded, and didn't speak again.
Inside and outside the hall, there were people standing.
Outside stood the workers in the brewery, and inside stood the people of the government.
It is the master and the head catcher who are in charge, although there is a murder case, but if everything has to be done by the prefect himself, it is also unlikely.
"This is the fifth son and the fifth young lady of our Fu Mansion, if the master has anything, he can talk to my son-in-law." The steward of the winery bowed.
The man known as the master slowly stood up, wearing a long coat in green clothes and a square scarf, and carefully looked at the two people in front of him.
A man and a woman, the man looks like Pan An, and the woman has beautiful eyebrows and eyes.
"Under the Kyoto Prefecture, the prefect is the master, and the health is complete." After An Kangcheng took it single-handedly, he was honest and elegant, "This is Luo Zong, the head of the government - Luo Zhutou, just a few hours ago, the government received a secret report, saying that in your wine shop, someone killed people and hid their corpses in the backyard. ”
Fu Jiuqing's voice was low, "Who is the secret report?" ”
"I don't know, it's a whistleblower letter sent by a child, Luo Zhutou has already interrogated it, the child is a street beggar, I didn't see the person who released the letter, he threw it over through the wall, and gave the child a little silver." When An Kangcheng said this, his eyes kept wandering over Fu Jiuqing's face.
Jin Yue's eyebrows condensed slightly, which meant that he was testing Fu Jiuqing.
It's a pity, who is Fu Jiuqing? The ice sculpture beauty lifted out of the ice cellar, except for her cold eyes and cold face, can give the slightest expression floating, and she loses!
"Where's the backyard?" Fu Jiuqing asked.
When it came to the backyard.
Fu Jiuqing paused in the corridor, did not step forward quickly, and looked around without saying a word, his eyes were as cold as night.
Jin Yue took a step forward, but was quietly dragged by the frost branch.
"It's okay!" Jin Yue brushed away her hand and walked slowly to the steps, "Just dug a pit and found the body?" ”
An Kangcheng and Luo Zong looked at each other, it was this reason.
In the huge backyard, there are a lot of sundries, empty wine jars, empty wine vats, all kinds of wood, broken pottery shards are built in the corner, and the rectangular pit is in the corner of the wall, no shelter, no trees and flowers, no signs.
The lights around are bright, although not as bright as in the daytime, but what should be seen clearly can still be seen clearly.
"Young ......" Junshan was about to speak.
Fu Jiuqing glanced at him, and Jun Shan immediately shut up.
Jin Yue didn't know what was wrong with her, she always felt that this kind of thing seemed to have been done before, and before she knew it, she walked to the edge of the pit and slowly squatted down. The walls are old walls, and the soil is also old soil, and there seems to be no signs of being turned around in the vicinity, and the body is obviously not buried recently.
"Is this winery newly built, or is it an old house?" Jin Yue turned around and asked.
The steward of the winery glanced at Fu Jiuqing, and saw that his son-in-law didn't say anything, so he bowed down and replied, "It was originally the old mansion, and later the Fu family bought this land, so they changed the house and used it as a winery." ”
"Whose house is it?" Luo Zong asked hurriedly.
The steward thought for a while, "This was originally the Bai family's industry in the city, and the Bai family's tea business was not very good in the past two years, and they were in urgent need of silver, so they had to sell it at a low price." Master An, Luo Zhutou, what happened here before, we really don't know! I hope you will be aware of it! ”
An Kangcheng didn't respond, but walked slowly towards Jin Yue, who was standing on the edge of the pit, "The fifth young lady seems to understand?" ”
Jin Yue scratched her eyebrows, glanced at Fu Jiuqing quietly, noticed that he was walking slowly, and hurriedly walked towards him, so as not to stand with other men, this has become a fine fox, and she will have to trouble her again after returning home.
"I don't understand, I don't understand, I'm talking nonsense." Jin Yue stood beside Fu Jiuqing, and when he said this, his eyes kept falling on his face. Fortunately, Fu Jiuqing's expression was normal and he didn't see the cold! "Regarding the matter of the old pit, Luo Zhutou has asked people to go back to the city to find the people of the Bai family to verify, but there is a murder case, we must act in accordance with the charter, and we will never wronged a good person, but we will never let go of a murderer." Ankang Cheng stood with his hands down.
Fu Jiuqing nodded, "Yes." ”
Suddenly, Jin Yue rubbed her nose and sneezed fiercely.
"The young lady is freezing?" Frost Branch asked hurriedly.
Jin Yue shook her head, "No, I don't feel cold, it's just ...... It smells weird! ”
"The corpse is some years old, and it must have smelled." Luo Zhutou explained.
"But it's empty, and it's scattered." Junshan said.
Jin Yue shook her head and tugged at Fu Jiuqing's sleeve, "Did you smell a commotion?" ”
Fu Jiuqing's eyebrows were steep, and his eyes were dark and uncertain.
"Smelly?"
"Only rancid, nothing smelling!"
"Where's the smell? The smell of alcohol and rancid smell are mixed together, and it is not a sassy smell. ”
Slender fingers like jade, gently pinched Jin Yue's jaw, Fu Jiuqing bent over, lowered his head to meet her bright eyes, cold fingertips rubbed against her skin, and his voice was slightly deep, "Where is it?" ”
Jin Yue originally thought that he would be like those people, suspecting her of talking nonsense, after all, the woman's words were not to be believed. Unexpectedly, he actually ...... Really believed??
"Right in the corner." Jin Yue replied categorically.
Fu Jiuqing let go of his hand and stood up straight, his face was cold and warm, and his eyes were full of a terrible chill, "Go find it!" ”
Jin Yue nodded, and finally pointed to the location of a clean stone in the corner of the wall, "Right here!" ”
A stone?
The first to come up was Luo Zhutou, who came closer and sniffed carefully, his eyebrows condensed slightly, "Oops, it seems that there is really a smell, like the smell of urine." ”
Generally speaking, the smell of human urine is not so strong, after all, this place is empty, let alone ...... Who can run to this open space to pee, if they are really in a hurry, they must find a secluded place, or no one's corners, even under the trees, it is more decent than here.
An Kangsheng also felt strange, "Go and ask!" ”
Luo Zhutou nodded, and asked the people below to ask who had peed here.
After a while, the official came to report that no one had peed here.
"It rained a few days ago, even if there was a ...... It's time to break up, it's impossible to return to now. An Kangcheng was stunned, "Unless it's not long after you stay!" ”
"It smells so fishy, it should be animal." Jin Yue muttered to herself.
Something terrible suddenly popped into her head, and the next moment she sneezed again, and her face turned slightly blue.
"Send the young lady back!" Fu Jiuqing stared at her with faint eyes.
Jin Yue pursed her lips, knowing that he was probably unwilling, she intervened in this matter, and immediately nodded and left. When leaving, Jin Yue glanced back at the position in the corner of the wall, feeling inexplicably weird in her heart, but she couldn't tell what the reason was for a while.
She looked at Fu Jiuqing, only to see a white dress standing in the night, which was extremely dazzling.
"Young lady, let's go!" Frost branch urges.
Jin Yue nodded and walked away.
The house is quite clean, just a room in the winery, and when you close the window, you can smell the smell of alcohol, faint, but from time to time it drills into people's nostrils. There is a big black fox on the bed, which looks very familiar.
"This is not ......" Jin Yue was surprised, reached out and touched it, it was oily and slippery, it was indeed a good ink fox syr, "Is it Fu Jiuqing's syrup?" ”
No wonder she saw him dressed in white just now, and she always felt that something was not right, it was because he lacked this protective body.
"Childe said that the bedding in the wine shop smells of wine, and Rao is a newly made mattress is no different, and the young lady may not be used to sleeping, and she can use this fuzi for a night!" The steward of the winery bowed.
The man at the bottom carried hot water into the house, then raised the fire, quickly closed the door and left.
Frost Branch got some hot water in the basin, "Young lady, wash your face and rest!" Outside matters, the son will handle it properly, and the master will be able to arrive in a while, you can rest assured. ”
Jin Yue didn't speak, just sat on the edge of the bed, reaching out to touch the oily and slippery, thick big coat.
He is wearing this coat all the time, and his hands are still so cold, it can be seen that he is really afraid of the cold, and the wind outside is so strong, and now that he has no this coat, he is afraid that he will freeze, right?
"Young lady?" Shuangzhi handed the handkerchief over, looked at the stunned young lady, and felt slightly sick, "Young lady, what's wrong with you?" Is there something uncomfortable? ”
Previously, the young lady sneezed twice in the courtyard, and the frost branch was frightened, could it be that the young lady was cold, so she ...... She trembled and wanted to touch Jin Yue's forehead, but she didn't dare to really stretch it out, after all, there was a difference between master and servant.
"Which room does Fu Jiuqing live in?" Jin Yue asked.
"Oh, the slave forgot to tell you about this wine shop, don't worry about the young lady." Frost Branch said busily.
Blinking his eyes, looking at his young lady carefully, he was conscious, it shouldn't be a big deal, right?!
Jin Yue hugged Da Yu tightly, "You say, I'll listen!" ”
"The sake brewed in this brewery is all transported to the vicinity of Kyoto City, and the brewing recipe used is kept secret from the outside world. The Fu family's fruit wine industry is doing the best, and there are wineries built everywhere, each with different characteristics, and here in Kyoto City, the peach blossom wine is the most famous. "Frost Branch is right.
In Jin Yue's ears, it was as if she had memorized it early, as skilled as a few family treasures.
"As soon as the news of the Fu family's return to Kyoto spreads, there must be people in Kyoto City who are unhappy." Shuangzhi pursed her lips, "It's hard to guarantee that it won't provoke some tricks to deal with our Fu family, so the young lady must be careful in the future." ”
Jin Yue's eyebrows raised slightly, "Fu Jiuqing asked you to carry these things, and you are afraid that it took a lot of energy to barely pass the test." ”
Shuangzhi opened his mouth, but he couldn't come up with the right words, so he had to shout in a curtled voice, "Young lady......"
"Where does he live?" Jin Yue took the handkerchief in Shuangzhi's hand and wiped his face, and the person was much more sober. Holding Dayu and taking a sip of water, Jin Yue strode out, "Take me to him." ”
"The slave is not familiar!" Frost Branch hurriedly followed, "The slave is also the first time to come back. ”
"He asked you to memorize the rhetoric, but he didn't let you memorize the topographical map of the brewery?" Jin Yue frowned.
Shuangzhi shook his head and whispered in a soft voice, "It's Junshan who makes his back, not Gongzi......"
"Aren't they all the same?" Jin Yue walked in the cloister on the second floor with Dayu in her arms, and the long cloister didn't know where it led, there were so many rooms upstairs, and so many rooms below, here was the steaming field, that side was the sake lees pool, and there was a mud kiln used to fire the wine jar.
Don't look at the pleasure of a glass of wine in your throat, but the wine-making process is not sloppy at all, and if you make a mistake, the wine will taste completely different. "In the end...... Where is it? Jin Yue hesitated.
Because of the accident in the backyard, the workers who used to work in the brewery were taken to the front hall to wait, so the neighborhood was empty. The houses are all about the same, and Jin Yue didn't see half a figure when he went around!
"You really don't know the way?" Jin Yue asked.
Frost Branch shook her head, "The slave hasn't been here. ”
"Young lady?" The steward of the winery saluted, "Why are you here?" ”
"Steward, I'm looking for Fu ...... Well, look for my father-in-law! Jin Yue hugged the big man in his arms, "Where is he?" ”
The steward smiled meaningfully, "The young lady and the son are really in love, and they can't be separated for a moment, you follow, the old slave will go over!" ”
"Thank you!" Jin Yue led the frost branch and followed behind with a fart.
After going around in a circle, I returned to the place where I used to live, and then walked back along the cloister......
Jin Yue paused and looked at the steward in disbelief, "Your son-in-law is with me...... Live in the right gatehouse? "Yes!" The steward nodded, "What, the young lady doesn't know?" ”
Jin Yue shut up in a daze, knowing that she wouldn't get lost!
Sure enough, Jun Shan was guarding at the door, and when he saw Jin Yue coming, Jun Shan saluted, and there was no surprise on his face, "Young lady!" ”
"He's in there?" Jin Yue asked.
Jun Shan bowed his head and gently pushed open the door, "Young lady, please!" ”
The steward saluted and quickly retreated, but the frost branch also stopped, and let Jin Yue go in alone.
The door behind him was gently closed, the candle flame in the room was weak, Fu Jiuqing was wearing a thin middle coat, twisting a copper pick, gently picking up the charcoal fire in the stove, the room was warm and very comfortable.
"Come here!" He didn't look up, still doing what he was doing.
Jin Yue walked over with Dayu in her arms, "I think you must have done it on purpose." ”
"Tonight's incident is not accidental, someone deliberately did it." The slender fingertips pinched the copper pick, playing carelessly. Oh, he raised his hand, looked at the tip of the copper pick, the charcoal fire was scorching, it was pitch black, and when he looked back at Jin Yue, there was only a cold eagle in his eyes that could not be dissolved.
Jin Yue tightened the big puff in his arms, only to feel that his eyes were a few points darker than the copper pick in his hand, as dark as night, and there was no light in sight, "Do you know who the murderer is?" ”
When she said this, Jin Yue's eyebrows furrowed, and her little face instantly showed displeasure.
Every time I was led astray by him, I was always successfully changed the topic by him, which is really ...... It's so unproductive!
She is already slender, even if she is carefully raised these days, she is still thin, especially when she holds Dayu, revealing her slender wrists, leaning forward slightly, the more she looks at the back of the waist, the curvature is like the moon, which makes people want to ......
The gloom in his eyes was faint, Fu Jiuqing narrowed his eyes, walked to the front of the table and picked up the cup, took a sip of water, and then continued, "Put the dazine down." ”
"Good!" Jin Yue then remembered that she was still holding Da Yu, so she hurriedly ran to the bed, put Da Yu on the bed, and the moment she put it down, she seemed to remember something, stood up slightly straight, and looked at him with a slight frown, "Why is there only a mattress and no quilt on your bed?" ”
Fu Jiuqing turned his back to her, heard the questioning in her tone, turned to look at her quietly, his slender hand, clenched the cup, and was set off by the celadon cup, like white jade.
He stared at her like this for a long time before he said lightly, "It's not, it's sent?" ”
Jin Yue: "......"