"Yes, a little bit of a struggle."

"I don't understand."

"If you want to buy ordinary rouge gouache, this is not difficult. The girl saw it, I have all on this shelf, and I can take it at will, I promise, the real thing, the child is not deceitful, and it is much better than the rouge gouache of the same store. But if you want to buy something different, such as this ancient recipe rouge like a flower slave, it will not be easy. ”

"Since it is an ancient formula, it must be difficult to find and develop."

"It's not easy, but what I'm saying is not what you think, girl. Let's put it this way, the ancient rouge in my store is specially made, and different rouge is recommended for different ladies and ladies. ”

"I see." There was a hint of loss on Qi Yun's face: "But those sisters of mine can't come out easily." ”

"This ......" Xing Ruyi pondered for a moment and asked, "I don't know if Miss Cutting Yun is convenient for me to take to the Begonia Courtyard?" I can make those different rouge samples, and when the time comes, it will be easier for the girls to choose. ”

"Madame is willing to go, naturally it is very good. It's just that I'm in a bit of a hurry today, and I ask my wife to allow me to go back and make arrangements. ”

"That's nature." Xing Ruyi nodded.

"This money is to be regarded as a fixed amount of money for the lady. Later, when each of my sisters has chosen their favorite rouge, I will make up for Madame. ”

"There's no need to set the money, when the girls have chosen the rouge, let's pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other." Xing Ruyi pushed the silver back.

Cutting Yun thought about it and didn't say anything more.

Seeing Cutting Yun leave, Xing Ruyi walked back to Liu Sheng and asked, "Is it about human life?" ”

"Hmm!" Yanagi nodded, and then asked, "How do you know?" ”

"Guess. If it's just an ordinary case, why would you make a big deal about getting me into this shop? If it's just an ordinary case, those local errands can handle it, so why bother to transfer you from Yong'an City. ”

"I see, I thought you could see it by your face."

"Physiognomy?"

"What Lin Hu said, you only need to look at people to know if this person is carrying a lawsuit."

"I don't have that power, but it's pretty much the same."

If it was an ordinary way to look at faces, Xing Ruyi would naturally not do it, she just used her own ghost arts, and after opening the ghost eyes, she was able to judge by distinguishing the various breaths on her body. If the person standing in front of her was a murderer, then all she saw would be black and red. Red represents blood, black represents death, and occasionally white is seen in both colors. The reason why she said it was almost the same was because she often looked at the other party's face.

"What did this cloud do?"

"Homicide. It's just that this case is a little strange, she is not only the bitter master of the murder, but also the suspect of the murder. The reason why I came here from Yongan is also to find out the truth. ”

"No evidence?"

"The case is very clean."

"So, you asked me to pretend to be the proprietress of the rouge shop and take the opportunity to get close to this cloud cutting girl?"

"I can't find anyone else." Yanagi replied honestly.

"So, what if I'm not here?"

"I'll investigate secretly, but if it doesn't work, I'll take the person back to the yamen."

"Inducement or coercion?"

"This ......"

"Alright, my temperament, I still don't know. If Lin Hu said this, I believe it, because according to his temper, he really did it. If you don't have a lot of evidence, I'm afraid you'd rather miss someone than rush back to the yamen. ”

"Know me so well?"

"Sort of."

"Actually, there is no difference between me and Lin Hu, the reason why I am not as impulsive as Lin Hu is because I have not encountered a case worthy of making me impulsive in the past."

"So, is there something about this case that makes you impulsive?"

Xing Ruyi was joking to ask, but he didn't expect Liu Sheng's face to change.

"Do you know this dead man?"

"I don't know what to say to you."

"Let's start with this case. I listened to it, and I also had some bottom in my heart, and I knew what to check for you after going to Haitang Courtyard. ”

"I know Cutting Cloud, but I don't know the Cutting Cloud who just appeared in this shop."

"A girl with the same name and surname?"

"The one I know is almost exactly the same as the one you saw just now, and the name is the same. But there is no resemblance between the eyes and the demeanor. What's even more strange is that the cut cloud you just met, she doesn't know me. ”

"Twin sisters?"

"Qiyun is an orphan girl, when she was very young, her father and mother died, and she was raised by an old man of the same clan. Because the old man was blind, he was used by gangsters and was involved in a lawsuit. At that time, I had just started to arrest fast, and I was in charge of the old man's case.

Judging from the prima facie evidence, there is little place for the old man to be exonerated and, according to the criminal law, at least an exile.

At that time, Qiyun was just a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl. For the sake of the old man's case, he stayed at the door of the yamen all day long. Master, she naturally can't see it, so she pesters us to catch fast. When I knew that I was in charge of investigating the old man's case, she followed me. It's like a little tail of mine, she follows me wherever I go. ”

Liu Sheng shook his head, with some helplessness in his words, but looking at his expression, it didn't look like helplessness, but a little happy.

"Cutting Yun told me that her adoptive father was wronged, and she couldn't watch her adoptive father being framed by bad people and exiled at such an old age. She's stubborn, and I'm not that good at talking. Whenever she says that her adoptive father is innocent, I will tell her that the evidence is conclusive, and the government pays attention to evidence.

Whenever he heard me say this, he would bite his lip hard and look at me with a very strange look. She asked me if they were all like me, who only believed in the so-called evidence they saw in front of their eyes, but did not believe in the facts hidden behind the so-called evidence. If one day, she finds new evidence to prove that her adoptive father was wronged, and at that time his adoptive father has been exiled because of these false prima facie evidence, and may even have died on the way to exile, I may be able to live in peace on my conscience as a catcher? ”

"What a clear-thinking girl, it doesn't sound like the one I just met." Xing Ruyi looked at Liu Sheng's eyes: "And then, what did you do?" ”

"At that time, I was young and vigorous, and naturally I was not convinced by a little girl saying this. So, I decided to investigate the old man's case privately. She was with me.

The background of the person who framed the old man is very complicated, and there are quite some methods, and it took us a lot of effort to find evidence in favor of the old man. The case was reopened, the real bad guy was punished, and the old man followed Cut Yun back to his home. ”

"It sounds like a good ending, but I always feel that the story between you and Cut Cloud is not over yet. Right? ”

Yanagi's ears turned red.

"The old man was sent back by me, and Cut Yun was very happy, and in front of the old man, he told us all the things we did. Oh, I mean, we help the old man find evidence. ”

"Don't worry, I didn't think much about it, and I didn't think about it where I shouldn't."

Xing Ruyi winked at Liu Sheng, and Liu Sheng's ears became redder and redder.

"At that time, he was still a child. The words are also a little childish. ”

"She doesn't want to make a personal promise, does she?"

Liu Sheng was stunned for a moment, looked at Xing Ruyi and nodded.

"She did say something similar, but not as directly as you say."

"Directly? I think I'm being very subtle. ”

Xing Ruyi touched her nose and said in her heart that in her world, if a girl likes a boy, she will not be so grinding, but will directly declare her sovereignty.

Liu Sheng didn't accept the words of Xing Ruyi, he knew that Xing Ruyi was different from ordinary women, and ordinary men couldn't say anything, and when he came to her, he didn't seem to feel anything unspeakable. He didn't dare to be tempted, lest Xing Ruyi say something shocking again, and when the time came, he didn't know how to face this strange woman.

"And then? Don't tell me there's nothing to come. ”

"Hmm!" Liu Sheng hummed softly: "It's not later." ”

"What do you mean that there is no aftermath? Yes is yes, no is no, what's going on? ”

"There are a lot of things in the yamen, and many of them are trivial cases. The case is simple, but it is very troublesome to deal with. I was busy in the yamen all day, so naturally I didn't have time to pay attention to the little girl back then. Besides, I didn't take those words to heart at the time.

Occasionally, Cutting Yun would wait for me at the entrance of the yamen, but he glanced at me in a hurry, and he couldn't even speak. Time passed day by day. When she said goodbye, she was still at the yamen, and she wore a filial piety dress. I was stunned, and for the first time I stopped to talk to her. She told me that her adoptive father, the old man, had died. In order to let the old man walk comfortably and decently, she chose to sell herself to bury her father. ”

"Sell yourself to bury your father? She sold herself? ”

"Yes! That's what she said. ”

"Didn't you ask more?" Xing Ruyi stomped his feet twice anxiously: "If you have time, you can also redeem people." ”

"I ......" Yanagi pursed his lips and said, "I didn't expect that." ”

"Oh my God!" Xing Ruyi stroked his forehead with his hand: "Then who did Jieyun sell himself to, and where he sold it, you should always know, right?" ”

"Should I know?" Liu Sheng looked at Xing Ruyi: "You're right, if I could have asked one more question at the beginning, maybe it wouldn't be the current situation." ”