Chapter 60: The Lady in Red
Zhang Yuren's face was slightly pale, he glanced at Situ Yimo weakly, and when he saw the injury on her arm, he was startled and walked over to ask.
"Are your injuries alright?"
"I'm really fine. What about you? Why is your face so ugly? ”
Situ Yimo saw that everyone was just concerned about her injury, and she smiled helplessly, not knowing whether she should be happy or not.
"I ......"
Zhang Yuren suddenly became heavy, glanced at Situ Yimo with a complicated expression, paused for a while, and did not answer directly, but said, "Go back to the yamen first." ”
"What's going on? You've just gone out, but what have you discovered? ”
Situ Yimo felt that something was wrong with Zhang Yuren, so he asked, "You must have discovered something just now, right?" ”
Seeing that he didn't speak, she thought of something and asked, "You're not here today just to be with me, right?" I suppose even if I don't show up at the East Gate today, you'll show up, right? ”
"You've been eyeing this place for a long time?"
"You don't speak, is it a default?"
Zhang Yuren sighed in the face of Situ Yimo's forced question, looked directly into her bright and clean eyes, and replied in a slightly tired voice, "Yes, I have been eyeing this place for a long time, but there has been no evidence." ”
"Then what did you just find? Is your face so bad? Situ Yimo was a little curious about the reason why he was eyeing the orphanage.
Zhang Yuren looked at Situ Yimo Jingya's face, and couldn't say anything in his mouth, he hesitated, and finally only spit out a few words, "I found the bodies of twelve little girls in the back mountain. ”
"What!!"
Situ Yimo was shocked, "The corpses of twelve little girls? ”
"Yes, four or five should have been buried in the past few days, and the rest have been some days."
"This ......"
Situ Yimo was a little shocked, "So there are so many little girls' corpses?" It's not ...... here."
"Where are their bodies now?"
"Just now, I have already ordered the arrest to bring it back to the yamen."
Zhang Yuren saw that Situ Yimo's face was not good, and then looked at her injured arm and reminded her, "It's getting late, let's go back to the yamen first." ”
"Yes, county lord, let's go back to the yamen first." Xinglu was also full of shock, but it was already pitch black outside, it was freezing cold, and the county lord of her family was still injured, so she had to go back quickly.
At the same time, the Neon Rui County Lord and Shang Shuwei, who had been in a coma for two days and two nights, were slowly waking up, only to see their long eyelashes move, and it was the Ni Rui County Lord who opened their eyes first.
She covered her heavy head, sat up in a daze, looked around, felt very unfamiliar, she stayed for a while, only to remember that she had met the female ghost in red in Buwenglin, and she was scared for a while.
Shang Shuwei also opened her eyes at this moment, and she, like the county lord of Nirui, was also stunned for a while before suddenly remembering what had happened.
The two looked at each other in horror for a second, then clasped their hands tightly together, and looked around nervously and panickedly, looking at what kind of cabin it looked like, and both of them trembled a little, and saw fear in their eyes.
"This, this, this...... It can't be a haunted house, right? ”
"Why don't we go out and have a look?"
"I ......"
"Squeak--"
Suddenly, the door opened, and the two of them saw the red corner, and they were so frightened that they curled up in the corner, hugged each other tightly and shouted.
"Ahh
"Help!"
"There's a ghost!"
"Ahh Who's going to save us! ”
"Tata--"
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and they felt like they were surrounded by a red patch, and the two of them screamed in fright, almost crying.
"Ahh
"There's a ghost!"
"I've never done anything wrong!"
"Don't look for me!"
"I'm also a good person!"
"Don't look for me!"
"Two girls, don't worry, the old woman is not a ghost." An old, gentle voice diluted their cries.
I saw an old woman in a red dress approaching them with two bowls of sweet potato porridge.
"You...... Not a ghost? ”
Listening to such a gentle voice, the two of them slowly calmed down, tried to turn their heads to look at her, and looked into those kind eyes, and the two of them couldn't help but relieve their nervousness.
"The old woman is really not a ghost." The old man smiled, and then felt a little guilty, "Speaking of which, the old woman can't stand you, the two girls were also frightened by me at that time, and they were in a coma for two days." ”
"Scared by you?"
"You were the same female ghost we saw that day?"
After Shang Shuwei calmed down, she looked at her carefully, saw her wearing a red shirt and silk dress, remembered the female ghost in red she saw that day, and then compared it with the kind old man in front of her, no matter how she looked at her, she didn't look like the female ghost she saw that day
"It's the old woman, that day, Chunchun was gone, the old woman went to the forest to look for it, but she didn't expect it to scare you, I'm really sorry for you."
The county lord of Nirui also calmed down at this moment, especially when she saw the sweet potato porridge in the old man's hand, she was extremely sober.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's good that it's not a female ghost."
"You gave us this porridge?" Lord Ni Rui touched her shriveled stomach and swallowed her saliva, she was about to starve to death.
"You've all slept for two days, you must be hungry, and there's nothing to eat here, my wife doesn't have anything to eat here, this sweet potato is grown by myself, and it's still hot, so hurry up and eat some."
"Yes, yes!"
Seeing this, the old man smiled kindly, turned around and went to the kitchen to bring a big bowl of hot sweet potatoes.
Shang Shuwei was also very hungry, so she sat with the county lord of Nirui drinking sweet potato porridge and eating sweet potatoes. The two of them ate very deliciously, as if it was a delicious food.
"You don't have to be in such a hurry, eat slowly, there is still something in the pot."
"Well, it's delicious, why didn't I find sweet potatoes so delicious before."
"It's just, it's delicious."
"Meow meow--" Suddenly, a kitten jumped in through the window.
"Wow, what a cute cat." Ni Ruijun nibbled on sweet potatoes, looked at the little flower cat that jumped into the old man's arms, and praised it very sincerely. Although she doesn't like cats very much.
"This is my innocence, it's good." The old man's wrinkled hands gently stroked the little flower cat in his arms, and the little flower cat's crooked little head rubbed her palm.
Shang Shuwei raised her eyes and looked at the tears in the old man's eyes, she was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the dark outside, she took a bite of the sweet potato and asked, "Old woman, do you live alone?" ”
"No, I still have my innocence with me." The old man shook his head and stroked the little cat in his arms.
Shang Shuwei was stunned for a moment, and then changed her question, "Are you alone and the little flower cat in this place?" ”
"No, there is a pillar on the mountain, and he will come to see me when he hunts on weekdays."
"What about your child?" The county lord of Ni Rui also asked.
When the old woman heard the word child, her heart throbbed, tears couldn't help but fall out, and her voice choked, "My daughter, she, she ......"
"Granny, are you alright?"
Shang Shuwei and Nirui County Lord saw the old woman crying, and they were shocked, and hurriedly went over to comfort her, "Mother-in-law." ”
"It's okay, people are old, they just like to be sentimental."
"Let's eat, it's getting late, you can sleep after you finish eating, and tomorrow morning, the old woman will send you down the mountain."
"Mother's ......"
They wanted to say something, but when they saw her leave with the cat in their arms, they had no choice but to say goodnight, and sat down to continue eating sweet potatoes and drinking sweet potato porridge.
"Is the female ghost in red we saw that day really an old woman?" Shang Shuwei still felt that something was wrong.
"It must be the old woman, didn't she say it all, she went to find the little flower cat and accidentally scared us?" The county lord of Nirui bit the sweet potato, looked at Shang Shuwei, and said in surprise when he saw her frowning.
"But, what I saw that day was obviously a very young female ghost, why did she become a mother-in-law?"
"You must have been too scared at the time, so you read it wrong."
"But ......"
"Oh, let's eat sweet potatoes first, I've been hungry for two days!" Lord Nirui stuffed the sweet potato into her mouth, took a sip of porridge herself, swallowed it and said, "In front of the food, don't think about it." ”
Shang Shuwei bit the sweet potato and chewed it, her mind full of doubts, could it really be that she was wrong?
As soon as Situ Yimo returned to the yamen, he originally planned to go to the morgue to see the autopsy, but was stopped by Zhang Yuren, saying that he would let her rest first and talk about it tomorrow.
But she was desperate to know the result, and she wanted to go to the morgue without being persuaded, and was ordered by Lord Shang to go back to rest, saying that she was injured and should not go to the morgue.
Situ Yimo didn't disobey her second uncle, so she had to go back to rest, Xinglu knew that her county lord was very worried about what happened tonight, and she would definitely not be able to sleep, so she ordered Situ Yimo's own soothing incense, and she fell asleep after a while.
By the time she woke up, the sun was already high. After Xinglu changed the medicine for her arm, she went to see the children she had rescued last night, and heard that they had woken up and were now resting in the backyard.
Situ Yimo walked into the courtyard and saw a group of children playing games again, this lively and cute appearance was really different from the lifeless them last night.
So, she was glad that she went to the orphanage at the East Gate last night.
"Lord Anhe."
A woman in a cyan Luo skirt walked over with a few sugar gourds in her right hand, and when she saw the county lord of Anhe, she handed the sugar gourds to the maid beside her, and saluted respectfully towards Situ Yimo.
"Minnu Zhang Manlan, see Lord Anhe."
This girl, Situ Yimo has also seen, she is the concubine of Zhang County Order, Zhang Manlan.
Just her appearance, Situ Yimo was quite impressed by her, this girl had a peach-shaped mole on her nose, although it was not big, but it made her feel very conspicuous.
"Miss Zhang, please get up."
Situ Yimo nodded, helped her out, saw the fine sweat on her forehead, and then looked at the leaves in her hair, paused, looked at the fruit basket in the maid's hand, and asked, "There are still fruit trees in the yamen?" ”
Zhang Manlan was stunned for a moment, and then lowered her head and replied truthfully, "Back to the county lord, the folk girl doesn't have any hobbies on weekdays, so she likes to follow her aunt to tinker with some fruit trees, and planted peaches and grapes in the courtyard of the folk girl, as well as some small fruits. ”
Situ Yimo took a peach, looked at the pink and tender, it was very sweet at first glance, and couldn't help but take a bite, the sweet flesh entered, making her nod involuntarily, "What a sweet peach." ”