Chapter Twenty-Nine: Red Light in the Night
When Miss Liu walked out of the door, Yun Xiu downstairs raised her head and glanced at her.
There was a dead person in the inn, and Miss Liu was unusually calm, and her face did not change.
Yun Xiu watched Miss Liu slowly walk down from the upstairs, he was afraid that she would be frightened when she saw the ugly appearance of the corpse, so he hurriedly blocked in front of her and said, "It's better that you don't look at it." ”
Miss Liu just smiled faintly, pulled his hand away, and looked at the corpse.
After seeing the corpse, Chunlin covered her eyes with her hands in fear and fled to the side.
Yun Xiu's eyes kept looking at Miss Liu's expression, and when he saw that her brows were slightly furrowed, her eyes suddenly deepened. He knew that whoever saw such a death would definitely be excited and fearful.
But when he saw Miss Liu, in addition to the slight stunned look just now, there was more sadness in his eyes, not fear and fear.
The lobby was full of buzz.
When the Xuzhou prefect's yamen was coming, the inn lobby was quiet for a while.
I only introduced the head catcher to Ren Xuan of the Yamen of the Xuzhou Prefect.
Yun Xiu saw that the four people who had eaten in the inn yesterday also came together. Yesterday, the four of them left the inn after finishing their meal, and at this time, they went to visit again with the head of the arrester to investigate the case.
Everyone in the inn, including the shopkeeper, gathered in the lobby and asked for their names and origins.
Before Yun Xiu started to ask about the head catcher, he took out a waist card from his body and showed it to the head catcher.
After seeing that he was one of the hundred households of the Dusi Mansion of the Northern Commander of Jingcheng Town, he hurriedly invited him to take a seat.
Yun Xiu introduced this trip and the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion to the head catcher one by one.
Hearing such an identity, the head catcher didn't dare to slack off, nor did he dare to ask Yun Xiu and the others more.
Yun Xiu smiled with satisfaction, and said to the head catcher in a very positive tone, "Then let the head catcher start asking." ”
In the confession of everyone, Yun Xiu learned who the guests in the inn were.
The dead woman in red was registered when she came to the inn, and her name was Yunping, but where she came from and where she went, and the inn would not ask the guests about their privacy.
The first thing Ren asked was the woman in Tsing Yi who came suddenly last night and lived in the same room with Yunping. The woman confessed that her name was Qin Yuan, and her home was in Nanyang, and she came here because she was angry with her family and left home alone, because she stayed in this inn late at night.
Qin Yuan confessed that he and Yunping had never met, nor did they know each other. It's just that we stayed in the same room together last night.
Qin Yuan said that last night, Miss Yun got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, she slept very dazed, only knew that she went out of the room, and then she fell asleep, and did not know that Yun Ping did not return to the room.
Ren Zhutou asked her if she could hear any noise in the inn? Qin Yuan just shook her head and said that she was very tired in the second half of the night and didn't know anything.
Miss Liu didn't have a trace of excessive expression, just listened quietly. When Qin Yuan didn't know what to say, she frowned slightly.
Ren Zhutou asked again about the bearded man, who was still holding a knife in his hand at this time. Ren Zhutou looked at this person, a faction of rivers and lakes style, a typical recklessness in the rivers and lakes.
"Who is Your Excellency?" Ren Zhutou is wary of him and very curious.
Miss Liu looked at the man with Ren Zhutou's questioning, and saw that there was a scar on the man's face, and those eyes seemed to be seen somewhere.
Miss Liu was meditating, and the person was already returning to Ren to catch the head, "Down here is Su Qingshan, a man in the green forest who walks the rivers and lakes for a living." ”
Yes, this person kidnapped Miss Liu, and Yun Xiu went to save people and was taken down as such, Su Qingshan among the four robbers. However, at that time, the four of them were all wearing headscarves and black scarves on their faces, and Yun Xiu and Miss Liu couldn't see their faces at that time.
And at that time, the four of them were very vigilant, and they didn't say their names in front of Miss Liu and Yun Xiu.
Yun Xiu didn't know him at all at this time. But Su Qingshan had already found out when Yun Xiu and Miss Liu and the others came to the inn yesterday, but he kept silent, and kept secretly observing whether Yun Xiu and Miss Liu would recognize him.
Miss Liu was already a little suspicious of Su Qingshan at this time, because of his voice, Miss Liu felt somewhat similar.
However, Ren Zhutou was questioning at this time.
"What are you doing at the inn?"
Su Qingshan smiled very calmly, "I'm just passing by here and staying overnight." ”
Even if he was reckless and didn't commit any crimes, and the court couldn't do anything to him, Su Qingshan was of course not afraid at this time.
The only thing he was worried about was that he was afraid that the fifth young master of the Zhang family and this Miss Liu would recognize him, but since he observed it yesterday, he hadn't found that these two people had any suspicions about him.
So he didn't want to leave the inn in a hurry, but wanted to know where Miss Liu and the others were going.
He wanted to find a good opportunity to seek revenge on Yun Xiu, so as to avenge his brother Wanshu who was arrested and executed by the imperial court. It's just that there are a lot of people looking at Yun Xiu and others, and he is alone at this time, so he doesn't dare to shoot easily because he can't beat him.
"Did you see anything last night?" Ren Zhutou continued to ask him.
Su Qingshan raised his eyelids and said, "Don't hide it from the official, people like us who walk the rivers and lakes are generally very alert when they sleep, I drank some wine yesterday, so that I slept in a daze, but when I turned over and lay on my side at night, I seemed to see a red light shining outside the door, and that light was like lightning in the sky." ”
He glanced at the ceiling of the inn lobby, then looked back at Ren Zhutou, and continued, "It feels like flashing out of the ceiling. However, I was still curious to get up and open the door to see, and there was nothing in the entire inn. ”
He smiled as he spoke, "So I thought I must have been dazzled and lay back on the bed." ”
Ren Zhutou and Yun Xiu glanced at each other, and they were very skeptical of Su Qingshan's words just now.
Miss Liu was still quiet, but her expression was a little strange at this time.
Chunlin was stunned, as if she had heard some strange omen.
There was a dullness in the room, and everyone was thinking about whether Su Qingshan's words were true or false.
At this time, the innkeeper respectfully said to Ren Zhutou, "How can there be any red light in the villain's inn, the villain's inn has been in business for many years, and he has never seen any red light in the middle of the night," he looked at Su Qingshan and said suspiciously, "It can't be that the guest officer is mistaken." ”
Su Qingshan snorted coldly, "I'm telling the truth, if I see it, I see it," and then he chuckled lightly at the innkeeper, "Wouldn't there be any man-eating monsters in this inn, all of them scared that woman to death in the middle of the night?" ”
"What nonsense are you talking about!" The innkeeper was a little anxious.
"I saw it too." Just when the shopkeeper was in a hurry, the man in white, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said something.
The crowd looked at him.
Miss Liu frowned slightly and stared at the man in white.
"Who are you?" Ren Zhutou looked at the man and asked.
The man in white pursed his lips and replied with a light smile, "It's just a civilian, but there is a small name in the rivers and lakes, and Wushan is like dust." ”
Walking like dust?
Yun Xiu was stunned, he had heard of it. I once heard that many years ago, the emperor's concubine Liu was sick, and the emperor sent an imperial list to seek a capable doctor among the people, and if he could cure Concubine Liu's illness, he would be rewarded. Yun Xiu heard that it was the wonderful doctor from Wushan who cured Concubine Liu's illness.
But that was years ago. So is this line of dust in front of you the same person back then?
Xing Ruchen was looking at Yun Xiu at this time, and he knew his puzzled expression at a glance, and said with a smile, "The doctor who treated Concubine Liu back then was in Xia, and he was only sixteen years old at that time. ”
Ren Zhutou immediately accompanied the smiling face and said, "That doctor is a meritorious person." ”
"Don't dare, don't dare." Xingruchen smiled modestly.
Ren Zhutou returned to the topic and said, "That doctor also saw the red light last night?" ”
Xing Ruchen said, "As this Brother Su said, Ruchen also saw a red light in the middle of the night, Ruchen thought the same as this Brother Su at the time, thinking that he was dazzled, and thought that it was just the lights in the inn flickering, so Ruchen didn't get up to check." Listening to what Brother Su said just now, Ruchen eased up, and the red light last night was indeed a little strange. ”
Yun Xiu touched his chin and said, "Where did that light come from?" ”
Ren Zhutou took a step closer and looked at Yunping's corpse, and then carefully looked at the position where the corpse was lying again.
Yun Xiu also followed. The crowd watched quietly.
Yun Xiu said at this time, "Looking at the location where the corpse fell, it should be that after returning from the latrine, he was about to go upstairs, but he suddenly saw something at this time, and he was scared to death." ”