Chapter 20 The fragrance of peach and pear
The afternoon breeze is blowing slowly.
In the midst of the cyclamen, Ye Qingzhi sat by the window and said slowly: "Immortal Attraction, this poison is not fatal, but it can make people hallucinate, and the use of soul dementorship can better control a person." ”
Shen Lingjun propped his chin and thought, "No wonder he controls the soul technique so well, and I thought that there was another amazing character in the rivers and lakes." ”
As he was talking, Su Musha, who was sitting on the windowsill, happened to sweep to the street, and saw a few familiar people below, so he said to Shen Lingjun: "Looking for you." ”
Shen Lingjun probed, it was Li Yi who walked in front of him with a big knife on the street, followed by a couple and a seven or eight-year-old child, but it was Ah Hong and Huan'er.
Shen Lingjun picked up a peanut and threw it lightly, smashing it right on Li Yi's head.
Li Yi touched his head, looked up, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and finally found it.
It turned out that the Ah Hong couple took the child to the city to change the medicine, and the child had to thank the life-saving benefactor, and the two of them didn't know where to look, thinking that they were from the yamen, and it was right to go to the county yamen, so they met Li Yi, who happened to go out, and came out with them.
"Huan'er, are you alright?" Shen Lingjun asked the child to sit down and grabbed a handful of candy for him.
Ah Hong and his wife had never been to such a high-level place, and they were a little cramped and uneasy, not knowing whether to stand or sit. As soon as she heard Shen Lingjun's question, Ah Hong knelt down directly, and her man knelt down when he saw this.
"Thank you to a few benefactors, who saved me before, and now they have saved Huan'er, we ...... We really don't know how to repay it......"
Shen Lingjun and Ye Qingzhi helped people up one by one, "Get up first and then speak." ”
Tang Tang stuffed a piece of candy for Huan'er: "It's delicious, right?" ”
Huan'er nodded, he had never eaten such a delicious thing, and said with a smile: "My mother often tells me that being a man should be grateful to repay me, although Huan'er doesn't quite understand what it means, but it was the big brother and big sister who saved Huan'er, and Huan'er wanted to say thank you in person." ”
Zhao Qi nodded, this child's tutor is still good.
"Huan'er thinks that you are the fairy sister and the fairy brother, more powerful than the fairy!" Huan'er continued.
Shen Lingjun and Ye Qingzhi glanced at each other, with a smile in their eyes: "This little mouth eats a piece of candy, and the words are so sweet." ”
Tang Tang leaned over: "Then am I a fairy sister?" ”
Huan'er scratched her head with one of her intact hands: "You are all beautiful fairy sisters, the same as the one I saw that night." ”
"That night?" Shen Lingjun was puzzled: "Which other fairy sister have you seen?" ”
Huan'er wrinkled her nose and was a little distressed: "But it's like a fairy brother." ”
Ah Hong's man was a little embarrassed: "The child is sleeping and dreaming." ”
"No, I went out to pee in the middle of the night, and I saw someone flying out from the direction of the patriarch's house, but ......"
Zhao Qi also heard that something was wrong, and raised his eyebrows: "But what?" ”
Zhao Qi's voice was a little rough, tall and tall, and he had a sense of majesty without speaking, Huan'er looked at him a little frightened and cringed.
Ye Qingzhi pulled him to the corner to stay, Zhao Qi was still dissatisfied, but Ye Qingzhi didn't dare to move with a look.
During the play, he took out a few wooden gadgets from the bag and gave them to Huan'er, and when the child relaxed again, he asked him, "There was a person who flew out of the patriarch's house, and then what?" ”
Huan'er's little brows furrowed together, and she said with some puzzlement: "But it's obviously the big brother's dress, why is it the voice of the big sister when she speaks." ”
Ah Hong rubbed the child's hair lovingly: "Did you really see it?" ”
Huan'er nodded affirmatively: "Well, he can fly, grandma said, immortals can fly." ”
Tong Yan was unscrupulous, but it amused everyone, and after a while, Ah Hong's family said goodbye, Huan'er is still very weak and needs to recuperate.
Shen Lingjun asked Li Yi to find a car to send them off, and packed a lot of food for the children before sending them away.
When the others left, Shen Lingjun knocked on the table and said, "Now it seems that this child should have seen something that should not be seen before being selected as a sacrifice." ”
Ye Qingzhi nodded after hearing this: "And the amount of poison is just right, and it will only attack when the sacrifice is completed, just to ensure that nothing goes wrong." ”
Su Musha said coldly: "It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven." ”
Shen Lingjun sighed: "This kid has a big life." ”
Zhao Qi touched his chin: "When the child saw that person, he should be dressed as a woman, could it be that the one who ran away was called the song?" ”
"An Ge is indeed very suspicious, and he appeared around there covered in injuries." Shen Lingjun thought about it and looked to the side with a smile: "Luocheng, I'm sorry for you." ”
Luo Cheng was also refreshed: "It's not troublesome, what are you doing?" ”
Shen Lingjun narrowed his eyes: "Help me keep an eye on someone." ”
After a few people finished lunch, Su Mushao had something to do and returned to Su Mansion, Shen Lingjun decided to visit Xie Xiuyuan's eldest daughter Xie Li with Ye Qingzhi, Tang Tang felt that the countryside was really boring, so he took Shen Changfeng to watch the play.
Zhao Qi wanted to talk to Ye Qingzhi and let Ye Qingzhi say: "There is a family affair between women, and you are a big man to do something, and you will be blown back."
Regarding Xie Tao, Shen Lingjun had a lot of questions.
The two people who were originally happy with each other were suddenly divorced after getting married, and the woman has disappeared since then. Two years later, Ling Youfu's whole family was burned to death by a fire, and the key ignition was Ling Youfu himself. Is all this weirdness purely a coincidence? Shen Ling didn't believe it, as the saying goes, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and she needs to figure out everything inside.
Xie Li's husband's house is in Hexi Village, and he goes south out of the city gate. The two of them rode on horseback, and arrived in about half an hour.
The yard of a single family is simple but tidy. The door was closed, and when viewed from the outside, dried clothes were lying under the eaves, some dried vegetables were drying on wooden shelves, and the walls were covered with corn skewers.
Shen Lingjun patted the door: "Is there anyone?" ”
There was no answer for a long time, and just as the two thought they were not at home, there was a coughing sound in the back room, and then the door was pushed open.
What appeared in the sight of the two was a young woman, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, dressed as a young woman, with a slender figure and a coquettish physique, dressed in a blue coarse cloth coat that could not hide her amorous style. A pair of thin eyes under the slender willow eyebrows are looking at Shen Lingjun and Ye Qingzhi with doubts, and there is a charm between their eyebrows.
The young woman stretched out her hand and clenched her fists, coughed dryly against her mouth for a while, and then slowly walked over to open the door for Shen Lingjun and them: "You are ......"
Shen Lingjun revealed his identity, and the young woman asked them to go inside, and the small courtyard instantly became crowded.
"Ahem...... cough cough ......" The young woman coughed again: "I'm sorry, I've been infected with wind chill these days, so I didn't hear it when I was lying in the room just now." ”
Shen Lingjun waved his hand: "Your name is Xie Li." ”
The young woman nodded: "Two adults, what is the matter with the people's women?" ”
"Where's your husband?"
Xie Li glanced back and replied, "Oh, he's decocting medicine for a people's woman." ”
Ye Qingzhi looked around and saw that there were no children's toys in the courtyard, and even the clothes drying next to it were only adults', so she said tactfully: "This house is a little deserted. ”
Xie Li smiled slightly embarrassedly, her eyes were a little dim: "There are only me and Ah Yong at home, it's a little lonely, but I'm used to it." ”
Ye Qingzhi saw that her face was a little pale, so she said, "You are sick, I'll show you." ”
Xie Li was stunned for a moment, smiled politely and waved his hand: "Don't dare to bother adults, the folk woman is just cold and cough, and she has already seen the doctor." ”
Seeing her say this, Ye Qingzhi only nodded and didn't say anything more.
Shen Lingjun casually found a place to sit down and looked at Xie Li: "How much do you know about your sister." ”
"Ah Tao......" Xie Li called, looking at the front with some distraction.
"She's missing, why didn't you report it?" Shen Lingjun stared at her face and asked again.
The corners of Xie Li's mouth pursed, his eyes were a little moist, and he took a deep breath before he said, "Why did the adult suddenly remember to ask Ah Tao about it." ”
Ye Qingzhi didn't beat around the bush, and said directly: "Do you know that her husband's family was destroyed?" ”
Xie Li took out a cloth handkerchief and wiped his eyes, his expression turned to resentment: "This is their retribution, if it weren't for Ling Youfu, Ah Tao wouldn't have disappeared." ”
Then, he looked at Shen Lingjun and Ye Qingzhi with some surprise: "My lord...... Are you suspicious of Tao? ”
Shen Lingjun smiled: "We are here to understand the situation and tell us what you know." ”
Xie Li nodded slowly: "Ah Tao is a hard-working child, her mother gave birth to her in childbirth, so she was born without a mother, but Ah Tao is very smart and has a good heart, and often helps her father to see the neighbors to see a doctor." Later, she met Ling Youfu, who sold medicinal materials, and the two fell in love and got together. Originally, I thought that Ah Tao would have a happy home, and I was happy for her in my heart, but I didn't expect ......"
Xie Li choked up a little: "...... A few days after getting married, my father received a letter of resignation, but Ah Tao was gone, my father and I searched around, and we never found her again, we went to Ling Youfu to settle accounts, he turned the wicked person to sue first, saying that Ah Tao is not, and said that if we report to the official, it is to force them to preach everywhere. ”
Shen Lingjun frowned, puzzled: "Why did he divorce his wife?" ”
Xie Li shook his head: "We don't know, my father has been treating diseases and saving people all his life, and he has earned a reputation for innocence, how can he allow them to make things up, besides, Ah Tao is stubborn, we think that she is hiding alone, and she will go home after a while." ”
Shen Lingjun knocked on the table: "But she never came back." ”
Dark clouds floated across the sky and covered the sun, and the wind swept up the rubble and kicked up a puff of dust.
As soon as the wind blew, Xie Li coughed, and when it calmed down, he nodded and said: "Yes, since then, I haven't seen Ah Tao again, and then I heard that something happened to Ling Youfu's family, and I think it's God's retribution." ”
"You never suspected that Xie Tao did it for revenge." Shen Lingjun's dark eyes moved slightly, and he said tentatively.
Xie Li bit her lip: "Don't hide it from my lord, I did think that Ah Tao did such a foolish thing, and then I quietly went to Jingling Village to inquire, and someone told me that I saw it with my own eyes that Ling Youfu lit the fire himself." ”
Ye Qingzhi looked into her eyes: "Don't you think it's strange." ”
"Heh~" Xie Li sighed lightly: "What does this have to do with me, in the end, they couldn't live with Ah Tao first, and my sister was separated." ”
Shen Lingjun felt that Xie Li was understandable to think so, his dark eyes rolled, and then asked, "What about your father?" ”
Xie Li was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Shen Lingjun meant by this.
Shen Lingjun clenched his fist and supported his chin, his lips curled slightly, and he seemed to smile and said, "After Xie Tao disappeared, why didn't your father report the case, but instead concealed the matter?" ”