Chapter 139: Zi Ning Doesn't Speak?
Xu Chu followed Xiao Qinglang back to the carriage, of course, she had been casual for a long time, but this time she sat extremely far away, and even her eyes deliberately avoided the official document on the desk.
Xiao Qinglang raised his eyes to look at her for a moment, then lowered his hand and groped twice for the file with the word top secret printed under the desk. He thought that as long as she was willing to communicate and trust herself, it would be okay for her to read this dossier. Even if she wants to hit her head and bleed to investigate, at least she, the king of Jing'an, can still shield her from one or two open guns and hidden arrows.
But now, it's not that he can't see her evasion and dodging. If she were to learn of the grievances in the dossier under such circumstances, he feared that she would go alone to investigate. If that's the case, it will probably really be in danger and Xu Chengzuo, and Xu Chengzuo's hard work of more than 20 years of incognito will be completely in vain.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but put down the file, and then calmly took out a few case files from Jinzhou City from the desk.
"This is some case files that I transferred from the Criminal Department to Jinzhou City in recent years, and when I flipped through them last night, I found many clues and strange things." Xiao Qinglang nodded at the files with a cautious expression, and then reached out and handed them to Xu Chu. As if he hadn't seen Xu Chu's slightly frowning brows and uncomfortable, he continued, "The case of Jinzhou City is a big matter, and the emperor allows us to act cheaply. However, if you investigate the case with great fanfare, you are afraid that you will be startled and put yourself in danger. So I thought about it repeatedly, and you and I still checked under pseudonyms......"
While speaking, Xu Chu had already taken over the file. When it comes to business, she can't be entangled in the love of her children, and she can't be hypocritical.
Because of Xiao Qinglang's dossier, the description is extremely detailed, and the details of the climbing are very detailed. So even though Xu Chu watched it quickly, it still took a lot of time.
After reading it, she raised her head in shock and blurted out: "Jinzhou Tongju Song Derong's brother's family suffered such a catastrophe?" ”
"It's just scratching the surface, and if his identity is really different, he will definitely cover up something." Xiao Qinglang couldn't help sneering when he said this, "There are three murders in one family, and the murderer is not one person, and they all hold a grudge and then kill because of a dispute of words." Cases like this are really rare......"
Xu Chu pondered for a moment, and then pondered: "Childe thinks there is another mystery in this case? ”
"What's more, there is another mystery, you need to know that there was news from Jinzhou City a few years ago, saying that not only Song Deqing's family was like this, but Song Derong's family had not avoided such a catastrophe. Now people who have a little ears and eyes in Jinzhou City know that the Tongju Mansion is haunted, and it is a ghost who asks for his life. ”
"How so?" Xu Chu opened his mouth in confusion. When she helped Xiao Qinglang sort out the files before, she had specially checked the situation of various officials in Jinzhou City. Most of the imposter officials who are suspected of being replaced are sent away from their wives or loyal servants, and even some subordinates who have been in the house for a long time have been sold early.
Coupled with the fact that the years are still the same, I'm afraid that no one can really recognize their authenticity. Just like Li Jin, even if he is Zhang Guan and Li Dai, he is still alive and well.
So how did the haunting happen?
Xiao Qinglang glanced at Xu Chu, quietly poured warm tea, handed it over casually, and saw Xu Chu subconsciously take it and take a sip, before he whispered: "Just after the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Song family was in a hurry to go to the doctor and urgently look for someone to exorcise ghosts and catch ghosts. ”
"It's ridiculous, such a child's play is really a court official."
"No, but he is not an official sent by the imperial court, so how can he estimate the face of the imperial court?" Regarding Xu Chu's indignation, Xiao Qinglang was obviously unimpressed. Those people, in his eyes, are just grasshoppers after the autumn, since they are going to operate, it is better to find this most conspicuous one.
Xu Chu had worked with him for many days, so he naturally understood what he meant, and immediately frowned: "But how can we interfere?" Do you really want to hunt ghosts? ”
"Why not, you know, Xiao Chu, you are the best at catching ghosts." Xiao Qinglang lowered his eyes to look at the slightly rippling turquoise tea in the tea cup, and the folds between his eyebrows gradually unfolded with the ripples.
"The reputation in Yunan County before should also be passed on. After I personally polished the script, I don't know if Xiao Chu wants to listen to it first? ”
Seeing Xiao Qinglang's mouth with a smile on his lips and being serious, Xu Chu couldn't help but be curious. She remembered that when she was temporarily living in Yunan County that day, she had one night after her own autopsy, and she wanted to say some terrible jokes to scare Xiao Qinglang. didn't want him to be silent, but his frightened gaffe hung directly on him, and even suddenly heard his sullen smile and firm and powerful heartbeat.
As soon as he thought of this, Xu Chu's cheeks unconsciously became a little feverish, and he felt uncomfortable no matter how he sits. However, after some self-comfort, she still nodded and responded with the idea of thinking about the case.
Immediately, without waiting for Xu Chu to sit up straight, he heard that Xiao Qinglang had already knocked on the desk with his fingers. Then the cool and cold story spit out from those thin lips, with a bit of coldness and extra twists and turns, which makes people listen to it fascinatingly.
But he said that the headless female corpse was extremely evil, and she was headless when she died, but she would find people's heads every time she acted. Everyone in the world is afraid and can't avoid it, only one person comes forward with a three-foot ghost fire......" Xiao Qinglang's tone was light, without ups and downs, but the story was written very well with Xu Chu's appetite, even though he knew that it was fake, he was also moved by his literary brilliance, and then sighed at his broken hand. Sure enough, people are more popular than people, and even when she was in trouble, she never thought of relying on her experience in autopsy and investigation to write a script to earn some pen fees. It's not that I don't have a lot of money in my belly, but what I write is a blunt textbook-like record, and I really can't turn it into a story with a rich plot and fascinating ups and downs.
Xiao Qinglang's face was calm, looking at Xu Chu's gaze had not changed much, that solemn and calm appearance, who could say that he was playing tricks?
With a rapid knocking sound, Xu Chu's emotions were gradually brought into it more and more.
"There have been two murders in a row, and they are all related to the headless woman, but how do people catch ghosts, not to mention that everyone has never found the origin of the headless woman when they look through the books. It was only half a month, which made the county magistrate extremely anxious. It wasn't until a son arrived with the maidservant girl around him and said that he could subdue the ghosts, and he was suddenly overjoyed......"
Xu Chu listened to it very well, originally she had heard from the storyteller that it was adapted from the case she solved, but the feeling was never as interesting as it is now. If she hadn't known the inside story, I'm afraid she would have really believed it.
Of course, I have to say that I am afraid that most of these few points of investment are also due to Xiao Qinglang.
"That headless female ghost has the ability to give up, and she relies on magic to do evil, and when she sees the woman's delicate face, she can't help but want to harm her. But it didn't want to get closer, and it was burned by the netherworld fire carried by the woman, and then revealed its original form......"
"Huh? That's it? ”
Xu Chuzheng listened to the essence of the taste, but he didn't want Xiao Qinglang to stop suddenly, and even drank the tea without hurrying. She glanced at him suspiciously, but saw that he was still like a mountain, as if the whole book had ended.
Xiao Qinglang raised his eyebrows and said with interest: "I want to know the origin of the headless girl, and listen to the next decomposition!" ”
It is rare to see Xiao Qinglang so stubborn, if it is usual, Xu Chu will be surprised. However, at this time, she felt that Xiao Qinglang's next story must be related. It's a pity that he deliberately stopped here, which made Xu Chu think more and more.
She looked up at the man's interested gaze, and said in her heart that this person was becoming less and less eye-catching than she had in her impression. When the two of them met, those sharp and cold eyes, although they were not yin, seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, making people have nothing to hide.
Now, there is less nobility and coldness, and more of the appearance of a gentleman.
Outside, although Xiao Mingzhu was playing with the same flower without illness and galloping, she was thinking about Xu Chu in the end. So, seeing that there was no sound in the carriage, she couldn't help but ride her horse closer, and opened her dress to take a look inside. This action, just hearing her third uncle's smiling sentence "next decomposition", made her wonder to speak.
"What's next?"
She often secretly ran out of the palace in the past, and when she was a child, she also skipped class all day long and wandered around the market with no disease, so she naturally knew that many storytellers in the capital liked to say this sentence for their livelihood and reward. But when she heard these words from her third uncle, she naturally didn't think that the third uncle had given Sister Chu a speech.
"It's nothing, it's just that if you suddenly run out of the capital next time, should I talk to my brother?" Xiao Qinglang glanced at his niece who was probing her brain outside, her face was expressionless, but there was a slight smile in her words.
When Xiao Mingzhu heard this, he quickly wrinkled his nose and said in a low voice: "The third uncle is really a nephew who is heavy on sex and light on color, and with Sister Chu, he can't hide anything from me." ”
She patted her horse casually with a horsewhip, pretended to sigh and said: "In previous years, if I secretly followed the third uncle out to experience the world, I was never disliked. ”
When these words fell on Xu Chu's ears, she became distressed again. However, she saw that Xiao Mingzhu's eyes were clear, and she didn't deliberately joke or ridicule her, so she slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Childe is just joking." She sneered, and quietly put down the tea cup that was already slightly cold in her hand, as if she had let go of the concern handed over by Xiao Qinglang again.
Xiao Mingzhu obviously didn't think much about it, waved his hand and said indifferently: "Hey, Sister Chu, I also said it casually." I heard that Hua Wuxian said that I was going to Jinzhou City in front of me, and I will buy you some chestnut cakes to eat when I enter the city for a while, it is said that the chestnut cakes of the Jiang family in Jinzhou City are a must, and the skills of the chefs in his restaurant are not bad. ”
Such a stirring made Xu Chu's slightly loose mind converge again, and her gaze wandered and finally only fell on the file pressed between her elbows.