The wind and rain were bleak, the courtyard was silent, and Xu Chu saw a person standing at the end of the lights, dressed in brocade and wearing a sable suit. The brocade python has dark lines, gorgeous and extravagant, and the wealth is boundless. The man's face was calm, and his eyebrows were not clear.

She squinted hard, but she couldn't see the way clearly, so she only felt that the person who looked at her from afar had dark eyes, thin lips pursed slightly, and looked at her detached and indifferent. The light in his eyes was like ten thousand years of ice, which made Xu Chu's whole body cold and unable to move at all.

Subconsciously, Xu Chu took a step back, looked over again, and saw that the tall and noble figure gradually disappeared into the fog.

The stars have changed, time has passed, the scene has changed several times, and when Xu Chu opened his eyes again, he saw the sound of slashing and killing all over the courtyard, as well as the endless ground stained red with blood. She seemed to smell a disgusting smell of rust, but all the horrific scenes could not reach the distance a few steps in front of her, a girl who was staggering and crying for her mother was facing a butcher's knife stained with the blood of her relatives......

In the cold, Xu Chu only felt a sudden warmth on his body, and suddenly woke up.

When I woke up, I found that I was tired of lying on the outside of the bed, asleep on top of a pile of files. The panic in her heart had not yet dissipated, and she seemed to notice that there was something more on her body.

When she looked down, she saw that someone was wearing a warm cloak. Xu is made of woven fur, which is light but extremely comfortable and warm.

Xu Chu hurriedly looked behind him, and through the tulle screen separated from the outside, he vaguely saw an elegant and calm figure looking down at something.

She got up suddenly, and suddenly her leg went numb, and she actually fell to the ground again. Thanks to the hibiscus carpet on the ground, I don't feel uncomfortable. The leg was sore, numb and swollen, and she realized that she had been kneeling on the ground for most of the night, and she was afraid that some blood was blocked.

And the figure sitting upright outside didn't seem to be disturbed by her small movements, which also made Xu Chu secretly relieved, and just carefully pressed the acupuncture points on his legs and feet.

When Xu Chu saw Xiao Qinglang again, he saw that he had green hair tied up, although he was still in a brocade robe, he lost his incomparably noble temperament in the past, but a little more bookish. Sure enough, no matter where he is or what clothes he wears, he has eye-catching capital.

But thinking about it, Xu Chu still bowed steadily.

"You go to Wu's house first, and then this king will go to Liulin Village with you." Xiao Qinglang looked at Xu Chu with a smile in his eyes, paused and said, "If you need a candle, just order someone to prepare at night." ”

Suddenly, a thin layer of powder rose on Xu Chu's slightly white face. The face that was not bright was actually a little more attractive because of this. Xiao Qinglang's eyes flashed, but soon he seemed to see the annoyed look on Xu Chu's face, and explained a little uncomfortably: "At that time, Rui Niang came to call you, and when I saw that you hadn't woken up yet, I went into the inner room to check it, and took out the palace lamp in your hand." ”

Xiao Qinglang didn't mean anything about Meng Lang, but just reminded him that he didn't know anything until he understood that Xu Chu was afraid that he had misunderstood that he had entered the woman's inner room.

He stood upright, stood with his hands in his hands, and his glory was self-sufficient. It's just that if you don't have that embarrassment in your eyes, you may be more calm.

After Xiao Qinglang left, Xu Chu realized that what he had been reading was a codex written by himself. When he got it back, he found that in addition to the codex, there were several pieces of tissue paper, on which there were records of different comments and opinions on the codex he had written.

However, she didn't come to think about it carefully, thinking that she had gone to Wu's house earlier to investigate the case, so she asked someone to bring hot water and wash up in a hurry.

Although the Wu family is also in business and has opened a pawnshop, it is really a small business compared to the Li family. Even if it is a house, it is just an alley in Yunzhou City near the north of the city. Although it is also in Yunzhou City, it is far away from the downtown area, but fortunately, the house covers a large enough area and is worth a lot of silver.

When Xu Chu arrived at Wu's house, he met Wu Song's wife and children returning from going out. I saw that although the two of them were sad, it was a few days since Wu Song's accident, and their mood had already recovered, so there was no vicissitudes of the previous two families.

The two of them are sturdy and dressed in plain white clothes, even if they are not filial piety clothes, but they also observe filial piety etiquette. And Sun Ning, the surviving person, wore white flowers on his head, and there was no bright color on his body.

"Are you two going shopping?" Xu Chu's gaze wandered, passing over Wu Song's son Wu Yong and his wife Sun Ning. Her gaze paused in Sun Ning's hair first, and she glanced meaningfully at the small golden hairpin in her bun. Then he looked at the things in the hands of the two of them without a trace.

The dim sum of the Yunjia dim sum shop in the city, as well as the Huadiao wine of the Liu family wine shop, seems to have a few pieces of cloth......

"After my father's accident, my mother has been depressed, and today the weather is getting colder, so I took my mother out to relax a little. It's just that my mother didn't want to play, so I hurriedly bought some food and came back. Compared with the obvious rejection on Sun Ning's face, Wu Yong was much easier to speak.

"Yong'er, what are you doing nonsense with her, how many days has your father been dead, and the government has tossed back and forth without any toss, I really can't figure out how she still has the face to dare to come to the door with the identity of an official." Sun Ning glared at Xu Chu in annoyance, "I advise you to go where you should go, who doesn't know that the master was asked for his life by the evil ghost, if you continue to be entangled like this, who knows if the evil ghost will come back to take revenge!" ”

After speaking, she reached out and dragged her son into the yard. As for Xu Chu, before he stepped into the threshold, he directly ate the closed door.

Xu Chu glanced thoughtfully at the gate of the Wu family, but he did not regret that he could not enter the door to ask questions. In fact, in her opinion, the surviving members of the Wu family have already given the answer she wants most.

Wu Song......

In the Yunjia dim sum shop, the young man was boringly wiping the table to pass the time. It rained for half the night last night, and the sparse and sparse lack of fun made the business of the shop cold in the first half of today.

He had barely yawned when he saw a tall, slender figure carrying him into the shop. The man was probably in a hurry, and there was still a little dampness on his body, and on the pale cyan Luo skirt, there were several extremely primitive hibiscus flowers splashed with ink, looming between the glittering movements, as if the fairy in the painting.

The young man was stunned for a moment, and when the person arrived, he hurriedly blushed and asked earnestly, "Does the girl want any snacks?" ”

Xu Chu couldn't help but smile when he saw that the young man was stunned. It's just that she smiled, but it made the other party more and more red-faced.

"Little brother, I'm from the yamen, and I want to ask my little brother a few words." As she spoke, she took out the token and shook it in front of the fellow's eyes.

can be a buddy in Yunzhou City, and can still be independent, more of them have a bit of eyesight. The sign of the Criminal Department was often seen in the city in the past, so the young man naturally recognized it. He was still flustered, but when he saw that Xu Chu was smiling gently, he didn't have contempt and harshness, and his heart slowly settled.

"If you ask, my lord, the little people must know everything."

"Half an hour ago, did Young Master Wu of the Wu family's pawnshop in Yunzhou City buy snacks in the shop?"

"Ao, you said that Wu used Young Master Wu, he bought four catties of dim sum with different flavors." The fellow replied without thinking.

It's not because there is not much business half a year ago that he remembers clearly, it's really that the young master of the Wu family buys four catties of dim sum, and there are only two people in the family, no matter how you look at it, it will make people feel that they have bought too much. He also mentioned two sentences at the time, saying that if he thought the Yun family's dim sum was delicious, it would be better to come more.

At that time, the young master of the Wu family seemed to be a little irritable, and he didn't answer his words at all, but only urged him to wrap it up quickly, and then left in a hurry.

Then Xu Chu went to find the Liu family's wine shop again, and after several inquiries, he knew that Young Master Wu did not drink alcohol for a long time, but his father Master Wu was soaked in the wine vat all the year round, and he was a living drunkard.

"It's a pity to say that Master Wu came to our wine shop the night before the accident, and he also brought a fellow villager or some relative to come over at that time." The liquor shop guy shook his head as he wiped the dripping liquor from the vat. At that time, he still felt strange, Master Wu was from Lin Luo's satin, how could he have relatives wearing coarse linen shirts.

"Oh? Can the little brother see the man's face clearly? Hearing that Wu Song had taken out the wine that day instead of going to the restaurant to eat, Xu Chu's eyes couldn't help but light up. No wonder they searched for many days, looking for a needle in a haystack and asking all the restaurants and restaurants in Yunzhou City that sold seafood, but they couldn't find a place for Wu Song to eat that day.

Unexpectedly, he brought his own meals.

"I didn't see clearly, but I saw that the man was carrying a lot of objects in the water. When Mr. Wu came out of the wine shop, I still heard him tell him with a smile that day, those things are all home-raised, fresh and very ......" The young man frowned and thought hard for a long time, and finally shook his head and said that he really couldn't remember any more, "This is the next day when Mr. Wu had an accident, I only remembered, otherwise I can remember clearly where I remember the people coming and going in the shop every day." ”

But that's the case, Xu Chu is also very satisfied. Wu Song ate seafood and drank wine that day, but who was with him? Why didn't it appear again after the incident, and when the yamen asked, the Wu family didn't mention it?

For the rest of the cloth, Xu Chu didn't see which family's industry it was at that time, so he looked for several cloth houses in turn. It wasn't until the end that I found out that Mrs. Wu had bought a few new autumn clothes and bought a few pieces of cloth with a dull red color, but I didn't know whether she wanted to cut clothes for her son or use them at home.

It hasn't been long since the husband's accident, and it also involves evil spirits asking for his life, if ordinary people encounter it, they have to be very cautious if they are not frightened. Just like the Zhang family, the house is quiet, but there are charms all around, and incense ashes and other things to ward off evil spirits are poured on the ground.