Xing Ruyi never expected that the cook next to Zhu still had such an inextricable relationship with Zhu, and the cause of Zhu's death became more and more confusing, which made Xing Ruyi, who had always been curious, feel as uncomfortable as a cat's claw in his heart.

She thought it would be nice if Brother Chang was still there. Although Chang Tai is only a catcher in Luoyang, the capital of the gods, he is an official in the capital, and he is bigger than the local government. If he is there, even if he can't do the case, he can find out some inside information.

I was bored, so I fell asleep on the carriage. The road was bumpy, coupled with a lot of worries, and I slept half-asleep and half-awake, dazed. When I woke up, I had returned to Yunjiaji, although the winter rain was dripping, but there were a lot of pedestrians on the street, compared to the silence in the mountains, there was a bit more lively fireworks.

The door of the rouge shop was wide open, but there were no customers inside. Also, on this cold winter day, except for those girls who are smiling and welcoming, who is willing to stretch out his hand from his sleeve to smear grease and powder to please him. She got out of the car in a daze, but heard Li Mao chuckling on the side, raised her head, and saw a familiar person standing in the thin winter rain.

"Brother Chang?"

Xing Ruyi didn't believe it at first, then rubbed his eyes, and when he opened it again, he found that under the eaves of the porch was not only standing Chang Tai, but also Yin Yuan, who was wrapped like a small ball.

Yin Yuan nibbled on the chicken leg and asked Chang Tai: "Is my Ruyi mother stupid, how can you see us with this expression?" Could it be that you met some evil in the mountains and were ecstasized? ”

Chang Tai didn't have any expression on his face at first, but when he heard Yin Yuan's words, he was a little more nervous, and when he saw that Xing Ruyi's clothes were stained with a lot of mud, he couldn't even bother to hold an umbrella, so he hurriedly walked over. When he came to him, he asked, "Are you okay?" Did you encounter something in the mountains? ”

The warm breath fell on Xing Ruyi's face through the winter rain, her nose was sore, her eyes were hot, and she wanted to cry inexplicably. endured it, but still didn't hold back, moved forward, and threw himself into Chang Tai's arms. His nasal voice was low, and he said aggrievedly: "Brother Chang, why did you come back so soon?" ”

Seeing Xing Ruyi rushing over, Chang Tai's reason told him that he should dodge, but his feet refused to move. The girl with a cold breath threw herself into her arms, her originally hard heart softened, but her body stiffened on the contrary. His hand was open, and he wanted to hug the delicate child in his arms hard, but after hesitating for a while, he still maintained the original state.

Chang Tai tried hard to make himself look more relaxed, a smile appeared on his face, he looked down at Xing Ruyi in his arms, and said, "Why is Brother Chang a little strange to listen to your words?" Are you blaming Brother Chang for coming back too quickly or too slowly? ”

Xing Ruyi sniffed and left Chang Tai's arms a little embarrassed.

"What about Siniang, did you send her back to Luoyang City safely?"

"Where's the bell? Has Siniang already buried her next to her brother? ”

"Siniang, do you blame me? If it weren't for my insistence on letting her and Bell accompany me to Qingqiu and watch me get married, Bell would not have died, and Siniang would not have returned to Luoyang alone. ”

"Ruyi" Chang Tai looked at Xing Ruyi, who was a little emaciated in front of him, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart: "Brother Chang has just come back, can you allow me to take a breath and answer all the questions you just asked." ”

"Good!" Xing Ruyi rarely replied obediently, which made Chang Tai's heart more and more uncomfortable.

"Ruyi, you listen carefully to what Brother Chang tells you." Chang Tai held Xing Ruyi's shoulders: "Siniang, she has returned to Luoyang safely, she is very good, she has reopened the wine shop, started a business, and everyone takes care of her." The bell has been buried in the ground, with her brother guarding her and accompanying her, she will not be lonely and lonely, nor will she be bullied. Siniang, she never blamed you from beginning to end. The bell incident was an accident, and we didn't want that accident to happen.

Do you know why Siniang chose to return to Luoyang with the bell? On the one hand, she wants to bury the bell in her homeland, on the other hand, she is worried about you, worried that you look at her every day, and will always think that the bell is worried that you will torture herself every day, and she will count the bell's death on herself and worry that you will feel guilty every day, and there is no way to go back to the previous punishment. Ruyi, Siniang, she feels sorry for you. ”

"Brother Chang!" Xing Ruyi's nose was sore, tears broke out of the frame, and she threw herself into Chang Tai's arms again and cried. Chang Tai sighed lightly, this time he did not hesitate, but gently hugged it with his hand, stood under the winter rain curtain, and quietly listened to the girl in his arms crying loudly and quietly crying.

Li Mao felt that he was a bit of an eyesore standing next to him, so he lightly moved himself to Yin Yuan's side, and then asked in a suppressed voice: "Little boy, you said that if Yin Ye saw this scene, would he blame the two of us?" ”

"No!" Yin Yuan licked the meat off the chicken leg and threw the chicken leg bone to Li Mao.

"Really? How do I feel that if our Yin Ye sees the shopkeeper rushing into Chang Daren's arms, he will be angry. ”

"That's why I said Daddy Fox, he won't blame the two of us." Yin Yuan raised his head and glanced at Li Mao, "He will only skin you alive." ”

"Why my skin?"

"Because I am the son of my mother, and the son of my fox father. Tiger poison does not eat children, haven't you heard Li Mao? ”

After Yin Yuan finished speaking, he stepped forward and walked towards the small kitchen.

"Little boy...... Ay...... Little boy, you wait for the little one. Then you tell the little one, what should the small one do in this situation now? You can't run to the shopkeeper and Chang and say: You can't be like this, my Yin Ye will be jealous and angry when he knows about it, right? ”

"Of course you can't say it, because if you say it, it will make my mother feel ugly, and Uncle Chang will feel embarrassed. According to my mother's temper, maybe she'll beat you up to hide her ugliness. ”

"It's over, I'll just say that it's not easy to do the work of people at the moment." Li Mao shook his head again and again, but he didn't want to go back to remind Xing Ruyi and Chang Tai at all, but followed Yin Yuan's footsteps into the small kitchen: "Little boy, can you also leave one for the little one." The little one went into the mountains to do hard work for most of the day, and he didn't even drink saliva. ”

"So pathetic?"

"Yes, the little ones are pitiful!"

"Since it's so pitiful, then don't eat chicken legs, there are two chickens in the backyard, you go and slaughter them. Leave the drumsticks for me, and yours for the rest. ”

In the small kitchen, Yin Yuan lifted the lid of the pot, looked at the empty casserole, and pointed to the two chickens still running in the backyard very generously.

Under the eaves, Xing Ruyi finally cried enough, and the emotions that had accumulated in his heart over the past few days seemed to have disappeared with this cry. She wiped her tears and looked at Chang Tai with two slightly red and swollen eyes that were crying.

"I'm sorry, Brother Chang, Ruyi let you see the joke."

"Stupid again, aren't you? Since you call me Brother Chang, how can I bear to look at you and feel uncomfortable. You were wronged and cried in front of me, I only felt distressed in my heart, and I didn't see jokes. Besides, Ruyi, even if you cry and have swollen eyes, you are still the best-looking girl in the world. ”

"Why did you just go back to Luoyang, Brother Chang, you will become able to speak." Xing Ruyi smiled and rubbed his eyes, "It's cold here, let's go back to the house and talk about it if we have something to say." By the way, have you encountered anything along the way? ”

"Nope! I heard Yin Yuan say, you have encountered some things in Yunjiaji, and those things still have something to do with your life experience? Because he didn't bring an umbrella, Chang Tai took off his coat and helped the torture Ruyi cover the distance back to the room from under the eaves. Xing Ruyi's mind at this time was not on himself, and he didn't pay attention to Chang Tai's actions, and when he returned to the room, he saw that he was up and down, and he was only stained with a shallow layer of water, and then he realized what Chang Tai had just done.

She was entangled in her heart, but she didn't say anything, just silently went to help Chang Tai get a change of dry clothes and help him cook a bowl of ginger soup to ward off the cold. In the spare time of busy work, the two of them did not talk less, Xing Ruyi asked Chang Tai about some of the circumstances on the way home to escort Siniang, and Chang Tai also asked Xing Ruyi about some things that happened after he left. When he heard Xing Ruyi talk about Mo You, and that what was going on behind Mo Xu You was related to the empress of the dynasty, he was only slightly stunned, but he didn't say anything, but when it came to Xing Ruyi's own "illness", he was even more nervous.

As he spoke, he came to the case of Zhu and the little beggar. In response to this case, Xing Ruyi expressed his views and the doubts in the case. Chang Tai only listened silently, looked into Xing Ruyi's eyes and said: "Judging from the analysis of the entire case, the little beggar in prison was indeed wronged, but who the person who murdered the Zhu family is still unknown. ”

"It's a little confusing." Xing Ruyi habitually tapped his fingers on the table: "After Zhu's death, as her husband, Wang Jiang's reaction was really flat, and on the night of the crime, his whereabouts are unknown, Wang Chong, the younger brother of one of the suspects, Wang Jiang, went to Wang Jiang's house on the night of the crime, and also saved the kitchen lady of the Wang family, belonging to the second suspect The cook next to the Zhu family belongs to the third suspect, if she is really the daughter of the village chief who framed the two sisters, then she has enough reasons to kill the Zhu family. ”

Chang Tai nodded: "I just heard from you that when this Zhu family was discovered, there were no embroidered shoes on his feet?" ”

As the first wave of witnesses at the scene of the crime, Ah Niu said this. He clearly remembered that Zhu only had one embroidered shoe on his foot at that time, and he was not wearing socks. ”

"Embroidered shoes can't go missing for no reason. At this time, it is not summer, and if Zhu goes out, he must wear shoes. Then the disappearance of the embroidered shoes may be related to her murder. Either it was left at the scene of the murder, or some evidence was hidden by the murderer on the embroidered shoes. Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, in the process of the murderer transferring and burying Zhu, he accidentally lost the shoe. Chang Tai stared: "No matter which of the above situations, this missing embroidered shoe can be regarded as the key evidence in this case." ”

"But the question is, how do we find this missing embroidered shoe?" Xing Ruyi frowned and muttered in a low voice: "Is it possible to use the old method to call this Zhu family's soul up from the underworld and ask her how she lost these shoes?" ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)