"Nope! The girl was wrong! ”

"I was wrong! What's wrong? ”

"The girl is right, I died before sunset that day, but I did not die at the time of the fire, but before the fire!"

"Dead before the fire?" Xing Ruyi held his chin, glanced at the fox, and spit out two words: "Murder!" ”

Ji Yu nodded.

"I was uneasy that day, and I always felt that something was going to happen. When I got home, the feeling of unease became more and more severe. As the old saying goes, it's better to believe what you have than what you don't have, and if what the Taoist priest says is true, what should I do? So after thinking about it, he took his hair, took 20 grains of rice, wrapped them in red cloth, and went back to find the Taoist priest surnamed Mo. I thought, a grain of rice is a year, twenty grains of rice, is twenty years, so I can see the child grow up, see the mother someone to take care of, even if my soul is scattered, I can go with peace of mind. Before leaving, I also took one of my mother's jade bracelets, which was the only relic her mother had left her. Originally, I had it with me, but because I had to help with the fish farm, I took it down and kept it for the time being. I thought that even if she looked for someone else in the future, this jade bracelet would never be lost. ”

"What happened after the soul seal ended?"

"The soul seal is over, and my anxious heart has not been born for a moment. When he returned home, he was also restless, so he took a knife and went to kill the fish. I remember that it was already midday, and in half an hour, the fish village would open its doors. I killed two, and Master Shen is here! ”

"Master Shen?" Xing Ruyi was very sensitive to this surname, because she remembered that Li Xiuxian had said that his adoptive father was surnamed Shen. Is there really such a coincidence in the world?

"That's right! Shen Yubai! He was also the previous owner of my fish farm, and my fish farm was bought from him. ”

"The rice grain shop owner?"

"That's him! At that time, the flood had just passed, and the ground was full of floats, and although there was a shortage of food, it was also expensive. That Master Shen is not from Luoyang, he is from Jiangnan, and his original intention was to make a windfall by taking advantage of the disaster year, but he did not expect to be suppressed by the local rice and grain merchants, and the business could not be done. He had no choice but to transfer the rice grain store at a low price and return to Jiangnan. I bought this shop from him, and it cost me one-tenth of the price on weekdays, which is a huge bargain.

Seeing that it was him, I was not wary of it, so I talked to him. He asked me about the business of the fish farm, and I said 1510, he said that he wanted to run it with me, I thought about it, but I didn't agree. As soon as the business of my fish farm is acceptable, I don't have the intention of making it bigger, because I know that once this business is bigger, people will be busier, and they will not take care of my wife and the child who will be born in her womb. Master Shen is a businessman, and if I cooperate with him, he will definitely not allow me to sell fish at a low price. My fish farm, to be honest, is also supported by poor people, they don't dislike the fish I make, they are willing to take care of my business, and they also help me publicize it everywhere, I can't forget them just because my fish farm's business is good. I am the son of a fisherman, and I have never been to school since I was a child, so I can't say so many big truths, but my father and mother have taught me a sentence since I was a child, saying that people must not forget their roots. ”

"It's a pity that that Master Shen may not know what you think in your heart."

"I don't know what he was thinking, but I could tell he was upset. At that time, my heart was also confused, and the tone of my speech was not very good, so as I talked, the two of them argued. Later, the fish-killing knife stabbed me in the body. At first, I felt very painful, and it was dark in front of me, and when I woke up again, I was already in the jade bracelet, and I only saw my lady's sad face, but I didn't know why? I called out to her, but she couldn't hear her, and that's when I realized that I was dead. ”

"The pool where fish are raised" Xing Ruyi quickly searched in his mind: "Your fish village is now Siniang's wine shop." After the fire twenty years ago, that place was almost flat. A businessman surnamed Li bought it, and after renovation, it was sold again, and it was bought by Siniang's husband and turned into the current liquor store. But I didn't see any ponds in that yard, but a ghost tree was planted in the yard a few years ago. ”

Xing Ruyi closed his eyes and used ghost magic to probe Ji Yu's ghost sense. This is a kind of tracking technique, as long as the soul of the deceased is still there, then just a soul and a soul, you can also find out the past of the deceased. It's just that the effort is too much, and under normal circumstances, Xing Ruyi is unwilling to use it. After all, the more you know other people's secrets, sometimes it can become a burden to yourself.

In Xing Ruyi's mind, the shape of a courtyard gradually appeared. The courtyard is square, and there is a small two-story building in front of it, which is relatively simple. The original layout should be to sell rice and grain on the first floor, and use the second floor as a warehouse. After being bought by Jiyu, it became a place to eat. A few tables and a dozen stools, simple and refreshing.

Behind is the living quarters, which are also relatively simple, with a kitchen on the left and a wing room on the right, and next to the kitchen, is a simple pool. The pool, to be honest, was built a little ugly, with a small amount of green bricks, and a lot of rubble and pebbles. In itself, there is no shape, whether it is round or not, whether it is square or not, but it is no problem to store the fish caught the day before. Xing Ruyi shook his head, the courtyard dispersed like smoke, and in an instant, it changed into the appearance of the fourth mother's wine shop, and the two courtyards completed an overlap in Xing Ruyi's mind.

Siniang said that when her family bought this yard, a mulberry tree was planted in the yard, and it was planted near the courtyard wall. In Xing Ruyi's mind, the place where the tree was built happened to be the place where the pool was built twenty years ago.

Xing Ruyi opened his eyes, looked at the fox and said, "I think I know!" ”

"Got it?" The fox looked at her with a smile and asked.

"I know why every time I go to the courtyard of Si Niang's house, I always feel that the yin qi there is a little heavy."

"Why?"

"Because of that pool twenty years ago!" Xing Ruyi said, and his eyes fell on Ji Yu: "There is an old folk saying, don't plant mulberry in the front, don't plant willows in the back, and don't plant ghosts in the courtyard to clap your hands." I originally thought that the yin qi of the Siniang family was left by the mulberry tree, but now it seems that there is a murder buried there. ”

"Homicide?" Ji Yu let out a low cry, because he had realized that the murder in Xing Ruyi's mouth was talking about himself.

"I still remember Siniang said that after the fire in Yuzhuang, the people in the government did not find Jiyu's body in Yuzhuang, and because of this, there were rumors that he eloped with someone. But just now Ji Yu had already said that he had been killed by Boss Shen long before the fish village caught fire. When Ji Yu was killed, it was the middle of the day, and the fish farm had not yet opened for business, so there was no open flame. The proprietress , that is, Jiyu's wife, went out to buy at the time and was not at home. How did this fire ignite? Obviously, this was a deliberate arson to cover up the cause of Ji Yu's death. ”

"According to what you say, the officials of the government should have found Ji Yu's body a long time ago, why can't they find it?" The fox was still smiling, but there was a little smugness in his eyes, because he found that his wishful thinking seemed to be more and more talented in catching fast.

"It's easy! Because the catchers of those mansions did not look for it wholeheartedly, firstly, because the fire almost destroyed the entire fish village, secondly, that Master Shen would definitely be working in secret, and thirdly, these so-called fast catchers, unless they met a serious and responsible catcher like Brother Chang, otherwise the matter of treating ordinary people would basically be solved perfunctory. Finally, this is also very important. The predecessor of this fish village was Master Shen's rice grain shop, and he must be very familiar with the layout of the shop. I estimated that there must have been something wrong with the fish digging in the pool, so after he killed the fish, he buried the body of the fish in the pool. ”

"Why are you so sure?"

"Because of this lonely soul in front of you!" Xing Ruyi pointed to Ji Yu: "Although there is only a wisp of lonely soul left, it is wet and greasy, and the ghost qi is mixed with a fishy smell." Originally, I didn't think about it so much, after all, this Ji Yu was born in fishing, and in the description of Mrs., it was also mentioned that on the day of the fire in the fish village, Ji Yu had water vapor on his body, so it was normal to have these incidental circumstances after death. But he was murdered, and his body was not found after his death, coupled with the evil aura in Siniang's backyard, I am almost certain that Jiyu's body is on the site of the mulberry tree, that is, the place where the pool was piled up twenty years ago. I also have a relatively bold conjecture that after the fire in Yuzhuang, the mysterious businessman Boss Li, who had never shown his face, but had the audacity to buy the scorched land, may be the murderer Master Shen, who deliberately planted a mulberry tree in the place where the murderer buried the corpse, just to use the ghostly breath of the mulberry tree to cover the grievances of the deceased. It was also his luck that Ji Yu had signed a contract to seal the soul with Mo Xu You long before he was murdered, and among the three souls and seven souls, one soul and one soul had been taken away by Mo Xuyou, and all the ones born were sealed, so there was only a small amount of breath left in that place, and even I went to Xing Ruyi many times, and I didn't see it. ”

"My family's Ruyi inference is really reliable, but the rest of the matter, should it be handed over to your eldest brother Chang to deal with. After all, investigating unjust cases, tracking down murderers, and exhuming corpses are all things that should be done in the yamen. The fox tapped his hand on the table, but his eyes fell on Ruyi's face. If you look closely, you may be able to smell the slightest hint of vinegar from the fox's mouth.

Xing Ruyi nodded, turned around, wrapped his arms around the fox's neck, and said flatteringly: "That kind of hard work, of course, must be handed over to the people in the yamen to do, but there is one thing, my fox must come out!" ”

"What?" The fox raised his eyebrows, and felt very useful for the four words of the fox.

"I suspect that Master Shen, Shen Yubai is Li Xiuxian's adoptive father, that is, the husband that Ji Yuniang married later. There may be something else behind the murder of that year. And that nonsense, don't you think he has played too many times? ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)