Xing Ruyi quietly gave the fox a look, and asked the fox to use a spell to the roof to restrain the thief who dared to peep into her cave room, and she quietly came to the courtyard to prevent the other dog's dog from jumping off the wall and slipping away. After the two finished communicating, the fox was about to cast a spell, but suddenly heard Chang Tai shouting outside the window: "Who is it?" ”

Immediately after, Xing Ruyi and the fox heard a very familiar voice mixed with pain. Before she had time to think about it, she broke out with the fox. There was an object falling in front of him, followed by the sound of the heavy object falling to the ground.

"It's a cow!"

Although she didn't see the person's face clearly, from her figure and the smell on her body, Xing Ruyi could still tell that it was her young man who had just fallen from the roof, and it was also the shopkeeper she had prepared for the Yun family's Ruyi Rouge Shop branch. But at this time, Ah Niu was lying motionless on the ground, and a pool of red blood was slowly flowing out of the back of his head.

"Ah Niu!" Xing Ruyi quickly ran to Ah Niu: "Brother Chang, hurry, my medicine box is in the shop." ”

"It's useless, he's dead!"

Chang Tai got up from Ah Niu's side, looked at Xing Ruyi's eyes and shook his head.

"How so?" Xing Ruyi looked at the place where Ah Niu landed, and then turned to look at the house behind him: "Ah Niu, although he is just a young man, he has also practiced with Li Mao for a few days. Don't you say that he is young and strong, and he is resistant to fighting and falling, even if he is a few years older, he will not fall to his death if he rolls off this roof?"

"Ah Niu, he ......" Chang Tai hesitated for a moment, but still said his guess: "He shouldn't have fallen to his death." ”

"Didn't you fall to your death?" Xing Ruyi repeated a look at the fox.

The fox jumped down from the roof, and when Ruyi looked at him, he said, "There is no trace of the second person on the roof." ”

Xing Ruyi nodded, calmed down a little, and walked around from behind Ah Niu to the front of him.

Originally, she thought that Ah Niu had stumbled and fell from the roof, because when she fell, her head hit the ground, causing her instant death. But it wasn't until he saw Ah Niu's face that Xing Ruyi understood what Chang Tai meant by what he said just now. No one who falls to his death will bleed to death.

Xing Ruyi slowly squatted down, and gently closed Ah Niu's still wide open eyes with his hand, but when the palm of his hand fell on his forehead, it suddenly stopped. After the person dies, the soul does not leave immediately, but stays in the body of the deceased for a while, and the exact length of stay varies from person to person. It can take as little as two or three sips of tea, and as many as seven or eight days, and if you encounter that kind of slow and slow man, it is estimated that until the corpse begins to decompose, you will realize that he is a dead man, and he will force his soul to leave his body because of fear.

Since Ah Niu fell to the present, Xing Ruyi and the fox have both seen Ah Niu's soul, according to common sense, Ah Niu's soul should still stay in his body, but just now, when Xing Ruyi touched his forehead, he felt the desolation in his body, which was a cold, lonely, empty feeling.

She raised her head, looked at the fox, and said, "Ah Niu's soul is gone!" ”

The fox's pupils gathered slightly, and he didn't need to say the second sentence without punishing Ruyi, and disappeared in front of Chang Tai.

Chang Tai's eyes immediately darkened.

Xing Ruyi's heart was completely entangled in Ah Niu, and he didn't notice the change in Chang Tai's eyes. After the fox left, she lowered her head and followed the steps of the previous examination of the body, trying to find out the real cause of Ah Niu's death as calmly as possible.

Chang Tai was uncharacteristically and did not examine the body with her as before. Xing Ruyi didn't care, after all, she was already a wife, and in her heart, Brother Chang might be trying to avoid suspicion. It's just that when she hears Chang Tai's question, she will still answer quickly without thinking as before, and she will naturally tell Chang Tai the results of her inspection.

"Fox, where did he go?"

"I'm going to find Ah Niu's soul."

"Does he know where to look?"

"There are only two situations in which the soul is out of the body, one is when an accident occurs, because the soul is frightened out of the body because of excessive fright. Since Ah Niu is dead, his soul cannot come back, and at this moment, he may be wandering. According to the principle that the soul should not be too far away from the body, Ah Niu's soul should also be near here.

The second type is the soul that has been hooked by someone, whether it is the person who is waiting for the opportunity to assassinate Ah Niu, or the yin of the underworld, as long as the soul is hooked, there will be traces. Now, I only hope that Ah Niu's soul was taken away by the passing misfortune. Even if we can't bring Ah Niu back to life, at least we can ask why he climbed onto our roof at this dawn, and how he was killed? ”

"Perhaps...... Ah Niu, he just wants to listen to the root of the wall. ”

Xing Ruyi shook his head.

"Folk customs, there are indeed the customs of newlyweds getting married, relatives making trouble and listening to the roots of the wall. But Ah Niu is different, she is not a relative of me and the fox, but a young man in my shop, and she has always been respectful and polite to me and the fox. Even if you want to make trouble, you will only come openly, and you will not do this kind of thing secretly. You know, my temper is very average, and although foxes rarely lose their temper, if they do get angry, the consequences will be very serious. Ah Niu is a clever person and will never do such a thing. Taking a step back, even if Ah Niu is curious, he will choose to listen to the root of the wall last night, not at this time. ”

The hour that Xing Ruyi said was the hour when she and the fox were about to get up. Even if she was newly married to the fox, she would inevitably lie in bed, but it was close to dawn at this time, and as long as she was not a fool, she would not choose to climb the roof at this time. Besides, listening to the root of the wall is not such a way to listen.

Chang Tai didn't answer, and seeing that Xing Ruyi was only focused on Ah Niu's face, he asked again: "What did you find?" ”

"It's a little weird." Xing Ruyi repeatedly checked Ah Niu's facial features: "If it was just a stumble and a fall, Ah Niu's expression should be more fear than pain, after all, he was already dead the moment he landed." It was a very short time, so short that he probably didn't feel any pain. But Brother Chang, you see, Ah Niu's expression is obviously an expression of extreme pain. It was because of his pain that he suddenly fell from the roof and died. ”

Xing Ruyi said, looking up at the roof. Due to her height, all she could see at the moment was the crushed tiles when Ah Niu stumbled and rolled down.

"Brother Chang, you say, if Ah Niu was poisoned, how did this murderer poison? The fox said that he didn't find the second trace on the roof, it couldn't be that Ah Niu poisoned himself himself, right? ”

"I remember Ruyi you said that corpses can speak, but in terms of inspecting corpses and letting the deceased speak, Brother Chang is not as good as you. In this case, you can check it here, and I'll go to Ah Niu's room to check and see if there are any new clues. ”

"Good!"

Xing Ruyi bowed his head in response, and carefully inspected Ah Niu's body, except for the abrasions and falls on the surface of the skin caused by the fall just now, Xing Ruyi did not find any special injuries. She thought about it, plucked the silver hairpin from her head, and stabbed it into Ah Niu's throat and stomach respectively.

The silver hairpin was pulled out, but there was nothing abnormal, which showed that Ah Niu was not poisoned. It is not poisoning, and why does this symptom of bleeding from the seven orifices after poisoning occur. Could it be that the person who poisoned her was a high-ranking person, and the methods used were not those she had known before.

Thinking of this, Xing Ruyi suddenly felt a little powerless. She looked at Ah Niu, who was still lying on the ground, waiting for her to find out the answer, got up, and went to Ah Niu's room. Perhaps, Brother Chang can find new clues.

The door of Ah Niu's house was ajar.

Because this house was temporarily purchased by the fox, at the beginning of the purchase, it was just for marriage. According to their previous plan, after getting married, Xing Ruyi will hand over the Ruyi rouge shop to Ah Niu to take care of, and as for this house, it will also be given away. Ah Niu's age is not young, Xing Ruyi has been thinking about helping him find a family affair, and let him start a family earlier. Later, because of Yunxi, Yunzhu and the fact that he was going to get married, he was delayed.

In Ruyi Rouge Shop, everyone's bedrooms are next to each other. This house is spacious, before she entered the house yesterday, Aunt Lu made arrangements in advance, and divided the master's room, guest room and people's room, not only Ah Niu and Aunt Lu They live far away from themselves, even Yin Yuan was also planned by Aunt Lu on the grounds that he was an adult.

Therefore, Ah Niu's new bedroom is also unfamiliar to Xing Ruyi.

As soon as she reached the door, she smelled a special smell. The smell was faint, coming out of the house with the air current, but after a moment it was gone, and with it the smell of a new house.

Pushing open the door, I saw Chang Tai standing in front of the bed, motionless.

She called Brother Chang gently, but she didn't see Chang Tai respond, so she hurriedly walked over: "Brother Chang!" Brother Chang, are you okay? ”

"Ruyi?" Chang Tai came back to his senses, looked at Xing Ruyi's eyes and was slightly stunned for a while, and his tense face immediately stretched: "Why are you here?" Fox he, is he back? ”

Xing Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief, and before he could answer, his eyes turned red first. She clenched her fist and smashed it on Chang Tai's body, tears falling down her eyes, and she sniffed and said, "Brother Chang, you were about to scare me to death just now." I called you at the door, but you stood motionless, not even making a sound. I almost thought it was ...... Thought it was ......"

"Think I'm like Ah Niu?"

Chang Tai asked in a low voice, but his eyes followed the tears that kept falling from Xing Ruyi, and somewhere in his heart was slightly pulled, and it hurt.

"Ruyi, I'm sorry!"

As he spoke, he involuntarily stretched out his hand and hugged Xing Ruyi into his arms.

Xing Ruyi wiped his tears with his hands while pushing Chang Tai away.

"It's good to know I'm sorry! Ah Niu's death is sad enough for me, if that person is replaced by Brother Chang, Ruyi doesn't know what will happen to him. Brother Chang, promise Ruyi, you must be good, will you succeed? ”

"Ruyi, I'm sorry!"

Chang Tai repeated again, with helpless apologies in his eyes. He knew in his heart that his apologies were not just because he didn't respond in time just now, but because of something else.

Xing Ruyi didn't think deeply, she clenched her fists again, slapped Chang Tai's body lightly, and then said, "Forget it, I don't blame you." As long as you are good, I don't blame you, who called you my eldest brother. ”

With that, he went to the bed, and set his eyes on the neatness of the bed, which no one seemed to have slept on.

(Education 123 Literature Network)