Yushu was pondering, and then heard Liao Qi say in a deep voice: "Qian, as far as this official knows, you are not only the Zhang family's case. You committed that murder in Kyoto, and you thought no one was going to pursue it? ”

Homicide case?

Zhang and Yushu looked at Qian with their mouths wide open in disbelief. Even Zhang Xiaoyue stopped her tears, as if she didn't understand what Liao Qi said, and stared at Qian in a daze and couldn't speak.

Qian's eyes were full of tears, and with her unreasonable temperament, she couldn't even say a word.

How long ago was that? Decade? Fifteen years?

It's been almost sixteen years. Sure enough, An's birthday is used to it, and his memory is poor. Qian never dreamed that Liao Qi would know.

She was seventeen that year, and Ning Yong was fourteen. It is the age of youth and love.

"Sixteen years ago, you killed Ding Wen in the suburbs of Kyoto, and after that, you fled Kyoto and came to Yongnian County......"

It turned out that the man's name was Ding Wen. For so many years, Qian still didn't know his name. Qian bit his lower lip lightly, his eyes showing hatred. It is not a pity that the thief died, if he could, the Qian family would kill him a thousand times and ten thousand times.

"Qian, if you don't instruct Wu Er to commit a crime, if this official doesn't investigate deeply, he won't find out that you are a wanted criminal by the imperial court. Perhaps, you will have a good end in your life. It's only you who blame you, you were born to hurt others, but in the end you hurt yourself. This official has confirmed that when you were a maid in Ningfu, your name was Liangsi. After you killed Ding Wen, Ning Yong reported it truthfully to the government. Even the portrait of you wanted was painted by his own hand. It's a shame that you still call him Ning Lang, and he doesn't have the slightest pity for you. ”

Qian smiled calmly, gathered his sideburns, and without waiting for Liao Qi to ask, he told the story more calmly: "That day, Ning Lang and I went out of the house to play, and I didn't bring my family. In the wilderness, Na Ting Boon and his subordinates were rude to me, and in a hurry, I struck that man on the head with a stone. Afterward...... There was a lot of blood, and there was a lot of blood. I was terrified. Ning Lang was also frightened. He was only fourteen years old, and he had never seen such a scene when he had been practicing and reading all day. Speaking of the fourteen-year-old boy Ning Yong, the corners of Qian's mouth twitched, as if he was smiling, "If someone died, I was afraid of death, so I ran away and never returned to Kyoto." I did it. Nothing to do with anyone else! I just want to die quickly, one life for another. ”

Every word of the Qian family hit Zhang Xiaoyue's already fragile nerves, and finally broke out when the Qian family begged for death. She shouted hysterically: "Death quickly? You beg for a quick death, but what about me? What should I do? ”

Qian sighed, raised his hand to caress her cheeks full of tears, and was heartbroken, "My son, from childhood to adulthood, A-Niang taught you how to calculate so as not to suffer losses, and how to bully others. Perhaps, A-Niang is wrong......"

Zhang Xiaoyue broke free of Qian's hand and cried: "If you don't calculate and don't bully our orphans and widows, you have to be calculated and bullied by others!" What's wrong with us?! ”

Faced with Zhang Xiaoyue's questioning, Qian was speechless for a while.

Liao Qi roughly understood the living conditions of Qian's mother and daughter from Zhang Xiaoyue's few words, perhaps the good thoughts of more than ten years ago were definitely not like today's Qian's. Because he has killed someone, he broke the jar and broke it, and he became hateful, or is it his nature?

For a long time, Zhang especially hated Zhang Xiaoyue. Six years ago, I hated Zhang Xiaoyue for the first time I saw her. At that time, Xiaoyue was only seven or eight years old, but Zhang couldn't see innocence and kindness in her eyes at all, and she didn't resemble her honest and simple eldest brother at all.

At this moment, Zhang realized that Zhang Xiaoyue's blank paper had been smeared with too much jealousy, sophistication and shrewdness by Qian, so that he had grown into the disgusting appearance he is now.

This case is far easier to try than Liao Qi imagined. The evidence he prepared, before the witnesses could use it, he asked Qian to confess his guilt and submit to the law in a few words, and Liao Qi shouted happily in his heart.

Someone took the mouth to supply the Qian family with a painting. Qian didn't hesitate at all, stretched out his hand to dip it in the ink, and pressed it down.

The bright red fingerprints on the paper fulfilled the green and hazy love when he was young, and the rest, Qian didn't have the strength to think about it. People always have to die, and she is willing to die for Ning Lang.

The backyard of the county government.

The summer breeze was faint, and every trace was stuffy. This rain has been brewing for many days and has not fallen.

Still three pairs of chopsticks. Liao Qi sat opposite Tian Uchi.

The waiter in the field was dressed in a blue lotus-colored brocade shirt, with his fine skin and tender meat, showing a bit of bookishness. The wine glass was pinched on the fingertips, and he kept rubbing it, and said with a little worry: "Chengyou, are you too risky to do this?" ”

"Oh? How so? Liao Qi gave him a few pieces of fish, and said leisurely: "Seeing you wearing this, it reminds me of the time when we were studying, I have a similar piece, and you always borrow it to wear it." ”

"I accidentally scratched your piece, and I said I would compensate you, but I didn't pay for it. In a flash, how many years have it been. "With that, raise a glass and drink it all.

"It's just a piece of clothing, and you can still think about it. But seriously, you look good in it. The smile in Liao Qi's eyes was fleeting, and he said with regret: "If you don't enter the palace, how good." ”

"I'm the best candidate. That's what you thought at the time. ”

"yes. It's all my fault. If you say those things after drinking, if you ...... in the first place"

"Chengyou, I'm just saying now that if it's too late. Look at me, now I'm the Tian Uchi servant, you are Liao Zhixian, a few of us, but Ting Xian is the most comfortable. The waiter in the field sprinkled the wine he had just poured into the soil, and said wistfully: "Tingxian, try the white bar in Yongnian County." Maybe, Chengyou will roll up and go back to his hometown in a few days. ”

Liao Qi was not only not annoyed when he heard this, but he couldn't stop laughing, "Didn't you spend a lot of time buying Ning Yong's secret this time?" How? Regretted it so quickly? ”

"Regrets? Even if I regret it, I didn't sell regret medicine! ”

"I heard that your building is very expensive, and it costs a lot, right?"

Tanuchi shook his head, "I didn't spend a single one." ”

"What? How can it be? Liao Qi was surprised and almost sprayed wine.

Your building specializes in collecting and selling the privacy of dignitaries, and according to those who have bought it, some will even charge sky-high prices. If you want to say that you didn't spend money, Liao Qi naturally didn't believe it.

"They want something more valuable than silver."

"What?"

"Secret."

Liao Qi was displeased, and just wanted to open his mouth to express his dissatisfaction, he immediately understood, "Secret for secret? ”

"Hmm."

"Tell me about it."

"Knowing that it will increase the danger and the trouble, why bother." The waiter put down his glass, lowered his eyes and sighed, "Alas, it's a big secret." The sound was like a gnat, and it was easily drowned out by the crisp cries of the crickets in the courtyard, but Liao Qi still heard it. He understands that this topic should be closed here.

The two of them are connected by the same fate, and there are secrets that should not be asked and cannot be told.

The helplessness of life and brotherhood are all based on this.