Zhang Tong didn't expect that he would leak his mouth one day, and even made Yun Sheng start to doubt his identity.

Shocked, Zhang Tong smiled, but in the next second, he felt a little eager to cover up, and his smile was stiff on his face, which was extremely weird.

Yun Sheng looked at him, took a deep breath, took a sip of hot tea, and said, "You have been in Fan County longer than me, and before I entered the Yamen, you were already a famous man here. For such a long time, if you did something, you should have done it a long time ago, and even if I tried to stop it now, I wouldn't be able to stop it, right? ”

"Blame me, I made the same mistake as you." Zhang Tong said, walked in front of Yun Sheng and sat down.

Yun Sheng also poured him a cup of hot tea, and smiled: "You just said that the woman was retribution." ”

"Yes."

Zhang Tong didn't refute, he glanced at the sky outside the courtyard wall, and the autumn was crisp.

"I sometimes think that if I had been more ruthless, maybe he wouldn't have died." Zhang Tong said, although Yun Sheng didn't understand, he could understand the grief and remorse in Zhang Tong's words.

He did not regret or sympathize with the woman's death at all, and even felt that she deserved it.

"If you had done it at the beginning, you wouldn't have been able to save the current red beans." Yun Sheng said in passing.

Zhang Tong nodded, took a sip of hot tea into his throat, and burned it all the way into his stomach, and the whole person was warm after a while, and he felt a lot more comfortable.

"It's a bit like ......" Zhang Tong chuckled, full of bitterness: "One life for another." ”

Yun Sheng didn't know what to say all of a sudden, what Zhang Tong had experienced before, she didn't know, she only knew that this woman's death made Zhang Tong let go of the hatred that had been buried in his heart for a long time.

"Do you still doubt me?" Zhang Tong asked suddenly.

Yun Sheng smiled and looked at Zhang Tong without speaking.

Zhang Tong raised his eyebrows: "I understand." ”

The two of them had nothing to say for a while, Yunsheng seemed to be suspicious of everyone now, but if she said the wrong word, she could study it for a long time, and Zhang Tong had no better explanation to clear herself.

"Are you going to suspect me anyway and start checking me?" Zhang Tong asked with a smile.

Yun Sheng shook his head: "I won't check on you, it's a waste of time and energy to check you, I'm not so idle." ”

Zhang Tong nodded: "It's not too stupid." ”

"Don't underestimate me, I was just blinded by lard before, which disturbed my vision and made me unable to see a lot of things. But now it's different, I've made it clear what I want to know the truth, you, the suspicious character who suddenly intervened, take a moment's time. ”

Zhang Tong suddenly became interested, supported his chin with both hands, and asked teasingly: "Then what if I am the kind of person who has been lurking for a long time and is trying to make ill intentions about the Fanxian County Ya?" ”

Yun Sheng gave him a blank look: "I believe in my own vision." ”

"Then I'm really honored."

"However, why have you been back for so long, and the second young master hasn't come back yet?" Because it was cold, Yun Sheng poured himself another cup of hot tea, and after taking a sip, his limbs were comfortable.

And Zhang Jiusheng was in Baishitang at this time, lying on Zhang Qiye's bed, holding the quilt, as long as he closed his eyes, his mind was full of the woman on the court smiling at him.

The woman's lips squirmed, and what she said, Zhang Jiusheng was too far away to see clearly, only knowing that the woman was telling him her name.

But Zhang Jiusheng couldn't hear it, and he couldn't understand it.

He closed his eyes, his eyelids hot.

When Zhang Qiye came in, he saw Zhang Jiusheng lying on his side, covered by the quilt, motionless.

"Sheng'er ......"

There was no one in the quilt to answer.

Zhang Qiye sat on the edge of the bed with a bowl of soothing tea, and gently patted Zhang Qiye with one hand, just like when he was a child, he coaxed Zhang Jiusheng to sleep.

"It's okay, she deserved to die."

Under the palm of his hand, Zhang Jiusheng's body moved slightly, but he didn't speak.

"In the end, she told you her way what her name was, and she believed you."

Zhang Jiusheng stretched out his hand and gently lifted the quilt a little, revealing a pair of eyes, looking in a certain direction blankly: "But I didn't hear what she said." ”

"I don't blame you, you know, in that case, she wants you to hear it, and at the same time she wants you not to hear it. In this way, it is already the best. ”

Actually, she still doesn't want you to know who she is. In her eyes, you are an innocent person, and your kindness may be the last bit of warmth in her world, and if you can get a kindness from a stranger before she dies, it is not a cold thing for her to die. Zhang Qiye said softly.

"I don't know her past, I don't know why she died for Hongdou, and I don't know what she went through to give up her life. How far does a person have to go to be so generous? ”

Zhang Qiye lowered his head, was silent for half a minute, and said: "If a person is only left in this world with hatred, or grief, or loneliness. Then only death should be a kind of liberation. ”

Zhang Jiusheng slowly tightened his palms and said nothing.

"Sheng'er, I made you a soothing tea, you get up and take a sip and then go to sleep, you are too tired these days and need to rest well." Zhang Qiye patted him a little harder, then lifted the quilt, grabbed one of Zhang Jiusheng's arms, and forcibly dragged him out of the bed.

The tea bowl was handed to his mouth, Zhang Jiusheng frowned, and drank it obediently.

"Okay, let's sleep, are you going to eat here today, or are you going back to the house?" Zhang Qiye stood up, took the empty bowl and prepared to leave.

Zhang Jiusheng thought for a while: "Here." ”

Zhang Qiye nodded, and left without saying anything.

In the end, it was Yunsheng who came to the door.

When Yun Sheng came, he was wrapped in the autumn breeze all the way, and as soon as he entered the door, there was a lot of coolness, so cold that the people in the room were also shivering, Zhang Jiusheng frowned and just wanted to scold, but when he looked back, it was Yun Sheng, and the anger on his face disappeared in an instant.

"Why are you here?" Zhang Jiusheng asked.

Yun Sheng didn't answer, turned around and closed the door first, the wind outside was blowing so hard that her face was about to freeze, it was only in autumn for a long time, why was it so cold? It seems that this year's winter will also come a little earlier.

She rubbed her hands and walked to the table, Zhang Qiye handed over a cup of hot tea, she held it in the palm of her hand, breathed a sigh of relief, and then spoke: "I have been waiting for you in the house for a long time, and seeing that you haven't come back, I wondered if you are in Baishitang, so I came to look for you." ”

"Something?"

"It's okay, I'm just a little worried."

When she was in the Yamen, when Yun Sheng heard Zhang Tong say that Zhang Jiusheng's situation was not very good, she was already very worried, waiting left and right in the Yamen, Zhang Jiusheng didn't come, and then said a few words to Zhang Tong, watching the sky getting darker and darker, she couldn't sit still.

Zhang Jiusheng's heart warmed, pulled Yun Sheng to sit down, and called someone to hand over the dishes and chopsticks: "I'm fine, I've been a little tired recently, so I've come to my eldest brother to rest for a while." ”

Yun Sheng looked at Zhang Qiye, Zhang Qiye nodded, and buried his head in eating.

"It's okay, I heard Zhang Tong say, when I cut red beans today, many people outside the court cried."

Zhang Jiusheng didn't know about this, he walked so fast that he almost ran away.

"Well, I also heard about this, when Hongdou was alive, she helped many people in Fan County, and the people read her well." Zhang Qiye echoed.

Zhang Jiusheng hung his head, he didn't dare to talk, he was afraid that as soon as he spoke, he would say that the dead person was not a red bean, he was afraid that the wall had ears.

The three of them knew it and lied to each other.

Suddenly, the door of Baishitang was opened again, and a gust of cold wind suddenly blew in, and everyone hugged their arms and turned their heads, only to see Guan Chu standing outside.

He gasped for breath, and his face was red because he didn't know whether he was running too hot or being blown cold by the wind: "Big ...... Adult ......"

"Close the door!" Zhang Jiusheng said angrily.

Guan Chu answered, turned around and closed the door, turned around and stepped to the table, picked up Yun Sheng's cup of tea that was almost cold, drank it all in one gulp, and said, "Find Lu Zhi." ”

"Where are the people?"

Guan Chu gasped, looked at Yun Sheng, and then at Zhang Jiusheng and said, "It's dead." ”

Yun Sheng exhaled, as if his whole person had unloaded.

"It was discovered by a small catcher under my hand, the person should have died not long after he went out that morning, he was hit in the back of the head with a big stone, and died in a weedy bush on the outskirts of the city, and the body has been pulled back to the yamen, Zhang Tong should be testing it at this time."

When Yun Sheng heard this, he quickly picked up the rice bowl and quickly took a few bites, put down the chopsticks and stood up, and ran out of the door while saying, "I'll go to the yamen to help Zhang Tong conduct an autopsy, and if it's too late tonight, I'll sleep in the yamen!" ”

Zhang Jiusheng said "eh", and he couldn't see Yunsheng's shadow anymore.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Jiusheng also quickly ate a few bites of food, patted Guan Chu's shoulder and said, "Let's go, let's go back to the yamen." ”

"Yes, sir."

Until everyone was gone, only Zhang Qiye was left, he only sighed softly, finished his meal quietly, cleaned up the table, and went to sleep with his own door.

In the autopsy room of the Yamen, Lu Zhi was already lying naked on the autopsy bed, Zhang Tong was standing on the side wearing gloves, he bent over, reached out and rubbed it near the wound on the back of Lu Zhi's head, pressed it carefully, and then gently cut off the hair near the wound with scissors, and after a while, a whole wound was exposed.

The wound was very large, the skin and flesh were turned out, there were several depressions in the skull, and the congealed blood stuck the hair near the wound together, and the bones were almost visible.

The murder weapon was a stone that was thrown aside by the murderer, large enough for an adult to grasp, and it was also brought back by Guan Chu, and placed on a small plate on the other side of the autopsy bed, which was also stained with Lu Zhi's blood, maybe there would be a murderer.

When Yunsheng and them came, Zhang Tong had just started to record.

As he wrote, he said something in his mouth: "Lu Zhi, born in Fan County, current residence unknown, Chinese New Year's Eve has five, painter, cause of death, died several times by a stone on the head." ”

"Zhang Tong!" Before the Yunsheng people arrived, the sound came first.

Zhang Tong stopped the pen in his hand, turned his head, and saw the three of them entering the house one after another. Zhang Jiusheng didn't want to enter the door, but it was too cold outside the door, so he had no choice but to cover his eyes, grab Guan Chu's arm, and enter the house sideways, and as soon as he entered the house, he hid to the side, not daring to look at Lu Zhi's body on the autopsy bed.

"Why are you all here?" Zhang Tong frowned, very puzzled.

In the middle of the night, it was the first time that his autopsy room was so lively. Yun Sheng came alone, and he actually brought Zhang Jiusheng, who was afraid of blood, he really wanted his own life, Zhang Jiusheng wanted to make something wrong in his autopsy room, and he must not be criticized by everyone?

"My lord, I haven't dealt with the blood on this corpse yet, you guys are coming too fast, I can't have time, you can go and sit in the back room for a while." Zhang Tong said.

Zhang Jiusheng nodded if he was amnesty, in fact, when he was halfway there, he already regretted it, but when he came out, he was embarrassed to turn around and say that he couldn't go, so he had to bite the bullet, but fortunately Zhang Tong was considerate.

"The body was found on the outskirts of the city, and when it was found, the person had been dead for a long time, it was a death lying on his back, the purse on his body, and the jade pendant that Lu Zhi had worn around his neck all year round were taken away, it looked like a robbery and murder." Zhang Tong rubbed his nose and said.

"What is he doing on the outskirts of the city? Who will you see? Yun Sheng asked.