Chapter XVII

"Oh, don't you come here."

Chu Cheng pretended to be scared and took a few steps back.

The more frightened she became, the more excited the flower thief became, and strode forward, and suddenly stepped into a pothole with her left foot without paying attention, and her figure shook.

Now is the time!

But seeing a flash of golden light, a golden silk soft sword was pulled out of Chu Cheng's waist, and Chu Shen's right hand shook and poked at the wrist of the flower thief.

The flower thief felt a sharp pain in his wrist and shouted: "Slut! You're looking for death! After speaking, he rushed towards Chu Shen. Chu Cheng saw that his movements were rude, thinking that he had only practiced a little fur kung fu, and immediately sneered, tiptoeing a little, and easily avoided it.

She said sharply: "Let me ask you, why did you kill Wen Lanxin in Qingyuan County?" ”

"What Wen Lanxin, I don't know Lao Tzu!"

The flower thief roared angrily, saw that Chu Cheng was on his right, and hurriedly rushed over.

Chu Cheng gritted her teeth: "Wen Lanxin in Shuangyun Lane, Qingyuan County, hanged herself because she was insulted by you. Bastard! You forgot about the day before yesterday so quickly? ”

"I don't even know what you're talking about!" The flower thief couldn't touch a corner of Chu Cheng's clothes, and suddenly knew that he had been fooled, "Okay, no wonder you dare to go out alone, it turns out to be a practitioner!" ”

Chu Cheng was so angry that she didn't expect this person to admit it, she dodged, the soft sword provoked, and the tip of the sword pierced into his left eye without hesitation.

The flower thief screamed in pain, holding his eyes with both hands, howling like a pig, waving his fists wildly, blood trickling down his eyes, and his expression was very terrifying.

"Who the hell are you?"

Chu Ji simply replied, "Have you heard of Yu Xuanji?" ”

The flower thief was shocked and inexplicable: "It turns out that you are the one who is arrested by the imperial court and does all kinds of evil!" He held back the pain in his eyes, and hurriedly clenched his fists with both hands, "Yu Xuanji, since everyone is on the same road, please make it convenient today and let Lao Tzu go!" ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Who's on the same path as you! ”

Chu Ji stabbed him in the shoulder with another sword: "Do you say it or not!" ”

The flower thief was in pain, covered his injuries and retreated again and again, with a frightened face: "Lao Tzu has never been to Qingyuan County before, Yu Xuanji, you, don't mess around!" ”

Chu Cheng didn't expect this person to die and not admit it, she was furious, and was about to raise her sword to stab again, when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps in the distance, and the afterglow glanced through the branches of the woods, and it was Lin Boqin who was carrying a torch to this side.

Chu Cheng secretly said that it was not good, if Lin Boqin found out that she could do martial arts, it would be bad!

In a hurry, Chu Cheng didn't stop doing anything, and stabbed a sword into the throat of the flower thief, and the other party was killed immediately, like a broken sack.

She stuffed the soft sword into her bosom indiscriminately, then tore her clothes, her shoulders were half exposed, and she shouted in a panic: "Help! Helpβ€”"

"Li Siniang!"

Lin Boqin heard Chu Cheng's voice, hurriedly pushed aside the bushes, and strode over. Seeing that Chu Cheng was disheveled, he took off his coat and draped it on Chu Cheng without thinking about it.

Chu Cheng has to do a full set of plays.

She simply plunged into Lin Boqin's arms and whimpered: "I'm so scared! Fang was almost ...... by this flower thief Woo, fortunately, a chivalrous man suddenly appeared to save me. ”

Lin Boqin looked at the dead man's corpse on the ground in shock: "What knight?" ”

"Iβ€”I don't know, he covered his face, used a long sword, and after killing this flower thief, he disappeared into the dense forest."

Lin Boqin was silent.

Soon after Chu Cheng left, he woke up, looked at the blanket draped over his shoulders and was stunned for a moment, and then found that the woman in the room had long since disappeared.

When he realized what had happened, Lin Boqin was worried and angry, he didn't know that there were still people in this world who didn't listen to discipline like Chu Hui! Immediately, he gathered people and searched everywhere for Chu Cheng's whereabouts. The bluestone slab ground in the early morning was a little wet, and a string of unusual footprints were found along the path leaving the city gate, Lin Boqin was just holding the mentality of giving it a try, but he didn't think that he heard the sound of fighting from afar, and when he got closer, he saw Chu Cheng holding his shoulders weak and slender, and the corpse of the flower thief was lying around.

If he's a step too late......

"Li Siniang!" Lin Boqin pulled Chu Cheng's shoulder, his expression was stunned, "You really don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, how can a major matter involving human life be child's play?" ”

Chu Cheng was stunned when she heard this, she raised her head, her eyes were full of tears: "I was frightened, and you still scolded me...... Either way, I'll at least help you catch the flower thief. ”

The more she talked, the more aggrieved she became, and the way she wanted to cry made Lin Boqin's stomach angry and nowhere to go.

"I'm not doing it for you." Chu Cheng began to make up sugar-coated shells, "If the case of the flower thief is not solved for a day, you won't be able to sleep well for a day, I am really distressed to see you lose weight several times......"

Lin Boqin's ears were soft, knowing that Chu Ji was talking nonsense, and his heart was depressed.

Yang La and others took a simple autopsy to the flower thief, and judging from the tooth marks on the wrist, it was determined that this person was the murderer wanted by Wangzhou.

Yang La put the satchel into the sheath and breathed a sigh of relief: "I have finally caught the murderer of the Red Lake murder." ”

When Chu Cheng heard this, she always felt that something was wrong. But she really couldn't think of anything else, so she stomped her foot in a hurry, but she didn't know what sharp thing she stepped on, and the center of her foot stabbed her heart.

Chu Ji couldn't hold back, and jumped up on one leg with a "ahh

Lin Boqin bent down to pick it up and saw that it was a gilded hairpin.

"Your hairpin."

Chu Cheng took the hairpin and shook her head: "This was picked up at the county office, I quarreled with you at the time, so I forgot to hand it over to you." ”

Lin Boqin only felt that the golden hairpin was familiar, stared at it for a long time, and remembered: "This is Lu Xiaoyun's hairpin." ”

"Du Jiaojiao's friend?"

Lin Boqin bowed: "Listen to Hu Yu, because of Du Jiaojiao's death, Lu Xiaoyun has become a little ......" He pointed to his brain.

Chu Cheng lowered her head and whispered, "I understand, after Lan Xin's death, I also have some cup bow snake shadows. ”

It's almost dawn.

The officials carried the corpse of the flower thief to the yamen, and Chu Cheng's foot was stabbed by the golden hairpin, and she couldn't help but limp a little when she walked. Lin Boqin couldn't stand it, so he asked Yang La to lead a horse and help Chu Cheng sit down.

The sky was faint, Chu Cheng gathered the clothes she was wearing, and then she saw that what Lin Boqin took off to her was his precious seven-grade official uniform.

Chu Hui's heart warmed, but she had a trick in mind.

She hugged the horse's neck, leaned over and lowered her head, and approached Lin Boqin's ear: "Now aren't you afraid that I will stain your official uniform?" ”

Lin Boqin knew that she was joking as soon as he heard her tone, and his face was unhappy: "Then you take it off." "I really don't know what is going on with her, the woman next to her is so frightened that she will be in a trance for days without trembling, but she is fine, and she will be able to play tricks with him in a short time.

"In broad daylight, my husband asked me to take off my clothes, which is really embarrassing." Chu Cheng deliberately said loudly, which made people think about it, and Hu Yu and Yang La, who were walking in front, couldn't help but look behind them curiously.

Lin Boqin's face was shallow, and when he saw the teasing eyes of his subordinates, he couldn't hold back at all, and his face seemed to be in the sunset, slightly hot.

"Li Siniang, do you know how to be ashamed?"

"Do you want to try it, husband?"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Shut up. ”

Chu Cheng won a verbal victory, but her mood did not improve. When she entered the city, she passed by the jewelry pavilion of the shopkeeper Sun, and her heart suddenly lit up.

"Wait."

Lin Boqin asked with a dark face, "What are you going to do again?" ”

Chu Cheng took out the gilded hairpin from her bosom and handed it to Lin Boqin: "When you buy things in the jewelry pavilion of the shopkeeper Sun, there is a record of the transaction register. You take this hairpin and ask, did Lu Xiaoyun buy it. ”

"What's there to ask about that?"

Although Lin Boqin was puzzled, he still took the hairpin to ask.

It didn't take long for him to walk out of the jewelry pavilion with a calm face.

Chu Cheng couldn't care about the pain in her feet, turned over and dismounted: "What's the matter?" Was it given to her by a man? ”

Lin Boqin nodded: "But the name is not recorded." ”

He paused and raised his eyes to look at Chu Cheng: "How do you know that this is not Lu Xiaoyun's own purchase?" ”

"Because women know women best."

Chu Cheng smiled slightly: "Most of these things are given by the lover, so they are often worn." ”

Speaking of this, Chu Cheng picked up the hairpin and shook it in front of Lin Boqin's eyes: "Although this matter has nothing to do with the case, I just want to confirm my guess." ”

Lin Boqin's face darkened: "You are really boring!" ”

The two didn't say anything all the way.

Back at the county office, Lin Boqin immediately arranged for people to inspect the body of the flower thief and sort out the case, and the county office became very lively for a while.

Chu Cheng sat on the steps under the public hall, covering her feet to check the injury.

The corpse of the flower thief was not far to her left, so he was tall, and the white cloth could not cover his entire corpse, revealing his hands and arms. Chu Cheng raised his eyes and swept it, just in time to see the sharp tooth mark on his left wrist.

Somehow, Chu Cheng suddenly thought of the words that the flower thief said before he died.

At this moment, the master book came to inquire about the situation.

After Lin Boqin said briefly, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Has Song Zhihe been released?" ”

"This flower thief has been caught, and I won't let anyone go, some of them can't be justified." The master bookkeeper rolled up his sleeves and said with a smile.

Chu Hui's eyes seemed to be covered with a veil, and she couldn't find the key to the case in the fog, but when she heard what the master said, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration, stood up and shouted: "It's not him!" ”

Lin Boqin walked over, frowned and asked, "What's not him?" ”

"It was not this flower thief who killed Du Jiaojiao and Wen Lanxin, the murderer was someone else!" Chu Cheng hurriedly told Lin Boqin the suspicions he thought of, "When I was robbed by the flower thief, I heard him say that he had never been to Qingyuan County before this, and that look would not be fake!" ”

Lin Boqin fell into deep thought when he heard this: "How can you see it? In case he is playing tricks. ”

"Nope! It's not a trick! Chu Ji walked quickly to the body of the thief and grabbed his left wrist, "This person said that the tooth marks on his left wrist were injured by Leng Qiuyue from Qin'an County, and judging from the injury, it was indeed the appearance of being injured for a few days. The time of Du Jiaojiao's death was July 10, and Song Zhihe said that he saw a tooth mark on the coachman's left wrist at that time, but Leng Qiuyue did not die on July 10 - Song Zhihe was lying! ”

Lin Boqin was stunned, and immediately turned around and ordered: "Gather people and horses, arrest Song Zhihe and Lu Xiaoyun!" ”

Chu Ji didn't understand, she limped and followed Lin Boqin: "What are you doing to catch Lu Xiaoyun?" ”

Lin Boqin glanced at her: "Didn't you say that Lu Xiaoyun's hairpin was given by his lover?" If I guess correctly, Song Zhihe is her lover. ”