"I'm sorry," Yanagi whimpered, "I didn't mean to!" He suddenly threw himself at me, and I was already scared, so I—" At this point he couldn't speak, and he began to cry bitterly.

"Jingzhi, where have you been these days, and what has happened? Why do you say you killed someone? Lu Sheng asked repeatedly.

At this time, Wang Qi walked in and reported to Yin Qianshanyu: "My lord, Liu and the three of them have been brought and are waiting outside the door for summons. Lu Sheng turned his head and saw a young man with his head wrapped in gauze and only his right eye showing was standing listlessly outside the public hall, and beside him stood two women, one with a disgruntled face, the other soft and weak.

"Bring it on!" Yin Qianshan Road.

Liu and the three of them walked to the bottom of the hall and knelt down in turn. During this period, they looked at Yanagi, who was crying uncontrollably, dressed as a beggar, and they all looked curious.

"Yanagi," Yin Qianshan raised his voice, "Look at this man next to him, do you know him?" ”

Liu Sheng sobbed, choked for a while before he could barely control himself, and slowly turned his head to look at Liu.

Who knows, this sight actually frightened him to jump, "You, you..." Yanagi was horrified as if he had seen a ghost, "Aren't you dead?" ”

Liu was stunned by him, and the second monk was confused, "Hey, who are you, why do you curse people indiscriminately?" ”

Yanagi sat down on the ground panting, muttering as if no one was around, "I didn't kill anyone? ”

Syllable!

Everyone was shocked by the startling sound and looked up at the hall.

"He's the Scarlet Woman."

Yin Qianshan's words seemed to be a dull stick, and everyone in the hall was stunned.

"Are you joking, sir?" Liu couldn't believe his ears.

"Let him speak!" Yin Qianshan looked directly at Liu Sheng, "Liu Sheng, don't you tell me about your experience in Huali on the night of the ninth day of October." ”

…

After saying goodbye to Lu Sheng, Liu Sheng walked leisurely along the lakeside path of flowers. While admiring the moonlight, he followed the lake to the covered bridge.

"What a big mansion!"

Liu Sheng looked at the vicissitudes of life under the night sky but did not lose the atmosphere of the old mansion of the Xue family and exclaimed. He was pondering what verses to use to match the situation, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a faint crimson that floated through the heavy door of the house and disappeared into the night.

"Where's the girl?" Liu Shengqi said and hurriedly chased after him. After a short time, he followed the scarlet through the house and came to a chic courtyard.

Yanagi smelled a refreshing sweet fragrance. He turned his head to look, and saw a dry well shrouded in a towering pomelo tree under a full moon. "What a beautiful view!" He admired it heartily, and involuntarily walked towards the well.

Suddenly, Yanagi saw the red fly into the well. He hurriedly stretched out his head to look at the bottom of the well, but there was nothing red except for the reflection of the bright moon. He leaned forward a little more, and suddenly, hearing only a thud, Yanagi felt a blow to the back of the head, and his eyes went black, and his whole body immediately lost its balance and threw himself into the well.

Fortunately, the strong sense of weightlessness made Yanagi instinctively grab the wall of the well, and in his panic, he pulled some dead vine branches, slowing down his fall. It wasn't until the cold well water slapped him in the face that Yanagi came to his senses. However, it was already too late.

Yanagi thought he was dead. In a desperate struggle, he stepped on the bottom of the well, only to find that the water was only up to his waist. Yanagi breathed a sigh of relief, but in the next second, he felt a biting cold.

It's October, and he's soaking wet in the well water outside, how can he, a weak scholar, stand this? Yanagi shouted for help, but his trembling voice couldn't penetrate the well, and he couldn't make a coherent voice after shouting a few words.

It's over, I'm going to freeze to death! Yanagi was disheartened, his legs went limp, and he almost fell to the bottom. However, when he stumbled, his hand touched a hole.

Liu Sheng was startled, thinking to himself how there was a hole in this well. He bent down to look, and only then did he realize that there was indeed an arched hole in the wall of the well.

"Could it be that there is another exit here?" Yanagi was overjoyed, he held his breath and dived into the water through the hole, only to find that there was really a space inside.

He stood up and slammed his head against the wall. Yanagi rubbed the sore spot while groping the wall of the cave. Then, he touched the platform in front of him, and then, he touched something soft.

Liu Sheng was stunned for a few seconds and then reacted, it was a person. A cold and stiff man.

Dead person!

Yanagi was horrified. He screamed and immediately swam out, and when he got back outside, he began to cry bitterly. Yanagi was terrified, and he began to frantically touch the walls of the cave, trying to climb outside. Of course, all in vain. After struggling for a while, using all his strength, Yanagi leaned weakly against the wall of the well and gasped for breath.

It's cold!

Almost frozen to death, Yanagi gradually lost feeling his fingers. He rubbed his fingers, pinched and pinched, and suddenly remembered how he felt when he touched the corpse inside. That's right, that's the touch of soft and dry fabric.

After struggling between freezing to death and fear for a while, Yanagi swam into the cave again. He plucked up the courage to touch the darkness and peel off the garment that the corpse was wearing. Then, he lifted his clothes above his head and carefully took out the hole.

It wasn't until the moonlight shone on the clothes that he realized it was a set of women's clothes. Strange, he obviously didn't touch it... Yanagi was only surprised for a moment, but he was forced to think by the cold, and he quickly took off his clothes and put on this scarlet tunic shirt.

Much better. Yanagi pulled the corners of his skirt as high as possible to avoid getting soaked. Then, again, he tried to fumble the walls of the cave.

This time, Yanagi actually touched a few rattans. Like grasping at a life-saving straw, Yanagi grabbed the rattans and climbed up desperately, strange to say, these rattans were surprisingly tough and formed a net, allowing Yanagi to have a place to stay. After a while, he actually crawled out.

Saved!

Yanagi was ecstatic, he climbed out of the well and gasped for air, and then he couldn't wait to run out of the courtyard. After not running a few steps, Yanagi suddenly heard a clang, what seemed to be the sound of a metal object falling to the ground. When he turned around, he saw a glorious hairpin lying on the ground.

Yanagi picked up the hairpin, thinking that it must be the ornament of the woman in the well, and she was brought out by herself by hanging it on this red robe. It looks like it's worth a lot of money! Liu Sheng sighed, it's really a blessing and a curse, is it possible that he, a poor scholar, is going to get rich? He almost laughed, and continued to run forward with the golden hairpin in his hand.

…

"I must have gone the wrong way in a panic," Yanagi recalled, "and I didn't go back anyway." The flowers are too big! As he ran, passing by a dark grove, he suddenly—" he said, still looking frightened, "a man grabbed me from the side! I was so frightened that I lifted the hairpin and stabbed it on his head. ”

"What?" Hearing this, the three people next to him shouted at the same time. Liu even grabbed Liu Sheng's neckline, "It's you?" You stabbed me blind?! ”

"Above the court, there is no room for presumptuousness!" Yin Qianshan shouted, "Let him go and let him continue!" ”

Liu shook off his hand angrily. Yanagi took a breath and continued, "At that time, blood rushed to my face, and the man rolled on the ground. I... I thought I had killed someone, so I ran away. And then..."

"And then you ran out of the flowers. Because he mistakenly thought that he had killed someone, he didn't dare to go back to find Lu Sheng, and he couldn't get out of the city without Fu Jie, so he simply hid in the slums. Is that so? Yin Qianshan took his words and continued.

Yanagi nodded.

"Respectfully, you!" Lu Sheng was dumbfounded, and couldn't believe that Liu Sheng was the flowery female ghost in scarlet.

"My lord, this beggar has blinded my husband's eyes, and you have to be the master of the people's wife!" Liu Mengshi on the side cried.

"Hmph," Yin Qianshan looked at Liu, "If he hadn't come out and hugged Liu Sheng, would Liu Sheng have stabbed him?" Yanagi was already frightened at the time, and anyone would have been stabbed if he had changed! ”

Liu lowered his head in shame and muttered, "I thought it was Ling'er..."

"Okay, now that the two cases are clear, the following official verdict will be announced..."Yin Qianshan looked solemn.

Yanagi interrupted him, "My lord, not yet. The corpse in the well, and the fact that someone hit me on the head when I was at the well before I fell! ”

Wang Qi patted his head, "Oh, I understand why adults want me to find grapefruit!" Dare to love this grapefruit is actually the murderer of the beater! ”

Yin Qianshan smiled and looked at the rest of the people who were puzzled.

…

After telling Liu Sheng and Liu not to publicize the truth of the case for the time being, Yin Qianshan sent them back temporarily. Then he said to Wang Qi: "Now, you can start the plan to lure the snake out of the hole at the end!" ”

Wang Qi looked at Yin Qianshan in confusion.

"I want you to make a big deal about the scarlet ghost of Hua Li," Yin Qianshan said, "I want the entire Pinghu County to know about this!" ”