Chen Jinbao thought about it with both hands, and then asked, "Adopted daughter?" Did you adopt that girl? ”

Hu Lie nodded. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, sir. When I first saw her, she walked in tatters as if she was dying, and her face was still rotten like that, and the little one looked really pitiful, thinking that there was only one son under her knees and no daughter, so she recognized her as a daughter. ”

Chen Jinbao then asked: "Then do you know this girl's life experience?" ”

Hu Lie replied: "I don't know, she won't say when the little one asks her, and that's how the days have passed." ”

Chen Jinbao looked at this charlatan with a puzzled expression, he really couldn't imagine that he still had this kindness, but was what he said true?

"Huh, let me ask you, the night before yesterday and last night, did you ask your daughter to pretend to be that female ghost?"

Hu Lie lowered his head and was speechless for a while, as if there was something unspeakable.

"What's wrong?" Chen Jinbao asked.

Hu Lie looked up suddenly.

"Yes, my lord, it's all small ones for her to pretend! In order to exorcise ghosts and cheat money. ”

Chen Jinbao asked again: "The witness who saw your female ghost at that time said that the female ghost was very beautiful, what is going on?" ”

"My lord, the scar on his face with heavy makeup is not obvious, and besides, it was still night, so it naturally had that effect."

Chen Jinbao nodded.

"Very good, then let me ask you, your daughter's face is rotten, and it is scary enough to stand on the street at night without makeup, why do you still let her cover the scars on her face?"

"That, that, the little one thinks it's more interesting to draw a face with heavy makeup."

"Huh?"

"Oh no, it's even more terrifying!"

Chen Jinbao could see that he must have something to hide, why did he still hide it now?

"Huh, do you think your statement makes sense?"

Hu Lie nodded vigorously.

"When, when, of course it makes sense, I'm more interested in white faces. Oh no! I think white faces are more scary!

Chen Jinbao didn't speak again, he felt that there was no need to ask him again.

"Someone!"

The jailer came in with men.

"Chen Zhutou finished asking?"

Chen Jinbao nodded and said, "Temporarily put him in prison, and then bring the girl who was arrested." ”

"Yes!"

After speaking, several people stepped forward to take Hu Lie down and escort him away.

After a while, a girl was brought in, and the jailer tied her up with three strikes and five divided by two, and then left the torture chamber.

Chen Jinbao looked at the girl who kept her head down, and said, "Girl, raise your head." ”

She still kept her head down, as if she didn't want people to see her.

"Girl, you see there's a mouse down there!"

"Ahh

She raised her head like this, and Chen Jinbao finally saw her appearance clearly, she was about twenty years old, and almost half of her entire face was burned, and she looked very terrifying.

The little girl realized that Chen Jinbao was lying to her, and lowered her head again.

"Okay girl, I've seen your face, you put your head up, no one laughs at you."

After Chen Jinbao finished speaking, the girl slowly raised her head.

"Huh?"

Chen Jinbao took a closer look, and felt that this girl was so familiar?

"My lord, what kind of royal law did the people's daughter violate? Is it because of being ugly? ”

Chen Jinbao shook his head.

"No, no, no, you're thinking too much, it's because of your gang of swaggering and cheating, and you're still pretending to be a ghost here, right?"

The little girl looked up and took a deep breath.

"Providence, do you know that?"

Chen Jinbao laughed.

"Yes, I know that. But I'm here for you, not just for this matter, but for something else. First of all, what do you call you? ”

The little girl replied, "Huh." ”

Chen Jinbao smiled bitterly.

"Girl, no, it's always been like this, you don't need to lose your temper."

The little girl looked puzzled and said, "Who lost his temper?" Didn't I answer you well? ”

"You .........."

Chen Jinbao thought about it for a while and asked, "Girl, do you mean your name is Hu Lai?" ”

Chen Jinbao held back a smile and thought to himself, is the name of this family so straightforward?

"That......... Hu Lai, let me ask you, I heard that you are the adopted daughter of your father, how did you and him meet? ”

"Five years ago, the fire in the Maple Leaf Temple, when the yamen exempted me, but I had no relatives and no reason, my face was also burned, I didn't want to go to the brothel to sell people, I could only ask for food and wander around, I was starving to death at that time, fortunately I was saved by a kind person, he didn't dislike me ugly and accepted me as an adopted daughter, that person is my father. He said that it was all fate, and God asked you to come to me, so he named him Hu Lai. ”

After hearing this, Chen Jinbao drew some memories in his mind. The fire at Maple Leaf Temple five years ago?

"Poof!"

Chen Jinbao slapped the table.

"I remember, you set that fire!"

Hu Lai nodded.

"Yes, my lord, I was tried in this yamen at the beginning, and now I am here again, the reincarnation of heaven."

Chen Jinbao raised his hand and said, "Okay, don't talk about the past, talk about the present, when did you and the group come?" ”

"I arrived the afternoon before yesterday, and I'm going to do business the next day."

Chen Jinbao nodded.

"Very good, then you pretended to be a female ghost and dangled at the mouth of the Zhu family's alley the night before yesterday?"

Hu Lai replied: "My lord, I was indeed at the mouth of Zhu's alley the night before yesterday, but I didn't pretend to be a female ghost. ”

"What does that mean?"

"My lord, the folk girl now has a brother who is the father's biological son who has a good impression of each other, he doesn't dislike my bad face, said that he will marry me in the future, and bought me a beautiful red dress and said that he would wear it on the day of marriage, but the folk girl is used to wearing black clothes and is unwilling to show his true face, so he is also dressed in black, that night the folk girl is finally willing to wear that red dress and go out with him, I also put on heavy makeup to block the scars on my face, it is really the happiest day for the folk girl to live for so long, but ......."

"But it's right to take the risk of making a difference?" Chen Jinbao asked.

Hu Lai's eyes became a little red and swollen, and tears oozed from his eyes.

"Adults are like gods, yes, that night, the two of us played hide and seek like children, I hid in the alley he never found me, I walked out, saw him in the distance, he also saw me, we both looked at each other and smiled, then I saw the watchman, I was not used to seeing people, so I walked back into the alley, the watchman actually threw away the gong and followed, fortunately the alley was very dark, fortunately I was used to carrying the black cloak everywhere I went."

After listening to this, Chen Jinbao then asked: "After that, you think of a way to make money, that is, pretend to be a ghost and let your father exorcise ghosts, right?" “

Hu Lai sighed.

"The one who played the watch didn't find me and left, I was hiding in the alley, when the fiancé of the folk girl ran over, he hugged me, I was thinking that I can't be so useless, we have always lived by fortune-telling, a family of three people plus a few apprentices of my father The money is never enough to spend, it is better to come to the ticket this time, how about asking my father to exorcise ghosts? After I told my dad what I thought, my dad thought it was feasible, I wanted to do it without makeup, I was scary enough to be like this, but I couldn't get over it in my heart, and after thinking about it, I finally chose to put on more makeup, put on a deeper lipstick, put on a black cloak, and went to that place again, I not only wanted people to know that this place was haunted, but I also wanted to scare the beater. But I never expected ........"

Chen Jinbao smiled and thought to himself, no wonder he wanted to hide it and said that he made up makeup, it turned out that he wanted to take the blame for his daughter.

"I didn't expect you to surprise a few of us, right?"

Hu Lai also laughed.

"That's right, my lord, I saw you at that time, and then I went into the alley and put on my cloak, and walked directly from the alley to another street, and I was so lucky that the adults didn't chase after me."

Chen Jinbao took a deep breath after hearing this, he never expected that at this moment he was talking to something that scared him out last night.

"This Hu Lai, hey, it's a little awkward, Miss Hu, since it was the female ghost you did last night, then your father should know about what you scared us last night, but I talked to him just now, and he doesn't seem to know about it."

Hu Lai replied: "This is because I didn't tell him, my father is not very bold, if he knew that I scared the people of the government, he would immediately pack up his things and run, we are already swaggering and deceiving, how can we not be afraid of the government to investigate?" So I chose to take the risk and not tell him, I was gambling, I bet that the government thought it was haunted, and someone came to exorcise the ghost the next day, so I wouldn't care about it. As a result, I lost the bet. “

After hearing this, Chen Jinbao thought to himself, good guy, it's a shame that there is a corpse in that place, otherwise I wouldn't care about this.

Chen Jinbao came back to his senses and then asked, "Miss Hu, since you are waiting there, then you should have seen the corpse." “

"I don't know what's going on when I see my lord, but I feel like God is helping me, she's also dressed in red, and I can pretend to be her ghost. But I was wrong, God didn't help me, maybe it was because of that corpse that the adults came to find out about it, right? Haha, providence! “

Chen Jinbao looked at her and smiled, and said silently in his heart, providence.