After leaving the tent, Ye Xun glanced at his host's face, and said weakly: "Now there are less than four days left, can the host be sure to find out the cause?" ”

Liu Ruyan groaned slightly, and spoke: "It's too early to give up, I'll go and meet that leader again." ”

Since the villagers of Taiping Village are looking at him, perhaps, they can learn some new clues.

Guo Shiquan has committed several felonies for killing the doctor, and is now imprisoned in a farmhouse not far away.

There was a musty smell in the room, Guo Shiquan sat against the wall, heard movement outside the door, and then the next moment, the door was pushed open, and then a "teenager" walked in.

"Is that you?" Guo Shiquan narrowed his eyes and looked at the person standing in the light, he clenched his fists and stood up angrily.

He rushed towards Liu Ruyan, was tripped by the iron chain on his leg halfway, struggled desperately, roared, and yelled at Liu Ruyan: "You quack, liar! ”

Liu Ruyan looked at him for a long time, standing at the door unmoved: "I'm a liar, what about you, the murderer of people, or the prisoner?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the man was furious, gritted the back of his teeth and scolded bitterly, eager to cramp and peel off the bones of the person in front of him, so that she could also taste the pain of life.

When Shen Yan first entered the house, he heard these foul words, he was so noisy that a true qi popped out between his fingers, and Guo Shiquan fell to the ground suddenly.

He raised his face and saw this man who was as cold as ice, and he suddenly didn't dare to come out of his breath nervously.

Tsk, the persimmon is still soft and pinched.

Liu Ruyan brought a stool and sat down opposite him: "I heard that your Guo family is the first group of villagers to be infected with the epidemic. ”

Thinking of his wife and daughter who passed away not long ago, Guo Shiquan became excited again, his eyes were red, his eyes locked on the young man sitting in front of him, and he wanted to scold again.

Liu Ruyan didn't allow him to jump, took out a spring dagger from his arms, and bounced it away with a "poof": "I don't want the whole village to die, you shut up for me." ”

Guo Shiquan was immediately silenced, watching her slowly wipe the blade with a cloth towel.

Liu Ruyan said without raising his head: "What was abnormal about Mrs. Guo when she was alive?" ”

"Is she familiar with Yun Niang?"

"Did she ever go to the river and see anything strange before she contracted the epidemic?"

Liu Ruyan asked three times in a row, and at the end, he said slowly: "This epidemic is strange, if you don't find out the source, any prescription is a symptom but not a cure, and you can answer it after you think clearly." ”

Before he spoke, all the words were blocked back in his throat, he really obeyed her meaning, lowered his head and thought: "I remember that the lady is the same as usual, and I don't think there is anything abnormal. ”

Liu Ruyan glanced up at him: "Not detailed enough." ”

"She is a woman, and every day she stays at home to pick up food and send it to the field."

Guo Shiquan is rough and doesn't care about the private affairs of a woman's family: "As for this Yun Niang, I can occasionally meet him when I enter the forest, but I don't know each other well, and that girl is a woman who doesn't talk much." ”

"Yes...... My wife often goes to the river outside the forest, because the water from the river is needed for irrigation in the fields, and she has to pick up some water to come back. Guo Shiquan said, "But before the lady got sick, she once saw a strange person by the river, and he looked very infiltrating." ”

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked: "Is it a woman in gray linen clothes, unkempt hair, like a female ghost?" ”

Hearing the word female ghost, Guo Shiquan tensed: "That's right, she looks like Yun Niang who drowned last year." The woman was standing on the other side of the river, as the sun was setting...... It's her, it's Yun Niang who is back! ”

Guo Shiquan's sturdy body squatted in the corner of the wall, his face was hideous: "When a few of us went to the house to catch her before, Yun Niang protected the wild seeds in her belly and bit me, so I knocked her unconscious, tied her with a stone, and sank into the river." But this is all Li Zheng asked me to do, it's really none of my Guo family's business! ”

Liu Ruyan's expression changed slightly: "You mean, it was Li Zheng's order?" ”

Guo Shiquan nodded again and again, and insisted: "That's right, it's Lizheng, everything was instructed by him, saying that this woman doesn't abide by women's morals, and she is innocent of death." ”

It seemed that things were going way that she didn't expect.

"Is there a new clue?" Shen Yan lowered his eyebrows and thought when he first saw her.

Liu Ruyan took back the dagger, and her expression was faint: "I didn't expect that this seemingly honest Li Zheng led the court to ask for his life, but he was the mastermind of instigating murder." ”

Ye Xun was also silent: "No wonder the family fled from the village, it turned out to be a thief." ”

After Guo Shiquan's mind was stable, she continued to ask: "After Yun Niang's death, did there any abnormality occur in Lizheng?" ”

"What's unusual?" Guo Shiquan carefully recalled, "Lizheng's family didn't have anything to do, and his daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy for him, so Lizheng invited the villagers to his house to eat and drink, and held a banquet for three days." ”

"When was it?"

"It was almost a month ago."

That is, before the outbreak of the epidemic, Liu Ruyan thought of something, and had a preliminary guess in her heart.

Then she asked some more questions, and when she learned what food and wine were at the feast, she left the farmhouse.

Shen Yanchu walked side by side with her and pointed out the problem: "The villagers who fell ill first went to Lizheng's house to eat wine. ”

"That's right, but what puzzles me the most is the rumor that the female ghost is asking for her life, it seems that she has to go to the poplar forest again." She said.

The dark night in the north is especially long in winter.

After Liu Ruyan poured a whole pot of hot ginger tea, she took off her fur coat and traveled lightly with Shen Yanchu.

When she came to the river outside the poplar forest, it was just dark.

After several days of warm sunshine, the thin ice began to melt, and at night, some broken ice floated sporadically on the surface of the river, and from a distance, it seemed as if the scenery on both sides of the river was fragmented, and the wind rippled and wrinkled, and the reflection looked strange.

Liu Ruyan shrunk her neck, and secretly sighed that she shouldn't have abandoned her fur coat, and she would have worn thicker to go out if she knew it.

On the side, Shen Yanchu was carrying an oil-paper lantern, revealing a little light in this lonely and cold night.

He walked three paces ahead so that she could discern the muddy path beneath her feet, and the two of them followed the river into the depths of the forest.

There was silence all around, and the two of them were also speechless.

Liu Ruyan clasped her arms, chilling for a while, and in order to divert her attention, she looked at the barrage that flashed on the screen.

"Can anyone spoil it, there really are female ghosts here?"

"Don't worry, with my experience in chasing dramas, except for the occasional bump into dead corpses, there are no ghosts."

Speaking of which, someone sent out a barrage: "The world where the heroine lives, from the perspective of history and humanities, is similar to my Chinese civilization, but it is very different in details." In general, it is an atheistic world. ”

"Please explain upstairs, what is going on with the female ghost by the river?"

……

With such a flash of effort, Shen Yanchu, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.

She didn't notice it for a moment and bumped into it head-on.

Shen Yanchu hugged her at the right time and let her stabilize her body.

"What are you thinking?" He looked at the man in his arms, and looked at her eyebrows fixedly.

"Didn't think about anything." She rejected it, and immediately lowered her head, lest he see something wrong.

"Lying." He said, "Your mind is not here. ”

She exclaimed: "I covered my face, so I can see through it?" ”

Shen Yanchu hooked the corners of his lips imperceptibly, his tone was light, but his words were bad: "You are stupid by nature, in fact, it is not difficult to judge." ”

I remember that the adversary said that a person's seven emotions can be seen with the naked eye, but she can't cover her face.

Liu Ruyan coughed lowly: "Brother, it's hard to dismantle it." ”

But some people want to dismantle the stage: "The reason why you are willing to stay and help Bai Zhi is to make him owe you a favor so that he can treat you in the future." ”

Liu Ruyan couldn't help muttering: "Why are you always seeing through." ”

Shen Yanchu stared at her, the "boy" eyes in his sight were lightly raised, those eyes were clean and clear, and as the tips of his eyes rose up, they were bright and rippling.

Between the two was a pear-white oil-paper lantern, swirling gently in the breeze, opening a hazy halo.

The moon reflects the snow.

The cold water is rippling.

Lights that go on and off.

Liu Ruyan raised his hand lightly, withdrew from his warm arms, and walked forward: "Don't say it, maybe it's not a good word." ”

Out of sight behind her, the fingers of his sleeve loosened, and a smile tugged at his lips.

It's just a teenager with an undecided heart, and he is clearly afraid of the cold and doesn't say anything.