At this moment, a mechanical voice interrupted Zhou Xu's thoughts.

"System Active...... Detectable Mission-Ding Fu Murder Case. Mission: Find out the murderer of Ding Wenjiang. Time limit: one day. Reward for success: 1 random elixir, penalty for failure: none.

Note: The random elixir is an elixir that already exists in the current world, and the system reward will not break the existing rules of the current world. ”

System?

Zhou Xu was shocked. He is naturally no stranger to the system, and many of the protagonists in the novels in his previous life traveled through the other world with the system, and the system is equivalent to the golden finger of the traverser. He thought that he was simply resurrecting Zhou Countyling, but he didn't expect that there was still a system.

"System?" Zhou Xu meditated.

"Hello host."

"What is your main function?" This system is a bit too concise, and the general system doesn't have a lot of function introductions? Some systems also have particularly powerful names, such as the god system, the money system, the global book system, or something...... The capabilities of this system seem too rudimentary.

"The system will release tasks to the host from time to time according to the program settings, and give the host corresponding rewards according to the completion of the host."

"That's the only way?" Zhou Xu was stunned, "Is this any different from a bulletin board?" ”

What about the starter pack?

"In addition to this, the system can provide the host with information about the world."

"What's the message?" Zhou Xu asked, could it be that the role of this system is to carry an encyclopedia?

"According to the host's current experience, the system can only provide the following information for the time being-Emperor Xuanjin has been in turmoil for the tenth year, the situation in Zhongzhou has been turbulent, and the wind and rain have gathered in all directions, and the nine bureaus have sent their disciples to enter the world to fight for the luck of the world."

Slap in the face...... It turned out to be just the frontispiece of a portable encyclopedia.

"What does that mean?" The first few sentences of the week sequence are clear, but the nine rounds and luck in the back are not at all in the memory of the predecessor, is he and the system taking the same script?

"This is the foundation of the world." The system answers.

"What is the Nine Innings?"

In the memory of the predecessor, there was no information about this at all, but the system said that this is the current state of the world. Zhou Xu had always thought that he had traveled through an ordinary overhead ancient world, but the information revealed by the system overturned all his cognition.

"The Nine Bureaus are the nine institutions that really control the world. The host privileges are insufficient, and the details of the nine rounds cannot be obtained. ”

Zhou Xu gasped. When he called out to the system in his mind again, the system only left a sentence of "low energy, please complete this mission as soon as possible", and there was no response after that.

At this time, Zhou Xu felt the carriage slam violently, and Li Mu's voice came from outside the carriage, "My lord, the Ding Mansion has arrived." ”

Zhou Xu cleaned up his mood and walked out of the carriage.

Although the Ding family is not as good as the Zhao family, it is also a well-known wealthy family in Yong'an Prefecture, and at the same time, the ancestors of Ding Mansion have also produced a list of eyes in the last three generations, so they are quite famous in Tai County. For this reason, Ding Wenjiang's case was able to reach Cui Zhizhou all the way, and the predecessor was under a lot of pressure.

The gate of Ding's mansion was closed, and the door was hung with a plain curtain, which looked particularly deserted.

Zhou Xu sent Li Mu to knock on the door, and after a while, a person poked his head out.

"Lu Gatehouse, pass it on to you, and the official will come to offer condolences." Zhou Xu recognized at a glance that the person who probed his brain was Lu Chuan, the porter recorded in the file.

Lu Chuan thought for a moment, and then suddenly said: "It turned out to be Lord Zhou, later, I will go to the communication immediately." ”

After a while, Lu Chuan came back, he opened the door of the mansion and welcomed Zhou Xu in. When entering the door, Zhou Xu seemed to inadvertently look at the gate of the Ding Mansion. The wooden door panel can be inserted into the middle of the door to resist it.

Walking through a path paved with blue bricks, you will arrive at the front hall of Ding's house, which is also hung with plain curtains, and several people are kneeling and mourning. After Zhou Xu led Li Mu to offer incense to Ding Wenjiang, he followed a servant into the back hall, where Ding Wuhe and Ding sat down, and when Zhou Xu came in, the two of them hurriedly got up to greet them.

"Second son Ding, Mrs. Ding."

"Lord Zhou, you came today, but the case has already been decided?" Ding Wuhe asked eagerly.

"This official came here today because he still has a few doubts and wants to check with the people in your mansion." Zhou Xu replied slowly.

"Lord Zhou." Ding Wuhe's expression changed, and his face was puzzled, "My brother has passed away for five days, and now he is still in the coffin at home, just waiting to see the murderer Fu Fa." And as the parent official of Tai County, why did you refuse to close the case? ”

"Second son, don't be impatient. You should already know about Ding Wu's death, right? If he was a murderer, he would have been punished long ago. If he is not, he should be better investigated. Are you right? Zhou Xu sneered.

"Lord Zhou means that Ding Wu is not a murderer?" Ding Wuhe sneered and asked, "There are all the human and material evidence, is it difficult for you to overturn the case for such a villain?" ”

On the side, Ding also raised his head when he heard this, and Zhou Xu saw her face clearly. Ding's posture is beautiful, mature and mixed with some cute and pitiful weakness, and there is a faint watery color in the flow of his eyes, which makes people can't help but feel a desire to protect in their hearts.

"Your Excellency." Ding raised his eyes and circled around Zhou Xu's body, then lowered his eyes and said, "As long as you can find out the murderer of your husband, if you have anything you want to ask, the slave family will cooperate one by one." ”

"Second son, please help me prepare a quiet room, I have something I want to ask a few people who stayed in the mansion that day." Zhou Xu's tone was sincere, "Second son, this official just wants to find out the murderer, and there is no prevarication. ”

"You can use this room, if you have something to say, you can ask this woman first. I'll find the remaining three for you. Ding Wuhe said in an unkind tone. With that, he snorted coldly and turned to leave.

"Mrs. Ding, can Ding Wenjiang have a grudge against others?" Zhou Xu asked.

Ding shook his head slightly, revealing his fair-skinned and delicate neck, "My husband except for occasionally punishing people in the house, he is a humble gentleman on the outside, in addition to meeting friends with literature, that is, doing some small business with friends, he will not make enemies with others." ”

"Before Ding Wu came to deliver the message that day, you stayed with Qiaoying all the time?"

"Not really, but I saw that the sun was just right, and I had little leisure, so I went to the small garden to enjoy the view. It looks like it's been half an hour. Ding pulled his hair together and said softly.

"Which friend does Ding Wenjiang do business with?"

"It's the son of Han Zhao from the Korean family in the north of the city. He and my husband are small. Ding was extremely cooperative and answered every question carefully.

Zhou Xu nodded and wrote it down, and asked Li Mu to send Ding away. When Ding Shi and Zhou Xu passed by, he heard a very low and indifferent voice, "My lord, be careful." ”

Zhou Xu felt a piercing chill spread to his whole body in an instant, as if it was about to coagulate his blood, but this feeling was fleeting, and when he recovered, Li Mu had already led Qiaoying in.

Zhou Xu clenched his fists violently, controlling his trembling body, and Li Mu on the side seemed to see some clues, and asked, "My lord, are you okay?" ”

Zhou Xu nodded, pinched his palms with his fingernails, stabilized his mind, and then asked, "Qiaoying, did Ding Wu come to deliver the message that day?" Can you see where he went after delivering the message? ”

"On that day, Madame was embroidering in the inner room, and I was guarding the door, and Ding Wu came to deliver a message saying that he wanted to prepare refreshments, and after saying that, he left, and looked at the front hall." Qiao Ying replied with her head down.

"Ding went to the garden to enjoy the scenery, did you come along?"

"Nope. My wife didn't like to be accompanied when she was admiring the scenery, so I stayed outside. ”

The next person to come in was Lu Chuan, who saw Zhou Xu and smiled with some flattery: "My lord, if you have something to ask, I must know everything and say everything." ”

"Ding Wenjiang likes to criticize his subordinates, but really?" Zhou Xu asked.

"It's true. In fact......" Lu Chuan wanted to speak and stopped.

"Actually, what?" Zhou Xu asked.

"The eldest son, he, he can't." Lu Chuan said in a hesitant manner, "Therefore, he often behaves a little gloomy. ”

"Hiss......" Next to Li Mu gasped, his face was surprised, "That's not to say that Mrs. Ding is still a ......"

"I heard that Mrs. Ding had a childhood sweetheart before marrying into Ding's mansion, the man went to join the army in order to earn fame, and then there was no news, her parents didn't want their daughter to waste her years, so she married the eldest son. Who knows, alas, ......" Lu Chuan gushed about the gossip of the Ding Mansion.

"Did you get better with that diarrhea?" Zhou Xu interrupted Lu Chuan's words and asked.

"It's been two days. I went to see the doctor at Jishantang, and the doctor said that it was caused by eating something cold. As soon as he talked about this, Lu Chuan sighed for a long time, "For this matter, several masters don't want to see me, and they have been picking on me a lot in the past few days, and it seems that this job is difficult to do." ”

Zhou Xu politely asked Li Mu to take Lu Chuan away, and the last one to come in was Zhu'er, who looked a little wooden, and stared at Zhou Xu without saying a word after coming in.

Zhou Xu smiled kindly and said, "Don't be afraid, I just want to ask you, did Ding Wu give you the sugar cake that day?" ”

Zhu'er shook her head dumbly and replied, "Not for me." ”

After sending Zhu'er away, Ding Wuhe returned to the back hall and asked in an unkind tone, "Lord Zhou, but are you done talking?" ”

"Second son, the official wants to see the daily accounts of the house." Zhou Xu directly put forward his own requirements.

"Lord Zhou, is it the murder of the brother of the Cha family, or the account of the Chading family?"

Ding Wuhe's words were a bit heavy, and he himself regretted it a little, Zhou Xu didn't care, and said: "Just the accounts from the eighth day of April to today, the case needs it, and the second son doesn't need to think about it." ”

"Wait a minute, sir, I'll go to the housekeeper to get the account book." Ding Wuhe's face changed and he agreed.

Soon after, Ding Wuhe came back with the account book, Zhou Xu flipped through it roughly, and after finding what he needed, he returned the account book to Ding Wuhe.

"My lord, are you looking at it so soon?" Ding Wuhe pinched the ledger and was a little surprised.

"Second son, I'm sorry for you to take the two of us around the house." Zhou Xu said.

Ding Wuhe carefully examined Zhou Xu, silently led him and Li Mu to walk through every corner of Ding's Mansion, and at the root of a wall, Zhou Xu found what he was looking for, in a piece of dust, there were two clear square marks and some scattered footprints.

In this way, the inference of the Zhou sequence has been confirmed. It's just that at the moment, he shouldn't do more.

"Second son Ding, this official is leaving." Zhou Xu said as he walked.

"Okay, I'll take the adults out of the house." Ding Wuhe replied.

At this time, the two of them were passing by a garden, in which there was a woman lying on her side on a bench, a few strands of green silk hanging down on her white cheeks, she was plain white, and the breeze blew, bringing up her hair and clothes, and there was an indescribable sense of trampling.

"Sister-in-law!" Ding Wuhe shouted angrily, "What are you doing here?" ”

"The sky is just right, I think of the days with your eldest brother, and I don't feel a little distracted." Ding replied softly, she turned her face slightly, her eyes were like silk, she stared at Zhou Xu and said, "Lord Zhou, can you find any clues in the mansion?" ”

Zhou Xu suddenly felt that his whole body was wrapped in a cold aura, and a sharp pain spread rapidly from his heart, making him almost unable to stand.

An incredible thought crossed Zhou Xu's mind: Ding wanted to kill him.

Zhou Xu didn't know how to resolve the biting cold, so he had to grit his teeth and struggle to support it.

Suddenly, a tall figure stood in front of him, only to hear Li Mu say calmly: "Mrs. Ding, there is a new funeral in the house, as a surviving person, your words and deeds at this time are really out of place. Please also pay attention to your identity. ”

A warm flow flowed through the limbs, and the cold air faded in an instant, but Zhou Xu was already covered in cold sweat.

"The two of you go all the way." Seeing this, Ding turned back boredly and stopped communicating with them.

"My lord, let's go." Li Mu said, paused and added, "Do you need my help?" ”

"Not necessarily." Zhou Xu shook his head, "Let's go." ”

Ding Wuhe sent the two to the door, and without much politeness, he turned around and left.

After Zhou Xu got into the carriage, he sat directly on the stool, the illness caused by falling into the water has not been completely eliminated, and the body suffered two more cold soaks, although the cold quickly dissipated, and there were no sequelae, but the taste was really uncomfortable, Rao was determined and still felt uncomfortable.

What is the origin of this woman, how can it be as if she killed her husband herself? Zhou Xu was puzzled.

"System, are you there? I need to know Ding's identity. "Zhou Xu secretly called the system.

"System Charging......" The sound of the machine sounded, but there was no response.

……

Is this really a so-called golden finger? The effect is really weak. Zhou Xu complained wildly in his heart.

"My lord, are you going back to the county office?" Li Mu asked outside the carriage.

"Go back to ......" Zhou Xu suddenly paused, "Don't go back." We will now go to Hanfu. ”

"Your Excellency. If you are unwell, you should go back to the county government to rest. Through the curtain, Zhou Xu couldn't see Li Mu's expression clearly, but he guessed that Li Mu should not be very happy.

"Go to Hanfu." Zhou Xu repeated it again.

There was a long silence outside, and just as Zhou Xu wanted to probe out, Li Mu's reply came, "Okay, my lord." ”

The carriage was soon moving again.

After resting for a while, Zhou Xu felt that his body was not too stiff, and then he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

The feeling of dizziness hit again, and Zhou Xu put his hands on the top of his head and gently massaged them. He could clearly feel the scar on the back of his head that had not been scabbed over for a long time.