The next morning, a ray of sunlight shone across the earth, heralding the arrival of a new day.

"Xu Gongzi, this is my young lady who asked the slave to hand it over to you" Ling'er girl was taken to the yamen for inquiry last night with many girls and maids in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, due to the large number of people, the inquiry was not over until this morning, and the person was put back, looking at Ling'er's red eyes, obviously he didn't sleep all night last night.

Xu Jianping took the wooden box handed over by Ling'er, put it next to his feet, and carefully opened it, and what caught his eye was a small peach-colored belly pocket with a sunflower on it. There are a lot of jewelry placed under the belly pocket, I think it is the dowry that Liu Ruyan has accumulated over the years, and there is a little ink at the bottom, Xu Jianping took it and spread it out in his hand, and found that it was the poem he had written before, one of which was a poppy written by Xu Jianping himself, Xu Jianping looked at his ugly handwriting, thought of the scene of seeing Liu Ruyan for the first time, and grinned unconsciously.

In the innermost layer of the box, Xu Jianping found two letters, one large and one small, one thick and one thin, Xu Jianping knew that it was written to him, and he called to see that it was indeed the same.

"Xu Jun.

Seeing words like faces, life for several years, is nothing more than a love word, and the concubine is inevitable, and her heart is like a king, there is no reason, and there is nothing to do.

However, in the sea of people, life is short, and the concubine body wants to be boundless, and I never want to be lucky to meet Yanjun, which is a blessing for three lives.

In this short life, with the company of the king, the concubine has no regrets, if there is an afterlife, the concubine still wants to accompany the king for a lifetime. ”

Xu Jianping put away the letter and opened another heavy letter, which did not contain too much affection, but briefly told a story, a story that had been sealed for a long time.

Jingzhou City, time, ten years ago.

Liu Ruyan followed her parents from Jiangling to Jingzhou City.

"Wow, this windmill looks so good, mother, I want to eat rock sugar gourd, buy it for me! Please" Xiao Ruyan came to the county for the first time, and was attracted by all kinds of toys around her in the grass market.

"Girl, go slowly, don't fall, wait for my mother" Zhang Xiaohua was paying in the back while chasing Xiao Ruyan.

"Master, you should hurry up, this girl can't even see a figure when she runs."

A middle-aged man about forty years old clasped his hands behind his back, followed behind the mother and daughter with a happy face, this is Liu Ruyan's father, Liu Yuanqing.

"Master, there's a tailor's shop, let's go and see, dead girl, come back quickly and buy you new clothes." Women in this era, like today's society, love beauty, shopping, and shopping.

"Hey, this girl, come and see this is the new arrival of Shu brocade, you see, this texture, this color, you are touching, like silk, you are lucky, the goods that arrived last night, this time I will catch up with you" A little second in the store is using the three-inch tongue to introduce the Shu brocade in the store.

Zhang Xiaohua hurriedly pulled Xiao Ruyan over, picked up a juan fabric, and stroked it carefully at hand. "That's a lot of money"

"Good eyesight, I picked the best-selling one in our store at a glance, this only needs one or two lines of silver, and I will give you one zhang when I buy five zhang." Seeing that someone wanted to buy it, the shopkeeper hurriedly came over and praised him.

"It's too expensive, it's better to buy some arrowroot, this thing looks good, it's good-looking, don't wear it!" As soon as Zhang Xiaohua heard this price, she hurriedly put down the Shu brocade in her hand, for fear that she would accidentally tear it up and ask her to compensate herself.

"This girl, this price is already very fair, you see which cloth is still equipped with this Shu brocade for sale, if it weren't for the help of my shopkeeper's tow people, it was not easy to get this." At that time, Shu was hidden due to the remnants of the former Qin, which affected the trade between Shu and the outside world.

"Mother, what beautiful clothes!" Xiao Ruyan looked at the little girl next to her who thought she was dressed in gorgeous brocade and said enviously.

Zhang Xiaohua looked at Xiao Ruyan, reached out and touched Shu Jin again, and gritted her teeth: "Give me Erzhang, can you give me your remaining material?" Zhang Xiaohua thought that Erzhang should be able to make a beautiful set of clothes for Xiao Ruyan, and then get some materials for herself, and some rusty side flowers on her clothes.

"Okay, shopkeeper, Shu brocade two zhang, tattoo silver two taels, girl, please go over there to pay" Xiao Er happily lifted Zhang Xiaohua and tore off the two zhang cloth. Zhang Xiaohua took out the purse from her waist, took out two taels of silver from the inside and handed it to the palm, and then carefully put the purse into her waist. Unbeknownst to him, a down-and-out talent not far away was staring at his purse.

At night, inside the Yuelai Inn.

Liu Ruyan's family will go to Fahua Temple tomorrow to pray for blessings, so they settled in Yuelai Inn today.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaohua was spreading out the Shu brocade she bought today, and compared it to Xiao Ruyan's body, and then took out the female red thing, and cut it "click". After a while, under those skillful hands, a drape temporarily revealed its first shape.

"Mother, I want to learn too" Xiao Ruyan hugged Zhang Xiaohua's hand and shook it.

"You little girl, come, my mother will teach you" After speaking, he hugged Xiao Ruyan into his lap, and took Xiao Ruyan's hand to teach her how to cut and how to outline......

At the fifth watch, a bamboo and wood pipe came in through the window paper, and then a puff of smoke poured out of the pipe, filling the entire room in a short time.

After a while, three people in black robes pried open the door latch and broke in, and the first person was Yan Derun, the shopkeeper of the Yuelai Inn.

Liu Ruyan's family was already in a coma, and after the three of them entered the house, they first searched the property in the house, and then the three of them walked to the bedside, looking at the comatose Liu Ruyan's family, Li Ninglang directly took out a dagger and directly touched Liu Yuanqing's neck. Uncle He Ping climbed into bed and searched out Zhang Xiaohua's purse hidden in the placket, and when he opened it, he found that there were a lot of silver taels hidden inside. Just as Uncle He Ping was about to wipe Zhang Xiaohua's neck, he looked at Zhang Xiaohua, who was half-exposed in her breasts, although she was over forty years old, she had already made a few people with lust unable to hold it, and glanced at Li Ninglang, and the two smiled "hehe".

After the two of them vented their animal desires, Li Ninglang directly pulled out a dagger and killed Zhang Xiaohua. Because the medicinal effect of the smoke is not long-lasting, Xiao Ruyan has begun to wake up at this time, but the two who are still in the beastly desire have not been discovered. Xiao Ruyan didn't dare to say anything, and kept pretending to be asleep.

After half a ring, Li Ninglang held Xiao Ruyan and handed Xiao Ruyan to the dwarf man behind the scenes of Xiaoxiang Pavilion from the tunnel in the backyard, and Uncle He Ping continued his gambling business with the silver tael. Yan Derun, on the other hand, stayed in the room to wash the bloodstains.

In the early morning of the second day, after a night of struggle, Uncle He Ping once again did charity with the silver taels he had looted yesterday. Li Ninglang continued to wander around the streets boringly. The business of Yuelai Inn is extremely hot, and from time to time people from other places come to play and stay in the hotel.

In the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Xiao Ruyan was arranged in a courtyard by a dwarf man, and there were more than a dozen little girls who were not very old, some were seven or eight years old, and some were thirteen or fourteen years old. Or practice the guqin, or learn calligraphy, or learn the art of charm.

Liu Yuanqing and Zhang Xiaohua don't seem to care if they have come to this beautiful city that seems to be quiet but hides a crisis! This is the story of Liu Ruyan, and it is also the beginning of this case......