Chapter Twenty-Four: Visits and Secret Investigations

Liushi Lane is located in the west of the city, compared with the east of the rich and flowing clouds, it seems a little decadent here, the courtyard wall with the peeling wall and the bluestone pavement of different shades, the more you go inside, the more Ye Yun can feel the difficulty and struggle of the people at the bottom of the life.

The sanitation of the whole street is not good, and all kinds of debris are piled up on the road, mixed with swill, and under the sun, in addition to the disgusting smell, you can also see the worms and ants attached to it.

Halfway through, Ye Yun stopped, she raised her head, wanting to relieve her tumbling stomach, Ji Zi really saw that her face was ugly, and she couldn't bear to say: "It's better for the princess to go back first, and the lower official can go alone." ”

Taking a breath, Ye Yun wiped away the tears caused by nausea at the corners of his eyes, waved his hand and said, "No need, let's go." The words fell, and he continued to walk inside.

After walking for about a stick of incense, the eyes became wider, and the road situation was much better than just now, an old woman stood at the gate of the courtyard with a stick, Ye Yun stepped forward and asked, "Auntie, does the Li Erjia live here?" ”

"Who are you?" The old woman wondered.

"Auntie, we are officials, and we came here today to think.." As soon as he was halfway through the words, the courtyard door was opened from the inside, and a very plainly dressed woman came out of it, and she was a little surprised to see Ye Yun and the two standing at the door: "Who are the two sons?" ”

"You're Cui'e?" Ye Yun said.

The woman nodded and said, "The people's woman is Cui'e, I don't know what the two sons are doing to find the people's women?" ”

Ye Yun and Ji Zizhen glanced at each other, and the latter took out the token of Dali Temple and said: "Dali Temple handled the case, I heard that your husband Li Er has been missing for more than a month and has not returned, so I came to understand the situation." ”

Hearing that she was coming for her husband, Cui'e hurriedly opened the courtyard door, retreated to the side and said, "I don't know if the adults are coming, the women are rude, the two adults please come in." ”

Ye Yun and Ji Zizhen came in from the courtyard one after the other, the small courtyard was very simple, there was only one main room and two side rooms, Cui'e took the two to the main room.

"The two adults sit down for a while, and the woman goes to pour a glass of water for the adults."

"Don't bother," Ye Yun stopped Cui'e, who was about to leave, and said, "I just wanted to ask Li Er what was wrong before he disappeared?" ”

"Let the women think about it." Cui'e stood in place, thought for a while, and then shook her head and said: "Back to my lord, the woman has carefully recalled everything, and her husband Li Er before the disappearance is the same as usual, and there is nothing unusual. ”

"Can you take us to Li Er's room?"

"This is the bedroom of the woman and her husband Li Er, and adults can check it at will."

Hearing this, Ye Yun got up, looked around the room, and after inspecting around and found nothing, he paced to the side of the bed, but found that there was a lot of dust accumulated on the edge of the bed, and it was obvious that it had not been touched for a long time.

"Isn't there anyone living in this room?" Ye Yun asked.

"Back to my lord, since the disappearance of her husband Li Er, my mother-in-law has often had nightmares, and the women have moved to a side house to live with their mother-in-law in order to take care of their mother-in-law." Cui'e explained.

Ye Yun nodded and said, "So, after your husband Li Er disappeared, nothing in this house has been touched?" ”

"Yes."

Ye Yun didn't say much, he checked the things on the bed one by one, and when he was looking through the cloth pillow, he felt a piece of paper from inside, Ye Yun took it out and opened it to see that it was a pawnshop pawn ticket.

"Cui'e."

"My lord, the women are here." Hearing Ye Yun call herself, Cui'e stepped forward.

"Come and see, have you ever seen this pawn ticket?" After the words fell, Ye Yun handed the pawn ticket in his hand to Cui'e.

After taking the pawn ticket, Cui'e glanced at it and then handed it back to Ye Yun and said: "This pawn ticket woman has seen, in mid-June, the woman received a letter from her mother's brother, saying that the old lady has been coughing for several days, and she wants to seek medical treatment and suffers from no silver taels, so she wants to ask the woman to borrow some silver taels, and after the woman informed her husband Li Er of this, he took a silver hairpin at home and exchanged it for a tael of silver for the woman to send back to her mother's house to treat the old lady.

Who would have thought that when the woman came back from her mother's house, she was told by her mother-in-law that her husband Li Er had not returned since he went out early in the morning of June 20. Speaking of this, Cui'e couldn't help but cover her sleeves and sob.

Seeing this, Ye Yun comforted: "Don't worry, since I have taken over this case, I will definitely give you an explanation." ”

"Thank you, sir." The woman said as she wiped tears from her cheeks.

Coming out of Liushi Lane, it was past noon, Ji Zizhen looked at the sky and proposed: "The princess has been busy for a long time and has not eaten, and the lower official knows that there is a restaurant in front of her that is the best at making Huaiyang cuisine, can the princess go and try it?" ”

"Wouldn't that make Ji Shaoqing break the bank?" Ye Yun said with a smile.

"It's an honor to have lunch with the princess!" When the words fell, the thistle really gave up, looking very honored, and Ye Yun was quite speechless when he saw it.

"Since Ji Shaoqing has a treat, then the palace is not welcome." After the words fell, Ye Yun walked straight to the small noodle shop diagonally opposite.

"Is the princess going to eat here?" Ji Zizhen glanced at the overcrowded small shop inside, her eyebrows frowned, eating in such a messy place, isn't the princess joking?

"How?" Ye Yun looked at Ji Zizhen with a smile and said, "Ji Shaoqing, don't you regret it?" ”

"Xia Guan didn't mean that."

"Then let's go in together." When the words fell, Ye Yun entered from the inside first, and when Xiao Er saw her enter, he hurriedly came over to greet her: "Guest officer, please, what do you want to eat today?" ”

"What's your best thing here?" Ye Yun asked as he walked.

"As soon as I heard this, I knew that the guest officer was not a regular visitor, and our Yangchun noodles here were a must in the imperial capital!" Xiao Er patted his chest and said proudly.

"In that case, then invite the second brother to come to the two Yangchun noodles." Ye Yun said with a smile.

"Come on, sit down, the guest officer, and the face will be fine immediately!" Xiao Er led the person to the empty seat and immediately went to the back kitchen.

Ji Zizhen sat opposite with a tense face, and when he saw that Ye Yun was very familiar, he couldn't help but wonder, he frowned and said tentatively: "The princess has been here before?" ”

"Ji Shaoqing, just call me Ye Gongzi when you go out." After speaking, Ye Yun paused: "It's the first time I've come." ”

The corners of Ji Zizhen's mouth moved and she wanted to ask something, but was interrupted by Xiao Er, who sent the noodles: "Come on, the two guest officers, please use it slowly." ”

As soon as the bowl was put in front of her, Ye Yun took out chopsticks from the bamboo tube and couldn't wait to eat them, she didn't eat a drop of water for a long time, she was really hungry.

The thistle really didn't want to eat it, in his opinion, these small shops in the market, not to mention whether they were clean or not, the taste was not guaranteed, but he saw that Ye Yun ate quite fragrantly, and couldn't help but pick up the chopsticks, with a half-believing attitude, tasted it, and then his eyes lit up.

"How's it going, it's delicious." Ye Yun asked with a smile.

Thistle really nodded: "It tastes very good!" ”

After a while, the two of them ate clean noodles and soup, and afterwards Ji Zizhen looked unsatisfied.

Seeing this, Ye Yun hooked the corners of his mouth and said, "Since Ji Shaoqing likes it, please change me next time." ”