Chapter 61: The clue emerges
Yan Sihai frowned, waiter?
Isn't this the token used by those eunuchs, is this case of the disappearance of children still related to the palace?
He looked at Liu Ping and said lightly
"It seems that this is the real reason why you are suspicious of the government, right?"
After saying that, he quietly put away the token and threatened
"Dare to tell a fourth person about today's events, and my old friend will come to you."
How dare the two of them talk nonsense, they only kneel on the ground and kowtow repeatedly
"Don't dare, sir."
At this moment, a flying insect flew to Yan Sihai's ear, buzzing non-stop.
Yan Sihai's complexion changed, and he quickly ran out of Liu Ping's house.
The flying insect led Yan Sihai through two streets and came to Zhuangyuan Street.
Probably because this year's scientific expedition is about to start, the Zhuangyuan Street at this time is very lively, the flying insect led Yan Sihai all the way forward, until he came to a storytelling stall, at this moment the storyteller is telling the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but when the flying insect comes here, it no longer goes forward, but just keeps hovering in mid-air.
Yan Sihai's expression was gloomy, like a poisonous snake, staring at everyone present.
The scholar said
But said that after the queen mother captured the weaver girl back to heaven, the cowherd was infatuated, one of them was in the sky, one was underground, one was washing his face with tears every day, one bowed to the heavens every day, praying for mercy from the heavens, and the two were allowed to meet. In this way, the two were able to get together once. ”
"Good!"
The crowd applauded.
Yan Sihai looked around at everyone, but he never found anything abnormal, but when he saw that the flying insect was still circling, he quietly withdrew the flying insect.
I thought to myself: This flying insect can smell and look for people, but it stopped when it got here, could it be that it found the killer of last night?
He looked around and slowly withdrew from the crowd.
But just after he withdrew, in the crowd, a little student with red lips and white teeth sneaked a glance in the direction he left, and after confirming that he was leaving, he silently left the crowd in the opposite direction.
The little student looked hurried, and after leaving the crowd, he came to the largest restaurant on Zhuangyuan Street, in front of the Zhuangyuan Building, he wiped the sweat beads on his face in a panic, and stood at the door, as if waiting for someone.
After a while, a young scholar and an old man dressed as a wealthy merchant came out, and when the young man saw the old man, he greeted him happily.
"Mr. Bu, are you satisfied with the accommodation that Wang arranged for you?"
The old man looked at the young scholar with a smile.
The scholar was Bu Qingwen who entered the city with Wang Huan, and the old man who was a rich businessman was naturally Wang Huan.
Bu Qingwen smiled
"Boss Wang is naturally a good place for me, thank you here."
Wang Huan said
"The elegant room in this champion building is very clean, Mr. Bu can prepare for the exam with peace of mind, Wang does not disturb Mr. Purity, Wang is waiting for Mr. Bu's good news in the palace."
Bu Qingwen thanked
"Then thank you Boss Wang."
Wang Huan glanced at the little student beside him, stretched out his hand, and said
"Xiaolinzi, let's go."
The little student named Xiao Linzi answered in a low voice, then reached out to hold Wang Huan's hand and helped him to the carriage parked at the door.
And this process was all clearly seen by Yan Sihai, who was standing on the opposite roof.
Yan Sihai frowned and muttered to himself
"Isn't this villain, is it really from the palace?"
Inside the Castle Lord's Mansion
Chang Sheng and Li Qingchou were talking in the lobby.
"Dare to ask Li Gongzi to come, why is it coming?"
Li Qingchou's face always seems to have a warm smile, and such a smile is always easy for people to relax their vigilance against him.
I saw him slowly unfold the folding fan, pick up the teacup, and take a sip.
"For the sake of my fiancée, pay Yuzhu."
Chang Sheng said
"Li Gongzi has something to say, please speak." ”
Li Qingchou said in surprise
"The city lord doesn't seem to be surprised, it seems that he already knows that I have a marriage contract with Yuzhu."
"The city lord should naturally have heard about Yuzhu's affairs, and I can't hide it, I came here this time to ask the city lord to help me solve Yuzhu's worries."
"Me?"
Li Qingchou smiled and nodded
"Yes."
Chang Sheng asked
"What kind of illness does Miss Fu have?"
Li Qingchou suddenly sighed, a cloud of sorrow flashed between his eyebrows, and his delicate face was twisted together, adding a bit of gloom, he said slowly
"She is not sick, and naturally there is nothing evil to say, if she has to say that she is sick, she has a heart disease."
Without waiting for Chang Sheng to ask him, he continued
"Yuzhu and I are also childhood sweethearts, and we have been married since we were children, and we should have been married when we turned sixteen, that is, this year."
"The lord of the city should also know, just last year, there was an accident, since then, Yuzhu's temperament has changed greatly, as if he suddenly changed a person, originally a bright and cheerful girl, but became a lonely and gloomy madman, she used to talk to me about everything, but since then, she and I have suddenly become cold."
Chang Sheng nodded slightly, she naturally already knew these things.
"What happened a year ago?"
The gloom between Li Qing's sorrowful eyebrows became thicker and thicker.
"I only know probably, at this time last year, it was also the occasion of the imperial examination, during that time, I received an invitation from an old man, left Beijing to participate in his banquet, and it took about a month to go back and forth, at the beginning, I had correspondence with Yuzhu, but since the second half of the month, I have not received Yuzhu's reply, and when I returned to Beijing, I found that Yuzhu was hiding from me."
"I was puzzled, so I sent someone to Fu's house several times to inquire about the news, but by coincidence, the person I sent bumped into a scholar and Yuzhu meeting at the back door of Fu's house."
Li Qingchou's tone did not fluctuate from beginning to end, he seemed to be describing all this as a bystander, which made Chang Sheng feel very surprised, even her brother seemed to be less profound than the son in front of him.
He continued
"At this point, I finally know why Yuzhu is suddenly so cold to me, but this matter will be broken after all, and it didn't take long for Master Fu to find out about the two of them."
"The whole thing is out of control, Master Fu will never allow Yuzhu to marry a scholar, just a fifteen-year-old girl, and she can be more obedient, and then, naturally, there will be an inextricable quarrel."
Chang Sheng said
"So, Miss Fu is what she is now because of that scholar?"
Li Qingchou nodded slightly
"Yes, things should have developed in the direction of the cliché in the drama, the ending of the scholar was either driven out of the capital, or the person disappeared into the city unknowingly, but at this moment, there was a new turn, and the scholar turned out to be the champion of high school!"
"Since this is the case, Lord Fu naturally doesn't want to stop the two of them anymore, and marrying the new champion is no worse than me, a useless young master."
Li Qing smiled bitterly.
"And then?"
Chang Sheng looked at Li Qingchou expectantly, and when he said this, he had completely aroused Chang Sheng's interest.
Li Qingchou continued
"Then that thing turned around again, and the scholar died at the hands of Yuzhu!"
"What!"
Chang Sheng jumped up, no matter what, she didn't expect that the final outcome of the matter would be like this.
Why did Miss Fu kill her lover?
Li Qingchou looked at Chang Sheng's expression, without the slightest surprise, of course he knew that anyone who heard such a story would jump in surprise, and even after he knew the news of the scholar's death, he was also shocked.
"Master Fu and my father suppressed all the news and lied to the public that the scholar died of a violent illness."
Chang Sheng asked again
"How did the scholar die?"
Li Qingchou shook his head
"I wasn't there at the time, I only heard that Yuzhu suddenly went crazy and stabbed the scholar to death with a knife, and since then, Yuzhu has been like a different person, from time to time he will wear white clothes, scatter paper money on the street, and burn paper money in the yard at night, I thought to myself, Yuzhu probably because her lover died in her own hands, guilt and love are intertwined, causing her to collapse."
Chang Sheng sighed for a while, the ending of the story is really ......
"Then what does Li Gongzi think, what can I help you?"
Li Qingchou stood up and said earnestly
"City Lord, you are a woman, I think it is easier to get close to Yuzhu, there is really no way to do it, seeing that the wedding date is coming, I can only go to the doctor in a hurry, please ask the City Lord for help."
Chang Sheng said in surprise
"Gongzi Li, something like this happened, are you still willing to marry Miss Fu?"
Li Qingchou looked at Chang Sheng with firm eyes and nodded without hesitation
"Naturally, I love Yuzhu, no matter what happens, it can't change the fact that this has already happened, so I will also try to make her fall in love with me again."
Chang Sheng looked at Li Qingchou and was in awe in his heart
"Li Gongzi is infatuated, and the little sister is extremely moved, since Li Gongzi thinks that the little sister can help a little, then the little sister will be a matchmaker for Li Gongzi."
Li Qingchou was overjoyed
"In this case, it will be troublesome to the city lord."
Looking at Li Qingchou's departing back, Chang Sheng let out a sigh of relief, and his delicate face was full of gloom at the moment.
Zhou Xi'er ran out from the side, and the conversation between the two in the lobby just now was all overheard by him
"Sister, do you really want to help them be a matchmaker?"
Chang Sheng slammed his little head on the table, his face full of sadness
"Alas, it's all because I was impulsive, and I took a job for myself, why am I so impulsive!"
She slapped her mouth, regretting that she was so fast.
At this time, as soon as Yan Sihai came in, he saw Chang Sheng slapping his mouth, he was surprised for a while, and then said in a weird way
"Sheng Wazi, is this practicing iron mouth skills, so hard."
Chang Sheng didn't seem to notice him coming back at all, still slapping himself expressionlessly.
Zhou Xi'er ran to Yan Sihai and told Yan Sihai what happened in the lobby.
Yan Sihai suddenly realized, and then the old god sat down on the ground.
"Shengwazi, your character of doing work everywhere is really with your brother."
"Don't talk nonsense, you ran out for a long time, did you find any useful clues?"
Chang Sheng glanced at Yan Sihai and continued to slap his mouth.
Yan Sihai had a proud expression on his face, cocked Erlang's legs, and stretched his waist.
"Naturally, it is very rewarding."
Chang Sheng stopped his hand and pointed at Yan Sihai coquettishly
"Speak quickly!"
Yan Sihai immediately took out the token from his waist and told Chang Sheng everything he had seen outside.
Chang Sheng slapped his mouth while frowning
"In this way, this case of the disappearance of children is really inseparable from the palace, and the most suspicious one is Wang Huan."
Yan Shikaido
"I can't say anything yet, there are still too few clues."
Chang Sheng slapped the table and said
"That's simple, since this matter can't be separated from the dry cleaning in the palace, then we just need to stare at the palace gate, then the villain wants to commit a crime, he must go out of the palace."
Yan Sihai nodded
"It makes sense, then let's visit the palace gate at night."
Chang Sheng shook his head
"It's not us, it's you."
Yan Sihai was furious
"My old man has done all the hard work, what are you doing."
Chang Sheng's eyes widened, looked at Yan Sihai innocently, and said coquettishly
"I just took a new job, and people still have to go to the Fu family, Old Yan, you can take pity on my little woman."
Looking at Chang Sheng's two big watery eyes, Yan Sihai suddenly felt a burst of horror, he couldn't help but tremble a little, and sighed
"I didn't expect that there were other things that made my old people feel creepy."
With that, he fled the lobby without looking back.
"Sister, what am I doing?"
Zhou Xi'er looked at Chang Sheng expectantly, expecting her to also assign a task to herself.
Chang Sheng thought for a moment.
"Then you go and help me keep an eye on the Fu family, and if you see Miss Fu going out, report to me."
"Okay!"
………
A few hours later, it was getting late.
The cool breeze on Changming Lake is blowing, there are bursts of ripples, the lights on the various flower boats are bright, the sound of the piano flute is accompanied by the song and dance of the geisha, with the ripples on the lake surface continue to ripple, the prosperity of the night in the imperial capital will always be indispensable to the credit of these warblers and swallows.
Standing on the top of the flower boat, looking at the opposite bank, there is the palace with red walls and yellow tiles, and you can see the ancient trees rising from the sky, emerging from the palace.
And what is more clearly visible, is naturally the tall and majestic palace gate, at this moment, Yan Sihai is dressed in brocade, is sitting at the highest place of the flower boat, enjoying the prosperity of the imperial capital.
Around, it is even more left and right, warbler Yanyan.
"It's a great place."
Yan Sihai opened his mouth in enjoyment, a delicate beauty lay in his arms, and the tender Qianqianyu finger was sending a peeled grape into his mouth.
"Hmm... Good, good, good. ”
Yan Sihai had grapes in his mouth and spoke indistinctly.
"Master"
A coquettish smile that reached the bones made Yan Sihai even more forgetful.
"I have been in this imperial capital for a few days, and I found out that there are such good places in this imperial capital."
"Master, then you have to come often."
The two delicate women beside him were even more attentive.
Yan Sihai squinted his eyes and smiled
"Two beauties, my lord, I just arrived in the imperial capital, and I don't know what is interesting in this imperial capital, I recommend it to the master."
The beauty on the right patted Yan Sihai's chest, looked at the beauty on the other side, and said
"Master, you are asking the right person, Sister Liu Qiao'er is our old man here, and there is no place in the imperial capital that she doesn't know."
Yan Sihai looked at the other side, a beauty called Liu Qiao'er.
"Oh? Miss Qiao'er wants to talk to me about it. ”
Liu Qiao'er laughed coquettishly
"Where does the master want to play, the slave family will naturally arrange a comfortable arrangement for the master."
Yan Sihai smiled with satisfaction, and his fingers gently scraped Liu Qiaoer's chin, causing Liu Qiaoer to giggle and laugh.
He suddenly looked at the other side and laughed
"Beauty, do you say that the lady in this palace is more beautiful than you?"
Liu Qiao'er's delicate face couldn't stop laughing
"How can we compare with Niangniang."
Yan Sihai said with a smile
"Hey, why can't it be compared, you see, the ladies and you all live at opposite ends of this palace gate, speaking of which, it's the same thing."
These words caused the two beauties around them to laugh and tremble, and their pink fists kept beating Yan Sihai's chest.
"Master, you really know how to speak."
Seeing this, Yan Sihai took advantage of the victory to pursue
"Beauty, with such a posture as yours, I'm afraid that the eunuch on the other side will have a spring in his heart when he sees it."
The two women laughed so hard that they couldn't close their mouths
"Master, don't be joking, those eunuchs, who are sneaky all day long, how could they ever come to us."
Yan Sihai's eyes changed
"Oh? How is it sneaky. ”
Liu Qiaoer said
"The palace gate looks tall, and the pickled things inside are no less than our Qinglou women."
The beauty on the other side also said
"Yes, those eunuchs carry sacks in the middle of the night every day, sneaky, and they don't know what to do."
"I look at it and it looks like it's a person, otherwise something is so heavy that it would have to be carried by two or three people."
Liu Qiaoer said.