Chapter 60, The Scene of Social Death
Looking at Bai Qiurui's puffing appearance, her clear and translucent eyes were like stars in the sky, and at this moment she was like an angry little beast, baring her teeth to express dissatisfaction.
There is no lethality just at all, but there is an inexplicable cuteness, grievances and pitiful.
Shen Yuan didn't continue to praise the topic of the little woman's 'good physical strength', he knew that the little guy didn't seem to like this compliment.
Thinking of this, he smiled and said softly, "Are you okay?" ”
This is one of the few times Bai Qiurui has seen Shen Yuan smile, and his smile is particularly obvious, his smile always flashes in the first few times, unlike now, the smile is very natural and obvious.
It is rare for a man to use such a gentle tone, Bai Qiurui is very comfortable to listen to, she nodded reluctantly, and she answered.
After taking two more sips of water from the kettle in his hand, Bai Qiurui began to ask Shen Yuan questions about the temple.
"You just said that the people in the underground secret room are all test subjects of the elixir of immortality, what's going on?"
Shen Yuan explained, "The piece of paper you gave me has those contents recorded on it. ”
Bai Qiurui remembered the 'elixir of immortality' paper she found in the drawer, she did find it, and handed it to Shen Yuan after just taking a look.
Then she then asked, "Then why are you in such a hurry to leave the temple, and what do you mean when you say 'if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave'?" ”
Bai Qiurui never figured out the relationship between the two, those people were the experimental objects of the Immortal Pill, so why did Shen Yuan say that they couldn't leave if they didn't leave?
Could it be that the experiment failed and the test product mutated?
Bai Qiurui didn't believe in this idea herself, could it be that the clips in the movies in her previous life could still come true in ancient times?
"According to the records on paper, those people have already taken the 'elixir' six times, and one more time they will wake up and rejuvenate and live forever, forever at the youngest age."
Shen Yuan simply sat down beside Bai Qiurui and slowly told her what had happened.
When it came to the elixir of immortality, Bai Qiurui saw that Shen Yuan had taken the elixir several times, and these details were remembered so clearly.
Seeing that he said that he would live forever after eating it for the seventh time, he subconsciously asked him, is it true that he is not old?
I saw Shen Yuan chuckle and shook his head: "The number of lifespans is determined by heaven, how can any power be changed." ”
Then, Bai Qiurui learned that two years ago, Shen Yuan had handled a case related to alchemy.
It's just that the elixir that was refined has nothing to do with immortality, but is an evil secret technique that refines living people into living corpses.
Shen Yuan had seen the prescription of the elixir before, and the usage and time of the elixir were exactly the same as the current Immortal Pill.
According to this prescription, after taking the pill, after taking the seventh pill, the person will be alienated, and become a bloodthirsty and flesh-eating living corpse that hurts people extremely badly, will not die, will not hurt, will not starve, just like an obedient puppet.
Moreover, this kind of living corpse can only be manipulated by the alchemist himself. The method of manipulation is a special silver bell that controls them in a specific order of bell ringing.
"I have seen someone manipulate a living corpse to directly break the head of a living person."
After Shen Yuan finished talking about his case of refining living corpses, he finally said coldly.
Bai Qiurui listened to it from beginning to end, and then she was stupid.
Did she really guess right?!
Isn't this the ancient version of Resident Evil?
However, then she remembered an important question: "Then how could this recipe for refining living corpses still exist in the world, and how could it become a prescription for the elixir of immortality?" ”
In the middle, everyone can sense that something is wrong, not to mention how this recipe was preserved, just saying that this recipe has turned into a prescription for the elixir of immortality, the abbot of Nanyue Temple should be kept in the dark.
So, who gave him a fake prescription and then tricked him into arresting someone to test the medicine?
Bai Qiurui remembered at this time that she had taken an empty small porcelain vase in the abbot's drawer, and she took it out of her sleeve and handed it to Shen Yuan.
"This is the empty medicine bottle I found in the abbot's drawer, and there is a strange smell in it, you see."
Shen Yuan stretched out his hand to take it, and the moment he uncorked the bottle, he also asked about the taste.
"That's right, it's an elixir for refining living corpses."
Staring at the porcelain vase in Shen Yuan's hand, Bai Qiurui remembered that she had sniffed it up close, and felt creepy at this time.
Living corpses, that sounds uncomfortable.
Then she remembered that she had taken two letters from the last drawer, and they were safe at the moment, so she took them out of her sleeve and gave one to Shen Yuan casually.
"There are two of them, in the bottom drawer, and they are pressed with scriptures, and I think there must be some secret in them."
Bai Qiurui shook the envelope in her hand and motioned for Shen Yuan to open it and take a look.
The latter nodded and reached out to take it.
Bai Qiurui pinched the envelope in her hand and opened it directly, and inside was a densely written letter paper, she only saw an honorific at the beginning, and immediately froze.
The three words on the paper were revealed in front of Bai Qiurui's eyes: Han Chengyu.
King Ning, Han Chengyu?
Then she immediately asked Shen Yuan: "By the way, do you remember who that distinguished guest is?" ”
Shen Yuan had also opened the letter in his hand, and when he saw Bai Qiurui's face, his eyes fell on the letter in her hand.
But for a moment, he said lightly: "Meng Beihe." ”
This is another unexpected and expected person.
Taking a deep breath, Bai Qiurui put her attention back on the letter paper in her hand, the more she looked down, the more frightened she felt, and saw that the cold sweat had soaked her back at the end.
The letter in her hand was not a correspondence between the distinguished guest Meng Beihe and the abbot of Nanyue Temple, but a private correspondence between Wei Yuanlong, the Marquis of Zhenbei, and Han Chengyu, the king of Ning.
The most important thing is that what is recorded in this letter is all about how they framed the commander of the Blue Dragon Army back then, how they fabricated evidence, how they killed people and killed people, and a series of subsequent criminal trials, accusing Lu of taking military merits for Ma Zhan, and so on.
Looking at them one by one, Bai Qiurui's eyes were wet unconsciously, and she also saw a familiar and unfamiliar name in this letter.
Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Shen Changfeng.
The letter mentioned that Shen Yuan's father, Shen Changfeng, and that King Ning forcibly intervened in the trial of the criminal case in order to completely erase the Qinglong Army. Because he knew that Shen Changfeng was upright, he actually persecuted his family.
In the end, after completely eradicating the Qinglong Army as he wished, he and the Marquis of Zhenbei jointly framed Shen Yuan's father, and finally led to his death.
Looking at it, Bai Qiurui couldn't help but cry.
Seeing this, Shen Yuan said, "What's wrong?" ”
"No, the sand is blind......"
Bai Qiurui turned her head, raised her wrist and rubbed her eyes hard, trying to wipe back the tears.
Her lame reason to deceive a three-year-old child is a bit fake, not to mention Shen Yuan, who is in charge of punishment as a criminal lawsuit.
Just as Bai Qiurui finally managed to cover up the past, she only felt that the envelope in her hand was suddenly taken away.
She was shocked, and saw that Shen Yuan had already taken the letter in her hand and began to read it.
Ever since she learned about Shen Yuan's father in Gu Yi's mouth, Bai Qiurui never dared to mention it again, and now even if she tried to hide it, it was useless.
She watched as Shen Yuan took the letter and read it word by word.
This letter is not long, and Bai Qiurui is not so long when she reads it.
But now she looked at Shen Yuan to read the contents of the letter, and somehow, she felt that the letter was so long, obviously it was only two minutes, as long as two centuries.
Bai Qiurui originally thought that when Shen Yuan saw the content of the letter, he would lose his temper like he had last time in the small attic of the Criminal Department.
However, this time, Shen Yuan's expression was as usual, and when he saw the paragraph about Shen Changfeng, except for a brief pause at the beginning, there was nothing abnormal.
Shen Yuan looked at the letter quietly, and Bai Qiurui looked at him quietly on the side.
It wasn't until Shen Yuan read the letter for a long time that he whispered, "You know." ”
This sentence seems to be asking, but in fact it does seem to be a statement.
Bai Qiurui looked at Shen Yuan and nodded lightly: "I'm sorry, I didn't have your permission." ”
"It's okay."
Shen Yuan seemed to have unloaded a burden, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then stood up.
"Shall we just go, not waiting for them to come together?"
Bai Qiurui looked at Shen Yuan's movements as if she was going to leave Nanyue Temple directly, she looked at the Nanyue Temple hidden in the mountain mist, and her mood was complicated.
When Shen Yuan heard her words, his eyes also fell on Bai Qiurui: "If you don't go back, it'll be late." ”
Bai Qiurui was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then remembered that she was able to go out only because she came to thank the 'life-saving benefactor', and if she didn't return at night, it would really be unusual.
Her face turned red, and she was about to speak, when Shen Yuan said again: "They know what to do, I'll send you back first." ”
Hearing this, Bai Qiurui no longer shirked, she ran for such a day, first sneaking into the temple and then escaping into the underground secret room, and finally being chased by a group of monks, she was really tired.
Shen Yuan arranged it properly, and there was a carriage.
Bai Qiurui thought that he had prepared it a long time ago, but when he asked, he found out that it was Gu Yi who was ordered to save Wei Yingshu, and when the guards of the Criminal Department went to the foot of Nanyue Temple to standby, they specially prepared a carriage for her.
Sitting comfortably in the carriage, Bai Qiurui rarely felt that a casual man like Gu Yi could be careful, which was much happier than his appearance of not being four or six.
On the way back, Bai Qiurui began to think about the relationship between Nanyue Temple and Meng Beihe, and the two letters she found, after the final check between her and Shen Yuan, were both private letters from Wei Yuanlong, the Marquis of Zhenbei, and Han Chengyu, the king of Ning.
However, Shen Yuan also said that the distinguished guest received by the abbot of Nanyue Temple was Meng Beihe, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
If Meng Beihe is the person behind the scenes of Nanyue Temple, then why is there a chat letter between King Ning and Zhenbei Hou in the room of the abbot of Nanyue Temple?
It was all chaotic, like a messy ball of thread, and the truth was close at hand, but she couldn't find the head of the ball.
After running at the end of the day, Bai Qiurui remembered that she had gone to school in her previous life, and she had never been so tired from running five or eight hundred meters.
So, when she thought of a bunch of problems in her mind that she couldn't think of and couldn't solve, Bai Qiurui tilted her head and fell asleep.
It wasn't until she woke up from a bump in the carriage that she found that she didn't know what she was asleep with, and she was asleep leaning on Shen Yuan's shoulder.
As soon as Bai Qiurui opened her eyes, she was ashamed to find that she was drooling when she slept, and it was all on Shen Yuan's sleeve.
The moment she woke up, Bai Qiurui couldn't wait to pass out again.
This is simply a social death scene!
"Wake up, don't sleep anymore, it's in front of you."
Shen Yuan's soft voice interrupted Bai Qiurui's attempt to continue pretending to be asleep, she pretended to have just woken up, and rubbed her eyes pretendingly, but she was roaring wildly in her heart.
It doesn't matter if the man leans on his shoulder, but what to do with his own saliva on his clothes?!!
The more she thought about it, the more Bai Qiurui couldn't help but want to look at Shen Yuan's sleeves.
Shen Yuan naturally saw Bai Qiurui's saliva flowing on his sleeve, looked at the little woman with a confused expression, and then raised the corners of his lips shallowly with an expression of annoyance and some shame.
The man Shen Wei's eyes were as bright as obsidian, beautiful and pure, and Bai Qiurui, who was looking at it, couldn't help but want to cover him, so as to cover the masterpiece he accidentally left behind when he was sleeping.
However, she seems to have noticed that the man did not seem to be angry because of this.
On the contrary, the mood looks pretty good?
"My lord, it's here."
The voice of the guards sounded outside, breaking the awkward atmosphere in the carriage in time.
At least, it was Bai Qiurui's unilateral social death scene.
Now if nothing else is said, just relying on the two letters in Shen Yuan's hand, Bai Qiurui can already be sure that her marriage contract with Han Muze, the prince of Ning Wangfu, is completely over.
Once these two letters are finally presented to the emperor, not to mention that the prince Han Muze is married, it is still unknown whether the people in the Ning Wangfu can live.
In this case, Bai Qiurui can sit back and relax, but she really didn't expect that she would just ask about the case under the pretext of personally coming to the door to thank her life-saving benefactor.
Who knows, at the end of this day, rounding up is equivalent to directly solving the case.
This surprise came too well and too quickly, so fast that Bai Qiurui didn't expect it, and it really gave her a big surprise.
As soon as he remembered that he would not be able to know the news after he returned, Bai Qiurui was just about to get off the carriage and paused.
She looked at Shen Yuan and said, "I'm afraid it's hard for me to know the next case when I go back this time, and I'll ...... next."
"For the specific situation later, I will write to Sui Hong to bring it to you." Shen Yuan didn't wait for Bai Qiurui to finish speaking, he had already thought of a countermeasure first.
Hearing this, Bai Qiurui smiled: "That's very good, thank you, sir." ”
After entering the backyard of the Criminal Department to change back into his clothes, Bai Qiurui came out of the private room and learned that Shen Yuan was talking to the Zhenbei Hou and his wife.
After a little thought, she knew that it was about Wei Yingshu, so she didn't bother Shen Yuan and walked straight towards the door.
Looking at the sedan chair and entourage waiting outside the door, Bai Qiurui imagined that he didn't know how the Marquis of Zhenbei would feel if he knew that what he and King Ning had done had conclusive evidence and would soon submit it to the emperor.
But then again, Shen Yuan's father was framed and killed by the Marquis of Zhenbei and King Ning together, what kind of mood will Shen Yuan feel when facing the Marquis of Zhenbei now?
She sighed softly, and was about to get into the carriage when she met Gu Yi again.
"What's the matter, what's the sigh of?"
Gu Yi has always been casual and comfortable, and walked in front of Bai Qiurui with a smile.
Smiling slightly, Bai Qiurui put away her thoughts, smiled and shook her head: "It's nothing, Lord Shen is busy with business." I'll go first, and I'll bother Gu Gongzi to help me convey it. ”