Fu Rudi asked Jiang Ping about the case of the disappearance of children in Qiongzhou, and Jiang Ping was very attentive and presented him with the files over the years.

"Since the twelfth year of Jianming, for nine consecutive years, children have disappeared intermittently. The oldest of these children was no more than eight years old, and the youngest was three years old, both male and female. ”

"Nine years?"

Fu Rudi held the dossier, looked at the words recorded on it, and frowned displeasurely, "Why has it only been nine years and now it has been passed on?" ”

Jiang Ping sighed and said, "Master Fu doesn't know anything. The successive governors of Qiongzhou were not upright people, and several officials who neglected their duties were deposed, so the lower officials had the opportunity to skip Hanlin and come directly to Qiongzhou on an errand. He immediately added, "As soon as Xia Guan received this case, he carefully investigated it for a year, but he had no clue, so he reported it to the authorities." Master Fu is extremely capable, and he must be able to find out about this matter soon! On behalf of the people of Qiongzhou, the lower officials are grateful! ”

Fu Rudi has heard too many whiskers and horses.

Jiang Ping shot vaguely, so he didn't say anything, but said coldly: "It's too early for Master Jiang to say this. The disappearance of a child without any certified physical evidence for nine years is a headless unsolved case, which is not easy to handle. ”

"Xia Guan believes in Master Fu."

Jiang Ping bent down and arched his hand, seemingly betting all his expectations on him.

Fu Rudi put aside the file of the disappearance case and asked as if unintentionally: "By the way, Lord Jiang, this official heard that there is a coral jade with a special material in Qiongzhou, which is extremely rare. ”

"Yes."

Introducing local specialties, Jiang Ping, the governor of the state, opened the chatterbox.

"Coral jade is formed by coral fossils, so the pattern of each piece of coral jade is unique, and it was once a treasure of Qiongzhou's tribute." Speaking of this, Jiang Ping became melancholy and regretted, "But there was a sea overflow in Jianming ten years, destroying thousands of farmland and houses, and the surrounding environment changed viciously, and I couldn't find a coral jade anymore." The coral jade that remains on the market today must be something from ten years ago. ”

Fu Rudi: "The price of coral jade must rise. ”

Jiang Ping bowed, "This is inevitable." Those who are in average condition can fry a hundred taels of gold, not to mention those royal tributes back then. ”

Jiang Ping was contemptuous of Fu Rudi in his heart.

Suddenly mentioning coral jade, didn't he want him to give a gift? Jiang Ping was suspicious and suspicious, and he loved to speculate on people's hearts, thinking that these officials under the imperial city were all wine bags and rice bags, and even with the young Fu Rudi, he became more and more disdainful.

Fu Rudi got the answer he wanted, and when he saw that it was not early, he asked Jiang Ping to step back and rest.

Jiang Ping bowed and took his leave.

He walked to the door, suddenly remembered something again, and reminded: "Master Fu, it's almost the Double Ninth Festival, don't go out at night for outsiders." ”

"What does that mean?"

"Their Double Ninth Festival is a sacrifice to the Holy Niang Temple, and outsiders are not allowed to observe the ceremony. Otherwise, it is a collision with the Holy Mother and a local taboo. Jiang Ping smiled, "Xia Guan will not leave the government in the next few days, after all, you have to respect the local folk customs." ”

Fu Rudi understood.

"Lord Jiang, rest assured, the regions are different, the customs and culture are also different, and the official knows."

In the middle of the night, he didn't want to join in any fun.

Sending Jiang Ping away, Fu Rudi knocked on Fu Jiao's door.

Fu Jiao pretended to be sleepy-eyed, opened the door a crack, and asked in a daze, "Brother, what's the matter so late?" ”

"Don't go out after nightfall these days."

"Uh-huh, I won't."

Fu Jiao obediently responded.

Fu Rudi is quite relieved of her, as long as she doesn't mix with Zhao Hao, this fourth sister is still very obedient.

"Well, go to bed early."

"Brother should also have a good rest!"

Fu Jiao "snapped" the door, lay down on her back on the bed, and called out Chen Ningsheng and Yan Ji.

Yan Ji had some opinions because she prevented herself from having a martyrdom with Zhao Hao, and sat in the corner silently combing her green silk; Chen Liaosheng honestly stood in the shadows like a servant and asked, "What do you command?" ”

"I just want to ask you, do you want to eat him when you see Jiang Ping?"

Fu Jiao was curious.

Chen Ningsheng smiled, "Master, I have said it, the matter is a foregone conclusion, I hate him and hate him, and I can't come back from the dead." The top priority is that Mizuo Shengniang ......"

"Okay, okay, I haven't forgotten this stubble."

Fu Jiao's index finger buckled the edge of the bed and asked the doubts in her heart: "When did your holy lady change her temperament?" ”

Chen is also not sure.

Before his death, he was just a poor scholar who was out for years to take the exam, and many things he only knew after he became a water ghost.

"It should be when Jiang Ping pretended to be Zhizhou."

"Wrong." Fu Jiao shook her head, "Nine years ago, or earlier. ”

Just now, she eavesdropped on the conversation between Jiang Ping and Fu Rudi, combined with the children who disappear every year, and guessed that the Shuiwei Holy Lady nine years ago had been blackened.

But why did she change from a goddess who protected one side to a man-eating demon?

Fu Jiao touched her chin and asked thoughtfully: "When Jianming was ten years old, there was a sea overflow in Qiongzhou?" ”

"I wasn't in Qiongzhou at the time. The disaster was enormous, with countless casualties. Chen Ningsheng frowned, "It is rumored that it was the Zhenhai stone rhinoceros that was swept away by the sediment on the seabed. Later, everyone found the stone rhino, and it was only in ten years that peace was restored, and there was no overflow. ”

"Stone rhinoceros?"

"Yes, it's our Zhenhai Divine Beast in Qiongzhou, which has a history of hundreds of years."

"Where?"

Chen Ningsheng thought for a while and replied, "It's over there in Qingshi Ridge." The stone rhinoceros is at the bottom of the sea, and the sea is very deep and invisible. ”

Fu Jiao knew it in her heart.

The gods worshiped by one side will not kill mortals without external interference, otherwise they will be judged by the three divisions of Yin Cao in reincarnation. Today's Shengniang Temple is afraid that it is an evil temple.

She asked Chen Ningsheng to return to the altar, but Yan Ji refused to enter the porcelain plate.

"What's wrong with you?"

Fu Jiao was really sleepy and wanted to sleep.

Yan Ji snorted coldly: "It's okay if you don't let me be martyred with him." I miss him and want to sleep with him. It was rare for her to transform into a beautiful appearance before her death today, and she dared to threaten Fu Jiao, "Otherwise, I won't help you." ”

Yan Ji has been on the road for 500 years.

Fu Jiaoma didn't allow the saint to be shallow, so she had to say, "What's up with you." ”

Anyway, Zhao Hao has her charm on his body, and he can't die if he breathes two breaths of yang energy.

Following.

Fu Rudi took Sinan Sibei to investigate the clues of the disappearance case early, and visited door to door, but he couldn't ask anything if he didn't believe it.

As soon as they left, Fu Jiao also picked up a lot of things to find Zhao Hao, and met Jiang Ping at the door of the mansion.

"Fourth Miss."

Jiang Ping nodded politely at Fu Jiao.

Fu Jiao looked at him twice and quipped: "I heard that Master Jiang once visited Hualang in high school, and his writing is extraordinary." It just so happened that my brother gave me a question, can Master Jiang solve my doubts? ”

"Fourth Miss, but it's okay to talk about it."

"There are three questions for this." Fu Jiao made a gesture of "three", "The first title is the way of the university, in Mingmingde, in the people, in the ultimate goodness; The sub-title is neutral and not imposing; The three titles are to the people of the world, gather the world's own goods, trade and retreat, and each has its own righteousness. ”

Jiang Ping's face stiffened slightly.

His gaze changed from banter to deep, staring at Fu Jiao, not understanding what she meant: "Fourth Miss, this is the question of my imperial examination back then." ”

"Oh."

Fu Jiao chuckled, "Then can Master Jiang answer?" ”

Jiang Pingwan said: "Naturally." However, I can't finish talking for a while, and if Miss Fourth is free, we will talk about it in detail another day. ”

"I don't have to."

Fu Jiao asked him to give way, "I'm going out." ”

Jiang Ping leaned sideways slightly and advised: "Approaching Chongyang, it's better for the fourth lady not to walk around." ”

"Thank you Master Jiang for reminding me, I'll keep it in mind."

Having said that, Fu Jiao ignored him and left with her baggage.

Jiang Ping looked at her back, his expression getting cold. The hand in the sleeve rubbed the fabric over and over again, restless.