Drops of bright red like scattered rouge, trembling and falling on her careless face, Yuwen Qiupage's good-looking eyes slightly raised a bewildering arc, slowly lowered his head, put it to her ear, and said in a dumb voice, "What should I do, I seem to like you a little-"

Liu Ya slammed his knee into his stomach.

Yuwen Qiuye screamed in pain, and in an instant, the weight of the whole person pressed on her, and her low voice was almost blown away by the night wind that sneaked in to play, "If I die, you will marry Fan Datong." ”

"He still dares to think crookedly to me, so I told him to spend the rest of his life paralyzed in a wheelchair, if he feels lonely, I don't mind letting the entire Zhenguo Mansion accompany him to experience life!"

"And what if it's me who wants to marry you?"

Liu Ya seemed to hear the funniest joke in the world, "The account is not settled, what do you want to use me for?"

"It's not a use to say it, I need to leave Beijing for a while. He almost muttered, "Help me, Bud." ”

After a long time, Liu Ya said, "You have repeatedly used me, how dare I believe you again, this time I am really discussing with me, not there is a layer of calculus underneath, if I am the only one in the game, it doesn't hurt to play with you, but unfortunately the bet on entering the market needs to be bet on my relatives and friends." ”

"Yuwen Qiuye, I don't want to play, you can think that I can't afford to play. ”

"I don't want to step on the corpses of my dearest people every step I take. ”

"I came this time to tell you and that person, my brother has arrived in Beijing, and I am going back to Yangzhou. ”

"The treacherous turmoil in the court, the struggle for power and profit under the throne, and the intrigue around you have nothing to do with me anymore. ”

Liu Ya pushed him out of bed and placed a small white porcelain vase on the coffee table, "Since then, you and I have written it off." ”

A heavy rain that fell for three days pushed Yangzhou up the summer ladder.

Living the life of a standard rich lady, eating and sleeping, sleeping and playing, and continuing to eat when you are tired of playing, the willow buds that have gained twenty pounds are as usual, and today is as usual, and she is still lying in the quilt after three poles of the sun, but when she wants to change to a more comfortable position and continue to lie down, she was turned up impatiently, and she put on her clothes and pulled out the door.

After getting out of the carriage, I saw that in front of the prefect's yamen, her brother Liu Gui's face was pale and pale, "I didn't want to disturb your recuperation, but there has never been such a terrible incident in Yangzhou.

Liu Ya rarely saw his brother who was used to swimming in the wind and waves so uncalm, and couldn't help but wonder, "What happened?"

Hearing this, Liu Gui seemed to think of something, covered his mouth with disgust, his face became even more ugly, and before he could say anything, Litang arrived, he directly raised his hand and pointed to the table covered with blue embroidered brocade, a large plate of steaming steamed buns in the middle of all kinds of delicate dishes, including the prefect Guo and the Yacha, among the dozen or so people with black faces and white heads, said with difficulty:

"Ya Ya, you go and see those bun fillings, what's so weird?"

Liu Ya slowly swept the dishes on the table that didn't seem to have been touched much, and then picked up a bun and broke it in half, it was cabbage and pork filling, and looked at Liu Gui puzzled, but he motioned for her to continue, so she opened a few buns one after another, but she didn't notice anything abnormal, so she had to helplessly hold her forehead and say, "Brother, you tell me directly what's wrong——"

Before Liu Gui could speak, a man in a bamboo green color elegant robe pointed to a bowl with half a bun in front of him with a blue face, and said in a trembling voice without tears, "Miss Liu, please look here." ”

Liu Ya walked around most of the table, picked up the bun, and saw a bitten little toe lying quietly in the white bowl, she frowned and carefully checked the half with chopsticks, and then groaned with her jaw, "It's indeed a human toe—"

Before the words fell, the man in the bamboo blue color elegant robe turned his back and vomited.

The faces of the people next to him became greener, darker and whiter, and Governor Guo couldn't help but say in disgust, "Then Miss Yiliu, look at these buns-"

"Broken like this, even I can't tell if the stuffing here is pork or human flesh. "Liu Ya is not modern, there are all kinds of sophisticated high-tech instruments that can be perfectly and quickly distinguished, the minced human flesh is marinated by seasoning and made into bun filling, and it is really no less difficult to distinguish it with the eyes and smell of ordinary people, it is really no less difficult than asking her to reincarnate again.

She could only say, "Lord Guo should first detain the relevant people who may be involved in the case!"

A man with a square face wearing a lake-blue brocade robe said in a calm voice, "I bought the buns in Loulan Pavilion. ”

This restaurant is newly opened, with steamed buns as a signboard, claiming to use the freshest running boar in Yangzhou, fruits and vegetables are also grown by themselves, before the opening, the name is very loud, it seems to be running really well, every day queue up to buy steamed buns in an endless stream, has become a landscape.

Governor Guo said in a cold voice, "You immediately go to Loulan Pavilion to arrest a group of people and ask them clearly!" Then he looked at Liu Ya with a rather flattering meaning, and pulled out a smile that was more ugly than crying, "This official has been in Yangzhou for thirty-four years, six months and twelve days, and he has never seen such a brutal case that affects such a bad behavior, if you still need Miss Liu's help, I don't know if Miss Liu is willing——"

In a few months he is going to retire, at this time there is such a thing, if you can't do it well, the official matter is small, the brain is big, although Liu Ya is only a few months in Beijing, but the reputation of the test has already spread back to Yangzhou, if it is not for her family is not short of money, it is a big Buddha who can't move with human favors, he invited her to Yamen early.

Liu Ya was not very willing, but before she could say anything, her brother had already agreed for her, and said righteously, "If we don't bring this vicious murderer to justice, we are afraid that we will not be able to eat at home in the future, and if such a bad incident is not solved as soon as possible, the people of Yangzhou will be frightened, and it will be troublesome to cause any chaos at that time!"

The Liu family has a wide range of businesses, including restaurants and restaurants, if it is unlucky and is planted by someone with a heart, the loss will be great, Liu Ya naturally heard the meaning of Liu Gui's words, so he had to admit it, nodded in agreement, and showed that he was willing to help.

**

After leaving the prefect's yamen, the personal maid Fennel asked her if she would go back to the house directly.

Liu Ya said, "Let's go out for a walk." "She hasn't been out since she came back.

Although the liveliness of the chicken lane market is not as good as that of Shangjing, it is also very prosperous, especially Yangzhou is located at the junction of neighboring countries, compared with the city next to it, it is still better, the traffic is busy, bustling, the river is endless, antique, and relish.

As soon as Liu Ya and Fennel came out of the candied fruit shop, they were greeted by a sharp female voice and laughed, "Flies are so sweet!"

"No, I just bought the compote and it flew in. Liu Ya smiled indifferently at this malice, and saw that the pink face of the woman in front of her instantly turned dark, and she continued to walk forward without stopping, and heard her deliberately pull her throat and shout loudly:

"It's only been a few years, but Miss Liu's family has really grown up, and she used this clever mouth to seduce men in Shangjing, right?"

"What's the matter, Miss Xi is envious!"

Xi Miaohong almost choked on saliva, and said angrily, "Who envy your water-based Yanghua!"

"It's not envy, it's jealousy~" Liu Ya smiled suddenly, "After all, you don't have the capital to think of water-based poplars." She looked Xi Miaohong's huge figure up and down unscrupulously, posed as kind, and comforted kindly, "It's okay, don't make up for other people's sweets, in a few years, maybe it's okay~"

"You, you, you!" Xi Miaohong, you haven't come up with a reason for a long time, and you're so angry that white smoke rises from your brain.

I really can't understand why the person who used to always be submissive and scolded and didn't fight back has become so sharp and sharp, and it seems that nothing can knock her down, is it really this willow bud in the rumored Liu test in Beijing, not someone else with the same name, surname and place!

Liu Ya couldn't wait for the next thing for a long time, and saw that the people around her were watching the excitement, and there was a tendency to surround more and more, so she continued to walk forward, not wanting Xi Miaohong to grab her arm, she subconsciously turned sideways to avoid it, but she bumped into the fennel that mistakenly thought she was going to fall, and hurriedly wanted to support her fennel, so the whole person wiped half of the fennel's body and fell to the ground-

When Yu Guang saw a touch of flowing purple, quickly cutting through the slow air, she fell into a sturdy embrace, raised her eyes to meet a pair of black and white eyes with a smile, Liu Ya did not hide the disgust in her heart, wrinkled her eyebrows and said, "Why are you here?"

Yuwen Qiuye helped her up and replied succinctly, "Sacrifice." ”

"Oh. Liu Ya replied coldly, and swept the endless Xi Miaohong coldly, and sneered, "Miss Xi, people will change, I didn't make mistakes when I was young, but I don't want my family to worry about me, don't really think that I Liu Ya is easy to bully, and then I have nothing to do, don't blame me for being ruthless in calculating accounts." After finishing his words, he strode away.

After dozens of steps, she turned her head to stare at the purple, "What are you doing with me!"

Yuwen Qiupage said innocently, "I'll go this way too." ”

Liu Ya deliberately took a detour home, and was relieved to see that he did not follow her anymore, but what she never expected was that as soon as she arrived at the door, she saw him stepping into her house gracefully, and couldn't help gritting her teeth and said, "Yuwen Qiupage!"

The person whose name was called looked back with a smile and listened to her say word by word, "What the hell do you want to do?!"

"Find someone. ”

"Looking for whom?"

"Yao Pingshi. ”

"I don't have this person in my house—"

"Ahem. Before Liu Ya's words fell, Liu Gui walked out of the door screen, pointing to him wearing a lake blue brocade robe, with a square face, she had only seen the man in the prefect's yamen not long ago, and said, "Sorry Yaya, I forgot to introduce it before, he is Yao Pingshi, and he lives in our house temporarily." ”

“......”

Liu Ya returned to the room depressed and asked Fennel, who was waiting for her to change her clothes, "Where did I hear the name Yao Pingshi?"

"It's General Tiger Roar, didn't Madame tell you a few days ago—"

Liu Ya glared embarrassedly, her brother's friend, her mother liked it very much, one of her blind dates, and said in embarrassment, "Don't change, don't lie in bed, go to my mother's." "I thought her mother was joking, after all, she was just sixteen years old, but she ignored that women in this world are fourteen years old to adulthood, and many sixteen-year-old girls, children will play soy sauce!

Seeing the elegant and well-maintained woman, Liu Ya called sweetly, "Mother." ”

Mother Liu hurriedly beckoned her to come to her, and said with a meaningful smile, "Can you see General Yao?"

Liu Ya didn't say a word, and Liu's mother had already taken her hand and said with pity, "In the early years, I wanted to help you get married, but you repeatedly refused, my mother didn't know that you secretly promised for life, but I remember that you told me that at the age of sixteen, you will definitely marry in a beautiful way, but it's a pity that you are not a person." ”

"It's my own blind eye, I don't want him to be a gentleman, and he has succeeded in cheating money and feelings, don't worry, I don't remember the old things. Liu Ya said calmly, "It's just that my daughter always thinks that marriage should be a pleasure for both parties, rather than the suitability of external conditions and a sad and casual compromise.

Liu Mu shook her head and said solemnly, "Ya Ya, you are not young anymore, if you drag it out, you will become an old girl." ”

The willow buds were soft and hard to soak for a long time, and I didn't see the slightest wavering from Liu's mother, so I had to gamble and say, "If I don't marry the man I like, I'd rather be an old girl, if my mother dislikes me at home, I will become a nun and never go home for the rest of my life." ”

Since she left a book and ran away, secretly went to Beijing, and came back, the stubbornness in her bones was put on the surface, and Liu's mother really didn't have a problem with her, "Okay, okay, I won't urge you about marriage, but you have to promise your mother, when you meet someone you like, you can't do it like before." ”

Liu Ya nodded like pounding garlic, and swore several times to assure.

Mother Liu smiled softly and said, "I just received a letter from your aunt. ”

"It won't be long before your grandmother's sixtieth birthday, she will come to Yangzhou first and then go to Qingshui Town with us. ”

"When you came to Beijing before, Yu'er and they all went to Jiangzhou to visit relatives, and in order to find you, he deliberately took a detour for more than half a month. ”

"You must thank him for this meeting, you juniors haven't seen him for many years. ”

"I remember the last time I met your aunt, it was your grandmother's serious illness, it happened to be winter at that time, and you were very weak, I was afraid that you would be sick again, so I didn't dare to take you to visit with me. ”

Liu Ya patiently listened to Liu's mother's nagging about some past events that the original owner had heard or had never heard of, until in the evening, the maid respectfully knocked on the door and said, "Madam, Second Miss, General Yao and Ye Gongzi's dust washing banquet is ready, and the master invites you to the side hall." ”

**

At this moment, the side hall is full of color and fragrance.

While a few people were talking and laughing, Father Liu suddenly suffocated his voice, and they raised their eyes with his gaze.

I saw a woman wearing a small red plum and white Luo skirt embroidered with gold and silver thread, and a woman dressed elegantly and gracefully.

The woman's eyes are like autumn water, her skin is like condensed fat, and when she smiles with her camel-colored lips, she reflects the baby fat she raised, which is just right to look good, even though there is a touch of reluctance between her eyebrows, but her decent demeanor shows her famous qualities.

If it weren't for Liu's mother's strong persecution, Liu Ya would never dress up, and when she sat impartially next to Yuwen Qiu, who seemed to be looking at her with a smile, she instantly exploded her watch unpleasantly, she kicked him hard under the table, glared at him obliquely, and under the hearty greeting voice of Liu's father, she grinded her teeth and whispered, "What do you see, I haven't seen a beautiful woman!"

How did you think that the smile on Yu Wenqiu's lips deepened, and he suppressed his voice and said solemnly, "I really know that the beauty is like this." "When I first saw her, she looked really bad, her face was terrible and her yellow muscles were terrible, and then her complexion was better, but she was still thin and desolate, and she was thousands of miles away from the word good-looking when she looked at it horizontally and vertically.

If he said it frivolously, Liu Ya would definitely think it was sarcasm, but he looked like he was serious, she felt that she slapped on the cotton, and she couldn't speak, and when she wanted to raise a glass, she had to act as if she couldn't hear it, and in the praise of Liu's father and Huang Po selling melons, she couldn't help but be modest, but Liu's father's intention to pull her and Yao Pingshi was very obvious, so she had to keep an embarrassing and polite smile.

What made her face stiffen and crack the most was that Yuwen Qiuye actually sandwiched a chopstick of fish meat in his own bowl in such an atmosphere, "......"

Father Liu, who was telling Yao Pingshi to rest assured, was suffocated.

Seeing his words, he couldn't help but look at Yao Pingshi in the past, his expression was not unusual, and he only heard Liu Gui cough twice to pull back everyone's attention and said, "If it weren't for the emergency in the prefect's yamen, I could have entertained you all over Yangzhou, but unfortunately the business was busy because of this, even if you want to, you can't get away, if you want to go anywhere, you can call Nan Hong, the son of the prefect of Guo, to accompany you." ”

This Nanhong is the unlucky urge who eats steamed buns and spits out people's toes, and now he urgently needs to relax.

Yao Pingshi asked them again to be polite, and said apologetically, "It's also my fault for this matter, if I hadn't seen it for a long time, I was embarrassed to come empty-handed, and I wanted to try it, and I wouldn't have gone to the Lou Lan Pavilion to buy steamed buns, but everyone was defeated." ”

"I think it's fortunate that General Yao bought it, and Guo Gongzi was stubborn, so he ate the injustice. Liu Ya ignored the fish in the bowl, put down the chopsticks and said, "Otherwise, if it were an ordinary person, it might be swallowed in one bite, so that the deceased would never be able to show the snow, and let the murderer continue to kill innocent people, wouldn't it be even more terrifying?"

Although Liu's father and mother have accepted the hidden attributes of their daughter, which is not the same as that of ordinary daughters, but seeing that she is not constantly afraid, she can still participate in the discussion indifferently after the test, and always feels a little unreal, and listens to Yuwen Qiu's page echoing the first jaw and said, "Indeed, it is better to expose than hide such a bad incident like this." ”

During the chat, the family came in a hurry to report, "Master, someone from the prefect's yamen has come, and I have something urgent to ask the second lady to go." ”

**

The morgue of the prefect's yamen.

Liu Ya carefully examined the black cloth bag with mud on the table and some animal bite marks, and inside it was a human hand that had been cut into several pieces, which looked no different from pig bones from a distance, and said to the yamen scribe who had already vomited back and had a pale face, "The deceased woman, judging by the bones, is between thirty and thirty-five years old. ”

"The length of the nail is painted with blue Kodan, there are small scratches on the nail surface, the nail seam is clean, there are no obvious signs of struggle, there is a thick cocoon that has been rubbed out of the thumb joint of the left hand for many years, the chop marks are smooth, it should be cut off with a knife, according to the state of atrophy of the flesh, and the body is divided after death. ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Ya raised her eyes, Liu Ya looked at Guo Zhifu with an admiring face, "I only talk about what I have seen, there are always too few places that can be inspected, and some places are inaccurate, such as the traces of struggle, the absence of her hand does not mean that the other hand is not, and the time of death cannot be judged for the time being." ”

"I know that these have helped a lot in the case, thank you so much Miss Liu!" Governor Guo said with sincere gratitude, "Now the official has blocked all the people and things related to Loulan Pavilion, but unfortunately it can't be useful after several trials, and the yacha sent out to search only found such a cloth bag that was pulled out by a dog by coincidence!"

"In that case, Lord Guo can allow us to go to Loulan Pavilion to have a look?" Yuwen Qiuye, who had been silent, said leisurely, "Environmental evidence is much more reliable than human behavior. ”

Governor Guo looked at him suspiciously, but saw that he took out a six-door fast capture token and smiled respectfully, "Although this trip is only for visiting relatives, it is difficult for people to ignore this kind of case with an extremely bad impact, and please don't blame Lord Guo for being nosy." ”

Looking at the fox suspicious gaze immediately turned into surprise, thinking that Liu Ya had been in the six doors as an inspection before, Guo Zhifu only thought that he was here to find Liu Ya to catch up on the past, and he didn't feel any difference in the identity of Yuwen Qiupage, so he couldn't wait to come down.

Guo Zhifu was still afraid that he would not care too much about this idle matter, a high hat full of flattery, put on the head of the six doors with a sigh of hum, up to the door master and down to the guard, all of them were praised by the wonderful four-word words, if it were not for the timely interruption of the yacha, this old fritter could be sycophant without repetition until tomorrow.

**

Liu Ya and Yuwen Qiupage, as well as Yao Pingshi and two yacha went to Loulan Pavilion.

The places that should be clean are clean, and the places that shouldn't be clean are also very tidy.

The yacha led them to the kitchen where the materials were readily available, thinking of the production of human meat buns here, the scalp was numb and said, "It is said that the shop was opened at the beginning of the month, and the door was closed at the beginning of the year, and the second shift system was six, and the cooks had eight people, three chief knives, five helpers, the boss's surname was Zou, and he went out to do the goods on the 22nd of last month and has not returned, and the proprietress Sun had reported the case on the sixth day of this month, and on the 17th, it was determined to be a missing case." ”

At that time, Xiao Er provided testimony and suspected that Boss Zou had gone away with his lover, because on the evening of the 20th of the same month, he saw Boss Zou go to the money village and get several times more money than in the past, but no one knew who Boss Zou's lover was, or whether there was such a person. ”

"Ask the other guys in the store about this, but they think it's nonsense, Boss Zou and Sun's famous affection, he is a wealthy man, he has to ask Sun for everything on weekdays, the well-known wife is strict, but Sun's temperament is gentle, and he is also very good to Boss Zou, many people are from Xijiang Town to follow them to eat, and they are very familiar with them. ”

"I smell that they are doing very well, it doesn't look like a new attempt, why did they leave Xijiang Town and come to Yangzhou to develop?" asked Yuwen Qiu.

Yacha said, "Sun's mother passed away, Boss Zou didn't want Sun's to touch the scene, so he came to Yangzhou to re-develop, before opening the store, they had already contracted the suburbs of the city to raise livestock and plant fruits and vegetables, so in the rest of the month, this Lou Lan Pavilion won the hearts of the people like a cloud, and stood firm." ”

Liu Ya glanced at the kitchen and looked at the bottom of the vegetable shelf, on a large porcelain jar sealed with wax, and asked, "What is this?"

Yacha looked over and said, "It's the specialty pickled sauerkraut here." ”

"Have you opened it and seen it?"

"Nope. Yacha rubbed his nose and said, "I've smelled it closely, and the smell is very strong." ”

Liu Ya squinted at him, "Since you have sniffed it closely, haven't you noticed that those wax seals have traces of the old and the new?"

Yacha was stunned, Yao Pingshi heard this, and looked at the sauerkraut jar carefully, after being reminded, there was indeed some indescribable sense of disobedience, and couldn't help but be surprised by her keenness, only to hear her say firmly, "Open it, take a basin and pour out everything to see." ”

So, the two yamen hurriedly found a huge dishwasher, and after unsealing it, they endured the stench that was enough to sour their eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and poured out the acid water and vegetables in the heavy porcelain jar together, and the sound of gasping in an instant was accompanied by a scream that was caught off guard and pierced the sky, "Ahhh

"-Head!!" The other yacha, who seemed to be a little more daring, stared at the wooden basin in amazement.

Liu Ya had already put on her gloves, and after she indifferently removed the sauerkraut on her head, she picked it up and examined it carefully, and heard the yacha exclaim, "She, she! Isn't she the maid Yunniang in the laundry room of the adult's house!"

The other yacha came back to his senses and nodded, "Yes, yes, I know her, she has a disabled foot!"

"The deceased had fatal marks on the back of his head from a blow from a slender weight, and there was a severe bruise on the left side of his forehead. Liu Ya put the head on the table, looked at the neatly stacked kitchen knives and kitchen utensils next to him, and pointed to a slaughtering bone chopping knife that looked old but the blade was sharpened, "Judging from the traces of the wound, it should be the murder weapon." ”

Before the words fell, I couldn't help but yawn.

The grim atmosphere was suffocated, and Liu Ya looked at her strangely, "Recently, I'm used to sleeping for a while when I'm full." ”

"......" In such a situation, there are still those who are interested in sleeping, and I am afraid that this girl is the only one today.

**

After Yao Pingshi wanted to go to the prefect's yamen with the yamen, Yuwen Qiuye insisted on sending Liu Ya back to the house.

The coolness of late spring is still nostalgic for the early summer night, with the wind blowing slowly, Liu Ya rubbed her sleepy eyes, broke the silence and said, "Are you really here for the sacrifice?"

"Hmm. The cool voice hooked a vague smile, and pulled the deep tone into a seductive arc, "Or do you think better, I'm here for you?"

Liu Ya directly ignored these words, "Sacrifice what?"

"The deceased. ”

"You have ten thousand excuses to leave Beijing, why do you have to do that day-" Liu Ya suddenly realized something and looked up at him sharply.

In the gorgeous night, the handsome man looked pleasant, the smile on his lips gradually deepened, and he casually met her fierce gaze, only to hear her gritted her teeth and say word by word, "Yuwen Qiupage, don't tell me, you are still good after all!!

"After taking the medicine you left before leaving, I was in unbearable pain in my muscles and bones, and I fell into a coma but still kept calling your name, because the condition became more and more serious and uncontrollable, the imperial doctor of the entire imperial hospital and many people who were close or not close came again, and when I woke up, the matter of 'Yuwen Qiupage likes willow buds' has been spread to the 'street knows'. ”

“......”