Chapter 31: Nine Nails of Punishment
"Helianci, shouldn't you rush to Liyu Town?" Zhao Wenyu saw Helianci coming in a carriage, and got off the horse without a wave in his eyes, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know what to say about this, so you'd better see for yourself. Helian grabbed his head a little anxiously, stretched out his finger and pointed to the inside of the carriage, "Explain in advance, I also found it after tying it up." ”
"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, with you, the man in black can still disappear out of thin air. Lin Weiran, who couldn't stand the appetite of the hangers, stepped forward to look at these people who were in the middle of the road, and deliberately looked at Ye Qingchen, "Isn't it quite loud when you kill the enemy, why is it silent at this moment." ”
"I'll come. Ye Qingchen used his scabbard to block the woman in green clothes who had just opened the curtain, and the curtain was opened in the wind with a stroke of the trend. Although Lin Weiran was quite concerned about what they were hiding from him, he was also shocked by the people in the carriage. I saw that the figure inside was the same as that of the man in black, but there was a woman's face, if it was said that this woman was dressed as a man, but this figure was obviously a man's appearance, and even her chest was flat.
"Ahem......" The woman was obviously awake, and unceremoniously struggled with her tightly bound hands and feet, and looked at them and called, "Well, this girl hasn't questioned you yet, but you are plotting against this girl, and I won't let my father throw you all into the sea to feed the fish." ”
"We went as planned. Ye Qingchen took out a piece of pastry in the bag, plugged the mouth of the talker, glanced at Helian Ci and Zhao Wenyu, and fixed his eyes on Lin Weiran's body.
"It's just a matter of staring at me with big eyes, but don't look at me like that, it's weird. Lin Weiran was trying to slip away without caring about herself, but she didn't expect to move her steps, and she looked at herself in the past three days, smiling meaningfully.
"You are the best among us, who can do it?" Helian Ci smiled brightly, stepped forward and patted Lin Weiran's shoulder and walked to the carriage behind her, "It seems that I am still more suitable for driving a carriage." ”
"Miss Lin, I'm sure you won't let us down. Zhao Wenyu got on the horse in her expectant gaze and passed by the woman in Tsing Yi who had never achieved her goal. "Senior Brother Helian may not know the way, so I'll lead the way. ”
"You?" Lin Weiran stretched out his helpless hand back, and his eyes focused on Ye Qingchen, who was the only one standing in place, "This kind of interrogation of prisoners is very suitable for a calm and stable, cold and domineering tall and beautiful man like you, Senior Brother, even if there is no flying fish suit, it is only a ten-meter aura with Jinyiwei, Senior Brother, you will know if there is one as soon as you make a move, just standing there can make the prisoner look different, so ......"
"So, junior sister, you are planning to drive the carriage and ......" Ye Qingchen pointed to the scabbard in his hand, stretched out three fingers in front of her, and saw her pouting and walking into the carriage, the corners of her mouth smiled treacherously, "Senior sister, you have hesitated for too long, I have to catch up with them, so, you have to sit tight." ”
As soon as the aftermath fell, the carriage swayed forward with a "rack", shaking Lin Weiran's hands were not steady, and he fell on the woman who was tied up by five flowers.
"Ahhh......h ”
Lin Weiran wiped the white powder on his hand with a handkerchief, glanced at the arrogant woman who wanted to be angry but blocked her mouth, took away the pastry in her mouth, raised the handkerchief in her hand and asked, "What is this?"
Ye Qingchen, who was setting up a carriage outside, listened to the movement inside while tugging on the reins in his hand, only to hear the arrogant woman scolding a bunch of words about Lin Weiran's shallow knowledge, looking like a maid, and lowly spells.
"I put up with the lowly magic, but you dare to say that I am shallow, I absolutely want to refute this, you are in this Ruiguang Continent, but do you know that the earth is round? Do you know that the earth rotates from west to east and is autobiography? Do you know that the closer you get to the equator, the greater the solar radiation? Also, do you know that Monet was the name of the Impressionists? Do you know why they advocated outdoor sketching? Do you know a little perspective, two perspective, and scattered perspective? and what shadows, highlights, light and shade, warm and cold colors, and contrasting colors are?" Lin Weiran sat opposite her, crossed Erlang's legs and turned into the Yiling Sword in his hand, and continued the words in front while playing with the pattern on the scabbard, "Look, I know that you don't know anything, so don't always use your own knowledge to challenge other people's knowledge, you fan, needless to say, I can guess his use, it's just a high-level trick, I ask you is giving you a chance to mend your life." ”
Before the illusion disappeared, she had clearly touched a woman's breasts, so even if she didn't know what it was, this fine powder must have been used for this purpose, but on such an occasion, as long as she was calm enough, there was nothing that could not be used.
"How do you know that the gills of the fish are a high-level trick?" The girl who was tied up was obviously too young, and she immediately said the answer that Lin Weiran wanted to know, but she didn't know it.
"I heard that this koi bay is the only sea area where you have seen the traces of the stingfish, the strange thing is that ten years ago, the stingrays in this sea area have disappeared since then, until now there has not even been a stingfish, since you can get the gills of the stingfish, it is not an official eunuch but also the daughter of a rich family, there is no shortage of money or food, why do you want to come to kill us desperately?" Lin Weiran touched the delicately carved sword, and his thumb pushed out a snow-white blade, shining brightly.
Ye Qingchen, who was holding the reins outside, was obviously shocked by her words, it seemed that she had done some homework for this trip, and something else seemed to flash in her unfazed eyes, and she continued to listen to the conversation with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.
"Kill you?" I heard that my father was in danger and escaped from Liyu Town to pick up my father home," the girl who was tied up looked at Lin Weiran through gritted teeth, but she was not afraid of the sword in her hand and moved her head closer to her, "It's you, I originally wanted to kill those people in black, but you kidnapped me without saying anything before you took out the sword, what is your intention?"
"Father, are you the daughter of the Lord of Xia Island?" Lin Weiran took back the sword in her hand, and when she saw that the person reported to her family that she was Xia Miaomiao, she was puzzled, and her big eyes turned, "Haven't you ever been to the water to pick up Tianshan?"
"We people in Carp Town never leave easily, this time I secretly ran away from home when I heard that my father was killed, I have never been out of Carp Town before, so how can I go to Shui to pick up Tianshan?" Xia Miaomiao suddenly lowered her head a little sadly, her mouth was bitter into a line, and suddenly she looked at Lin Weiran with tears in her eyes, and said with a pleading face: "You should be the disciple who escorted my father back to Shui Shui Tianshan, where is my father? ”
"Well, I don't know about this," Lin Weiran held the Yiling Sword in both hands, glanced out of the curtain and recuperated by closing his eyes, "If you want to find the Lord of Xia Island, you have to ask the little brother who is driving the carriage outside." ”
However, no matter how Xia Miao asked, the only thing that responded to her outside was the sound of horses' hooves galloping and the sound of the wind whistling by, the cold wind of early winter swept the pedestrians on the road, and there were no birds in the slightly cold air.
As soon as Xia Miaomiao arrived home, she was slapped on her ass by her mother with a fan, and then came to greet Ye Qingchen and Zhao Wenyu with a smile, obviously some polite words in the officialdom, and then asked about her husband's news very anxiously, but Ye Qingchen was silent for a while, and then said: "According to our journey, the Lord of Xia Island will arrive tomorrow, and please wait patiently." ”
In this way, Mrs. Xia, who was full of anxiety, followed her heart's breath at this time, and her face was full of officialdom smiles, and after the greetings, she stared at Ye Qingchen with a mother-in-law and son-in-law, either shouting at him or patting his father's ass, and finally asked the ultimate question of meeting the seven aunts and eight aunts in the midst of all these concerns:" It should be time for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to start a family, but I don't know what kind of woman His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of our Ruiguang Dynasty likes, we women are usually idle and have nothing to do, but we can pay attention to it for you. ”
Lin Weiran suddenly felt that the sweet cake in her hand was suddenly not fragrant, although she had also received this kind of care from the seven aunts and eight aunts, and suddenly felt a little empathy on this round table, but when she looked up with a sigh on her face, she just met Ye Qingchen's gaze, and it was at this second that Mrs. Xia was caught by Mrs. Xia, Mrs. Xia hummed and chirped for a long time, patted Xia Miao's shoulder on the side, and said bitterly: " Miao, fortunately, you are the concubine of our Koi Bay Xia family, if you fall in love with the good son of that family in the future, just tell your mother, if that person is half of our royal highness, the good mother will make the decision for you. ”
Hey, everyone present knows that she wants to pull Ye Qingchen to be her son-in-law, okay, it's just that this Mrs. Xia is talking about it, why do you still look at her so weirdly? Could it be that just because of the glance just now, this Mrs. Xia misunderstood something? However, Xia Miaomiao was a little impatient, and quickly finished pulling the rice in the bowl and politely made an excuse to leave.
Lin Weiran, Helian Ci, and Zhao Wenyu all left, and only Ye Qingchen and Mrs. Xia were left at the table, Ye Qingchen coughed slightly, and said a little heavily: "Mrs. Xia, the owner of Xia Island suspects that it is the people from Liyu Town who assassinated him this time, and in order to find out the real murderer, I also ask Mrs. Xia to fully cooperate with us." ”
"This is?" Mrs. Xia got up from her chair in fright, looked at the nine nails that Ye Qingchen had turned into, took one and looked at it carefully in front of her, and then asked with a shocked face: "Could it be that the master is the nine nails of punishment in our Koi Bay?"
The punishment of nine nails is a kind of punishment used by the Xia family in Koi Bay to punish sinners, and this slender nail will be nailed to the knuckle of the fingers of the prisoner's right hand, a total of nine, because the nail has a spell connected to the heart, so each nail will be painful, however, this nail appeared on the severed hand of the summer island lord, and it is obvious that the murder of the summer island master can only be investigated from the carp town.