Chapter Forty-Three: Strange Incidents in Qujiang (I)
Along the way, with the company of Jingdong, there was a lot of laughter and laughter in the carriage. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Originally, Mo Zhongqing was reluctant to take her with Bai Suyi because a female doll of unknown origin was never reassuring, but after observing for several days, he found that maybe he was really too nervous.
On this day, the sky is high and cool, and the wind is smooth.
Since Ding Dong tasted Mo Zhongqing's craftsmanship, he has been trying to pester him all day long to make food for himself, which makes Mo Zhongqing have an illusion, thinking that Ding Dong Mo didn't take a fancy to his cooking skills?
And this Ding Dong was not a picky eater, but after Mo Zhongqing's baptism three or four times, this entrance thing became more and more precious, Mo Zhongqing didn't want to spoil him, but he was in the way of Bai Suyi on the side, so he had to symbolically legislate three chapters, the first of which was only to manage food in the wild, so Ding Dong looked forward to entering the city, even if it was a village.
The wheels of the cars, the hooves of the horses, and the sincere prayers of the jingle bells, finally appeared in front of a half-large county town. However, what Mo Zhongqing didn't expect was that the city of Qujiang County was now heavily guarded.
When the three of them stayed at the Qujiang Inn in Qujiang County, Mo Zhongqing called Xiao Er to inquire and learned that the flood in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was the most serious, and many Linjiang villages were flooded, so the imperial court issued several edicts, one of which was that all the flooded villages, the victims could go to the county seat to receive a number of silver taels and a number of self-surrendering relatives, if they did not want to stay away, the local county order must build a temporary residence to be resettled.
This policy was originally excellent, and it also solved the majority of the people who had nowhere to go. However, as many people gather, there are relatively many hidden dangers, so the county guards are also drawn from the recent military guard camp, one to maintain law and order, and the other to help build temporary shelters outside the county seat.
After this little two finished speaking, he looked left and right, and said mysteriously: "Three guest officers, I see that you are not locals, so kindly remind me, although the security here has always been peaceful, the victims outside the city have food and shelter and are naturally grateful to Dade, and the original residents in the city will not make trouble for no reason, even if there are thousands of disaster victims, they will be safe, but if this trouble is not a person, it is difficult to say." ”
Speaking of this, the shopkeeper stopped talking, as if he was afraid, or he deliberately sold a pass to sit and wait for someone to ask him. Mo Zhongqing naturally understood, and he couldn't bear to talk to him, so he had to smile and answer: "Why is it difficult to say if you are not a person?"
Seeing that Mo Shaoying really spoke, the shopkeeper couldn't help but open his mouth with great interest and said: "The guest officer doesn't know, I heard my cousin who came to join me say that on the night when his village was flooded, he climbed a life-saving tree and saw with his own eyes two bright lanterns in the dark water flickering under his feet, which scared him to pee. You say how can there be a lantern in the water, isn't it a water ghost swimming in the river and needs an open fire to illuminate the way? Heh, it's really weird!"
The joke wasn't funny, and Ding Dong trembled even more when he heard it, obviously frightened. Xiao Er nodded with great satisfaction when he saw it, and deliberately lowered his voice and said, "But as long as the rank doesn't go to the riverside, it's fine, remember." I'm going to get busy. ”
This little two didn't know how many female guests he had scared with this paragraph, so he naturally wanted to have fun, but Mo Zhongqing didn't think so, he and Bai Suyi had seen monsters, such as the flower demon in Flower Valley before. However, Zhilian is a favorite master, and if the lanterns held under the water are really monsters or ghosts, but looking at them all the way down the river and causing the river to flood, it is not a good stubble.
Ding Dong saw that Mo Zhongqing and Bai Suyi were silent, looking worried, and reluctantly smiled: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, there is this silver bell chain on this girl's feet, and I will block anything!"
Seeing Ding Dong's sworn words, Mo Zhongqing smiled noncommittally: "Your silver bell is naturally powerful, but you are the only one who is okay regardless of the enemy and me, so don't help at that time, it's better to use less." ”
Ding Dong pursed his lips, and just wanted to protest, but Bai Suyi diverted the topic and said: "Look at you two getting more and more compatible, or Zhong Qing will recognize Ding Dong as her daughter." ”
Ding Dong clapped his hands and said, "Okay, okay, that plain sister is my mother, so that I will have a father and mother again." Originally, Bai Suyi was just a joke, how could he want to cause this argument, and when a touch of flying red climbed up his cheeks, it didn't fade for a long time.
So the three of them talked and laughed and didn't take the strange thing in the water seriously, after all, grotesque things are not common.
But the next morning, a major event occurred in this small county town that could be called a sensation in the whole city. The temporary quarters of hundreds of victims outside the city were empty overnight, and the victims did not know where to go.
Judging from the sloppy packages scattered on the floor, something terrible must have happened during the night to make them panic and leave behind their most valuable things. But what could have caused these 500 people to lose their footprints out of thin air?
This incident not only made the people in the city suspicious and suspicious, but also the martial law in the city paralyzed the traffic for a while.
This martial law can only be promulgated by the Wang County Order, and the Wang County Order is unlucky enough, spending money to donate a seven-grade sesame official, I wanted to be powerful and have peace of mind from now on, who would have thought that the new official had been in office for less than a year, and the Ye family's world, which was originally smooth and rainy, was first the Yangtze River rose again and again, not to mention, but this time a hundred people disappeared out of thin air?
And if this matter is not investigated, when the court asks about it, don't say that the black gauze hat is not guaranteed, and even this old life will be spread on it. So Wang County, who had not slept all night, issued the first military order in his life: martial law to search the whole city for a woman with white hair on her forehead!
The three people trapped in Qujiang County did not go out in the morning, but stayed in the lobby of the inn waiting for news.
"Sister Suyi, your bracelet is so beautiful! The last time I saw it, it was emerald and red, and this morning it turned blue and jade. ”
It was Jingdong who spoke happily, but Bai Suyi, who answered, said with a guilty face: "The way this bracelet came from is a little improper." ”
After saying this, Bai Suyi explained the causes and consequences of that day to Ding Dong, and Ding Dong said disapprovingly: "Hey, that's it, if you want this little girl to say that the merchant is a black-hearted ghost, it will cost five hundred taels for a casual bite? Well, but this bracelet is a real thing, my sister is lucky, pick up the baby. ”
Mo Zhongqing smiled on the side: "How do you know that this is genuine?
With a 'hum', he deliberately put on a score: "Would you see silver ingots as gold ingots?"
Mo Zhongqing didn't know what he meant: "Of course not, what?"
Ding Dong nodded, and said, "This is not over?" My brother gave me a small box of jewelry when he was alive, and it was full of these things, and he said that it was a dowry left by my father and mother, but then my brother fell ill, and I had no money to take these as these, but in the end he still went. ”
After saying this, Ding Dong's expression darkened, and he took a deep breath, and said briskly: "Don't mention these, by the way, Sister Suyi, although the white hair on your forehead looks quite chic, haven't you thought about cutting it off?"
Bai Suyi brushed the white hair on his forehead and just wanted to answer, but unexpectedly, a group of officials entered the inn, and stared at Bai Suyi in the hall at a glance, and when he heard Ding Dong say this, he immediately pulled out his saber and shouted: "Surround that table!"
Behind him, the catcher immediately surrounded the three of them, and the catcher surnamed Yang at the head pulled the chain around his waist to take the person.
As soon as Mo Shaoying saw this posture, she flashed in front of Bai Suyi, blocked in front of the chief official, and said kindly: "This benevolent brother, I don't know what this friend has done, why do you want to take someone without saying a word?"
Yang Zhu glanced at him twice, and said in a deep voice: "You'd better be honest with me, don't talk to Ben Zhu quickly!"
Mo Zhongqing frowned when he saw him so unreasonable, looked at the inexplicable white plain clothes and puffing jingle behind him, and then still swallowed his words warmly: "This official is the first in the world, even if the official family takes people, he must also explain a reason, and he just asked a question that should be asked, I don't know if the master should say what should be said?"
Although the tone of his words still seemed gentle, the meaning could not be clearer, Yang Zhukuai was not a fool, let alone a hot-blooded stunned youth, he looked at the sword scabbard in Mo Zhongqing's right hand had opened and closed by half an inch, and then looked at the woman behind him who seemed to have two long swords, and actually paused, and said with a slightly soothing attitude: "Hmph! The woman behind you is related to the disappearance of more than 100 victims last night, I am only ordered to take people, you can talk about it at the yamen!"
The three of them were all shocked when they heard this, Mo Zhongqing saw that the official did not look like a fake, so he patted Ding Dong's shoulder, signaled her not to act rashly, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I'll go with her." ”
Yang Zhukuai sneered: "Heh! Do you still want to go? Come on, confiscate their weapons!"