April is rainy.

The rain went on and on, and on and on, and on, and on. In the yard, there was a shelf of woody flowers, full of flowers, fine and dense leaves, half-bloomed flowers and plump flower bones, all drenched by the rain.

Flowers and leaves cover the yard tightly.

Tang Yu held an oil-paper umbrella, walked through the long street, and returned to the Xianglong Inn on Shangfang Street.

He pushed open the door and saw several chickens under the eaves, with their heads under their wings, and one foot on the ground, standing motionless. Tang Yu walked into the house, put the oil-paper umbrella behind the door, turned around and looked in, on a wooden table by the window of the small shop, there was a pot of wine and two green glazed clay porcelain cups. Behind the table sat a young man in a gray robe, with long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, a pointed chin, and a conspicuous black mole on his left cheek. The ten fingers are slender and clean, and there is always that sly and cynical smile on his face.

Seeing Tang Yu appear, he beckoned and said with a sneer: "Dude, it's hard for you to still think about me." I heard that you are doing a good job in Yingtianfu and have a bright future, and you are about to be promoted to the head catcher, right?"

"Teased. Tang Yu shook off the raindrops on his robe and stood in front of the gray-robed man: "Qiu Baiyun, your broken mouth is always difficult to change. Tell me how you've been doing these days, what you're busy with, and are you still carrying a few books in your arms all day long?"

Qiu Baiyun smiled: "Tang Yu, I can't compare to you, you have become a state official, and you can't reach out to get a stammer?"

"Just kidding, you take it seriously. Tang Yu sat down, stretched out his hand to take the wine jug, and poured two glasses on the ground: "You have read a lot of books, you must know, Li Bai didn't say it, life must be happy! In fact, it doesn't matter whether you are proud or disappointed, when you are in a bad mood, it is a great pleasure in life to have a friend to sit together to drink and chat." ”

Qiu Baiyun raised his cup, tilted his neck, and took most of his mouthful: "Okay, whether it's true or not, it's worth saying to you!"

"Don't be busy, don't be busy, there's still food. ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly sent the fried dishes up, put them on the table one by one, and Qiu Baiyun swept them with the corner of his eyes, spicy fried winter bamboo shoots, marinated phoenix feet, shredded egg silver sprouts, and small pheasant stewed mushrooms. I didn't feel like saying: "Yes, rich and light, **delicious, people are often prone to taste weak and depressed on rainy days, and this kind of meat and vegetable dish is very appetizing!"

"Then drink a few more glasses. ”

"Don't talk about it, drink ......"

Qiu Baiyun swallowed three glasses of wine, his emotions came up, and his cheeks were crimson: "Life is geometric, and wine is a song...... Brother Tang, I see that you are full of confidants, worried, and unhappy?"

"There's no way not to worry. ”

"What, what tricky case did you run into? Or something else?"

"Naturally, it's the case. Tang Yu put down the wine glass, looked at Qiu Baiyun, and asked, "Brother Qiu, do you know that Liu Yu hates this person?"

"Of course I do. ”

"How much do you know about him?"

"A royal literati who wrote "Zhu Zi's New Interpretation", "Inner Square and Outer Circle", "Confucius and Mencius's Way of Sanctification" or something, belongs to the National Social Science Foundation to support the publication project. But the book didn't sell well at all......"

Tang Yu sighed: "This Liu Yu was murdered two days ago. ”

"Where?"

"In the woods under the Tonghui Bridge. ”

"The cause of death?"

"Poisoning. ”

"Strange?" Qiu Baiyun stared, puzzled, "Liu Yu is just a reader, he loves books, it is said that he has hand-copied hundreds of copies of "Historical Records", "Book of Sui", "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", "History of the Song Dynasty", and "Zizhi Tongjian", and he has a quirky temperament and has never married. Who would kill such a useless scholar and what was the purpose of killing him......

"Everything is a mystery. ”

Tang Yu intercepted Qiu Baiyun's words and said, "Brother Qiu, have you heard of the public case that caused a sensation in the Purple Bamboo Forest's 'Qingyuan Marquis' Mansion eighteen years ago?"

"A little bit of it. ”

Qiu Baiyun breathed a sigh of relief, took a few sips of wine, and said, "Because of the implication of Hu Weiyong's case, Tang Jingtian died unexpectedly. After he was given death by the emperor, 39 people from the top and bottom of the palace were distributed to the desolate land in the north. Not long after leaving the capital, in a place called 'Shilipo', the Tang family encountered a volley of masked gangsters, and the whole family was killed!"

"Did Qingyuan Marquis offend someone?"

"Who can say for sure. ”

Tang Yu sighed: "Then the Qingyuan Hou lineage is over?"

"It's none of your business, so why should you worry about others?"

Qiu Baiyun looked at the wooden flowers in the rain, and said casually: "Maybe it doesn't come to this." After the bloody incident, Ying Tianfu quickly rushed to the scene, sealed off the place, and searched repeatedly among the grass, woods, and mountain streams, but only found 37 corpses...... Two people missing?"

"Who?"

"Mrs. Tang Lin Xian'er and her son who has just completed the moon. ”

"Didn't the government investigate at that time?"

"I can't check it. Qiu Baiyun thought for a while, and then said: "Just because the incident is secret, everything happened too suddenly, and there are too few opportunities to solve the case." So I checked and checked, and it didn't work......"

Tang Yu thought about it, and his mind was a little cloudy: "Brother Qiu, how can you, an ordinary person, know so much about the confidential files of the government office?"

"Because I recently wanted to write a series for Lixiangyuan, "Divine Capture Twenty-six Niang", I asked someone to borrow many old cases of Six Doors and study them. "Autumn Baiyun is triumphant.

Tang Yu took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, spread it flat on the table, and pointed: "Liu Yu hated the Hanlin Academy, read the scriptures to the fullest, and was a person who played with the pen, and his residence naturally accumulated more. Brother Qiu, you may not know, he still has a habit of keeping diaries, and over the years, he has written more than 70 books, filling two large bookcases. There may be some clues hidden in these materials to solve the case......"

"Huh?"

"It's just that these books have to be flipped through one by one, read line by line, and the important ones have to be recorded one by one, and they can't be sloppy at all?"

"Go on. ”

"You know, I don't read much. Tang Yu grinned and said: "In the state government arrest fast, Xiang Jincheng has a short temper and can't bear it, Lao Lin knows how to read and write, but he is old, and his eyes are dizzy - we people, so that the guns and sticks can be dealt with, let us deal with books, hehe......"

Qiu Baiyun rolled his eyes: "Brother, what do you mean?"

"That's why I recommended you to Lord Headcatcher. ”

"I'm sorry, I can't go now. I have to write?" Qiu Baiyun hung up from the corner of his eyes, smiled and groaned, and smug: "Don't you know, recently the bookstore has launched a beautiful writer, three lives and three lives, not only is she beautiful, but also writes love novels, "Kiss Baby", "Snow Qianhiro", "Who Moved My **", alas, the fire is not good, the silver is like water, and the money is making a lot of money!"

"Well, I've already counted the cost of the wine - you can enjoy it alone. ”

Tang Yu stood up and took his leave.

Seeing that he was about to walk to the door, Qiu Baiyun shrugged his shoulders and stopped him: "Hey! It's really an official who has a long temper, why is he in a hurry as soon as he says it? Tang Yu, you asked me to go to the state government to work, it's very hard, I have to set the conditions first." What good can I get?"

Tang Yu bent down to take the umbrella: "Daily subsidy, three meals are free." ”

"How much?"

"It's the same as the government to catch fast. ”

"Originally, I couldn't go. We are honest and upright scholars, how can we bend our waists for five buckets of rice and be horses and cattle for Zhumen!" "Qiu Baiyun is arrogant: "Alas, God is pitiful, who let the two of us have a fate and become friends? ”

After that, he patted his chest, took out the frame of the broken cauldron and the sinking boat, and said viciously:

"Deal!"