When he returned from the Ministry of Works, Tang Yu was free to report to the two headhunters that the Miao Miao girl in Ning Xiang Lou was strikingly similar to the village girl in the north of the city, and said: "When I first led people to search the poor dormitory, I saw that plainly dressed woman, and I was clumsy for a moment, and I almost mistook it for another person! My lord, it is strange to think about this matter, how can she look exactly the same as that Miao Miao and the female corpse that died and was lost in the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion under the Tonghui Bridge late at night?

Cheng and Feng listened to it and attached great importance to it.

They all believe that there is a lot of work on this matter.

Feng Letai looked at Tang Yu and said, "They said that they didn't know each other, so it's not credible. If there are two people with the same appearance, it may be a coincidence, but three people appear in the capital at the same time, not only are they of the same age, similar in figure, and the same in appearance, not to mention that they don't know each other, there is a big problem here. ”

Tang Yu said: "I think so too. ”

Cheng Liangjia listened, nodded approvingly, stroked his mustache and said: "This case is complicated, there are too many involvements, one suddenly Shilipo disappeared, one suddenly Liu Yu died violently, and one suddenly turned out the Qingyuan Marquis who was attached to the abuse and rebellion a few years ago. One trades off the other. This side has not stopped, and the various forces lurking in the shadows are ready to move again, Chen Youliang Yu Sin, the Mongolian princess, and the 'Ghost Shadow Army' of Fuso Ninjas, are competing to appear. But so far, we haven't confronted any of the forces head-on, and we haven't figured out the relationship between them......

"These women may be the key to opening the channel of the case. ”

Feng Letai groaned: "I have a hunch that the truth is about to surface. Don't be afraid of chaos, don't be afraid of water chaos, the more chaotic the better, and win in chaos. Countless experiences have proven that often in such a situation, it is the big fish that are caught. Wait, someone will lose their breath in the end!"

What the two catchers said was extremely true. ”

"Tang Yu, you take a few people to Beicheng and replace the brothers who are waiting in the bell tower. Feng Letai pondered for a moment, and then said: "In addition, at the appropriate time, you will visit the woman who has not seen the head and tail of the dragon again, exert pressure, and verbally spy to see where she came from?"

"Yes. ”

Tang Yu turned around and wanted to leave.

"Hey, wait. Cheng Liangjia stopped him and instructed: "Most of these people in the rivers and lakes know the way of the side, they can kill people invisibly by hurting people with hidden arrows, poisoning drugs or something. He doesn't usually go head-to-head with you. You have to tread carefully. ”

"I see. ”

Tang Yu led the order to go out, ordered four catchers in the errand room, and everyone came out together and rode on horses and went straight to the north of the city. Bypassing two streets, I gradually got out of the downtown area. At this time, the sky was slowly overcast, and gray rain clouds came from the northwest. Tang Yu and the others forked the path, quickly whipped up, and ran along the river for a while, and soon saw the spire of the abandoned bell tower.

The group of people who were squatting in the bell tower were very happy to see someone come to replace them. Everyone inevitably greeted politely when they met, and then they left, and those who stayed stayed, each with a destiny. Tang Yu saw that everyone had stopped, so he remembered Feng Zhutou's explanation when he came, thought about it secretly, and decided to take advantage of this time to visit the woman who had planted a room of flowers that he met during his last inspection.

Tang Yu walked out of the tent, untied the reins, and turned over on his horse. One of them watched him go out, looked at the sky, and said worriedly: "It's going to rain, Xiao Tang, beware of the rain." ”

Tang Yu didn't want to say more, so he coped: "Don't get in the way, you act carefully, I'll be back in a while." ”

With a wave of his hand, the crotch of the horse flew over with four hooves and flew away.

After a while, we arrived at the slum under the northern city wall, and the messy houses were as low as the old. The roads are muddy and difficult to navigate. Tang Yu tied his horse to the tree at the entrance of the village and entered the street alone. Find the last one at the mouth of the alley, the rough log door panel is loosely closed. He stood in the doorway and shouted twice, but no one answered. At this time, the light rain had already begun to fall.

Tang Yu was unsure whether he would stay, hesitated for a while, and decided to check it out before leaving.

He raised his hand and gently pushed the door, and the two wooden doors opened suddenly, and he stepped in, and walked through the potholed courtyard to the front of the house. He shouted twice, and then he heard a woman's question: "Who?"

Then the door opened, and I saw Miao Miao holding her wet hair in one hand, leaning out half of her body and glancing up and down a few times: "Are you ......?"

Tang Yu nodded: "I am the errand officer who inspected last time. ”

Miao Miao smiled when she heard this, hurriedly opened the door, and greeted her warmly: "It turned out to be Tang Messenger, come into the house quickly, don't stand outside." Look at the body is soaked. ”

Tang Yu entered the house, looked out the window, and said, "I just shouted several times outside the courtyard, but no one answered?"

"Oh, that's right. Miao Miao wiped her wet hair with a dry cloth and said apologetically: "I was washing my hair just now, and I didn't hear the sound of water."

"It's not your fault, it's my recklessness. ”

"Look at what you're saying, it's all outside the talk. ”

Miao Miao hung the cloth towel that wiped her hair on the bamboo pole, put on a coat, and said half-disgusted, half-happy: "Even if you pass by in normal times, enter the door to ask for a bowl of tea, or sit for a while and rest your feet, it doesn't matter." Why are you so polite?"

Tang Yu shuddered and wrapped his robe tightly.

"The clothes are all wet. Miao Miao smiled and said thoughtfully: "Do you want me to make a pot of fire for you to roast?"

"No, no, I'll do it in a while. ”

"Then you sit. ”

Tang Yu sat on the wooden bench at the table.

Miao Miao approached the dresser in front of the window, grabbed the comb, and slowly combed the freshly washed hair. Outside the window, the rain feet gradually became dense, and after a while, the eaves dripped water droplets. The sound of rain was dripping, and little by little it was beating on the stepping stones. Miao Miao turned her head sideways while tilting her head, and joked: "Staying on a rainy day, it seems that you can't leave for the time being, Tang Mission?"

Tang Yu didn't squeak.

The wind carrying the rain blew in from between the window lattices, driving the faint clothes and skirts to fly together. It makes her more and more graceful and fluttering. After the wind passed, Tang Yu suddenly smelled a quiet smell of grass, which was mixed with a faint milky fragrance. In his hometown, after February and March, the spring grass germinates, he and his friends go to the river to fly kites, running all over the world, often smelling the smell of the growth of all things. But in that endless wilderness, is there no such faint sweet milky fragrance?

Tang Yushu was very nervous.

After a while, Miao Miao put down her comb, went to the kitchen to bring a pot of hot boiling water, and brewed two cups of fragrant tea. put it on the case, greeted Tang Yu and said: "Tang Mission, it's cold on a rainy day, come and drink a bowl of hot tea to get rid of the cold." ”

Tang Yu woke up: "Oh, just call me by name." ”

"How can that be?" Miao Miao offered tea and said with a smile: "I and the people of the grass and the wilderness, the quality of the willows, when we see the official family shouting and screaming, pointing directly at their names, we will be punished." ”

"Who cares about them? Before I came to the capital, I was a fisherman at home. Tang Yu took the tea and asked, "Last time you said that you ran away from marriage, right, do you still have sisters at home?"

"Yes, there are three of us. There's a younger brother down there. ”

Miao Miao had a resentful face, and whispered: "My father has always been patriarchal, and there is only one brother in his eyes. He doesn't like girls. ”

"So you ran out?"

"I've been stubborn since I was a child. Every time my father was drunk and scolded us, I didn't say anything or shed a tear. ”

"So, do you hate him. ”

"I don't hate it, I can't say it, it's like that anyway. ”

Miao Miao sat down on the wooden bench next to her, rolled up her sleeves, and had a purple-red scar on her snow-white arm. She sighed and said quietly: "When I was a child, I was beating pigweed, and once the sickle cut a long cut on my wrist, and I shed a lot of blood at that time. I thought I wouldn't survive, so I found a flat place with flowers on all sides, and lay down to die......"

When Tang Yu heard this, he was slightly moved: "Have you never cried when you grow so big?"

"Once, only once. ”

"Hmm. ”

"I was seven years old that year, and one night I went to a play in a neighboring village. The faint and light eyebrows frowned, smiled bitterly, and slowly sank into memory: "At that time, adults didn't like to have hairy children, and I was unwilling, so I ran behind a group of older children." On the way back from watching the play, it suddenly rained heavily, and the older children scattered in a hurry, and after a while, they ran away without a trace. I was the only one left in the bare, nowhere of my fingers. I'm alone, I'm afraid, I'm scared, I ********** keep crying and running, I don't know where to go? Then I lost my shoes and they all got stuck in the mud, and I couldn't stop, and I felt little by little on the mud with the pouring rain on my head. I lost my shoes and went home to be beaten......"

"And then?"

"Then the rain stopped. Then I finally got home. When I saw the dim light of my home, my heart calmed down. ”

Tang Yu took a sip of tea with a cup, and the tea tasted very mellow: "You went out to watch a play secretly at a young age, and you were exposed to the rain again, can your father spare you?"

That day, as always, he was very drunk again. ”

Miao Miao smiled and said happily: "When I brushed my shoes by the waterhole at the door, washed the mud off my feet, and put on my shoes and walked into the house, he was still shouting in his sleep, 'Water, water, I want to drink water!'"