Cheng Muyou took the dry food handed by Yan Niang and put it in his mouth and took a bite, then asked, "Miss Yan came to Yuquan Town to visit the old people?"
” Yan Niang shrugged her shoulders and lowered her chin towards the ancestral hall, "But he has moved his family south, and even the ancestral hall has been dilapidated like this, so I ran away in vain." ” Cheng Muyou lowered his head and smiled slightly, "I see, I just saw that the girl was still in Nahan, how could you be a woman, how could you appear alone in this Yuquan Town in the middle of the night." ” Yan Niang didn't answer, she held her chin and looked into the distance, Qiu Xingshan's shadow loomed in the rain and mist, black and boundless.
"Don't you think there's a strange smell in this rain?"
After a long time, she suddenly said coldly.
"Weird?"
Shi Jin took over the conversation, he stretched his neck and sniffed at the heavy rain a few times, "Isn't it always like this when it rains?"
A smell of earthiness. ” "The rain in this Yuquan Town seems to be particularly fishy," Yan Niang fanned her nose with a fan in disgust, and then sighed, "I can't shake it away, the smell of this dead man." ” "Dead ......
Dead person?
Shi Jin suddenly heard such a sentence, and almost dropped the dry food to the ground, "Miss Yan, how can you say this?"
” Yan Niang's eyes lit up, "What I'm talking nonsense is that I heard from the people in the town that this place has not been very peaceful recently, and there are constant white things." ” Shi Jin was taken aback, and turned his head to look at Cheng Muyou, "Miss Jiang, Miss Jiang won't really have an accident, right?"
” Shi Fei stepped on the surface of his feet hard, Shi Jin took a breath in pain, but finally understood that he was talking too much, and hurriedly rubbed it aside and stopped making a sound.
"Did Miss Jiang have an accident?"
Yan Niang looked at Cheng Muyou.
"Actually, there's nothing to hide," Cheng Muyou knew that he couldn't hide it, so he simply looked at Yan Niang calmly, "It's a pity that I was sent to Yuquan Town to investigate a case, but it's been three days, but there is no news, I have an agreement with her that I must not act alone in a critical situation, and I must make the next step after I am clear, so I suspect that something happened to her." ” "Is Miss Jiang here for the Jing family's grain theft case?"
"Miss Yan also knows about this case?"
"What kind of family is the Jing family, who in the town doesn't know if something so big happened," she stood up and slowly paced to the front of the verandah, her eyes projected into the layers of rain and mist, "My lord, how could so much food disappear overnight?"
” Cheng Muyou stood up and stood side by side with her, "Does the girl have a high opinion?"
” Yan Niang shook her head, "No, but I remembered something." ” "What?"
"'Wang Mang's prophecy'."
"What's that?"
"After Wang Mang usurped the throne, someone once calculated a hexagram for him, saying that he was unlucky, could eat people, and could also be eaten by others.
Wang Mang didn't believe it and killed the man, but what happened later verified the gentleman's words.
In the summer of the third year of the Emperor's reign, a plague of locusts led to a great famine in Middle-earth, and an event of cannibalism occurred.
Sanfu is hungry, cannibalism, the city is empty, and the bones cover the wilderness.
She recounted this tragic history with an expressionless face, "Wang Mang issued an edict to open the official warehouse to help the victims, but those people were hungry for too long, and they ate dozens of granaries overnight, and even worse, they were swollen by the grain and died in the granary. ” "However, although the food supply in Yuquan Town is insufficient due to the flood, it is far from the level of famine, and besides, this food is used to help the victims, how can they eat it up overnight."
Cheng Muyou asked puzzled.
"Of course, the Jing family's food was not eaten up by the disaster victims, but hundreds of deniers of grain disappeared overnight, and it only happened during famine, so I connected the two things together."
She stretched out her hand to try it out, "My lord, the rain is a little lighter, Yan Niang will go back first, if there is a place that can be used for me, come to the inn to find me, two streets away from Jingfu."
Yan Niang walked into the vast rain and fog as she spoke, the rain wet her sideburns, but she didn't wipe them, and her slender figure disappeared at the corner of the street after a while.
Shi Jin stuffed the last piece of dry food into his mouth, "What a coincidence, I can also meet this Yan girl here." ” Shi Fei glared at his brother, "You're quite sure." ” "Isn't it?"
Shi Jin looked at Cheng Muyou and scratched his head, "If not, why can we always meet her?"
” Cheng Muyou turned his head to look at the ancestral hall behind him, and he could vaguely see the four big characters of "Shen Ancestral Hall" engraved on the plaque, "Wait until you go back to Xin'an City to check this Shen family and see what it has to do with Yan Niang, it can't be another coincidence." ” "Master Cheng, why did you come here in person."
Jing Yunlai walked out of the door, followed by Jing Chenjin and a group of servants, "I can't meet you from afar, please forgive me." ” "Jing Lao is polite, there is such a big incident in the Jing family, I naturally want to come in person, besides, the theft of food is related to people's livelihood, and if I can't solve the case, I can't explain it to Jing Lao and the townspeople."
Cheng Muyou and Jing Yunlai walked into the house as he spoke, and the two walked along the corridor all the way, when passing the pagoda, Cheng Muyou turned his head sideways, and his steps slowed down, "I have long heard that a pagoda has been built in the house, but I didn't expect the scale to be so grand, Jing Lao is really a good person, presumably this god and Buddha not only live in Jing Mansion, but also live in your heart." ” Jing Yunlai laughed, "This pagoda was built for my deceased wife back then, and it didn't have any other deep meaning, but I didn't expect it to be spread more and more, which really makes me ashamed." ” Jing Lao said with a smile.
As he was talking, the courtyard door of the pagoda was pushed open, and a young woman walked out of it, Jing Yunlai waved his hand, called her to him, and said to Cheng Muyou: "This is the little girl Yu'er, Jin'er is not in good health, so Yu'er is in charge of all the affairs in the house."
Yu'er, come and worship Lord Cheng. ” "Master Cheng," Miss Jing put her hand to her side and whispered to a little maid behind her, "Go get a few dry clothes, and ask Master Cheng to change them." ” Jing Yunlai found that there were faint water stains on the clothes of Cheng Muyou and the three of them, and he smiled apologetically, "I'm old and dizzy, presumably the adults encountered heavy rain when they were on the road last night, and the clothes were wet, so Yu'er, you personally take Lord Cheng and them to the guest room, let the girls boil more hot water, and wait for a few adults to bathe and change clothes." ” "That's not necessary......
Cheng Muyou thought about Jiang Xixi's disappearance, and was anxious, so he hurriedly refused.
"The adult is the parent official of Xin'an City, if I get sick because of the affairs of my Jing family, how can I afford it, don't worry, I have asked the subordinates to arrange it properly, and we will go to the granary when the adults finish grooming."