"Why did the officials come back so late?
Did you run into a tricky case?
” When Cheng Muyou pushed the door and entered the room, Yan Niang had already rested, heard the sound, got up again, looked at the cold figure with her cheeks up, and asked slowly.
"Disturb Madame's rest."
Cheng Muyou took off his cloak and washed his hands and face in the basin, then took off his boots and went to bed, leaned on the head of the bed, and continued, "Today's case is really strange, according to the person concerned, she saw a skeleton man wearing an official hat with her own eyes. ” "Skeleton Man?"
"Yes, she also said that the skeleton man seemed to be able to confuse the mind and make two monks kill each other, but those two monks were not good people, but two wicked people with blood-stained hands."
Yan Niang smiled, "So, that skeleton is actually a good person who does the right thing for heaven?"
” Cheng Muyou got into the quilt and said softly, "The good guy and the bad guy can't be decided yet, I only know that he is definitely not a human being."
By the time he said this, his voice was already a little muffled, with a clear sleepiness.
Yan Niang also lay down, but unlike Cheng Muyou, she was only wearing a thin middle coat and no quilt on her body, obviously not afraid of the cold of early winter.
She turned inward and muttered quietly, "Skeleton Man?
What did he do in Xin'an?
” "Whoa."
The door was suddenly pushed open, and a chill broke into the room, startling both of them to sit up at the same time and look at the door.
"Xun'er, why are you here in the middle of the night?"
Cheng Muyou looked at his frightened son and hurriedly got up and got out of bed.
"Daddy, Yan Niang, there are thieves in the house, thieves."
Hearing him say this, Yan Niang also got out of bed, came to the two of them, leaned down and asked Xun'er, "Where is the thief?"
” Xun'er took a deep breath, "He's in the case room, but he's gone, no, it's not gone, it's all gone, it's all gone, only this one is left." ” As he spoke, he stuffed something into Yan Niang's palm.
Yan Niang spread out her palm, only to see that it was a few red silk threads, like blood-stained silk, sniffing lightly, and there was a faint aroma.
"What is this?"
Cheng Muyou saw that her face changed color slightly, and hurriedly asked.
"Flowers bloom without leaves, leaves without flowers, flowers and leaves do not see each other, and life is wrong.
It is the only scenery on the Huangquan Road: the flowers on the other side. ” "These red silks are flowers?"
Xun'er was stunned.
"The other side of the flower is a flower that blooms on the Huangquan Road, its petals are like dragon claws, like silk, beautiful and strange.
There are large areas of this kind of flower blooming on both sides of Huangquan Road, which looks like a carpet paved with blood from a distance, so Huangquan Road is known as the 'Fire Road', and it is also the only scenery and color on this long Huangquan Road, and the soul is to follow the guidance of this flower to the Netherworld.
Yan Niang said quietly.
"Why is the flower of the underworld in the hands of that thief?"
Cheng Muyou asked, and suddenly turned his head to look at Xun'er, "Did he steal anything?"
” Xun'er shook her head, "No, he's just looking through Daddy's file, and nothing else has been done." ” Cheng Muyou thought for a long time, then looked at Yan Niang and asked, "Madame, can you guess who is coming?"
What is the purpose of his visit?
” Yan Niang chuckled, "The visitors from the underworld are not good people, and officials are still careful these days."
With that, she picked up Xun'er and asked softly, "Are you afraid?"
If you're scared, you can sleep here tonight. ” Xun'er just wanted to nod, but suddenly her mouth was full, "General Li Nanping Xiao Milling, Fu Gongqi, destroying the Eastern Turks in the north, and Tuguhun in the west, have never had the heart to retreat, if I am afraid because of these trivial things, how will I lead troops to fight in the future." ” After speaking, he slipped off Yan Niang, saluted the two of them, took a deep breath, pushed the door and walked out.
Cheng Muyou was puzzled: "Why did this kid suddenly become so bold?"
” Yan Niang smiled and said nothing, but her heart was very comforted, she followed to the door, and ordered her right ear to stay in front of Xun'er's room, and then returned to the house to sleep peacefully.
Before dawn the next day, Cheng Muyou and Jiang Xixi once again came to Lingxian Temple with a few servants, because this case involved a large number of people, and the timeline was long, and the bones in the pit were broken and dissolved, and it was very difficult to distinguish them.
Therefore, the group was busy for most of the day before they could barely put together the eleven corpses, and according to the characteristics of each corpse, they asked the painter to paint and post the notice inside and outside the city gate, so that the people could easily claim the corpses.
After doing all this, the sun has deviated to the west, Cheng Muyou wiped the sweat on his head, rubbed his sore shoulders and walked out of Lingyin Temple, he turned around, and saw the sunlight cutting the Buddha statue in the house into two halves, half bright, half dark, couldn't help but sigh silently in his heart, then stretched his muscles and bones, and walked down the mountain road.
"My lord," Jiang Xixi ran behind her, she handed over a water bladder, and said with a smile, "Your Excellency has been busy for most of the day, you must be tired, drink saliva to moisten your throat." ” Cheng Muyou took the water bladder and drank a few sips, then looked up at the sparse branches above, and said softly, "It's okay to be tired, I just sighed that people's hearts are sinister, and they can get to such a situation, thinking that those women, I thought that they were blessed by gods and Buddhas, and they would not die, but they didn't think that they fell into the devil's cave, and after being tortured, they were buried in the damp mud and turned into fertilizer."
If it weren't for this incident, they might never see the light of day, which is really sad. ” Jiang Xixi smashed his fist on the trunk of the tree, shaking the remnants of snow on it one after another, and said hatefully in his mouth, "I just went to see those corpses, according to the judgment, the oldest is already in the old age, these three monks are really beasts, even the old people do not let go, and they end up killing each other, but they are also very happy." ” "The people who worship the Buddha should be wholeheartedly good, but a few of them are absurd, cruel and tyrannical, and they really deserve to die, but I still can't understand Zhang Jinmei's words, let alone who the skeleton man is?
Why do you want to do the right thing for heaven and save her from her predicament?
” As he was talking, there was a sudden noisy suona sound in his ears, the sound became louder and louder, it seemed to float up along the mountain road, and then listened carefully, it was also mixed with bursts of wailing, mixed with the sound of suona, and it sounded extraordinarily permeable.
"My lord," Jiang Xixi said in a low voice as he gazed at the rugged procession on the mountain road, "It seems that someone has gone out of the funeral and passed by here." ” Cheng Muyou followed her gaze, and saw a group of people in filial piety clothes walking up the mountain road, and the first few people carried a huge dark yellow coffin.