As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to her waist, wanting to take out the handkerchief and send the baby spirit on the road, but when it was too late, the black shadow on the ground suddenly jumped up and rushed towards Cheng Muyou's head and face, and immediately wrapped around his face.
Cheng Muyou only felt a chill on his face, and then, a heavy fishy smell hit him, blocking his mouth and nose.
He let go of Yan Niang's hand, staggered back a few steps, collapsed in front of a bookcase, and knocked it to the ground.
The books in the cupboard fell one after another and smashed on top of Cheng Muyou's head, smashing him to the point that he almost fainted.
In a trance, he saw a hand, a thin white hand, smeared with bright red kodan, as soft as vines.
A blood-stained dagger was held tightly by the hand, and it lifted it high and fell down again, stabbing itself again, again and again, until its nails were cracked by the hilt, but it refused to stop A blood mist suddenly rose in front of Cheng Muyou's eyes, and behind the blood mist was a slender woman like a water snake, and he knew that that hand belonged to her.
His eyes widened, and he tried to see the woman's face more clearly, but her face remained hazy and blurry, as if covered with a veil of light.
The stench in his throat became heavier and heavier, like a slippery snake, burrowing into his internal organs along the throat, trying to devour him completely.
Cheng Muyou pinched his neck, trying to force the smell out of his body, but not only did the smell not disappear, but his ears were blocked by a long cry.
Is it a baby's cry?
It seems to be so, but isn't it still in the matrix, just taking shape?
How can such a loud and screaming sound be made, so that people's hearts are twisted into a ball, like a piece of ice that has been frozen for thousands of years.
Cheng Muyou felt that his whole body was surrounded by this sharp scream, from head to toe, he was tightly wrapped by it, and he himself, like a worm embedded in a silkworm cocoon, was pitiful and helpless.
But suddenly, the cocoon cracked, and it was torn apart, and there was nothing left of it.
His senses were all back in his body, but his body seemed to have been drained of all its strength, and he was so weak that he could only crouch on the ground, gasping for air.
A warm hand was gently placed on his cheek, and the temperature in the palm of the hand seemed to wander away, quickly reaching every corner of his body.
Cheng Muyou shuddered, like a person about to drown desperately trying to grab something, and grabbed that hand tightly, never wanting to part with it again.
Yan Niang thoughtfully held his shoulder with her other hand, lifted him up from the ground, stared at his pale face with concern, and said softly, "Official, what did you just see?"
” Hearing her voice, Cheng Muyou felt that something was wrong, hurriedly let go of his hand, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead in a panic, and said incoherently, "Barnacle, I saw her, but her face was blurred, and I couldn't see it clearly." ” Yan Niang sighed, pondered for a long time, and then said, "The consciousness of the infant spirit is still in Hongmeng, and it has not yet been civilized, and it must not be able to remember the appearance of the murderer after a long time." ” Cheng Muyou took a few more breaths, "However, I obviously heard its cry, the sound was very loud, and it was no different from a full-term baby." ” Yan Niang smiled, the smile was vivid and bright, and Cheng Muyou's mood suddenly became happy, "Official, isn't it a pleasure that it can cry happily like those swaddling babies?"
” "It's finally reincarnated?"
"The official is also tired today, let Yan Niang accompany you back to your father's house to rest for one night, and then go back to Xin'an tomorrow."
Cheng Muyou and Yan Niang returned home, and the Cheng Mansion was inevitably busy, until the end of the family banquet, Cheng Muyou and Yan Niang returned to the courtyard where they lived, and finally enjoyed the peace he had been waiting for for a while.
As Yan Niang said, at the end of this day, he was too tired, the rush on the road and the sneak attack of the infant spirit could only be counted as secondary, and the most important thing was that the more he knew about the case in front of him, the more he felt that it was intricate and confusing, and he didn't know where to start.
Now, he looked at the moonlit well in front of him, and said to himself, "Barnacle, where have you fled?"
After so many years, even the mother and son of the Dong family are gone, why are you still hiding in the sea of people and never showing up?
” was thinking and meditating, and suddenly saw Yan Niang walking out of the house with a tray, she walked up to Cheng Muyou with a smile and handed the tray over, "Official, quickly take the medicine, you were attacked by yin qi today, and your body was damaged, this evil exorcism and tranquility pill can help you expel the evil qi and calm the nerves." ” Cheng Muyou picked up the medicine bowl on the plate and swallowed it with water, then leaned on the edge of the well, and said to Yan Niang, "What does Madame think of this case?"
” Yan Niang also leaned lightly on the edge of the well, playing with a strand of broken hair on her sideburns, and said softly, "The reason why barnacles have been hidden for so many years without being discovered is that there are only two possibilities, one is that she hid too deeply, incognito, and avoided the mountains and forests, so the people in the government can't find her." ” "What about the other possibility?"
He stared at her with some eagerness.
Yan Niang glanced at him and said coldly, "She may be in a particularly conspicuous place, but because she is too common and familiar, she is ignored by everyone." ” Cheng Muyou frowned, "Common, conspicuous, the girl means that the barnacle has never been hidden, but has always been there, but, we didn't find her?"
” Yan Niang was about to nod, but saw Cheng Dexuan walking in from outside the courtyard, and he was also holding a tray in his hand like her, with a bowl of fragrant medicinal juice in it.
When he came to the two of them, he handed the bowl of medicine to Yan Niang and instructed, "I see that Mu You is not in good spirits today, so I specially prepared this bowl of medicine, you take it and heat it up, and then give it to him." ” Yan Niang knew that he deliberately pushed himself away, so she said "yes" softly, picked up the medicine bowl and walked towards the stove room, seeing her go away, Cheng Dexuan looked at her son, barely suppressed the anxiety in his eyes, cleared his throat, and said to him, "Lord Wang's case, are you confident that you can solve it?"
” Cheng Muyou was a little surprised, "Father, I came here this time for the Dong family's case, and the affairs of the Wang family are under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Mansion, what does it have to do with my Xin'an Mansion?"
” Cheng Dexuan shook his head and snorted lightly, "Muyou, you are good anywhere, but you are still inexperienced in the officialdom and don't know how to pave the way for yourself, have you ever thought that if the death case of the Wang family is solved by you, how much favor will Lord Wang owe you, and how much benefit will it be for you to be crowned an official in the future?"
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