The huge villa, with one after another of bizarre murders, is a bit like the Misty Peak Snow Pavilion back then.
The only difference is that this time Yun Yifeng and Ji Yanran are not in it - at least it doesn't look like they are in it.
And Xu Qiuping, who was in it, with a strong desire to survive, swept away the thunderous style of the five shopkeepers of Xu's family in the past, and even the second brother rarely visited him, and only stayed in his own courtyard, eating on time and in a certain amount, and a little bit. Some of them lost their appetite, so they panicked and felt that they had been poisoned by the strange poison, fearing that they would answer the scary nursery rhyme.
"Master Xu." This night, Yun Yifeng said, "Now you are the only one who can save Shiba Villa."
Xu Qiuping was sitting on the chair, looking hunched over, with no energy at all, he said anxiously: "I don't even know who the other party is, how can I help? Is there any news about my fourth brother? "
"Not yet, the people from the government are still looking for it." Yun Yifeng said, "The other party has spent so much time and trouble, causing blood and rain all over the city. It is obviously impossible to say that there is no enmity with the Xu family. Recently The business of the Eighteen Years Villa has always been managed by five shopkeepers, Mr. Xu doesn’t know much, so Mr. Zhang couldn’t ask anything before, why don’t Mr. Xu think about it more carefully?”
"Of course there are grudges." Xu Qiuping took a sip of tea and forced himself to calm down a bit, "It's impossible not to have grudges in business, but the five of us have never done anything to destroy people's jobs, and we have always been used to leaving a little room. I really can’t remember when I provoked this catastrophe.”
He said it with absolute certainty, without any hesitation, almost blurting out, either he was really open and aboveboard, or he was... concealing something.
On the way back, Yun Yifeng asked as he walked, "What do you think, my lord?"
"All three of my brothers have had accidents, and the life and death of one of them is still unknown. Xu Qiuping must be terrified at this time." Ji Yanran said, "If you still have to cover up at this time, then this hidden secret is probably not visible to anyone. To the extreme."
"According to the nursery rhyme, the five brothers are all going to die." Yun Yifeng thought for a while, "Leaving aside the blood flowing into a river, now that Xu Qiuping has returned, he will not be starved to death anyway. "Looking for food", does it have another meaning? For example, Xu's family eventually collapsed, and Xu Wuye became a beggar, begging for food for a living?"
Ji Yanran shook her head: "Unless the government ransacks the house, no matter how poor Xu Qiuping is, he will starve to death more than a camel than a horse. But when it comes to ransacking the house, the matter returns to the point we just discussed, how much is this hidden secret?" The darkness can make Zhang Guhe ignore all kinds of good deeds of Shiba Villa in these years, and destroy the Xu family by the roots?"
Yun Yifeng sighed: "Headache."
"If you have a headache, don't think about it." Ji Yanran patted him, "You are still a patient, you have to take good care of it."
Yun Yifeng agreed, and yawned all the way back to the inn with him. There were diners sitting in twos and threes in the hall, all discussing about Shiba Villa, and the nursery rhyme was dissected and analyzed over and over again, especially Xu Qiuyi's "blood flowed into rivers" and "ewes", which sounded both erotic and Terrified, everyone speculated that Fourth Master Xu had already died on the bed of some female killer at this time.
"It's going to be the wind, you've heard the wind right away?" The little rascal sputtered and stepped on the chair with one foot, "It's just when I was doing that kind of thing, I was so happy, I kicked my legs indiscriminately..." His voice became smaller and smaller, The crowd also got closer and closer, and occasionally "white soft and smooth" and "thick and hard" came out of the crowd, which was unbearable to hear.
Yun Yifeng speeded up the stairs.
Ji Yanran followed closely and covered his ears behind her.
Yun Yifeng: "..."
"Don't listen, don't listen." Ji Yanran coaxed him, "Leave this kind of matter to me."
Yun Yifeng said: "Dirty."
"It has nothing to do with being dirty or not." Ji Yanran smiled, "Here, when investigating the case, it's natural to listen more and watch more."
"Then what did you hear?" Yun Yifeng pushed open the door.
"Just now, someone in the crowd murmured, wondering if this nursery rhyme is wrong. It should be talking about Xu Qiuwang, who has eighteen concubines, not Xu Qiuyi." Ji Yanran said, "In the eyes of the people, this Fourth Master Xu seems to be Not close to a woman."
"It is true that he has only one wife, Youshi." Yun Yifeng made tea, "And Youshi has been bedridden for the past few years, and he would get sick whenever the wind blows. Even this time when something happened in the villa, Yuanshi kept the news from her. I'm worried that I won't be able to withstand the stimulation."
Ji Yanran asked: "What about the relationship between the couple?"
"Excellent, we respect each other as guests, and all the servants in the courtyard are envious." Yun Yifeng said, "When the little maid said it, her eyes were shining, so she expected herself to marry such a good man, so that's not right. It's like it was staged."
Ji Yanran still sat astride her back, resting her chin on the back of the chair: "Then what does this ewe mean?"
"I don't know." Yun Yifeng replied casually, stood by the table and carefully ironed a pair of teacups, and added new tea, but when he turned around, he was still in a daze. Slanting Feijian's eyebrows were slightly frowned, his eyes fell into the flickering candlelight on the table, he couldn't see the expression inside clearly, the bridge of his nose was high and straight, and the profile of his face was sharp. mouth, with his arms dangling on the back of the chair, supporting his own chin, and his two long legs stretched out, without moving for a long time.
Yun Yifeng kicked him: "Take your legs back."
Ji Yanran sat without moving, and only said lazily: "Master Yunmen stared at me for a long time with fascination, and enjoyed the blessing of his eyes, can it be worth half of a suet jade ring?"
Yun Yifeng refused straight away: "I can't."
"Where's Wang Xizhi's copybook?"
"also can not."
"..."
"cannot!"
Outside the window, the night is getting darker.
In the mountains and forests not far away, a rustling fog and rain also fell.
A brazier was lit in the room, dispelling some of the damp chill. The young and seductive woman is kneeling on the ground, serving the man in front of her with all her might. She is wearing revealing clothes, most of her breasts are exposed, her watery eyes are full of tenderness, and even her indistinct voice has been practiced a lot. I know how to please each other.
"Master." She called delicately, although she was still smiling, she already understood most of it in her heart.
Ganqing is a useless piece of trash.
But for the sake of money, no matter how useless it is, it has to do enough tricks. So she wrapped herself around like a water snake, and just as she untied the other party's belt, there was a sudden shout from outside the door: "Who are you!"
The sound of swords and swords collided, which seemed very infiltrating in the empty mountain in the middle of the night, and the two people in the room panicked. The kiln sister screamed and hid under the bed, the man also pulled up his pants tremblingly, the door of the room was kicked open with a "boom", and a group of people broke in with swords in their hands, and said loudly: "Fourth Master Xu!"
Xu Qiuyi's face turned pale: "Huh?"
…
Xu Qiuyi was stuffed into the carriage and brought back to Wangxing City overnight.
Accompanying her was Yaojie, who was crying like a rain pear flower. She had no idea what happened, and thought she was about to be captured by the bandits and become Mrs. Yazhai.
"Don't cry yet." Yun Yifeng comforted, "Girl, don't be afraid, this is a government office, we are all good people, by the way, what's your name?"
"My name is Cui'er." Her face was smeared in a mess, she was startled and frightened, and it took her a long time to remember to speak, "Mother Hong came to me a few days ago and said that there is a rich man in the south of the Yangtze River called Mr. Zhou. I'm dead, and you want to redeem me, and the money is very generous, I was happy at the time, thinking that I could be a concubine and live a stable life from now on."
Mother Hong put away the silver and happily sent her "daughter" into the sedan chair, and the fragrant wind gusts out of the city. The night when the disciples of the Feng Yu Sect broke in to find someone, it was their "bridal chamber wedding night".
"Young master, master Zhou, he, he can't do that." Tweety whispered, "I can't be hard."
"Really?" Yun Yifeng was puzzled, "Then why would he buy you?"
"I don't know." Tweety looked at him, also very puzzled, "Anyway, it's definitely not my fault, I'm really capable."
Yun Yifeng: "..."
In any case, since there are women, you can also match the "ewe" in the nursery rhymes, but no matter how you look at this girl, Tweety is just an ordinary prostitute. Where can it be related to "Blood Flows into a River".
Zhang Guhe asked: "Could it be a killer in disguise?"
"She has been in the brothel for eight years." Yun Yifeng said, "Pretending for so long?"
Zhang Guhe frowned: "That's right."
In the next room, Xu Qiuyi was still drinking bowls of calming soup. He was indeed so frightened that even the hand holding the bowl was shaking.
"Fourth Master." The old butler was on the side to cheer him up, his eyes were red and said, "Fortunately, fortunately, you are fine. If the people from Fengyumen are one step later, I'm afraid that witch will kill someone."
"Okay." Xu Qiuyi swallowed dryly, waved her hands restlessly, "Tell me first, is there really only me and the fifth child left at home? What about the others?"
"The old man ordered that the fifth master is not allowed to go anywhere, and can only stay in the villa." The housekeeper said, "After Mr. Zhang comes to ask questions, the fourth master may not be able to go out easily in the future." After speaking, he lowered his voice, Remind him in his ear that His Royal Highness Xiao Wang is also in the government office now, and he will come together later, so he must pay attention to what he says.
Xu Qiuyi was surprised: "People from the imperial court?"
"I heard that I found the charm of the Red Crow Cult from the uncle." The housekeeper said, "That is forbidden by the imperial court."
"How could Big Brother have anything to do with a cult." Xu Qiuyi vetoed it flatly, "It's absolutely impossible!"
"Even if it's impossible, the court has to investigate first." The steward advised, "But it's a good thing. With King Xiao around, the black hands behind the scenes can be restrained, right? Don't worry, fourth master. At this time, our Xu family can only It's up to the government."
Xu Qiu hesitated to speak, and after a while, he sighed deeply.
That night, he met the legendary King Xiao and the master of the Fengyumen in white clothes. The two were quite different from the rumors, and their attitudes were extremely kind.
Zhang Guhe said: "Fourth Master Xu, we can't hide anything anymore."
"I know what your lord is going to ask." Xu Qiuyi's face turned red, and it took a long time before she gritted her teeth and said, "I went to Suanzao Mountain this time to seek medical treatment."
Zhang Guhe was puzzled: "What kind of doctor do you seek for that bare mountain?"
"To be honest, I... I won't lift it." Xu Qiuyi said in embarrassment, wishing he could get into the cracks in the ground, and really didn't want to raise his head, "It's a decades-old problem that famous doctors from all over the world have been secretly invited, but it has never been cured. Okay, this time I finally found out that there is an old doctor in the Suanzao Mountain that has been passed down from generation to generation, so I wanted to go and have a look, but I didn't have any hope. I went to the city and bought a girl, and I want to try it."
Ji Yanran: "..."
Yun Yifeng: "..."
The room was silent, and Xu Qiuyi's voice was already crying: "The three of you, please keep it secret for me."
"Fourth Master Xu, don't worry, don't worry." Zhang Guhe didn't expect such a thing to be interrogated, so he quickly comforted him, "We promise not to tell."
Yun Yifeng said: "So that girl can't be a killer?"
"Impossible." Xu Qiuyi shook her head, "I haven't seen her before, and the servants bought it randomly. There are three or four brothels in the city, how would the killer know which one Agui is going to buy?"
Yun Yifeng asked again: "Then Miss Cui'er—"
"Hurry up and give her a sum of money to let her go, the farther the better." Xu Qiuyi was annoyed, "Don't let my family know, it's really embarrassing."
And the disciples of Fengyumen came back and said that there is really an old man in the Suanzao Mountain, who is said to have a unique skill, and he usually plays amazingly, regardless of whether he is a liar or not, at least it sounds like he can really cure men's hidden diseases, and Xu Qiuyi is indeed in him I drank the decoction there for several days.
Yun Yifeng asked: "What kind of decoction?"
The disciple replied: "If the yang root is not lifted, we will bring back all the medicine dregs and have them checked by the doctor in the city."
"Then at least he didn't lie about this matter." Ji Yanran clicked his tongue, "How to say it, every family has its own hard-to-recite scriptures."
Yun Yifeng glanced at him: "My lord feels the same way?"
"Don't!" Ji Yanran warned him, "Don't curse me on this kind of thing."
"It doesn't matter." Yun Yifeng didn't care, "Anyway, the prince doesn't need to do such a thing. If you want to be happy, you can hold the Four Books and Five Classics and read through it, so that you can keep your body comfortable."
Ji Yanran: "..."
Ji Yanran: "Pfft."
Yun Yifeng also smiled and pushed him: "Let's go, let's go to Shiba Villa."
After Xu Qiuping, Xu Qiuyi finally returned home smoothly, Mrs. Xu was overjoyed, and hurriedly sent his servants to protect his house as before. Because there was a "ewe" in the nursery rhyme, all the maids were removed, and even the main wife, Youshi, was temporarily moved to the Yuan's courtyard. This was not enough, and even the food was ordered to be cooked by the cook. Mother can't take half a step.
Ji Yanran and Yun Yifeng walked in the villa, they felt that everywhere was noisy and busy, and everyone was anxious and tense. The entire Xu family is like a big ship that has been thrown onto the top of the waves. Amidst the huge roar, it is crumbling and crumbling.
Dark clouds have covered the sun.
Ji Yanran asked: "Is it cold?"
Yun Yifeng retracted her hands into the armholes: "This Xu family is not only cold, but also cloudy."
Unable to explain the reason, there was deep frustration everywhere.
"Yeah?" Ji Yanran stretched out her arms to embrace him, "Come on, lean against me."
Yun Yifeng was caught off guard and almost staggered and fell: "Why?"
"Aren't you afraid of yin?" Ji Yanran simply pressed his whole body to her chest, and patiently explained: "I have a lot of yang, you can ward off evil spirits if you touch it more."