Is Master happy?

The master and the apprentice had some simple meals, and the weather was mild and comfortable in the morning and afternoon, so they went out to the streets.

It was already early in the morning, but the city of Qinyang was still in a desolate scene. There were no restaurants and shops along the road open for business, and there were no people walking on the street.

The two of them walked around, found an inn, took silver taels and booked a room under the wary eyes of the innkeeper.

There was nowhere to go in the city, and they really felt bored. After thinking twice, they thought about going to the yamen to see if Mo Rusheng was free. Anyway, they should thank her seriously for her help last night.

Although Yaozhou said that he was going to the Yamen, the direction he could travel was towards the suburbs of the city.

Xi Ya took her by the arm, holding a sugar glutinous rice cake she bought in his hand, while biting on it, he looked around and saw Yao Zhou took her away from Fangshi, the more remote he went, the more he looked up. She asked, "Master, where are we going?"

Yaozhou didn't answer, just shook her hand and asked: "But are you tired?"

"Not tired." Xi Ya shook his head obediently, and then looked around, but there were no houses, and a towering city wall could be seen in the distance.

Yao Zhou led Xi Ya to a wild grass and forest before stopping, the surroundings were silent, only some birds chirped "ahh".

Xiya finished eating the candied glutinous rice cake, took the wooden stick on it and stuck it on the ground, clapped his hands, looked back, saw Yaozhou flexing his wrists, stretching his waist, coughing lightly suddenly, and said softly with a smile : "Since they have followed us all the way, why not show up?"

Xiya was taken aback when he heard the words, and hurriedly stepped forward to surround Yaozhou, looking around vigilantly, secretly surprised that someone followed them, and he didn't even notice.

A puff of green smoke rose from the ground not far away, and Xi Ya only heard coughing and sighing. A little old man in gray robes suddenly crawled out from the ground, he first took a breath, and then pulled out a dog from the ground. The wooden stick, blowing the dust on it, looking at Yao Zhou through her long gray eyebrows with her small eyes, staggered over step by step, patted her sleeves, and bowed to her, "Xiao Xiantu, I have seen Mr. Yunzhong. "

He seemed to be quite old, and it was very difficult to bend over.

"Get up quickly." Yao Zhou saw that it was really difficult for him to pray, so he gave him a little help, and saw that he stood up with shaking hands, wiped his beard with one hand, and leaned on a wooden stick with the other, mumbling in his mouth, saying "Give me a hand." Say hello to Yaozhou.

Yaozhou waved his hand and said: "Okay, there is no need to talk about nonsense. Since you came with me, you must know what I want to ask."

"I know, I know." The land old man nodded again and again, "Mr. Yunzhong should want to ask who set up the ecstasy array in this city." He sneaked a glance at Yao Zhou, feeling a little nervous, "That man... is right, It is Xiaoxian."

"Oh?" Yaozhou seemed surprised, looked at him up and down, and smiled suddenly, "But I was wrong, I thought that maybe some immortal friend came here secretly, set up a ecstasy array, and wanted to trap him. The people of a city are prone to do some unruly things, if you say that, I blame them by mistake."

There was a lot of self-blame in her words, but when she looked at the old man's eyes, there was a bit of chill, and the little old man was trembling and sweating, so she hurriedly explained: "Mr. The immortal set up this ecstasy formation for the sake of the people outside Qinyang City."

He wiped his sweat, cleared his throat, and said eloquently, "A case occurred in Qinyang a few years ago. A young woman fell into the river in the middle of the night. The case was concluded as suicide, and the woman's husband's family moved to another place. The matter should have been settled in this way, but for some reason, the ghosts of the underworld did not accept the woman's soul for a long time. Even though it is wandering around in the mortal world, the drowned ghost already has deep resentment, and after all these years of wandering around, this ghost has actually produced some spiritual power through self-cultivation, causing trouble everywhere in Qinyang, and I am also I have no choice but to fear that she will harm Qinyang and go to other places to do evil, so I have to set up a ecstasy formation to trap her here." The little old man sighed, as if he was quite worried.

Yaozhou didn't relax, and asked him in a cold voice, "Since it's so difficult, why didn't you report it to the Heavenly Court?"

"Xiaoxian reported it." The old man of the land hurriedly shouted, "But the heavenly court has not yet approved people to come down, so Xiaoxian had to delay day by day, until today, when Lord Yunzhong came down to earth, Xiaoxian just I followed you secretly, thinking, thinking..." He was embarrassed to say the next thing, whether the Taixu Upper Realm and the Yuntian Upper Realm were in the same heart, and he was not sure whether Yun Zhongjun would like to help him such a Taixu Upper Realm The little earth fairy in the world.

Yaozhou frowned when he heard the words, and said in a low voice: "Supposedly this matter shouldn't have dragged on for such a long time. Could it be that something big happened in the Heavenly Court..."

She pondered for a long time, raised her eyes and said: "I see, this matter is easy to handle, you tell me where the soul is, I will collect her and send her to the underworld."

"Xiaoxian doesn't know where the ghost is." The old man in the land wiped his sweat and shook his head, "The ghost is also very clever. He refused to come out during the day, and only ran out to do evil at night. Kuang Xianjun entered the world, and she might have it too." From what I noticed, I think I dare not come out these few days.”

"It's also difficult." Yaozhou sighed, turned back and led Xiya, thought for a while and then ordered the land: "I'm living in the city for a few days, if there is any abnormality, just come and find me."

"Yes, thank you Yunzhong-jun." The old man in the land bowed to see her off, and Xiya looked back at him, curious in his heart, and when he was far away, he raised his head and asked Yaozhou: "Master, all the mortal worlds are one and the same." Is the land in charge?"

"No." Yaozhou replied to her, "What's wrong?"

Xi Ya was speechless, "I saw the Earth Temple in Kongzhou City, the image of the Earth on it is very similar to the old man just now, don't they have some relatives?"

"Maybe there is a relationship. This land was born according to the way of heaven. I think it must be related." Seeing her surprised look, Yaozhou chuckled, "Don't be surprised, it's already noon, are you hungry? Let's go Find Namo and arrest him, how about having lunch together?"

"Yeah." Xi Ya nodded, and the two of them went back the same way and walked towards the yamen in the city.

As soon as the land spoke, they also understood why Qinyang City was such a desolate scene.

There were resentful spirits haunting at night, and the government closed the gates of the city, only allowing people to enter but not to leave, which inevitably caused people to panic and become suspicious of each other.

However, the Qinyang yamen is still lively. When the two of them arrived, it happened that when Mo Rusheng came back from patrolling the streets and was in the middle of the shift, Yaozhou walked forward slowly, and said to her with a smile: "Hurry up, Mo Rusheng." , Did you come back to rest after a busy morning?"

Mo Rusheng turned around when he heard the words, and when he saw that it was the two of them, he smiled too. After finishing his shift first, he led them to a small courtyard in the yamen, drank some tea, and said, "After patrolling the streets all morning, I'm getting tired, you two are going out of town?"

After finishing speaking, before the master and apprentice could reply, she said with a serious face: "I forgot to tell you two last night that Qinyang City is currently investigating an old case, and the city is under martial law. The two of you will have to wait a little longer."

"It doesn't matter, our master and apprentice wanted to stay for a while, so we can look around in Qinyang." Yaozhou smiled, but he was not worried, but asked her curiously: "I don't know if I can ask, is there a place in the city?" What case are you investigating?"

"It's just an old case. A woman fell into the water two years ago. The yamen servants couldn't find evidence of the murder, so they closed the case by committing suicide. Now the county magistrate feels suspicious, so he proposes to reopen the trial." Mo Rusheng simply said After saying a few words, his expression was quite sincere, as if he was hiding something.

"Oh?" Yao Zhou drank tea with lowered eyes, and asked seemingly unintentionally: "But I don't know why the case two years ago is going to be found out now. If there is no evidence, I think...that woman really threw herself into the river." not sure."

"I don't know." Mo Rusheng was also very at a loss, shaking his head and sighing: "The superior suddenly said to investigate, I also feel strange, the city is so chaotic recently, there is no rush to investigate the scary thing about the witchcraft , but want to investigate an old case, oh..."

Xi Ya moved her ears, raised her head and asked her curiously: "Sister Mo, you said... witchcraft harms people, what is it?"

Mo Rusheng turned to look at her with a serious expression, and said: "I forgot to tell you that lately there are always people who come home late and pass out in the market, and we can't find out who did it. Besides, these people wake up and say they met It's... a ghost, so I think, someone must have practiced witchcraft, poison or mist."

Xiya and Yaozhou looked at each other, and they both saw the clarity in each other's eyes, this thing was probably done by the drowned ghost.

Yaozhou still smiled indifferently, pretending to be terrified, looked around, and asked furtively, "Then, I wonder if there are people in the city who have been victimized?"

"Not yet." Mo Rusheng shook her head, not doubting him, but as soon as the words fell, there was a soft "gulu" out of thin air, she touched her stomach embarrassingly, and said with a smile: " I haven't eaten this morning, you are hungry, why don't you go eat together?"

"Very good." Yaozhou nodded understandingly, and the three of them left the yamen together. There was no restaurant open on the street. They just looked for a small vegetable shop, bought some fresh vegetables and went home. Busy cleaning up in the kitchen, Yaozhou continued to repeat Mo Rusheng's words.

Mo Rusheng was very honest, he only thought that the master and the apprentice were curious and afraid, and they didn't hold back anything, and told all the things of these few days together with the case two years ago.

"That is to say, these people who came back late met Xie on the bank of the dark river?" Yaozhou calculated what she said in his heart, and vaguely guessed what he came up with.

Mo Rusheng nodded, "That's right, as soon as there were more cases, my lord asked us to sort out every building, except for an old woman who passed out in the yard next door to her house, and the rest were all in the dark river." on the side."

Yaozhou thought about it carefully, and then asked: "Then... where is the home of that woman who drowned two years ago?"

"This..." Mo Rusheng was stunned, and shook his head after thinking about it, "I don't know about this. I have been patrolling the streets for the past few days, and Liu Butou will lead people to investigate the case. Wait for me today." I'll ask in the afternoon and I'll tell you."

"That's no need to trouble, I'm just curious." Yaozhou squinted and smiled, feeling quite helpless in his heart, Mo Rusheng is too defenseless, presumably if someone else is here today, she will tell the truth of the case if she asks a little It's all revealed, after all, he's still too young to be on guard.

Xiya had already prepared the food, filled the table with food, and called them to eat. Mo Rusheng was very pleasantly surprised when he saw the table, and patted her on the shoulder and praised: "Little sister is a good cook." , Since I became a policeman, I haven't eaten hot food for a long time, and today I really want to feast my mouth."

"Sister Mo, you're welcome." Xi Ya smiled shyly, raised her head and asked her: "I don't think my sister is much older than me, so she has already been a policeman?"

"About half a year ago." Mo Rusheng took his seat, picked up some vegetables and put them into his mouth, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he said it was delicious, "I am seventeen years old, and I am the youngest yamen servant in Qinyang Yamen."

"I'm fifteen years old, and I'm not much younger than Sister Mo." Xi Ya felt a little ashamed. She was about the same age as Mo Rusheng. Mo Rusheng had already left home to support herself, but she was still a young bird under the wings of her master...

Seemingly seeing a little shame in her heart, Yaozhou stretched out his hand and poked her face, and said with a smile: "My apprentice is also sensible. He can cook and take care of me as a master. She is responsible for all the work in the house. Let me take care of it, and it will save me a lot of worry.”

"Master..." Xi Ya looked at her, blinked his eyes, and suddenly felt moved, "I always give you trouble..."

"It's a trivial matter," Yaozhou smiled and rubbed her head, "It's not good if you don't cause trouble. I think that when I was young, I always caused trouble for your master. Your master always said that if the child doesn't cause trouble, then how can I be so happy?" Still a child?"

Mo Rusheng bit his chopsticks, stared blankly at the two of them, and said leisurely for a while, "It's nice to have an apprentice, if I also have an apprentice, take them out to accompany me to patrol the streets, and cook for me, that would be great."

"Catcher Mo is still young, so it would be good to practice it for a few more years." Yao Zhou persuaded her with a smile, his eyes flickered, and said again: "Catcher Mo is too straightforward, since there are so many cases in the city I think there are many people who want to know the inside story. We asked today. I am afraid that other people will come to ask in a few days. I am afraid that the perpetrator is also among them. How is it?"

Mo Rusheng could hear the deep meaning in her words, she was startled suddenly, she put down her chopsticks, thinking about her past, she remembered the times when she was almost being slandered by others, she broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly bowed with her hands together: " Thank you for reminding me, I will definitely pay attention to my words in the future.”

Reminder one or two, it was enough to ask her, Yaozhou took the chopsticks with peace of mind, picked some dishes and ate.

After lunch, Mo Rusheng had to go to the yamen to be on duty, Xi Ya wiped the bowls and chopsticks, then went out with Yaozhou, returned to the inn to find land, and asked some questions.

Yaozhou seemed to be very interested in the case two years ago, and asked Land to explain in detail, but he hesitated and said nothing, only saying that there should be files left in the Qinyang Yamen, so Yaozhou asked him to open the way, and the three of them lived together Sneaked into the yamen and got into the ear room of the side courtyard.

The ear room was originally narrow, but now there are a lot of files densely packed inside, all on the table and on the ground, and the weather is damp and cold, and many of them are moldy. Xi Ya covered his nose and swept the dust in the air with his hands, just about to masturbate He rolled up his sleeves to look for all these files, but was stopped by Yaozhou.

"Look at Master." Yaozhou smiled, pulled her behind him, waved his sleeves, and a gust of wind was blown up, blowing dust into the sky, making the pages of the book "rustling", and the breeze rushed up the pile of files very flexibly , Turned over page by page, and within a moment, turned over all the dossiers in a room.

The last dossier fell to the ground, Yaozhou flicked his sleeves, swept the dust away, and said indifferently: "There is no record of the case two years ago, I think they are preparing to overthrow the old case and took the dossier go."

Xi Ya coughed a few times because of the dust, raised her head in doubt and asked her: "But Master, why are the yamen uncovering this case at this time? Could it be that they also suspected that the drowned ghost did the strange things in the city?"

"That's not something we should think about." Yaozhou put one arm around her, slipped up the ground with one hand, moved his feet, and in a blink of an eye, the three of them landed in an alley beside the dark river.

The sky was getting dark, and there was no one on the street, except for one, who looked hurried and kept on walking, as if worried that if he took a step too slowly, he would be entangled by evil spirits.

The dark river is quite wide, and they couldn't see it clearly in the dark last night. Today, they saw that there were many awning boats parked on both sides of the river embankment. The land is said to be due to Qinyang, surrounded by mountains, and the mountain road is not easy to walk. Therefore, most merchants and goods travel by water.

The three of them walked out of the alley and turned around by the dark river, Yaozhou just stood silently, his consciousness flew out and covered the dark river, and he opened his eyes for a long time, but he couldn't find any trace. I am afraid that my spiritual consciousness will be discovered by the heavens, especially here in the upper realm of Taixu, and I am afraid that I will be perceived by that person if I miss a little bit of my breath...

She sighed and put away her divine sense, feeling a little restless in her heart.

They stayed in the city for three days and nothing strange happened, but Xi Ya's cultivation level improved a little, and he could almost see some alchemy.

When night fell on the fourth day, they had dinner at Mo Rusheng's house, said goodbye to her and went out to the inn.

This morning, Xiya just learned how to stand firmly on Jiyao. Although she failed to fly with the sword, she has improved a lot. She was quite envious when she was taken by Yaozhou to fly with the sword in the air. Now I can do it myself, very excited in my heart, holding Yao Zhou's hand, and whispering something in her ear.

When she was about to reach the inn, the sky was getting darker, the inn closed the gate, Xi Ya was about to run forward to knock on it, but was held back by Yao Zhou, she stopped walking and looked up to the west.

Xi Ya didn't know what happened, and was about to ask a question, but suddenly heard a "rustling" sound, the road at their feet turned, and a head came out, it was the land, the little old man was anxious, but he didn't dare to make a sound Shouting, so as not to disturb others, I just said in a low voice: "Xianjun, by the dark river..." Before he finished speaking, Yaozhou picked up Xiya with one hand, grabbed the collar of the land with one hand, and said in his "hey" "Yo" sound, shrink back and walk, in a blink of an eye to the place.

Someone was screaming at the bank of the dark river, the three of them fell to the ground and looked, but there was a blue-clothed policeman rolling on the ground holding his hand, and there was no one else around.

Yao Zhou frowned and looked around, but he didn't see any strange aura, so he let go of Xi Ya and asked her to see how the catcher was doing. I saw some swimming fish in the river, but I didn't find half aura.

It's really weird, Yao Zhou paced a few times, looking at the river and meditating, she felt the resentment, and rushed over in an instant, but now, it is clear that the soul left a moment earlier than herself. In the process, there will be a resentful soul that I may not be able to deal with... This matter is not so simple...

She walked over with a flick of her sleeve, Xi Ya was comforting the arrester, it took him a while to calm down, took his right hand to look at it, opened the sleeve, and there was a black palm print on it, The wound seemed to have been burned by some charcoal, all the skin was rotted away, and even the flesh and blood in it were burnt black.

"This is..." Xi Ya was taken aback, looked up at Yaozhou, but saw her frowning tightly, took out the arm and took a closer look, the brows widened in an instant, and then looked at the catcher, Zheng Zhi stared at his arm with blank eyes, as if he was quite frightened.

There are outsiders around, so it's hard to say anything, Yaozhou just said: "I think it's a burn, let's report it to the official first."

There was a patrolling yamen guard two streets away. Hearing the shouting, they had already rushed over. Seeing the injured policeman, they were all startled, and they all shouted: "Captain Liu."

All of them gathered around to help Liu Butou up, and wanted to send him to be treated. The rest of them surrounded Yaozhou and Xiya. Although the yamen servants felt that the two thin girls were unlikely to commit the crime, it was inevitable that they would take them back for interrogation.

The court was held in the middle of the night, and the county magistrate was quite sleepy, so he only asked a few quick questions, and ordered the yamen guards to detain them for another trial tomorrow, and locked them in a cell.

The prison cell is simple, it has not seen the sun for many years, it is extremely humid, and bedbugs are rampant on the ground. Yaozhou saw that the yamen servant was guarding outside, but did not come in to look at them, so he took out two chairs from the pocket of his sleeve, and pulled Xi Ya We sat down together.

Xi Ya was still puzzled, and asked her softly: "Master, the wound on that man's hand...was it really a fire?"

Yao Zhou shook his head, muttering a riddle, "It seems to be burning, the skin is rotten and the flesh is rotten. In less than seven days, the King of Hades will ask for his life. This is the kind of injury he is talking about."

"Then..." Xi Ya was confused by her, frowning but puzzled.

Yaozhou reached out and rubbed her head, and said with a smile: "Don't think about it, the little face is all wrinkled together."

"Tu'er doesn't quite understand." Xi Ya was quite distressed, "The King of Hades demands his life, does that mean that the wound will kill someone?"

"That's right." Yaozhou thought it was amusing that she was thinking hard, and said again: "Silly girl, I'm afraid this case will be closed tomorrow, and Master will tell you then."

I couldn't sleep well in the prison. In the middle of the night, the two yamen guards outside were sound asleep. Xi Ya was meditating on a chair, and Yao Zhou only held a book and read it with the faint light.

After a long time, a soft call suddenly came from the prison: "Yaozhou Xianjun, Yaozhou Xianjun." Hearing that the voice was the land, he got out of the dry straw pile, pushed the dust on his head, and patted it. He ran to Yaozhou in three steps and two steps, took out a bamboo tube half a palm wide from his bosom, and handed it to her respectfully, "Xiaoxian finally found it, and put it under the county magistrate's pillow."

Yaozhou took the bamboo tube, twisted it slightly, the bamboo tube came loose, and poured out the file wrapped in oil paper, flipped through it, turned to a page, looked carefully, Xi Ya moved over, and read it together next to her She read it, but didn't understand a single word. The characters on the file were quite strange. She only recognized a few, then she backed away, stood with the land, and asked him: "Lord of the land, what do you think?" But what about the arrester who got caught up in the evil?"

"I don't think it's very good. I saw those yamen servants brought a lot of doctors back from the outside. They made a lot of noise for a long time, but now they don't understand what's wrong." The girl from one place also came, but she didn't know that you were locked up and were staying in a side courtyard."

Xi Ya nodded, and went back to Yao Zhou in a silent voice, watching her flip through the file in a leisurely manner, and didn't dare to disturb her, so she closed her eyes and silently recited the Taoist scriptures in her heart.

Half a moment later, Yaozhou closed the file, handed it to Land, and asked him to put it back in its original form, and asked him to find out who the people who had run into evil these days were, and who knew the woman who fell into the water two years ago no.

Xiya watched the land leave, Yaozhou stretched his waist, and said calmly: "I see that the file said that in the autumn of the seventh year of Pingchu, a woman fell into the water in the north part of the west of Qinyang City. The woman covered the city with Xue Pingdong His wife, Mrs. Meng, had been married for more than three years, but she threw herself into the river on the fifth day of the eighth month, and died [-] years ago... Xi Ya, what do you think?"

Xi Ya lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then said: "Teacher... there is one thing I don't understand."

"Tell me." Yao Zhou squinted and smiled.

Xi Ya frowned, and said: "The Meng family's house is in the east of the city, and the dark river runs across the city, and the east also flows. Why did she travel so far to the west of the city to throw herself into the river? Could it be that she wants to leave If you go farther, you don't have to drag your husband's family down?"

"If she thinks so much about her husband's family, why would she jump into the river at such a time, the fifth day of August, but in a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival." Seeing her doubts, Yao Zhou reminded her, "Maybe she is coming Doing something in the west of the city, she stumbled and fell into the river, or... She was afraid that she would not die if she was rescued by an acquaintance."

Xi Ya shook her head, "But the file says that she threw herself into the river in the time of Xu, when the people in the city were returning home or going to the streets, and there were a lot of pedestrians, and there was a city in the west of the city. , there are so many people in the middle of the night, if she is afraid of being rescued, she shouldn't pick such a time."

Yaozhou's smile remained undiminished, and he guessed again: "That is, the Meng family actually jumped into the river in the east of the city, soaked in the water overnight, was washed to the west of the city, and was discovered the next day."

Xi Ya thought for a while, nodded slightly hesitantly, and said, "That also makes sense."

Yaozhou reached out and knocked her on the head, and sighed: "Silly girl, there are many loopholes. We saw so many black-covered boats on the dark river and forgot? Not to mention how likely it is to be seen when you throw yourself into the river in Xushi. Besides, after drifting for dozens of miles along the way, the corpse would not be caught by water plants? Was it seen by passers-by? Was it touched by the boatman while paddling? Would you like to write it? It is clear that other cases in the seventh year of Pingming have at least autopsy notes written by you, but in this drowning case, there is only one sentence: I threw myself into the river on the fifth day of August, and I didn’t write what happened to the body. Isn’t it weird? "

Xi Yazai thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized, "It's really weird."

Yaozhou lay back on the chair and sighed, "I think there is a reason for this drowned ghost's great resentment, but she is protected by someone around her, and I can't see her, so I don't have to ask for clarification and help her." help."

"Master wants to help?" Xi Ya blinked his eyes, but his face was full of worry, "But, Master helped the drowned ghost, so it is inevitable that he will use fairy arts. What if he is discovered by the heavens?"

"It doesn't matter. I've been thinking about it for a few days. After going to the Beiqiu cave, I should go back to the heaven." She leaned over and pinched Xi Ya's nose, "I will go back with Master when the time comes. , how are you?"

Xi Ya's eyes widened, his mouth was half open, and he stammered after a while: "Master, Master, you want to take me to heaven, but, I'm not a fairy yet."

Yaozhou smiled, and said: "It's nothing serious, and the heavenly world is full of spiritual energy. After we go back, we won't descend to the mortal world until you achieve great success."

The two chatted all night, when the sky was slightly bright, they saw a yamen servant come in to pick up the people, and it was Mo Rusheng who came. Seeing the two of them, he was really shocked, first took the key and let them out, and asked: " What's the matter? Why are the two prisoners interrogated today, your master and apprentice?"

Yaozhou only smiled lightly, and replied: "It's a mistake, alas, don't say it, don't say it..."

The majestic majesty of the hall, the county magistrate who failed to sleep peacefully yawned in the hall, the servants below were also sleepy, Yao Zhou and Xi Ya stood in the hall, but they were much more energetic than them.

There are so many troubles in the world. When a case is promoted to the court, the prisoner who is being interrogated needs nothing else when he enters the court. He has to kneel down and kowtow three times to the county magistrate, and then shout a few times for injustice, and then the magistrate is shocked Tang Mu, tell the case in detail, and the noise of injustice will stop.

It's just that Xiya doesn't understand this matter, and Yaozhou doesn't want to do it. Mr. Kuang County is so tired that he just hopes to go back to catch up on the cage after the trial is over, so he tacitly allows the two of them to stand and listen to the trial.

The county magistrate yawned and asked, "Where were you and what were you doing between the time you were caught by the yamen servant yesterday afternoon?

Yaozhou took a hold, folded his sleeves and bowed solemnly, and said respectfully: "My lord, the little girl waited for half an hour at the tea stall at the entrance of the Qinyang yamen with her disciples at Xushi yesterday, waiting for the tea stall in Qinyang. Mo Rusheng, a servant of the government office, was free, and had dinner with her at home, and went out at the end of Xu Shi, thinking of losing a purse by the dark river a few days ago, so he thought of looking for it along the way, only to find it by the dark river. Seeing a catcher rolling on the ground, just as he went up to check, all the patrolling yamen servants arrived, the young girl is telling the truth, please check it out, sir."

"Mo Rusheng?" Hearing the foreword, the magistrate beckoned drowsily and said, "Isn't that a daughter-in-law? Come and tell my family Rusheng to go to court."

Mo Rusheng was standing among the yamen servants with pillars and sticks. Hearing the words, his face was a little uneasy. He came out in three steps and two steps. After looking at him, he saw that his eyes were clouded, so he said loudly: "The county magistrate! Don't forget that this is in the court!"

The magistrate then opened his eyes wide, hesitated, coughed, and asked sharply: "Well, Mo Rusheng, is what the suspect said just now true?"

"It's true, Xu Shi Xiaochai did have dinner with them, but I didn't know about what she said just now that she lost her purse..." Mo Rusheng looked up at Yao Zhou, feeling so guilty, Yao Zhou smiled back at her, Reassure her.

"Okay, you go down." The county magistrate stood up and asked again: "You said you went to find the money bag along the way, but according to the police's investigation, the inn you live in is obviously far away from the dark river. In this situation, it is night again, and you two girls are going to the dark river, aren't you afraid?"

Yao Zhou turned serious, and looked up at him, "I'm afraid, I'm very afraid, that's why I saw that big brother catcher went crazy last night, my disciple didn't fall asleep all night..."

"That's enough, that's enough, there's no need to say that again." The magistrate frowned, and said, "I sent someone to check the guest room of the two of you last night, and found no murder weapon that shouldn't be there, and the two of you are five days old. I just entered the city before, and the time does not match..."

He touched his chin, coughed, and said solemnly: "There is no evidence yet, so I will let you go for the time being, and don't go to the dark river in the near future, so as not to cause any trouble to the two women, wait for Liu Butou to wake up." Yes, after listening to what he said, we will conduct a review.”

After finishing speaking, he called Mo Rusheng out again, and told her to stay by Yaozhou and Zhou's side for the next few days, watching them all the time, and then left.

"Are we released now?" Xi Ya looked at Yao Zhou, somewhat surprised.

"Naturally, it's been three months since the encounter with evil spirits in the city. The two of you only arrived five days ago. No matter how you think about it, it has nothing to do with this matter." Mo Rusheng stepped forward and patted Xi Ya on the shoulder, "Did you get scared yesterday? Is it? This is also the first time I have seen that kind of wound, the previous few times people just fainted from fright, and Liu catcher is also very unlucky."

Yaozhou only smiled lightly, and asked her: "Is this Liu Butou the one who is in charge of investigating the drowning case?"

Mo Rusheng nodded, and said: "Yes, it seems that he investigated this case two years ago, and the county magistrate has re-entrusted the case to him now."

"Oh, no wonder." Yao Zhou smiled with lowered eyes, and didn't ask any more questions, just said: "It's been closed for one night, and I'm tired, Miss Mo, anyway, the county magistrate has given you a holiday, so you don't have to." On duty, why don't you accompany us to eat something."

Mo Rusheng nodded happily and said, "Okay."

After lunch at noon, because the magistrate Mo Rusheng asked Mo Rusheng to watch over Yaozhou and the others, she also reserved a room in the inn, and lived next to Yaozhou and the others.

At noon, she couldn't rest last night, and was very tired, so she went back to her room to take a nap, and Yao Zhou and the others were able to call the land out and ask him about the matter that he was asked to investigate last night.

He coughed and said: "Xiaoxian went to investigate overnight, and three of the offenders couldn't be found to have any connection with the Meng family or her husband's family, and the other two were Xue Pingdong's wine and meat friends. An old woman is a neighbor of Xue's family. She is different from others because she fainted in Xue Pingdong's house. Her son saw that she hadn't come back for a long time. When he went out to look for her, he found her fainted in the neighbor's yard. At that time Xue Pingdong and his mother have moved away for more than a year and a half, and there is this Butou Liu, if it is related, he was the one who investigated the Meng family's drowning case two years ago."

"So... I know." Yaozhou smiled lightly, stopped asking any more questions, waved him back, pondered for a moment, then looked at Xiya and asked: "Teacher, what do you think when you hear this?" ?”

Xiya lowered his head and thought for a while, then calmly said: "Tuer feels strange in two places. Xue Pingdong has been married to Meng Shi for three years, and his wife is gone. He doesn't say how sad he is, but he should be sad for a while. , but in less than half a year, he left the ancestral house with his old mother and moved to another place. If he was afraid of hurting the scene, he wouldn't even drag his mother to leave together. It seems that she is fleeing with her mother. The second is the old woman who fainted in Xue's house. Although she is adjacent to Xue's house, she may be a good old neighbor, but the family has moved away, right? Why did she go to other people's house secretly? There is one thing..." Xi Ya was in a trance, and continued: "It's late autumn now, counting the days... Could it be that she went to the The courtyard of Dong Xue Ping's house..."

When she thought about it again, she felt chills in her heart, and suppressed the abnormality and said: "If it is true as I said, then she is related to the Meng family, so I can say it. If there is no... then she is... a guilty conscience .”

Seeing the fear in her eyes, Yaozhou leaned over and hugged her lightly, patted her on the back, and sighed: "One more thing, if she is really a guilty conscience, she will go to sacrifice on the day Mengshi drowned to death. Bye, I should go to her grave, or the river where she drowned, but she went to Xue Pingdong's house..."

Xi Ya's heart trembled suddenly, he looked up at her, and said: "Master, you mean... Mrs. Meng was killed at home?"

Yaozhou nodded, and both of them fell silent, and they didn't make a sound for a long time.

After a long while, Yao Zhou sighed leisurely: "Xi Ya, you said we only knew about this, so we reasoned something out. Can't the people in Qinyang Yamen think of it?"

Xi Ya clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "Two years ago, the head arrester surnamed Liu investigated the case, but he failed to find it out. It would be strange if he was asked to investigate it two years later."

Her eyes were quite cold, and there was a bit of resentment on her face. Yaozhou glanced at her, then rubbed her face with her hands, and said with a smile: "Whose little girl has such a fierce face, come, come, let me be a great fairy in Yaozhou!" To make you laugh."

She knew that Xi Ya hated injustice the most. If it hadn't been for the yamen's favoritism, Xi Ya's family would not have been bullied by the master Zhang and their family was ruined. She sighed softly, took the young apprentice into her arms, and said: "I know that Where is Meng's soul, Xi Ya, let's go and see together this afternoon."

"En." Xi Ya nodded, stretched out his arms to hug her, and suppressed the tears in his eyes.