Master Luo Cao

The two set off immediately and rode their horses back to the mansion. When they got back to the county magistrate's mansion, it was already Xu time.The officer guarding the gate opened the door with a yawn. When he saw the two of them, he was taken aback and asked, "Master Fu, Mr. Kou, didn't you two go to inspect various places in the county? Why did you come back so soon?"

Fu Yunshu just said "something happened suddenly" and walked in with big strides. Kou Luoche followed slowly, patted the official's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Gu go back to sleep by himself, Mr. Fu is ready." Do your own business."

The little official looked at the figures of the two walking in one after the other in a daze.

Kou Luoche followed Fu Yunshu all the way, sent him into the room, then turned and walked towards his own room, but after walking a few steps, there was a "creak" sound behind him, and Fu Yunshu's voice said from behind: "Kou Luoche Brother."

"What's the matter?" Kou Luoche turned around and saw the little county magistrate opened half of the window, leaned out his upper body, and looked at him quietly, with fine moonlight falling in his hair.

Fu Yunshu looked at him for a moment, and said, "Thank you for your hard work these two days."

"It's not hard," Kou Luoche grinned slightly, and said with a smile, "Rest early, there is still a case to be tried tomorrow."

Fu Yunshu nodded, retracted his head, closed the window, and the moonlight fell back to the ground silently.

Kou Luoche still stood where he was. For some reason, he felt that Fu Yunshu was looking at him.Although the window was tightly closed, he still felt that there was a gaze as cool as water and as quiet as the moon, through the window paper, gently sprinkled on himself.He didn't make a sound, turned around, walked straight to his room, and closed the door behind his back.

After running around for days, the accumulated drowsiness quickly flooded Kou Luoche, and in his hazy consciousness, he suddenly thought, at this moment, the little county magistrate, I don't know if he is still asleep.

Of course the little county magistrate couldn't sleep.

Fu Yunshu felt that since he took office, he immediately entered a state of worrying about the country and the people. He tossed and turned every night, thinking about how to strengthen the army, how to enrich the people, how to suppress bandits... But that was before.

All the revolving lanterns I saw in Bodhi Town today flew by in front of my eyes, and they were fixed in the early morning of last night, when the night was quiet.The lights in the medical hall were dim, and he opened his eyes in a daze, and saw Kou Luoche's face, hidden under the light, dim. He opened his mouth to call him, but saw that handsome and gentle face gradually approaching, and after a while, his lips moved into his mouth, All are warm.

The index finger of his right hand slid unconsciously on the bed sheet, and he couldn't help thinking of the hand that was moving on his thigh in Huamingquan Town. He was dazed for a long time before he realized what he had written.

Kou Luoqi.

Fu Yunshu stayed up all night, got up early the next day, and walked towards the county government with dark circles under his eyes. When he passed the garden, he met Kou Luoqi who was carrying a shower. He straightened up and saluted himself, smiling like a spring breeze. Face to face, said: "Brother Fu, I woke up very early today."

Facing the instigator who made him sleepless all night, Fu Yunshu felt guilty for some reason, lowered his head unnaturally and coughed, and said, "Brother Kou also got up so early?"

Kou Luoche shook the shower in his hand, "The flowers here are precious, but there is no one to take care of them. I have nothing to do, so I come here to water them occasionally."

Fu Yunshu answered vaguely twice, and said: "I'll go to the county government first to see if Zhao Si and others have been transferred up from Puti Town." He buried his head and walked forward, only two steps away when he heard a sound from behind Smiling lightly, Kou Luoche said: "County Lord, it's only Yin's time, and the officials in Bodhi Town are probably not up yet."

Fu Yunshu blushed, and said, "Then I'll go and read some old files." A hand suddenly pressed on his shoulder, and Fu Yunshu suddenly turned his head, facing that face, which was clearer and brighter than in his hazy memory. .Kou Luoqi put his hands on his shoulders, and he was close to his breath. He said: "It is a good thing for the county lord to work hard and love the people, but he must first fill his stomach. Aunt Li in the kitchen learned that the county magistrate last night I didn't have a good dinner, so I got up early today to prepare breakfast for you, my lord, don't disappoint her kindness."

Before his face turned red, Fu Yunshu took a deep breath, suppressed his throbbing heartbeat, nodded, and walked towards the dining room.Kou Luoche put the shower aside and followed Fu Yunshu unhurriedly. The two walked one after the other for a while, and Kou Luoche who was behind suddenly said, "The weather is good today."

Fu Yunshu only nodded his head and replied "Yes".

Kou Luoche quietly said: "But the county master seems to have something on his mind."

Fu Yunshu's footsteps froze suddenly.Kou Luoche stood still as if he had expected it long ago. Fu Yunshu turned around and saw his still warm smiling face. He said, "Why did Mr. Kou say that?"

"Look," Kou Luoche's lips curved slightly, "You don't even call me Brother Kou anymore."

Fu Yunshu choked, lowered his eyes, "Brother Kou."

Kou Luoqi took two steps forward, Yuebai's sleeve appeared in Fu Yunshu's line of sight, moved up slowly, and finally landed on his shoulder, "Are you worried about yesterday's case?"

Fu Yunshu turned his head slightly, looked at the slender and delicate hand on his shoulder, was silent for a while, and said: "...Maybe." Or maybe not.

Kou Luoche said: "You and I witnessed the whole process of Zhao Sinu killing Dr. Shen. The murderer must have not escaped. The only doubtful point is the prescription that Dr. Shen gave Zhao Si - it is not difficult to judge, as long as Invite a few more famous doctors to come over and take a look, and then take it with Zhao Si and a few others, and you will know the result, so there is no need to be so worried."

Kou Luoche's words clearly fell on his ears, but they seemed to be in the sky. Fu Yunshu looked at the hand, his mind buzzed constantly, and all that flickered back and forth were the dim yellow candles of that night. He didn't hear anything else until Kou Luoche Luoche called him repeatedly, "Brother Fu? Brother Fu?" He just came to his senses, said "Ah", raised his head to meet Shangkou Luoche's bewildered eyes, and suddenly he said, "Kou Kou Brother, in fact, what I miss is that night, you and I fled from the Huamingquan black shop to Bodhi Town, you..." At this point, he suddenly couldn't continue, and he closed his mouth tightly, but still remained calm. He looked at Kou Luoche steadily, hoping to get a complete answer with half a sentence.

Kou Luoche's brows were slightly furrowed in confusion, and after a while, they were loosened again, with a habitual smile on the corner of his mouth, and he said, "I understand." He looked at Fu Yunshu tenderly and pitifully, "You regard Dr. Benefactor, you didn't even say thank you to him, just watched him die miserably, feeling resentful and unwilling, right?"

Fu Yunshu's mouth opened silently, and he said weakly, "...Yes."

"Some people say that life is like chess, and you have no regrets when you make a move. I don't think so," Kou Luoche said lightly, "I just think life is a maze. Once you step into it, you can't turn back. Every corner is both an opportunity and a danger. The chess game can still be solved, but in the dense fog, but can only move forward - but since it is a maze, there is always a dead end, since there is a dead end, someone will always go, Dr. Shen, just walked a different road from us .”

Fu Yunshu listened silently, remembering that his father often taught him so earnestly when he was in Beijing, he suddenly became a little angry——Kou Luoche seemed to be coaxing himself like a child!He puffed up his cheeks, raised his head, and was about to speak, when the hand that was on his shoulder suddenly lifted up, gently fell on his head, and gently rubbed his hair, Kou Luoche said: "Don't be sad. "The inexplicable anger disappeared in an instant.Fu Yunshu asked sullenly: "What delicious food did Aunt Li cook today?"

Kou Luoche said: "The jujube paste and yam porridge that has been simmering for a long time, a few rice dumplings just wrapped this morning, a plate of crisp sugar cake, pumpkin cake, and a pot of tea eggs."

Fu Yunshu asked in confusion: "How do you know so clearly?"

Kou Luoche said, "Because I've already eaten it." As he spoke, he took out a rather uniquely shaped zongzi from his sleeve, which was still slightly warm, and put it in Fu Yunshu's palm, "Most of the zongzi in Jiangbei are filled with meat. I'm afraid you won't be used to it, so I specially wrapped it with bean paste, you can try it."

Eyebrows and lips curled up unconsciously, Fu Yunshu said: "I don't see that Brother Kou can make zongzi."

Kou Luoche said with a smile: "I just learned it from Aunt Li this morning. The wraps are made in strange shapes. Fortunately, there should be no problem eating them."

Fu Yunshu held the rice dumpling up to the tip of his nose and smelled it. He smelled the faint fragrance of the reed leaves. He was about to untie the thread when a yamen servant hurried over, "My lord! My lord!"

Fu Yunshu stuffed the zongzi into his sleeve without any hassle, and said with a straight face, "Report when something happens, what's the proper way to be in a hurry?"

The yamen servant immediately refrained from his wild steps, as if he was holding back and was eager to go to the toilet, he moved towards this side quickly and strangely in small steps, and winked under Fu Yunshu's kind eyes: "My lord, a case has been brought up in Bodhi Town. Said it was a fatality!"

"Oh?" Kou Luoche and Fu Yunshu looked at each other, Kou Luoche said with a smile: "They are really hardworking."

Fu Yunshu said: "Since it is a human life lawsuit, there is no need to delay the matter, and the trial will start now."

Kou Luoche looked at the vague shape of zongzi in his sleeve, but didn't speak.

When they came to the main hall of the yamen, the two officials from Puti Town had already been waiting in front of the hall. When they saw Fu Yunshu wearing the official uniform of the seventh-rank county magistrate, they immediately saluted respectfully and said, "I have seen the county magistrate."

Fu Yunshu took a quick look, and found that these two officials were not familiar to him, they were not the ones who came to the hospital to collect the corpses yesterday, so he said softly, "Get up."

"Thank you, my lord." The two officials said.

Fu Yunshu said: "When you come early in the morning, do you have something important to report?"

One of the officials said: "My lord, there was a murder case in Puti Town yesterday. The culprit, Zhao Xuanfu, was in the Shen's Medical Center at [-]:[-], and hit the dead Shen Xun's head with a brick with a murder weapon, causing Shen Xun to die on the spot. Died. The subordinates have escorted the criminal and the murder weapon to the county, and the dead body has been transferred to the county government morgue."

Fu Yunshu said: "The criminal who led the case is Zhao Xuanfu."

Zhao Si was forced to kneel on the ground by two yamen servants, one on the left and the other on the right. At this moment, he was completely free of the panic he had seen yesterday. one.

Fu Yunshu said: "Zhao Xuanfu, are you convicted?"

Zhao Si said disdainfully: "The grassroots are innocent, how do you know and don't know?"

"Bold! How dare you act presumptuously in front of the county magistrate!" One of the yamen servants shouted angrily, and was about to hit Zhao Si with the water and fire stick in his hand, but seeing Fu Yunshu slightly raised his hand, he had to put down the stick angrily.

Fu Yun didn't change his face in writing, and said: "My subordinates came down to report that several people in Bodhi Town witnessed you beating and killing Shen Xun, the doctor of Shen's Medical Center, do you believe it or not?"

Zhao Si twisted his neck and said: "My lord is right, I beat that quack doctor, but it was just a brick, how could I beat him to death? My brick has been with me for so many years, how can I not know the severity? "

Fu Yunshu sneered, "Then what do you mean?"

Zhao Si threw the ground and said loudly: "It must be that Shen Xun pretending to be dead to harm me!"

"Come here," Fu Yunshu said coldly, "Bring up Shen Xun's body."

A stretcher was covered with a white cloth, halfway opened, revealing the face under the white cloth, the facial features were clearly delicate and elegant, but at the moment there was a stiff and lifeless look from the inside out.The eyes of everyone in the field fell on it, and there was a moment of silence.

After a while, Fu Yunshu's cold eyes fell on the two officials from Bodhi Town. Seeing them trembling, he said in a cold voice: "This corpse is not Shen Xun, who is he?"