Tang riddles

It was night, and it was nearly three o'clock, and the deep courtyard of Zhang's mansion was lit like beans.Zhang Ruohan was sitting behind the desk in her study in the boudoir, laying the letter paper on the desk and looking at it intently.There is nothing in the content of this letter that is worthy of further study. Shen Sui just wrote some euphemistic refusals to her, and the words are full of dogmatic long speeches. People want to teach Zhang Ruohan how to be a virtuous woman.In particular, it is pointed out that Zhang Ruohan refuses to marry. She is already old, but she is not a wife or mother. Now she disregards etiquette and privately sends letters to her niece, which is really immoral.

Zhang Ruohan just sneered after reading it, and didn't take it seriously, she knew that Shen Sui was not this kind of Confucian classics defender at all, the more disgusting he behaved, the more suspicious she was.She knew something like this was going to be in the letter long before she got a reply.The reason why she read the letter so intently was to identify the lettering on the letter.

According to what Qian He said, she didn't know whether Shen Sui wrote the letter himself, and Shen Sui didn't write it beside Qian He, even if he wrote it next to her, she couldn't see it.But thinking about it, it shouldn't be someone else's ghostwriting.Qianhe smelled the fragrance of ink on Shen Sui's body, but it didn't exist before sending her this letter.

After burying his head and watching carefully for a while, Zhang Ruohan raised his head tiredly, rubbed his temples with plain hands, leaned sideways in the legless armchair, closed his eyes and took a nap.

Seeing this, Wu Ya, who was serving at the side, got up quickly, took a blanket, put it on Zhang Ruohan, knelt behind Zhang Ruohan's side, and raised his hand to rub her shoulders:

"Sanniang, are you tired? It's getting late, go to bed early."

"I'm not sleepy yet, but I'm a little confused and can't figure out something." Zhang Ruohan propped his head and said calmly with his eyes closed.

"Tell me, although Wu Ya is stupid, it's better for you to say it than to keep it in your heart." Wu Ya said.

Zhang Ruohan smiled, with more helplessness and indulgence in the smile, and said:

"Okay, let me tell you, you have the right to listen." After thinking for a moment, he continued: "What I am most confused about now is what kind of relationship this Shen Sui has with Chishi."

Wuya was stunned for a while when he heard the name "Chishi", and suddenly he took a deep breath.No wonder Sanniang behaved abnormally recently, it turned out that she suspected that Shen Sui had something to do with that person back then!This is terrible, San Niang is walking on the edge of a cliff, you must know that that person's family is all rebels, and in the end the whole family was buried in the sea of ​​fire without a whole body, it is really miserable.She knew that Sanniang had been so obsessed with that incident all these years that she had a heart attack.Unexpectedly, this new Shen Sui would actually make Sanniang have some dangerous thoughts again, and she couldn't help saying in panic:

"San Niang...you...why do you think of that incident back then, don't scare Wu Ya, Wu Ya can no longer bear the thrilling things that year."

Zhang Ruohan opened her cold eyes, glanced at her, and said coldly:

"Wu Ya, you have been with me for such a long time, you should know some inside information. How can you uphold the outsider's thinking."

Wu Ya became even more terrified, and quickly explained: "Why is Wu Ya like an outsider? Wu Ya is just worried about you. You have been tortured by the incident for so long, and now it has become a taboo, and no one wants to mention it. You If you don’t let it go for a long time, if it is known by outsiders, it will definitely cause disaster.”

Zhang Ruohan sighed, and said: "That's why I don't want to tell you these things. You always care about it, but you don't know that I have my own measure. Have you ever seen me investigate this matter with great fanfare? Do you know why I want Qianhe To follow Shen Sui and ask Qianhe to deliver a letter to her?"

Wu Ya shook his head.

"Qianhe came from a foreign country, with a blank background. She has been under my control for only half a year, which is not a long time, and has been in the temple. Not many people know that she is mine. That day, on the way back to the house, I asked her to follow Shen Sui, of course there is my intention to investigate Shen Sui. But if we have not met Shen Sui, I will still let her part ways with us, so that no one will see her returning home with me I kept her identity a secret, and I originally wanted her to investigate the events of the year for me.

Now I have started to investigate Shen Sui.Sending this letter is the first trial, the purpose is to obtain his reply so as to identify his handwriting.Now, however, I have come to the conclusion that his handwriting was quite different from what I had imagined, which was to be expected, of course. "

Wu Ya asked suspiciously: "Why do you want to investigate Shen Sui's handwriting? Could it be that Shen Sui's handwriting is still the same as that person's? Qianhe is stupid and doesn't understand the relationship between the two."

Zhang Ruohan bent his lips and said, "Wu Ya, there are some things that only I can feel, but you can't. For example, there will be a feeling for a person who is familiar to the bone marrow. Even if it has disappeared for many, many years , once that person appears in front of her eyes, her appearance will change drastically, and she will be recognized."

Wu Ya was taken aback, and stammered: "You...you mean, Shen Sui...is..."

Zhang Ruohan shook his head and explained: "It's just a feeling, Shen Sui has a feeling that I am very familiar with, I seem to have known him a long, long time ago, especially his eyes, really too Familiar, too much like Akashi. When I saw him for the first time, I was quite surprised. But this is where I was most puzzled. Akashi is such a smart, elegant, gorgeous daughter's family, so why? Could it be such a man with a deep mind, a knife hidden in his smile, like a hook in the thin snow wind? Besides, I have carefully observed Shen Sui's face, and it doesn't look like there is any trace of disguise, so it should be his real face. The bones of his face, and Akashi's cheeks are completely different. His cheekbones are lower than Akashi's, his browbones seem to be deeper, his edges are more prominent, and his Adam's apple is also very obvious. It is clearly a male feature. It is not ruled out that there are disguise masters who can do this , so I still need to confirm it myself.”

Zhang Ruohan is proficient in medical skills. In order to treat her grandmother's legs, she taught herself orthopedics and traumatology, and is very familiar with human bones.And inherited superb makeup skills from her late mother, and is very familiar with the facial bones and muscles of the human body.Wu Ya was not surprised that she would say such words, on the contrary, she was quite convinced.

"Having said that, there are still many doubts about Shen Sui. For example, his voice, I don't think it's a natural male voice. Although it's hoarse and deep, the tone has the characteristics of a woman. I can't tell, it seems... His throat has been hurt. Another example is his figure. Although he is tall and thin, with a flat chest, but the waist can vaguely see the curve of a woman. And his facial beard, even though he doesn't like to grow beards, he doesn't even have green It's so smooth that you can't see the stubble, which is also very weird. As far as I know, even a man born with thin beard and hair will still have green skin on his face to some extent."

Wu Ya asked: "So, Sanniang, do you suspect that Shen Sui might be a woman?"

"It is indeed possible. To be honest, I think it is very possible for him to disguise himself as a man." Zhang Ruohan nodded.

Wu Ya was surprised and said: "San Niang, how can you see so much? How do I see it, Shen Sui is a very thorough man. He can't tell the appearance of a woman at all with his gestures, and he is more masculine than many men."

Zhang Ruohan smiled helplessly, and said, "Maybe I'm preconceived. In short, these are all my feelings and speculations, and I can't count them." Then she turned and said:

"I now have such a judgment. Either he is the image of Akashi after she disguised herself as a man, or else, he must have something to do with Akashi. There are too many doubts about him. If I don't investigate clearly, I really can't let it go. "

"Are there any doubts other than appearance? Is it this letter?" Wu Ya asked.

Zhang Ruohan's eyes fell on the letter on the desk, and said softly: "Yes. I have carefully studied the font of this letter, and it is written in a neat official script, which is quite satisfactory and has no special features. Generally speaking, the writing is very smooth and easy to read. It was not a rigid imitation, it should have been written for many years. I carefully checked the structure of the frame and the trend of the strokes. The writer perfectly reproduced Cai Yong and Cai Zhonglang's official script, and there is no trace of it.

Akashi's calligraphy was taught by the same teacher as me, and she also practiced it with me. She is as good at Xingkai as I am.It's just that Chishi's temper is out of character, and her regular script is more bold and unrestrained, close to cursive script.Wang Yishao (Wang Xizhi) is her idol, and her style of calligraphy is deeply influenced by Wang Yishao, not Cai Zhonglang's style at all.

Should it be said that this is hidden too well?The extremes of things must be reversed, the better the concealment, the more extreme the opposite of Chishito, the more suspicious it will be. "

Speaking of this, Zhang Ruohan seemed to be even more exhausted, with half-closed eyes, her tone was light and light, as if she was going to fall asleep the next moment.After listening to so many analysis by Zhang Ruohan, Wuya became even more confused, she only knew that Shen Sui was suspicious and made Sanniang very sad.

"Wu Ya, the Mercy case is an opportunity that God gave me, I must seize it. Shen Sui will solve the Mercy case, and I need to find out from the Mercy case what he is investigating and what he cares about the most. Qian He What I said that day gave me a feeling that he seemed to be investigating that monstrous mystery back then." After a long silence, just when Wu Ya thought that Zhang Ruohan was about to fall asleep, Zhang Ruohan suddenly opened his mouth.

A few days ago, Zhang Ruohan and Wu Ya had heard Qian He, who followed Shen Sui back, talk about Shen Sui's return to Ci'en Temple to investigate the case.Qianhe was hiding in the dark at that time, listening to Shen Sui's whole process of solving the case verbatim.After returning, he told Zhang Ruohan everything in detail.Therefore, Zhang Ruohan and Wu Ya are very aware of Shen Sui's latest judgment on the Ci'en case.And they have already confirmed one thing, Shen Sui indeed lied to his superiors, and if she wanted to investigate this case privately, it meant that this case must be related to some privacy that she could not disclose.Therefore, to clarify the ins and outs of the Ci'en case, for Zhang Ruohan, it is related to the investigation of Shen Sui's background.

Zhang Ruohan had already told Qianhe that these days, she worked hard to pay more attention to Shen Sui's movements, listened to the news, and reported in time when she came back. Qianhe should also be watching near the small courtyard of Shen's house now.

Hearing Sanniang mention the shocking and mysterious case back then, Wu Ya couldn't help but shudder.Taking a deep breath, she asked, "Why do you think he is investigating that case back then?"

"Because Shanyin committed suicide by climbing the Charity Pagoda is too strange, and his motives are a mystery, which is also the biggest mystery of the Charity case. There is a coincidence in it that makes me shudder. Wuya..." Zhang Ruohan sat down from the armchair He straightened his body, turned his head and looked deeply into Wu Ya's eyes, there was a faint cold light in his cold eyes:

"Didn't Chishi's father die by being nailed to the ten-meter-high, slippery city wall of Xuanwu Gate? How he got up there is still a mystery. Tower, it's so similar..."

Wu Ya only felt a chill rushing from her tailbone all the way to the top of her head, she couldn't help shivering, goosebumps appeared, and her complexion turned pale.

The house was quiet, the master and the servant didn't know, just outside the window, there was a white-tailed swift fluttering its wings and flying away.

The author has something to say: the character for Shi in Chishi, pronounced mì, is not "系", and it doesn't have the little drop on the head.Because I saw a friend made a mistake in the comment before, I want to emphasize it again.Akashi and Akashi, the feeling of reading is completely different, the difference is still quite big.

Some points about Shen Sui's disguise as a man, I didn't write before, just to save it for this chapter.Many articles never mention the details of women disguised as men, but in fact it is quite difficult for women to disguise themselves as men. I do not intend to hide these details in this article. It is also very interesting to write them out in detail. (laugh)

PS: One chapter is updated today, and there will be no update on the weekend, because the small book has to save three chapters to prepare for the opening of V next Tuesday.