Detective Case of Black Belly

"Later, it was like the clichéd development in the story book. The hero saved the beauty, and the beauty fell in love. My grandfather found out about this and called my father to talk with him overnight. The next day, my father went to Guangdong and Guangxi alone, After staying there for more than a year, I cleared some of my grandfather's property there, and my grandfather promised him a lot of extraneous possessions. My father refused and only asked to marry my mother. My grandfather thought about it and agreed. "Wu Yuyan turned his face to look at Fu Qing, and the moonlight shattered in his eyes, showing a bit of tenderness.

"Afterwards, I had you and my little sister." Fu Qing's anger dissipated, and his body became more comfortable, and he smiled at Wu Yuyan.

"Uncle looks taciturn, but he is an affectionate person. You may be like him." Fu Qing teased Wu Yuyan.

"It's nothing more than a few words, but how do you know that you are affectionate?" Wu Yuyan somehow fell in love with a joke.Fu Qing smiled casually, not intending to seriously answer this question.

"I heard from Uncle Fu that he was an old servant of my family. My parents were very loving when they were alive. One year during the Lantern Festival, my mother wanted to watch lanterns, so my father secretly took her out to watch lanterns. The result was crowded. , came back late, and missed the family banquet. Both of them were punished by their grandfather to kneel down in the ancestral hall. Later, their grandmother was afraid that it would be cold at night, so she sent them quilts, only to find that they secretly set up a stove and warmed wine in the courtyard of the ancestral hall. , so angry that my grandmother punished them to kneel for a few more days." Fu Qing said with a smile, but her eyes were covered with a layer of longing and a little sadness.

"Wait a while." Wu Yuyan got up and jumped off the eaves after hearing what Fu Qingkai said.

Fu Qingkai was puzzled for a while, and Wu Yuyan came up again with a jug of wine. "In a few hours, the sky will be bright, and the sleepiness will be over. Why don't you follow the example of your uncle and aunt and drink under the moonlight?"

Fu Qing nodded when he heard the words, with a smile on his face.His pupils were extremely light in color, like a cup of Longjing tea with little tea, and looked extraordinarily gentle and ethereal in the melting moonlight.

Although Wu Yuyan looked like a casual man, but because his mother came from a wealthy family, he was quite particular about diet and health preservation.If the weather gradually cools down, he is not allowed to eat raw or cold food, let alone cold wine.Wu Yuyan also learned these details subtly, because there was no wind tonight, Wu Yuyan just warmed the wine.

After a few cups, suddenly, Fu Qing opened the mouth for no reason, and started laughing "cheating". Wu Yuyan looked at him, only to see that Fu Qing's cheeks were already flushed, and his eyes were hazy, thinking to himself, "How could this be so?" Easy to get drunk? '

Fu Qing stretched out an index finger and pressed it on his red lips, "I'll tell you a secret."

Wu Yuyan didn't see this man drunk, so he thought it was quite interesting, so he agreed, "Okay, let's hear it."

"One time, I wanted to drink, but there was no wine in the house, and I didn't know that I was new here, and I didn't know where to buy wine." It should be about when he first came to Qinghe County to take office, Wu Yuyan thought.

"So, I went to the kitchen to get the rice wine for cooking." Fu Qingkai laughed foolishly again, "Haha, Aunt He was still wondering, she said, why don't rats steal oil and wine. Hahaha .”

"See, you're not a drinker. Why do you want to drink that day? Be careful!" Wu Yuyan was speaking, and Fu Qingkai leaned back in a daze, and almost fell to the ground, but Wu Yuyan helped him up.

Fu Qingkai fell on Wu Yuyan's shoulder in a daze, "Because, because, that day, ahem, it's my mother, a memorial day." He coughed a few times, finished speaking stumblingly, and then fell into a deep sleep.

Wu Yuyan regretted that he shouldn't have made him sad, and drank with him again.Now there is no way, Wu Yuyan had no choice but to pick up Fu Qingkai by the waist and send him back to his room.As a man, Fu Qingkai was indeed a little thinner, and Wu Yuyan could fully grasp his waist by tightening his hands slightly.

Perhaps it was because he was a scholar after all, Fu Qingkai only smelled of wine mixed with a faint scent of ink, and this smell could not stop creeping into Wu Yuyan's nose, which made him flustered for no reason.

Along the way, the smell became more and more attractive, and Wu Yuyan unconsciously quickened his pace. He kicked open the door opened by Fu Qing, and walked to the bed in three steps, but stood in front of the bed for a long time. As if unwilling to let go, he suddenly came back to his senses, and clumsily opened Fu Qing to the bed, took off his boots, and covered him with a thin quilt.After drinking, Fu Qing fell into a deep sleep. After all this movement, she only murmured softly a few times, and her sleep was still peaceful.

Wu Yuyan never showed his face when he drank, but now his face gradually became hot, not only his face, but his whole body seemed to be on fire.He hurriedly closed the door, as if he had done something wrong, and stood in front of the door helplessly for a while, but became more upset and irritable.He returned to the original yard, took the jug of residual wine, performed light work, jumped to the big tree in the front yard, and sat on the thick branch, the wine in the jug was already cold when the cool wind blew.Wu Yuyan didn't care too much, he gulped down a few gulps, and gradually returned to his usual calmness and self-control.

No sleep for one night.

Fu Qingkai didn't seem to remember much after drinking, and he didn't even remember how he returned to the room after drinking that day.He never mentioned it, so Wu Yuyan naturally couldn't bring it up again.It's just that when talking to Fu Qingkai, if he stares at him for a long time, Fu Qingkai's face will turn red, and Wu Yuyan chuckles in his heart.

Wu Yuyan had the takeaway order Fu Qing wrote for him in his arms, and as soon as he stepped into the door of Mantangcai, he saw Shen Tangsheng at the door with a smile on his face, looking at him very attentively, and the waiters and shopkeepers beside him couldn't help laughing he.As the saying goes, "Don't reach out and hit the smiling face", Wu Yuyan couldn't help but slow down his face, and exchanged a few words with him.

Just as Wu Yuyan handed over the takeaway order to Xiao Er, telling him to send it to the yamen according to the order, Shen Tangsheng was about to invite him to the private room, but he vaguely heard someone shouting, "Wu catcher!" "Wu catcher!" head!"

Wu Yuyan subconsciously strode out of the door, and saw a little beggar with a painted face rushing up to him, and shouted before he could catch his breath, "Dead! Dead!" Wu Yuyan heard the words, He could only hold his fists together to apologize to Shen Tangsheng.

Shen Tangsheng waved his hand to show that it was okay, Wu Yuyan's gaze flicked past Shen Tangsheng's smooth palm, paused for a moment, then lowered his eyelids to cover up the doubt in his eyes, and at the same time smiled apologetically, but turned around with a look of surprise on his face color.

Wu Yuyan strode away with the little beggar. "Boss, here, all the meals in this kitchen are prepared." Xiao Er said from the side.

Shen Tangsheng stared straight at Wu Yuyan's receding back, stretched out his hand and caressed him in mid-air. "It's okay, didn't Master Fu ordered some food outside? Let's send those together. When you go to the Yamen, you can stop by to find out what Wu Butou likes, and when you invite him next time, you should be more prepared." .”

"Hey!" Xiaoer responded, turned around and went to work, not noticing the cold expression on his boss's face for a moment.

The little beggar whimpered and talked all the way, and Wu Yuyan finally understood that it was a child who died, named Lin Shitou.The parents didn't take care of him and went to play with the little beggar. His parents went out today, and the little beggar took a look and wanted to ask Lin Shitou to come out to play.

He slipped into the house and took a look, only to find Lin Shitou lying upright in the courtyard, with black blood all over his mouth and nose.The little beggar was startled and frightened, remembering that he saw Wu Yuyan passing by just now, he rushed to look for him.

The little beggar walked around the streets every day, but his legs and feet were flexible, so the two hurried to Lin Shitou's house.I found a woman in the yard looking at Lin Shitou lying at her feet, she may have passed the time of being frightened, and she was standing helplessly.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the woman turned her head and saw that it was a head catcher in an official uniform. She was about to step forward, but she stopped when she thought that he was a strange man. Step back a few steps.

Wu Yuyan squatted down, probed the child's nose, and found that he was no longer breathing, and pressed his heart to listen, and took his pulse again.After finishing this movement, Wu Yuyan could only shake his head, while the two beside him lamented and wept.

"That's right, my husband also sniffed him and said he's gone." The woman wiped her tears and said.

The child died in a miserable state, with a painful expression on his face, lying on the ground with his left hand scratching the ground, as if he wanted to crawl out of the yard, his nails were full of sand.The corpse's clothes were torn near the abdomen, so that one could feel the pain before his death with such a rough scan.

"It was my son who found him, and he trembled with fright. My man went to the town to find his parents and came back. I am a woman, and I don't know what to do." The woman said angrily, if the autumn wind was stronger, Wu Yuyan probably couldn't hear what she was saying.

"What? The adults in this family are not here?"

"His parents are in the town. One sells bamboo bamboo baskets and other stalls, and the other sells embroidery. They are all running businesses. They dare not waste a moment, and the child is raised free-range. His mother does mending work for us every month, and her man will chop some firewood and send it to my house when he is free, and our family will take care of the child's lunch." The woman could see that she had some affection for the child, The handkerchief was half wet.

"No, I just asked my dog ​​to come and ask him to eat, but I didn't expect..." The woman covered her mouth with her handkerchief again, "This child should always come looking for him with the little beggar after his parents go out, This period is only two or three hours," Wu Yuyan said to himself. "Didn't you hear anything?"

"Although my family lives on the opposite side, it's still more than ten meters away. But my man likes to hum a few tunes early in the morning. Maybe Shitou called for help, but my slave didn't listen to anything." This is true, Wu Yuyan I saw it when I first came in. Lin Shitou's house is in a secluded location, and only the farmhouse opposite him is adjacent to him.

After squatting for a long time, Wu Yuyan's leg became numb, so he switched to another leg to support his head. 'Huh? Wu Yuyan noticed that Lin Shitou's right hand was curled up in an awkward posture, and the palm seemed to be damaged, so he was puzzled.Just about to break it open, but thinking about letting Fu Qing open it to have a look, so as not to be afraid of destroying the shape of the corpse, he asked the little beggar to help pass a message to the yamen.