Qinghua Town Series

"Qin Can!"

Cen Xi trotted all the way back, pushed open the door, Qin Can was lying on the table studying those green beads.

Before Cen Xi came to the table, Qin Can frowned and turned around, "Cen Xi, can you smoke it with vinegar before you come in, it smells all over..."

Cen Xi patted something that looked like a dry grass leaf on the table in front of Qin Can, "I've worked so hard to find clues for you, is that your attitude?"

When Qin Can saw that he had offended Cen Xi with his words, he quickly flattered and flattered him, "Cen Xi——I was wrong! You adults don't count the faults of villains, don't be angry, come here, sit here, I'll give you Serving tea, pouring water, beating shoulders and rubbing feet..."

Cen Xi didn't like him at all, and asked Qin Can to look at the thing on the table.

Qin Can picked up the withered grass leaf on the table to have a look, and as soon as he got closer, he frowned and turned his head, "What is this?"

Cen Xi was drinking tea in a big gulp, put down the teacup, and wiped off the water stains around his mouth with the back of his hand, "I found it in Yunniang's stomach."

"Yunniang...in the stomach?" Qin Can's face changed suddenly, and he threw the grass leaf, "What...how are you...?" He said with another expression that was about to throw up.

Cen Xi laughed, "If I didn't tell where it came from, wouldn't you still hold it well in your hand?"

Qin Can looked at the thing and dared not touch it again, "What's so special about this thing?"

Cen Xi shook his head, "I don't know either."

"Then you just now..." Qin Can pointed to the door and then to the table, probably wondering how excited he was without knowing it.

"I'm excited because I don't know what it is, maybe it's a useful clue..."

As Cen Xi said, he noticed the green beads on the table that Qin Can put on the food plate, "What are these?" He picked one up with his fingers, looked at the light for a while, and then let out an admiration.

"Wow... Where did you get such a fine jadeite? I haven't seen such a fine jadeite for a long time. I thought the one on the empress dowager's ring was the best in the world, but I didn't expect it to be as good as That one."

Regarding Cen Xi's reaction, Qin Can was very calm, and he might have guessed it earlier, "The little devils are playing with it. I asked them, and they said they got it while fishing in the small river behind the mountain."

Cen Xi looked at the other grains on the plate, most of them were about the size of rosary beads, and a few were as big as grapes.

"This is obviously artificially polished. Look, there are still holes here." Cen Xi pointed the straight hole on the bead to Qin Can and showed him, "I think this should be a string of emerald bead chains...... but How could it be in the river?"

Qin Can said: "I asked Boss Yu about it. This small river is actually just a very shallow stream flowing out from the depths of Yunlong Mountain. When the river is rushing, it will wash down some valuable things, and even carry them with you. Boss Yu thinks that the official seal of silver should be from the batch of lost birth certificates.

"He also led people to search upstream along the stream, but they didn't reach the end after walking for a long time. Because of the legend of the mountain god of Yunlong Mountain, they didn't dare to go in rashly."

The two were quiet for a while, and Qin Can pinched his nose and turned his head away with a painful expression, "Cen Xi, go wash up first..."

Cen Xi showed some helplessness, "Qin Can, without my help, would you have survived these three years?"

Qin Can was taken aback for a moment, and wanted to refute, but Cen Xi had already got up and went out to wash off the body odor.

When Qin Can turned his head, he saw the withered grass leaf on the table that he found in Yunniang's stomach.

Although I was the one who came here to be the county magistrate, and Yan San also asked me to investigate this matter, but it was Cen Xi who did the most work, and he was here because I dragged it... Now let the matter go Throw it all to Cen Xi, is he too muddy to support the wall?

But the sense of guilt and guilty conscience has not yet arisen. Qin Can changed his mind and found a step for himself. Cen Xi's father is the minister of Dali Temple. Case files, of course he is more experienced in solving cases...

However, Cen Xi looked really angry just now...

Qin Can sighed, got up from the chair, looked outside it was still early, thought he might as well go around by himself, maybe he could find something by accident.

The houses in Heiyun Jiulongzhai were built scattered along the mountain. Several heads and children lived in the backyard, while the others lived in the row of low houses right after the gate of the village.There are also many people from Heiyun Jiulong Village in Qinghua Town at the foot of the mountain, but these people do not make a living by looting, but rely on the forces of Heiyun Jiulong Village to seek peace.

Yun Niang is the daughter of the yellow dumb who cooks in the kitchen. She usually helps with some work in the kitchen, and occasionally takes the cloth she spun to buy some rouge and gouache in Qinghua Town. Good acquaintance.

Qin Canhuang went to the door of the room where Yunniang lived. The door was ajar and not locked, so he pushed the door and walked in.

The furnishings in the room are very simple, even crude. If it weren't for the worn-out dressing table under the window and the loom on the other side of the room, it would be impossible to tell that this is a woman's boudoir.

Qin Can walked to the dressing table and opened the small drawers of the cabinet one by one. There were a few elegant hairpins in the drawers, which reminded Qin Can of the exquisite and gorgeous pearl flowers and step rocks worn by the girls in the capital. It is estimated that such hairpins cannot catch their eyes at all.

And with the leftover rouge powder, Qin Can picked up a box of rouge curiously and opened it, and smelled it in front of his nose. The faint peach blossom fragrance is elegant and refreshing, just right, not too greasy. I collected the petals and made it myself.

I didn't expect Yunniang to be quite dexterous...

Qin Can sighed inwardly, put the rouge box back to its original place, turned around, then yelled "Wow", took a step back and bumped directly into Yunniang's dressing table.

I don't know when someone came in and stood silently behind him. When Qin Can turned around, he was confronted with a dry and wrinkled face, which made him tremble with fright.

Standing there was a rather old man, with gray hair and messy hair, bags under his eyes, staring straight at Qin Can.

Qin Can looked him up and down, saw a shadow on the ground behind the old man, and then he was relieved.

Then he saw that the old man was still holding a spatula in his hand, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, thinking that this man should be Yunniang's father, so he said with gestures:

"I am the new county magistrate of Longtai County. I was detained here by your third-in-command to resolve the conflict between you and Mount Wuxi. I came to your daughter's room to see if there is anything else to explain her death. The weird things that happened..."

I don't know if the old man understands it or not, but Qin Can found that after hearing what he said, the old man's eyes darkened obviously, and then he made a sound of "uh uh uh", judging by his gestures, it seems that Qin Can Put the moved things back in place, or his daughter will be angry.

Qin Can nodded again and again, Huang Mute ignored him when he agreed, and went straight out of the room.

Qin Can looked at the trembling feet of the old man, and felt that he was very pitiful. His daughter was gone. Looking at these things every day, he felt sad...

Qin Can looked away, saw a cabinet beside him, walked over and opened it, and there were some unsold cloth and some daily clothes piled inside.

Qin Can reached in and looked around, suddenly something fell on the ground, bounced twice and rolled away, Qin Can hurriedly chased after the thing that fell on the ground.

It was a green round bead. When it rolled to the foot of the bed, it was stopped by the foot of the bed, so Qin Can picked it up and held it between his fingers to look at it.

Yingying green, moist and full, there is a perforation in the middle...

"Why do they seem to be those emerald beads used by the little devils?"

Qin Can squatted on the ground, glanced, and saw a ball of paper under the bed.

He picked it up and opened it, and found that it looked like a page torn from some book, and it should be a prescription written on it.

But he couldn't understand it, so he put it in his arms carefully, and prepared to take it back for Cen Xi to study. He even put away the green emerald bead, and wanted to take it back to see the little devils in the creek behind the mountain. Are those beads picked up from the same emerald chain?

Just about to get up, Qin Can froze there, then stretched out his hand to explore in front of him, then stood up abruptly, looked around for something, and finally his eyes fell on the oil lamp on the table.

Qin Can took a few steps to light the oil lamp, returned to the place where he was squatting just now with the base in his hand, carefully protected the flame with his hands, and approached the place where he had just touched.

Sure enough, my feeling is right!

The bean-sized flame swayed and danced, and from Yunniang's bed, there was a trace of wind blowing over, blowing the flame towards the direction of the door.

Qin Can lay on the ground, held up the oil lamp to test where the wind was coming from, and finally got under the bed.He put down the oil lamp, tapped the stone bricks on the ground with his fingers, and found that one of them made a "knocking" sound. He tried to move that brick, but unexpectedly he moved it away.

Qin Can took the oil lamp to illuminate it, and there was a hole underneath that could only accommodate one person.After hesitating for a while, Qin Can decided to go down and take a look first, although the hole was a little narrow for him.

With my elbows on the ground, I can only use my arms and knees to move a little bit. If the movement range is a little larger, my back will rub against the wall of the cave.

Although it was windy, the passage was still very stuffy. Qin Can had to hold the oil lamp in one hand. After climbing for a short time, he broke out in sweat and became short of breath, but it was inconvenient to go back, so he could only hold on. The scalp crawled forward, there was a little light in front of the passage not far away, and it was approaching a little bit.

Qin Can didn't know how long he had been climbing, because his breath was not smooth, which made his head dizzy. Qin Can saw that the light was close at hand, so he tried his last bit of strength to climb out, and then he fell down at the entrance of the cave, Panting heavily.If you slow down, I really don't know if I will suffocate in it.

Qin Can lay on the ground for a long time before he recovered his breath. At this time, the sun moved to the west. He quickly tore off the vines wrapped around his head and body, turned around and looked around, and found that he was in a In the woods, there was a sound of horseshoes and wheels, and at the same time, a familiar voice came from above.

"Third Master, the prey seems to be coming..."

"Okay! Everyone is ready to do it."

Qin Can was startled, and hurriedly stood against the mountain wall next to the cave he climbed out of, and then raised his head, and saw a few shadowy figures on the cliff above, standing on the edge of the cliff, making the gravel rustle under his feet The ground rolled down, the long knives in their hands were dangling, and the reflected sunlight was very dazzling.

Qin Can looked back to the other side, and only then did he recognize where he was.

It turns out that this passage leads from Yunlong Mountain to the mountain road. At this moment, the road under his feet is the road that he and Cen Xi walked before, and then met Yan San and was escorted up the mountain.In the distance, someone was driving a horse, pulling a cart full of goods and slowly approaching.

Okay, Yan San, dare to block the road and rob under the eyes of the county magistrate!I will not let you succeed today!

Thinking this way, Qin Can leaned against the mountain wall, slowly moved out of the place where Yan San and the others might see, then quietly ran to the side of the cliff, hugged a tree, and shouted at the carriage approaching not far away.

"Hey! Hey!" While calling the other party's attention, he kept waving his hands. Seeing that the other party noticed him, Qin Can put his hand on his mouth and whispered, "Stop, there are bandits in front! Don't come over!" ..."

But the other party didn't seem to be able to hear what he said, so Qin Can gave a "tsk" and leaned out with his arms around the tree.

"Stop! Stop! Stop quickly...Ahhh!" Qin Can's foot slipped, and he rolled down the high slope, landing directly on his face.

The horse neighed and stopped before Qin Can was stepped on, and voices could be heard from the carriage.

"What's wrong?"

"Someone suddenly rolled out from the side of the road and blocked our way..."

"Yes, are you from Heiyun Jiulongzhai?"

"Ah? Black Cloud Kowloon Walled?! Don't kill us, we keep things, don't kill us!"

The people in the carriage dropped their things and ran away.

Enduring the pain, Qin Can quickly got up from the ground and waved his arms to call them back.

"Hey! Stop! I'm not a bandit! You can see clearly, I'm not a bandit! Come back to me!"

But those people ran away and disappeared.

Qin Can put down his arms a little dejectedly, and only then did he feel that the fall from the hillside just now had broken his waist.

"Hey, isn't this the magistrate? I'm still wondering who is so brave to snatch the goods that I Yan San likes."

Qin Can turned around, and saw Yan San leading the people down the mountain road.

Yan San was wearing a sky-blue double-breasted sleeveless short jacket, and the green calf knife with engraved patterns was carried on his shoulder. The tattooed snake head on his right arm was faintly visible between the sleeve and the open neckline, which looked mysterious and eye-catching. He couldn't help but feel hairy, trousers, thin-soled boots, and the golden sun with a rosy glow fell on him, outlining the handsome and dignified more deeply and publicly.

Yan San's subordinates passed Qin Can and walked to the side of the carriage, someone jumped into the carriage and used a knife to pry the wooden box on the carriage.

"Third Master, this is a cart full of silk and satin."

This is a cartload of brocade from Jiangning. The colors are gorgeous and the workers are fine. Those people compared the cloth with their bodies. The contrast between the gorgeous cloth and their rough appearance is very funny. make fun of.

Yan San had no interest in the fabric of this cart, and said, "Pull it back and distribute it to the brothers who have sisters and wives, so that they will be happy too." After speaking, he turned around and walked ahead.

Qin Can stood there, and then chased after him.

"Yan San, are you going to rob such a person? Didn't you see that those two people were dressed plainly, they didn't look like rich businessmen, maybe all their belongings are in this batch of goods, aren't you driving them to a dead end?"

Yan San turned around, looked contemptuously, and snorted coldly, "Did you see me do it? Who made you crawl and rush in front of others to scare them away? It can't be seen that the county magistrate has a talent for being a bandit. "After speaking, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he smiled handsomely, chic and handsome.

"You...?!" Qin Can's eyes widened in anger.

Yan San's subordinates drove past Qin Can in a carriage, and someone laughed and said, "The magistrate of the county can only vote under the third head. The salary of the county magistrate is only so much a year. What do you want from the third head? Don't you think so?"

"Hahaha!"

Qin Can's face was flushed with suffocation, his hands were clenched into fists, and his shoulders kept shaking. Looking at the backs of those laughing and walking in front, it seemed that he was about to rush up and fight them to the death.After a long while, he was still relieved, his shoulders collapsed, Qin Can took a step, and followed them back to the mountain weakly.

Qin Can, Mr. Qin, has only this little promise, and any more is just to comfort himself in his heart. Gou Jian, the king of Yue, endured humiliation, endured humiliation and tasted courage, and finally returned home after breaking through Wu. Got it.

When Qin Can returned to the mountain, Cen Xi was looking for him, and he was astonished when he saw him come back behind Yan San and the others, as if crawling out of a mud puddle.

"Qin Can, why are you with them... and when did you go down the mountain? The guard at the gate said he didn't see you."

Qin Can waved his hand, went back to the room, sat down at the table, and poured himself a cup of tea.

"I went to Yunniang's room to see if I could find any clues, but I found a hole under her bed. I crawled outside along the hole, just in time to meet Yan San and the others..."

"They didn't wonder why you suddenly appeared?" Cen Xi asked.

Qin Can shook his head, covered the guilty conscience on his face with a teacup, and poured a large cup of tea in one breath, so that he didn't want to tell the embarrassing things that happened on the mountain road.

"Then besides the authenticity, what else have you found?"

Qin Can's eyes lit up, he put down the teacup, and took out the paper balls and emerald beads found in Yunniang's room.

Cen Xi looked at these two things on the table, reached out to pick up the piece of paper, and immediately frowned after taking a look, "It's strange, what kind of prescription is this? I haven't heard of any herbs on it..."

Qin Can leaned over, "Didn't you find half a grass leaf in Yunniang's stomach? Maybe Yunniang has some kind of illness, and this is a folk prescription that can cure the disease, not to mention that you are not a doctor and don't know some It’s normal to have folk remedies.”

But Cen Xi denied his statement, "When I was looking for you just now, I asked the last person in the village who had contact with Yunniang by the way, and no one mentioned that Yunniang had a chronic illness, or that she was taking medicine when she died... "

"Could it be an abortion drug? Yunniang and Ah Liang secretly conceived a baby, but the people in the cottage didn't allow them to be together, and they didn't want the baby to be born, so they let Yunniang take the medicine that can abort the baby. But because of reputation, I dare not publicize it to the outside world.”

Cen Xi pursed his lips, "I thought of what you thought, but I found that Yunniang is still perfect."

Qin Can lowered his shoulders in frustration, and Cen Xi set his eyes on the emerald bead again.

"Hey? Isn't this the same bead that the children are playing with?" Cen Xi said, getting up and bringing over the food plate with the emerald beads, holding the bead in his hand, and the plate I compared those in the video, and then muttered, "How could Yunniang have this?"

"I guess it was picked up in the mountains and rivers behind."

Cen Xi nodded.

Although the investigation has now found some suspicious points, there is still no way to make clear what is hidden behind Yunniang's death.

Cen Xi suggested that since Yunniang can't find anything here, she should go to A Liang's side to have a look. However, because of the grievances between Heiyun Jiulongzhai and Wuxi Mountain, the two of them went to Wuxi Mountain rashly, maybe He was regarded as a person from Heiyun Jiulongzhai, and then he was chopped up and thrown into the mountains to feed wild animals.

But if this matter is not resolved, Yan San will not let them go down the mountain...

"Since there is a tunnel in Yunniang's room, the two of us might as well go out through the tunnel."

Hearing what Qin Can said, Cen Xi squinted at him, "Now they haven't restricted you from entering and exiting through the gate of the cottage, but if you escape, do you think Yan San will let us go?"

"That's right, at least I'm sure I'll catch that stupid monkey back."

As soon as the two people in the room heard the voice, they both turned their heads and saw Yan San leaning against the door with a green calf knife in his hand, gnawing a pear in his hand.

Qin Can slapped the table and jumped up, "Why are you eavesdropping on someone?"

"You guys open the door and talk, besides, is there anything ulterior that I can't hear?" Yan San's handsome eyebrows slanted into his temples like arrow feathers, raised slightly, "Still... are fighting Heiyun Jiulongzhai What the hell is your idea?"

Qin Can choked for a moment, and then thought to himself, yes, yes, I'm trying to figure out how to break your copycat!It's just that this breath can only be held back, so he puffed his cheeks and opened his eyes like a stranded fish and stared at Yan San, while Yan San curled the corners of his mouth leisurely, "click, click", biting the juicy pear.

"Three masters!"

Each of the little ghost heads held a piece of paper in their hands, and swarmed over, surrounded Yan San, scrambling to let Yan San see it.

"Third Master, read what I wrote."

"No, look at me!"

Qin Can stretched his neck to look, and found that the paper looked like ghostly symbols.Seeing that Qin Can was reading, Xiao Jiu Niang ran over with his paper, "Cai Cai, look at what I wrote."

Qin Can knelt down, took his piece of paper, looked at it horizontally and vertically carefully, and asked, "What is written on it? Isn't it drawing?"

Xiao Jiu Niang shook his head vigorously, "San Dang told us to follow suit... this is called... it's called..." Xiao Jiu Niang scratched his head, his round face wrinkled.

"It's the Three Character Classic." Yan San answered for him.

"Oh, is that so? Then Xiao Jiuniang will recite a sentence." Qin Can patted his head and said.

But Xiao Jiu Niang pouted and shook his head, Qin Can was surprised, "Didn't the third master tell you to practice? Why can't you read?"

Xiao Jiuniang turned around and took a tattered booklet from someone else, and handed it to Qin Can, "The third master asked us to write according to this, but no one taught us how to read it."

Qin Can looked at the booklet and was taken aback. Isn't this the Quran?How did it become the Three Character Classic?Although they are all "classics", they are too far apart, right?

"This……"

When he raised his head and was about to speak, Yan San narrowed his eyes slightly, and cast a vicious gaze here, so Qin Can immediately understood one thing.

It turns out that Yan San is illiterate!

Qin Can became happy in his heart, he couldn't read... No wonder he didn't take the bank note when he snatched his belongings last time. It turned out that the bank note issued by the bank in the capital couldn't be read by him.

Hahaha, my little prince can read at the age of three, and he can recite the Analects of Confucius at the age of five. The mountain reckless man is the mountain reckless man. His martial arts are amazing, and if we have the ability, we can compare poems and poems.

Qin Can grinned so much that his mouth reached to the ears, Xiao Jiu Niang looked at him, broke away from his grasp a little scared, ran back to Yan San, hugged Yan San's leg and hid behind him, "San Dangjia , Cai Cai laughs so horribly."

Qin Can came back to his senses and saw that Xiaojiu Niang had run away, so he walked over, "The Three Character Classic, 'At the beginning of human beings, one's nature is inherently good. The nature is similar, but the habits are far away.' You three masters can't read it, why don't I teach you... huh!"

Yan San raised his hand, stuffed Qin Can's mouth tightly with the half pear left from his bite, and then drove the children out, "Don't pay attention to this stupid monkey, Nuomi will get the takraw ball, the third master Play with you."

"it is good!"

"Woooo!"

Qin Can's mouth was wide open, tears were about to flow from the pear, and he couldn't swallow it, and couldn't take it out. Fortunately, Cen Xi found a knife and helped him cut off the half of the pear in his mouth. After a while, it was taken out.

Qin Can held his chin with his hands and moved it. Just now, he felt as if his chin was about to fall off, "If you can't read, you can't read. Is it necessary?"

Cen Xi didn't stand by his side to speak for him, "You deserve it, knowing that Yan San is a tiger, you always like to step on his tail."

Qin Can cut it, but seeing Yan San playing sepak takraw with the children outside, he didn't dare to say anything else.