I was reborn with amnesia and was picked up by Lao Gong

Feng Shu always gets up early.

Every day at midnight, he would wake up, and after confirming that Ning Cheng was still asleep, he carefully moved him to the bed.

After washing up, he quickly moved to the stove room to work, and then returned to Fengyue Palace with a hot breakfast, waiting for Ning Cheng to wake up.

After breakfast, Ning Cheng took care of the dishes and other things.Originally, Feng Shu would be sent directly to the fire stove room for the cook to clean, but seeing Ning Cheng's "let me do it! Let me do something quickly", Feng Shu couldn't bear to push him, so he could only let him go. up.

After that, I went to work in the Hall of Disobedience.

Although the Hall of Disobedience and Discipline only opened for trial on festival days, Feng Shu would go to the inner hall to check the cases that needed to be tried during weekdays, and then arrange for the guards to do some pre-investigation.

On this day, Feng Shu, as usual, sat in the Hall of Disobedience and looked through the case books.

The case recorded the murder of the Jia family. A scholar surnamed Jia sued his daughter-in-law for poisoning his mother, but the daughter-in-law pleaded not guilty. she.Now, the couple are being held in Tianyi Prison awaiting trial.

Feng Shu looked at it for a while, then beckoned the guards to put the case back on the cabinet.

The officer responded, took over the case file, and asked, "My lord, what are you going to do next?"

Feng Shu said: "Naturally, I will go to the autopsy officer to inquire about the condition of the corpse, and then ask the neighbors in the neighborhood how they treat others and whether they respect the elders in the family..."

He answered naturally, but suddenly realized something was wrong, and turned to look at the guard.

The guard was dressed like ordinary guards, holding the case file in his hand, his body was straight, with crooked smiling eyes on a pink face, red lips and white teeth, who is it if it's not Ning Cheng?

Feng Shu was so startled that he dropped the pen in his hand.He asked, "Why are you here?"

Ning Cheng smiled and said, "If I stay in Fengyue Hall any longer, I will become a useless person. It just so happened that Hua Pan said that a famous servant in Disobedience Hall retired, and I will take his place."

When Feng Shu was working, Hua Fan would occasionally secretly go to Fengyue Hall to chat with Ning Cheng, and even invited him to go out and tour the city together.

At first Ning Cheng wanted to be idle, so he was idle, it would be good to go outside to get some fresh air - but after spending a day with Hua Fan, he regretted it.

The "hay fever" rushing towards Huafan enthusiastically was no joke, Ning Cheng was squeezed into a dizzy state in the crowd, and it was not until the meal time that Huafan thought of it and was rescued by him.

Afterwards, Ning Cheng expressed with lingering fear that he didn't want to go to the streets, and asked Hua Fan if there were any other ways to pass the time, and it would be best to let him get down to business.

At first, he didn't have much hope, but after a slap on the head, Hua Fan told him that there was a vacancy in the Hall of Disobedience, and enthusiastically handled the employment formalities for him, and helped him get the officer's uniform.

In order not to hold Feng Shu back, Ning Cheng, with the help of Hua Fan, learned the necessary procedures and matters needing attention for the guards to perform tasks.

Every day after taking advantage of the wind to leave, he went to the open area behind Huaxue Hall to practice his physical skills in arresting prisoners. Occasionally he was sneered at by Xuehua passing by, and then blocked by Huafan.

In fact, Huafanren is really nice, as long as you ignore the teasing words he blurts out from time to time, getting along with him is very easy.Now when Ning Cheng talks to him, he directly calls him a flower judge.

Hearing this, Feng Shu's eyes seemed to flash a gleam of coldness, but he quickly adjusted his facial expression, and asked calmly, "Are you familiar with Hua Pan?"

Ning Cheng shook his head and said, "It's okay. After all, there are not many people in the palace who can talk. He took the initiative to find me a few times, and we got acquainted after chatting."

Feng Shu said: "Oh, really."

Ning Cheng said again: "When this case was handed over, I also glanced at it a little bit. This Jia's house is near Wangyun Palace. If you walk, it will be time for a stick of incense."

Feng Shu took the case from Ning Cheng's hand again, turned around and stood up, and put it away according to the sequence.

He stared at the nanmu cabinet for a while, and said, "In that case, let's go."

"Okay, how many guards do you want to go with?"

"You alone are enough."

Ning Cheng was about to step out of the inner hall to call for someone, but when he heard what Feng Shu said, he stopped in his tracks.

"Am I alone? But Hua Ban said that on weekdays, at least two of them will be brought along..."

"You alone are enough."

Feng Shu turned around, glanced at him indifferently, and said: "This case is not too big, and the distance is so close. If something really happens, it won't be too late to send a message to someone. Hua Pan is by nature loose, and doesn't have a deep understanding of the matter of Disobedience Hall. Maybe it was a mistake."

Although Ning Cheng was puzzled, he didn't ask any further questions, he nodded to show that he understood, and followed Feng Shu out of Wangyun Palace.

As Feng Shu said before, they first went to Yizhuang to see the autopsy.

That Wuzuo was a short old man, although he was old, his eyes were piercing.

After hearing the intention of the two, Uncle Wu Zuo handed them two pieces of cloth to cover their mouth and nose, and then brought them to a corpse covered with a white cloth.

"Here, this is the corpse. The old lady Jia was poisoned to death. My lord can understand it at a glance."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and yanked off the white cloth on the corpse.When the white cloth fell to the ground, Ning Cheng's pupils suddenly shrank, and he couldn't help taking a step back.

What was covered by the white cloth was actually a bluish-white corpse!

Noticing Ning Cheng's actions, Feng Shu looked at him worriedly, and motioned him to leave first with his eyes.

Ning Cheng regained his composure, shook his head slightly to express that he was fine, then took a slow breath, and turned his gaze to the corpse again.

The old lady Jia was short in stature, with bluish-white skin, slightly swollen legs, and a painful expression fixed on her face.

Since it had been a long time since death, many corpse spots had emerged on the surface of the body, which mixed with the original longevity spots, which looked a bit scary.

"Master, is this poisoned corpse usually tinged with cyan?"

Ning Cheng had no experience in autopsy, so he humbly asked Wu for advice.

"Hey, my lord's words are wrong. The color of the body of a person who died of poisoning is generally the same as that of a normal corpse, but this bluish-white one, there is only one possibility."

The gangster smiled strangely, and pointed to the spot on the right side of the corpse.

"Look at this, does it look like a skull? According to legend, this is a special sign of a poison. All corpses poisoned by it will appear bluish white, and a skull-shaped corpse spot will appear somewhere on the corpse."

Hearing this, Feng Shu raised his jaw and said, "Is the skeleton a trick moth?"

Wu Zuo said: "Master Feng Juan is indeed well-informed. Yes, it is that skeleton moth!"

When they mentioned it, Ning Cheng also remembered that when he was in Lanyantang, he had heard his master mention the legend about the skeleton moth.

"As soon as the skeleton appeared, I was overwhelmed—"

At that time, the master pinched his throat and said so.

The ecstasy in these words does not refer to depression and sorrow, but to a real loss of soul.

The skull moth, as the name suggests, is a moth with a skull-like imprint on its abdomen.

They were born in tombs and were transformed by the resentment of the dead. Their wings are covered with highly poisonous phosphorous powder. If they are unfortunate enough to inhale them, they will surely die within three days.

Fortunately, this kind of moth only appears between the tombstones at night, shining a faint green light, so not many people were killed by it.

Forgive me for that, but the skeleton moth looks terrifying and appears frequently in cemeteries, so it has become a symbol of "unknown" in people's mouth after word of mouth.

Ning Cheng said: "This skeleton moth only appears in cemeteries with a large number of dead people. It must have been born in the area of ​​Wanren Mountain, but somehow it poisoned this old woman?"

Feng Shu said: "Skeleton moths never like to appear in the crowd. Presumably someone purposely went to the vicinity of Wanren Mountain to catch a few, and then extracted phosphorous powder to make poison, which killed the old lady."

He motioned to Zuo to cover the white cloth back, and said: "Now that the cause of Granny Jia's death has been confirmed, let's go to Jia's house."

Ning Cheng had no objection.The two took off the cloth strips covering their mouths and noses, and after thanking Wu, they stepped out of Yizhuang.

Although Jia's house is near Wangyun Palace, it is located in a remote place. Feng Shu and Ning Cheng turned several alleys in the city before arriving at the door of Jia's house.

There is a crooked board hanging on the pink brick and black tile house, on which the word "Jia's Mansion" is written profusely, but if you look closely, you will find that the whitewashed wall has already been mottled, and even the door hangs Cobweb hanging curtains, where does it look like a mansion?

There used to be a pool of lotus in front of Jia's mansion, but now there is only a pool of stagnant water left.There are some withered lotus leaves floating in the stagnant water, other than that, there are some branches, fallen leaves, etc., exuding a heavy rotten smell.

The Jia family was supposed to be a big family, and there wasn't even a house nearby, let alone other people.

"Tuk-tuk-"

Ning Cheng knocked on the door of Jia's house, but after waiting for a while, no one answered.

Ning Cheng and Feng Shu glanced at each other, then continued to knock on the door.This time they waited for a long time, but there was still no movement.

"Is my brother a member of the official family?"

A childish voice rang in my ears.The two turned around and saw a little girl in a bun standing in front of the stagnant water, blinking at them with big watery eyes.

The little girl looked about six or seven years old, so thin that she looked like she would be blown away by the wind.She was wearing a simple double-breasted short jacket, the skirt was stained with dust, and there was a small basket beside her.

Ning Cheng stepped forward, crouched down, and tried to keep his eyes on the same level as the girl: "The big brothers are here to see this family."

He pointed to the closed door of Jia's house and asked, "Do you know where they all went?"

The little girl was a little timid, twisting her skirt in her hands, and whispered: "Sister-in-law Song said that father and mother were taken away by the officials."

This little girl is actually a child of the Jia family.Ning Cheng glanced at Feng Shu, and asked again: "Who is Mrs. Song? Are there other people in your family?"

As he spoke, he took out a few peanuts for snacks from his sleeve and put them in the girl's palm.

Seeing those peanuts, the little girl's eyes lit up.She carefully put one in her mouth, chewed it, and put the rest in the basket.

She seemed to think that "big brother" was a good person. The little girl smiled innocently and said, "Sister-in-law Song is a good friend of my mother. There used to be a lot of people in my family, including grandpa, grandma, father, mother, and younger brothers and sisters." Me." Every time she said a word, she broke a finger, from her left hand to her right hand.

"However, grandpa went to the sky to become a fairy, and grandma followed her not long ago. Sister-in-law Song said that father and mother were taken away by the officials, and if they didn't come back after a month, they would become gods too. So, now Only Fu'er and my younger brother are left."

After hearing this, Ning Cheng couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable when he thought of the tragedy in his own family.He reached out and touched the girl's head gently, and asked softly, "What's your name? How old are you?"

The girl said: "My name is Fu'er, and I am seven years old this year! My younger brother is called Baby Dan'er, and he just turned one year old this year."

Fu'er obviously didn't know what the name was, so she directly used the words that the adults called.

She picked up the small basket, pulled up Ning Cheng's sleeve, and said bouncingly, "Big brother, do you want to come into my house? My brother is also here!"

Ning Cheng's heart moved, and he asked, "Are you and your brother at home these days?"

Although Fuer's skirt was a bit dirty, it didn't look like she had been hungry for a few days without being taken care of.

Fu'er really shook her head, and said: "Sister Song will come here once a day during lunch time, and then sit for a long time. Every time Mrs. Song comes, she will bring a lot of delicious food, I really like her!"

She took a careful look at Feng Shu, leaned closer to Ning Cheng's ear and said, "It's like liking a big brother."

Ning Cheng couldn't help laughing.He got up and held Fu'er's hand, and said: "Then why don't you take the brothers in and sit down?"

Ning Cheng thought about it, it was almost noon now, why not go to Jia's house to check, and ask Mrs. Song something.

Fu'er nodded, her face flushed with excitement.She took Ning Cheng's hand, and carefully went around to the east wall of Jia's mansion, and removed the haystacks piled there.

There was a small hole there, just big enough for a child to get in and out.

Fu'er smiled and said, "Big Brother, you go to the gate and wait for me."

Ning Cheng responded and walked back to the gate.

After a while, the door creaked open, revealing Fu'er's little face.

"Big brother, you can come in."

Ning Cheng glanced at Feng Shu, stepped aside obediently, and made a "please" gesture.

He still hasn't forgotten that he is now a servant of Disobedience Hall, so naturally he should follow Feng Shu.

Feng Shu was stunned for a moment, smiled unnaturally, then coughed, and stepped across the threshold.

Seeing this, Ning Cheng also took a look at the stagnant water in the pond, and followed Feng Shu into Jia's residence.

The author has something to say:

The source of inspiration for "Skeleton Moth" is a moth called "Ghostface Moth" (Human Face Moth).

The moth gets its name from the skull-like markings on the back of its thorax.