Northern Song Dynasty: The City of Qingquan Mystery Case

Fu Shangxing looked to the left in surprise.The cup had already been shattered, and it was brought to the ground by a huge momentum, leaving only fragments all over the ground.To his surprise, an arrow stuck into the wine jar—no, it should have penetrated the wine jar.It is almost completely submerged, with only a small section of feathers sticking out.

There was a small crack in the wine jar.The feathers on the arrow were still trembling slightly, and suddenly, the wine jar made a "cracking" sound.The gap where the arrow is inserted is gradually getting bigger and longer, like a black bug crawling through the wine jar.There was no pressure on the wine jar, and trickles of streams were desperately squeezed out from the cracks.

With a "bang bang", the wine jar shattered, and the aroma filled the air.

This arrow was inserted like the bow and crossbow that the green-clothed bandit shot at the water tank that day, but the strength of this arrow was the same as that of the bow and crossbow, but this... was shot by human power.

Fu Shangxing stared at the wine jar in disbelief, and then looked in the opposite direction.Qianqing hid in a hurry, but Fu Shangxing smiled: "'Ping Ming looked for Baiyu, but he didn't find it in the stone edge.' Parachutist Li Guang's general archery skills...Young Master Xia doesn't need to hide."

Hearing this, Qianqing didn't know whether to move or not.Fu Shangxing smiled at Xiangquan: "Thank you, Mr. Yi."

His voice is gentle, and his tone is like the bright sunshine in spring.

Yi Xiangquan breathed a sigh of relief.

Ganqing knew that the purpose of Xiangquan bringing him here was to prevent Fu Shangxing from committing suicide or committing excessive acts, and it was faster than anything else.

But Fu Shangxing's appearance was not quite right.

Obviously, the cup just now was poisonous.Gan Qing was puzzled, Fu Shangxing had attempted to take poison, but why did he have such a relaxed expression?

Fu Shangxing asked: "How did Mr. Yi know that I was going to drink, and that the second glass was poisoned?"

"I don't know, but I guess the only way for a doctor to commit suicide is to take poison. Besides, there are very few doctors in Yongcheng, Mr. Shangxing, you are the best one. If you take poison, it is basically too late for treatment, and it is difficult to cure."

"Master Yi, why don't you suspect that there is poison in my wine, but you know the poison is in the cup?"

"You haven't listened to the truth, and you won't seek death before I finish telling it. But this doesn't rule out chronic poisoning. Therefore, I will pay attention to your diet and drinking water in the medical hall today, even the medicine bags and pills on your body. After checking, you couldn't get out of my sight in the hall. And when I came here later, people continued to stare at you. The wine you brought——taken from the medical hall, was replaced by me, "Xiang Quan smiled and said, "You shouldn't have let me live in the hospital."

"So, what about this glass?" Fu Shangxing frowned, and picked up the first wine glass.

If he poisoned the first wine glass on his body, Xiang Quan would be helpless.

Unexpectedly, Xiang Quan smiled slightly.

"Cleaned."

Fu Shangxing was surprised: "I keep the cup close to my body all the time. Both cups are hidden in my arms. One is on the inside, so you can't change it; the other is on the outside, so it's not easy to take it out. Take the cup from my arms without being found." ... who did it?"

Xiang Quan hesitated: "I don't know, I wanted the guards to do it, and then said that someone from West Street voluntarily changed the cups, and promised not to be discovered by you, so I agreed."

Gan Qing muttered, I don't know who has such quick hands, it's as good as a thief on the street stealing money.

Fu Shangxing sighed, "Master Yi is determined not to let me die."

"Yes." Xiang Quan's answer was short but powerful.He stood upright, the crutch in his hand seemed to be connected with the blood of the earth.

"why?"

"I said, you are not qualified."

"how do I say this?"

"You are not qualified to kill, nor are you qualified to commit suicide." Xiangquan's voice returned to his coolness, and he could see that he was much more relaxed.

"Why didn't you tell me the truth in the medical hall?"

Xiangquan just sighed.

"I have no evidence, and I don't want Qu Ze to hear our conversation. I'll tell her about it after you go to the Yamen."

Fu Shangxing smiled, this time, it was a sincere smile.Ganqing looked at him, and suddenly felt that he had let go of everything, everything was easy.

Fu Shangxing shook his head: "One more thing. Mr. Yi went to great lengths to tell me the truth, just to fulfill my wish and tell me the real cause of Tourmaline's death."

"It's too serious to use 'end'. I just want you to start again. You didn't kill people directly, so you may not be sentenced to death. After a few years, you will be released and go away to see a doctor to make a living. Ozawa can stay in Xia's house. When you come back, Yongcheng is no longer a sad place."

"My son is talking about my own experience?"

"No." Xiang Quan replied flatly, but didn't say any more.

"I thought the young master was a rational and cold-hearted person, but I really didn't expect..."

Fu Shangxing walked to the edge of the lake easily, where the pale lanterns hung there, shining faintly on the dark green trees, as if he was sighing.Dimly, Fu Shangxing seemed to have stepped into a beautiful and desolate picture scroll.

Fu Shangxing gently took off the lantern, as if taking off the light in his heart, holding it in his hand like a treasure.

"Young Master Yi, you are such a good man." The hazy light of the lantern illuminated his eyes, warm, and illuminated the black lake like hope, and made people yearn for this light, "Tourmaline liked this kind of lantern before, then On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the year, I personally helped her make the tourmaline lamp. She said she only wanted plain ones, but who doesn’t love beautiful lamps? She also knows that I can’t afford good materials..." Fu Shangxing said in a low voice, It was like being immersed in warm memories, falling into a deep sleep, and it was difficult to wake up.

Xiangquan heaved a sigh of relief and smiled, he felt that he had saved someone.

Fu Shangxing murmured: "It's a pity that I will spend the rest of my life in this well. My love and sins are everything. They will stay here forever... no matter where I go. Oh, I will spend the rest of my life with self-blame and pain To repay everything I have done? Or to end here instantly... Qu Ze, she will live well, she is stronger than me..."

Suddenly, Fu Shangxing flicked his sleeve and hit the wine jar with his palm.The wine vat, which had fallen on the ground obliquely, rolled a few times, and the remaining wine flowed out all at once, flowing around the well, forming a small puddle of water.

There is really a lot of wine, and there is a lot of it.The aroma of wine filled the air in an instant, wrapping the dry well tightly.

In an instant, Qianqing's heart twitched suddenly.Yi Xiangquan's smile froze all of a sudden, he was about to raise his hand, as if he knew what happened and wanted to keep something——

I saw that Fu Shangxing threw the lantern in his hand to the ground in an instant, and with a "huh", a raging fire ignited!

Qianqing jumped out from the floor with a "chuckle", but when he saw the flames, he immediately surrounded Fu Shangxing and the well.The concentration of wine is too high, if it is spilled around, it is too easy to catch fire!There are wild grasses and falling ginkgo leaves nearby, and with wine as a primer, it ignites immediately.

Ganqing wanted to pull Fu Shangxing out, but the distance was too far!He subconsciously looked at Xiangquan.And Yi Xiangquan stood there, as if unable to move.

"What's the matter with you! Put out the fire! Behind you is the lake—" Qianqing shouted like crazy, but Xiangquan just didn't move!His face was pale, as if he had seen the thing he feared the most in his life.

Qian Qing was stunned.

Is Yi Xiangquan afraid of fire?He actually had something to fear——

Seeing the fire spreading, Gan Qing immediately jumped to the edge of the Xiangquan, pulled him with crutches, staggered and pushed him to the edge of the lake.He wanted to find something to hold water and pour it over, after all, there was a distance between the mouth of the well and the lake—the fire couldn't get through, but the water couldn't get through either.

Looking around, it was urgent to clean up, there was no water around!

Fu Shangxing's shadow in the flames was like black smoke, ready to disappear at any time.He coughed, and at the same time seemed to swallow something with his head up, and suddenly fell to the ground.The fire surrounded him all at once, fast and violent, as simple as devouring the surrounding vegetation.

Qianqing was shocked, did Fu Shangxing still have medicine in his hand?It is too easy for a doctor to carry poison on him.However, Yi Xiangquan couldn't guard against it no matter what.

Fu Shangxing didn't make any more sound.

Qianqing has no worries about food and clothing in this life, his parents are still alive, and he has never seen life and death.In the past, he would never have thought that Fu Shangxing would do such a thing, nor would he have thought that a good person would die a few feet away from him.Qianqing felt helpless for the first time in the thick heat wave, and the strong helplessness and the flames engulfed him.

Tongues of fire jumped into the sky, burning the ancient and thick branches of the ginkgo tree.It swayed helplessly a few times, as if silently shouting instead of Fu Shangxing.

Hopeless.

Gan Qingmu turned to look at Xiang Quan in a daze.Yi Xiangquan was the person he trusted the most, the most reliable, the smartest, and the calmest - but something went wrong at the last moment.

The firelight illuminated Xiangquan's eyes and his face.That was the expression that Qianqing didn't want to see the most.

Only now did Qianqing realize that Yi Xiangquan is not a god.

He can see everything, but he can't prevent tragedy.

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