Changfeng has a place to return

Liu Meng lived across the street from Mou Cuihua, less than fifty paces away.At this time, the courtyard door was wide open, and he was sitting on the steps basking in the sun and tearing apart bamboo strips, with many colorful papers piled up beside him, when he heard movement outside, he called without raising his eyes, "Father, mother, you are back." .”

Liang Shu and Liu Xian'an stood in front of him.

Liu Meng's eyes caught sight of the corners of their clothes, and his subordinates paused for a while, secretly groaning inwardly.Slowly raising his head, seeing that it was indeed an old acquaintance from last night, he lowered his voice and chased away: "Didn't it be agreed that you have never met? My parents will be back soon, so hurry up and leave."

Liang Shu said: "Passing by here, come in and ask for a glass of water."

Liu Meng was not easy to deceive, so he squinted and said, "Did that stingy Mou Cuihua pour water for you just now?"

Judging by the tone of voice, the relationship between the two families is obviously not much better. It can be seen that Aunt Mou has indeed offended all the way from the east of the city to the west of the city.Liu Xian'an casually picked up a windmill on the ground: "You made this for sale?"

"What kind of eyes?" Liu Meng continued to cut the lantern strings, "I'm dismantling, not making, the multicolored fair is cancelled, and these things won't be used in the short term, and they won't take up space if you dismantle them. If you like, just pick a few You don’t need to give money to play with it, just leave quickly.”

Liu Xian'an really likes it, he can play with some, but he can't leave quickly.He took a look at the yard, it was very big, and on the left side was a simple warehouse, in which a lot of messy goods were piled up, and there were some gongs and drums, covered with a dilapidated big felt to prevent the rain.Liu Meng didn't want to talk to these two people at first, but when he saw that he couldn't stop looking around, his head was really buzzing, so he simply stood up and chased away the guests.

There was the sound of "squeaking" wheels outside the door.

A middle-aged couple came in with a small cart, and were taken aback when they saw guests coming from their house.Liu Meng hurriedly said: "I don't know these two people, they are here to ask for water."

Liang Shu nodded slightly to the couple, Liu Xian'an said: "I'm sorry to bother you two."

Uncle Liu is not good at words, but Aunt Liu can still say a few words. She asked her man to unload the car, and smiled to the guests: "When I was doing work in the morning, I heard people say that two people came from the city. You are a very rich and noble son from a foreign country, please sit down, I will let Ah Meng make tea." While talking, she took out a basket of red and bright dried dried meat from the trolley and offered them to eat, after Liu Xian'an declined, she found out again. Several red eggs dyed with flower juice.

"A lot of food." Liu Xian'an glanced at the car, "Is there a wedding at home?"

"Ah Meng is a bachelor, so there is no happy event to do." Aunt Liu said, "I am a helper at Master Yu's house. These meals were originally prepared by him for the running water banquet of the Colorful Festival. If I put them down, they will be spoiled, so Madam We have all been rewarded today."

Master Yu's name is Yu Cong, he is one of the richest households in the city, although he is quite old, he is physically strong, he often kicks shuttlecocks with the little ones on the street, he usually looks like an old kid with no key, But it is very reliable in major matters. This time the city is haunted by ghosts, and the government has nothing to do. It is also through him that he went to a foreign country to hire a wizard, and spent a lot of money.

"Has the wizard come?"

"Not yet, but I heard that he can psychic, so he must be able to catch the female ghost."

"Auntie." Liu Xian'an held a stool, "Do you want the wizard to catch Miss Wan? I heard that she didn't do any evil in her lifetime, and she doesn't eat people now. She was just wandering around the city, maybe she was looking for her father." If you can’t find it, let’s go.”

Hearing what he said, Aunt Liu hesitated and sighed: "That's right, be a good child."

"Can you tell us about her?" Liu Xian'an continued to ask, "The matter of catching ghosts, me and..." He looked at Liang Shu, naturally he couldn't address him at this time, and said, "My brother and I also know a little bit."

He called it purely, but His Royal Highness Xiao Wang didn't hear it purely. He actually managed to get a hint of forbidden secrets from these two short words.In the tea sheds in the windy and sandy northwest, he led the soldiers. It is not that he has never heard of such indecent things, but he listened to them and forgot them. He also felt very boring and did not understand. What is there to be happy about.Now that I have a sweetheart, I finally figured out some ambiguous taste that cannot be understood by outsiders.

But before he could think about it, there were already noisy footsteps on the long street. Uncle Liu put his head out to take a look, and immediately closed the door with his backhand, and said in a panic, "It's the group of officials who catch ghosts on weekdays. They are coming in the direction of our house!"

"What are you doing at our house?" Aunt Liu also turned pale with fright.Liu Meng threw away the things in his hand: "I'll go and have a look!"

"Ah Meng!" Aunt Liu stretched out her hand to grab him, but the officials had already broken in. She was so frightened that she quickly pulled her son to hide.After the officials lined up neatly in two rows, a man walked in and asked, "You two are looking around in the city?"

He is a local parent officer named Shan Qing.Huaizhen city was haunted by ghosts, all the foreigners ran out in a hurry, only this group of people not only did not leave, but heard that they booked inns all over the city to find people to question the female ghost, it was really suspicious, so he simply brought troops to interrogate it himself.

"There is a notice posted in the city, and those who can catch the female ghost will be rewarded." Liang Shu said, "We want to earn this money, so naturally we have to work harder."

But Shan Qing didn't believe it. The expenses of booking the entire inn, and the clothes of the two people in front of him, no matter how you looked at it, they didn't look like ordinary ghost-hunting wizards: "Since it's for the reward, why didn't you go to the city after entering the city?" Go to Yu Mansion first?"

"Inquire first and see if this ghost is easy to catch." Liu Xian'an said, "If it's hard to catch, we won't bother to save ourselves from having to bargain with Master Yu."

The two sang together, and what they said was perfunctory but reasonable.Shan Qing's face became more and more unkind, he knew that they had a ghost, but he couldn't find any reason to drive them out of the city, so he said: "Then you have finished investigating now, are you going to catch this ghost, or not?"

"Catch it." Liang Shu nodded, "Please take us to the Yu Mansion to discuss the matter of money."

"Bold!" An officer next to him reprimanded, "What are you, how dare you let an adult lead the way!"

"Parents and officials should make decisions for the people. Now that Huaizhen City is haunted by ghosts, people are panicking. We can catch ghosts, but Mr. Shan doesn't even want to take the road?" Liang Shu's eyes were cold, and he glanced away. The guard was covered in white sweat, and he retreated back and didn't speak again.

Shan Qing couldn't figure out the identities of these two people for a while, he could only judge by their accent that they were from the north, and the most famous folk rumor in the north was that a brick fell from the city wall of Mengdu and hit ten people, eight of them were high officials.He was cautious, and he really guessed a little bit about "imperial envoys in modest clothes", so he adjusted his attitude and said, "Since the two of you are ready to go out to catch ghosts, what plan do you have?"

Liu Xian'an asked: "After the haunting, has the government checked Miss Wan's grave?"

Shan Qing shook his head: "I didn't dig it up, I just went to see it. The ghost crawled out on a rainy night. The thunder blasted the grave into a big hole, and it was surrounded by charred wood residue."

Liu Xian'an said: "I want to open the tomb to see if the bones are still inside."

People around looked at each other in blank dismay, digging a grave is one of the most immoral things, and this is not an unjust case, is there any need for an autopsy?When the grave is dug up, if the bones are gone, it is haunted, but if the bones are still there, it is also haunted.

But Shan Qing readily agreed, Wan's family had no relatives in the city, it was a lonely grave, just dig it as you like, he has no reason to offend others in such a matter.So he immediately sent someone to fetch the guy, and taking advantage of the bright sunlight during the day, he followed Liang Shu and Liu Xian'an to dig the grave outside the city.

Liu Meng and other bold young people in the city also followed.Under the sunlight, the scorched black tomb didn't look too creepy. The tombstone was tilted, only half remained, and the other half was blasted to nowhere by the thunder.Liang Shu smelled a very faint smell of kerosene, tilted his head and reminded softly: "It's explosives."

"There will be no thunderstorms in the southwest of this season." Liu Xian'an said, "The tomb was not pierced by lightning, but was blown open with explosives."

Only the floating soil on the surface was blown away, but the coffin was still intact. It can be seen that the person who put the kerosene was not trying to steal the funeral property, but simply wanted to create the illusion of being haunted.But having said that, the father and daughter of the Wan family went crazy and died that year, and even this coffin was donated by Mr. Yu, so it is impossible to accompany anything of value.

The spikes were pried open, and there was a neat white bone in the coffin.Liu Xian'an covered his mouth and nose with a cloth towel, only took a closer look, then frowned slightly.

Liang Shu asked, "What's wrong?"

Liu Xian'an said: "This doesn't look like Miss Wan's body."

As soon as the words came out, the people around were surprised, and Liu Meng squeezed forward: "It's already like this, can you tell? It can't be a man's bones, right?"

"It's a woman, but a woman who has given birth to a child." Liu Xian'an asked, "Has Miss Wan given birth to a child?"

Everyone shook their heads one after another, an elderly uncle also categorically said no, Wan Yuan and the Orion lived on the mountain for a total of two months, and after Orion left, there was no news, Wan Yuan returned to the city and waited for less than three months , died in prison, adding up to a total of five or six months, how can there be time to have children?

Liu Xian'an said: "But this skeleton did give birth, it can be seen from the pelvis."

Someone in the crowd slapped their thighs, no wonder they wanted to crawl out while exploding Tianlei, this is a grievance!A person with no name and surname was buried in this wilderness as ten thousand yuan, and there was no one who burned paper, so why not just float around to seek justice?

"But...but everyone who met her said that she was what Wan Yuan looked like back then. How can this be explained? And where did the real Wan Yuan go?"

Liu Xian'an also didn't want to understand, so he asked: "Can I still look up the files from many years ago?"

Shan Qing was looking at the bone, and when he heard it, he thought he was asking himself, but before he could raise his head to answer the question, someone answered: "Yes."

"..."

Liang Shu looked at Shan Qing.

Shan Qing nodded immediately: "Yes, of course."

He is well versed in the way of being an official, and he is determined not to find trouble for himself.Since you don't know the identities of these two people, you should treat them as identities that you can't offend. As long as the other party's demands are not excessive, you can agree to them all - anyway, the case happened seven or eight years ago, and you have nothing to do with yourself. No matter what kind of relationship, why bother to make a fuss.

When everyone returned to the government office, the bone was placed in the autopsy room as it was. Wu Zuo had seen it, and said that it was a bone that only appeared after giving birth.All the old files from seven or eight years ago have been dug out, and there are also records of people who have disappeared in those years, which add up to about one hundred.Liu Xian'an stood at the door and asked: "This Huaizhen City doesn't look very big, how could so many people go missing?"

"The missing ones are all children and women. There was a drought in those years, the harvest was not good, the public security was not good, and there were human traffickers everywhere." The old man in charge of the files said, "There are also people who were kidnapped in broad daylight while walking. It’s not unusual to leave, the past two years have been much better.”

He spoke with a heavy accent, Liu Xian'an could barely understand, so he didn't ask any more questions.After the old man left, the two of them entered the house. Before turning over two pages of the file, Liu Xian'an choked and sneezed a dozen times. Liang Shu covered his mouth and nose, and carried him outside: "I'm looking for Someone check it out, you can't do this job."

Second Young Master Liu: "Ah Choo!"

Liang Shu laughed, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and wiped his red nose.When Gao Lin came in and saw this intimate scene, he took a deep breath, feeling deeply that he would be blind sooner or later, and he said, "I'll leave immediately."

"What are you going, come back." Liang Shu stopped, "I was about to find you."

Gao Lin is very vigilant, you are so friendly, what do you want me for?

Liang Shu pointed to the room: "Go and find out the file that you have turned over, tidy it up and come see me."

Gao Lin looked inside and saw that his head was growing big. He was not afraid of gray, but his words were dizzy, and he had to lie down and rest five times when he wrote three pages of military newspapers in the northwest.Then he whispered, how can I do this job, this place is quiet and no one is there, shouldn't the second son of Liu turn over the book, and the prince is beside him with red sleeves... Not popular, but that's what it means. Romance is dead.

Liang Shu was unmoved, and kicked the person in the door: "Tomorrow at this time, if you don't clean up well, you will be deducted one year's salary."

Lieutenant General Gao: I feel bitter.

Leaving the dusty study room, Liu Xian'an's nose felt much more comfortable, he still held the towel in his hand, it had already been used, so naturally he couldn't return it, so he folded it up and put it in a small bag, saying: "I Give the prince another favor."

Liang Shu smiled: "Okay."

He likes this little trick of exchanging with each other, kneading their lives together bit by bit, and Liu Xian'an also likes it very much, the big and fluffy quilt is his favorite thing at present, he can't wait for a day There are ten hours of time wrapped in it, completely confirming the title of Sleeping Fairy.

The only bad thing is that the sandalwood fragrance on it has gradually faded, so faint that it can hardly be smelled.Once Aning saw that he was frowning and couldn't stop sighing, so he asked, "Which wise man did you lose in the argument with?"

"No, no." Liu Xian'an said, "I was thinking, this quilt smells better than before."

Aning didn't expect that his son would not be floating now, but was thinking about such a practical question, so he went up and smelled it: "After we got this quilt, we didn't smoke it specially. There is only a little sandalwood scent, if you like it, then I will find someone to smoke it again."

"No," Liu Xian'an stopped, "it's different."

Aning thought he was saying that the incense was different, so he said: "Then I'll ask Lieutenant General Gao to see what kind of incense the prince uses. It's best to ask for some... Hmm."

Liu Xian'an pinched his mouth, pinched it relatively flat, stared at it for a while, thought it was funny, then let go of his hand and smiled again.Aning was very innocent and didn't know what happened, but seeing his young master smiling so happily, he followed suit.The two laughed inexplicably for a while, and Aning said: "But the prince often sends things to the young master, and maybe he will send the sandalwood someday, so there is no need to make a special trip to ask."

Liu Xian'an didn't have many friends in this world, so naturally he didn't accept any decent gifts—in fact, the gifts from His Royal Highness Xiao Wang were also pretty bad, but he just couldn't put it down, and kept them all by his side, like a hoarder. squirrel.Aning felt that his young master's happy face, which had never seen the world, was joyful, but also a little sad and pitiful, so he said: "Actually, the madam and the third lady have also given the young master a lot of good things."

Liu Xian'an said: "It's not the same."

The mother treats herself like a child, and the things that Ah Yuan sent, although expensive, can be seen to be carefully selected, but they are really useless, such as a delicate wooden bird that can fly high, and the market It was fired at a sky-high price, Liu Nan wished to buy it with great difficulty, and immediately held it in both hands to celebrate his second brother's birthday: "Look, is it rare?"

Liu Xian'an saw through all the traps at a glance, and thought in confusion, what's there to snatch, I can make twenty pieces a day, if my elder brother doesn't come and scold me for not doing my job properly, thirty pieces will be fine.

So Liu Nanyuan happily took the wooden bird away after giving the gift, and went to play by himself.

Liu Xian'an didn't care, he didn't need to accept gifts.

Aning quickly folded the quilt and said, "Young Master, it's really great to meet His Royal Highness King Xiao."

He had said these words more than a dozen times on the way, so that Second Young Master Liu couldn't help feeling that it was really good.Regardless of whether it is a normal person or a [-]-year-old immortal, he is naturally yearning for such things as "good", so he made a decision: "Then we will always follow the prince."

After finishing speaking, before the boy could make a sound, he pinched his mouth again.

Ah Ning was very speechless, this time I didn't say that the prince is going to get married, the young master is guilty of something.

"Don't talk about it in the future." Liu Xian'an let go of his hand, "The prince said that he won't get married."

Aning saw through it at a glance: "Which prince, the one in the son's dream doesn't count."

Liu Xian'an listened but did not hear it, and fell down on the bed.

fell asleep.