The words "No" made Zhou Yu'an's heart soften instantly. She knew that she could not love others, but she also indulged in Shen Chongming's rare tenderness, especially when those eyes looked at her.
Her mind was confused, but she clearly realized that the man's words could not be believed.
Her mother believed her father's words and ended up dead without a body, and she was almost buried alive because she believed her father.
Avoiding Shen Chongming's gaze, she asked: "Did you find the thing?"
"Qinshu has been sent to the capital." Shen Chongming stroked the wound on her neck: "The medicine is here, I will apply it for you."
"Don't dare bother Mr. Shen, I'll do it myself." Zhou Yu'an took out two bottles of medicine and gave one to Shen Chongming. She originally wanted him to apply the medicine on her wounds, but he pulled her over and carefully applied the medicine powder on the wound. On her neck.
The atmosphere was a little weird, and her heart pounded several times.
Back on the carriage, the difference was that there were many guards behind the carriage. Liao Wenbin was turned upside down by Zhou Yu'an, and even the base of his tongue was hard. By the time Liao Wenbin's numbness faded, they had returned to the inn in Liulin Town.
It was Liao Wenbin's own choice to become General Wu's adviser. He had been incompetent in literature and martial arts since he was a child, and even doing business with his father could only do loss-making business. In his father's eyes, he is the least useful member of the Liao family. In order to prove himself, he tried every means to become General Wu's adviser and did many shameful things for him, including colluding with the Beidi people and attacking Shuozhou.
The Beidi people wanted money, General Wu wanted prestige, and what he wanted was to gain a foothold on General Wu's side.
There are two reasons for choosing uncle Liao Boqing. One is that he is too upright and General Wu has long disliked him. Only by getting rid of him can General Wu truly trust himself. The second is that he is shining brightly, and as long as he lives, he will always be above himself, making the Liao clan unable to see his existence.
Liao Wenbin went crazy. He leaned in the corner, dragging his half-numb body and laughing: "I know you look down on me and think I am a spy and a bad person, but what's the use of being a good person? My grandfather, that Liao Ting, for After getting military information from Beidi people, he pretended to surrender, but what happened? He is not a spy in the eyes of the world. Who cares about the truth? Even Mr. Shen, you think he is a spy. If he is really a spy, how can my uncle Liao Boqing join the army? It's a pity that people in the world often don't think that much."'
Liao Wenbin's eyes were red: "My uncle is also a fool. He fights the battles and fights for his life, but the military achievements belong to General Wu. As for him, in the eyes of General Wu, he is just a loser and looks at things that are an eyesore. . Am I going to kill him? It was he who forced himself into a dead end. They are all in the same camp, but he is different. He has to be the one who has emerged from the mire and is untainted. "
"Did you kill Liao Boqing?"
"So be it." Liao Wenbin snorted: "Both General Wu and Beidi are tracing his whereabouts. The Beidi people want the evidence to blackmail General Wu into submission and make General Wu their real internal agent. General Wu wants to destroy the evidence, and he You can cooperate with the Beidi people, but you can't be manipulated by the Beidi people. I am the one who helps General Wu find the whereabouts of Liao Boqing."
"That's your uncle!"
"My uncle? Is it important that my uncle can have me?" Liao Wenbin said disdainfully: "If I don't regard him as my uncle, how can he regard me as my nephew? He returned to Liulin but did not return to the Liao family. Isn't he guarding us? I know that Beidi's killer has arrived, and I also know what his purpose is. I found him first. I also came up with the idea of putting leeches in the cotton clothes. I just want to force Liao Boqing to return to Liao's house. , what he has in his hand can only be given to me."
"On the night when Han Xiang was killed, did the killer go to Liao Mansion to look for you?"
Liao Wenbin nodded: "Liao Boqing is gone. He is no longer in the City God's Temple. He will naturally come to find me. I was locked up in the ancestral hall by my father, and there was a guard at the door. When he came, he didn't see me. When he left, I ran into him. Xiao Cui.”
It turned out that the killer was going after Liao Wenbin, with the purpose of finding Liao Boqing.
"Do you like Han Xiang?"
"I like it!" Liao Wenbin closed his eyes: "She is the only one who recognizes me from the bottom of her heart. Unfortunately, she is dead."
Zhou Yu'an couldn't explain how she felt in her heart. She only felt that Han Xiang was a little aggrieved. She could have lived a good life, but she died because of these complicated things that had nothing to do with feelings.
What she wanted was just a pure feeling.
Liao Wenbin died when they were about to leave the inn.
What killed him was a fragment from a broken bowl that Liao Boqing had used for begging.
When he fell, Liao Wenbin looked in the direction of the Han Mansion with a smile. Before his death, he seemed to be holding Han Xiang's hand.
A murder case kept them in Liulin Town for two more days, but by mistake, they got the letters and evidence left by Liao Boqing, which revealed the truth about the Beidi soldiers' invasion of Shuozhou.
Shuozhou guard Wu Renyi cannot escape death. As for the Suizhou governor who colluded with Wu Renyi, he will soon be in prison. Zhou Yu'an and his party headed straight to Qingyang County without stopping.
The acting magistrate did not die in Qingyang County, but in Xiaoyang Village, three miles away from Qingyang County.
Xiaoyang Village is a small village with a population of less than a hundred people. The villagers make a living by farming and raising sheep. The village runs north-south, and most of the houses are concentrated together.
When Zhou Yu'an and others arrived at the entrance of the village, the villagers began to talk, saying that the acting magistrate was killed by a ghost and that it was the female ghost in the village who was causing trouble.
If you look closely at the village, you will see that it is different from other places. Not only is there a stone tablet at the entrance of the village, the stone tablet is engraved with patterns to ward off evil spirits, but even the doors of each house have talismans to ward off evil spirits and ward off evil.
After careful questioning, I found out that people died in the village every year, and just like the acting county magistrate, they all died by drowning in a well. Because of fear, everyone in the village who could move has moved. The remaining ones are either old, weak, sick or disabled, or have no relatives and have nowhere to go after leaving Xiaoyang Village.
The well where the accident occurred was very ordinary. It was not far from the stone monument. The villagers had pressed a stone on it, and a talisman was affixed to the stone.
It was his bookboy who first discovered that the magistrate was missing. According to the bookboy's description, they took the wrong road and entered Xiaoyang Village by mistake.
It was already dark by then, so they decided to stay overnight in Xiaoyang Village and set off early the next morning, heading straight to Qingyang. Seeing that they were noble people, the village chief specially selected the best family in the village for them to stay. In order not to disturb them, he even asked the villager to temporarily move to the village chief's house.
They had dinner in the village. They brought their own rice and firewood and water from the villagers' homes. After dinner, the magistrate asked them to rest and read the files in his room.
At a quarter of the hour, when the book boy got up for the night, he saw the acting magistrate sitting in the room, talking through the window.
The boy asked the acting magistrate if he wanted more tea. The acting magistrate said no and went to bed immediately. That was the last conversation between master and servant.
At nine o'clock, the scholar got up and found that the door of the acting magistrate's room was open. The magistrate was neither in the courtyard nor in the room. The bedding in the room was neat, and it looked like it was before falling asleep.
The book boy searched around the village, and then woke up his entourage and the villagers. At Chenshi's prompting, he went to the well. The stone covering the wellhead was removed, and there was a circle of footprints on the edge of the well. Judging from the footprints, it belonged to the county magistrate.
