Qianqiu, who was standing not far away, looked at the county magistrate's wife and smiled even more happily: "She's so fat, hahaha!" He sat down with relish as he watched the excitement without taking it too seriously.
The woman stopped the magistrate and rushed to him.
Magistrate Li knew it was too late, so he thought for a moment, then straightened his back, coughed a few times, and shouted seriously: "Bold! How can you call me by my official name!?"
"Oh, you have become more capable! Mr. Li, why can't I call you by your name?"
The woman was not afraid, but asked in a strange way.
"I Hanchuang studied hard for ten years, and finally I was appointed as an official for one of my parents. I have been an official for decades. Although my body is as dim as the starlight, my heart is as clear as a mirror. How can you call me such a taboo?" Mr. Li is righteous. Verbal answer.
"Master Li! You must not be called by your name. I don't know if your body can be cut directly?" The woman gritted her teeth and said, "Li, although you are married to your second wife, she is still a well-educated and sensible lady. I won't argue with you. But now you actually want to take the woman with fireworks home? Shameless! I've read the books of sages and sages into the dog's belly! If I don't chop you, it's hard to get rid of the hatred in my heart! I can't throw it away! It's hard to live with this man!" After the woman said this, she raised her kitchen knife and was about to chop him.
"No, madam!" A stone flew out of the office and knocked the kitchen knife out of the woman's hand. Then a man came out and stood in front of Magistrate Li neatly - it was Cen Baotou.
"Xiaocui is not a fireworks woman, she was framed, and I am just helping her!" County Magistrate Li shouted while hiding behind Cen Rong.
"Madam, I will find out whether what the Lord said is true. It won't be too late for you to pursue it at that time!" Cen Rong replied.
"Okay! Chief Cen is begging for mercy for you today. I'll let you go for the time being. If what you say is found to be true, I will spare you. If there is even the slightest bit of falsehood, I will report it to my father and let you eat it when the time comes. If you can't walk around in circles, I'll let you go home and farm in the end!" The woman put down her harsh words and walked into the county government office carelessly.
After the woman walked in, Magistrate Li stood up disdainfully, curled his lips and said, "I'm afraid you won't make it."
Cen Rong looked at the tough-talking Magistrate Li in front of him and couldn't laugh or cry, so he could only say: "Sir, let me go and explore Xiaocui's background."
"Go, go! Xiaocui has just arrived in Qingshui County not long ago, what bad things can she do? Really!" Magistrate Li looked confident.
"Sir, there are outsiders settling in Qingshui County. Master Shao has never told me about this." Cen Rong reminded doubtfully.
County Magistrate Li said: "I'm not very sure. Master Shao is also very busy these days. Maybe I accidentally missed it. Mr. Cen, go check it out. I haven't been feeling well recently. I need to trouble you more about this matter." , I’m going to rest first.”
Qianqiu, who was not far away, heard the entire conversation and observed Magistrate Li. At this moment, Xiaodao touched his hand with his head and raised his head towards Magistrate Li.
"Xiao Dao, you discovered it! The county magistrate seems to have a demonic aura on him? But the feeling is not very strong. I guess it has something to do with the Xiao Cui he mentioned!" Qianqiu said to himself.
"Brother Qian, we meet again by chance." While Qian Qiu was thinking to himself, Cen Rong saw him biting his nails on the side of the road and walked over.
Qianqiu nodded: "I just came out of the Dong Mansion to get some air, Cen Baotou, by the way, what level of cultivation have you reached?" He asked with a smile.
"Don't dare. I practiced because I had some broken cultivation books at home since I was a child. I practiced casually. I have been wandering around as a beginner magician for several years. I should have achieved this level of achievement in this life. However, I think Brother Qian At such a young age, you are accompanied by spiritual beasts, so your cultivation must be very good. I wonder where you studied?"
"I practiced it myself, just messing around. Capt. Cen is overly praised." Qianqiu waved his hand casually, "By the way, Capt. Cen is going to find Mr. Li's lover?"
"Exactly, although Mrs. Li is lax about concubinage, she attaches great importance to the status of concubines. If she is a subordinate, she will not help you to deal with it, for fear that there will no longer be a happy life in the yamen." Cen Rong said with a little helplessness, and said angrily.
Qianqiu looked at Mr. Cen in front of him and then at the yamen door: "I think Mrs. Li's words are a little vulgar, but her words are reasonable, and she can be regarded as a hero among women. However, what you do is not very authentic."
Cen Rong nodded, with a deep sense of recognition, and said: "Heroes see the same thing."
"Does the arrest of the head know that there are demons causing trouble in Qingshui County?" Qianqiu suddenly thought of the demonic aura on Magistrate Li just now and asked.
Cen Rong raised his head: "Brother Qian, what do you say? Although there are often strange things in Qingshui County, I have never found any traces of monsters. Recently, there have been a series of missing girls, which seems to be man-made, but there are some strange places. I am I’ve thought about the possibility of monsters, but I’ve never been able to find any clues.”
"Can you tell me in detail? Maybe I can help you solve this case." Qianqiu looked at Capt. Cen and said.
Cen Baotou nodded: "Brother Qian, if you are where you are, I would love to have you help me."
"Okay, how long has it been since the first case? How many girls have disappeared? Where did it happen?"
"In seven days, there are probably four Nana who have returned so far. The first one to come to the Yamen to report the case was the tailor Hu Qizhen, and his daughter was the first to go missing. There are also the butcher's daughter and the blacksmith. Dayong's daughter." Cen Rong told Qianqiu the details of the case in detail. If Qianqiu can help solve the case, he won't have to worry about not having help when he encounters a monster.
"You go to Xiaocui, can you take me with you? I also want to take a look. The monster thing is probably related to her. I am entrusted by someone to clean up the monster and then leave Qingshui County." Qianqiu spoke loudly.
"Brother Qian, I hope I can get your help. I can't help but solve this case! Let's go!" Cen Rong was overjoyed and said happily.
While talking, the two of them arrived at Fangxiang Pavilion. The distance from the county government office to Fangxiang Pavilion was not far.
"This is Fangxiang Pavilion. Xiaocui's full name is Liu Xiaocui. Although she has been here not long ago, she is said to be the top girl in Fangxiang Pavilion."
Qianqiu said with a smile: "She became the number one in a place not long after she arrived. This girl must be pretty!"
Cen Rong squinted his eyes and glanced at Qianqiu: "Brother Qian knows this way so well, could it be..."
Qianqiu quickly waved his hands to express that he didn't understand very well: "I don't understand, I really don't understand! I've never been there!" In fact, he really didn't understand. He often heard his master talk about various things in the world. Just wrote it down.
Cen Rong looked at the anxious Qianqiu, raised his eyebrows, and smiled again.
After entering the gate of Fangxiang Pavilion, the old woman who was sitting and resting on the side quickly came up to her: "Hey! Such a energetic little brother! It seems that you are not a local. Is this your first time here? The girls are still resting, little brother. Would you like some tea first?" It was noon at this time, so it was indeed a bit early.
At this time, the old woman saw Capt. Cen behind her, and her expression changed. She went from being attentive to being a little nervous: "Capt. Cen, you are a girl, isn't it appropriate to come here?"
"Nonsense, I'm here to investigate the case!" Capt. Cen slapped his official knife on the table, leaving several marks on the table.
"Hey! Chief Cen, I didn't recruit you today, what are you doing!" The old woman glanced at the ash wood table with distress.
Cen Rong said with a straight face, "Call Liu Xiaocui out. I have something to ask her."
When the old lady heard this, although she was a little unhappy, she still agreed and hurriedly turned around the front hall and entered the back room.
After a while, a pungent fragrance filled the front hall, and a delicate voice came from the back room: "Who is it? You are looking for me so early. Don't you know that I won't be working in the afternoon?" Before anyone arrived, the smell wafted over first. . After a while, an extraordinarily charming woman wearing a bright floral dress came out, twisting her waist.
Qianqiu took a look. Although the woman in front of her was charming, she couldn't bear to take a closer look. Although there were many gorgeous headdresses, they were very complicated and had no sense of beauty. They were not as beautiful as the small gold lock hanging around her neck. He thought Xiao Cui was so good-looking, but when he looked closely, compared with the princess, he was like a cellar with eighteen levels of hell underground, and a dome with nine levels in the sky.
I haven't seen the princess for a long time, and I don't know how she is doing.
Seeing the young woman in front of him, Qianqiu couldn't help but think of the lovely demon princess from two years ago.
"Hey, it turns out it's Capt. Cen, what do you want from me?" Liu Xiaocui restrained himself a lot when he saw that he was Capt. Cen, the famous Capt. Cen of Qingshui Town.
"Liu Xiaocui, I have nothing to do with you. I just want to ask you about the outsiders." Cen Rong sat down and poured a cup of tea and said to Liu Xiaocui.
Liu Xiaocui sat down, looked at Qianqiu who was standing behind him, and then looked at Cen Captou: "Cen Captou, I've registered with the county government."
"Without counting, let me ask you an answer. Where are you from? When did you come to Qingshui County? Why did you come?"
"Oh, I have to ask again. My family is in Hujia Village, northwest of Qingshen Mountain, in Qingshui County, where I came a month ago. I was sold here by my uncle." Liu Xiaocui became impatient as he spoke.
"Is what she said true?" Cen Rong looked at the old woman who was accompanying him.
"Yes, it was her uncle who sold her here a month ago. Her uncle is really not a good thing. He sold such a pretty girl just as soon as he said she would. However, the girl refused, cried and made trouble, and he did it in front of everyone. Hit her in front of others. I couldn't bear to buy it," the old woman said slowly and leisurely while shaking her fan.
"I heard that the county magistrate wants to redeem her life?" Cen Rong continued to ask.
"I'm guessing what the county magistrate's idea was, but he did mention it to me. When I went to the county government office the next day to find out, didn't your brothers beat me out?" the old woman said disdainfully. replied.
"Liu Xiaocui, what do you usually do?" Cen Rong let the old woman go and asked Liu Xiaocui.
"I usually go to bed in the morning. When I get up in the afternoon, if it doesn't rain, I go for a walk on the street. Then I dress up. You know what it's like at night." Liu Xiaocui laughed so hard.
Cen Rong and Qianqiu couldn't help but feel sick.
After asking some other questions, the two came out of Fangxiang Pavilion.
Cen Rong looked at Qianqiu: "Brother Qian, what have you discovered after asking so many questions?"
Qianqiu thought for a moment and said, "This Xiaocui is a monster, but not the monster who kidnapped Dong Na."
"Monster?" Cen Rong was startled by these words. She also tried to detect it just now and found that Xiao Cui didn't have any demonic aura.
"First, the perfume on her body smells very strong. Firstly, it is a girl's dressing habit, and secondly, it is to cover up her fox smell. Secondly, she said she is from Hujia Village, but why is her surname Liu? It must be There is a problem. Thirdly, the northwest of the Holy Mountain is where foxes gather. A large number of fox spirit beasts may also be vixens. Fourthly, if she is an ordinary woman from a good family, I don’t think she can be so fast in less than a month. To integrate into the identity of the Fireworks Woman, it is either talent or intentionality, maybe both. The last point, and the most important point, is that I can tell that she is a fox." Qianqiu showed off at the end. .
Cen Rong listened seriously at first, but was choked by Qianqiu's last sentence: "Then why are you talking so much?"
Qianqiu smiled: "Let me tell you, when the time comes to arrest people, there will be a reason."
"Then I'm going to catch this vixen now." Cen Rong said, drawing his knife.
"Captain Cen, don't worry. The monster that captured Dong Na that day was not her. The smell is wrong. Don't catch her now. It's easy to scare the snake away."
"OK!"
"Let's go to the tailor Hu Qizhen's house and have a look. Maybe we'll find something new. Mr. Cen, please lead the way."
