The cold wind slapped the door violently, making a 'pah pah pah' sound.
Lu Anran sat on the chair, the tea in her hand quickly lost its temperature. She raised her head and faced a group of menacing villagers.
Village Chief Yin, who was leading the charge, had a gloomy look on his face, with a hint of anxiety between his brows, "Miss Lu, if you come to live here, our Yin Village has not treated you badly, and please don't make these unfounded jokes."
"What do you mean?" Lu Anran pushed away the tea cup and stood up. Chun Miao quickly took the cloak that she had just taken off and put it on her.
"Village Chief, I have already told you that this woman is not a good person. Look at how much pain our Ah Guai was at that time. As a doctor, she didn't even take her seriously. How can she have the benevolence of a doctor?" The old lady took the opportunity to show up and chattered, "We have lived in the village for decades, and we have never seen any ghosts. But these people make a mess as soon as they come to the village. If there are ghosts, they must be them." Brought.”
Emotions are easily aroused, and the other villagers looked at Lu Anran a little strangely.
Lu Anran frowned, her eyes as clear as a lake, without any waves, "I said, you can choose to treat it or not. I have no objection."
Aguai immediately retracted her head, fearing that her son might be up to no good, so she didn't dare to push him forward.
Looking at Village Chief Yin, the latter said solemnly: "Let's talk about the haunting separately. Su Su disappeared tonight. When we were looking for her, we found that the footprints she left were consistent with yours. What do you have to say?"
When he went there, he followed 'Old Lady Yin'. Lu Anran could see clearly that there were only 'Old Lady Yin''s footprints in the snow after leaving the village, and Yun Qi was following her. As for coming back, they sent Widow Wang off first, so they took a longer detour. However, to facilitate walking in the village, the snow had been cleared, and there were no footprints to speak of.
"Susu left the village?"
Yin Tianming looked anxious and said: "Miss Lu, if you and Mr. Yun are joking with us, it's so late, please hand Su Su over quickly. The weather is too cold, and a child like her can't bear it."
Chunmiao raised her brows, stood in front of Lu Anran with her hands on her hips, and sneered: "What are you talking about? You just slandered our young lady with your mouth. You can't bear to watch your own children. Do you want us to babysit your children?"
Village Chief Yin said with a straight face, "I have a few questions. Please answer them truthfully, Miss Lu."
Lu Anran nodded: "Okay."
"Has Miss Lu been out of the village tonight?"
"yes."
"Where?"
Lu Anran pondered for a moment and said truthfully: "Xishan."
"Xishan?! That's not..." the villagers screamed.
The village chief glanced at the other party sharply and continued to ask Lu Anran: "What are you doing there?"
Lu Anran was silent for a longer time than before. As she took out the letter, a casual tone behind her said: "The scenery is beautiful in the evening. I will ask Miss Lu to have some fun. Is the village chief also interested?"
This tone was indescribably scornful, with an innate sense of dignity and pride, but the content was too imaginative.
Therefore, Lu Anran once again received strange looks from everyone.
"The direction Su Su left is consistent with your footprints." Village Chief Yin's tone became more severe.
Yunqi slapped his jade bone fan and smiled charmingly: "Village chief, you should understand that we are all men. You have beauty in front of you. Do you want to bring a child to spoil the scenery?"
Without looking for any trace, he patted back the letter that Lu Anran had pulled out of his sleeve, and then said to the villagers: "Oh, by the way, didn't the village chief tell you?"
"say what?"
"Jin, that's the ghost. She said that there are evil people hiding in your village, and she will come to claim her life at ten o'clock in the night." Yun Qi waved a jade bone fan in an unruly manner, and his tone was teasing, but it made the people who heard it tremble with fear. , "You have to think carefully about whoever has trouble with her on weekdays. Maybe she will come to you tonight."
The villagers were in an uproar and couldn't help but take a few steps back.
Village Chief Yin said coldly: "Master Yun, please don't deceive the people and make lies."
Yun Qi slowly put on a devilish smile: "Village Chief, if I were you, instead of fighting each other here, it would be better to look for little Susu everywhere, what do you think?"
Village Chief Yin gave Yun Qi a deep look and said, "There are a lot of things going on tonight, so I would like to ask Mr. Yun and Miss Lu not to leave the room." After that, he led the villagers to leave.
There was a "click" sound from the door outside the courtyard, and Yunqi shrugged: "He put us under house arrest."
"Miss, it turns out that you and Prince Yun went to enjoy the night view?" Chun Miao said weakly when the atmosphere was quiet.
Lu Anran turned to look at her, Chunmiao covered her mouth with her hands and stepped back consciously.
Yun Qi looked at Lu Anran with a smile and said, "Why, I finally saved you from the siege. Are you dissatisfied?"
"I'm not a ungrateful person." Lu Anran raised his head and looked at the night sky, "The prince just said those words because of the situation, I won't mind."
Yun Qi raised his eyebrows: "Not bad."
"How does the Crown Prince know that Village Chief Yin doesn't want everyone to know about the blood letter?"
"This prince has a plan that will not be forgotten."
The yard became quiet, the barking of dogs gradually faded away, and soon, a row of winding firelights flickered halfway up the mountain.
"You can't even see me, why don't you go in." Yun Qidang stepped into the room first and called out to Chun Miao: "Little girl, go and make a pot of tea. White tea is light in taste and bitter at the tip. It's winter. ..." He slapped the fan handle into the palm of his hand, "It's best to get some Jiuquhong, it nourishes the heart and warms the stomach."
Lu Anran was silent for a moment, wondering if it was too easy to use someone else's maid.
Chun Miao pulled at the doorframe and said, "Sir, let alone Jiuquhong, even Maojian and white tea are not available at this moment."
Yun Qi lifted up the hem of his clothes and sat down. His embroidered flowing robe made a ripple of light under the light. He was indescribably dignified and self-possessed. He waved his folding fan to cover half of his face, leaving only a pair of romantic eyes exposed. "Not at all." I hope you can find something good, just go and get it from my wife’s room.”
Lu Anran, who was so despised, sat on the chair next to him and raised his eyes to meet the prince's evil eyes.
Yun Qi saw the shoo-in look on her face and smiled: "Take a sip of your tea, and I'll help you with something big later."
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After a cup of tea, Lu Anran stood in the deserted and empty corridor. The north wind blew loudly, like a mountain ghost roaring, and her cloak was fluttering like a mess.
"Is this the big thing you want to help me with?" Lu Anran looked at Yunqi next to him.
Yun Qi pointed forward with the hand holding the fan, "Aren't you very curious?"
Lu Anran pursed her lips, looked at Guan Yue in front of her and made a very smooth lock picking movement, and said from the bottom of her heart: "You are a very thoughtful guard."
Guan Yue crooked his leg and almost tripped over the threshold. His forehead was full of black lines and he was struggling in his heart. He is a professional guard, a professional!
As Yun Qi and Lu Anran went in one after another, they looked at the moon and looked at the sky and sighed: In the past, they were digging soil and digging stones, and now they are picking locks and breaking into doors. The prince does not know how much potential he has to dig out.
Yun Qi took out the fire certificate and said, "By the way, before I came to see you just now, I asked Guanyue to take a look. Widow Wang didn't lie."
Lu Anran nodded. She originally planned to ask Xu Jia to check it out, but it was delayed due to Su Su's disappearance. Unexpectedly, Yun Qi was quite attentive.
"Do you feel that this prince has insight into the opportunity and is a little admired?"
Lu Anran directly skipped this sentence and said: "Widow Wang did not lie, but someone wanted us to see her."
Yunqi touched his nose: "Because of the lilac flowers?"
"We did find Widow Wang because of the scent."
"Since we have made a ghost letter from the Jin family, why does it not seem contradictory to have an extra Widow Wang?"
Lu Anran frowned: "I don't know this, but the woman I told you about the opera also smells like this."
"Exactly the same?" Yunqi lit the oil lamp on the table.
"No, Widow Wang's is stronger, while that woman's is lighter and more complex."
Yun Qi turned around and tapped his arm with a fan, "Your nose is abnormal compared to normal people."
Lu Anran didn't reply and already stood in front.
In front of him was a door panel that had been removed from somewhere and was covered with white linen, revealing the outline of a human figure.
"There is something I can't figure out." Yun Qi came over and stood on the same line as Lu Anran, "It's true that if you want to kill people as stated in the blood book, you shouldn't capture Su Su's child."
Lu Anran said: "Her surname is also Yin."
Yun Qi clicked his tongue: "When you talk, you are even less emotional than the one in front of you."
Lu Anran turned his head. In the dim room, his eyes looked even deeper and darker. It was like a stagnant water with no ups and downs. "It is not suitable for the prince to bring him here because he is rich in emotions."
Yun Qi said slightly unseriously: "I'm afraid the people in Yinjia Village regard you and me as suspects now. I have no choice but to take advantage of Miss Lu's cleverness and resourcefulness so that I can leave as soon as possible."
Guanyue squatted on the tree facing the room to look out for the wind. He looked around and wondered to himself: "These two people have been looking at the corpse for a long time. Is this a new way for men and women to enhance their relationship?"
In the room, Lu Anran put on a pair of sheepskin gloves that he took out from his sleeve pocket, lifted up the white linen cloth, and directly touched the miserable face with his hand.
Even Yun Qi couldn't bear it and backed away a little. Lu Anran's calm voice had already sounded: "The face is swollen and cyanotic, there is bleeding under the eyelids, and the pulse in the neck is raging, huh?"
"What's wrong?" Yun Qi was about to take a step forward, but when he saw Lu Anran approaching and almost lying on the corpse, he couldn't help but twitching the corner of his mouth.
"There are traces of bleeding in the ears, mouth and nose." Lu Anran looked around and found nothing to use, took out a piece of fine silk, pulled out a hairpin from his head, and didn't know what he took out of Yin Tianxiang's nose and put it aside, and then started Undress the deceased.
Yun Qi asked: "What does this mean?"
Lu Anran took off the deceased's coat, folded it and put it aside, then began to unbutton his inner coat, "Let's talk about it after the examination."
