The ghost hooked

Hearing that Xue Baigui and the others were going to the East City, Cheng Fu was very enthusiastic and summoned a yamen servant, saying: "Your Majesty, the roads in the East City are complicated, and you need someone who is familiar with the terrain to lead the way, so you can find someone, so let this yamen servant lead the way." You go, okay?"

It would be great if someone led the way, Xue Baigui said, "Thank you, Mr. Cheng."

"Your Majesty is polite."

Dongcheng District is the place where ordinary people in Quanzhou prefecture live. Most of the people here are doing small jobs, and the money they get will be enough for a family to live on.

This area has been like this for decades, and neighbors know each other. Even people who died seven years ago, after a little inquiry, some people still remember them.

The yamen servant who led the way was very familiar with this place, following the instructions of the locals, he led the people to a house.

This family lived in the depths of the alley, and there were neighbors on the left and right. The road in front of the door was not wide enough, and the carriage could not drive in. Yuan Qingrong and Xue Xiujie were left waiting in the carriage, and the rest of the people and dogs came here on foot.

The yamen servant went forward and knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered, so he asked the neighbors beside him.

When the neighbor opened the door and saw that it was a yamen servant, he was a little scared, and asked cautiously: "My lord, I don't know what you want from me?"

"Is there anyone in that family in the east?" the yamen servant asked.

"Are you asking old lady Xu? She must have gone out to drink." The man replied.

"Then what does Mrs. Xu do for a living? Do you know how many people there are in the family?" the yamen servant asked again.

The man replied: "Her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson are all gone, and now she is the only one left. What kind of business do you do? In the early years, she was a well-known midwife who delivered babies, but I don't know about it in the past two years."

"Do you know when she will be back?"

"I don't know."

The yamen servant informed Xue Baigui of the situation he had inquired about, and waited for his order.Xue Baigui looked down at Xiaobao who was beside him.

When he got close, Xiaobao suddenly remembered that Qin Qing was dead, and he couldn't see anyone here.

Looking at the dilapidated courtyard gate, Xiaobao sighed, hugged the little white dog in his arms tightly, and said, "Let's go back."

Xiaobao, who was not in a high mood, recovered after only one night. Of course, this was all thanks to Xue Baigui, who loves games. This can be verified from the red lips of the two.

On the second day, Xue Baigui went to Dongcheng again as Xiaobao wanted.

This time they only brought Wuying and Xiaobaigou with them when they went out. Xue Xiujie lamented that every time he went out with Xiaobao, he was physically and mentally exhausted, so he decided to stay at the inn.

Ever since Qin Huai was molested by Wu Ying that day, every time he looked at him with the white of his eyes, he didn't want to go with him.

Dongcheng was still in its dilapidated state. After depositing the carriage in front of a store, the three of them walked into the narrow alley with a dog.

Wuying went to the door of that family yesterday, knocked, and waited for a long time, but still no one answered the door.

At this moment, the door of a nearby house opened, and it was the neighbor from yesterday. He saw familiar faces and asked, "Are you the ones who came with Yamen servant yesterday?"

Xue Baigui nodded and said, "Exactly."

"Oh, you are looking for the old lady Xu," said the neighbor, "I told her when she came back last night. I think she should be at home now."

"Are you sure she hasn't gone out again since she came back?" Xue Baigui asked.

"I seem to have heard a knock on the door last night, but I'm not sure." The neighbor replied.

A widowed old lady didn't sleep at home, where could she go, Xue Baigui asked again: "Do you know if she has any relatives?"

"That's not clear. Although I haven't seen her work much, she is doing well. I don't know if relatives are helping us."

Thinking that the matter of marriage is over, everyone should set off to return to the capital in a few days, Wuying suggested in a low voice: "I'll go in and take a look, if no one is there, then let's go ahead and knock on the door again That's right."

Xue Baigui glanced at Xiaobao, felt that this method was feasible, and said to the neighbor: "Thank you for letting me know, sorry for the trouble."

The three of them went out of the alley with a dog, and Wu Ying went back alone. When there was no one on the road, they climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard of that family.

Perhaps there is God's will in the dark, Xiao Bao only wanted to see the place where Qin Qing lived before his death. If he had relatives, he wanted to take care of him. After all, when he was in Zhang Village, Nanny Qin was very kind to him.

Unfortunately, the development of things was far from unexpected.

Wuying flew back in less than a cup of tea, and brought back bad news.

Wuying said to the two of them: "There is an old woman in the house, she has already passed away. Judging from the situation, she should have died at night."

Unexpectedly, he ran into a dead person, Xiaobao was startled, and asked, "Dead, dead?"

Seeing Wuying nodded, Xue Baigui also frowned. Since they already knew about life and death, they couldn't pretend that they hadn't encountered it.

He said: "It's troublesome, go find the yamen servant from yesterday and ask him to help call the door, if it's really impossible, let him lead someone to break in."

Although Wuying didn't have a reason to kill the old woman, it's hard to explain why he jumped into the wall. Wuying nodded, jumped onto the roof, and flew away.

In less than half an hour, Wuying came back with two yamen servants. After the yamen servants broke into the door, the death was exposed.

During the whole process, only Wuying negotiated with the officials, Xue Baigui did not show up, he accompanied Xiaobao into the carriage.

It was the first time for Xiaobao to experience the death of a dead person, and he felt cold all over his body. Even in this warm early autumn, he also felt as if his whole body had been soaked in ice water. He hugged the little white dog tightly and leaned against Xue Baigui's arms, and asked, "Baigui , What is it like when a person dies?"

Naturally, Xue Baigui couldn't tell the tragedy of human death, so he had to skip this step and said: "It is said that people have three souls and seven souls, haven't you seen ghosts?"

"En," Xiao Bao nodded, and said, "I've seen it before, there is one beside me..."

Speaking of this, Xiao Bao suddenly sat up straight, looked at Xue Baigui with wide eyes, and said, "Baigui, I lost the coward!"

"lost?"

Xiaobao regretted: "I went out to watch the excitement in the back street that day. I went out with a red umbrella, but I was in a hurry to go back later, so I forgot the umbrella there."

"How about I find someone to help you find the umbrella?" Xue Baigui asked.

Shaking his head, Xiaobao said: "It's useless, the red umbrella can only make cowards come out in the daytime, even if the umbrella is lost, he can find it by himself, but after all these days, he still hasn't come back. You must not want to come back."

"Maybe he was reincarnated by fate!" Xue Baigui comforted: "I heard that after a person dies, his soul will be taken to the underworld by ghost messengers, where he will walk across the Naihe bridge and drink Mengpo soup, and he will forget his previous life. , and then reincarnated to go back to the next life.”

"You mean they will all forget me?" Xiao Bao asked a little unhappy.

Wrapping Xiaobao in his arms again, Xue Baigui said: "Everyone will go through reincarnation life after life, don't be obsessed with separation, you should think that maybe one day you will meet their reincarnation, after reincarnation they will live happily Very good, you should be happy to see them doing well."

After a pause, Xue Baigui said again: "There are too many people in this world, you don't want to remember too much, just remember me, okay? I will always be by your side." After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and kissed Xiaobao's forehead.

Xue Baigui always gently soothes Xiaobao's sorrow and illuminates the shadow in his heart.

Before he knew it, Xue Bai had become Xiaobao's reliance, and Xiaobao leaned on him and thought: It's nice to have such a person by his side.

Wuying waited outside the carriage for a while, and heard no sound from inside, so he raised the curtain and said, "I've checked the work, Mrs. Xu died of poisoning, but I don't know if she committed suicide or homicide."

After a pause, Wuying said again: "Master Cheng just wanted to report the case, but I declined."

Xue Baigui nodded, and said: "Well, I have no official position, I only have the name of a county king, and he doesn't need to report to me. Let's go back to the inn, Mr. Yuan may be interested in this case."

After the three of them drove back to the inn in the carriage and told the waiting people about the murder case, Xue Xiujie quietly glanced at Xiaobao, then exhaled again, and said in his heart: Fortunately, he didn't follow out, he knew It's not a good thing to be with Xiaobao.

Yuan Qingrong came for an unannounced visit, so it was naturally inconvenient to show up, so he ordered a guard to investigate the situation.

Since the person was dead, and there was no need for everyone to stay, they planned to leave for Beijing the next day.It's a pity that there are some people, no, there should be ghosts, and they won't let them get what they want.

Because Xiaobao has to play house with Xue Baigui every day, so the little white dog slept in Wuying's room a few days ago, and he didn't want to be Xiaobao's son!

Today Xiaobao felt very uncomfortable, and wanted to sleep with the little white dog in his arms, Xue Baigui naturally agreed, seeing that the two of them didn't intend to play games anymore, Zhang San happily stayed.

Unexpectedly, just when it was time to fall asleep, an unexpected guest came to the house.

Just as the two of them and the dog lay down, the sound of chains mopping the floor was heard in the room.

Xiaobao struggled to sit up, and saw two more people in the room, one was a man in black clothes and black hat holding a wooden pestle that he had seen in Yunlai Village, and the other was an old woman with a heavy chain.

Hei Wuchang bowed in the direction of the bed, and said, "My lord, this is the soul of Mrs. Xu. King Qin Guang asked his subordinates to bring it for you to have a look at."

The little white dog yawned lazily, stretched his front paws, and then slowly climbed onto Xiaobao's lap and sat down, clearly showing the posture of "say something quickly".

Seeing a person and a dog sitting up, Xue Baigui had a guess in his heart, and he asked, "But is there a ghost?"

Thinking that he could neither see nor hear, Xiao Bao repeated Hei Wuchang's words.

Xue Baigui quickly got up, put on his coat, and sat on the head of the bed.

Hei Wuchang kicked old lady Xu's soul, and Xu old lady knelt down due to force in her knees. Hei Wuchang said: "Tell me about it!"

Mrs. Xu raised her head and glanced at Xue Baigui who was dressed in red, and said with a sad face, "My lord, I was wronged!"

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