Detective Case of Black Belly

Fu Qingkai was not in good health when he was a child, and even a little pungent smell would make him cough for days, not to mention the smoky smell when fireworks exploded.Later, when I grew up, my body became stronger, but I was too embarrassed to play.Today I don’t know why, my childlike innocence exploded, and I wanted to play with fireworks.

The fireworks stand is very small, and the fireworks sold are cheap ones.It's not the so-called, 'Lamp tree with thousands of lights, flowers and flames with seven branches. ' type, and some of them are just the kind that make a sound, smoke, and splash a few sparks.

Fu Qingkai was still very interested, picked out several of each kind, paid the money, and was about to take Wu Yuyan away, but saw the middle-aged woman who sold fireworks hesitated to speak.

"Auntie, is the amount of money wrong?" Fu Qingkai took the initiative to ask her.

The woman's head was tightly wrapped with a reddish-brown coarse cloth scarf, and a heavy knot was tied under her chin.Also because of this, the facial features on the face looked as if they were squeezed together, giving people an extremely aggrieved feeling.

When she heard Fu Qing's question, she lowered her head and nodded the copper plate in her hand, "How could the money given by the lord be wrong, yes, yes."

Fu Qing smiled friendly and prepared to leave.

"My lord." The woman called out timidly.

Fu Qing stopped walking, looked back at her with a gentle face, "What's wrong? Do you have any grievances to tell me?"

Is there anything wrong?Otherwise, why call me in charge?Fu Qingkai thought in his heart.

"Don't worry, just say something if you have something to say." Wu Yuyan had seen this woman's hesitant look a lot, it was only for people who have been wronged and are afraid of causing trouble by speaking out. "My lord and I are in front of you, what better opportunity is there?" Wu Yuyan added.

The woman muttered, seeing that she was about to say something, but was interrupted by a caller. "Xiao Sheng's mother!" A panting young man ran up to her, "Go home and have a look! I heard from Uncle Wang that Xiao Sheng is coughing up blood again!"

"Ah!" The woman suddenly panicked, and hurriedly tugged at the young man's cuffs with her red and chapped hands, "Dayong, help Auntie tidy up the mess."

"Okay! You can go!" The young man responded enthusiastically, and the woman trotted away in a hurry. Her steps were small and fast, with a sad sense of humor.

"What's the matter with you two? After buying it, do you still want to buy it?" The young man's greeting made Fu Qingkai look away.

Wu Yuyan took out the arresting token from his pocket and showed it to him, "So it's the official." The young man laughed.

"What's your name?" The young mung bean's eyes were thick and his mouth was big, and there was a gray stain on his left cheek. When he was standing, he couldn't help shaking his body, and he looked sluggish. Wu Yuyan subconsciously checked. up.

"Small name, Wu Dayong." He was not afraid, and was still smiling.

"What's the matter with this woman who sells fireworks?" Fu Qingkai was still a little worried.

"Hey, his youngest son is sick. Xiao Sheng grew up wearing a pair of trousers with me. You said that in the cold winter months, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines. Whether he can survive is a problem." Wu Dayong said He didn't tremble when he said this, and the mung bean's small eyes wrinkled, making them look even smaller, and he really looked worried.

"What's wrong?" Fu Qing simply asked clearly after asking.

Wu Dayong took a look at this white-faced and beardless county lord, and felt that it was a bit fresh, but when the truth came to his lips, he remembered the Wang family's instructions, so he swallowed the words back. "Well, the younger one is not a doctor, and he is also very stupid, so he can't tell why. Maybe it's tuberculosis?"

This Wu Dayong is a person who hangs out on the street all year round, and he doesn't change his face when he talks to the police and the county magistrate. Fu Qingkai didn't doubt him, but just nodded.

"My lord, if you don't mind, I have to help my aunt close this stall." Wu Dayong said with a smile on his face.

"Okay, you clean it up." Wu Yuyan said, and took Fu Qing to the side to give way.

This matter is so endless, Fu Qingkai can't help but worry a little, Wu Yuyan has known him for a long time, and he can guess his mind by looking at his expression.

"Don't think about it anymore. As the saying goes, if the people don't report it to the government, she won't investigate. What can we do? Besides, it may not be something that requires the yamen to intervene." Wu Yuyan comforted.

Fu Qing nodded, and Wu Yuyan beside him suddenly walked a few steps quickly, and stopped in front of an old sugar seller.

Fu Qing pursed her lips and thought, "I really raised me like a child, so I have to buy a candy man to coax me." Even though he was thinking this way, when Wu Yuyan walked back with the biggest Zhang Fei, the smile on Fu Qingkai's face still involuntarily grew bigger and bigger.

"Do you feel that the past few days have become warmer?" Fu Qing held Zhang Fei, walked briskly, and jumped from time to time.

Wu Yuyan took these small movements into his eyes, and the smile in his eyes became heavier, "Well, it seems that there may be heavy snow on New Year's Eve."

"Oh?" Fu Qing opened and handed the sugar figurine to Wu Yuyan, and let him take it away.He took a snow rabbit fur hat on the side of the road and put it on, "How is it?" He turned around and asked Wu Yuyan.

The snow rabbit's fur is pure white and flawless, without a single variegation, and the hat ears on both sides tightly cover the cheeks, making Fu Qingkai's complexion look fairer, his face smaller, and his chin sharper.

"It looks good." Wu Yuyan admired it sincerely.

The stall owner is a dark-skinned, narrow-faced foreigner, who probably came here from some waterway to do some fur business. He doesn't speak Chinese well. He watched Fu Qing try on the hat with a smile, but just applauded and nodded at the side. .

Wu Yuyan stepped forward and touched the furs on the stall, they were all pretty good ones.Wu Yuyan became interested, intending to add some winter fur goods for his family.

He was concentrating on picking goods, when a fur cap was put on his head, it was really warm and tight.

Fu Qingkai stared at him carefully, then muttered in dissatisfaction, "You're too handsome."

Wu Yuyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he took off the hat on his head and had a look, it was a black fox fur hat, it looked smooth, it was really pretty, and it matched the snow rabbit hat that Fu Qing wore very well.

Wu Yuyan moved two hats, two leather blankets and two scarves together, and asked, "How much?"

The foreigner understood this sentence, and danced excitedly, "Ten taels, ten taels!"

"Ten taels, this is too expensive." Fu Qing squeezed his poor purse.

"Not expensive, not expensive, good stuff! There are so many!" The stall owner waved his hands repeatedly.

Wu Yuyan twirled the leather goods he had picked out again. These goods can be said to be top-notch, and the price is so expensive that it cannot be said.Wu Yuyan reached out and took two more leather bracelets. The leather of these bracelets was processed to be soft and delicate, but without losing the original rough temperament of the leather.

Wu Yuyan put the bracelet together with the leather goods he wanted, and pointed, "Ten taels."

The stall owner thought about it for a while, and nodded simply.Wu Yuyan took out ten taels of silver from his pocket and gave it to him, ten taels of snowflake silver, Wu Yuyan didn't even bat an eyelid.

Fu Qingkai was a little strange, Wu Yuyan's monthly income was clear to him, and the ten taels of silver was by no means easy to get, so there might be some black income that he didn't know about.

"Qingkai? Qingkai?"

"Ah?" Fu Qing snapped back to his senses, and Wu Yuyan was looking at him, carrying a huge bundle that had been packed and tied up by the stall owner with ease. "Why are you in a daze, let's go?"

Wandering all the way down the street, the pedestrians on the road gradually became rare, and the sky gradually darkened.

Fu Qing was happy and still puzzled, she turned her head to look at Wu Yuyan from time to time, many times.Wu Yuyan simply turned around and asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

Fu Qing kept her lower lip in her mouth and said nothing, "Huh?" Wu Yuyan urged lightly.

"Let's talk about it when we go back." When Fu Qingkai thought that Wu Yuyan might have something to hide from him, even if he just thought about it like this, his heart began to turn sour.

Wu Yuyan was a little puzzled, and the two returned home in a hurry without saying a word. Wu Yuyan delivered the leather goods he bought for his parents and sister, and then returned to his home.

Fu Qingkai was nowhere to be found in the main room, Wu Yuyan sniffed lightly, smelled a trace of oily smoke, and went to the kitchen.Fu Qingkai was standing in front of the stove and was busy working. The water was boiling in the pot. He grabbed a handful of noodles and put them in. He looked very skillful.

Seeing Wu Yuyan coming, Fu Qingkai was a little embarrassed, "Do you want some noodles?"

"Eat." Wu Yuyan responded with a gulp. "Why do you want to make noodles by yourself?"

"It's nothing special. It's just a whim. I haven't eaten for a long time." Fu Qing was a little apprehensive. He hadn't cooked anything yet.

After a while of busy work, Fu Qing cooked the noodles and poured them into two large bowls. After tasting it herself, she frowned slightly.Before Wu Yuyan tasted it, the bowl was taken away by Fu Qing, "It's not tasty, don't eat it."

Wu Yuyan grabbed his wrist and took a sip of the noodle soup with his hand, "It's a little lighter."

Wu Yuyan walked to the stove, heated up the oil pan, cracked two eggs into it, added salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, and chili noodles, remixed a noodle soup, drained the noodles and poured them into the pan, and heated them up slightly. , filled out again.

Taking advantage of Wu Yuyan's ability to extinguish the stove fire, Fu Qingkai stooped and took a sip. It was salty, fragrant and slightly spicy, which was quite different from what he made.

"Go back to the house and eat." Wu Yuyan patted Fu Qingkai's buttocks, and reached out to pick up two bowls of noodles.

"You!" Fu Qing got annoyed, but followed Wu Yuyan obediently, the face was in his hands!

Fu Qingkai was eating noodles wheezingly, Wu Yuyan was not as anxious as him, on the contrary, he was more concerned about why Fu Qingkai was unhappy before.

"You haven't said why you were unhappy before." Wu Yuyan was quite reluctant.

The noodles in Fu Qing's bowl were almost bottomed out, so he simply picked up the bowl and drank the noodle soup in one gulp, his lips were slightly swollen and red from the pepper stimulation.