[Water Margin] Ximen is a fake official

The candlelight was flickering, the light was cold, and Pan Jinlian's beautiful face was stained with blue.

Pan Jinlian brushed Ximen Qingqing's cheeks with her slender fingers, held her face in her hands, and parted her red lips slightly: "Officer?"

Ximen Qingqing touched his arm with goosebumps, and thought: I haven't used the "charm" skill yet, so you're charmed?

And... why is even Pan Jinlian taller than her!

In this famous book, she is only a little taller than the three-inch Ding Wu Dalang, isn't she?

So angry!

Ximen Qingqing put on a fake smile: "This sister-in-law Wu, please stay away from me."

Hearing her address, the coquettish and glamorous Pan Jinlian choked, and retracted her fingers with a smile.

"The officials are really ruthless."

Ximen Qingqing: "I'm really sorry, ruthlessness is my characteristic, and readers like my unique beauty."

The corner of Pan Jinlian's mouth twitched, she turned around and continued to go upstairs.

Ximen Qingqing stroked his chin.

Hearing her tone, she seemed to know him, and he also felt that she was somewhat familiar, not the familiarity in this body's memory, but the familiarity in her own memory.

Ximen Qingqing looked down at the palm, where there was a handful of black hair lying on it.

……

Pan Jinlian took the two of them upstairs to the bedroom, and Wu Song kept staring at her vigilantly.

Ximen Qingqing walked around the room before looking under the bed.

Wu Song couldn't help asking: "Look what you can find under the bed?"

Ximen Qingqing: "Wardrobe, wastebasket and under the bed, those are the three places that detectives must check."

Relying on her small stature, she almost got under the bed.

Wu Song walked straight over, stretched out his hand, and lifted the whole bed up with a "hoo" in his mouth.

Ximen Qingqing looked under the bed, and suddenly found that his surroundings became brighter.

She raised her head and met Wu Song's gaze.

Wu Song smiled, "Your official, you can see it more clearly this way."

Ximen Qingqing coughed, "Thank you very much."

Wu Song shook his head: "I can only do my best for the officials. I don't even know what stupid things I have done now."

He listened to other people's words and went to kill his sister-in-law Pan Jinlian and Ximen officials.

As a result, the person who should have been killed by him was here, and the adulterer he thought was innocent.

What had happened to him all day seemed like a dream, a strange nightmare.

Pan Jinlian's eyes wandered between the two, and she asked with a smile, "What did the officials find?"

Ximen Qingqing patted the ashes on his hands, "I found..."

Pan Jinlian and Wu Song pricked up their ears at the same time.

"...You haven't cleaned the bottom of your bed for a long time, and the mice are wandering around."

Pan Jinlian and Wu Song: "..."

Pan Jinlian put her hand on her chin and said with a half-smile: "The official said that there are a lot of rats recently, not only in my house, but also in the Wang Po's house next door. I put a lot of rat poison in the house. .”

Hearing the name "Wang Po", Wu Song pursed his lips.

Ximen Qingqing had been paying attention to the expressions of the two of them, and when he saw the strange expression on his face, he said, "Isn't this Wang Po the one who told you that Mrs. Wu and I were not innocent?"

"It seems that I have to go to the tea house."

Ximen Qingqing brushed his wet hair and prepared to go downstairs briskly.

Pan Jinlian glanced at her tightly clenched hands, moved her footsteps, and blocked the stairs, "Wang Po can't escape even if she is next door. It's so late, why don't the officials stay here for a night first?"

As she spoke, she put her hand on Ximen Qingqing's shoulder.

Wu Song pulled out the sharp knife abruptly, and put the knife still stained with Pan Jinlian's blood on her neck.

The candlelight flickered, and shadows swayed on the faces of the two.

Pan Jinlian was not afraid of his knife, and said in a lingering tone, "Uncle, are you going to use this knife that killed my family to kill my family again?"

"What did you say!" Wu Song widened his eyes.

His heart was pounding, and his back felt cold.

She...she knows!She knows it all!

Pan Jinlian opened her mouth to him, her mouth was pitch black, as if something was about to come out of it.

Wu Song couldn't move at all, and seemed to hear some strange tone in his ear.

At this moment, a slender hand suddenly reached out, clasped Pan Jinlian's chin backwards, lifted her up, and closed her mouth.

Wu Song hadn't recovered from the weird scene just now.

Pan Jinlian glanced at Ximen Qingqing sadly, "Officials..."

Ximen Qingqing let go of her hand, and gave her a warning look, "Let's go and find Wang Po, this kind of thing is only useful if you look for it in the middle of the night."

She raised the corners of her mouth, her eyes were burning, and her whole body was not in good spirits, "After all, people are most likely to be deceived into telling the truth in the middle of the night."

……

It was raining outside.

Fortunately, the two families are close to each other, and Wang Po Tea House is just a walk away from Pan Jinlian's house.

At this time, the door of the tea house was closed tightly, and there was no sound in the house.

Ximen Qingqing paid attention to his surroundings and motioned for Pan Jinlian to knock on the door.

Pan Jinlian raised her skirt and stepped lightly on Ximen Qingqing's feet with her embroidered shoes.

Ximen Qingqing looked at her, she smiled alluringly, and obediently went to knock on the door.

Pan Jinlian knocked on the door a few times, and after waiting for a while, there were rustling sounds from inside.

Wu Song stood by the door, paying attention to Pan Jinlian's actions, holding the knife handle tightly.

He looked at Pan Jinlian with a fear that he didn't even know.

Ximen Qingqing was speechless to this man who would kill with a knife at every turn, she warned in a low voice: "Don't kill!"

Wu Song nodded.

If he's not a human being... then he's not broken faith.

His hand pressed a fingerprint on the steam-soaked door.

Soon, Wang Po's voice came from the room: "Ahem, who is outside?"

Pan Jinlian glanced at Ximen Qingqing, and said, "Mother, it's me."

There was a sound of tinkling and clanging inside, as if Wang Po accidentally bumped into something.

Ximen Qingqing turned his head sideways.

Wang Po's panicked voice came: "Lady, why are you still looking for me at such a late hour?"

Pan Jinlian pretended to be uncomfortable, "Godmother, I ate my stomach at night, and I feel very uncomfortable, so I asked my godmother for some pills to take."

"This..." Wang Po was still hesitating.

Pan Jinlian's voice became weaker, "Mother!"

Wang Po: "Then, that's fine."

Soon, the door was opened a small crack.

Before the old lady inside could say anything, the impatient Wu Song kicked open the door, kicking the old lady who was hiding behind the door staggering.

Holding a sharp knife in his hand, Wu Song rushed in aggressively, reminding Wang Po of the scene when he broke in suddenly in the morning.

She sat on the ground, pale and trembling, "Er Erlang, why are you back?"

Wu Song said coldly: "Since you lied to me, do you still want to end well?"

He took a step forward.

Wang Po used both hands and feet, backed away again and again, and hurriedly said: "It's none of my business, it's none of my business!"

Wu Song: "Let me ask you, why did you lie to me that Ximen, a senior official, has something to do with my sister-in-law!"

Wang Po said in a trembling voice: "It's not Erlang, you rushed in aggressively. If I don't give an explanation, you will look like you are going to kill someone. I really have no choice. Considering that I am so old Come on, Erlang, please forgive me."

"Excuse me?" Wu Song approached with the tip of his knife.

Wang Po was frightened to death, and hurriedly asked for help from Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qingqing: "My lady, officials, hurry up, save me!"

Pan Jinlian blew on her nails, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Godmother, the world after death is even more interesting."

"You... ah!" Wang Po was so frightened that her hands and feet were shaking, and her trousers were wet.

Ximen Qingqing watched for a while, then suddenly said, "You poisoned me, right?"

Wang Po: "No, I will never do such a thing!"

Ximen Qingqing narrowed his eyes and said to Wu Song, "Look at her."

After that, she quickly walked around Wang Po's room.

Wang Po looked at her nervously, her eyes following her.

When she came back empty-handed, Wang Po immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Officer, you have misunderstood the old man."

Ximen Qingqing smiled slightly, "Really? Then what is this!"

Ximen Qingqing suddenly spread his palms, and presented the things hidden in his palms in front of Wang Po.

She was holding a packet of rat poison in her palm.

Wang Po's eyes trembled: "This... this is definitely not from our family!"

Ximen Qingqing lifted the hem of his clothes, squatted down in front of her, and asked with a smile, "Why are you so sure that this medicine is not from your house? After all, there are so many mice in your house, it is impossible not to use medicine."

Wang Po: "Then...that's because..."

Ximen Qingqing: "It's because you cleaned up everything and threw it away, so you don't have a pack of rat poison at home?"

"Why clean up? Because you have ghosts in your heart."

Her voice was gentle, and her words were unhurried, but she approached the truth step by step.

"Wang Ganniang, you deliberately put rat poison into the food and wine bought for Wu Dalang?"

Wang Po screamed: "No, no, I didn't mean it!"

As her words fell, the room fell silent.

Wang Po suddenly covered her mouth.

I, what did I say!

"Pfft." Ximen Qingqing lowered his head and smiled, "Thank you, godmother, for telling me. This bag of rat poison is indeed not from your house, but I brought it from Wu Dalang's house. It was just used to deceive you. I didn't expect you to come so soon. Just tell the truth."

"You didn't put this rat poison in the food and drink on purpose, but you accidentally dropped it in. You didn't notice it when you gave them the food and drink. When you came back to clean up the tea house, you found that the rat poison was scattered from the paper bag. You initially You didn’t pay attention, but later you heard that Wu Dalang’s cause of death was strange, and then you realized that your rat poison fell into the food, poisoning him to death. Since then, you have been in constant fear.”

"I saw that your treasure box is covered with a layer of dust. You must have no peace because of this matter, and you have no intention of washing it."

Wang Po's hair was disheveled, and she instantly aged many years. She said disconsolately: "The official seems to have seen it with her own eyes, and it is exactly as the official said."

She looked up at Ximen Qingqing, with a nervous expression on her face: "The old man just missed it temporarily, it was not intentional, should, should he be innocent?"

Ximen Qingqing stood up, behind her was the night that was still raining, and she was staring at Wang Po coldly with downcast eyes.

"The poisoning of Wu Dalang was indeed unintentional, but it was intentional to frame Pan Jinlian and me."

She questioned: "Wang Po, what crime should you have for instigating Wu Song to kill someone!"

Wang Po burst into tears and begged again and again: "Officials, please forgive me, officials, please forgive me, I will never dare again!"

Wu Song raised the sharp knife, but Ximen Qingqing grabbed his wrist.

He looked at Ximen Qingqing.

Ximen Qingqing lowered his eyes and said, "I can't forgive your sins, nor can I judge your sins. You will go to the government with us tomorrow morning."

Wang Po wanted to say something more.

Ximen Qingqing straightened his back, even though his body was thin, the shadow cast by the candlelight was extremely long.

She flicked her sleeves: "Wang Ganniang, you must atone for the sins you committed."

"Don't take chances, the truth will always be in the sun."

After that, she let go of her hand and looked at Wu Song.

Wu Song said forcefully: "Don't worry, since I have found the real culprit who killed my brother, I will naturally do what I promised you."

He lowered his eyes and glanced at Wang Po, "I will meet the official with you tomorrow morning."

Wang Po covered her face and wept bitterly.

……

Ximen Qingqing went out first, standing under the eaves, watching the rainwater like a pearl curtain, and the sound of footsteps came from behind.

After a while, a pair of arms protruded from behind her, and Ximen Qingqing grabbed her just before hugging her.

A chuckle came from behind, and the gentle voice was close to her ear.

"See you again, little detective."