Murder

"All the things in the yard were grown at that time?" Sima Feng asked, "Who told you about the poison of these herbs? What's the name of the gentleman?"

"He didn't tell me what his name was." Chen Yunyue whispered, "Ah Qiao taught me to read, and that gentleman left me some pages explaining the toxicity of herbs, which I can understand. There used to be planted in the yard Yun Shi, after Liu Junyong died, I pulled them out."

Song Beiyan suddenly realized and nodded.

"The whole plant of Yunshi is poisonous, and people will become excited and manic if they eat it." He lowered his voice to talk to Chi Yebai, "Liu Junfu is old, and he will die if he eats too much of this stuff.... I'm telling the truth Yes, I didn't lie to you."

He desperately wanted to get Chi Yebai's affirmation and approval, Chi Yebai looked down at him and nodded: "En."

At this moment Sima Feng was still inquiring carefully about Mr. Chen Yunyue's appearance and clothes.

"He's quite tall, with a white face and a slight beard, always smiling." Chen Yunyue tried her best to recall, "Every time he came to see me, it was late at night, and he only stood in a dark corner of the courtyard. I couldn't see clearly. A white jade bracelet, I remember this."

Sima Feng looked back at Song Beiyan, and saw the young man's face was pale, he bit his lower lip tightly, his face was full of shock.

He smiled, feeling suspicious.Looking at Song Beiyan's expression, the gentleman Chen Yunyue mentioned must be his master.This man kills people and skins them, and even uses human skin to make lamps, he is quite a monster.What Sima Feng didn't understand was how his father met this kind of strange person, and even called him an "old friend". It was too incomprehensible.

"Where's Liu Junyong?" Sima Feng asked, "Did you kill her, or did that gentleman kill her?"

"...It's me." Chen Yunyue lowered her head and said, "I told him that I like Taoyuan at night and would like to have a drink with him in Taoyuan. Liu Junyong went there. He drank the wine I gave him, and in the wine I Added powdered larkspur, flavescens and rhododendron leaves."

She finally wiped the mud off the hem of her skirt.

"Old Dog Liu was also killed by me." Chen Yunyue's voice was very soft, "He abducted me and sold me to the Liu family. He was defiled. After Ah Qiao died, I married two people from the Liu family. The rumors circulating on Qingping Island are dirty and evil. But I am also very happy. Liu Laogou will not lose his guard and drink my wine."

She let go of the hem of the skirt, and immediately cheered up: "Look, it's clean!"

"If you kill someone, you have to pay with your life," Sima Feng said.

Chen Yunyue still smiled: "Okay, then pay."

Sima Feng: "You still have a child."

Chen Yunyue shook her head: "It's better without me. If she doesn't go back to Qingpingyu, just follow her cousin."

Sima Feng stopped talking.He still had doubts in his heart, but these doubts were not only directed at Chen Yunyue.

"You want to die, so you use this method to kill Liu Junyong and Liu Laogou." After thinking for a while, he said again, "You can do it in a more subtle way. Liu Laogou drank the wine with medicine, and at that time You are already powerless to resist, you can push him directly into the Jinyi River, but you want to strangle him to death. You don’t want to hide anymore, your death is decided. There is a human face lamp on the place where Liu Junyong died. We call this behavior ' Sign. The sign of the human face lamp has no direct connection with the corpse or the murder incident. Its appearance at the scene shows that the murderer needs this sign to accomplish other purposes besides killing people, and this Purpose goes way beyond even killing someone."

Chen Yunyue listened very seriously: "So you didn't believe that I was wronged at all?"

Sima Feng: "I don't trust anyone involved in the murder. Many times a murder is not done by one murderer, and there are many accomplices, intentional or unintentional."

He paused, then continued: "There are many reasons for the 'sign', the most common ones are revenge and curse. Your way of killing people is not clever, but what I am curious about is the gentleman who taught you how to make killing tools. "

The smile on Chen Yunyue's face slowly disappeared.

"Brother Patrolman." For the first time, her sincere emotions were revealed in what she said, "If I knew more, I would definitely tell you. But that gentleman is too mysterious. I know he is not a good person, but I I am grateful for the things he has done. Good and bad have long been unimportant to me. Rather than talking about good or bad, it is more refreshing to talk about how those wicked people deal with it."

She lowered her voice with a hint of viciousness.

"Brother Patrolman, do you think the grown-ups in Pengyang City don't know about the fledgling around Pengyang? Don't you really know that you are patrolling? I married Liu Feng, and I married Liu Junfu. The people in Qingping Island think that I am immoral, and at the same time talk about the various methods I use to seduce men. Don’t they know that I am being coerced? But will they speak for me? If I don’t kill them, are you willing? Going back to the nasty things that happened so long ago?"

She brushed the dust off her feet carefully.

"I can't help it. I wish I could die, and those wicked people would die too."

Sima Feng silently held the lamp and stood up.

"Sorry." He whispered.

Chen Yunyue really "pays for her life" as she said.

On the boat back to Pengyang City the next day, she was wearing a pillory weighing several jins, and while Sima Feng, Chi Yebai and the others were unaware, she turned over from the boat and jumped into the Yulan River.

At that time the boat had just left Qingping Island, the two policemen sat on the two ends with Sima Feng and Chi Yebai, and Chen Yunyue and Song Beiyan sat in the boat.The boat has no cabin, and the drizzle with peach petals is coming one after another.Chen Yunyue had already washed her face, looked up at the peach petals, and smiled very gently.The water at the confluence of the Jinyi River and the Yulan River was slightly turbulent, and the boat swayed a few times.At the moment when everyone was briefly distracted, Chen Yunyue suddenly turned over the side of the boat.

Chi Yebai and Sima Feng reacted the fastest and rushed over immediately.Song Beiyan, who was sitting next to Chen Yunyue, also subconsciously pulled her, but she was dragged into the river instead, and even drank a few mouthfuls of muddy water.He couldn't help letting go, and splashed in the water.Chi Yebai jumped into the water, grabbed him under the armpit, dragged him back and threw him on the boat, when he turned back, Sima Feng had already got into the water.

Without saying a word, he also dived into the water.

Chen Yunyue was dragged by the iron chains on her hands and feet and the shackles around her neck, and she kept sinking.The water at the confluence of the two rivers is not only fast, but also very turbid. Chi Yebai saw that Sima Feng sank deeper than himself, and wanted to grab Chen Yunyue's hand.Chen Yunyue retracted her hand, shook her head, and spit out a string of bubbles.

Chi Yebai couldn't understand what she was saying, but it wasn't Chen Yunyue he wanted to rescue.

Sima Feng's water skills are not as good as his own.When Sima Feng was young, he used to come to Ying Bei She to play, and Chi Yebai went to the sea with him to dig snails and fish for shrimps.Because he was young at the time, Chi Yebai didn't know that Sima Feng was different from him who lived in the water since he was a child, and he often took Sima Feng to swim in the sea.Swimming in the sea is very different from swimming in the river. After Sima Feng encountered several dangers, Chi Yebai dared not take him into the sea again.

Holding his breath, he swam to Sima Feng's side, stretched out his arms to grab the man's shoulders and underarms, and swam to the surface regardless of his resistance.

Chen Yunyue disappeared soon, and the river was full of churning gravel and silt.

Sima Feng held Chi Yebai's hand tightly, his chest ached from suffocation.

The two came out of the water at the same time.Sima Feng spat out the water in his mouth and took a deep breath.The man was still dizzy, Chi Yebai grabbed his shoulder and squeezed hard.

"It hurts..." Sima Feng struggled hoarsely, "Just be gentle..."

Chi Ye's white eyes were red, stimulated by the dirty water.He gave Sima Feng a push, turned around and jumped back onto the boat.

The people on the boat looked at each other when they saw the two coming up, but there was no Chen Yunyue.The two police officers were even more distressed: the prisoner died, and he had to spend more time explaining when he went back.

The boatman threw a towel to wipe the bodies of the three people who fell into the water. Sima Feng climbed back onto the boat and stood beside Chi Yebai pitifully looking at him.Chi Yebai was sitting on the side of the boat panting, looking angry.

"I'm in a hurry." Sima Feng whispered, "Am I okay? Don't cry."

Chi Yebai turned pale with anger: "What did you say? Who cried?"

"When you were young, you thought I fell into the sea and drowned. I will always remember the time when I cried terribly." Seeing him responding to her, Sima Feng quickly smiled and said, "I am afraid that you will cry, I dare not die."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chi Yebai tore off the towel in his hand.

Sima Feng: "..."

Song Beiyan who was watching Chi Yebai nervously from the side: "..."

Sima Feng pulled half of the towel from Chi Yebai's hand, turned to talk to Song Beiyan: "Child, come here."

Song Beiyan thought to himself, Brother Chi ignores you and you come to find fault with me? !But he was not Chi Yebai, he didn't dare to ignore Sima Feng, so he walked over tremblingly: "Yes."

Sima Feng and Chi Yebai took Song Beiyan back. First, there was something strange about Song Beiyan and his master Wen Xuanzhou, and second, Sima Liang asked them to look for Wen Xuanzhou. Now that Wen Xuanzhou is gone, it would be a bit of a stretch to take his apprentice back. cross.

"Is there a black line on the white jade bracelet on your master's left hand?" Sima Feng sat on the side of the boat opposite Chi Yebai, staring at Song Beiyan, "It's twisted and twisted like a snake."

Song Beiyan was very surprised: "Yes. How do you know? Have you seen it before? But Master's bracelet is a rare thing that is the only one in the world."

Sima Feng: "That's right. Dad is right, I have indeed seen Wen Xuanzhou."

Chi Yebai also became interested and looked up at him.

"When I was very young." Sima Feng took the towel off his head, and his forehead hair soaked with moisture hung down in front of his handsome eyebrows, "This guy pushed me into the pool, and I almost drowned."

Chi Yebai was taken aback: "When did it happen? Did you catch it? Why did you push you?"

Sima Feng narrowed his eyes to look at him, and shook his head: "I didn't catch him, he is my father's guest, so I specially invited him back."

"...a guest from your house?" Chi Yebai recalled, "How old are you? Why haven't I seen such a person?"

"You haven't seen it." Sima Feng said again after a short pause, "Don't think about it, you really haven't seen it."