Jinyiwei work report

Song Yingbai bid farewell to Li Zhen, and rode to Cheng Enhou's mansion on horseback. Li Zhen was right, the fact that the son-in-law witnessed the strange bird remains to be seen.

However, one cannot take it lightly, there must be an explanation for the strange bird.

The people under him may have limited abilities, so when he is free, he should do the investigation by himself.

He thought all the way back to Cheng Enhou's mansion, and arrived at the gate of the small courtyard where Zhai Yong lived. Before he could enter, Cheng Dongyi came out to greet him, pulled him aside and said in a low voice, "You haven't been gone for long, Young Master Zhai." After seeing his parents, I changed my mind, saying that I was wrong, I didn’t see any strange birds, and said that I would go to the Imperial College as normal later.”

Song Yingbai said: "Are his parents afraid that this incident will have a bad influence on him?"

I saw a strange bird, but no one around me saw it. If someone said that he had hysteria, it might affect Princess Shang.

Cheng Dong nodded, "I think it is. I was so frightened that my face turned pale. I talked to my parents a few words, and then I changed my mind and said I didn't see it." After all, she is the future son-in-law. It's not done yet.

"I'll go in and have a look." Song Yingbai strode into the courtyard and came to the door of the main room to ask for an audience.

Soon, the servant girl opened the curtain and invited him in.

Zhai Yong recovered a lot, surrounded by four men and women, the older ones were Cheng Enhou and his wife.

The other pair who are younger are Zhai Yong's parents. The girl has a pair of squint eyes, high cheekbones, and looks very mean, while the boy has a square head and a big face, with a kinder face.

Mother Zhai was talking to her son, when she saw Song Yingbai, she raised her eyebrows, "You came just in time, your son is in good health, you can go to the Imperial College now."

Song Yingbai ignored her, but asked Zhai Yong directly, "Can you describe in detail the strange bird you saw, how big is it? How long is the beak?"

Zhai's mother raised her voice, "Didn't you say it all? He saw that it was a kite hanging on the window. I said, can you ask the residents around you to close the windows and stop hanging these messy and scary things? Terrified." Who can afford to be the future son-in-law."

Not to mention that you are not yet Princess Shang, you are Shang, the real son-in-law does not have such a big show when traveling, Song Yingbai said: "My lord, are you sure what you see is just a kite?"

Father Zhai, who had been silent all this time, patted his son on the shoulder, "Just say what you see."

Zhai Yong nodded, "Song Baihu, thinking about it now, what I saw was indeed a kite, and it was my eyesight. I don't want anyone to bring up this trivial matter again."

The parties have already said so, and Song Yingbai couldn't say anything, "Don't you want to go to the Imperial College, son, get ready, we will escort you there."

Cheng Enhou and his wife, who were silent at the side, also breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "That's right, who hasn't been dazzled yet."

Song Yingbai could also guess the psychology of the couple. The son-in-law-to-be was fine before he moved into his mansion, but he fell into hysteria after staying there for a few days, and he was afraid that the higher-ups would question him and cause trouble for his upper body.

It stands to reason that Song Yingbai should have more things than less things, agreed with Zhai Yong's statement, and followed him.

But he can't, because he is not Zhai Yong's subordinate. What is the truth of the matter is not something that Zhai Yong can change at will. Whether he really has hysteria or there are really bad people trying to harm him, we have to find out.

After that, Zhai Yong went out again. This time, he arrived at the Imperial Academy safely. As for how the teachers of the Imperial Academy viewed his late behavior, it had nothing to do with Song Yingbai and the others.

Song Yingbai's happiest moment of the day is to go home and eat the dishes made by Caifeng. After a busy day, what could be more satisfying than a beautiful meal.

He often thinks, according to the current work intensity, if Caifeng doesn't take care of him, he might not be able to live well.

He mentioned more than once that he would buy two more thick maids, and leave things like carrying water and laundry to them, which would make it easier for him, but when Caifeng heard this, he immediately said: "I can do all of this." , Am I not doing well enough?"

Then the next day Song Yingbai found that the clothes seemed to be washed cleaner, and the table was wiped so that the flies were slippery on it, so he didn't dare to mention it again, but often praised him a few times, because he was afraid that he would work too hard because he was worried about "dismissal".

Half a month has passed since Zhai Yong saw the strange bird last time.

Autumn in the capital is officially here, with cool breeze, fresh and pleasant, blue sky, golden leaves, and a peaceful scene.

Since then, Zhai Yong has not behaved abnormally again, and he still goes to and from the Imperial College every day, and occasionally goes to the street for a stroll, and also goes to a shop selling the Four Treasures of the Study.

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"Master Guancha, haven't you finished asking about this matter, why are you asking again?" the woman leading the child said reluctantly.

The woman's clothes were shabby, rough and dissatisfied. The girl who led the collar was about five or six years old. It could be seen that the mother was not paying attention. The clothes were dirty and her face was not clean. It seemed that she hadn't washed her face for a long time.

"You bitch, there are so many bullshits when the official is asking you questions. Just say whatever you ask." After her husband scolded her, she showed a simple and honest smile to Song Yingbai and the others, "Come in, come in, sit down, both of you."

Song Yingbai waved his hand, "No need, let's talk about the black strange bird sighting last time, in more detail."

Cheng Dong said: "Tell you to be honest, don't hide."

Today was free, so Song Yingbai took Cheng Dongyi to the house where he reported seeing the strange bird before and "visited."

The woman rolled her eyes, "It happened in March this year. I can't remember exactly which day. At noon, I came back after pouring out the washing water. As soon as I entered the hospital, I heard the baby crying. I thought she was crying." I made trouble again, so I hurried into the house, and finally, I saw a bird like this..." She gestured, "It's as big as a crane, its color is black, it doesn't even have any stray hairs, and it's all black. Standing in pitch black on the top of the kang, I took another look. My child’s eyeballs are gone, and there are only two black holes left. Strange to say, there is not much bleeding. Seeing me enter the room, the big bird whizzed It flew away along the window without seeing where it went."

Song Yingbai looked at the girl. Although her eyes were closed, she could tell that her eyeballs were gone, and the area around her eyes had shrunk and sunken.

The girl bit her finger, as if she didn't know what fate she was about to face.

"No, didn't you say that you saw that big bird transform into an old woman in a black robe last time? Why did you say that it flew away and disappeared this time?" Song Yingbai asked with a sullen face, "You are talking nonsense , aren't you afraid of getting yourself into trouble?"

The woman's husband hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "Master the official, this, this is all due to the selfishness of the mother-in-law. She quarreled with the old widow in the village, but she couldn't quarrel with him, so she hated it. It just happened that this happened, and she wanted to stay with her." On others, no, the old widow died of illness last month, and her enemy is gone, so there is no need to lie anymore. Her mother-in-law is not very smart, so don't blame her."

Song Yingbai also felt that this woman was heartless, "Your child was blinded by a strange thing, and you still have the intention to frame others? Did you give birth to this child?"

"A girl, just find a man to feed her when she grows up." The woman said indifferently: "I left her to take care of the family, work in pigweed, and take care of my future brother, but now she's blind , what can I do, I didn’t throw her away, it’s not bad.”

"Leave her?" Song Yingbai heard something strange, "Do you have any other children? Why didn't I see it?"

"I'm not lucky to be the only one, unlike other people who can have a son!" The woman said and poked the girl's forehead, "You lose money."

"What are you doing! Are you such a motherfucker?!" Song Yingbai said dissatisfied: "Tell you, this child is a direct victim, I may have to come back to see her someday, if you find out that you abused her, when the time comes It depends on whether your bones are hard or the board is hard."

The man hurriedly persuaded: "You mother-in-law can talk nonsense, don't blame me." He slapped the woman and said fiercely: "Get out, get out and cook."

The woman let go of the girl's hand angrily, turned around and went into the room by herself.

Song Yingbai asked the man, "How many children do you have?"

"To tell you the truth, this child gave birth to two more girls, both of whom were raised for a while before being given away."

"Who did those two girls give to? You dare to tell a half-word lie, and you know the consequences." Song Yingbai said coldly.

"...Actually, I didn't give it away... Everyone knows it, so let's do it that way." The man looked away.

"What should I do?" Song Yingbai had already guessed it in his heart, but he could only confirm it if the other party said it himself.

"It's enough to leave a girl to help the family. There are too many others, so I have to make room for the boy." The man said: "When they were born to wash the dirty blood on their bodies, their wombs were not enough, and they disappeared when they caught cold. .”

Song Yingbai's brain hurts, isn't this just drowning a baby girl, but this vicious custom can hardly be punished.

Song Yingbai was disgusted, and if nothing else happened, the family probably wouldn't drown the baby girl again, at least they would have to have another healthy daughter to be the nanny, and then they would have another son to carry on the family line.

"Little sister, what did you see the day you were injured? Tell brother, don't be afraid."

The girl could tell that she wasn't very smart, which might have something to do with living under the shadow of her parents for a long time. The girl bit her finger, thought for a long time and said, "What a big black crow."

"You don't have to follow what adults tell you, just say what you see, I will believe you."

The girl bit her finger tightly, and suddenly said: "It said it was a younger sister!"

As soon as the words fell, Song Yingbai heard a fluttering noise from the sky, and when he looked up, he saw that the big tree branch with all the leaves outside the yard was covered with strange birds at some point. Hundreds.

But the size is not big, each one is only as big as a sparrow, but when they appear in pairs, they are very scary, especially when every bird is staring at them.

Song Yingbai reacted immediately, immediately picked up the girl and rushed into the house, kicked open the door of the inner room, regardless of how the cooking woman shouted, jumped onto the kang, opened a large wooden box containing clothes, and put the clothes inside He took out all the clothes and sundries and put the girl in.

The moment he closed the lid of the box, nearly a hundred blackbirds flew in through the window and pounced on the wooden box.

The sharp beak fell on the lid of the box like raindrops, making a creepy rattling sound.

Although the girl inside couldn't see, she could hear and screamed in fright.

Seeing this, the woman screamed and ran out.

Song Yingbai was about to slash at the flock of birds, when he raised his knife, hundreds of small birds suddenly began to melt together, like a pile of soft wax being gradually shaped, and slowly turned into a big dark bird, full of size. As big as an adult crane, the beak is narrow and sharp, shining coldly like a blade.

It stood on the box, raised its head and then dropped it heavily. With a crisp sound, it pecked a hole out of the wooden box lid.

"Ah—ah—mother—" the girl screamed, "Mother—save me—"

Song Yingbai came back to his senses, aimed at the bird's neck and slashed it down heavily, like chopping a candle, and cut off the bird's head effortlessly. In front of the bird's claw, it merged into it again, and a bird's head appeared at the place where the original severed head was, blinking and blinking at Song Yingbai.

Suddenly at this time, Cheng Dongyi rushed in, holding a burning firewood in the stove pit in his hand, and struck the bird's tail impartially.

The black bird didn't seem to be burned, it just turned its neck around, stared at Cheng Dong for a look, then jumped up suddenly, and threw its sharp claws towards him.

"Run!" Song Yingbai yelled, swung his knife and slashed at the black bird again. This time, he was a little slower and told the black bird to fly out.

As soon as Cheng Dong saw the black bird rushing towards him, it was too late and then quickly, he ran out of the door, turned around and closed the door.

With a bang, two pairs of bird claws grabbed the door panel and were temporarily trapped.

At this time, Song Yingbai took advantage of the time when the bird was pulling its feet, picked up the quilt on the kang, and slammed it on its head from behind, then overturned the table beside it and smashed it on top of it, and stomped on it a few more times.

"Wow - wow -" Under the quilt, suddenly came the baby's cry, shrill and terrifying.

Song Yingbai knew that this monster was seeking sympathy, "You are so angry at your parents, why did you harm your sister?"

Suddenly, the foreign body sensation under the quilt disappeared, Song Yingbai felt the wind in the back of his head, and when he turned his head, a pair of sharp claws appeared in front of his eyes, very close to him.

He hurriedly grabbed the two bird legs to prevent them from hurting him. When it was aggressively attacking, he kept backing away. When it reached the wall and could no longer retreat, the strange bird cooed and laughed, " Why can she live and I can't?" Raising her neck, she lifted her sharp beak high and pecked at Song Yingbai.

But Song Yingbai shrank his neck at this time, and the bird's beak pierced into the wall above his head, pecking a hole in the yellow mud wall.

He said angrily: "You are all victims, why are you still killing each other?"

It unhurriedly pulled out its mouth and stabbed at Song Yingbai again, Song Yingbai was out of breath, wondering if he could dodge this time.

At this time, Cheng Dongyi rushed in again, went up and locked the bird's neck with both hands, and stretched it vigorously, not only did the bird's neck not break, but it was stretched as thin as soft mud.

"My God, what kind of monster is it?"

At this time, the bird monster's chattering eyes caught Song Yingbai's attention, yes, if the bird pecked at the child's eyes, could the eyes be its flaw?

Without further ado, he let go of the bird's legs for a while, pulled out the short knife from the boot, aimed at the bird's eyes and pierced it.

The black bird found that the sharp blade was coming towards his eyes, and he was shocked. His two sharp claws kicked wildly to catch Song Yingbai, trying to stop him.

Song Yingbai didn't care too much, raised his left arm to resist for a while, his right hand had already crossed the bird's head, the sharp blade went in from its right eye, and pierced out from the left eye.

The strange bird convulsed all over, and its body softened like mud. Cheng Dong threw it on the ground in a hurry, and the bird's corpse turned into a pool of dirty blood in a blink of an eye.

Song Yingbai stared at the dirty blood, fearing that the strange bird would be resurrected from the dirty blood. After staying for a while, he didn't see any abnormality, and the dirty blood was still dirty blood, so he supported the wall with one hand to breathe.

Cheng Dong's legs softened, he sat on the ground, and said in fear, "What the hell is this?"

Song Yingbai was about to speak, when he heard the commotion outside the courtyard, the woman and man of this family ran in with a few neighbors, "Where are you? Where is the monster?" When they entered the house, they saw the mess all over the floor. , looked around the room puzzled, "Didn't you say there was a bird demon? Where is it?"

Song Yingbai pointed to the dirty blood on the ground, "It's already dead."

"Really, really?" The woman stepped forward and spat, and then cried out, "Oh, my house, I didn't have much furniture in the first place, but now it's all destroyed, what can I do in the future?" Are you alive?" He kept looking at Song Cheng and the two of them.

Cheng Dong impatiently took out a piece of broken silver and threw it on her, "Stop howling."

Song Yingbai scolded sullenly, "Do you still have the face to cry?"

The woman was taken aback by the scolding, and the others dared not speak.

"And you." Song Yingbai looked at the man sideways.

The man backed away in fear.

Song Yingbai began to improvise, "Do you know the origin of this bird? It said by itself that your daughters sued you in the underground, and the king of Hades was furious and told you to have no children and no children. Your daughter's eyes Being taken away was just a warning, but in the end you didn’t repent at all, and even abused your only remaining daughter, so the king of Hades let her life be taken away, and you will be paralyzed on the bed in the future, without anyone to talk to and pour water on.

And if you don't accumulate evil deeds, the torture of going up the knife mountain and down the frying pan is waiting for you in the future.Not only that, as long as you dare to break the precepts again, you will still send envoys. At that time, not only your daughters, but also your dogs' lives will be taken away!If you accumulate virtue, you may have another son and a half daughter. "

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing whether what Song Yingbai said was true or not.

"What are you still doing in a daze, quickly take your daughter out of the box, don't you really want to have no children left?!" Song Yingbai said coldly.

The woman thought for a while, then hurriedly got on the kang to open the box, and took out the crying daughter, "Mother, mother is here, don't cry, don't cry." The man also leaned up and touched the child's cheek .

Song Yingbai dragged Cheng Dongyi up, pushed aside the spectators, and left the courtyard.

At this time, Song Yingbai only felt that the original warmth on his arms was a bit cold when blown by the wind, and he couldn't help but feel strange. When he raised his arms and looked, he saw that the sleeves were already wet and red.

It was only when he saw the wound that he felt some pain, so he quickly took out his handkerchief to cover the wound.

Cheng Dong hurriedly asked with concern: "Let me see, is the wound deep?"

"It doesn't matter, the skin is traumatic, otherwise we wouldn't have discovered it now."

Cheng Dong said: "...the people are really stupid. You have to scare them, otherwise you won't even love your own children. However, you are so smart, sir, to think of scaring them in the name of King Yama."

"I hope Master Yan Luo will see that I am kind, and don't blame me for using his banner to scare people. After all, not all parents love their children, most of them are born for the elderly. And they have never studied. Civilized ordinary people inevitably have ignorant thoughts."

However, reading requires money, energy, and talent. Not everyone can do it in this era, so a vicious circle has been generated from generation to generation.

However, this kind of national level matter is not something that Song Yingbai can intervene now, he should focus on his own affairs.

The wound was not deep as Song Yingbai expected, but it was located on the inside of the left forearm, which was very annoying. When writing, this arm could not be placed on the table, otherwise it would press on the wound, but he accidentally He forgot, which left a little red bloodstain on the document for Li Zhen.

It was half written, and it was not too obvious. He was too lazy to re-write it, so he just sent it to Li Zhen.

In his letter to Li Zhen, he speculated about the origin of the strange bird. It was formed by the resentment of a drowned baby girl. He was unwilling to let his half-sister live while he was about to die, so he came back to take revenge. First he blinded his sister's eyes, and then saw that her sister revealed to outsiders that she did it. He thought in his heart that his sister's behavior had betrayed her, so he killed her.

As for the other families whose eyeballs were pecked blind by strange birds, he has already sent people to investigate to see if they also drowned baby girls.

He has written a lot in eloquence, and the hint is already obvious.

Did the Zhai family drown their children too?

More importantly, taking a step back, if a bird monster really came to take revenge, and the prospective son-in-law's eyeballs would not be guaranteed, who would be responsible?

The document was sent up the next day, and his relationship with Li Zhen has now fallen to a freezing point. Although he can't figure out what happened, it must be because Li Zhen didn't send him to Qiongzhou. On the friendship of his life.

The next day, when he saw Zhai Yong and his family, the way he looked at them became much more complicated.

You also killed children?No way, to be a son-in-law, at least three generations have to be investigated, and all of them are innocent.

Furthermore, drowning infants is basically something done by the bottom no matter which dynasty or generation. The daughter of a rich family can marry a high-ranking man and recruit an excellent son-in-law, and the help he gets is no worse than the son himself.Besides, even if you don't look at it from the perspective of marriage, there is no shortage of money to raise your daughter. You don't need to save resources from your daughter for your son.

Zhai Yong's family is not considered wealthy, but it's not that they would do such a heartless thing.

Besides, Zhai Yong is still an only child, according to his family's conditions, no matter how patriarchal he is, he still has to raise a sister or brother, but he doesn't have any.

I can't figure it out, let's wait for Li Zhen to make up his mind.

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In the evening of that day, Song Yingbai walked into the alley of his small courtyard under the setting sun, and saw a few carriages parked at the door from a distance, and judging from the decoration of the horses and the material of the carriages, the owner of the carriages was very wealthy.

Probably the owner of some shop wanted to curry favor with him, really, how could Caifeng let outsiders into the house casually.

He pushed open the door with a bad expression, intending to issue an order to evict the people inside, but when he looked up, his anger turned into a smile, and he shouted loudly at the man standing in the corridor, "Brother!"

Song Yingfei heard the reputation, walked down the steps excitedly, came to his younger brother, and said with a smile: "You have grown taller again."

"Why are you here? The second housekeeper came last month, why didn't you come with me?" Song Yingbai had a good relationship with this eldest brother. At the beginning when he said he would join the army, his father led other brothers to beat him up, and only the eldest brother spoke for him.

Moreover, his eldest brother is 12 years older than him, and with a gentle personality, sometimes he is not like his peers, but rather like his elders.

"I have something to do at home, so I didn't leave my body." Song Yingfei and his younger brother walked into the house side by side.

"Who else is here?" Because Song Yingbai heard the voices of many people in the room.

"and also……"

Before Song Yingfei could finish speaking, he saw a middle-aged man with a thin face sticking his head out of the curtain, and said excitedly, "Master, it's the fifth young master who has returned."

Although Song Yingbai didn't know the man who opened the curtain, but when he heard him call master, he thought his father was here too, and just wanted to call him dad.

Who knew that a man in his sixties, whom he had never seen before, walked out of the room, wearing a royal blue satin straight gown, although his hair was a little gray, but his body was straight and full of energy.

His appearance and demeanor are somewhat similar to his father's, but the aura between his brows is a little more majestic than his father's.

However, the moment he saw Song Yingbai, the old man showed a kind smile, "Yingbai, come here and let me see you."

Song Yingbai looked at his elder brother suspiciously, "This is..."

Song Yingfei smiled awkwardly and introduced: "It's my father's brother, our uncle... um... Forget it, let's call him uncle first..."

Song Yingbai frowned, his father's brother?His father actually has an older brother?His father likes to talk about the story of a burden traveling alone to the end of the world after drinking a little wine, counterattacking from a job and marrying a rich man's daughter. Unexpectedly, he also has a brother.

And judging by the uncle's attire and the appearance of a group of servants, it seems that he is doing well.

"Uncle." Song Yingbai called out respectfully.

Seeing this nephew who was going to be his adoptive son, Song Yuye was wearing a dark blue flying fish suit, handsome and valiant, and couldn't help smiling with satisfaction: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, so hurry up and talk in the room."

Song Yingbai felt that things were not that simple, his father didn't come to the capital, but his uncle did, what's going on?He looked at his elder brother.

Song Yingfei felt a little guilty towards his younger brother, and said with a dry smile, "Yingbai, uncle is not an ordinary person. He used to be the governor of Dingnan, and now he has been transferred to the capital to be the servant of the household department. You will be taken care of in the capital from now on."

Song Yingbai was taken aback, Governor of Dingnan?Isn't this the place where Caifeng mentioned that he used to work... So he was given to him by his uncle?

All right, why did he send a servant to himself?

The elder brother's expression is so unnatural, what's wrong with it?