Damn that heartthrob

Difficult to finish this meal.

Chen Sheng who walked down from the dining table almost collapsed.

He lay back on the bed shaking his hands, completely unaware of what he ate, his mind was full of thoughts other than entering Wan Lai Xiang, is there any other way to find out the water ghost case?

Now the whereabouts of the water ghost Ye Nu are unknown, recalling the sentence "Where else can I go" that night, it is not difficult to guess that this sentence is a reminder.After borrowing the object, if the object wants Chen Sheng to find him, it will indeed give Chen Sheng a hint or two.

Therefore, it is not only Chen Sheng who wants to find Ye Nu, Ye Nu herself also wants Chen Sheng to find her.

But she is not in the temple now, where does the phrase "Where else can I go" refer to?

Right now, if you want to find Ye Nu, you can only search in temples, brothels, and rivers.Chen Sheng lived in the temple for a few days, and after many days of observation, he can be sure that there is absolutely no one in the temple.If so, Qu Qingchi must have noticed it.It was as if something that could hurt Qu Qingchi suddenly appeared, Mang Ling couldn't detect it, but Qu Qingchi could.It is very difficult to hide the foreign matter from Qu Qingchi.

And Ye Nu was murdered viciously, although she was not dead, but there was nowhere to hide the grievances around her in the temple, so those who used Ye Nu to achieve a certain purpose would never leave Ye Nu in the temple, and would not carelessly show their feet, but He would hide her in a place with a lot of resentment, so as to cover up Ye Nu's aura.

In this way, Ye Nu would definitely not be in the temple, nor would she be in the river.After all, staying in the river is too easy to find, it is no different from staying in the temple.

After eliminating these two places, Chen Sheng can only think of the place where Ye Nu used to be—the brothel.

Chen Sheng felt that Ye Nu might have some connection with the brothel she had stayed in before.There was also a fire in the brothel when Ye Nu died, and now there is a ground bondage in the building, and the ground bondage has been quiet for a hundred years, and it was not until the brothel reopened that it started to harm people, using this to clearly draw a line pointing directly to the brothel.

And since this person took advantage of Qingnv, there will definitely be other actions in the future.

If Chen Sheng is not in a hurry, Chen Sheng can wait for the opponent to make a move.But there was a time limit for returning the item, and he couldn't afford to wait, so he had to take the initiative to inquire instead of passively waiting.

Daytime thoughts are nothing but anger.

Chen Sheng knew in his heart that the Ten Thousand Lai Xiang would always be bought...

Thinking about it, he fell asleep full of worries, and before he woke up in the morning, he heard the sound of "shua shua".

After the noise made a noise for a while, Chen Sheng, who was awakened, closed his eyes and sat up. When he opened the window, he saw Jing Yan with a cold face, cleaning the room he was in with a wooden brush.

Chen Wu on the side was dumbfounded, but Chen Sheng was not surprised.He crossed Jing Yan and Chen Wu and walked towards the courtyard, first went to Qian Yuan Zun to pay respects, and then asked Qian Yuan Zun to help him take a look at the river and temple where Ye Nu used to be.

Venerable Qian Yuan was very kind, and sat in front of the water tank to help him take a look, only saying: "There is only one place outside the city where there is resentment."

"Oh?"

Before Chen Sheng asked where the resentment was, Qian Yuanzun said: "The resentment is in a magic circle."

... After all, it still points to Wan Laixiang.

Chen Sheng sighed, dressed neatly and went to the county office.However, the timing of going today was unlucky. The county magistrate Huai had just left, so he had no choice but to turn around and look for the master. Disaster.

"I don't know if Chen Qing knows, there was a flood in Jiahe in Wangjing in 21 years." Zhu Bo sighed: "I don't know what happened in Jiahe that year. There were also many droughts and floods. In 11, there was a severe drought, and then in 21 years, it rained continuously. At that time, the water level of the Qin River had not yet dropped, and the flood destroyed the embankment, and many people drowned in that year."

Zhu Bo lowered his voice when he said this: "In fact, too many people should not have died. There were signs before the flood. If the property cannot be preserved, it will definitely be destroyed. But if people evacuate in time, the casualties will be controllable. It's just that there will be more chaos afterwards. It's also inevitable."

Chen Sheng also moved his head closer, and asked in a low voice, "Then why did so many people die?"

Bo said: "The disaster in Wangjing was not serious at that time, and the location was better than other places in Dongzhou. In June, the governor of Dongzhou came to Wangjing. As the governor of Dongzhou, he was responsible for the flood. However, the governor of Dongzhou Confused, although the assistant officer gave correct advice, but the governor did not listen, resulting in a big mistake, and many people died."

Chen Sheng and Zhu Bo are also acquainted, and there is no pressure to ask: "Then what is recorded in this document?"

Zhu Bo said: "The governor will not be happy if such a big incident happened. After the flood, he was imprisoned and waited to be escorted to Beijing by the Supervision Department. But somehow, a fire broke out in the prison the night he was imprisoned." , the fire is evil enough, splashing water is not like pouring water, but like pouring oil. The water can't suppress the fire, the fire is getting more and more fierce, and finally burned the county government clean, leaving nothing behind. Although some repairs were made later Documents, but Dongzhou was in chaos at that time, it was a disaster and a man-made disaster, no one had the heart to restore them all. Therefore, there were many missing documents in the past, but if Chen Qing wants to check, why not come with me to Shen's house to have a look? "

The Shen family is a big local family in Wangjing. Their ancestors were officials in the court and had queens of three dynasties. Later, due to the change of dynasties, they gradually declined. In the end, only the family that came to Wangjing was left.

Master Bo said that he would take Chen Sheng to Shen's house, which was a good intention.But Chen Sheng had some unspeakable past with Shen's family, so he didn't want to go to Shen's house, he just asked Lord Bo to help him.

Master Bo goes quickly and returns quickly.

Chen Sheng found someone to prepare a table of good wine, and while chatting with the master Bo Qing, he read the records of Golden Harvest's 11 years.However, although the Shen family is a big family, although everyone can record contemporary history, it is private after all, so they will not write down everything in detail. If it is not a major event, it is usually just a few superficial mentions.

When Chen Sheng opened it, he didn't know if he could see the 21st year of Jiahe, and he didn't know whether the Shen family would remember the brothel that caught fire in the city, but he really wanted to know the reason why Wanlaixiang caught fire, and the reason for the flooded house. What does it matter to the dead Ye Nu.

Then, he really found a few shallow notes.

Today, the writing on the book has changed color, and the black ink on the yellowed pages has a heavy sense of history.

The brown eyes followed the line of writing, which only read——

In the 21st year of Jiahe, in July, the original Wushi Village was flooded due to the bad intentions of the Pingkang woman.

... After reading this sentence, Jian Mei frowned slightly.Chen Sheng keenly sensed something was wrong.He quickly bid farewell to Master Bo, and then wandered around the city for a long time. After searching several times, he finally found two elderly people in an alley, and asked them about the brothel where Jiahe burned down in 21 years.

One of them didn't know, and only remembered the day when his wife died, holding a painting in his hand.

An old woman with cloudy eyes blinked her eyes, and first pointed at him, but I don't know if it was because of her age, she pointed at the left side of Chen Sheng's face, the toothless mouth opened , said vaguely: "There is indeed a burnt building over there. I heard that the woman inside harmed someone, and then provoked public anger. The building was burned down. It seems that there are more than 30 people in it. Are they all ashes?"

Chen Sheng asked: "Trouble mother-in-law, can mother-in-law explain in more detail?"

The old lady didn't let go of her raised hand. After hearing what he said, she tried to think back and said: "I heard from my mother that there was a dog official in Wangjing back then. Chu, someone wants to sue the dog official, but the dog official is cruel, so he wants to use the flood to get rid of those good farmers who want to sue him. He told the matter to the steward's wife, and the steward happened to have a person from that village. The steward heard that Out of bad intentions, in order to please the dog officer, the woman lured the servant with a lot of money, asked him to take the girl in the building to dress up, held a banquet for the whole village under the pretense of a happy event, and then seemed to drug the man, a scene In the flood, all the people who poured the medicine were taken away."

"However, a few people in the village were killed. They didn't go to the banquet. After they escaped by chance, they saw through the tricks of the steward and brought people to the city. It happened that the flood caused many people to suffer. The wives were scattered, and the houses were completely destroyed. I couldn't bear it, hated the dog official and hated that house, and burned that house in a moment of anger."

"I also heard that the wife of a gentleman was raped at that time. The gentleman came to the door, but was killed by the people in the brothel and thrown into the well," the old woman lowered her voice when she said this: "now People in the city say that there is something there, and I think that the thing in that restaurant now probably belongs to that man, otherwise why not allow the restaurant to reopen on that land."

When Chen Sheng heard this, the more he heard it, the more he felt it was wrong. He asked again: "Dare to ask my mother-in-law, do you know if there were any Pingkang women who were drowned and offered sacrifices?"

"No?" The old woman said, "Live animals are usually used for sacrifices in Wangjing. We Wangjing people never offer gifts from living people, because we think it is inhumane. And even if it is a gift, we will not use such dirty people to offer gifts."

Everyone in the world despises brothel women.

Chen Sheng also thought about this matter.

But what the monk saw was that Ye Nu was waiting for her lover in the brothel. The husband finally saved enough money, but when he was looking for Ye Nu, he saw Ye Nu was locked in a cage and thrown into the river.Then the lover chased after him and was beaten to the ground.

It is true that Ye Nu died by filling the river.

Chen Sheng heard this story told by a monk before, and at that time he also thought that it was impossible to use a brothel woman as a gift.But later he thought that in some places, it was customary to use unfaithful daughters to open the way for sacrifices.Those cruel people will put women in cages, throw them into the water to feed the fish, and wait until the fish under the water are fed, and then throw virgin boys and girls, so that the fish that are already full will take people to the depths, Send to the river god/monster.Moreover, they felt that after they ate unclean people, they tied red cloths around virgin boys and girls, so that the fish could not open their mouths to eat virgin boys and girls.

Also because of this disgusting and shameless custom, Chen Sheng didn't think much about it for a while.However, after hearing this, he found that Ye Nu's matter was not as simple as he thought.

"You've finished asking me, and I have one more thing to ask you."

The old woman grinded her teeth, her gestures remained unchanged, and her tone was confused: "Who is this person behind you? Why does he keep sticking to you?"

tick.

There was the sound of water droplets falling.

At this moment, the alley was quiet.

Unexplainable thoughts came to my mind.

Chen Sheng raised his head slowly, looked at the old woman's cloudy eyes, and felt a "thump" in his heart.

The old woman's hand kept pointing to his face, at first he thought it was her trembling hand, pointing in the wrong direction.But now hearing what she said, he suddenly had a subtle feeling in his heart.

The body becomes stiff.

Chen Sheng turned his head slowly, and met a bluish-white grimace completely devoid of blood.