Queen's Detective

On the official road in the morning light, Wang Min and Nanzhu galloped to a post station, dozens of officers and soldiers stood guard outside meticulously.

Wang Min dismounted quickly, and waved the token in his hand in front of the guard. The guard obeyed his orders and left, revealing Yin Ting who was sitting inside holding a medicine box.

"Master Shaogu." The boy's voice clasped his fists and saluted, becoming more sonorous and forceful.Nanzhu followed behind and also said hello decently, his temper seemed to be much more out of character.

Yin Ting patted his clothes and stood up, "Let's go, brother Yan, did you say where to go?"

Wang Min replied: "Chang'an."

"Chang'an, Chang'an is a good place." Yin Ting muttered, Wang Min helped him into a carriage, and he and Nanzhu sat outside, acting as the driver.

The soldiers of the guard mounted their horses one after another and escorted them all the way to Chang'an.

On the other side, on the smoky lake, a small boat shuttled among the reeds, with a big yellow dog lying on the bow, looking ahead with piercing eyes.

The pole-puller was wearing a coir raincoat, and she looked like a young girl.

The dense maze-like reeds quickly made her lose her way. She put down her pole and squatted on the bow, holding her knees and looking a little helpless.The big yellow dog walked up to her, licked the back of her hand, and comforted her with a murmuring sound.

She reached out to hug the big yellow dog, and leaned against it quietly for a while, then stood up again, picked up the pole, and the boat continued to break through the fog and sail forward.

After an unknown amount of time, she finally smelled an elegant fragrance, and the tinkling wind chimes faintly sounded.A look of joy floated into her eyes, she patted the big yellow dog on the back, the big yellow dog barked obediently, jumped into the water, picked up the hemp rope on the bow, and led the way.

After a while, the bow hit a real object and stopped.

The big yellow dog jumped onto the boat, bit her sleeve and tugged.She understood, moved forward step by step carefully, walked to the edge of the bow, and jumped forward with her eyes closed.

Her feet touched the ground, and the wind chimes in her ears were more crisp and louder than before. She looked around, but she couldn't see it, but she could roughly guess where she was.

She sat on the ground not daring to move. She was covered in fog from the boat in the morning, and now it was cold.Rubbing her hands together and taking a deep breath, she felt cold and sleepy, curled up into a ball, and soon fell asleep.

"The first time we met Mr. Mei was in Xiaomeiyuan." It was a rare foggy day in Gusu City today, and Su Zhi walked ahead with a lantern, slowly telling the past.

The dim candlelight flickered, Yan Sanbai, Li Yan, Ling Ding and Guan Qingci followed behind, Su Ran stayed behind.

The heavy fog makes everyone's sight blurred. Whether it's the willow trees on the bank or the apricot blossoms protruding from the courtyard wall, they still hold the pipa and half cover their faces. After walking for a long time, people can't tell the difference between east, west and north. .

"You are also lucky. If there is no such a heavy fog today, maybe you have to wait." Su Zhi said.

"Must there be fog?" Ling Ding was curious.

"Not necessarily, but there must be lights." Lighting up lights in broad daylight is always too weird.Su Zhi was still hunched over, his old face was full of wrinkles, like a guide who came out of a strange story.

Thinking about it this way, the ordinary paper lantern in my hand seemed to be dyed with some unusual color.

"This lamp is..." Lone Ding glanced curiously. Although the lamp is well preserved, it is quite old at first glance.

"This is Mr. Mei's lamp." Su Zhi's voice was far away, and when he talked about the past, it felt like it had been a long time ago, "The day I brought A Liu here to meet Mr. Mei happened to be foggy. God. I didn't expect that we had escaped so far and things would be revealed."

When Su Zhi first fled to the south with his daughter, he was not in Suzhou County, but in a nearby small county that was also under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture.Because of Ah Liu's murder, even though she still didn't remember it at all, Su Zhi subconsciously felt that he should hide in a small place with fewer people, so as to be safe.

At first everything went smoothly, and the local people were honest and honest. Seeing that Aliu was a blind girl, they felt sorry for her and gave them a lot of convenience.Su Zhi rented a house, and went out fishing with others during the day to make ends meet. Although Da Zhou hadn't recovered from years of wars at that time and earned little, he could always feed his daughter a day. Bowl of fresh fish soup.

But the sky failed, and within half a year, when Su Zhi went to the county town to sell fish, he ran into a fellow villager who had fled together.This fellow countryman wandered all the way, he was dressed in rags, and his character was not very good. What's worse, he knew about Ah Liu's murder.

Ah Liu has forgotten about that incident, and they have already started a new life.If that matter gets publicized, it will be a fatal blow to them.

Su Zhi was in a turmoil. He deliberately avoided that fellow countryman, hoping that he would leave soon.But he was still a little worried, so he spread rumors on the pier while he was out fishing, saying that there was a kind-hearted person in Suzhou Prefecture who was recruiting refugees to work.Sure enough, the fellow countryman was caught in the trick, and he was going to take a boat to go there in a few days.

Su Zhi was worried, and followed the past to watch, and he was relieved only when the man left.The days in the next half month were still uneventful, but just when Su Zhi thought that the crisis had passed, the real nightmare began to come.

The fellow countryman is back again.

He ran to Suzhou Mansion full of expectations, but Suzhou Mansion naturally didn't have a so-called kind-hearted person, so he couldn't get along anymore, so he ran back again.As a result, as soon as he got off the boat, he ran into Su Zhi who was returning from the tide.

When Su Zhi saw him, his expression immediately changed, and he turned around and wanted to leave.As a result, the fellow countryman ran over in three steps at a time, grabbed him, stretched out his hand to brush his greasy hair, smiled, showing his dirty yellow teeth, "Why are you running? You don't know me." Yet?"

The fellow countryman laughed wildly and complacently. He was like a desperate man who suddenly saw a glimmer of hope, so he desperately grasped this straw.However, this straw was precisely snatched from Su Zhi's hands.

Since then, the fellow countryman has relied on Su Zhi. As soon as Su Zhi showed his willingness to resist, he threatened him to make the Aliu people's affairs public.And Aliu was still that simple-minded and ignorant Aliu, she thought that the person living in his house was really a conservative and suffering fellow countryman, so she took good care of him.

For the sake of his daughter, Su Zhi endured it, but his greed was not enough to swallow a snake. A few months later, a fellow villager asked Su Zhi to betroth A Liu to him.In this way, he can occupy everything in the Su family openly.

But Ah Liu was only twelve or thirteen years old at that time!

Su Zhi was furious, and at this moment, he heard rumors outside.It turned out that when the fellow countryman went out to drink, he talked about A Liu's affairs with his big tongue. The only thing he was lucky about was that he didn't name her, and the local people had a good impression of A Liu, so they didn't think about her for the time being.

But hearing the insults and slanders against A Liu from the people around him, and thinking of how coveted A Liu was by his fellow villagers, Su Zhi felt that he couldn't bear it any longer.

He was moved to kill.

That night, he bought poison and put it in the food, and his fellow countrymen were still dreaming of enjoying themselves, defenseless.At that time, Su Zhi was very lucky that Ah Liu couldn't see him, so after his fellow countryman died, he secretly tied the body to stones and threw it into the river by himself.

Then Su Zhi fled overnight with A Liu, and waited at the pier for half the night. When it was daylight, there happened to be a merchant ship about to leave.At that time, Su Zhi wanted to take A Liu out of this water area as soon as possible, so he boarded the boat.

That day was the same as today, it was also a foggy weather, especially on the water surface, the clouds and mist shrouded it as far as the eye could see, as if you were in a fairyland.

The lanterns were lit on the ship at some point, and Su Zhi realized that it was strange—this was obviously a merchant ship, but there was no cargo or even people on board.

Su Zhi hugged his daughter and tightly held the dagger hidden in his sleeve.At this moment, a gentle and polite middle-aged man came over and said, "If you still remember what happened to Su Mei, please don't struggle. My son would like to ask you to tell me about it."

The moment he was blindfolded, Su Zhi gave up his resistance, the boat sailed on the water, and he had nowhere to go.Perhaps, from the very beginning, they never got out of this predicament.

The story is not long, if you really want to tell it, it is just a few words, and the danger in it is not enough for outsiders to understand.

"So, in fact, you didn't really see the way to Xiaomeiyuan?" Li Yan said.

One by one, "Yeah, aren't you blindfolded?"

"It's true that I didn't see it with my own eyes, but..." Su Zhi raised the lamp in his hand, and remembered the last words he said to Mr. Mei when he saw Mr. Mei through the bead curtain that day.

"Finally one day, you will come to see me again. Take the lantern in your hand, it will guide you."

If possible, Su Zhi would of course want to never see him again for the rest of his life. That kind of deep-seated fear, as if being pinched by someone's throat, is really uncomfortable.

But, after all, I still can't escape...

The lantern dangled on the pole, and the light shone through the white paper as pale as mourning.

But there is only such a lantern, and the lantern can't speak, how can it lead the way?In fact, Su Zhi was also a little apprehensive.

Confused, a group of people turned around the corner of the street, Yan San rolled his eyes and listened to all directions. There were not many people going out in this weather, and a few people passed by in front of them. Hearing the footsteps and tone of voice, they should be government servants.

The two sides did not meet each other, and passed each other, Yan Sanbai caught a glimpse of something shiny, and suddenly stopped, "Look at the ground."

Li Yan and the others all looked at it, and saw that where the dim candlelight illuminated, there was some red fluorescence suddenly on the bluestone board.Aside from the color, the light looks like a firefly. If you look closely, it is in the shape of a plum blossom, and it looks like you took a new rouge bought by a young lady and smeared it casually.

Guan Qingci looked forward along the plum blossom, one, two, three, just like a road, gradually extending to the distance in the misty white mist.

The road is paved with plum blossoms, what kind of story is waiting at the end of the road?