Queen's Detective

Abai casually asked Qingzhu a few more questions.

"Did you go to the Deyun Inn to find a quack doctor named Xu?"

"Langzhong?" Qing Zhu nodded, "That's what happened. About three or four days ago, Fifth Master asked me to come and ask him to see a young master in the building."

"Has Fifth Master seen him?"

"Should there be?" Qingzhu was not very sure, after all, it was a few days ago, "What's wrong?"

"I also want to ask him for a consultation. Does Mr. Qingzhu know where I can find him now?"

"Isn't he at the inn?" Qing Zhu asked.

A Bai smiled, "Then I will go to the inn to look for it, and leave."

After walking a few steps, Ah Bai looked back at Qingzhu again.He resumed the posture of embracing his knees and waiting for someone again, fiddled with the weeds sticking out from between the bluestone slabs, dazed.

Back in the White Mansion, Amon was doing acupuncture for Li Qing in the back room. Li Yan greeted him. Before he could ask a question, he saw Abai shaking his head, "He's gone."

At this moment, Amon came out from the back room and signaled that they could go in.

Li Qing had already come to his senses, sitting silently on the bed, his long eyelashes cast a shadow in his eyes.He heard footsteps, looked up and saw A Bai, the corners of his mouth twitched on his still pale face, "He is Wen Li, right?"

The person who has been gently encouraging him in his heart and accompanying him through his entire youth is Wen Li.

Li Qing looked straight at A Bai, and without waiting for his answer, he murmured again: "I remembered, those things that I deliberately forgot, I remembered."

"You didn't kill people. You can't take all the blame on yourself." Abai said in a deep voice. He knew very well that such self-blame and guilt can really kill people.

Li Qing shook his head slowly, "You don't understand, Uncle Xie and Uncle Wen treat me like a parent and child, and Wen Li and I grew up together, like brothers and sisters. But I killed them."

The atmosphere was tense for a while, and Li Qing's faint voice sounded again, "That day I sneaked out of the house in the carriage, and wanted to go up the mountain to find Wen Li, but on the way, I met someone who asked about Uncle Wen, but my father told me not to talk to anyone. Someone mentioned it, so I left without saying anything. Unexpectedly, the group of people followed me all the way. The two uncles were defenseless and scolded me for running here alone. The killer who followed me suddenly Kill me and watch, but I can't do anything."

As Li Qing spoke, his voice became lower and lower, but his hands gripped the back more and more tightly, his knuckles turned white.

"I watched them die. The rain fell so heavily that day that the entire Jiuquan was dripping with their blood, but I despicably forgot all of this by myself!" Li Qing opened his eyes wide, " Am I not to be hated?"

"Li Qing!" Ah Bai held his hand, trying to resist the icy cold with the warmth of his palm, but Li Qing didn't realize it, "I forgot about them, he has been writing to me for so many years , but I unknowingly regarded him as a strange friend, confided in him, sought dependence, and even adored him, what face would I have to see him again, and what face would I have to see the two uncles under Jiuquan ?”

Seeing Li Qing like this, Ah Bai suddenly understood that the reason Fifth Lord didn't want to meet and would rather choose to leave was because he didn't want Li Qing to become what he is now, living forever in torment and regret.

But what can be done?It's too late.

What they should know and what they should not know, was laid out in front of them bloody.

Li Qing was emotionally unstable, and started to have a headache again while talking.

Amon gave him some sedatives, and Ah Bai exited the room, stood in front of the porch and watched the rain fall again, his eyes still worried.

Suddenly, a touch of warmth hit his shoulders.A Bai turned his head, and saw Li Yan holding a moon-white cloak over him, and then hugged him from behind, "A Bai, no one can change the past, don't be sad."

A Bai leaned against him lightly, "I know, but because of this, the pain of the past should not be borne by people who are still alive."

"With the help of my Abai, they will all get better, and the past will never happen again." Li Yan rested his chin on his shoulder, "Besides, my intuition tells me that Fifth Lord is still in Jiangzhou. "

“How come you see?”

"Because he misses Li Qing just like I miss you, how could he leave so easily?"

However, in such a large Jiangzhou, the fifth master seemed to have evaporated from the world and never appeared again.

Amon brought news of the Tianhua Sect from the news network of Langhuan Pavilion.It can be confirmed that what Fang Tianshuo said is true.But one thing he didn't know was that Xie Changting and Wen Xuanqing had been ambushed by Wen's family in the Tianhua sect and were seriously injured, that's why they chose to hide in the mountains.

The Wen family also suffered retribution.After Wen Xuanqing left, the Wen family's business plummeted. A few years ago, they were suppressed by their rivals in one fell swoop, and because Second Master Wen was so old that he accomplished everything and ruined the family's foundation. It has been sealed by the government, and the grand occasion of the past will never be seen again.

"Where's that quack? Have you found it?" Abai asked.

"Someone saw him go out of the city, and now he is sending people to pursue him." Amon said, and offered another thing, "This was found in his room."

What Amon handed over was a small pitch-black wooden sign. Abai stroked the material, sniffed it closer, and frowned, "It's a bit like something from Miaojiang."

"Miao Jiang?" Li Yan became interested, took a look, but couldn't see any flowers.

"Maybe it's just one of his belongings." A Bai said.

As he said this, something strange suddenly appeared in Ah Bai's heart.Langzhong, Fifth Master, Li Qing, Mrs. Li, and the old things from many years ago, there...is there any deeper connection?

Another day passed.

Li Qing regained some energy and wanted to go to the mountain to have a look.At this time, it was not easy for Ah Bai to go against him, so he went with him.

The collapsed rock blocked the way in, so Abai led him to walk over it.Thinking about it now, Fifth Master must have noticed that Li Qing was pursuing the events of the past, and he didn't want him to face the past, which would only increase the pain, so he shot and blew up the only entrance and exit.

The valley was still very quiet. It had just rained, and the water in Jiuquan had risen a lot. Because it couldn't flow out, it gradually spread to the green grassland.

The pear tree bathed in sunlight is still in full bloom, and the white pear petals swirl and fall on the water surface and among the grass blades, creating a fragrant fragrance all over the place.

Li Qing knelt in front of the grave, pulled the dead grass from the grave, and respectfully kowtowed three times.

He opened his mouth and wanted to say something several times, but in the end he felt that his words were too pale and he couldn't say anything.The past will never come back, just like the petals falling from his hand will never return to the branches.

A Bai quietly accompanied him, and then watched him roll up his sleeves, pick up the broom in the hut and start sweeping, and A Bai was not allowed to help, as if he was doing a major event in life.

It wasn't until the sun set that the light projected from the hole above the head became dim, and the dilapidated hut regained some of its former appearance.Li Qing stood in front of the hut with a bucket in his hand, looked at the lantern in front of the door, and listened to the wind chimes ringing again, as if he had finally found a trace of real peace.

"Ding Dong, Ding Dong" and the wind blows, and the stars shine.

He turned his head, the moment the wind blew his hair on his sideburns, he saw a small piece of bright starry sky in the hole, and finally showed an elegant smile that seemed to be there——enough, this is enough.

Seeing Li Qing like this, Ah Bai finally felt a little more at ease.

At this time, Li Yan, who couldn't wait at home, came to look for them, but Li Qing didn't want to go back with them, saying that he wanted to stay here for a few days to express his affection.

Abai was naturally worried that he would stay alone, so Li Yan said that Amon was waiting outside, and the mountain was more dewy. Although Abai's body and bones had improved in the past few years, Li Yan was determined not to rest assured that he would stay. of.

So I had to ask Amon to watch here, and Amon will do things, so everyone can rest assured.

And in the next few days, nothing happened as Ah Bai was worried about. Li Qing submerged himself, cleaned the graves every day, offered incense in the hut, and didn't bother to find Wen Li. It seemed that he wanted to use this way of atonement.

Li's mansion is also quite peaceful. It seems that Mrs. Li is in poor health and has been recuperating in bed, so Li Qing can't be controlled.Fang Tianshuo went to look for it once, kowtowed in front of the grave, and took away the Tianlin Sword.

What is commendable is that he did not despise anyone because of the matter of breaking his sleeve and dividing the peaches, but he still did not wait to see Li Qing, and Li Qing didn't care, instead he bowed to him.

In the afternoon of spring, Ouyang and others came to look for Ah Bai in the small courtyard where he lived. As soon as they arrived at the gate of the courtyard, they heard a lazy voice with a little helpless smile, "Take it easy, don't mess around."

Bai Yong was about to go in without doubting him, but Ouyang blushed suddenly and stopped everyone.

"What's the matter, go in." Bai Yong was puzzled and wanted to go in again.Ouyang was anxious, "You can't carve rotten wood, you can't go in now, you don't know"

Just as he was talking, a voice from the yard suddenly interrupted his words, "Are you looking for A Bai? Why don't you come in?"

When Ouyang turned his head, he saw Li Yan standing in the yard with a basin of water in his hands, with his hair tied up and his sleeves rolled up, giving him an air of life.It was the first time that everyone saw such a regent, and they couldn't help being stunned.

At this moment, Ah Bai also walked over following the sound, with his white clothes loosened behind him, dripping with water.Seeing them, Ah Bai asked with a smile: "Why are you standing at the door and not coming in?"

It turned out that he was helping to wash his hair, Ouyang heaved a sigh of relief.

Li Yan on the side quickly poured the water away, picked up the towel hanging on his arm to help Ah Bai wrap his hair, and muttered, "It's still wet, what should I do if I have a cold?"

"My body is not so weak." A Bai disagreed.

Li Yan raised his eyebrows, "Who was it that went to live alone in the side hall after suffering from the cold last year?"

"Okay, okay, it's me." Ah Bai was defeated, and if he doesn't beg for mercy, Li Yan can tell you all the trivial things in the past few years. There are some things that Ah Bai himself has forgotten, but he still remembers them.

When the two of them talked, it was easy to forget the people around them. When they finally came back to their senses, Ah Bai's ears turned red when he saw a few people who were still standing at the door and watched the whole conversation.

Li Yan, however, remained indifferent, and greeted him instead, "Come in and sit down."

In fact, there is nothing important to come here today, the main reason is that everyone has stayed in Jiangzhou for several days, and it is time to say goodbye.So everyone wants to take advantage of the sunny weather today to get together.

When everyone was chatting, Li Yan stood behind A Bai and wiped his hair, so delicate and gentle that it made people blush.No one thought that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, who was rumored to have killed decisively, would look like this.

Looking at it this way, it seems that some remaining resistance to A-Bai and his matter is not so obvious.

It was just that Ouyang still remembered from time to time the incident of entering the Chunfeng Tower by mistake that day, and actively found something to say to resolve the embarrassment, "Hey, brother Ziyu, did you get some flowers in your yard? I was here to help look after Li Qing that day. It smells good."

"Flowers?" Bai Yong glanced at the peach trees in the yard, "You mean that?"

"No, how could I not know the fragrance of peach blossoms."

Bai Yong was puzzled, "Except for peach trees, I don't have any flowers in this small courtyard. I'm not a very interesting person. Could it be that you brought them, Brother Bai?"

But when he looked at Abai, he saw that Abai was suddenly serious, staring at Ouyang, "What does the fragrance of flowers look like to you?"

Ouyang was stunned for a moment, "It smells like the fragrance of beauty! Yes, fragrance of beauty!"

Meirenxiang is a kind of rouge. Ouyang, who often goes to the place of fireworks, is most familiar with it. Probably because it is so similar, he always remembers it.

Ah Bai also happened to know this fragrance, and it was precisely because he knew that he frowned, and asked again: "You said you fell asleep that day? How long have you been asleep?"

"About half an hour? Or an hour? I forgot." Ouyang felt that his memory was a bit confused, and he didn't care about the time when he fell asleep.

However, these words fell into Abai's ears, but there was no deep meaning.A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and the previously unconnected parts that felt weird were all reconnected, and gradually, the original appearance was revealed in front of him.

He stood up abruptly and was about to go out, but Li Yan hurriedly grabbed him, "What's wrong?"

When investigating a case, I can't change the problem of running away as soon as I think of something.

Ah Bai turned his head, showing some hidden worry and some residual surprise, "I remember there is a kind of flower in Miaojiang, which smells exactly like Meirenxiang!"

"Miao Jiang?" Li Yan also suddenly remembered some clues, the scent, Ouyang who was sleeping, Li Qing in the room, and the quack doctor with Miao Jiang's belongings. Could it be that Ouyang, Bai Yong and others couldn't figure it out? Mind, "What Miaojiang?"

But Abai didn't have time to explain, he turned around and left.

Flowers, flowers from Miaojiang, and crabapple flowers, how could he miss such an important clue!

In the Wuya Mountain surrounded by mountains and mist, the spring rain is like a disturbing love thread, and it doesn't stop falling no matter what.

Amon was sitting on the porch of the thatched house, with his hands in his wide sleeves facing each other, like an old man at the entrance of Yandi Hutong, squinting his eyes as if he was basking in the sun.

He glanced into the room from time to time, and Li Qing was sitting at the desk, flipping through the books left by Xie and Wen.A slight wind blew past the pages of the book, revealing a dagger hidden in the book in a corner that Amon couldn't see.

Silent tears slipped from the corners of Li Qing's eyes, he picked up the dagger with trembling fingertips, closed his eyes, and pointed it at himself decisively - it's over, it's all over.

Better to die together than to live alone.