Feast of Rebirth

Yun Congfeng informed Yin Hong, and went back to eat, he was tired.

Dragging his exhausted body back to the hut, Hu Yan was still sitting on the tree at the door, with one leg hanging leisurely, dangling: "Hey, the deputy chief is back? Have you had breakfast yet?"

"I didn't eat."

Hu Yan jumped down and stuffed something into his sleeve: "Is it okay to eat pumpkin porridge?"

"Okay."

Hu Yan flicked his sleeves, and brought out a bowl of warm pumpkin porridge from his sleeves like a magic trick: "Here, let's eat."

Yun Congfeng didn't answer: "Where are you from?"

"I ordered it from a restaurant and paid for it. That's okay, my sage?" Hu Yan looked disgusted with "like to eat or not".

Yun Congfeng took it over: "Aren't I worried about you? With my current status, I have to be cautious in my words and deeds... Wow! It's so hot!"

Hu Yan chuckled and changed the subject: "How's the investigation going?"

Yun Congfeng perfunctorily said, "It's okay." There were no major ups and downs.

Hu Yan looked at him and said, "I still have yesterday's braised pork, do you want to eat it?"

Yun Congfeng was startled: "Just those four pieces of meat, do you still keep them?"

"You put too much sugar, it's a bit greasy." Hu Yan rolled his eyes, "I don't know how expensive sugar is?"

Yun Congfeng thought for a while, he didn't seem to put much sugar, he only put a small spoonful, and lowered his head to drink the porridge: "Hands shaking, I'm not careful."

Hu Yan snorted, and turned back into the kitchen. Yun Congfeng heard the sound of a fire, and sat down on a stone slab under a tree to drink porridge slowly. When the porridge was half drunk, Hu Yan came out with a bowl, two pieces of red sauce A spoonful of diced radish piled up on the corner.

Yun Congfeng picked the meat first, it was really sweet, um...

After eating a bowl of porridge and two pieces of meat, Yun Congfeng's spirit improved a lot, but he felt that he had nothing to do, so he simply went to chat with his colleagues in the yamen next door.The development of the matter was faster than he had imagined. According to them, Ji Yuanwai had already made friends with the county magistrate, and the case would probably be closed in a few days.

Yun Congfeng was in a trance when he heard them chatting and bragging.

What happened later was exactly as they said. Ji Hong was indeed sentenced, but because he is now a lunatic, he was deemed to be a manslaughter, so the punishment was reduced. He was only sentenced to two years and spent two days in prison. , and was quietly picked up by Ji's family.

Shi Tinglan's body was returned to Ji's family after the examination and records were written, and the two families paid for the funeral together.

After a white banquet, Yun Congfeng put it down without taking a few mouthfuls. He looked around boredly, a bit unwilling to stay here any longer.

He got up, intending to slip away when no one was looking.The reality is the same, the voice is noisy, no one noticed him, he slipped to the door of Ji's house, the doorman bowed to him: "Where is the deputy director going? Why don't you sit down?"

"Drink too much, go outside and blow some air."

"Why don't you wait first? The eldest lady of the Shi family wants to see you?"

Yun Congfeng was taken aback: "Shi Anzhi?"

"Yes, she has something to talk to you about."

Yun Congfeng thought, anyway, he has plenty of time, so it's okay to meet him: "Then where is she?"

The doorman took him to another courtyard. Compared with the noisy banquet hall, this place was too quiet.

A screen was separated, and the flowers and birds on the screen blurred people's reflections. Shi Anzhi's voice was soft and slow: "I don't know if my sister has any relics? The little girl wants to keep one as a souvenir."

"I didn't do the evidence collection, so if there are any relics, they should be in the yamen. Miss, you have found the wrong person." Yun Congfeng felt that the conversation should be over, and for some reason, he was reluctant to speak here.

Shi Anzhi was silent for a while: "I'm sorry to bother you, sir."

Yun Congfeng heaved a sigh of relief, turned around and wanted to leave, but didn't want the other party to say again: "Then... the little girl also wants to ask, did my sister find an adult before she was alive? If Ji Hong had been ill for a long time, Lingmei would also If you don’t just tolerate cowardly people, you will definitely find a way.”

"Then she should seek help first, shouldn't it be her family?"

Shi Anzhi was speechless for a while, and then said after a while: "I was negligent... I apologize for disturbing my lord. You have spent a lot of thought on this investigation, right? Nothing is a respect."

Yun Congfeng didn't look at the things presented by the maid, and said flatly: "Actually, I didn't do anything, I just did my due duty. I don't deserve these things. Please take them back, miss." He bowed, Straight out.

This time, no one stopped him, and he went straight back to the government office.There was a smell of wine, and when I looked up, I saw that Hu Yan was holding the jug on the tree, and I was startled when I saw him come back: "Didn't you go to Ji's house?!"

"I came back early." Yun Congfeng glanced at the wine he hadn't had time to put away, "From the banquet?"

Hu Yan was shameless: "It's a little hard work for helping Ji Hong break the soul lock."

"Then what did you see in her sea of ​​consciousness?"

"Hi, that's... um..." Hu Yan became alert, looked sideways at Yun Congfeng and smiled: "Want to know?"

Yun Congfeng blinked: "I don't think you need to be conservative at this point. I guess what you saw must have something to do with the case, right?"

Hu Yan didn't deny it: "It's related, but..." He hesitated for a while, "The one I met that day was not Shi Tinglan, but Shi Anzhi. Shi Tinglan never married in."

Yun Congfeng was stunned, and couldn't digest it for a long time: "You...you mean..." He felt as if something was wrong when the words came to his lips. He lowered his head and thought for a long time, but was still at a loss: "That is to say... Ji Hong didn't Killing the wrong person? No... have they changed their souls, or simply changed their identities?"

"It should just be a change of identity." Hu Yan took a sip of wine, "Shi Tinglan has a very serious congenital disease, and she can't live for a few years, so her sister Shi Anzhi married on her behalf. Anyway, the two of them look similar, have similar personalities, and have similar voices. You can use magic to change, just exchange identities."

Yun Congfeng finally figured out something: "Ji Hong thought he killed Shi Tinglan, but in fact it was Shi Tinglan who died, uh, it's so messy."

Hu Yan said lazily: "It's not complicated. It's just that Ji Hong killed Shi Tinglan and saw his real wife Shi Anzhi. He thought that the dead had come back to life, and he went crazy on his own fault. He can't blame others."

"What disease does Shi Tinglan suffer from? Still unmarried?"

Hu Yan was stunned for a moment: "I haven't seen this one, there are too many and it's hard to find."

Yun Congfeng didn't speak again.The younger sister is in poor health, and the older sister is marrying on her behalf... The strange thing is that when Shi Anzhi met him, she still spoke as a "sister".

Thinking about Ji Hong's unreasonable suspicion, could it be that he realized that his wife is not a real wife?But they haven't met before?

Yun Congfeng thought about it for a while, and his head hurt from thinking about it, so he stopped thinking about it and said to Hu Yan, "I'm going to take a nap, call me later."

Hu Yan raised her eyebrows: "Don't you want some wine?"

"Don't drink anymore."

Yun Congfeng lay down on the couch, closed his eyes and prepared to sleep, but the case came to his mind uncontrollably, which disturbed his thoughts and made him unable to fall asleep for a long time.

Don't think about it, don't think about it.He was a little restless and took a few deep breaths to prepare to fall asleep.The door creaked softly.

Hu Yan came in.

With his eyes closed, his other senses became more acute, and Yun Congfeng could clearly hear him walking step by step, the sound of fabric rubbing softly covering him—he covered him with a blanket.

Yun Congfeng kept breathing calmly, as if he was already in deep sleep, he felt his fingertips brushing across his cheeks, like willow leaves brushing against his cheeks in the spring breeze - what did he want to do?

He sat down.

Hmm... How long will it take to pretend? This is it?Yun Congfeng began to regret why he said he was going to take a nap, and now he was frozen and motionless, pretending to be exhausting.

There was no movement for a long time.

No words, no actions.Yun Congfeng could suddenly feel that Hu Yan was very sad now, extremely sad.

empathy?

He knew that Hu Yan was hiding something from him, but if he didn't say anything, Yun Congfeng would not deliberately ask.Now Hu Yan's reaction brought his curiosity to the peak: What did Hu Yan go through before that made him so sad?

Hu Yan sobbed repressedly, Yun Congfeng didn't dare to take a breath, for fear that he would find out the fact that he was pretending to sleep.After pretending for a long time, Hu Yan's mood eased down, and there was another long silence.

Should be fine, right?Yun Congfeng was thinking nervously, focusing all his attention on exhaling and inhaling the people around him, so that when he realized that Hu Yan stood up, he let out a relaxed hum—the voice was a bit loud, he He was startled, but he reacted quickly and covered it up with snoring, which was surprisingly natural.

... finally gone.

Yun Congfeng opened his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief.

He sat up, opened the window a little and looked out, Hu Yan sat back on the tree again, his legs were dangling, his head was lowered, he didn't know what he was thinking.

Is he still sad?

Why are you sad?Yun Congfeng couldn't figure it out, Hu Yan is usually not a mother-in-law or mother-in-law who is sentimental, why is he like this in private...

He looked at it for a long time, then closed the window and lay down. With all kinds of doubts and speculations in his heart, he unconsciously fell asleep.