Get on the wrong sedan chair and marry the right wolf

Ling Xueji fell silent immediately, and finally realized that she was still in the morgue, and began to look up at the room.I saw that the room was cramped, not because of its small size, but because most of the space was blocked by heavy white cloth curtains, and those white cloth curtains seemed to have more than one layer, and when the wind swayed slightly, the back of the room was slightly exposed. Looking at it from a distance, Ling Xueji felt that there was still a white cloth curtain behind the white cloth curtain, and the layers of endless white formed a plain sea, which seemed a little strange in this quiet room.

Qu Quan saw that she was afraid, so he stopped talking and quietly pushed the bowl Ling Xueji put in front of him away.Just kidding, eating meat in front of a room full of corpses, she hasn't perverted to this level, okay?

"Hey." Ling Xueji turned his head to look at Qu Quan, with a curious look in his crescent-like eyes, "What case are you working on? Why haven't you finished it after so many days?"

Qu Quan looked at her for a while and didn't speak, just took a Langhao brush, dipped it in the cinnabar inkstone again, bent down to tidy up the case file on the floor.Re-mark it as you clean it up.Ling Xueji was a little unhappy after waiting for a while but didn't get an answer, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to think about changing the topic.

"Hey, Qu Quan."

"Huh?" Qu Quan stacked the two file files without raising his head, and carefully compared the information on them.

Ling Xueji stared at the jade hairpin on the back of her head, and blinked curiously, "Have you ever passed the No. [-] exam?"

"Yes." Qu Quan ticked the date on one of the case files.

"Then the emperor will make you Minister of the Ministry of Punishment?" Ling Xueji tilted her head, as if thinking of something interesting.

Qu Quan laughed softly, "You are talking about the story in the play."

In fact, Ling Xueji had heard about Qu Quan's deeds at that time through Ji Jin's mouth, so he naturally knew that Qu Quan was not awarded the title of Minister as soon as he was admitted to the number one scholar.Hahaha that sounds pretty good too.Ling Xueji secretly smiled and immediately straightened her face, like a good baby who is going to class well.

"Hey, isn't your experience like a story in a drama?" Ling Xueji said tentatively.

"Huh?" Qu Quan drew a circle on the location of the crime in one of the case files.

Ling Xueji pursed her lips, thought about her words, and found that no matter how tactful she was, she had to ask the question, so she asked directly, "Why don't you marry the princess?"

Qu Quan's hand marking the file paused for a moment, then he raised his head suddenly, and a pair of fox-like eyes looked over at him under the candlelight, and his complex and deep eyes slowly fell on Ling Xueji's face, "Who told you that? ?”

"Eh..." Ling Xueji seemed to be frightened by this gaze, and immediately waved her hand guiltily, "Eh, this is what my grandmother told me, she...she didn't say anything, but there are two very annoying women Bring their daughters here, and want to marry their daughters to you, and then my grandmother told me that after you were the number one scholar in high school, many people in Jinling City wanted to marry their daughters to you, even the princess wanted to marry you. Suitable to be your wife..."

Ling Xueji talked nonsense, and she didn't know what she said. She lowered her head and waited for a long time without Qu Quan's response. Quiet Mimi turned her head and found that Qu Quan had already packed up half of the case files and stacked them neatly on the rosewood tree. on the table.So... She didn't listen to what she just said, did she?

"Qu Quan." Ling Xueji moved to the side of the table, "Princess...do you like you?"

"..." Qu Quan kept writing, "I guess."

Seeing that Qu Quan didn't deliberately avoid this topic, Ling Xueji asked again: "Then... isn't the princess pretty?"

This time Qu Quan thought for a while, as if he was recalling something, "That's right."

"Eh..." Ling Xueji was a little speechless, seeing how Qu Quan was seriously studying those case files, she decided not to disturb her.After all, Qu Quan is at work now, so I can't disturb others because of my own curiosity. Besides... Ling Xueji glanced at Qu Quan secretly, and quickly turned away. Besides, Qu Quan didn't seem to want to bring up this topic very much.

A gust of night wind entered from outside the door unhindered, creating gentle waves on the white curtains hanging in a room. Ling Xueji involuntarily approached slowly, and a strange and somewhat pungent smell wafted from the white curtains.Ling Xueji lowered her head to take out her handkerchief and wanted to cover her mouth and nose. The moment she took out the handkerchief from her skirt and looked up, the layers of white cloth curtains were quietly lifted by the wind——

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Ling Xueji opened her eyes in horror and took a few steps back. She only felt that her legs had lost feeling. Her brain was blank for a moment and she couldn't sense anything at all. There seemed to be something hard on the back of her head, and her feet were soft. She fell down, like a young sapling standing on the edge of a cliff, being swept by the strong wind and about to fall into a bottomless abyss.However, the pain in her consciousness did not come, and she felt that she fell into a gentle embrace with a faint fragrance of orchid.

Turning his head to look, he was facing Qu Quan's beautiful face that was tired and showing some helplessness.

"Qu Ququan..." Ling Xueji was still in shock, and wanted to stand up by herself, but her legs were still trembling, and she suddenly fell back into Qu Quan's arms.She lowered her head impatiently, feeling that her face was rapidly turning red and hot.

Qu Quan helped her to the rosewood desk where she had been sitting before. The desk was already full of sorted files. After Ling Xueji touched the cool and slippery rosewood table, the blood in her body warmed up inch by inch.Qu Quan at the side walked to the side and made a pot of tea for her.

"Have a drink, don't be surprised." Hao Bai Yurun's fingers held the agate red cup and handed it to Ling Xueji. Ling Xueji's eyes never left that beautiful hand.I just think that the agate red teacup looks really good on the white and slender fingers.Before I knew it, I was a little dazed.

Qu Quan's voice rang above his head again, "It's already late at night, you should go back and rest."

"Ah?" Ling Xueji finally came to his senses, thinking that he might indeed be a little sleepy today, otherwise why would he do such outrageous things repeatedly.But thinking that Jiji had already been driven back to the Shangshu Mansion by her... It's really self-inflicted...

"I...I'm here to accompany you today!" Oh, what the hell am I going to do!Ling Xueji almost bit off her tongue after saying this, she never thought that she would say such shameless words.

Qu Quan also seemed a little shocked, "But... this is a morgue."

Ling Xueji was at a loss for words for a long time, thinking that there is nothing to be embarrassed about having said everything, so she simply picked up the agate cup and drank the tea in it in one gulp, forced herself to laugh twice, "You risk your life to accompany a gentleman !"

Qu Quan raised his forehead, and started talking nonsense from sleepiness.But after Ling Xueji said that, she couldn't refuse any more. At worst, she would give up her room to Ling Xueji, and she could go through the case files in the morgue all night.Anyway, in the past few days, I have specially sued for the investigation of the case, and I went to the criminal department every day to make an appointment. Cui Jian will handle small matters properly, and Cui Jian will also go to Jinwuwei You Street Yamen to discuss with her.

"Ha~" Qu Quan stretched himself, poured himself a refreshing cup of tea, and began to pull up his sleeves to continue investigating the case.

Ling Xueji endured left and right, and couldn't help but sneak a glance at the eyes of those white curtains. After seeing the things behind the white curtains, she really wanted to rub the soles of her feet and run away, but after the fear subsided a little, what followed was More intense doubts.

What kind of murderer would torture people like this?Although she didn't see the whole thing just now, through the gap raised by the white cloth curtain, she could still see the tip of the iceberg of the corpse... glaring scarlet, bloody everywhere, from bone to skin, from inside to outside... nothing is intact.

Ling Xueji turned to look at Qu Quan, struggled for a long time, and finally asked, "...What's going on?"

After asking this sentence, Ling Xueji shrank her neck subconsciously, and only after she shrank her neck did she realize that she was not in the prefect's mansion, but in the morgue of the yamen on Jinling You Street.

Qu Quan stopped writing, looked up at the little girl in front of her with a hunched neck, shook her head and put the Langhao pen on the pen holder.Then, he got up and walked to the wavy white curtain, turned his head to Ling Xueji and said, "The Jinwu guards are working very hard, and they will open the gate to patrol the streets early tomorrow. Don't call when you see it."

Ling Xueji was taken aback for a moment, then nodded like a pounding garlic.

"Whoa-"

Layers upon layers of white cloth curtains opened in response, and the three mortuary beds came into view. Ling Xueji's eyes suddenly widened, and she quickly covered her mouth with her hand to prevent herself from screaming. The strong and pungent smell even He was able to smell it even though his nose was covered, and this time Ling Xueji finally smelled it.

The smell of rotting corpses under the strong smell of blood.

The three corpses were bloody and mutilated, and the original appearance could not be seen at all. After self-adjustment, Ling Xueji forcibly held back her trembling body and walked step by step in the direction of Qu Quan, which is the direction of the corpse.

"There have been many serial murders in Jinling City. Since the founding of the country, there have been eight cases recorded in the case files, and this time is the ninth case."

While Ling Xueji was adjusting her mood, Qu Quan began to tell her the details of this case in detail.

"The first corpse was thrown outside the Dongcheng Gate, the second corpse was thrown in Nvdefang, and the third corpse was thrown in Guangdefang. There is no rule for the positions of the three corpses. , the only thing they have in common is—”

"The ones who die are the pregnant ones."

"And all of them were cut open. The fetus in the womb disappeared. I saw the umbilical cord dragged on the ground for a foot, and the blood flowed all over the ground. It was horrible."