Get on the wrong sedan chair and marry the right wolf

The mountain road of Wanxia Mountain is not steep but very long, and the time passes quickly. When they reached the position pointed by Ling Xueji, the four of them felt that the scenery in front of them was no longer as bright as before.

"It seems to be here." Ling Xueji stopped, pinching his sleeves to wipe his sweat.Wei Yueyan carefully put Ling Qiufan on the ground, and the two looked at the forest under the twilight together.Qu Quan looked around, and a smile appeared on his painfully pale face.

"Coincidentally, this is exactly the place where I want to invite General Wei to investigate together."

"That's it?" Wei Yueyan, who was purely looking for something fresh, immediately cheered up and re-observed the nearby scenery.

The scenery on Wanxia Mountain is different in four seasons, but it is basically covered with lush forests, especially now that it is spring, and everywhere in the mountain should be full of vitality. It should not be like this here, with bare branches and shadows, The mournful look of the decayed wood, together with the golden and red sunset glow in the sky, all set off a somewhat dire feeling.

A piece of bare forest stands abruptly on Wanxia Mountain where thousands of trees come back in spring and colorful forests intersect. No wonder Ling Xueji memorized the direction at a glance among the undulating mountains.But what surprised them the most was not the huge difference between this place and other places, but that in the whole dry forest, there were glaring red marks on almost every tree!

These marks may be long or short, but they are all painted on the trunk with red liquid. The combination of pale dead wood bark and scarlet paint marks gives people a paradoxical visual experience, as if the red marks are all living things , with thousands of feet squirming around, touching the most sensitive place on the apex of the heart with the tentacles and then tearing and licking it, you can feel serious discomfort just by looking at it.

Wei Yueyan quickly pulled his wife over to cover her eyes, "I can't see it, I can't see it, I can't see it."

Qu Quan gave a slight "chi" and turned his head to ask Ling Xueji's opinion, but when he saw Ling Xueji lowering his head and calming his breath, he couldn't help being a little puzzled, "What's wrong with you?"

Ling Xueji tightly closed her eyes, "I'm a little... want to vomit."

"Don't be afraid." Qu Quan also pulled Ling Xueji to his side, comforting softly: "You are the one who has seen the bloodiest corpse."

Ling Xueji: "..." Shut up if you can't comfort me...

"Ah Quan?" A gentle and elegant male voice sounded in the dead wood forest. The four of them looked up and saw a man in a green shirt and a jade crown walking towards this side with two Jinwu guards with knives. In addition to the hem of the green shirt, there is also a jade sash hanging from the waist.

"Shihu, you're here." Qu Quan stepped forward and led him over, Ling Xueji's eyes lingered for a moment on the hands they were holding.

Shuo Dendrobium nodded to Qu Quan, then walked up to Wei Yueyan and bowed to Wei Yueyan, "The general has worked hard."

Wei Yueyan nodded, he was too lazy to talk to him, but Ling Qiufan saluted him back.At this time, another person stepped out from the dead wood forest, it was Master Han.He didn't take Jinwuwei with him. He thought he was with Shuo Dendrobium. After they met, Qu Quan acted as an intermediary and came over to introduce them to each other, "This is the envoy from the right street of Jinwu Guard among the twelve guards, Shuo Dendrobium. He has been in office for several years and has repeatedly solved strange cases. He is a genius. He is also extremely concerned about the affairs of the people. He is well-known and well-known, and he is also a good official."

Ling Qiufan had already seen the freshness in Dendrobium Shuo's brows, which was different from the vulgarity of bureaucrats and the pedanticness of scholars. Although he didn't have any intention of getting close, he didn't feel any rejection of strange men at all. The introduction made him feel good. It is a blessing for the people of Jinling to have such officials in charge of the streets.

"This is Mr. Han from the Youjie Yamen of the Jinwu Guard. He is Lord Shuo's most capable assistant. He is as careful as dust and never forgets his memory. He has a brilliant literary talent like Song Yu in ancient times."

Master Han's status is much lower than Ling Qiufan's, so although Ling Qiufan admires this outstanding master, he can only nod to him due to etiquette.

"This is the general's wife." Qu Quan introduced it to a friend, and he brought out Ling Xueji's brainwashing words every day, "Madam is the daughter of the prefect of Wu County. Things are well organized.”

Speaking of this, Qu Quan took a sneak peek at Ling Xueji while Master Han was saluting, and found that Ling Xueji was staring at the corner of his mouth, his little face was full of excitement, as if the person he just praised was her.Qu Quan thought about it for a while, and continued to make up many beautiful words, all of which were applied to Ling Qiufan. He really exaggerated the hype and sent chills down the spine of everyone present.

Except Wei Yueyan.

It was the first time for Master Han to see this General of the Twelve Guards. He took a step forward to salute, but Qu Quan threw all the words on Ling Qiufan and stopped talking, which made Master Han very sad. It was embarrassing, but seeing Qu Quan's apparently forgotten appearance, he was embarrassed to remind him specially. When he was feeling worried, Master Shangshu finally remembered the person he had missed to introduce, and with a flick of his wide sleeve, he raised his hand and pointed at Wei Yueyan. He didn't look back.

"This is Dangerous Yueyan."

Everyone: "..."

Those present were not fond of formalities, and after a "simple" introduction, they began to talk about serious business.Generally, Shuo Dendrobium and Qu Quan are in no particular order, and whoever wants to speak should speak first.But today Wei Yueyan was present, so they could only be ranked according to their official ranks, and Shuo Dendrobium had the lowest official rank and he was the first to present the clues he got.

"The red marks here were left by a woman during her escape. Because the woman was missing and the red marks on the dead wood were too messy, the lower officials have not yet found out the exact location where she was imprisoned. and the direction of escape."

Wei Yueyan asked: "Then how can you be sure that the red marks are left by that woman?"

Shuo Dendrobium took the cloth bag handed over by Master Han, and took out a pear-blossom white jade and bright silver hairpin from it, "At first, the lower officials could not conclude that the red mark was left by the woman, but after searching, they found the woman's younger brother and said This hairpin is indeed his sister's ornament, and because his sister could not remember the way since childhood, his parents specially bought eye-catching colored wax for his sister to mark the way. After the official brought him here, he took a look I recognized that the red mark here was indeed left by his sister."

Everyone heard the words and looked at the red marks around them, and they all speculated in their hearts that with this woman's road-crazy level, they might still be wandering around in a corner of Wanxia Mountain.

Holding his sleeves, Ling Qiufan picked up the pear-blossom white jade hairpin and looked at it carefully, asking, "Which tree did this hairpin fall under?"

Shuo Dendrobium turned around and calculated several dead trees in the northeast direction, walked to one of the trunks and stood still, "Return to Ma'am, it's this one."

"What is the landing direction?" Ling Qiufan handed the hairpin to Shuo Dendrobium, motioning him to restore the situation at that time.

Without hesitation, Dendrobium Shuo placed the hairpin she had received on the ground of fallen leaves.

"Master Shuo, are you sure?"

"Master Han has drawn drawings of all the scenes when the physical evidence appeared at that time, and the officials will not remember it wrong."

"That's interesting." Ling Qiu showed a smile, this smile didn't make her cold face feel warmer, on the contrary, the frost became heavier, Wei Yueyan looked startled and hurriedly asked why, Ling Qiu pointed Looking at the red marks on the dead wood, he said: "Almost every tree here has more than two painting marks, but this one has only one. The brush strokes in the north are heavy and the strokes in the east are light, indicating that this tree is extremely beautiful. It may be the last tree the woman passed, traveling from north to east, and the exit is on the east side."

As she spoke, she pointed to the hairpin again, "Strictly speaking, this hairpin should be called a silver comb. If the hair is not in a heavy bun, it is usually inserted in the front and back. I don't think this woman is wearing a heavy bun." , but the hair accessories fall to the ground without knowing that the hair comb must be inserted in the back. The white jade pear flower is large and heavy, and it will not turn around when it hits the ground, only the heavy side will land on the front. There are only two possibilities in the end, Yuli's front hair is combed to the north, and Yuli's back is combed to the east."

"And now, wouldn't it be interesting that the hair comb indicated the woman in the opposite direction to the red mark?"

After these remarks, Wei Yueyan couldn't help but stepped forward to praise, before he could speak, Qu Quan had already said, "Madam Wei is as careful as dust, Qu Quan admires it."

Wei Yueyan didn't want to get to know Qu Quan at such a beautiful moment, she put off her black face and put on a smile to get close to Madam, Ling Xueji flew out from nowhere and threw herself into Ling Qiufan's arms, her tone of voice and movements were equally sticky, "Sister said too much~~ I can't think of it~"

Wei Yueyan withdrew his hand that was outstretched in the air, and was thinking about how to separate his sister and let his wife return to him, when that Fangshuo Dendrobium, Master Han and the two Jinwu guards had already surrounded Ling Qiufan to express their praise word.

"..." General Wei felt that he had to do something to bring his wife's attention back to him, and suddenly she saw the white jade pear hairpin on the ground...

"I made a big discovery!"

"What is it!"

"..." Wei Yueyan felt a headache when he saw Qu Quan who had approached him before he finished speaking, but he couldn't directly express his dislike to her.I can only continue to throw bait at my wife, "I think this point has a great breakthrough for this case."

"Wow! Say it, say it!"

"..." Wei Yueyan looked at Ling Xueji who had an excited little face in front of him, and suddenly felt that his wife's sister was not so cute.

"Why is the general so grumpy?" Qu Quan had already seen the dirty thoughts in her heart, squinting his eyes and began to attack, "Could it be that I was only dazzled when I was about to leave?"

Wei Yueyan was most afraid that she would say such things, and felt guilty in his heart but not on the face, "Does Qu Shangshu think that what he discovered is more valuable? That's right, Qu Shangshu has more experience in judging thousands of cases than I do. Then Shangshu First please?"

Hearing this, Qu Quan wished he could poke the guy in front of him to death with his eyes, so as to drag himself into the water!Is she shameless? !But the slander belongs to the slander, and the momentum cannot be lost.As a result, her face was calm and her mind was spinning, and she finally had a flash of inspiration.

"There are waterways at the foot of the two mountains in the northeast. The current is fast and there are no boats. Where can she escape?!"

Without even thinking about it, Wei Yueyan gave her the applause that was going to be given to his wife just now.

"This woman is still in this mountain!"