Chapter 81: Waiting

In the early morning, on the bank of the Qinhuai River, before dawn, Nie Yunzhu got up from the bed, finished washing, and then made a pot of tea and walked out of the front door of the small building.

The gloomy night shrouded the castles and mountains in the distance, making it impossible to see what was in the distance. She sat on the steps in front of the building and thought about things, in fact, these days, thinking about more than one thing, the familiar footsteps had not sounded here for twenty days.

In retrospect, this kind of morning has lasted for nearly a year, from the first time I knew him because of the chicken, to the later I saw him running over every morning every day, talking and chatting. Every morning is a special time for her. Except for the heavy rain, the figure passed here every day, even on snowy days, and she almost thought that it would go on like this in the future.

Only these twenty days told her that the contact between the two was actually only a simple meeting every day. He didn't come, and she couldn't find him, the man...... After all, he is the husband of Miss Nasu.

This made her slightly annoyed.

In the first few days, I just thought that he had something urgent, or went far away, or delayed the early morning workout. However, as time passed, I couldn't help but feel anxious, worried that something had happened to him or an accident. In the past few days, I have intentionally or unintentionally walked around the vicinity of Nasu Mansion, walking around the wall of the compound to see if there are any clues, but I can't see it. I was anxious, and I felt that I was sneaky, and I really didn't understand what I was doing.

The worst of this worry was probably a few days ago when several catchers came to her. She was in a daze in the backyard of the Zhuji main store, thinking about her thoughts, when the shop maid came in and told her that she was looking for a catch, she was really stunned all of a sudden, and ran out of the door in a daze and almost tripped over the threshold, and then listened to the question asked by the catcher, and was stunned for a long time before reacting.

Gu Yanzhen, Gu Yanzhen, Gu Yanzhen again, Gu Yanzhen......

Let him die.

——The two catchers asked about the situation between her and Gu Yanzhen.

She almost complained like that in her heart, but she still briefly talked about the previous relationship absentmindedly, and the last two catchers said that Gu Yanzhen was killed after leaving the city, which made her stunned for a long time.

If it was in normal times, she might have been sad for a while, but at this time, she had some worries, and she turned back after being stunned for a while. The world is actually not peaceful, Liheng will not encounter anything......

It wasn't until soon later that she went to the vicinity of Nasu Mansion and saw Liheng's wife Su Tan'er and the maid come out and get into the carriage, although she looked a little anxious, but it seemed that she was only going to deal with business, so she gradually settled down. But the next day, I thought that Liheng didn't have an accident, and he didn't say that he was going to go far away when chatting with him the day before, and now he hasn't come for so long, maybe it's ...... Won't it come?

I think it's silly to think like that.

In recent days, I have been mostly gloomy and depressed and complicated thoughts, but every morning, I still make the pot of tea, sit on the steps and wait, until dawn. At this time, she will adjust her emotions a little.

Hmph, if you don't come, I'll be waiting here every day

She thought as playfully as she could, and sat there with a sip of tea, and then the morning breeze caressed the footsteps and brought the footsteps over......

After twenty days, Ning Yi once again resumed the habit of running every morning, although after getting up, Xiaochan complained and nagged with tears in his eyes when he changed the dressing on his hand in the room, and when he just untied the bandage yesterday and saw the burned left hand, it made Xiaochan cry, but after all, the necessity of insisting on exercising is still there.

The injury on his left hand has basically healed. This rehabilitation refers to the fact that you can do some basic movements, no longer hurt, and there are no big problems in life, but after removing the bandage, it is inevitably a little ugly, and now the whole hand is red. A few days ago, I bragged in front of Lu Hongti that I was a bloody slaughterer, but I couldn't imagine that a word would become a prophecy, whether it was actually or in appearance, it was really laughable.

If you want to fully recover, the whole process will take half a year, and it is also because Lu Hongti's injury medicine is really good. He was actually prepared to scrap his left hand, and there was no more choice in that situation that day, although it was a pity, but he was able to survive, and there was nothing to do. Now it's earned.

Some of the ingredients of the wound medicine are very valuable, but the Su family is rich, and this problem is not big, last night I probably talked to the father-in-law of the Su family and Mrs. Su on behalf of the bus about the process of "a friend has something to help and then burns his arm", which should be an understatement, the reason why Xiaochan didn't want him to come out this morning was mainly because he was afraid that exercise would cause his arms to sweat, after all, burns and the like were mainly injuries to these skin glands. However, now that Ning Yi has the internal exercises taught by Lu Hongti, there is naturally no need to stop, just restrain the amount of exercise. ,

Today's run, that is, before Nie Yunzhu took the small building, he was ready to stop.

“…… A few days ago, I went out of the city to help a friend do something, and then I had a little accident and was burned on my hand. But fortunately, I found a famous doctor, and the wound medicine is very magical, and it will be better in about half a year. Ning Yi took a sip of tea, raised his bandaged left hand and showed it in the air, "How is it?" Do you think this looks good? He himself thinks this look is really stylish.

Nie Yunzhu smiled shallowly and lowered his eyes: "It hurts, right?" ”

"Well, I don't feel anything now, it really hurt." Ning Yi smiled, "How's it going?" ”

"Well, fortunately, something very interesting happened a few days ago, someone came to the store with a wooden sign carved by himself......"

In the early hours of the morning, the river bay seemed to have returned to the usual scene, some homely trivial gossip. Seeing Ning Yi, Nie Yunzhu also felt as if he was relieved, but when he recalled the situation of these days, there were always some empty places. When the morning light was slightly dewed, Ning Yi also got up to say goodbye, and Nie Yunzhu hesitated in his heart: "You ......"

"Huh?"

"You have a hand injury, you have to take medicine every day, it's not good to sweat. For the sake of the body, these days...... Don't run and sweat anymore. ”

She said this with some difficulty, and Ning Yi nodded: "Well, I understand, but it's okay, it's not a big problem with simple exercise, and you won't sweat." I've recently gained an internal strength or something, exercise at any time, this exercise intensity does not sweat, ha, ha, maybe after a while, I will become a martial arts hero. ”

Ning Yi used to tell her about rumors such as martial arts, but now he is also cheerful when he talks about this. Nie Yunzhu stood there watching his back go away, and a cool tear suddenly slid down his cheek and fell on the back of his hand in front of him. She was slightly stunned, then wiped it in a little panic, and ran towards the front suddenly, only running two steps, the embroidered shoes stopped again, and Ning Yi turned around in front.

"Ah, by the way, the wine thing should be almost finished, and when the time comes, I'll take over the designs of the various parts, and I'd better find a few blacksmiths who can keep them secret. Well, I'll try to find a way to make sure that the specifications are met, and the rest of the workshop needs to be kept secret...... Is there any contact with the sake brewing master? ”

Nie Yunzhu held the handkerchief on his chest, and after a moment of blankness, he nodded vigorously: "Well, I have been contacted before." ”

"Oh, that's good." Ning Yi smiled, and then waved his hand, "Let's go first, I won't start classes until a few days, I said that I can be lazy in the past two days, maybe I will go to Zhuji at noon to sit down, heh, I miss the porridge with preserved eggs and lean meat." ”

Nie Yunzhu smiled and nodded: "I'll wait for you to come over." ”

A trace of loss in my heart gradually faded.

He'll be over at noon......

When the mood is cheerful, the rest of the things can be left behind. In the early morning of full of energy and hope, she was about to go to the head office to wait, and then she remembered the news of Gu Yanzhen's death from the two arresters. Why did the two catchers come to find her, Nie Yunzhu thought in her heart, she may not have much bad feelings towards Gu Yanzhen, Gu Yanzhen is still talented, he died, Nie Yunzhu felt a little pity and sadness, but on the other hand, even if he died, it seemed to have something to do with him, which made her feel slightly disgusted, obviously it had nothing to do with it - these two moods were not contradictory, they were mixed together, and after a while, they sighed and gradually faded away.

A few days later, there were more and more victims outside the city, and one morning Nie Yunzhu told Ning Yi that there was a person he knew who had died outside the city these days, and this person originally wanted to leave to be the county magistrate, he was quite talented and had a bright future, so he told Ning Yi that the situation had not been peaceful recently, and he should pay more attention to safety. At that time, Ning Yi's expression was complicated.

"Acquaintances?"

"Unfamiliar."

"Oh." Ning Yi shrugged, "It's too regrettable to be jealous of talents. ”

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Back in the evening of the sixth day of the sixth month of June, nearly two days after the bloodshed that night, several hunters were investigating near the burned houseboat on the bank of the deserted river, the wind was howling, the sky was getting dark, and there was probably a thunderstorm tonight.

"After this heavy rain, I'm afraid I can't investigate anything" A catcher's voice resounded in the wind on the riverbank, and the houseboat on the shallows of the river had been completely burned to the ground, and of course, there were some collapsed wreckage, and the charred corpses of people were mixed in, and it was unknown how long the road had been washed away. "If there is really the corpse of the county magistrate surnamed Gu in this, what is going on with this matter?" ”

"It is estimated that the Gu County Order made a deal with the Yang brothers here, and it was cleaned up by the assassin together."

There are a total of five catchers, three are ordinary catchers, and the other two are the main and deputy catchers, which are the real official catchers in Jiangning Mansion. The five of them searched for the wreckage by the river for a while, but in fact, they had already found some clues when they found it this morning, and they could probably confirm that one of the corpses was Gu Yanzhen. This was the second time they had expected it to rain, and the thirty-year-old catcher walked up to the shore and looked for other clues nearby, and after a while, the taller and thinner deputy catcher followed.

"Chen Tou, the death of the two servants of the Gu family, the rest of the people said that it was the female assassin, and now that he and this Yang Yi Yang Heng family died here, the case is closed, but it is well concluded."

The slightly tall and thin deputy head catcher is surnamed Xu, and he is talking like this at this time, and the head catcher is surnamed Chen, and he smiled at this time: "The prefect also hopes so." ”

They are here today because of a bloody incident that took place outside the city yesterday morning. The two servants of the Gu family were abducted and thrown back the corpses, and what appeared at the scene at that time was the female assassin who assassinated Song Xian on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The brothers Yang Yi and Yang Heng, who live here, are themselves well-known villains, living in the middle of nowhere, and if they die, the government basically doesn't care, and they may only clap their hands. However, Gu Yanzhen's case also happened at this time, and some things had to be investigated, a county order in the Jiangning territory was dead, and an explanation must be given to the above.

Yang Yi and Yang Heng brothers have always been arrogant, but they are also extremely fierce, and there are not many people in Jiangning who will easily provoke them, and they can't be provoked. At this time, after an investigation, the whole family died, and only that female assassin-like strongman could do it, as for why Gu Yanzhen and his servants were here, the reason probably depends on whether the above wants to discredit him or light him up, it doesn't matter.

If these things are talked about separately, a county order dies in the Jiangning territory, whether the case can be solved or not, the pressure on the Jiangning prefect will be very great. But the female assassin stretched out her hand and forcibly forbade it, and now she has killed someone, and she has already run out of the city. Hengzhu already has Song Xian's case, and now he has pushed it up, and it has become an embellishment. At noon, everyone analyzed the case, and the prefect revealed the intention of merging the case, he didn't want to directly top two disgusting cases here, it was better to merge them into one, at the moment, it seems that the logic is actually accurate, Gu Yanzhen bought the murderer to do some bad things, and did it to the female assassin, and as a result, Yang Yi and Yang Heng's family died here, the female assassin had a fierce personality, and even went to kill two servants of the other party to vent his anger.

"That's probably how the case was closed."

Chen Zhutou smiled, said so, the two walked on the river beach, the head catcher went to look at the blood on the bank of the river that may be the first murder scene, turned around after a while, but could not find the figure of the other party, he turned back into the bamboo forest here, only to see Chen Zhutou at this time for some reason actually "sitting" there.

He didn't really sit, because there was no chair behind him, and at this time, such a calm man took a horse step in the bamboo forest and sat in a posture, with his hands on his knees, as if he was sitting steadily. There he tilted his face slightly, looking at the wreckage of the house in the shallows in the distance, his expression uncertain. Deputy Xu was about to walk over, and he suddenly stretched out his hand: "Don't come over"

"What's wrong?"

The sound of the wind blowing across the river beach, and Chen Zhutou watched there for a long time before he muttered: "This is ...... What a ruthless man......"

My finger was smedicated, and it still hurts, but I feel a lot better, and it should be fine tomorrow, I can't be sure if there is one in the early morning, and it will be normal tomorrow, so forgive me.

Yesterday, when my fingers suddenly hurt, I remembered "Norwegian Wood", in which a promising pianist suddenly couldn't move a finger, and thought that I was going to suffer the same fate, but fortunately, it should be just paronychia, the problem is not big, it is not because of the illness caused by the computer, you don't have to worry ^_^