After being forced to stay by Cao Liang to help solve the case, Zhou Jinnian took Xie Ning to find a painter.

In the evening, Zhou Jinnian and Xie Ning returned to the inn and locked the door. The couple sat at the table and looked at the portrait.

Xie Ning shuddered as she watched, and stretched out her hand to cover the portrait, "The painting is really... scary."

Zhou Jinnian closed the portrait and held Xie Ning's hand to soothe it.

"Fortunately, the painter didn't ask who the painting was." Xie Ning sighed, "Ah...Jan Nian, how do we catch him next?"

Zhou Jinnian replied: "Tomorrow, I will go to Wu Dao, borrow a few elite soldiers, and find out who this person's last name and first name is. Later, there must be evidence, but this evidence cannot be you."

"You are guilty of Biqi, you can't let a third person know about your ability to communicate with carp." Zhou Jinnian whispered to Xie Ning's ear in a low voice.

With a warm and hot breath brushing against her ears, Xie Ning shrank her neck, holding Zhou Jinnian, and also said in a breath: "Okay..."

Zhou Ji smiled young and exclaimed, "Really good."

Xie Ning wrinkled her nose, "Huh! What to coax Yu brother."

Speaking of Brother Yu, Xie Ning sighed again, "This is the second night, I wonder if Brother Yu will cry tonight?"

He asked that, in fact, he already had the answer in his heart, surely his son would cry?

...

In the inner courtyard of Nanyu County, Brother Yu is sitting on a small bench, with two small hands in his arms, and staring at the little black dog on the chair with big eyes. Although he is pouting, we can see that we are brother Yu. I'm in a good mood.

The little black dog was brought back by his grandfather, Wei Feng, who was very sorry for his grandson, but the two adults went to Fucheng for official duties. He could only try if he could coax his grandson well.

Brother Yu stretched out his hand to catch the little black dog. He couldn't control his strength, so he picked up the little black dog and held it up.

Lin Jin came over and stretched out his hand to correct him, "Brother Yu, the hug hurts, let go..."

Brother Yu pouted and hugged him back. Lin Jin had to change his way and stretched out his hand and said, "Will you give it to Grandpa?"

"Yeah!" Brother Yu nodded happily, and put the puppy on Lin Jin's hand.

"Really good." Lin Jin put the puppy back on the chair, holding it with both hands, and said: "Look at Grandpa, your hands are like this. You have to hold it. It hurts if you pinch it, don't you know?"

Brother Yu's two small claws cleverly close together, holding them like a grandfather.

"Oh yes." Lin Jin gently hugged the puppy and put it back into Brother Yu's hands, letting the little grandson hold the puppy in his arms.

"Look, doesn't it stop barking?" Lin Jin touched the puppy.

Brother Yu understood, looked at Lin Jin, squinted and smiled: "Ka Ka Ka..."

After two days, after finally laughing, Lin Jin let out a sigh of relief.

"Daddy!" Brother Yu suddenly called to the puppy.

Lin Jin was frightened, thinking that Brother Yu was clamoring for Daddy again. He took a closer look. There was only a puppy in his eyes, and he kept mumbling ‘Daddy’ in his mouth.

Lin Jin slapped her knees and laughed constantly. Brother Yu spoke late, only "Daddy" shouted most skillfully. He called "Daddy" when he was hungry and thirsty.

Shout when it's okay, call everyone when you see it.

"Brother Yu, you can give the puppy a name." Lin Jin hurriedly began to guide his grandson.

If Zhou Jinnian came back, seeing Brother Yu shouting a puppy "Daddy", he would have to smash Brother Yu's little butt.

Brother Yu held it for a while, his little hand froze and became uncomfortable, so he handed the puppy he was holding to Lin Jin, frowning his small eyebrows, with a little anxious expression, "Yeah!"

"For grandpa?" Lin Jinshun took the puppy, "Okay, grandpa holds it."

Lin Jin went on to say, "You can give the puppy a name, dear grandson."

Brother Yu's hands were relaxed, and the little eyebrows were stretched out, and the tender little paws stroked the soft and warm hair on the puppy's back.

"Wow!" Brother Yu called out to the puppy, the baby's voice was tender and crisp, very cute.

"Hahahaha..." Lin Jin was amused by the little grandson, "Then it's called boil, you call it again."

"Wow!"

Lin Jin chuckled again.

Brother Yu looked at Grandpa with his head up, then squinted with Lin Jin, grinning haha.

When he was going to bed at night, Brother Yu had to hug and boil it to bed. Lin Jin didn't agree with it.

"Whose puppy let you go to bed? Just be naughty, and wait for you..." Lin Jin stopped, and he was about to say that he would wait for your father to come back and beat you.

He didn't dare to mention that Brother Yu was about to go to bed soon, and again, Brother Yu had to cry all night.

After playing with the puppy for an afternoon, Brother Yu was already able to hold the puppy without pinching it. He held the puppy in his arms, took small steps, and stuck himself on Lin Jin's lap.

"Grandpa..." Brother Yu touched his grandfather's leg with his forehead. After rubbing his head, he raised his head and smiled softly at Lin Jin, showing nine millet teeth.

If Zhou Jinnian was on the sidelines, he would definitely say that his son was really like Ning Lang, and he was used to acting like a baby.

Wednesday Feng was also soft-hearted and too noisy, and also helped persuade Lin Jin: "The dog is weaned and hugged it. Where can it get dirty? Just let him."

Lin Jin sighed, but she really couldn't face her coquettish Yu brother with a black face.

"You..." Lin Jin stretched out a finger and clicked on Brother Yu's forehead.

Then he picked up Brother Yu and put it on the bed. Brother Yu held the little black dog in his arms and shrank into his grandfather's arms. On the second night without his father by his side, he stayed with him and shrank into his grandfather's arms. sleep.

When Brother Yu fell asleep, Lin Jin quietly took the puppy out of the bed, and there was a doghouse with old clothes on the floor next to the bed.

...

On the second day, Xie Ning brought two yamen, who wore denim shirts and pretended to be his entourage.

The three of them entered the book teahouse and sat down on the first floor. Xie Ning ordered a pot of hot tea and three snacks.

"In other words, when this scholar went to Beijing to rush for the exam, there was a heavy rain, what should I do?"

"The scholar took a closer look, eh? There is a small ruined temple in front of..."

Mr. Storyteller's tone fluctuates and goes back and forth. Xie Ning is very entertained when he listens to the book for the first time. He peels peanuts while drinking tea, listening with gusto.

Salt-boiled peanuts are indeed very fragrant. If you look carefully, each peanut has been pinched in a small bite, so the peanut kernels are particularly tasty.

In addition to salt, peanuts should also contain other seasonings, such as pepper, star anise and bay leaves. Xie Ning thought to go back and cook for his family to eat, and Yu brother could also eat some.

He was sitting on the first floor where people entered and exited, and his appearance was so handsome, and he attracted some tea tasting people in the teahouse to stare at him.

There was a table of three people who not only looked at him secretly, but also muttered and discussed. They were far away and couldn't hear anything, but their eyes made Xie Ning uncomfortable.

The two yamen also have eyesight to see. Seeing Xie Ning frowned, they immediately got up and walked in front of the three people. They put their hands in their waists to block their sight, and said fiercely: "Listen to the book well, don't you want your eyes?"

With the sound of the brawny yaman, everyone in the teahouse was frightened to hold their breath. The storyteller also stood up on the second floor, shut his mouth and looked down.

Yamen are the lowest escorts in the yamen. The dirty, tired, and errands in the yamen come from them. They are the yamen officials who have direct contact with the people. The people do not fight against the officials, so they often get some benefits from the people.

If things go on like this, they will develop a bad habit of beating, smashing, blackmailing and infringing the common people if they don't get any benefits, and each one will develop a vicious face against the common people.

The people privately call the Ya Ya ‘Yu Ya’, which means that Ya Ya is a bunch of worms that eat utensils.

In the common people's mouth, ‘the people do not fight against the officials’, most of them refer to yamen.

With a ‘bang’, the other government officer directly slapped the table again, “Let’s keep my eyes away from me, do you hear me!”

It's vicious, but it works...

This episode caused the people in the teahouse to have a little fear in their eyes. There was only a small figure, but their eyes were excited.

This little man came to buy peanuts yesterday and was stopped by the little girl outside the teahouse.

Xie Ning was no longer disturbed by other people's eyes, and listened to the book comfortably.

"The little fox cried pear flower brought the rain, and drilled straight into the scholar's arms..."

"..." Xie Ning's lips opened slightly, and the whole person was stunned. What kind of plot is this?

Xie Ning sat steadily like a mountain and glanced at the servants who were sitting on the left and right. These two were fascinated.

Turning his head slightly, looked at the scholars around him, several eyes were yearning and obsessed.

"..." Xie Ning was speechless, turning his head back, biting his scalp and listening to the book.

After being forced to listen to the fragrant "Xiu Cai rushing to the rainy night adventure" for a whole afternoon, Xie Ning found nothing and went back to the inn.

Zhou Jinnian hadn't returned yet, so he went to touch the book Zhou Jinnian brought with him and saw that he could barely understand it when he stumbled, and it was a book governing farming.

It's a bit boring for Xie Ning. After all, he can't recognize all the characters. The harder he reads, the more sleepy he gets, and he fell asleep on his stomach without knowing it.

When Zhou Jinnian came back, I saw Xie Ning resting his head on his arm, holding his book in his hand, his eyes closed tightly, and his sleeping face flushed.

Zhou Jiyoung took off the book in Fulang's hand, picked up Xie Ning and put it back on the bed.

"Hmm..." Xie Ning didn't respond when she was picked up, but as soon as her back was against the cold bed, she left her eyes and woke up, "Jiannian?"

"Yeah." Zhou Jinnian put him down and covered him with a quilt, "Go to sleep, I'm back."

Xie Ning rubbed his eyes, sat up, and fell into Zhou Jinian's arms like a cartilage, with his arms loosely wrapped around her husband's waist.

"Have you found that person?" His voice was soft as soon as he woke up.

"It's locked, Zhang Ren, a talented talent, and I will show you from a distance tomorrow. If you are sure that it is him, find a reason to arrest him and interrogate him carefully."

Xie Ning nodded in Zhou Jinnian's arms without saying a word, closing his eyes to wake up.

Zhou Jinnian knew about him, and he would definitely not be able to sleep anymore, so he asked, "Go downstairs for the meal, or should I ask Xiao Er to bring it up?"

"Send it up." Xie Ning replied in a lazy tone, not wanting to go downstairs.

After Zhou Jinnian instructed the second child, the food was served soon, and the husband and wife sat at the table while eating and chatting.

Xie Ning asked: "If it is really Zhang Ren, and there is no evidence to catch him, will he be stunned?"

"..." Zhou Jinnian was silent for a moment and said what he thought, "Carp saw him throwing the dead man's head into the moat, so he has no relationship with this case. For such cruel criminals, I want to arrest them directly. , Torture."

Xie Ning's chopsticks stopped in the air, and he pouted her greasy mouth and kissed Zhou Jinnian, "Why do you believe me so?"

Communicating with the carp, such a strange thing is unheard of, Xie Ning himself can't believe him, but Zhou Jinnian believes in what he said.

"In this world, besides you Xie Ning, there is no one who can make me trust more." Zhou Jinnian finished calmly picking up dishes.

"Um..." Xie Ning pouted embarrassedly, then pulled back to the subject and said: "But I only saw him throw it into the river. How can it prove that he committed the crime?"

"As long as you are curious, I will tell you well." Zhou Jinnian put down his chopsticks, and the bad taste came again. He was sure that after listening to him, Xiao Fu Lang was so scared that he couldn't sleep at night.

Can't sleep, he can just teach Ning Lang to do some exercise.

"I asked Cao Liang, if the criminal is locked, but there is no evidence for the first time, you can start from the following points."

"First listen to what you say, even if you know that the confession is false, let it be said, then write it down, ask the details based on the sophistry confession, and check whether the facts are true."

"If you raise doubts and tortured the prisoner in every possible way but still deceive, you must use the method of looting to make him succumb... the whip stick is light..."

Zhou Jinnian held Xie Ning’s white tender hand, and said with a smile at the corner of his mouth: “Pinch your fingers and press your ankle, and put your fingers into the bamboo board. The more you pull, the tighter..."

He deliberately lowered his voice, said solemnly, and slowly tightened his hands.

"Ah!" Xie Ning screamed softly because of the pain in his pinched hand, and immediately reacted, and as soon as he lifted his other hand, he squeezed Zhou Jinnian's ear.

"Hey..." Zhou Jinnian miscalculated, and was not prepared to be confronted by Ning. "Playing with Lai, right?"

"Huh!" Xie Ning withdrew his hand, wrinkled his nose and said fiercely, "What then?"

Zhou Jinnian raised his eyebrows, brushed his sleeves with both hands, acting like a rogue, "Don't say anything."

Xie Ning graciously smiled, got up and sat on Zhou Jinnian, softened his voice, and asked glutinously, "Does it hurt?"

"Of course." Zhou Jinnian hugged the narrow waist that was delivered to the door.

Xie Ning clasped one hand behind Zhou Jinnian’s head, leaned over and pecked and kissed Zhou Jinnian’s ear, then buried himself, leaning on Zhou Jinnian’s shoulder, his forehead against Zhou Jinnian’s warm neck, "I'm wrong……"

Zhou Ji smiled young, picked him up and returned to the bed, "Little fool, are you so behaved if you are scared?"

"Hmm..." Xie Ning pursed her mouth and smiled, her eyes were as delicate as ever, and more gentle, "I was wrong."

He has grown up, but still likes to fight with Zhou Jinnian and act like a baby. But the little brother who often beats her husband is too fierce.

So he wanted to change it. At this moment, he was acting like a baby to Zhou Jinnian, but he was actually apologizing.

"Stupid." Zhou Jinnian lay down beside him, leaning on his side, holding his head with one hand, and touching Xiao Fulang's cheek with the other, and said softly: "If you like it, you will deliberately provoke you."

Knowing to provoke Xie Ning, Xie Ning will screw him, but he just likes it, and he likes being screwed. Especially on the bed, irritating.

"But you were right just now. I will ask people who are acquainted with Zhang Ren tomorrow to figure out Zhang Ren's motive for the murder. If I have a motive, the questioning is justified."

Xie Ning nodded and returned to the topic, "The wronged Qu Wenbo recorded the confession that he used five taels of silver and bought the three-color thrush from a little lady. That little lady may be an insider."

"The only person who saw the little lady was Qu Wenbo, and Qu Wenbo was wronged to death. That Zhang Ren's family had a wife and a daughter, but a 10-year-old daughter and wife, which did not fit the title of a little lady."

In the Qing dynasty, the little lady in the folks referred to a woman who was not married and had no haircut.

"Tomorrow you look at that Zhang Ren first. If you confirm that the carp saw him, I will take a few catchers to visit Zhang Ren's neighborhood." Zhou Jinnian turned over and sat up, "I'm a bucket of hot water, let's take a rest. ."

Xie Ning responded, still thinking about the case.

...

On the third day, Xie Ning followed Zhou Jinnian to an appointment with a servant dressed as a farmer.

Ya Yai: "My lord, Zhang Ren was a talent in the thirty-fourth year of Qingyuan. He came to work as a teacher for the son of a squire, but he didn't go there for only half a year. I don't know why. After that, he studied hard at home and copied books to the bookstore to help. The people write letters for a living."

Zhou Jinnian asked: "Who does he have close contacts with? How do the neighbours get along?"

"According to his neighbor Aunt Wu, his home often has scholars coming in and out, and sometimes he goes out very late before returning home, but he doesn't know where to come back. Aunt Wu's husband is a watchman and he is not at home at night, so he has to sleep during the day. Aunt Wuyi The woman is not very convenient to communicate with the neighbors, so she can't ask anything."

Zhou Jinnian nodded, "Continue to stare at him to see who the scholars are with him, write them down one by one, and I will ask questions later."

"Yes." Ya Yi bowed his hands and stepped back.

Zhou Jinnian tapped his fingers on the table lightly, making a crisp ‘boom’.

"Zhang Ren doesn't go out every day. It's a little difficult to identify him. So, you still go to the book restaurant today. If Zhang Renruo goes out, I will ask the spies to report to him. You can identify him when he returns home."

Zhou Jinnian stood up and prepared to send Xiao Fulang to Youshu Teahouse, "I will visit Hulu Alley and ask questions. I will send you to the teahouse first. I can't accompany you today. You listen to the book yourself, behave."

Xie Ning nodded obediently, "Hmm."

"The two messengers yesterday could do their best?"

"Well, it's weird, people who listen to the book dare not look at me anymore."

Zhou Jinnian laughed, very satisfied.

Xie Ning gave him a glance and led the two yamen yesterday to the teahouse.

In today's teahouse, the storyteller changed a story, still a ghost, or a love of men and women.

"Said there is a scholar, who will go to Beijing to take the exam..."

"..." Xie Ning took a deep breath, squeezing the opened peanuts.

"The scholar had to stay at the Wuwang Temple. He knelt down and prayed to the statue of King Wu, then went to sleep with his clothes... guess what?"

"..." Xie Ning was drinking tea, what else could he say in his heart? Falling asleep and dreaming.

"The scholar is asleep! In his sleep, the Valkyrie gave the scholar a black dress! You must be curious, does this black dress have any miraculous effects? Is it a treasure?"

"That's right, the scholar woke up and put on the black clothes and turned into a crow!"

Xie Ning only felt that he was incompatible with the reading personality in this room, and he really didn't think this story sounded any interesting.

"...The scholar and the blue bird became a bird couple, wishing to be a lovebird in the sky, and a branch in the ground..."

"...The blue bird learned that the scholar was going to Beijing for the exam, so with a wave of the jade finger, it turned into a hundred taels of real gold, which was presented to the scholar, and agreed that the man would return to the Wuwang Temple to propose marriage after he was in high school..."

"...In desperation, the scholar of the high school scholar had to marry the governor's daughter. Everyone must ask, what should the blue bird do?"

"Hehe...you guys, the tea is also cold, add a pot and drink it first. When I'm away, I'll come back and continue to the next part."

After finishing speaking, the storyteller stood up, dusted his knees, and walked downstairs and out of the teahouse.

Immediately Xie Ning heard the surrounding people guessing the plot along the story of the scholar, and the discussion was in full swing.

The little two in the teahouse asked table to table, "Can you please continue tea?"

"How to continue?"

"Five coins and a pot, when the tea is hot, the husband will come back to continue telling the story."

"Continued."

"Okay, wait a minute."

Xie Ning looked bored at the door, and didn't know if he wanted to see the murderer enter the teahouse, or if he hoped that Zhou Jinnian would send someone to report and pick him up to identify the murderer.

At this glance, I saw the dark-skinned little girl again, still holding a bowl in her hand, but this time no one stopped her, but she didn't come in.

The little girl also saw him, smiled at him, and even more tightly held the bowl in her hand.

Looking up, the other party was still very friendly, Xie Ning couldn't help being kind, and stood up and walked towards the little girl.

The two yamen followed him, seeing that he was just going to the door, under their eyelids, they sat still, and continued to peel the peanuts.

"But you want to buy peanuts again?" Xie Ning walked over and bent over and asked first.

The little girl still lowered her head and shrank her head, only dared to look up at Xie Ning, and whispered: "The money is lost..."

"Huh?" Xie Ning lowered his body again, but he didn't hear clearly.

"I don't have money to buy peanuts." The little girl licked her lower lip when she finished speaking, and said pitifully, "I will be beaten when I go back."

A bowl of peanuts is only six cents. Xie Ning said: "Give me the bowl, I'll make a bowl with you."

The little girl held the bowl and didn't let go or talk. She just stood stubbornly looking at Xie Ning, and said: "My home is in Hulu Alley, Yi Nong Zhang's house."

"Huh?" Xie Ning opened her eyes wide, and was very puzzled by the little girl's self-reporting of her family.

The little girl blinked and repeated: "There is no money to buy peanuts..."

It seems that this little girl has some problems in her mind, Xie Ning guessed in her heart.

The good guy did it to the end, Xie Ning was helpless, took out the money bag, and wanted to count the money to the little girl.

"Then you go buy it yourself... eh!" Before Xie Ning finished speaking, the little girl took his money bag and turned around and ran.

Xie Ning didn't have time to think, he just pulled out his legs to chase the little girl...

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