the other side, flower festival

Chapter 35 Linglong and the Bana Flower
Jiang Jichen raised his hand and pushed away the courtyard of Zhang Yuanwai's house in Dongshi City. The place was depressed and messy, and the mess looked depressed. It seemed that he could vaguely feel Zhang Yuanwai's grief and pain before he left.

Jiang Jichen's white round-toed boots stepped on the scattered leaves on the ground, making a crisp sound.

The flowers in the courtyard are blooming brilliantly, as if they didn't know the world, forming a sharp contrast with the mess on the ground.

Jiang Jichen stood in the middle of the courtyard, lowered his head solemnly, and bowed.

Behind him, footsteps sounded.

Jiang Jichen recognized the voice, but he didn't want to pay attention to it, so he lifted his foot and walked straight in.

"Come here alone without making a sound, have you ever reported to Dali Temple?"

Jiang Jichen didn't look back, and continued to walk forward: "I told you to stay away, why should you follow me?"

Si Yangting quickly walked a few steps to follow: "I'm here to investigate the case, who is following you?"

As he spoke, Si Yangting had already walked up to Jiang Jichen, as if he really met Jiang Jichen by chance.

Jiang Jichen looked at Si Yang Ting's back with distressed and uneasy eyes. He shook his head lightly, and stepped forward to hold Si Yang Ting: "You clearly know why I want you to leave."

Si Yangting carefully inspected the hall, trying to find something, without raising his head: "I know."

"Then why are you?" Jiang Jichen frowned.

Si Yangting raised his head in dissatisfaction, and met Jiang Jichen's eyes: "Yes, you are worried that I will be hurt, that I will be in crisis, and that I will die because of this incident! Are you right?"

"Si Yang Ting!" Priest Jiang growled slightly angrily, suppressing his voice.

Si Yangting smiled instead: "Yes, yes, I shouldn't have said I would die." He lowered his head again, walked to a room, and found that the room had been cleaned up spotless, he continued: "It's like You worry about me as much as I worry about you, can you understand?"

Jiang Jichen was speechless for a moment, he followed Si Yang Ting in, but did not speak.

This room is the former bedroom of Mr. Zhang. It can be seen that Mr. Zhang was a clean and tidy person. Therefore, before Zhang Yuanwai left, he also organized Mr. Zhang's things very well, but looking at this The rest of the courtyard seemed a bit out of place with this place, as if they were two completely different ones.

Si Yangting suddenly stopped what he was doing: "Don't you think it's strange?"

Jiang Jichen didn't speak, but looked down at the drawers carefully, hoping to find something else.

Si Yangting didn't care about Jiang Jichen ignoring him at all, he said while thinking: "The courtyard is so messy, even the hall is in a mess, it means that Zhang Yuanwai's family should be in a hurry before leaving, but why are they here?"

Jiang Jichen stood still, thinking about something, but still didn't speak.

Si Yangting looked at Jiang Jichen: "Is there a possibility?"

Jiang Jichen answered, "Mr. Zhang's room was not cleaned by members of Mr. Zhang's family."

The two looked at each other, and there was light in their eyes.

Jiang Jichen raised his foot and walked out: "Go and see the other rooms. If this is the case, there must be something strange in this room."

Si Yangting was holding a candlestick in his hand. The corners of the candlestick were stained with red candles. The pillars of the candlestick seemed to be made of bronze, but the candlestick itself seemed not to be so light.

"Wait for me!" Si Yangting put down the candlestick and chased after him.

When he put down the candlestick, there was a small gap between the top of the candlestick and the pillar. If you don't look carefully, you can't even see it.

As soon as the two left, the figure of the red snake Aning appeared in the corner. Her red snake body wandered around the corner of Mr. Zhang's room. Finally, her soft body was placed on the table, as if searching for something.

Her crimson body exuded a faint golden light, and quickly slid down from the table to the ground, turning into a human form, looking at the empty doorway, the corners of her lips curled up: "What is it that is so important, I have to come and find it!" , Coincidentally, I ran into the two of them again."

"Why not meet us?" Jiang Jichen walked in from outside the house, with one hand behind his back, calmly looking at Aning in front of him.

Behind Jiang Jichen, Si Yangting also walked in. Seeing the woman in front of him, he couldn't help being a little surprised: "You, aren't you the goddess of the Western Regions who performed skills for the queen? How could you be here?"

Aning didn't expect that Si Yangting would recognize him, and after a moment of astonishment, he regained his composure: "Young Master Jiang, are you here all right?"

Jiang Jichen smiled and cupped his hands: "Miss A-Ning, please stay safe."

Si Yangting looked at the two people coming and going in front of him, and felt even more incredible in his heart: "How do you know each other?"

Aning didn't seem to care about Si Yang Ting beside Jiang Jichen at all, but just focused on Jiang Jichen.

Jiang Jichen subconsciously walked in front of Si Yangting, blocking Si Yangting behind him: "I don't know why Miss Aning came to this barren place today?"

Aning covered her lips and smiled: "I don't want to lie, I'm afraid the purpose of coming here today is the same as yours."

Si Yangting squinted his eyes, looked at Jiang Jichen in disbelief, and stretched out his hand to pull Jiang Jichen's sleeve.

Jiang Jichen calmly pushed Si Yang Ting behind him: "The girl asked you to come?"

Aning laughed out loud: "Young Master Jiang seems to know more than I thought."

Jiang Jichen lowered his head and smiled: "I'm just guessing, I don't know what the girl asked you to investigate today?"

Aning didn't say a word, but turned his head to look at Si Yangting behind Jiang Jichen: "There are people from Dali Temple here, so it's not convenient for me to say anything. In short, the girl will not hurt you, you should know better than anyone else." ?”

Jiang Jichen chuckled, "Between Mr. Zhang and the girl."

Ah Ning's coquettish laughter spread throughout the room: "Young Master Jiang, you can rest assured that our girl will never contaminate any man except for some emotional entanglements with Young Master Jiang."

Si Yangting could hardly hold back, and wanted to rush out from behind Jiang Jichen, but Jiang Jichen held him tightly with one hand.

Si Yangting wanted to speak, but he held back because he didn't know what Jiang Jichen wanted to do.

Aning could see Jiang Jichen's protection of Si Yang Ting, and she could also see Jiang Jichen's distrust of herself. She stroked the long hair next to her ear and smiled coquettishly: "Young Master Jiang, I think there is some misunderstanding." , I have nothing to do with the girl today, it's just that I had some relationship with him before Mr. Zhang was alive, and I gave him some personal items. Today, I think I have nothing to do, so I said to come and see. After all, everyone knows, Mr. Zhang Such a good person has gone, and I miss him too.”

Even Si Yang Ting, who is completely obsessed with emotions, can see that Aning is showing off, but he didn't expect Jiang Jichen to smile and cup his hands: "Don't bother the girl over there, the purpose of our visit today may not be the same as the girl's." Nothing to do, we are here to investigate."

Aning smiled: "Oh? Criminals can also investigate cases? My Tang Dynasty is indeed extremely enlightened."

Si Yangting wanted to go forward to argue, but was stopped by Jiang Jichen.

Aning looked tired, and turned his head: "I'm tired today, so I left first. Thinking about it, Mr. Zhang's family probably took all those things away in one go. Lover, just take it with you. I'll go first, you can do what you want."

As she spoke, her enchanting body twisted and she left without any nervousness. Before leaving, she even cast a wink at Jiang Jichen.

Si Yang Ting originally thought that Jiang Jichen would be angry, but he didn't expect Jiang Jichen to say goodbye to Aning with a smile.

After Aning left, Si Yangting was so angry that he grabbed Jiang Jichen and made him face him: "What's your situation?"

Jiang Jichen didn't want to say more, so he turned around and went back to Mr. Zhang's room.

Si Yangting chased after him: "Since I was young, you have always kept secrets, but for me, you probably know exactly how many bowls of rice I ate and how many times I pooped today."

Jiang Jichen couldn't hold back for a moment, and laughed lightly: "I don't know about that."

Seeing that Jiang Jichen still didn't want to make it clear to him, Si Yang Ting simply grabbed Jiang Jichen and prevented him from making any moves: "You tell me clearly today, why does this goddess of the Western Regions recognize you? What are you talking about?" Who is the girl?"

Jiang Jichen looked at Si Yangting and didn't speak for a while.

"Tell me! Even if I'm not from Dali Temple now, but the younger brother you grew up with, out of concern for you, you should tell me clearly!"

Jiang Jichen withdrew his arm from Si Yang Ting's hand, and said flatly, "It's better that you don't know about these things. Even if you meet this Aning in the court in the future, you'd better keep a respectful distance."

"What's the matter? Should I be afraid that she won't succeed?" Si Yangting became angry.

Jiang Jichen became nervous: "She saw your face today, but she wasn't too surprised. Presumably she also recognized you, and she should have known the relationship between you and me a long time ago."

Si Yangting was puzzled: "When did you become so timid?"

Jiang Jichen's face was very bad, and he answered directly: "That's because you are the one who may have an accident now!"

Both of them froze in place. After a long time, Jiang Jichen turned his head away, looking for something where Aning had just stood.

Si Yangting came back to his senses: "Who is she? Why should we be afraid of her?"

"I'm not afraid."

"Then what was your attitude just now?"

"Stop rambling, find something with me."

"Looking for what?"

"do not know."

The two came back and forth, but it seemed that they didn't know what to say to each other.

Si Yangting stopped his movements: "The latest case is related to her, or is it related to the so-called girl?"

Jiang Jichen paused for a moment, then looked up at Si Yangting: "To be honest, I don't know, and I have no evidence, but I just say, she is not someone you can fight against, so, I hope you will see her in the future, Stay away from her, and don't get involved in this case anymore, it's for your own good."

Si Yangting didn't speak, just stared at Jiang Jichen.

While rummaging through the various cabinets in the room, Jiang Jichen continued: "I know, you must be very surprised why I let her go so easily without negotiating with her just now, let alone understand, Why did I protect you just now?"

"Yes!"

Jiang Jichen looked back at Si Yangting: "After today, the evidence in this room will probably disappear. Just like what we guessed just now, it's not as simple as leaving Zhang Yuanwai's family voluntarily. This room was not organized by Zhang Yuanwai's family."

Si Yangting couldn't understand what Jiang Jichen was thinking more and more. Recently, he always started to say some groundless things. Si Yangting didn't want to look for anything, so he jumped on the table behind him lightly, and sat on it.

"Tell me your reasons."

Jiang Jichen paused: "Didn't you realize that the Goddess from the Western Regions appeared suddenly just now?"

"so what?"

Jiang Jichen sighed: "She is here to deliver the evidence."

Hearing this, Si Yangting was so shocked that he almost couldn't close his mouth: "What did you say? Send evidence?"

Jiang Jichen nodded: "The first sentence she said after she came in just now was intended for us, because with her skill, it is impossible for us to spot her so easily."

The more Si Yangting listened, the more confused he became: "Who the hell is she?"

Jiang Jichen shook his head slightly: "I don't know yet, but it may be related to my life experience, and things related to my life experience usually involve killing."

"That's why you didn't let me participate? It's too far-fetched. Even without you, I wouldn't be able to avoid this kind of case."

While talking, Si Yangting jumped down from the table, but accidentally knocked over the candlestick on the table. The candlestick was broken in two, and a delicate white silk handkerchief was exposed from the gap of the candlestick.

Si Yangting raised his hand in doubt and took out the silk handkerchief from the gap in the candlestick: "What is this?"

Seeing that Si Yang Ting really found something that shouldn't belong in the room, Jiang Jichen took a step forward.

Si Yangting handed the silk handkerchief to Jiang Jichen, Jiang Jichen looked nervous: "Why did Ah Ning send us a silk handkerchief on purpose?"

Si Yangting still didn't think what Jiang Jichen said made sense: "Who said it must have been sent by that Ning? Maybe she also came to look for this evidence, but we happened to come across it!"

Jiang Jichen remained silent, flipped through the silk handkerchief, and locked his brows tightly after seeing the words on it.

Si Yangting also saw the words on it: "Linglong? This name sounds like a girl's name, but why is there a flower of the other side embroidered next to this handkerchief?" He looked at Jiang Jichen in surprise, " Is this handkerchief from you? Who is Linglong?"

Si Yangting put the handkerchief close to his nose, deeply embroidered with the smell on the handkerchief: "The smell of rouge is so strong, it must be something from Pingkang!"

After hearing this, Jiang Jichen closed his eyes, stared closely at the words on the handkerchief, and muttered in his heart: "Linglong? What does it have to do with Bianhua?"

(End of this chapter)