Dayong Nu sentenced to death

Chapter 165 Collecting Strangeness?

With their help, the speed of restoring the second skull was significantly improved, and it was finally completed before dinner.

Su Rao drew the portrait as usual, and ordered someone to send the picture scroll, and the skull clay sculpture was temporarily placed in her room.

After finishing everything, she showered and changed clothes, ready to eat.

Dinner is served in the main hall of the courtyard.

I don't know when it started, and it became a habit for the two of them to eat together. Yan Yun was still reading when he went, and when he heard footsteps, he put the bamboo slips aside, "If you don't come, the food will be cold..."

The voice stopped abruptly.

Yan Yun focused his eyes on her wet hair, and frowned slightly: "Why did you come here without drying it?"

"Isn't it your rule not to eat when it's out of date?"

The trivial matters are complicated, and when everything is settled, there will not be enough time left for her. She knows that this master is very particular about his meal time, and because of etiquette, he will wait for her to join him.

No matter how much he eats at that time, he will definitely put down his chopsticks when the time comes.

You can't make him hungry.

In her two lifetimes, it was the first time for Su Rao to see a man who obeyed the rules to the point of being almost strict. He had one tea and two meals a day, ordered according to the shift, and never changed.

But he is not so rigid in dogma in other matters, which is really unpredictable.

"You don't have to care about these."

Yan Yun's expression remained on, and he ordered to the outside world, "Bring a clean handkerchief."

"no need."

Su Rao picked up the chopsticks and said lightly: "It will be done in a while, let's eat."

"It's cool in late autumn. Walking around with wet hair will cause cold air, and it's easy to get headaches, so don't be careless."

After a while, the dark guard brought the handkerchief, Su Rao saw his solemn expression, and he seemed to accept no refusal, so she reached out to take it, but a hand took it faster than her, "I'll do it."

"It's not good..."

Su Rao laughed dryly, turned slightly to avoid his hand, Yan Yun pinched the handkerchief, looked at her quietly with indifferent eyes, and said in a low voice for a long time, "What do you think is wrong?"

Su Rao looked at him strangely, shouldn't she ask her if there is anything wrong?

She was speechless for a while, and said dryly: "A man and a woman can't kiss each other."

"Are you serious?"

Yan Yun raised his eyebrows slightly.

The warm eyes were mixed with a bit of strangeness and teasing. When Su Rao was looked at by him like this, she suddenly thought of how she accidentally brushed her lips past the mountain wall of the mine, rode together, and the dark night lights of the Jin family's mansion. There is Palm Fang Pavilion...

It seems that it is too late for them to say this.

Su Rao was still thinking of some excuses to evade, the person next to her leaned slightly to take a strand of her hair, put it in the handkerchief and gently wiped it, "Are you going to keep fighting with me like this?"

There was a little helplessness in his low and cold voice.

Su Rao knew that those deliberate actions would have no effect on him, so she was too lazy to waste her time, pretending she didn't hear this sentence.

"All right."

The black and bright hair flowed on his fingertips, and Yan Yun wiped it carefully until it was [-]% to [-]% dry before giving up. Putting the handkerchief aside, he said softly, "Let's eat."

It is best to take advantage of the trend at this time, Su Rao didn't say anything more, picked up the chopsticks to look at the food, and couldn't help being stunned: "Why are there fish?"

"Don't you want to eat fish?"

Before leaving the waterside pavilion, she felt sorry for the whole fish banquet. Yan Yun saw her strange expression, and said calmly, "Don't worry, these fish were bought from outside."

"..."

That's not what she cares about.

Su Rao stared at the plate of fish with mixed feelings in her heart. She just mentioned it casually at the time, but he actually took it to heart?
Seeing her not moving her chopsticks, Yan Yun said softly, "This squirrel mandarin fish is a famous dish in Zhangnan. It tastes best when it's hot. Try it."

"it is good."

Su Rao suppressed the fluctuating thoughts, and responded lightly, the two of them ate in silence, it was too quiet for a while, she was not used to it, so she found a topic and said: "You have been reading that bamboo slip all this time, what are you looking at? "

Yan Yun swallowed his food, and replied slowly: "The informants sent to other counties and counties in Yunzhou have made progress, and the Falcon Department integrated the collected information and gave it to me."

"How's it going?"

Su Rao asked along the way.

Yan Yun pondered for a moment, then sighed softly: "It's not optimistic."

"Although the other four counties are not as chaotic as Shanglin, they have a lot of abuses. Officials have close contacts and protect each other. There are not many crimes that can be found out."

"Local officials huddled together to keep warm, and it is expected that the whole body will be affected by one hair. Moreover, even if there is evidence in each case, the court will eventually lighten the punishment and weigh it."

Su Rao said casually.

When the water is clear, there will be no fish. How many officials in this Yunzhou, how many people can stand the scrutiny like the old county magistrate of Zhou?
It is impossible to treat everyone across the board. In that case, the turmoil in one state may spread to the entire Dayong, affecting the stability of the country.

This is by no means a situation that those in power would like to see.

Yan Yun knew this, so even though he held the power of life and death, except for Liu's father and son, the officials of Shanglin County all checked and reported to the capital for His Majesty's decision, instead of deciding on life and death alone.

Yan Yun smiled lightly and said, "You can see clearly."

"Is there any news from Huanhua County?"

She asked.

"Gu Cheng sits in the county office, everything is safe and sound, and the new county magistrate dispatched by the imperial court is on his way."

"That's good."

The two chatted one after another, and the atmosphere seemed to have returned to the comfort they had when they first got along.

After eating, Yan Yun said casually, "I want to take a closer look at those two clay sculptures, is it convenient?"

"What's the inconvenience?"

Su Rao said: "It's placed in my room, you can ask someone to pick it up."

Yan Yun only knew that she took the things away, but she didn't expect that she would bring them back to her room. No matter how daring she was, there were still dead things inside.

"You intend to keep it in your room overnight?"

What I said... doesn't sound right!
Seeing his weird expression, Su Rao suddenly thought of playing tricks, and said with a smile: "Yes, what if this thing is placed outside and scares others? I don't care."

"My lord, you don't know me. I always put some strange things in the room, such as skulls and bone frames. I like to splice them together and fix them with iron needles to make specimens..."

Seeing his eyes getting darker, Su Rao secretly smiled inwardly, and continued: "I guess you haven't seen that kind of skeleton that can shake hands and dance with you, it doesn't matter, there will always be a chance to see you in the future..."

"No need."

Yan Yun's complexion changed slightly, and he directly refused.

Why didn't he know that she said that on purpose, but there was still uncontrollable turmoil in her heart, she dared to put these two heads in her room, she was really brave.

It's just such a temperament and psychological endurance...

What has she been through?
Yan Yun closed his eyes to suppress the surging thoughts in his eyes, and said calmly: "I will ask someone to pick up the clay sculpture later."

(End of this chapter)