First smoked mind

Chapter 45
Earlier, Yi Qingyu had mentioned to Jing Yi that the Su family still had an old house in the northern outskirts of the city, which had not been sold and was just left unused.When Su Qingyun left, he sold all the big items in the mansion, except this house that was left unsold.

So on the second day, Jing Yi took Gao Ling, two shadow guards, and Qiao Chuxun out of the city on horseback to check out the old house on the outskirts of the city.In fact, more than three years have passed since the incident, and the old house has been abandoned for three years. Even if there are any clues, they have long been buried in dust.But when investigating a case, there is no harm in walking around frequently and asking more questions.

Several people rode to a house, the place was a bit remote, there were no houses within a radius of ten miles, and there were mountains not far away.When Jing Yi saw this place, he frowned first, too many coincidences connected together, it is not a coincidence.

Jing Yi dismounted with Qiao Chuxun in his arms, Xiao Lu led a few horses and tied them to the gateposts, and Gao Ling and Xiao Lu pushed open the gate together.As the mottled door creaked open, a cloud of dark yellow dust rose up.Jing Yi dragged Qiao Chuxun to turn sideways, and put his arms around her head and face: "Aren't you distracted?"

Qiao Chuxun shook her head, seeing that the shadow guards beside her lowered their heads and held back their smiles, they originally wanted to answer something, but now they are too embarrassed to say so.

When a group of people entered the courtyard, they saw that the eaves and porch were covered with cobwebs, the ground was covered with a mess of fallen leaves, and even some newly melted snow in the shade, it was damp and dirty.

Walking all the way in, when they reached the front of the main house, because Gao Ling was in the lead, he seemed to have discovered something, and without turning around, he turned his hands behind his back and gestured to Jing Yi and the others.

Jing Yi stood still, while Xiaolu and Xiaolu walked up to him silently, with light steps beside him. One was holding the handle by the main entrance, while the other went directly to the back of the house.Gao Ling didn't hesitate too much, raised his hand and opened the window before rushing into the house.After a while, the door opened from the inside. Gao Ling raised his voice to greet Xiaolu, and then said to Jing Yi: "There is no one in the room. But someone must have been here before us."

Jing Yi pulled Qiao Chuxun forward, and saw a shoe print stained with mud on the ground by the window, which was obviously left recently.Xiaolu also turned back from behind at this moment, and several people entered the house together.There is dust everywhere in the house, but the desk in the inner room is spotless.Not only did someone come in, but the person who came also wiped the desk carefully.

Jing Yi raised his eyebrows, let go of Qiao Chuxun's hand, and winked at Gao Ling and the others, signaling them to stay still and take care of Qiao Chuxun.Then he walked slowly forward to the desk, and glanced at all the objects on the desk, such as brush washers, pen pillows, inkstones, stacks of books, stacks of cooked rice paper, and finally stopped at the long pear wood that was one foot long. on the box.The box is wooden and gloomy, but it has been polished brightly, and a unicorn pattern is painted on it.

Jing Yi raised one corner of his lips, took out a handkerchief from his bosom and unfolded it.Lightly touch the edge of the wooden box with the fingertips through the veil, and quickly turn the box with the finger. The side of the wooden box that opens and closes faces the window. The dark blue plum-blossom needle hit the window lattice with a "tap-tap-tap".

Qiao Chuxun's heart has been suspended since Jing Yi let go of his hand, watching Jing Yi's every move without blinking, and finally saw three hidden weapons for poisoning from the box, and his heart trembled accordingly.Caressing his heart, he didn't dare to take a breath, watching Jing Yi throw the handkerchief at the same time he shot out the hidden weapon.

Because the box was opened to the other side, the inside could only be seen from the perspective of Gao Ling and the others, so Jing Yi threw the veil, and Gao Ling quickly said, "Master, there is a scroll inside."

Jing Yi nodded, at this moment Xiao Lu threw a dagger over: "Master, use this."

Jing Yi took the dagger, pulled out the scabbard, held the dagger in his backhand, cut off one end of the scroll with the tip of the knife, and inserted|inserted into the hollow position while flicking his wrist a few times. With a sound, it was thrown away and spread out in front of several people.

It is still the angle that Gao Ling and others can see, but the content of the scroll cannot be seen from Jing Yi's side.Gao Ling and the others were looking at the scroll when Qiao Chuxun exclaimed, "Let go!"

Jing Yi was originally waiting for a few people to tell him the content of the painting, but when Qiao Chuxun called him, even though he hadn't realized the reason, he let go of his hand first.At the same time, Gao Ling took two steps forward and pulled Jing Yi, and the two retreated to where they were standing before.The dagger that fell on the ground already showed a layer of dark green and strange light, spreading from the tip of the knife all the way to the entire blade.And as the scroll was brought to the ground by the dagger, tiny sparks gradually appeared.

Jing Yi had already seen the contents of the scroll clearly, it was a portrait of a young man, very similar to the one Yi Qingyu took from Liao Hongtan before.The facial features are graceful, the facial features are soft, and the appearance of male and female is indistinguishable. However, unlike the thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in the previous painting, the man in this painting is already a youth.According to what everyone said before, Su Qingyun was 16 years old three years ago, and now he is 19 years old, matching the age of the person in the painting.

The picture scroll was gradually scorched from the corners, gradually the whole painting was burned, and soon burned to ashes in the dancing flames.

Jing Yi and the others left the room after the scroll started to burn, because they didn't know whether the poison on the scroll would release any poisonous smell as the scroll burned.All the way to the outside of the house, Qiao Chuxun pulled Jing Yi's right hand to look carefully, and at the same time probed for the pulse on the inside of the wrist: "Young master, do you feel anything strange?"

The palm of the hand is still like suet white jade, the fingers are long and slender without any redness and swelling, nothing can be seen for the time being, and the pulse beat is the same as usual.Qiao Chuxun was still worried, and raised his eyes anxiously, and saw Jing Yi looking at her with a smile on his lips, wrapping his palm around her hand that was still feeling his pulse: "I'm fine. The poison only touches the blade, and the handle of the dagger is It's wooden, you reminded me early, it's okay."

Gao Ling also smiled at the side and said, "It's fortunate that Miss Qiao has sharp eyes this time. I was just looking at what was drawn on the paper, but I didn't notice the master...'s hand."

After Gao Ling finished speaking, the two people beside him also lowered their heads to hide their smiles.Originally, in the past, we worked on cases together with Jing Yi. Although we each had a division of labor and cooperated tacitly, we generally focused on the case under investigation.For example, just now, everyone focused on the painting, but Qiao Chuxun was the only one who was looking at Jing Yi, that's why he found something wrong with the dagger in his hand early in the morning.

Qiao Chuxun was also a little embarrassed, and hurriedly let go of Jing Yi's hand, turned around and walked to the place where the horse was tied.Jing Yi gave the three of them a cold look, Gao Ling was the first to stop laughing, and quickly followed Qiao Chuxun: "Miss Qiao, don't get too close. This horse is not my own, and I don't know how well it is taught. It is easy to kick people. "

Jing Yi turned around and said, "I have a dagger, and I don't usually remember to use it. Remember to get it from my room when you go back home."

Xiaolu was very happy to hear that, and said "Hey", and several people got on their horses.

After walking a few steps, Jing Yi saw that Qiao Chuxun had kept her head down and said nothing, thinking that she was a little scared by what happened just now, so she looked up at the sky and asked, "Do you want to eat barbecue in the wild?"

Qiao Chuxun raised his head, feeling fresh: "What are you grilling? Fish or pheasant?"

Seeing her yearning look, Jing Yi couldn't help but smiled and said, "What do you want to taste, I'll bake it for you."

Qiao Chuxun was even more surprised: "You know how to barbecue?"

The little green next to him interjected: "Miss Qiao, you don't know that in the past, when you slept outside, as long as it was chicken and rabbit roasted by the young master, everyone rushed to eat it!"

Jing Yi didn't refute, and then asked: "Do you want to eat? If you want to eat, let's turn around now and go to the mountains. There is enough sunshine at this moment, so it won't be cold."

Qiao Chuxun turned to look at the three of Gao Ling, and then at Jing Yi: "Will it be too troublesome?"

Jing Yi smiled slightly, and Xiao Lu and Xiao Lu cheered and reined in their horses and turned around, Gao Ling also smiled and said: "It's been a long time since we have tasted the master's craftsmanship, this time we are under Miss Qiao's honor."

Taking advantage of the time when the other three turned around and ran forward, Jing Yi lowered his head and kissed Qiao Chuxun on the cheek twice: "Are you scared just now?"

Qiao Chuxun was afraid of being seen by others, so she shrank her neck and refused to let go: "Don't..." If Gao Ling and the others see it, it's time to laugh again.

Jing Yi was not in a hurry to turn around, he put his hand on Qiao Chuxun's cheek and kissed his lips firmly, and laughed in a low voice: "Silly girl, why do you think they run so fast?" It's not because he was afraid of going back and being beaten, so he took the opportunity to give Jing Yi Make time to appease the beauty.

Qiao Chuxun tugged on Jing Yi's skirt, and lowered his eyes halfway: "...It was too dangerous just now." Maybe it was nothing to them, but Qiao Chuxun saw that Jing Yi was almost plotted by a hidden weapon, and held the poisoned weapon again. The dagger, this is simply a game of life!

It was originally said to help find someone, but later it involved the old affairs of the Su family, and now it is still in such danger, and it is clear that it is to give Jing Yi and the others a blow.The more Qiao Chuxun thought about it, the more afraid he became, and he couldn't say that he would not let Jing Yi get involved in such things in the future, but seeing it with his own eyes just now was different from listening to him in the past, and even now he still feels lingering fear.

Jing Yi rubbed Qiao Chuxun's cheek with his lips, and then pecked the corner of his slightly pursed lips: "It's okay. I was a little unprepared this time, I didn't expect someone to come ahead of us, otherwise there would never be such a situation." Situation. Take it easy, huh?"

Qiao Chuxun raised her eyes to look at Jing Yi, leaned on the man's chest and nodded without making a sound.Where is she angry and afraid, she is worried and distressed.If it is true, she is not very timid, otherwise, in the situation just now, most women would have screamed out of fright.

Jing Yi smiled and urged the horses, turned around and headed into the mountains.However, he began to think about what happened just now. In this way, he can be [-]% to [-]% sure that the matter of the Su family has some relationship with the Qisheng Sect.The young female family members were all pale and weak, and had scars on their bodies. It would be fine if half of them were there. The whole family was like this. Su Qingyun refused to invite a doctor for only one reason, and he knew exactly what was going on.

Then contact the location of the Su family's old house, Su Qingyun's mysterious friend, three years ago... Jing Yi's face turned serious, and a thin figure flashed in his mind, and the hand holding the rein slowly tightened, is that so?There was a somewhat sarcastic arc on the lips, if so, it would be easy to handle...

When Jing Yi and Qiao Chuxun went to the mountain, Gao Ling was lighting a fire, while Xiao Lu and Xiao Lu went into the woods to hunt live animals.Several horses were tied to the tree trunk, and they found an open space by the side of the stream. It could be seen that Gao Ling had roughly cleaned it up before, and the ground was clean and exposed to the sun.

Jing Yi took Qiao Chuxun along the creek for a while, stopped at a water bay, and motioned her to look in: "Generally, this kind of small water bay has a lot of mud, and there are also many baits such as grass roots and dried shrimps. The water is warm in the sun, and fish like to come to this kind of place.”

Listening to Jing Yi's patient explanation, Qiao Chuxun leaned forward and looked into the water. Sure enough, several fish were swimming happily inside.

Jing Yi wrapped his arms around the person's waist, seeing her getting closer and closer, with an eager look on his face, he smiled and pulled him back a little: "Don't go forward. The place where the soil is too close to the water is loose, it is easy to Fall in."

Qiao Chuxun tugged on Jing Yi's skirt, with a pair of bright almond eyes, raised his face and asked, "Master, can you catch fish?"

Seeing Jing Yi nod his head, Qiao Chuxun thought about it, looked at him from head to toe mischievously, blinked his eyes and said in wonder, "Master, wearing this clothes, I'm afraid it's not suitable for catching fish?"

Jing Yi knew that she didn't have such an experience in the past, and she was a bit offended, but she didn't expose it, pretending to be meaningless: "It's okay, Chu Xun, do you want to eat!"

After speaking, he turned around and went to the side to break the branches.

Qiao Chuxun looked at it both puzzled and curious.It wasn't until Jing Yi finally folded the long and short branches of the spear, didn't even pull up his sleeves, stood by the stream leisurely aiming at the target, and almost a fish was speared in the blink of an eye, that Qiao Chuxun realized that he thought His "fishing" and Jing Yi's "fishing" are totally different things.

Biting her lip and blushing, she watched Jing Yi put on five or six fish and handed them to Gao Ling. Qiao Chuxun felt that she was so stupid. She pursed her lips slightly and stood beside her by her cuffs. For the first time, she felt that she was a little bit useful. nor.If she has rice and a pot, she can still make some small dishes, but in the wild, both Jingyi and Xiaolu Xiaolu are a hundred times better than her.Hunting rabbits and pheasants, catching fish to make a fire, picking leaves and mushrooms, whatever, she needs to learn from scratch.

Jing Yi put the small pot that Xiaolu borrowed from a nearby farmer on the fire, and when he turned his face, he saw Qiao Chuxun watching Gao Ling crouching by the stream, rolling up his cuffs and peeling the skin of the rabbit.Frowning, and his hands were not very clean, Jing Yi didn't reach out to lift her chin as usual, but leaned up to Qiao Chuxun's ear from behind, pressed her cheek and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Qiao Chuxun was concentrating on watching, and didn't know when Jing Yi ran behind him, so he was also taken aback: "No... just peel the rabbit skin."

Jing Yi wanted to laugh, but he held back and pretended to be displeased: "I'm still here, just staring at other men?"

When Qiao Chuxun heard that the crime was serious, he quickly turned his face and explained: "No... I'm not looking at Brother Gao, I'm looking at how he..."

Hearing Qiao Chuxun's soft-spoken justification vaguely, Gao Ling couldn't help shivering when the cool breeze blew by the stream: other matters would be enough to die for the master, so let's not involve him in this kind of matter, right?
The other two shadow guards, who plucked pheasant feathers and washed mushrooms, lowered their heads all the way, trying to minimize the sense of presence and moved a little farther away, not wanting to be the next innocent target.

Qiao Chuxun finally explained that he just wanted to learn more, but Jing Yi still had a stern expression on his face: "Oh, then come and learn how to grill fish with me."

Qiao Chuxun had no choice but to follow Jing Yi like a little daughter-in-law, watching him remove the head and tail of the fish, clean the inside, wrap it in the thick green leaves, insert it into the fire, and take it out of the pocket on the side of the saddle. Two bottles came over.

Seeing that the water in the pot boiled, Qiao Chuxun saw several different mushrooms beside him, and after a little identification, he put two of them into the pot.Xiaolu next to him was putting the other two kinds on the branches, and said with a smile: "There are few mushrooms in spring, but in autumn, there are many things to eat in the mountains! In the past, we used to have more when we were outside, and these mushrooms in the mountains There are many things to eat."

The fish was cooked the fastest, and soon Jing Yi roasted two. He took one from the small oven for the pheasant that had just been roasted, and the other unwrapped leaves, and handed it to Qiao Chuxun.

Seeing her holding it in a daze and not knowing what to say, Jing Yi chuckled twice, went to the stream to wash his hands, took it over and tore off the tenderest part of the fish's belly, and handed it to Qiao Chuxun's lips.Just as Qiao Chuxun was about to reach out to pick it up, Jing Yi brought it closer: "It's very hot, you can't hold it, open your mouth."

Xiaolu had already gone to one side to grab fish from Xiaolu, while Gao Ling was roasting pheasants and rabbits by the other side of the fire, deliberately avoiding the two of them.Qiao Chuxun had no choice but to open her lips, chewed a few mouthfuls, her eyes lit up, she covered her lips and said in surprise, "It's so tender and sweet."

Jing Yi smiled and tore another piece to feed her: "The freshly grilled fish is always fresh and tender."

After Qiao Chuxun took two bites, she said she didn't want it. Jing Yi was also afraid that she would not eat anything else later, so she didn't persuade her anymore, and ate up the remaining half of the fish.Then go to the fire, while turning the branches, sprinkle some seasoning powder on the rabbit meat.

For Qiao Chuxun, the mushroom soup is almost done.A total of two bowls were borrowed, and Qiao Chuxun stood by the fire holding the bowls, not knowing how to serve them.When Gao Ling saw it, he walked up to him with a smile, took a bowl, put it in the pot and quickly scooped it up, more than half of the bowl of soup came out, and there were several pieces of fungus floating in it.Passed the bowl to Qiao Chuxun: "It's like this outside, Miss Qiao, don't be disgusted."

Qiao Chuxun nodded, smiling a little embarrassedly: "Why, I don't understand anything."

Jing Yi was busy on both sides. After finishing the barbecue over there, he walked over to take the bowl in Gao Ling's hand, and handed over another piece of grilled fish: "The last grilled one of yours, they've already eaten it, don't let it go."

Gao Ling took the grilled fish and left. Jing Yi picked up the bowl and tasted it first, and then brought it to Qiao Chuxun's lips: "It must be incomparable with home, mainly because it warms the stomach."

Qiao Chuxun held the bowl and took two sips, with a smile on his lips all the time: "It's delicious. The mushrooms are fresher than those bought on the street."

If it is not as good as at home, it is only a matter of the length of time and the amount of seasoning, but it is better than the original freshness and sweetness.In addition, in the mountains and fields in the early spring, the vegetation is green and the flowing water is gurgling, the scenery is clean and beautiful, and the sun at noon is warm on the body, so it is not fun to eat mountain game.

After a while, the pheasant and rabbit meat were also ready.The two small bottles that Jing Yi brought, one is pre-mixed five-spice powder, and the other is honey with several kinds of spices, was given by a master of the imperial dining room in the palace earlier. Usually when going out, especially when sleeping in the mountains Take it with you.When roasting game, put some on it, and the roasted food will taste mellow and unusual.

Qiao Chuxun narrowed his eyes as he pinched a rabbit leg and ate it.The meat is grilled tenderly, and the mellow and slightly sweet sauce soaks into the meat, giving it an unusually luscious flavor.Seeing how satisfied she was eating, Jing Yi smiled, and tore a piece of roasted mushroom from a branch to feed her: "Try it, this kind of mushroom tastes the best when roasted."

really!The edges of the mushroom meat are slightly charred, and the chewing is plump and luscious, with a fragrance of grass and trees.Take another sip of soup, don't mention how moist it is.

The few people had a very enjoyable meal, and at the end Xiaolu went to return the pot and bowl, and the remaining two packed up a few unroasted pheasants and rabbits, and prepared to take them home later to satisfy everyone's hunger .Jing Yi hugged Qiao Chuxun and sat on the horse, walked slowly in front, and put his hand into Qiao Chuxun's stomach: "Are you full?"

Qiao Chuxun ate a lot in the first place, fearing that Jing Yi would laugh at her bulging stomach, she hurriedly pulled Jing Yi's hand away to prevent her from touching it.

Jing Yi gently squeezed her lower abdomen as she pushed away, and laughed in a low voice: "This is not allowed to be touched, Chu Xun is getting more and more stingy."

Qiao Chuxun covered her stomach with her arms, her cheeks were slightly hot: "No, I just finished eating..." And she was sitting in such a posture, it was inevitable that her stomach would be a little fleshy.

After Jing Yi realized it, he smiled again, kissed Qiao Chuxun on the cheek and said, "It's good to be a little fleshy, and it's comfortable to hold. I still think you're a little thinner..."

(End of this chapter)