Rumors hurt people's hearts
"Pan Ruyi had a childhood sweetheart, whose name was deliberately omitted from the file. The owner of Mingshanju said a young man had been there. Could it be this childhood sweetheart?"
After much deliberation, the few people decided that it would be better to catch the ghost first and ask her questions. The ghost would scare and harm those who had bullied her in her lifetime, but would let go of kind people.
"Most of the people she threatened were those who had ordered Miss Xiaowan in her lifetime. I heard from Bai Ju that Xiaowan didn't like to receive guests in her lifetime. She has been depressed since she came into the building and even lost her appetite."
"How did she get into the building?"
The three of them were even more confused. When they arrived at Huimeng Tower, Bai Ju stopped playing tricks and answered whatever they were asked.
"Make out a list of all the guests Xiao Wan has ever received." Xu Ning was not polite.
Bai Ju listed a long list of names. The three of them crossed out the names of today's victims and those who had been frightened to the point of madness.
After crossing out fifteen, only one is left.
The rows of red lines seemed to announce the death of the people on the list.
Several people understood, "Tonight."
"What time is it now?" Tang Xixu's question was confusing.
"It's already midnight." Xu Lian looked at the dripping clepsydra.
"The last house is at the entrance of an alley in the west of the city. We're in the east now, so it would take at least half an hour to get there..."
Xu Ning's eyes lit up. "Not good!" "The victims are all around midnight. This is the last chance."
The three of them ran to the street market. Tang Xixu took two horses with him. Before Xu Ning jumped on them, he left some silver for the shopkeeper.
"Brother, don't ride so fast, I..." The horse was going faster and faster, and the girl hugged the young man's waist tightly for fear of being thrown off. Half of Xu Ning's face was pressed against the young man's back.
Tang Xixu jumped off the horse as if nothing had happened, while Xu Ning's mind was a mess and his brain nerves were dancing like a disco.
Tang Xixu carried her upper body down. "Puff!" Fortunately, she hadn't eaten much that night, so she vomited some acid. The young man's dark clothes were slightly wet.
"Are you feeling better?" Tang Xixu patted her back gently.
"It's okay, let's go." I felt a little dizzy. Xu Lian had already gone in. If I was quick, I might be able to catch the "ghost".
Xu Lian came out of the shabby house with a piece of cloth in his hand. "It's too late. He's not dead. He just fainted from excessive blood loss."
Xu Ning took the rag and said, "There are only two days left, you can't catch me." It was the murderer's provocation.
"Coo!" The white dove landed on Xu Lian's wrist. "Qu Yi and the others have sent a letter."
"Wu Yun is still alive. He lives a comfortable life and has a wife."
"Tell them not to come back and keep an eye on Wu Yun's family."
"Maybe this is the last one." Xu Ning had an intuition that Pan Ruyi's story was definitely not as described in the text.
Zhao Mingshang received the letter and learned about the situation there, and he and Qu Yi stayed outside the Wu family.
The three people from Lin Yaocheng rushed to the Wu family overnight.
The Wu family was not poor. Although they lived in the suburbs, their house was made of bricks and tiles, and they had all the necessary things in the house. He also had a good-looking wife who looked like an honest person.
"Wu Yun, we are the magistrates of Linyao City. Do you know about the recent case of a woman falling from a brothel in Linyao?" Xu Ning wanted to hear the opinions of this person who has always been protected by the people in the storybook.
The man glanced away and remained silent.
"Do you know that your ex-wife Pan Ruyi was sold to a brothel?" The man's eyelids trembled slightly.
"You still know that she is dead." The man couldn't help it any longer and turned his head to stare at Xu Ning.
Zhao Mingchang didn't like to be long-winded. "Now there is a person who is specifically seeking justice for Pan Ruyi and is specifically killing those who had a grudge against her in her lifetime."
"You've got the wrong person. I don't know any Pan Ruyi." The man drooped his eyelids and looked a little flustered.
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. Last night, that idiot twisted off the head of the man who molested Pan Ruyi when she was alive, and the head rolled in the middle of the road. The next one is you." Tang Xixu looked at the plain-looking man calmly.
The woman in her twenties spoke in a loud voice, as if she was going to overturn the roof: "What?! You are still involved with that woman? Didn't you say you would not be involved with her anymore?"
Wu Yun was speechless and stammered, "But she, but she is my ex-wife after all. She treated me very well."
Xu Ning wanted to scare him: "There have been rumors recently that she is resurrected. Miss Xiaowan died too unjustly, and her resentment is too heavy to cross the Naihe Bridge, so she turned into a fierce ghost and came to take her life."
Xu Lian was setting up the formation outside. He turned his head to glance at the light red figure not far away.
She didn't do anything bad, and Xu Lian didn't have time to deal with her.
"Son, don't listen to their nonsense. I personally checked her breath and she is dead."
"Mom, it's really you." Wu Yun looked at his mother in disbelief. His mother's face was rosy, and she didn't look like a rural old lady at all.
"I didn't kill her. I just, I just told her the truth."
Xu Ning pressed on: "What did you tell her?"
"Her statement was already corrupted, and her conduct was immoral. If it weren't for my family's mercy, she would have died long ago."
The more Zhao Mingchang listened, the angrier he became: "Do you think this is your mercy? If your son hadn't peeped at someone bathing and been discovered by the master of the Pan family, he would have allowed his daughter to marry out of consideration for her reputation." Zhao Mingchang and Qu Yi recently visited several families and learned a lot about the situation back then.
The old woman was surprised because her son had never told her these things.
"If I'm not mistaken, your family became wealthy because of Pan Ruyi's dowry."
"No matter what, she is having an affair with a man outside her family, which is always wrong." The old woman didn't dare to look people in the eye.
Xu Ning initially thought that if he could tell them everything, they wouldn't be put in danger, but now it seemed unnecessary. The other four didn't want to bother either.
Zhao Mingchang lost her usual dignified demeanor and said, "This family isn't a good one. They felt comfortable using their ex-daughter-in-law's dowry. What Wu Yun did is truly disgusting."
"Sister Mingchang, this is the first time I see you lose your composure."
"Please don't leave, everyone. Please save my family. I beg you."
Tang Xixu and Xu Ning had already gone out. Wu Yun knelt down and grabbed Xu Lian's robe tightly.
"Well, never mind, I'll just help you."
"Junior sister, please help me, after all, he is just an ordinary citizen."
Xu Ning glanced at Xu Lian and said angrily, "Senior Brother, you can go if you promised. You can pretend to be Wu Yun."
Several people moved the three people to a safe place, went outside to eat some food, and came back to ambush nearby.
"It's all my fault. You shouldn't have taken the risk. Thank you for sparing my wife and mother's lives." Wu Yun came over and was willing to take the risk himself.
Zhao Mingchang said sullenly, "By the end of tonight, you must get out of this mess. We won't wrongly accuse any good guy, nor will we let any bad guy go."
"I know." The man spoke in a low voice, his eyes still downcast.
At midnight, fog rose.
The Wu family is surrounded by trees and there are no other houses. If it weren't for their family, this place would really be lifeless and a bit desolate.
All the candles were extinguished, and the forest was silent, with only the occasional crow flying by, "Woo, wooo."
"If you ask me, the feng shui of this land is not good." Qu Yi saw that the family was sitting facing south and facing north, with their backs to the sun, which was completely the opposite of what ordinary people did.
Xu Ning, who was lurking in front, heard the voice and said, "You understand it again."
Zhao Mingshang just smiled silently.
The woman had long hair and wore exquisite hair accessories. Her face was pale, her eye sockets were sunken, and she had delicate makeup on. The scars on her body were the same as the day she died.
"Don't you think she is thin? But her frame is a bit big, at least bigger than that of an ordinary woman." Xu Lian frowned, looked at the "female ghost" and then at Zhao Mingshang, comparing the two.
The woman in the open space held a new oil-paper umbrella with a blank surface. She "floated" into the house and said, "Wu Lang, you have hurt me so much~"
"Why do you want to destroy my innocence~"
"Give me back my reputation!"
The more Xu Ning listened, the more confused he became.
Wu Yun was puzzled and stood motionless in the room, as if waiting for the verdict.
The woman folded the oil-paper umbrella. The tip of the umbrella was like a sharp knife. She pushed the umbrella out with one hand, and dust and leaves within a three-mile radius swirled in the air.
Zhao Mingchang couldn't help but sigh: "What a powerful martial art, one palm can send up a gust of wind five miles away." Xu Lian caught the oil umbrella, and Tang Xixu grabbed the woman's shoulders from behind and subdued her without waiting for her to resist.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It was my fault back then. I ruined your life. If you want to kill me, go ahead." Wu Yun's eyes were filled with tears as he half-knelt on the ground.
The "woman" returned to her original voice: "It was your fault in the first place, and that old woman, that shrew!"
The voice was deep, and it turned out to be a man's.
"If it weren't for that old woman who always made things difficult for Ruyi, even pinching her and selling her to a brothel, how could she have asked for a divorce?"
"Didn't they say that Pan Ruyi, who despised the poor and loved the rich, hooked up with a young man?"
"Hooked up with me? I was hoping." The man sneered, "My name is Pei Shan. Ruyi was originally the daughter of the Jizhou Provincial Surveillance Commissioner. She and I were childhood sweethearts. Later, Uncle Pan was framed and imprisoned. Wu Yun saw Ruyi's beauty and spied on her bathing. He thought that since she had no one to support her, Ruyi would have no choice but to marry. I wanted her to marry me, but she didn't want to implicate me and chose to marry a farmer."
"After marriage, Ruyi lived a well-behaved life and was filial to her mother-in-law. Uncle Pan passed away shortly after Ruyi's marriage, and Ruyi was unable to consummate the marriage during the mourning period.
Perhaps because Ruyi had no background, that old woman didn't take her seriously. She only wanted to have her grandchildren, so she started to make things difficult for her. When I met Ruyi, I saw she wasn't doing well. Later, I stayed to work on my business and study, often looking after her. That old woman drugged Wu Yun and made him get together with my distant cousin. But she and I have always been innocent, as heaven and earth can attest!
"The person behind this is really vicious, killing people with rumors." Zhao Mingchang couldn't believe it.
The man chuckled. "You're right. That damned old woman and her distant cousin spread rumors, saying Ruyi was shameless. Ruyi had no way of defending herself and wanted a divorce. But who would have thought that while I was out shopping, they kidnapped Ruyi and sold her to the Linyao brothel!"
Xu Ning confirmed her guess, "Okay, I knew there was something fishy going on with your family."
"But since you found out, why didn't you report it to the police?"
"It's useless. The government only recognizes money. Over the years, there hasn't been a single honest official except Uncle Pan!" The man became more and more angry as he spoke.
Xu Ning pieced his words together and basically confirmed his own guess: "Jizhou and Linyao are close to each other. Some storytellers made this up into a story to make a little money. It spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and Miss Ruyi has been smeared with a lot of dirty water."
"Yes. I went with her and always looked after her. I gave the madam some money so that Ruyi could only perform for money. Later, in order to avoid having to entertain customers, Ruyi took up pipa lessons. When she finished, more people came to her for entertainment."
"But why did she jump off the building at Mingsanju?"
"The madam forced her to officially accept clients. Ruyi didn't want to escape, and by the time I found her, she had already fallen from the building."
Zhao Mingchang was even more confused: "But who gave the madam that note?"
"The deceased obviously had other things happen before falling from the building. There must be other people present." Xu Ning always felt something was wrong.
At this time, Qu Yi and Tang Xixu brought two people over.
"Haha, it's me. You judges are no better than me."
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