After returning to the inn, A-Mian kept rubbing her eyes.
"What's wrong? Does your eye hurt?" Wangwang, exhausted from accompanying the investigation, slumped onto the table and asked listlessly.
"I always feel like I'm seeing things."
How could that person disappear after jumping into the water?
Ah Mian thought of Yuan Hua before, who should have gone to the mountains or heaven to become an immortal after repaying her debt of gratitude. But what about the Prince Xuan she saw?
She ran to Wang Zixuan's room and saw that all his things were gone.
"I have something to tell you, but you absolutely mustn't tell anyone else." A-Mian leaned close to Wangwang's ear, glancing warily around.
"Is it Officer Chen?"
"No. Listen to me, there may be many other human realms besides the one we live in. Originally, these different human realms were completely unrelated, but when the gods in heaven fought, or or played, they would send people from other human realms to ours. Once they had had their fun, they would call those people back."
Hearing her talk nonsense, Wangwang continued to slump down: "So the gods are just like you, just doing it for fun? Wang Zixuan is just a fool, there are plenty of fools in the world, they were all thrown over from other people?"
“It’s true,” A-Mian hurriedly explained when she saw that A-Mian didn’t believe her, “They’re different from people in this world. They have their own hair, clothes, writing, and many strange things… Yes, and Doctor Mo seems to be one too…”
"Okay, then that's probably what you said."
Seeing that she was being perfunctory, A-Mian ran to tell Meng Chijian the same thing again.
Meng Chijian listened carefully, but his expression was serious: "Who did you say these things to?"
"There's only Wangwang."
"Don't tell anyone else, not even Wangwang. Only tell me when it's just the two of us." Strange celestial phenomena are an ominous sign.
Who knows when this will reach the ears of someone with ulterior motives? It might cause some trouble.
"Hmm. I understand. Just like in the stories, there's a huge conspiracy behind it all! Or maybe the gods are testing us, and only by passing the test can we be reborn as humans instead of pigs or dogs."
She nodded earnestly, then furtively covered the two of them with the blanket, her voice barely audible: "From now on, we must do more good deeds and not do such wicked things, otherwise the gods in heaven will take us to the eighteenth level of hell... then we won't be able to see my mother again. And your older brother too. They must be in heaven now."
“…Mm.” Meng Chijian silently embraced her.
He didn't dare tell her that perhaps it was all fake, that there were no gods or hell at all, at least he had never seen them all those years ago.
When a person dies, it's like a lamp going out.
"Okay, it's so stuffy and hot, let's go outside."
Meng Chijian chuckled, pondering to himself, "Perhaps there really is such a thing as reincarnation? Otherwise, how would he have met A-Mian? Maybe A-Mian is just a pageboy of some deity who lost his memory after coming to the mortal realm, which is why he speaks with such conviction..."
Just as they were thinking about random things, a waiter called out from outside the door, "Guests, please come downstairs. The constables from the yamen are here again."
"Why are they still investigating? Our academy is full of gentle and refined scholars, how could there be such a villain among us?"
Complaints echoed down the corridor: "Yeah! Not to mention beating up Ji Hengzhi and then carrying him and throwing him into the river."
The waiter was also quite resentful. This matter had caused so much trouble and was affecting his business, but it was best not to provoke the government officials.
Therefore, he said in a sarcastic tone, "Please all come downstairs. This is our city's upright and incorruptible magistrate. He can see through everything and there is no case he cannot solve."
"What other amazing abilities does he have?" Amian wondered. When she went downstairs, she saw Wangwang leaning against the door frame, looking frail and weak.
However, the flirtatious glances were directed at the blind man. Officer Chen frowned, with a timid and hunched old man beside him, who seemed to be a coachman or something similar.
Constable Chen called out loudly, "Waiter, have all the guests on the second floor arrived?"
"This... is mostly it. Let me see, the young master of the Ji family is not here, and neither is Wang Zixuan."
One of them was beaten up, and the other was cleared of suspicion yesterday.
Therefore, Constable Chen nodded and said to the old man, "The other day, you said you saw a tall man carrying a sack on the street. Could you check if he's in this inn?"
The old man's cloudy eyes moved back and forth.
Everyone held their breath, even Ah Mian was a little nervous.
"Yes...yes..."
"Where is it? Please point it out to me."
The old man turned around and pointed at Ah Mian.
"That's impossible. Ji Hengzhi is a man taller than her. How could she possibly beat him?"
"It's... her, the one behind her..."
Meng Chijian said calmly, "Are you sure you saw me?"
The old man's gaze wandered; he had seen a very tall person that day, so he remembered him quite vividly.
“You must have seen wrong,” A-Mian suddenly said. “That day when I went to the yamen to report to the authorities, my husband went to buy me crab roe buns to eat. How could he inexplicably go and beat up someone he didn’t even know? Besides, everyone at the yamen saw me eating buns.”
Everyone had a vague impression of this, and in their memories, Ah Mian and her husband were always inseparable.
"Don't frame us or make baseless accusations." A-Mian's voice trembled slightly.
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