Chapter 45: Constable 3
◎Fake and exaggerated performance◎
Bai Chen looked up and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Yan Yue was a little surprised: "Young Master Yang, is there something wrong?"
Yang Jin pointed to the restaurant next to him and said, "Since you and I are so destined to meet, I would like to treat you to a simple meal. Would you be willing to honor me?"
"No, I'll just buy a roast duck and leave."
Yan Yue refused without any hesitation and walked straight to Li's Restaurant.
Yang Jin was unwilling to give up, and quickly caught up with her and said, "Miss, I am not a pervert who is deliberately pestering you. I just have something to say to you."
Zhou Lin frowned: "Who is this person?"
Yan Yue didn't answer, she stopped and said to Yang Jin: "Go ahead!"
Yang Jin asked, "Say it here?"
Yan Yue asked curiously, "It seems that there is nothing private between me and you? My family is waiting for me to cook. If you have anything to say, you can just say it."
Yang Jin glanced at where Zhou Lin was and said, "It's not a private conversation. I'm just worried that the girl would be scared after hearing it."
Seeing Yan Yue's puzzled expression, Yang Jin took a step forward, leaned over to Yan Yue's ear, and deliberately lowered his voice: "There is a ghost following the girl."
Yan Yue was not used to being so close to someone all of a sudden, so she stepped back and nodded: "Oh."
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After a moment's silence, Yan Yue looked at Yang Jin's confused and surprised expression, and suddenly realized that this was not the right reaction for an ordinary person to have when they heard that there was a ghost following them.
So she quickly turned her head and showed a frightened look: "Ah! How could this happen? Oh my God! This is terrible!"
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The silence lasted a little longer, and Yang Jin's expression changed from confusion and surprise to clear speechlessness.
Yan Yue racked her brains and felt that her brain was really not enough. The best thing to do was to run away: "I am really scared! So I must buy a roast duck quickly, go home immediately, close the doors and windows, and hide in the quilt and shiver!"
Yang Jin was really shocked by her exaggerated tone and empty performance. She left quickly, as if she was the "ghost". He couldn't help but doubt his life: "Does she not believe me? Or..."
"You knew there were ghosts around you?"
Yan Yue picked out the largest roast duck, poked her head out of the restaurant, looked around and made sure she didn't see Yang Jin again before she walked out with peace of mind.
"Do you think this Yang Jin will be a demon hunter like Qi Zhaoyang used to be?"
Zhou Lin said, "No. Didn't Qi Zhaoyang need to perform a ritual to see ghosts in the past?"
"Yes!" Yan Yue nodded and asked, "Could he be like me, having died once before, so he can see you?"
Zhou Lin thought for a moment and said, "Maybe? But he didn't talk to me, nor did he make eye contact with me!"
Yan Yue jokingly said, "Who with a sound mind would rush to talk to a ghost? He even made eye contact with you, but you didn't say that I fell in love with you at first sight!"
Zhou Lin did not fight back, but suddenly stopped his floating body.
He floated behind the two of them and looked around carefully, but he only saw a gray rabbit crawling into a black hole at the base of the wall.
"What's wrong?" Yan Yue asked.
Zhou Lin smiled and said, "It's okay! I almost caught a big fat rabbit for you to eat, but it ran away."
Yan Yue didn't care: "You're not afraid that the wind will blow your tongue away! Besides, where do wild rabbits come from in this city?"
The two of them were arguing with each other, and they didn't notice that a figure gradually appeared on the back wall. They laughed silently and said, "Oh, I didn't expect that there is really a way to communicate with ghosts and gods?"
*
Early the next morning, Yan Yue went out carrying Xiaobai.
Following the instructions of the square-faced ghost, she ran to Songyuanzi Street in the north of the city, found out the You family in Anma Lane, and knocked on the gate.
The You family was a small wealthy family, not as rich as the rich but better than the poor. The person who opened the door was a nanny in her fifties. Perhaps she had heard the rumors about Ban Lan Ming Yue, so she treated Yan Yue with great courtesy and brought her directly into the house.
Soon, the mistress of the You family came out, her tone joyful and anxious: "Fairy, you are here!"
Madam You held the handkerchief and patted her chest. The maid who opened the door for Yan Yue said with a smile, "Madam, you can rest assured now! The master still loves our second daughter. Although he disagreed, he still invited her here!"
Yan Yue:? ? ?
She didn't dare to say a word. She just listened to Madam You's chatter, and with the nanny adding a few words from time to time, she understood the general idea. It seemed that the flower thief had been to the You family. I didn't know what the specific situation was, but after that, the girl from the You family kept crying and even fell ill. She didn't get better after seeing a doctor.
Yan Yue shouldered the "heavy responsibility" inexplicably, and suddenly felt that Qi Zhaoyang's life was not easy.
She politely declined Madam You's invitation to follow her, and dismissed the maid who was taking care of Miss You Er. After hesitating for a long time, she asked, "Miss, can you tell me what happened that day?"
Miss You Er started crying before she even opened her mouth. She had a pretty face to begin with, but now she looked a little sickly. Her eyes were red, and so was the tip of her nose. She looked as beautiful as apricot blossoms in the rain.
Yan Yue didn't dare to disturb her, and quietly admired the beauty's tears for a while. When the crying stopped, he asked, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person. I just want to understand the situation so that I can catch the evil thief as soon as possible."
Miss You Er sobbed and said, "I can't explain it clearly..."
Yan Yue comforted him, "It's okay, just tell me what you saw. Don't worry, take your time."
Perhaps it was because her tone and expression were so reassuring, Miss You Er calmed down and began to tell her story.
"That night, I had fallen asleep when I was suddenly woken up by someone. I then discovered that there was a strange man lying on the bed! The man who woke me up was a handsome and well-mannered young man. He said that the man lying next to me was the flower thief that was rumored recently."
"I was so scared that I cried, but the young man was kind enough to comfort me. But a moment later, the man on the bed suddenly woke up and said that the young man who comforted me was the flower thief, and he was a constable who came to catch the flower thief!"
"Constable?" Yan Yue was a little surprised and asked, "Do you recognize him?"
Miss You Er shook her head: "I seldom go out, so I don't recognize this person."
Yan Yue asked again: "What happened next?"
Miss You Er said, "I couldn't tell who was the good guy and who was the bad guy. The one on the bed took out a dagger from somewhere and started fighting with the young man. I was so scared that I shouted for help."
"I didn't see clearly how they fought. The one who claimed to be a constable even bit the young man's leg. His mouth was full of blood. It was terrifying! Then the young man climbed over the wall and ran away. The constable also climbed over the wall to chase him. Then the maid and my parents came..."
Yan Yue asked: "Did you report to the police afterwards?"
Miss You Er still shook her head: "My parents won't let me report it to the authorities. They said I'm innocent. If I report it to the authorities, once it's publicized, I won't be able to explain it no matter what."
Yan Yue felt that his parents' worries were not unreasonable, so she comforted them, "People's words are scary. Since they have escaped a disaster, it is only natural for the master and his wife to choose to keep things quiet."
Tears suddenly welled up in Miss You Er's eyes, and she cried, "I've had nightmares every night these past few days. I dreamed that the flower thief came again. Sometimes he had the face of the young master, sometimes he had the face of the constable, and he killed my whole family..."
It turned out that he was frightened.
Yan Yue quickly comforted the little beauty: "Don't be afraid! Maybe the government has already caught the flower thief and is trying him! I will go to the government in a while, you should take care of yourself first, and I will tell you the result when I have it."
Miss You Er calmed down and Yan Yue walked out of the room.
She was planning to leave immediately, but unexpectedly, Madam You took out two gold ingots and chased her and asked, "Auntie, has my daughter been possessed by an evil spirit? You have great magical powers, can you give me some magic weapons to ward off evil spirits?"
"Uh, this..."
Yan Yuexin said: Where is the magic weapon to ward off evil spirits? I want it too!
She hesitated for a moment, then remembered that she still had the two new talismans Qi Zhaoyang had given her on her body. She endured the pain and took out one and said, "This is a talisman from Qingxu Temple. Madam, put it on a string and let Miss You wear it close to her body. It can ward off evil spirits."
Mrs. You was so grateful that she burst into tears and said that she was a fairy who had descended to earth and was beautiful and kind-hearted.
Yan Yue was embarrassed to exchange the things Qi Zhaoyang gave her for money, so she did not accept the two gold bars, and just regarded it as a good deed for Qi Zhaoyang.
Madam You felt that the people in Qingxu Temple were indeed all hermits who were not tainted by money.
It was almost noon when Yan Yue walked out of You's house.
I passed by a dim sum shop and bought two bags of dim sum. Unexpectedly, I ran into a group of officials eating noodles at a roadside stall.
This time it’s easier!
She followed Nan Qing and Zhou Lin's instructions and very "sensible" went to pay for the noodles for the three people. She also opened the two bags of snacks she had just bought and shared them with the people.
"Hey, isn't this Miss Yue?" The three of them quickly stood up and greeted her politely.
Yan Yue smiled modestly and said, "My shop is very grateful to you gentlemen for taking care of it. I hope you gentlemen will not despise my humble gift."
"How dare I! Miss Yue is too polite." The leader of the three asked tentatively, "Miss Yue, do you have something to ask us?"
Yan Yue was not polite and asked, "I wonder if it would be convenient for you to sit down and talk?"
The four of them sat down, and the leader introduced himself as Zhu. Yan Yue asked, "I passed by the government office yesterday and saw that it was empty. Is Captain Zhu busy with a major case recently?"
The three of them looked at each other, and Captain Zhu evaded the question by saying, "Nothing, I just happened to be out on business."
Yan Yue simply asked more directly, "The matter of the flower thief has caused panic among the people. I wonder if there has been any progress now?"
Captain Zhu was speechless. The young detective beside him whispered in his ear, "Brother Zhu, this Miss Yue is not an ordinary person. Maybe she can help us?"
Captain Zhu hesitated for a moment, then sighed heavily and said, "Since Miss Yue asked about this, I won't hide it from you. Now the people are spreading rumors that we accepted the bribes from the flower thief and that our government office did nothing. Miss Yue, we are really wronged!"
Captain Zhu said that the incident of the flower thief had already been exposed half a month ago.
For seven consecutive days, the thief visited the boudoirs of seven different women, even the daughter of a wealthy family in the city. Therefore, the government office joined hands with the servants of various mansions and even asked the people from the escort agency for help to strengthen patrols and guard against the enemy, and the place was actually quiet for a few days.
That day, they had a constable named Qin who heard that a powerful guest had come to Xiaoxiang Pavilion. There were at least three girls in one night, and at most six or seven. In just a few days, the three most popular girls in Xiaoxiang Pavilion started to quarrel over him.
The detective Qin remembered that one of the victims had said that the thief was handsome and very good in bed, so he became suspicious. So he quietly slipped to Xiaoxiang Pavilion, observed the thief's appearance, drew a picture of him and showed it to a victim for identification.
Upon asking, it turned out to be the flower thief.
Constable Qin led his men to surround Xiaoxiang Pavilion and detained the thief.
However, they didn't expect that the two girls from Xiaoxiang Pavilion tried their best to stop them, and finally they even went to the lobby of the government office to make trouble. The two of them rushed to say that the flower thief was their lover, who had been staying in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and that the government must have arrested the wrong person!
The flower thief also cried out that it was unfair, saying that the girl must have admired his handsome looks and profound knowledge, and was willing to tarnish her own innocence in order to marry him!
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