Chapter 49 Constable 7
◎Searching for the truth and having your neck twisted◎
Her two sentences choked Zhou Lin so much that he couldn't utter a word. He moved his mouth several times and turned away angrily.
Old Jiang sighed and spoke well of Zhou Lin: "Don't be angry, young lady. Zhou Lin is worried about you. You didn't see that he was going crazy these days! He refused to go back to his room when the sun was about to rise, and insisted on guarding outside your door! If he were alive, he would have gone without food and sleep for three days, and he would be exhausted!"
Yan Yue also felt that her words were too harsh. Wasn't this like stabbing a knife into someone's heart?
But the words were already out, and it was too late to take them back, so she could only ask, "Then call him back and give him some words of comfort?"
Jiang Lao smiled and said, "He is very angry now, and he might say something unpleasant. Let him be alone for a while! But there is another person who has been guarding outside since you came back after being injured."
Yan Yue immediately thought of the square-faced ghost and asked, "Is that person Constable Qin?"
Mr. Jiang nodded and said, "I have let him rest in my room for the past two days. If you want to see him, I will call him in."
Yan Yue originally wanted to find out more about the situation from Constable Qin, so she asked Chu Zhi to go back to sleep first, so that he wouldn't be too tired to tell stories during the day.
Chu Zhi said, "The teahouse has been closed for three days! You are injured and unconscious, and Sister Nan Qing is having a hard time getting up. How can I still have the heart to tell stories?"
Constable Qin heard this as he entered the room. He bowed his head in guilt and apologized to Yan Yue: "I'm sorry, it's all because of me that the girl got hurt and delayed the teahouse's business."
Yan Yue said in a bad tone: "It's good that you know."
Constable Qin looked even more at a loss. He stood there not knowing what to do. It seemed that he almost wanted to kneel down and kowtow, but he heard two words.
"Sit down!"
After Captain Qin sat down nervously, Yan Yue asked again: "Why didn't you tell me clearly from the beginning?"
Captain Qin said hesitantly, "Because, I didn't know whether I was right or not at that time. I'm really sorry... If I knew he was a demon, I would never have dared to let the girl take risks..."
Captain Qin has no family or job, so he is willing to take over for anyone who needs help. Even if no one asks him for help, he will use his spare time to continue investigating the case.
The first time he suspected Yang Jin, he felt that there was something wrong with this man based purely on his intuition as a detective. But he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Later, he took the portrait to show a girl who was the victim, and after she identified the person, he arrested the person.
Unexpectedly, on the night of the arrest, another girl was killed, which immediately cleared Yang Jin of suspicion. Before he could get solid evidence, the magistrate released the man and dismissed him from his post.
He was so angry that even though Captain Zhu sent people to follow Yang Jin, he was still worried and followed him secretly. Then they discovered that this guy seemed to be a thief, and he was very good at kicking, and he quickly got rid of the two constables who were following him.
Relying on his familiarity with the city, he continued to follow Yang Jin, but he still lost sight of Yang Jin at the street corner near You's house.
I thought I had lost him, but then I was hit on the back of my head with a stick and fainted.
Fortunately, he was strong and woke up soon, finding himself lying on Miss You Er's bed. Only then did he realize that he had been fooled. Yang Jin deliberately got rid of others and lured him into the trap so as to frame him!
He was angry for a moment and wanted to hold the man down, which could be considered as catching him in the act. Unexpectedly, he was no match for his opponent at all. He risked his life, but only bit off a piece of flesh from the opponent's leg.
By then, the girl from the You family had already called for help. Yang Jin jumped up and ran over the wall. He tried hard to chase her out, but he didn't expect that his neck was broken.
When he came to his senses again, he had turned into a ghost. No one could see him or hear him speak.
He originally placed his hopes on the You family, thinking that once the You family reported the matter to the authorities, he would know that Yang Jin was the flower thief that night and that he was really a constable. Mr. You was afraid of affecting his daughter's reputation, so he did not allow his family to report to the police, so no one would know what he did in the end.
Constable Qin said that the Banzhan Mingyue Teahouse was well-known, but he didn't believe it at first and thought it was just a gimmick the teahouse created to attract customers.
But at that time he had no other choice but to give it a try. Unexpectedly, as soon as he came in, he saw Yan Yue talking to the ghost Zhou Lin, and asked Zhou Lin to chat with other ghost guests and find some anecdotes for storytelling material.
He was afraid that Yan Yue would not help, so he deliberately spoke in a mysterious way, hoping to lure her to help continue the investigation...
Yan Yue had been relaying Constable Qin's words to Chu Zhi, and Chu Zhi jumped up and down when she heard this: "What the hell! You are deliberately harming our boss!"
Yan Yue quickly spoke up for Constable Qin: "He didn't know Yang Jin was a demon! If he knew, he would have gone up to him without thinking of the consequences. If Yang Jin couldn't get revenge, why not just kill him to vent his anger?"
Chu Zhi said angrily: "That was his own fault! What did you and Sister Nan Qing do wrong? You have suffered so much..."
As she spoke, her little mouth pouted and she was about to cry again.
Yan Yue jokingly asked, "Who was it that defended the rabbit demon earlier and said that it was wrong for Xiaobai to bite him?"
Chu Zhi's round face suddenly turned red, and she said angrily, "Ah, I'm young, so it's inevitable that I don't know people well! From now on, I will never like handsome men again. If I see a handsome man coming to the teahouse, I will kick him out!"
Bai Chen: ...?
Yan Yue giggled, causing the pain in her shoulder to make her gasp in pain.
"Don't make her laugh right now!" Nan Qing stepped into the room and gently scolded Chu Zhi, "There is demonic power in her wound, and it hasn't healed yet! Be careful not to laugh too hard and break the wound open."
Yan Yue quickly pulled Nan Qing over and looked him over carefully. "How are you? Where are you hurt? I was trying to keep my voice down, but how come I still woke you up?"
Nan Qing seemed unaccustomed to such intimacy, and said awkwardly: "I'm fine. Besides, I'm a demon, much better than a mere mortal like you!"
After spending these days together, Yan Yue has already figured out Nan Qing's character.
She is the kind of person who thinks she appears warm on the outside but is actually cold on the inside. In fact, even the guests can sense her fake hospitality. And her heart wasn't that cold at all. She always tries her best for Chu Zhi who has no sense of boundaries and herself who is stupid and clumsy.
Yan Yue pointed at Constable Qin and said, "Constable Qin just said he would give us his savings as compensation. Even though it's not much, it's a token of his appreciation."
Nan Qing said calmly: "I'm fine, it's all up to the boss to arrange it."
Yan Yue nodded, and then asked Constable Qin: "Now that Yang Jin is dead, your obsession should have been broken. Why are you still here and not reincarnated?"
Constable Qin is a new ghost who died only a few days ago. I just learned from Old Jiang the night before that he wanders around the world because of his obsession. He himself was also very confused: "I, don't know."
Yan Yue thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we need to collect the bodies and clarify the truth."
Seeing that she was already worried about him right after waking up, Bai Chen felt a little dissatisfied and pretended to wake up with a hum.
Yan Yue's voice was indeed soft and delicate: "Oh my, we woke up Xiao Bai..."
Bai Chen felt sweet inside, pretending to be weak, he stood up unsteadily, but his legs were weak and he leaned on Yan Yue.
Yan Yue exclaimed: "What happened? Is Xiaobai injured? Have you asked a doctor to check it out?"
Chu Zhi was a little confused, "No! It was fine when we were eating before. Maybe my feet are numb from sleeping!"
Bai Chen gave her a sidelong glance and bumped his head against Yan Yue in a wronged manner.
Yan Yue took it into her arms, and then she heard Chu Zhi say, "Xiaobai has been guarding you these past few days, except for eating, drinking, and peeing. I'll pick up a dog later, and it only has me in its eyes and heart!"
Yan Yue touched Xiao Bai's head and said, "You can't find a dog as obedient and sensible as our Xiao Bai! Isn't that right, Xiao Bai?"
Bai Chen opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn't bear to bite it. He snorted and made dissatisfied sounds to Chu Zhi and Nan Qing.
“…Woof!”
What a shame!
This was simply the most humiliating scene in his thousands of years of demon life!
After Bai Chen shouted, he buried his face in Yan Yue's arms and refused to lift it up again.
"Oh!" Yan Yue said in surprise, "This is the first time I hear Xiaobai barking like this. It used to just bark like "woo woo woo!"
Chu Zhi said: "It's angry. It thinks we woke it up and it's unhappy!"
Yan Yue suddenly realized: "Oh, it's true. It's the middle of the night. You've been working hard these past few days. Go back to sleep! Constable Qin, go to the last back house and stay for a few days. I'll discuss this with Constable Zhu later to see how to deal with your case."
The humans, demons and ghosts dispersed. Yan Yue hugged Xiao Bai into the bed and kissed her again and again: "Hey, Xiao Bai Bai, sister missed you so much! Mumumumumu!"
Bai Chen's cheeks flushed with embarrassment and he was extremely impatient, but he was afraid of touching her wounds so he didn't dare to refuse. Just when I calmed down, I heard her frightened voice again.
"Little Bai, be good, don't rush into a fight again! Fighting is for adults, and it's too dangerous for you to get involved when you're so young! Do you hear me?"
Bai Chen hummed, stuck out his tongue to lick Yan Yue, and in return he kissed him, then contentedly held him in his arms and fell asleep.
Looking at her sleeping face, Bai Chen secretly made up his mind to teach her some Kung Fu to protect herself, otherwise what would she do if she encountered danger again after he left?
When Bai Chen woke up early the next day, she knew the solution she had thought of.
Yan Yue actually asked Nan Qing to find her a sharp and portable dagger so that she could carry it with her and cut her palm whenever she encountered an invading monster to "seal" the monster!
Bai Chen recalled the night when the rabbit demon's face was burned. He had a vague suspicion at the time. Now he confirmed from the conversation between the two that Yan Yue's blood could restrain the demons.
No wonder Chu Zhi bandaged Yan Yue's wound that night, but the wound was on the front shoulder and it was not easy for her to do it alone. But even so, Nan Qing just gave instructions and did not help.
I learned another secret of hers, but it seemed that the price was a bit high.
Nan Qing and Chu Zhi were going to the teahouse and said they would ask the restaurant to deliver lunch to their home at noon, so Yan Yue could have a good rest in bed.
When Captain Zhu arrived, Yan Yue was changing her collar.
The chain she used to hold the small black stones was somehow stained with blood, perhaps because she was injured that night and accidentally got it stained.
She told him what happened to Constable Qin. Constable Zhu was shocked, tears welled up in his eyes, and he kept asking where Constable Qin's body was.
Yan Yue was a little embarrassed as she forgot to ask last night.
So they agreed that he would bring people here tonight, and Yan Yue would take them to collect the body of Constable Qin.
Captain Zhu said that the rabbit's head and body were in the yamen, and they couldn't figure out how to close the case. You can't write in your closing statement that it was the rabbit demon who raped the woman and killed her in revenge, right? If this report is submitted to the government office, I'm afraid everyone involved will be punished with a beating for "spreading evil words to confuse the people and confuse their minds."
At this point, Captain Zhu asked, "Why did Miss Nanqing cut off the rabbit's head that night?"
Yan Yue knew that Nan Qing's original words were: "The monster needs to be separated from its head and body. Otherwise, if it has enough energy and recovers its demonic power, the detectives will not be able to detain it at all."
Yan Yue said more tactfully: "I'm afraid that the rabbit demon will recover its magic power and attack again to hurt people. By then, even if we put all of us together, we won't be able to defeat it."
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